skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should also note that management is likely to see this not as a wayward employee bucking the rules, but as someone doing what he needs to under the circumstances to make himself happy. So long as it's not egregious and work quality stays ultra-sharp, everybody involved is going to just work around your preferences. They know you'll be much less likely to leave if you're happy with your situation, the damage you cause by leaving is far worse than the damage caused by bucking the standards.

Around the time I was doing this, I got a new manager. I was wholly unwilling to reorient my schedule around his expectations, but I would stay until he left for the first few weeks. One day I followed him out, even though it was at least an hour before I "should" have been leaving. I'd also taken an hour-plus long lunch that day. I told him I usually leave at 5, but I was staying late in case he had any questions for me. He was like, "even though you took a long lunch??" and I just nodded, and followed him out. He didn't mention it again, until I started talking about taking another job.

There is a space in between political expectations, business needs, and personal wishes at any job that is ripe for exploration and exploitation. One can iterate towards their ideal work environment and conditions at any job where their performance is stellar. Just keep the business needs and political expectations in mind and you can practically get away with murder.
The 140 limit is the reason I like twitter. It forces conciseness and some kind of quality.

10k blog posts with 140 charsbof content to decipher.... No thanks. Showing the first 140 only with a "read more" button does not fix that.

Rip twitter
60% is not the normal federal share; the normal federal share varies by State, depends on state economic performance relative to other states, and is a minimum of 50% for certain populations, 65% for other populations.
> Today, the top 1% control fully half of the planet's wealth.

I've seen that statement debated, so I was curious if it was actually true. I had to follow quite a few links before I hit bedrock. Garret links to an NPR piece[1], which links to an Oxfam "study"[2], which references a Credit Suisse report[3], which is 64 pages long and covers way more than global wealth inequality. I finally found the relevant bit on page 10, in a section named, "Distribution of wealth across individuals":

> Our estimates for mid-2013 indicate that once debts have been subtracted, an adult requires just USD 4,000 in assets to be in the wealthiest half of world citizens. However, a person needs at least USD 75,000 to be a member of the top 10% of global wealth holders, and USD 753,000 to belong to the top 1%. Taken together, the bottom half of the global population own less than 1% of total wealth. In sharp contrast, the richest 10% hold 86% of the world’s wealth, and the top 1% alone account for 46% of global assets.

Finally! Can the author please link to that instead? It would have saved me so much time. So the statement is mostly true, except note that debt is counted. That means a significant fraction of people have negative net worth. Those trading against future earnings (using student loans, car loans, mortgages, etc) will be at the bottom of the wealth distribution.

Remember, this is world wealth inequality, not US wealth inequality. What does US wealth look like? According to page 46 of the Credit Suisse report, 40% of US adults are in the top decile of wealth distribution. Heck, 7.5% of US adults are in the top 1% of wealth owners worldwide. There's a graph of US wealth distribution compared to the world.[4] It shows the US as a much more balanced place.

More than anything else, "The top 1% control half the world's wealth." is a statement about the inequality of nations, not people. Unless one is advocating wealth taxes to finance foreign aid, it's disingenuous to further a domestic agenda by citing the impoverished masses in developing countries.

I think if Garret took the time to be more rigorous, he could build a very good critical companion to PG's essay. But in its current state, it's not something I can really engage with.

1. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/01/20/264241052/...

2. It's just a short overview of others' research: https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/bp-working-f...

3. https://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/?fi...

4. http://geoff.greer.fm/photos/screenshots/Screen%20Shot%20201...
"Swing will now sit on every Android phone, using up resources."

The Swing classes were removed in a later commit and are no longer there. The commit linked in this article was just the initial bulk import of openjdk source.

[1]: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/libcore/+/master/o...
They also seem to be missing Bioconductor, which is where a huge percentage of (maybe even most?) R biology packages are located. Allowing submissions and somehow indexing the relevant repositories in GitHub would be huge.
Open office is a trick to make you beg for the cube farm back.
Yikes. Being on call is fine but it really ought to a) be spelled out in advance and b) be rotated among several people so you don't end up wasting more than a weekend a month, tops.

Of course, I know people who theoretically are on sane on-call schedules but as it turns out, because of irresponsible co-workers that shirk their on-call duties they ended up being called as a last resort...
What was acquihired was the cream of the cream from a company that created a whopping $50B+ market at its peak. At its core you have ~30 distributed computing legends and a pretty neat leaders at the top.
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The numbers are equatable, even if they don't measure what you would prefer they measure. But if you'd like to supply alternate unemployment data, I'm sure many readers would appreciate it. As it is, your post is hypothetical.

