skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You look in contrast everybody who is basically going “mine, mine, mine”. Look at those companies, they are laying people off all the time. They are on the down slope of their corporate cycle. Some of them are huge multi-billion dollar companies but innovation is not coming out of them.

A lot of smaller startups seem to fit this description. I wonder which large companies he has in mind though. He named Alcatel as one, I guess. Maybe AT&T as well? IBM? Oracle? I don't know. Oracle is making a ton of cash.
I guess time is hard to measure when you deal with fast things???? (Terrible, non-sensical joke)
"One of the only arbitrage opportunities left is time." - I like that, and definitely believe it. First time I have heard it also.
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مسلسل جديد من كتابة George R.R. Martin كاتب مسلسل Game of Thrones
Very true! This hardly holds up to, say, a CAD$600 laptop. But, it'll be very handy to take traveling around the world or to visit my parents/nephew to play some Minecraft.
If you don't have proper devops processes in place, you'll be spending a progressively larger proportion of your time handling manually what should be automated, and firefighting problems that shouldn't even occur, as your system grows more complex.

A pre-requisite to "spend as much energy as possible on end user features" is to have some sort of foundation to build on that can grow with your platform, or you might as well build on quicksand.
I saw this in Boy's life:

Roses are red

Violets are blue

Some poems rhyme

Some don't
Well lets not kid ourselves about the political stability of Kenya without (modern) interference, never mind other surrounding countries. Certainly I've never noticed a particular hesitation on the part of the international community to invade or interfere in Africa when there is money to be made.
Also, employers and travel authorities who view the lack of a Facebook accountant as suspicious.
Seems to me, the advice is all about surrounding yourself with good people.
Finally introducing Musk at about 18.59 UTC (i.e. +00:00)
Imagine a world where the interviewers sat a candidate down in the company's typical environment, with a simplified version of their codebase, and asked them to re-implement a small piece of striped-out functionality. Give them a couple of hours, and then allow them to ask questions, explain what they did, where they got stuck, and give their own feedback. Now you know that they understand your environment/stack, and get an actual sense of how they would perform for your company on code that matters. Let them see the actual code you use at the end, and discuss differences, why they made certain choices, and see if they get excited or frustrated with your company's practices (style, systems, conventions).
> but this 'My way or the highway' from pseudo engineers

Aren't you saying the same thing to them when you decline to move forward? Looks like your both have the same message just relative to your position in the discussion.
Having multiple independent biospheres reduces a lot of extinction level risks, not just catastrophic climate change risk.
You can't hire them at a salary below that 2x minimum wage (41.6k) threshold for the law I noted if they're a full-time 40 hr / week employee.

Yes - for the parent's law you could not have them work overtime.
My degree program must have been unusual, then, because my senior project class was the only one where less than 80% of my grade came from in-class tests. Many professors didn't even give a crap whether you actually did the homework or not, because you'd bomb the test anyway if you didn't.
Yeah it's pretty easier to get to your saved passwords in Chrome -- they're at chrome://settings/passwords. They're not encrypted or anything (depending on your OS, you might have to enter your password to reveal the passwords at that link, but that's just to stop unsophisticated snoops -- there's nothing blocking access to the plaintext passwords on your hard drive). I'm not sure precisely how LastPass is accessing them (I use 1Password) but I'm not really surprised. Chrome's password store is for convenience, not security. If you want security, use 1Password or LastPass or something.
You would enjoy this game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioShock
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Comparatively simple, but without getting at least the basics right you'll be moving comparatively slowly as you end up with time-suck after time-suck to compensate for lacking processes.
Unconventional design.

The rocket looks very large and they mention 120 million newtons takeoff thrust so the weight is about 10 million kg, 3 times Saturn V size.

The first stage lands back on launch stool, the tanker stage is put on top of it and it launches again. This implies a relatively fast turnaround.

Both the second stage and the tanker seem to have complete heat shields and stub wings and ability to re-enter either Mars or Earth.

So all parts

1) big
2) landable and
3) short turnaround time

This would imply they will launch them a lot, so they're really ramping up the traffic to Mars, not just a few missions?

I don't understand the 100 000 km/h which is 30 km/s speed for the Mars cruise. Would be really hard to achieve with chemical propulsion. With 4 km/s exhaust velocity and delta vee of say 20 km/s you get a required mass ratio of e^(20/4) which is 150. And they lug the upper stage engines all the way, and there's heatshield and wings. Impossible.

Also the 200 kW electrical power advertised is puny for electrical propulsion. With an ISP of 1000 (exhaust 10 km/s) you get an 20 Newtons of thrust [correction from 200N], which is nothing for their ship size. If they only have ten tons of mass, then it takes 200 days to accelerate to full speed.

