skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As if she has any credibility left to speak about security issues.

Let's hear from her after she's prosecuted for compromising classified information. If that had been anyone else, they'd already be warming a concrete bunk in a federal supermax.
I don't work at Amazon, but I have a friend who is on the vendor management side and whenever she talks about how stressful her job is and how terribly they treat people (not just their employees but also their vendors), she's on the verge of tears. I'm not exaggerating.
Could you elaborate on that? I have hard time believing it without a reference.

Edit: Probably you were referring to the need for "wavefunction collapse" in the Copenhagen theory. Practically, this can be addressed with the Master equations (or other approaches) for open quantum systems. Philosophically it might be unpleasant, but mathematically it is no different from what the Many World/Multiverse requires.
Sorry (I was on holiday last week).
So is he saying that he made the deliberate choice to be unkind when he decided to run his company in the brutal fashion that we've been reading about?
References are not made to learn from, they are made to refer back to. If you look at the URL you will see that this reference in particular is on the page for CS229, which lists knowledge of basic linear algebra as a prerequisite. I really don't think this was made with the intention of anyone using it to learn linear algebra.
We updated the submitted title, which was “Building Apple FaceTime Driver for Linux”.
http://www.moneytalksnews.com/why-youre-probably-better-inve...

"Imagine Trump had retired in 1982, sold his real estate holdings and invested his $500 million in the S&P 500 — that is, 500 stocks representing the American stock market.

"From 1982 through the end of 2014, the S&P 500 index had an annualized return, including reinvested dividends, of 11.86 percent, according to MoneyChimp’s S&P 500 Compound Annual Growth Rate calculator.

"Per this calculator, every dollar invested in January 1982 would have been worth $40 by December of 2014. That means Trump’s initial $500 million would have grown to $20 billion. That’s twice what Trump says he’s worth today."
It's an option; you don't have to buy it, and, after this, probably shouldn't.

Unfortunately, at least for some cars, all these options are bundled together in packages. Unless you buy the base model, you'll get the Internet as part of a package of other features that you want.

I think that nowadays the better answer would be to go in and physically rip out the cellular antenna. Easier said than done.
http://www.tropicalmba.com/best-of-tmba/

http://www.dynamitecircle.com/
Maybe; it's unclear. The hardest part is getting the GLB/LUB/subtyping right.
Tetris is among The games GNU Emacs provides.

Coincidence? I think not.
> Bill Gates does code reviews, not coding.

That's just wrong:

In 1983 Microsoft had revenues of $55 million and a headcount of 500. Bill was the CEO. And yet, according to Gates talking about the Tandy TRS-100, "part of my nostalgia about this machine is this was the last machine where I wrote a very high percentage of the code in the product. I did all the design and debugging along with Jey."[1].

Gates was CEO of a company of 500 with revenue of $55 million, and still producing large amounts of serious code. That's impressive (or misspent time, however you want to think about it.)

[1] http://www.nausicaa.net/~lgreenf/bill.htm
What's really telling to me is that in my state, you can even be arrested for sleeping one off in your car instead of being on the road. That says something to me about the purpose of the law. It suggests that its main purpose is to punish you for drinking, but that it has a side effect of encouraging you not to drive.
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I don't get how they keep anyone more than 6 months?

What the hell are they dangling over people that makes them stay?
At scale, and if you are paying for transmission costs, it can have a massive impact.
With a $40M - $200M estimated net worth and taking Sequoia's 30 year fund IRR of ~ 12%.

Let's assume he started with $40M and inherited it in 1970 (45 years ago). If he dumped it into a 12% IRR Mutual Fund his net worth would be:
(1.12)^45 * $40,000,000 = $6.6B

which is greater than his $4B net worth.

This of course is presumptuous at a lot of levels, but the math does make sense.
Perhaps this also applies to industries? There seem to be a lot of 50 year old nuclear plants. There also seems to be greater impetus to upgrade natural gas turbines. Maybe we need to favor machines/processes/designs that fail early and fail often, as opposed to ones that rarely fail but in catastrophic ways?
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This makes me recall Bezos posting to usenet in 1994 looking for potential new hires...

"You must have experience designing and building large and complex (yet maintainable) systems, and you should be able to do so in about one-third the time that most competent people think possible. "

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mi.jobs/poXLCW8udK4/_G...
Creator here. Happy to answer any questions!

I created this as a proof-of-concept to show that we don't have to wait for iOS 9 to block ads on iOS. MadBlocker uses a hack of the VPN subsystem to block ads, by redirecting requests for ad domains to a bogus local DNS address. Unlike some of the current iOS ad blockers, it doesn't use an external proxy, so no data leaves the device. I also included block lists for tracking scripts, since they're a problem too. Since it works at the OS level, and not via Safari it also blocks ads in (most) apps. It should continue to work fine in iOS 9 as well!

