skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well they moved their whole CS team to Nashville Tennessee which some like a form of punishment. However, apparently Uber has over 15,000 (!) customer service reps...I can't imagine that is a workforce with a pleasant work environment.

What's interesting about these rideshare companies - they have to maintain separate workforces - look up Lyft's jobs page. It talks about exempt/non-exempt "team members". Non-exempt team members get "unlimited vacation" - exempt 15 days (which is still great IMO). It must be interesting for HR to manage the dynamics as the companies get bigger.
I don't think that I agree with you. If the G got rid of all write offs for higher income people, people who earn extremely high incomes would move to locales with friendlier tax schemes. Taxing the highest incomes is very complex.
Ugh. This article is talking about the scary part of the semi-autonomous systems (like Tesla's) that are available today. I believe that the Google study they're talking about is referring to entirely autonomous vehicles, which aren't on the market yet and are really ready yet.
Well, it's the classic static versus dynamic typing debate, and the costs and benefits of each approach are well known at this point.

In general, I think memory safety and data race freedom speed you up other than for small throwaway programs, because memory issues are so awful to debug (even with things like Valgrind).
nobody has any experience with asana?
Intel has competitors. Why would Intel want to provide its competitors with what must be, at the very least, tens of millions of dollars worth of work?
It doesn't accept email addresses with certain characters (e.g. "+")
This is wrong. The analogies you make are tenuous. They're doing business in the exact same space. One is much bigger than the other.

Their differences are due to their relative positioning in the market, i.e. due to the opportunities they have as a consequence of their relative scale.
Out of interest I just checked both my cars bridgestone and toyo brands bought in NZ in 2014 with my 125Khz and a 13.7Mhz (mifare) reader and found nothing, Could be UHF RFID but I don't have a reader for one of those.

I guess if the state is out to get you that bad you could move to NZ :-)
Good migrations between old teams and projects. JIRA fails when new teams need to be created and non-trivial numbers of old tickets need to be duplicated/migrated. It's messy, and context is always difficult to manage.

Also, accommodation for 'casual' users. It really is painful to onboard a marketer that needs to watch a few tickets.
Is anybody out there taking an approach of gradually driving more traffic to whichever option is winning out and never running 100% with anything specific?
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It depends on your use-case. I very deliberately put myself in the position of checking my email, despite having all of the technical pieces in place to have email pushed to me.

My work email polls every 30 minutes, with notifications disabled, and I check it as and when it suits my workflow. My (personal) phone is always in Low Power mode, so doesn't poll for email unless I open the Mail app; I use offlineimap in combination with mutt for my home email (the same account which is on my phone), and it automatically synchronises with the IMAP server every 15 minutes, but again get no notifications and I check it whenever it suits me.

On top of that, all of my computers and devices are always muted unless I'm actively doing something that requires sound, like listening to music or watching a video, so even if there was an errant notification, I certainly wouldn't hear it. I also don't have my phone set to vibrate.

I didn't deliberately aim to operate in this mode, and gradually ended up here after a lot of single changes made over a long time, but I find that it's the best way for me to work.
100% understood mine is not a popular position. The consensus from journalists and readers re advertorial is generally the same as yours. "Nobody wants them or has ever wanted them" is not a true statement: people buy and sell advertorials all the time. They are and have been a fact of the media business since there has been a media business.

There's no meaningful distinction between advertorial, product placement, sponsorships and the like in this context. E.T. eating Elliot’s Reese’s Pieces, J.Lo and Harry Connick Jr. drinking Pepsi on American Idol, Salvatore Ferragamo right under NYT’s front-page stories, WFAN's Boomer and Carton talking about their dinner at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse were all bought and paid for by advertisers. This is how the business works and has worked. This is how your newspaper, magazine, TV show, radio program, web site, and movie are produced and brought to you.

For many people, advertising in general is crap. Done well, it can be good, informative, and entertaining. Most of us have ads we like. A lot of times, these stick out because they're exceptions. I've seen solid BBQ recipes and ERP project planning tips made possible by Reynolds and SAP. And I've seen plenty of shrill, shilly examples of paid content where I never made it beyond the first graf.

Crap ads, crap editorial, crap advertorial is about crap execution, it's not that those things are inherently crap. The people who execute them well will have success and will able to produce other work that success allows.

