skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may just want to try Andrews original ML course. There is some introductory calculus and linear algebra early on that is solidified through the 11 weeks, and it is all in context. I didn't come into that course cold, but it had been 18 years since I took any calculus and didn't remember much...but everything I needed was taught there. The good thing about the ML course is that if a concept is taught, you know exactly what the context is and can do some further research on the side through youtube, Kahn academy, or other resources.

If you had high school algebra, then with some rigor you could get through the ML course and walk away with a great foundation.
Sounds great. Pre family I would have applied
That has a release date years after the NES and seems to have been similar to and used as a development platform for 68k-based arcades. It's completely different hardware, much more powerful than a NES but too slow to sensibly emulate one.
Run a power cable from the pole. Put a mirror in orbit. Put a nuclear reactor on the moon (don't have to worry about safety issues, which should lighten it considerably).
But I guess there is some upper bound of connected nodes, or covered grid area, where it makes sense to break the grid up into sub grids, and make those sub grids self-sustainable? E.g. voltage losses over huge distances would force you to transmit with high voltage to faraway subgrids, and require additional transformer stations; not to speak of the line losses. I think you could eliminate those by giving each node cluster (residential area) its own closed grid. Perhaps emergency needs (like a rock concert in your neighborhood) could someday be covered by long distance laser or EM transmission from other grids, without using a landline that makes power management so difficult (because when interconnected, all grids would have to coordinate their combined consumption).
Good engineers solve problems well.

Excellent engineers solve better problems.

Usually it's a long path from something a customer wants (or actually needs) to finding an appropriate implementation (if there even exists one). Many things can go wrong along the way and miscommunication happens in both directions.
Preparing for the Production Engineer Interview
My experience with designers is that it takes a lot of revisions to get stuff right. A single project will have dozens of emails back and forth. If a response really takes 4 working days, that doesn’t sound very useful — unless you aren’t picky and will accept whatever the designer sends you (which in my experience usually isn’t even close to the quality of the work in their portfolio)
A witty saying proves nothing -Voltaire
> Maybe until we explored a bit more, than a few areas on the surface? Mars is HUGE.

That's true. But life does have a way of spreading around. And beware of constantly shifting the goal posts.
"Going forward, I’ve asked that every injury be reported directly to me, without exception"

Does no one else see how this is an intimidation tactic?
Not legal advise, just from my experience:

CA is an at will employment state, they can terminate you for any reason and do not have to disclose. If there is evidence it is due to discrimination though, you likely have a case. The other reason you may have a case for is if they terminated you so they don't vest your shares, but they are offering you accelerated vesting so that doesn't seem to be the case. IMHO negotiate a better severance (e.g. 1 month pay + vested options for the time you worked there before leave)

Re: fair severance -- IMO A fair value in proportion to your material contributions to your business. 2-8 weeks pay + possibly accelerated vesting

Last and most important, if you really care about pursuing this talk to a lawyer before answering anything from them.
It intended for OS X and iOS developers, which use the official supported debugger, lldb.
Planes have multiple systems available (within the plane and without) that can stop the plane (relatively) safely even in the event of a brake failure.

Reverse thrust on your engines is one of them, spoilers are another (not only do they increase the effectiveness of the brakes by putting more of the aircraft weight on them, but they also increase drag), and even if the aircraft gets to the end of the runway, at most international airports they have an overrun area called a runway safety area which is essentially like driving your car into a sand bank.

EDIT: Picture: http://theinfrastructureshow.com/images/70.jpg
Whether you intended to troll with this comment or not, it's so far disconnected from the actual topic of conversation and dismissive of the people involved that the effect is the same.

Please post civilly and substantively on Hacker News or not at all.
I know nothing of the industry, so everything that follows is guesswork.

I'd say airlines are a sweet spot because we are probably near a technological local-optimum. We are not constantly evolving new paradigms for the industry, rather just incrementally improving the old one.

If post-mortem culture in the industry results in "fighting the last war", then that probably does little harm, at worst it adds in incremental cost. In the mean-time there is still incremental techonolgical improvment giving us more head-room in the cost vs. safety trade-off.
For comment points dropping and rising, I am not positive on this but what I've heard is that we're sometimes witnessing fake accounts get banned off the site and their votes being retracted.

I've had bug negative votes on posts suddenly pop back up almost instantly. In threads on this subject, it happens an awful lot. I suspect people are availing themselves of various vote purchasing schemes to amplify their points.
> Different situations call for different approaches.

This leads to a situation of growing chaos where not everybody can understand what everybody else does. Your engineers are no longer easily replaceable and creating interacting systems gets growingly complicated.

