jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Possibly not, but the hazards of software procurement bite bigger at that kind of scale, and it's an under-studied science with not enough assurance of quality outcomes. I'm sure that 'x percent of IT projects fail' metric has improved at least somewhat in the last couple of decades but it's still fraught with pitfalls. Not uncommon to end up with an end result only as good as, or even potentially worse, than the one you were rushing away from. Better the devil you know, and all that.

Regarding altenatives at that scale, I've not been involved in a project at that kind of scale, biggest SAP implementation I was involved in was ~10k employees and Alphabet is sitting at ~130k right now. I don't want to dive too much into speculation, perhaps Google will get a good outcome with this approach and since they're coming from a bad place with Oracle the future might still be crap but perhaps just a bit less so.

The biggest issue with procurement of SAP and it's ilk is it shifts a fundamental burden from procurement to implementation. With a defined software/SaaS solution that's ready to go out of the box, you get to answer a lot of the yes/no functional questions at procurement stage. It can do it or it can't do it and you get to decide how important that is to you. With SAP, every requirement is answered with 'it can do that' with the massive asterix that to make it do what you need it's all going to need to be customized to do so. That opens you up to a lot of risk IMO.
Have seen companies fire people for that. Sometimes you can't afford that.
They could have equally reduced churn by offering better compensation packages... and letting the market forces do what market forces do. Particularly from such a libertarian, "the market solves everything" set of people. (not a position on libertarianism itself, just pointing out the irony in big name capitalists acting against the market).
Interesting article, thanks.

The author relates being told by his childhood ophthalmologist that he "could blame [his] genes and a love of reading" but I'm certainly no fonder of reading than either of my parents (though we are all quite bookish, my mother especially so) and they both made it to their 60s without glasses and now need reading glasses, whereas I became shortsighted in my early 20s - so that explanation has never sounded right to me either.
Of course, there's no real protection against being fired for failing to make enough tips... and for those who make over minimum wage on tips right now, not tipping them amounts to them making less money.
We can only hope. This was never funny.
You could have the fines be "heavily" pulled out of compensation packages for the higher ups who actually have the power to change the organization... but then they'd probably just leave and screw up some other place?

Do boards generally try to claw back compensation in these sorts of situations? (Just as they have been doing in some of the recent cases involving financial shenanigans.)
It skipped 3 of the layers. ;)
You've failed to understand my point, which is that this is likely state sponsored harassment. I only mentioned gamergate as an example of pointless trolling, which this incident might not be.
My favorite story about the application of statistics to the second world war, is the `German Tank Problem`. Statisticians' estimate of German Panther tanks proved to be much more closer to the real number than conventional intelligence estimates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
Companies can afford giant legal teams that can stretch things out for decades. Horrendously sick people can't afford the lawyers nor the time.
Shame that the holes are drilled so haphazardly. If only for the aesthetics, print out a template with the holes drawn on a circle, evenly spaced. Then use that as a guide to drill. Or find a local hacker group with a CNC drilling machine which will drill the holes with perfect alignment. Done right, it may have looked little different than a case with holes machined that way by the manufacturer.
< 100K users / day or so?
Whatever you do, don't do what my office did - they installed speakers that play pink noise. It helps with the noise (so much chatter) but it's annoying as hell.
The document says that you can't actually always avoid the Object allocations, because of the JVM. I'm pretty sure you'll need VM changes in addition to language changes for this.
I'll play contrarian for a moment: the most productive office I've ever worked in was an open office layout. What worked for us:

* Separate clusters by function / noise level -- We didn't put sales people and developers next to one another. People who spent all day on the phone were near other people who spent all day on the phone.

* Keep clusters small -- We had 4 person "pods" of desks for most of our early lifecycle. You weren't constantly interrupted by a dozen people from every direction, but you had a few people you could bounce ideas off of when you needed to.

* Lots of breakout spaces -- If you need to have a conversation that lasts more than a minute or so, find a private space. It was nice to hear a snippet of a conversation and decide "I care about this topic, let's break out and discuss further" or "This is not relevant right now, I'm going to disregard."

* Be respectful of flow -- If someone is deep in focus, just leave a post-it on their desk or send a message via chat. (This was a good form of one-bit communication for us.)

