skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without senses (sound, touch, taste, sight, smell), I would imagine that the human brain would create it's own little world. It's not like you're depriving it of senses it once had. It's not going to have knowledge of what being crippled is. It won't be aware that any of those 5 senses exist.

It's almost as if a human missing most of their senses spent their entire life in a float tank. I don't think it would be humane or inhumane, merely different. Without tons of advances we wouldn't be able to relate to it, or it to us. It wouldn't even be aware we existed.

In a way, its possible that the first intelligent alien life we make contact with will be one we create. As a specie, we've spend an inordinate amount of time and effort trying to make contact with intelligent life that might exist beyond our planet. Learning to make contact with artificial brains that we can hook up to different senses (artificial and mechanical or artificial and biological) is going to be awesome.

It's even possible that the brain in it's own isolation from us even does something humans do naturally; it tries to explain and understand its world and may even form the notion of a god or creator that brought it into existence. Hopefully one day it will get to meet its creator that brought it into existence. It likely won't damn us or condemn us because it won't know any better that it was crippled, just as the religious among us don't damn their gods for not bestowing us with talents and abilities like omniscience and omnipotency.
I'm judging you on the quality of what you present so no apologies needed. It's the others that are worried about your background. I evaluate what you say and work from there to figure things out.
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Cool to see other companies in the fulfillment space!

How do you differ from a company like Shipwire?
How would a degree like this look in the job market compared to a traditional CS degree? This looks more vocational, which could actually prepare a student better for many software jobs.
Am I crazy to think nobody should actually care? By that, I mean the cost of caring about it is probably much higher than the cost of not caring about it.

I wonder if on the grave marker of humanity it will not read "THEY CARED TOO MUCH ABOUT SOCIAL SIGNALLING". The Universe is far too personal (and, curiously impersonal at the same time ) to care about whether other people are "winning". They'll get theirs, you'll get yours.
The amount of companies / organizations that need fulfillment goes well beyond just startups
They gave us* another season of Community, so that was cool.

*Although what they gave me specifically was "Geo Restriction - Sorry! The content provider has not given us the rights to play this video in your location." It's the thought that counts I guess
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9982005
I really wish I had enough karma to downvote this opinion. It just reeks of ignorance and short-sightedness.

Polyvore is far from a "fashion startup". It has a very substantial user base and their whole proposal allows for very natural (and kinda cool) monetization strategies. Also, we don't know how much Yahoo paid for it, it could've been a real bargain; apparently around 60M, kind of cheap if you consider they've been pulling profit from years now.

You want examples of real companies that seem to be adrift? Try looking at Twitter. Or Google (although they have some real good products that keep the ship floating).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_of_despair
I haven't done a full look at the stats vs what it replaces or alternatives that were available. A bias on Osprey from media and/or soldiers that talk about it could certainly affect my view. How bad were they?
Shipwire is a fantastic company, however, their prices have been historically high and their customer support has lacked recently. Though their international warehouses are a huge boost to small companies that need that capability.

Our biggest differentiator is that we give you an upfront invoice and once you pay you'll never see a penny increase. Even your shipping is upfront (we're working on fixing it now as we speak).
Really, thank you again for this link. I am still going over it more, but it is very detailed and appears well researched, which I would expect given the group behind it.
This is interesting - "Mr. Karpelès hasn’t been formally charged. In Japan, suspects can be detained for up to 23 days without a formal charge or the possibility of bail."
The whole point of a gold rush is that the big players haven't moved in yet, so there's still room for a single operator to get rich.
Except that someone can purport to disbelieve in self while doing all the things they prohibit :-p

Plus, whatever animals you don't think believe in self.
Generally we call inserts: marketing messages companies put in each shipment.

There's another material called dunnage i.e. fill that is placed such as air packs, bubble wrap, paper, cardboard, mushroom (yes a product made from mushrooms!), etc. are used to keep the product tight.

Another method is to use a smaller box which cuts down on both shipping costs as well as is a more secure way of securing products.
There's an important difference between a formally verified system and redundant systems however. At least, I think so!

A formally verified system is verified "software". Different parts of a redundant system may rely on different parts of the hardware. If some hardware fails, a redundant system can still succeed, while a formally verified system is likely to fail.
The most repulsive thing to read here is the reaction of some of the customers. “What’s their incentive to hustle if you pay them so much?”

