skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A personal relationship is part of the necessary context, but all things considered it is usually a small part.

Managers at most shops are valued by the company for their ability to build and maintain a functional team. If they have high attrition and struggle to replace people, they will get dinged, miss out on bonuses, and eventually be replaced themselves if the problem persists. Conversely, if they are churning through people and skimming off the cream to keep, no one is going to bat an eye at the number of people they shitcan or why they did it.

The relative value of having the conversation vs. not has to be considered in that context. Do you need this job to survive? Are you responsible for others' survival as well? What's the market like for people in your line of work? How is the company doing? The team? How's your manager's stock of political capital? What about the next-level manager's? Have you been doing great work (and do people know it)? Are you paid above or below market? And sure, to some extent, it matters what sort of manager you have. Some are biased toward churn, others toward retention. But the primary deciding factor here is whether your boss is going to be better off finding a way to keep you, or finding a way to replace you.

In 2015, if you are a computer programmer near San Francisco, it will almost certainly be better for your boss to find a way to keep you. The labor market in that region and sector is tight, so finding even minimally functional replacements is difficult. Unless you're an abject festering sore on the company's bottom line, you're likely to find sympathy, cooperation, and ultimately a genuine retention effort. If it were 2001? Not so much... even if you had the exact same boss. When there are legit superstars sitting on the beach desperate for any kind of work at any kind of pay, your value to the company is likely to be negligible, and at that point the only difference between a kindhearted manager and a bastard will be an offer to forget the whole conversation ever happened.

Consider the context and let that be your guide. (Good) managers are always thinking about replacing people -- not necessarily because they want to or think it's easy, but because they know they may have no choice. They have a pretty good idea of what they're willing to do to keep each member of their team given the company and market context, and what they can realistically hope to do given company policy. You should have a pretty good idea what they'd be willing to do to keep you, too. In some cases, that will be nearly anything; in others, it will be absolutely nothing.

There's no simple answer here, because the relative value of replacing and retaining people is so context-dependent.
...Blender it is for adult people

I do not care to be difficult or easy. If I like, I learn. I do not stop interface.

I like many programming interfaces, but I'm especially grateful to Blender.

- It is a program made by 3D artists for 3D artists.
- It is totally dynamic.
- I've got a steady flow of work.
- (Shorcuts) memory exercises. At 36 he is appreciated.
- It is a professional program.
- To use it you have to think. If not, use c4d, max, maya, blah, blah.
- Jump from 3ds max Blender is not fair. Blender is vulgarly stable.

It had been years since I felt emotion, learning a program.

Blender can improve. I hope he does. It is on track.
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BitBucket down. Status site says otherwise
Operating System Support for Persistent and Recoverable Computations (1996) [pdf]
Not just in SF. I live in Austin and we have investors from outside the city buying up residential properties from the already strained and limited pool to turn into STRs. Luxury condos displacing older and more affordable housing but it seems many are still sitting vacant.

So much for 'market solutions.'
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio
The price in Europe is 99% and 20% off for additional kits.
Shipping cost would be 42.99/62.99 for std/express shipping that takes weeks.
I spent eight years building software for global sourcing operations and supply chain management. It's both incredibly dull and incredibly intricate. As a result of designing and building the software, I have a fair amount of expertise in the field, but I'd never admit it to anyone.
You can also use Show HN and Hacker News itself if you need more feedback (especially if it's your target demographic).

If we're not your target, you might not get the feedback you need.

Edit: there are lots of other networks available too. Getting into YC is extremely hard due to the sheer amount of applications they get, but they're not the only mentorship opportunity you can get.

In my case, we're being mentored by a local university, they don't have YC's pedigree but they helped several very succesful companies by local standards.
Forgive me, but entitlement is a fun idea, not reality.

People wanting to start a business that isn't viable, bummer. Not enough jobs: I delivered papers, barbacked, worked a day job, figured it out. If they picked a bad builder, that sucks. Find your recourse. Be smart, be mature, figure it out.

Entitlement is a problem, working hard is not.
The Article Is Dead. Long Live the Feed
Mono Lake is smaller than it used to be, but it is growing slowly thanks to legal protections [1].

Owens Lake [2] to the south of Mono Lake is gone. It was larger than Mono Lake. Lake bed salts blown by the wind are pretty toxic, and Los Angeles was required to use some water to reduce dust.

The largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi used to be Tulare Lake [3] in central California. It's gone and the southern San Joaquin Valley no longer drains to the ocean. Salts and other junk is slowly building up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Audubon_Society_v._Su...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owens_Lake

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulare_Lake
>but it isn't yet.

