skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wow this really has the potential to revolutionize the adult film industry
> Can you explain exactly what some neuroscience data would add here?

Certainly -- it would move the issue from the metaphysical to the physical realm. That might make it science. There's no science of the metaphysical.

> Anyway, there are lots of other processes that are not directly observable.

Yes, but not scientific ones.

> Gravity, for example, wasn't directly observed until last year.

Orbital mechanics both predicts and observes gravity. Each successful spacecraft journey represents another successful prediction of the physical theory of gravity. Dark Energy shows that a physical gravitation theory can be potentially falsified, a property all self-respecting scientific theories must have.

Gravitational time dilation represents an empirical confirmation of Einstein's General Relativity, our present theory about gravity. To be accurate, the atomic clocks on board GPS satellites must take this time dilation into account (as well as that from Special Relativity).

Einstein rings represent another direct observation of gravity. I think you mean that gravitational waves weren't observed until last year. Predicted long ago, finally observed.

> Evolution can't be observed directly either.

There is copious, empirical evidence for evolution. Start with how and why antibiotics lose their effectiveness over time. Then move on to laboratory studies of the evolution of Drosophila Melanogaster (fruit fly), chosen for its short reproduction cycle. Examples abound, all empirical and falsifiable.

These are all examples of experimental confirmation of empirical theories, all potentially falsifiable by observing nature.
Blitzkrieg 3 claims world’s first RTS neural net
Unless I'm misunderstanding something, a 360 review doesn't require this kind of ranking. A 360 review just indicates that you're getting feedback/reviews from all directions relative to the org chart (manager, reports, peers, etc). What you do with that feedback and if you stack rank or something similar is what creates the zero-sum game.
DC native, former SF resident: not really, any more. You can swing it, but it won't be fun. It's more comparable to SF than it is to someplace like portland. At least DC/DMV proper. Once you get into the "baltimore" parts I imagine the costs plummet.
The Pocket integration in Firefox is very simple and is in fact a built-in add-on.

I think it's a failure of imagination to assume that this is going to be the extent of what Pocket will be able to contribute... they have a lot of users and popular mobile apps for instance which is useful on its own.

As the blog post points out, the hope is that Pocket will accelerate the context graph initiative.

So, I disagree that it's about "bloat" or customization. In any case, the Pocket add-on is like ~700k and it doesn't do anything if you take it off the toolbar...
Yes, but that's beyond our capabilities, nukes aren't.
Joining the 10^-8 Parsecs High Club.
Solar micro production is insanely expensive. Nobody thinks it will scale even in places like Germany where it's merely expensive.

Grid scale solar is dirt cheap, to the point of being cheaper than coal, but it requires a grid. Not really sure what the point of them highlighting this was. If the villagers had a reliable grid connection, they wouldn't care if it was fed via solar
Politely declined; burned no bridges. I already accepted an offer by the time I quit that added 50% to my base pay, with bonuses on top and lots of career development benefits (pay to send me to speaking engagements at conferences, for example), and with a direct manager who was eager for my contributions. In that particular instance, stack ranking's practical effect served to severely depress my skill base's value and my compensation plan, as there were several fast similar offers, and the frantic response from the stack rank-using company's management layers highlighted they had a good idea of the value I was delivering. The CEO understood both the surface and subtext, after some very good salesmanship got nowhere.

If any readers ever find themselves in a similar situation, do not explain the details of why you refuse to stay on, as that only cracks opens a door to high-pressure negotiation. Easiest way out is simply state you already accepted a very attractive offer, if pressed for details respond the other company swore you to not disclose the terms to anyone, and stay polite.

Like a proper diet and working out where there is no substitute for doing the work, stack ranking rarely if ever substitutes for accomplished, attentive leadership (as contrasted with tactical aspects of management, a core prerequisite to said leadership). It is a useful scalpel if/when wielded properly, and is best left in the toolbox otherwise.
"IR" - for "input reality" - might be a sensible alternative term for this. VR and AR seem to focus on the display aspects, while the likes of Magic Leap are useful in the input aspects (which have their own sets of problems).
Uber Is Making NYC Gridlock Worse
Bad memories of forcing myself to slog through his writings in high school.
How does Hacker news work?
Many of them also drive for Lyft, so probably not.
It's 'X' for EXTREEEEEEME Reality!
Ahh, that does sound better.
> Outside of Slack

Slack has a standalone app? I've only ever used the web version. What more does it do?

> Discord

Likewise, I never even realized Discord had a non-browser implementation.

> WhatsApp

I never even realized that WhatsApp had a non-mobile implementation.

> they definitely need native access to local APIs

Which ones?

