skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same thought here. People are going to learn and retain more if what you teach is grounded in the student's existing worldmodel. In fact, if it isn't, you arguably haven't taught them anything at all!

Compare:

"A snorble is a snopful that has two to three zigtugs. Many snopfuls are found in tigglesneck contexts. This will be on the test!"

vs:

"Okay, you know horses, dogs, and oxen? We classify those as snorgfuls because they have properties X Y and Z, which you may remeber if you've had [experience] with one of those. Non-snorgfuls would act differently because of having these other properties, which shows up in how ..."

Sadly, most teaching is like the first, and people don't even try to make it like the second.
All of that is standard for a mainframe. Nothing on that list distinguishes this machine for handling mobile transactions as opposed to non mobile ones. IBM hasn't innovated here, they've merely iterated and added a buzzword.

It shows how outmoded mainframes are that they're now selling one that only supports being a fleet of Linux machines. Mainframe customers are no longer scaling their legacy zOS systems, meaning the big mainframe users must be processing their transactions in the Linux cloud now.
If you enjoy this kind of reading as I do (holy books of different religions), try reading the Book of Mormon, I bet you will find it on par with the Falun Gong's one.

On a side note some book about the science behind Homeopathy would be incredibly fun to read as well.
Did you actually read those complaints? Some are about compensation (you don't even have to reach 1000 employees to get those...), some about work/life balance, some about not being as good as the company would allow you to be (!), but i can't see any about emotional abuse, people crying at their desk or having to pay for a parking lot. It's a different scale.

Even on glassdoor, Amazon averages 3.4 vs Google 4.4 vs Facebook 4.4. That 0.6 difference is what you mention: some people will inevitably be unhappy. But that other 1.0, that's not normal for a tech company.
Don't even store sensitive data in git, it can be a bad idea: http://www.jamiembrown.com/blog/one-in-every-600-websites-ha...

Store credentials in environment variables.
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The AS/400 (err, iSeries) never gets any love. If you need line-of-business applications that just work all the time, it'd be a great choice.
Or even just the size of the source code!
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What is there to say ... developers , don't dump your projects on github public repositories ... use bitbucket and free private repos if you can't afford to pay FOR GOD SAKE !!! ...

!!! How many of them use the same credentials for their emails ? facebook ? twitter ? for their AWS account ? this is a nightmare.
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But is it always clear that the community sees as "proper [...] standards of behavior" is actually a proper standard of behaviour, or the sign of a dysfunctional community?
Go exercise somewhere outside.
> But if you know of any stories like those reported, I want you to escalate to HR. You can also email me directly at jeff@amazon.com. Even if it’s rare or isolated, our tolerance for any such lack of empathy needs to be zero.

I say don't escalate to HR but leave to work at another place. HR is not your advocate, it is not there to help you. You are just a "resource" just like it says in the name.

There have been many cases I've heard (personally and from HN comments) where someone would go to HR, complain about harassment by their manager, get assurance of confidentiality, and the next thing you know the manager is told right away. Or the person who complained gets punished instead.

Now you can try to go public and force its hand to basically realign HR's interest (protect the company) with yours (you get heard and the problem is fixed). But that won't be forgotten in the long term.
Mr. Bezos' response strikes me as the all-too-familiar case of upper management not keeping tabs on middle and lower management. If he is truly sincere that he does not recognize the version of Amazon depicted in the article, and does not agree with that type of management, then he (like many high-level managers) needs to take an active approach in weeding out abusive managers at all levels (especially lower level managers).

I work at a large enterprise (5,000+ employees) and this is a huge problem for us. Upper management has a vision for the organization, but it gets lost on its way down the chain. A simple phrase is the main culprit: "...<any given policy> is up to manager discretion."

For example, upper management: "We are creating a flexible part-time teleworking agreement whereby employees can work from home up to 2 days per week. Usage of this arrangement is up to manager discretion." Lower management: "I know about the new teleworking option, but our department is not participating because how can anyone get work done at home?"

If upper management does not actively monitor and intervene with stifling lower-level managers, they can definitely create an organization that, in practice, differs greatly from the one they imagine, the one they wanted to create.
Unless you're on a visa and having a job is a requirement of keeping said visa.
Fair point about the startups, indeed that is what I was talking about. I do not see it as much of a problem, personally. (side note: I do not have access to critical company information, however I know it is hosted on Dropbox)

Our code, which is probably the most critical part, is on Github and that is definitely the case for many, many companies.
It gives you a way to connect your enterprise system to your corporate intranet.
It's true that elinks covers a fair bit of what I want. But it does not have libsixel integration, does not have enough JS for me to login to the websites I'd like (afaik, perhaps that has changed since I last tried it) and does not handle <div>-layouting very well.

