skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mars is a radiation bath because there is no magnetic field.

Mars is a dead planet it is not geologically active which means it has a solid core that does not provide a dynamo effect.

We still don't know why, one of the theories is that it lacks a large moon which might have an important impact on the longevity of the planet.

The other suspect is nuclear elements that decay and produce heat but it is not known if it's enoguh to keep the plant cool.

The other 2 planets that are still active are Venus and Pluto.

Pluto has a very large moon (relative to its size) but Venus doesn't, however it could be that the runaway greenhouse effect on Venus is enoguh to keep the planet not only warm but in overdrive because the atmosphere is thick and heavy it puts a lot of pressure on Venus which might be enough to keep it going.
Ireland does have the authority, but:

1. They have applied their own laws in a way that amounts to subsidies, and

2. The corporate structure turned out to be fictional, and allocations of profits were therefore also fictional. ("Arm's length" and all that.)

They even open the door for national tax authorities to use their findings and evaluate for profit shifting.

This is an inspirational moment - too long have tax treaties favoured those willing to break the spirit of the law and weigh down the little man with the consequences!
Would it be fair for me to give notice now and leave? I'd be letting down the team and owner and they would have to find another developer.

Ultimately it's the responsibility of the company to provide a challenging, nurturing, stable, health-promoting, etc, environment. If they fall short, then it's your career, health, and sanity which are as stake -- so really you shouldn't think twice about the possible negative impact on their side, and certainly not about "letting them down" personally. If anything you'd be doing them a favor by quitting after 1-2 months (if you can afford it) rather than 6-9, by which point they would have made a far greater investment in you.

All that's required on your side is to be tactful. There've been many posts here about "how to quit my job", but ultimately it comes down to this: don't fuss about preparing some lengthy explanation (or worse, a lengthy resignation letter). At the time you resign, you don't have to say anything up front -- but you should be prepared to give just one simple reason, easy to digest (like a tweet). In your case it could simply be, "I'm sorry, but the role just didn't meet my expectations -- there turned out to be just way more chaos to deal with than I had bargained for. So it seems the most ethical thing, for you as well as for me, is to resign sooner rather than later."

That's pretty much all you have to do. If they press for detail, you can give more detail -- if you want. But the important thing is to not assault them with detail up front (and only provide it if they specifically ask) -- no matter how well-merited the roots of your frustration are, it just makes you look bitter and disgruntled.

Would I be passing up a great opportunity to learn?

Any experience can be a "learning experience" -- even a negative experience. But it sounds like you have more important things to learn about then how to deal with dysfunctional teams and politically tricky environments.

In sum it sounds like this is definitely on occasion to trust your gut (as soon as you can afford it financially), stick to your guns and do the right thing -- for them, ultimately, as well as for yourself.
This is a real problem. My sister is a legal clinic domestic violence attorney, and apparently there are concerns about DV clients unwittingly friending their legal clinic advisors, not realizing that by doing so they're outing themselves to their abusive partners.
At least when it comes to parsers, it makes sense for Babel to want to be "in control" of their destiny here. Its really hard to draw a line between transpiling and parsing, especially when many of the features you are implementing require new syntax. Not having your own parser can make this more difficult (especially considering how unfortunately most "production ready" parsers end up being hand rolled so don't really easily allow "plugins" or "composition" to easily add new syntax). As babel may aim to implement experimental features that may never actually be added to JavaScript, it would be understandable that that may be considered a low priority for a standalone JavaScript parser project while high priority for a transpiling project.
Sweden’s Greta wants to disrupt the multi-billion dollar CDN market
That's going to be true of any game built on Ethereum. Might as well make it integral to the game.
BlaBlaCar?
It's pretty much 20% here it seems.

Then they raised the minimum wage. So restaurants added a 20% service fee on to cover it. Okay, fine. That's actually the outcome I wanted.

Except some places left the tip line. So now people still tip out of obligation.

Never ends.
I have an idea: kill yourself.
I've noticed Google Maps will sometimes give me Uber ads when I'm looking up directions ("this route only $N on Uber" or such). Idle speculation but I wonder if this was a mistake for Uber -- perhaps Google has seen a high rate of click-through on these and will now try to get in on that action themselves.
That sounds like a horrible thing now that there is movement towards distributed systems like the block chain.

