skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author of the post here. That's a good question. I don't know if this approach is objectively better, but it has a few nice features.

* We generally favor free/open source solutions where practical.

* It is quite a bit cheaper in dollar terms.

* The actual code to make this work is very lightweight. By doing it yourself, you have total control, and can extend or tweak to get exactly the data you want. Being able to easily add bespoke instrumentation is really powerful. To give an example from one of our use cases (IMAP sync), let's say you wanted to cohort your data by mail provider. I.e., you suspect that the workload profile when syncing against server A is significantly different than syncing against server B, and you want to know for sure. It's pretty easy to take your codebase and your instrumentation, and add that by inspecting some thread-local context at runtime. Might be hard to do with an off-the-shelf commercial tool.
> Ultimately what "they're paying you" for is not so specific.

I think you'd find in most organizations, roles are well-defined, but not articulated to those assuming those roles, because it helps morale to let employees define themselves, and also keeps them from getting too complacent. A manager's job is not to lead but to manage, i.e. get the greatest possible output from the employee.

If you want to know what your defined role is, a simple way to do so is to simply stop doing your job and seeing what people complain about first.

You're right in that leadership can not know the intricacies of your domain, but you're wrong in assuming there's something special about that state of affairs as it concerns technology. Leadership does not know the intricacies of, say, human resources, that's why they hire a specialist. Even in areas where the leadership does know how to do the grunt worker's job, their attention isn't focused on that area, so they're not going to know about problems until someone, typically a manager, brings it up.

A company's leadership is typically engaged outward, towards the broader market. Our CEO handles big deals with other service providers and retail outlets. If you think about medieval Europe, the petri dish that modern organizational methods evolved in, it makes sense. Someone needs to keep tabs on what the neighboring states are doing, that someone needs all the resources of the nation at his disposal at his command so he can deal with regional situations.

Individual contributors, when they try to "rock the boat", are perceived as unnecessarily taking time away from the much more important job of keeping tabs on the broader world / market. It's not directly making the company more competitive, so it's just noise, is the attitude.

The attitude / culture I described above is the norm, everything else is an exception. You can take this paradigm, and use it carve out a little fiefdom in any traditional hierarchical organization. Essentially, you figure out your defined role, do only the minimum required to not get fired, and devote the rest of your time to company politics. As you come to understand the organization and its needs, you'll be able to position yourself as someone who can meet those needs. If a company needs it, then that means it can't get it with the current resources it has, otherwise it would have it already. So you will need a budget and staff.
> To this day I can never make sense out of the "sizes" that appear on women's clothes.

Part of it is the stupid clinging to traditional "dress sizes", the other part is that each clothing maker has their own sizing, and they can be radically different. For an extreme example, go check out a Lane Bryant store at your local mall. A "6" there is definitely not like a "6" at someplace like Express. Of course, LB does this for a reason: they cater exclusively to fat women so they have their own sizing standards.

But still, given how much curvier women's bodies tend to be, it would make sense for the sizing to be more complex, just as men's pants are.

>but my jeans say "30/30", meaning 30" waste

Your jeans have 30" of trash?
Is Enron Overpriced? (Fortune, 2001)
'You don't have to do this.' ~ So true, and so easy to forget
So the security services can demand information and order the fact kept secret in perpetuity, with no appeal. How very reassuring.
That's literally the first thing that happens when you "Fight abuse to protect freedom of expression"

https://blog.twitter.com/2015/fighting-abuse-to-protect-free...
Hopefully this will help to show Twitter's recent actions in a different light.

It's important to keep people safe. And as we all know, corporations are people.
$_ isn't really global though:

perl -e 'for (1,2,3,4) { for (5,6) { print " $_\n" } print "$_\n" }'
I wrote this piece after recognizing a particularly aggressive Senior VP was completely shutting down an entire small team with her communication style. Though this particular manager was ultimately correct in her reasoning, her disagreement style was a big problem for team cohesion and I thought it warranted writing about.
A couple of notes on usability:
Having the labels of the charts (i.e., the color to db matching) be defined only in one place (above the graphs) makes comparing the charts in the article really difficult to read and interpret.
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In reality managers do stuff like hide their opinions so people will stick around so they can burn them at review time. If someone quits too soon, the manager may have to burn someone they like. How did working get to be so dumb?
Even if so, it could be permitted under Fair Use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

"Examples of fair use in United States copyright law include commentary, search engines, criticism, parody, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship. It provides for the legal, unlicensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work under a four-factor balancing test."
Multiple replacements for each company would appear within 24 hours. One would spread virally and gain an initial base of users, then press, and within a few months it would be in a dominant market position filling the void left by the American company it replaced.

This is exactly what happened in China when Google left - Baidu exploded in popularity and now dominates the market so completely that it would be nearly impossible for Google to unseat it.

