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I used to block off every 9AM-10AM, 4PM-5PM and 1PM-2PM slot as busy slots. If someone really needed to have a meeting at one of those times they could ask me. Because often, those were the only slots the 10 people in the meeting all had open in the immediate future so people would then schedule meetings at those times. I grew tired of 4PM-5PM meetings which extended to 5:30PM, 6PM etc.
No it is not. There are many improvements that could be made to our system, but our reverence for the founding fathers makes that very difficult.
That's a valid concern. http://www.electology.org/score-voting-threshold-strategy argues that in approval voting an honest ballot would give you (by some measure) at least 91% of the impact of a perfect tactical ballot.

An honest vote in first-past-the-post, say for your awesome friend Bob for President, would give you approximately 0% return compared to the proper strategy of voting for the lesser evil of Clinton.
Israeli firm Cellebrite helped the FBI hack into the iPhone
The problem is there's no definition of what's technically safe, what's technically unsafe, and few, if any guidelines defining acceptable fracking procedures.

What goes into the ground? A proprietary mix of who knows what, and you can't find out because they won't tell you. It's a trade secret.

Where does that stuff go? Again, few if any simulations have been run on the long-term consequences of injecting this stuff into the ground.

It's not that fracking should be banned, it's that it should be understood.
> This is basic stuff. I can see you're feeding off my distress, so this is the last I'll say on the matter. Some people really are sick.

> cue passive aggressive "I know you're"... "totally fine, and useful" creeping Jesus response

Here are the facts. You choose to only believe certain research, and you won't take the effort to spend 30 minutes sincerely trying something which is not dangerous or risky for you.

I never said neuroscience was unfounded. My point is, neuroscientists are not the only scientists capable of doing research and running through the scientific method. We should be praising whatever work follows that technique, not just neuroscience because it appears to be cutting edge. The scientific method has guided and helped judge aspects of all sciences for hundreds of years.
But they are weaknesses when designing a languages to compile to wasm. I love TypeScript and the Microsoft team has done a fantastic job with it, but that doesn't mean it's the right tool for this particular job.
It sounds like your issue here is that TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript and comes with JavaScript's complications/inefficiencies. Do you agree with that assessment?
Ask HN: What kind of “investment time” or “20% time” policy do you have?
Google has 20% time [0], thoughtbot has investment time [1], I'm wondering what other companies do along these lines?

I'm especially curious how these kinds of policies work at the different stages of a start up company.

[0] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/googles-20-percent-time-in-action.html
[1] https://playbook.thoughtbot.com/#investment
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Is there a spec somewhere, or is the existing implementation the spec?

Edit: https://github.com/wesm/feather/blob/master/doc/FORMAT.md

Seems a bit sparse/incomplete still (as would be expected for a brand new project).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11381517
For example, in one comment he rambles on about colonialism being not-so-impeachable because those Africans were brutes prior to and after colonization. The problems with a statement like this really are quite obvious

It seems to me you could divide African history into several phases:

1. Pre-Colonialism
2. Era of conquest, enslavement, and plunder (1500s-1900)
3. High Colonialism (c1920-1960)
4. Rule by Cathedral (ie, nominal rule by Africans, but with massive meddling by NGOs, academic experts, leftist activists, and the US State Department)

I took classes on this in college, followed this debate over time, and read many Moldbug cited materials. It seems to me quite clear that era 3 was better for Africans than era 1 and era 4. What Moldbug de-emphasizes in those debates is that era 2 was probably the worst of all. And I think it is ok to criticize him for his lack of emphasis to that point.

However, I think he is right to be upset over the denial that era 3 was better than era 4. Or if it is admitted, the blame always goes the colonialists for not preparing the people for independence, or the blame goes to the CIA, or the blame goes to companies that still maintained a presence in Africa. Never is it admitted that Cathedral meddling has had a massively bad influence.

It seems obvious to me that in the countries of the Congo, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and the Ivory Coast, that replacing the prior system (which was either colonial rule, limited suffrage) with an attempt at universal suffrage democracy, resulted in massive destabilization and those countries much more violent, and made them materially worse off (I list these because I have actually looked into their history, the same is probably true of the other countries, but I am less sure). Yet it is completely forbidden to make this argument in academia or any establishment media. On this point, Moldbug is very much in the right, and the official point of view is wrong.
Get outside more :)
In the strict sense, yes, brute force implies exhaustive search. But it often refers to all algorithms that leverage computational power as their main tool. For example, many people referred to Deep Blue as "brute-force" machine, even though it used Alpha-Beta pruning. In that second sense MCTS is very much a brute force algorithm. Its knows nothing about the domain of the problem and works better the more computer cycles you throw at it.

