skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could't pay me enough to work in such a sweatshop. It's like Bezos read Karl Marx and figured people are stupid enough to exploit. And yes no matter the pay working people voluntarily as if they were slaves on plantation is still exploitation.

Of course the article might be hyperbole and people venting but I don't doubt there is truth in it.

100 years ago titans such a Carnegie and Rockefeller worked people to death and didn't care as long as they made money. The only difference today might be more money. Sometimes.

Amazon would never hire me anyway no matter my long skill set as I would never put up with such crap.
Actually for TV and radio there are several companies doing remnant ad sales which are fairly affordable and can be spun up pretty quickly. The hard part of TV ads on the fly is you need to have some production quality which can add expense and time. Not so much for radio. With billboards, I do know there are remnant sales there, but again you have a lead time to produce the banner that is attached to the billboard.

One company that comes to mind off the top of my head in the radio/TV space is Bid4Spots.com. Basically like Google AdWords for TV. There was talk at one time of Google offering a similar product, but I don't know what ever happened to it. Finally, there was another company that had an entire ad wizard for TV ads. Essentially you could pick choose music, or do a voice over, add some text, and have a generic video playing in the background. You could essentially create an entire ad and have it on TV in a day. I can't remember the name of the company though.
At this point, I'm preaching ad block usage to everyone. It's become basic InfoSec now. Everyone needs to be using ad blockers and ignore the trite baloney of harming good websites and taking food from children's mouths. No one is obligated to put their privacy or security at risk for publishers who fail to understand UX.
It sounds like they run their business like their seller marketplace...
These aren't really the source files, because they aren't easily editable. I believe the parent was asking for the KiCad files.
Reverse-engineered Linux driver for the Broadcom 1570 PCIe webcam
8chan-hosted content disappears from Google searches
Here are some median times from the eBATS benchmark page for a 2013 Intel Xeon E3-1275 V3 3500MHz (http://bench.cr.yp.to/web-impl/amd64-titan0-crypto_sign.html)

Cycles to generate a key pair:
ed448goldilocks: 176924
ecdonaldp256: 290628
ecdonaldp384: 2202380

Cycles to sign 59 bytes:
ed448goldilocks: 185056
ecdonaldp256: 381696
ecdonaldp384: 2367856

Cycles to verify 59 bytes:
ed448goldilocks: 583900
ecdonaldp256: 913848
ecdonaldp384: 2741028

(ecdonaldp is ECDSA signatures with NIST P-256/384. The implementation used is OpenSSL, though I don't know which version)

AFAIK no elliptic curve size is quantum secure, so I guess the goal is just to require slightly more qubits for an attack.
I'm glad I got out (well, was pushed out, largely due to my own ignorance) when I did. This sounds like a real grindhouse now. Perhaps some folks enjoy this kind of working environment, but personally I'm thankful for a 40 hour work week where I can innovate for my company and still have a life outside work.
This is hard to answer because many quantum algorithms useful for cryptanalysis have probably not been discovered yet. See, for example, the debacle surrounding Soliloquoy [1], an algorithm that despite being based on the hardness of lattice reduction has a fast quantum algorithm.

Anyway, a quantum-resistant algorithm is usually meant to be one that resists the exponential speedup given by Shor's algorithm and its variants. In other words, a quantum-resistant algorithm can't be based on the hardness of integer factorization, discrete logarithms on any abelian group, class groups, and so on (i.e. all instances of the Abelian hidden subgroup problem).

The leading candidates for such hard problems are decoding a random linear code (McEliece), shortest/closest vector finding in a lattice (NTRU, GGH, [R]LWE, ...), multivariate equation system solving (HFE and friends), and in the specific case of digital signatures one-way functions (Merkle Tree signatures).

[1] http://docbox.etsi.org/Workshop/2014/201410_CRYPTO/S07_Syste...
> Whether this makes Google Groups "shitty", I'm not sure. I guess a large part of it is about expectations. Does Google still claim to "do no evil"? I'm sure if it was Microsoft that was running the service then no one would be surprised.

Microsoft had a bunch of newsgroups running onicrosoft servers. Some of those newsgroups propagated outside MS.

It was a nice experience. There was the Microsoft MVP (most valued professional) programme where people with in-depth knowledge of a product and reasonable people-skills would provide peer support. Including the term MVP in a web search would return the websites for those people. For years (and probably still) those pages were sources of xcellent information about MS products.

Here's one example. Search terms [excel fill handle MVP]

http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/excel/fillhand.htm

This page loads instantly. It tells me what the fill handle is, what it does, how to use it, how to trouble shoot it, how to get more information about it, how to use the existing MS Excel documentation to get this information. It covers some advanced fill handle use, and some gotchas. It alsotells you whih parts of this information are not found in the help files.

