skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Build your talking points around the value you add to the company and it reaching its goal (make money)."

Agreed. Quit and go into sales. Good luck spinning how edits on a bootstrap theme made money.
Even the most optimistic published ridership projection for CAHSR is 200k riders per day, not 100k per hour.
Yes, I came here to say that before anyone gets excited about this, understand that the technology will be weaponized. So if you were unhappy about your company providing administrative software to ICE or the Border Patrol, think twice before lending your talents to this sort of thing.
While most of what he says is random and unreliable; His words on trade have been consistent and had follow through. I'd put the chances of it happening at close to 100% unless China capitulates or Congress blocks him.
The denial is strong. Reminds me of how cell phone makers responded to the iPhone:

“The development of mobile phones will be similar in PCs. Even with the Mac, Apple has attracted much attention at first, but they have still remained a niche manufacturer. That will be in mobile phones as well,” Nokia chief strategist Anssi Vanjoki told a German newspaper at the time.

Back in the day, smartphones were pretty much defined by devices like the Palm Treo, and Palm CEO Ed Colligan doubted some computer maker was going to just waltz in and eat his lunch.

“We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” Colligan said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in.”
Most of my communication with various people/communities is done via mail. For those using Emacs:

I use a Kanban (or GTD, depending)-style workflow using Org mode and Gnus. Org mode recognizes `gnus:'-prefixed links. For certain types of mail, I use an Org capture template within Gnus which inserts a TODO item into an Org document, along with a link to the original message (which can be opened in Gnus using C-c C-o).

You can then go through your usual workflow as you would with any other item; mail is just another source of data.

Considering that the task originated via mail, chances are it'll require some back-and-forth, potentially over the course of weeks and perhaps with a handful of people involved. I also keep detailed timestamped logs of correspondence and my actions, linking to important messages as needed. This is particularly useful for large threads, since I highlight the most important information. Since I'm logging via Org mode (and not my MUA), my logs can also include any other additional information and time tracking that has nothing to do with mail, so this creates a useful timeline that combines both actions and correspondence into a single view.

Because this is married with the rest of my Org-based task management, my mail also shows up in my agenda and reporting.
Yeah that's a little awkward. Should've just made it a statement instead of a quote.
The problem with America is to save on budget, the govt pushes responsibilities that should be its own responsibility onto corporations themselves, create a huge host of problems beyond this uber controversy.

In a country with govt healthcare & unemployment insurance, people being casual piece workers with a large corporation shouldn't be controversial beyond minimum wage. Because maybe the only difference is some tax paperwork.

AFAIK, other large minimum wage corps (like restaurants) force their workers to be part time to avoid having to pay these mandated benefits. Wouldn't that apply with these 1hr/month uber drivers?
Trump plan for private highway funding limited in its ability to fix U.S.’
i did try to find something of interest in the tinted background image while my mouse was travelling to the close button. i didn't.
To present the truth as it is.
I guess that's a good overview. It's related to the phenomenon of overfitting in machine learning: you can always easily find a sufficiently complex (or complicated, large if you prefer) theory fitting all data points. Because this theory simply encodes each observed case (including progressive sophistications of encoding), you naturally expect it to fail on unobserved cases -- it makes no effort at generalization. The simpler theories have a greater chance of generalization, they're more likely to be the "true" mechanism of the process that doesn't simply encode "edge cases" as you cited, and thus are more likely to also work on unobserved data.

Honestly I haven't seen attempts at making this process more rigorous, when applied to physics. There's the large corpus of machine learning study which provides concrete results and even concrete comparison tools, but the times I've asked a physicist I've been dismissed; while it seems incredibly valuable in the face of lack or large cost of experimental data, which is quite relevant today.
I case you aren't aware of these, here are some pointers for Burroughs[1], Xerox's Mesa/Cedar[2], Pascal UCSD[3], M-Code[4] and Oberon Juice[5].

[1] - http://retro-b5500.blogspot.com/

[2] - http://worrydream.com/refs/Teitelman%20-%20The%20Cedar%20Pro...

[3] - http://pascal.hansotten.com/category/ucsd-p-system/

[4] - http://pascal.hansotten.com/niklaus-wirth/lilith/

[5] - ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/cis700/public_html/papers/Franz97b.pdf
The only thing worse than an employee calling in sick is an employee not calling in sick when they are sick. Nothing good is going to come of doing a half assed job and infecting the rest of the office.
It would prevent mashing distinct data types without conscious effort. So, if you type the financial data to plus and minus sides, as distinct types, you cannot cross combine them without an explicit moment to do it in the way you understand (that is, if they are what in C you'd call both integers plus and minus, but logistically could not be simply combined without some context, they typing moment here would make it far less likely you did that except in known ways)

and, the flow of change over compositions of functions in types, you really have to have done the hard yards, dealt with 'maybe this doesn't exist' situations. continuations.

