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I don't remember the exact numbers anymore, but in Australia at least the statistics suggest that if you:
Don't ride under the influence, Don't ride without a license, Ride with a helment, and Don't ride an unregistered bike,

Then you have decreased your risk by more than 50%. So using the articles methods, you will be exposed to less than 200 micromorts.

Servicing your motorcyle and having taken a motorcycle saftey course just once also increases your liklihood of survival.

Another key part of the dangers are where you ride, being more likely to die in the CBD than anywhere else, and likely related, just under 50% of accidents are caused by other motorists than the rider. Many riders seem to think it's skewed much more toward cars being at fault, it's useful to know that's not the case.

A final tidbit I recall is that the biggest risk group is 40-60 year old, returning riders. Not younger new riders as you might have expected.

The interesting part of all of that though is knowing such broad stats can not truly reveal your personal risk factor, and that there is a lot you can do to help your cause.
see the second part
>you can easily leave the country by walking across the border

which is of course illegal...
Except that normal CPU usage assumes proper airflow. Once the CPU shut down, he turned it back on which could have potentially put the battery back into a critical state. If the battery was already cycled out, then that would further support that story.
Most corporations have more purchasing agreements than sales agreements, so the total risk of corrupt markets is worse on the expense side of the ledger than on the income side of the ledger. Assuming the situation is less than hopeless lets say 10% of markets are corrupt or are corrupt 10% of the time, 10% of the time your revenue will be "lucky" but not the other 90% of the time, while you've got maybe 100 supplier contracts for everything from drinking water to strange electronic components and 10% of 100 means at least 10 suppliers will be destroying your company from the expense side of the ledger 100% of the time.

Its sort of like claiming corporations love the idea of abolishing contract law, forgetting that no matter how much they'd make in revenue, it would never make up for their expense side going crazy.

Another interesting comparison is in an extremely simplistic manner a company would appear to greatly benefit from dumping all their toxic waste out an open window where it blows 10 miles downwind at some city; however the only thing that could be worse than living in that downwind city is working in the same building next to that toxic open window... I was cool with my local nuclear power plant when it was owned an managed by a corporation 10 miles downwind, not melting down would be very enlightened self interest, but not so cool about the plant when it got sold to someone 1000 miles upwind.
Cheap rides, sexism, and racism are a way of life, so it seems.
I really wish there was an easier way to do this, ideally something like a corporation with no shareholders.
I know this is politics and maybe distracting from the main conversation but...

The United States voters just decided similar behavior is not disqualifying for the office of President. So how can we possibly convince other men this kind of behavior is not conducive to attaining the money, power, and influence they may desire?
Apollo had manned space missions before that.
Maybe Richard Garriot wants to survey his property (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garriott#Other_accompl...) from near-lunar orbit. ;)
This is what I'm referring to:

"...The draft report from the GAO, which is Congress’ investigative arm, also concluded that neither SpaceX nor the Boeing Co. is likely to conduct regular space taxi flights to the space station by 2018..."

http://www.geekwire.com/2017/gao-journal-spacex-rocket-turbo...
I didn't realize there was any evidence whatsoever of people being funded or trained to smash windows or burn cars.

Do you have any reasons for this law that are(1) based on evidence and (2) isn't already covered by existing law?
The board, to decide if it's time to fire Travis.
I'd always assumed the primary goal of LinkedIn endorsements is the same as every other email I get from LinkedIn, to keep user engagement with the site - and based on the number of colleagues I see accepting them, I'd say it's been pretty successful at achieving that goal for LinkedIn.
Oh god, it's a kids toy. It's meant to be something fun and cute. What a bunch of jerks to go messing around with that.
Don't get me wrong: I don't support this. But I believe the fact that "you can easily leave the country by walking across the border" is also something the current administration would like to "correct." I can imagine this technology being installed at land crossings as well.
You have the ability to hide specific endorsements - for instance, if someone endorses me for a skill that they don't actually know that I know, LinkedIn provides the ability to hide that person's endorsement.
You can delete it from the app, as well. http://www.imore.com/how-to-delete-your-uber-account
Please don't misunderstand the following comment to mean that I am defending Uber. I quit using Uber over a year ago when I first learned of some of their business practices.

>It seems both women who've come forward would have open-and-shut cases against Uber for multi-millions in damages.

These cases are tough to win, even in a liberal jurisdiction like SF. For example, does "Amy" have any witnesses that are willing to testify about what they saw? Sure, a subpoena can compel them to testify, but if the men who were present are still working there, how likely is it that they are going to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth under questioning?

The calculus becomes "keep my current job that is paying my bills, and maybe get a raise/promotion soon" vs. "stick my neck out for someone who no longer works here."

