skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - the quality of candidates we were getting from HR was very poor. Each of us wasted incredible amounts of time phone screening candidates who were wildly mismatched with the role, or straight up not qualified.

Adding my own personal anecdote to this: about 75% of the time, when I get contacted by recruiters for major West Coast companies[1] the positions they are scouting me for are inappropriate to my skill set, background, and interests. Sometimes wildly so.

[1] Which is probably once every two months or so.
Exactly. I live in The Netherlands, we are going to pass a bill that puts massive restrictions on flying drones on July 1st.

I fly drones. I have yet to encounter a drone other than my own 'in the wild'.
Ditto, it made the situation so much sadder.
It's politics, not technology. One could make a browser scripted via python, but it would be an extreme minority position and would fail to gain adoption. One could add python support to any existing browser, but none of the stakeholders care enough to do it; they will always argue it is a waste of time because <insert other popular browser> doesn't do it.

There is nothing about JavaScript that is uniquely suited to the browser, it just "won out". It's hard enough to get browser vendors to agree to standards at all, say nothing about multiple standards for a single feature.
I'm not sure on what basis you're being so dismissive.

Make is actually a pretty good system for setting up parallel computations, if you're doing it on one machine. Are parallel computations with lots of dependencies too simple of a problem? People get excited about things that are even simpler than that, like Map/Reduce, as long as you're doing them to enough data.

I'm not sure which part you're "not a fan" of -- there are some pretty awful, ugly things you can do with Makefiles, which includes basically everything about compiling C, but you don't have to do awful things, and the fundamental idea of "you need this to build this" is implemented very well by Make.

Now, I've recently been converted to using Ninja, in fact by someone on HN, when I asked if there was a Make-like system that understands steps with M inputs and N outputs. It keeps the same fundamental idea while discarding a lot of Make baggage. But if this Makeflow system said "it's like Ninja for clusters" instead of "it's like Make for clusters", nobody would know what they were talking about.
SIgh...

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Another page that incorrectly assumes that all user agents support javascript.
Falcon 9 experienced a problem shortly before first stage shutdown
"Don't quote me" means something like, I am not a reliable source and I could be wrong.
It exploded :(. Link to that part of the livestream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeiBFtkrZEw&t=23m38s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeiBFtkrZEw&t=23m40s
(from 23:40)
Does anybody have a way to watch the video again? I'm curious to watch it again now that I know what happened. I haven't watched many launches before so I didn't know if what was happening was routine or not. Though, admittedly, it was weird that one second there was a rocket, then the next there was only debris...

edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeiBFtkrZEw&t=23m38s Thanks xur17!
Thats a mighty tasteless thing to say. I am guessing you are on the "we should not be exploring space" camp?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeiBFtkrZEw&t=23m38s

And the NasaTV stream is still going with updates: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
A kitchen knife's sole purpose isn't to hurt someone.
maybe the rupture was the initial bit of smoke (it looked the larger of the two from my view).
Ah, I see. The English Language never ceases to surprise :)
The title is not particularly clear. "Continued" means that the ELA is maintained at the current level.

Put another way, there will be no further increase in ELA and the Greek banks have used the previous allotment, so their coffers are running dry. It will be a very tough week in Athens.
I think Max-Q occured about a minute before. You can review the stream, it passed supersonic way before (you see the shock cone on the two sides), then max-q, then a minute later the explosion
I see that you enjoy Kool-Aid.
Yeah, we all knew the return and landing part is new and uncertain, but I thought they would at least get to try.
I wonder if this reply isn't coloured by the stigma GP was trying to point out. Recklessness and paranoia aren't in themselves mental illnesses. What portion of the general population experience paranoia or recklessness vs people with mental illness? I bet the rates aren't all that different, it's just that in extreme combination it earns the person a de facto badge of "mentally ill". That's usually shorthand for "I don't have enough information to understand this persons motives, so I'll label them as crazy and be done with it".

> I fail to see how suggesting that this shooter is mentally ill would contribute to the shooting and killing of mentally ill patients

It's possibly perpetuating the widespread belief that people with mental illness are predominantly violent. The _vast_ majority are not.

> This shooter is not being stigmatised at all, as i see it: attention is being drawn to a potential sufferer who is not receiving (adequate) care.

I guess the "mentally ill" label is a bit more compassionate than "violent criminal", but it also applies to millions of harmless people who don't necessarily benefit from being lumped into the same label.
Any language capable of writing drivers, boot sectors...
I'm very saddened at this event, it makes me worry about how future launches will go.

Will their customers agree for them to add landing legs to their future missions? Will their manned flights be delayed? How about their certification to launch for the USAF.

