skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or disagreeing with them when they're making million-dollar decisions. If the manager is right or wrong, they lose if they're highly-paid senior has a serious concern with a strategic decision. It's safer to just hire a bunch of junior engineers that will be team players.

To be clear, there is a huge win here. And that's hiring good technical leaders and listening and consulting with them on technical strategy, standards, technical employee evaluations, etc. It's actually lower risk and higher reward to do so, but it is more work than telling new hires how to crank out strung-together features on your rule-the-world custom framework.
Over PTC?

Nobody would be going to jail... It's a relatively new technology, and legislation is already in place mandating it be universal by the end of 2018. I find difficulty in faulting either Amtrak or Sound Transit for not yet having 100% coverage -- both are actively rolling it out.

Outside of PTC, multiple safety protocols were violated, with responsibility likely falling to the Engineer and possibly Conductor. In systems not equipped with PTC, the engineer and conductor both are responsible for knowing the allowable speed for a given block of track, with the conductor being responsible for "enforcing" the safe operation of the train -- i.e. yell at, or even remove the engineer from the controls and/or initiate emergency braking.

(This is based on the way CSX operated when I was a freight conductor in '05. Obviously a decade later and a different railroad the responsibility hierarchy probably varies a bit, but I imagine it isn't terribly far off)
I would argue that this kind of social signaling is exceptionally secondary to “can they do the job as expected?”
Interesting that you mention their ERP systems. One of the projects I'm working with right now has been considering integrating with one, as well. Last week, our CTO put together a big list of pros and cons between the different possible integrations for discussion. The top of the list of cons was "Oracle owns them".
Wealth might not be a zeronsum game, but we need to prevent someone to play it as such.

Imagine an economy where wealth is accumulated more and more to a few, then even the total wealth grows, how everyone enjoy them equally? If not equally, the inequality soon will make wealth zero sum anyway.
Not true, it's just changed. Now you are expected to come to work sandals jeans and a t-shirt. If you have the gall to wear a button up and kakis, oh the horror! I've personally been judged for "dressing up" in inexpensive button ups and kakis. So I ended up dressing down.
I do hope the hackers with business aspirations (entree prawn yuers? something like that?) can see this as equivalent to a vulnerability write-up. Send a packet wrapped in fine wool, and you can get past all firewalls, without ever touching a keyboard! Like goddamn magic!
You can't really know that except for a few publicized ones. Those "transactions" you see are simply transfers. They "could" be a transfer to someone in exchange for USD. Or, as they are in almost all cases, they are transfers from one wallet to another both owned by the same person or exchanges that are holding large amounts of BTC moving money around internally as well.
FYI the Mars demo is garbage. I suggest trying out Fragments for a better feel for the capabilities of the device.
You're being sarcastic, but...

A company of entirely 20-something dudes is not going to generate any sympathy. If there's a problem, it's not going to generate headlines or blow up outside the walls.
“Not true, it’s just changed.”

...so you mean out of style?
"Understanding the redneck philosophy..."

o...m...g... do I read it now or wait and read it later? Which will be funnier?
Apple admits it slows older iPhones, confirming Geekbench report
That's an awfully loose definition of "high speed". Metro North averages about 37 mph and LIRR about 31 mph[1]. The only high speed rail in the US is Acela and even that is pretty slow for high speed rail.

[1] https://pedestrianobservations.com/2015/07/26/why-labor-effi...
> ...about 70% of my knowledge today will be outdated in 5 years...

I've been around for a while. Some knowledge has become useless, but I learned how to sniff out technology that's going nowhere and avoid it. Since then, I've rarely wasted my learning on things that become obsolete.