I don't think it's impossible to create a great open office layout. People just copied the ceremony without the essence. It's no different than "Agile is broken! We have 20 minute standups 3 times a day and nothing gets done!" Maybe the reason is because you're doing it wrong.
I had the chance to debug a NodeJS application that was based on a framework which had a lot of low quality dependencies which had a lot of low quality dependencies of their own... Long story short it was anything but fun. I think the NodeJS ecosystem needs a quality bar.
How important is it to do something you love that helps you in live comfortable life?

For example, I always loved theatre and plays but I was told in young age that it's very hard to support comfortable life as a thespian (unless you are breakout success); so best not to take that as a career even though it may really work out for you.
Your drone being pestered by drone-hunting drones? Buy a drone-hunting drone-hunting drone.
> I can't think of an obvious, clean way to do this with callbacks that doesn't go a long way toward simply re-implementing promises.

I may be misunderstanding your point, but you could name the callback function, and give the function object itself a "cancel()" method which alters its behavior to do nothing.
I feel like I have to be that guy. How is this Hacker News?

Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
That strikes me as giving lie to the "Ruby-like syntax" claim; ask a Ruby programmer what that line means and you will not get the correct answer for Zinc.

Actually the connection with Ruby is tenuous anyhow; Ruby and assembler just don't go together. An assembler should produce a very clear one-to-one correspondence of instruction to machine language opcode, pretty much by definition. A high-level language can turn a simple statement into arbitrarily-complicated run-time code, pretty much by definition. Neither of these are criticisms by any means, it's just what they are. There isn't much syntax cross-talk to be had there.
People usually "fall in love" with ideas, which is why its so hard to pull away from it. Its hard to be rational and objective when you're in love. This isn't so much of an issue in a relationship (in love with a person) because how you feel is what matters. However, in a startup, what matters is how the customers feel, and that love potion will be your Archilles heel if not treated carefully. I generally try to fall in love with problems before an idea (solution). When the idea comes before the problem, its been disastrous. Customer Development helps, but its still a rough ride.
What is wrong with 64 bit integers? Maybe they've been indicted on war crimes or something. The number of languages that appear and don't support them.... And what about interfacing with C? I can count the languages on one hand that have a simple and efficient C interface! (I have a list of other things almost always ignored by languages for no good reason... efficiency, friendly license, lack of macros or ability to extend the language...)
I’d suggest reading up on what’s changed in just those technologies for a start: HTML5, CSS3, ES6, Python3. Then you’ll be better able to evaluate the new tooling built on top of them.
> generous defined-benefits government pension

You have to make sure that this pension actually pans out. I've worked at a semi-government job for 10 years. However only 1 of the ten years, they indexed their current payouts with inflation.

I'm a freelancer now, and I've been counting on that pension. But if this continues, that government pension will be worth a whole lot less. I'll probably have to work longer.
But is the drive's reordering buffer so deep? NCQ in the system reorders only up to 32 requests.
I doubt the drive's firmware is capable of reordering millions of requests. These things have typically small amount of memory, just enough for typical use-cases.

Keeping a small window for sorting a subset of requests is much weaker than sorting all of them up front. Even if the window is 50% of all files, that would mean the average distance between requests increases 2 times (assuming blocks are distributed uniformly).
IIRC the font rendering in Windows was surprisingly slow and even somewhat unsafe. In one case lots of different webfonts displayed in the MSIE rendered the whole text rendering stack broken, with all text across the entire system disappeared. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a root cause of slow command prompts.
> It seems like you're hijacking this thread to make a your own political point

No I am not. I was making a salient legal point. The OP recommended visiting and making up your own mind. I pointed out that for many people that would be dangerous and illegal.

I have sympathy for the Iranian people who have a wonderful culture but are held captive by a repressive fanatical regime.
Better to get the NoPhone Air. If you buy in bulk, maybe they'll send it without the retail packaging.
You're looking for agoraphobic.
Uh at the high end there is Achronix and then the lower end you have Microchip(ex Microsemi(ex-Actel) and Lattice, Efinx and there are a couple of Chinese startups.
He's also the chairman of Solar City, I am of the opinion that endeavor is also pushing the envelope in some sense.

http://www.solarcity.com/company/team

(He appears 2/3 down the page)
AT&T will never be able to keep up with the crop production!
Nice UI.