I don't think it would stop you mis-applying a construct as a method on something, so misuse a statistical model, no. But nothing can prevent acts of ignorance (as I know to my own shame, I tried to apply the K-S test to disparate samples, and the moment of 'you cannot compare area under a curve for a nail and a gaussian distribution' completely passed me by. Five minutes with a competent statistician cleared it out)
No. The people running these companies are adults, who are fully capable of being responsible for their own actions. They know right from wrong. The fault of exploiting workers is 100000% on them, and them alone.
Ah, I did actually misunderstood your original comment. I apologise.
Yeah, it is certainly not a clear cut distinction. You know, I initially listed automatic transmission as an example of augmentation. So it goes both ways too. Anyway, they highlight different aspects and I find the notion elucifying.
oh... you mean a specific individual claiming personal responsibility? what's the relevance?
Rust can make .o files just fine. But yes, PHP had some of these types of tools (at least back in the day, haven't looked lately) for PECL extensions. Like Node, if it's C++ only or requires actual C source, writing glue is trivial, should have no performance cost, and is a way better option than completely switching WASM impl choices because of these limiting platforms. If you don't want to manually write this glue, there are often projects (like [0] for Ruby) that will help. Again, better than artificially constraining the implementation language.

0 - https://github.com/tildeio/helix
The GDPR would like to talk to you, and the looming new EU 'copyright' law would also like to talk to you.
This thread is such an interesting look into a worldview very different from my own. I’ve always worked with the assumption that we’re territorial animals and that the claim to territory is backed by force, kinda like on documentaries where two bears/lions/komodos fight it out (with large groups of people forming governments representing the biggest swinging dick).

Someone asked, in what I can only assume was complete seriousness, why they couldn’t just walk into someone’s domicile when they left. Wow!
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> their satellite is, perhaps, 3 tonnes, allowing them to fly in the upper berth for €45 million

€45 million is over $52 million. The Falcon 9, in re-usable mode, is cheaper and, in non-reusable mode, requires you find a buddy who will pay at least $10 million for 2 metric tonnes of launch capacity.

> Secondary payloads — especially multi-smallsat rideshare — are notoriously hard to coordinate

It's an easier problem to solve than building a new launch platform. Particularly if reusability increases launch frequency.

Ariane 6 was designed assuming reusability would fail. That wasn't unreasonable ten years ago. I agree there will be niches where someone will be forced to pay up for scheduling. But as launch frequencies increase--from SpaceX as well as Blue Origin, RocketLab, India, et cetera--that niche will narrow.
The problem with asking for a raise is it usually needs to be approved by a separate HR/payroll department. I can't even really think of a time where someone that I know got a sizable raise without either taking on more responsibility (ie: promotion) or using an offer as leverage.
The sad reality is most companies would rather waste thousands of dollars recruiting, hiring, and training new employees instead of giving that money to the employee they are replacing.
Plan your day: daily time management with Emacs, Org-Mode, and Google Calendar
Is this the pet project of the NSA or something? Or, is this a conspiracy for all four of those companies to exploit our data? :/
Forking, in general, is not a very safe operation when the process is an elaborate one, like a JVM. It may, however, be possible to have Graal compile the Substrate VM image for Clojure after the initialization has been done, dumping the initialized state to the image, and then just loading it on launch. This may be the solution chosen once Graal matures a bit, and people learn how to use it well.
"This is an opinion show, and not part of our news program" is an excuse used to justify FoxNews conservative propaganda for years. I expect the NYT to be better than that.

Nobody should be in a position where they have to say "that's a podcast" in order to defend the NYT.
No? I don't understand why it's concerning at all. Progress is being made. Who cares?
The disembarkment from the cars to the tarmac should be almost instantaneous, and there is plenty of room there to queue if passengers are arriving faster then they can take their seats in the plane (a rare occurrence, absent other upstream sync points). There should be no traffic congestion and choke points in a properly designed airport because there is an enormous amount of horizontal space.

Failures due to very specific processes are a typical situation now - I recently waited about 20 minutes when the transfer bus would no longer start, then wasted another 15-20 minutes because the replacement bus took us to the arrivals section of another terminal - while we needed to connect to another flight on the same terminal. Had to go through baggage control again, passports, had to wait for the Frankfurt monorail mentioned above, almost lost the connecting flight.

