skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also believe your story Amy, and strongly suggest you think _very_ carefully before providing any sort pf "proof" to people who demand it, and view those people with intense suspicion.

And reledi? Grow up man - give up on your "not all men" attitude - trying desperately to preserve your own dignity by failing to acknowledge that our industry treats women in ways with should shame all men, and that your "Holy Grail" tech employers like Uber are at the worst end of the bell curve - quite clearly run by reprehensible human beings from the top down - which filters all the way down the org chart. #deleteuber
Mozilla has the resources to buy companies. But not the resources to make videos play smoothly. 2017 and Firefox has no hardware accelerated video playback on Linux.

Every time I read about something Mozilla does, I am reminded of this xkcd comic from 2013:

https://xkcd.com/619/
Clearly the Arizona legislature didn't think this behavior was covered under existing law. If these sorts of groups don't exist, there's no problem adding them to the list, is there?
Alexa Top 1M Analysis – Feb 2017
I love that a moon mission is a milestone en route to SpaceX' moonshot, not the moonshot itself. We need new idioms for these people.
Source?

> The Mars Radiation Environment Experiment (MARIE) was launched in 2001 in order to collect more data. Estimates are that humans unshielded in interplanetary space would receive annually roughly 400 to 900 mSv (compared to 2.4 mSv on Earth) and that a Mars mission (12 months in flight and 18 months on Mars) might expose shielded astronauts to roughly 500 to 1000 mSv. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_threat_from_cosmic_rays...
Capitalists exist, free markets do not. The markets that exist are highly imperfect therefore inefficient.

(As in holders of capital and people following the competitive philosophy.)
Yes, because casual racism by individuals makes sense.
I'm happy to be corrected if you know more.
There is a market? Someone is selling search engines?
Are you using the data channel p2p or client-to-server?

(I work on WebRTC and implemented much of the data channel; I'm always interested when someone uses it)
I've lived through similar situations in the US.

In fairness, its a difficult call to get right as distributed IT is so clearly a waste of money, and some services, like email and hosting scale easily.

The problem in a big bureaucracy is that adopting a real shared service model is an incremental process, but that's a slow and difficult march that requires a lot of high level political support.

Ripping off the bandaid is tough, and seems more achievable. Bold action usually gets the bigshots promoted away by year 3. But you end up stealing smart people to big things, and the scrubs are left doing the little things -- but the little things like distributing cellphones are critical too.

It's a harsh reality and difficult to execute -- most of the successful examples are mostly from private sector and are mostly bullshit.
Yup - a huge one. So a good rule of thumb might be: If you have to ask yourself, "Would it be creepy if I..." -- well, yes, it probably would be.
Maybe you should follow the trend.

One person coming forward is not evidence. Evidence is when every single Uber engineer that I talk to, backs up these claims.

Don't focus on this one case. Focus on all the other women who are going to come forward in the next couple weeks.
You can repeat that as often as you want, that does not make it true.

SpaceX clearly did not think that for their mars architecture needed a moon testing step. Mars concepts such as Mars Direct did not include such a step.

Unless you have extreme time pressure its much, much, much preferable to test on Earth and Mars, rather then the Moon. Earth because it's by far the cheapest, and it shares a reasonable amount with Mars, and Mars because that's where you want to go anyway.

The only advantage that the moon has is that it is closer than mars in pure distance. That advantage is eradicated when you consider the much more important DeltaV.
I think the scale of the allegations and the fact it's happening at as large and as visible a company as Uber is what is truly shocking to most Americans following this issue.