> And now they are arguably failing to push it to themselves

Er, the whole point of Mozilla is to champion standards-based web tech. They're rewriting their UI using CSS/HTML/JS because this is feasible today, whereas it wasn't in 2005. So I ask again, why would Mozilla want to retain XUL instead of making web technologies more powerful?
Furti in casa a Milano, scegli la serratura che ti fa stare sicuro in casa
Even if it was Justin Bieber? Instead of "One small step for the man...", we'd have Justin singing "baby, baby, baby..." to promote his latest album.
"Moloch is exactly what the history books say he is. He is the god of child sacrifice, the fiery furnace into which you can toss your babies in exchange for victory in war.

He always and everywhere offers the same deal: throw what you love most into the flames, and I can grant you power."
Observing forced narratives and manipulation of public opinion on /r/btc
Uber senior vice president is ousted due to sexual harasment claim at Google
Meanwhile police in a murder case are preparing to take Amazon to court for Echo records. On the privacy front, there's just no saving people, but the IoT brings the magic of invading privacy together with furnishing botnets with millions of new bots!

We're screwed coming and going, and the vast majority still look at you like a woodland hermit if you suggest that you shouldn't have anything listening to you in your home.
Amazon had its up and down. See where it has gone today, dominating in multiple areas, while barely profitable.
We've got launch capability, and we've launched solar sails before.
One Book for Five Boroughs (#OneBookNY)
Downvote me if you want but refer to page 6[0] and see that Solar beats subsidy-less Advanced Coal costs in LCOE.

[0]http://www.eia.gov/outlooks/archive/aeo15/pdf/electricity_ge...

I wonder if that's even taking into account the unacknowledged costs of petro-carbon emissions into the atmosphere.
Trumps going to space!
You are likely confusing Magic Leap with Leap Motion, which is specifically a tool to aid in Augmented Virtuality.
Not really. It is just a method for getting - and processing - feedback.

You aren't taking all suggestions, just the ones that 9 or 10 out of 10 agreed was bad. 6-8 complain? consider changing it. Not that you have to or anything.

With these categories, it is more likely that you didn't write something clearly enough for others to have your understanding of the subject. Maybe it doesn't make sense or whatever. Either way, edits are needed.

And this holds true even if you are writing non-fiction about a somewhat niche subject. If your intended audience doesn't get it, you won't sell to the tiny group you are aiming at.
The funny thing is that we'll probably get around to detonating some nuclear weapons, but I doubt it will be in a controlled attempt to avert catastrophe. More like it will be the final act in a series of wars over resources and migration (although who knows how it will be couched politically/popularly). When one group is up against a wall called "annihilation", they'll push the button.
in my opinion, the last iteration of FFOS looked pretty good. Granted, apps were not there, no shocker. I thought they did a great job with it design wise though, and it had some neat features. I think if it was done 5 years ago it'd been a game changer for linux on the desktop.
This exact issue occurred with TLS 1.2 back when BlueCoat only understood 1.1/1.0.

Good grief! From David Benjamin's final comment:

Note these issues are always bugs in the middlebox products. TLS version negotiation is backwards compatible, so a correctly-implemented TLS-terminating proxy should not require changes to work in a TLS-1.3-capable ecosystem. It can simply speak TLS 1.2 at both client <-> proxy and proxy <-> server TLS connections. That these products broke is an indication of defects in their TLS implementations.

It's understandable that I've never heard of BlueCoat: clearly this product's success is based more on selling to executives than on quality, and it has been some time since I worked in an organization that had executives to sell to.
Presumably ones that are themselves being abused/in an abusive environment, as mentioned all over the article? Plus, of course, the ones perpetuating that culture, but I doubt those were the ones whose silence you were shocked by.
I want to know what the insurance company of the private citizens says to this.
The reason why Airbnb and Uber are working is because they found a loophole with the law and skirting around it as much as they can. So are you going to fire the guy for doing that?
Yeah, except ChromeOS is shipped with ubuntu 15.04 i think, and its heavily modified, and you don't have regular access to the greater file system, and the front end isn't really rendered out from blink/chrome, i don't believe.
You only buy them when you can't fit your problem into one server (i.e. not enough memory or I/O) or you need redundancy (multipath I/O, synchronised memory). In those cases they can be a lot quicker/cheaper/more reliable than trying to solve it with more computers, protocols and ethernet.
>It sounds like the abuse is pretty universal, from the article: "It was normal for guys to refer to other guys as fags when they didn't participate in private parties where sex and drugs were involved."

Full disclosure, I work at Uber.

I have been staying out of this until now, but this point particularly grinds my gears.

If I heard anything remotely like what was discussed in this article you bet your ass I'm going to speak up. I know people do not speak of me, but watching my entire company be vilified is a bit difficult and hard to not take personally. I work with a lot of fantastic engineers that would not tolerate anything remotely like the behavior outlined in this article for a second. That's the problem with gigantic companies though, things often happen in dark corners that aren't apparent to the rest of the organization. People want to conflate specific incidents with the state of the entire company.