Seems to me a flexible fleet could improve this situation enormously with awareness of the passenger circumstances - even to the point of taking you straight to your connecting plane without visiting the terminal. Failure should be isolated to the affected passengers, short of catastrophic events where there is no routearound.
> 2. Humans are social, we like to interact, even at the expense of productivity.

The one result I've found most surprising from these studies is that open-plan offices tend to reduce face-to-face interactions. Trading short-term productivity against satisfaction is perfectly reasonable, but I worry that in practice the lack of privacy and fear of distracting others mean that open offices aren't even good for socializing.

What I've found very valuable for all the things open offices claim to do is having some shared open area that isn't a workspace. A centralized kitchen area or anything else that recreates the traditional 'watercooler' works for facilitating chance interactions and allowing easy socialization without all the hassle of talking behind coworkers' desks.

Cynically, it looks a bit like the 90s-downsizing-era push for productive spaces killed off watercooler discussion, and open offices are a kludge to bring it back a the pretense of productivity because people are at their desks. In reality, I don't think the connection is so direct, but I'd still prefer we admit that chatting and working are both valuable neither is well-served by putting them in one space.
References:

https://boingboing.net/2011/08/18/what-fukushima-can-teach-u...

http://www.pnas.org/content/108/35/14422
Agreed, if one could take into account all the subsidies, I am sure we would be at similar levels. The commercial cargo contract was on par with the ATV program, but the prospect is much bigger, with better financial stability.

And where should we stop counting subsidies? Are the government funded studies made by research institutes counted? They benefit a lot to the companies.
This is where citing studies would be helpful instead of arguing on instinct. But also remember: with cars you push a lot of the costs to riders (vehicle capex, maintenance, fuel) and there is interoperability with "last mile" infrastructure (city roads). With trains you build the entire infrastructure for the long haul, and then still end up relying on other modes of transport at the end. Imagine if in building a new freeway you also needed to buy all the cars on top of it...
For your next annual raise, I suggest the following: start a work journal and make entries in it daily. Log the things you've done, the things you're waiting for (blocked on), the meetings you've had and how long they took. Use this as a guide to read from during your standups, if you have them.

At the end of the week, look through the previous week's entries and conduct a review [1]. Create a separate entry in a weekly log detailing the accomplishments, things to improve, things that went well, etc.

You can keep rolling these up if you prefer (monthly, quarterly, etc.), but I've found ~50 weekly logs pretty skimmable in the time leading up to a review. Keep in mind that the more rollups you do, the more work it will be, and the more likely you will be to stop logging altogether.

While you may be able to capture some big accomplishments with an end-of-year brain dump, your weekly logs will expose the more subtle things: conflicts encountered, how you moved obstacles out of your way, the people you worked closely with, etc. Addressing these things in your review alongside your "hard" accomplishments will make for a stronger argument in your manager's eyes.

[1] Cal Newport, in "Deep Work" (http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/), has a good section on doing a weekly review as a means to increase the amount of deep work in your working day.
Better yet, don’t care if you are “better”! If you are the worst developer that can get the job done, that’s good enough.
"The result is the big four tech giants have a head start of 25 or more years in building their business models and laying their groundwork ahead of receiving serious scrutiny"

Except that Google isn't quite 20, and Facebook is like 15. Amazon is almost 25. Meanwhile Apple is what? 40+?
Interesting. I’m pretty sensitive to UX but this has never been a problem for me. I don’t come across single non scrolling static websites that often, and knowing that the entire content will most likely never be at the top, I immediately scroll down without thinking.

I find it extremely fascinating that some people actually have to look for a scroll bar or clipped content (spoon fed) in order to scroll down. Sometimes I don’t even know there is one unless I have to speed drag on a long page.
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> Uber and Lyft can't just keeping banking on their VC benefactors forever.

The other accusation I've heard, relevant to the discussion at hand, is that they're (also) banking on shifting the costs of externalities onto the drivers and/or the social safety net.

> Eventually they have to turn a profit.

Or go out of business, which could be considered beneficial if they're banking more on the externalities than VCs.
It's worth pointing out that this isn't ALL submissions. They still need 5ish points to make it out of new and on to this list I think.
Webarchive link to the article above, as I found myself unable due to the system load on the page.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180720170255/https://opnsec.co...
"overall I'd still rather not see DNSSEC succeed"

Can you explain why it's important _not_ to have DNSSEC ?

In the most threatening MitM scenarios that we see, an adversary controls IP traffic to their victims (usually only relatively briefly). If we can use DNSSEC this gets them a denial of service and nothing further. But with your preferred options they are able to silently interpose as the victim, and tools you've worked on like Let's Encrypt will help "re-assure" the public that nothing is wrong. I have no doubt that ISRG would say they have no liability when the relying parties are screwed over - that's after all exactly what their commercial equivalents say all the time - but it'd be an easier argument to make if you weren't here saying that when it comes to the one thing that _would_ work you'd "rather not see it succeed".