Also I'm not sure but, did I see the Dragon spacecraft eject?
Video of explosion, from 23:40.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeiBFtkrZEw&t=23m40s
Damn, that sucks, but not nearly as much as if it was a random explosion. I believe in this scenario, astronauts would be able to do an emergency separation, getting far away from the lower stage before it was detonated. My biggest worry from this is that human flights will be delayed (justly or unjustly.)
Here's a second[0] video in case the first one goes down.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuNymhcTtSQ
> "classes should not define any of the special functions (copy/move constructors/assignment, and the destructor) unless they are classes dedicated to resource management."

All C++ classes are dedicated to managing the memory resource that they are allocated on, am i missing something?
I disagree that Reddit is an incubator of hate, but the article makes a good point showing it's a channel for all kinds of communication, including - apparently indiscriminately - racism and other kinds of hate.

In much the same way 4chan was getting increasingly linked in public opinion with the bad things happening in /b/, it appears that Reddit has similar albatrosses around its neck. At that point, it becomes very difficult to get rid of a worrisome user segment - because of their nature and number, any action to drive them away has a huge potential to backfire.

This is a bad position to be in for a business: you need to placate a growing number of mean-spirited users who constantly probe the boundaries of what they can get away with, and yet you have to do everything you can to avoid the problem that your brand is publicly identified with the hate groups residing on your site.

I want to point out that the goals of a company having these problems are not necessarily the goals of people who want to deprive hate groups from having a public and company-supported outlet.
This is pretty sweet, animated really well and might even reduce the non-humanly touch a little bit.
Heard something similar on the stream just a few minutes ago. Something like: we are trying to correlate the timelines of data from Falcon to the timing of the Range Safety Officer ...(turning on?)... the flight termination system.

Edit: Falcon Launch Control on "We are trying to correlate timelines and compare data with what they were able to see with down range cameras and put together what happened. We stopped receiving data at 2 min 19 sec from the vehicle. It is still not clear exactly what happened and why... At this point we don't have additional information we can provide on NASA Television until the contingency Press Conference, no earlier than 12:30? ET."
But not knowing who leaked it takes away the very important opportunity to judge their motivations for leaking it, which again has a substantial bearing on how believable a leak is.
Global symbols can be thought of as "keys which always existed" and they don't have values.

You can't determine if a global symbol is being used by another frame. They just ... exist.
Cream cheese however never returns to its normal self after freezing. It even says so on the package "do not freeze". The flavor is fine, but it becomes crumbly instead of creamy.
So, the advantage of a weekend launch is that I could show my kids (boys 7 & 4), right?

Facepalm.

In the last few minutes, over a dozen K-Nex rockets have lifted off and exploded shortly after takeoff.

Sigh.

Not the best introduction to the second Space Age for them.... ah well, we'll try again later.

At least nobody was aboard.
So in a case like this, would it be possible to have the pad abort system kick in? It could potentially pull the cargo module away and make an attempt to parachute it back for recovery? I doubt it could overcome the speed of the rocket but it might have a chance to separate it from the debris cloud?
What are the implications of this for SpaceX in monetary terms? Can they just shrug this failure off?
Systems programming is the locus of development which spans boot firmware, operating system kernels, drivers, utilities and high performance middleware (API's to the operating system, numeric libraries/codecs, graphics, and whatever.)

Systems programming languages are characterized by requiring minimal run-time support, or supporting a version of themselves which is that way (e.g. ISO C has the concept of a "freestanding implementation", and there is a way for such a thing to be conforming).

As a rule of thumb, if it has no "freestanding implementation" or equivalent, then it's not a systems language.

I'm not aware that a flavor of Java exists with a toolchain that would let us rewrite U-Boot in Java, while keeping its footprint in the same ballpark. (I.e. the firmware image cannot contain an entire Java platform.)
You could provide even more clarity by using meaningful types like Money or TaxPercentage instead of Double.

This would allow you to ensure only valid values are passed and would help avoid problematic floating point arithmetic :)
"Bacteria stuff is just BS."

Why? References?

"There is a simpler question - could one tell anxiety from hunger? (I can't) or the feeling of being hungry "reuses anxiety" in context? This explains why stressed people are overeating - they misinterpret their anxiety as feeling hungry and develop a habit of "eating it over".

Actually it doesn't. Why are they feeling anxious? How do they misinterpret anxiety for the feeling of hunger? Why is the feeling of anxiety and hunger the same (as you assert, I strongly disagree). It is not even close to as simple as you suggest. Maybe bacteria has a role and maybe not. What is known is that the microbiome does have a larger role to play then we currently understand/realize. To what extent and exactly how is still an open question.
I'm glad that you spoke your mind however unpopular even though I disagree with some of your findings/conclusions but it's really brave of you to stand up to the downvote goons on HN that all they care about is social engineering, suppressing free speech and stifling constructive debate.
That's the thing. The "existence" of a global symbol isn't observable.