I don't mean that sexual harassment is no problem, rather it is a terrible problem but one that generally occurs at a team or departmental level stemming from loose discipline and a lack of proper organizational leadership.
Would you care to tell how to get hold of such a system, which sites to visit? Thanks!
Discontinue support for weak cryptographic standards
You would be a pretty lousy troll in that case.
If you assume it's already perfect then of course it doesn't need to change. But that's a silly assumption.
You don't even need it. Adobe's working on a product that allows you to make a voice say whatever you want, using 20 min worth of voice samples.
[1](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/adobe...)
I have seen groups of people where their internal culture stamps the OK on terms like that...even when members of the group are of that race. Some kind of thing where slinging insults of any type is "playful" and accepted. It's odd, but it happens.
The Trouble Portraying Blackness in Video Games (2015)
She posted anonymously, BUT also went out of her way to provide an awful lot of information about herself. Information that her ex-coworkers could presumably verify and figure out her real identity (especially since Uber seems to have very few women in engineering positions).

Based on the article, she is:

1) A woman in her late 20s
2) who used to work at Uber in Engineering working on database and networking scalability
3) went to a top private college
4) has a Masters in Information Systems
5) previous to Uber worked as a Data Analyst in a tech company in the Midwest and left when it was acquired by a Chinese firm
6) is 5 foot 7 Caucasian with dark hair
7) never wears high heels

So yeah, the target demographic of the article is almost certainly her ex-coworkers. It seems to be a call to action of sorts.
Not quite smartphone per se, but the new big touchscreen phone form.
I'm glad more of this stuff is coming out. As a male, I've been demeaned by a woman at one of the largest tech companies on earth. I ended up quitting, and I last I heard that woman was demoted/fire.

Our media is super powerful, and I love getting more of this out. 1984 can't happen with a free press.
I'm waiting around for a shadowy billionaire to fund my histrionic internet posting.

Me, too. I keep looking for such an offer in the "Who is hiring?" postings, but no dice.
A lot of innovation was initially funded by the government especially in Silicon Valley. That said, Spacex is still legally a private company.

Many a time, when companies engage in capital intensive business endeavours they need someone to provide some incentive or even build the initial technology. NASA does this here much like DARPA did with the Internet's initial infrastructure.
I feel like sufficiently large numbers of people are confused about the arrangement of the company and the foundation (I definitely don't know the details of the money flow between the two), that this warrants some kind of easily referable page on Mozilla's website.

(appreciate you clarifying this here)
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Show HN: Staffjoy V2, now open source
Rockets (or any research) > bombs any day of the week.

Yes, my tax dollars going towards research (even indirectly) is better than the way most of my money is spent
I had much the same thought. It's far easier to death march the youth. Try the same management style on someone older and they'd simply quit.
U.S. detains and nearly deports French Holocaust historian
I understand your reasoning but I don't think it takes into account the motivations of those that harass. Harassment is about control. Taking the bus to Mumbai to harass some random woman you don't know and are unlikely to ever see again isn't as powerful as harassing/controlling women in your every day life.
Correction: Frederick Forsythe
Not sure why you don't see the mere mention of cartoon characters as lying outside fair use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#1._Purpose_and_charac...
what every man needs to ask himself and reflect on:

- would i stand up to a pig in the room

- would i stand up to a pig in the room that is way up the ladder
The explosion from that helium tank was slower than the emergency rockets on the dragon, from what I understand. So, had the capsule been fitted with them, it would have stayed entirely clear of the event. It'd be a rough ride, but it would have been a survivable event.
I think possibly lots of people are missing it. How well known is Kennedy's speech for those who weren't alive at the time? And yes it was a joke, but contained within the joke is a pointed commentary.
I can't work it out either. I've had staff who I really liked and knew for years, who were TOTALLY normal be reported to me by other males on the team for harassing female staff..

He admitted his behaviour and he couldn't explain why he did it; was a pretty rough experience for everyone..
I announced two weeks ago that we are shutting down Staffjoy [1] and open sourcing our code. Last week, our primary V1 repo was submitted to HN [2]. Yesterday, I open-sourced our V1 microservice Chomp for computing shift scaffolds from forecasts [3]. I also also published our YC Fellowship application [4] and pitch decks [5] on our blog.