Do you at least have something _instead_ you think would give people these benefits ?
Why Is Google Translate Spitting Out Sinister Religious Prophecies?
Hybrid tech doesn't help at all with with planes. There is no braking energy to be regained and batteries are too heavy. It has no place there until battery energy density approaches that of fuel, which would require a huuge breakthrough of some kind.
“Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.” - Warren Buffett

I'm a bit more sanguine than the article (No one wants another GFC, and governments will go to ludicrous measures to avoid same), but it does seem to me that the party can't go on too much longer. I didn't see the 2001 crash coming, but saw the 2008 crash coming, and mostly moved out of its way. If you want a window into the world of financial news and predictions, I find Bill McBride at Calculated Risk [0] to be one of the better prognosticators from the wide menu of prognosticators available.

[0] http://calculatedriskblog.com/
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This seems useful in concept but $12/mo is more than I'm willing to pay for email.

It's also unclear to me if this is a browser based email client (using imap/smtp etc.) or if it comes with it's own email address and handles final delivery/storage.
Go doesn't have this issue because there aren't other languages running on that runtime. If there were (and you wanted an interop of those languages with Go so that you could use Go libraries), then you'd have this issue regardless of the fact that the runtime is linked with the image.
That is the point. Obviously they have an interest, or they wouldn't be trying to collect this information in the first place. Government has shown itself time and time again to be less competent and more vulnerable than private industry.
Literally nobody is talking about taking away anyone's ability to drive for Uber. If Uber decides to cut them out of spite for regulations, that's entirely on Uber, and no one else.
You can do the same thing with Uber. The driver can just turn off the app and pick you up if you're nearby. Realistically it won't happen often, for the same reason that people didn't keep folders full of yellow cab business cards.
The law would equally apply to them.

Remember the original & current taxi model is to rent a medallion car for $3000/month as an independent contractor. Except in this model, you are $3k in debt at the start of the month and have to work an undefined amount of hours to make up that debt + have enough to live on at the end of it.

In that world, Uber is an improvement.
I guess I agree, but covering companies like Google or Amazon or Apple or whatever, no longer feels like "tech" journalism. It isn't niche or easily categorized anymore. It is just journalism. Much like covering Exxon isn't "energy" journalism. I don't feel "whiplashed" by the shift in coverage, I just feel like people now care about these companies whereas 10 years ago they weren't that important.

The coverage that Google currently gets feels much like the coverage that Microsoft was receiving in the 90s and early to mid 2000s. There hasn't been a shift really, just Microsoft was relevant earlier.
and i think principally in 'christendom' for most of that, it was later that other parts of the world started accommodating it for pragmatic reasons like international commerce - or were 'required' to accommodate on account of various forms of colonial endeavor.
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Sure they are, they are Visual C++ language extensions.

Standard C++ compiles just fine.

There is no different than using language extensions on GCC, clang or any other C++ compilers.

You are not forced to use GC beyond the interop to other .NET languages.

I have integrated quite a few C++ libraries this way, given that my C++ experience makes it easier than having to deal with P/Invoke attributes and possible linking issues.
Howdy (I work on DTP),

I'd say suspicion is always wanted with things like this. If you know of other services you would like to see data transfer to/from, please let us know, we want this be open to everyone, big and small, and are looking for suggestions.

FWIW, the team that is building this at Google is the same team that builds Takeout, so we've have been trying to give users useful tools for leaving Google a while now. We think giving users the ability to directly move data to a new service provider is the next evolution of the Takeout ethos about not locking users in.
With Clojure you get that feedback loop by running everything in an open repl. No startup time needed.
I interviewed for a research position at Facebook reality labs, and it was the same process as an interview for an academic job. Give an hour talk about your research, meet with 6 researchers in hour chunks for the rest of the day. The process was similar for my previous industry research job as well. I can't speak to Facebook's other research arms or Google.
In the Bay area, there's no space to expand the highways, but you can increase capacity on the rail lines. Caltrain can double capacity through electrification and level platform loading. Which one do you propose spending money on?
The unemployment rate is one example: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE

As I understand it, the theory basically goes like this: Low unemployment leads to higher labor costs, which leads to wealthier workers and higher demand for products, which leads to even higher demand for labor. Essentially a positive feedback loop of inflation, which the Fed will stop by increasing interest rates. They may notice too late, or be late deliberately, and thus have to raise interest rates a lot and fast.