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11,500,956 | null | comment | drivers99 | 1,460,675,131 | Something limited to "educational purposes only" is technically not "open source". (It doesn't fit the Open Source Definition, and licenses such as GPL would not be compatible with such restrictions either.) | null | 11,500,872 | null | [
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11,500,961 | null | comment | HappyTypist | 1,460,675,188 | It absolutely does make sense to adjust for real GDP, but even so you can see the deleveraging process was short circuited. | null | 11,496,990 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,500,955 | null | comment | yarrel | 1,460,675,116 | Yes. | null | 11,500,335 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,500,969 | null | comment | LaFolle | 1,460,675,223 | A great use case for drones to fly in and take photographs.<p>A quick Google search shows it already has been done => <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra7YbBvbRYQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra7YbBvbRYQ</a><p>Had drones existed in 1986 and deployed to take close photographs of disaster, would it have been safe to access that drone after it returned? | null | 11,500,384 | null | [
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11,500,962 | null | comment | steveklabnik | 1,460,675,191 | The voting ring detector _should_ take care of that. | null | 11,500,778 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,500,940 | null | comment | geebee | 1,460,674,926 | ah yes, the ol' bait and switch. It's fair to point out that employers aren't the only ones who do this, employees are guilty of it too. I've certainly seen it happen where people were hired to write code for a particular project and instead try to do an entirely different job ("what we really need to be working on is a mobile site!", "what we really need is a scrum master!").<p>However, employers sure do promise autonomy and a creative role, only to attempt to turn that new developer into someone who is supposed to check JIRA in the morning and fix bugs or implement a narrow set of features defined (with little to no creative input), often with a corrupted form of agile that turns the daily standup into a daily application of deadline pressures and demands for status reports.<p>I've come to realize how valuable some of those stuffy old bureaucratic pratices really can be for me, as a developer. For instance, I have gotten a great deal of value out of formalized, written job description with everyone's signature on it, filed away with HR. Once you're in a relatively senior technical role, you will almost certainly have language like "determines technical requirements", "aligns software architecture with business interests", "makes technology choices", and so forth. These will often have a little percentage next to them, as if we can somehow explicitly state how much of your time these things will take. "Writes code to implement features" and "performs other IT duties as required" will probably also be in there, but it's unlikely, if you're in a senior role, that these will be more than 50% of your job description (certainly not that last one).<p>This works well, because if you're accused of "not doing what you were hired to do" when you refuse to maintain an old pile of crap without a clear path toward a better code base (where you determine the technology, business alignment, and architecture), or if people tell you the project that you believe clearly aligns with the needs of the business is your "pet project" and what you really need to do is complete those JIRA tickets, it's usually pretty easy to point to your job description (with everyone's signature on it) and make a very compelling case that you are in fact doing exactly what you were hired to do, and that someone else (often a project manager or business unit manager) is trying to grab job authority that aren't in his or her description, but are clearly in yours. You can also make the case that while you're always willing to pitch in and do what is needed, random tech tasks have greatly exceeded the percentage of your time they are supposed to be taking.<p>One thing I've slowly learned - the looseness and casualness of the software industry doesn't necessarily favor developers. Sometimes a formalized set of rules can really help us. | null | 11,499,866 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,500,963 | null | comment | Manishearth | 1,460,675,196 | > So to say that a language has concurrency built-in is, in general, misleading, correct?<p>Languages with keywords like `volatile` and `synchronized` have concurrency built in to some degree. Similarly, languages where the concurrency/parallelism system cannot be implemented as a library (e.g. Go) have it built in. So, <i>languages</i> can have concurrency[1] built in; Rust doesn't.<p>You can duplicate Rust's core concurrency abstractions and safety requirements almost exactly in a library. Rust offers lower-level building blocks as part of the language which can be composed to provide safety from data races.<p>The only time Rust's stdlib concurrency system factors in to the language is in the behavior of `static mut` (it requires `Sync` types), which is a pretty niche feature and not strictly necessary for safety given that `static mut` is `unsafe` to access.<p>[1]: Also, "concurrency" is the wrong term to use here, too, but that's a nitpick within a nitpick | null | 11,500,054 | null | [
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11,500,978 | null | comment | oxide | 1,460,675,352 | at least some minor restraint was exercised | null | 11,499,538 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,500,971 | null | comment | tptacek | 1,460,675,234 | See for instance Massachusetts model jury instructions, which are explicit that opening an unlocked door constitutes "breaking". | null | 11,500,952 | null | [