I think there should be some regulation that guarantees provider competition so that consumers could take their stand on issues like this.
What the flaperon barnacles reveal about MH370
unwrap won't cause a segfault, it will either unwind the stack, or abort.
Yes, I hate it when projects do this. Along with senseless forking, trying to solve too many problems(especially ones that are already solved) is one of the worst things that can happen to a piece of software.
It's quite an assumption that they would want to 'friend' each other on facebook or even be presented with another's facebook profile.
Strange, apparently they only blinded themselves for two western blots that didn't even deserve a place in the main paper. I have found this is an extremely common issue with virology studies:

>"The screening of two subsets of compounds for antiviral activity (Supplementary Fig. 2a and Supplementary Fig. 4b) was performed in a blinded manner, whereas all other experiments were performed in a nonblinded manner."
http://www.nature.com/nm/index.html

Also, I searched for the virus strain they used and the first thing I clicked on claimed it has issues with relevance in vivo:

>"Anyone who is using viruses termed ZIKV MR766 needs to carefully examine the sequence composition of their stocks. Multiple viruses all termed MR766 may have different sequences and biological properties.In the case of the MR766 we are using in our studies, there is a deletion in the challenge stock that is strongly selected against quickly in vivo."
https://zika.labkey.com/wiki/OConnor/ZIKV-002/page.view?name...
Tipping is in my mind toxic to long term growth of ride sharing. It makes the user have to think, it's just bad UX.
In manufacturing, you use the term "part" for one instance of a unique thing, and "part number" for a class of identical parts. But people who have never been in a factory may not know that.
They are getting unfair pay in some places, thanks to bullshit laws that give them a truly ridiculous minimum wage.
Verbal judo’: the police tactic that teaches cops to talk before they shoot
I made this and think it's pretty cool (scroll down)
... once he gets the joke, he can delete your comment about him not getting the joke also. The internet should totally work this way. :)
SEC awards $22M to Monsanto whistleblower
It's all good. I hear you. We'll get there :) It took C what, 17 years or something to have ABI stability?
Thorough description of a negative experience interviewing at Palantir
If my Dropbox gets hacked, I would seriously get very worried. If my Facebook gets hacked, I'd be merely annoyed.
The point I clearly made is that social taboo is not the only reason why one might prefer a tiny house or indeed any other sort of house over a mobile home. You might not care about the other reasons, but they exist nonetheless.
Hows the Dlang GC these days? A year ago andralex stated that he was going to work on it[1], but I haven't heard of that since.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2g03af/ds_garb...
> "Okay, I'm done with this, and with you. I no longer consent to this interaction. If you continue, it's harassment." Then you walk away.

One-way communications are not an interaction. You cannot silence someone just by saying "shut up or it's harassment". Harassment, from a legal perspective, rightfully has a high bar that your example does not meet.
I think it's a little disingenuous to call openstax "the Napster model", but it's still a good article nevertheless.
Most VCs put their own people on the boards of companies they invest in, and then continue to invest in those companies. Doesn't this imply that the "shares a board member" conflict of interest described is either rampant in the industry or not actually a conflict of interest?
I use secureCRT, consolas 12pt. The font looks good and my default editor is Vim(mostly C).
Maybe not directly, but I think it did have a cultural influence:

* Helped people trust the "cloud" and inspired other cloud services to do similar things

* This might have help improve the foundation for remote workers to become more common.
Haven't looked in detail, but I continue to wonder about those outsized losses. Seems they are monopolizing the market using investor dollars to price below cost.

Many taxi services have been their own racket. But I don't view the above as moving to a better, sustainable model -- not at the current prices.

It seems this -- Uber drivers earning more than the profit/cost structure merits -- is a stopgap towards cornering the driverless car livery ("taxi", etc.) services, at which point labor expenses significantly decline and the old-school competition has been severely crippled if not eliminated.

P.S. I'm not a user of Uber -- or Lyft, etc. Suburban car owner. By I don't like market manipulation and monopolization -- good things don't tend to follow. Even as I watch one friend benefit quite significantly -- and essentially -- from the current Uber presence.

For their sake, as well as the larger picture, I wouldn't mind being proven wrong. But I've yet to reach any level of comfort with much of these "sharing" services/businesses.
In some places (all, IIRC, outside of the US), the Google Maps ride service feature already supports non-Uber ridesharing services. In the US, I think it only has Uber, but its basically a feature that lets GMaps be a platform for commoditizing ride services.
But my point still stands -- why don't they just work with the acorn developers to get specific features rather than build their own?
In certain places (big cities in Brazil come to mind, maybe even some places in the US?) it is customary to ignore certain red traffic lights at night because stopping there is very likely to get you carjacked. I'd like to see the autonomous car that can do that correctly and safely.

Same goes for when the lights at a junction are out of service. How will an AI handle that?

In general, proper autonomous cars are going to need a shit-ton of data collection at a very fine level everywhere. Together with the required sensor suite, the cost increase over a normal car in the same class is going to be huge. I'm not talking 20%, I'm talking at least twice as expensive.

