skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just started (two days ago) at a company that not only provides free drinks (soda, coffee, tea) and snacks ($10 credit per week for the vending machines), but they cater lunch from a local restaurant every day. If you don't want what is being served that day, you have a $10 daily credit that can be used at a local deli sandwich shop (and have it delivered).

I accepted the job without hesitation even though it's a tiny pay cut over what I was making previously. "little things" like this can make a huge difference in employee morale.
"Back up your claims!"

Just go to google scholar and start reading the literature on this topic for the last 10 years. It's not even a debate any more.
I'm all for this simply to get the commercials off the air. I was almost missing the constant barrage of cell phones and insurance providers.

I had the sense they knew this was coming and that's why they hit the advertising so hard. If they can get enough momentum, they can make it legal.
How Soylent Auto-Transcribes Phone Calls to Build a Database of Legal Advice
Order-only prerequisites are needed whenever your rules depend on existence of some directories. So directories become make goals too in a sense. Obviously it's way too tedious to write all that by hand.

You can have some sort of high-level js.mk scattered in each directory of your project, then there's a top level Makefile which will include all those js.mk files and expand them from high level definitions to make rules.

Make is good only if you create a sort of framework around for your domain. However the learning curve is way too steep. I would only attempt to use make if Gulp does its job horribly bad.
That's kind of a different thing altogether though, really. The "fuck you money" generally comes only in the case of a liquidity event, such as IPO, sale, etc.

To my ear, there are compelling arguments both ways. Assuming a large company, employees 1-x should probably enjoy some of that fuck you money, but clearly, at some point there's a falloff. If my company sold tomorrow, I would not have in any way been involved in its sale. Same with an IPO. Our company has been around for years, sells expensive software, has millions in revenue, and I honestly couldn't tell you whether or not we've turned a profit yet. Assuming we have, it was probably done only last year, which meant that somebody was footing the bills of a multi million dollar company for a decade or so, and that person wasn't me. If somebody was spending millions on an idea that took a decade to pay off, then absolutely they deserve more money in a liquidity event than I do, and I'd be a fool to begrudge them that.

That said, not all companies are created equally, and many get to market / revenue / profitability at different timetables with different employee counts, so YMMV. That said, the notion of 'fair' is so abstract in this scenario then I think it's safe to assume that it is universally convoluted. Hard to pin down exactly what is or isn't fair without internal knowledge I don't have.
This implementation is rather lacking. Its only offline when a data connection isn't present. When data returns it automatically goes back online.

There's a very small limit to what one can download as well.
MS Office is much more usable now than it was in 2000. Consider a new user, with no experience in office software at all. They're presented with either two rows of incomprehensible buttons, no logical order, and additional features hidden in the menu bar, compared to having features (reasonably) logically organised behind tabs and grouped into sections and frequently with labels.

Sure, for power users, some things take two or three clicks which required one previously and I understand that's frustrating, but Office's old interface was a complete mess which got by on inertia - and there are still keyboard shortcuts and the customisable hotbar.
an order of magnitude

Many years ago I liked to say that, and a friend would call me out. So I would promptly change my statement to "a binary order of magnitude".

5x the density

Maybe he should be saying "a quinary order of magnitude"? :)
Zoho Mail also attacked recently:
https://www.zoho.com/service-updates/blog/zoho-services-unde...
When I worked in an office position doing very demanding work on intelligence software, the only thing that acted as a good reprieve from the day to day grind was being able to get up, go to the break room, and get something to eat and snack on to keep everything going. It was an excellent thing to have -- cutting it could easily kill off that kind of "brain refresh" that's needed in highly technical jobs. Sprint certainly employs IT and development, and if these cuts affect them, they're almost certainly signing a death warrant for their company if their most skilled employees start leaving.
Greenhouses produce energy, with solar panels on their roof, even when amortizing all production costs. Inorganic fertilizers are much more efficient than other methods; greenhouses need no pesticides because the environment can be controlled, and use friendly insects that eat the few bad ones there are. Did you even read the article?
Sorry, I did not mean to offend. s/Chicago/Schaumburg/g in my GP
I can understand the convenience of having snacks a dozen steps away, but where is the evidence that correlates the length of time present in the office with productivity? I can certainly tell from my own experience that stepping outside for even 5 minutes boosted my mental state after I returned.
The AG literally said that fanduel/draftkings did not need to cease operations. They just cant accept money from NY residents.

FD/DK both have free games.
I think you're counting all sprint employees, even field workers and store employees, but the free snacks were only available in the corporate office. Also, I think you're assume 365 days/year, but the snacks were likely only available for ~ 253 workdays/year.

