skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree. Basing hiring decisions on the color of someones skin or the form of their genitalia is one of the most blatant forms of discrimination. The fact that it is widely accepted by our society makes me sick to my stomach.

I am a female and I just hate it when a company recruiter says he can get me a job in a position I know I am not at all qualified for. Additionally I got scholarship money when going to school when those much more dedicated than me did not simply because they had something hanging between their legs.
Why is it inappropriate, because you disagree with it?
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It has happened to me that I was turned down for an engineering position whose main focus was working with a tool that I had developed the year before, because the other guy had a MSc and I didn't. HR people are weird.
An interesting paper that is doing that math : http://mae.engr.ucdavis.edu/faculty/sarigul/aiaa2001-4619.pd...
Yes, and flagging is a form of censorship is it not?
After reading your comment, I realized that I was counting at half the speed I was supposed to.
Those aren't really fair comparisons as they are several orders of magnitudes less dangerous than space flight. My quick estimates say that roughly 1-3% of people who try to get to space die during some point of the journey. Some quick Googling put the fatality rate for skiing at roughly .00002%. If 1% of people who tried skiing died, you could bet there would be national discussions about it.
Actually, it is not as scary as you might think. I'm reading a discussion: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October...

"> If they have the resources to do that, what's to stop them brute
> forcing a key for any other existing hidden service?

I talked to them about this. The short answer is that they did the vanity
name thing for the first half of it ("facebook"), which is only 40 bits
so it's possible to generate keys over and over until you get some keys
whose first 40 bits of the hash match the string you want.

Then they had some keys whose name started with "facebook", and they
looked at the second half of each of them to decide which one they thought
would be most memorable for the second half of the name as well."

So in summary, it is not necessary for facebook to have bruteforced the entire facebookcorewwwi string, but just "facebook" and then find one that works somewhat.
All of those you said are very true. It's also worth mentioning that that very 'safe' engine has already killed three people, and injured three others during a cold-flow test. Very tragic.

see for details: http://www.knightsarrow.com/rockets/scaled-composites-accide...

or the "Test program accident" at the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RocketMotorTwo
That was childish and contributes nothing to the conversation.
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"One fatality, one major injury."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/31/virgin-...

:-(
But the LGPL requires you that you can (principally) exchange the LGPL shared libraries by your own ones. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_Licen...: 'Essentially, if it is a "work that uses the library", then it must be possible for the software to be linked with a newer version of the LGPL-covered program. The most commonly used method for doing so is to use "a suitable shared library mechanism for linking". Alternatively, a statically linked library is allowed if either source code or linkable object files are provided.'). Is this possible on iOS?
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I agree, a presentation on music that does not contain any audible samples reveals a weakness of slideshare perhaps, unless perhaps there is a feature I am unaware of ?
Until when? The next large asteroid? The next close-by gamma burst? The sun goes nova?

Let's go see the universe, and take life along with us.
Cultural note: the Daily Mail is a terrible newspaper. We don't have the same culture of fact-checking in UK print publications as the US has; and our newspapers are chock full of bias and distortion and misinformation. The Mail is among the worst.

Please, if you want to be credible don't link to the daily mail. It's probably a site that could be added to a site block list.
This Is Your Brain on Drugs
How Apple went thermonuclear on Samsung, erasing Android's primary profit center
Consider a Movable file handle.

File fh = File(fopen("file.txt"));

foo(std::move(fh));

Using fh after foo() would yield a compile error in Rust. It does not in C++.
>>with incentive to maximize since they're paid a percentage

No, in this case dealmakers will often want to just make more deals and may even negotiate less aggressively for you.

For example a realtor would rather sell your house for less immediately rather than risk a transaction falling through.

The commission upside of pushing for a 20k higher salary is often just not worth the time compared to getting the next deal done.
Religion is about certainty, but there are multiple religions.

It seems obvious that if people are capable of believing different certainties, then no version can be reliably considered true. Yet there are people who are killing each others children for the kind of Christian they are, let alone Muslims killing Christians, as we speak in fact, because they both believe in opposite certainties. Yet neither side is losing any sleep worrying if the other side might be correct.

Yet it is people like me who point out this most salient of facts that the problem in your mind. This makes you either a complete idiot or a hypocrite.

Faith is the problem. Believing things without evidence is the root cause of most evil on this planet.
Yeah, "rocket" + "safe enough to carry tourists regularly" just seems like a difficult combination.
Agreed.

Don't forget that this is not the first fatality associated with this engine. In 2007, 3 people were killed in an explosion during a static test at Mohave Air & Space port.
You can install easily via:

brew install arrangodb

Here's a nice overview of the features [1] and also comparison with others [2] (although it's pretty outdated). Some benchmarking here [3] as well.

