skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As discussed in Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo![0], Mayer's feud with Singhal was responsible for her 'demotion' to Google's Maps/local team, and eventual departure for Yahoo!:

> Singhal loathed how, when his team was ready to roll out a change, Mayer would insist it pass through her UI review—a process that could take weeks.

…

> [I]n 2010, Larry Page decided that Google was moving too slowly. He wanted the whole company to move as fast as its Android and Chrome divisions.

> One impetus for this decision was a memo from a longtime Googler named Urs Hölzle. It reminded everyone that social networks, and Facebook in particular, had become a dominant force on the Internet. It said that Google was nearly blind to all the knowledge stored on Facebook. Hölzle pleaded with his colleagues to focus on social media, or else the company could be swept away in an oncoming wave.

> Page took the memo to heart, and put Vic Gundotra in charge of developing a social network for Google. The project was code-named Emerald Sea, after a Japanese painting in which a boat is about to be wiped out by a huge wave. Gundotra’s team built a prototype in a hundred days.

> The speed impressed Page. He realized that one thing Android, Chrome, and the Emerald Sea project had in common was that each had a single person in charge. He wondered if it was time to put one person in charge of search.

> Gundotra, suddenly vested with influence thanks to the Emerald Sea project, made it known that he did not like working with Mayer. With all her reviews and processes, she slowed things down too much.

> Page thought about the future of Google and its past. To him, the strength of the company was that it developed machines that could learn what humans wanted and then provide it to them. He believed that Singhal better understood how to make the technology that powered those machines. Page believed that made Singhal more capable of pushing Google products to their technological limits…He summoned Mayer into a one-on-one meeting and told her she was done working on Google search.

0: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LLIJ22W
And self-driving cars...

I doubt that there will be more than some technology demonstrators in less than four years.

And everyone is forgetting that with small size comes small range and payload. Small range means your opponent has to get close to you, exposing themselves. The article has some huge assumptions, at least concerning attacking a naval ship (which is far easier than an aircraft that can outperform a drone). The idea that an Aegis cruiser is going to let a fishing boat launch a significant number of drones without getting perforated by its MK-45 is a non-starter.
It can vary quite a bit depending on the area of study no matter which school you choose. Different flagship universities (and elite universities) have different strengths and weaknesses based on history and the faculty they bring in for research. An aerospace engineering degree from Kansas Univ. (for example) is worth more than a Mechanical Engineering degree from the same Uni. With Univ. Missouri-Rolla (for example) that might be completely reversed.
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It'd be great to instead get a set of custom icons for the first flap, then you could use it to track anything, like weight loss, 'days since X', consecutive coin flip results, etc
Nuclear fusion device's first test with hydrogen declared a success
I wondered whether a chemistry component of the sensor might be disposable. Making the "Gillette" business model feasible: discount core module and consumables priced at a premium.
You can get to all the useful places on the East Coast.
Yeah but what this actually does is "great, since they competency ignored my search criteria, I will no longer use this search"

I know what my budget is - I'm not going to search for 10% under that in the hopes that the fuzzy logic brings up exactly what im looking for
I like your comment about fresh air. I can't prove it or point to any source, but I firmly believe that as a civilization, we are living in poverty compared to what we could be living in if only we had some "fresh air".
No, I think "ecumenical" in the less common sense of the word, "worldwide or general in extent, influence, or application," makes perfect sense here. Or even in the usual sense of the word, if you're making an analogy between startup accelerators and Christian denominations. It's a pretty good analogy, since despite small differences in belief and large differences in culture and practice, everyone has roughly the same goals. A Lutheran might feel particularly slighted at a program that gives free choral music to Anglicans, because they sing all the same anthems and none of the differences are relevant, and so restricting the free stuff to Anglicans rubs in the difference for no good reason. This is quite different from the way a Buddhist or an atheist would feel slighted by not getting that free music.

