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Scott Manley's channel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdwy9fzQzl4

This guy has some simple short videos on rocketry. this one is on combustion cycles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jheMusS0JwA&t=20s
I'm a bit out of touch with plans at this point (left DL in November), but certainly one of the points of this as a demo is to show off a capability that could lead to a number of specific use cases. If your interested in using it as you described, the DL sales team would certainly like to talk with you. Or you could contact me (my username at gmail) and I can point you in the right direction.
How is MongoDB a great example of a company shooting itself in the foot? They IPO'd in Oct 2017 and the stock has almost quadrupled.

EDIT: MDB will also probably get acquired in the next year too.
His ties to KSA is peripheral -- an extension of his ventures with UAE/MBZ, and especially after MBS came to call the shots in the KSA.

See:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90233994/how-a-secret-seychelles...
and https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-planned-invade-qatar-...
> The original figures are for the entire finished project as originally scoped; the modern $77B is for the current, useless scaled-down fragment.

No, the $77B is for the entire project, and is the reason cited for limiting substantive state-funded work (outside of completing environmental reviews and efforts to secure outside funding) to the 119 mile segment previously identified as the initial construction segment.
Isn't this well known? Toyotas have legendary reliability
I don't think that's correct. If you do business in another country, you're subject to the laws of that country. More specifically in the GDPR case, if you're doing business with an EU citizen, who has the rights granted in the GDPR, you're obligated to respect those rights or not do business with that EU citizen (or any other).

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2017/12/04/ye...
That's some interesting insight... I wonder where it'll all end up... it's kind of difficult for markets to function well with things so utterly opaque to the average consumer. I wonder if it'll end up regulated, or if the fear of lawsuits or something else will knock people in line.

That said, the best answer is clearly to ride bikes more! A lot better for the environment, your wallet, and your own health!

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/04/18/get-rich-with-bike...
Aid for Venezuelans arrives in Colombia but can proceed no further
I've never understood the point of caviar (my ex loved it so I've eaten a lot over the decades). It always seemed like a classic Vleben/"famine cuisine turned posh", like lobster going from "inedible" to haut cuisine due to scarcity.

In fact this transition is right in the article: "...paddlefish caviar — a byproduct that for years local fishermen tossed back with fish guts — ..."
I find it a little absurd to compare the SV demographics to the US demographics, and then claiming that the problem is with SV's hiring.

It's a US problem that its society has failed to push the minorities up with better welfare and education; it just manifests itself as lower representation in SV.
I think many people don't really understand how they perform the functions of their job. Some things they enjoy doing, some things feel like busy work: all the things are mixed together over the course of the day. Picking and teasing the separate pieces apart and dealing with them individually is always hard for people and for some more than others.
Hey google. You want people to use your cloud? Fix your documentation. It’s abysmal. For example: 1) How do you use let’s encrypt with google kubernetes engine? 2) How do you securely store secrets? Pretend you don’t know and try to follow the documentation to figure it out. You can’t because the documentation isn’t geared towards solving specific problems.
I have no idea what it IS geared towards, but it’s not that.
You will never win if people can’t figure out how to do the things they need to do. Aws is arguably more expensive and in some ways less capable. But they will win simply because normal people can figure out how to do stuff.
Hey Oleg, I just wanted to say thanks for doing some really great work. AutoDock Vina made a huge impact on the field, and its results are still on-par with commercial docking codes. Academic software development is a combination of some of the worst parts of open-source software development and the worst parts of academia, but projects like Vina motivated me to be a better coder and scientist in grad school.
So you wasted more time by writing a meaningless comment on an article you didn't enjoy? Think about it.
I got numerous.
I don't really see how diversity is tech's problem any more than it's hospitals' problem. If you want more engineers from more underrepresented groups you need to educate them. If there aren't enough doctors of group X it's not the fault of hospitals. It's the fault of society for not facilitating more of them going into medicine. It seems to me that the case for tech workers is analogous.
This article seems to be written using results from a J.D. Power report. J.D. Power's methodology is commonly known to be extremely flawed in that they weigh all "issues" equally. So an engine failure is the same severity as Bluetooth not connecting.