Mix this in with limited time and resources of management, it's easier to give out guidelines than to deal with the mess that'll be created when loosening the leashes.

(It all totally depends on the situation, though.)
Unless you're in a country where the licensing disagrees. Or a label chooses not to sell a catalog to you.

Music does work a little differently. You pay per play, vs. TV you're paying for a catalog.
How to determine a protein’s shape
The only justice at this point that can equalize the situation is an eye for an eye. Cops that kill innocent people are guilty of murder and should be executed. The death penalty should apply to all public officials, cops and prosecutors especially, when they murder someone like in this story. They should be held to a higher standard than everyone else in society, not lower. Without an independent investigation and extremely harsh punishments, this situation will never even begin to be fixed. I'm tired of all this apologizing for police murders. We need to fix the incentive system, which now incentivizes police to not care and shoot first. These days, when I read about police being killed, I feel no empathy. At least the score is somewhat evened out. After all, I'm certain police feel no empathy for the innocent people they murder. I can't feel empathy for people in a profession whose stated goal is only their safety at the expense of anything and everyone else, people that society entrusts with great power for the greater good. If they can't be public servants and shoulder such responsibility, they should find other jobs before they murder innocent people. I fear police more than I fear anything else. It's a rational, justified fear in the US. This is definitely not justice. This is definitely not serving. This is definitely not protecting.
> The Google engineer who was fired last week over his memo wrote that most women were biologically unsuited to working in tech because they were more focused on “feelings and aesthetics than ideas” and had “a stronger interest in people rather than things.” Many scientists have said he got the biology wrong. But the job requirements of today’s programmers show he was also wrong about working in tech.

But... he didn't get it wrong. Collaboration and social skills are extremely valuable in tech, sure. But they aren't the primary focus of the job. If I were someone more interested in people than things (not saying that women are), I wouldn't want to work in an industry where the primary objective is to make a thing, regardless of how cooperatively the thing was made.
Steam is a great example, licensing seems to be pretty universal most of the times allowing games in most countries. Music is a little harder and TV/movies are a lot harder.

The music business is much more on board than TV/Movies. But TV/Movies still have a lot of leverage.
> You can see how quickly automation has replaced human labor while waiting to buy milk.

What do you mean by this? I (and most people I know) go through the self-checkout lanes. My trip to the grocery store from entering, selecting my products, purchasing them, and leaving, never causes me to interact with anyone.

Maybe you mean the "behind the scenes" stuff like people stocking the items? I don't know how that works at grocery stores but would be interested to learn.
Needlessly harsh. This guy started his project way before current large scale energy storage was even being considered. He genuinely tried to do his best to minimise his footprint.

It's so easy to read the story from the comfort of your chair and criticise, isn't it?
Video tag pointing to an MP4 will use byte range requests in chrome, which is pseudo streaming. For real streaming look into something like rtmp or hls, which does require js in some browsers. The main difference is one can handle live feeds the other cannot to my knowledge. Also real streaming has adaptive bitrate (switch to lower quality to avoid stuttering and buffering). The distinction between streaming and pseudo streaming is blurry. My litmus test is it can it handle live feeds? Html5 video tag cannot without hacks, per my understanding

Our app does something like this by loading an image with an xhr then immediately requesting the next image when the previous one finishes
The levels in Braid that have time moving forward and backwards as you move left and right are the closest thing I've seen to "experiencing" space-time where time is a dimension. As you think hard enough about the puzzles, you can imagine moving in time the way you move in space, treating it as just another dimension.
I guess I'll just have to face it.
> One of the best headhunters I ever worked with had been a programmer before he found his way into the world of recruiting. That was back in the 1980s and I have no idea what became of him but I wish that he could be cloned.

Should I try to get into recruiting? Can I do this as a side gig? I'm sure that if I'm successful, it will do wonders to my social ability... Any thoughts anyone? How does one get started with this? Just talk to recruiters?
Still doesn't work.

touch 'file with spaces'
for file in $(ls -Q); do echo "$file"; done

This prints:

"file
with
spaces"
Solar doesn't work as well in WA State as in other areas. For that reason, we've been using hydroelectric for decades.
> Peter Thiel, one of the ideological leaders in the Valley, wrote in 2009 on a blog affiliated with the Cato Institute that “since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy’ into an oxymoron.”

> If women should not even have the vote, why should we worry about gender diversity in the engineering ranks?