Today we opened the V2 repo of Staffjoy, which contains a microservice architecture, detailed here [6]. V2 was a monorepo, meaning that all of the code is in one repo. This is the largest and most sophisticated of our repositories.

You can learn about the difference between V1 (autoscheduling of hundreds of workers) and V2 (Excel replacement with text messages for small businesses) in our design journey blog post [7].

We are continuing to open source our last repos, which are mainly V1 microservices. Specifically the V1 Cron microservice, V1 mobile applications (iPhone + Android in React Native), V1 Scheduler microservice (our first scheduling algorithm), and the V1 Mobius microservice (which solves an assignment problem) will be open-sourced in the coming days.

If you have any questions - please let me know! I'm providing contract support for anybody wishing to deploy, modify, or customize Staffjoy code through Moonlight [8].

[1] Shutdown announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13647382

[2] V1 "Suite" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13730488

[3] Chomp service https://github.com/staffjoy/chomp-decomposition

[4] YCF Application: https://blog.staffjoy.com/staffjoys-yc-fellowship-applicatio...

[5] Pitch decks: https://blog.staffjoy.com/staffjoys-pitch-decks-that-raised-...

[6] V2 Architecture: https://blog.staffjoy.com/staffjoys-v2-architecture-9d2fcb40...

[7] V1 to V2 Design Journey: https://blog.staffjoy.com/staffjoy-v2-ca15ff1a1169#.ttejeklw...

[8] Contract support - https://www.moonlightwork.com/staffjoy
You conveniently ignored half the problem by buying in 1929 and holding for 88 years, which is reasonable if you are currently about 140 years old.

If not, look at http://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historica...

Let's buy in August 1929 at 5338.69, and sell 20 years later, in August 1949, at 1822.87 (inflation-adjusted). Congratulations, you lost two thirds of your money.

Sell 30 years later instead? August 1959, at 5525.23. Wow, after 30 years you're up almost 3.5%!
The tax dollars we spent on this would probably have funded about twelve seconds of the Iraq occupation instead, so I'd say sure, easily worth it.
Because any woman who speaks up under their real name is bound to get harassment from gamergate types and other misogynistic asses who have nothing better to do. Fowler is already getting harassed online.

Additionally, assuming that Uber isn't stupid enough to coordinate a smear campaign of their own (although it happened to Ellen Pao)[1], she's safe. And if someone does doxx her, it means either: (a) Uber decided to doxx her or (b) one of the Uber employees that participated in her harassment decided to doxx her. Either way, it looks even worse for Uber and could set them up for a lawsuit.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Feminism/comments/594rad/exreddit_c...
No, I suppose it doesn't. But neither does secret stack ranking. I once asked exactly where I was on the stack, and was told that's proprietary information.
Up until fairly recently no-one saw anything particularly wrong with a man marrying his secretary (or a professor his student, or similar situations), or just found it a bit off-colour rather than 'automatically wrong.'

The odds are pretty good that I'm older than you, and I do not recall a time that someone running off with their secretary or student, married or not, was not cast in a negative light. Maybe the secretary would be okay under the right circumstances, but student-professor has always been creepy. It's "wrong" now that we've codified that creepy feeling into law.

EDIT: it came to mind that I haven't heard the phrase "sleeping her way to the top" in a long time. It used to be used commonly amongst those around me. IOW, manager-subordinate relationships were often not viewed positively. Of course now that we "just don't do that", I haven't heard the phrase in ages.
> 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.

Doesn't that match with how a library would be used in the real world? A c library can create it's own memory pool but a GC one has to live with however it's host is configured.
All-New Echo Dot (2nd Generation) – Black Review, Features and Buying Information
What you think about "not all men" seems to dependent on whether you believe that the concept of original sin is immoral or not.

I don't think I should feel shame because someone I had no control over, which incidentally had the same gender/skin color/nationality/ethnicity as me, did something wrong.
Same for me FF on Kubuntu, tried Chromium too.

