skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's still the early days of remote work but it's coming...

It's really hard to turn an office culture into a remote culture.

I experienced this at my last employer (Heroku). We hired a ton of great remote staff, but there was always an impedance mismatch. Lots of local people still want to solve problems face to face.

It's much easier to start remote from scratch.

I am doing this with my new venture (Convox).

There are challenges. The high bandwidth face to face time is indeed better for problem solving. And is truly important for serendipity. But we are willfully trading those things in to work from home, live all around the country, and not spend money on an office.

Even YC is behind the curve here. They make you move to Mountain View and tell you distributed startups don't work.
And the unforeseen consequences to the "quick, innocent fix" more important still. They did not handle this properly.
Your turning point of 2005 might simply be because programmers stopped developing applications that require faster serial processing. Those programmers might have stopped developing such applications because they noticed that chip clock speeds haven't increased since 2004.
If you're feeling adventurous today, try https://repos.alhur.es/substack
No True Scotsman Fallacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
"One Yahoo employee who was interviewed said she was praying to be laid off so she could collect a severance payment and move on with her life."

Would you think this particular employee would be valuable? I think many of the best employees have already left. Good employees will easily find new jobs and won't need the severance payment, I would think.

I think in general Yahoo employees will be less attractive for employers now, compared to perhaps half a year ago.
Why not? Software development is a technical work which can be performed by thousands of people on the job market. All it takes to replace someone at such a job is time and HR effort to find a person with required level of experience and reasonable pay requirements.
I'm based in Australia, only half considering making the move to the US if I get an offer from the big 5. I guess I'm only worried if this would have an affect on the amount of positions available from mid sized companies (I've filled my quota of startup experience through internships).
This is too ironic for me. I've been fighting for almost a year to convince Verizon that the emails my server sends are not spam.

I got nowhere. Their forms to be unblocked just reply "Yes you are a spammer, Bye". Contacting a human has been futile.

And this is the same place that is ranked as the top host for spammers?
Are there really a substantial number of sites that break if you don't send the header but work if you send a random 10-character string?
Still have my MessagePad somewhere. My bigger concern now is getting it to connect over modern protocols.

Time to go do some research.
One thing that was not mentioned was scheduling of processes especially on mobile devices. Many operating systems employ timer coalescing that along with other techniques serve to maximize power efficiency instead of CPU utilization
It is more true online, and for a lot of reasons.

I meet someone at a party and we become Facebook friends. I then post some sort of political article or comment to my feed. They see it, disagree with it, and (likely) either comment on it in a non-polite manner, or stay silent, but either way categorize me in their head as a crazy right/left winger. Why? Because these are what is easiest to do for 'crazy' opinions coming from strangers.

Compare that with what can happen in real life. I get to know someone over the course of multiple interactions; all my political comments are kept to those I already know and trust. Eventually we get to a point we know and trust each other, and I venture an opinion, one they disagree with. They say "I disagree with that", and we discuss it. Why? Because we already know each other, value each other, trust each other, and are seeking legitimately to understand and/or sway one another, while also preserving the relationship.

The internet has essentially made it so the thoughts we used to reserve for those we knew in depth, are becoming aired to strangers, and responded to accordingly.

While it means that insular bubbles of thought (the rural family who doesn't know anyone who believes in gun control, say) are encountering people who disagree with them, those people are strangers, and there's no reason to give them any credence. If anything, it just makes one even more vociferous, because now you can preach to people who -aren't- in the choir.
Here's an article that summarizes the ideas of reactionaries, attempting to present them in most charitable way the author can:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-...

There's also the same author's attempt at rebutting the most common neoreactionary beliefs, although per disclaimer at the beginning, the author doesn't endorse everything he wrote there anymore:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/10/20/the-anti-reactionary-fa...

A long read, but should clear things up :).
The Newton aggressively sleeps. It runs like hell when it needs to, then spends the rest of its time consuming as little power as possible.

It kind of helps that the Newt doesn't have any kind of built-in wireless. No radio means no networky stuff that it has to periodically wake up for.

The number of threads the thing runs (20-30) also spend most of their time utterly asleep. (Back in the day, a threading, message-passing OS in a small form factor was considered pretty high tech).
I run my personal website on a junk desktop I got from free from a previous employer. I only pay for the domain name and have a measured 99% uptime.

This is to say: a shopping list like that is utterly meaningless without the context of what the service architecture trying to achieve.
CPU technology got faster, software more complex, battery technology didn't improve that much.