[1] https://www.arangodb.com/key-features

[2] https://www.arangodb.com/2012/11/13/comparing-arangodb-with-...

[3] https://www.arangodb.com/performance
My thoughts are with the Virgin Galactic team. Spaceflight is difficult, dangerous, and I believe crucial to the future of humanity. Test piloting is always dangerous, more so with space vehicles, but that doesn't make it any less heartbreaking or impactful when you lose someone. I'm sure they will learn from this even as they mourn the loss.

Virgin Galactic, especially those you lost today, you have my deepest respect for Daring Greatly.
There was a comment earlier asking for a source that someone didn't make it.[0]

[0] News report: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/31/spaceshiptwo-...
Such an incredible false choice you present.
I think you'll find that it hard to argue that the efforts of exploration are linked to our industrial pillage of the planet.
I'm genuinely grateful for this article, because I'm going to show it to my wife as an explanation why I dance the way I do. (dnb and classical Indian music fan)
Instead of living through the greatest mass extinction event in the last few million years, we'd be living in harmony with nature, dying of now-curable injuries, starving to death when times are lean, seeing our mothers and wives and daughters die in childbirth, and living in profound ignorance of the nature of the universe.

At least with the mass extinction there are prospects for fixing the problem.
It is very hard to find a good recruiter who is actually concerned about their engineers. Haven't found one yet
OpenROV: Robotics Underwater with Node.js [video]
Kids should start on HTML. This teaches simple coding (UI elements only) so it is great to for them to see quick results of their efforts.

Most beginner Hypercard apps were just multimedia pages hyperlinked together. You can do that now GitHub right now and publish it immediately to a web site. It was fast and easy to get my 10-year-old daughter a GitHub account and show her how to use the online editor. Then I showed her HTML and CSS and let her loose. I set up github pages and gave her instructions to pull to that branch (which took me a while to figure out but she took right to it.) She took my netbook into school the next day and blew away the kids in her project group with it. Then she got bored and hasn't wanted to mess around with it anymore. Oh well...
This is a loaded subject, but I'd like to say that (in my perspective) given a mostly uniform team (e.g. all males), it's a big plus to the atmosphere to hire someone from a different background (e.g. a woman). This may not be fair to the candidates who do not get hired, but it can be a very rational choice for the team to increase diversity and thus possibly improve culture/team spirit, and reduce "echo chamber" effects.
Sending out resumes is a terrible way to apply for jobs & the response rate is always horrid. Don't beat yourself up about that.
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Related reading: https://github.com/apenwarr/redo
> Engineers were super excited about this. Until I mentioned the part where they’d have to pay me, that is.

It's a curious thing in an age where people prefer to cut out the middleman-- e.g. stock brokers & travel agents. Some people still want (need) their own Jerry Maguire to find a job.
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> that the ultimate feat of existence is getting married to someone of the opposite gender.

Close enough. Life is about reproducing, or else we would not be here. +1 for impressionable young girls.
> cryogenic liquids at -300 degrees celsius

Absolute zero is -273 °C.
In my own experience, every engineer that I have worked with who regularly uses psychedelics has substandard problem-solving abilities.

Note that I'm not "knocking" psychedelics per se. I've never personally tried them and I don't know enough to comment on their effects or risks. I'm just providing an anecdotal counterpoint to yours.

There are a lot of general comments in this thread about people's minds being usefully expanded by drug use. I'm not disputing these, but could someone perhaps provide a specific example about a problem they were stuck on which they then managed to solve with the assistance of drugs?
Maybe it's inevitable in the sense that all the accidents can't be evited.

Eventually you'll have one.

( Chrome doesn't think evited is a word. )
Maybe you should have offered them a support contract instead :)

The credentialism in this industry is often infuriating though, I agree.
Many years ago, trying to combine "flying in the air" with "safe enough to carry tourists regularly" would be seen in a similar light.
Have a look at lazy line painter

http://lazylinepainter.info/
I hadn't heard about that, thanks for the info.

I dug up this article:

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2014/10/08/work-continues-hybrid...
I really hope the recent crashes don't sway public opinion on private space flight.

Failures were always going to happen in an undertaking that's still very much in its infancy.
You are right. Hybrid engines are not looking like the safe & reliable middle-ground between solid & liquid engines that they were made out to be.
In my opinion, it's not that we need a new HyperCard, we need a HyperCard for handhelds, like tablets and smartphones. On-device programming, accessible by the layman. Microsoft Research's TouchDevelop is definitely doing some cool work there: http://www.touchdevelop.com
Mechanic, carpenter, some kind of craftsman.

I like building things.
Kaczynski was right.
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> Most systems operate in extreme conditions, sometimes bordering on the improbable.