This is why I think Ford are making exactly the right bet: taxi companies will adopt driverless cars many years, even decades, before private drivers. Because a taxi company saves a lot of money on not having any drivers (I'm guessing not far from 100-150k per year per car) on an autonomous car, they could easily afford to pay $150k for a Ford Fusion (normally $30k).
>You don't think it's evident people smile to make others feel more comfortable? (Sounds like a question in an Autism checklist)

That is not what the post I replied to said, and I especially want a citation for the "bottling things up" portion.

>You don't find it rather ironic that you discount experiential self-reporting in this thread, yet psychology relies on it so heavily?

I don't see any irony once we remove the oversimplifications. It's a terrible data source so we need a whole lot of data points and careful collection to get anything meaningful. We can still use it, but we very much need to discount single anecdotes and going by what's 'evident' without checking.
I found that sentence confusing, and got the impression that he meant after knowing life in this world (earth, human life) the no longer young candid person has no wish to begin again as a new boy in another world (heaven?, life after death)
Seems to be a tough business to bootstrap. Interesting. Thanks for laying that out.
Emulation, and specifically domain modeling, goes a wicked long way and has huge speed advantages in general.
I've had some lousy jobs, and it seems like the worse the job is, the less the employees complain. It's a weird form of denial, or something else?

Safeway bucks that observation. Safeway managed to irritate every employee, including my deceased father. He hated that company with a passion. In his late twenties, he became an electrician, and loved the work, and union pay.
If you use the "pool" feature you are sharing rides, though.
I've found some tricks to get it to learn really well (by gen 20 they all finish really fast)
1. Using a relu, return value => value >= 0 ? value : 0.0;
2. Bumping it up to 30 cars (if you use too many, it slows down, and you dont get as good of results because each iteration takes ages)
3. Changing the lap condition to c.lap < 5 and the time to 30 s. This lets each race go longer and widens the discrepancy between the best and worst racers - which improves selection
Ask HN: How did South Korea raise in tech so quickly
I remember late 90s was when South Korea was undergoing a low phase. How did it scale to tech prowess so quickly? Can anybody suggest books related to South Korean tech entrepreneurs in English or a book which captures this growth.
Google Contacts App Gets Better Labels, Duplicate Management and More
The textbook price increases were once thought to be a genius way to increase profit margins. However like all goods and services, even those with the most inelastic demand curves have a point at which people will begin to substitute them for another good. Textbook piracy is at an all time high and publishers profits have fallen significantly. The long run solution is subscription - access to all the content required by the students at an affordable monthly price. I'm one of the co-founders of Bibliotech the Spotify for Textbooks (www.bibliotech.education). We are working with Oxford University Press, Taylor & Francis and Cambridge University Press to achieve exactly that. Our challenge is convincing publishers to provide the necessary content under a subscription model
Wait, doesn't Lyft use Waze? So it's Lyft in a different interface?
> Do not waste time refactoring your code when you do not have the proper tests in place
to make sure the code you are refactoring is still working correctly.

In most of the code bases that I've worked (Lot's of legacy monstrosities), it's almost impossible to test the existing code unless that code get's refactored.

>If a Java backend is working fine, don’t jump to node.js unless you know that event handling is necessary for your application.

That's not refactoring, that's rebuilding the application or at least some large part of it.

> The primary purpose for changing an application is to satisfy new user requirements or usage conditions. So as long as the user of the application is content with the operation of the application there is less of a need to refactor the code.

This one I mostly agree with. The exception being when there are known deficiencies that are going to bite you down the road. It's easier to fix those kinds of problems without upstream pressure to push out a feature.
Yes, if you're willing to stick to it - that's the hard part. There's nothing magical about it. You become better aware of your time and therefore use it better.

Fifty plus year's ago an economist,Cyril Northcote Parkinson, coined "Parkinson's law", it says, "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." In someways it seems obvious but the reality is that it's not so obvious since we don't recognize it until someone points it out.

Parkinson's law is what the Pomodoro technique is trying to manage for the individual as Agile is for project management. It does help but it's just hard to maintain over time.

The way to stick to it is to make it a habit. Start by making it a game such as how long can I last without failing. By the way you will fail. Track the time you lasted and then try to increase it for next time. Also note why you failed and find something to counter that so you're ready for the next time. Repeat until you no longer think about the process but it becomes part of your everyday.
In my opinion the maple syrup class could be a fantastic wellness opportunity -- making maple syrup involves hiking around the woods, often in the snow, carrying heavy buckets full of sap around. It's this kind of real-world, ecologically reasonable movement that most people are so profoundly deficient in. To say nothing of spending time in a beautiful natural setting, which is often quite restorative and de-stressing.

It would be awesome if everyone knew proper lifting form, but it's just not going to happen. Getting people to engage in an activity that they like, and that involves lots of real-world movement, is the biggest win you can hope for, practically speaking.
This life really isn't sustainable as he gets older, and he's very vulnerable to risk, accident, or loss. Oh, it seems romantic as hell, but the first time the flu hits you, you suddenly realize you've chosen to stick yourself into a tiny box with no indoor plumbing, no quiet, and that has to move every few days or the police will start rapping on your windows.

