skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buffett Says Apple Stake Boosted to More Than $18B
Nah, there are lots of ways to get that unfair advantage. Network effects are a big one. Facebook is only facebook because everybody is on it. MS Office is only MS Office because everybody has it.

Are they superior products? Meh.

Would you particularly miss them if they were destroyed? Unlikely. Somebody just as good would come along by and by, or one of the other ones would rise to replace them.

Are you gonna pay for them anyways? Bet your ass you will.
i think this service is better compared with http://www.logicalincrements.com/
I disagree about the "quick buck"

The surprising thing about this announcement is that its a private mission. SpaceX has long resisted private tourism, to pursue CRS and Commercial Crew missions. I'm sure several billionaires would have written a large check, long ago, to go into orbit.
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The Stackdriver incidents tool existed before it Stackdriver was bought by Google. They do have similarities though.
> Kalanick told the audience that he and chief product officer Jeff Holden, an Amazon vet, had spent hundreds of hours conceiving the new “philosophy of work.”

I thought we knew by now that you involve the people that will live with the new "philosophy" when "conceiving."
Based on how deep you are into the Flavor-aid, I'm going to say that Jim Jones is the best comparison to your hero.
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IMO, it only starts to get really messy when you start mixing public and private funding. Example: A rule about prohibiting certain types of discrimination from health insurance companies vs. a publicly funded option. As you said, various health insurance companies can still compete around the same set of rules, etc. It may affect some of the economics of who can afford to play the game, and how they play, etc. but it's still pretty fair. Compare that with a publicly funded option that by virtue of its ownership does not have to weigh the same risks or set it's prices by the same rules, or even worse: one that wins what is essentially a government-enforced monopoly. Suddenly not so fair for private companies to compete against it.
India usually get those offline features much more faster than other countries for some reason.

I wish we had these options in Canada, because mobile bandwidth is stupidly expensive over here.
I suppose there is some correlation there, but stating it like that makes it sound like causation since there is a causal relationship between deaths and the other two things presented in the same statement.
The difficulty in employment harassment/constructive termination cases is seldom in the quantum determination step.
Export restrictions.
Hahaha i spent a good 3 minutes looking for where the S was, until the joke hit me
So what other mechanics would you use?
What I'm saying that since they have a monopoly on search, they don't need to worry about this specific kind of weak sauce negative press.
> “As I entered the fifteenth year of working at Google, I've been asking myself the question, ‘What would you want to do for the next fifteen?’

Given that he joined Uber on January 20th [0], he's out in 5 weeks total.

His interest in running his own philanthropic foundation also didn't last much more than a year [0].

Sounds like he needs to rethink what he's going to do for the next 15 years.

[0] Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP of Engineering https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13445597
Why is this being modded down? It's the truth. Big companies almost always come out on top in trials because they can afford the best lawyers, and they can afford to game the system to bankrupt their opponents by filing never-ending motions to delay and other tactics which increase the legal costs to the opponent. You're almost never going to get a positive result if you're a rank-and-file employee; your best course of action is to leave the company and find something better.
YouTube Tops 1B Hours of Video a Day, on Pace to Eclipse TV
To try FreeCodeCamp first:

https://www.freecodecamp.com/
> Do you mean that you fit a simple linear model, of the form below?

That would be the form of the best-fit line in the scatterplot. (and it would make sense to assume that the t-test refers to b1 != 0, as there is only one group)
Mozilla replaced Reading List (which was client-side encrypted and theoretically self-hostable) with Pocket (which is neither). Search engines need search terms to function; Pocket uses user data to support a particular business model.
Unsecured MongoDB, again.
interesting point. tags have been a feature we have not added yet partly because they seem slightly superfluous. the user is able to search across titles, descriptions, URLs, and can curate links with lists. not sure if tags can provide any extra value
If the micromort was sold as an expected number of deaths, then I wouldn't have as much of a problem with it. (My major problem is that you can't die more than once, so probability seems to be more of a concern than expected number.) The article calls it "a one-in-a-million chance of dying", though.

For example, playing Russian Roulette once is about 166667 micromorts. Playing it 6 times is 1 mort of risk, but the probability of dying after 6 plays is not 1. (It's 1 -
(5/6)6, or about 2/3.)
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>"Great, retain a Chicago politician so you know you'll get the answer you're paying for."

Normally I don't care, but because I'm from Chicago and am officially very touchy about all the abuse the city catches, I'd like to correct the record as Eric Holder is from New York.
That would be very Moscow 2042-ish.
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More interesting, I think, that Uber has a standing relationship with the law firm Holder works for. Holder has previously worked on Uber's behalf: http://airport.blog.ajc.com/2016/06/15/former-u-s-attorney-g...