And anyway, unemployment has been measured the same way for decades. If the question is whether we stand on a societal precipice right now, then criticizing how unemployment is measured is not relevant. Of course it has shortcomings. But it has had the same shortcomings for a long time, so the shortcomings themselves are not proof that we stand on a precipice now.
This is going to kill Twitter for me. A few more characters is likely a good move. 256 seems nice.

But, I don't use Twitter for long form content. I do use Twitter as a way for people to get me interested in long form, or to raise awareness of something.

If my feed gets clogged with long form, I'm moving on. Too much info, wrong use case.

Seems to me Twitter could gather a lot more value out reconsideration of how hostile they have been to the ecosystem that grew up around Twitter.
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Not only that, on mobile, I'll follow a link from FB, read an article, and go back. The mobile page reloads, and shows a completely different set of articles. FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU.
> That cannot possibly be true. I guarantee you virtually every REST app in the store uses HTTPS and none of them went through all of this.

Then they're breaking the law. Which is unsurprising, since the law is way more complicated than anyone expects, but unless you have a lawyer who has said "No, that's clearly not what the law means," you shouldn't expect that the law is sensible.
Oh, I personally am absolutely pro-emoji! It's very much a useful allocation of the astral plane and great to see standardized.

I'm just saying that prior to Unicode 6.0 and the addition of the Astral Plane conlangs (constructed languages, ie the fun things created by fantasy and science fiction authors and fans and world builders) were rejected as "out of scope" for Unicode and so far as I know that rejection hasn't been reconsidered since the Astral Plane reopened. They would fit well in a block of their own not far from the emoji sectors.

The interesting part here too is that the interests of adding these character sets is closer to the academic world of dead languages than the commercial interests of the tech world and emoji.
Yeah they should separate out links (with a maximum number total links not characters per post) and hash tags (again with a maximum number of total hash tags not characters per post). Something like 5 links and 15 hash tags should be enough for even the most hardcore of Twitter users. Then up the post limit to 200 or 250 characters.

I have heard about Twitter looking into upping the limits for years now and I think they are over thinking the problem. Then again I have no idea if their backend is some how weirdly designed with the 140 character limit and changing that might require a lot of work. I wouldn't have thought so though. Well I should say I hope not, you never know what some devs do ;)
Europe as a whole has a <non-replacement> fertility rate of 1.5. In other words: it is dying. Total fertility rate for the US is just below replacement value at 2.09 and the total fertility rate for the world is 2.59, down from 2.8 in 2002 and 5.0 in 1965. Any weaning that goes on will certainly have to be off welfare schemes because they are going to collapse.
Would there be any prohibition against working two (or three or four) 4-hour per week jobs?
Finally! I have been wanting them to remove that for a long time now.

Twitters biggest problem is that they are a protocol router more than a destination. And so while people use it to find content they consume this content somewhere else out of reach for twitters add engine.

Now that people will start writing on twitter this will mean a lot more time is spent on twitter consuming content on twitter and reading ads on twitter.

With this they get to keep the protocol part while keeping users longer on their platform to consume content.
Completely non-sequitur fact, but maybe fun from a "hacker" perspective:

Most parakeet cages I've seen in bird stores have a bell-in-a-ball type toy. Try picking it up and ringing it sometime. For some reason, all the parakeets will stop chattering as long as the bell is ringing.
> The only major change in post-140 Twitter would be the death of the Andreessen-style twerpstorm

You'd think that's the case but I'm not so sure about that.

The hidden secret of secret of Tweetstorms is that they take up the space of multiple tweets, which means that people can retweet more times (people do retweet entire Tweetstorms!) and occupy the entire space on their followers' timelines.

Although, if you Tweetstorm when a 10k character limit exist, the shenanigans would be obvious. Anyone who pulled this would instantly get an unfollow from me, of course.
An ATS is typically an Applicant Tracking System.
http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/2013/01/04/the-disnesy-disaster...
Hi, I'm Rasmus and worked on the algorithms behind faces.ethz.ch. If you have any technical questions, let me know! Sorry for having some stability issues, we got much more traffic than expected and are currently working hard to fix everything!
LastPass doesn't have access to your symmetric key, it doesn't have access to your private RSA key either. It's all locally encrypted and locally generated. LastPass does have access to your public key (which is safe and makes sense).