With regard to "poison the well," even outside of advertising -- in the "pure editorial" world -- there are always biases and points of view in play. Humans are impure. Watch a State of the Union, basketball game, or Counter-Strike tournament, and then read or watch coverage of the same from any two media outlets. There will be differences from what you observed and how they were reported. The well water is of a different quality than your understanding of it. But that's just, like, my opinion, man.

With regard to "net negative," I build capabilities for people to tell stories and share them with people who care about those stories. I've gotten hundreds of creators published and paid by global publications by which they would not otherwise have been associated. I've helped these creators grow their communities, their body of work, their credentials, and their careers. They have hard data to consider this a net-positive, and I agree.
What are your top three complaints?
I'm still struggling to understand how an interpreter is any good for IoT uses? Isn't using a language that can compile to bare-metal much more efficient?

And if we're talking about the UI on say the front of your fridge, isn't there a squillion other toolkits out there already for that?

I just can't see this working.
> The funny thing is that the entire taxi cab industry in the US was $11B in revenues. So to value Lyft at $5B with Uber having a massive amount of market share is defying simple math.

Not disputing valuations specifically, but

1) Company's valuation would be a multiple of expected revenues. If you expect Uber or Lyft to survive for more than one year, then $11B is just the basis for multiple, not the maximum number.

2) There seems to be strong support for "market expansion" argument. People who take a significant number of Uber/Lyft rides have not in the past taken significant number of taxi rides.

3) Uber has expanded internationally (Lyft chose not to), so a global taxi revenue would be a fairer number to start off.
There are no organizational queues. There are only our dreams.

So, acknowledge that. Wouldn't it be cool if our project management tools actual admitted each user has their own priorities, and just helped us communicate it clearly? Every user gets their own queue. Only that user can modify it. If the user's queue of "up next" tasks is out of sync with what a PM wants, the PM can see that... and they have to go talk to the person.

There's a core mismatch in current tools between purpose and practical use: we let people use the planning tool as a cudgel in place of real communication.

We need to have a shot at fixing that underlying issue. It's this hidden cudgel nature of issue trackers that spawns the more literal problems already mentioned in this thread (e.g. some people always want to add another field to Jira, etc -- which, sidenote, yes, oh my god). Worshipping the false idol of minimalism by stripping the ability to have custom fields won't help. Instead, redirect energy so there's simply no desire to add bureaucratic layers in the first place. If adding more custom fields won't give someone with a micromanagement complex any more power (either illusory or real) to poke your task queue around without communicating, then... why would they make custom fields? Incentives for bad behavior disappear, and so does the bad behavior.

One of the coincidental UX wins of per-user task queues is there's an obvious visual place to highlight when one person has too much on their plate, and we can use patterns in the UI to try to help. Similarly, it gives a FOSS developer a very clear way to say "yes, I care; at the same time, here's absolute transparency on the short list of issues I'm currently moving on." On the other hand, one of the commiserate challenges would be ensuring everyone can navigate to the same places in the same way; breaking that symmetry between how different people navigate the tool makes it much more complex for group use.

I've never seen a tool try this. Might be a bum idea. Definitely a little radical. The UX would be full of new challenges. I'd love to see it though, and would definitely be excited to try a system that thinks out of the box.
I'm British and have always funded phones through an outright purchase and some sort of pay as you go plan / month by month sim only contract.

Most of my friends do the same, and wherever I've checked this has been cheaper and safer than a contract (stop whenever, no hidden fees, upgrade later)

Can you not do pay as you go or rolling monthly sim in the States?

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As for the comments about teenagers... the kids ignorant and inconsiderate sure, but as are most people, it has little to do with his age.
I found some journal articles that were published after Young, but the journal was founded in, say, 1890, so Google ngram viewer gets confused.

Also, I found some entries with the word "mediocracy" or "mordacious" giving false positives on the search (bad OCR I guess).
Foreign manufacturers also have to modify products
just for the US market (or decide that maybe it's
not worth the bother)"

How so? I can't think of an industry that does this other than to make a product specifically for measuring, like tape measures.

A bigger trade issue is differing national standards, such as making left-side-driver versions of vehicles for those countries that drive on the right (much of the world that doesn't speak English or Japanese).

BTW, did anybody get that "Boeing 767 ran out of fuel midair" story link to work?
anyone have experience with asana? pivotal tracker was great for the agile workflows, pretty simple. my company standardizes on rally, probably more bloated than basecamp, jira, and asana combined.
Disneyland with the death penalty => http://www.wired.com/1993/04/gibson-2/
Given the option between eating less and swallowing frozen poop, I think eating less will prove to me the more attractive offering.
I dont really like Uber as a company. They seem like the bank of america of transportation.
Jira is so awesome and bad at the same time that almost everyone who uses it hates it but can't find anything better.