Furthermore, tiebreakers are broken in pretty nonsense ways, and many suspect it's by whoever pays the most. For example, they crowned Buick the most dependable brand, but by their own ratings, both Lexus and Porsche scored higher.

If you rank by only mechanical dependability by their own numbers, the ranking is as follows (alphabetical w/in tiers):

10: Lexus, Toyota

9: BMW, Buick, Chevrolet, Hyundai, Infiniti, Kia, Lincoln, Mazda, Mercedes, Nissan, Porsche

8: Audi, Ford, Honda, Jaguar, Mini, Subaru, Volkswagen, Volvo

7: Acura, Cadillac, Dodge, Fiat, GMC, Mitsubishi, Ram

5: Chrysler, Jeep, Land Rover.

So the old adage still holds true for mechanical reliability, Japanese > German/European > American/British.

Also, the luxury brand of an automaker falls pretty damn close to where the non-luxury brand lands: Lexus/Toyota, Buick/Chevy, Hyundai/Kia, Infiniti/Nissan, Audi/Volkswagen, Cadillac/GMC, Fiat/Dodge/Ram, Chrysler/Jeep. Which would make sense since they share mechanical parts, but not infotainment/luxury features. When infotainment/luxury features are factored into the dependability score, it leads to the conclusion the article is trying to draw.
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For the Volkswagen group, I would list Bentley, Lamborghini or Bugatti as their luxury offerings. Audi is more middle class and sold in large numbers, at least in Europe.
Not as stoked as "blockchain" ICO scammers will be that they don't have to steal pictures for their "staff" pages anymore.
This is such fake news. I've been surrounded by H1B employees my entire career.
Same happens in Turkey very regularly as well
Do you know what runs HN?
Sorry I've PhD in Particle Physics. Not able to find any work, so I am doing janitor work.

Why do you insult Janitor's intellect?
Nasa's InSight Prepares to Take Mars' Temperature
> "But obviously we’ll take a look at it if that’s the case.”

Take a look and what? If the app does do what everyone says it does (including the Saudis) will Apple remove the app?
Yeah I have similar concerns about the lessons learned. Power users rely on muscle memory. Productivity is boosted by familiarity. Unless there is a great deal of turnover on the team, the thing they are familiar with is the thing they have.

If you want to change that you have to come at it with respect and empathy. Fields nobody uses anymore? You can take them away but that changes tab order. So you might have to do that piecemeal or one screen at a time to give people time to adjust.

UX for pros runs counter to a lot of guidelines for beginners. You’re trying to reduce the amount of attention they have to dedicate so they can go faster or juggle the feelings of the person they’re talking to. They want speed and predictability. Discovery is only for very obscure workflows. Important, yes, but not paramount.

I’ve seen this even with developer tools. When someone starts yelling at a dev the conversation goes smoother when the task is straightforward. “Let me just pop in here and look... here’s your problem.”
I think it's the other way around.

Businesses see unions as enemies and transactions zero-sum. They view paying better wages and improving working conditions or providing actual benefits as a loss, rather than creating a "win" for the people who comprise the company.

Why is this? Probably because the investor class "matters" more than the employee class, through some odd inversion where the people who actually add value and make the company work are subject to those who don't.

Or, we could just cut the verbosity and call it like it is: Business don't want to deal with unions because of unchecked greed.
> In the above example, note the prominence of the single red highlight in the gray-themed table, thanks to the lack of other color. Each row suffers slightly in its horizontal scannability, but at the gain of increased table-wide scannability. Consider what is more important for your application.