The Chinese government does this on purpose to facilitate the growth of its own domestic companies. The Great Firewall serves as much of an economic purpose as a political one. By degrading service quality of foreign companies, it opens space in the market for domestic companies to establish themselves and gain market share. It would be impossible for any one of those companies to bootstrap its initial userbase if a giant American corporation already cornered its market.
That only works if you're the only occupant of the premises.
Are Machine Learning and Statistics Complementary? [pdf]
Yep - this is something that I'm thinking about actively. How do you start the conversation in an interview (as either interviewer or interviewee) that gives you insight into how people treat problems? Is their instinct more individual or systemic? Do they naturally look for improvement, or point fingers?

I've had some success, but they're always very deep interviews, which can either be drastically good or quite startling to the other party depending on what direction it goes. So your note to do it 'tactfuflly' is very prudent.
Ray Dalio published his "principles".

It's a fascinating read

http://www.bwater.com/Uploads/FileManager/Principles/Bridgew...

The other interesting aspect is that Dalio is an adherent of Transcendental Meditation and IIRC the principles really sprang his study of TM and Buddhism.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/12/meditation-creativi...

Meditation has also transformed the corporate culture at Bridgewater. Dalio pays for half of the fees for any employee who's interested in learning TM, and the office features meditation rooms and group sessions. The company is also known for its "brutally honest" meetings, and Dalio says meditation helps his employees to adopt an attitude of calm equanimity that helps them to engage in a productive dialogue without reacting emotionally.
> Building a career in one place without trying to take shots upwards is not good: Programmers get more pay by changing jobs, not by being very patient and hoping they'll get noticed eventually. So once you are in a place that isn't a tiny startup (which is in itself a risk), you should take risks for big internal payoffs. If those risks pay out, great. If they don't, then just go somewhere else and try again.

> I've worked with people that had spent 10 years at a company, working on my team, as pillars of the company, getting paid 60k/yr, sitting next to a contractor billing 125/hr

The lesson isn't to take big internal risks. The lesson is to engineer your finances to allow you to weather the volatility of being a contractor, and then be the contractor.

Everyone shits on the idea of the contractor, when they're doing exactly what they're incentivized to do: maximize the value they extract in the shortest period of time possible, while providing value to the organization they're working for.

Screw your equity, your business culture/hierarchy, and paying your dues (colloquially known as "F*ck you, pay me").
Twitter is a single point of consumption where with RSS you should be aware of the feeds to consume or have another site working on integrating RSS and staying up to date with the latests consumption points.
The recommendation may still be appropriate: he hasn't necessarily read it.
I don't think you'll be replacing Apple or Google overnight, Twitter and Facebook only work because of the network effects, a 'facebook or twitter for the UK' would fly just about as good as a lead balloon.
This may be the most important lesson we can learn nowadays. Between demand for ever-higher test scores, and demand for ever-more-inoffensive worlds, and demand for ever-more perfect people, we forget that failure isn't game over.
> could have made a bold statement by hiring a woman or racial minority for what is ultimately a symbolic role

not sure why it would have been bold, considering the author seems to have expected them to do it. Shouldn't the preference be to hire someone who can make the role more than symbolic?
Previous thread about Ian Murdock: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803924

This news is, tragically, new information. :(
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10786492
Key point: "The simplest option is to just do the right thing yourself and ignore what’s going on around you."

This is so, so, so easy to do and generally has no negative repurcussions.
Milling Time
Was it the Robert Coram book (https://militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com/books/665-boyd-...)?

That book made it into four different reading lists from various branches of the military (USMC, USAF, Army, and a chair of the House Armed Svcs Committee). That's encouraging in that at least they're aware that his ideas/approaches were productive.
Part of the extreme difficulty in defining a mental model for an organization is that organizations are necessarily complex systems. You're exactly right.

Regarding people problems, my one note is that we are all more alike than we seem, and you eventually start to see the same classes of problems everywhere. This is why an understanding of psychology and behavior is so critical.
Heh, Randstad advocating candor, who could have guessed. It's a Dutch company, and straight-to-the-point, no-BS candor is one of those Dutch culture things.
Of course you need to strike a careful balance, as Kim Scott aptly defines according to the article: candor = "giving criticism while showing genuine concern".
Norway Pioneers the Digital Radio Future, Abandoning FM
Thug Who Tweeted “Kill Barbaric White Savages Shot Dead  Mall
This is outright scary. The Easily Offended crowd should have noted he had said "..to my wife" not "..to a female". Assuming his wife is not in the software business, how is this a commentary on the role of gender in technology (or anywhere). Instead of down-voting, please provide a rational argument how this generalization makes sense.
> If it's the latter that's the domain job.