True. But what do we gain in the meantime by quibbling over typographical errors? Did anyone really read this fellow's comment and go, 'wait, what? That doesn't make any sense. I can't make heads or tails of this person's sentence.'I have hard time believing so. And, if the situation is as the parent comment described --- 'this error is made consistently upstream' -- then we're looking at the collapse of loose/lose probably in the same timeframe as 'they're/their/there' and 'to/too/two'.

My main point is that language is not a static set of do's and don't's. It lives. If you need someone to clarify, ask them! But pointing your teacher's baton at them and saying, 'you're using your language wrong' is a waste of life.

But, then again, I'm sure this user will never "misspell" (an hilarious notion, given how recently spelling was standardized to start!) that word again, so perhaps my fervor has backfired.
I own "unicorngrill.com". Could fire it up. Email's in my profile.
Out of curiosity, is there some reason a 15sec preroll on 7 shows is so off putting? Are they some of the main things you'd watch? Is it the principle of ads in an "ad free plan"?
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`status.bitbucket.org/?` vs. `status.bitbucket.org`
Well, anyone know why `status.bitbucket.org` seems to be a static page? :/
Out of interest, what are some examples of ridiculous things for which people asked?
It looks like the push for social awareness of prison populations is working. Keep pushing! This is how change happens.
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> You might not really care because your IT department will be imaging it anyway but holy crap did MS choose the most user-hostile defaults.

That reminds me; one of the main reasons I'm still running 8.1 pro on my "gaming" partion that I occasionally dual-boot into for gaming (and now, sadly, playing with Rift DK2, as Oculus have given up Linux support indefinitely).

I know I'll have to bite the bullet at some point, and as a note-to-self that might be of interest, some frantic searching if someone hadn't published some PowerShell scripts to turn off the madness, turned up this:

https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10

I haven't looked at it, but it certainly seems more sane than clicking through lots of gooeye just to take back one's OS.
Many years ago I take a week of vacation after almost year of 60+hr weeks. Got fired on return, no official explanations. Unofficial reason- senior manager don't happy about me absent on weekly meeting.
Survey
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7D92KZH

I'd appreciate if I could get a few people to fill this out!!
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> For a person who wakes up around 7am the fast should begin around 5pm in order to let the sugars deplete around bed time. There is no reason to have readily available sugars while sleeping.

This is not convincing. According to [1] it seems like system glucose utilization is only about 10-20% lower during sleep.

Muscles store even more glycogen than the liver btw (~500g vs ~100g).

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC293874/
How about a jury of peers?

Perhaps juries for financial crimes need analytical skills that are on par with the defendant's crimes.
> For the past couple of hours, Airbnb has been getting slammed on social media for a San Francisco bus stop ad that was shared on Facebook.

Should Airbnb care what a handful of people are saying on Twitter, most of whom already hate the company?
I'm sorry your opinion and reality are incompatible.
> They've always meant apps that offer more or less the same functionality as official Twitter clients.

No, it started out that way, but then the functionality of the official Twitter clients was expended, and then they redefined it to be so broad as to potentially hit anything that tweeted, and they they went farther still and started going after API keys for things that just consumed the data for their own ends.
Can someone explain what's wrong with the ad? Is it that hotel taxes don't necessarily go to libraries?
Interesting. I've personally been reducing my "feeds" (aside from HN of course!) because I realized they lowered my attention span, so to speak. I was not able to read a long article all the way through, and now I am.

That said, I do like some of these points. The Web is indeed not paper and we could use more archives and better ways to access information about news and data.
Just highly improbable
Misleading title. YouTube will flag videos as private. They won't remove or delete them.
"[Update 10/21/2015: Changed the title from "six lines of C" to "462 bytes of C" to avoid endless arguments about what constitutes a line of C code.]"
Has anyone seen how Linux/*BSD is coming along on these devices? I couldn't care less about OS X, and have little use for Windows (gaming without a high end GPU?) -- but well-integrated Linux would be nice.
On the other hand, the Salton Sea didn't exist before the engineering accident which created it.
OK, then. I think a lot of people here got weirdly hung up on the nature of the demographic change, as if the skin color of the people affected somehow affects its morality.

With regards to women's suffrage, the Nineteenth Amendment became part of the constitution after extensive public debate, overwhelming approval by Congress, and approval of a supermajority of state legislatures, exactly as spelled out in the Constitution; it also had support among the public. That was the epitome of a change effected in the proper democratic fashion.
At the line manager level, probably many, even most. Empathy is selected against for promotion at most corporations, so if the OP is reporting to someone who is already a senior manager or aspiring to become one, it's unlikely.