Point being, it is significant that something like MCTS can be so effective at Go even without machine learning.
Too bad Ireland can't get back in the game there to take off the pressure.
The done thing on bugzilla.mozilla.org seems to be changing your display name to include "vacation" or similar, but I haven't seen much of that on GitHub.
Totally fine now. The invisible hand did its thing.
Argh, that's a frustrating fallacy, often posited with sincere intentions but often disconnected from practical implementation considerations.

In general terms, effectiveness and affordability of budget outlay should be the primary concerns. Instead, budget is typically orthogonal to effectiveness of quality of problem characterization, planning, procurement, execution and follow-up. Oddly, better results can sometimes be paradoxically realized by reducing budgets where there are capital-inefficient organizations by teaching resourcefulness... many bad habits emerge when people have too much cash available to spend frivolously. There are many instances where greater outlays are cheaper TCO-wise in the long run, so the "penny wise, pound wise" mantra tends to be a good guideline.

Also, in the US, defense spending, education and social security are sacred cows for various reasons.

Question military-industrial complex spending and be prepared for accusations of unpatriotism and treason for "not supporting the troops." These are completely specious but used to guard the hen-house. Robert Gates was the most recent, effective reformer of DoD, but the honeymoon didn't last long.

Education is seen as important human right however NCBLA has foisted short-term pseudo-results upon teachers. So the problem is still seen as not enough money, usually because administration bureaucracy typically consumes a disproportionate fraction of total budget (or in extreme cases, embezzles cash outright).

Social security is a tough one because many people have no direct retirement savings, and no one humane wants to go the way of Korea, where the elderly are de-facto shunned and have nothing.
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Not Volvo - Volkswagen.
I loathe meetings and do my best to avoid attending them unless there is a specific technical issue being discussed that falls within my wheelhouse. I especially dislike meetings with non-technical people present. To have to stop the meeting constantly to explain things is annoying, so I ask to be excused unless my area of expertise is involved. A later walk-to-the-local-cafe-for-espresso with my supervisor gives me anything I need to know without the lame questions and hand-holding.

There is a reason I ask to be in the server room with the lights out...
Agreed, however I have not seen any specifics on that, the headway changes had a direct effect on our software, reliability and maintenance aren't factors for us.

Rio Tinto are extremely safety conscious, for example they drug and alcohol test everyone, regardless of role even vendors. They're also operating in the Pilbara region an incredibly harsh desert environment in Western Australia. So I would guess that they wouldn't accept an increase in safety risks and the trade off between risk of break downs, maintenance cost and the throughput of their rail network is positive.
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Once I connected my calendar I actually had trouble distinguishing my real meetings from the decoy meetings. Impressive and frightening.
I really don't understand what Oracle's lawyers are thinking.

Yes, coming up with ever-more-creative theories about why Google owes Oracle might have some tactical advantages, but any victory in court on those terms would be pyrrhic.

It doesn't matter how many billions Google coughs up if the next phone call is IBM demanding the company for using SQL.

Aren't Oracle's lawyers looking past the next move? Are they that confident that their API arguments will lose? Do they really have that much faith in the hairs they're splitting between Google's API reuse and Oracle's?

Or is their advice being colored by all the follow-on legal work there will be because Oracle is going down this path?
The Spotify that raised it's initial round has a completely different risk profile than the Spotify that exists today.

Employees as a rule are not looking at the company in the same way that investors and founders do. If you have evidence that employees as a rule understand the amount of risk involved and that they understand fully that the most likely value of their stock options is zero then I'm definitely all ears. But that's usually not how it's being sold.

In fact, it is sold along the lines of 'we're not going to pay you your market rate but you have quite a bit of stock (in reality .000001% (or some other rounding error)) if you work really hard for the next 4 years YOU TOO WILL BE RICH. But the number of employees that actually do end up like this is small. Still larger than the number of founders but the founders really will be rich, the employees are lucky if they make up for their lost income.

Of course some employees will be more savvy than others and will negotiate a wage that reflects the reality of start-up life but more often than not the employees accept (substantially) below market wages in return for a bunch of empty promise. Feel free to blame them for not being informed, but to claim they have 'the same incentives' is definitely not the case in my experience.
You're missing the point. Being intentionally obtuse adds nothing.
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I have a recurring "Developer meeting", with some of the other devs every day at 12-1 because I was so tired of having the management types, having filled the rest of their calendars with useless meetings, deciding to schedule me for useless meetings that prevented me from getting lunch (as in, Monday, Tuesday is wide open, then Tuesday morning, bam, meeting invites from 10:30 until 2:30, no breaks).

