skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't think misogyny or harassment is connected to nerdy-ness or introversion/extroversion, in either direction. The methods probably very, but I don't think any personality type is free of the proverbial bad eggs.
> Your definition sounds like what I'd call "crony capitalism",

"Crony capitalism" is the only kind that has ever existed, and definitely the kind for which the term "capitalism" was coined. The idea of any other kind of "capitalism" is, well, highly implausible. To avoid cronyism, you are going to have to take out the core features that make it capitalism.

> I'd bet that I'd consider some of the "subsequent reforms" you've described as fundamental corruptions of the system.

Thing like establishing labor rights are certainly "corruptions" if you view the 19th Century system initially labelled "capitalism" as pure.

I don't see "corrupting" the purity of capitalism as a problem, though.

> For example, political donations as corporate free speech (Citizens United v FEC) doesn't make much sense in a world where shareholders aren't engaged and active participants in company behavior.

Citizens United is a move back in the direction of a pure 19th Century capitalism, and a reversal of reform efforts aimed at constraining the dominion of the capital-holding class (which is what campaign finance reform efforts that seek to limit the influence of wealth on politics to protect democracy from capitalism are.)

Whether shareholders are personally active or find it most useful to give management free reign is immaterial to this.

> In other words, corporate governance is broken, something that Reich gets right.

What Reich gets wrong is embracing the idea that capitalism is betrayed by the various failures, rather than the source of them. His idea of supporting a "share the gains" capitalism is amusing: "share the gains" is not, and has never been, capitalism (though it's occasionally a lie that capitalists use to justify capitalism, as in "trickle-down" economics.)
I'd like to see the residuals from that model
True, but nobody has the money to develop something that needs multible moon test mission before it ever gets used productively.

Also, SpaceX has actually thought about the problem quite a bit and until somebody payed them they clearly said they are not going to do anything moon related.

They clearly did the same calculations. Moon is only worth it, if you actually want to go to the moon.
Im curious it might be two lovers, with intimate heavenly aspirations.
> I don't know how else to reach you.

Click on my name to read my profile. See my interests. Google my name and some of those interests. When I do that in an incognito window the first 23 hits are me. Of them, about half are to web pages that have a means to email me.

It seems to me that if you really wanted to contact me it isn't really that hard.
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The H in hydrocarbons mostly ends up as water, so ideally it's about 50/50 H2O + CO2. But, you do get a little bit other stuff.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerosene
The combustion reaction can be approximated as follows, with the molecular formula C12H26 (dodecane):

2 C12H26(l) + 37 O2(g) → 24 CO2(g) + 26 H2O(g); ∆H˚ = -7513 kJ
> I wonder how many execs the investors will let Kalanick burn through before they go after him.

An interesting point. What value does he add by remaining? It's a serious question; what are his strengths and weaknesses as a CEO?

A major part of the CEO's job is to be the public face, to maintain the business' reputation, and to handle crises. The results don't look good right now in terms of those requirements, but of course it's also not accurate to rely on a snapshot taken at someone's worst moment.

Also, we all know that many founders don't make good CEOs of large organizations. Those are different skill sets.
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Onto next year? Not too much. Schedules slip, and space flight schedules even slip faster. But if not 2018, 2019 would be very likely. The next big milestone is the F9 Heavy flight. Other than that, they first have to fly a manned mission to the ISS first. Once that has been achieved, flying around the moon is not especially difficult, probably technically even easier than to the ISS, as less precision is required.
But lots of people did write apps in XUL. My first IRC client and my first FTP client were both XUL apps. I'm not convinced that Electron today is any more popular than XUL was back then (aside from Atom (or VS Code, based on Atom), I can't name any programs that use Electron).

Additionally, XUL uses web tech, but it is not a standard and was never intended to be a standard (not even an informal specification exists AFAIK), so it's a stretch to say that Mozilla failed to execute on pushing XUL. What would the web gain by pushing it?
Exactly and that's not mentioning the benifit of being able to easily recover a failed prototype or even just analysis of a failed prototype.

Imagine trying to diagnose a problem that comes up 10 months into the program after the probe is no longer in a direct visual path or while communications via microwaves start taking 10-20 seconds from point to point.

There are too many questions to be answered before we can just say "you know while we're at it lets just risk the lives of 10-20 people, who cares right?"
Thanks I'll start there. I keep feeling like I'm missing out on something by not being a Vim expert.
I've said this elsewhere in comments, but people really need to let it sink in that HR is not there to help them, they are there to help the company.

It is never in their interest to say "You're right, let's go get that guy!" They are institutionally there to deflect and play things down and prevent law suits.

