skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wondered whether life could be restricted to an area say the size of a city park as a very small "favorable condition" region of a planet. Ceres has more surface area than California, Texas, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado combined...

I'd imagine it'd take a long time for some decent amount of planetary coverage, even if everything happened favourably.
If you look past the typos the article does bring up a few new points.

(BTW, the author said he was ESL, which might explain the typos).
Have you already checked out Midnight Commander?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Commander
> 5 years ago, I even bet my roommate to pour a cup of water on a running Thinkpad. It survived.

Yeah, gotta love a laptop that has friggin' drainage holes in the bottom of it. :)
The tldr here is that this is a nice recounting of personal experience interviewing with Uber and being frustrated by it, pointing out the many warning signs seen in the interview about a toxic work culture.

The post was prompted by the phenomenal writeup by Susan Fowler on her year working with Uber. If you can read only one, certainly read hers. If you can read only two, consider reading Susan's twice as it's exceptionally good writing. This is a nice (not exceptionally original) personal account of a bad interview experience.
Has the president done something unconstitutional, or do you just want him to?
If this was a he said she said case then you would have a point. We should all wait until the facts come out before making a judgement. But, there are so many corroborating accusations from her fellow female peers that makes it very hard to not to believe her story. You do not make a public statement that you have corroborating accusations from your fellow female peers without being absolutely certain because if those claims are discredited then you've instantly lost your credibility.
In particular, the Black Diamond cams have a double axis which increases the camming range. It's a beautiful piece of gear.
Tired of these 'how I learned XYZ really fast' stories. I think all it shows it that extremely high-IQ people can learn things really fast.
The point made is the silicon-hydrogen bonds are much weaker than carbon hydrogen bonds.

This seems to, at the very least, discount silicon as a drop-in replacement for carbon.
Funnily enough the pattern goes like this:

1. Read into something for a while
2. Realise I'm deficient in X
3. Repeat 1 with X until I get into a state where I feel "blah I can't focus on anything long enough to get ahead" by which point I either:

A. Indulge in a stimulating video game (complex ones from paradox are best but I enjoy Civ too).

B. Explore my spiritual side and try to get a grip on whovi really am and why I am this way until...

I span out of my rut and get back on the mouse wheel.
I wonder if you could have something better, closer to streaming replication of databases. A few weeks ago I found zrep, which sounds more like what I had in mind: http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/zrep/
Nearly every interview is not realistic at all. At least it's better than whiteboarding.
Sure, but that's not the situation we're dealing with. No war crimes are being ordered, in fact, it doesn't seem anything is being ordered at all. They're just betraying their superiours for ??? private reason. Whose liberty are they defending?
"politicizing attempts".

Sexual harassment is politicizing?
I still own&use one; I upgraded SSD and ram an it is still pretty ok for small web dev and internet browsing.
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That certainly sounds right! I documented my general process above and it pretty much makes a spiral pattern of filling deficiencies as they arise.
Actually I'd prefer if my country would just naturalize you instead of running you through an exploitative guest worker program that hedges your visa status on continued employment. I have absolutely no desire to prevent you from getting a job (and I'd like the union to have a spot for you and ensure you share in the benefits we create by collectively bargaining).
The mistake was made by companies abusing external plugin support to install plugins that make the browser vulnerable, slow or unstable.

The browser vendors then get to take all the "credit" for that. Their decision to remove support for external plugins is absolutely reasonable.
That's a separate issue, though; you could (at least theoretically) have a fully patent-unencumbered DRM standard.
Your interview experience depends a lot on the recruiter that's working with you. And this applies to all companies. Although I didn't get an offer from them, my experience interviewing at Uber was extremely pleasant and I made sure to connect with the recruiter, now at another co., on LinkedIn. I told myself that I'd hire that recruiter if/whenever I started my own company. After passing the phone screen, I still remember that the recruiter working with me called me back within 10 mins after I hung up with the interviewer and got me an onsite scheduled immediately on the spot. I didn't hear back about the offer for a few days after my onsite interview, but I was able to get someone to call me up and deliver the bad news immediately after I pinged the recruiter.
Post talk about the con of Frequentist compare to Bayesian and end up talking about Fisher likelihood school of thought.

Post argue that Likelihood is basically Bayes, it's actually Fisher school's of thought which is a half way point or a can be seen as a compromise between Frequentist and Bayesian approach.

A good book that talk about this which I've been meaning to read is... In All Likelihood: Statistical Modelling and Inference Using Likelihood by Yudi Pawitan.

