skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is there clear evidence that Travis is the root of the problem?

The more we hear about Uber the less I can believe that its CEO isn't responsible. Perhaps he is not the root of the problem, but when issues are this widespread, and this well known, lack of action from the top is inexcusable.
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As an update, this pull request now removes most of the unsafe code:

https://github.com/TeXitoi/benchmarksgame-rs/pull/46
I've been listening to Security Now for over a decade. There's no doubt it's partly responsible for my current position as a software engineer at a large corporation. I can't recommend it highly enough.
+1

Got the non-touchbar model and it's by far the best machine I've ever used.
FWIW this is the same with Turbo Pascal's (and modern incarnations of it, like Delphi and Free Pascal). If you modify a constant in a unit, the compiler will recompile all other units that use that unit. The only way to avoid that is to keep everything in memory and do background updates to the AST. At which point you might as well do background compilations anyway.
Reading list was seriously underfeatured.

Pocket is now Free Software, which might make those elements from RL you liked possible again.
Modular parser combinators
Actually you get 32-Phosporous from that. If you want 36-Cl you need cosmic rays interacting with 36-Ar, 39-K, 40-Ca, or neutron activation of 35-Cl.
At utility scale unsubsidized solar is cheaper than coal kWh for kWh, albeit with the caveat that solar is not dispatchable, and the coal is not being penalized for the externalities and deaths it causes in the general population. However, except for the health damage, it's difficult to quantify the rest of the damage that coal does without lots of arguments.

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
> Electron and friends got popular

Maybe I'm just an old fuddy-duddy (I'm in my 20s, jfc), but I don't see how Electron's popularity is considered a given. I know plenty of people who use the given services, but none who use the desktop interfaces. VS Code is the only Electron app that I've ever seen used in the wild. Am I just hanging in the wrong crowds? Which ones should I be looking at, if so?

> It wasn't a "this is not possible today" problem

Hence "feasible" rather than "possible". :P (And conspicuously not "easy" rather than "feasible", either...)

> maybe they could have competed with Electron-style apps

I sound like a broken record by now, but I still don't see what people think Mozilla has to gain by offering a native GUI framework that people have already proven they don't want. And frankly, I think FirefoxOS, while ill-fated, was at least audacious. :P
Wat.

You have take your website offline AND rebuild the haproxy container every time you need to renew a cert?

There is a use case for containers. This is not it.
It'd be a good PR stunt if he was white. Racism is in the mix, see "Amy's" (pseudonym) post on Medium.
FF on Fedora 25 showed lots of languages, FYI.
Not me. My Mid-2015 Retina is fantastic.
Dragon cargo berthes with ISS: it pulls close and gets snagged by a human operating an arm. Crew Dragon will dock with the ISS.
You need to understand that situation is changing rapidly. Many Taiwanese live happily on mainland China, and have a lot of mainland friends. They even enjoy a lot of privileges that ordinary Chinese people can't have, simply because of they are Tai-Relatives.
Sanity ;)

The global nuclear arsenal is still over 2500 MT, I bet :(
I meant old Chehalis Western. It autocorrected :)
It starts off with the assertion the women aren't going into CS because of misogyny, yet the example given is one that wouldn't affect prospective CS students.

The mystery conversations are also way too vague to read anything worthwhile into, the author provides zero context other than "OMG misogyny".
Not me. Still on a mid-2011 13-inch MacBook Air. I'll probably switch to whatever new MacBook is release this summer.
I came to know about this some months ago but I forgot...Thanks anyways!
That's very good news. TST is one of the few things that makes web browsing even vaguely viable these days.

I've noticed (on the rare instances I'm on desktop, mostly Mac these days) that Vimperator is also borked (only parts of it seem to be functioning). That's another lifesaver to me, and whatever it takes for it to come back to life and/or an alternative to provide effectively similar functionality ... would be peachy.

If I can lure you to another bit of developer / user advocacy, a bit from about 3 years ago on the content management problem:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/256lxu/tabbed_...
My personal theory on why more women don't choose CS as a career path, is that they don't want to. Not because of mysogyny, but they simply don't find the work/subject rewarding or interesting.
According to the article, he was not fired because of the allegations, but fired because he did not disclose the nature of his departure from Google.