The domain's job is to represent and encapsulate valid transformations in the domain. If it's not valid within the domain then it doesn't belong in it. If you get a well-formed XML file that has -7 as a social security number, that is not something that your domain has to deal with. It should be caught by the corruption layer. It's not a valid value for your domain. Where I work we regularily build an import domain that allows users to see all the invalid data and manually correct it before allowing it into the rest of the system. Once I have an instance of a Person object I should be able to trust that it is sane.

> The third, from the experience I have, is a big flashy "no no".

It depends; I'd say it's on a case-by-case. Doing a read can be much more acceptable than a write. It's all about trade-offs at that point, but the benefit of knowing "if I have an instance I know that it is sane" means you don't need to litter your code with guards and that pays dividends in maintenance and bugs and agility and testability and, yes, even performance. A big factor is the cost of load. I usually work on low-load (~14 concurrent users) high-importance systems (eg global pricing management) where correctness is at a premium and we usually have system resources to spare. YMMV. As I said: it depends.
As in you can't emotionally "get past" it? Or you didn't see the "skip ad" link?
Humans lie all the time. We lie to each other, we lie to the government. We cheat, break rules and break laws all the time.

Societies rely on privacy to limit the intrusion of others into our lives. It becomes really easy to avoid enforcing a law when you can't see it happening.

For example, without privacy, sodomy laws become much easier to enforce. No longer would it be 2 closeted gay men living together happily, it would be acceptable for the government to setup a mobile array and detect that the two men were sharing a single bed, and then charge them with sodomy.

Another example. In New Zealand, prostitution is legal. However, income information and receipts are private between the business and the tax department. Visiting a prostitute is generally frowned upon publicly. So, what happens when all prostitutes are "outed", and their customer lists published? Is that a good thing? Is it just another way of making the job illegal again, with all of the societal ills that making it legal was intended to avoid?

For a US example, imagine publishing the health records from Planned Parenthood clinics - any and all. Venereal disease, birth control, abortion, anything.

I don't see how we can prevent intrusion of individuals and governments into private areas of life without a definition and expectation of privacy. Particularly when there are differing opinions on morality and what the government should do to enforce it.
"There’s the office where I asked one day about the fact that I almost never saw two particular people in the same room together. I was told that they had a feud going back a decade, and that things had actually improved – for years, they literally couldn’t be in the same room because one of the two would get too angry and do something regrettable, but things had now cooled to the point where the two could, occasionally, be found in the same wing of the office or even the same room. These weren’t just random people, either. They were the two managers of the only two teams in the office. Normal!"

I'm 99% certain that I know about whom the author refers here, having worked at an office with somebody of the same name where a drama matching this description took place. It was one profoundly weird situation that should never have been allowed to fester.
privacy is of the utmost importance to prevent the degradation of what makes us human; free will.

If Fred goes to a certain three websites fairly regularly, and Joe (a bad guy, thug, gangster, terrorist) also goes to those three websites fairly regularly, some other authority monitoring Fred's traffic could say,"Hey, this Fred guy is following the same patterns as this other bad guy Joe, so we should probably intercept this guy and tell him we're worried he will fall into the same trap as bad guy Joe."
Angular Starter Kit – Typescript, WebPack, Karma
On one hand: no fuck you I want to pee in solitude.

On the other hand: I can't remember the title/author but there has absolutely been the argument floating around for a while that the problem isn't the lack of privacy it's the asymmetry of power combined with asymmetry of privacy.
Anyone have the PDF of the email? Link is dead.
Apple to pay Italy 318M euros, sign tax deal
You are of course welcome to your preferences and opinion, but shouldn't others also be able to make their own choice that they want privacy? Certainly many feel that way.

I've tried to put together a smartphone that simply gives me the choice: Control over my own data. It seems nearly impossible without a large investment.
> 2. Knowledge. I don't know how to lift weights, and I'm afraid I'll do it wrong and end up injuring myself.

This kept me from lifting for a long time. This year, though, I hired a personal trainer for 5 classes to specifically teach me proper form of a few lifts I wanted to learn well (squat, bench press, deadlift, strict press). We spent most of the classes reviewing the nuances of where to place hands, wrists, legs, knees etc. He would then watch me try, and correct my posture on the spot. It really helped me develop the muscle memory I needed to do it correctly.
Thanks for stoking the fire of my curiosity.
Fidelity Slashes Valuation of Startup Superstar Uber by 7.5%
Obsessing Over Availability Is Dumb
I think what explains the difference is that the author is a writer by trade -- not a statistician.

The author successful tells a simple story with unexpected tidbits and concrete language (eg "every submission you see here is certifiably timeless") and does a good job following writing best practices like "not burying the lead".