Besides, the most valuable knowledge is typically how product managers, salespeople, and people that set budgets think. That knowledge evolves much slower than javascript frameworks.
Instead of tacking up a black piece of paper on the wall wouldn't it be better to just hang a monitor there? Flat panel monitors get larger, thinner, sharper, and cheaper every year. It's a lot easier to collaborate with colleagues when you can both look at the same physical monitor.
You’d have to be a PR agency to be able to write something like that quickly, er, wait...
But what? Finish your statement.
Oddly enough, in stuffy industries not adhering to the dress code is a strong social signal that you're good enough to be able to flaunt it.

I used to work in telecoms consulting, which is fairly buttoned up: usually dress shirts, slacks and nice shoes, although us engineers were permitted to dispose of the tie and open the top button. But the best engineer in my company -- the guy who'd be flown in by private jet when needed because the billing systems were dropping $1m/hour on the floor -- maintained a steady uniform of ripped jeans, ratty T-shirts and permanent 3-day stubble, and the clients would always fall over themselves with gratefulness when he showed up. Not because of what he wore, of course, but because he was "the real deal" and very good at actually fixing problems, instead of talking about them.
So you know there's no correction between dress and ability but you're going to assume that people who wear suits are bad at their job? Seems like a poorly supported assumption.
On the one hand, being able to control spotify on any device, from any device is nice. On the other hand, it's kind of bullshit that they don't allow at least 2 simultaneous streams. Two is too few to password share meaningfully, but it would save the hassle of my roommate having to log into his account to play music in the living room because I'm listening in my room.
They must be joking... right?
Sounds like you've never been there.
I spent some time right outside Amsterdam (in Haarlem), and you can easily get a couple kids and a baby on a bike(in a bakfiets). You can easily carry all the diapers and baby feed you need for an outing in a stroller which is all you really need because nearly everything you could want is within walking distance.

-had 2 kids at the time(nearly 3 and 6 months), as well as cousins in town(same age) that we took on the bike as well, not that we used it that much, mostly to go out to another town like Zaanvoort on the coast (11 km away) or to the train station if we were going somewhere further.

Also, every single kid of school age got themselves to school by bike, so the whole pick up/drop up culture of North America wasn't happening.
Awesome! I'm not in a living situation which would allow me to have an AutoMicroFarm set up, but I've been following the project for a few years and really interested to see how things are going.
Queue class action lawsuits.
That's the point: it should be, but it's not.
Internal Twitter Email Show They've No Idea What Verification's Supposed to Mean
I just assumed it meant both. On the off topic though, I've always liked: "Words without actions lack credibility; Actions without words lack clarity." - John Stott.
It's unusual to use topical anti-inflammatories in the US, but in other countries they are common and available with non-hemorrhoid branding.
Given the OP's reply, I don't think that's what he meant so I would be careful about making statements on behalf of others.

Apparently Firefox is sitting at 6.1% market share right now[0]. Far behind Chrome and Safari but still quite significant.

[0] https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2017/11/21/mozilla-market-s...
Keep in mind that Amtrak had tested the route and conducted numerous practice runs prior to this accident. None of those practice rules ended with derailments. It is unfortunate that on the first day that this route was operated with passengers, some kind of mistake was made and the train exceeded the speed limit. Obviously there is not much more that can be said about what happened until the NTSB report is published. New passenger services are introduced without incident on a fairly regular basis.

I have no idea how popular Cascades is between Portland and Seattle, or how many people would choose to take that train rather than drive on I-5.

As for fatality numbers, here is one study that tries to extract an apples-to-apples comparison of different transit modes, from 2010 (before PTC had been installed or activated on many routes):

http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~ipsavage/436.pdf

Trains are safer than cars according to those numbers. There may be some nuances involving how fatalities are being reported; for example, whether or not we should count fatalities involving trespassers being struck by trains. Regardless, it seems pretty clear that yes, if more people took trains instead of driving, fewer people would die. If you know of a better way to make the comparison I would love to see it.