I've read the first chapter and it's a very interesting read. I might skip bayes and go straight to likelihood coming from the school of frequency.
I have a couple of those for outdoor stuff. I find the straps quite uncomfortable.
I get why both browsers require signed plugins unless you are using the developer branch, on Windows 7 a huge vector of attack was malicious files loading unsigned plugins in Chrome in particular (also saw it in Firefox, but rarer) that would create popups, inject ads onto sites that didn't have ads, steal passwords, etc.

That being said, I wish there was a way I could use unsigned plugins easily, without reinstalling firefox.
So in your view if someone isn't super keen on working for a company, but goes through the interview process and points out alarms about their business practices, that is then invalidated? Unless you're implying the author has some sort of bone to pick with Uber, and feel free to present evidence, that seems like a very silly point.

And it's a personal blog, and maybe the person is ESL, who cares if there were two mistakes? If you find that pedantry irritating enough to comment on it, I can't imagine how awful your browsing experience must be like in general.
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If you want some more you use "I've" a lot, where it should just be "I", example:

"He then asked if I had any questions for him. I’ve asked if they had any plans to make thing better for the drivers."

"I’ve asked if they considered to pay the driver more? He said that it’s not ideal"

"It wasn’t until I’ve red Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber today"

The last one also has "read" misspelt.
when was the last time you used Firefox? it's pretty good these days.
The First Global Empire (2015)
TLDR:

His interviewers were young and seemed stressed. One guy implied you should work long hours. He realized mid-interview it wasn't for him. Finished interview. He feels bad for drivers.
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Forks don't work as well with certain kinds of foods. E.g., you can eat snacks like chips or cheetos with chopsticks without getting your fingers messy which is more difficult to do with a fork. Same with slippery food like certain kinds of noodles, and hard foods like some nuts.

There's just a certain simplicity and universality to chopsticks that appeals from a design sense... That said recently I've been into using a Spork which works great for some foods and is another interesting study in design...
Laws, minimum wage and ethical treatment of employees are a huge barrier to innovation, and I for one am glad Uber has ripped that barrier down.
I feel the same with Computer Science. It is so freaking complicated! I work in IT, I can program, I am totally immersed in UNIX culture. Yet I don't manage to sit down and study CS as I would like to, as I fear I won't get over the rather theoretical subjects. But you know what? Somehow this short article really resonated. I will sit down and hunt my degree, starting today.

(Disclosure: I am already enrolled in a online-university program here in Germany, which is almost free, but so far I only took two exams on rather practical subjects I had no problems with).
The statute -- at least in my country -- is quite unambiguous [1].

What is difficult is proving that what is alleged to have happened actually transpired (or if cases are not properly investigated).

But this is why we have a justice system. If there is a paper trail, and evidence of repeat activity, as in this case, there is little ambiguity.

[1]: https://employment.govt.nz/resolving-problems/types-of-probl...
but attempting to add DRM to an open standard is!
I can no longer drink, due to medical issues. I'd still go out with my team for the bonding, and probably just leave early every time. I really like how the Chef Community Summit has drinking and dry events, like Game Night. Making inclusivity a goal is fun for everyone!
I've actually written one based on his guide: https://github.com/Hexworks/hexameter
I'm not familiar with the other write up you've mentioned, but I enjoyed this blog post. It's nice to know warning signs for potential companies you could work for. We have to stick together in IT and not let companies take advantage of us.

If doing 80 hours of work in 40 and all the other warning signs is no big deal to you, by all means, gun for an Uber position in that area. I'd like to hear about that though before I waste my time, so well done by OP.
Going into the interview I had a pretty open mind. Just because I thought Facebook > Uber, doesn't mean I didn't want to work there. But after talking to the driver, couple interviewers and the hiring manager, I was positive that it was not for me.
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Dear Americans,

Being expected to tip a person for a service you just paid for is NOT normal!

Yes, in the EXCEPTIONAL situation where you want to give a person money for whatever reason, please do so but do not change a default setting for something that warrants it 10% of the time.

How does one justify going to a salon, being given a price by the barber, paying it and still be expected to "tip" the person you just paid what was asked for?

Uber including tipping will mess up the experience. Period. It will influence ratings. Cos, how would a driver rate 2 passengers with equal service but one tipped $20 and the other $0.