Sure, there are good lawyers who could maybe trip them up, but now you're treating what should be friendly or neutral witnesses as hostile witnesses. And Uber has some good lawyers too, obviously.

Further, even if some of these guys have moved on to other companies, they have to calculate how testifying in Amy's favor might come back to bite them later. With a guy like Travis who lacks good character (according to all the accounts I've read, anyway), it will come back to bite them sooner than later.

So "open-and-shut" is usually not really at all, but rather a less than 50% chance of recovering damages after years of difficult litigation. Unless, of course, you have lots of really good documentary evidence that's admissible.
I am skeptical of both sides of this who Uber thing. The employee side seems to be so dramatic with things like I am a "survivor". I'm sorry but no, POWs in a prison camp are survivors. Victims of violent crime are survivors. People willingly working for a legitimate company, accepting an 18% pay cut for no reason, and not realizing you should quit once you realized the company has a bunch of jerks in it, is kind of stupid. The author seems to be really dramatic and wants attention to make herself feel good for making poor decisions such as working for a lower salary.

I've had a lot of jobs, some good, some bad. I've had awful managers, on the same level as the ones described here. They would stab you in the back for anything. One of my best friends was insulted by our manager constantly for being weak and pathetic, among other things. He just shrugged and quit. I also didn't label myself a "survivor" though and whine about it. I just quit and found a better job. If your manager is a jerk and doesn't like you, he will find a way to insult you no matter what race or gender you are.

Also haven't seen any actual evidence with emails or anything, even for stories that were supposedly documented with emails.
At least from NASA's standpoint, looks like they budget single-digit $Billions for human spaceflight, out of a yearly budget in the range of $18B. I'm not sure how cleanly that can be broken down per-mission, since stays aboard the ISS can now exceed 12 months. https://spaceflightnow.com/2015/02/02/nasa-outlines-fy-2016-...
They are going to test the rocket later this year, and the rocket is based on the F9 design, so nothing done from scratch. The crew capsule is also just an enhancement of the capsule which travelled to the ISS and back again several times. It also is going to be tested with flights to the ISS before this planned moon mission. Once you exchange the F9 for the F9 Heavy, going to the moon is not really anyhow more difficult than going to the ISS. You need a bigger launch speed, but then you orbit the Moon and return back. A Moon landing however would be a distinctively different effort.
Part of why she was able to negotiate that severance was probably also because she was well compensated at Google, and just said no unless they'd make her a good offer.
Funny how far Opera has fallen these past few years. Years ago it was setting trends with tabs. Now it's yet another Chromium-based browser.
> That's an incredibly aggressive timeline

Sometimes i wonder if that's an strategy from the management team to put pressure in the engineers.
I use Thunderbird on MacOs and on Linux. On Linux its a fine email client, no complaints at all. On Mac it's a pile of shit that randomly hangs for 10+ seconds (and eats my battery) because I have a combined inbox.

There's a bunch of config tweaks that are supposed to help but so far they haven't.
Presumably they will test the spacecraft at least once before sending it out manned. We sent crewed capsules around the moon without landing during the Apollo program too.
I can't tell if you're for real or just being sarcastic.
I'm really happy she felt comfortable doing this. What an incredibly brave and strong person—I can't imagine what she must be feeling.

What I really want to see is the other 20 men on her team tell their bosses to cut that shit out.

We cannot rely on the abused to stand up for themselves; for every one who does there are thousands who cannot. It is on every one of us to report abhorrent behaviour, even if we think someone else has/will.

Change comes from those in power, from people who could very rationally not care, but who go out of their way to do the right thing. It isn't an economic decision, a business decision, or a political decision. It is a personal decision on the world one wants to live in.

We can do better. We must do better. Enough is enough.
Well the spacecraft will be tested multiple times before this mission and there are health and fitness tests before departure just like it says there. Both of those were addressed, I think you may have misread this.
I'm gonna make my tip, given Elon's history:

Sergey Brin and Larry Page

Two of his freind rich enough, geeky enough, to go first.
Same! I also think that spending money on a roundtrip to the moon is way better for humanity than spending it on champagne, caviar and cars.
>Inside the VCS community, they were very well known.

Inside the PL community, tons of obscure language with less than 10.000 users are "well known". Being known inside some niche's expert's a pretty low bar. The "VCS" community is insignificant in size compared to the developer community at large.

>Graydon also went on to start Rust, of course.

Which is irrelevant as to whether Darcs and Monotone are well known.
My own experience tallies with this quite closely. I think we passed peak Snapchat last year, and that Snap knows it, hence the IPO.

Which is depressing if you think about it, because it means Facebook's strategy of "buy them, and if they won't sell, clone them and crush them" is working really well. That's not how I want the world to work, but that's the truth.
I took their comments to mean directly to the abuser in a more aggressive way than "please stop" or even "that's not appropriate."