When you're a high up enough executive you need to be trustworthy - his first action with the company proved that he isn't.
As someone who has always loved the idea of thin-clients, this is super cool.
Stop policing people's words, what about your tone in all this? "here is a lesson in tone for you" is not exactly nice tone either but since you are the police it doesnt matter right?
I wonder if any of this could be related to the past couple of decades trend in education that has reduced the emphasis on memorization of facts. People arrive at adulthood with very little objective factual knowledge, leaving them unable to discern fact from fiction or even really understanding why they should.
yes, my viewpoint is way too extreme, I just comment about Westerners' hypocrisy as the way some of Westerners did to China people. Threantened Taiwan? lol, Please find out the economic data of China-Taiwan trade, China maintains trade deficit with Taiwan, but maintains trade surplus for most countries, including the United States, Japan, and EU. And I hope you can figure out how the Taiwanese are treated in mainland(China). By the way, Taiwan is the part of China(ROC), Taiwan is part of China, which is recognized by the UN. It's a matter of internal affairs.
The price to power in most high end laptops is the same Apple is not priced very high compared to others. But with the new Amd processors that could change. And laptops with similar power and battery life at 2/3rd to half the price is going to change things.
I've thought about going back to the MacBook several times. It's a beautiful, and very light, machine. However, I really, really value having a tablet that I can write on that can also be a fully-fledged computer when it needs to be. Being able to reorient the monitor in portrait mode is amazing. Also, the Type Cover keyboard is amazing; leagues better than the chiclet keys on the MacBooks.

After Windows 10 got Ubuntu, there was no looking back.

I am still thinking about replacing my iPad Air for an iPad Pro, though. I love a small tablet I can write on, too.
Former Google Engineer Blasts Company's HR Practices After Sexual Harassment
Yes. If I was a sysadmin at an org that ran one of these shit products I'd rather go work someplace else.
Shotwell's response is in the best interests of her company, but SpaceX is (as well as Boeing) woefully behind on a reasonable timeline to reach human-rated flight for both their rocket and crew module.

We should have learned from both the early Apollo program, and the Shuttle failures, that human lives shouldn't be treated as expendable capital in this industry.

Both SpaceX's current announcement, and the US Gov's desire to put humans on the first flight SLS flight, are deeply troubling in that regard.
Who's the guy with fifty thousand Chromebooks? Goodness.
Agree. I went from an early 2011 15" MBP fully decked out with SSD, 16G mem, matte screen (which I loved.. but spilled beer on) to the 13" mbp touch and love everything about it.
> and to monitor for IP theft - we did sue a soon former employee after he emailed source for a quantitative model to his personal gmail

That wouldn't be a certain Sergey Aleynikov and GS would it? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov)
Probably related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paranoid_Style_in_American...
Agreed. Are down modders anonymous? Seems unfair they can take 4x the points of a contributing comment.
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The trend is warmer. The local effects are highly variable as weather patterns are severely impacted by these changes.

Warmer means more energy, and more energy means more chaos.
Also TP would usually link in-memory without creating .obj files (and it had real modules/units which made dependency analysis simple).
Go+outdoors+with+this+handy+MGCOOL+Explorer+1S+4K+camera
If you're using your company's network, then they have every right to monitor all of the activity on it.

This is tantamount to steaming open and resealing the envelopes of all physical mail. Have some god damn ethics, I'd sooner quit than snoop traffic in this manner.
Hurray for progress! We're able to repeat what was done in 1972!
Do you think you'll try OSX on PC-hardware? I'm not sure how easy that is to do still, but it might be worth a shot.
People are clearly better educated than they used to be. What was the literacy rate in 1900, for example? How many people had college degrees in 1960?

I think it's simpler than that. When anyone can pull out their smartphone and record someone or criticize someone in a blog post, it's hard to hide behind the naive notion that the authorities know what they are doing. For any given person or position you can find hundreds of examples of dishonesty, incompetence, or pure stupidity.

In that environment, why would anyone trust the traditional gatekeepers? They aren't the gatekeepers anymore and in a bid to remain relevant they often sacrifice objectivity in search of cheap gimmicks and entertainment.

Fareed Zakaria has put forward the notion that elites in the 50s and 60s used to see themselves as having a civic duty. That doesn't exist anymore. An easy comparison is the Ivy League generations of Bushes vs Trump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_of_Freedom

...This is then applied to America to argue that the increased democratization of American society and culture is what has caused the perceived failures of the government and governing elites.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/books/overdoing-democracy....

It sounds WASPish on its face, but there are some good points.
128-bit decimal.
> but no corporate data can be moved en mass off company servers.

How so?

1. Connect to Corp Wifi

2. git clone companyapp.git

3. Connect to Employee Personal Wifi

4. Email tgz'ed companyapp

?
Will they? It seems it would just trigger migrations inland away from rising sea levels.

The significant improvements in agricultural technology over the last 100 years likely means it wouldn't significantly impact the ability to grow food in countries rich enough to have the ability to geoengineer in this manner, so it might not happen.
Recently I have posted a few pieces on HN which could have been labeled "Anti-Trump" or "pro liberal" or whatever and they have been flagged as well (you can see them on my profile). So in case you are implying that flagging this specific post would be sign of a particular suppression of a contrary view point (against liberal view points) then you are wrong.