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11,500,979 | null | story | jacobn | 1,460,675,355 | null | null | null | null | null | https://medium.com/@MarkFarrellSF/press-release-supervisor-mark-farrell-to-call-for-economic-impact-report-on-san-francisco-s-zoning-e94235309222#.i9efqy713 | 2 | Call for Economic Impact Report on San Francisco’s Zoning and Land-Use Regulations | null | 0 |
11,500,977 | null | story | merterdir | 1,460,675,331 | I'm not the most experienced HN user but so far people have been quite rude to me around here even though YCs immense efforts to keep a positive vibe.<p>Of course HN is like fifty times nicer than reddit, etc. but you get the idea. Does anyone share my experience? If so, why do you think that is? | null | null | null | [
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11,500,973 | null | comment | youngbullind | 1,460,675,275 | I missed it. | null | 11,500,852 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,500,970 | null | comment | cortesoft | 1,460,675,234 | So would that be "4," that you end up with, then? | null | 11,498,832 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,500,974 | null | comment | Manishearth | 1,460,675,278 | Or use <a href="https://github.com/manishearth/rust-gc" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/manishearth/rust-gc</a>, <a href="https://github.com/fitzgen/rajan-bacon-cc" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/fitzgen/rajan-bacon-cc</a> | null | 11,498,782 | null | [
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11,500,975 | null | comment | NetStrikeForce | 1,460,675,306 | I'm also based in the UK and facing similar challenges.<p>It'll be cool to see how this goes... | null | 11,496,008 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,500,967 | null | comment | kbenson | 1,460,675,218 | > Quotes are quotes are quotes in almost every language. It's completely unambiguous<p>Oh, like in C and C++ where single quotes denote a char, and double quotes a string?<p>Or in Perl, PHP and Ruby where double quotes interpolate, and single quotes don't?<p>Or in JavaScript and Python, where there's no functional difference between single and double quotes?<p>Or C#'s string literals which only support double quotes, but you prefix the string with @ to denote it's verbatim?<p>Or systems that allow repeated double quotes within a double quote string literal to stand in for an escape ("foo ""bar"" baz"), as many SQL systems do?<p>Or what about systems that interpolate, and the differences between what they do and do not interpolate? Variables? Escape characters? Hexadecimal escapes?<p>You're fooling yourself if you think it unambiguous in anything except for the language you are dealing with, and if you're within that language, who cares what you use as long as it's consistent? You learn it, and then it's unambiguous (if implemented well).<p>This is no different than if your language supports hex numbers (usually done through prefixing it with 0x). Those are two different ways to specify the exact same thing (a binary number!). The benefit comes from using it in the circumstance where it's appropriate. That is, where it enhances readability, not where it detracts from it.<p>> This, on the other hand, is a 'solution' to escaping quotes that is completely mad. Using non-standard quotes, especially mixing and matching them is a disaster for readability and maintainability<p>Maybe you think<p><pre><code> "{\"foo\":\"bar\",\"baz\":\"it's that's they're we're\"}"
</code></pre>
is fine, or you may prefer<p><pre><code> '{"foo":"bar","baz":"it\'s that\'s they\'re we\'re"}'
</code></pre>
(if your language supports it).<p>I prefer<p><pre><code> q|{"foo":"bar","baz":"it's that's they're we're"}|
</code></pre>
because I think it's clearer, and learning <i>once</i> that a literal q defines a new quote operator that is in effect until it's next seen is simple, easy to remember, and yields very useful readability gains.<p>> using a T in your string now? need to change the quotes!<p>I included the qTT example just to show how it worked, not to endorse its use. I thought that would have been obvious from my statement "You could simplify it by not using the matching enclosures ({ and }, [ and ], etc). It's easy to parse. and if you keep the quoting character somewhat rare, it's not hard to read."<p>In any case, I fail to see how how that's a problem beyond any other quote character. Including that character in your string will result in a compile time error in all but the most esoteric of cases, making it easy to find. | null | 11,500,420 | null | [
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11,500,976 | null | comment | nostrademons | 1,460,675,315 | Your observation is true, your conclusion isn't necessarily. AI is different from other areas of computing in that <i>data</i> matters far more than code does. Current legal practice is that the data is owned by the organization that collected it, which means that to collect data on millions of users to train behavioral models, you need to have millions of users. If you have millions of users, you're probably a pretty big company. | null | 11,500,773 | null | [
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11,500,980 | null | comment | anotheryou | 1,460,675,360 | he got it recovered<p><a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/769357/recovering-from-a-rm-rf#comment970897_769400" rel="nofollow">https://serverfault.com/questions/769357/recovering-from-a-r...</a> | null | 11,496,947 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,500,981 | null | story | markdown | 1,460,675,362 | null | null | null | null | [
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11,500,983 | null | comment | maxerickson | 1,460,675,403 | Why? It's one of the largest organizations on the planet, spending millions on something or other doesn't indicate anything. | null | 11,500,805 | null | [