That said, even the most cold-blooded bastard is going to make an effort to keep any middling-or-better employee right now. It's too hard to find competent replacements.
If there's outrage on Twitter, it's easy until more traditional media outlets catch it and take it from there. While that's not going to happen every time, it certainly can and the PR team is probably thinking yes it's going to happen.
Why exactly would there be less content with YouTube Red if the "partners" didn't switch over? I guess I also don't understand why the TOS of the partner program enable them to unlist the video, but not sign them up for the program.
How about show you videos from creators who don't sign the deal, don't show ads, pay the virtual ad revenue, keep the subscription share. I bet the share of subscription revenue is greater than the ad revenue.
I think there is a difference in the Aral Sea and Mono Lake.
The Aral Sea was economically vital to its many communities in addition to providing natural habitats. Now the region is plagued by the effects (health, crops, fisheries) of toxic dust from the exposed seabed. Mono Lake is beautiful and provides habitat for some birds, but was never economically vital for a vast region.
Here's a demo video I made: https://twitter.com/cheeaun/status/656631323923091456
The ad is poor, but is there anything to strongly influence your opinion on restrictions other than gut feeling of the company?

A big claim made by proponents of Prop F is that the existing, and recently created, compliance by AirBnB and hosts has been questionable, and hotel taxes paid are a big part of that. On a KQED Forum on Prop F, David Campos made some big deal about how the amount of hotel taxes paid by AirBnB is obscure and unknown, even though the figure should be readily available to him as a city supervisor; it makes sense to me why AirBnB would want to advertise that (with their campaign budget that's 2/3 the amount they pay in SF hotel taxes per year apparently).

Prop F is a slimy and questionable proposition in all dimensions, and it would make a broad law with impacts beyond AirBnB rentals. You shouldn't vote for or against it based on your gut view of the company.
And in the long run... I know there's this meme here that 100% autonomous vehicles are just around the corner. But (regrettably), I'm more inclined to side with the arguments that it's many decades away. [1]

[1] http://www.csail.mit.edu/node/2241
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I mean this sincerely because I truly am curious. This is a person that is obviously going through a tough period in their life. Why did you find it necessary to attempt to make them feel even worse than they already feel? Is this some kind of tough love thing? Do you get satisfaction from kicking others while they are down as some kind of ego boost? Or quite possibly some other reason that I don't understand? Again, I'm not trying to judge you or put you down. I very much am curious about your motivation here.
It's a shallow attempt to influence the vote.
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MS support suggested (off the record) that I find someone who had a Surface Pro still in warranty and ask them to ask for a replacement power adapter. Said that they'd get one free of charge, no questions ask. Unfortunately I don't know other people who own a Surface Pro so that didn't work for me. Anecdotally I've heard of Apple offering informal service outside of warranty, so was hoping I'd get something similar as it felt like a borderline case, but no luck in my case. Even a reduced price to replace the faulty accessory would have gone a long way to improve the support experience for me. In the end I got a half-hearted apology from them and that was it.
From six years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=550351
How about: Show videos from creators who don't sign, but without any ads for anyone. I presume this would mean those creators wouldn't get any revenue at all.
Even if you run a formatter over the source and rename the variables to some longer names, these tiny programs are still algorithmically impressive. Otherwise they'd be nearly trivial to generate from bigger ones by running minifiers on them.
This news of their FDA approval came right after news of their latest $155mm funding round which tells us that their new investors DEFINITELY knew about this before the public. [1]

I can't imagine Fidelity Capital pouring millions into a company that got blocked by the FDA, and I was shocked to hear the news that they raised that much money until today when I found out that the FDA approved their DNA screening. I mean, they were dead as in last nail in the coffin status before that.

Not only that, recent news just broke that law enforcement now have access to members' DNA from 23andMe -- the federal government must have been appeased. [2]

As Saul Goodman says: "There's always a way to oil everyone's lock."

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/14/23andme-raises-115m-to-gro...

[2] http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/10/19/3713666/police-t...
>Because transactions take place at well-defined geographic locations and at well-defined moments in time, intersecting the IMSIs of SIM cards present near the crime scenes immediately revealed the perpetrators’ SIM card details.

Because political rallies take place at well-defined geographic locations and at well-defined moments in time, intersecting the IMSIs of SIM cards present near the crime scenes immediately revealed the perpetrators’ SIM card details.

Because visits to planned parenthood take place at well-defined geographic locations and at well-defined moments in time, intersecting the IMSIs of SIM cards present near the crime scenes immediately revealed the perpetrators’ SIM card details.

Because Alcoholics Anonymous meetings take place at well-defined geographic locations and at well-defined moments in time, intersecting the IMSIs of SIM cards present near the crime scenes immediately revealed the perpetrators’ SIM card details.

Because worship services take place at well-defined geographic locations and at well-defined moments in time, intersecting the IMSIs of SIM cards present near the crime scenes immediately revealed the perpetrators’ SIM card details.

Because union meetings take place at well-defined geographic locations and at well-defined moments in time, intersecting the IMSIs of SIM cards present near the crime scenes immediately revealed the perpetrators’ SIM card details.