I tried to leave Jira once and after a 6 month experiment realized how much better Jira was than everything else out there.
One could argue that it is now time to have measurements based on computer-friendly powers of two rather than ten.
No that was the first time I heard about it. If the language used to solve this particular problem is not python or scala, would've be impossible for me to do it in 30 minutes

Check this git for the solutions I came up with(at the time and how I optimized it) for this question
https://github.com/coderubber/code-challenges.git
I disagree that that driverless cars will get tied up in regulation. You know who is excited about driverless cars? AARP, the most powerful lobbying organization in America, whose members are the most consistent voters in local elections and who are afraid of being isolated when they lose their ability to drive.

http://www.aarp.org/home-family/personal-technology/info-201...
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Nobody would waste their incredibly restrict and valuable disks storing old email at the time.
You're already wrong though.

How do you define "cab"? How do you define "driverless"? Do you mean from arbitrary point A to arbitrary point B, or can there be only pre-defined connections between hubs? Must they travel above ground on ordinary streets, or specialized streets? How many people can they hold? And how do you define "driver"? Under certain interpretations of your bet, the MTA system already satisfies those requirements.
There is a big difference between conducting an experiment and understanding the results.

Even talking to users would not help much if one continues to build a faster horse.
>We are not NASA. RHEL had 30 million lines of code, 71% of them C, in 2001! How many hundred vulnerabilities lurk there, unseen by human eyes?

As if with "modern" languages you would be safer. Poor new delusional kids.
It's not necessarily better, but you can study it, understand it, criticise it and suggest improvements. All of which are difficult/impossible if the algorithm stays secret.
I wonder how many of the people in the system the MTA/NYPD can identify in real time and with what precision it can locate them. I presume they know the identities of a large proportion through entrance swipes from credit/debit-purchased metrocards, but that still leaves the problem of determining when someone has exited and where they in the meantime.

Between the travel data they're storing on the metrocards (exhibit number one, the Ebola doctor) and the ubiquitous cameras, I think the WiFi has more to do with tracking the public than improving service.
Pivotal was too simple. Can't create assignable sub-tasks and attach bugs to a story.
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Most drivers work for multiple networks though. If Uber or Lyft want to keep them in independent contractor status, it will remain that way.
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> If you're worried about that sort of arrogance, at least we don't have kings believing they rule by divine right and nobility believing they're carrying out God's will through their king.

Honestly there is no much actual difference for those who are not in privileged position. They don't care what kind of story people above keep saying to justify their status. I'm not convinced that new rationalization of why someone is 'chosen' is any better than old fashioned 'god-will' way.
Check out this paper if you're interested in a solution to this and other problems (somewhat amusingly, using the GPU): https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~sangmank/pubs/lacuna.pdf

In particular, they refute via counterexample the arguments that VMs or secure deallocation alone are sufficient.
If you're a big organization and have some expertise, it really works best. Gives so much rope to hang yourself, but if find a good setup that works for your kind of projects, it's a thing of beauty. I'm at a huge organization right now that has a mandated JIRA setup for every project and it's awful and we're stuck with it.
Ooh, is that your site? That's sharp as hell, very nicely designed. I'm going to take a screenshot and add it to my inspiration folder.
Congress could pass a new law with a hard
mandate and a solid timeline to switch over

using exactly what power granted by the Constitution?

Congress could pass a law that government contracts must limit procurement to metric-denominated products, but that's not quite the same thing.
>Sandboxes make a much better security primitive than sudo, file permissions, etc. which are useless for protecting a single user’s data.

Is not only sudo, but sudo AND polkit. Are you sure you know what are you talking about?

And about your sensitive data, AppArmor is more than capable. For the other sensitive data, create a folder out of /home and "chattr +i" your content recursively, giving proper permissions first.

And you rely in Plan9 for your speech, which is more UNIXy than UNIX and everything IS a filesystem in a more hardcore way (something you look as obsolete), altough factotum and namespaces are a complete different beast.
Apparently, AMD also partakes in benchmark-specific ''optimizations''[1]. Transparency is why many of us push for open source drivers.

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=288...
There's not a single legal Chicago taxi-cab that is driver-less.

Don't be fatuous.
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I'm still not sure whether RISC-V will be one of main stream microprocessor in the industry field.