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11,500,984 | null | comment | Trombone12 | 1,460,675,474 | Dude, it's a complicated sludge of radioactive material that is flowing and interacting with itself in complicated ways, not a pure uranium sample on a pedestal.<p>For instance, cooling it will make the molten metals harden, meaning that there will no material transport. So once some piece of the sludge goes out of criticality, cooling ensures that it will stay sub-critical and decay along a more preferable path.<p>There is also the possibility that water will do something funky to the chemistry beyond the cooling. | null | 11,500,640 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,500,982 | null | comment | notJim | 1,460,675,388 | I'm not normally a wonk about this kind of stuff, but this distinction seems significant in the context of blizzard apparently threatening fan-run servers with legal action. | null | 11,500,956 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,500,987 | null | comment | maxerickson | 1,460,675,577 | Does anybody know what factors SecurityScorecard considers? The link is just a press release for the real information. | null | 11,500,495 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,500,986 | null | comment | ArkyBeagle | 1,460,675,546 | Absolutely. | null | 11,500,837 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,500,985 | null | comment | vinceguidry | 1,460,675,508 | I don't know exactly how you'd plan on fighting reality. The fact that this guy was going to get hosed eventually isn't some justification, it's fact. People who do stupid things get burned.<p>If someone wants safety features, let them pay for them. If someone wants to add one, sure, so long as I can remove it if it gets in my way. Who knows, maybe they'll actually be worth having. But I'm not going to lose sleep over every idiot who ruins his life over something he didn't or couldn't learn about. There's absolutely nothing you can do to save stupid people from making stupid decisions.<p>Maybe I remove a safety feature I don't need and hurt myself with it. Now I'm the moron. Hopefully I learn from it. Nothing you could have done about that either.<p>Show me something foolproof, and I'll show you a greater fool. | null | 11,500,444 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,500,988 | null | comment | AnimalMuppet | 1,460,675,580 | > On the other hand, when you study PL theory, you learn very quickly about Hindley-Milner type inference and System-F. Apparently they haven't.<p>Again you assume that, since they didn't include it, they must not have known about it. You keep claiming that. Given the breadth of these guys' knowledge (it's not just Java, C#, and C++, not by a long shot), I really struggle to see any justification for you assuming that.<p>I know you think that system F is all that and a bag of chips, but it is <i>not</i> the only reasonable way to design a language! Assuming that they did it wrong because they didn't do it the way you think is right... that's a bit much.<p>But I'll ask you the same question I asked aninhumer: How fast does Go compile compared to Haskell? And, is that a fair comparison? If not, why not? | null | 11,500,806 | null | [
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11,500,991 | null | comment | possibility | 1,460,675,625 | Yes, but that's using force to open the door, which was in my original claim about no force on an open window.<p>Reading that WP article again, turns out I was just considering the common law part. It later says:<p>> The common law definition has been expanded in most jurisdictions, such that the building need not be a dwelling or even a building in the conventional sense, physical breaking is not necessary, the entry does not need to occur at night, and the intent may be to commit any felony or theft.<p>So I'll give it to you for "physical breaking is not necessary", even though I don't actually know about the jurisdiction in question. (I didn't rtfa.) | null | 11,500,971 | null | [
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11,500,995 | null | comment | AnimalMuppet | 1,460,675,733 | If your idea has holes, HN will tell you, quite bluntly. Don't confuse that with rudeness.<p>Unfortunately, there also are people who <i>are</i> rude. They are in the minority, but they seem to be more numerous than they were a year ago... | null | 11,500,977 | null | [
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11,500,993 | null | comment | eva1984 | 1,460,675,691 | I agree with you on the error handling part, although it is not a big pain for me yet.<p>But in terms of parallel programming, when doing in Java, I constantly find myself basically building a lot of stuff where Go has as a part of its own semantic. Queues -> Channel, Executors -> M in Go, and Runnables -> Go functions. Java8's Lambada and ForkJoinPool is an advance in the right direction but still not quite there. | null | 11,499,672 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,500,990 | null | comment | res0nat0r | 1,460,675,614 | Preventing the collapse of the world economy? Killing Bin Laden? Auto industry bailouts? | null | 11,500,919 | null | [
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11,500,996 | null | comment | galistoca | 1,460,675,734 | That just sounds like a self rationalization to me. "I don't need them" is something you say after you tried something and realized you actually don't need them. It doesn't carry any weight when you haven't even tried. Because when you do, it's just saying you don't want to try new things. I'm not saying you must learn these, I'm just saying you shouldn't lie to yourself. | null | 11,499,794 | null | [
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11,500,998 | null | comment | ekianjo | 1,460,675,782 | Open source is ambiguous the only term thats clearly defined is Free Software. And GPL is Free Software RMS would jump at your throat for calling it Open Source. | null | 11,500,956 | null | [
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11,500,989 | null | comment | ArkyBeagle | 1,460,675,584 | I need to check that out for myself. | null | 11,500,230 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,500,997 | null | comment | tptacek | 1,460,675,741 | What's your point, though? If opening an unlocked door is B&E, what does the lockpicking analogy teach us? | null | 11,500,991 | null | [