According to Wikipedia, the corporate office has around 7,000 full time employees (not including 4,000 contract workers), so the company could have saved as much as much as 35 cents per employee per day.
It's calculating navigation routes, right? Wouldn't you want to use the most recent data for that?
Hesitation to provide quality tools/equipment falls under the "run—run far away" category, IMO.
I showed up at my first day at the new gig with my own keyboard (tenkeyless Cherry MX brown keyswitches) and mouse. Multiple people said "Hey, you don't have to bring your own stuff, just tell us what you want and we'll order it."

Having spent a decade at a much larger company (Halliburton) I feel absolutely spoiled at this place. The system they gave me on Monday? Brand new 2015 Macbook Pro Retina 15" with 512G SSD and 16G RAM (and external USB3 hub and USB3 SATA HD for Time Machine backups). Two 23" monitors were already on my desk waiting with DVI-to-Mini-Displayport adapters.

Today I sent a request for a desk lamp, and someone walked in 30 minutes later with two and asked which one I preferred. This afternoon I requested a license key for VMWare Fusion 8, and had it in email about an hour later. This stuff would have taken weeks, or never been approved, at my previous gig - where half the stuff on my desk was brought in from home because purchase requests would have been rejected with "You have a keyboard already, why do you need an expensive one?"
Cutting snacks altogether shows lack of creativity. A more subtle move is to switch to healthier (and less popular) snacks.
Court says tracking web histories can violate Wiretap Act
Poker was a little different. They were violating some major banking laws with how they were doing deposits. Also the companies were overseas...
Sometimes people do counterproductive things (to the company) because of poor incentives.

If someone gets rewarded for cuttings costs, but not for increasing company revenue, guess what they do?

If HR gets rewarded for hiring a low risk, average employee but doesn't get any credit for hiring a brilliant college drop out, guess what they do?
If they are based in New York, and it's illegal in New York, then...it's illegal for them to operate in the state. They can move out of the state and operate from there in other states where it's legal, but they can't operate in the state.
If you got $10M you'd keep working?
130 dB dynamic range is unreasonable. It's not like having a car that can go 0-60 in under 3.5 seconds, it's more like having a furnace that you can set to keep your house at 50°C. 130 dB SPL is downright bad for you. It will result in pain and permanent hearing loss. 130 dB SPL is very close to OSHA limits for instantaneous (not sustained) volumes, and it is physically painful to experience.

Can you elaborate? What makes you think that people are shilling for smartphone companies?
I was not referring to document databases as a whole, just to MongoDB in particular. You can use PostgreSQL as a document database. I heard too many stories with Mongo where people were dealing with locks or broken data instead of solving their business problems.
I think you may want to consider focusing more on concrete goals, and what funding will provide to backers.

For example, see https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomchristie/django-rest... which is widely used Python library. In that campaign, it is easy to see how much time the author would be able to continue to commit to the project at various funding levels, and specific features they will implement.

Even if the commitment at a certain level is just being able to provide on-going bug fixes, this shows the value to the company rather than backing being presented as a thank-you for previous work.
"The auction is a solution to the problem that the cap creates."

The cap is a solution to the problem the lack of other controls -- like an auction -- creates. With an auction to allocate the visas to companies that need foreigners with actual rare and highly paid skills, we could drop the cap to a more reasonable level like 10,000 per year instead of the ludicrous and destructive 60k.
We are in the very, very early stages, but my startup[1] is working on an open source toolkit for building cooperative companies.

[1]: https://infinite.ai
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Doesn't really bother me. Every year during Lent I hear, "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return." So I figure my house and I are slowly fulfilling biblical prophecy.
How Could You Like That Book?
Excellent news. These sites prey on the people who can least afford to lose and as the article noted seriously misrepresent the chances of winning. Shame on the NFL for their involvement.
> I don't have a problem with it if I don't like the laws that are being broken.

"First they came..."

No one of us gets to chose which laws are disregarded. We got lucky Uber breaking the rules has a positive outcome for most of us - we get a better service and we don't have to see the immediate externalities. Most of us also haven't been burned by the problem of AirBnB subletting. But what if the next hot SV startup decides to ignore FDA regulations? Because "they're just red tape that stiffles innovation", right? And the next one ignores biotech safety? Do you want to live in the world when any entrepreneur gets to use VC money to blatantly break any law they like?

The only Schelling point here is to obey all the laws by default, and in case you don't like some, to use various mechanisms built into the government to try and change them. It's slower, it doesn't generate hot headlines in the press, but it works and it's the right to do. It doesn't work to destabilize the very society that enables your business model.

> Following all laws regardless of their merits is hardly the defining characteristics of civilization.

It isn't, but following them as a default is, and punishing actors that break the law is too. Even civil disobedience works with expectation that you do get to suffer consequences of breaking the law. Taxi laws may have some problematic parts, but they are nowhere near the category of "so stupid they should have been repelled yesteryear".
Very good counterpoints, especially about tangibility of actual yummy things vs. unnoticeable increase. And kudos to your company for providing healthy options!