We from the rest of the world are very uncomfortable being forced to perform this "optional" task.
Yes, obviously. I'm not saying the patent system is "working".
A moment's thought leads me to think you could use something like this:
(temp-controlled plug bar, basically)
http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=536763
Attached to a motor /servo (depending on your window) that will turn on or off at a given temperature. Have a switch on the window which cuts off/enables the power when the window is open or closed at the desired max/min.
Well, it's safe to say you dodged a bullet then :)
And if print can already have a special treatment, it should surely be the one where the value is copied if can fit the basic type size, that is, at least for int like and float like stuff not have automatic pass by reference but automatic pass by value to it?
I have zero power now but have the potential to have it. If I don't know how to behave like a decent human around my female coworkers and peers right now, I would have no idea how to do this when I have more power (e.g. become a manager). But, then, I'd have the power to cause irreparable emotional and societal damage. If I don't know how to act like a rational reasonable human being who respects others no matter their background or gender, this won't change. All that will change is that I have the authority to cause great damage.

I don't know much and I certainly don't claim to know much. All I know is that if we (men) don't curb our own behavior, we're the one squarely at fault.

I'm so tired of this "not all men" attitude. As someone who gets paid to make fact-based decisions all day, I cannot possibly ignore this ridiculous argument that women are at fault. No, way. Yes, anything is possible but the scenario you're proposing is so rare that is an anomaly. Get off that horse, dude. Stop being on the wrong side of history.
https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...
I would argue that they've disrupted American urban transportation instead of transforming it - we're still essentially getting around the same way, and taxi services world-wide basically operate the same way Uber does and have for a long time. While Uber has a presence in other countries, the public transit infrastructure is far better supported and taxis operate with similar costs.

I can't imagine trying to take Uber in Seoul, for example, when the majority of the time I could either just take the metro or have a home delivery for most stuff I need, or grab one of the numerous taxis. Or, in my current home city of St. Petersburg, Uber doesn't have much of a competitive edge in price or service compared to the other taxi services, and in most cases, just taking a tram or the metro makes more sense.

Uber's system works really well in places where car ownership is mandatory for day to day activities, simply because there aren't any better alternatives. They didn't really transform urban transportation, they just capitalized on the inefficiency of current taxi services, disrupting the existing market, and quite frankly, unless they start to invest in stuff like the personal taxi drones like what is being demoed in Dubai right now [1], I think they're going to end up with a transportation empire that is irrelevant when you can just travel as the crow flies and eliminate the traffic concerns entirely. Granted, such a future has a ways to go with technology and regulatory work, but so do the autonomous cars everyone is banking on.

And to the side point on your comment, doing something impressive doesn't excuse bad behavior.

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2017/02/taxi-take-0

edit: corrected auto-correct's change of Uber's > User's back to Uber's
In case someone wants to save 1 minute of their life :) https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...
More than the typos, I was more put off by the structure and sentence flow which made me feel like it was haphazardly put together, but didn't know he is ESL. Thanks for pointing that out. My apology to the author.
"Harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision"

Seems pretty clear-cut to me?
Sorry to hear about that. When we were shopping for a vacuum, I had concerns that the dyson's construction looked fragile so we went with something else. Good to know we made the right decision.
Eurofighter Typhoon and Panavia Tornado are different aircraft.
Some roosters start crowing at 5:00 am, they sing non-stop for 15-20 minutes and wait for an hour. When people are sleep again they repeat the bursts. This can last from 5:00 am until 9:00 am or so. All days of the week including sundays and holidays.
Is basically torturing your neighbours, specially if they are of the night owl kind.
Fair point, but I'd at least expect an original assignment to be submitted later that isn't like in thousands of data structure programming book out there. Well, maybe expect isn't the right word, but I'd never run my interviews with such trivial requests that don't reflect what the actual work will be (hopefully they aren't writing LLs from scratch, anyway).
But the key here is first impression. It applies to you the same as it applies to them. Be it Google or FB or anyone else...these companies are nothing special.They create an illusion of an elitist club but in reality it's the same old bureaucracy / corporate bshit that awaits you anywhere else.

Why should I bother and be religious about the company If I do not even know what I am getting my self into.
Pretty much this. Sometimes pushing back is needed, but way more often "negotiation" is needed. It is unreasonable to expect managers to magically see into the development details, you have to explain, made plans transparent etc etc. When you do that you often (not always) find that requirements are negotiable and not equally important, e.g. it is possible to meet the deadline without sacrificing code quality. Oftentimes the compromise is possible - you wont get two week straight of refactoring, but they are ok with using 20% of development time for cleanups.

I have seen developers "push back for the right thing" in a way that basically amounted to angry emotional outburst over things manager did not understood. The dude thought he is pushing for the right thing, but everyone else thought he does not listen to their needs, refuses to follow the company vision of the product replacing it by his own. (They wanted simplest possible functionality and fast, he was constantly adding own requirements to "make it better". When the same person pushes for yet another refactoring, management does not trust him.)