This is accomplished the same way LastPass shares sites.
That honestly sounds like mismanagement. Even if its too hard to understand the minutiae, there should be a chart/graph/something somewhere that shows what all the components are intended to do.
I work from home now but I'll take a cube over an "open" office every time.
It has to do with calculus. If the probability of a given result approaches zero as the result itself approaches positive or negative infinity, then the area under the curve approaches 1.

Imagine 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 ... to infinity. The sum approaches 1 as the denominator approaches infinity. With calculus, we can determine that with mathematical methods.
Agreed. This is the sort of thing you would expect from a Postgres fork, but not Postgres itself.
You need to put that on the freakin' signup page because with zero clue what you do why on earth would I hand over my email?!?!?!
That's a different point. What you were doing was defending the personality flaw.

Going "OT" was due to the title. I thought it was that post where Torvalds obstinately defends his rudeness. Basically the man's lack of style almost prevented his point from being communicated. So even digging for points which I did and do* only went so far.

*Mind you, I've found sifting through noise to have diminishing returns. People often use cuss words instead of arguments. Strong points do not need strong language.
Forbes 400 is not perfect. If you have a better measure of wealth that would suggest that inherited fortunes are a significant contributor to wealth inequality, you can cite that. Perhaps self-made wealth dominates the .001% of wealthy individuals but doesn't apply for the 0.999% of the top 1% but I don't see any evidence or better proxy for the source of wealth so I'm using the Forbes 400.

What I'm trying to say in my comment is that the belief that inherited wealth is driving inequality (as compared to self-made wealth) is not supported by anything I have read.
Absolutely, I'd lose my entire mind if I could see over my cube walls.
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For anyone who comes here without clicking the link, it's linking to a comment of the intern that actually wrote it. He provides some neat context as well. Worth the read if you don't mind being on Reddit at work.
The problem there is that the DC subways are some of the worst in the nation now, thanks to years of mismanagement and neglect. They've had fatal accidents, and they're ridiculously slow because they single-track the trains so much. The Washington Post has articles about all the problems with the DC Metro, including how the train operators and controllers are at each others' throats, and the system can't get competent people to work there (they just get fed up and quit in a couple months).
It would be an interesting experiment to watch. It can take Twitter much ahead or it will break Twitter completely.
From a deployment standpoint, having a tool written in Go is a win for me since it is much simpler to get running than something in python or ruby which almost certainly has a larger dependency tree.
Facebook is a walled-garden, Twitter is not. The humans in the middle of these two giants, are all confused.

Meanwhile, Twitter needs to figure out how they are preventing spammers and spam-bots from infiltrating the environment where humans supposed to tread...only if, they wish humans to use their service.
I haven't changed anything I am just adding more context to what I mean.

PG believes that people are against the inequality startups create. They are not because most startups don't become family dynasties. Thats the point. Only PG is talking about startups. Thats not what people talk about when they critique economic inequality and that's what he doesn't seem to understand.
Well, the USSR is dead and gone too. Maybe that statement would have been better as the idiom "going the way of the do-do bird?" </sarcasm>
I really like what this group is doing:

http://software-carpentry.org/

I took their instructor training last summer but I haven't had a chance to run a workshop yet. I think it's a great idea, especially given my recent exposure to researcher-written codebases.
I actually thought an interesting idea is an app that recommends you which dating site to use based on your face.

If you're good looking you can pretty much use whatever.

But for someone like myself who is ethnic and not visually attractive, my success rate is really low on certain sites and acceptable on certain apps.

For example, my performance on Match (Graphic I made: http://i.imgur.com/UZuSzD9.png) was pretty woeful in December. But I started using another app in the same week and had much higher success in getting responses relative to effort level.
It would be awesome to see this happen, but perhaps building more subways (BART southern crossing, Geary subway, Van Ness subway, Central subway extension to North Beach/Marina/Presidio) should be higher priority. With the rebuilt Doyle Drive, we could build a big parking structure under the Presidio and have people take the subway to downtown.

As another poster mentioned, completing the 280-80/101 link in SOMA also has a high payoff. They're separated by less than three blocks - even a single lane tunnel in each direction would take a big load off SOMA streets. (Instead the current mayor wants to demolish the nortnern two miles of the 280, which is insanity)
Inter-generational wealth is often wasted and doesn't last more than a few generations so perhaps it's not as big a problem as some make it out to be

> Indeed, research shows that family money rarely survives the transfer for long, with 70 percent evaporated by the end of the second generation. By the end of the third? Ninety percent [0]

[0] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014241278873246624045783346...
Restricting users to 140 characters wasn't just a good idea because of SMS character limits, it also forced users to create content that had a far greater chance of being shareable.