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11,500,994 | null | comment | mastazi | 1,460,675,704 | > Atom: [...] must install a column mode extension<p>Atom has Sumblime-Text-style column selection using (on Win) CTRL-ALT; it works very well and feels familiar for people coming from Sublime Text (which has been very popular for years now).<p>Actually, column selection is one of the things where I prefer Atom to VS Code (I love both editors for different reasons).<p>But maybe you needed some particular style of column selection? | null | 11,499,299 | null | [
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11,500,999 | null | comment | p4wnc6 | 1,460,675,789 | That's like saying developers need to get away from the idea that it is the company's responsibility to pay them salary, offer retirement benefits, provide them shelter from the weather while working, etc.<p>The company may not have any literal <i>obligation</i> to provide such things, and no one cares. If they don't provide such things, reject them, move on, life's too short. | null | 11,500,834 | null | [
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11,500,992 | null | comment | eli_gottlieb | 1,460,675,668 | There's a whole massive underlying assumption here: that we will soon have affordable, deployable, non-finnicky machine learning models for enough problems to decimate the middle class.<p>In my experience, ML models, even the best deep convnets and such, are still <i>extremely</i> "finicky" by human standards, in the sense that small or human-insignificant changes to the input vector can cause large-scale changes in the output classification/regression. Cool demos with video-games need to be run past some industrial automation experts before we go around proclaiming them to be the harbingers of industrial AI! | null | 11,500,335 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,000 | null | comment | twvisitavisitb | 1,460,675,808 | Sue them. I have zero sympathy for you if it was a software patent though. | null | 11,500,958 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,005 | null | comment | flubert | 1,460,675,833 | >automation will potentially destroy the livelihood of a lot of people before they are able to re-adjust to a new economic reality.<p>...only if solar powered Santa Claus machines don't come along first I suppose...<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_machine" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_machine</a> | null | 11,500,807 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,006 | null | story | walterclifford | 1,460,675,850 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.infoworld.com/article/3051017/cloud-computing/the-importance-of-dogfooding-in-the-cloud.html | 2 | The importance of dogfooding in the cloud | null | 0 |
11,501,001 | null | comment | AnimalMuppet | 1,460,675,812 | Don't whine here. (This looks more like an attempt to smear Google than anything.) If it's true, get an attorney and prove it in court. | null | 11,500,958 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,003 | null | comment | Retra | 1,460,675,824 | This is something I really do not understand. I can switch to my terminal, build, run, stage, commit, push all in like 5 seconds. As well as anything else I need to do in the terminal.<p>The only 'plugins' I use are a keyboard shortcut (cmd+space) which puts me in a terminal window and rupa/z[1] for jumping into a project directory.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/rupa/z" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rupa/z</a> | null | 11,499,256 | null | [
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11,501,002 | null | comment | markdown | 1,460,675,812 | No change at <a href="https://status.cloud.google.com/" rel="nofollow">https://status.cloud.google.com/</a> | null | 11,500,981 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,004 | null | comment | sebastienroy | 1,460,675,831 | Yes do do have a column generation algorithm that leverage my expertise I gained working at ad-opt (airline pilot rostering).<p>We also migrated from julia to python. Another vote for the MIT teams that worked on the project! It really helped us at the beginning!<p>We are also playing with the google glop solver that gives pretty good results so far.<p>The main drawback of python for column generation (and as far as I understand, the same flaw exists in juliaopt/JuMP) is twofold. 1) most libraries are "math formulation oriented" which makes implementation hard to maintain/debug 2) biggest issue: the wrappers around the underlying solver (cbc, glpk, etc) keeps all references (to variables and coefficients) and do not offer a clean add/remove interface (only add/set bounds). Even playing with coefficients isn't always straigthforward.<p>So we had to build our own wrapper on top of the LP wrappers out there (Pulp, pyomo, cylp etc). When solving large scale problems with column generation, you generate hundreds of thousands of different variables even if only a fraction of them are "active" at a time leading to memory and runtime leaks in the usual wrappers. We had cases where the LP library was spending about 85% of the time just writing and reading files for CBC. The or-tools library wraps the C library itself via SWIG and is our best horse as of writing this.<p>For sure we will think of rolling our own binder too. Last year I was hoping to do it is scheme :) We might get "stuck" with python for the time being though. | null | 11,500,787 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,007 | null | comment | justinlardinois | 1,460,675,853 | Stop trying to make tau happen. It's not going to happen. | null | 11,500,901 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,008 | null | comment | bigiain | 1,460,675,854 | Yeah, except when: "TEPCO spokesman Junichi Matsumoto said that due to its small size and weight, the drone was “unlikely to crash through the rooftop and damage the reactor.”"<p><a href="http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/06/25/t-hawk-uav-fails-at-fukushima/" rel="nofollow">http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/06/25/t-hawk-uav-fails-at-fuk...</a> | null | 11,500,969 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,010 | null | comment | Stratoscope | 1,460,675,891 | I wonder if there is a Williams Syndrome spectrum?<p><a href="https://www.google.com/#q=williams+syndrome" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/#q=williams+syndrome</a> | null | 11,497,375 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,012 | null | comment | eterm | 1,460,675,912 | So this<p>{<p><pre><code> foo:one,
