skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://manager-tools.com
http://podcast.ft.com/s/listen-to-lucy/

Visit URL once per week, download, listen. Focusing on what someone's saying, I find important, so I listen at my desk, via laptop speakers, and don't multitask anything. Then forward (via email) to any friends that may be interested in the content.
I didn’t actually suggest daily one-on-one, just that they average at least 30 minutes over the week.
Interesting this made top voted story. People have strong views on the style guide I suppose.
Depends on the state. I believe Texas has a limit on the spend.
They install iPads, and iPads have cameras. The holder has an opening for the camera, but that's standard for iPad holders. They'd have to get custom manufactured holders otherwise. They could tape it (or you could), but at worst, I think that's just an oversight on their part.
A couple points:

> the practice of allowing brutal murderers and rapists to live out their lives and die in peace

Unless I'm misreading you, that's a huge misrepresentation of what death penalty abolitionists advocate. I don't want violent criminals to have zero repercussions for their actions, and no present-day society I've ever heard of allows them to.

But I agree with (what I perceive to be your greater) point about differences in personal moral code. I was merely speaking contextually about the general trend Western society has followed for the past few centuries -- like fewer, more lenient punishments and more respect for civil rights, among others.
Because they can take video call with them.
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I interviewed with your company some time ago... there were no experienced iOS developers on the team. It seemed they did not understand Apple's enterprise vs app store signing very well and the limitations. They were definitely having software distribution issues (did not want to publish in the app store - but wanted a way to distribute updates) and jailbreak was discussed.
> 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.

I don't find that difficult at all. That's what work is, you become a person who can find into the machine. I think you are overestimating your abilities.
Oh, we still do, they're just in second and third world countries. The author of this article focused on service industries that require a physical presence in the local area ... and did not address outsourcing. I think that one likely outcome of this law will be that people will find creative new ways to move work to lower cost locales.
Here, The Sun is also one of our tabloids.
>Frankenstein OS (Linux + Windows) is going to break every dev tool chain you can think of. I don't see how anyone in their right mind would think Frankenstein OS is a good dev platform.

It's a binary-identical linux userspace, and it (appears as if it) has the same linux kernel. There will be some rare edge cases (see: mounting a case-sensitive POSIX filesystem on top of the case-preserving NTFS) but aside from that i envisage lxcore.sys being extremely compatible. Certainly a better dev platform than my current cygwin/windows/samba/debian-in-hyper-v setup for mixed OS development.

Why do you think things will break?
It would be nice if they actually talked about their experience and creation, rather than just the methodology...
Wow, this sounds pretty amazing. Can't wait for the consumer edition.
I've come across many (most?) managers who believe such are incapable of hearing a contrasting/contradictory message or recognising anyone who isn't responsive to more one-on-one time.

Now, i'm not saying that more one-on-one time isn't helpful with many employees. Nor am I saying that your experience isn't true.

But given that its in direct opposition to my own experience, i'm guessing its either a low-probability thing, that we're in different jobs/fields, different cultures, that some of your staff are either shutting up and bearing it just to get a paycheck, or the ones that disagree with you have quit/resigned/gotten another job/transferred.
Which skills make you most employable?
They are proper nouns. There is basically one Internet (in common speech) and one WWW. Other internets are not the Internet. (My spell checker doesn't recognize "internets".)

What's next: "you are" will formally become "u r" bc ppl r 2 lazy 2 type?
Do proper names in English use article, really? I had the exact opposite idea (as in my own language). Actually I believed that "the" Internet was a weird exception, not the rule.

Is there a specific rule? I ask because I haven't seen "The Michael" or "The Germany". I did see "The Netherlands", but that seems like an exception.
It's HNed, I got 509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded.
Looking forward to play it.
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When speed reading that is one technique to pick out sentence subject. They're not saying capitalization is an "issue", they're merely saying it causes more cognitive load so should be reserved for things that really do give the reader more information.
I'm in a process of renovating a house. I can easily imagine using HoloLens to help with making decisions on interior decorations, furniture placement, bath elements, it could just that great when you're starting with an empty space and need to put things in it.
The only drawback with a HoloLens system is that when you own one, you probably don't need many real things, some virtual ones can act as placeholders.
I think the difference in compensation is inevitable in the free market. To command respect from engineers, you have to be a good engineer yourself and have to be smart and have a lot of technical depth. Among this set of people, it is very hard to find people who are also good at managing people. I think great engineering managers are genuinely rarer than great developers, and consequently, they will be better paid.
WSUS is (conventionally) something different when talking about Microsoft - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_Update_Services - whereas you clearly mean ${whatever Interix ended up renamed to}.
I think this works if it's not a formal one-on-one but a conversation that actually shows interest. I talk to my manager more than 30 minutes a day but it's about real issues. I also had managers scheduling a weekly 30 minute one-on-one meeting which was really annoying because often there was not really anything to say at the moment or the situation had already been resolved.
Re: "more say in directing the business"

