skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, in that context, yes. We'll have to see a lot about the flight performance of the Heavy and whatever crew capsule they come up with. I would imagine they would do it similar to how the Apollo missions were done. First you do the dress rehearsal where no one lands. They could use that mission to put supplies in orbit as well. For Mars, they might need more than one. I'll be interested in what they come up with, but I still think their goal of 2025 is pretty quick. Doable, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
I tried the languages I know. Pretty cool! For my next language I'm starting now, this makes me want to start reviewing numbers even though it's not something I generally focus on at first.

Suggestion: make the lowest time at least 20 or 30 seconds, as 10 is too short.

Second suggestion: a visual component where you could utilize shop signs with prices on them (http://i.imgur.com/wsg5BU4.jpg) but I'm not sure how that could benefit the user, maybe the user has to type out the number (like "fifty seven").
I literally laughed out loud at this. Obviously greatness is subjective, but you are really reaching if you think someone saving a billion lives isn't 'on the same level' as Elon Musk who has yet to go to the moon (although I'm sure he will), who has yet to make a profitable car company (this one I'm not so sure about), who has yet to change the energy infrastructure of the world (he's chipping away at this one steadily).

The important thing about history is it's written after the fact. If Elon Musk died today he would be remembered for his work at PayPal and starting several ambitious companies before they achieved financial success. I'd wager that if he died today all of his companies would fail and he would be remembered for trying to do too much and working himself to death before he achieved his goals. He could very well end up as a Greek tragedy.
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Hate to say I told ya so, but [1].

Anyone who has any doubt as to the way this country is headed, should really read 1984 for a preview of what's coming.

All that will take to make this full-blown is some metastasizing event (see 9/11) that will take us from slipping down the slope directly to falling into the abyss.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13601878
> If Uber had implemented a good system of control, we wouldn't be talking about this in the first place.

The system of control doesn't have to be optimized for good. In a situation like this -- where managers seem to operate without fear of reporting or push back from underlings -- there likely is a lot of control in place already.

> Yes, there is risk to speaking out. It wouldn't be brave to do so if there were no risk.

The same could be said of the victims themselves and highlights the problem with this attitude: betting on bravery is long odds.

If workers are highly dependent on managers' approval -- not of their work, but of their opinions, character, manner -- then they will learn to keep their heads down and go along to get along. It's too late when something like this happens.
If something bad happens, you don't want to say "oh well, guess I should have sent an expert with them after all."
If you breakup the plot by any number of categories of technical ability, then there are trends. But to your question, what I was suggesting was that the aggregations done, especially with categorical data that is averaged, are very susceptible to this. And those clusters are reminiscent of situations like this:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/256074671_fig3_Visualiza...

I'd more so like to see this analyzed against who got to the next round (their binary signal), or yes against preferred language, which I suspect will be much more telling.

The takeaway from that plot is, there is more to the story.
If you're not talking about this situation at Uber, then why is your comment relevant?

Despite your claim that you're discussing other situations, it seems like you are trying to say the post author is a "victim" rather than a victim.
> Seems reasonable that they save bandwidth on secure transmission of data for higher audio quality.

Encrypting a compressed audio stream does not add to the bandwidth, aside from the initial key negotiation.

Furthermore, the bandwidth required for audio of a quality that's indiscernible from the original is negligible when compared to the bandwidth of Bluetooth radios. Ridiculously good audio is 320 kbps, and Bluetooth is easily good for 25 Mbps.

I suppose you could argue that the battery power used to perform this computation is the limiting factor, but a good embedded DSP used to perform the recording and transmission typically have tiny power requirements and hardware encryption routines that don't significantly change the power requirements of the device, as compared to keeping a blue LED blinking or powering an earbud speaker.

No, let's be honest here. The actual limiting factor is engineering time and money that goes into developing these devices as quick and cheaply as possible.
This is _insane_. My daughter got a surprise cloudpet for her birthday from a distant relative. The app you have to use with the cloudpet is also filled with ads, some of which are of adult nature. This company is sleazy as hell. I hope they get sued out of existence.
- and have I had my snout in the trough alongside my coworkers so long that I don't even realise the rest of the world can all see my curly tail...
Yes, Apple didn't invent the smart phone by a long shot. But they were smart enough to know how to make the smart phone consumer friendly, which is where a lot of tech companies fail. Look at PocketPC which proceeded iPhone, not friendly at all. Even my new Android phone is still pretty clunky UI wise compared to the iPhone it replaced.
Scrivener now spits out epub and I believe mobi formatted final products if you wish. Use is non-trivial however.
Oh, calm down, I was just making a snarky comment about Uber using antiquated and long-discarded processes and acting like they invented something new. In reality, I'm confident that an Uber interview would suck just as much, but not a smidgen more, than most tech interviews these days.
One was a ground incident that wouldn't have had people nearby even with a manned mission, and the other would have saved its passengers with the abort system.