I had one opportunity to speak up when my female teammate was being discriminated against, and I took it. It wasn't even blatant either, the guy could easily defend himself and say it's not a sexism thing, but that's what it was. He's a massive jackass too, but you can't fire people on the spot for being a massive jackass without a lot of evidence to back it up. I did my part.

I cannot speak for anybody else, but I can tell you in my corner of the Uber world I take this shit very seriously, and so does everybody else I work with. The bullshit that is going on is not representative of my team, and it's very very hard to not take this personally.

The problem I have is that everybody wants to chime in with how awful Uber is like they know something I don't. Now I'll admit, there's a lot I don't know about working at Uber, as I only know my corner of the company. If I'm saying that what does that say about everybody else? Do these people think for a second that I would have stuck around and stuck it out if I saw this bullshit going on first hand?

I'm not going to be the one that stands up and defends leadership, or HR, or whomever else, they can speak for themselves just as I speak for myself.
I guess in future, TLS upgrades will be opt-in?
You are repeatedly raising a non sequitur ("ooo, look, companies use PR to make it sound like they are good places to work") and using it to gloss over the fact that the stories emerging from Uber are bizarre and out of the norm. I'm beyond caring whether or not you are just simulating stupidity here.
How did he go from rewriting Google's search algorithm to managing an entire engineering workforce at Uber? That seems like a crazy shift from maker to manager.
I've stood up for someone in that kind of conversation. Our boss was yelling at a colleague in an inappropriate way. I interrupted to defend the guy. Our boss said, "If you don't feel like you need to be here, you should leave the room." I left the room. No adverse consequences to my job, as far as I can tell.

I suppose I could have stayed, but I also figured my colleague could stand up for himself. He's not a pushover.
"In some competition optimizing for X, the opportunity arises to throw some other value under the bus for improved X. Those who take it prosper. Those who don’t take it die out. Eventually, everyone’s relative status is about the same as before, but everyone’s absolute status is worse than before. The process continues until all other values that can be traded off have been – in other words, until human ingenuity cannot possibly figure out a way to make things any worse."

Insightful and depressing.
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> if everyone hates the current system, who perpetuates it?

I have a pet theory that is slowly becoming a personal religion of sorts. (Disclaimer: only accreditations are a biochem degree over a decade ago, and this armchair.) It involves a belief that at each level of organization -- atomic, cellular, organismal, societal (which in itself has something of an interesting fractalness) structures try to arrange themselves such that they have "access to the maximum possible future opportunity space"[1][2]. When each structure at every level is operating in such a way, structures tend toward centralization as some parts of the whole become more powerful, and the whole at the next higher level of organization becomes more effective. And so we tend to create hierarchy and oppress our fellow man, for the same reason that our brain cell oppresses and rends subordinate the skin cell of the finger. And so oppression is systemic, almost a law of nature. Decentralization and equality is not what the universe tends toward.

But we can perhaps be clever, and create the society we want and value. It would be a rare organism, in many ways crippled, like a slime-mold among eukaryotes.

So if perhaps centralization and growth (ie control of largest possible future opportunity space) is expected as a physical law of sorts, then the trick would be to create a niche that preserves our value system -- we'd need to engage in systems design that allowed our society to exist is a "test harness", where we get to /feel/ like we're fulfilling desires for these things, but are somehow prevented from engaging in the behaviour that we have subjectively decided (at a societal level) will lead to bad outcomes. I dunno, just riffing here ;)

[1]: https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_wissner_gross_a_new_equation_...

[2]: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170126-information-theory-a...
I agree with you, yet I wonder how many here who also agree put their money where their mouth is? If we're all still living here and investing here, we'll just be like any other group of intelligent people who will have seen the broad strokes coming, but are still caught by surprise.
https://www.statnews.com/2016/12/19/patients-female-physicia...

>Public health researchers at Harvard found that elderly patients were less likely to die or be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days if treated by female doctors rather than male. The study doesn’t explain why this happens, but prior studies have found that female doctors tend to spend more time with patients, communicate better, and follow clinical guidelines more often than their male colleagues.
If that isn't what you believe you aren't clearly expressing what you do believe and what responsibilities people, particularly senior people do have.

Most who come forward aren't asking for sympathy but reporting what has happened to them. What I would ask is for you to stand up if you witness inappropriate behaviour.

Some may want the abuse recognised but they all wish they weren't victims. Going public is tough, main reasons to do it are to protect others by either changing the organisation or just waning likely victims away. You stating "Is not remotely true" does not a reasonable argument make, at least put some description behind your opposing thesis.
Do you expect your chip to maintain its performance/watt advantage over Intel CPUs and GPUs on multi-threaded integer only code that is bottlenecked by memory random access latency?
And if so, would you be willing to try a small benchmark of that type?
I'm the biggest fan of Elon there is, I'm pretty sure, but this still makes me nervous.