One of the decisions to make in choosing a management career track or not is if you want to eventually have more say over the business - what your team works on - or more say over how it's done - how the team engineers things. Someone in an architect-role can have a lot of say over the latter that upper-mid-management won't (and even a CTO type who could impose decisions on that generally shouldn't be, they're too far away from the code).
I don't know why NASA is tracking these levels in India, but this is a huge wakeup call for the region and will help prevent a potential crisis (including economic crisis for India). These regions constitute a majority of agricultural regions in India.
Nitpicks, the term you want when you've been using "standard deviations" is either:

Distribution - general term for the shape of the relationship between probability and task length.

Triangular distribution or PERT - the specific shape of least/greatest/most likely you are using

Risk or Probability - the general concept that things are not definite and involve chance.

And where you are using "Total" for each item, you want "Mean" or "Median" depending which it is.

And I don't care to know the total mean or median time for scheduling, because the project will exceed that time 50% of the time (if it's the median, more if it's mean with long-tailed distributions) I would instead want some high quantile such that the chances of exceeding the schedule/budget are low (and which quantile I pick depends on my project, what's at risk if the schedule is exceeded).
It is very easy to think that friendly, like able people make good managers. Often people who do great at those social skills often get promoted to management, and then do terribly at it.

The worst manager I ever worked with ended up losing great people because talking to him was pointless at best, and dangerous at worst. You'd not believe the horrible feedback he would give people, all non-actionable, and pressing directly in the direction of his employee's insecurities. To be truthful to him was to just give him ammunition to later be used against you.

On the other hand, my favorite manager ever is not really that likable, but he is 100% trustworthy, and will do his best to solve every problem he can. Not afraid to hire, not afraid to fire. Radical candor at its best.
Is that a drawback? Perhaps to consumerism and the global economy, but you're going to be able to save a lot of money on "stuff."
your approach would devolve into basically a bartering system of labor for goods. Something we had many centuries before currency exchange.

I think our current system is still better.
The math problem is tricky in a lot of ways though. For example, the rate the insurance company pays doctors is different than the retail rate. Lots of people don't realize this. It also brings up two pretty interesting questions. One, could the patient have covered the last session at the price insurance companies pay? And two, does the insurance company run down that upper limit based on the amount they're billed, or the amount they pay?

There's another interesting policy question. Insurance, flat out, can't pay for everything. So, given that they have a pool of money, do you allocate that toward the least sick people? That's probably a better approach to more total years of survival. ensure the healthiest 50% (or whatever) get excellent care, and let the rest go. Alternatively, do you triage and spend the the money on people who have a slim chance of survival, making the heroic rescue day after day?

I find that policy decision horrifying. I honestly have no idea how they pick. But it's pretty obvious, somebody getting chemo means 100 other people aren't getting, for example, cholesterol medication.

I'll agree it's just an equation. but man, i'd love to see those tables showing years of human life saved based on condition and treatment. Just to add a touch more cynicism, should those years be weighted based on economic productivity? Would we be better off with 10 more years of Steve Jobs or 10 more years of Grandma? My gut says Grandma, but... it's just an equation.
It is certainly a fun experiment but it's also the poster child of wasted potential. If even a few more developers and artists could work on the game with toady still making 100% of the decisions the game would be much more flexible and much more polished and accessible. It is still a wonderful sandbox that can be experience by a select few but I hope one day the code is released to others and the game can truly blossom.
I live in Denmark. As do around 5.7 million others, all told. We have no death penalty.

In 2015 we had 41 cases of homicide.

It can be done.
That's the compile time for the game only launching the game editor takes an additional Full Startup: 12.02 seconds (BP compile: 0.17 seconds) according to the unreal engine logs. It feels a little longer than that but not much.

I'm always honestly a little surprised but that Java webapps we have at my day job take a lot longer to compile and launch than Unreal does in my experience.