Did work on Chrome - two problems: one was a sound cut off before the end and so I entered the wrong number; second the last number read finished the game but without any time for entering the number, it deducted a mark. A further game (different language) ended before I finished and didn't tell me the last answer.
You work for Uber but are you in the SV offices? The culture probably varies quite a bit depending on where you are.
I suppose then that the strategy will be "the browser as a platform" vs "FB as a platform", with the technical difference that all FF tools will be open source?

That actually sounds promising. Next logical content vertical would be video then (judging from FB's content importance)
You need to implement DTLS and SCTP for client->server, just not ICE. But client->server ICE is fairly trivial with ICE lite. It's DTLS+SCTP that are complex, and they don't go away client->server.

Replacing DTLS+SCTP with QUIC would be a good reduction in complexity, and we (the WebRTC team) are experimenting with doing so (https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/third_party/webrtc/p2p/...). It has a long way to go, but hopefully someday just having QUIC on your server will be enough.

(I work on WebRTC)
About as awkward as being put on a PIP, I'd imagine.
> This is a fine example of why we need IOT regulation.

Cool, let's just inundate the industry with pointless government "security" checklists that don't actually accomplish anything. That way, instead of a small fraction of all the cool, affordable products we now have access to occasionally getting hacked, we can just not have any cool, affordable products except those made by companies big enough to hire enough corporate lawyers to CYA their way to government approval.

How about, if you care so much about teddy bears getting owned, you just don't buy them? It's easier and more polite than taking them away from everyone else as well.

You can't legislate security into existence. That's not how it works. Security isn't a solved problem, so the government can't force people to do it correctly. The only think you can possibly accomplish is either making products more expensive (with no/negligible actual security benefit) or removing them from the market entirely.
What if it's Larry Ellison and Travis Kalanick?
Do you have _any_ basis at all for your suggestion that _all_ of the stories you hear in private and public about the leadership and management of Uber being toxic all the way from the top are ever worth "wondering" about their truthfulness? Is _any_ of Uber's public behaviour worthy of giving them the benefit of the doubt? They're rotten through and through - and here you have the audacity and insensitivity to question individual accounts of poor treatment at the hands of the clearly reprehensible garbage in control of the company? _Seriously?_
Yeah, the problem with all these web apps is the lack of functionality when offline. Most just don't work, and some have a half working offline mode, but non-perfect connectivity or no connectivity really limits productivity today.
I think the article is just saying that Singhal was not spending his time as a philanthropist.
Like simply wait for enough (obvious) green lights before making a move. Like, you know, mature, consenting adults.

The standard male cognitive bias is to become convinced that there are green lights when they may not exist. And a bias towards pushing the point so that women who might be convincible can be convinced.

This makes evolutionary sense because there is little cost to receiving extra rejections, and a definite reproductive benefit to a hard to predict acceptance. However this bias means that women naturally receive more unwanted offers than wanted ones. And dealing with unwanted offers on top of workplace dynamics (particularly when there are power dynamics) is a real problem.

In short, biology ensures that men will tend to screw up. And workplace requirements make it important to push back against this natural tendency.
New Research Examines What Leads to Excessive Worrying
As a taxpayer (who was just reminded this past weekend of how much that is :-) I'm really glad that NASA had enough budget to spend on the Commercial Crew program. Given that the NASA budget of $18.5B[1] is a rounding error on the overall budget $3,540B[2], seriously it's a half a percent. And commercial crew was only $1.2B [ibid] of that NASA budget. So less than .05%. Again rounding error.

And with that money they are getting two different spacecraft that can fly missions. So I think it was a great way for NASA to contract out the development of a crew capsule they could use on their missions.

That one of the companies that participated has done so in such a way that they can make a commercially feasible 'tourist' vehicle out of it? That blows my mind.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/NASA_FY_2016_...

