skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just hope you realize when people say the Simpsons are good, they mean seasons 1-{8-12}.
More context: The RCMP had a reputation long before shared services was a thing. For decades they never adapted their recruitment and training, continuing policies that drove tech-savvy individuals away from the force. (Google around. In recent years they've dramatically lowered recruitment standards to bring in younger blood. You don't even need to be Canadian any more.) The result is a force that seems to never get along with technology. Phones and radios just never seem to work properly.

I've taught more than a few cops (IT law / forensics) and have attended many lectures by RCMP officers claiming to be tech "experts". They aren't. The RCMP live in a very tight knowledge bubble.
Dr David Spiegelhalter runs the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk at Cambridge.

He has some good stuff on this for more everyday activities like drinking beer, being 5kg overweight for a day and smoking a cigarette and things.

https://understandinguncertainty.org/microlives
In my company moving up the ranks is pretty difficult in tech whereas other departments are very generous with titles (and the salaries that come with them).

It seems engineers are not smart enough to game the system and actually rank each other honestly. Whereas the business and law guys know better.
This was essentially the plot of an original series Star Trek episode, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon:

In this episode, the crew of the USS Enterprise visits a planet whose people
fight a computer-simulated war against a neighboring planet. Although the
war is fought via computer simulation, the citizens of each planet have to
submit to real executions inside "disintegration booths" to meet the casualty
counts of the simulated attacks.
My friend worked for the Santa Monica office and told me some wacky stories as well. This place needs an HR overhaul.
The submitter trimmed this from the title: "Man gets 30 days in jail for drone crash that knocked woman unconscious".
Luckily, it was all worth it. Iraq is a free democracy now, and spreading peace throughout the region.
My friend worked for the Santa Monica office and told me some wacky stories. Sounds like Uber needs an HR overhaul.
For what it's worth, this alternate implementation has only one line of unsafe code (a call to the libc "memchr" function) and is only 9% slower than the fastest unsafe version:

https://github.com/mbrubeck/benchmarksgame-rs/blob/reverse_c...

It's very easy to write extremely fast safe Rust code. (The safe Rust version above is faster than the fastest C++ submission, on my computer.) Using "unsafe" for optimization is usually only helpful to get a few extra percent speedup in an inner loop. If this were production code rather than the benchmarks game, I'd probably ship the safe version.
In my experience there's probably a case for both. Having a local IT person you know and trust to take care of your immediate needs is going to be beneficial but it would also be nice if that person didn't have to patch your email server personally. Decentralized IT is great for things like email and shared hosting and generic services but individual teams may be better suited to having more direct control. I don't think its an all or nothing situation.
Just to back it up a little:

* Stack ranking at Cisco
http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/networking/300075791/5-things...
* Stack ranking at Google https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Google-stack-rank-its-employe...
* Stack ranking at Microsoft http://www.businessinsider.com/microsofts-old-employee-revie...
* Stack ranking at Amazon http://insights.dice.com/2016/11/15/amazon-may-end-stack-ran...
> Or maybe add them, SATA SSDs, and hard drives to a multiple-selection "Storage" box?

I like that, it would be a good solution and could work well with the design.

For the Advanced tab, I think I got the problem now. It's that the swap page filters, making it potentially hard to get from for example socket 1151 to AM4. The Advanced settings are not problematic by itself, the concept of starting with one mainboard is. Does that catch it?

I'm not sure that is obvious, but when you browse via the side buttons, it will happily switch out the mainboard. That is just less discoverable right now because the 1151-processors are always higher rated than the FX-processors (which additionally are disabled by default because of the incoming Ryzen).

But in the alternatives list, there it is problematic. That one needs a way to list alternatives that do not fit into the current build, but would replace additional parts. All I got in my mind for that is having a second list, or probably rather additional entries in the main list that are somehow marked distinctively and contain the additional item as well.
I'm not sure if the tax rate is the root cause, but they certainly came close to hitting the nail on the head saying "What sucker wants to earn $10 million/year at a 52.5% tax rate when you can get away with hundreds of millions in one take at just 15%?"

For decades we've valued the growth of capital over salaries, we are living the results of this policy, and need to see a reverse to a position where the result of salaries grow faster than capital.
SpaceX for a landing mission wouldn't try and build a larger rocket, they'd definitely argue to just do multiple launches instead. Fuel tankering is within their area of interest for Mars.
> Or it was an unauthorized leak. Someone in HR, with access to the files, deciding for themselves what the right thing to do was

Yes. I just would have expected it to be closer to the actual event rather than waiting ~2 years.
In my mind there's a pretty clear difference between being challenged to justify your answers or go into deeper detail in a response and being intentionally insulted. I'm not thin skinned, but I'm not about to go to work for someone after they spend an hour or more calling me retarded.
You don't leak it during the trial. You do it before any trial even happens, or before anyone even knows that you have the video. You just create your secret video, and then release it to the media.