I have some promo codes I can give out too if you'd like to give it a try. If you want one, please just email me at the address listed in my HN profile.
If tending the stove is a problem why wouldn't you just buy a digital electric pressure cooker in the first place? They're great.
Only thing I would add is: and leave people with their dignity intact whenever possible because 1) it's the decent thing to do and 2) it's cheaper to keep someone than it is to hire someone new after the person has quit.

Clearly that's not something that Amazon prizes.

They seem to know that their culture drives people to quit. Which is why stock doesn't meaningfully vest until years 2, 3 and 4.
No, Apple is known to be a bad employer too - http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-employees-confess-all-t...
WebSockets work for Unity WebGL. Not sure if there is an official implementation, but we use it in a multi-player game. We specifically run Photon Game Server with WebGL and WebSockets.
Working with Spark and Avro
Plus both redux and fluctuations work using immutable state and reducers rather than mutating actions.
Why would US law enforcement do this? I mean, I understand their economic incentives, but predictive blacklisting seems to violate a number of sacred principles, like presumption of innocence, due process of law and if the algorithm is set up right, freedom of speech. Don't law enforcement officers take an oath to defend the US constitution? Doesn't this bother anyone involved other than Snowden?
My official diagnosis is atypical cystic fibrosis.
Yup. The only purpose most laws have, is getting someone elected. DUI laws are quite simply unjust but they exist because appearing tough on crime tends to work. We don't pass laws to be effective, if we did, many of the existing ones wouldn't exist.
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Is my startup worth pursuing?
Hey, I set up a landing page for an idea I've been thinking about: http://fabricfit.com/. The basic idea is that people have clothes that fit them great, but it's hard finding clothes that fit you just as well and are stylish. So, you send the clothes to us, we measure your clothes, and send you your clothes and others that are similar in style and fit to the original one you sent us. What do you guys think about this idea?
Some systems reward sociopaths (and punish altruists), some don’t. War obviously does; so does capitalism. Some perceptive people I know keep telling me their boss is foolish for being cruel; yet the boss is clearly winning, making millions hand over fist.

(Obviously, there’s latitude; one can certainly lavish comforts on lieutenants and elite troops for example.)
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Being happy with your LudumDare game
Apple employees are not abused like this. They're siloed, secretive, and they work hard -- but it's not like this.
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>evangelical Protestants who believe that is blasphemous to imply that anything that humans could do could change the weather in any way //

As someone who you might fit in to the category "evangelical Protestant" I find it hard to believe there are "many" relative to the whole set. Any sources?

Cloud seeding is pretty widely known; most people seem to be convinced that there is a human element to current climate change.

The concept of "stewardship of creation" is pretty widespread amongst evangelical Christians, that God handed over the world in to our care and that we've largely screwed it up. One of the largest Protestant communities, the Church of England, for example have altered their investment policy to avoid companies who are involved in activities that they see as contributing to unwanted climate change. (eg https://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2015/07/ur...)

Often I hear that it's "loony USA evangelicals" but at least the USA National Association of Evangelicals [which seems to be a large and influential body] accepts some climate change has human origins and that we should act to reduce our negative impact whilst simultaneously acting to aid the poor who are disproportionally affected by current changes in climate (eg http://nae.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Loving-the-Least-o...).
Employees ratting on each other is straight out of 1984.
Sure, that's valid reasoning. If your goal is optimizing your personal happiness, you don't need that much money. The extra stress will easily compensate for the extra money and you'll be worse off.

But a word of warning, make sure it's not because you're afraid of taking things to the next level. Adding employees (rising costs) and moving into more of a managerial role is something many engineers are afraid of on some level. Additionally, all humans are afriad of change to some degree. Make sure you really understand what motivates you. </armchair psychologist>
> you understand what I'm saying

Obviously, I apparently did not.

Therefore:

> I'm disagreeing with it as a matter of principle.

Please don't do that. Redefining words for yourself and then using your secret meanings in discussions is both irritating (because it wastes other commenter's time) and comes off as arrogant (because it demonstrates a clear disregard for other's time and a willful unwillingness to communicate effectively).

If you know something is a Right in the conventional sense even though it has conditions attached, state that you disagree with those conditions. Don't call it "not a right" to make a point. Doing so derails the conversation and wastes other's time.

> licenses are just another way for the state to make money and restrict my right to travel via the common means of the day.

That's obviously not true. You really think your $20 license fee pays for... anything? It's probably not even offsetting the cost of the licensing regime.

And restricting your travel obviously is not the goal of a driver's license. Where did you even get that idea?