I am not suggesting that we should not be critical of train safety. There is a long history of railroads killing people and there are good reasons for many of the safety regulations applied to trains. The reason passenger rail is so safe is that so many regulations are in place. For the same reason, it is hard to see why spending billions of dollars to install one more safety system makes sense, especially when there is a competing mode of transit that is far less safe.
Under US anti-discrimination laws, _any_ group identified by one of those characteristics is a protected group, with the notable exception of age. For example, laws against sexual discrimination protect men as well as women.

In practice, it is unlikely to be enforced for some groups.
Not being prepared for different rules in different states seems like a big miss.

cracks fingers, leans back, sighs back to hating on Uber. Everything is in it's right place
Seems tougher to do estimation specifically for motorcyclists.

Some areas allow lane splitting, others don't. Some riders are on tourers that can't hop through traffic but can maintain highway speeds comfortably, others ride single-cylinder dual sport bikes that can't maintain 60 without taking a physical toll on the rider. And every rider has a slightly different risk tolerance, which translates to different behavior in traffic. I personally don't mind lane splitting between two semi trucks cruising abreast at highway speed, but I get anxious squeezing through cramped city traffic. And I slow down considerably anywhere a SMIDSY might happen, even if I have the right of way.

Also, it may be difficult for Google to identify who is riding a motorcycle from location data alone, which is what they would use to generate the motorcycle estimations. Not sure how they would do it...maybe using accelerometer/gyro data to identify inward leans during turns? The assumption being that cars will lean outwards, while bikes will lean inwards.
I speak at a lot of technical events even though I come from the product management/marketing side. The standard business casual--khakis and button-down oxford shirts--had felt comfortable to me forever. These days I feel I really should ratchet things down to a "tribal" T-shirt or at least a polo so I don't seem so generically corporate at many events.

I almost never wear a tie these days though except for certain big stage events.
Khronos Group Launches the Neural Network Exchange Format
I believe that far right is the old SpaceX BFR design, and 2nd from right is the new BFR design.
> Although corporate insurance for companies the size of AT&T is generally self funded

When I worked there (long time ago), that wasn’t the case, but seems you are correct now anyway.

http://att.jobs/media/151345/Benefits-Overview-Management_01...
Yep, dress to the social norms. If your company and the onsite people differ then wear what everyone else is wearing and hang a suit up if you have to visit the brass.

At one point in my life, a person showing up wearing a suit was a big warning (e.g. government worker). I then went to work at a place that took its dress code a bit seriously[1].

Although, if a person is with a consulting company that is in the business of pushing out IT employees expect them to all wear suits and convince your management that they are serious workers and you are sloppy workers. The management tribe likes suits.

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3015677#3015969
Relatively new technology... that’s been around since the 50s.

And what you’re saying is backwards thinking. The problem isn’t that the old way of driving trains isn’t perfect. We already know that.

The problem is we still have humans driving the trains. In 2017. It’s ridiculous.
As an aside, many of the LED bike headlamps I have seen (just like LED car headlamps and most LED hiking/camping lights) are unpleasant and a safety hazard. They are very bright in the blue part of the spectrum, which means they cause severely distracting/blinding glare for anyone else on the road, and knock out people's night vision. Personally I think they should be heavily regulated and forced to be less bright and maybe larger or more diffuse, with a more night-appropriate spectral power distribution.
These kinds of posts are downright bizarre to me.

The only explanation I can see is if you've never had to walk nor bike around, only drive, and only talk to other people who also grumble "fucking cyclists" when they realize they have to share the road with them.

> German car owners fear nothing more than damages

Well, cyclists and pedestrians have to fear bodily injury from all collisions. You yourself admit that automobile drivers have such little skin in the game that they primarily fear the inconvenience of damage.
> If a user can't get to the same information on any device then the design ain't working.