He does have a credible image, but the announcement sort of co-opted that to make it seem like he might be somehow independent in his thinking. In reality, he's a lawyer being paid by Uber. As such, he isn't really inclined to find all the dirt...Depends on where said dirt is.
Her usage of "survivor" is appropriate both in terms of being alive (i.e. not committing suicide after traumatic experience) and being whole as a human being (i.e. having healed enough to function in society).

There are countless studies linking sexual harassment and intimidation to suicides, just look it up.
It reminds me of nothing so much as E-102 Gamma from Sonic Adventure.

MODE CHANGE.
And now we know ^.^ maybe I will start sprinkling deceptively similar symbols in my writing• :)
And it should also be remembered that not all beaches are created equal. Some might be more dangerous than others.
> That "heading-up" technique reminded Honey of ancient Polynesian navigation concepts that he had read about during his studies of navigation in previous years. The ancient mariners of that region navigated the seas by relying on a series of environmental cues, such as the positions of islands around them, combined with a mental perception of themselves in the center of the conceptual navigational space in their heads. With that in mind, Honey decided to call his new company Etak, which is a Polynesian term for moving navigational reference points.

Ah yes, the Polynesian stick charts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11522372
Said one Chinese scientist under Mao or soon after:

The Academy of Sciences is the Academy of Sciences ... It is not the Academy of Production. It is a place where one studies, not a place where one plants cabbages. It is not a potato patch, it is a place where one does science ...

- Hu Yaobang
Sure, they can definitely come in with another visa but that requires a fair bit more work compared to a 'local' hire which is an added cost. Then once they get here (if the article is true) they don't have any right to remain in the country for an extended period of time which makes attracting them over/keeping them here even more difficult.
Yes but don't follow the money, it is depressing.
Are you just trying to verify the legitimacy of the post? If someone finds the courage to speak out, why would you then try to out them for doing so?

Because if it's not legitimate then it's worth knowing that? To me, this story seems far more suspicious than Fowler.

Does it even matter if it's faked if most of us could totally believe it's not?

Perhaps a variety of fake incidents have caused you to believe things that aren't true. Maybe the bigger problem being highlighted is also fake.

I recently had a conversation with someone telling me about a rape on a college campus. I told her I was skeptical. She said it was so common, why am I skeptical, and supported her case that it was common by citing Duke, Mattress Girl and UVA as examples. She was shocked when I suggested she google those incidents. Repeated fake incidents can cause people to change their priors.

So yes, the reason why "most of us could totally believe it's not" actually matters quite a lot.
The drivers aren't going to be hurt; half of them are already working for Lyft anyway (they have two phones, one for each service), so the rest will just move to the competition if Uber goes under, and they'll probably be better off for it anyway. Same goes for the developers; there's no shortage of jobs in Silicon Valley.

There is no way to change a company's internal culture from outside. The only thing you can do is punish it.
I didn't realize Trump and Putin personally qualified as weapons of mass destruction, but I guess it makes sense in retrospect...
I hope they end up like Theranos.
I agree, there is no fundamental problem. But that couple of delays will bring the actual date much further away than "late next year". I'm sure Elon Musk is capable of great things, it's just that he's very obviously squeezing the people in his companies to the limits and beyond, by publicly announcing objectives that are just about possible, provided that his employees will work day and night for entire years.
The Moon has no atmosphere to use to shed speed. Very different animal than a Mars landing, to the point where it'd need a totally different landing vehicle than Mars.

Think heavy, shielded Apollo command modules versus the spidery lunar landers.
Tech workers feel poor in Silicon Valley's wealth bubble
I assign the same probability to errors and conflicts in regard to carrying the missions of the organizations to which humans belong. The reason I assign particular probabilities here is based on the differential between the missions of the particular organizations and the relationship of those missions to the claims and assertions of fact and conclusions.

I assign a similarly low probability to the idea that the refuting author's self interest or fallibility caused him to publish an opinion that is at odds with the current mission of the organization that published it as I do to the probability that the original author is at odds with the purposes of the institution that published his research.
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"We seem to have somehow miscalculated our trajectories and the vehicle is now permanently locked in low lunar orbit forever with no recourse. Sorry for the inconvenience."
why do you care where the patches come from?
>Does it even matter if it's faked if most of us could totally believe it's not?

With the popularity of people crying "fake news" and the study recently hitting the front page of HN/Reddit that if you repeat a lie enough, people are more inclined to believe it [0], it bothers me to see a sentence like this. Yes, it matters a lot whether or not it is legitimate. "Fake news" never seems to matter to individuals if it supports their point of view.