"The State" doesn't require licensing because it wants to screw you out of money or keep you down. We, the people, require licensing because driving is dangerous and we don't want idiots to kill us.

> Driving should not require a license and an annual fee to the state

Of course, assuming you live in a democracy, you're free to try to change that.

I think you'll find this an impossible reform because given the danger of driving, licensing is an extremely important first step toward making roads safer.

> It didn't require a license to ride a horse or drive a buggy

Yeah, right, because horses and buggies didn't kill millions of people a year.

As an aside, in almost every state you can still ride horses on most public roads without a license.
I left in 2006.

It seems to have actually gotten substantially worse there.

Wow...
Despite all of the progress in integrated circuits, the best we have is still nowhere near theoretical limits for computation per unit energy or unit space.
Why would it not be legal?

(Come on HN, downvoted for asking questions?)
We have a product which used to run on Unity Webplayer. After the Chrome NPAPI deprecation we lost about 50% of our users. WebGL wasn't done and still isn't really working. Our experience is the same as described in the article. Memory usage and multi million lines of compressed JavaScript will cause most of our users computers to freeze or lag out. Any user with less than 4 GB and on Chrome will have a pretty bad experience. FireFox is far ahead here and runs much better.

Edit: Direct to one of our games using WebGL and websockets. http://www.kogama.com/games/play/68818/?webgl=1&da=0
Reality is not limited to some dude's imagination

I love that quip.

It reminds me a little of something we say, more or less: "this device does not read its data sheet". It comes up a lot when a physical device does not behave the way you might expect from reading its accompanying documentation.
Yeah I'm very interested in the Model 3 too. If they keep the drive quality of the Model S and improve the interior, i think they'll have a killer product on their hands. The exterior is already great, its just missing that polish that justifies its cost.

Personally I found all the dealers out of Tesla, Mercedes and Audi (Unexpectedly not the BMW) to be a bit pretentious, but I guess it comes with the territory.
The yeast is not meant to be ingested, only harvested to refine the opiates.

Jay Keasling, a Synthetic Biology Professor at Cal [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Keasling] uses E. Coli & Yeast to produce a precursor to a Malaria drug (artemisinic acid), as well as for environmental cleanup.

They too convert glucose to a complicated chemical structure of artemisin, which is purified through biological pathways further reducing cost.
> quite possibly the best agricultural soil on the planet

I think the Salinas Valley in California is even a stronger contender for this title than the Central Valley.
runit will start a daemon, and if it exits, restart it. i.e. you have runit sat 'atop' your daemon, as it were.

monit checks for things, one of which is 'is the daemon running', and can then do things about it.

runit to keep things that crash occasionally running and monit to keep an eye on general system health would seem totally sensical to me.

(see also s6 which is another runit-like)
Same purpose: http://localflow.co/
Great! I just saw your reply, I don't know your twitter handle (it doesn't seem to be @l_m_g_ or @tezos).
The numpy analogue in lua would be torch. The community can be a little weird / insular but otherwise very interesting and full of potential
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This is a really good idea. We should refarm 400-700MHz over the next 10 years and use it for Internet service. The broadcasters will eventually be forced out of business due to IPTV. Have you seen the kind of programming currently broadcasted by some of these UHF non-network TV stations in big cities?

It's dreck.

The non-network TV broadcasters are desperate for audiences which aren't watching their programs, and therefore the ads interspersed in these programs. Their businesses will fail in due time as more people switch to IPTV.

The only snag I see is how to broadcast emergency messages over IPTV. This is something which needs to be resolved before we refarm the UHF TV band.
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"Choose your parents carefully" has got to be one of the most pessimistic and cynical perspectives in existence.

Instead, you could say "treat your children well", which is basically the same thing, except a lot less selfish.
I really REALLY like the examples they put up. This is a good resource for an entry level game-designer/programmer to try out some ideas.
You do realize that Business Insider is part owned by Jeff Bezos?
The idea that a company exists for the benefit of shareholders is not universally agreed.

For example:

http://www.propublica.org/thetrade/item/how-shareholders-are...

Anyway, you're free to be cynical about Google, but it is clear that Larry is not trying to maximize shareholder value.
Thank you.

The piece is a bit too long to keep the attention of most, but it's one of the most important things someone can and should understand about themselves: how they get things done, how they make decisions to get things done.

I wish this is how the brains behind Asana, Wunderlist, Calendars, etc really thought about the end-user-human.
How exactly is describing reality selfish?
Heat-assisted magnetic recording
> "Although Audi and BMW don't differ that much in interior quality."