Think of `Symbol.for("foo")` as if it were the string "foo". The string "foo" is also global, when passed across iframe boundaries it still retains its meaning. One can use this string on either side. Using it doesn't observably instantiate some global flag, though internally there may be interning and whatnot. Similarly, using Symbol.for("foo") doesn't instantiate any flag, observably.
Can anyone here with a little more knowledge answer the following please?

Who pays for the expense of these types of failures? Does SpaceX have some sort of 3rd party insurance from a private insurer or are they insured by NASA or another branch of the US gov?

How much is the equipment that got destroyed worth? If this happens multiple times in a short space of time as it seems to have recently does the cost of insurance go up for every launch? Does their analysis of data have any impact of the cost of insuring future launches?
Thanks for sharing, i missed the launch itself..
Yeah, that one is not very obvious. Think of it like a warning: "Don't quote me on this, because if you do, you might find yourself repeating incorrect information."

A literal command of "don't quote me because I'm telling you something I shouldn't" would be something like, "Off the record, this is what happened." And yeah, that would be silly to say on the internet.
Eddy Cue on Apple Music
Good that nobody was hurt.

that reminds me that Elon Musk said that Antares rockets are junk, so now his own spacecrafts are exploding. Space tech has its problems. Maybe that will teach him to be a bit more humble.

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/10/iss-bound-gear-...
Tension? Or upset-ness?
It looks promising. With Steam's success and now Unreal is back in play, Linux gaming's future and gaming on open platforms in general, gets brighter every day.
My Cancer Pt. II, Medical Fat Shaming Could Have Killed Me. |
Same here, but they said the liftoff was nominal so I'm guessing it's either imagination or camera angle. This stuff is really hard to judge from video.
While /r/coontown is place filled with scum that doesn't mean we should shut it down or ban it... These people are going to exist, reddit community or no reddit community. It shouldn't be reddit's (or any internet company's) job to police things people find offensive as long as they are legal (free speech).

Related, I'm a little worried about stores pulling the confederate flag. I don't know where I stand on that. Don't get me wrong I think it's a terrible symbol and the fact it was/is flying on government property is crazy to me (I honestly did not know this was a thing). That said banning a flag or anything product that uses said flag on your platform feels a little reminiscent of not baking a cake for a gay wedding which I'm still conflicted on as well. What about a confederate flag cake or a swastika cake?

Please understand I'm not comparing being gay to being a racist or a nazi I'm just comparing people being made to produce something that is at odds with their personally held beliefs. The example that hits home for me is if I run a software development company and I have a client who asks me to make a product for a political party I disagree with. Do I have the right to refuse to work on the project? (this example happened to be as an employee) Or, hypothetically, someone offers to pay me to make an anti-gay or racist website for their cause/group. It's something I don't quite have my head wrapped around and don't know how to feel about it all. I'd be interested to hear other people's thoughts on the matter.
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Didn't a Russian rocket with supplies to ISS explode not long ago?

Edit: One exploded in May: http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/05/soyuz-2-1a-third-stag... It seems like they are going to launch again with supplies to ISS in July
Source: https://twitter.com/NASA/status/615164919978328064
Yeah, click bait title. Just like that other Pando article on Uber (the title mentions riot, whereas the article has nothing to do with riots). There are blogs that make tons of money though like copyblogger, smashing magazine etc. This doesn't seem to be one of them.

These click baity articles are really annoying. I wish there was a chrome extension to can warn users of these type of articles before the user clicks on their links.
Both SpaceX and Orbital ATK carry insurance policies on their ISS resupply launches to protect against this sort of thing, although the policies are not absolutely comprehensive (Orbital's policy had a bothersome gap related to damages caused to the launch facility, owned by a third party). I do not know what the SpaceX vehicle's cost is, but I do know that the Antares rocket that Orbital ATK lost last year was itself valued at ~$200 million USD.
Not quite. The stock IS the company. If the company makes profit, or is perceived to have other value (assets, knowhow, etc.), then the stock is priced according to those parameters.

Simple example; company issues 100 shares and makes $1000 profit per year. If you could buy those 100 shares for $1 each, you'd basically own 100% of a company that makes $1000 per year cash profits for $100. Good deal. Usually too good in fact, and that's why this stock would not be priced at $1 per share for long.
Isn't 180 seconds just the burn time of first stage? So it's when 2nd stage should fire?
I don't know a whole lot more than you, but private insurance is definitely a thing for launches, and I would imagine SpaceX has a policy that covers this. The FAA has an interesting document about the space insurance market here: https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...
I remember as a kid playing buzz aldrin's race into space I was fascinated by the exploding rockets. Now that I better realize the cost, no more fascinated. Trial and error has its costs
I would rather see SpaceX fail a thousand times unmanned than once with astronauts aboard: this is all part of progress forward.
I guess the verbosity of the method's name is actually good in this case? Since it makes the function so much clearer.