That's the problem with every group that perceives discrimination (or actually is discriminated): They interpret every single occurrence as proof of the discrimination, even while the cause of their perception might be much more trivial and unrelated.
Not necessarily just a field trial. AFAIK it was bundled with a recent ChromeOS update, causing logon to fail when MITM'd
Same here, and it baffles me that all people talk about is MBP when MBA is such a good alternative. I'll keep my Air until it dies, or a new one comes out.
If your scifi book synopsis contains one of the phrases:

1. journey to the end of the universe

2. the fate of the universe hands in the balance

3. voyage to the end of time

I put the book back on the shelf.
Bluecoat is extremely widely used in some fields. They were in the news a while back when it was discovered that Syria (before the civil war) was censoring their internet access using Bluecoat devices (allegedly unauthorized by Bluecoat)[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Coat_Systems#Use_by_repre...
> My iPhone has a broken screen that can't be fixed without permanently losing the finger print scanner.

I don't know why you're thinking you're going to any better off with some other smartphone. I broke my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge's screen and nobody could fix it. Nobody would replace it. I checked icracked, tmobile stores, called around. Now I have a LGV20 in an otter case, and the class that covers the camera has cracks. These phones are fragile.

At least with iPhones you have a large enough market where small businesses can help. With some random android phone from LG with nationwide sales in the low millions annually I'm pretty much not going to find anyone to help me fix anything. And there aren't like any LG stores, like there are Apple stores you can go to.
Has there been a tech company that has been this highly called out on their culture before this?
It's fairly easy to agree that this action is not enough to get Uber off the hook and can indeed be thought as a PR stunt. But why do you think Amit Singhal's race is a factor here?
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It works great for me (also on Firefox).
This stinks of scapegoating, of cover up, of distraction.

I'm sure Uber hopes this is a best/least impact course of action for them to begin to erase last week's terrible publicity from everyone's minds.

They
a. Fire someone who has only been there a month -- so don't lose too hard employee investment wise.
b. Happened to find someone to fire who fits extremely well into a narrative that makes it appear as though they are toughening up and tackling the root of these recent sexual harassment accusations when in reality the good old boys will be sticking around.

Capitalism may improve greatly once we have robot overlord higher-ups that are optimized for economic success only and not power drunk once they don a suit, prove they are a little more cunning and opportunistic than most people that still have fully operating empathetic brain parts, and are, quite frankly often the most idiotic but belligerent (read infantile) people in the room--though of course if some current top-dogs design/get a stake in the business logic of our future corporate AIs I'm sure our mechanized leaders will be just as ruthless and scummy.

I suspect there's a host of tie wearing, sycophantic, despicable wretches out there for every corporate leader to whom one could actually ascribe any virtue or nobility--to one whom you can call leader without having the taste of vomit well up in your mouth.

I'm not sure if that's a problem caused by capitalism or merely exacerbated by it. Chicken/egg sort of thing.

Of course I can only draw upon my limited experience, but I've met very few people in high stakes positions at major companies that I actually liked or even considered intelligent and deserving of the benefits they receive--then again ours is often a system of reward based on raw time spent and bribes offered rather than actual merit. Furthermore, it's an unfortunate fact that valuable qualities are often uncoupled; the person of great intellect may well be a piss poor leader nine times out of ten. Granted, anyone in a higher-up position at a major company has a hell of a lot of stress, responsibility, and pressure on them, but that does not legitimate disgusting behavior as an acceptable outlet, nor does it legitimate chest buffing since effective leadership at major corporation scale often relies on the minor leadership and autonomy of subordinates anyway.

Hierarchies are foolish.
Taiwan (The Republic of China) is an independent country with its own government, currency and international relations. Any deals between Mainland China and Taiwan are international affairs.
I've been thinking about making a Hackintosh, yes, but in the end I don't want to have a setup that I constantly have to spend time on just to keep it alive. I'm not sure if things have gotten better since I last looked into it, but it seems to me you'll have to live with a degraded feature set and constant tweaking.
Hail corporate
First: I'd love to have stats on material indicated within Pocket.

1. Total articles saved. Archived. Rread.

2. Counts by tag.

3. A "times read" count. There are hot articles I hit a lot.

4. Numbering of items on page.

The lack of ANY user-focused stats or reporting on virtually any Web-based tools is ... kind of creepy, actually, given the extent user data is sliced, diced, marinated, and skewered on the provider and advertiser ends.

Back to the matter of what's read: Pocket is effectively my "vetted web". Content I've found and found at least worth a second look. The biggest problem(s) I have presently are that I cannot effectively mine that archive. Pocket's tools for searching, ordering (or unordering -- there's a strong argument for randomly accessing a stratified sample) are a hugely increasing friction point.
It was so large there was no feasible way to even transport such a device other than maybe building it on a suicide ship.