For the previous years models I saw, i would agree. However, I personally felt the 2016 interior for the Audi models i saw was a big step up from the 2015 interiors. I suspect part of this was due to the added pressure by the 2015 C-Class which is also a step up from their previous years.
It's neat to see someone solve a problem that you didn't have any clue existed in the first place.

I have a pressure cooker that I've never used. Am I understanding (from the rest of this thread) that I could be attempting to make some sweet Indian dishes with it?
What exactly does this add to fzf? I'm not sure I fully understood the readme
> 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.

Unfortunately, "Do No Evil" does not include, "Don't Be A Dick."

Google has killed 15-20 years worth of information that's not only of interest for it's history, but for the still useful conversations on damned near any topic you can think of.

Ok, so not everything is still useful. I can't argue that since there were plenty of sports and entertainment groups, but there were also many groups whose information doesn't really become stale. In hiding this data, Google has fucked over anyone who might have benefited from finding it.

Hell, the very damned first time I ever heard of Google was an announcement on USENET. I thought they were pretty slick then and I started using Google instead of DogPile(? I think it was dogpile. That was a long time ago.).
It's a good idea, as I prefer to try on clothes in a shop rather than buy them online. The weird thing about clothes is that even if the size is correct, the clothes sometimes don't fit, or just don't hang right. Most people don't feel satisfied after buying clothes from the net because there's always some quirk in the 'fit' that annoys them and the effort of sending it back proves too much.

TL;DR Size is a bullshit metric and people also look for 'hang' and 'comfort'.
Coded http://lalo.li/car/ (desktop only) for a js-meetup talk in Vienna.

The good: as advertised, it's fast and free

The bad: as with every framework, I would have done it another way
For some reason, I can't navigate to the linked URL (http:// https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jam-on-music-player-play-+/i... )

Oh, well, now I see: you might want to take out http://

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jam-on-music-player-play-+/i...
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Wow, I didnt know this things actually existed.

On the hindsight, we will need bigger players. Because the physical Ad networks in different countries are so wildly different that it'll need to approach them one-by-one like Uber. Probably, they wont be able to buy in bulk just at first, instead will use some local 3rd-party providers.
This description is too fuzzy for me :)
Amazon is a tough place to work
I didn't redefine any words, I used the word in the common sense of the word, you're trying to use it in the legal sense. I made myself clear when I said applying conditions makes it a privilege, if you didn't understand my meaning after that, well then I can't help you, it couldn't have been clearer.

We used to live in a democracy, we now live in a plutocracy, the government hasn't represented the will of the governed in quite a long time, that's why voter turnout is abysmal.

We're done here, we obviously won't come to any agreement.
this excerpt I find striking:

> If you're an intelligent curious person it can be painful to run a company of more than 50 people. You spend more time than you'd like repeating yourself, sitting in boring meetings, skimming over long legal documents in which you know there are errors but aren't sure how serious, etc. The temptation is to hand over the reins to the first "professional manager" who comes along. And that's what the standard venture capitalist formula dictates. But Bill Gates didn't do that. He hired Steve Ballmer in 1980 and gave him the CEO job 20 years later. Making money in the software products business requires domain expertise and a commitment to solving problems within that domain. Great tech companies are seldom built by non-technical management or professional managers who aren't committed to anything more than their paycheck. Adobe is another good example. The two founders were PhD computer science researchers from Xerox PARC who were passionate about solving problems in the publishing and graphics world. They are still guiding operations at Adobe.
The same is true of Linux Torvalds, ironically.
I don't like the idea of sending my clothes to some company, plus it will cause a logistics headache for you. you can just show a guide on how to take precise measurement of the user body and enter it online.
I worked at Amazon for 3+ years, leaving just under a year ago. "It’s the greatest place I hate to work" pretty much sums up how I felt about the place. The crazy thing is, I kinda want to go back! The scope and scale of the engineering problems is simply unmatched, especially if you're like me and you don't want to work for a primarily advertising funded company.

I worked in AWS, which I'd always understood to be culturally a bit different from the retail site. It sounds like most of the people interviewed for the article were on the retail side. In AWS, I never felt any sort of competition with my peers, nor did I feel like people were trying to sabotage me with the anytime feedback tool. In fact, it really felt like there was a refreshing lack of office politics there. Everybody worked very hard and there was mutual respect among all my peers. The workloads are heavy, for sure, but never really unmanageable, and the work is almost always interesting.

Ultimately what finally ended it for me was the complete lack of paternity leave. Amazon offers, to the letter, the bare minimum family leave that they can legally get away with. If the company isn't interested in my health or that of my family, should I really be putting effort into helping them succeed? I think policies like that really run counter to their "hire and develop the best" principle. How exactly do they plan on doing that if they don't treat them with respect?
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