The timescale is bullshit-- the past two failures have both pushed things back a ways, and at this point I'm not optimistic there won't be more failures soon (although I strongly believe they'll succeed completely in the long term regardless). Things would have to go perfectly for this timescale to actually happen.

But what really makes me nervous is the thought of it going wrong and people dying. That would be pretty terrible. I feel like they need to do a lot more testing before they can send anyone around the moon in a mere 18-20months. That's just too soon. F9 is still having confusing failures after years in service. Falcon Heavy hasn't even flown once yet, nor Dragon 2.
I'd pay extra for it. Not sure if Apple cares enough, but maybe they do.
I dont know how you build a startup that "leaves money on the table". Maybe as a coop?

The infinite growth trap is what leads to Marx's critique of capitalism. Since that is on the list of verboten ideas we need to come up with a new language that says the same thing so that people can hear it without freaking out.
On a related note, the concept of "underpromise and overdeliver" is useful to internalize here. Delivering a product early / below budget after a high estimate is usually a lot better than delivering a product late / above budget after a low estimate.
> They tend to say "mind" because they want to abstract over the actual hardware--they're interested in studying what happens in the skull, not how it is implemented.

Yes, but asking what isn't science by itself, which tries to say how a particular observation came about.

Also, psychologists don't really know what's happening inside our skulls. Studying the mind can't tell us what the brain is doing or how, any more than a computer display can tell us how a CPU works -- for the latter, we need access to the source, not its external manifestation.

* If I say, “The night sky is filled with tiny points of light,” I've offered a description. Another observer might contradict my description, for example by emerging from his cave on an overcast night and not seeing any points of light, but the contradicting observation can itself be contradicted on the next clear night, without any chance for resolution. So, apart from being shallow, inconclusive and trivial, it's not science.

* If I say, “Those points of light are distant thermonuclear furnaces like our sun,” I've offered an explanation, one that makes predictions about phenomena not yet observed and that's falsifiable by empirical test. On the basis of this explanation we might build a small-scale star (a fusion reactor) to see if our experiment shows any similarity to the spectra and behavior of stars. This deep explanation represents a theoretical claim that's linked to other areas of human knowledge, predicts phenomena not yet observed and is conclusively falsifiable by comparison with reality (our fusion reactor might fail to imitate the stars). It's science.

> This doesn't make it any less scientific ...

But it does -- one cannot falsify an observation, one can only contradict it.

> This doesn't make it any less scientific than a biologist who studies where birds fly ...

If the biologist only records where the birds flew, it's not science. If he crafts a testable, falsifiable theory about why the birds flew there, that might be science. Science is about crafting theories that go beyond simple observation, that explain them and suggest new phenomena not yet observed.
I'm perfectly happy if my profit-motive multinational corporation doesn't feign having 'corporate values' on its website.
How I built this is not a tech podcast but I think there is a lot of good lessons to learn.
How do you show a warning?

The main thing that a warning would need to do is to shut off the power (especially since there's no guarantee that the device is attended at that moment) and the display+circuitry to drive it require nontrivial power.
The long-term solution is simply not to work anywhere that insists on running a MITM attack on all of your communications.
Rise up people and take action. Boycott uber and let them fail. As others have said, there are plenty of other companies in the space ready to fill the void. #deleteuber
Here is a screenshot I took: http://i.imgur.com/FDWQh3o.png
RoguelikeRadio -- if you're into that kind of thing.
If you have a few hours (or days) free, go through the rest of Fabien's source code reviews and articles. It's fantastic stuff. I really hope he does finish up the book he's writing on the Wolfenstein 3D engine.
I'm gonna go ahead and get the last word in here. I've got the nagging suspension you're just trolling.
Google: We're puzzled Windows 10 Edge, IE flaw hasn't been patched by Microsoft
TFA:

We found several layers of buried soils. Two of them look especially promising. They show that thousands of years ago the climate in the region of Verkhoyansk was the same as it is now, and even warmer.
> I'm saying that regardless of if it's real or not, the point here is that if it was it wouldn't surprise us …

It would certainly surprise me. I simply cannot imagine working with the sort of folks Amy describes. I'm not saying that such folks don't exist — it's a big world — but that I have never in my almost two decades of work in our field run into them.

Now, maybe that means I haven't run into them. I can accept that. And maybe it means that Uber is particularly bad in this regard. I can also accept that.

I don't know if this story is true or false: I honestly don't. It's probably worth investigating; certainly, after Susan Fowler put her name on some allegations of despicable behaviour it probably is.

If there are pockets of our field where this is considered normal, they need to be eliminated. But it does not accord at all with my experience of trends in our field.
That'd be hard to find in a public company, let alone private.