skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it supremely hypocritical when the super poor lecture people about their tax avoidance when they pay an order of magnitude less.

The tax rate is what matters there not the total tax. Similarly, look at the emissions per dollar not total emissions. If you care about monetary inequality, complain about that directly, don't drag global warming in.
Maybe because Babel is much faster at transpiling TypeScript.
A much more cost-effective way of dealing with radiation on Mars is to construct shelters out of something that doesn't shield against radiation at all, then only pick astronauts who are smokers, and send them to Mars without cigarettes[1].

For the smokers sent to Mars living in flimsy shelters this'll decrease their lifetime odds of dying from cancer compared to smoking two packs a day and staying on Earth.

This article like so many others describes designs for Mars habitats that are optimized for being accepted under NASA's strict safety rules, and it's an organization run by safety-obsessed bureaucrats.

I predict that once the second space race kicks off in earnest these unpractical restrictions are going to be quickly dismissed, because NASA's going to have to compete with e.g. China which'll likely use much simpler designs because they're realistic about their risk assessments.

1. https://www.space.com/21813-mars-one-colony-space-radiation....
It could be quite moderate. Teleoperated "robots" ("Waldoes" more properly) are just going to get better and better, as will AI.
This is exactly why I don't like C++: it is just too complicated, and it encourages to write complicated code, usually opaque boilerplate template hacks for what would seem a simple concept. This is difficult to read, review, understand, and hence error-prone. No, not only error-prone, but bug-encouraging.

BTW, you can also enforce compile time evaluation like this:

enum { aux1 = X };
use(aux1);

But that's two lines, I know. And, of course, it is still a hack ('enum'? What?).
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That's because there is no such backlash. Those big companies will cause governments to create laws but those laws will only destroy tiny competitors, thus securing the position of the big players.
To add to this, I made the huge mistake a few years ago of admitting to an amount of social anxiety at a certain workplace. Within a few weeks that admission of vulnerability was used against me as a reason I wasn't a good fit for a project that I know I would have been great at. I left over it. Never again.
Last century antitrust (and local government) was powerful. This century the only notable (and arguably parochial) antitrust action was against MSFT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_antit...

We are now in a far more globalized economy, and the US profits from the dominant FMAG stocks and hegemony. The EU will definitely attack this, whether they have teeth is questionable.
I used to follow Edmond's detailed posts on Quora and that led me to buy his book. I am yet to complete but like it so far.
I'm aware. I think my comment made it clear that I was speaking to the middle-class experience in the USA.

That said, $130 USD or €110 /person still isn't unreasonable for a truly good restaurant in France. It might be above what the 'middle class' is generally willing to spend, but you can practically throw a rock in France and hit a restaurant that charges these kind of prices. And people (including myself) go out of their way to travel to France to indulge in dining experiences at these sorts of places.
OK so it looks like the 21-110 Euro range was for a set menu, not individual courses.
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Surely a balance between sharing and not sharing is optimal. How x and y are weighted depends on the work environment.
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I speak from experince in chroming. In the USA, hex chrome is insanely expensive, if even still possible under EPA. You may be thinking of tri chrome, which is what you can get here. Everyone outsources now due to this.

Hoenstly, the chemicals are horrendus and chrome's days are numbered in any capacity thanks to new mirror finish water based paint. Even china will soon ban hex chrome process, by proxy if not explicitly.
> Other members of SoftBank’s bidding group are likely to buy part of the remaining shares on offer, the people said.​

Any ideas on who are these other members?

As for the question on whether this is a haircut on valuation is an interesting one.

This is not exactly raising money from a VC rather through a secondary offering, so Uber can still claim there is no down round. It's just that people in public bidding sold on a discount. But, that is fine too as common stock from early rounds are actually worth less than common stock from later rounds.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-16/softbank-...

> Since Uber's stock doesn't trade on an exchange, there is no public record of its value changing from day to day, and it can point to its last fundraising round as its still-current "official" valuation, whatever has happened since. But if it does a new round at a lower price, it won't be able to play that game any more. And as Uber gets closer to an initial public offering, that game becomes more important: It's harder to argue for an $80 billion IPO after a $50 billion private down-round.
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That’s what they seem to be doing. http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-sells-auto-leasing-busin...:

”Uber has found a buyer, and a partner, for its auto-leasing business that was losing more money than expected”.
Indeed the sharks have no teeth.
Text goes into JSON form and into DB. There's no other security mechanisms in place beside HTTPS protocol.
Paywall:
http://archive.is/4w0Jn
Thank you very much for your suggestion.
That’s certainly very humane of you, but also wrong.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/05/space-radiation-may-d...