Really? Do you ask that same question when a CEO gets millions of dollar in bonus? Nah, the CEOs simply "deserve" it. The employees though, they must hustle. Roughly transposed to the 17th century, that statement reads "What's the incentive for this n* to pick more cotton if he is well-fed?" Repulsive and sickening. How about observing how well they perform before bringing in your Ayn Rand propaganda. This sort of thought must be eradicated from the American mindset.
Yahoo! mostly attracts Mid-Western housewives. They know their users pretty well. I read somewhere Facebook's ~30% of users are mostly of these Yahoo! types. And these users are probably more likely to stick around. Hey, the internet is for everyone! :)
"With the pit of despair, he placed monkeys between three
months and three years old in the chamber alone, after
they had bonded with their mothers, for up to ten weeks"

"after they had bonded with their mothers"? That's pretty cruel and totally an apples to oranges comparison. That researcher relied on the curse of knowledge and self aware to deprive the monkeys of a pleasurable stimulus.
Correct; you do not get the benefit of Google Closure when using the bootstrapped compiler. The JVM-based compiler will continue to be the best way to compile ClojureScript projects for production.
I was saying the program has had many delays and overruns in general with the gun issue maybe being part of that trend rather than pure design decision. Each possibility paints it in a different light.

Regardless, I agree that many programs have had issues despite making it. I did watch Pentagon Wars and was amazed that some issues even existed. I think the main concern, outside the original link, is that this plane is one of the most expensive we've ever done while not delivering the value or effectiveness a few different, focused planes would. They still could've consolidated on radar, comms, weapon/missile systems, and so on while making the plane physically ideal for its missions. In process, they could leverage proven approaches in other best of breed fights.

That is what I meant by upgrading our current best stuff. You can straight-up improve their existing configuration. Or you can create new planes with their best qualities with vastly improved capabilities. As illustrated above, there's still plenty of consolidation allowed and would probably be cheaper (in development) due to less troubles.
Awesome, best of luck beating the big guys. Theres lots of room to innovate here.

Small suggestion: an easy pricing calculator would definitely help on the site before capturing email
Hardening security measures should be more important than announcing retaliation like a bunch of angry children. I don't know the nature of all of these attacks but didn't Sony get broken into via simple social engineering? The guy literally walked into main lobby and got ahold of network engineer's credentials or something of this kind. A lot of companies have very little to no basic security awareness, let alone any kind of significant security infrastructure in place.
SOP. That's the time it takes them to get a 'confession'.
Flatbuffers targets C++ and Go[1], so it does not appear to require JIT. It would appear the necessary code is generated statically even for Java and C#, to take advantage of strong typing.

[1]: https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/
Have you worked on software projects before? Differing priority levels for GUI consistency and base functionality is not an odd thing, and being bad on one does not really mean you're bad at the other.

Plus the people making the label for the bottle are almost never the same ones putting stuff in it.
It's a mixed bag of good and bad. It's good because as you mentioned - wastes less money. It's bad because anyone brought forward is expected to be guilty (even if innocent) because otherwise they would not have been prosecuted to begin with, right?

If you're being prosecuted you're essentially assumed guilty in all but the most rare cases.

With a 59% conviction rate - it means more people are being assumed innocent until proven guilty, or that the evidence is too weak to prosecute on. If that means innocent people don't get unfairly imprisoned - that's a good thing.

I'd rather see 10 guilty people walk free than one innocent unfairly imprisoned.
Good answers. Saved a copy of that for later review. Appreciate it.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9985664
Many JavaScript engines use IEEE-754 double-precision floats as their immediate value type, and fit pointers and integer within the NaN payload of the double representation. See https://wingolog.org/archives/2011/05/18/value-representatio... for a discussion of a few similar approaches and the tradeoffs of each.
Memory savings isn't the important thing. Small strings are, after all, small. You can fit a lot of them in cache. What you're saving is the CPU cost of malloc()+free().

I'll trust that they had good performance data that made them decide to do this. Still, I'm always a bit skeptical about these clever string tricks. It's an optimization that looks amazing in microbenchmarks but has costs in the real world. That's because you're adding a (potentially hard-to-predict) branch to every access to the string.

If your application constantly allocates and deallocates lots of tiny ASCII strings, this clever representation will be fantastic for you. However, if you use a mix of string sizes, tend to keep them around for awhile, and you do a lot of manipulations on those strings, you pay the branch-misprediction cost over and over.
> It's that implicit casts from void* are unnecessary in C++

Very well aware of the C++-head's answer to these problems.

> My point is that the lack of implicit casts from void* should not be frustrating,

This was a discussion about whether or not C++ is a superset of C. I wrote up the difference that frustrates me the most and all other comments were missing.
Where do you get the idea that the monkeys would be even better if they never got to see their mothers at all? You are saying that suffering is ok as long as you aren't aware that not-suffering is even possible.

