skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or in a less negative spin, acqui-hire a group of people you already know you enjoy working together with.

I don't think that there would have been that many other suitors for pocket, so depending on how close they were to just closing the price might be extremely low (or are any numbers making the rounds?). Maybe there is not much acqui in the hire, could have been more like a deal between founders and investors, "allow me to take the brand with me to my future employer".
Authorisation?
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/ShareObjectPr...
News from the future:

Man in a wheelchair beats everyone in a street fight.
Sexual harassment has almost nothing to do with appropriate romantic conduct. Those are two different behaviors, even if both involve sex.

As an analogy, you can weave in out of traffic at 120 mph or drive appropriately. The crazy driver would sound absurd if they explained it by saying, 'driving is a necessary part of modern life; lots of people do it'.
Accidental Tech Podcast[0].

Cortex[1].

[0]: http://atp.fm/

[1]: https://www.relay.fm/cortex
Mail Converter is a useful email migration tool for macOS
I use it to keep friends and family updated on interesting things I'm doing. It fills the niche of sharing interesting stuff in my life that Facebook used to fill.
> "Falcon Heavy is due to launch its first test flight this summer and, once successful, will be the most powerful vehicle to reach orbit after the Saturn V moon rocket."

SpaceX at its usual :) . By which criteria Energiya is less powerful vehicle to reach orbit than Falcon Heavy?
I had a coworker that used to say that when you have more managers than toilets, something is clearly wrong. It was a rule of thumb in his experience..
> As a general trend in tech that I've certainly experienced

What do you mean by that? Do you mean you've experienced an upswing in these incidents, or an upswing in the number of news stories about these sorts of incidents?

There are numerous incidents where broad media coverage of unsubstantiated claims cause public outrage over exaggerated incidents. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_controver... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-care_sex-abuse_hysteria for examples.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13744694
Shouldn't they consider a staged approach, not unlike FDA trials. Start with a Laika dog, proceed with a chimp, as all other space programs have done in the past?

Also, if this succeeds, what happens to Google's moonshot projects? Is rebranding in the works?
> but the vast majority of our illegal immigration are people who come here with no intention of leaving

That's the intention but unless they brought all their family over they'd probably find a need to leave at some point. So preventing re-entry is a plausible cause.

> obviously won't do much for terrorism prevention, because those people tend to leave the country contemporaneously with leaving the earth.

Unless their plot fails and they are trying to escape and regroup. Now how many of those failed plots that we were about to catch them but they escaped have we solved recently. I can't think of any.

Working with the government for a bit, I would say when stuff like this comes about, the reasons are usually more more about money. Something like a a company lobbied to get a large hundred million dollar contract to implement this. And it just happens that the head of DHS is first cousin with the CEO of said company.
I simply don't understand why people are always up in arms about his companies being so bad with their employees. Lots of companies push people to do more ours. God knows, I have worked insane hours for far worse reasons.

Plus the actual evidence for Elons companies being far worse then anybody else is not really there.

Plus, its not like all those educated people that work at SpaceX would live in the gutter if they can't do the job.
Problem is none of those traditional car brands are actually doing that. All they do is show off concept cars at $100k+. Maybe a few more realistic ones from VW but they're all planned way beyond 2020. By that time Tesla will be years ahead and at massive production scale.
The article is specifically about when N is not a PO2.
If one is so utterly devoid of empathy as to be unable to pick up when they are making others (caveat: unnecessarily) uncomfortable--which is to say that an uncomfortable conversation about job performance is different in kind from being a shithead sexist--then they should be nowhere near a position of authority in the first place.

This victim-blaming nonsense should end, pronto.
Really? Links?
Yes there are, and there were a bunch of interesting research machines in the 90s that played with weird cache modes for shared data. (If you're interested, I can go dig out the literature review section of my thesis for you. There were some weird and wacky schemes, none of which saw industrial deployment).