After letting the mice rest for 6 weeks, the team put them through a battery of cognitive tests, including a task that required the rodents to distinguish between familiar and novel objects, such as toys. The mice hammered by radiation were “severely compromised” on several measures compared with an unexposed control group, Limoli says. Control mice, for example, spent more time sniffing around a new item placed in their cages than investigating familiar objects—a sign that their ability to react to novelty was intact. Irradiated mice, in contrast, spent equal time exploring new and old items, suggesting their ability to learn and remember new information about their environment had been impaired.

Talk of mars colonization is riddled with myopic assumptions about something we barely understand. Focusing on those few issues we may have in hand to the exclusion of the many critical unsolved problems is troubling.
super impressed you walked all that way @bklaasen!
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> coding styles enforced: bad changes to good code no longer stick out like a sore thumb!

I can see the benefit of being able to identify smelly code immediately from poor code structure. However, I think that coding styles enforce consistency between good programmers who maintain their own coding style. A reviewer should be able to discern code quality - even with compliant code style - by how quickly it is to comprehend.
Are there any distributed logs which operate more as a framework than a service/platform?

Imagine Kafka but I am able to run my processors within the same JVM. You might even call them servlets for Kafka.
I don't think the point was that she shouldn't have shared that information with peers at all, it's that she needs to be more careful about exactly who she's telling it to. OP may easily be in a position later of promoting her to another position. Even if she is confident in her choices by that point, OP will still have that information tucked in their mind, and will (maybe unconciously) utilize it in their decisions.

Nobody is yelling at her or beating her down about this, but she needs to be more discrete in who she shares what information with. Even if you see someone as a friend, friends aren't all equally deserving of your hopes and fears.

I think a good analogy is group projects in school. If you had a classmate who you were good friends with, and they had been sharing with you how much they were struggling and that they were considering dropping the class...wouldn't you factor that information in when choosing partners for a group project? You might decide that "no, I like them too much", and go with them, but it's going to be a decision you have to make because you already possess the information.
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like albert in his patent office?

I jest, but honestly I am confused abit by your flippant response

Is my request that controversial? The speed of light has been studied for hundreds of years.. asking to see even just romer's data should hardly be an affront on the time of contemporary researchers

Do you think science should be accepted as only solutions without evidence?

I agree, spend your time advancing science but does publishing fall under your description of 'sharing'?

I blame the journal format for the lack of resources I am seeking: it is impractical to publish terabytes of raw data in a journal so why even describe the data beyond your results?

I feel the journals have inadvertently created a system of belief which is antithetical to science

Look at the recent revelations concerning reproducibility

One argument against gatekeeping 'amateurs' is the researchers are busy researching and we require more checks than those researchers have time to do themselves

How would you feel about a closed source project that lacked any documentation and only showed vague benchmarks but promised revolutionary results?
Maybe it was her focus on her fears that was an issue? If she'd simply said, "This project is really ambitious" then maybe everyone would have agreed? It is possible to be honest about the risks of a given strategy, without turning the conversation into a discussion of your personal fears and discomforts, yes?
TLDR: Be concise & unemotional.
Uber trumpets it and crows when they come close to profitability in markets. You're nuts if you think that Uber is profitable in North America.

There is clearly some profitable ride-sharing business in the general Uber model, but it remains unclear that there is a profitable ride-sharing business with enough gross revenue to justify a 10x unicorn business. Uber's main problems with profit margins aren't Uber Eats or even driverless cars, it's in getting their ride volumes up.
> Unfortunately, almost all computer science education nowadays focuses on pure technical skills

I'm not sure I'd really call that unfortunate. CS education isn't about making you a more well-rounded person: It's about giving you a basic education in Computer Science.

Similarly I don't really lament that CS programs don't have a course in basic financial literacy, even though it would be incredibly useful.

These are really topics that should be addressed much, much earlier (empathy in particular is something we should start teaching children as young as possible) and should be mature ideas by the time people reach college-age.

> The impact is that many engineers plateau in their careers because they've underinvested in (and oftentimes looked down upon) the "soft skills" that actually separate the top engineers from everyone else.

To mirror the other comment, I hate to say it but if you're a software engineer at Google you're likely already a "top" engineer.

You're trying to explain what differentiates the top 0.1% from the top 1%, but I'm not sure it's a super useful distinction for the other 99%. For them, investment in hard skills might actually be considerably more fruitful (and land them that Google job in the first place).

Maybe not, I'll admit I could easily be wrong on that.
Do you see Lyft exceeding Uber's success?
Your observation is a great one, and I'd love to see more data on this as well.

