skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the author of this is spending all day in back to back 1-1s (which wouldn't surprise me, I've seen this in lots of companies), and they have 7 people working for them, then that means every day an hour is spent in a 1-1 with your boss if you are on this team. Don't they have a job to do other than socializing with their superior? Does this boss have a job to do besides chat up the staff?

Managing is a chance to amplify your own effectiveness, the goal isn't to 'manage' all day, the goal is to get work done. A manager's #1 priority is to build a team that can get things done quickly and well. The kinds of people that can get work done well, in a steady state don't need an hour a day, or even an hour a week of 1-1 time. There are exceptions for totally new grads or in exceptional situations where in depth coaching is needed, but exceptions aren't the rule.

To put it as mildly as I can, if a team needs constant supervision, the manager has done a terrible job.
"Tasks" in Intellij is great for this. You can hook it up to you project management tool (github, JIRA, trello etc) then checkout an issue and it will create a branch for that issue and track the time you spend on it.
I suspect when the chips are down, the courts will rule that Google can't just burn a pile of value because "we like Science" or some such thing.

That's when stockholders file lawsuits alleging violation of director fiduciary responsibility. This can happen with a startup if the management proposes a funding round that's a significant lose for existing shareholders. The directors have the obligation to act in the best interest of the stockholders, not the management.

It also comes up when a company has assets and is losing money, and the stockholders want to liquidate and get some money out, while management wants to burn all the cash out to the bitter end.
Exactly. The languages didn't evolve from Sumerian, they just borrowed the writing system in the same sense that non Indo-European languages like Finnish borrowed the Roman alphabet.
More money in people's pocket doesn't necessarily cause inflation in everything - for goods which supply can be increased at will(new factory etc), their long-term prices mostly depend on competition and manufacturing costs.

As for goods with inherently limited supply, like land, there would likely be some inflation - so in the end maybe you'll spend the same salary share on them. But the rest of your salary still carries more purchasing power than before.
>One thing I learned, rather quickly, is that most people don't like writing. Even well educated people don't like writing. Most people find it easier to talk than to write. Most people would rather talk an issue through than write about it. The more difficult the issue, the more that people want to talk.

This is one of the first things I learned on my first job, and it was a somewhat bizarre realization. I both love writing, and find that it's the easiest mode of communication for me. When I had a question for someone, my first instinct was to send them an IM and start a discussion. The response was always "come to my desk so we can talk". I almost felt like they were intentionally going out of their way to pick on me. Eventually, I realized that was just the preferred mode of communication for most people.

There are definitely situations, like if you need help debugging, where it's nice to have someone standing there in person. But if we're just going to have a discussion about something, like a design issue for example, then I like writing. It also has the practical benefit that it gives you a permanent record of what everyone said for free.
The best way to motivate a team is to create an environment where they are at their best and they respect their co-workers, where they are learning, and where they are proud of what they are doing.

Being a very nice and likable person is something you have to have to keep a team together if you can't deliver any of the things in my first sentence.
It isn't robbery as defined by the law like the death penalty isn't murder either legally. From a philosophical point of view though, opinions defer. Not saying I agree or not, just saying.
Only if you fundamentally believe there's something "magical" going on in the brain; scientifically there's no reason to believe that (given current understanding).

We understand individual neurons and how they can lead to computation, we also understand (the existence of) emergent behavior in general.
I understand that US justice system is completely biased against minorities (Mainly blacks) but i can't completely come to terms with total abolition of death penalty as expressed by many here on HN. Here are few incidents where i think death penalty can be justified (examples are from Norway which has abolished death penalty & India where it is very rarely carried out - only 5 from 1995)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Delhi_gang_rape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajmal_Kasab

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masood_Azhar (Got released after a hijacking and founded JeM)
10000/month in NYC (Manhattan) for mortgage + common charges for two bedroom + home office in full–service doorman building.
Yeah, an example which doesn't involve "assume the caller will deliberately use your API wrong" would have helped me maintain my suspension of disbelief.
California wastes $500k for non-working wi-fi hot spots for the poor
This is more or less my take as well. Beside the issues that you highlighted, the thing that really doesn't pass the sniff test for me is the completely unsupported claim that with SORNs "Uncertainty grows linearly in general". I simply don't see how this can possibly be the case; interval growth in arithmetic is a straightforward consequence of finite precision, independent of what representation is used. The only way you can avoid it is for representations to grow arbitrarily, which introduces its own set of problems.
The workers would probably get paid at least as much, handling claims for the government health system.
I have an Amazon Associates website and I've considered trying to use ads to generate traffic. This adds another step in the process vs what the article describes. Users have to click on the ad, click on my affiliate link, then make a purchase.