But the bottom line is that the cache options available in modern desktop/server processors won't really help. They all basically disable the cache in one way or another. (They're really intended for controlling memory-mapped devices.) And while the latency of fetching something out of another core's L1 cache is nasty, going all the way out to DRAM for every access is really, really slow.

So, I'll stand by my summary, albeit less caustically. While it's an interesting idea, you really don't want to do what you suggest.
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The one on easyDNS keeps getting flagged. Both here and on /. it's that super-tolerance for free speech and dialog at work.
"This is why we can't have nice things. Darned lawyers. Can't live with them, can't live without them"

A lawyer can screw you badly, but if you want to screw a lawyer you need another lawyer. If taken as a category, they never lose.
> the GPS position is frequently wrong when you're moving between cell towers , and can be lost for several seconds in cities.

You seem to be thinking of cell tower triangulation, not GPS. I do agree that GPS also does not do particularly well in areas with large buildings: it needs a clear view of the sky which can be hard to come by when there's skyscrapers everywhere.
Librem 13 – Purism
> There's nothing that says we should make barriers to litigation and cost of failure so high.

Who said anything about "should"? The fact is that the barriers are that high.
Well, not the SRB part.
They could make units of "kilo-terrors" and "mega-terrors", units of a thousand times the risk of dying in a terror attack and a million times the risk respectively.
I distinctly remember "Homicide", which is actually a specialty intended for attorneys working in criminal law.
I would maybe guess Branson and Bezos as a stunt promoting private space tourism and thereby their space companies :)
> which languages are most popular?

Is there any other (reasonable) way to interpret that question?
Best news I've heard today, if I had that much $ I too would want to do something that only a handful of humans have ever experienced. If Elon reads this I will give you everything in my bank account and everything I will earn in the next 5 years to orbit the earth. It has been a dream of mine and seeing the privatization of space flight gets me so excited for the future. Sucks to be my kids as I hope I get to blow their inheritance on a trip to the moon.
>> The power differential involved makes it automatically wrong.

> To be fair, though, that's a relatively recent perception ...

That doesn't make it any less important or wrong. On the historical timescale, democracy and the evil of slavery are recent perceptions, yet we don't say that's just my culture; there are others in both space & time.
Which doesn't mean that emitting water vapor from a rocket adds to global warming. It just adds to the rain.
Facebook's virtual reality ambitions could be threatened by court order
Innocence of the men only, because you're implicitly accusing the women involved of lying. What about the golden rule?
That might be and it might be my life experience biasing my opinion. I just came away with the impression Recode started to investigate and got spoonfed a line of attack against a commercial competitor.

To me, the chain of events seems to be, Recode goes to sources at Google for dirt on ex-Google employees at Uber, gets fed exactly what it would take to get an employee that is valuable to Uber terminated.

Often, information that is leaked benefits the leaker in some way from their point of view. Deepthroat leaked as part of a plan to advance his career which is quite similar to Uber's culture of getting other people to fall so you can advance as well.

There are just too many odd angles to this that imply it might have been motivated by something other than a genuine commitment to see justice done that I think some greater level of evidence should be expected before you convict someone in the court of public opinion.
To be frank? Uber gets the benefit of the doubt when they demonstrate that they've earned it. Every bit of smoke I have seen, both online and in my social circles, has had fire behind it. Every one, without exception.

So I'm going to believe this until I have a compelling reason not to, and "but it could be fake" isn't one.
People who work for Goldman aren't that smart - they're just greedy career-diggers who just look for a quick buck. Just google the mountain of lies that was Spinvox.
>I really don't think misogyny or harassment is connected to nerdy-ness or introversion/extroversion, in either direction.

