skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> our tolerances are very different when kids are involved
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> Interesting. Why? The data is much less valuable

It's the why-do-I-care-about-my-privacy argument - but it's even more personal now, because it's not just you, it's your kids.

There's always that extra creep factor when it comes to children.
Pretty easy to divide through by how much time the average person spends in ocean water to get your hourly risk. If such a number could be found, anyway.
There's a tunnel that goes under the channel connecting the two countries.
just imagine the effects on Alphabet's stock price
I think it's just hard to estimate. How many visits-to-the-beach go into that shark attack number? It'd be useful to know the per-visit risk for the same reason it'd be useful to know the per-mile risk for driving, but is harder to estimate:

"It’s important to be aware, however, that being based on population-level data, the micromort is not a measure of your personal risk. For example, the risk calculation for fatal shark attacks is based on the average risk across the whole population.

So it effectively estimates a risk based on the assumption that all Australians swim in the deep ocean a similar number of times per year. But if you live in Alice Springs, you would not expect your risk of being killed by a shark to be the same as for a surfer who lives on the coast. Similarly, if you only wade in water up to your knees and don’t swim in deep water, your personal risks would be different."
> If your company does 360 reviews or has a "rating" system (smart companies refuse to call it a ranking), it's the same thing. It's in the corporate america HR handbook. If you are ranked highly, someone had to be ranked lowly.

Damn straight and that's a natural side effect of having a pool of limited resources (i.e. bonus money and promotions) to offer.
How I wish I could experience the boredom of flying around the Moon.
Let's say this person making $160k takes home ~$90k after 401k and taxes and such. And let's say their rent is 50% of their take home ($45k/year or $3750/month).

1. That's ~$300/mo more than the average 1 BR apartment [1], so seems reasonable.

2. That leaves another $3750/month for non-rent spending money, which itself, more than most Americans earn in salary. (note: this leaves a LOT of room to spend more in rent if you need a 2br, 3br, etc)

So yes. San Francisco is expensive. But if you feel like it's a struggle while earning $160k, you probably have a lot of fat you need to cut in your budget.

[1] https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-san-francisco-ren...
It seems to me that this would have to have a very high level of accuracy and reliability though. Visa overstays amount to a very small portion of total entry and exit, so if there is even a small false negative rate, ICE agents will be spending a lot of time looking for people who have already left the country.
Yeah, that's exactly how I meant it. But I agree it's confusing. Will remove the comparison right now.
Security problems with medical devices have been in the news too.

The regulators have so far been focused on the health aspects of the devices.
> you would divide the number of people who have died due to a shark attack each year (on average three to four each year based on recent data) by the population of Australia

This method is meaningless, as it assumes the risk of dying by shark attack is constant regardless of your behavior (e.g., daily swim in chummed waters vs never entering the water).

The wikipedia article does a better job of micromort-per-unit-of-exposure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort

e.g., Travelling 17 miles (27 km) by walking (accident) = 1 micromort

But it still doesn't account for differing risk levels, like walking on an indoor track vs walking in city traffic.

And it doesn't include shark attacks.
Just curious, do you have a similar mindset when it comes to teenagers and college students having unwanted pregnancies?
If you're interested in using Pocket in Chrome/Chromium but aren't ready to hand over the insane amount of permissions required for their official extension, you can run the Add to Pocket (mini) extension.

https://johnrockefeller.net/use-pocket-without-being-tracked...
And it is going to be exclusive environment, unlike urban dictionary.
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Well, at some point OS compatibility will break, no?
Which came first: the chicken or the egg?
I don't know where you got the idea that it is illegal to leave the country on foot, but you are mistaken.
“There is no place for ethics in this business sweetheart. We are not a charity.”

You can't make this up.
We do have a place where these kinds of complaints can be taken: they're called civil courts.

With regard to the NLRB: it's worth remember (talk to a labor lawyer) that in general the act of organizing resistance to unfair practices is itself intrinsically protected by law: you do not need the approval of the NLRB to organize your workplace. Under the NLRA, it's unlawful to retaliate against an employee for "protected concerted actions" in which two or more employees protest working conditions.
SpaceX says it will send two people around the Moon in late 2018
What specifically is the move forward here, though? I suppose hn as a community has the power to boycott applying to the company, but how else can we drive internal change from an external position?

Uninstalling the app and simply choosing to use a competitor's services are another option, but sapping the entire organization of revenue seems like it would hurt drivers and developers at least as much as management, if not more so. Do you think this merits organized public protest? Is the average Uber user aware of the issues/incensed enough to actually take to the streets?

Obviously I'd like to see a change, but I'm struggling with how best to actually make this happen.
I would explain it as the valley is a bad place to work.