Users of my site click on an affiliate link about 40% of the time and those that do make a purchase about 2.5% of the time with an average commission of $5. This means I make about $0.05 per visitor so I would need ads with a CPC less than that. In my niche this does not seem remotely possible.

Luckily I'm getting over 1,200 visitors per day without paying for them.
No, not at all. I think in all the comments here, there is an egregious error. The error is in totally ignoring the concept of economics or failing the recognize the reality of scarcity. It's not a "social construct"in any non-trivial sense. People throw that "social construct" thing around as if it is at all relevant. You could say the "law of identity" is a social construct and you don't accept ... Ok that's fine, it just means you, and I mean this only literally, don't accept "logic."

To "make every human's life a paradise" is also quite literally to either reject the concept of scarcity or to think you would create some sort "Matrix" like environment, some weird sci-fi stuff, which is fun to talk about but not a solid economics argument.
my 5c as an ex-oracle employee (disclaimer: I worked in Linux Support and Ksplice tools dev):

- Oracle Linux is a base copy of Redhat plus additional things to integrate better with Oracle products, it was a bad move against Redhat, but beneficial for Oracle purposes.

- Ksplice: most of people misunderstood the real work of it. Don't blame Oracle for acquire it, somebody sell it and it was always a private technology meaning 'patents involved'. Note that the real work happens when making "the patches" and making sure they are backward compatible, including different architectures. So the real purpose was to provide a service that nobody could provide before. note: As of today you can use Ksplice for free in Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora.

- Why Microsoft would want Wim ?, In my opinion because they need someone who had successfully built Linux into a Line of Business, from a business perspective it sounds a good deal. As of today I don't think Oracle truly supports Open Source, not sure what are the plans for Wim on that area at Microsoft.
That's a bit excessively dismissive of the issue at hand. We've investigated many substances to death that have shown no consistent increase in risk - aspartame, coffee, most vaccines, and aluminum-oxide based antiperspirants for example. Carcinogens are a very real concern, and dismissing that concern by pretending that "everything is a carcinogen, what can you do?" is unhelpful.
Absentee parents are bad parents regardless of affluence.

But bad parents are bad regardless of whether they are present or absent.
5 cycles latency, but two multiplications can issue every cycle. The throughput is actually greater than what's available for integer multiplication.
Most businesses don't require a license to operate unless they deal with controlled goods like tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceuticals, or the exploitation of natural resources.

Beyond that, what the government provides is the articles of incorporation to limit the liability of investors, and allow the owners and operators of the business to act as a single entity within the court system.

If we take away the articles of incorporation, the business can still operate but it's not shielded in anyway from being cut up piecemeal via lawsuits, and a lot of the reason people find it worthwhile to invest in or work for a corporation will be removed.
No way.... this is money_on_racks. How odd haha.
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The one fault in your logic is that the way companies behave in terms of hiring, can affect the value decision for agents/consumers and thus I think the economics in the world is a little more complicated than you suggest.

But, I kind of agree with your basic point.
>A chaotic system is by definition also beyond the reach of existing methods.

Not quite, it mainly is a system that is sensitive to initial conditions. For that reason, for a "range" of initial conditions wouldn't be helpful for a chaotic system, as you would get wildly different final results over that range for a particular set of conditions (ie., constants in the ODE), unless the range is small...and bam, you have a floating point with a +/- on it and probably an unum with a large number of intervals.

For the weather, for example, you can still tell someone what it will be (with some degree of accuracy) tomorrow, but the weather three weeks from now is unpredictable due to that sensitivity to the initial conditions (ie. now).
Check out OsmocomBB - https://bb.osmocom.org/

While it doesn't even intend to be "consumer friendly" firmware replacement, the project provides a lot of interesting info on hacking TI Calypso basebands used for instance in some old Motorola devices and Openmoko phones.

Proxied SIM probably won't work due to timing constraints and I don't think it could be possible on device's own connection, but I'm not really an expert in this area, so don't believe me and my educated guesses too much.

However, counter-intuitively, playing with stuff like IMEI number will probably make you even easier target. Some hardware characteristics of your device could be used to "fingerprint" it, and having a lot of IMEIs being advertised by some old Calypso device in similar area could easily bring some attention to it.
The Soviet Union depended on an enormous laboring class to meet its production needs; the whole point is that we no longer do.
I'm in the same exact boat as you - always had iOS and am supposed to get my Nexus 6p on Monday (leaving Verizon for Google Fi) - I'm intently watching this thread for some suggestions/tips as a new Android user.
In a total leisure society, how do we pay for Basic Income? Where does the government get the money to give out to everyone?