If you are abused, harassed, or mistreated, see a lawyer, not your company's HR team, who are only going to be advising their own lawyers later.
There's nothing we can do to fix our legal system to make it worthwhile for women to pursue these cases. Our political and legal systems are utterly broken: just look at the latest election for proof. Women who avoid pursuing litigation are simply being realistic with the way things are in America these days. And of course, the people who insist that they should sacrifice their lives to fix this problem are people who have nothing to lose themselves.
Have you tried MSYS2?
This is weak and inconsistent. You can't blame growth at all costs -- costs including postponing profits indefinitely, and milking customers via in-app purchases, in the same sentence. It's one or the other.

If you dislike the former you should kind of like, or at least respect, the latter.

Or you're just rambling.
This is an interesting combination of wheels and more articulated actuators (er, limbs?).

It certainly solves most of stability problems for a typical inverted pendulum configurations (cornering, obstacles of different height, lowering weight for more speed, raising it for more reach).
Tech stuff ? any link ?
The number of MBPs that go through the TSA lines at Newark can't be small.
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'Security Hardening'.
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If Uber had implemented a good system of control, we wouldn't be talking about this in the first place. The question is what do we do when there isn't a good system.

Yes, there is risk to speaking out. It wouldn't be brave to do so if there were no risk. I do think it takes people who are already in a relative position of power to minorities and women in tech–which includes men at the same level—saying that this will not stand, in order for real change to come about.
> something "a certain technical elite" feels is beneath them.

A very common sentiment. However, please remember that the skills to get in at the bottom of each field are radically different and don't let that colour your perception of the top of each field.
I LOVE The Pitch...instead what is "Startup" ? by who ?
Very useful tool, will definitely send people who want a new computer here as their first stop. Unfortunately the website doesn't open very nicely in Safari - seems fine in Chrome though
You can bounce on the atmo and by passing threw it multible times you can bleed away speed. Then you can fly your capsule like a wing for a bit losing even more speed.

That's why a Dragon 2 can land on Mars, but not on the Moon.

Check out the Scott Manley video on Youtube for lots of details, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zuFdVkVxpM.
Musk's #1 goal from the beginning is to put a lot of people on Mars, and do it in a rather short time (per human-history scale). We're talking a guy who literally invented PayPal just to make enough money to really get the project started. His other endeavors are as well, while laudable in their own right, really just ways of accumulating the resources to achieve that goal.
First thing I thought of when I read this was the article by Sam Altman where he calls businesses valued at $100M "really good airplanes."

https://blog.ycombinator.com/navigating-mid-success/

Something is awry in our understanding of moral capitalism at large for statements like that to be met with anything other than derision, and DHH is getting at the heart of why: We've all become obsessed with growth. When the way to get rich in the world is capital gains, as opposed to value creation, the abnormalities in behavior and ethics, which are glorified elements of Silicon Valley culture, fall out as a natural consequence. Having real, powerful values that help evaluate whether something legal is actually ethical means saying "no" to certain kinds of work. God forbid you do that though, lest your investors punish you.

Where your treasure is, your heart will be also. It comes as no surprise to anyone tarrying long over the facts that SV's treasure is gold.
I think you're missing the point, of course in an ideal situation where risk is minimized that would be a good question. But by focusing on money I think you neglected to address the obvious point that I raised namely what if it blows up.
Two big things: 1) it's a lot faster to send to Pocket with the button > mark as read than managing bookmarks IMO but the real killer feature for me is 2) the offline saving of articles. Pocket is killer when I'm commuting or without Wi-Fi because it means I can keep reading things without worrying about finding a hotspot or wasting my (very limited) data.
I would be shocked that a bunch of high-IQ, high-conscientiousness individuals would repeatedly engage in dangerous activities with a high probability of getting caught, and in such easily provable ways.

Putting on my evil villain hat for a moment, if I want to harass women it won't be at my workplace. It won't be at my favorite bar in Pune where I get laid regularly. I'll take the bus to Mumbai, head to some bar in Andheri where no one knows my face, and do it there. That's just a sign of my rational self interest (and evil villain hat) combined with a demonstrated ability to rub two brain cells together and think a step or two ahead.
Which team did you work on?
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Yes, something like that but without the need to create a separate foundation and corporation.
> True, but nobody has the money to develop something that needs multible moon test mission before it ever gets used productively.

No one would be willing to fund anything that hasn't gone through at least one viability test on the closest short term analogous scale.
If your goal is to create a service that's main feature is content discoverability, I would think that tags are essential. It would provide you with great metrics for knowing what the user prefers. For instance, "They tend to tag lots of funny stories on Saturday. The tag tech news on Monday and Tuesday. They tag movie news on Thursday." Your recommendation engine would then be able to suggest articles to them. "Other users have tagged these stories as tech news and it is Monday. Here's your Monday feed!" I'm not saying you can't make a working product without them. I'm simply saying you probably can't make a competitive product without them.
Maybe they used an old flag?
Approaching 1 million annually.