And if people are willing to pay the money and take the risk, why not?
Any idea how that is different than AR? Or know any articles talking about the two.
As much as I oppose to Uber philosophy, technology.and their work and HR policies (I even think it's dangerous for the future of mobility), I still think plausible is not enough for news to be news. It's merely enough for bar stories. I respect so much journalism that I don't want enough, I want facts, names, proofs and the smocking gun.
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This reminds me of a scene from the popular TV show Silicon valley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo

Smartphones, youtube, facebook and many other success stories had exponential growth. Once a product/idea goes big, there will always be people who do not like something about it. Thats the cost of making a product that everyone can use. A better example is the idea of money itself. Its an invention used by almost everyone in the world, We still have people who absolutely hate money with passion based on their own principles that are right for them. Overall it did more good to humanity.

We have created an economic world, where good ideas travel faster and share the rewards with everyone. Its a good thing. The alternative would be a hierarchical society where some other parts of the society will always be left behind.
I've heard of similar issues with the pay system where people haven't been paid in months and needed urgent pay issued, or others who received extra money and were then asked to pay it back.

I can only imagine how hard it must be for the government to pull off modernization. It's the poster-child definition of "big slow bureaucracy" and it's asked to pull off high complexity feats at large scale, with little, uncompetitive money to offer to recruits (in comparison to the private sector), while juggling with politics and policies that make you buy IBM and Microsoft.

Pretty happy I don't work in this. Yet, I'd join a "shock troop" if the government was to pull off a Digital Service kind of thing with acceptable pay, although the idea of working in all that big government crap makes me feel a bit sick inside.
You can record things like keeping a journal.

"1/1/20 My manager made me feel uncomfortable again today by discussing swim-suits and his upcoming trip to X. I tried to leave the room but he closed the door and asked me if I liked to..."

It doesn't have to be electronic in nature.
I didnt read this one, I read the first one, and in the first they were a victim for sure.

If you want to project some ulterior motive onto me, go for it. Don't pretend its got anything to do with what I actually think, though.
At this point, after all the allegations of abuse and bad behavior at Uber, if the CEO is not fired, the community here must hold the Uber board complicit in these shenanigans. The situation here seems similar (or maybe worse) in magnitude as that at Zenefits. The board there took swift action once the accusations came out in public and perhaps saved the company (at least in the short term). What can the HN community, made up of founders/investors/technologists do here? Push for a consumer boycott of Uber? Refuse to work for Uber? Refuse to do business with Uber?
I lived in Ethiopia at the end of the reign of Haile Selassie and left there right at the start of the revolution, which is why Waugh's writing on Ethiopia just horrifies me: https://www.historytoday.com/jeffrey-meyers/abyssinia-out-sh...
Smartphones have you pegged, and for better or worse they’ll soon ID you
If that was truly their intention, then I should simply be able to present a US passport and walk by.
By what measure? If getting a group of people to be upset, and riled up, or otherwise add fuel to a fire, is the aim of a troll, then this would have been a very successful one.
For perspective, it cost about $200 million to get your name on an America's Cup trophy. So as billionaire vanity projects go, this is pretty reasonable.
You're right. Might as well bury our heads in the sand then; nothing can be done. /s

We can't improve things until we allow ourselves to imagine better realities. There's nothing wrong with that.
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Indeed. Fowler already came out in public and said this is a systemic problem. If you accept that Fowler is a credible source, which I think is a fair assessment considering she's a talented and well regarded engineer who has nothing to gain from accusing Uber of such serious claims, then any other women who come forward can be given the benefit of the doubt that their experiences are real.

Also if you know women at Uber, you can also establish a trend.
Mathematician Eugenia Cheng: ‘We Hate Having Rules Imposed on Us'
The thing is that NASA doesn't want to put anyone on something has the chance of doing that. The emergency system is for emergencies. Ideally it should NEVER be used. Vetting for manned missions is a lot different than cargo. That's all I'm getting at here. When rockets have recently exploded NASA gets pretty worried about putting humans on it.
Hah, I always thought it might not be the greatest idea to put all the IT for a government in one bureaucratic fiefdom...