My case for the longer stroll was that sometimes it helps to detach from a problem and find a new angle with a fresh look. There is a reason why "walking meditation" is a thing. This may not work for all occupations but definitely works for me.
DDoS is a type of attack that is so old that I wonder why it is still possible to exploit it. It is at least 15 years old? (edit: I am not blaming FastMail, this is just a general assumption)
Another nice thing about OpenCL is that it is also supported by non-GPU hardware. Kronos maintains a pretty impressive list: https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-prod...
Where I work now, I had requested fresh fruit be added to the snack bins... unfortunately it goes so quickly that there's rarely any there when I get around to a snack in the later afternoon...
> The biggest American value is its diversity, which create the liberal values and progressive society

Correlation, meet causation. Lots of countries are more diverse than the USA but are doing far worse when you look at crime/corruption/QoL statistics. Lots of countries are far more progressive and far less diverse.
I'm 100% with you. I don't know what's going on exactly, but five years ago it was an example I'd point to of a beautiful, instinctively easy-to-use interface, and today it seems like it never does what I want on the first try. Doesn't matter if it's the web interface or on my Android phone, though I think those are screwed up in different ways.
Oh awesome! I love artpacks and the app. Quick question, what did you use to render the ANSI art to images?
I admit, this is easy enough with 'patsubst' and 'dir'. I had not discovered those, and doing the same job with sed got too messy to be worth the trouble. I haven’t seen example code for this particular pattern before, so thanks, it’s useful. I'll switch over to make now.
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"kjs3" you could not prove DanBC's point any clearer? LOL

I'm joining in your education (read downvote)
(try using the search box)
> as it tries to meet a goal of creating consumer robot technology by 2020

Wouldn't a self-driving car qualify as a "robot"?
As far as I know, in the US eminent domain has similarly been used to "fight blight". You could argue that the property owner in those cases also had a choice by keeping their property in good condition.
"All employers will be incentivized not to sponsor H1B visas"

That's the ideal benefit. Skilled Americans should be employed when available and their salaries should be high and rising. The more incentives not to use H1-Bs, the better.

The ostensive goal of the program is to provide workers with skills that aren't available in the USA. If they really aren't available, a few disincentives aren't going to slow them down, but we know that a large majority of applications are fraudulent. They exist to replace American jobs with low paid indentured foreign labor. There's no good reason to promote that.
I am frankly a little confused about what Rubinius is these days. Seems like a bit of an identity crisis lately.

I signed up for their mailing list long ago when they seemed to be about Rubinius the Ruby VM. In the last several weeks I've got several bizarre emails from them about the random seemingly non-differentiated product offerings. No offense but I'm just not sure what's going on there.
How much does severe obesity cost California? About $9.1B
Interestingly, asm.js has an advantage in Firefox and Chrome for me, but not in Safari.
Obese Kids as Young as 8 May Have Heart Problems
There is actually very little difference in the functionality btw Twitter and Instagram. The real difference is in the "personalities" they have taken on by virtue of the people who use them.

People on instagram are looking for instant gratification (nothing wrong with that), so it will always win that battle. People on twitter are looking for news, controversy, protests, etc.

That's an important function for some people. But it does not have the same mass appeal, so can only scale to a certain degree. I don't see how they can solve that problem by adjusting the functionality.
There's too many ways to do it by abusing legit protocols, tricking web browsers, etc, what fool proof countermeasure would you think there is? Other than out-doing the attacker by over provisioning your networks?
Both suck
Gee, now Google Maps is almost as good as it was at version 6, two or three years ago.

If they only add "Save as a contact", as version 6 does, I could get rid of my never-to-be-upgraded original Nexus.

This is on of the few changes to Maps that seem to be an improvement over the previous version.
Here it is, it's a comment on the Elves post that I was thinking of:

http://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-eart...
It's a generic term, not a type of attack. The question is similar to asking why we haven't developed a defense against being blown up when explosions are old.

As long as there are services, and as long as those services have finite capacity, there will be DDoSes -- both accidental and intentional.
I was hoping it went back further than the 1800s.
Absolutely wrong. Back in version 6, there was a "My Maps" feature which allowed you to save a region and use that saved region to navigate.
Helvetica hipsters are pretty irritating; if you're going to reject Arial, at least do so in favor of a better typeface, like Akzidenz Grotesk or Frutiger or something.
The majority of the House voted to eliminate the DV lottery and release the H1-B cap on graduates of American grad schools. There's currently an extra 20k H1-Bs for foreign grads of American schools and that cap would be lifted.

That would be a great compromise. Ph. D.'s instead of high school grads is a good trade. But it was lost among the politics of higher profile illegal alien amnesty negotiations. And then the amnesty didn't go anywhere either.