The traditional blogging platforms that came before Twitter generally failed as broad-base social media platforms because of the walls of text people would write. If you're an average person, nobody wants to read your wall of text about some childhood experience, but people might be interested in your one-liners about news, celebrities, friends, etc.

I think the changes that are causing them to consider a 10,000-character limit are:

1. A larger percentage of Twitter traffic is celebrities/marketers, and people trying to connect with celebrities/marketers (not friends connecting with friends). Character limits don't matter for this traffic because quality/virality is either guaranteed (celebrities/marketers) or irrelevant (consumers trying to connect to celebrities/marketers).

2. It's difficult to sell text as short-form shareable content now that everyone's sharing images, gifs, and really short videos. If the text isn't going to be shareable, they might as well lift the character limit and expand its utility as a general feature.

Personally I like the idea. The way I use Twitter is to see what public figures and organizations are saying publicly, so a higher character limit is 100% upside for me.
That is .. entirely the point.
for historical reference, this reminded me of east germany http://www.afr.com/lifestyle/stasi-snitches-all-around-recor...
I think it's just that there is so little of Fisher's face visible. I couldn't even tell who that was until I read your full comment.
Could the Teslasuit be the next big thing for VR gaming?
It's important not to over-value pithy quotes from Steve Jobs (or other successful figures). For starters, it's difficult to say if this particular assertion is even well-founded; less likely still that implementing his rhetoric will simply translate into similar success.

Work from home actually works for a lot of people. Some of those people are just as creative, collaborative, driven and successful as the folks that work in offices.
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His arguments about length of work day and saying "okay, work's done" don't ring true in my opinion. There are plenty of folks in my office who both stay at the office late and do work from home after hours. I think that particular behavior says more about the person than where they work.

Personally, I split time between the office and home, and find that works pretty well.
Supposedly "unlimited" vacation with an annual required contiguous minimum can work. "Must take at least two weeks off sabbatical at least once a year." I would imagine you have to be careful to keep that "required minimum" from feeling more like a punishment than a necessary pressure release valve, as with any "mandatory fun" requirement.
How is it disingenuous? The point is to give a sense of scale of $24 billion, since it's pretty easy for people not to know what $24 billion looks like.
I just had to check what happens using a real compiler using realistic compiler options (gcc-4.9.2 -O2): https://github.com/websnarf/bstrlib/issues/8
"Reckoning with risk" by Gerd Gigerenzer is interesting.

https://plus.maths.org/content/reckoning-risk

> The prescription put forward is simple. Essentially, we should all be using natural frequencies to express and think about uncertain events. Conditional probabilities are used in the first of the following statements; natural frequencies in the second (both are quoted from the book):

> The probability that one of these women [asymptomatic, aged 40 to 50, from a particular region, participating in mammography screening] has breast cancer is 0.8 percent. If a woman has breast cancer, the probability is 90 percent that she will have a positive mammogram. If a woman does not have breast cancer, the probability is 7 percent that she will still have a positive mammogram.

> Imagine a woman who has a positive mammogram. What is the probability that she actually has breast cancer?

> Eight out of every 1,000 women have breast cancer. Of these 8 women with breast cancer, 7 will have a positive mammogram. Of the remaining 992 women who don't have breast cancer, some 70 will still have a positive mammogram. Imagine a sample of women who have positive mammograms in screening. How many of these women actually have breast cancer?
I could have sworn I already read this, turns out the date on the article isn't correct, I think this was written in June '15:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9766816

Which makes sense given that I tried out their online quiz this summer after reading this exact post.

EDIT: Here's a link to when it was posted to LinkedIn, June 23rd, 2015:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/three-hundred-programming-int...
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Because retailers figured out a while ago that having a personal relationship with their customers (knowing everything about them) is EXTREMELY valuable. Think of the merchant wars with MC/Visa/ApplePay...etc as well as how much they sink into loyalty programs. Knowing your customer pays off in spades (until you have a security breach and get sued into oblivion).

Would be nice to be able to opt-in to a "forget everything you know about me" program - Newegg would probably get tons of business from paranoid nerds with an option like that in place.
You've misinterpreted the result.

With perfect competition, long run profits do tend to zero But 'profits' in this case do not mean accounting profits, but rather economic profit, that is any residual return after all costs -- including the cost of capital in the form of interest or dividends.
Approx 300mm to the foot. All products in mm, half the customers say "6ft widget". Getting the calculator out to do 6 x 3 is unprofessional.
Yeah, that seems to be correct. I wonder why the date changed and it was reposted?