Do you "totally believe it" because you've heard similar stories that are equally unverifiable or because you've had similar experiences? If it's because you've heard similar stories, how credible are those stories? Do you believe it because it has been repeated again and again? The last credible story along the "identity politics" line that I can remember offhand is "Donglegate" which I don't even take seriously, because it made a huge mess out of an immature joke that was overheard.

This whole "Even though it was a lie, I was trying to start a conversation!" is such a common tactic it's become a meme at this point and the fake victims "trying to start a conversation" are beginning to hurt the credibility of actual victims.

I pass no judgement on the credibility of the article - as I haven't read it. I came across this comment from /newcomments

[0] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022537177...
I like to call it "stank racking."

As for Mt Fuji. I was asked some stupid question about burning ropes at an interview. My answer was "I don't know, what's the answer?" The company hired me. I was talking to the guy later, and he said he liked to ask questions like that "to see how I think." So I asked him "How do I think?"

...
I've not accepted it as genuine at all; I'm saying that regardless of if it's real or not, the point here is that if it was it wouldn't surprise us..

I'd really really like it if we could get to the point where if stories like this came out for any company, we would be more surprised by them..

As for the illegitimate power (I'm not even sure what that is...) and propagandists comments; I don't really see how this fits into twist of those..

It's a story about some bad behaviour at a big tech company.. Is it a big deal? Individually; nah. As a general trend in tech that I've certainly experienced; yeah. Is it part of a propagandists plot to turn your country into a communist superstate and increase their "illegitimate power" -- I doubt it..
It can land on Earth, because it uses the atmosphere to shed most of its speed, and rockets for the very last couple hundred miles an hour. No such luck on the airless Moon.
>there are other people I can call on, and they will answer. I may be on point, but I’m not alone

that sounds really nice
The two private citizens will need a support team in capsule unless they are experienced astronauts and have the technical skills to learn all the systems on the dragon crew capsule.
Assuming the facial recognition actually works. My base assumption is that this is a make-work for someone's friend, a contract that is continuous rather than for the Super Bowl or other single event.
>A 2005 study Jennings co-authored counted 17 babies born to female astronauts after they had been in space.

https://phys.org/news/2011-01-sex-space-houston-problem.html
There are vehicle and foot ports of entry all along the border, where legal passage between countries can be done.
in fact it's maybe even better if her colleagues know it was her since that may empower them to start taking action against uber or start taking action the next time they see this shit happen.
You mean like the kind that comment here and have all sorts of interesting ideas that 90% of people don't care about or would resent? I wonder about that a lot too. Like what are googlers really up to with all that control of knowledge... </scaremongering>
Unfortunately in any war game, you strike when the iron is hot.
They are talking about eighth-graders, not eight-year-olds.
NVM, I misread it. Accusation was in 2015, they confirmed it recently.
Someone should build an app that can help in compiling such cases by automatically recording audio/vid anytime it hears a voice(s) we teach/specify (HR conversations, managers etc...) After some time I am sure the case solidifies with proofs.

Sometimes you don't have the opportunity to pull your phone and open a recording app. It needs to be like siri and friends where once it recognizes a voice it starts recording.
> It's worth pointing out that the post I'm replying to stated that housing prices generally track inflation...

Well, my point is that if you leverage yourself in an investment that just tracks inflation, you're running in place. Leverage doesn't do anything in real terms here. The number value in your bank account might go up, but your real purchasing power doesn't.

That was my point, that in this situation leverage doesn't help you, and that fundamentally if you're trying to use leverage in this situation, you're hoping that housing prices rise faster than inflation does.
Zuck going around the moon would make sense.

He clearly has political ambitions, but he must acquire personality. Being an space-tourist would help.
“We make over $1m between us, but we can’t afford a house,” - lying hypocrites. They probably cannot afford $20M house, but there are plenty $2M houses around even in relatively expensive areas.
> And "Master's" with an apostrophe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master's_degree
I think the overall thrust, which I don't necessarily disagree with, is that there are many ways to enact barriers to enter a even in a perfectly free capitalist market. Think CPU fabrication. You'd need literally billions in tooling and R&D to start manufacturing modern CPUs. That's a formidable barrier to entry. Anybody could in theory but very few can in practice. Which means Intel and a few others make a tidy profit on their market position. And that's economically pretty functional, since the risks of investing billions of dollars over decades are not currently poised to offer significant enough returns to entice investment.

