skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thinking beyond the best or the top ten percent should change some of the perspective. Not all workers will be of "the best". Most will be middlings. It's the middlings who need to worry about power imbalances and who take jobs with lousy bosses and put up with lousy coworkers.

True, top talent has less to worry about since any setback in employment is easily reversible. Many (most) don't have that luxury. These are the ones for whom the new economy is angst inducing and a bit intimidating and who look back with fondness and melancholy at the old less tumultuous economy before the new management style took over.
This was posted in 2012. It is on demo version.. To try the full version it required subscribe.
Yes, I've tried SageMath, which is said to build on sympy as well as numpy, scipy, R, maxima, and other math related projects. It's really quite capable considering that it is an open source project. It supports notebooks, like Mathematica, and the programming is done in Python, which is much more widely known that the Mathematica programming language. I like it's wide open nature and the programming in Python. However, there are still some rough spots where the different technologies come together. Mathematica on the other hand is expensive but it is very polished.

SageMath, http://www.sagemath.org, is perfect for those that can't afford Mathematica or want to leverage their existing knowledge of Python. It solves the Fresnel Integral too. Please consider supporting the SageMath project.
I don't think this is about passion, I think it's about a culture mis-match. Lyons is looking for a place with stability, and that was not HubSpot. In this case it was probably HubSpot's error in hiring him in the first, as they have a very clear opinion of their culture. I think Lyons would not have been happy at any tech company, the fact that he considers a company that was a year away from IPO, and almost 10 years old when he joine, to be a startup says he has no idea what he was getting into. It's understandable, and most people don't know the culture of the company when they apply for a job.

On a side note: public service is the last place I want somebody who doesn't care about their job.
Oh OK, this clears it up for me, thank you.
The initial goal is reduction, It is unrealistic to get rid of the call centre right away.
I'm not trying to compete with phone, but existing online solutions such as email, faq, knowledge base and forums.

Most customers would rather speak to an agent who knows what they are doing.
For this situation, we can help the tier one agent troubleshoot much faster.
Call centres save money by reducing training time.
Small companies can scale up by outsourcing the technical support to call centres with the confidence that they will not lose out quality.

There is a group of users who are frustrated with going through all the levels to get an issue fixed.
They realize that the person doesn't know more then the manual and they are wasting their time.
They only call in when self serve is not sufficient.
Over time, more people who would bypass the phones when they can use the same system directly.

Instructions are like a side scroller, This is a more visual tool that lets people bypass the linear troubleshooting scripts we see too often. Not everyone has to start at the beginning.
I've seen them! Just don't mandate priorities, or be willing to ruthlessly change them as the implementer. Some starting points:

Anything which merely means the publisher won't pay us because it was a milestone deliverable, but which I could see us technically shipping without, is "wontfix."

Anything which will get me fired for not implementing gets to be "minor."

Anything which I will quit over before I can be fired gets to be "major."

Anything which will lead to mass resignations of the entire engineering team gets to be "blocker", but only if it's actually blocking someone else from doing any work whatsoever.
I doubt their goal here was to make repair more difficult -- after all, some must have failed under warrantee and were repaired on their dime. Sticking the starter in the valley instead of on the side just makes the engine package size a bit smaller (and the SC was a small car).
No one, because that doesn't happen.
A tiny gorilla version of ED indeed.
> I feel like in these scenarios he's incentivized to get outlandish PR for his book, so some of the things I'd take with a grain of salt--sentences like, "The offices bear a striking resemblance to the Montessori preschool that my kids attended: lots of bright basic colors, plenty of toys, and a nap room with a hammock and soothing palm tree murals on the wall." But there is probably a lot truth to his story as well.

Sounds like Google. It's famously decorated in preschool chic.
Giving an explanation publicly would harm their future employment chances. But people should be told privately why they're being fired, of course.
OK, your other comment clarified the point for me. I thought that you would lose GD after the 30days because only a percentage of it would convert. I guess I assumed that the rest would be lost instead of resetting or rolling over.
> They met on the roof of Soma Grand while Parker explained the web of nonprofits and city departments that spends $241 million a year on the city’s more than 6,000 homeless residents, a population count that has stayed nearly unchanged for 25 years.

That line stuns me. How can you spend $40k+ per homeless person each year and have the absolute number unchanged? How much is actually going to help the people versus going into line items that don't?

Are they helping people move up and out of homelessness and more people keep coming?