Besides everyone seems to want to buy flat things... because... yeah I don't know why. "-Look! My MacBook Air is as thin as a piece of paper. -Ok cool, I guess..." Which means there isn't much space for a decent enough battery to power the 2 GHz octacore monster in there. So everyone is walking around like zombies looking for wall plugs all the time to charge their expensive $600 ultra high tech phones and tablets.
I'm an electrical engineer and I don't think the job market is that bad. Not as good as software, but better than other engineering disciplines.
Can you elaborate on when you say "lookup tables can be Turing complete" as opposed to just able to pass some given Turing test? I feel like there's some conflation about what lookup table we're talking about.

Also, my reading of that passage by Aaronson is very different from yours. I read it as him saying, these computer scientists have put forward a fairly serious and compelling set of arguments that the actual complexity class of the translator algorithm has philosophical importance. Meanwhile, the analytical philosophy response is just to say something hand-wavy about "meaning."

I agree Aaronson's not saying anything definitive (he is extremely conservative about making definitive claims, despite how hotly involved he becomes in the few cases when he does make definitive claims). But I don't agree that he is framing it to raise questions about the validity of the CS rebuttal papers that he cites.
Some great presentations on Newton by Walter Smith:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fzDimBmNgg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2p4RCx9OYE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7MuC5ytjec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drmpohs6iXE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOwqu2gGrb4
Or: Why I Just Out-Hipstered You By Carrying Not Just An Apple Product, But A Long Obsolete Apple Product.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10872926 (66 points, 3 hours ago, 33 comments)
> there is a lot of evidence that most employees are essentially fungible, at least at the scale of these large companies.

Yeah, all those software engineers corporate America outsourced in the 2000s turned out to be real fungible, right?
It's meaningful. It communicates exactly what the browser is to anyone who is capable of receiving the intended communication. (It also communicates other things to people who are not, but "Google Chrome 41.0.2228.0" would be absolutely meaningless to these listeners, so that doesn't seem like an objection with merit.)

You might object to the form of the communication, but that doesn't render the communication inexact. Just think of it as browser slang.
What's the cost/benefit on that? Older sites would not update. Newer sites are using better forms of detection, except for the tiny number of sites that put engineering effort into supporting an insane long tail of old browsers.

(SHA-1 deprecation only worked because certificates have to be renewed, so any site with working HTTPS is being actively maintained at some level)
Thank you for a good writeup. :)

I don't meant to come across as supporting violence instead of more civilized ways of handling things; your point about getting older and being able to handle things nonviolently certain rings true to me.

It's more, to me, that that violent stage is very much something that we all go through to one degree or another. Once we're past that stage, we see how silly it is, but if you never grow through and out of it, I think you can't reason about it as successfully.

Policies which seek to remove that stage entirely (typically through medication, zero-tolerance policies, or what not) damage the socialization of young adults and children. I think we should provide a safe route to explore and then grow out of those tendencies, instead of trying to pretend they don't exist.
I have a tiny hope that after experiencing this phenomenon from both sides - both seeing and being the lunatic stranger - most people will learn to embrace that their beliefs may not always be correct or universal.

It's a tiny hope.
For my LG G2 phone the Cell Data is the worst offender (unless I start watching videos or playing games). I was on vacation out of the country over Christmas and left the data roaming off. The phone went from ~ 1 day to ~4 days with wifi on syncing Mail/ twitter/ whatsapp etc. 3G/4G/LTE are really heavy on the phone battery as they use a lot of power to talk to the tower on a lot of channels at the same time.
This reaction feels to me to be exactly what the article (and even the old debate club maxim) is hoping to have us consider.

On most of the pressing social issues of our time, I can at least identify a considered point from the other side - [a]theism, pro-[life|choice], gun-control, liberalism/conservatism, you name it. I often disagree heavily with the other side, but that doesn't invalidate their particular perspective. It always comes down to some axioms each side assumes that are inviolate, in tandem with a personal utility function judging certain outcomes more important or more just than others.

Take pro-life/choice for instance; here I am personally very strongly on the pro-choice side, but I can't deny that the other side at least has these points which they evaluate differently from me:
- at what point do we consider an embryo alive and sentient? We reduce lifeforms to black and white like this all the time, yet we know there to be a wide range of grey in between
- considering it is valid for people to consider a fetus as alive and sentient, where do we draw the line on saying it is okay to terminate its life?
- even as we accept that it is okay to abort a fetus and a future potential life, does it not come down to a value judgment whether a woman's right to her own body, and her right not be held in thrall to rapists, supercedes that of a potential human life?