I work at a company, and I think generally, most people who work here are happy. And there's not much churn.
That's probably it. Not as much space I think, but life support for an extended period of time. This is one key difference between Dragon/CST-100 and Orion: the latter is designed for extended deep space travel with full crew, and can support them accordingly, while the former are primarily LEO taxis with more limited deep space capabilities.
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This is terrible, and one more reason to despise Uber, but I find the usage of the word "survivor" out of place in this context, at least in my understanding of its meaning.

I know this is not the main point to take home from this situation, and I also know I'll be attacked from making it, but I felt it was important nonetheless.
Landing on the moon to "test" the Mars landing makes almost no sense. The a moon is just to different, landing on mars can be trained much better on Earth or on Mars itself.

The simuliertes are not enough to make it sensible if you don't have another reason to land on the moon too.
Companies have to get more involved in actually encrypting their data before entering it into the database. For every web app I create, especially when sensitive information is exposed, I try to encrypt as much data as possible. With all the leaks and hacks.. it only makes sense to add some encryption method in there.
> I don't remember the exact numbers anymore, but in Australia at least the statistics suggest that if you: ..., Don't ride without a license, ..., and Don't ride an unregistered bike

How does lack of a piece of paper increase your chances of dying?
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Basically, when deep reinforcement learning works, it's like magic, but unlike supervised learning where the default expectation is that it works without a hitch right out of the box, the default expectation for most new tasks through deep reinforcement learning is that it will fail, and you will need something to fix it.

For example, the high dimensionality of robotics makes it very difficult to apply deep reinforcement learning to it, although it definitely can and has been applied (and is, IMO, the future of robotics).

Another example is that simple supervised learning often outperforms DRL for many arcade games.
Have they said they'll test Martian equipment with Lunar landings? I'd guess it'd make a pretty poor testing ground, considering the cost of getting there.
> "buy them, and if they won't sell, clone them and crush them"

Also known historically as "The Gates Maneuver"
I assume this is a joke?
Nice video.

Does any one know if they are planning to make a low power and light exoskeleton kind of mutation to this tech? This could be revolutionary for people with disabilities.

or as a mode of personal transport in difficult terrain?
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Author here. I appreciate the notes and am happy to revisit and make corrections when needed. To respond to your points:

1. As a sanity check, I did do a t-test of technical ability vs. # of endorsements before publishing. There is no statistically significant relationship between the 2. (P < 0.335)

2. What do you mean by "language matters here" (re the histogram)?
Travis will no doubt dispatch a team to Tijuana, Pattaya or Manila to find out.
That, too. Overwhelmingly that.
It's fantastic that we are seeing the selective exposure of sexism in the work place. I admire these people for having the courage to come out, especially given that some very high profile cases of sexism seem to be ignored by almost all of the mainstream media (MSM).

As an example, I heard that Yahoo dismissed the majority of their senior male staff, unfairly. The Verge, Vox, The Daily Beast and a host of others didn't report on this. The link below isn't the best reference, but it's one of the few I could find.
http://www.gamespot.com/forums/offtopic-discussion-314159273...

I also remembered that Ars Technica gave it some limited and underwhelming exposure.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/yahoo-hit-with-a...

This should be compared to Ars' coverage of Ellen Pao, not just in the number of articles but also the language used between the two articles.

https://arstechnica.com/business/2015/07/breaking-ellen-pao-...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/ellen-pao-will-s...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/ellen-pao-drove-...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/judge-says-klein...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/ellen-pao-drops-...
https://arstechnica.com/business/2015/07/reddit-ceo-ellen-pa...
https://arstechnica.com/series/pao-vs-kleiner-perkins/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/ellen-pao-was-re...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/the-only-bad-pre...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/former-facebook-...

It makes me wonder if some sex discrimination is condoned by the MSM.
https://medium.com/incerto/surgeons-should-notlook-like-surg...
FWIW, and this is not make a point either way, Google Mail downloads about 14 MB, two thirds of which is JS. Most of that can be cached, though. It also uses 120 MB RAM after initial load, more as I click around. Figures as reported by the Firefox dev tools.
interestingly his wife was president of a (now failed) space tech company:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_Dynamics
> Well, you made a call for someone to deanonymize herself yet you are not willing to deanonymize yourself on that account,

Whoa. I did no such thing. I stated that I don't believe this anonymous account. The author specifically _should not_ unmask herself at this point without speaking with a lawyer.

> perhaps because you feel that it might hurt your reputation not because you are wrong, but just because the internet is the shitty place it is...