Indeed. Your statement reminds me of an insightful engineering article, "How Complex Systems Fail": http://www.ctlab.org/documents/How%20Complex%20Systems%20Fai... . A few relevant observations from the article that resonate with me:

> 1) Complex systems are intrinsically hazardous systems.

> 4) Complex systems contain changing mixtures of failures latent within them.

> 5) Complex systems run in degraded mode.

> A corollary to the preceding point is that complex systems run as broken systems. The
system continues to function because it contains so many redundancies and because
people can make it function, despite the presence of many flaws. After accident reviews
nearly always note that the system has a history of prior ‘proto-accidents’ that nearly
generated catastrophe.

> 17) People continuously create safety.

> Failure free operations are the result of activities of people who work to keep the system
within the boundaries of tolerable performance. These activities are, for the most part,
part of normal operations and superficially straightforward. But because system
operations are never trouble free, human practitioner adaptations to changing conditions
actually create safety from moment to moment.
I recently happened upon an interview of Elon Musk on his work ethics: http://youtu.be/4Fl9LRgG3_A

The main takeaway was work as hard as you can (i.e. 80 - 100 hour weeks). Even if you're doing the same thing as the competition (assuming they work 40 hours), you'll still accomplish in 4 months what they would in a year. Hard work, tenacity, and a little luck is what separates the smart from the brilliant.
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I didn't like long UUIDs either, so I wrote this small Python library to re-encode them using a more varied character set:

https://github.com/stochastic-technologies/shortuuid
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That is where I see a big value proposition in agents for engineers, even in "hot" markets: cutting through HR's crap. That doesn't change, no matter how hot or cold the market is. I feel like that has been part of my problem, not knowing how to finesse my way past those gatekeepers.

I still have trouble marketing my relevance to technical people, though. I don't have a very forceful personality, nor am I comfortable talking about myself without becoming (in my mind) a know-it-all douchebag. I need help and coaching on that front, too.
It is demonstrably avoidable, there is zero need to risk human lives when doing testing these days. This is why Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser has the capability to land autonomously and is precisely why when it had an accident in 2013[1] nobody was hurt.

[1]http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1310/26dreamchaser/
Ah. Thank you for clarifying that point. Seems 1 per 100 trillion records would be much more acceptable.

Also, to whoever downvoted my very first post here: Way to build a community @sshole. I'm never commenting here again thanks to you, jack@ss.
sad. also manned flight to mars to colonize it like Musk says seems impossible for at least a couple decades.
I was lucky enough to attend the first public flight of SpaceShip One; it was one of the most inspirational things I've ever witnessed. Very sorry for the family of the pilot who died and generally everybody involved.
ok, good point. :) I VAGUELY remember that watch...
Errr yes, you're right, my "yes and yes" was too quick. Sorry for that!
"The best of both worlds" has an often overlooked twin sibling.. "The worst of both worlds"
Thanks for the catch, it's updated now - stupid mistake...
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I don't get GUIDS, couldn't you just prefix the sequential IDS for each node producing IDS?
We hit similar problems with Core Data for http://clothapp.com and ended up migrating to Realm (http://realm.io) last month. Been pretty happy with it so far.
I got into C++ back in 1993, and it has been one of the main languages on my toolbox. So I do like it quite much.

But I am also spoiled by Niklaus Wirth legacy in language design and safe systems programming. As well as ML languages.

C++14 feels quite modern, and I enjoy playing with it on hobby projects where I have full control, but I don't miss those C++98 enterprise code bases.
Half-Blood is considered to be a huge insult in the books.
Not true, Current is an entire Facebook client (not just chat) and it does not hide ads.
I think there are many other areas humanity could shift their focus away from to better help cohabitation of this planet than spaceflight.
I think you could get away with it without violating anything, if both parties are stationary to each other in time and space just in different locations in space.

For example, a ship travels to a nearby star, at near c. It gets there almost immediately in its time, and it takes 4 years in out time. But once it is there and is not moving relative to us, ftl communication doesn't violate anything. Or at least I can't image a scenario how could it as long as you can only transmit with that rule.

Unfortunately we can only test collapse in the same( practically ) reference frame.
You know what would be interesting; measuring if the collapse is really instantaneous, if the two parties are moving away from each other at significant fractions of c. Maybe it isn't and that solves the problem. Or maybe collapse stops working if one party is moving very fast.
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If we lived in a society with no discrimination then you might have a point. But we live in a society where certain groups are underrepresented and discriminated against, so it is the responsibility of companies like Amazon and the rest of us to try and rectify this situation.
Police can now force you to unblock your iPhone
Is it me or we entering a new golden age of authoritarianism?