Somewhat reminds me of Genie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child) or Danielle http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2008/reports/danielle/
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It looks like someone went on a flagging rampage on MichaelCrawford's comments on a recent AWS story, killing the parent comment as well. Weird.
>Complaining about the front page of Reddit is like complaining about how newsstands are just filled with gossip magazines.

I don't pay for those either.
The Yahoo! email experience is quite terrible and buggy with frequent service outages.

Part of the reason they're still around is because people like you still use them for email.
As a current college student that operates in a community where I see a number of my fellow classmates using reddit online during class I can say that they would not pay for directly for the service. These days there are too many supplements to Reddit that entertain me just as much if not more.

Although I do believe that Reddit is a very established and well liked website that would still see success if they charged a subscription fee, just not on the same scale of popularity that they currently do.
My bet is they mean "12 years old, or older," but you need to have iTunes installed to view the link telling what the ratings mean.

https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/appRating...
I am operating outside my expertise: security and system engineering as you noted. Having to rely on third parties way more than I like. One seems to misrepresent the situation to push his personal success. You've illustrated this pretty well on F-16 case. Another systematically misrepresents the necessity/effectiveness of programs to rake in billions of dollars and has been caught in such schemes many times. Gets away with it because Congress has lots of votes/stock in defense and brass often get hired by them near retirement. I'm not liking my options haha.

You have a point, though, in that my own bias against the wasteful program caused me to leverage sources without enough verification. I need to be more careful about that in near future. Thanks for calling me on it.
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The Osprey, from what I have heard, seems to be doing okay now. But, as you referred to, it has a rough history. Have you read "The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey" by Richard Whittle? I read through it, and found no glaring technical errors (though my experience with a V-22 involves climbing inside one, once, to look at home someone did something I needed to replicate on something else, and a quick test flight in a V-22 simulator years ago as part of a "hey come work here we are really cool" career fair I attended). It's competently written and talks about the issues the V-22 encountered in detail.
That's a really poor argument.

In addition to what others said, if you write code for python 3 making it compatible with python2.7 is relatively painless task (from my own experience) due to Python 2.7 having py3 functionality back ported.

Regarding python 2.6 this was discontinued back in 2013, as far as I know all redhat versions that used 2.6 are no longer supported unless you're paying for extended support. So I'm not convinced it is a good excuse.

Also if you use Java for example and you want to use JDK7 or JDK8 it doesn't matter that RH distro uses old version you'll find a proper RPM (or build one) to use it.
All of these things may emerge from the available subscription services.
This is why I love HN. Good reasonable conversation on the internet. It's hard enough for me to find in real life. The internet, doubly so.
I hope that's true. Otherwise, it would mean our F-35 program was so thoroughly infiltrated and their engineers so much better that they got a passable prototype in record time. So, I really hope you're right and there's a decent chance you are.
To clarify: I personally know several people who have gone through the Japanese legal system and this is exactly what happens. The idea is that the suspect confesses and gets processed more easily. Remorse is a big thing in Japan. That also explains the 97% conviction rate. The other side of this is that there are far less arrests than you would expect, as the police and prosecutors want to keep the conviction ratio as high as possible and don't want to be distracted by the possibility that the accused may actually be innocent.
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Yup, and comments in other threads.

>I currently work as an aircraft telemetry and instrumentation engineer,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9907687
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Not sure about the jobs (3) thing. It's a bad idea to focus on language popularity when starting out programming, because that changes rapidly. Javascript has only been really popular in the last few years. Who knows what will be popular five years from now.

Learn to program. Don't worry so much about the language.
From what I've seen, almost all people talking about values are pretty religious. I'm not sure I've ever seen someone irreligious talk about cultural values at all. So I'd argue that even though an anti-abortion attitude may not be directly religious, it almost always seems to stem from religion.

This, of course, could be related to where I live.

I do wonder though: what specific cultural values does abortion cause a drop in?
Personally, whichever startup did this is a douchebag and I wouldn't want to work for them regardless.

I have never heard of an interview done this way. I am familiar with and okay with a coding test, ok with a proof of your abilities, not ok with implementing code for the company sans payment.

My 2 cents, is they agreed to a price and code so they should pay. Frankly, I'd ask an attorney to send them a letter stating as much on your behalf. Might cost you a few bucks but seems reasonable. If they still refuse, I'd seriously consider a public shaming, although I know this isn't likely a good idea, it just seems so appropriate. lol
Man I hate this argument so much.

People make it look like those are two completely different languages, even though there are actually very minor differences. You'll realize it once you'll start using python 3. Also py3 is much easier to master for a novice because it is much more consistent and no longer has some special cases.