Admittedly, those three things are the hardest ones in the list.
And the other 95% doesn't allow external connections.
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Well, I think such a service exists:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2715617/The-D...
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It's surprising that the general assumption is that it was manager's idea. It was actually idea of regular team member, who noticed a situation of tension between team members and wondered how to get these tensions out to the light and resolve them peacefully. It was put to a try and team had all rights to drop it if they found it brings no useful information. Yet they kept it further.

Nobody feels the pressure to feel happy - so-so and unhappy faces are common (btw Luc = myself and nobody here thinks about firing me for speaking out the truth). Everybody simply states his real mood and a reasons for it - ie. stuck with some problem for 3rd day with no feel of progress, having too many meetings on particular day, having some personal reasons, whatever. If it is in power of team to help with issue, it has been brought to the light and something can be done about it. That's all it is about - token for raising a discussion - not a thing to show off how happy team we are.

Having it has not made our daily scrums any longer, yet we are able to start a day with better understanding of what is happening around us in the team and project and yet another opportunity to spot issues and deal with these together supporting each other (and on each retrospective team support is one of the strongest voted "winds in the sails").

I'd like also to thank Ben (brudgers). What he has wrote in his comments has the grasped the notion behind the idea and its implementation in DeSmart.
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> many user interface properties aren't exposed nicely to allow data-binding

You hit the nail on the head with this. This is why I don't like to use WPF outside of writing small utilities.
That is the same situation at any company with H1B's, and I didn't see anything in the article that mentioned abuse of those workers specifically.
To everyone who's interested and programming and are thinking; what should I do/program? I'm sure there are a lot of small things or applications you can do to help other people in need. See it as a learning experience and something that might have a huge impact in other peoples life, how's that for a motivator for something to do? Kudos and respect to all people behind this project and to Stephen Hawking himself.
I think you're being oversensitive about PHP.

Wordpress, and by extension, its predictably-named settings file, is an easy search-target because it's very popular among novice/new developers.
The US is the second largest consumer of ivory in the world. Illegal ivory comes to the US through China so by banning it in the US, you are actually reducing demand in China as well.
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We have some strange and outdated laws. The electric wheelchair laws are also interesting:

https://www.gov.uk/mobility-scooters-and-powered-wheelchairs...

In particular as you need to register them which seems pointless and antiquated.
Honestly, I would need to see white collar women shackled to computers in dilapidated warehouses on 60 minutes before I had to give up 2 Day Shipping, and even then I'd probably convince myself that the exposure means change is happening and start using again
See comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10072883
Why can't they just use ground penetrating radar to determine the existence of other chambers?
It's pretty scary to have phpMyAdmin public facing. IIRC some older versions of mysql-server even had a bug where it'd let you in with a random password in 1/256 chance!
If there's any question, I think the rule has to be the former. There are standard, auditable ways to keep sensitive data out of git: .gitignore, environmental vars, etc. Once it's in git, any attempts to keep it out of a public repo will probably be manual and ad hoc.

If the organization is "closed" by default, i.e. it only rarely releases code to the public, this may not matter as much.
From the pro-Amazon blog:

" because the NYT article is [...] designed to make past data reflect current reality at a company that has done quite a bit to change its ways "

So uhm, "ok we were bad but now we are better, honest!"...
This is really cool! Sorry if this is kind of a dumb question but I know nothing about web development: can I use this without running node on the server? I'd like to use this for a WebGL distance field renderer I'm working on but host things on my Github page and thus can only do client side stuff. Getting a server is a possibility but for just one tiny project it doesn't seem worth it.
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DMCA Title II only applies to service providers hosting third-party content. It does not apply to (or make sense for) first-party content hosting.
There is the TYAN GN70-BP010, although they state it isn't for production use.
Security and privacy would be my main concerns.

- full libre gpl3'ed codebase including plugins and extensions.

- immediate disclosure of all security problems (in the hope they get fixed promptly). the socalled "responsible" delayed disclosures annoy me to no end. let every exploit be a 0day exploit and leave it to the user to decide, at least it'll be an informed user!
Amazon passwords:
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Just as bad, I see many developers leaving their Rails app with production secret key.