Or when the van breaks down, and you have zero choice but to fix it right away, and you have to pray to god you budgeted enough to cover it. Plus the van itself wears out much faster than a vehicle most people use because it has to move so much. RV lifestyle in general is far more expensive than people realize, and provides zero equity. If he ever wishes to expand his game business, he's going to have a rough time.

It's romantic, but it's very much a young person's game and he'll probably discover the joys of home ownership when he's 35 and trying to sleep in his van in 90 degree weather.
This is the first rocket that SpaceX will attempt to relaunch
There's an even more extreme form of that where people desolder the connectors.
I'm hardly satisfied with the US copyright regime, but I'm not going to shed any tears for Kim Kimble given his long history of other frauds and scams.

Unfortunately, a portion of his fans either don't seem to be aware of that history, or they choose to overlook because they're wishing for some kind of "stick it to the man" underdog.
What Caused Last Week’s Earthquake in Italy?
IT Contractors in the UK right now are facing demands to pay retroactively for tax stretching back over a decade in some cases that they purposefully avoided at the time using a scheme called EBT (or, being paid in loans by a trust because loans aren't taxed).

They had advice at the time that these schemes were legit (though every adviser would deliver that with a wink), any adult human must have known there was a large risk HMRC would disagree eventually (just as Apple knew they were running a risk), and now they face demands to pay the tax they failed to pay in the first place.

Are they the victims? Certainly they will tell you so. Sympathy I have for them? Nil.
> Because the receivers used were making broad band measurements, there's really nothing about this "signal" that would distinguish it from a natural radio transient (stellar flare, active galactic nucleus, microlensing of a background source, etc.) There's also nothing that could distinguish it from a satellite passing through the telescope field of view.

A satellite passing through the telescope field of view is interesting to you?

OP is implying you've been had by bad science.
There are no public spaces on the Internet, except perhaps government websites. Everything else is a private space, maybe with public access.

Regulating "trolling" (however some legislator chooses to define that) would be regulating what people say and allow to be said in their own private websites.
I've always found white letters on black background way easier to read. Isn't diversity wonderful?
You seem to persist in not understanding the difference between a w2 and a 1099.

fyi, as alluded to elsewhere in this thread, the government deems payroll taxes to be paid by the employee on the date he or she receives his or her share of the paycheck. At that point, the business is holding the taxes on behalf of the government. Officers of the company are regularly held personally liable for unpaid payroll taxes. The irs and state tax agencies choose a "fuck you, pay me" approach to these taxes. You should probably not screw about with them, but to each his own...
State: Benghazi emails involving Clinton recovered by FBI
Yes, you can tell them you want to share a ride with a stranger. These are ride sharing services. Sometimes there isn't enough demand for sharing or you pay extra to ride alone.
I wouldn't say it's as messed up as that. You make it sound as thought scientific institutions suffer from systemic corruption. Yes, narrative is involved, but humans are storytellers. I don't think science is limited or hindered by the way people process information.
StartCom or StartSSL? I believe those are not the same.
A much clearer example is this article: "Going to a doctor for a mental health issue".
> a nice university degree will likely not make you twice the hourly wage of the lowest diner job in the country.

Why shouldn't it?
Oh, of course, expensive doesn't mean good. Maybe the cheapest one is the best one. I'm just saying the reputation should be a primary consideration, or at least one of. There should be consequences for bad behavior for CA vendors.
Sorry I can't help you, but I do have a question - how did you find out that your town has the existing fiber infrastructure?
> What I'm saying is that if one wants to have the overwhelmingly warm service Americans expect in restaurants, we need to keep tipping.

Except you do not give any argument for why that is the case, but just hand wavingly claim it. Why exactly wouldn't it work if tips were abolished, all the prices on the menu are raised to match the average income from tips, and salaries raised to make up for tips? I don't see why good service would only be possible with tipping.
One metaphor that comes to mind is that of an employer asking for the same data (personal email credentials). I'm sure some people may (to their detriment) comply with such a request while others would not. Some may be so offended that they would quit immediately or start looking for a job elsewhere.
What other companies would he be starting if he had the time
"Based on corporate and llc/individual tax rates, I don't really see the advantage."

Yes, correct. Incorporating in Delaware is not so much about saving taxes. Delaware is considered to be friendly towards corporations and the legal system actually understands the challenges a business goes through. For example, Delaware has a Court of chancery that focusses specifically on business law and uses judges instead of juries [0]. Things like that.

[0] http://www.bizfilings.com/learn/incorporate-delaware-nevada....