skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it is going to be only two people who are going to go. Will they add more people if they come forward with significant amount of money too?

Seems to me like the cost of taking in another person will be negligible in comparison to the funding they could contribute. This is literally a one-in-a-lifetime experience
You just aren't googling hard enough.
So, hmm, we wants to send people around the moon, a year and a half from now, with a rocket he never tested and with a capsule that never flew?
I expect half of the directors of SpaceX to resign in the next two days...
>Why Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Poor?

A simple, if specious answer: The Golden rule - she who has the gold, makes the rules.
If I remember correctly, the price of a Soyuz seat is around $20,000,000USD for tourists, with NASA's price to fly on Soyuz being much higher per seat.
While this feat depends on hitting a lot of intermediate milestones - Falcon Heavy Test, Crew Dragon Unmanned to ISS, Crew Dragon manned to ISS, etc, there is no "show-stopper" that is apparent right now.

I like how they have avoided committing to the much harder "landing on the Moon and then return" scenario.
>> "Leftist" by American standards in 2017 is, again, not leftist by world standards"

Yes, if your standard for leftism is Joseph Stalin's Soviet Russia.

But that's like saying, "The right by American standards isn't actually on the right according to world standards, where the right wing == Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy."
Probably not a ton of extra space for a multi-day trip?
As someone who wants to build a pc but doesn't want to worry about doing all the research to the components, this is very simple and wonderful. Thank you.
Are you talking about unmanned mission? Because he specifically mentioned crewed mission.
He should be evicted from Facebook's board, and from YC. There's clear, straightforward reasons to believe that, and saying so is a perfectly reasonable exercise of free speech. You clearly disagree. But so what? That's how it's supposed to work: you can disagree, and say so, and say why.
I'm a manager at my company. We have a rating system, and there is no need for someone else to be ranked lowly for you to be ranked highly.

What that DOES mean, though, is that someone has to keep pressure on people not to rank everyone as awesome. Because, look:

a. Managers are, contrary to rumor, people too. We don't enjoy the awkward, painful meetings in which we deliver negative feedback. We don't enjoy telling people that they aren't getting a raise, or that they need to improve or be terminated. That sucks. Personally, it keeps me up nights, and I've heard the same from many other managers.

b. Managers are also graded themselves on how effective their employees are. Like, if your employees are persistently rated below average, well, what's the common factor across your employees? Vice versa if they're all high performers.

So if you just tell managers "rate your employees, follow your conscience," then there is a grade inflation incentive. Even if you're super-disciplined and make painfully realistic assessments of your employees' abilities, Bob one team over may give everyone fives, and then you end up looking like a bad manager and also maybe you get to go and put someone on a PIP.

The company needs some way to stop this. Stack ranking is one such way. I don't like it, I think it's overall a bad way, but it's a mechanistic way, which is more valuable the larger your company. Small companies can have a powerful manager or small group of managers who "keep people honest." That doesn't scale.

You can use another mechanic to keep people honest, but all mechanics are exploitable.
The main factor supporting their claim is that they have a very strong incentive to be ferrying crew to/from the ISS around this time, so barring any big mishaps with Falcon Heavy (supposed to be ready this summer/fall), all the pieces should be in place if not by next year, then certainly just a year or two later. Which, as you mentioned, is just as impressive!
NeuroJS – A JavaScript deep learning and reinforcement learning library
Might be pretty great but it's Windows/macOS only, so not sure how much of a continuation of thunderbird it can be considered.
He specifically said "earned or inherited"! It's certainly still possible to acquire FU money (about $1-$5 million depending on your standards of living and your investment risk tolerance) through an ordinary career -- although it's never been easy.

Also, and more respectfully, look at the effect of capital accumulation on wages. When productive capital (hint: not housing stock) increases, wages rise.
On the surface, yes. But calling it a launcher does it a disservice - it was more ambitious [1] than any other launcher I've seen, although they unfortunately stopped developing it. Their ultimate goal seems to have been to build something like Unix pipes for the web, e.g., see use-cases like [2]: "insert a map for the selected location into the email I'm writing, without leaving my current tab", and this without any help from the developers of Gmail or Google Maps.

Moreover, this was way back in 2008 [3] vs I think Alfred in 2011 and the others are recent clones. I think Ubiquity was a few years ahead of its time - with today's AI advancements, they might actually be able to achieve a large part of their original mission. This has got me thinking...

[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity

[2]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Latest_Ubiquity_User_...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquity_(Firefox)
> The part where Java really falls down is in memory use & management, which you can see on the binary-tree & mandelbrot benchmarks, where it's roughly 4x slower than C.

binary-tree is not useful for comparing GCed and non-GCed languages. For non-GCed languages, you are allowed to use a memory pool of your choice (the C version uses the Apache Portable Runtime library), for GCed languages you are required to use the standard GC with the default settings (no adjustment of GC parameters permitted). This is apples and oranges.