But they pay their support invoices for software on time and don't blink at the prices, so that's something.
> if not, was it worth the risk?

yes
What you call "the graphs in the link I gave" is not the most recent graph from the (denialist) source that you'd like to use, it's from 2013, and since then we have had the warmest year ever recorded (2016). Here's the discussion of the more recent graph from your sources, which your sources used in their 2016 testimony (and that graph still doesn't include the results of 2016 and it's still "cooked"). Note that the baseline was "cooked". Here the discussion:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2016/05/compar...

and the corrected graphs, done without bias:

http://www.realclimate.org/images/christy_trop_new.png

To be precise, in the graphs, the prediction of the models is compared to the satellite data which don't measure surface temperatures and which are confirmed to have slower warming trend at the moment. Are the measured data below the range of the models in some years? Sure. Will the measurements move in the direction of the model once 2016 data are there? Yes. Does the surface temperature data (which you avoided by picking only the satellite ones) match the models significantly better? Yes, and that isn't on these graphs at all. Here's how it looks when we use all the data we have and compare with the models:

https://tamino.wordpress.com/2016/05/17/models/

In short, what you believe to see on that graph is not what most of the scientists see (I'm not counting among the "most" John Christy and Roy Spencer, who produce or promote these cooked versions and ignore all the evidence they don't like). The scientists see that the measured satellite data did go below the lines of what the model would have expected, but they don't consider that the models are invalidated with these measurements, and even less so once 2016 is included.

https://tamino.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/global-temperature-t...

The report from 2006 that you refer to is also not concluding what you believe it concludes. Reading the report is enough to see that.

https://www.nap.edu/read/11676/chapter/4#p200108c09970027001

So, by supporting what you support, you're still destroying the future of your children and grandchildren, if you ever plan to have them, and you obviously do it only for the very egoistic goals of not even trying to make any change because from your perspective you're doing fine. (your words: "no carbon taxes. No higher electric bills. No attacking our cars, trucks, and airplanes. No shooting our economy in the gut. No thanks.")

Like I've said, it will be obvious in only 20 years, but then it will be even harder to do anything -- and the effects will last for hundreds of years. And if you write the letter to your children and grandchildren (or the kids of the relatives if you don't plan to have children) and they survive to read it, they will be able to see who and how influenced their future, so please do that. If you're right, they will celebrate you as a hero. If you aren't right, and unless you are already planning to die sooner than in 20 years, you'll see it for yourself, then I'm sure they'll use some other words for you, reading your message.
Reading through the comments from the main article it seems the commentators are in two camps: 1) "...let's improve our engineering capabilities to solve this intriguing challenge..." [and later enjoy all the other side-benefits that come from being great engineers and problem-solvers]; and 2) why challenge ourselves in the first place [?]. I like to encourage and invest in visionary [and realistic] problem-solvers.
Only if those experts' individual inaccuracies are uncorrelated - which for public intellectuals, they will probably always be. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds#Failures_...
Jill Stein Interview
The only reference I've been able to find refers to IR as Immersive Reality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UQK_ksU3kc
http://www.horizonirs.com/vr-ar-ir-mr-vw-hmd-hud-whaaaat-2/
It honestly and truly disgusts me to hear what's been allowed to go on at this company. #uninstalled #lyftBetterBeGood
Children of the Cord.
I want them to change instead of ending up like Theranos. If Uber went down, a lot of good people would be out of a job (both employees and drivers) and it would burn a lot investors, thus negatively affecting the funding landscape for years to come.

To reiterate, I wish Uber to change. I don't wish them to fail.
Yeah, I read the first paragraph and thought it sounded wicked fake, way too storied up. Maybe Lyft hired a writer.
I recently downloaded TB to move some offline mbox emails of large quantity. TB became increasingly slow processing few thousand. I downloaded Opera Mail to do the same exact work. I was done within few hours.

I have a need for more people to repeat the same process. There's zero chance I'll be asking them to download TB.
First 200 pages

https://www.amazon.com/All-Statistics-Statistical-Inference-...
Since we're on the subject, reading the "clowntown" thing makes Facebook's tech culture sound kinda toxic. It's one thing to criticize a bad implementation, and a different thing to call the implementer a clown.
Let's reword your statement:

> Because the average employee does not take an active enough role in management decisions.

Think on the politics that are closer most people in their day-to-day lives, at the workplace, active engagement with general policy is disencouraged and might be dangerous. Meaning, most people refrain from engagement with "management material." Being trained like this, it naturally extends to governmental politics.
> Except through the backdoor, where language implementors can sometimes tweak libraries to circumvent restrictions.

Which programming language implementations are doing that to your knowledge?

"… Kernels … Toy programs … Synthetic benchmarks … discredited today, usually because the compiler writer and architect can conspire to make the computer appear faster on these stand-in programs than on real applications."

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/why-measure-toy-benc...
No amount of data can convince a conspiracy theorist that they're wrong (the new data are just part of the conspiracy).

They'll just say the new images are faked, just as they say the original missions were.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13741423

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13743323
I didn't miss that point!
People behave differently in different contexts, to the extent of appearing to have entirely different personalities. You might be surprised at what an otherwise shy, nice person might type in a semi-private chat room.
So offer to fund a lawsuit and the living expenses and career setbacks of fighting one.

Oh, you neither, huh?