There are a lot of other, less savory, ways to manipulate free markets to stifle competition, however. Your friendly neighborhood cable company, for one example.
>Besides, men outnumber women in tech by a very large margin. It's on our shoulders to help women fight back. Strength in numbers is a thing, and having men who speak up on their own, and who support and reinforce women who come forward can only a be a good thing.

Yes, but the problem is that most men in tech these days are "brogrammers" who approve of this behavior and engage in it themselves. Tech is no longer the domain of shy, introverted men who just liked to play with technology, like back in the 80s. Now it's full of misogynistic frat dudes. The change started during the dot-com boom, and has only gotten worse since then.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13747414
>It's not quite episitocracy if the same standard isn't being applied to the entire population.

What about the people who get to determine what the test questions are? Are they not by default held at a higher standard than the rest of the population?
I can see where that's coming from, but this is a one-sided view. It misses the obvious conclusion: interface agents (to use the article's terminology) are complementary to direct manipulation interfaces, not a replacement.

Direct manipulation is great at discoverability, when I'm exploring the choices available to me, but it sucks if I'm looking for something specific (for software with a minimum level of complexity, like Photoshop or Excel). Interface agents have the opposite characteristics, as the article explains. So, they're complementary techniques.

To provide a simpler example, not involving AI: if the user is a domain expert (say, a graphic designer), the ability to search for and perform a specific action quickly is far more important than discoverability. For example, the user may already know that GIMP provides a feature for drawing a path but have only used Photoshop in the past and now they just can't find that action.

Aside: it is telling that established design software like Photoshop / GIMP has such a bewildering maze of menus even today. But if you take Google Chrome, for instance, it provides a stellar searchable user interface [1].

[1]: http://vickychijwani.me/searchable-user-interfaces-are-the-f...
When I read articles about vi/vim being great for coders I always wonder how you deal with having to use the same part of your brain for writing the code you are writing and to "code vim commands"

I mean, I understand it's attractive to a programmer's mind to be able to do fancy 'replace the next 3 words with x' and so on, and compose them in vim's language, but if I am deep in an algorithm the last thing I want is to have to context switch to "programming my editor"

When doing editing tasks in a more visual as opposed to programmatical way, it feels more that my "coding brain" is free to continue working on the algorithm at hand while some other part of my brain deals with the moving of text around.

Keeping the right cursor key pressed for 1 second is a lot slower than doing some fancy move to the X word in the line, but if engaging my brain to create the composite "move to the X word" command takes me out of the "flow state" I am in, it is way way way more expensive in the long run. In the end what you want is to be the most productive, and the most productive could mean that you are using the editor less efficiently because the more efficient parts of your brain are busy doing something else.

Not sure, maybe somebody that started with vim as their first editor does not have this context switching issue, I personally started with emacs and remained with it and I have my emacs config full of hyper / super / meta / alt / control / shift shortcuts and tons of cool packages, but while I am deep in coding flow state I still use the cursor keys with minimal package help (outside of multiple-cursors and macros sometimes) to avoid getting distracted.
Everyone replying is missing this oppositized JFK quote: "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

-JFK
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Here is the link: http://www.teenvogue.com/story/muslim-travelers-entering-the..., you can judge for yourself about whether the policy was fairly applied or not.

The Administration opened themselves up to the question of whether they are unfairly targeting Muslims when they said they wanted to "ban Muslims" from coming to the U.S. and with all of their heated rhetoric on the campaign trail.
> Sometimes i wonder if that's an strategy from the management team to put pressure in the engineers.

Or simply a way to generate press and attention, including on Hacker News.
I'm the creator if you have any questions.
This is kinda like saying, "We should never punish a company for wrongdoing, because they'll pass that on to customers and employees." It doesn't really hold water.
I wonder how many cars in the parking lot have been trashed at this place while working out quirks with these robots. I think I would be parking down the road a bit.

ETA: I guess that's skin in the game. They probably have an agreement that everyone involved with the project parks their car in the parking lot for the first parking lot run.
> Do people actually get work and jobs out of LinkedIn? Or is is just a way to keep up with what old coworkers are doing? I frankly do not get it.

Yes. Multiple times.
It's still a thing in EU. They are a source for cheap talent IMO
Sure, if you ignore all the other problems. Why not fly to the Venus and test there? Why not on Saturn? The reason is simple, the cost of doing so outweighs the benefits of doing so.

Look, its simply almost as expensive to make such a test on the moon, as it is on mars. If mars is your goal, then testing on the moon makes absolutely no sense.

People seem to believe that because the moon is closer, it means its much easier there. The reality is that the deltaV is not that different, plus mars gives nice tools to actually land, like an atmosphere.