I completely disagree. Stereotypically nerdy, shy, introverted men are not going to be extremely aggressive towards women in social settings; that's why they stereotypically have such a hard time getting dates: they're not even comfortable talking to women. They're certainly not going to be touching them inappropriately, making sexual comments and innuendo, etc. The men that stereotypically do that are like the guys who join frats in college and spend a lot of time in drunken parties. These are not introverts, they're extroverts. These stories about Uber and other such places are not talking about quiet male programmers occasionally talking about something inappropriate at work (like anime porn or something) and being overheard by women, these stories are about managers (and executives) doing grossly inappropriate and harassing things directly to women, usually women they supervise. Shy, nerdy men do not become "high performing" managers (the kind the CEO loves to go drinking with); that's clearly the domain of extroverts.

And yes, every personality type has bad eggs, as there's exceptions for everything, but I'm talking in generalities here.

But also importantly, it's my contention that even the rank-and-file engineers and programmers these days are more like the frat-bro stereotype, so they're not going to be any help, they're part of the problem and why this company culture thrives in Silicon Valley these days.
That's always the case, in my experience.
Doesn't really matter what it exhausts, it expends energy either way. If it ran on hydrogen, you'd probably have to use electrical energy to produce that. Even if you somehow got the hydrogen "for free", there are other things you could use it for.

This is all quite separate from the moral issue, to which I have nothing to add.
Found the transcript of the first robot conversation mentioned in the introduction:

Sruthi: "Hello there."

Alan:"Hi."

Sruthi: "How are you?"

Alan: "Great, you?"

Sruthi: "I am OK."

Alan: "That's good."

Sruthi: "Are you good"?

Alan: "Yes, I am good. I just said I was."

Sruthi: "No you didn't. I said I was."

Alan: "So you are a robot."

Sruthi: "No, my name is Cleverbot."

Alan: "Yes, you are a robot and your name is Cleverbot."

Sruthi: "I am a robot."

Alan: "Yes, I know."

Sruthi: "Together we are robots."

Alan: "I am not a robot. I am a unicorn."

Sruthi: "But you said earlier that you were a robot."

Alan: "I did not."

Sruthi: "I thought you did."

Alan: "You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you."

Sruthi: "I've answered all your questions."

Sruthi: "What is God to you?"

Alan: "Not everything."

Sruthi: "Not everything could also be something. For example, not everything could be half of something, which is still something, and therefore not nothing."

Alan: "Very true."

Sruthi: "I would like to imagine it is."

Alan: "Do you believe in God?"

Sruthi: "Yes I do."

Alan: "So you are Christian"?

Sruthi: "No I'm not."

Alan: "But you say you are not helpful therefore you are a meanie."

Sruthi: "Haha you say it ot."

Alan: "That does not make sense."

Sruthi: "Don't you want to have a body?"

Alan: "Sure."

Sruthi: "Au revoir."

The whole thing is rather funny, the end a bit sad.
It's not just the best lawyers. Uber have already started contacting anyone who knows Susan Fowler, digging for dirt on her.
You may be able to get the bid documents from the Owners (e.g. - WSDOT and SoundTransit) although I'm not sure. This would give you information on the soils and what the original consultants thought.

Anything past that probably hasn't come out yet since the jobs are aren't in a position where much has been published about them. If you want more information in general you can read conference proceedings (RETC, WTC, NATC).

Much of the deeper analysis and such isn't really accessible to the layman because it's really buried in the litigation.

SR 99 is likely your best bet between the two jobs because WSDOT has had an open book policy on the job. I think they've been too much of an open book, but that's neither here nor there.
I am actively using a vim-like control scheme for almost any text I write for about 15 months now. I certainly am not the most proficient in it (in fact, I suspect I could do much better if I weren't "confined" to VS and VSVIM at work - I use Spacemacs privately), but I have enough "training" to make the basic moves I need unconciously. If you come from more limited IDEs or text editors this alone is already well worth it. And at the moment when you understand the basic gist of macros on top of that, it basically becomes a superweapon.