It just takes more time.
For many kinds of business discussions, being able to read emotions is even more important than with interpersonal discussions. Many business discussions involve selling ideas, selling products, understanding concerns, and so on. Once someone says something, they tend to dogmatically stick to that, even in the face of clear evidence that their position was wrong[1]. This phenomenon is even more pronounced when they write something. Whenever someone needs to have their mind changed, writing is the worst way to go about it!

[1] Consider reading a book like Influence by Robert Cialdini, Ph.D. which has all kinds of fascinating studies about how people act in surprisingly illogical ways based on what they write. The book cites a number of studies on this issue of irrational consistency, and how it is routinely exploited in situations ranging from sales to indoctrination.
I just think they shouldn't act like such jerks and treat employees like human beings who are on your team. Sure they have the ability to leave, I'm just trying to support better behavior though.
When I worked at a multinational with hundreds of locations, HR turning up at site was sign that somebody was going to get it in the neck - HR didn't bother with small stuff so if they were about you knew it was serious for someone.

[Edit: Made me think about how ghastly it must be to work in HR for a large company]
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Its a bit of shame how our developer community handles password. I feel we should know better but unfortunately we are terrible at it. To send an email from your app you simply need to provide a few parameters (username, password) and you are golden. The only thing is that developers commit this sensitive information on github. I simply searched for the term "smtp.gmail.com" on github and bam loads of passwords! My observations,

* I tried to login to some of the accounts and gmail asked me to verify who I was.
* Ruby community seems to be good about storing those details in the ENV

Case in point - NEVER DO THIS.

https://github.com/search?l=java&p=96&q=smtp.gmail.com&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93
There is book a called Corporate Confidential [1], written by a former HR person. One of most significant ideas there is that HR is (from the perspective of an employee) not your friend, but rather an enemy. They exist to protect the company, not you. Basically, going to HR is a quick way to get fired (for legal reasons, mind you) or kill your career.

Whole book is highly depressing, but very useful if you want to try to climb up the ladder.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Confidential-Secrets-Company...
The Heisig method is very good at getting you to be able to remember the differences between characters, in particular how to write them. (To keep it on topic...) it is based on building up the characters from previously learned components ("radicals"). It also builds on your existing knowledge of English because you learn the radicals and characters with English keywords. The idea is to learn the characters in English first, so that you'll have that as a base of knowledge to learn the actual language.

[1] a good intro: http://akitajet.com/wiki/Heisig_Method if you want to try the method I would suggest picking up Remembering the Kanji volume I and then utilizing http://kanji.koohii.com for the mnemonic "stories" and to practice with their spaced repetition method.
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muO looks fascinating, thanks for introducing me to it.
When I was a young kid I took up drum lessons and immediately became very good at it. On the exams I always had 90% or higher, other kids really looked up to me and I didn't really understand the big deal. Didn't practise much at all, was never nervous, didn't see my achievements as anything special.

When taking lessons in a music school I also had to follow separate classes of music theory which I hated, so I wanted to quit. But my teacher desperately wanted me to continue and allowed me to follow his classes "unofficially". Then I started playing in bands and the other members were always really impressed. Again I didn't understand why.

I'm at best mediocre at everything else I do: other musical instruments, being a developer, these kind of logical reasoning intelligence & maths tests.

Don't really excel at anything at all but I always felt that playing drums was some kind of built in talent I had, so I believe there's a kind of person that's born with a real talent for rhythm.
Yeah, you totally can! It's all front-end with React and Webpack. You can use Webpack in development and just have it build the static html and js files for gh-pages. Thats how the documentation site is built :)
Can I find somewhere what the size of code and data was for this demo?
Pricing per host (independent of number of containers).
I'm in the process of joining Amazon as a software engineer manager. I don't know how to respond to this article and if to continue the process with them.
They might fall under Title I (which is the transcription of the WIPO treaty to US law), but most mentions of DMCA are about Title II (the "Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act") which only applies to service providers, not first-party content hosting.

First-party hosting still needs an ISP though, and that ISP can be sent DMCA notices.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10066742 (209 points, 1 day ago, 68 comments)
That reasoning could also be applied to anyone who's suffering in an abusive relationship (whether emotional or physical). It would be inappropriate then, just as it's inappropriate here.