For example if you're dividing a number you no longer need to convert one variable to be float in order to get a decimal. There is no int and long types, just int etc.
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In cases where damages in aggregate are obvious but difficult to prove in specific, laws have provided statutory damages or fines.
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Looks like part of the app shows latest social-media activity from contacts, and probably anything that touches those networks gets an automatic 12+.
Correct. No denying this. But I'm not here to be a jerk or a shill. Just talking about things I have some experience with.
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It's spreadsheet liberateD from a 2d grid. Just sub "name" for "A1" etc and there you go!
It is pretty simple. Your first goal is to make sure your team respects you. If they respect you they will follow you into hell if that is where you lead them. Your job is not to lead them into hell but into success. Communication, respect and honesty are the easiest ways to gain respect and their trust. If you do that, and don't BS them then you'll get a good response.

I have lead a number of teams, and I can say I have had more than a few people on each tell me they would work for me anytime, anywhere. The prime reasons so far have been 1) I will never ask them to do something I won't. 2) I will defend them first, my ass be damned. 3) I respect the team dynamics and trust them to do their job while I do mine which is keeping people off their back.
> You have probably never used a crypto tool that used either Dual_EC or extended-random, for what it's worth.

Dual_EC was default PRNG in BSAFE-SSL-C for almost a decade. Shodan matched 1700 banners from this time, online now. The chance that a person interacted with a https service in that time is quite high I would think.
Preferably nobody at all. That's the strategy. Outrageous air superiority means nobody wants to fight. Fighting the US conventionally means you lose all your shit in 48 hours.
That first video is terrible.
MAD doesn't really work on the Internet for too many reasons to list.
Yeah , I'm really gonna waste my time with that,
go suck a box of dicks.
I forgot to add that I learned quite a bit from SAP security thanks to Uncle Sam publishing it:

http://www.dss.mil/documents/odaa/nispom2006-5220.pdf

It's not the end all but it was a nice start to organizational security. Just had to... de-bureaucratize it into something a person could comprehend lol. Then worked from there based on expert writings in each subfield, spy vs spy literature, and what worked for organized crime dodging LEO's. And that's how one learns real security. :)
This article makes me feel a lot better that I always got stuck on those games...
A few things go into this.

One is they get people to confess --the police can detain people and hold them for up to 23 days without charge [1]. Sometimes they make it difficult to meet with an attorney --attorneys are not allowed to be present during questioning.

Two, they tend to prosecute only the cases with "solid" evidence.

This can result in lots of "he died falling down the stairs" because investigators are unwilling to do the hard work finding the murderer(s) who beat someone with a bat, for example.

[1]http://www.nzembassy.com/japan/new-zealanders-overseas/livin...
Are web frameworks actually useful?
Just to clarify my question, there are clear social benefits to knowing multiple frameworks for your career, especially when working in large corporate group settings; for instance, you will benefit from being able to build apps quicker if you learn a good one and you will also benefit from a well-documented elitism that exists amongst web developers (see PHP vs Ruby on Rails debate, for example)…

However, wouldn’t all web-apps that are built using heavy web frameworks get a performance boost if they were not built on those frameworks? And if so, is more importance being placed on coders building products efficiently rather than coders building efficient products?

Assuming you can build any product you want from scratch, time is not an issue, your code is scalable in the sense that it can be understood by other coders in a reasonable amount of time, and your goal is to build the best, fastest, and most efficient possible product, when should you use a web framework and why?
Missing here is Peter Beagle's I See By My Outfit relating his 1993 trip from the Bronx New York to Menlo Park California with his childhood friend, Phil Segunick.
Many of those teams are funded by the Pentagon. The DoD has its eggs in several baskets. DARPA is a very creative organization.
You guys are out of line. You should be grateful that someone with professional expertise is here talking about what they know, not attempting to smear them.

Groundless insinuations of shillage and dishonesty are not ok here. They poison the discourse, and you owe greater respect to your fellow HNers. Please don't do this again.

All: please flag such comments when you see them in HN threads.

engi_nerd likes the F-35, lots of other people don't, that's fine. Have at it with arguments, not cheap shots.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9975510
Yes, but they don't just arrest everyone and let the courts figure it out. It's a much different political culture with regard to criminal justice.
With a 59% conviction rate - it means more people are being assumed innocent until proven guilty, or that the evidence is too weak to prosecute on. If that means innocent people don't get unfairly imprisoned - that's a good thing.

If you can afford bail, a 59% conviction rate means that you're less likely to be wrongfully imprisoned. But there are a lot of people who can't post bail and end up spending months or years behind bars only to be found not guilty -- or even to have all the charges against them dropped.