In this case: MS did good[1] things for Usenet. Google fucked it.

[1] ignoring the massive amounts of sub-optimality caused by OE having some Usenet functionality but being buggy and insecure.
> Sobriety is one of the conditions of the social contract you sign (literally, on your license application) in exchange for access to society's roads.

Travel via the common means is a right, not a privileged; such laws are unjust. That driving requires you make such promises is absurd.
You do not have to lean at all to turn, if you don't want to [... but ...] you won't be able to turn as sharply.

You basically proved my point.
David Streitfeld has written a number of strident, highly-critical articles on Amazon. What he's writing here doesn't reflect my experience as an SDE in a couple of different divisions in the company. I can't speak to what people in marketing or vendor management experience.

Take the first paragraph for instance:

> They are told to forget the “poor habits” they learned at previous jobs

I don't recall anyone telling me this

> When they “hit the wall” from the unrelenting pace, there is only one solution: “Climb the wall,” others reported

I don't recall hearing either of these phrases used.

> To be the best Amazonians they can be, they should be guided by the leadership principles, 14 rules inscribed on handy laminated cards. When quizzed days later, those with perfect scores earn a virtual award proclaiming, “I’m Peculiar” — the company’s proud phrase for overturning workplace conventions.

The leadership principles are repeated pretty frequently, although I think most people take them with a grain of salt. The quiz is called 100% Peculiar, not "I'm Peculiar". I don't recall it being about leadership principles at all. I recall it being about things like how Amazon doesn't delete negative customer reviews because the company sees it as being in its long-term interest for reviews to be trustworthy. The other thing on the quiz I remember is that Amazon likes to use informal language with customers, like "Where's my stuff". [Edit: I should also point out that it's not a mandatory thing and nobody cares if you don't do it or don't do well enough on it to get the little badge on your page in the company directory.]
No, not solved; DUI applies to more than alcohol, the issue isn't so simplistic.
This reminds me a comment about the last World Cup: Argentina had Messi, Portugal had Cristiano Ronaldo, Brazil had Neymar, Germany had a team.
So from the article we read

>> Jeff Bezos turned to data-driven management very early. He wanted his grandmother to stop smoking, he recalled in a 2010 graduation speech at Princeton. He didn’t beg or appeal to sentiment. He just did the math, calculating that every puff cost her a few minutes. “You’ve taken nine years off your life!” he told her. She burst into tears.

The weird thing is that I actually watched the Princeton video and Bezos learnt a very different lesson (by his grandfather). Makes you wonder if yet again the need for simple narratives makes this article kind of useless.

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S27/52/51O99/inde...

>> At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details, but basically the ad said, every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate, I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days, estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number, I poked my head into the front of the car, tapped my grandmother on the shoulder, and proudly proclaimed, "At two minutes per puff, you've taken nine years off your life!"

I have a vivid memory of what happened, and it was not what I expected. I expected to be applauded for my cleverness and arithmetic skills. "Jeff, you're so smart. You had to have made some tricky estimates, figure out the number of minutes in a year and do some division." That's not what happened. Instead, my grandmother burst into tears. I sat in the backseat and did not know what to do. While my grandmother sat crying, my grandfather, who had been driving in silence, pulled over onto the shoulder of the highway. He got out of the car and came around and opened my door and waited for me to follow. Was I in trouble? My grandfather was a highly intelligent, quiet man. He had never said a harsh word to me, and maybe this was to be the first time? Or maybe he would ask that I get back in the car and apologize to my grandmother. I had no experience in this realm with my grandparents and no way to gauge what the consequences might be. We stopped beside the trailer. My grandfather looked at me, and after a bit of silence, he gently and calmly said, "Jeff, one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind than clever."