Acknowledging an argument on its merits does not automatically put it on the same level playing field or "elevate" it to be equal to the other side. Some arguments can have holes picked through them and can be successfully dismantled if not substantiated fully against all attacks. But this can only happen when both sides play by the rules to evaluate each other objectively, without weaseling out and dismissing the other side with reductionism. Granted, you have no control of the other, and can't compel them to play by your rules, but you will still be able to come to your own truths if you can internally argue on their behalf, and be more satisfied your reasoning for it.
Fitbit is being sued for inaccurate heart rate monitor
Exactly my thought: "I carry a Newton because I am a hipster"
She is likely to appreciate deeper commitment above all your well-selected gifts.
Yes and no, respectively.

Happy employees require 1) a mission they find internally compelling and 2) a management environment that they feel allows them to do meaningful work towards that mission.

1 is usually pretty fixed. If you sign on because you want to change finance, or help people find apartments, or whatever else, your emotional situation re: that topic will likely be pretty stable over ~years.

2 changes quickly and often. Projects that an employee feels are important get killed. Things that seem silly get prioritized. Accolades are distributed in ways that seem unfair, etc.

So, the parent's quote could be rewritten more clearly as:

People don't leave because they stop caring about a company's mission. They leave because they lose faith that the company infrastructure is capable of letting them contribute to/achieve that mission.

Enormously complex topic. 3 employees at a company may have 3 different slightly different takes on a company's mission at the start, and feel totally different about its trajectory down the line.

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As for your 2nd point about staying under a manager you like at a company you don't care about, personally, I find myself incapable of doing it. I don't have to be doing the most impactful company premise in the world (soylent? watsi?) but I at least have to be working on problems I find highly interesting. I've left some companies whose people, culture, and processes I loved, because ultimately their problem space just didn't keep me up at night.

On the contrary, I can tolerate a much more hostile management environment when its offset by work so personally meaningful that I'd be doing it in my spare time even if I weren't an employee.
It's the hipster passive-aggressive rebuke: go around in public places using an old-ass typewriter, get offended at people that point out you are weird.
Thanks for the responses, folks.

Based on tips here and other feedback I've gotten, I think it is worthwhile to discuss my side work if I think it's relevant to a potential role, but emphasize that it doesn't conflict with my main job.

The reality is that I am doing this side work both because it's really fun and it's the type of experience I am looking to gain (that my regular job doesn't provide). I'd be glad to put it aside when I start a new role.

To put it another way, if I weren't doing this side work, I'd be doing similar personal projects.
> indiscriminately

There is /a lot/ of debt at Yahoo, I think 10% doesn't even begin to cut through the majority of the fat. Unfortunately, most of issues stem from middle management that seem to avoid the layoff cycles.
Now is the time to form a good relationship with a lawyer you can work well with. It's an investment that will make you money in the future.

Watch this: https://youtu.be/jVkLVRt6c1U
I wish I had that hope. I've seen people who in person I've had intelligent, rational discussions with on areas we disagree, then post virulent political posts that tear apart strawmen arguments. I actually quite like this article because it paints this out as why we do it. With someone we disagree with in person, they're still part of our tribe. We know them, we like them, we trust them. With someone on the internet, they're 'the other'.
Have you trie to get DDWRT to not do dhcp, but let the regular dhcp server serve addresses?
Just getting married makes it hard. I think it depends on what your partner is like though - mine doesnt seem to need it so I get very little now
This is a painfully true observation.

I think the first time I really realized it was when I was drifting away from my religion of birth, and actually started to listen to atheist people around me. I soon discovered that the only difference between most of them and the religious people I know was the value of $religion variable. For one group it was "God", for the other it was "no God". The thought patterns were exactly the same. Neither of them could actually justify their beliefs.
> most of my paper notes (and I've gone back to paper) end up being lost, and those that aren't lost are horribly disorganized

I agree that this happens, but it is your own decision. Until the 20th century, scientists had to maintain notes of everything they did in notebooks. They kept them organized and accessible, despite having to use handwritten notes.
1) yes, but i don't use their "buy" button with any of my clients, just simple links to website

2) as much as any old ad platform. conversion tracking is pretty simplistic on pinterest but it exists.

3) yes, but keep in mind pinterest doesn't let you target outside of US using their self-serve ads

4) the distribution is fairly normal compared to other platforms. i have not looked for pinterest specific outliers.
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>I mean, the difference between "resist management giving themselves millions while cutting pay for workers" and "price fixing/restrict competition" is just an arbitrary, subjective distinction based on your opinion on how much money people should make.

Who would you prefer was paid more? Your doctor or his non-medical MBA manager?
We you running Sidekiq? If so, was it able to run on the same droplet?
> I used to go out on a Tuesday night, because that was my weekend. Two for Tuesday everywhere! Happy hour, all the time. Fast service. Hot food. Now, I have to make reservations in advance to wait 20 minutes for a waiter, because the restaurant is short staffed. God help you if you forget the reservations, or the place doesn't take them. You'll easily wait an hour for a table on a Friday night.