It was purely a dick measuring contest at that point.
Not a thing anymore for several years, i.e name consolidation. Also, a good chunk of DiRT is now continuous and automated (not autonomous though).

Disclaimer: I work at Google and ran the DiRT team for a few years incl. incident management itself.
> they seem to have learned "Hey, we can get away with crimes!"

I'm not sure if it's really that. It seems that they're closer to having a scorched-earth policy where they intentionally break the rules. If the regulators step in and put some legislation that blocks Uber from operating, it also blocks their competitors from operating as well. If not, then they win by having their way and having a first mover advantage. Either way, they win or their competitors lose.

That strategy seems to have worked very well for them in the US, but not as much in other markets.
We've only landed light things on mars, curiosity is the heaviest at 889kg, and the methods used don't scale easily.

Anything that can sustain humans for an extended period of time is going to weigh a lot more. EDL (Entry descent and landing) is a solvable problem, but it's not a solved one. You can find lots of recent work on it by googling that term.

Not to disagree that we can test on Earth better than the moon. Mars has a light atmosphere, but it doesn't have no atmosphere.
I went from a 2012 15" Retina MBP to a SP4 for about a year. It was okay.

I'm now back on a 2016 15" TB MBP and happy to be "home" on macOS.

There's really nothing wrong with this machine. It might not be the giant leap forward from the 2015 model that people hoped for, but it's a perfectly fine machine to get work done with.
Anonymity of poster doesn't render the poster's experience unworthy of thought. If it did, I would be ignoring this comment from a throwaway account.

Cartoonish and poorly written are subjective judgements.

These experiences might seem implausible to you because they might never be happening when you're looking. In light of other, non-anonymous and fact-checked accounts of Susan's experience, I wouldn't think it is implausible.

All-in-all, while I agree in principle that one should apply fair judgement before believing someone's anonymous story, I do not think it warrants incredulity, especially and ironically from an anon account. If you believe that Amy should not have posted anonymously, I find it laughable that you use an anonymous account fearing flagging and down-voting in a low stakes environment fearing the "groupthink brigade".
If Amit didn't reveal that he had forced out (whether he officially resigned or was fired is a distinction without a difference) of Google after an investigation of serious charges against him, then that's a good enough reason to fire a top executive.
Ha! Oh, those helpful AIs. Found the map now, thanks.
> My iPhone has a broken screen that can't be fixed without permanently losing the finger print scanner

Why?
I have a Surface Pro, an iPad Pro, and an original retina macbook (ordered the day they were announced). If I had to pick one, I'd pick the macbook. If I could pick two, I'd pick the macbook and the iPad. The one thing I really like about the Surface is the handwriting keyboard. I just wish the word recognition was better. It mainly sits on my desk at home charging though.
> While Google's products do work together I would argue they also work with competitors.

I think there are two ways in which it can be argued that Google's auxiliary products destroy competition. On the one hand Google uses its domination in one market (search engines) to subsidize products that end up dominating other markets (online maps, web email etc.). On the other hand these auxiliary products are making it difficult for other search engines to compete with Google. If your search engine has similar (or even slightly better) results to Google, you still have to break into its being the default search engine on the most used web browser and mobile OS, and integrated with maps and other products. If Altavista had been similarly entrenched in 2000, Page and Brin would have likely hit a brick wall despite having a better algorithm. Even Microsoft with all its resources has failed to make a dent in the search space now.
I assume you would be doing things in VMs, right!? So what cross-OS issues?
I have yet to use a machine that is as much of a pleasure to use as my mbp. I came from linux and while it was able to get the job done, the third party support for a lot of apps was less than ideal. Having everything synced up to my iPhone (again coming from someone who's first smart phone was the original droid) is fantastic as well.
Well, 2009 was immediately after the GFC, which was an unusual event (and consuming all the news cycles).
I suspect it is more of a result of changes to the overall societal context as a whole, of which the formal education system is just one part.

For instance, we are certainly all much more exposed today to people ranting pure bullshit than we were in decades past. That seems likely to be part of it... seeing so many people spouting absurd nonsense, and then seeming to "win" the interaction, must normalize that behavior and encourage people to try it themselves.

But I think it is not just about "knowing fewer facts" but also about "having less ability to reason about things and derive a fact (or reasonable hypothesis) for yourself, even about simple matters".
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I don't understand why these jobs are even worth it to anyone? How much are they making 130-160k to work 16 hour days and are abused on top of that? Fuck that.
I'm going to guess they're a system administrator at a school or corporation.
I was a vendor of HRTech systems, so I worked with over 1,000 customers (large and small) implementing similar procedures.