This is accurate. Someone has requested that I make myself open to "doxxing" so he/she can boycott my products, even though he/she didn't understand my perspective on this.
There are other factors too. The less powerful your bike, the safer you are. That one is actually a pretty significant factor.

I was interested in riding a motorcycle once, but I found that even if I assumed I was at the safest end of the spectrum, my risk was still many times that of driving. And the comparison is not apt because many of the risk factors I mitigate on a motorcycle I also mitigate in a car, for e.g., by being a careful driver, minimizing the amount of driving I do, driving slowly, and never driving drunk. So it's not like the motorcycle has become safer relative to the car. It's just that both skew less risky for me.

So I decided I would not do it. Maybe when I'm older and other risk factors are more pressing.
I had several takeaways. Just split them into several comments in this thread.
"Relatively" being very much a keyword here. Nothing about sending two people around the moon is easy, there's a reason it hasn't been done in several decades.
Has boston dynamics put these things to some real usage? They 've been showing impressive videos for 7, 8 years?
I haven't looked at their comments - but sure, why not make such an analysis? What do you mean by "we are all smart people here" - everybody knows the earth is flat?

Edit: perhaps you could at least provide a link to a typical Breitbart comment section, full of hatred and calls for genocide?
This seems like overgrown and irrelevant cynicism. Of course people are unhappy at any company; however, it's clear that some back better cultures and some are more toxic than others due to bad practices and conditions. The idea that it's all about PR is sophomoric.
A good deal of this is the entire system of control Uber has (or really, hasn't) implemented here.

We already know that managers at Uber use reviews to punish those on their team that are at all critical of them (especially for ethic issues). The "20 men on her team", even if they did want to say something, could reasonably expect to have their careers (and potentially a material amount of Uber stock vesting) impacted by standing up.

That's not to say that these men couldn't have or shouldn't have stood up, but they would've had to take some amount of risk to do so. In a company with better controls, these men would've felt comfortable criticizing this manager (and confident that they weren't endangering their careers or financial well-being by doing so).
Why? The pay gap is real and was nearly an aside in the article. This article is about a woman being mistreated by men in tech. This comment seems to be as well.
It might not technically break any HN rules, but it's kind of saddening to see what's so far an anonymous accusation it make it so deep into the front page.

Combined with the other recent bad press Uber's getting, it's admittedly not looking good for them, but on the other hand any of us _could_ have signed up for Medium and published an article like this.
http://time.com/money/3925308/rich-families-lose-wealth/

>70% of wealthy families lose their wealth by the second generation, and a stunning 90% by the third, according to the Williams Group wealth consultancy.

>It takes the average recipient of an inheritance 19 days until they buy a new car
>I wonder (doubt) if they've ever been abused. It's hard for someone who has been abused to come forward, let alone stand up to an abuser.

If they dont stand up for themselves on any level, then they simply arent being abused i dont believe. If you cant express your own discomfort, its not anyone but your fault youre uncomfortable. This is a hard truth.

(copied from my other comment in this thread)

I'll give you a clear example. Suppose you have a pattern of behavior around me that offends and discomforts me. If I speak out, and complain, and you continue, you are probably being abusive (although not necessarily.) On the otherhand, if I make no attempt to express my discomfort in any way (doesnt mean verbal, could be anything), then the fault lies with ME, the supposed victim. I can't blame somebody for failing to read my mind. And this is the problem with professional victims.

Personally, the uber story absolutely did not read that way. The issue is with people in these comments making overly broad claims.
Fair enough, and further to your point, apparently men do react with disproportionately more shock than women in response to stories like these.

I think your point would've been better made if you'd written this comment first, instead of the privilege thing.
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"Innocent till proven guilty surely?"

That's for the courts. Not for me hiring my executive team. I have enough damn headaches as it is; I don't need someone coming in and causing more. Especially because, let's be honest here, there's not exactly a shortage of people that could do that job.
they don't care, they own majority of voting rights and almost the stocks itself
Everybody knows it's a bad idea, but it's a very, very, very common mistake to make in your twenties. It's survivable, sometimes even wonderful, but pretty risky. If you can get laid without needing to shit where you eat, I highly recommend it. If you can't, caveat emptor.
I am a developer..the products are done halfway or upto 70%. I also built a product, infact I use it to fulfill the contracts. Even launched an MVP to get some feedback. Its just getting too hectic as more contracts keep getting added.
What a coincidence, my company is also is full of happy employees with remarkably low churn (most employees here have been here for 3+ years, many for ~10), and it's in the Valley! ...and it's not a big company like Google/Facebook/Netflix/etc.
That word is more often than not directed at our own work. Maintaining a self-mocking attitude can help in being more receptive to valid criticism.
Eric Holder was AG. AG is not a political office, and he's not a politician. What you should be concerned with is the fact that he was associated with them previously and is a proponent of theirs.
If you can distinguish it from the average, then it's worse than random (that is, going with or against the average case uniformly at random).
It will be refreshing if they actually ship it. Vulkan slides circa 2015 showed Sony participating in that too, and they never ended up implementing it.