I will say to be fair in Windows 10 on the same hardware (bootcamp dual boot) Unreal is at least twice as fast. It's kinda crazy and bums me out a bit.
the last time I tried OEL with "their" kernel, the system wouldn't boot
Not Hololens, but DQRI has a "hardhat" with similar features that has already been deployed in industrial environments to do exactly as you describe. Companies that are using it for training have found a huge decrease in error rates while actually getting employees up to speed faster.
I forced myself to switch from heel to tow strike and suffer a lot from those Achilles and Calf.
Actually KHTML and Safari supported it earlier, MozillaSuite/Firefox initial support was broken and only when it was fixed in Firefox around 2004 it got tradtion among devs.
Just this once. Trust us™.
New features in C# 7: Tuples, Record types, Pattern Matching, Immutable types, and Non-nullable reference types.
Well I am glad you are not down voting just because you don’t agree with me :)

I am not sure where I suggested that a manager is supposed to be there for the employees benefit - the role of the manager is to maximize the performance of the employee and team. I also didn’t suggest their role is to mother or being a friend either (although being a friend can help).

The major job of a manager is to ensure translation of business objectives into output that is directed towards the end goal. You might think you understand exactly what your job is, but it is exceptionally common for people to not really know what the company is working towards and exactly what management wants them to do, or what is important (to the company). This is not a failing of anyone, but just a consequence of incomplete information.

Vice versa it is also very common with hands off (or too busy managers) to not know what the blocks or distractions are that are impeding progress. The whole situation becomes even more fraught when the business objectives are fluid and changing.

The only way to achieve the business objectives is to spend time making sure the information flows happen and problems are solved. I wish there was another way as it is incredibly time consuming.
Absolutely! I can only be as good as the best I can be. I suck at some things, average at many, and unfairly good at handful. I love it because it never gets boring. :)
> Is there a specific rule?

There isn't a systematic rule as far as I know. Some proper names get a definite article, some don't. Sometimes "the" is part of the name and capitalized, and sometimes it's not:

Germany, Washington, New York, Jesus, Dolph Lundgren, Apollo, Godzilla, JavaScript, Madonna, Microsoft.

Uncapitalized: the Netherlands, the South, the President of the US, the Everglades, the Pleiades, the Rolling Stones.

Capitalized: The Hague, The Rock.

English is weird.
Very cool. Very very cool.
Fun with SVG animations
The original claim for RISC was one instruction per clock. There are some nice simple RISC machines, especially from MIPS, which really work that way. But once CPUs got lookahead, parallelism, and went superscalar, they were doing more than one instruction per clock. This took far more transistors and complexity, but the Pentium Pro showed it could be done. It took 3000 engineers to design that CPU, and the Pentium II and III were essentially the same architecture.

Now RISC was behind. Superscalar RISC machines were built. But the lower cost and design simplicity were gone. The motivation for RISC went with them.

On top of that, most RISC machines padded all instructions out to the same length. Compared to x86, programs took 2x as much memory, which not only ran up cost, but required more memory bandwidth, one of the scarcest resources now that CPUs were pumping so many instructions.
OP here. That was the plan and I'm glad you appreciate it. :)

I wanted to start from something I assumed people knew, and tried to motivate why one might want to improve on that. Only then did I introduce the new solution.

A lot of tutorials I found jumped too quickly to the 'how' without spending enough time on the 'why' I should care.
A simpler To Do list
I looked at this a couple of times today before finally digging in and as I completed each level I looked forward more and more to the next level. And then there were no more levels, far sooner than I expected. I hope the author adds more in time.

Edit: Oh and earlier today after having looked at it many times I bought http://www.lexaloffle.com 's combination of Voxatron and Pico-8. I've spent sometime today learning about Pico-8 (to which I'm going to limit my attention for now) and I think anyone interested in the linked game might be interested in these as well.
The pressure to be a billion dollar company comes from the need for the investors to get a return on their money.

Rapid growth and quality are not normally compatible. I am glad to hear you have the freedom to grow at the right pace.
Some of the more fancy machines these days have embedded microphones to tell if a bearing is going to fail soon. They make a distinctive noise based on shaft rpm and bearing diameter when they start to fail, so you know which one to order before you spend a day tearing the machine appart to get at the faulty bearing.
The usage appeared even in books on the topic. In my personal library I have a 1993 book, "The Electronic Traveller: Exploring Alternative Online Systems".

You can see the lack of articles being used here: http://imgur.com/a4qbEuJ

Both styles were widespread. Briefly...
(Which I meant to add is really excellent work)
I think it's hard to overestimate how big an achievement this is in itself. Managed by Q is going after a market dominated by ISS [1],a Danish company founded in 1901, with more than half a million employees and revenue around $75 billion. And its doing it by paying proper salaries.

The market is very interesting because and the potential for expanding into new categories and with a more modern approach to facility management.