For what it's worth, I found the blue table easier to spot the red numbers. I'm red/green colorblind and I could not differentiate the red from the grey table coloring very well. With the blue it stood out.
The shift is a combination of mass-market cars catching up in overall quality and less new technology in these vehicles that can increase the chance of something going wrong

Part of it seems to be that there aren't more features in luxury cars. If you look at the graph, we're seeing mass market cars getting fewer problems and luxury cars remaining relatively flat.
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Software QA. Not particularly prestigious but the pay is passable, more so if you can code well enough to automate tests or dig into the codebase to isolate the bug.
If I apply for the NY interview, can I apply again for the March deadline again? Or is it one application only for the summer 2019 cycle.
I think all chances of that being fixed ended with a loud THUD noise :)
> you can’t just ask a user “how could this screen work better”

Why would you ask that anyway? You've already assumed the problem and solution at that point.

You ask how it's going, very generally and let the conversation lead you to their pain points.

You don't ask about the UI, which they are not an authority on. You ask about their subjective experience, which they are.
100% agree. Look at the diversity of CS courses at top universities. If minorities and females are not represented there then how can you expect companies who hire top talent to have them?
>It’s about human connection and conversation in the medium of real time public text. It doesn’t work.

Your conclusion is too broad. It doesn't work on twitter, but I've seen it work just fine on other mediums. In fact I've seen people reconcile and resolve their differences on IRC when they couldn't/wouldn't do it face to face.
Instagram issue causes follower counts to drop by millions
More like journalism is using race to hide its jealousy problem. Tech now has the power, influence, and compensation that journalist used to have, and they're mad about it. Most of these companies go way out of their way to recruit minorities and women. If you believe that not having enough of them in tech companies is a problem, you're going to have to look further down the funnel, to college major choices and honestly probably much earlier. These groups are simply not graduating with CS degrees or programming skills in the numbers necessary to be equally represented as employees at these companies. Whether that's because of discrimination at earlier stages or simple preference, fixing it at the level of hiring for tech companies is way way too late to improve anything. By then it's a completely zero-sum problem. There are only so many viable candidates from these groups with the requisite skills, if Google hires one, that's one less that Palantir can take. It's just a silly game of musical chairs until we fix the pipeline problem, which is that there are not enough viable candidates from these groups. Once that is fixed, then if companies are still not hiring them, let's talk about that, but I very much doubt that will be the case.
The apparent expectation that China will eventually supplant the USA as an economic power has a long way to go. One obstacle is will democracies want to settle their trades in the currency of a de facto dictatorship? Ostensibly, not yet.

According to SWIFT, when looking at domestic and cross-border payments the RMB share as an international payments currency is 1.61% percent. The activity share is lower, (0.98%) if looking at cross-border payments only. The Yen is used almost four times more.

file:///Users/tonyaustin/Downloads/swift_rmb_tracker_special_edition_january2018.pdf
Google said to plan first smartwatch, budget phones for 2019
I’m not sure an urban line with substantial underground sections and a bunch of new stations is entirely comparable.
mc32 didn't say that working class people are constantly insulting each other, he described how they would likely react to insults.
search for awesome-selfhosted. one of the most comprehensive lists
The Developer’s New Role in 300 Serverless Environments
You are correct, I misattributed the top comment as part of the article, was an honest mistake.

"Old growth forests tend to exist in a carbon steady state; younger, growing forests tend to be net carbon uptakers. This situation is due to natural disturbance regimes in forests, like fire and pine beetle, having historically signifiant impacts in large part because of climate change."
Serious question, ignoring the other environmental impacts of logging old growth forest:

Is logging carbon negative?
For the millionth time. The distribution of populations not lining up with the general population distributions is not indicative of discrimination. Not to mention that the "anti-brown people" narrative absolutely dissolves in the face of the massive overrepresentation of Indians and other Asians. To say that Silicon Valley has a "race problem" and only include the employment statistics as they relate to the population at large is just pure insanity. What about the racial distribution of the hiring pool? It's less diverse by their own standards than the distributions in companies. What about the racial distribution of college graduates in engineering? Then what about mapping the racial distribution of the college graduates onto interview success rates, where the biased distribution of the graduates as produced by the universities' affirmative action policies must necessarily align with a similar policy at the company if their own filtering criteria is to produce the same results?