For mandelbrot, the C version uses handcoded SIMD intrinsics. I.e. it's not even portable to non-x86 processors.
> 6.8% is not "devastating".

How can you possibly say that? A sudden 7% drop in any industry is indeed devastating.
How can Travis Kalanick fail so much with company culture?
Yes. We have laws that punish rioters. But if you're funding and "training" people to smash windows and burn cars, you should share the culpability.

We arrest the getaway car driver involved in a bank heist. All he's doing is driving, right? That's not even illegal.
Because Google usually does a pretty good job as far as performance is concerned.

ie: They have a simple 404 page instead of some novelty page with funny text and a random webm playing in the background
IANAL. You are absolutely right in all regards about this (with the exception of your last point which is FUD). However, there is one interesting option which may negate some of these issues. That option would be a Class Action. If enough women and minorities came forward with verifiable claims of systemic discrimination they could band together and reduce the amount of over all problems with the law suit by having increased numbers. Technically, there is no minimum number of plaintiffs to designate a Class Action. But for all practical purposes you need greater than 20. From the fact that #ubersurvivor is turning into a thing, I believe finding the right number of people would be possible. Here is how a class action would change your reasons not to pursue sexual harassment litigation:

* You will have to devote an enormous amount of money, time, energy, health, and your emotional well-being. -- You would not have to pay an enormous amount for this. Though it would take a lot of time you are right

* Your lawyers will take half the settlement, either in up front fees, or as a portion of the bounty. -- This is almost always true but cases cost a whole lot to run and manage.

* You will get to share, and then be brutally cross-examined about all the worst bullshit you had to endure in a courtroom. -- With a class action you have far more people to fight on your side, making cross X a lot less scary, if it ever gets to the trial stage.

* With so much money on the line, you will trigger a smear campaign against you, whose impact will persist long after the trial concludes. -- It is much harder to smear a group.

* You want to program, instead of dealing with legal bullshit. -- You want to program in peace for the rest of your life. A class action sends a message to all companies that they cannot act like this.

* You just want this nightmare to be over, instead of it being brought up over, and over again. -- True and a class action will help to end the nightmare.

* You don't want to have your name permanently associated with "Sues your employers for millions of dollars". Good luck getting a job after that. -- As a class action member you are less likely to be singled out

* If for whatever reason you lose, you will get to enjoy all the damage to your reputation, all the trauma and indignities that you had to re-live, the black mark on your employment record (Who would hire a liar who sues her employers?), and you'll probably be counter-sued by Uber. I hope you're independently wealthy. --This is FUD. Nevertheless, by being associated with a class action you are far less likely to be singled out for issues. It's even quite hard for them to counter-sue in a class action.

While the legal option is hard and can be scary, it is not a bad option to pursue.
I wonder what NASA is thinking about this? The NASA Commercial Crew program which helped fund the development of the Dragon was funded for manned flight to the ISS. I'm curious if they see this as part of the project scope?
"experimental" is descriptive, not prescriptive:

> Experimental hash table implementation in just Rust (stable, no unsafe code).

https://github.com/bluss/ordermap
You would have been better off making that point, then. Creating a false dichotomy didn't help you, it's even sillier that original implication that you should never do this.

The real maxim is something like "be very careful when your business model is (some better word than sharecropping) - because it can be disabled at any point"
I am talking about the price Russia charges the US to send one human to the ISS. I guess the announcer wasn't correct. That amount would be for 2018.

http://www.businessinsider.com/astronaut-cost-per-soyuz-seat...
Hey I think you need to write explicitly at the top of the page "Enter your budget and we'll recommend an optimal build."

Because I opened the page and it wasn't quite clear to me wtf I was looking at and I had to come in the comments to figure out how this isn't better than pcpartpicker, found this comment and then went back to the page and was like "oh you have to enter your budget in at the top"

edit: ah just realized this was an issue because I was taken to https://www.pc-kombo.de/us/tipp?price=1640&cpuLegacylist%5BA...

If you just go to https://www.pc-kombo.de then it is clear

but still worth considering to keep that "recommend" call to action at the top no matter what page you are on so that there is never any confusion what the website is for
To me, Pocket is one of those cluttery icons I need to move off of the toolbar when I setup a new copy of Firefox for someone. If I did want that functionality, which I don't, I'd use an extension called Scrapbook.
JUST transparent to light and nothing more
what's the novel?
I love when I receive an endorsement for something like "XML".
If you look at history, the rich often used their influence to reduce their tax burden from the state, and this often led to crushing tax burdens on the people who could not represent themselves: peasants and the like. I think Fukuyama gives some great examples of how this led to instability in the political order and finance in pre-revolutionary France [0].