I think Trump may have mentioned this compromise at the last debate -- even he liked it.
I was in Europe without a data plan for two weeks, and offline HERE (which has transit directions, unlike this release) was a lifesaver. Anecdotally, the directions were more accurate too.
Ddos traffic generation capacity and server capacity scale in similar ways. As more and more of my servers get 10g Ethernet, more and more idiots are running chargen on 10g Ethernet.
Safari doesn't implement an asm.js backend, presumably?
Great time machine from 1979: that says nothing and proves nothing. It is a real shame NASA is part of this UN (IPCC) joke.

Ice and ocean levels will rise and fall as they have done throughout the geological history of the planet (of billion years, not decades or centuries). Ocean levels have not had any significant change probably since the formation of the Mediterranean sea. As for glaciers, they are retreating since the end of the ice age. So, nothing new, they were already retreating.

I won't even mention carbon because any high school kid should be able to debunk this ridiculous hypothesis that has already been debunked countless times and is only used to sell cause sensationalist debates, sell useless papers, deviate research money, keep peer review journals alive and provide excuse for expensive meetings in exotic places.

For those who will reply to this I recommend first to spend a night in a desert with only a tank of CO2 to protect from the cold. If you do get back, I would love to talk.
Do you have a specific source for "threat of poverty in order to innovate", or are you just referring to his large investments in his companies?
No. map data does not change much. Traffic does, but not the map data.
Ill reply to the root of all your comments, but this comment by you below sums up the problem:

> If your software has clear requirements, has a point when it is done, and only requires minimum maintenance after that, you aren’t writing agile.

This is simply not true. All 'agile' projects Ive worked on have had a complete-as-possbile analysis phase where we figured out the scope and the domain up front. This is not anti-agile at all, but is necessary on any project anywhere you are working on. (Agile is largely about avoiding 'big design up front', not 'big analysis up front'. There is a massive difference between analysis and design.)

Agile is about changing your plan when the _requirements_ change. Your API or whatever should change if your requirements change no matter what methodology you are using. But with waterfall you will not be able to and you will end up with a useless API.
> Sending unsolicited email to public addresses in order to sell something is spam.

Only if it is sent in bulk.
you seem to be mistaken about what Agile actually is.

i suggest reading the Agile manifesto [1] to get an understanding.

[1] http://www.agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
> Thanks. I missed that. How did he manage to get these for 1/10th the cost? Still, I'm pretty sure a black-market handgun or a beater car can each be obtained for <$4k.

I don't know, but one of the way I used to source (much smaller) HV capacitors for free was disassembling flash modules from single-use cameras that were thrown away after film was extracted from it. Generally, there are ways. In my city there is an electronics market where you can source a lot of parts (some extracted from old devices) cheap. I haven't asked for how much they sell those big HV capacitors in Shenzhen yet, but I'm willing to bet it won't be anywhere near $800/pc.

> I'm not sure how much biotech is really going to be accessible, though. I think much of it will end up locked down (legally), and I suspect that the regulations will be fairly effective.

I don't know either; we'll find out in a decade. But I don't see it effectively locked down in the longer (10+ years) run, unless something slows down current wave of progress that is happening around biotech equipment. Like with 3D printers, a lot of things you needed shit ton of money for can now be done with DIY equipment in a garage. This gave rise to community biolabs (biohackerspaces).

> There are already biological agents that people can harvest, but it's relatively uncommon.

True. I ascribe this to people generally not being evil or having murderous instincts. What worries me more are accidents and incentives-induced-stupidity. As an example of the latter, the most common bioattack people are doing right now is coming to work sick. It's actually mind-blowing that so many companies (outside IT) force people directly or indirectly to come in sick, even though it results in other employees getting infected and overall productivity in the company taking a hit.
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Or, potentially, does an equally good job optimizing the code with or without the asm.js hint.
Link to source: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/Demos/tree/master/chess
Analytics. Illegal!
It's still possible to exploit because "DDoS" isn't one attack, but a category: people keep finding new ways to slam a target with tons of traffic.

For a while, the most common way was with botnets of compromised PCs. They still exist, but big attacks with them are less common since Microsoft has gotten better at securing people's computers. The big thing now is "amplification attacks": basically, finding a way to send a small amount of data and get some other host to flood your target with a huge amount of data in response. Search "NTP amplification attack" for details. More recently, China has weaponized the Great Firewall to be yet another DDoS vector: they inject JavaScript into pages that people visit, and that JS floods a target with requests.

As long as there is some way to point a lot of requests somewhere you want, DDoS attacks will be a thing.
Yep. Navigon and Co-Pilot are two offline maps I have used. Each has pros and cons, but they both work fine without a data connection.