The other thing to understand is that some experienced lead remembers teams that were given time, no deadlines and all the good stuff and then produced mess anyway, procrastinated and took long time to do it. I have seen that happen and I have also seen that ended in long wars over petty differences in style and opinions. Sometimes the mess is result of people doing something knew and thus bad decisions along the way. Code review alone wont solve that, because the reviewer may be the one forcing mistake on others.

You need to communicate in the way that will ensure the manager that he or she is not in the above situation.
A sourced leak doesn't always stand on his own. A recording / email taken out of context can paint the target in a bad light. If someone with bad intentions and access to my emails and phone conversations would selectively release excerpts for the world to see, he could certainly ruin my life.
Both of those things (unsigned plugins causing permanent warnings and/or only being enabled for a developer edition) happen because not doing them means leaking open the one last (huge) hole malware can infect computers through

The modern browser 1. is its own OS, but 2. doesn't have any concept of a privilege-level separation. That means any random program running as user X is free to install an extension into user X's Chrome or Firefox profile without needing to ask permission. And then said extension can harvest your social-network profiles, replace ads with their own, etc.
I second. The Kindle single-handedly increased my reading by like 6 - 10x. I commute with public transit, a lot, and an e-book reader is indispensable there. Many books I've read are big enough that I wouldn't bother carrying them around in paper form.
> In the meantime, we have some pretty mind-blowing video of what such an incident actually looks like from the air.

Mind-blowing is a bit of an exaggeration. it's just a video of three planes flying along side one another.
Interestingly they were slightly soft, you could still snap the crips in half., but the cheese and onion flavour seemed to hold up. I'm guessing the bags are not air tight seals over that length of time.
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In order of seriousness:

He seems to have colluded with a foreign state to undermine the integrity of our elections and political process. He likely made financial arrangements as part of that process.

He has attacked the independence and authority of the judicial branch, which enforces constitutional restraint on our president.

He has attacked the media, which (while not a government agency) forms a basis for democratic society.

Together, these are a systemic assault on the American system, which while not ideal, is not better served by a despot.

It should be clear something is amiss when renowned senators like John McCain are pointing out Trump is acting the way despots do.
1. I don't think the drivers can see how much you tip.

2. In case of restaurants in the US, generally servers make very little without tip. When you pay you are paying the restaurant and not the person who serve you food. I know it's different in other countries but that's just how things are here.
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> 15" Macbook Pro w/ Retina display

Superb build quality, agreed. but the thiness and insistance on staying quiet make it get extremely hot when doing anything remotely demanding, which is not a sign of good design.
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I think the best way to start is tackling a specific problem. Ex. Try building a summarizer for any given piece of text.

Start by using traditional statistical methods first in order to understand what works and what doesn't. From there, you can go on to work on an ML solution to the same problem in order to see the actual difference between the two approaches in terms of comparable output.
Sure, you might. But any such union will have a large number of disaffected people and as HN has shown, a large number of these people blame H1B workers.

Their problem is that this visa exists. My problem is getting naturalised. Our incentives are not aligned and they've made that clear.

I want no part of it and I will actively participate in union busting to the greatest of my ability for this reason.

I don't think you can achieve greater than 2% penetration amongst employed engineers and I know that your system will threaten the 1.7% of engineers who are H1B workers. I think I'm in a reasonable position here and I'm not about to weaken myself. And I think everyone else is going to work through the same calculus.

Sorry, it's not you. It's who are likely going to be your comrades.
not really. flash is dying, and osx devices is probably going to stop supporting it soon enough, and the rest of the world is going to follow. if DRM isn't in the standard, it illegitimizes any DRM that you have to install, which improves content consumption for users, and hopefully force media producers to use DRM free formats, even when they don't want to (they cannot realistically ask users to install a blob without taking a hit in signup and conversion).

however, if DRM is built-in to the browser, users no longer have a gate to cross, and so DRM media will become the norm.
I have a DC02 (1995) and that's still working. Only thing that ever broke was the handle which cracked with time, Dyson sent us a replacement for about £15.

Also have a DC25 (2009) and that's been great too. Nothing broken or cracked, works good as new.

I will grant you - you can't treat a Dyson like a shop vac. Trundling it down the drive way to vacuum the car is a no-no. It'll probably break apart on gravel or flag stones but that's why I have a Dyson hand held :)
* that classic Casio watch

Personally, I really like its look. Furthermore, its cheap and the battery lasts forever.

* Motorola Razr V3i

It just looks awesome! Unfortunately, the great design doesn't extend to its software. :(

* Roland JV-1080

This one is first and foremost interesting for its engineering achievement. It offers musicians hundreds of great, sampled sounds which are stored on a 8 MB ROM! They make up for the limited amount of material by skillfully layering samples and the application of DSP algorithms.