I'm afraid we are seeing something similar now, with some billionaires desperately trying to reduce any and all kinds of taxes they need to pay. Frankly its breathtaking to see how much greed these people have...also, a supreme lack of solidarity with they society they live in (and apparently a lack of knowledge of historical precedents as well).

I should add that the same doesn't hold for all the rich/billionaires. Very much respect the work the Gates foundation is doing, just as an example.

[0]: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9704856-the-origins-of-po...
Because the average citizen does not take an active enough roll in government.That effect has compounded over time to put us in current situation.

Also this isnt so much about socialism or capitalism but about why the world seems to favor the rich.
Set Women in STEM Free
Sorry, try again. We're talking about a company being criticized (in part) for the treatment of female engineers. You're making assertions that this article isn't believable. The author is a female.

Pretty big stretch to say I'm being sexist by suggesting you have _no clue_ what is or isn't a believable experience for a female engineer at Uber.
There have been people attempting to take his rights away or claim it was unlawful? Lol.
Yes, you should assume any opposing viewpoint has been bought and paid for by the opposition.

/s
>Do they? I've never encountered anyone using a root shell to go about their business unless they had to do some exclusive operation that could only be done as root, and even then they would rather just sudo that specific operation.

Maybe you should encounter more devs?
Independent only means independent of the company's staff. Whether objective or partial to the company is a different story.
Others will likely follow, per SpaceX, but I think this is a two person ride.

> "Other flight teams have also expressed strong interest and we expect more to follow."
The various replies are nothing more than predictable. No problem. Fully expected.

In "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" one of the habits is "Seek first to understand, Then to be understood".

This is very important and it only happens in the context of dialogue. Positive outcomes require it.

I used Elon Musk's example because he is on of the members of the advisory council who is out there explaining why it is important to remain engaged and participate.

http://gizmodo.com/heres-elon-musk-giving-donald-trump-a-ste...

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick dropped out. Who do you think will have a solid opportunity to affect positive change and policies? It sure as hell won't be Kalanick! Musk is very intelligent and recognizes you have to be in there in order to be hear and be understood. First understand. Then be understood. Then, and only then, do you get to affect positive change in the context of civilized dialogue.

While a portion of the population, is lost in a fever of spite, there are those who, like Musk, are engaging in dialogue to produce better outcomes for all.

Perhaps slinging insults and creating caricatures of people like Trump is satisfying to some. I guess I can see that. Yet, the reality is that, if you look at it objectively, this behavior produces exactly zero positive outcomes. When was the last time you sought to understand the grievances of someone who devoted a significant amount of time to insulting you and maligning everything you do? Exactly.

This is not intelligent constructive behavior.
But that's just silly, given that you can easily leave the country by walking across the border. Even if they implement this for every international plane departure, the data will still be massively incomplete.
This is exciting news. Some time ago, looking at the F9 Heavy, it seemed to me that SpaceX could fly to the moon with it anytime they decided to. Of course their focus is the Mars. But in the day and age of multi-billionaires and the commercial availability of space flights via SpaceX, this makes absolutely sense. Private funding could push space flights much quicker ahead.
Claws Mail is a good option.
Those two stories both refer to incidents that have nothing to do with affecting election outcomes, and could have been done by anyone. There's a lot of insinuation that it's by generic "Russians" and there sure is a lot of online crime coming out of former Soviet states, but as the second article points out in the text, it can easily be criminals. This is especially the case because American personal details are so easily used for various forms of financial fraud.

But we're not talking about petty theft of SSNs which may or may not come from Russians here. We're talking about deliberate foreign intelligence operations against actual voting infrastructure. Which hasn't happened.
I had to look up what Undercover Boss was, honestly, so no :)
Donald and Vladimir?
Not sure how this differs from Apollo.
That means it is true. Google is same boat as Uber in terms of sexual harassment events.
Agreed. Way too much vitriol and the details are too perfect to be believable. I'm flagging as well.
Syria pursued "anti-us policy" at the expense of Syrian people?

I think this world is upside down.
>Consider: you're in a protest, peacefully expressing your disagreement. Then some other people start smashing windows. Under this law, you can now be arrested.

It's not that simple. They'd have to prove you were both part of the same criminal organization. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say if you're part of a group that's planning illegal stuff, you should probably leave that group.
Absolutely incredible. This will be the furthest that humanity has journeyed away from Earth in a very long time.