These two paragraphs read as a microcosm of this whole episode. Think what you may about Peter Thiel, but the quote does not say or even suggest that "women should not even have the vote." It merely points out that as the voting public has been broadened, it has been broadened to include sectors that are not (historically) as amenable to limited-government policies. Therefore, the relative popularity of limited-government policy among the totality of voters has diminished, suggesting that democracy and capitalism are presently at odds. Reading the quote with a reasonable level of charity suggests Thiel would prefer to convince these voters of the appeal of limited-government policy, not revoke their right to vote. Simultaneously, he is also presumably arguing, as many others have, that simply increasing voter turnout does not necessarily lead to better governance.

Can the New York Times point to any quote from Thiel that justifies the implication they have made here: that Thiel believes women should not have the right to vote? Perhaps there is one; I really don't know much about Thiel. But this quote alone isn't it.
Disclaimer: I work at Google Cloud on GKE/Kubernetes.

My personal opinion is that, how closely you're integrating with storage systems (e.g. databases and blob stores) and APIs (e.g. machine learning, pub/sub, load balancing) of the cloud platform you are running on.

Kubernetes already does a great job abstracting the compute infrastructure and networking topology you have on the cloud provider away. There's a lot of work going on in the Kubernetes Service Catalog[1] to make it even more platform-agnostic. With Service Catalog, you will be able to say "I want a Redis instance" and your underlying infrastructure will be able to provide you a Redis instance, you will no longer worry about integrating to GCP, Azure, AWS separately. Service Catalog sounds a lot promising as a step towards eliminating vendor lock-in. That said, it is still a work-in-progress.

Note that none of this offer a migration path for your existing databases etc. But I am seeing that many businesses are able to migrate their compute workloads between platforms and on-prem to the cloud a lot easier compared to the pre-Kubernetes era.

[1] https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/service-catalog
That wasn't about points dropping and rising, it was about a story that would without flags be square on page one clearly being sunk with flags. It was in neighbourhood of stories with either much less points, or that were lots older. Once a month I think of making a scaper just to detect this, to filter out the interesting stories automatically, if you will. The ones that are clearly not spam or such, but still get dropped like a hot potato.
It's Time to Pick a Side
I specifically listed Amazon because they close accounts with no appeals and no reason. Just because you've had a good experience, doesn't mean that's universally so.
This is assuming every store has even bought a self-check station. Many haven't, even though they have been "replacing checker jobs" for over a decade. And stores with self-check still frequently require human interaction for most exceptions:

- The bag you brought is too heavy and confuses the bag sensor.

- Buying age-restricted items.

- Item not in system.

- Coupons.
They pretty obviously can and do. However, explanations of world events quickly get ridiculous when it's posited that there's one such group in charge rather than multiple ones in conflict/competition.
Archive.org is one of the greatest sites in the world right now. The only negative thing that I have to say about it is the retroactive removal of sites that have a anti-bot stance on robots.txt (even if it does not ban archive.org specifically). I would understand if they did not crawl sites that had such a robots.txt but I find the retroactive removal a dangerous policy.
On the one hand, this is a fascinating fnord look into the history; on the other, how much should we believe the sources? It's presented as a factual article, but it would be the very essence of Discordianism for at least one of the named sources not to exist at all...
What re-initiated the conspiracy theory was an Anti-Semetic Illuminati book written by William Carr in 1958 which linked it to the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers.

Also the conspiratorial aspects were real but represented how the Jesuits behaved in 18th century Bavaria. The Illuminati was modeled off the Jesuits and the Rite of Strict Observance, a controversial Masonic lodge that falsely claimed the Freemasons were attributed to the Knights Templar.

The Illuminati ended in 1793 but did have some connections to the moderates of the French Revolution through Bode, Bonneville and Thomas Paine.

The hysteria and exposure of the Illuminati, which was a rationalist secret society fighting for Enlightenment ideals, inspired countless other revolutionaries and secret societies, many Communist in nature.

One of the most famous, was the conspirator, revolutionary and Freemason Philippe Buonarroti. Then there was the OTO and Aleister Crowley, which really had no connection to the Illuminati.

In the 1920s, Milner's Kindergarten did engage in the Cecil Rhodes secret society promoting the Imperial Federation and Round Table movement. That did become the Royal Institte of International Affairs and the Council on Foreign Relations. It was modeled on the Illuminati, but again that was the structure of the political secret society of the Vatican (Jesuits).

Lord Rothschild was involved with Rhodes and Milner but he was against Imperial Federation. Mayer Rothschild was not involved in the Illuminati (all the members were made public) but a few Illuminati members were affiliated with him.

But their philosophy was more akin to Thomas Jefferson and their structure just a political device to promote classical liberalism.

The Illuminati was against the occult, but did reference the Alumbrados and Illumines of France. The core of all the esotericism is mainly from the 14 & 15th century where writers merged ancient Greek philosophy with Jewish mysticism.