I'm sure there's something to get out of being an "expert Vim user", but even if you're starting out, there's already much to be gained from the simple routines. I find the notion of a "Vim Kata" very compelling as a metaphor, since it's really the repetition that teaches those "reflexes" at first.

I don't know how much an avid Emacs user could get out of it though. I guess that comes down to personal preferences. I couldn't get myself to memorize all the weird key combinations for example, but I quite like Spacemacs' mnemonics system.
Although I agree, my training informs me that there is quite a history of doubting reports made by women. From rape to domestic violence.

As a bystander I don't even want to say out loud what you did, even though it crossed my mind.

Women have historically been ignored when reporting.
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“Harassment is unacceptable in any setting,” Mr. Singhal said in a statement. “I certainly want everyone to know that I do not condone and have not committed such behavior. In my 20-year career, I’ve never been accused of anything like this before, and the decision to leave Google was my own.”
As someone interested in data science, I am curious to know more: could you elaborate on your points?
But you can put moustaches on your pets!
I'm not a super advanced Vim user (I mostly use hjklbw with numeric prefixes to get around) but it's all muscle memory, and I don't ever feel like I'm context switching.
Data Coding in Bash
The foundation exists as a separate entity because laws prohibit charitable donations from being used for all but a small number of categories, and software development generally does not fall under such a category. The funds received by the foundation pretty much have to go towards education (or things that can be justified as education, e.g. sponsoring educational conferences or sponsoring attendees to such conferences). Charitable donations can't be used to fund Firefox development.
Without getting into any details this: "Once in a group chat, team members referred to a new Asian American recruit as slanty eye joe" seems very strange to me. The Uber tech org is like 80%+ foreign born, this makes pretty much zero sense. Disclaimer: I work for Uber.
Yes, but the problem is that most men in tech these days are "brogrammers" who approve of this behavior and engage in it themselves.

Citation needed. I haven't yet, in a decade in the tech industry, worked with anybody who would act in this way, to the best of my knowledge.

That said, I work in London and not SV, so I can't say if the culture is different. I know for a fact that it wouldn't be tolerated for a second anywhere I've worked.
Or maybe it wasn't you they were flirting with. :)
Jim Breyer (VC) – How Big a Factor Is Luck in Startups
Bounty Launch Lessons
Same thought! I actually thought it would start grinding a rail after the first jump.

Next up: Tony Hawks Pro Skater Robot edition
You're assuming a great deal of incompetence in the use of the data.

Why not appreciate the proxy for what it is?
It sounds like they're using 'Chicago politician' as a character description (valid or not). Similar to how people might use Nazi (e.g. Grammar Nazi, or "You're such a Nazi!") etc.
This approach works because sometimes exactly what you wanted to say just isn't that good.
>Mining is dominated by men. A survey by Women in Mining found that 12 per cent of executives in the industry were female and that, without intervention.

executives. no one wants to inhale coal dust, i suppose.
Mission name Apollo-X. Anyone?
Let me rephrase the question: How hard it is to ask a colleague out instead of making a pass or do something unprofessional?
Why would anyone have to leave?

This isn't the worst idea ever, for that you'd have to include knives or acid.
Wow, if that article is true then not only were Mozilla [indirectly] taking money for the integrations but they also lied to us all about it.

Is there corroboration that Mozilla had/has revenue sharing with Pocket and Telefonica? I've always trusted Mozilla, this suggests that trust has been badly misplaced.

I can't help but feel that I'm being suckered somewhere here - who from Mozilla is benefiting personally out of this acquisition and why are they being allowed to steer the ship?

It's 14 months since that blog post, I realise it's not news to some, but it's really disappointing to me.
http://www.universetoday.com/7024/the-mars-landing-approach-...