Seems like this is similar to the Google spreadsheet I posted some time ago - except it was oriented towards co-founder matchmaking http://cofoundergoogledocs.com

Original post: "Do you need a co-founder? (Google Docs list)" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052950
everything else is irrelevant, the key lie with autonomy, mastery and purpose. have these values in your workplace and startup, it will really people to work.
The New Yorker had an interesting article about Wikileaks in the last issue: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/06/07/100607fa_fact_...

Addressing the decryption question, the author writes, "Assange, a cryptographer of exceptional skill, told me that unlocking the file was 'moderately difficult.'"
"I will never violate my own integrity by doing what Manning did and end up endangering more lives."

Has it ever occurred to you that sacrificing some more lives is not necessarily a bad thing? As far as I know, the U.S. invasion of Iraq was (highly) illegal. The U.S. citizens do not know what their military is doing, and do not care. The only deterrent preventing U.S. government from engaging in "nation-building" around the world is the political cost of a few hundreds / thousands of flag-draped caskets. Sometimes one must sacrifice a few to save many.
Excellent point. Back during the 1990s and the dot com boom Microsoft couldn't compete at all with startups, but moving to the Valley was a big barrier to a lot of people.

More recently a lot of Microsoft people have gone to Amazon or Google (which has done a lot of hiring in Seattle and for a while was aggressively recruiting MS folks) ... it'd be interesting to see how the numbers compare with FB/Google crossover.
Cool, but is 27km altitude "space"? I thought the "official border" was at 100km.
>they might just resolve this issue with a unified Google OS that doesn't use Java at all.

I don't think that would be feasible. That would mean deserting all their Android developers, telling them that their investment in Android skills is now worthless. Nobody would develop for Google's replacement OS.
Does anyone know if any specific US banks provide a secondary set of credentials for customers specifically for 3rd party sites (mint) that the customer only wants to allow to have non write access?
It will last as long as the CFO is in the room when that decision is made and the engineer is not. (Psst: there is a fairly straightforward way to make sure you are always in the room when compensation decisions are made.)
Europeans and americans may have diverging patterns of living, but sleeping in suburban areas and working in city centres isn't one of those patterns, as it's becoming the norm everywhere...
Same here.

I've only been on the interviewer side a few times (roughly 10), but even then I've run into 2 candidates that couldn't code.

If interviewers are screening candidates for certain attributes (regardless of how well those attributes map to being good at the job) you should expect most candidates to lack those attributes. Candidates who have them get hired after a few interviews, candidates who don't have to do many more interviews to find a job (or get discouraged).
While valid, this argument can only apply in a different information reality than our current world.

The pace of interaction and information has simply overwhelmed the ability of human one on one interaction. Most of our actions are with a mobile phone near us, meaning that the social sphere is directly with us and only a twitter/FB/Reddit/HN glance away.

Doesn't even help that the sites are designed to be competitively addictive on top of it.

IF that is the case - no matter how much you listen to someone, a few seconds after they return to their phone they are part of the new outrage cycle.

Do note that the whole thing above is doable with cable television as well. IF your uncle goes back home to listen to X TV channel day in and day out, your one on one interaction is going to only have a tiny impact.

The saddest part of what tech has created is a faster pace of communication that is orienting itself inimically to slower one on one human interaction.

Even this para above is built with the idea that parts of it will be broken off by people who read it and then reused later on. It's not a conversation with just the person I am responding to, but to everyone else reading it.
If the Netflix series "The Crown" is to believed, this is not quite true.
I mean, according to his Wikipedia page he's worth $2.85B so he's not really hurting.
The american checks and balances systems are much stronger, and trump got pushed back on a good portion of the things he was trying to do.

Not to mention, trump will clearly be out by the end of the month, and won't be Putin
Offtopic: What is your experience with cloudron? Does it make it a lot easier to self-host apps, or the complexity/limitations it adds on top are not enough to justify using it?
For what its worth, I think all of them were in the wrong. Whether you're armed with Molotov cocktails or conventional firearms, you're armed and a threat. The blm/antifa riots were just as much riots as what happened today. Everyone involved in those events that did not disperse when things got violent should be treated as a criminal, regardless of who's "side" they are on.
And also to execute you need to have an idea. Idea and execution are not independent. Idea has value by definition because it is the starting point.
Should have gone to an OTA setup. All the shows he mentioned air over free channels.
I, too, fall into the "possibly one or two a week max" category. Over at Reddit, they seem more like a vehicle for narcissism than anything else. Once in a great while a person with a genuinely interesting profession comes along, but the signal to noise ratio over there is nowhere near where I'd like it to be.
My favorite quote from the article ...