Why not still go out on Tuesdays?

My favorite bar has their cheap well night on Wednesdays, so Wednesday is my night for going out for drinks. That it's in the middle of the week is irrelevant.
Yeah. I've seen those people too. It's about signaling, I think. Hell, I often have to stop myself from resharing stupid strawmans on Facebook just to "stick it" to the outgroup.
that's something they could change with the flip of a switch.

if they were serious about beating google images, i think they would do it.
>>People can hold widely different opinions about politics because... it's politics. Most of it is bullshit, and rest doesn't affect your daily life anyway, at least not immediately or directly.

I completely disagree. Most political issues have a direct impact on people. Affordable Care Act is requiring millions of people to buy health insurance. Defunding Planned Parenthood would cut aid from millions of young women. Gun control laws have a direct impact on our nation's safety from internal threats. Legalized gay marriage is allowing tons of gay couples to finally get married and enjoy many of the benefits (especially financial) of the institution.

I can go on.

The only debates that don't have a direct and immediate impact on people are the abstract ones, such as the example you gave about government intervention vs. market freedom. But even those debates happen within the the context of concrete issues, proposed laws or ongoing lawsuits.
Firefox users without H.264 platform codecs were affected: 100% of Windows XP users (which are about 14% of all Firefox users worldwide!), 2% of all other Windows users (the "N" and "KN" editions in Europe and South Korea), and 3% of Linux users.
I thought you were being facetious. Sigh. Damn, but that's broken.

I've worked with video format streaming, though, and encountered a situation where there was a driver on a certain Android device manufactured by a major hardware vendor that you've certainly heard of, and their driver silently corrupted video that was using low-latency streaming options. And by "corrupted" I mean that, while a few of the pixels looked almost right, sometimes, it was mostly just garbage and blank grey screens.

I gave them a sample stream that failed, and they verified that yes, it's their fault. And that no, they weren't going to ship an update for it. Sorry. Device had been out for two years. Apparently no one thought to actually test the various standard options in that video codec. It works with the "normal" options? Ship it!

So I totally understand the need to look at UA strings. I had to look for that particular device hardware profile and disable the low-latency streaming options in order for our product to work on that device.
Do you still have the privilege of paying for those?
YouTube hacked together feature detection that relies on user agent strings. Firefox released an update that hacked around a recent bug in said feature detection. Seems fine to me without needing any conspiracy drama.
VC funding announced in first week of 2016 is significantly more then first week of 2015 as a counter argument
The "other side" applies both ways, though. The left has a lot of humor and satire which innately belittles those right wing views (the Onion, The Daily Show, Tom the Dancing Bug, etc).

While I identify largely as a liberal, I do conservatives a disservice by mocking these views in my actual interaction with them. Their views may indeed be based on fear, but treating them not as scared humans deserving of being engaged with as human beings, but as idiots who deserved to be mocked, does just as much damage to reaching them as the rhetoric coming from Trump and the tea party.
More on Sean Penn
Well, at least we know what "side" you're on.

> For the white lower middle class [...] Those are the people who support Trump and the Tea Party.

There's another white lower middle class - the educated but underemployed left (think literature majors waiting tables), and they're also terrified.

They're terrified that we're just an election away from mandating every rape victim be violated with a penetrative ultrasound, or that they're guaranteed to be shot on sight by some redneck if we allow open carry.

As someone holding both liberal and conservative positions, I'm always dumfounded when the left believes the right has the monopoly on fear.
You don't understand what you are talking about. HN doesn't have a rule against blog posts with editorialized titles, instead, HN has a rule saying that the people who submit articles to HN can not editorialize the titles. Basically, the rule is that the title on HN should be exactly the same as the title of the blog post. Except here, Dang is breaking that rule. The initial title of this submission on HN was exactly the same as the blog post. But Dang is objecting to the title of the blog post. That is why Dang's actions seem arbitrary: Dang has decided to break HN's normal rules. And why? Because of a feeling that the blog post had a title that was "over the top".

Have you read the comment that Dang makes at the URL that you just posted? Dang says "Please don't editorialize the titles of stories you submit here." And yet, here Dang is editorializing the title of the story submitted here.
Very frequently I've heard the question "is this a good movie?" and the response is "what does the RT score say?" Many online stores include the RT score inline when you buy a movie too.

This avenue doesn't immediately distinguish whether a movie is a blockbuster or indie or how much money it made. But then again, some people do read movie descriptions thoroughly...
I frequent two sites that do something like this. I found them from this article (which was also very helpful for me): http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/read-intelligent-content-2016-3...

The Conversation
https://theconversation.com/

Aeon
http://aeon.co/magazine/