A related point, though, also rings true. Soft skills like being a good coach and effective listening are so underinvested in, that even marginal improvements in those skills lead to huge differences in success.

I see this in engineering leadership workshops that I've run with Jean Hsu and Diana Berlin, where even teaching a handful of coaching and listening skills can have a transformative impact on participants.

If you're interested in future workshops, you can sign up to hear about them here: https://effectiveengineer.typeform.com/to/cDMeZu
How is it a scam? It gave me a ride to the airport for $26 bucks. I took a cab once and it cost over $50 bucks. My need some tweaks here and therem but overall its a great service for customers
I strongly agree with this analysis. It's already a population with strong STEM abilities, it should suffer from some sort of diminishing returns after an already high hiring standard on a company well-known for hiring only top students.

It's like conducting an analysis on skills of all F-1 drivers, and what differentiates champions from remaining pilots. I'd expect a lot of mindset-related and soft skills to appear as key indicators, and "driving abilities" to have a minimal gap between drivers.
The effect can't last long though: The long-surviving codebase becomes such a mix of styles that it's more noise than signal, and even the good code appears as just another local inconsistency.
Extract all value, then discard.
It's really bad for anybody who has options. The last time Uber's valuation was this low was 2 1/2 years ago. I don't know how Uber did employee equity, but if it was options with a valuation based on the numbers we're seeing in public, then somebody who joined 2 years ago would just have had their equity stake drop to $0. And in some sense it's negative, in that even if the valuation goes up modestly, their stake is still worthless. After putting up with all the internal bullshit and the bad press, that'd be quite a kick in the gut.

If that's what Uber is doing internally, then in practice I imagine they're going to have to give out a lot more options to keep everybody happy.
I disagree with this assertion 100%. They should keep making investment in and improvement to the yearly release process and build the knowledge necessary to do this with fewer errors...
If you can get something preloaded with Linux it is probably best. System 76 or the Dell precision line of laptops are good options. In the case of dell I would go precision over XPS - I believe you get better support and a better tested product with the business line. I have an XPS and have had a few QA issues with it. However, once I got it sorted it has been great running Ubuntu - but it was a ..... journey to say the least ;)

EDIT: another good option is probably XPS 13 Dev editions that give you ubuntu preloaded as well
This reminds me that the iPhone 7 crushes the OnePlus 5 in benchmarks, while using only a quarter of the ram.

https://browser.geekbench.com/ios_devices/44

https://browser.geekbench.com/android_devices/383

and even though OnePlus has been caught cheating benchmark tests more than once!

https://www.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5-benchmark-cheating-...

https://www.androidauthority.com/oneplus-5-manipulates-bench...
If you never feel overwhelmed and a bit of nerveous, then you never really challenged yourself and play it too safe. Or just lie about your feelings.

I am not sure why saying something like that is seen as worst then overconfidence and acting sure when you dont know what you are doing. The latter does more harm.
I can't replicate this on apfs at all, though I've also about 10x as much free space. Rather not write out 500GiB of data to try replicating.

$ df -k /; dd if=<(yes) of=$HOME/bigfile bs=1024 count=$((35 * 1024000)); df -k /; rm ~/bigfile; df -k /
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk1s1 976265452 360477544 612444948 38% 1399186 9223372036853376621 0% /
35840000+0 records in
35840000+0 records out
36700160000 bytes transferred in 1038.398720 secs (35343033 bytes/sec)
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk1s1 976265452 396346588 576575904 41% 1399343 9223372036853376464 0% /
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk1s1 976265452 360497876 612424616 38% 1399342 9223372036853376465 0% /
I see that view as a form of revisionism. Was it ethnic based nationalism, or was it ethnic based nationalism and political ideology and perverse financial incentives and class warfare and... seemingly countless other things.
The papers actually say "The rulesets allow the creation of levels which can encode an NP Hard problem". That just means if you know the answer, it's fast to show it, but finding the answer takes a lot of time.

Usually this boils down to creating AND/OR gates using level tiles, and combining them together to form arbitrary computational problems. Usually 3-SAT, because it's straight forward to encode in logic gates.
This seems to only allow you to create Sublime color schemes, it doesn't create a sublime theme. Sublime Theme is to style the whole window outside of the editor.
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Nothing is certain to work on its own. So we have to work at it to make it function.