Then they COULD come after you later, but they almost certainly won't succeed. Recording crimes or sexual harassment pretty much never gets you in trouble.

This whole court situation where sexual harassment never gets punished works both ways.

Yes, it is difficult for these people to get punished. But it is equally difficult to punish people who retaliate against harassers.

The courts aren't the point anyway. Sure you aren't going to win a court case. But uber would still fire the guy. At will employment.

It doesn't matter if the secret video is illegal evidence. Uber can still fire the guy anyway, because they can fire people for any or no reason at all. And other companies can also refuse to hire him.

Also, if the culprit is an uber exec, it is not like they could sue anyone. That would look extremely extremely bad if Uber started suing women who were harassed. There goes billions of dollars.
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How many replies does the HN forum allow? Can you give me another?

Edit: Sorry, that was rude. But I couldn't resist.
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Yes, SpaceX resisted earlier tourism opportunities for a few reasons. One reason was they didn't have the corporate resources to do tourism flights, and do the R&D for CCDev & Commercial Crew Program (CCP), so they focused on Commercial Crew.

Another reason is that NASA doesn't want tourist flights to the ISS, and no private destinations were close to ready. Lets say CCP funding was delayed, and a private team offered $400m for tourist flights, they'd have to develop two different Dragon capsule specifications. One for ISS, and one for private tourism. Similar, but with non-identical requirements. With the CCP further along, the different specifications may no longer be an issue.

Another reason is SpaceX doesn't have a training program for space tourists, and they'd require a training program. The Russians require 3-6mo of training for a space tourist on the Soyuz.

That said, there are reasons SpaceX went for this plan now, and not before.
I believe the technology that will benefit humanity significantly is in the batteries.
>>You also seem to believe that people have no responsibility for making people around them comfortable unless they are explicitly told it is making them uncomfortable. Everyone has a responsibility not to be ass.

>I do not believe this.

Let's take this further. If your coworker pulled you aside and punched you every day when you came into work, would you say they were justified as long as you didn't tell them you didn't want that to happen?

If this person were your boss and you were afraid you'd be ostracized or fired if you spoke up, are you not a victim?

At what point can we agree that behavior is worthy of condemnation without needing to explicitly be told that it's not okay?
I've experienced this at just about every single non-startup that I've worked for.

Basically, once the company is big enough that you don't know everyone who works there, the evil actors and back stabbers emerge. Especially when a company is growing rapidly, you go from being a human in the eyes of others, to a performance report -- some numbers on paper.

My new strategy? Leave any company that gets bigger than 300 people or so. It's worked so far!
A crater formed in Siberia's permafrost is growing
Ask HN: Do startup CEO blogposts get written by copywriters?
I often see blog posts released small, medium and large startups, usually, the spelling, grammar and structure of these posts is quite high.

Do all these CEO's just have great writing skills, or do they get help from copywriters?
Previous thread from earlier today - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13747177
NASA actually has a post on what the statuses of the flags are; they are probably bleached or disintegrated.[1] Interestingly, I would guess that the flag most likely to have survived would be the one from Apollo 11, because it was too close to the lander, and got knocked over by the ascent module; it may have been covered with dust and protected, but this is only a remote possibility.

note: the post says that the LROC shows shadows from the flags, but it seems highly unlikely they are pristine or even intact.

[1] https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ApolloFlags-Condition.html
How can we hold these people and companies accountable for this behavior?

Someone brought up not too long ago that this community is filled with people that want to change the world. However, we're often represented by people and organizations that are holding us back from progressing.

What are we, the subjects of this community, supposed to do?
Ribosomes! Not a bad idea.

Anyway, I think that ribosomes have a very restrictive type of "calculation", you can compare them with a Jackard Loom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom or a Pianola https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_piano . Perhaps an old programmable calculator.

Currently the CPU have a lot more of computational abilities.
This was actually one of the arguments for feature shredding things like browser customization (see Classic Theme Restorer) and tab groups (see uhm Tab Groups).
> Can't wait to hear who booked this trip! Definitely one of the coolest ways to spend a lot of superfluous money :)

Imagine it ends up being some celebrity, like Leonardo di Caprio (who has shown interest in space IIRC) or Lady Gaga. Don't you think it would somehow tarnish the whole thing?
I know this might sound insane to everyone, just hear me out.