Because gun shows take place at well-defined geographic locations and at well-defined moments in time, intersecting the IMSIs of SIM cards present near the crime scenes immediately revealed the perpetrators’ SIM card details.

Who else feels safe?
Did you just glance at them or do you mean not a lot of interesting national sec/CIA stuff. There's some pretty personal private stuff in there including a complete SF86 form with a minefield of personal information including SSN numbers, previous addresses etc. I imagine these could be useful to someone who might be interested in compromising a few more of his personal accounts.
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AirBnB should care about what voters think. Social media is a wonderful tool for inexpensive voter outreach.
True, but a lot of the time a response from a company is what causes the media to report on something. TechCrunch isn't reporting on the criticism, they are reporting on Airbnb's response to it.
Not to really smart VCs. The ones with the long view rather than in-and-out-in-3-years-or-less.
0'd again, loving this shoot-from-the-hip place HN has become. At least post a reply if you disagree with what I've posted.
I think raymarching is an extremely elegant way to make complex scenes fit into a tiny amount of space. These are my favourite articles on raymarching because it shows just how compact they can be - a single mathematical equation:

http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/distfunctions/distfunctio...

http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/raymarchingdf/raymarching...

Edit: The description for the "bridge" scene is interesting: "This is a sketch really, but it never got completed, due to the lack of artistic appealing of the image." I don't know if it's his extreme humility, but I think it wouldn't be overexaggerating if I said it's one of the best scenes on that page.
An analogous to that question would be what could possibly go right with this? This project has incredible potential, but also incredibly complex issues it needs to solve in multitudes as well.
.... what? You must be massively misunderstanding if you think SMS-2FA is easier than HOTP or TOTP.

Did you even ... read the links?
Thin Air’s money isn’t created out of thin air
Why does pointing out that AirBnB pays a $1 million a month in hotel tax make people want to restrict AirBnB?

People are way too uptight in SF. AirBnB already faces plenty of regulations - most passed in the past year. Prop F is not needed and won't lower housing costs in SF.
Here's an excerpt from the librarian's Facebook post that went viral:

"Out of your $12 mil of hotel tax, only 1.4% percent goes to the SF Public Libraries. So that's $168,000. Divided by the 868 library staff, we have $193 per person. Assuming each employee works 5 days per week minus holidays, this is $0.78 per employee per day. Since that's significantly under San Francisco minimum wage ($12.25/hr), I doubt that your hotel tax can keep the libraries open more than a minute or two later.

However, had you donated that $8 million you spent fighting Proposition F directly to the public libraries you love so much, that could have made a bigger difference. Oh well. Hindsight is 20/20!"

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100700506082939

Also note the comment: "what a smug, shitty ad"
Twitter Adds 8 New Services to Its Fabric Platform, Used by 225,000+ Developers
Looks like they finally solved the configuration management problem--how to version and deploy different configurations in different environments. That was my major sticking point last time I used them (that was 6 years ago though).

That and I felt less like a programmer and more like an assembler.
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It is incredibly commonplace among politicians and even public servants to use private email accounts for work to act as a shield for FOIA-type laws.

Even my public University's president used a personal account in order to avoid student activist groups getting his email.

Sarah Palin used personal email (I think also AOL, actually) in her tenure as governor of Alaska.

Everyone, on both sides of the aisle, and all the way up and down the hierarchy does it. Absolutely everyone. Probably everyone has at some point in time. Probably even Bernie Sanders.

If you want to find out who, start sending FOIA requests and see what comes back empty.
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Obligatory Chief Wiggum quote: http://i.imgur.com/Prf929F.png
“Dear Airbnb, I'm happy to hear that you paid your taxes this year.”
Andy, you're very much to ascii rendering what Inigo is to the demo scene. I hope Milwaukee has been treating you well.
... are you actually fucking serious
AirBnB should try to influence what voters think. The minds of the people talking about this on Twitter are already made up.
Wonder if someone can create a startup to do Obfuscated-C-Code-as-a-service.
This only applies to YouTube partners, not any creator.
The 2012-2014 spike was due to an act of God: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Thailand_floods#Damages_t...

I read there was a lot of supply chain damage as well, part of why general recovery for industry took two years.
As the top comment (and others) point out, Youtube can't show paying customers ad-filled videos, so they would have to avoid showing those videos altogether. At that point they'd be asking users to pay for a service that has fewer videos than the free tier.
>The flip side of that coin is that some companies, under pressure to "grow up", become misguided—destroying their core product and user base in the process.

If your core "product" is massively unprofitable, it's not really a product at all.
Yeah I didn't mean to imply radioactivity.
This problem exists in every city, and will continue regardless if Airbnb is regulated out of business. The real problem here is absentee landlords, charging arbitrary amounts of rent.