Given that OP claimed the feeling will pass, I don't think "economical" quite makes sense.
I've quite enjoyed my JVC HA-RX700s. They're about $35 on amazon and they sound pretty decent to my ears. People on Head-Fi seem to like them at least. I can say that they are over-ear and have a comically oversized cord. They're built pretty well, too.

If I have any complaints it's that they're too big, and the cord is too long but those might be a plus for you.
Exactly, and the next problem is that it seems like EVERY real estate site does this. I have not found a SINGLE site in Australia to look for rent OR buy real estate, that actually filters based on what I enter. They are all useless
> Have an actual profitable syncing business

Source? Everything I've seen says Dropbox isn't even close to being "profitable" -- the vast majority of their customers don't pay a dime according to their CEO.
Mass surveillance was common knowledge? I'd encourage you to read about James R Clapper. To cite the wikipedia page:

[During a senate hearing] Senator Wyden then asked Clapper, "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" He responded "No, sir."

So here we have a representative of the executive branch lying to the legislative about mass surveillance 3 years ago (checks and balances please?). So no, it was not common knowledge.

edit: spelling
npm install cash-ls -g doesn't work....would love to use this
Seriously, Wikipedia is not your friend. Cheap drones are not going to be carrying AMRAAM, or Sidewinders, or Python/Derby or whatever AAM you can find. They won't be carrying AESA radar to guide the missiles, or to even locate the target. It's not a matter of a few extra routines. It's AI, it's BVR, not "light signals." How are your "light comms" going to work at night, or in inclement weather, or even in broad daylight when you're fighting an opponent at 20K feet. Think you can see a spotlight in daytime at 20K?

Drones may take on a larger role in the future, if we decide to truly let them function autonomously. But the tech isn't there yet. And even if you create a magical swarm, it's range will be very small compared to a jet fighter.
> I do think the Tufte essay is excellent except for one detail.

I don't think that one detail is the only serious flaw in the essay. As far as I can tell, Boisjoly's criticisms--that Tufte misunderstood the actual issue (it was blow-by, not erosion), and that he misunderstood what information the engineers did and did not have (for example, they didn't have reliable temperature data for many flights)--are valid.
>The A-10 is obsolete because it's an air frame built around a cannon

Gulf war 1: Destroyed more than 900 Iraqi tanks, 2,000 other military vehicles and 1,200 artillery pieces for the loss of four A-10s

Syria 2015: Single A-10 takes out 116 ISIS fuel trucks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ37y0yeSgc&feature=youtu.be...

It still has it's uses. Also consider the costs - if you're using a high flying F-35 and laser guided bombs they'll cost I don't know $20k each and it can only carry a few so the cost of taking out fuel trucks would quite likely be more than the value of the trucks. A big old cannon can probably do it quicker and much cheaper.
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* Cash isn't released yet - that's why there's no GH repo. That's my next pjt :)
I thought it was a pretty good quality simulation, because after drawing some surfaces, dragging the Exposure tab from bottom to top made me flinch at the seeming "brightness".
The people on that airplane ought to be in prison and rightfully deserve to be killed. They have no doubt flown out countless times to kidnap people who they proceeded to torture and kill, or deliver to others to torture and kill. Worse still, those people are walking around as civilians in the United States as if they had done nothing wrong.

I'm nauseated to think that these people are free. Anyone in a position to leak their identities so that they can be dealt with should consider it their moral obligation to do so.
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>knowledge stored on Facebook

A questionable assertion.
$449.00 are you fucking kidding me

you can build this shit with rapsberry pi and cheap lcd display for under 40 bucks
There's need for innovation because Google/MS/Apple and such are integrating cloud-sync right into the operating system (and its only a matter of time before their sync tech is good enough or better than DB's sync tech).
"Nature is perhaps the most prestigious and respected academic journal in existence" implies that this paper was vetted by what is likely the best peer reviewing process that exists on the entirety of Earth. Which is relevant.
Why doesn't he just post it on youtube?
The military needs to plan for the worst case scenarios, not the best. Ask the Ukrainians how it feels to be on the short end of the stick. The Russians are doing a bang up job with ECM/ECCM and denying them any airspace to fly in. The US doesn't need to plan on fighting tribesman in the Hindu Kush. Almost any aircraft can do that. It needs to plan to fight peers.
Why isn't HN more proactive about removing duplicate posts? The reposting here seems very excessive.
I would be astounded if he drives that commute. I used to do the same commute two to three times a week and 35 minutes in the air beats 5 hours on the road hands down. If you're smart about it and flexible in your schedule you can shrink the airport time to around 20 minutes.