I always thought Mozilla should have built a Linux distribution (or rather, forked debian like everyone else ha!) and implemented their Firefox UI kit (Gecko right? I'm not as familiar.) and made a Front end for it that was smooth and easy to build apps for using web technologies, but could still run native *nix apps via debion packages.

I believe that now as much as I did when I was younger, but the itme for desktop OSs may have passed.

It would have been a hit I think. Well designed, well maintained, well documented. At least in my starry eyed version of this universe where unicorns exist
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Related images and discussion here:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0678-200000...

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0127-dozens...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9120690
> That's the intention but unless they brought all their family over they'd probably find a need to leave at some point

With all due respect, you don't know what you're talking about. If you overstay a visa, you're going to stay in the country no matter what. I know folks who have missed family funerals because of that.

Especially once you realize you can get married and have children who are citizens. This is why amnesty is a huge deal for lots of folks.
costs go up, wages go down, vacation benefits are almost non-existent, so you have to work more to survive.

when do you educate yourself on these issues sufficiently?

when do you go out and participate?

the problems are not secret. they're well discussed in academic circles, for decades, even longer, since the beginning of "capitalism" itself. this particular "well if the people actually did some thing about it!" is one of the oldest.

what are they supposed to do in a society that largely tells contrarians to stop behaving like they're special and do their job?
It's an intentional branding effort undertaken by Magic Leap to associate 6DOF HMD AR with the term MR instead of AR - and thus associate only themselves with the term like "Kleenex." Typical propaganda effort. Apparently it worked because Wired picked up the term and others like Robert Scoble did as well. FWIW they failed previously by trying it with "Cinematic Reality," but nobody bit.

The theory is that the term Augmented Reality has too much associated baggage accumulated over the years from implementations that don't do realistic 6DOF.

So they are trying to say - approximately - that anything that doesn't have depth is AR and anything that does is MR.

Graeme Devine made this distinction by throwing shade at the iterations of mobile AR from previous generations that didn't have SLAM or any kind of tracking in a recent talk [1].

In reality MR was defined by Paul Milgram in 1994, and does well to describe the spectrum that encompasses Augmented Reality, Augmented Virtuality and Virtual Reality.

[1]https://www.vrandfun.com/magic-leap-provides-updates-dice-su...
Sorry, I thought you were being sarcastic about it making sense. Due to that I explained why it makes sense for someone to belive something that external objective viewers would consider irrational.
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Is anyone else really fascinated by how this article exposes how human beings are simultaneously irrational and yet, also completely rational when it comes to fear?

Humans as a whole are irrational when it comes to fear because their fear is almost never proportional to the actual risk. We're afraid of the one-in-a-million occurrences, but not the one-in-one-hundred. We don't (yet should) fear the mundane and the superficial. Humans always strive to be rational, so why are we so irrational when it comes to fear?

And yet, arguably this is also simultaneously a perfectly rational reaction to fear. Think about it. If humans were hard-wired to be completely rational when it comes to fear, i.e. our fears are proportional to the risks involved, we would be unable to function in our daily lives. We'd be paralyzed by fear from the moment we wake up. We wouldn't drive cars, or step into bathtubs, or eat fatty hamburgers. The explanation as to why humans are afraid of shark attacks, but not driving can be as simple as this: it allows us to exist.
Someone on reddit mentioned it's probably a homage to the end scene of Short Circuit
Yes, I saw this a few months ago on HN! Actually, it's got a lot of great features, but lacking the layout I'm personally looking for. The 3 col layout (in my screenshot), along with visible favicons, allows me to quickly glance and find what I'm looking for without having to scroll to far. I also plan on adding a quick filter search too.

Great job on your app though, it's very functional and much better than other bookmarking solutions I've seen.
Between flying to the moon and back (no landing) the only difference is fuel and consumables (air/food). The key capabilities are launch, landing, spacecraft communication and operations, and navigational support for computing and executing maneuvers to get into (and out of) a trans-lunar orbit. The more fuel you have the easier it is on the equipment.

Or to put it differently, the difference is that when you get to the Moon you make an orbital injection burn in order to slow yourself down to the point that you can stay in lunar orbit, and then when your done you make another burn to put you back into the trans-lunar orbit.

When you get back you can either do a high speed re-entry or you can do an Earth orbit injection burn.

You still need a vehicle that can carry people for the duration of the trip. You need to get it into a translunar orbit so that you can get out to the Moon. You need to be able to precisely locate yourself in space relative to the Earth-Moon system and course correct to achieve your orbit goals. All of that stuff has to happen either way.