What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy -- they're given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not careful, and if you do, it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices.
If they managed to make quantum calculations does it mean that it validates the many worlds/multiverse theory?
A genuine question, as it's not quite clear to me: can someone explain like I'm 5, what can I use runit for exactly? Is it a replacement for init.d or something more like monit? I always use monit to keep my Rails-related processes running and I've read somewhere that using monit combined with runit may be a better solution, but isn't it a bit redundant to have the two at the same time?
\o/ Thank you!
Hmm, about networking, could not WebSockets be used for client-server comms?
My very first use case for rust was to replace a ruby script that was running too slowly. The script did some free form text parsing and mathematical postprocessing, and then dumped out a huge load file for SQLite. It took me much longer to initially write than the ruby script...but after throwing in all the debugging and error handling after the fact with the ruby script, I spent about half as much time writing it in rust. And that was with 2 years experience with Ruby and zero experience with rust. There is a lot to be said about a language that is strict, strongly typed, and with an emphasis on safety. If I'm shipping a product with my brand name attached to it, I would so much rather catch easy bugs at compile time than run time.
no way you can go for 24-hour being completely awake for 9 months. you can fall into semi-sleep (weird states of trippy semi-consciousness, people daydreaming with open eyes etc.) that gives slight rest to tormented body and mind. Heck, if I cannot sleep, even laying down and closing eyes helps in resting, without sleeping. But if we're talking about healthy normal person who is forced not to sleep, my estimate is in 5-7 days he would die. Tried by military many times, used as torture tool not only during WWII (now they moved to water boarding)
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Back in 2005 I interviewed for a director of engineering role at Amazon. But after I learned about the culture and methods Amazon uses to "manage" it's people I lost interest. It's just not how I want to be remembered. I don't see the value of a harsh dehumanizing environment ironically used to create a feeling in customers that people come first. And I just don't think these tactics work over the long term. Google will be around long after Amazon fails because it retains and inspires it's best engineers.
> Firstly, I'm not sure what "victimless" means exactly, and I think you may be taking it too literally. As people in the many comments below have pointed out, there are plenty of crimes which are "victimless", e.g. taking a machine gun and "spraying" a crowd of people with bullets, but failing to hit anyone. Is this a "victimless" crime?

You've just terrorized a crowd of people, that's hardly victim-less; plenty of people there to complain about direct harm you've caused them, perhaps a few who will suffer years of PTSD. Plenty of lawsuits about to happen, victims by definition.

> At what point do we decide to set the bar?

If no one is aware enough to try and sue you, then you haven't hurt them, and thus your action is by definition victimless.

You seem to think DUI means alcohol only, it's a bigger issue than that and it's an absurd law that can get you in trouble literally days after you've been sober because it applies to all substances, not just alcohol. We have several states now with legal recreational marijuana, think about that. Many things people do while driving are far more influential on their response times than being "intoxicated", being tired is far more dangerous, being old is far worse on response times. DUI laws are unjust.
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That's more of language typesystem features, and they still are, but we're focusing on work that will make said work easier in the future, rather than going straight to it.
I think if someone needs a cofounder to motivate them to keep going, then they probably aren't that passionate about the idea.
Founders should have realistic expectations and give themselves a lot of time to find a market fit.

I think the less funding/marketing/hype your startup has, the longer it will take to find market fit but once you do find it, it will be rock solid.
If you can find people to use your product in spite of it being completely unknown, then that is the highest form of validation that a product can receive.

If, on the other hand, people only use your product because 'every one else is using it' then that is a really weak form of validation.
I remember a few months ago a senior manager from their security team came to our workplace to give a presentation (we use AWS a lot)

He was talking about how he and his team are constantly evaluated on metrics, down to the minutest detail that are recorded and reviewed regularly.
PlentyOfFish was the biggest example I can think of, but companies like that are very rare. It's also strange. If you have a successful company, why wouldn't you try to grow it and hire employees? Maybe if you're more interested in keeping things simple than in making more money.
Did you see people crying while in work?
Yes, the 2015 La Ligua winners, Copa de Rey winners and current European champions have indeed just lost a single match.

I'm not saying they're invincible, just very good.
This wouldn't work. Motor control isn't the only (or most significant) problem with drunk driving. It's the combination with impaired judgement/attentiveness that can be so deadly.

If you're in a VR driving sim with a cop standing next to you, you're going to pay attention and (virtually) drive, constantly paying attention to the speedometer and road signs. Rather than flipping through stations while turning around to tell a joke to the people in the back seat. Or just zoning out on a routine drive and not realizing you're 40 over.

It's why people often say "I'm a better driver when I'm drunk" -- not true for sloppy drunk, but probably true for slightly drunk because the fear of DUI causes them to intently focus when otherwise they would be on auto-pilot not devoting their full attention to the operation of a deadly machine.
You're right, nobody should drink ever because they might at some point in the future have to drive. Problem solved!

I think it's acceptable to drink some amount before driving because I understand the physiological processes that turn alcohol into not-alcohol and therefore that at some point after I drink, I will be OK to drive. If that wasn't the case then having a drink would be a big decision, after which a person could never drive a car again.

The question is proximity. If we go for a few beers and then walk next door and have dinner (without beers) then I think it's safe to drive home. An hour drinking two beers, an hour eating dinner, and there should be little to no alcohol left in your system when you drive. Fine upstanding citizens do this all the time.
Is Seattle the modern-day Detroit?
Neatly explanied
http://linearbookscanner.org/
There are powerful tools out there that can do this type of computation and more in a breeze. I have personally worked on SaturnAPI [0], which is a RESTful API for Matlab/Octave. You can build your own APIs to do almost any calculation imaginable. If anyone needs to solve equations, definitely give it a shot. You can solve all sorts of equations, linear and non-linear [1].