I could go door to door from my house in Santa Clara to my office in Burbank in about an hour.
I don’t know if it has anything to do with Mayer/lack of review per se, or if it’s more about the scattered focus of G+, Android, etc., or if companies of a certain size are just inevitably incapable of solid UI implementation, or what, but Google’s UI polish on its flagship browser apps has taken a nosedive in the past 5–6 years. They used to be lightweight, fast, and reliable. Now they are bloated monstrosities packed with weird glitches that devour browser resources.
Click bait title refers to this story: http://sfgate.com/health/article/Boy-in-school-flap-over-cys...
The short answer to every one of those questions is: yes. There are government people who were involved with design work from the beginning. There are also engineers who directly participate in test/evaluation (not just in the supervisory roles, either, I mean engineers who are actually doing tests). And there are also those who are in a supervisory role. There are DoD people (from all kinds of agencies), there are DCMA people, people on active duty in the military...

With a program this big and that has already lasted over 15 years, the answer is going to be "yes".
My apologies, at least where I live "a couple" is basically the same as "a few", 2-3.
I am generally unaware of the commercials, but after watching a game I always have a strange craving for Budweiser and Viagra.
Same experience here. But: I've had luck complaining with a few well-chose hashtags and mentions on twitter, getting the attention of a tech lead related to a particular AWS service.

One example: redshift. Had an expensive temporary cluster that couldn't be deleted, for days. Was stuck "pending" or "rebuilding". Assigned account rep would take forever to respond, and just didn't understand, would forward directions to using AWS console. Yeah, DOESN'T WORK. After a week decided to try getting attention on twitter, got it fixed in about 12 hours.
The racial-covenant case (Shelley v. Kraemer) is actually interesting for the departure from normal constitutional questions -- typically a court either upholds the constitutionality of a statute, or rules the statute unconstitutional and thus unenforceable.

In Shelley, effectively the court ruled that racial covenants, which were private contracts, were perfectly legal, perfectly constitutional and perfectly valid, but that the state government (which would normally enforce this type of contract) could not enforce racial covenants because doing so would require actions outside the powers of the state government.

Which comes back to whether either a state government or the federal government could enforce certain types of gag-order provisions in contracts, since the required action might similarly be outside the powers of the government.
All of this is totally true for cricket and even worse(8 fucking hours filled with commercials like american football). My whole country(India) has somehow convinced itself that its a lot of fun when the real reasos are that most of them aren't aware of good alternates and even if they are aware, India isn't doing well in any of those.
Yeah, there's that. Ideally, we'd be able to price all that in.

The messes on the production side are arguably more tractable than CO2.
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You are pretty spot on about that.

This was the post I was googling for

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/10/flux-new-approach-to-sys... (prepare to have your mind blown)

And what I found in the Google results

From 2015-04 http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/04/introducing-vector-netfl...

And 2014-01 http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/01/improving-netflixs-opera...

That is some crazy fast innovation there
Julian Assange Will Leave Ecuador Embassy, Accept Arrest If He Loses UN Case
US President Obama Tells Muslims: We Are ‘One American Family’
Solving problems is not ignoring them and wish they go away. One of the biggest problem with transportation infrastructures in the US is the cost of the right-of-way. This is barely touched by Hyperloop (the project doesn't account for these costs) because it focuses on the technical solution, that is actually the easiest part.