That, and responding to every meeting with "tentative", so that I'm free to re-evaluate the meeting's priority against real work up until the last possible second, has allowed me to keep my sanity in a culture of time wasting.
I don't consider the design of TypeScript a weakness at all. TypeScript is really well designed and is great at what it does. The type system they came up with is pretty optimal for modeling real-world JavaScript code. But the tuning they did around the JavaScript ecosystem means it's not a great language to use for generating efficient native code. I started ThinScript in part for exactly that reason. I want good tooling and rapid prototyping, just for native development instead of web development. That requires a different set of trade-offs and design decisions.
Oracle will seek a staggering $9.3B in 2nd trial against Google
Author of the simple React example here – Tom says there's a "huge gulf", but forgot to mention there's literally an example[1] of an asynchronous routing and data fetching app linked to in the first section of that page that's a logical progression of the first. (and others have pointed out much more complex examples you can achieve with React if you so wish)

The goal of those small examples is to illustrate that you don't need complex frameworks to achieve server-side rendering with data fetching and routing.

I have no doubt that FastBoot was a huge undertaking, and I think a large part of the reason for that is that it's aiming to fit into a very comprehensive existing framework, with pieces for routing, fetching data, "application instances", etc – there's a lot more work involved in that (for the framework author I mean, not the end user) than there is starting off with just a view library and adding your own pieces around that.

1: https://github.com/mhart/react-server-routing-example
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Feedback please?
Seriously. I love Dublin compared to SF (or even the more rural parts are nice as well).
CloudFormation is awful. I used it extensively for about a year and will never go back.
"This xkcd perfectly summarizes this worldview, although I think it was produced earnestly and not as a demonstration of how terrible it is: https://xkcd.com/1357/"

Yes, that one was enough to make me stop reading xkcd.
They can probably pay in kind and screw the investors more. Better than paying cash.
Early employees always get diluted. That's what happens when you raise additional capital, regardless of structure.

They make up for this with a combination of a lower exercise price, the vesting clock starting earlier, and typically a larger grant for earlier employees.

Companies retain employees by giving additional refresh grants and/or raises.

I'm not sure why it's OK for Uber to raise a few billion $ and there isn't a fuss about how that's hurting employees when it's not okay here. They both are getting diluted.
Say what you will about banker pay, the one thing I really respect about investment banking (having a family member who is an ibanker) is the transparency around pay in the industry.

To some degree there might be collusion to set wages (although at their pay scale I'm not sure they care), but all ibankers know what to expect pay-wise at X years of experience, perhaps with some slight variance based on other factors. So there is a distinct lack of the information asymmetry that is so prominent in compensation discussions in other industries that is so heavily weighted in favor of the employer.

I wish this existed in more industries as Glass Door simply doesn't cut it unless you are in a field with very well-defined roles/titles in markets with enough data.
No spam here... we don't even send a thank you email when you join the site. We're about to be live in a week or so, and are just creating our pre-launch list. If you have no interest, simply don't opt-in for more info :)
There is no valuation in this round. There is no cap. It's just a discount off of a valuation in the future. I would imagine the conversation was "the market is gyrating so much we can't agree on value" so let's defer the valuation until later, and we'll give the investors a 20% (and possibly larger) discount once the public markets establish a valuation.

I don't see a signaling issue here.
> Spotify waste so much money on their employees, who effectively do very little

Plenty of businesses waste money on some employees who effectively do very little, like diversity officers, equality consultants and such useless positions ... The problem isn't them , the problem here is Spotify unstustainable business model, period. They will go down, sooner or later. The fact that they had to take a loan means they can't raise money through VC rounds anymore. It's clearly the end of an era for a LOT of startups. And that's fine. It's call redistributing cards.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11380766
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I'm one of those people that leave work at 5, even if there is a meeting going. My wife and children are far more important than helping someone make more money.

My boss knows I don't work nights or weekends. I routinely ignore night and weekend emails because when I leave work I'm "unemployed" as it were until the next work day. Once you set the precedent, word gets around. No one asks me for anything other than to do my job. I've been doing this for years.

Besides, I have toddlers at home as well as teenager. My wife is knackered by the time I roll in, so I get home as soon as possible to help out.
However if you said we couldn't engage in any activity that could kill people, your loved ones would die due to causes that technology can save.

A balance has to be achieved that allows productive activity to make our lives better, while providing incentives to make the side effects of that activity not harm us.
That is right. IoT technolgy is a big deal in the rail market, for example GE's Evolution locos produce 150,000 data points per minute. This can feed real-time analytics as well as predictive maintenance requirements, which the company I work for deals with.
Nope, brute force means exhaustive search by definition.