[0] https://saturnapi.com/

[1] http://www.mathworks.com/help/symbolic/equation-solving.html
Should be u16 at first (or u32 for overflow?) and promoted to u64 when returning from the function.
> That's not progress, that's excess.

Says you, those wanting to ski have a different opinion, who are you to prevent other people from deciding what they consider progress? You sound like a Luddite from old England railing against technology.
Only mostly dead?

Well then some hooligans might poison those trees and oh look, now they are completely dead (easier to do than you might think, copper nails driven in will do the trick).
Stuart Russell on “The Long-Term Future of (Artificial) Intelligence”
Mobile:2015 UI / UX Trends
Another Python concurrent library?? To boot one which makes Python look like Java? This.that.that.this.whatever()?

How is this better than a few simple lines of multiprocessing module exactly?

Yes I'm being negative. People need to stop already adding yet more parallel libraries to Python. Contribute to existing 15+ options or stay away. Unless you're GvR (and even that's debatable) you're not helping the ecosystem - you're confusing it even further.

Python is not a good first choice for multicore anyway because it is at least 10x slower than compiled languages so the best you are hoping for is 8-core parallelism to get you back to the performance of single core C (or whatever compiled language you want). If you're serious about performance there is no other way than to abandon Python. Only Numpy (and Pandas) are keeping it competitive, and in a number of fields, it's looking more and more R-like as a prototyping-only language, with production in anything-but.
Yeah, sorry, that was confusing. I guess I was just trying to point out that for behavior to arise that is beneficial to a species (like the eusocial behavior in bees), it has to increase fitness for everybody, otherwise that kind of behavior would never evolve. If you want to draw the parallel to creatives vs. workers in the modern workplace, I don't really see that analog or metaphor (or literal interpretation for that matter) working very well – one half gets all the money and recognition, the other half gets zilch.

It just seems very unlikely to me to posit that human talent is variable because of genetic specialization within the species. It's much more likely that talent is influenced by thousands of genes, and lots of different combinations lead to lots of different outcomes. Not a biologist though.
related: http://www.theonion.com/article/scientists-teach-sign-langua...
I'm curious, what exactly do you mean? Are you talking about wiring the pull-up's for an ESP-01? I was more thinking the SMD form factor packages like the ESP-07, which expose a bunch more pins but in a 2mm pitch.
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‘I’m training a supercomputer to be a fashionista’
You can get quite a distance if you start with electostatics, like charges repel, opposite charges attract, which can be demonstrated with simple apparatus.

That can get you a fair distance in describing gravity (it's like the attract example, but much weaker) and the strong nuclear force (very strong attraction, but very very short range). That can then allow you to describe atoms, electrons and the protons in the nucleus attract each other, but [waves hands] not to the point they collapse into each other. And the nucleus, strong force generally overpowers the repulsion of protons.

And at this point a quantum mechanics for poets for chemistry works fairly well, it's not like any of that stuff makes intuitive sense anyway.

This doesn't contradict Feynman, of course, I can't say that I ever really understood magnetism, and I've also left the weak force out, but as I understand it you can wave your hands there and say it mediates beta decay. But the above does help you describe and understand the fundamentals of a lot of the universe, and much of what's important to you. Add Newtonian mechanics, which is pretty intuitive since we live in that world, and you're in fairly good shape. For that matter, a fair amount of special relativity can be easily added, the very basics of motion and the new definitions needed.
Personally, I think Amazon's successful despite their workplace culture, not because of it.
Actually, you're wrong about evidence.

People become more steadfast in their opinions in the light of evidence.[1]

1. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/
Premise: it is good, to the point of being legally enforced, to keep an individual's medical history private, except when necessary for medical treatment.

Conflict: an employer demands bodily fluids, revealing medications one is taking.

In most cases, the demand for the private medical history is unnecessary, stupid, and illegal.
It's worth remembering that Amazon was very choosey in who was able to contribute to this narrative, so you need to take that into account as well.
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Everything is relative, but which is it: "about half the diameter of ITER " or small? The vacuum chamber of ITER is 8500 cubic meters (https://www.iter.org/newsline/135/285)

Half the size in 3 dimensions still is 1000 cubic meters, or larger than most people's house.

Also: previously discussed on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10036774
Cue some Google executive: “We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent self-driving car,” he said. “Apple guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”

(referencing Palm CEO's Ed Colligan’s remarks before the iPhone introduction).
The ones RaysHobby makes are pretty awesome too. They come with an RGB LED and LIPO power jack on board, plus they have the connector for an external antenna. Bit more expensive though ($16). He ships them with NodeMCU pre-flashed and the schematics are all open source.

http://rayshobby.net/cart/esp8266/esptoy