[2] https://www.cbo.gov/topics/budget
What are they going to do? Sue you? This stuff is hard to prosecute. And if they start prosecuting... well... then their sexual harassment behavior will be made public.
So you are not saying that what the article says is reasonable. You are saying that the article does not accurately report the change in the law.

Yes?

This may seem a petty point to you, but if it's the case then I wish you (and others - you are by no means the only one to do this) would say what you actually mean, and not something that is not what you mean.

Specifically, you said:

> This all seems reasonable to me.

That sounds to me like you are agreeing that what the article says is happening is reasonable, whereas now it seems that you are saying that the law being passed is reasonable, and that the article is mis-reporting it.

Yes?
Why nothing works anymore
I also was rather sceptical wrt Vim at first; the only reason I ever started using it was that I needed a text editor that compiled for ARM architectures (I wanted to use it in a chroot on my chromebook). After a couple of hours the distrust got to "hm, this might not be too bad". After a couple of days I switched my ZSH to Vim bindings. Now I even use pentadactyl/qutebrowser for browsing the web.

The whole "Vim gives me amazing productivity" thing seems to be a personality trait: People telling you this are much more positive wrt tooling than I am. My basic gist is more like "why the hell can't I do X with this tool". I only started recognizing Vim's worth after getting more and more frustrated at other tools because they seemed to slow me down. Funny enough, I had the exact same experience a couple of years earlier after I got reasonably accustomed with Linux and Bash/ZSH. Learning them was more or less "meh", but coming back to Windows is a nightmare for me now. You have to do everything via the mouse, and the terminal seems almost unusable for me - it's not that I am amazed at how great my tools are (which, to be fair, they actually are), but I get very angry at any tool that doesn't at least do a decent job.

Luckily for me, this effect only seems to affect my experience with tools. I still can get very excited about APIs and programming paradigms :-)
> measures FFI performance

Many of the pi-digits programs use GMP.

https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.ph...
So here's the thing: If you use GPS, you aren't going to build up your mental map of your city. But if you go without GPS, then you will work towards building up your mental map, and it kind of snowballs.

I really like to: Look up directions on Gmaps, and then jot down the relevant turns I need to know onto a piece of paper. The idea is that Gmaps tells me 20 or so turns, but I really need to only know a highway exit # and a few turns.

The awesome thing is that I've often _forgotten that piece of paper_! But because I went through the act of writing it down, it's stuck in my memory, and I'm usually able to figure it out without checking my phone.

I have a friend who's a great software engineer, and he has great visual/spatial awareness, but he always drives by GPS, and it's kind of embarrassing to sit in the car for two minutes while he gets directions ready to go. -_-
At least it'll be nice to have them off the planet for a couple of weeks.
Not everyone is champing at the bit to sue people whenever the opportunity arises.
>> Java is showing quite impressive numbers!

359% more RAM isn't very impressive. Even less so when one considers the 20+ years of effort spent to achieve it.

You know what impresses me? A 22 month old language besting everything else while guaranteeing no segfaults or NPEs at compile time. That's impressive.
The parent comment also didn't not say that. You could as easily say, being exactly non-specific as that comment, that it's illegal to fly across the border. Because it is, if you don't go through procedures on both ends.
He may be referring to using KDP's freebie program, that requires exclusivity. I keep waiting for Amazon to be dinged for monopoly abuse on that policy, but I'm still waiting.
But facetiously, they make the laws to give themselves salaries...

Plus there are other loopholes, some of which are already used, such as banking in Cayman I islands, and being located in a more "friendly" country.
Of course, that time around it lead to the Apollo 1 fire killing the first crew in on-the-ground testing before they even got as far as trying to launch them into Earth orbit. Probably not something to be looked up to.
agreed, watching "the good wife" has been uncomfortably educational about how the system works.
Also was on the inquirer but got removed, still showing on Google top stories though:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3005436/raspberry-p...