Typically you might need 10 to 20 km/s speed for Mars.

Their plan does not compute for me.

EDIT: So it can work if they only go for 10 km/s.
For filter fun, try Googling "photo filters". Filters are generally bad, unless you actually want a biased output.
We can't solve simplest problems on Earth (like re-capturing CO2 for example), but believe we'll be able to terraform a planet to which we haven't even been able to send a human yet?
I agree. I'm from Puerto Rico, where I think it's more common to live and grow up within driving distance of a big part of your family.

Now as an adult I've moved to the US, where it's much more common to move far from your family. I grew up expecting that I would always have my close family near, and I still struggle with the fact that's probably not going to be the case.

I would absolutely love to live near or with my brother and parents still. Definitely would need a way that would allow us to have private spaces when we want, but I miss being able to see close family with just 30 minutes of traveling.
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You may have dodged a bullet because if someone has a "only one answer approach to interviewing" then the inability to see other possible solutions may carry over into their daily work as well.
DJI's new Mavic Pro drone folds up and fits in the palm of your hand
It'll take from 1 to 5 business days before you'll get first candidates in general
Why Group Brainstorming Doesn’t Work
And now Microsoft is trying to get developers' love back with huge efforts.
To bad, I have no idea what ads to target. Could be just anything. But I guess adult content would do pretty well. Most of the people really talk some nasty stuff.
You would need a large group of people with regular and often made metabolic (extended, incl. thyroid, cortisol, liver hormones; urine NH to check protein catabolism...) panels during a strict diet. Probably also direct BMR measurements. I am not aware of such studies and not for lack of effort to find them.

I only have my own metabolic panels taken at my expense weekly during a vegan diet (vetted by a dietician) attempt. A failed one to boot. From correct baseline to borderline hypothyroidism in a matter of weeks. Quick rebound when the attempt was stopped.

The study would have to be careful to exclude people with known preexisting conditions that cause obesity and only take in "idiopathic" subjects.

The most interesting related study I found is the Right Track long-term study of adolescent health related behaviour and total factors. It is currently in progress. Hopefully it won't disappear.
> so this is just weeding out people who clearly wouldn't pass

This is true only if your coding/algorithm interview process is the exact same as HackerRank. Alternately (like they do at the place I work at), if your coding interview is conducted in person and relies upon you correctly describing a thought process rather than coming up with the correct code snippet, it's an awful replacement.
If you're looking for something similar but more in the style of Zelda games, check out http://www.solarus-games.org/ — cross-platform, Lua-based, and has a lot of stuff baked in (either from the core set or the Zelda "Link to the Past" asset set) that gets you up and running pretty quick. Also, there are tutorials on YouTube in both French and English that do a pretty good job explaining things.
And anyway I think you'll find it just as 'impossible' to do any zoning change that reduce any asset on the mortgage holder's books: Anything that actually reduces land price is equally politically 'impossible'. One may as well try do something that is going to work broadly and fairly rather than a random patchwork of small superficial zoning fixes.

And incidentally it's probably easier to argue for fairness and fiscal responsibility than to argue for bulldozing open space to put in a high-rise apartment.
Had a weird experience where the guy interviewing me would shake his head "no" when he didn't like the answer I was giving. Not that it was wrong, it just didn't conform to what he was expecting. It was really weird to describe a proper technical solution to someone who was doing that.
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>Primarily because the "genetically inferior" person somehow had more motivation and drive than the genetically engineered ones.

But this has nothing to do with the moral issue. Maybe it was the fact that "in-valids" had to struggle and deal with discrimination which caused the character to give his most, given that he knew where he standed while the 'valids' are in a place of comfort.
Given hundreds (or thousands) of years, yes.
NetBotz Cameras have a build in NSA backdoor
Obama Admin Sues Palantir, Peter Thiel for Asian Descrimination
Do people actually learn multiplication beyond single digits? I know up to 12x12 and do math a few hours a day for work.
I don't understand how this can be a thing.

You can buy and use an oil filter from any source for your car. I think it's illegal to require original manufacturer parts.

Yet HP is doing exactly that, and in an underhanded way. And this fight, over printer ink, has been going on for years.

How can this be?
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If you're paying $1 a year you don't have privacy: you just gave your banking details to the provider. Why do you think this is better than optional linking to a Facebook profile that may or may not even use your real name, and almost certainly does not have your street address on it?
Yes, browser password storage is really poorly secured. For what it's worth, a Chrome staffer explained on this very site[0] their reasoning, but that doesn't really sit too well with me - in my opinion, browsers should either go all way the way and integrate a full KeePass/1Password style password storage or remove the feature altogether.