The thing that I find the most interesting about all of this is that there isn't an overt attempt to actually remove purported discrimination from the hiring process. Suggestions to anonymize the interview process typically produce results that are even less representative of their desired distribution, because almost every company is actively discriminating in favor of women and "marginalized communities." If their accusations were actually on the basis of correcting bias/discrimination, this is the sort of strategy you'd see advocated, but it's not. They want arbitrary quotas that are, given the available pool of candidates to even consider, mathematically impossible to attain.
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Love this article and if you read it with Curious Droids' voice it's even better: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC726J5A0LLFRxQ0SZqr2mYQ
I got one after about 15 tries. Also a person with Indian features and Hispanic features.
> Having a conversation was a learning experience for him and his team?

Of course not. It's boilerplate CEO speak. It's a way of "answering" the question without making any commitments and seems to terminate any further discussion.

Joe Rogan and Sam Harris discuss this on Joe Rogans podcast #1241
That was my thought too.

"Sure, the old system was ugly, but it had everything they needed, right at their fingertips!"

"They didn’t have time to click or scroll to find information while the clock was literally ticking."

Sounds more like they added way more friction in the new design. Users now had to click multiple areas to fill out everything they needed which slows down work flow.
The title here, the title in the actual article, and the content of the article aren't telling the same story.

Here:
"Toyotas and Chevys Are Holding Up Better Than Most Luxury Brands"

Article:
"Toyotas and Chevys Are More Reliable Than BMW and Mercedes, J.D. Power Finds"

Article content (paraphrasing):
"Lexus, Porsche top the list"
"Most German manufacturers lag behind US"

So which is it? Bloomberg doesn't appear to be trying too hard here.
If lack of diversity isn't a problem, why aren't these companies open with their figures? Why go to such extents? There's also research to suggest women and minorities are underpaid relative to their male, white counterparts, shouldn't companies fix that?
... but just as violent, only administered much more slowly.
Hmm, it does babies and infants too. I was not expecting that.

Other commentators mention that Ashley Madison, stock-photo companies, and other spammers will take this and run with it. Honestly, I suspect that has already happened for a while now and may explain the issues that FB and Twitter are having [0].

Though I can't find the thread, there was a discussion here on HN a while back about the 'Inversion' issue. Briefly, Youtube uses some ML and RNN stuff to help determine spammers vs. real-people (after pre-processing and cleaning things up a fair bit). However, if the number of spammers becomes too high, such that the spammers that DO make it through the various filters become over 51%, then the filters will 'Invert'. Meaning that the MLs and RNNs will start to classify the spammers as 'real' and the real-people will likely be told they are spammers.

I can imagine that this site will quickly exacerbate that issue.

Honestly, in reading Cal Newport's new book [1], I can't say I'm all that sad about it. The 'casino' like design of the modern web is obviously bad for us. In moderation, yes, but to the level we are at currently? Not a chance. Driving users away from these sites and devices isn't a bad thing for anyone that isn't earning a paycheck via the FAANGs.

Hopefully this kind of tech will cause a bit of a restructuring of the modern web in the long haul. I doubt it, but one can hope.

[0] Not that Jack can even properly use twitter to begin with: https://danluu.com/karajack/

[1] http://calnewport.com/blog/
> Entrepreneurs went looking for alternatives among Caspian sturgeon’s distant North American cousins: white sturgeon, the shovelnose sturgeon of the Mississippi River, the American paddlefish. It’s a mediocre substitute.