I am never sure how much to abbreviate a name, but I guess if it's not going to be used much it can be long without problems.
Why safety now trumps freedom
> Hear, hear for genetics!

Wow, those Japanese researchers can now sure beat their drums about this research.

What a ... jaw-dropping result.
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
If you want a static check of your program, use PyLint, it's excellent at detecting most errors, be them syntax, typing error (things like x = 10; x.do_stuff() )

I think annotations would be useful in very few cases, since interfaces are not bound by types and that's what's good about python
Fair enough, i think i see what you mean.

But,

> It's possibly perpetuating the widespread belief that people with mental illness are predominantly violent. The _vast_ majority are not.

If that's what it seems like, i would like to correct that miscommunication. I most certainly do not espouse the view that "mentally ill" implies "probably" or even "perhaps violent". There may or may not be violent people who are also mentally ill, but i see it as orthogonal issues. People with mental illnesses should be taken care of and helped, not threatened with fines or jail time. Part of the problem is precisely that there is a stigma on coming forward and asking for help—i'm hoping that by pointing out that (e.g.) violence and mental illness are orthogonal issues might contribute infinitesimally to the decrease of stigma.

But i suspect we largely agree, and i also think that we are now significantly off-topic with regard to the original post :).
I get your fear, but it was a while back that the shadowbanning was really out of hand, with perfectly sensible people continuing to spend time and effort writing thoughtful comments, oblivious to the fact that only a handful of the userbase could even see them.

For that reason I've had `showdead` on since ever. There used to be so many normal comments grayed out because of some unrelated misstep of that user elsewhere.

But, roughly about when we got new mods (dang and the other one), that things started changing. Recently, I've pretty much only seen grayed out comments that were actually inflammatory, in some sense. Not that I'd always agree with the fact they got downvoted, but at least I could see it had to do with the content of that particular post.

So posting a joke risks downvotes, but not shadowbans.

I do agree that HN is one of the most dry, humourless discussion boards I have ever seen. While megablast says "humour is allowed here", while technically true, I really have to say there is pretty much no space for humour on HN, at all.

The only reason why there are even a few funny posts or jokes on HN at all is because you can't put a stop to humour, it'll find a way.
Do you think you might be having a hindsight bias?
According to the One True Reliable Source of All Knowledge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Resupply_Services), SpaceX got $1.6 billion for 12 resupply missions, so that's about $133 million for the Falcon 9, the Dragon, and all the work involved in shooting them into space. I have no clue what their profit margin would be on that, but that at least gives us an upper limit.
I am not disbelieving you, but do you have any proof of what his sites are, or are you speculating?
There are no solid rocket boosters on Falcon 9.
Rent for a flat/apartment and the healthcare arrangements strike me as perhaps of some importance - although it sounds like toothbrush has got his toothbrush packed already!
Sorry to hear that. My friend has UC and it's a really tough thing to have to deal with. Best of luck to you.
Reminds me of America...
Agree. I've spent a lot of time in tech, biotech and hanging around the medical community and it's no secret that certain racial & ethnic groups are overrepresented here in the US vs the standard population.

Why that is and if that's something to be concerned about are separate questions which I think are out of scope here, but it certainly doesn't necessarily imply that you need to conform to have an enjoyable work experience.
I agree - even if what he said had some merit - it's never a good idea to trash your competitors on technical matters when what you are doing is really hard.
SpaceX and NASA is continuing to evaluate.
Live coverage: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
T+15m	NASA TV says flight was terminated by Air Force, but does not state reason

http://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/3b27hk/rspacex_crs7_...
They are stocked for months. As you can imagine, if your delivery mechanisms have a somewhat higher than usual risk of failure you don’t really go for just in time delivery.

There are several ways of supplying the ISS, though the very reliable Russian Progress (which also did have a failure recently – not a good year for cargo shipments to the ISS) is certainly the workhorse in terms of cargo shipments. (Though there is also the Japanese HTV and the – also recently failed – Cygnus.)

Any one or even couple failures of cargo vehicles in a row can’t do much to the supply situation. There are multiple redundancies built into the process. However, since really no one wants to abandon the ISS (just deserting it and coming back a couple months later is always risky with something as complex as the ISS that does require constant upkeep) that better be the case.

There will probably be quite some rescheduling and changing of plans happening. (I know that after the last cargo failure three people actually got to stay up in space a couple days longer, for whatever complicated scheduling related changes in plans.)
>My impression, more from the side lines, being a technical person occasionally involved in sales, is that it help in lead generation, but that the conversion ratio tends to be lower than with leads for a closed product.

This is what I'm seeing. Even when I had free trials, vast majority of people were just free loaders, some even going as far as using a prepaid card to get past the requirement.

Which is why I'm hesitant to jump on the Open source wagon, I don't want an army of freeloaders now demanding and whining, like I see all the time on github.