In addition, not everything has to be decided solely by where one spends their money. It's entirely possible to put pressure on an organisation through other means.
Something like the old Opera:

- Extensive customizability of the interface

- Proper tab management (tiling, cascade, positioning) and tab stacking

- Mouse gestures

- Content blocker baked in

- RSS reader included

- Better cookie control

- Per-site privacy mode

- low CPU/memory usage - no "one tab per process" - I want 10s of tabs open without wasting few GBs of memory

- fast JS

- advanced search from address bar - custom search engines with search suggestions

- customizable Speed Dial baked in - no extensions needed.

- Dragonfly instead of DevTools

- detailed page loading info, not just "Loading example.com..."

I'm hoping to get at least some of these things out of either Vivaldi or Otter Browser when they're mature enough...
Yes, you can absolutely run React components without the use of a server. You can edit an html file locally and put a react component in there. That's usually the first thing most React tutorials have you do.

If you're using a backend server you're just rendering the react stuff to html and sending it to the client.
Does anyone else get a CAPTCHA on the next search after browsing through those results?
I think the idea is that $7.25/hr is already that point.

Let's say that each of these robots costs $10k per year, including R&D and maintenance. Let's also say that because of inefficiencies with having people order their own food or with assembly ultimately being done by hand, a store has to install 6 robots to replace 3 workers.

3 workers * $7.25/hr * 8hrs/day * 365days/year = $63,510
6 robots * $10k/robot = $60,000

So it is actually less expensive already to replace minimum-wage workers with robots. The minimum-wage issue has very little to do with it besides trying to keep wages low in general.
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I guess that this is just applicable to Corporate America context and the outlook is not as dire as you portray it for other corporate cultures around the world.
I'm not advocating or rejecting the Amazon boycott, simply here to challenge the way you think: while everything you said is logical you can't simply treat people like trash, it doesn't matter if they are white collar, gold collar or can't-afford-a-collar.

A situation that shares many similarities is: "it is that woman's fault that she does not leave her abusive husband." That is laying blame on the person who was abused (not matter their background) instead of the person dealing out the injustice.

Imagine that Bezos had not disowned this behavior: more and more would follow suit and eventually you'd be hard-pressed to find a place where this isn't the norm. For example: stack ranking had to start somewhere. Now you'll find it at many places and it's no longer as simple as "just go work somewhere else." If you've acquired a lifestyle where you depend on a corporate job with a cushy salary, what are you going to do?

Don't forget that people can (and do) undervalue themselves. Maybe they don't believe that they could find another job: possibly because their manager has completely destroyed their self-worth.

Finally, it's just fucking stupid. It's actually counter-productive. It's been shown over and over again (one example[1]) that the way you get better results out of humans is to treat them humanely and, unbelievably, make them want to work for you instead of work for you out of fear. Practices like this, stack ranking, etc. all originate out of the industrial age when machines were the primary concern - you can't manage humans like machines: they will revolt (consciously or subconsciously).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
Thanks for the find. I feel ( from the pics ) this could be done better. And 5 quid for a newspaper!!!!
That's a good question. I was wondering the same thing myself. Best guess based on preliminary googling is "The principal disadvantage of GPR is that it is severely limited by less-than-ideal environmental conditions. Fine-grained sediments (clays and silts) are often problematic because their high electrical conductivity causes loss of signal strength; rocky or heterogeneous sediments scatter the GPR signal, weakening the useful signal while increasing extraneous noise."
> It struck me that here is yet another device to help geeks live a sedentary lifestyle.

How does a device whose whole purpose is to move around "help live a sedentary lifestyle"?
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Some people signed the contract thinking it's a decent place to work but found out later it's not. They received relocation bonus (which they have to return if they leave within 2 years), left their previous job, are now in a country where there visa depends on being employed by Amazon so things are not as black and white as you would like to represent them and they just can't leave as easily as some. It's not slavery, but it's not far from indentured servitude.

P.S. I'm not in that situation but have a few colleagues who are, and going back to Ukraine for them is not an option.
I take MOOCs as a hobby.
HavardX's fundamentals or neural science https://www.mcb80x.org/ is probably the best produced MOOC I've ever seen.
or if you work in one of the warehouses
I think this is something that varies a lot based on the nature of the work. Creative software development/design/engineering is more taxing in a way that precludes almost anyone from being productive at an 80+ hour/week level, especially if it is the "normal" workload.

Not to diminish finance people, by the way. I'm sure they work hard, but in a different way.
The same reason you could write part of your site in COBOL (Micro Focus) because you have a large body of legacy and need to get to the web.
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