bar:two
</code></pre>
}<p>Parses to "one," because it is a quoteless string?<p>What about true and false, is false the boolean constant or a unquoted string "false". | null | 11,498,912 | null | [
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11,501,013 | null | comment | eli | 1,460,675,916 | Maybe, but in DC a few years ago the CVS near me put Tide (and only Tide) behind the counter and left other brands on the shelf. | null | 11,500,895 | null | [
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11,501,011 | null | comment | adesuwa | 1,460,675,893 | thank you very much | null | 11,499,423 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,009 | null | comment | adesuwa | 1,460,675,866 | we want to utilize a transparent pricing model that is one of our many incentives for employers to use us. We're going to use the traditional job posting fee and sponsored job ads in addition to our pay-per-match and PRIB feature. Employers can pick and choose what feature they want to opt in for. | null | 11,500,302 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,014 | null | comment | p4wnc6 | 1,460,675,918 | The HR staff will say misleading things and present a rosier picture than the technical staff. The technical staff are the ones who know what the sociological issues are <i>really</i> like, and the degree of happiness you experience in the job is likely a lot more related to how the other technical staff answer the questions than non-technical staff.<p>Saving all this stuff for HR is a huge mistake. You won't get any useful info. | null | 11,500,625 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,017 | null | comment | unclebucknasty | 1,460,675,995 | Not in this case. The owners of the <i>commercial</i> AI and robotics benefit. We're already seeing the effects of this: look at the increasing stratification of wealth in the context of increased productivity and automation in recent years. | null | 11,500,933 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,018 | null | comment | accounthere | 1,460,676,015 | How likely is facebook to block it? | null | 11,500,646 | null | [
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11,501,015 | null | comment | wavefunction | 1,460,675,969 | This isn't style, this is actual master-craftsmanship, the marriage of expert technique with absolute dedication to the craft.<p>I think it's hard to recognize in this day and age because the quality of so many mass-produced items is acceptable at best and often quite terrible. | null | 11,497,568 | null | [
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11,501,016 | null | comment | oxide | 1,460,675,985 | >since suddenly that person is playing with the fate of the rest of Germany<p>this kind of hyperbole is just plain ridiculous. | null | 11,493,198 | null | [
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11,501,019 | null | comment | Alupis | 1,460,676,016 | This article[1] seems to believe it was multiple workers who took this photograph (and this source is a bit more credible imho), and notes it's still deadly to be in close proximity for more than 2 minutes.<p>Your explanation still doesn't explain the lack of motion blur walking over to the spot, although we see the flashlight(s) blur. There also appears to be two distinct flashlight blurs.<p>[1] <a href="http://nautil.us/blog/chernobyls-hot-mess-the-elephants-foot-is-still-lethal" rel="nofollow">http://nautil.us/blog/chernobyls-hot-mess-the-elephants-foot...</a> | null | 11,500,937 | null | [
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11,501,020 | null | comment | abiox | 1,460,676,034 | while i'm decidedly unenthused by the amount of pro-MS dialog on HN, the premise of a business being "fundamentally evil" is rather dogmatic and not very conducive to discussion. | null | 11,498,758 | null | [
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11,501,021 | null | comment | jtmarmon | 1,460,676,045 | open source means the source is open. that's all it means. free software is what you're referring to and it's something entirely different | null | 11,500,956 | null | [
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11,501,022 | null | comment | Trombone12 | 1,460,676,056 | That was a bad link, those are just photos of the outside, where it was perfectly fine to visit if you avoided standing downwind. In fact, they apparently overflew it just two days later and took this footage: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoJTNC-3XLA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoJTNC-3XLA</a><p>They've tried to put drones into Fukushima, attempts so far have been unproductive one way trips. Not all of that is the radiation killing stuff, apparently the geometry to be navigated has some pretty narrow passages as well. | null | 11,500,969 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,023 | null | comment | aerique | 1,460,676,065 | Well, it did feel like I read the same thing three times, worded differently. | null | 11,500,866 | null | [