Firefox appears to be a bit better by letting you set a master password that's used to encrypt passwords[1], although without digging into the behavior I can't say exactly how much that helps.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6166731
[1]: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Master_password
One size fits all type of interviewing might be bad for your company or team. If you are hiring for short term, you might find someone who can crank the code appealing, but for long term hiring, you want to choose someone who is creative, who has better imagination or at least has a healthy amount of passion for tech ideas.

We might have pushed the limits with coding questions. Why do you need 5 coding rounds? does one programming problem not clarify if this person can code or not?
Like I said, it's debatable. It was honestly the weakest part of the paper. The specific claim comes from a vaguely specified "human evaluation" (i.e. how many evaluators? based on what criterion? did you just ask folks at google to compare stuff?) on a tiny sample of 500 basic sentences, and the results were presented as differences between mean scores without so much as a confidence interval or a power calculation to back them.

Moreover, from the paper:

"In some cases human and GNMT translations are nearly indistinguishable on the relatively simplistic and isolated sentences sampled from Wikipedia and news articles for this experiment.
Note that we have observed that human raters, even though fluent in both languages, do not necessarily fully understand each randomly sampled sentence sufficiently and hence cannot necessarily generate the best possible translation or rate a given translation accurately. Also note that, although the scale for the scores goes from 0 (complete nonsense) to 6 (perfect translation) the human translations get an imperfect score of only around 5 in Table 10, which
shows possible ambiguities in the translations and also possibly non-calibrated raters and translators with a varying level of proficiency. Testing our GNMT system on particularly difficult translation cases and longer inputs than just single sentences is the subject of future work."

Basically, you should ignore the claims of improvement, and replace them with a big question mark.
Aren't we sorely missing water on mars though?
None -- I work from a home office. It used to be 2 hours per day.
Or you know...discovered [1]

Also, show me the species on other planets. Far as we know there aren't any and none of the planets seem to be habitable. Stop living in fantasy land.

[1] http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-animal-species
I had this problem. There was a firmware update for the printer that solved the issue. Now it reliably wakes from deep sleep on WiFi from my Mac. It is a Brother DCPL2520DW.
I bet the first people that landed on Hawaii were pretty excited about it.

The technical challenges on Mars will probably only compound the political problems. Double plus fun.
>What are we going to do on Mars?

Probably the same stuff we do on Earth? Also- sports would be pretty cool in low gravity (37% of Earth's gravity)
The human genome and body are extremely complex. Concluding that something is caused by environmental factors just because a few genetic markers can't be found, would be a massive over-simplification.
Does not work very well if you happen to be using a monitor in portrait rotation. At least in Safari it will go fullscreen, and try to scale its game imagery to the same height as the browser window, without caring about the fact that this results in something a lot wider than the browser window.
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Can you really have @ in urls? This is the first time I've seen this.

Their JS file url:
https://unpkg.com/leaflet@1.0.0-rc.3/dist/leaflet.js
Passwords stored by the browser can't be encrypted. Unlike with, say, LastPass, the browser doesn't have any "master password" to encrypt data with. Moreover, the passwords can't be stored as hashes (like in /etc/passwd), since websites require users to provide passwords in plain text.

Granted, if you use full-disk encryption, this concern is much less serious.
The solar panels seems to be designed to catch some solar wind (if that's even viable), in addition to generate electricity, but the engine works with fuel. There is no (yet) any full electric space engine.
I've been attempting to use this system for a while today to converse with a native Chinese speaker and it seems to be better but still very far from human-level translation. Maybe they've been using especially bad human translators in their comparisons?
1,258 people currently live at the McMurdo research station on the South Pole. The record high temperature there is still well below freezing. Humans would not be able to survive there _except_ we have invented ways of keeping them alive using housing and clothing technology.
Where are programmers working for a "tech" company that is not in Silicon Valley?
I read the whole article.

My comparison was criticizing (as a YouTube Creator myself) the focus YouTube had in recent years regarding innovation of the platform itself.

YouTube heavily focused on things like: 360° videos, Offline (mentioned in the article), interface, comments, trends.

There is 0 innovation from a creator perspective. Platforms like Snapchat make it insanely (!!!) easy to create content on a regular basis. Sure the Snapchat platform is not at all as full-fledged as YouTube but I think it is dangerously close for quite some (YouTube)genres like Vlogging and could easily be extended.

EDIT to elaborate on Snapchat (for user @lucb1e): Snapchat is per se not interesting for a content-creator with a big following just to send self-destructing messages.

They introduced a feature called „Stories“ a while ago which let's you take multiple clips during the day and then combines them to a „story“. Within 24 hours the viewer/subscriber can play your story and see your whole day.