I like caviar... I have eaten quite a bit of caviar including Russian Sevruga and Beluga and I think actually prefer American Hackleback to all of them. The fact it is massively cheaper than Russian caviar is just an additional plus.
Would you be willing to share your ideas on what can be done at the beginning of the pipeline?
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I couldn't think of anything more horrible than running Windows without a GUI. Why not use Linux at that point?
Hrm, your example was quite glaring in its flaws, most of the images I saw, on the other hand, looked quite flawless. I actually came here to disagree with someone else who stated the images he saw had alien-like alarming characteristics, or something along those lines. I can’t tell most of these are fake even at full size on an XS Max.
But that's been that way for some time now. My 2002 (E46) BMW 3-series has mostly Bosch parts inside. The transmission is made by... GM. The only thing that's BMW is the engine and the body. All the sensors on the engine are Bosch. It's a fairly smart way of developing a car in my opinion: concentrate on what you're good at. But to add to your point: you can also tell from the problems what BMW had outsourced -- it's often the accessories that don't age well. The engine in the E46 BMWs are fairly reliable. I had to open the valve cover once after 10+ years of driving and everything looks pristine inside. The biggest defect I had to deal with was the VANOS valves, which only required some bearing replacement, and gasket replacements.

My 2013 (F30) BMW 3-series is similar in its parts sourcing. The turbo is made by Mitsubishi and the transmission is made by ZF (which is pretty much industry standard). Other than the engine, body, and maybe the steering components, everything else is again outsourced. So far it's been pretty damn reliable though.
Thanks for the link. I think this is what I need.
Another benefit would be the same UX for all text content consumption.
Well there goes any respect I had for Pulitzer.
Probably not. Security is full of the "We're Compliant" types (don't we have insurance for that?) and very few real technologists who know how to hack/break/abuse systems. Target was PCI compliant when their CC data was breached and exposed. There are many more examples of this. Check the box, get owned and no really cares. That needs to change.
Agree - I could take most of this comment back to the late 90s and most of it would still apply. One thing you could do back then was with visual GUI editors, you could place buttons and widgets where you wanted them and change it quickly.
CL is only ten years old? I always figured it was from the 90s — maybe a bias originating from the design.
Agreed... that’s why I spent yesterday moving all my expenses to a different system.
> Ras Pi 3: CPU: 4× ARM Cortex-A53, 1.2GHz. GPU: Broadcom VideoCore IV. RAM: 1GB LPDDR2 (900 MHz) Networking: 10/100 Ethernet, 2.4GHz 802.11n wireless. Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.1 Classic, Bluetooth Low Energy. Storage: microSD.

That's Model B, the Model B+ specs are a little bit better. But still only 1GB of RAM which I suspect to be the biggest bottleneck here. Storage also maybe but the Pi can boot from USB nowadays which might bring it to a good enough level.
I think that this attitude a great example of the arrogance that permeates a lot of the redesigns that get dropped on people today. Yes one needs to sometimes throw out suggestions (because they aren't aware of techniques) but when users complain or praise something that needs to be listened to because they are literally telling you their workflow and describing potential optimizations. Nothing is more obnoxious than designers telling me I won't want something! It's like, 'fuck you, you don't know me, stop discounting what sounds like a good idea!'

Ask things to your users, and then listen to them! Watch them when they show you things, watch them when they work, watch their emotions to see what they like and don't.
This is true. But there is an important corollary: never buy a used luxury car that's in it's third phase of life (>120k mikes). Both the amount and the cost of repairs are significantly higher. But it's a sucker's deal where people can get a nice car for a while, but which will end up costing them way more than, say, a moderately used Toyota.
The whole “diversity industry” (and it is a huge industry) is based on a lie... that “diversity” improves a company’s performance. The research on this is so shaky with so much empirical evidence to the contrary, and everyone knows it, which is why companies are trying to do nothing more than “lip service.”
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A/B testing can help. Show them 2 or 3 different ways and watch them as they work with each.
You have to do both. Watch and ask.