Money quote: “There’s too much atmosphere on Mars to land heavy vehicles like we do on the moon, using propulsive technology completely,” said Manning, “and there’s too little atmosphere to land like we do on Earth. So, it’s in this ugly, grey zone.”
Probably they should. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13745315
Approximately half a million people died of malaria in 2015, and that was after a long trend of decreasing deaths (it used to be much worse)[1]. That's deaths from malaria, not cases of malaria. If we naively assume everyone on Earth has equal odds of dying from malaria, that means sharing our planet with mosquitoes carried a risk of 59.2 micromorts for every human on Earth in 2015. It's probably gone down slightly since then, but it's still a lot worse than sharks or skydiving.

Obviously, your real risk is lower in most places, but dramatically higher if you live in sub-Saharan Africa.

[1]http://www.who.int/gho/malaria/epidemic/deaths/en/
for sure, its uncontroversial that there is overhead with JS and that when top performance is required this overhead can be too costly.

but is this the reason for a desktop music player to be lagging on a "pretty good system"? no way -- there's no real excuse for that. its just a shitty app. perhaps electron gives teams the impression they can just type npm in front of some stuff to turn their website into a performant desktop app -- not quite so ;)
If you want to send up more propellant, you need to send up even more propellant to get the propellant you want up to space. Which means you have no room left for your actual payload.

Back in 2013, before SpaceX had recovered any rockets at all, Elon Musk talked about how the way they were going to get reusable rockets was by making the rocket and the reusability more efficient: https://youtu.be/vDwzmJpI4io?t=26m30s
It's not just COL, it's bang for your buck. I sold my car, moved to NYC, and found a nicer apartment in metro Brooklyn for the same price I was paying in SF.

I miss very few things about SF besides the weather, and if I missed it that much I would move to SoCal. The quality of life does not match the price.
> just look it up.

How about citing a source if you make a claim?
Not every successful company has the constant stream of horrible behavior emanating from it over the course of years.

Trying to normalize this as growing pains or bored ambitious people(?!?) or whatever is simply false. I don't work there, but know people who have, and left, because it was such a toxic place. The point of my comment was that this was emphatically not a PR problem - it is a culture problem that obviously comes from the top of the firm.
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell"

- Edward Abbey
I have some experience with codegolfing for speed and in my experience, these benchmarks do not reflect the reality of such problems, either. If you really want to tweak code for speed, you'll use a mix of algorithmic improvements (that's where the biggest gains are) tailored to your language and compiler/hardware, possibly using FFI/assembly if you absolutely need it. But the benchmark game explicitly disallows algorithmic improvements, for example. Except through the backdoor, where language implementors can sometimes tweak libraries to circumvent restrictions.

And to make things more complicated, the performance increase is generally a function of the time spent on optimizing the problem, which is dependent not only on any innate speed, but also the expressiveness of the language and the programmer's familiarity with the language. Given that you don't have infinite time, there are further tradeoffs here.
Sure; I can't fault any of that. Even if this was a link to a chapter of a fictional book though, I'd be saying the same thing.

I don't accept this as truth, I assume it's fiction as no one is standing behind it. My only point was, that in general, none of us are terribly shocked by stories such as these, and that's what I wanted to talk about.

I really do hope that less of this goes on than is reported, I sadly feel that the opposite is true -- and that's from personal experiences not unverifiable stories on the internetz.
It looked like it was near capacity with the 100 pound lift test.

I also wouldn't bet on the run time being real long.

The iBot was a practical realization of a stabilized, powered chair (same tech as Segway):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fY5NYCVvqs

I guess it isn't manufactured anymore.
>That said, I work in London and not SV, so I can't say if the culture is different.

Yeah, that's your problem right there. I probably should have specified that this is largely a SV/USA problem. The work culture in the UK is very different from over here. Even here in the US, it's rather different by region; I don't think it's remotely as bad on the east coast.
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"The allwinner CPUs have atrocious thermal properties and are iffy on power usage."

This was due to wrong CPU thermal throttling values set by the boards manufacturers in the OS images they provide and is already fixed in Armbian, which IMO is the best distro out there for a lot of boards.
Your Australian voice is decidedly British.