So you basically have a full video without ever touching Adobe-Premiere or Final-Cut. Importing, editing, exporting, uploading even for the most basic videos on YouTube takes (a lot of) time.

From an analytics perspective you can check views, screenshots, etc of each individual story-element and interact with the viewers (e.g. screenshot to vote for an option).
Yeah, some companies do those (or a slight variation, called pair programming interviews). There are a lot of benefits of those, but also some drawbacks.

First, it's much harder to scale in a consistent way.

Second, and more importantly, you also evaluate how they code right now, on these specific technologies, not how well they would code with a bit of training.

Think about it: There are a ton of new college grads who are better software engineers (or would be, with 6 months) than people with 20 years of experience. But a person with 20 years of experience who knows that technology will perform better in an immediate sense than the new grad.

No interviews are perfect.
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Even from that point of view, Mars is even more hostile to life (as we know it) than Earth.
If humanity lasts, in about a billion years the Earth will be no longer be in the Sun's habitable zone. Might as well start preparing from now.
Earth's oceans span twice Mars's entire surface, too. Lots of room!
I'd really like to see us taking space seriously. While I'm still here.

One of my earliest strong memories was the last moon landing. This was followed by years of "Tomorrow's World" and "Horizon" telling us about the Moon bases, Mars bases and orbital platforms that would soon follow. We got Skylab and some very interesting probes. I'm a tiny bit disappointed in that. We were meant to be en route to Starfleet Command and global cooperation (which always seemed a big ask as we were at the height of the cold war).

However, I can't help thinking if we do become a multiplanetary species before resolving the issues of this one a few things are just a matter of time. That some politician claims we don't need to care about emissions as we now have a spare, so he's going to build loads of new coal. That Esso wants to know if there's oil. That we have an interplanetary falling out (OK that's probably a while away). That we start littering and buggering up the rest of the solar system.
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The End of Tech Companies
Speed to Mars though is really relative speed along whatever orbit (Hohmann transfer or the moral equivalent) that you choose. Only in SF stories do we have fully powered propulsion to Mars.

I am very curious what the selected family of orbits is, and even more importantly how long & how much life support for the large passenger number.
I first noticed that in Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7903791,-122.4318703,15z
That's a great dream and a great goal. Unfortunate there isn't a magic way to make 100k from a website without building a good product. I wish there was a way.

As for the 100 visitors saying "Hi, is anyone around here?" The chicken and the egg problem is a very common problem with social sites. The most common way I've seen this solved is by the owners of the site "faking" responses or filling in their site with fake content to look like it is active. They do this just until the site takes off. But it sounds like your project is not that large yet and needs to be built up larger. I'd say for you to keep at it or start another project that you can get more traction in.

For what it's worth... In my experience, only working a couple hours a week on a side project won't get you anywhere fast. I usually spend around 15 on my side projects a week. Otherwise, nothing will get done on them. You just need to make the time. As Gary Vaynerchuk puts it... go to work, go home, kiss the dog, and between 9PM and 1AM you need to crush it.

I wish you the best and hope you can make something happen.

Edit: Here's that keynote where Gary talks about having a side project and working 9-5. https://youtu.be/EhqZ0RU95d4?t=11m50s
Good call. The sheer idiocy of expecting people to show off their mad hacking skills in such an obviously crippled environment is just... breathtaking. Especially when the cost of renting a session on one of the services that does offer a full-featured IDE (with vi and emacs modes) is close to zero.

But given that it's most likely the result of junior hiring managers giving marching orders to junior engineers (i.e. the people conducting the screening) who just don't know any better than to say "no" to such a silly and insulting request to make of incoming candidates... the depth and reach of this annoying fad becomes less surprising.
People oppose death penalty for a variety of reasons, not just out of conviction that "life is hallowed".
I owe I owe my great talent pool to a tip from Steve Jobs: CEO
You might want to go read up on Mars before you publish that essay... Mars has an atmosphere and lots of water ice. You can grow plants on Mars by compressing the atmosphere. You can use the atmosphere plus water to make methane rocket fuel, and water to make LOX.

For Venus, the way to build a colony is to place it way up in the atmosphere, at Earth pressure.
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Just today there was an article in the newspaper of a nearby town stating that the school system there would be moving to "paperless" report cards; that is, report cards would be entirely online. (It did mention that parents could request a printed copy of their child's report card at any time.)

My first thought was "not everyone has Internet access" -- especially in this relatively small city -- and the possible ramifications of that.

Will those parents have to request a paper copy every time a report card is issued (four times per school year)? Will they eventually stop doing so? Will they stop paying attention to their child's academic progress and will the child's academic performance then suffer? Will the child slowly begin to perform worse and worse (academically) over time?

Will this "digital divide" simply continue to worsen?