I could imagine them getting into using drones for surveillance or even automated green areas management. It's a field I believe is pretty well defended by the incumbents but which can be disrupted using a combination of technology and more on demand services to drive down cost and increase profitability without actually having to treat it's people like uber drivers.

On top of that it has revenue and is solving a real problem.

[1] http://www.us.issworld.com/
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The thing that really scares me is that he doesn't use version control. I hope and assume that he has SOME kind of backup approach, but the thought of trying to wrangle that many lines of code without proper VCS, in what is clearly an insanely complex codebase, is just beyond me.
Exactly right. These meetings should be real and organic. Anything scheduled into someone’s diary is unlikely to be either of these.
I teach CS classes at a community college when I have the time. Our CC has a 2 year program; having taught classes in the 1st semester and the 4th semester, I have noticed that the 1st semester classes are larger than the 4th semester classes, much larger. This school offers eight sections of the intro programming class, and not more than one section of any top level class (Java, .net, and C++). The top level class sizes are also smaller, and not offered every semester (the intro class is). Net, I'd say that around 3/4 of the students fail out, quit, or change majors.

I've seen students bust their asses to get it. Spend time with tutors, countless hours with the book, with study groups, and other students and still not get it. I've also seen students sleep through most of their classes and pound out not only the lab, but also their entire three week assignment during the lab time.

Anyway, my point is that trying to get a tech degree is far from a sure thing, and for many people, something that they may not be able to finish. It takes a certain kind of thought process to write good software, and while some of it can be taught, I firmly believe that innate ability is equally important. Just like you couldn't teach me to be a good salesman if you had to, some people can't be taught to do tech jobs.
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Possibly, but that has nothing to do with rewarding folks for labels. Instead, you're rewarded with pay, respect and opportunities for your constant effort to perform, learn and teach.
Quote from Tarn Adams (DF's creator):

I don’t even use version control. If you don’t know what that is then you’re not gonna yell at me. If you even know what version control is you’re gonna be like, ‘You don’t use version control? You don’t use source control? What is wrong with you? How can you even work?’

If you're the sole developer of a project and you have, say, hourly backups, then maybe version control is a waste of effort? I would still use it out of habit, but it seems perfectly reasonable to me that Tarn would choose not to.
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I simply don't think it wise to entrust the State, with a completely fallible justice system, with the power to end a citizen's life. Haven't quite worked out the philosophical grounding of that argument, but I think that's where I'll start.
You might be overestimating your abilities to hide your true feelings :)

As a manager you might know a report does not like you and is being two faced, but you won’t do anything about it unless it is affecting performance.
Man this is so depressing. I wonder why Indian media focuses on other useless issue s when there is a huge crisis along the way...
Underrated comment.
A very innovative model and it looks promising.

The awareness about such initiatives is still very limited. This model could go mainstream with awareness and support from the Government.

This model could be especially useful in developing countries, with a coast line of course, though it was not clear from the article if this is applicable to fresh water bodies like lakes and rivers.

The cons or potential pitfalls/problems of this model have not been explored yet. It's something worth looking at.
You're just wrong about this. Magic Leap has accommodation support, Hololens doesn't. Any sense of depth you get from Hololens is simply stereoscopy.
You might like longform.org.
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I suggested 30 minutes per day averaged over the week, not 30 minutes per day. If you were at home one day it would not be an issue. You might need a whole day on occasion and nothing for a few weeks.
Well, I should have added details. You are correct that asbestos that doesn't contain iron can still cause cancer through a hypothesized inflammatory mechanism.

Honestly, I don't we know the exact mechanism, but have some theories that seem to fit.
It's common usage to call other stars at the center of planetary system "suns". For example:

> As we came to understand that the stars in the sky are other suns [...]

- http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/exoplanet-e...

See also the 2nd definition at http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sun :

> : any star that has planets which move around it
Here are the transcripts of the conversation posted by Wikileaks yesterday.

https://wikileaks.org/imf-internal-20160319/transcript/IMF%2...
Appears to be a 2009 article. Nonetheless it is a fact that people keep forgetting about. Our focus continues to be on the monsoon.
If none, blame the gods.
If it rains...enjoy. Harvesting, what?
Even South Indian agricultural practices are not much different. As of now there is big water shortage in Hyderabad and I think South India also will also showup in NASA's next year pictures. Very depressing, and lets hope this will ring some bells and wake up some people.
The project's success is due to the ecosystem they've created. Any introductions of designers/developers could spell entire doom for the project. I can appreciate not bringing in new talent as it is an unnecessary gamble.
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The problem with "dragging out behind the shed and shooting it" is that the people who propagate it usually start with other people. Thanks 20th century, but no thanks.