I don't think we should let the pendulum swing too far and say "squabbling ethnoses are the inevitable end-point." That is not certain, either. People actually had to work at (spend lots of time and money) making our recent national unity start to turn into squabbling ethnoses. I fail to see why I should make their job easier by granting the inevitability of that outcome.
I think I need to clarify that I was sarcastic. Nothing will trickle down.
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Sure, until your seat hits my knees. Have had people repeatedly slam their seat against my knees without looking back to see what is blocking it.
The rates Uber charges are unsustainable, funded with VC money and underpaying drivers, hence posters comment that Uber is a scam.

Uber’s play is to wait out taxis going out of business and then charge you $50.
Aren't there any broad non-tech index funds?
This makes so much sense and frequently overlooked. I find even in other areas (such as sports), what makes someone seem really impressive generally isn't what is actually important.

A dumb example is from cycling, people frequently over-practice the ability to sprint at the end of a race but what is really important is the ability to conserve energy throughout the race... Really dumb example, but I think it is somewhat similar.
We're using Flow instead of TypeScript, so I think that's a pretty good reason.
> Unfortunately, almost all computer science education nowadays focuses on pure technical skills

Assuming by computer science education you mean the actual classes within that major, I don't see this as a problem. I didn't take CS classes to learn interpersonal relationship skills. Other college classes and the college experience in general does help with that though.

If talking about tech programs, I also think that isn't necessarily something they can or should focus too much on, as that's not their focus. The assumption is you have that part already figured out. If not, go through a course that focuses on that in addition, I'm sure you'll get a better education in that topic that way. It probably is appropriate for them to stress it's important though, even if they don't offer much in the way of rectifying it.

Or, spend a lot of time on self-directed self improvement in one or both those areas. The resources and programs exist for that as well.

> and hiring interviews at most tech companies also focus on the technical skills.

I agree on this. Companies should hire people that will function within their system. Hiring the smartest guy from MIT's class of 2017 sounds all well and good, but if they can't function well with your existing 100 employees and they leave after a year or two (or worse, they cause a few other people at your company to leave every year causing high turnover), the chances of them somehow making up for that are probably extremely low.
If they are chain smoking alcoholics in addition you also won't have to worry about their mental state ')
This makes sense. I don't think Uber would survive without scaling down its ambitions. Sooner or later, they have to exit unprofitable cities and leave those markets for smaller players. Uber isn't in the same league of business as Google is. It can't scale without bringing range of issues while profitability still remaining out of sight.

If that holds true, Softbank has managed to have a stake in every major app-based-taxi company of the future.
> I don't believe there is strong evidence that a metaculture (really, multiculturalism) will survive and not devolve into squabbling ethnoses, particularly on the scale of the north american continent.

Doesn't the empirical reality of large cosmopolitan cities provide evidence that multiculturalism will work just fine?

New York City, for instance, has 8.5 million people of every race, color, creed, citizenship, language, etc. crammed pretty tightly together. That's more than the population of about 3/4 of US states. It has cultural enclaves - there are places in the city where you'll look and feel out of place if you're not, say, an Orthodox Jew, or black, or of Chinese ancestry, or whatever. (Being none of these, I've been to these places and consciously felt, well, not that I wasn't welcome to visit, but that it was someone else's home and not mine.) But it doesn't have squabbling. There's definitely been ethnic violence in the city's history, but the city generally lives together and works together just fine; it's not more violent or more dangerous than you'd expect any city of its size to be. And places which have had violence (e.g., Crown Heights after the 1991 riot) have worked pretty successfully to find ways of living together that involve neither one cultural group leaving and ceding the area to another, nor any cultural group losing its particular identity.
Do you really want to have someone doing these tests? The particular test you gave as an example would be super easy to implement using python and selenium. Otherwise, I would use markdown for everything that can't be automated (or one of the tools mentioned in other comments).
You keep swinging and missing. My great experience with High Sierra doesn't negate others negative experiences, but they are both just anecdotal evidence and not meaningful measures.

700 users who suffer from problems are super motivated to speak up, millions of users having a great experience have no reason to create and post on lengthy threads about how great High Sierra is.
These cheap seats in the new 747-8 eco are horrible. The are so thin you feel the beams through it. The worst seats ever. Thanks god I flew back with a A380, the most comfortable plane ever. The older 757 seats are great too.
I fully understand your point, and it is indeed a problem. In fact I have personally called out other apps for this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/...

Thing is, possibly as a result, Apple blocked ARP access in iOS 11. You can no longer get the BSSID and use that to get user location. Because the post indicates he used an iOS 11 device, this leads me to believe the coordinates were also not obtained with Wi-Fi information.
The OTA can buy & manage it's own stock of hotel rooms in advance for hotel X and then sell them on for $whatever, $whenever.

Not every OTA is just a proxy. Some maintain their own stock and do forecasting/yield management etc..