I agree with you. But I think its not about Basic Income, but the idea of Basic Utility/Survival where we can supply basic needs for free, via automation etc.
XMLHTTP was originally an ActiveX technology, though, from the Outlook team; it wasn't originally developed as part of IE. I guess it wasn't until Mozilla and Apple added a native version that it really took off.
It's really ungainly to work with -- but it does drop the cycle counts to solve the problems by running more threads.
As the co-founder of an on-demand service company [1], I have to agree partly with the core argument about trust, but disagree with its conclusion about the model's viability. It is definitely hard to ensure trust and satisfaction among customers without owning the entire process end-to-end. At our (currently small) scale, we manage this by offering fanatical customer service and communicating aggressively with our service providers. However, only time will tell if this will scale. I think there is a middle ground between a company shrugging it's shoulders and forcing the responsibility of vetting onto its customers, and completely guaranteeing quality. For instance, we add a layer of reviews that otherwise can be hard to find for tax preparers, stringently vet service providers, and also add a layer of customer protection by not charging them until they are satisfied. The article makes it seem as if the on-demand model implies no responsibility for quality by the company.

It seems that the real issue is that on-demand companies that charge a premium to "traditional" alternatives have a hard time justifying that premium if all they provide is a thin tech layer on top of said services. Uber is not only more convenient, but also now cheaper in many cases than taxis. I still think (albeit with strong bias) that if you can offer convenience AND cost savings, there is a legitimate value for the on-demand model.

[1] Taxaroo, https://www.taxaroo.com
Hey, Managed by Q employee here. Appreciate your feedback. Wanted to just follow up and let you know that we do not jailbreak any iPads, nor do we use the camera to collect any data. We take our customers privacy and security extremely seriously.

Regarding the organization of your desk, if you leave a post-it-note on your desk mentioning that you would prefer for it to be left alone that should do the trick.

Happy to hear that you like the cleaning quality - if you have any additional concerns feel free to follow up with me.

JT
is this slide deck the only specification of the unum 2.0 ideas?
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> It sounds like you're advocating ... literally shut down private businesses, possibly beating and robbing their owners in the process

No, that's what happens in the scenario where we make workers redundant and fail to provide some alternative social contract.

> Because there's some formula for determining "social value" which has "number of employees" as a factor?

Value of Social Contract = (cost of what you have to sell)/(cost of what you need), aggregate over members of the social group in question.

Markets ruthlessly optimize both the numerator and denominator. So far, the scales have tipped in a direction that benefits most members of our society because there has been plenty of (relatively) valuable work to do. That may be changing. A decreasing numerator can be worse than an increasing (or shrinking-but-too-slowly) denominator. Even in aggregate. The market doesn't really have an innate preference for one direction or another.

It's up to us to fix the problem if the winds shift. If we don't, someone else will, and it will get very messy.
Then it seems like the minimum wage is not the underlying issue.

If there are too many people and not enough jobs, fiddling with the minimum wage won't have any real effect because regardless of what it is, there are always going to be people who are jobless (and therefore without income).

So how do we reconcile the fact that currently, most people must work in order to live and yet there isn't enough work to go around?
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That's how Harald Welte and Osmocomm team was always providing on-site GSM networks on events like Chaos Communication Congress/Camp.

However, recently Germany sold out part of spectrum that was used for those licenses, so it became much harder now there. The network on last CCC almost didn't happen, but the provider who bought it (T-Mobile IIRC?) allowed to use it this time anyway. The future is a one big question mark though :(
Scan and possibly install something for everyone who handed admin level credentials.
Thanks :-) I've just relocated to Seattle to open a second west coast office. East coast or Dublin is next!
Being an engineer of X is like being a Doctor of X. It's a general descriptor about your experience, and the way you approach the work.

Granted the state has stepped in and in someplaces you can't call yourself an engineer or doctor without certification, but the fact remains that the word has a meaning in common parlance.
Its not about vetoing, it is about Debian shipping broken software that is never updated and it drives developers mad to constantly get the same bug report for the same broken feature that was fixed years ago upstream.

I personally hope none of my software ends up in Debian Stable, because if it did anything broken in it at the point of freeze would haunt me for half a decade.
It is very hard to maintain a false front when you spend a lot of time with someone who is paying you their full attention. Some people can pull it off, but not many.