That's 1 per 317 Americans.
Reminds me of 'Bystander Apathy'[1]: i.e. when there is a person in need, the greater the number of people, the less likely anyone will help.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
It was a while ago (2011), and it was specifically with streaming videos using the RTMP protocol... so it might have been specific to that. But here is a StackOverflow answer someone wrote that explained the general idea of how CDN's might slow down the process for infrequently-accessed files:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/7800805/477513

EDIT: In re-reading that S.O. answer, I see now that this is specific to LARGE files (these videos were 50+ MB each)... so your use-case of HTML files and images for a static site would probably not result in this performance problem.
Some of us do give a shit about security. It's just a shame that it feels like we are the exception to the rule.
The desire for simplicity implicit in your statement is admirable. Unfortunately it is so simplistic that it ends up getting it wrong, especially if you don't specify which technology emulates which.

For example if you were to say: "To get idealized VR, take idealized AR and make the display opaque." that is a completely different technical claim than "To get to idealized AR, take idealized VR and make it see through." The reason being, the maximum limits of VR are lower than (or rather different from depending on your view) the maximum limits of AR.
Given that this is Boston Dynamics were talking about I would say this isn't just far fetched, it's probably dead on.
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> Downvote if it makes you feel better.

It has nothing to do with that. I rarely down-vote. Yet, when I do, I prefer to identify myself and state why. I don't like anonymous down-voting. If you are going to click to disagree with someone I think you owe them an explanation.

That, BTW, does not mean I am correct. I could be absolutely wrong. At least give me credit for having engaged in dialogue. In other words, in this case, I am practicing what I preach.
In American fighter jets.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Saudi_Air_Force
how does pocket make money? they do have pocket premium: https://getpocket.com/premium?ep=2 but I never saw them advertising it and never thought about using it and I'm using pocket heavily past several months. Is "pocket premium" their main source of income? Is it bringing real dollars?
Baltimore/Washington DC area. Mostly government contracting stuff though.
It baffles me how all these smart people completely don't get Elon or Tesla.

Maybe it's hard to understand for some that money is not the ultimate motivator? I'm pretty sure that Tesla could be a profitable company today if they stopped all investments and just focused on selling amazing Model S (who needs AP2?) (best car ever made in opinion of many reviewers!). But they're a tech company that happens to make cars (among many other things), not a traditional car company. That's why they should be valued at tech company criteria. They're doing what all the tech "unicorns" are doing - burning through cash by investing in stuff that will give them massive advantage in the future. Why profit when you can grow massively? (hello Gigafactory! hello Solar City!)

Sure, I can see how this is not a company to invest in during daily trade. But it's not a company that ever said it's in it for the quick buck. 10 years ago it was failing in delivery of Roadster. 5 years ago it was failing in delivery of Model S and 2 years ago it was failing in Model X. If you ask me, I'd love to fail on the scale Elon and Tesla fail. Unless something really really random happens, Tesla is not going down anytime soon. Sure, M3 is risky, Solar City deal might be iffy, but I think some of the smartest people in the world are running this company, they're not gonna flip it.

I mean, a chat app aims to be valued at $25bn vs a company that delivered almost 200k feats of engineering in the last 10 years and everyone is laughing at their current valuation of $40bn. What is wrong with the world?
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>As an employee (and human) it seems reasonable to interpret it as "resources for humans" and thus assume it would be there to help.

Where'd you ever get that crazy idea?

>But its true meaning, to execs/stakeholders/corporate persons, is "[the department which manages the] human resources".

Not exactly. The true meaning is "the department which works to exploit the human resources as much as possible".
But if you prefer security updates from paid employees of an organization rather than volunteers, surely a commercial product rather than a free one would be more suitable for your needs?
Startup is a podcast by Alex Blumberg (of This American Life). In the first season, it follows his journey of launching his own startup. Really excellent listening for anyone new to entrepreneurship!
https://gimletmedia.com/startup/
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Like I said hindsight is also the issue here.

It's easy to look back and say "Oh this is a bad company" but as it's happening it's easy to say "Oh this just happened once." or "Maybe it's me." or "Well Mike sucks, but I can deal with it, it's not that big of a deal, and there's a lot of benefits to staying like fulfilling work and being able to work with great minds. I've learned a lot from my other coworkers." or "Maybe I can change things, maybe things will get better." or "I can resolve this if I keep working with HR, it will be fixed soon."