You might be interested in reading "Make it Stick" (it's where I learned about this subject from) if you haven't already -- and/or the Priceonomics guide to content marketing.

Clickbait title probably didn't hurt either.
I don't see the point of a Smart TV. My TV is a 40" monitor for my Chromecast. I don't know what value a Smart TV could offer me.
I don't think you have to compromise much. If you have any self-worth, you'll strive for improvement. You don't have even have to that careful about rubbing folks the wrong way. You're not going to get fired or anything.
Right, because most Linux proponents are kernel hackers. It's quite telling that you have no leg to stand on but to resort to hapless diversions. Or I suppose the flood of researchers who have built viable and innovative microkernel-based architectures throughout the decades are all a bunch of phonies?
Also, for those who weren't previously acquainted: Ian was the "ian" in Debian, the Linux distro he created which is the basis for Ubuntu. He started work at Docker in November, which is why they are publishing this.
The media component was covered under fair use, however.
I hope so for that is less corrupt. I can be somewhat obtuse. I am going to write the author and ask. Thank you.
You lost me at "retarded." Learn the laws of social decency and then come back and have a discussion.
Except they certify systems with lots of problems. Dell had to stop selling their XPS 13 with Ubuntu for a while due to the number of issues.

http://bartongeorge.net/2015/07/20/xps-13-developer-edition-...
This is a way to index and query data in Javascript that is simple and straightforward (at one line to create an index) heavily influenced by CouchDB. I always felt wrong a library like this didn't exist, since it is so simple and useful, so I wrote this.

You can think of it as an "in-memory Javascript database", but really, it is just a way to create derived indexes, so you don't have to manually manage these (otherwise you would end up creating these indexes manually and having to come up with a lot of variables and verbosity).

If you have any suggestion or criticism, please make it.
Ask HN: Facebook threatening to permanently delete my account. Who do I contact?
Yesterday I was blocked from facebook which seemed to be the regular "Real Name Policy" suspension. I submitted my ID. Actually 3 IDs including my passport.

But I've been told twice that "we can't clearly see your information". Which obviously wasn't the case. I was like whatever, I'll appeal and get it back eventually.

But after my third message I got told "It looks like you're not old enough to join Facebook yet. You must be at least 13 years old to have a Facebook account, even if an adult has given you permission to sign up. We'll need to permanently delete your account, but you can create a new one when you're old enough".

Now I'm over 20, which the documents I submitted clearly show. I might look a few years younger, but there's no way someone could reasonably assume I'm under 13.

The worst is, it seems like that's one of the few cases where they outright delete your account rather than disable (which is supposedly what happens to people with fake names etc.).
So as far as my understanding goes I won't even be able to appeal the decision. I sent a few emails to addresses I could google out but almost all got bounced.

I'm at a complete loss. The account I've used for many years will be deleted any second and I can't do anything. I don't even want to use that site anymore, just let me tell my friends I'm switching to somewhere else lol. I have a suspicion that I'm being treated unfairly because of my unusual name or even targeted because of a non-standard gender option and/or the way it relates to my looks. In the end I have no clue. But I'm definitely being banned under a false pretense.

I have screenshots of the support thread if somebody's curious (not posting here cause privacy).
Importance of religion by country – pew research
Aren't the JS/HTML/CSS engines pretty much identical?
Note that the most helpful review is someone who did not buy one. Same with the second. And the third.

> Sample provided for review.

> Got this at no cost for unbiased review.

> *I received a sample product from Ivation.

Reviews are much more scattered if you filter by "Verified purchase only". It's interesting that this drops the number of reviews from 165 to 104 for a product which is designed for and presumably sold only on Amazon.

I'm not necessarily suggesting these reviews are shady, but given the other aspects of Amazon that this company tracks, it would seem reasonable to suggest they've figured out a way to track influential reviewers likely to give them a positive review.
Found the brit !
OUYA + Older (non-smart) Flatscreen = Win! I can hack the OUYA at will and watch shows, movies and stream music. All the while the TV does what it does best : show me a pretty, clear picture.
This is truly a loss.
Is this at all related to his statement on suicide and police brutality? What was the cause of death?

Source: http://techaeris.com/2015/12/28/debian-founder-ian-murdocks-...
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With Ghostery enabled, it won't go away.
Do you have a source that shows lifting is not as effective for improving cardiovascular health as endurance exercise? Also keep in mind that endurance exercise in and of itself has a risk of heart attack while similar deaths are virtually unheard of in lifting. Most deaths from lifting are due to solo bench pressing and suffocstion, while many more people die on cardio machines. At least that is what I read in the book The New Rules of Lifting. I don't have it in front of me for the source.
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The clash between this and the culture of "trigger warnings" and "safe-spaces" that people are picking up in universities will be a thing to watch.