"Watts found that the diamond had mysteriously shrunk in weight to 1.04 carats. One of the jewelers had apparently switched diamonds during the appraisal"
That video is painful to watch, I don't suppose anyone has found a better version elsewhere?
I don't buy it, Apple products still attract a significant premium just for the brand. You don't see linux users purchasing Apple hardware to install linux on generally, which would actually be a good measure of if the hardware was worth the cost.

They're just trying to tie the software to the hardware and push the benefits of the software to the average user in a way that it can't be separated from the hardware (via their DRM etc in the chips).

Nothing Apple has ever made has been compelling to me in any way, shape or form. So from my perspective, they generally make worse products than the alternatives, this includes OS9, OSX, and definitely OSX touch.
If you read the actual report they're quoting (http://www.ftc.gov/opp/workshops/news/jun15/docs/new-staff-d...) you'll see, as usual, that the _Washington Times_ is being totally dishonest.

First, the report is simply a list of proposals news industry people have made about how to save their businesses, not new FTC proposals.

Second, it isn't a tax -- it's simply talking about news providers providing licenses for their content to news aggregators.

Third, the FTC isn't even talking about changing the law to create new legal rights against news aggregators. What they're actually talking about is removing antitrust barriers to news providers getting together and starting a joint licensing scheme.

In short, this is less than nothing.
This is the only thing that has worked for me and it worked fantastically:

1) Hemmingways Hack: http://www.secondactive.com/2009/08/boost-your-productivity-

...

2) And the Pomodoro Technique http://www.pomodorotechnique.com This has hemmingsways hack built in. If done right (read the PDF) it is amazing.
Did you mean Typescript?
I am exited about this. Everybody has high hopes. I hope they are all true!
But what’s the problem? Child illegitimately getting to play sport doesn’t seem like the crime of the century to me?
It's not an option, those servers are hardcoded.

edit: my bad, the default servers are hardcoded, but you can also provide your own fallback servers. Not sure if that removes the defaults entirely though. If anything, Linux distros should decide what the defaults are, not systemd.
I think I was using Firefox, also tried with Brave.
Hollywood accounting doesn't actually work anymore. It depends, in part, on the people getting played not being willing to sue for their correct share and just taking their lumps.

In part, this is because so many people were burned in the past that it's now standard for contracts to include provisions specifying which profits the talents/investors are getting a % of. There's also many A-list talent that simply refuse to work for a studio which uses Hollywood accounting. And finally, the public-trading status of so many studios today basically renders Hollywood accounting impossible at a legal and financial level.

But the primary killer of the Hollywood accounting system is the big switch to streaming, in which royalties/etc are paid upfront (at a time-value discount) rather than over time, which essentially eliminates all of the opportunity to include "costs" (like usurious interest or marketing expenses) that had been used to generate paper losses on otherwise successful films.
Yes, I've got the beach image in my Dropbox folder now :)
I just added as most of the registers ask these details. Will in to this look in to this based an all your feedback
Any rough date on when it's gonna get Nameserver support?
This is misleading. This quote isn't in a response to the latest discussion about the location database file, but the title and Slashdot link both make it seem that way.

Also, please link to the original source.
The same investor who 'threw their money away' on color also threw money away on Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, LinkedIn, Admob and Zappos.

Of course, they've invested in many companies that didn't return on the investments.

Just because you don't believe they made a good investment decision, I would think it wise to respect their very good track record.
tl;dr achievement based mobile ads : when you a game achievement and you felling good , give you a real life product coupon both as an a reward and an ad.
Nothing in the definition of Garbage Collection says it must be a separate post processing step.

My impression (based on reading up on the state-of-the-art some years ago) was that an actual concurrent-with-normal-execution GC needed to resort to putting a write barrier in front of the useful thread of execution much of the time. This would cause a noticeable perf hit.

There were architectures designed with hardware support for this kind of thing, but chips without it left them in the dust. Whether or not that is an accident of history or for a reason is an interesting discussion.