The conspiracy today is more an affront to classical liberalism, with ultra wealthy people believing in economic integration. The Establishment today is the complete opposite of what the Illuminati were fighting for.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Guy_Carr

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Buonarroti
What does it mean, "This item is restricted":

https://archive.org/details/aircraftenginesg00kerr_0
Other items that are much older and with fewer points are on the front page. Simplest explanation is that this item is being flagged.

So I'm curious. If you think this doesn't belong here then I'd appreciate hearing why you think that. Submissions about the original memo and the opinions it contained seemed pretty popular, so I thought that having a reasonably senior woman give a response was equally worth having.

If not, why not?
Like good hammers, good wit can be used for evil. After it is how we mock people.

Voltaire, in spite of his other good attributes, was a villain in this regard. He could tell lies about opponents, but he would do it wittily so that the opponents couldn't set the record straight without it seeming that they can't take a joke.
Maybe you should read the article before commenting on it.
Even governments embrace the pun, I saw this registration plate yesterday - http://www.state.nj.us/mvc/Vehicle/ShoreToPlease.htm
Unlikely. The ACX crystal was traveling in a straight line for hundreds of miles before the collision. Just before the collision she made a slight turn to port in order to navigate a narrow straight. Her trajectory was entirely consistent with her destination. There's no indication she didn't know exactly where she was. (And I mean that literally: the ship knew where it was. The evidence indicates that the crew was asleep.)

Reference: http://blog.rongarret.info/2017/06/theres-something-very-odd...
This reminds me of what they supposedly did with Parse which helped them get a better picture of the mobile landscape. It's a very clever strategy - keep buying auxiliary companies who's data can shape strategy. It's yet another advantage of being very large.
The alternative is a situation where you have many meetings for every decision and nothing gets done due to analysis paralysis.

In Finland, there's a concept of management by perkele which I like
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N2S_Gm78SLs
Environmental problems seem intimidating to me because by their very nature they require so much collaboration. My ability to live in a green way is more or less irrelevant to the planet- what matters is whether I can convince large groups of people or policymakers to do the same. Getting everyone on this page seems challenging.
Fairly disappointing article title, but it is true.

Google executives and other management personnel from other tech giants have internal and external fiduciary responsibilities to uphold inside their own organizations. Google firing the engineer is, unfortunately, what many companies would choose to do when faced with the same public dilemma.

And while it sucks, one has to wonder if our outrage at the termination of an outspoken engineer is somehow spawned from an unrealistic expectation placed upon google as the 'good guy'? Or is it from an unrealistic optimism born in the late twentieth century and early twenty first that the internet, and its leading companies, would somehow chart themselves on morally superior course?

In my humble opinion, I am not totally sure google qualifies as a truly private enterprise, and as such they should have a greater interest in the stakeholder. And in that context, our outrage makes much more sense, and is more justified.
In both Tesla and SpaceX it's part of the culture that safety worries are elevated to very high levels very quickly. There was one guy (vet, nontechnical something or other) in SpaceX who was fired for abusing this, but what struck me most about the story was how he was in repeated contact with the technical person directly under Musk before he went directly to Musk himself. It seemed like that had all been fine, and he was only fired after refusing to let it go with Musk (plus IIRC he was basically out of his depth with the issue).

Musk is ultraproductive and works very closely with his employees. Tesla only has two factories; it's on a much more manageable scale than something like Toyota.
I'm not sure to what degree EdX has really "solved" this. My impression is there's quite of range of quality and rigor on EdX as well. And, more centrally, most people still don't see EdX certificates as general substitutes for more conventional educational degrees.
Lifespans of panels and batteries is limited, but so is the lifetime of everything else. Current panels are designed for ~15-20 years lifetime. Wind turbines are designed for 20 years lifetime. Coal power plants are designed for 30 years lifetime.

Of course solar panels pretty much need to be completely replaced while wind turbines and coal plants can be refurbished, but isn't that mainly because solar panels require next to no permanent structures? Refurbishing wind turbines is a thing because support infrastructure and the towers are already standing. Refurbishing coal plants is a thing because they are very complex and buildings are expensive. Solar power consists of next to nothing except the panels, the batteries and a few cables.
What's with the rampant use of nationality / race / ethnicity in a negative context? Is there something special about organized crime from Italy vs elsewhere that it was relevant to point out? Parent post taken out of context doesn't seem so bad, but I challenge you to take a couple hour break from HN and then come back and reread your comments on this thread. If you come back with an open mind, I assure you you'll see what others meant when they suggested you may be racist / colonialist.