However it is worth noting that there hasn't been a single crewed Dragon flight yet. There are demonstator flights scheduled for this year though with the first NASA crewed mission slated for May 2018. That's an incredibly aggressive timeline but if anyone can achieve it, SpaceX can.

The long duration flight beyond the moon will be a fantastic proving ground, however.
Yes, but we're talking about XUL the platform. That platform was built with the same use-case in mind that Electron has: allowing people to build cross-platform desktop applications with web technologies (html, js etc).

Unfortunately Mozilla failed to execute on that vision, leaving the field open for Electron and friends to emerge. Part of that failure was due to bad technological choices (RDF-XML was terrible), part to the unwieldy Mozilla legacy (the build system was notoriously byzantine) and part to them de-prioritizing anything that Firefox did not need. They had a working general-purpose JS-based UI runtime more than 15 years ago, and still the rise of nodeJS and html-based toolkits passed them by pretty spectacularly - because they had eyes only for Firefox and vanity projects like FFOS.
I don't think that's an appropriate use of flag:

> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its 'flag' link. If you think a comment is egregious, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'flag' at the top.

The story is not spam, not off-topic, and has a good chance of being non-egregious. It's certainly true it could be wrong, but that's very different.

(Maybe I'm wrong about appropriate use of flagging? I'd concede that it's fair for you to downvote it, but I suspect HN has disabled downvotes on stories for a reason, and using flagging as a pseudo-downvote seems wrong.)
Read the article: "By also flying privately crewed missions, which NASA has encouraged, long-term costs to the government decline and more flight reliability history is gained, benefiting both government and private missions."
> between 800 and 1130 A.D.

That should be 'between A.D. 800 and 1130.' It's pretty sad when even the New York Times gets such a simple thing wrong.
Uff. That's actually not that easy. By default, that recommendation page is 50% of a page wrapper that fills 200% of the viewport. The other 50% contain the almost empty space for the alternatives list. That is why horizontal scrolling is disabled.

But I did test that with very small screens and high zooms, and on my devices the responsive design makes that work each time. Please excuse that remark, that is not a "your setup is wrong" comment. But I wonder whether there is a incompatibility with the css that makes the situation as bad as it is for you? And in that case maybe I can fix it instead.

For example: What do you mean with left column? On a small screen or a high zoom there should only be a single column. Are you on a browser that does not support flexbox, at least not as implemented here? Could be the safari bug mentioned before.
Who else could hire the investigators?

The independent directors on a company's board should hire the investigators, who then should report back to those directors.

Of course, in most startups, just like in many public companies, "independent" directors often aren't.
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Well said. To clarify my point, GPS maps can actually be a learning tool instead of a crutch. But it seems to require static map orientation. When the map is always oriented north, it teaches you about the city as you see your location move within it. When it's constantly shifting the map orientation around, it seems it's too confusing to extract "big picture" knowledge. I don't think most people realize this, since mapping systems often default to the "driver-centric" viewpoint, and if they don't, it's the first thing people change.
Their skydiving estimate and comparison shows some faults with this approach. If 10 people die a year from x. But those 10 people were people pushing the limits of skydiving by doing something unusual or intentionally chumming waters to swim with sharks the numbers are really all wrong
Clearly you understand the possible risks to putting your real name behind your words, regardless of their veracity. Medium isn't a court of law, they don't owe anyone any evidence and you pointing out that there isn't any is implying that they have a reason to hide their name that isn't justified.
Your reality is distorted beyond recognition.
Yahoo does badly -> CEO still does well.

Chobani does badly -> employees' Chobani stock is also doing badly.

Giving more stock to employees is not a safety net.
That 80's jump-freeze-frame was fantastic

I want to see them take this to a skate park
We choose to not go to the moon, but do the other things, not because they are hard, but because they are relatively easy, and we can make a quick buck.
> Yes. We have laws that punish rioters. But if you're funding and "training" people to smash windows and burn cars, you should share the culpability.

We have laws for funding, inciting, procuring, etc., rioting, already.
(In fact, in most jurisdictions, we don't need specific laws.fornthst, since the laws against riot plus the laws proviidng liability for soliciting, procuring, etc. any criminal act already cover this.)
Appears to be around $80M per seat. Great graph of how it increase from $20M in 2008 to $80M today after NASA permanently grounded its space shuttles:

http://www.businessinsider.com/space-travel-per-seat-cost-so...
There is, its called trickle down.
Who are the two "private citizens"? Seems to be mere urge of "universal human exploration" to go around the moon and not landing on it, etc. isn't doing much exploring, but rather taking a lot of risk on a manned spacecraft that has never been tested with people.