The PG motto is more relevant than ever: make something people want. In that case, make something that people will want in their backyard. Selling is the hard part.
they wouldn't be getting VC money if they were more than a couple years away from human trials

I wouldn't be so sure. They have the science, but do they have product leads? If not, that could take a few years alone. Then tack on all the pre-clinical testing.

The average drug takes ~8 years once it's discovered to get approved by the FDA. And that's if nothing goes wrong.
He flies.
Why does it need to go 500 mph? The F35 is going faster than that.

How about I just hoist 100,000 ball bearings into the air and drop them in front of the F35?

But if you're committed to the fast drone idea then get one. I think they're going about 450 mph now which ought to give you enough time to maneuver in front of the f35.
I think Mayer's direct focus was more on UI than on performance, although a simple UI could certainly lead to better performance:

> One time, an APM brought a product to [Mayer] for review and she told him, “This page is too busy. What you need to do is look at every font on the page, every font size. And every time you see a new color or a new font size, you add up a point. I want this page below five points.”

> The comment about “five points” ended up in the meeting notes, and then it became a rule. No pages with more than five points.

> Another rule was: Design a product for the “98 percent use” case. For Mayer, the best example of a product that followed this rule was the Xerox copy machine. It could do all kinds of fancy things: staple, collate, copy, and fax. But if you walked up to one and pressed the giant green button, the right thing just happened. Mayer believed on every good product there should be a big button like that for the 98 percent use case, where if the user clicks it or taps it, they get a delightful, fluid, simple experience.

> During a product review, Mayer would count the number of keystrokes it took to get every job done. Too many, and it was back to work.
Glad you're so convinced that it can't win. Period. That is so comforting. Not all air combat is done in a dogfight. Most A2A kills in the last 30 years have been BVR shots. Which the F-35 will excel at.

And I'm glad you know the truth about stealth. It is useless you know. That's why the Russians, the Chinese and now the Germans are starting to build 5th Gen stealth aircraft. All to prop up the illusion that it's just a boondoggle, and "mostly worthless."

Back to reality. Stealth is very useful, that's why countries work tirelessly to find countermeasures. Some of these work to a degree, some have potential. Stealth isn't magic, it's just a useful tool; like jamming, like AWACs, like OPFOR training. But to deny its merits is just ignorant.
They weren't indicted for publishing a story. They weren't indicted for writing or producing a story.

They were indicted for doing illegal things to try to obtain information to use in their story. In a similar way, someone trying to do an exposé by breaking into a business' office at night to steal records would be subject to criminal prosecution -- not for the story, but for the tactics used to obtain information for the story.

(and of course the same grand jury also returned no indictment of Planned Parenthood on the claims made in the story, but either way illegal tactics to obtain information are illegal)
I was about to post this. My project received a DDOS, and I could not access my droplet for over 12 hours.
Isn't
"DONE DELEGATE RESPOND DEFER"
"Archive Forward Respond Mark-as-(un)Read"?
Peer review is notoriously poor, even in the most respected journals.
It's natural to have some semblance of enemies, who I define as just someone I don't like and avoid. I have an enemy at work, and even externalized my thoughts via a short story which is excerpted below. Sure, I'm probably crazy, whatever. It's what I'm thinking though would never physically hurt anyone etc. Disclaimer Dissedbanger blah blah

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Trixie is annoying. A product of McNaggity's Orchestral Legacy. "I get what I want because I'm an overly-privileged c* who wafts her verbiage with every shift of her wide-a-arrogance." An arrogant bh who is 10X louder than she should be visible.

To her co-workers, she is Over-the-Top, outstandingly Jump-out, Smack-Dab Personality-Driven.

Even her cheeks are Ruddy Apples, a holdover from a Norman Rockwell/John Wayne Gacy Clown Painting Gone-Wrong. A typical Do-Goody Bh, Psycopathic Tendencies of course, a given.