Even if your reports don't like all the attention, as a manager you become a better manager as you understand your reports better and they understand you better.
The real problem with the "Uber for X" comparison is that most of these startups are just "delivery for X." Uber's core business isn't delivery. The economics on both the supply and demand side are very different for Uber than, say, an Instacart or Postmates.
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There is an error in at least one example, it's small but confusing to run into:

var sonalisTemp = get(sonali, "name"); // sonalisTemp === 22

I think you meant

var sonalisTemp = get(sonali, "temperature"); // sonalisTemp === 22
Credit: https://gist.github.com/sekondus/4322469
What about the Information Superhighway?
Actually even NHS has a limit for the amount they'll spend on your treatment over time. It's rare to hit it, but any system that's trying to allocate the scare resource of medical treatment will have to stop a minority of very sick people from receiving all the resources.
All the fascists I know are in favor of allowing people they disagree with to freely speak without risking their livelihoods.
I don't think the author was saying that as long as you like to talk to people all day you'll be a great manager. She was saying that if don't like to do that, you won't like being a manager.
How do TPP and other trade deals which allow Chinese people to compete economically with Americans destroy jobs? I'm assuming, of course, that Chinese are people too.(I've never been there but I've met a few of them. They didn't seem that different from me.)

Out of curiosity, did ending Jim Crow (allowing blacks to compete economically with whites) also destroy jobs? Can we create prosperity by making up arbitrary divisions and then imposing internal trade barriers?
FWIW MURS is open without a license for digital, although with pretty lower power ceilings.
If they had just hacked into the phone, and said "hey we hacked into the terrorist's phone", I think they'd look pretty good. They'd be competent, and did what they needed to do. But that's not what they were going for; they over-reached, and then weakly backed off. That's what doesn't look good.
Wigan Pier was a fairly early work but notice even then how in much of it Orwell is complaining about what he considered "cranks" in the socialist movement. He didn't like vegetarians and was even offended that a socialist convention offered a vegetarian option! He didn't like free-love enthusiasts. He didn't even like people who drank orange juice rather than tea or beer! (OJ I guess was seen as a "health food" back then rather than a normal beverage)
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> Independent of the original article, I would like to disagree with you

You're welcome to try. My comment was written within the context of the article.

> Schools may not be singularly responsible, but the average American public school goes a long way toward preventing enlightenment.

The first line of the article makes it clear they're talking about higher education. So, in the context of the article, by schools I meant colleges and not the average american school.

> the selection of paths that are available to us and which paths we're allowed to go down are not up to us, some paths are easier to go down than others

For anything in which we are educated you will find some people who follow the education and others who don't. I won't disagree that marketing and education plays a big role on people who look to others to make decisions for them. I won't disagree that some people grow up without the love needed to empower their own confidence. Yet the fact remains that you can once in awhile find a destitute child who has risen to the top and beaten the odds. This suggests that marketing is not all powerful. It is possible to beat the odds.

> Fuck this "every man for himself" bullshit

Let me also add that I don't think we should stop educating. I just think that part of education should include the idea that yes you can and you don't need to do exactly as I say in order to be successful. Part of this message involves telling the student that he is valuable and can make his or her own choices just like I wrote above. No problem in asking for help. I will help and in the process try to find something that you did yourself, point it out, and hopefully give you some more confidence.

None of us are better than any other. None of us are worse than any other. The sooner you come around to that idea, the sooner you stop placing more value in others than yourself, or vice versa.
You frame an interesting dialectic. You might be interested in the ideas of Bifo Berardi. http://www.generation-online.org/p/fp_bifo5.htm
Yes, I know how CLOS works. It's certainly a powerful approach, but it doesn't strike me as terribly... umm... object-oriented.

(0) In CLOS, as you say, methods are requests to the global environment to find the right behavior to perform on a list of arguments. In an object-oriented system, each object has its own behavior, and the rest of the program (that is, the environment) has no business knowing how it internally works.

(1) In CLOS, anyone can tamper with any object's slots, and this isn't even discouraged. In an object-oriented system, the internal representation of an object can't be directly manipulated from the rest of the program. The behavior of an object is defined entirely in terms of how it responds to messages.

That being said, you can do object-oriented programming with CLOS. It's just not the only, or even the main style that it supports.

For more information, see: http://wcook.blogspot.com/2012/07/proposal-for-simplified-mo...
Usually you would use bold like that where you would stress the vocalisation when reading it aloud, not for highlighting key points you want to make. If you read that and stress those words it just sounds weird and confusing.
And this is why society has focused too much an moralizing the means and making taboos out of them. It's the ends that matter.