Unlike in the last century, this time around it's not under the guise of nationalism or communism, but in representative democracies where the executive branches consumes greater and greater power, while weakening the well-vetted and centuries old safe-guards that were in place to prevent power-abuse.

Whenever the states sky-rocketing growth in power is questioned by the media or the citizenry the leaders can point to the fact that - hey it's still a democracy, you voted us in. So the populous is placated and ignorant to the fact the democratic process has been made impotent.
The Harry Connick Jr clip was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this thread - love it!
Some people want to do stuff now, not a hundred years from now, and they don't insist on perfect safety. The test pilots were fully aware of the risk, and I honor them for it.

There are a lot of people like that. Mountain climbers. Surfers. Volunteer soldiers. Alaskan crab fishermen.

You don't see anyone proposing that crabbing be banned until we can develop automated machines to do the job, right?
Interesting. I might actually be wrong about the details then. Maybe the new engines they were using is actually a new type of hybrid (nylon)? I know for a fact that they are working on their own liquid engine, but perhaps it wasn't involved in this crash.
Very nice. It's funny, I keep clicking on these 'new JS library' links thinking, oh geez, not another one... but then I leave thinking, wow, that is very impressive and super useful.
UUIDs come in different versions. v1 UUIDs are built out of MAC addresses and a timestamp, which is similar to what you're proposing.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your requirements, it is easily predictable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8540279
Right, because our current president is Christian and was born in America.
This is a tragedy and something to learn from. Being able to test this thoroughly without the presence of any human almost seems like a no-brainer to me.
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Early exploration was all about pillaging the planet. Much of the Sahara desert for example exists because destroyed the existing ecosystem which altered weather patterns and vastly expanding the desert. Recently we almost did the same to the Midwest in the US. In fact we still might be heading that way after the Ogallala Aquifer is used up.

More recently Oil is currently driving a lot of exploration into the oceans and other remote regions.

PS: Not that I think we should all just stay home, but whitewashing history is stupid.
I don't understand- that only seems to hold if everyone agrees to use Slack.

If everyone agrees to use a single chat service, like OC (like most large enterprises), then you don't have to search anything but the company directory, so the comparison doesn't seem to make sense. What you're saying is that IM is sub-optimal because everyone uses different services, but Slack is better because everyone is forced to use it?
I believe the OP here meant not that this specific incident was inevitable but rather that the death of a private astronaut at some point was statistically inevitable.
This is sort of obvious. Facebook's key is signed by a well-known CA. Anyone can make a cert for anything, but that doesn't mean that browsers will recognize it as being "valid".

The author fails to mention how this any more "broken" than TLS on anything else.
I'm kind of surprised it took this long to have a formal ruling to this effect (unless there have already been others). Seems pretty obvious to me.
>> We should be building machines to explore the solar system. This can be done for a fraction of the cost, time, and it will allow him to allow us to iterate quickly.

One man on mars for a day will be more informative than all the remote hardware we've sent so far. There is no substitute for being somewhere in person.
Bitnami applications are free to download/launch in the cloud, and you are never locked in to using Bitnami.

On top of this, we provide management of your cloud hosting with scheduled backups and monitoring as a paid service[1].

[1] https://bitnami.com/cloud#benefits
You may be surprised that VirtKick wraps WebVirtMgr and uses it as a JSON API for libvirt. :-) This is a temporary solution but does the job - it allowed us to start real quick with features that users care about, instead of harnessing libvirt. (Of course, SSH key injection is in a scope of our project! https://github.com/virtkick/virtkick/issues/6)
That is all the slack client is as well. You can right click to inspect all the ui elements.
Yeah, and a better way would be for somebody who specializes in creating relationships for the purposes of hiring to bring you to the attention of people they know who are looking for people like you. Sounds like an agent!
With regular flight in regular airplanes being so common and safe these days, it is easy to forget the lives that were lost so many years ago when brave men and women were testing the new technology of the time. Always pushing for faster planes, longer flights, higher altitudes. Lives were lost every step of the way. But it got us here. Today. We can cross oceans in a matter of hours rather than days (weeks?). So we continue to push the limits. And lives are lost each step of the way. Will I ever reach space? It is possible... but not likely. But I see no reason why my children won't. And it will be all because brave men and women, like the man that died today, continued to push the limits.
Nice to see a decent Flowdock competitor, but I still don't see a reason to switch.
I think it was Dave Abrahams who first brought up the issue of destructors with side effects and their implications for move semantics. For example, a destructor may have the side effect of releasing a lock. If I remember correctly, Dave's advice was to write your move operations in such a way that they always perform at least those destructor actions that have side effects. I seem to remember that he discussed this on his cpp-next blog, but the site appears to be down. Does anybody know if those blog posts are available somewhere?
Postgres has a UUID type, for example.