Another explanation: sometimes the device really is too small for the information. Mobile devices are terrible for a lot of things. People with laptop or desktop computers shouldn't pay a price for that. "Mobile first" is okay in some cases as long as it isn't "mobile on every device".
What's new for Chrome debugging in VS Code
Try your best to step back and appreciate the differences between healthcare coverage and apps.
Sick. What model. How is it?
For me that screamed, "I've been sued for this because I was an ass about it but won because technically being an ass, by itself, isn't illegal"
Wait, weren't they discredited for fraudulent demos about a year back?
No of course not. Anyone can buy either magazine. Those two examples are completely different.

In the magazine case you are taking out an advertisement with no ability to discriminate. In the Facebook case there is a specific setting based on age to show job ads. Job seekers over the age of 40 are protected so this is discrimination against a protected class. The problem is not that young people were targeted, the problem is that those over 40 were not.
It's an almost daily occurrence to see a parent riding their bike full of kids in Leiden or Amsterdam.
By extension they could be saying that convergence is likely to incentivize creation of those mediocre experiences.
Why aren't more people talking about this? iPhones are wildly popular and this is a gigantic confirmation of something the public has suspected for years.
Amazon InfoSec Chief and Former Justice, DHS Officials Join Bittrex Crypto Exhange
Facebook has a setting where you can enter the age of a person for a job posting and they even have a special site for job ads. It's not comparable. Craigslist does not market a platform that explicitly says "target prostitution ads at people who are looking for prostitutes". What Facebook is doing is far more explicit and they are clearly aware of what is happening because they built functionality to do it specifically.
A Tandy Bear Christmas (1987 Demo)
As a Dutchie with no kids I must kindly disagree with you. Go to any Dutch city and you will see tons of parents riding on bikes with their kids. It's common to see 1 adult and 2 kids on the same bike.
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The ultimate goal of advertising is to target the people most likely to take an interest in what you are offering. What if it is simply that, statistically speaking, younger people are more likely to be looking for work or willing to change jobs?

I certainly don't have data in front of me, but it seems like a reasonable assumption in my mind. The youngest people just starting their careers are highly likely to be looking for work, naturally. Slightly older people often start looking to change jobs to move into higher paying roles. And by the time someone is moving beyond 40 they have reached the top of their career mobility and are happy to stay put at their current employer, plus an increasing unwillingness to uproot their family to move to a new town for a different job. There are always exceptions, of course.

If, for argument's sake, we assume this is true, I can completely understand why they would only want to target those under 40. Statistically, the ads shown to anyone else are just a plain waste of money.
The hardware is nice. The mini PCIe appears to be temperamental depending on which board you've used and there's little to no support from the vendor - they seem to have released everything, then disappeared.
Is it someplace you'd recommend living for a few months? From the US, always looking for new, interesting places to work remote from.
Agile is cargo cult. Customers are not agile to your fuckups. Competitors are not agile to your "scope creep". You know what is the current most agile company in software? Microsoft. You know why? Because no matter how much it fucked up its business is so huge and so vast that it did not matter. It makes money. But even Microsoft is starting to feel the need to deliver as otherwise it is going to become IBM or Xerox.
It turns out I didn't imagine this. It's one of my earliest memories. I had an old Tandy 1000HX demo unit Radio Shack sold at a discount when it was time for new things.
Yeah, they generally tend to be gameplay/engine specific. Much in the same way that you wouldn't want to use an open world(heavy emphasis on streaming, instancing) for a fighting game(no frame drops ever, 60 fps) and vice-versa.

Usually they get broken down into a couple discreet subsystem:

1. Particle systems - Pooled, fixed size.

2. Per-level/region entity pooling - Tuned based on encounter.

3. Strings, etc - Usually preallocated to avoid fragmentation.

4. Ring/command buffers - Again, fixed size and mostly preallocated. Generally used for rendering and job systems.

There's a couple other case I'm missing and as always a lot of this is also biased not only towards avoiding allocation but also arranging data in memory in such a way that it's friendly to your L1/L2 cache(things accessed sequentially laid out in memory sequentially, SoA/AoS and all that good stuff).