Not-Amy said it was exhilarating the first 2 months, if overly hard work. In a company of that size, I too would totally expect working with HR to be the fix, as it usually is. I mean do you quit your job the instant you have a shitty coworker? I too would try to resolve my issues first internally first. Because that usually works. When that didn't work, she quit and rightly called them out on being ridiculous.
> Just a reminder that you can change jobs after 6 months in the valley

What does this mean?
Encryption does nothing if you can just query the decrypted data.

Other than giving a false sense of security.

Even if the database is encrypted, something has to access the decrypted data and is vulnerable to attack.
Hmmm, good to know thanks. I'm planning on heading over there for a while and I wasn't sure what the general attitude was towards employees leaving after 0.5/1/2 years.
On the other hand, 10-20 people in a bus out of control on a mountainside can get in the news, even if it ends in tragedy. But we don't color our whole view of auto travel because of it. We don't make policy or even many business decisions because of it.

Space travel can be dangerous. We will likely lose some crews. Rescue will always be too far away to matter. But I think folks will do it anyway.
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Sure - they _could_, but I've got lightbulbs and power switches that "helpfully" connect to some un branded Chinese "cloud" service - without any normal-user way to even know about it never mind turn it off.

I suspect some of it is so I've got the amazingly useful (nb: may not be useful at all) feature of being able to turn my lounge room lights on and off from my phone while not at home.

Cynical me suspects it's also probably a pretty good way to ensure forced just-put-of-warranty failures...

Pessimist-me assumes the Russians, the Chinese, Mossad, and some kid at the local hackerspace have all pwned the Chines cloud infrastructure and are using backdoor root shells on light globes subversive tshirt purchase history, and they're all cutting each other's throat price discounting as they sell it all as "business intelligence" to my car insurance company and the CBP...
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> I look at dark matter/energy as a measurement of what we don't know - it is not necessarily matter or energy (although it could be).

Dark matter is called matter because it has mass, i.e. it experiences gravitational attraction to itself and to other forms of matter.

Dark energy is called energy because it acts like radiation, i.e. it has negative pressure.

> Personally, I don't like dark matter because my "hack" alarm bells start ringing. That being said, I also don't know what I don't know.

Your second sentence is far closer to the mark than your first. Dark matter was indeed seen as a hack in the 1930s when it was first proposed, but there is now a large and remarkably consistent body of observations that show its presence. Here's one lay-friendly blog post that briefly describes some of the evidence: https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/why-dark-matter-9252bf...

> In that way, it wouldn't hurt if slightly fewer eyes were looking at particle dark matter and slightly more at "non-matter" dark matter.

It's kind of like quantum mechanics at this point. The only reason there aren't more eyes looking at alternatives to dark matter is because we already did that over the last few decades, and the evidence in favor of dark matter kind of became ridiculously overwhelming.

If you want to float an alternative to dark matter at this point, you have to, at the very least, come up with a theory that explains all the things that dark matter explains. (Presumably you would also come up with something that dark matter doesn't explain that your theory does, but one thing at a time.)
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If that was really what did it in then it shows a real lack of creativity. Synthetic Mhz would have been the way to go - just like how the EPA still gives an MPG rating to electric cars.
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this blog is 100% created by Uber, set up to later turn around and pull the rug out from you all and chastise you for believing fake news.

you're all idiots.
Dark matter did include dark energy for a while, according to the article...

> starting from the 1980s, the new cosmological dogma was that dark matter constituted a staggering 95 percent of all matter in the universe. That lasted, well, right until the bomb hit us in 1998. It turned out that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, not decelerating like all of us originally thought. Any form of genuine matter, dark or not, should have slowed down acceleration. And so a whole new type of entity was invented: Dark energy. Now the accepted cosmology is that the universe is made up of 70 percent dark energy, 25 percent dark matter, and 5 percent regular matter. But dark energy is just a quick fix, the same as dark matter is.

That makes it sound like dark energy is an offshoot of dark matter, a different type of dark matter that explains an accelerating expansion instead of the extra gravitational effects.
What's most interesting is that the folks running LC were told by at least a few parties they needed to tighten up their CoC so as to protect people from abuse, if they wanted to avoid further issues.

Their response was to codify the unrelated "I'm protecting religious interests" response from last year and offer it directly in the CoC (note: there was never a complaint about religious interests or even conservatism levied to LC, it was protesting a speaker notorious for promoting racist ideologies).

What's most stunning is the gag clause you agree to. What conference in the history of open tech conferences has decided to ban all conversation or reporting a about the goings on internally?

It's not just a CoC in defense of abuse and invites dangerous situations, but it then goes on to stifle free speech about the proceedings on the grounds that it is protecting free speech!
Because if true and provable, this is a federal case that she can sue over and win.

In reality the wage gap is rarely as cut and dry as "women get paid less than men for the same jobs".