There is an excellent discussion of the various orbit options for getting to the moon in this paper: http://www.esa.int/esapub/bulletin/bullet103/biesbroek103.pd... definitely worth looking over to get a better appreciation on what is involved.
How do you explain the amount of money/effort spent by the big companies in trying to attract young kids out of college and the cultish attraction for these companies from young people who know nothing about the industry?

Because in the long run, they believe it to be cheaper because they can hire in college grads at a lower rate and think they are profiting because they should be versed in the newest stuff. In addition, this stuff (with larger companies) is good for business. This article is an example: Uber is getting bad publicity for treating workers badly, but other companies? Not so much because they promote a better image.

Do you know of any big company that has a magic solution to this problem? Everyone has this problem but the end users perceive it differently depending on how the brand presents itself.

For the recruitment thing? The best thing I can think of is by making sure people are educated. Beyond that, strong labor laws and separating health care from employment will help, but won't solve the issue.

As far as solving the "most folks are unhappy at work" - strong labor laws and health care. Outside of that, it is more up to the employer. While not everyone will be happy, you can make the majority of folks that stay there a while content - some places do this now.
[1] is what I fear. Wife got a call from the immigration that they are teaching him a lesson, and that he's detained for no real reason and waiting for deportation is very bad. This father was already in the process of obtaining citizenship AFAIK, this is ridiculous.

[1]: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/22/516649344/...
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Oh don't worry! I'm super interested in this too!

Anything nerdy is welcome!
>Uber have already started contacting anyone who knows Susan Fowler, digging for dirt on her.

What a fantastic opportunity to send those assholes on a wild goose chase. Even better if they can somehow feed Uber bullshit that they later end up hanging themselves with.
When you put a lot of your self-worth in your job and you know that the person you're about to call out can have you fired on the spot? So probably almost everyone. It's really hard to call out the boss, especially when you know that no one all the way up to the CEO has your back.

Not saying it's still not the right thing to do, just, you should put yourselves in their shoes. Probably that entire room could have told the guy in unison "that wasn't cool" and they would have all been instantly fired, so, not sure what that's gonna do for anyone...
At the very least it is cooler there now. That is what the A/Cs were for... right?
Although, normally I would agree. But it seems to me that the op is sharing a lot so you could create it for your selve. So, actually, I can't blame him.

Good luck to the OP
The way I see it is that the simulation makes itself obvious with "errors" like this so that people who claim we're living in a simulation are written off as crackpots.
Troy Hunt also did a writeup of this. I believe he and the author of this article have worked together on a number of breach reporting in the past.

https://www.troyhunt.com/data-from-connected-cloudpets-teddy...
I've worked for more than 10 years in this industry, half out and half in SV (roughly), similarly regarding established vs startups. There is a noticeable difference on both axes.

Generally my (purely anecdotal, obviously) experience is that places in the Valley and startups tend to attract more "brogrammer" types than places outside the valley or that are established companies.
rocket fueled success makes waaaay too many people overlook egregious problems with company culture.

Just look at Theranos and Zenefits for examples. If it wasn't this situation, we wouldn't have heard anything till something disastrous happened to Uber. Thats just the way it works.
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Yes, HR acts in the company's best interests, not yours. However, if you ever want to be able to pursue legal claims against a company for actions such as permitting harassment, or firing you in retribution for it, you need to be able to document that you reported the problem to the appropriate people (i.e. HR).

Going to HR is the right move for something like this. In any sane company, HR will take such a claim seriously because the potential legal downside if they don't is an unacceptable risk. In an insane company - aside from the fact that you can't measure the insanity level until you have in fact made such reports to HR and seen them dismissed - you still need to be able to show that you brought the problem to HR's attention and they did nothing about it.
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For another case of a great writer who is an awful human being, check out V.S. Naipaul. A beast to his wife, and not in the least ashamed of it. Here is his wife:

"Last night I spoke of him letting me know the morning, nay the afternoon after our marriage, that he didn’t really want to be married to me. Yes, he said, he wanted to ask my permission to write about that … Would anyone, I asked, enjoy reading about that? I put in my usual plea: fiction & comedy … I am very low. But then perhaps it is my own fault."

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/cruel-a...
> Which programming language implementations are doing that to your knowledge?

My point here is not that this is being done (I'm generally assuming that language implementors have better things to do than to pollute their standard libraries for a benchmark game); I was making a different point, namely the inability to do algorithmic improvement, and mentioned that possibility for the sake of completeness.
Please consider joining a for-profit organization in the private sector that provides Software-as-a-Service to enterprise government customers.

I am the co-founder of one such company, Binti. We are making a distinct positive impact on government IT, without needing to be employees of the government.