Honestly, Frank (the truth) just wished she were quieter, like not having to hear her loudlaugh-borderline-barkpant bh bwo-mo-curlie-Annie, Tomorrow-Tomorrow "Holler-Hybrid".
No bh, not everyone in the office really wants to hear about your disgusting ugly-toddler version of yourself adapting to diapers. Like seriously, it's insulting to listen to your toddleress' shing.

If the Aenima were true, Frank (the truth) thought, internally he must have long ago beat this archetype-bh over the head with a brick and threw her to the wolves only to later beat an elephant to death while shouting her good riddance.
Travelling on the World's Most Dangerous Roads
Ask HN: Making the switch from physics to industry?
I am a theoretical physicist considering moving to industry, and I'm looking
for advice regarding my options. Got my ph.d at a good foreign institute, and
currently am in the middle of a 3-year postdoc at a top US university. I also
have over 15 years of programming experience from before my academic career
started, including being an early employee at a successful startup.

I am considering moving back to industry in the US (bay area preferrable). As
far as I can tell the most relevant options are quantitative finance and data
science. I am leaning toward finance because I've always found it fascinating,
but truthfully I know little about either.

Any advice from people who have made a similar switch, or are working in these
fields will be greatly appreciated! Some specific questions: Are there other
options I should consider? What's your experience been like making the switch?
Should I contact recruiters or try to find a job on my own? And more
specifically: How likely is it to land a quantitative finance job in the bay
area given my background + serious preparation?
This looks nice.. makes me think of like a Medium type thing for webcomics. And hey, it's in Lua! Also DailyMath seems great!
Don't wanna work for the company you're founding with that attitude
Having a worse throughput than a lame of highway is bad, though.

Hyperloop is a low-latency low-capacity transport method.

It's not much better at latency/cost than a VacTrain or a regular MagLev, but basically has less than 10% of the capacity.

Basically, the Hyperloop will be a transport method used by a bunch of rich people, not by the ten thousands or hundredthousands of people who'd use a HSR or MagLev on the same route.
That's not really a dismissal, though, is it? Is Hyperloop easier to design for off-world use (?)
All of my local recommendations (handyman, local photographer, where to buy tomatoes) have now shifted to facebook groups. I no longer google handyman in blah, xyz. instead I go through my saved posts in FB.

This is along with local city news and news from friends and family that is all on facebook. e.g. One of my colleague's (and friend) kid was in ER last weekend so on Monday during standup I was able to tell the rest of the folks that he was out due to family emergency without getting an email from him...
How do you work full time for 5 years if you're 19? 19-5 = 15 years old. Wouldn't you have had required schooling to do as required by federal law?
Go uses the Plan 9 syntax because its compilers are derived from the Plan 9 compilers.
I'm going to guess that these are Dell R730xd boxes with PERC H730 Mini controllers (LSI MegaRAID SAS-3 3108).

A failed/failing drive present during cold boot could cause the controller to believe there were no drives present. To add insult to injury, on early BIOS versions this made the UEFI interface inaccessible. The only way to recover from this state was to re-seat the RAID controller.

There were also two bizarre cases where the operating system SSD RAID1 would be wiped and replaced with a NTFS partition after upgrading the controller firmware (and more) on an affected system (hanging/flapping drives). Attempts to enter UEFI caused a fatal crash, but reinstall (over PXE) worked fine. BIOS upgrade from within fresh install restored it.

From the changelog:

Fixes:
- Decreased latency impact for passthrough commands on SATA disks
- Improved error handling for iDRAC / CEM storage functions
- Usability improvements for CTRL-R and HII utilities
- Resolved several cases where foreign drives could not be imported
- Resolved several issues where the presence of failed drives could lead to controller hangs
- Resolved issues with managing controllers in HBA mode from iDRAC / CEM
- Resolved issues with displayed Virtual Disk and Non-RAID Drive counts in BIOS boot mode
- Corrected issue with tape media on H330 where tape was not being treated as sequential device
- resolved an issue where Inserted hard drives might not get detected properly.