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I'm not in the business of defending Uber - quite the contrary - but reading through the comments it seems that most people are assuming that this post by an anonymous person is 100% true.

These types of posts are worrying to me. Why could this post not have been crafted by someone at Lyft? Or one of Uber's many other detractors? Given the PR nightmare that Uber is in why not pile on while the public seems primed for that type of information and stretch out the negative news cycle?

Just thought I'd throw out a word of caution: we know literally nothing about the credibility of this person.
yeah, their insurance company would be furious :)
If its clearly abusive and discomforting, of course. But often times the problem is the "victim".

I'll give you a clear example. Suppose you have a pattern of behavior around me that offends and discomforts me. If I speak out, and complain, and you continue, you are probably being abusive (although not necessarily.) On the otherhand, if I make no attempt to express my discomfort in any way (doesnt mean verbal, could be anything), then the fault lies with ME, the supposed victim. I can't blame somebody for failing to read my mind. And this is the problem with professional victims.

Personally, the uber story absolutely did not read that way. The issue is with people in these comments making overly broad claims.
But that's a highly (and narrowly) optimized version that took a lot of effort to build. It's not something that the average programmer you have working for you will be able to replicate. Also, some languages will not have equivalent effort put in the corresponding implementations (simple example: some languages have parallelized solutions, some don't).
There's at least three levels of answer

The first level is its just political sloganeering.

The next level is they're contract jobs and the pay is high enough to be F-you money if they fail and via the magic of survivorship bias we never hear about those that fail, although they and their kids are the trust fund babies that explode inflation while producing nothing of value other than CO2.

The next level of analysis past that is a matter of scale. I can independently afford food and housing and medical care for my kids, maybe not the best but I'd be OK. If my business fails, no biggie, I just won't buy an ocean going sailboat in the 10+ meter range, we're still going to be OK. Someone lower on the socioeconomic totem pole tries to start a business and fails, or gets downsized from his good job, his wife has to leave him to get herself and the kids on the programs or they'll literally starve, that means she'll get the house, its the end of that dudes life, perhaps literally. Certainly its an economic death penalty even if he physically survives or if by some miracle his family survives intact. So the risk is a bit asymmetric because unless you magically have total equality in income, wealth, education, social connections, you're going to have people who will literally die if they lose $5K and others who can shrug off half a mil or more.
Have you not been in a stressful technical interview situation? I have even heard of people doing this on purpose to weed out people who don't "perform under pressure".
Well, they haven't got a lander for one thing. The Apollo LM had its design finalised in '63, and only flew in '65. SpaceX would surely do it quicker now, with the benefit of experience, but from scratch to operations in a year for such a unique vehicle is quite unrealistic.
Is it just me or are other people also constantly surprised by how many big names have their hands in the 'uber pot'?

It's like there's a massive list of investors and shareholders who are all riding this "sure thing" to big riches. Which makes me wonder two things: 1.) is uber too big too fail? are there so many rich and powerful people invested that they will make uber succeed no matter or 2.) this thing could be the biggest investor flop in recent memory.
When you said men, are you ignoring when Marissa Mayer (not a man) dismissed many of her senior male staff and replaced them almost entirely with women?

Please understand that sexism is not a "men" thing. It's selective reporting by the MSM.
People overwhelmingly chose one language to interview in, so there wasn't much fo a distribution.

Unless you mean which languages are most popular?
I wouldn't call it "unnecessary." Eventually Mike will quit or get fired, then repeat this behavior at another company.
I can't wait for weapons to be attached to this thing so it can be used against us in the future. Imagine the part where it was spinning, but instead with a firing automatic weapon. What prevents democracy from collapsing when a certain technical elite control the most powerful autonomous weapons and keep tabs on everyone's daily lives?
For what it's worth, I thought their SWE interview was very fair. It was far more practical than my interviews at Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

I ended up accepting an offer from another company, but I'd say the entire experience was pleasant. I liked the engineers I talked to (of whom over half were women) and it seemed like they genuinely enjoyed what they did.

I guess all isn't as it seems.
The COTS and Commercial Crew program have specifically been made so that Companies can reuse the hardware for other projects as well. This is the exact thing that NASA has hoped for.
There's no such thing as a [cheap] lunch.

That's only true in the long term.

In the short term the VCs giving Uber money (while Uber loses billions) are providing you with a [cheap] ride.