One could arguably claim that something like minmax is brute force, since you only prune subtrees that are provably sub-optimal.

But a search algorithm or heuristic that prunes over 99.99999999% (there are more 9s, but I won't bother calculating the right number) of the search space is not brute force.
Most of these packages aren't modified at all? Wouldn't it be just enough to provide the Links?
Sorry, I tend to think of FPTP as being so messed up it doesn't qualify as a voting system. I was comparing approval voting to alternatives like Ranked Pairs/IRV/Borda etc.
I've heard that the new laws being written in NY to prevent hydrolic fracking are being carefully wordsmithed so they will still allow fracking with natural gas instead. I wish I could find a source but im not sure how well known this issue is. Can anyone comment further?
How I got fired from my job, and what I learned
Surely. An index of all our pipelines are located here: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/buildpacks-ci#pipelines. Of note, the PR resource which JT built: https://github.com/jtarchie/pullrequest-resource
Could you please elaborate on your experience? Very interested.

Also, would you mind talking about what you use instead?
Quick request - could you hook into save.image in R and give the ability to save the entire workspace in R? That would be awesome.

Incidentally I had filed a bug request for a functionality to save the entire workspace in Pandas...but was rejected as being unpythonic. Oh and the devs claimed Apache Arrow was vaporware !

https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/12381
Amazon Music has a desktop client: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?ie=UTF8&docId=1001067...
I agree - China is NOT going through the same trajectory as developed countries. China's population is multiple times greater, which creates far greater segmented market and demand. World is also going through information technology revolution -- explosive increase in productivity, extremely pace of information dissemination. It's just not the same and nobody can be sure what it's going to be like.
I agree that latency causes people to cut each other off. But I've not found fidelity to be a problem. FaceTime, Skype and WeChat voice fidelity beats POTS for me.
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Off-topic: The title and several post refer to BMW as a plural: "BMW are complying" and "Do BMW have any obligation...?"

I know BMW stands for Bavarian Motorworks, a plural, but so does the US, and it is a singular entity today.

Are the people using BMW plural non-American? I've never heard that here in Texas.
Scopes are not mandatory when they should be.
> In the west we have this opinion that an economy should under go the maximum amount of growth at all times

The main reason for this belief is that we have a distorted view of economy. For economists, business growth is the only thing that matters in a society. On the other hand, 99% of the people in a country don't really care about economic growth (above some basic comfort level of development, it must be said). This happens because most people live of wages, and wage growth is slow and sometimes non-existent (as presently in the US).

The standard growth oriented view of economy is important only for investors (people making money in the stock market and bond market), and business owners. Normal people will live perfect fine lives as long as the economy is not imploding.
Consider a Windows 7 UI on Top of a Linux Kernel, that wouldn't feel too bad.
> I have a strong suspicion that Apple is not going to let me listen to music on the devices I own.

You're probably right about any Linux devices, but there's an official Apple Music app for Android you can install right now: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr...
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A diversity officer isn't necessarily a waste of money. They can be crucial for ensuring a solid company culture that levages talents from a diverse pool of people. If you make your company inhospitable to groups of employees based on their race or religion you are only hurting your bottom line.
> I personally prefer the Go solution of just specifying a Git repo.

Go doesn't have a package manager to begin with. Go get is certainly not a package manager. Go get a a glorified curl.
They're not the same thing.
It's British English. I see this usage all the time on BBC News. Drives me batty.
http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/elimination_us.html
Now if only there was a Julia package for this too
But this is a massive waste of time.

For example, this past weekend I triaged over 600 issues on a project that sees a lot of maintainer churn (ui-select for Angular) - the low quality issues is a lot of the problem, and maintainers waste a lot of mental energy when they have to focus on a lot of issues where the reporter didn't do the basic level of due diligence.

If this feature was released beforehand, it probably would have saved me a couple of hours :( .
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Really sorry to hear it, but appreciate the feedback. We are working to address concerns across the board regarding ToS and communication. I'd be more than happy to hop on a call to address if you want shoot me an email, my first name at ifttt.com
Actually, that discussion is about an honest score voting ballot, not an honest approval ballot.
Even if the answer to "which public key?" is "the same public key that signed the original version of the package we downloaded when we first added the dependency", that does add something.
I don't think blame is relevant, they haven't done anything wrong, just potentially not ideal for themselves. If you're coming from the point of thinking that you know better than the employees on how to achieve their goals, and that they shouldn't be gambling their time hoping for a hugely successful company, then your argument does make sense.

However if that's the case, it looks like you've just used a lot of words to effectively say "Accepting equity as payment for working at a startup is a poor decision so therefore employee interests were never aligned with those of the founders".