But you're right: in any adult, rational sense she "fought back."
Agreed. Given the current infancy of VR and the fears of incompatibility amongst consumers, it's nice to see the major players set up some stability for the VR space.
They're doing a Falcon Heavy launch beforehand (at least once) before this mission takes place.
OVAL – Smart Sensors. Instant Alerts
"Trigger warnings" come from liberal arts colleges afraid of upsetting students with material that the previous generation of students coped with somehow, that's the first time I heard it used in this context.
You don't have to throw feminism under the bus in order to recognize that there's a difference between a claim that's credible and a claim that's true.

> Expecting a guy who clearly believes he was let go due to an unfounded malicious accusation to tell every future employer about it seems extreme.

Sorry, but not at the SVP level. You are a semipublic face of the company and its culture, and it's in both your and the company's interest for them to know about these things to be able to get out in front of revelations like this.
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It's not a warning, it's a fail-safe. It's likely the sensor on the battery failed, so the heat sensor was all that was left.

A user can guess at the problem based on the temperature of the laptop. I've had my laptop turn off like this and I always let it cool down before powering it on again. You can argue that Apple needs more protection for issues like these and needs to message users better about how to deal with the behavior exhibited by the laptop, but you can't say that Apple does nothing or doesn't have any sensors.
I don't think the world is that lucky.
> My paycheck is 18% less than my less qualified male colleagues.

I stopped reading here.
Having had to code this problem for the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, it's fun to see this.

First, we tried Craig Reynolds' flocking system. That's a repulsive field approach. It just won't work in a narrow space. We tried a system where there's a target projected in front of the vehicle, and repulsion fields from the object act on that. The vehicle then chases the target. This was a little better, but not much.

We ended up using a system where we computed a clear path ahead of the vehicle composed of two arcs, which could have opposite curvature. We always kept enough clear path ahead for the stopping distance of the vehicle, or we'd slow down. Arcs were tested against the map by brute force, then tweaked a bit for maximum obstacle clearance. The minimum turning radius increased with speed and decreased with vehicle tilt (this was for off-road operation), so the system wouldn't generate a path that would roll the vehicle.

(Our biggest headache at the event wasn't obstacle avoidance, it was that we took DARPA's prescribed GPS boundary limits as hard boundaries. The GPS positions were not accurate enough for that. After a very frustrating first run, where we could barely make it through narrow gates because the GPS boundaries and the real world obstacles were misaligned, we allowed 1 meter outside the boundary limits, and performance improved.)
Famous example: http://www.businessinsider.com/hyman-rickover-interview-tech...

I don't know if it's actually useful when interviewing for a job with lives on the line, but I would guess that it creates an effect where the worse the interview experience is the happier you feel when you pass it.
How about 'what a bunch of jerks to connect it to the internet and not secure it properly'?
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Eric Holder certainly does already have an existing business relationship with Uber-

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/01685274cc944196af9016ad0a875...
My experience has been GP's: Pocket will claim to save something, but the moment I go offline, it craps out and tells me I need a connection to read the content I've saved.

This is much more common on larger PDFs, but I've had it happen on so many sites that there was a point when I literally resorted to PDF'ing the pages I wanted to save - which is a damn shame, because Pocket's reader view really does do a good job.
Screw Mozilla and their data mining BS. I've been thinking of finding a self-hosted alternative to Pocket and now I want to hurry up.
Anybody knows of any self-hosted alternatives?
If I'd seen this in a horror movie 10 years ago, I'd probably have laughed. There is something about it being real that truly terrifies me.
> Snapchat is the darling of technology: for years, we’ve fawned over the company for being innovative, using daring interfaces and out of the ordinary tactics to get people to pay it.

We have? I've always thought it was a pretty basic photo messaging app that initially rose to popularity due to disappearing nudes and has since rode that wave with vapid filters.
SpaceX plans to do this Moon mission only after they had manned missions to the ISS.
IoT should die a swift and permanent death.

Alas, that wont happen.
> 3. Working people hard
That's okay. I was made to work hard. Long days no breaks hard deadlines. That's the world we live in.

No, it's not okay. But this one is not the company's problem; it's on the union, or lack thereof.
According to the article he left for failing to disclose the circumstances of his departure from Google. The article further documents that he acknowledges that he left under this cloud. As the article notes "having Singhal at the head of an organization under siege over sexual harassment issues when he was not candid with Uber over his departure from Google was considered untenable."

It is hard to see that this is generalizable to the circumstances of typical employees.
> I have been using pathogen since I started using vim

Thanks for the recommendation. The trouble (and again, maybe this is down to my lack of research) is that other commenters will recommend Vundle with links to similar resources (and I've tried both Vundle and Pathogen, sometimes one after another, ruining my ~/.vim dir :P). I can find all of these recommendations myself but (maybe I'm wrong here) there's no clear winner in the vim ecosystem. There's no single de-facto manager that's used by 90% of all vimmers. Hell, I know people who I think maintain their vim plugins and config and scripts using only git, so maybe a package manager isn't even that much of a priority for many users.