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11,501,024 | null | comment | dmix | 1,460,676,067 | Canada/CSEC works directly with the NSA. So I'm sure they are aware of Blackberry's vulnerabilities. Same with GCHQ and New Zealand. I believe the DoD complained about having to secure his Blackberry when he insisted on using it over their standard Android devices. | null | 11,500,519 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,025 | null | story | snw | 1,460,676,073 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2016/ | 1 | PkgsrcCon 2016 in Kraków | null | 0 |
11,501,027 | null | comment | kzhahou | 1,460,676,094 | Came for a Proposal. This article only provides <i>motivation</i> for generics.<p>Are there any concrete proposals on the table? I don't recall seeing any, and it would be great to work from that and pick it apart. Otherwise, we're just arguing the opinion that they're useful, against the opinion that they'd soil the language. | null | 11,494,181 | null | [
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11,501,026 | null | comment | seizethecheese | 1,460,676,073 | My conclusion is that it's feasible, so by definition not necessarily true. An AI could be bootstrapped by scraping data, or using any number of large datasets out there. This isn't to say that large corporation don't have advantages. | null | 11,500,976 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,030 | null | story | Doubleguitars | 1,460,676,121 | null | null | null | null | null | http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/4/13/the-vr-idea-maze | 4 | The VR idea maze | null | 0 |
11,501,031 | null | comment | remixz | 1,460,676,132 | Only if Facebook shuts down their Messenger Platform! <a href="https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform" rel="nofollow">https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform</a> They just recently launched it at their F8 developer conference. | null | 11,501,018 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,037 | null | comment | chucksmash | 1,460,676,279 | The two highest rated comments in this thread make the little vein in my forehead pop out.<p>Microsoft is doing some very cool stuff these days so props to them. "VSCode has done the thing that nobody expected MS to do, change the way code was written in Unix/Linux" though? I believe the term irrational exuberance applies. Let's not get carried away here. | null | 11,498,000 | null | [
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11,501,033 | null | comment | e12e | 1,460,676,222 | I recently lost my Note 3, subsequently bricked my HTC "Pico" explorer - bought as a dev phone and GPS device due to the notorious GPS issues on my first Android; a Galaxy S. So now I'm back (typing this in Firefox) on my ancient Galaxy S, running a recent cyanogen build [Ed: 11 nightly, based on Android 4.4.4 kitkat. I believe I tried 12 - but it failed to install].<p>It kinda works. Had to force a move from dalvik to art, and force HW rendering - there are quite a few stalls. I haven't tried encrypting the device; it's already slow enough.<p>Ironically(?) Firefox works better than Chrome. Signal seems to work OK (only for sms so far due to missing network effect; I don't message anyone with signal installed).<p>I'm considering just getting a new battery (replaceable battery, yay!) - as it is cheaper than getting an LG g3, nexus 5 (no memory card slot, bleh) or a Sony xperia z3 (waterproof). I wouldn't really say it's <i>usable</i> - but a g2 or 3 might be OK. [Ed:The low RAM on the early devices appear to me to be the worst issue. I wouldn't recommend buying a device with less than a gig of ram. the Galaxy S has ~384mb.] | null | 11,500,904 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,041 | null | comment | WallWextra | 1,460,676,344 | The correctness proof of the seL4 microkernel supposedly makes no assumptions of the compiler and verifies the binary output. I don't know the details. | null | 11,498,454 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,039 | null | comment | simple10 | 1,460,676,297 | It's interesting to see how VS Code / Monaco deals with long lines like hex data without slowing down. It kinda cheats by wrapping the line even when not in line wrap mode. There's a setting editor.wrappingColumn that controls the wrap length.<p>However, even after setting wrappingColumn to an arbitrarily large number, VS Code greatly outperforms Atom. The click accuracy within a long line is off by several characters in my quick test, but good enough.<p>I was never comfortable using Atom because it would grind to a halt whenever I accidentally opened any files with long lines. VS Code just may be the first MS product that I'll use on my Mac on a daily basis. Looking forward to testing it out on a couple projects. | null | 11,498,000 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,034 | null | comment | minimaxir | 1,460,676,232 | Note that OP is posting this in response to someone calling out sockpuppet accounts on their submission: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11483510" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11483510</a><p>Which is against HN rules. | null | 11,500,977 | null | [
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11,501,036 | null | comment | krumhausen | 1,460,676,257 | Very good question. We are not monetising right now, but want to explore two revenue streams:<p>1. Commission on transactions made in chat. We might expand this by helping users find sustainable products and services.<p>2. Freemium model where larger businesses and franchises pay for sponsored content and user feedback | null | 11,500,762 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,038 | null | comment | cb18 | 1,460,676,287 | I agree, in that I think there is always room for improvement.<p>What I think needs to be criticized is a tendency to go on these wild goose chases searching for a magic factor that will explain everything, when there are other obvious factors nearly staring us in the face that we don't want to address.<p>It's the opposite of Occam's razor. | null | 11,500,954 | null | [