There's a lot of really impressive engineering that goes into things like allocation, in-place loading, seek-free loading(less so now with caching to HDD) and the like.
Customers are unhappy, but ignorant of the causes of their unhappiness.
Probably I'm missing something but I don't see this as a hard problem to solve because LCDs work by controlling the transparency of a pixel to let trough more or less background light and OLEDs don't need the background light to emit color so combining both you can have controlled transparency behind the color emitting pixels.
Well, we are still stuck with a C++98 API... some parts of the x86_64 core code in the kernel, since that's only ever compiled with GCC5+ use C++11, but by and large we're still C++98.

(The Be API used almost none of the STL, so it doesn't really make a massive amount of difference to us. <functional> would be of use in event handling code, as well as a few other new language keywords and the like, but by and large we'd be unaffected.)
I've done digging of my own to do the same Google search tricks and found that you can just connect to a websocket and get a live stream of the questions, possible answers as well as every chat message in the feed. OCR not required.

I was also considering using the chat messages to get the answer. People are either going to mostly say the right answer to sound smart or mostly send the wrong answers to try to trick people. Keep track of which is most common and you have an additional datapoint.
Sometimes that's just consulting. Your goal is always to make your company look good to the client. You already flew out and forfeited your week to be on site for those sweet sweet billable hours. You have to be done by Friday because that's when you go home, so you get out of the client's office at 6-7 (always after your boss leaves), and you have the choice to sit in your hotel room bored or keep going. You finish working at 3am, but have to be in before your boss looking fresh, so you iron everything, shower/shave, and do it all again.

And if you work on site at a bank on the east coast, you better have a nice suit. Otherwise nowadays you're usually fine with slacks and a button down at most places.

Honestly it can be a lot of fun, in small doses (do that every week for months and you realize why not everyone is a consultant though)
I like the minimal design of your blog with the clickable outline on the right.
> I totally agree that measuring productivity by the amount of working hours is ridiculous.

The alternative is P&L and boy grey beards don't want P&L based measurements
There is nothing about the physical world that guarantees a person pays attention because something is important. A common cause of accidents is when people do not pay attention. Train crashes specifically have happened in recent years due to distracted operators. Just because this run was more important than normal does not somehow mean the operator could not have been distracted.

> He's saying that there's things other than driver error or mechanical failure that could have contributed to the crash

Right, that's speculation.
> Stocks are directly tied to the performance of a company providing goods or services.

This is an empirically false statement
I obviously didn't bring to the demonstration that I had volunteered the time, it suited my point to make it seem like it was something easy I could do as an aside... Problem is, they don't care about $ either, they care about what makes them look good, what makes their boss look good, what the sales guys are bugging them about, and it's features and visual polish and never quality or performance.

I had to break it down to one of them "Listen, we've seen that the site being faster gets us X% more conversions, if the site was down, or if the site was ugly X% of the time and cost us those conversions, you'd be breathing down my neck to fix it, why is this any different...?" reply after a few seconds of thought "You're right, but you'll never convince Leadership"
Judged by those wish you to lower yourself to their poor standards to ensure you don't elevate yourself to a position higher than theirs.
It’ll be all over the news tomorrow.
<three letter hat on>

1. All of you are overhead.

2. Customer is the profit.

3. Now how do I get (2) to be higher than (1) before we run out of money?

</three letter hat off>
Um, what?

Like, cashflow at 50 with 3 kids is important.

Yeah, you've saved for retirement at ~65ish, but you have 2 kids in college with one on the way up, plus a mortgage, plus just regular life stuff. That's not an unreasonable scenario at all.

Like, do you live in a first world nation? Honestly, the paradigm changes a lot in the 3rd world and your confusion would be more appropriate in Chad or something.

(In Chad, average age of first birth is 18, so you'd reasonably be a grand parent by 50, plus cost of living is very low)