> There are tabs in vim, split screens, files in buffer etc, these are all without plug-ins.

Agreed, but cursory research tells me that you have to type multiple characters to switch between files. For example, the documentation page on buffers: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_buffer_FAQ lists about 20 different buffer navigations (bNext, bnext, bprevious etc (and why there's no bPrevious is a big fat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )) but not a single command for toggling between two open files, a pretty common use case. Whereas text editors like Sublime leverage the already-known (from using browsers) Ctrl + T shortcut and provide you this really necessary action in fewer keystrokes (1 vs Esc (or your Esc shortcut key) + :bNext = 7 assuming there's no shortcut for "Next" though there probably is).

> There are multiple ways to work with multiple files.

And maybe that's the problem. There are multiple ways to do everything (multiple files, plugin management etc) rather than one "best" or "recommended" way that works for most users. This is understandable for a hacker's tool; options and flags rather than intelligent defaults. But it leaves newcomers somewhat adrift. I'm not criticizing the tool itself; Bram Molenaar and co. are doing an amazing job and we should all be grateful for such a high-quality tool that's freely available on practically every nix. Something like a canonical beginner's vim config that's aggressively maintained and everyone knows about would be nice though.

EDIT: How do you type a "*"?

EDIT: Looks like switching buffers (which I think is the same as toggling between files) is :b#, which is still 4 characters vs 1. http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/VimTip686#Switching_to_the_previou...
That is patently ridiculous. The vast majority of firms that you give your dollars too have direct competitors. They may not prefer to have competitors, but neither do you when applying for jobs or bidding on a house, that is pretty basic human nature.
This announcement is considerably less vaporous than the Mars plan he announced.
I hear you re: evidence. My point being, we're not in a courtroom, the bar for evidence is difference. I personally think it's worth calling out that the viewpoint being echoed that "Sounds absurd, don't believe" is a problematic one.

I don't deny anyone wanting evidence that opinion, but I think it's also really easy for someone with the privilege of not having to deal with the things women in the tech workplace have to deal with to shut down articles like this one.
The cold war? A national effort? Dead crews during the project?

I mean, I'm half joking, I believe that it is a possible objective, as much as it is possible to manufacture 500k Model 3s a year.. next year. Possible, but a monumental effort and something on which Musk strongly disagrees even with the top managers in his own companies.
Well, you made a call for someone to deanonymize herself yet you are not willing to deanonymize yourself on that account, 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...
A device connecting to your WiFi could just be talking to devices on your network, not necessarily be sending all of your data to the Internet.
Are the security updates done by Mozilla itself or by the volunteers that continue Thunderbird development?
Being a getaway driver in a bank heist is absolutely nothing like organizing a protest and then it getting out of control. If they intended for it to be a riot that is already a crime.
For anyone who is coming straight to the comments before reading the article: the details are even worse than the headline suggests.

Not only was a huge amount of information exposed through a public, unauthenticated MongoDB instance, and not only did CloudPets ignore multiple security researchers' attempts to alert them to the problem, but the database was actually held for ransom multiple times without customers being alerted to the breach.
Also the moon is pretty boring and Elon Musk likes exciting things.
Sorry, my comment was a little ambiguous. The sensor will tell you how many cycles are left, not the little menu bar trick. If you want to see how many cycles are used and left, click on the Apple menu in the upper-left corner of the screen, click on "About this Mac", and then click on "System Report". Click on the "Power" section on the left, and it'll show you all the sensor information including battery charge capacity, cycle count, and more.
To my knowledge Susan didn't specifically name anyone?

It seems like the smear campaign will happen regardless as long as the woman is alleging bad behavior like this. (Presumably because there is a cadre of psychopaths who think this sort of sexism should be allowed).

So I don't see where the disincentive is for the abused to go nuclear first. (The abuser clearly has no compunction or ethics regarding escalating the situation, she's just a 'whiny little bitch' to him).
Hacker News is the ultimate waste of time. Correction: Hacker News _comments are the ultimate waste of time.
Everyone's always so cynical... They're sending (presumably) two non-astronauts further than any humans have ever been. I assume there will be future milestones that probably include landing on the moon to test the Mars landing.
The company was tanking and they were looking to make a quick buck. What market motivation would they have to spend extra time and money securing it properly? This is a fine example of why we need IOT regulation.
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I think this differs from the election in that we, Silicon Valley, have tacitly assumed that "things are different here", that 2017 San Francisco is different than 2017 Louisiana.

That may be the case, but we still have a long way to go.