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11,501,028 | null | comment | ttcards | 1,460,676,096 | This article is from March 2014. Top date is incorrect. | null | 11,500,471 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,032 | null | comment | beachstartup | 1,460,676,203 | why is this odd? we hire remote workers. after 90 minutes of conversations (30 mins. x 3 rounds typically), it pretty much covers everything just fine. more than 15 minutes is half the scheduled time for each call.<p>occasionally a very good candidate will talk for an hour or more, but that's an actual conversation, not a Q&A session.<p><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html</a><p>also, i didn't ask "theoretically would you ask more than 15 mins. of questions", i said, have you been asked more than 15 minutes by a candidate, that you were interviewing.<p>in the real world, most people don't ask <i>any</i> questions. it's exceptional that we'll get thoughtful questions, and those are usually the people we hire/offer. and of those people, nobody has more than 15 minutes worth. and people who can't even answer basic questions like "how do you list the network connections on a linux machine" aren't given the opportunity to ask questions, because the call is over.<p>again, a long-winded technical discussion is a different thing, i'm talking about "tell me about your enterprise ticketing system and how many pointless meetings per week you have" type of questions. | null | 11,500,746 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,029 | null | story | cash900 | 1,460,676,112 | null | true | null | null | null | http://www.akonter.com/story/online-forex-trading--4/#.VxAmAPLdE18.hackernews | 1 | Online Forex Trading – Akonter | null | null |
11,501,040 | null | comment | merterdir | 1,460,676,339 | I love people pointing out holes in my idea. I think that's what makes HN great.<p>Sadly, nearly all of my submissions received senseless negative comments that is <i>not</i> feedback on the idea, more like unrelated personal comment.<p>Maybe there could be a way to filter out the noise. | null | 11,500,995 | null | [
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11,501,043 | null | comment | adesuwa | 1,460,676,377 | Great and I concur your idea about replacing recruiters, they cost more and aren't very efficient. I am open to dialogue about this idea. | null | 11,500,959 | null | [
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11,501,045 | null | comment | mtviewdave | 1,460,676,382 | "To reduce by 10%" is, in English, the novel usage. It was apparently invented by essayist Richard Grant White in 1870. The original meaning of the word, "to destroy", is attested to 1663:<p><a href="https://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/06/03/the-decimators/" rel="nofollow">https://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/06/03/the-decimators/</a> | null | 11,500,926 | null | [
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11,501,035 | null | comment | enneff | 1,460,676,255 | Yes, there are four at the bottom of the doc. | null | 11,501,027 | null | [
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11,501,059 | null | comment | Mikeb85 | 1,460,676,483 | You put extensions into the proper folder, or use a tool like 'Vundle'. Yes it's slightly more difficult than using Atom, but anyone who can use a tool like Git or Cmake should have no problems figuring it out. | null | 11,500,668 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,053 | null | comment | mslot | 1,460,676,420 | Paxos provides strong consistency and can proceed even if some nodes fail. 2PC has intermediate states in which a transaction is only partially committed, and all nodes need to be available to perform writes. The downside is that Paxos' write throughput is bounded by network latency and it requires network round-trips on both reads and writes. 2PC is more suitable when you require low read latency or high write throughput.<p>> Does this only work for append only unique data structures (ex: immutable log style)?<p>Paxos is based on a technique called state machine replication. It replicates an append-only log of changes to an initial state, which allows you to replicate arbitrary data structures. For example, pg_paxos logs SQL commands on a table (e.g. UPDATE). | null | 11,500,482 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,044 | null | comment | placeybordeaux | 1,460,676,377 | Useful is very subjective. Do you mean precise? | null | 11,500,926 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,058 | null | comment | jessegreathouse | 1,460,676,471 | Why not simply add a terminal pane to the editor so I don't need to? | null | 11,500,903 | null | [
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11,501,052 | null | comment | kzhahou | 1,460,676,413 | Wow, major props to him for having written four proposals!! Still, he says they're all flawed so far... | null | 11,501,035 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,048 | null | comment | possibility | 1,460,676,389 | Oh, I was literally just arguing the other side about going through an open window because I didn't know for sure if it was burglary. (Common law says no, but that's probably updated, but maybe not in some places, but I didn't check them all.)<p>I don't see how you could access a computer without using "force", any input from a human constitutes force in my opinion. So no disagreement as far as the actual crime is concerned, I'm just nitpicking for fun... | null | 11,500,997 | null | [