1. Still the core is not yet solid.

2. Not much powerful debugging tools exist.

3. Chisel itself. Every engineer who is willing to use RISC-V should understand output of chisel source code in order to do ECO or some other low level jobs.

4. BSD itself. It is strong and also weakness. There's no way to merge revision into main repository. It will not be quite trouble if RISC-V remains as it is. But will be a big problem if RISC-V evolves by its own development team.

I hoped this RISC-V becomes mainstream processor since I attended the lecture from Mr.Yunsup Lee 4 years ago. I really want to say "I was wrong at that moment" after all.
Honestly, I doubt that. Even if you arbitrarily removed all voting power from the poor in the UK today, you'd still have public schools and some form of public health a decade later. Those ideas are quite popular even among the wealthy.

If you look back, you'll see public education became a thing partly because the wealthy pushed for it. They understood they would benefit.
How about Hacker Future? I want to know where Twitter stock will be in March.
One might wonder if a company which doesn't understand statistics, despite statistics being their sole reason for existence, is actually capable of fixing these problems. If they don't understand what they don't understand, how can they address it effectively?
very cool; simple enough that anyone can use.

I'd bind js key codes 8 (backspace) and 46 (delete) to the `delete Element` action though.
Dropbox RSUs
Would it be standard for a new employee to be offered half the equity (RSUs) that an employee (similar role) that joined 2 years ago?

The company's 'valuation' doubled since then, plus there are over twice the number of employees (1000+ now).
How do we "act accordingly"?
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Disclaimer: I'm the director of data science at VWO, an Optimizely competitor.

In my view, the issue is not one-tail vs two-tail tests, or sequential vs one-look tests at all. The issue is a failure to quantify uncertainty.

Optimizely (last time I looked), our old reports, and most other tools, all give you improvement as a single number. Unfortunately that's BS. It's simply a lie to say "Variation is 18% better than Control" unless you had facebook levels oftraffic. An honest statement will quantify the uncertainty: "Variation is between -4.5% and +36.4% better than Control".

When phrased this way, it's hardly surprising that deploying this variation failed to achieve an 18% lift - 18% is just one possible value in a wide range of possible values.

The big problem with this is that customers (particularly agencies who are selling A/B test results to clients) hate it. If we were VC funded, we might even have someone pushing us to tell customers the lie they want rather than the truth they need.

Note that to provide uncertainty bounds like this, one needs to use a Bayesian method (only us, AB Tasty and Qubit do this, unless I forgot about someone).

(Frequentist methods can provide confidence intervals, but these are NOT the same thing. Unfortunately p-values and confidence intervals are completely unsuitable for reporting to non-statisticians; they are completely misinterpreted by almost 100% of laypeople. http://myweb.brooklyn.liu.edu/cortiz/PDF%20Files/Misinterpre... http://www.ejwagenmakers.com/inpress/HoekstraEtAlPBR.pdf )
(wow are there a ton of distracting ads on that article ...)

Is this an example of conflict of interest? Or just of less-than-substantial "personal finance" content? The Contributor's bio has her bona fides and point of view. http://www.forbes.com/sites/vanessamcgrady/ She's not Charlie Munger, but he didn't start out as Charlie Munger, either.

The article is timely and relevant. "Powerball" in the article title is going to get play -- there's a multi-state, $900MM jackpot at stake tonight.

Many Contributors are paid for the traffic they drive. Most Contributors like it when their stories are widely-read. Managing those incentives, the quality of content created, the creators themselves, and their reputations is an ongoing process for the Contributors, editors, and publishers involved.

No doubt you could find more-glaring examples of less-than-substantial stories. One of my points is I'm glad this Contributor has a platform to create and publish her stories and build her community and career.
I've used the one on 34th and it requires acceptance of their TOS but if I remember correctly, I didn't need to input any personal info.
for a lot of projects, I don't see much difference between jira and other stuff, but when it's paired with confluence, and people can do project planning pages, then create and link issues, it's quite an org boon. Even for small projects with just a few people, the 'biz' folks can stay safely in english document/wiki land, and not have to try to wade in to jira/tickets all the time.

But, yeah, at the same time, it's sort of 'too flexible' up front, and requires a lot of decision making (which feels like you can make the 'wrong' decision). I think they've done some better guided setup stuff in smaller chunks in the past couple years, but need to go further.

Choose from:

"I'm a small team with 3 people"

"We're a dev shop with 12 people over 2 teams"

"We're 75 folks with 5 teams and 8 projects"

And have the system autoconfigure a recommended setup.