See?
Other responses go into this in more detail, but basically there are a few very chemically different types of rocket fuel. Usually for main engines these are bipropellants, with a fuel component and an oxidizer component.

The expensive, exotic, high-specific-impulse, but low-density and dangerous option is liquid hydrogen + liquid oxygen (hydrolox), which does indeed create water vapor as exhaust. This particular rocket, however, uses RP-1 (similar to jet fuel - just highly refined kerosene) + liquid oxygen - still burning hydrocarbons, still releasing CO2, but favored because it's cheap, dense, safe, and doesn't need cryogenic cooling.

For comparison, the ITS (and many other Mars mission concepts) use liquid methane + liquid oxygen (methalox), which also outputs CO2, needs cryogenic cooling and is not as safe or dense as RP-1/LOX, but is still safer and denser than hydrogen, doesn't need to be kept quite as cold, and is easy to synthesize on-site on another planet.
Good point, but they also need the people who really knows both hardware and software and probably a lot of physics too.
That sounds like Soyuz 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_1
Hmm. Seems like it does implement many transport technologies: HTTP, FTP, etc. It also seems to encourage processing of raw requests/responses via XSLT/XPath, etc.

Anyway, I'm not familiar with alternatives like Mule, but visual tools do seem to be in order for complex integrations.

But, I am not 100% sure that people "should use" anything, per se. The promise of RESTful interfaces, SOAP, and other integration approaches was to allow code/objects to be used and semantics imposed per domain/use case, not to treat them as declarative, agnostic data exchanges.

So, I'm not sure why we need much more than good old coded logic and transport libraries when it's time to hit the wire.

But, this mish-mash of declarative routing XMLs, DSLs, etc. just feels hacky. Instead of just writing the integrations in code, I now have this added layer to manage. And, I don't know what I'm getting for it in return.
Thunderbird sets up a full-text index to allow you to search your emails. This eats up a bit of time while importing large mailboxes but is quite handy once it is done.
Reading through the comments from the main article it seems the commentators are in two camps: 1) "...let's improve our engineering capabilities to solve this intriguing challenge..." [and later enjoy all the other side-benefits that come from being great engineers and problem-solvers]; and 2) why challenge ourselves in the first place [?]. I like to encourage and invest in visionary [and realistic] problem-solvers. Let's connect on that.
It takes quite a lot of money or major tricks in some places to actually save anything.

Tricks like buying out of the super expensive area, meaning paying in time.

Plus they probably want a house in San Francisco itself, which has hyperinflated housing prices.

She didn't say it was their net income either.
do you prefer the keyboard over the paperwhite or are you just using it because it's good enough?
Is Uber a company with a horrible culture? Pretty much. Are the details of these reports 100% accurate? Hard to tell. When talking about the subject, I'd recommend to think about the big picture and not the details (ehy, have you heard at Uber people call colleagues "dirty whore" during meetings?)
This is why I think state Attorney Generals should be given the authority to sue on behalf of those affected when a systemic problem like this comes to light.
(Member of the Google WebRTC team here)

We are aware that it's a pain to use just the data channel, and we're working on it. We're refactoring the native API to be more ORTC-like and make it possible to compile without all the audio/video parts. It will take time, but it should become easier as we make progress.

I disagree that the solution is to expose UDP API to the web. Writing good congestion control is very hard, and it would not be safe to let web apps do that; doubly so for crypto. As for native apps (even JS/node ones): you already have a UDP API.

The solution is to make the WebRTC API easier to use and simplify the protocol stack. We're working on the first, as I mentioned. And we're experimenting with the second (by using QUIC instead of SCTP+DTLS). Again, it will take time, but eventually we'll get there (probably).
It was interesting when I was in Vietnam recently, a lot of Vietnamese people I dealt with outside the cities didn't speak any English at all, except for numbers, or at least pretended as much.

It seems a bit backwards really. It's easy to write down numbers (which they often did, or they showed me the cash I had to pay). Conveniently the motorbike mechanics are usually so good you just point at what's wrong and they'll figure it out pretty quickly.
You don't even have to go back that far:

http://minimsft.blogspot.com/

The Encyclopedia of Stack Ranking, and IIRC this blog was one of the motivators for MSFT to drop stack ranking. The original Michael O. Church, if you will.
360 reviews underpin the hit CBS show Survivor. I'm sure some eager type can take that premise and run with it to form a critique of corporate America.

Also note that MBAs and other business types have learnt to game the system by providing 5 star all around. Why? Your average tenure at a company is low (2-3 years). You need your peers for your next job. Why denigrate each other.
You're the one that made the claim, it not up to the rest of us to post links refuting it.
So the implication is then what? Uber made the whole thing up? He's never been accused before he was accused at Google, or before he was accused in the media?
Did the Oscars just show we are living in simulation?