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11,501,054 | null | comment | roywiggins | 1,460,676,424 | If you don't have a timer, the easiest way to take a self portrait is pop the camera on a tripod and open the shutter for the longest exposure your camera can handle. Then, you move really fast as you get into position and then stand still for the remainder of the exposure.<p>You'll look a little bit transparent and be surrounded by fainter motion blur from when you were getting into position. I've done exactly this on moonlit nights, and the result looks completely consistent with the photo in the article. You also get ghostly duplicates if you hesitate as you get into position.<p>Could the shutter speed was an accident and the subject happened to pause enough to show up visibly on the image- much like the first photographed human, who was getting his shoe shined: <a href="http://mashable.com/2014/11/05/first-photograph-of-a-human/" rel="nofollow">http://mashable.com/2014/11/05/first-photograph-of-a-human/</a><p>If it's not a selfie, it's an extraordinarily lucky accident that there's a recognizable human in the photo.<p>ed: it's possible it was just really dark, and all the photos were exposed for that long. Someone wanted a picture of Korneyev, and he moved during the exposure. But the combination of "blurry person" and "crisp person" makes me lean towards the selfie hypothesis. Someone trying and failing to stand still won't wave a flashlight around. Someone rushing to get into a selfie shot might. | null | 11,500,623 | null | [
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11,501,050 | null | comment | Retric | 1,460,676,398 | Morale hazard does play into what they can clam as damages. If reverting the defacement using there CMS system costs 500$ and results in 2,000 in lost profit NP. If it takes someone a few hours to verify that was the only change, NP.<p>But, they can't claim time related to revoking his permissions because they should have done that in the first place. Ditto for performing a security audit ect.<p>This is a normal user using there CMS system, not an admin or developer messing with things. | null | 11,500,786 | null | [
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11,501,055 | null | story | baazaar | 1,460,676,434 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/226604-intels-next-generation-xeon-phi-knights-landing-now-shipping-to-developers | 2 | Intel’s next-generation Xeon Phi now shipping to developers | null | 0 |
11,501,047 | null | comment | enneff | 1,460,676,386 | > Conclusion? You don't need a map function in go.<p>I don't see Rob making that conclusion anywhere. | null | 11,496,065 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,042 | null | comment | danbruc | 1,460,676,347 | I don't see any reasons why you could not cool radioactive isotopes to essentially zero Kelvin and observe the decay rate. It would probably be hard(er) to do with larger chunks because the decaying nuclei would dump parts of their energy into the sample but if you only use a single atom or maybe tens or hundreds of them and measure the time until the first decay event or between the fist two events you could certainly determine the decay rate close to absolute zero. | null | 11,500,836 | null | [
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11,501,068 | null | comment | geniuscarrier | 1,460,676,635 | Since a lot of people asking for production/demo page/screenshot, I've added an example page as the default dev environment: <a href="https://github.com/geniuscarrier/webpack-boilerplate" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/geniuscarrier/webpack-boilerplate</a> | null | 11,452,368 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,063 | null | comment | the_af | 1,460,676,518 | Even without getting into Free Software territory, there are reasonable expectations about what open source means. It's not just "you are free to read the code". See:<p>- <a href="https://opensource.org/osd-annotated" rel="nofollow">https://opensource.org/osd-annotated</a><p>- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software</a> | null | 11,501,021 | null | [
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11,501,070 | null | comment | exar0815 | 1,460,676,679 | Absolute, complete bullshit, sorry. The experiment massively went wrong, but the people, of whom many died trying to stop the disaster caused by the typical soviet problem of bad planning, slavish obedience to higher-ups and generally worse education and training, should still be seen as what they were. Victims of their system, and calling them "drunk" adds insult to injury.<p>Edit: typos | null | 11,500,941 | null | [
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11,501,057 | null | comment | ytjohn | 1,460,676,468 | It looks kind of interesting. Do you have anything explaining how it's supposed to work? Are you determining if people are humans by their attempt to answer the math questions?<p>When it says "you are one of them?" does that mean I'm a human or a robot? I'll answer an addition, but then it will ask something like "43 >> 86 = " or " ~ 76 = " and it's like "wtf is going on here?" as the counter ticks down. | null | 11,500,433 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,056 | null | comment | serge2k | 1,460,676,461 | Can I just ask why (some) Vim/Emacs fans see the need to shit on everything and act like anyone who doesn't use one of those 2 editors is a moron? | null | 11,498,000 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,060 | null | comment | __derek__ | 1,460,676,486 | I had no idea that the Seattle VC market was that much smaller than San Francisco's (less than 10% the size), and I never would have guessed that San Diego's is nearly 70% larger. | null | 11,497,730 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
11,501,079 | null | comment | cwyers | 1,460,676,893 | RMS is not the only person allowed to define words. | null | 11,500,998 | null | [
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11,501,049 | null | comment | adrusi | 1,460,676,396 | It's hard to say that the majority of native speakers' usage is wrong, since right/wrong, to the extent that it's meaningful at all, is defined by popular usage.<p>The argument that's the traditional usage is more useful is stronger, but not obviously correct. It's more specific, and doesn't have tons of synonyms, but in the age of clickbait headlines, maybe another version of "destroy" is more useful than an oddly specific "eliminate 10% of". | null | 11,500,926 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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