Or are the efforts relatively fruitless and they just keep throwing money at it?
Yes, but that's not the (controversial) claim in the article, the claim is that you can't upgrade without reverse-engineering the new database schema yourself. The article doesn't really address the issue of a plugin not being available as Free software. While FSF/RMS doesn't particularly like closed source software of any kind (it interferes with the four freedoms), this article deals more with Free software that is hemmed in by various "external" constraints. Data migration being the example referred to. And, which I perhaps was unclear that I was referring to, when I paraphrased: "used to do this, but we don't any more".
I know when I was broke, working crappy jobs and in debt, $500 would basically have put a small dent in my credit card, and not much else.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk has $16 billion dollars and hes making significant strides towards colonizing mars and slowing global warming.
No. You're confusing consistency with accuracy.

To hit someone in the eye, you've got to aim at their eye and land a round there. That is, accuracy at hitting a pre-specified target.

To hit armour in the same location twice, you need either two (or more rounds) delivered consistently on whatever happens to be where the first round lands. It's a case where being a Texas Sharpshooter actually works (painting bullseyes around the bullet holes you just shot into a barn).

A compound impactor with a leading and secondary round might work, for example. Difficult to package into a small-arms round, but possible. Keeping everything on the same impact point would be the crucial element.
Just anecdotal but I've heard from 5-6 friends and friend-of-friends that rental prices have fallen in SF, at least in some areas. IIRC one was offered a larger place and a small reduction.

No idea if this is true but one can hope.
I am sure that some employers would still go through the whiteboard process, but once they were confident that the certification could be trusted they would stop.

I explain below who the customers, etc are - I could not fit it all in because of the HN posting limit.

How often to be tested would be up to the employee. My guess is few people would retest, but would spend their time being tested on new skills.
funny, I am on a second round interview at Hubspot...
Thats way more reasonable than how I had been think about it. I think about conference talks the way I think about guest lecturers at universities.

I might be really bad at noticing showmanship.
If you had to focus on a specific area, it could be building a low cost ABET certified curriculum that has better unit economics than traditional universities.

ABET is pretty legit.
Interesting. How can I learn more about this stuff?
It's not a matter of Lyons having an opinion, it's a matter of him misrepresenting the opinions of Yeh.

You could sloppily quote a book to make the message seem like anything, and it feels like that could border on defamation. A malicious version of this would be lying about somebody to injure their reputation, which is not obviously something you have a right to do.

This case isn't grave or clear-cut so it's not going to go to court or anything like that, but it's still a bit of a jerk move by Lyons.
"She was 35, had been with the company for four years, and was told without explanation by her 28-year-old manager"

What's the fuzz about the ages? Age discrimination by NYT author?
Nope, those that asked were showing up and putting effort in the class.
I read his story thinking, "How is this news or a surprise to a jaded journalist?"

Then I started to think he might have planned the book before the job. At that point who cares about journalistic integrity?
The most thought-provoking sentence comes near the end:

> Even if Gopman was in it for Gopman, self interest — no matter how imbued with hubris — isn’t mutually exclusive with doing good.

Absolutely true. The consequences of action are what matters.

That said, Gopman never stops sounding like a shithead.

There is a reason people care about motives. Once he achieves "redemption", how much will his future actions and motives align with doing good. In fact, the only reason he appears to continue to work on homelessness is to win back his reputation.

So is it great that he is working with the homeless? Yes.

Would I trust a "redeemed" Greg Gopman. Nope.

That isn't to say that he cannot change, but this article shows that he is not there yet. Until the reason for the work shifts, there is no reason to believe that any company or cause he joins is for the cause and not selfish motives.

Sometimes good things come of selfishness, but in the long term it is good to know where someone's priorities lie.
To me, this seems to be making two opposite points. One reason to prefer asynchronous interruptions (like IM) to their synchronous counterparts (like out-loud conversation), is so that you have the leisure to deeply read long-form writing (like well-written emails or (hopefully) well-written documentation).
GitHub shows significant activity in 2015, 2016:

https://github.com/mathics/Mathics/graphs/contributors

It looks like sn6uv (Angus Griffith "a Mathematician and Programmer from Sydney Australia") has picked up the baton ...
It could certainly be used that way - in the end it would not matter where you had studied or if you studied at a traditional institution at all, but what you had really leant.

As I mention in my follow on post, it would be best to start in a niche and build out to a more general testing process over time.
No idea, I just search from anything related to 'closed' engines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine
JS wasn't the first thing I thought of. I was thinking about late AI and machine learning trend. I was so excited about the whole trend as a newbie to ML, especially the "you do X better if you incorporated ML in your logic" thought. While practically true, the trend of jumping into ML as a solution to everything (e.g. wouldn't be nice to have machine tell us which infrastructure event is worth looking at?) often turns into premature solution.
Basic income is welfare 2.0. It's not going to lead to human happiness.

The economy itself is an "actor" on this stage. It's going to make choices about who can afford what. It's going to reward those who reduce inefficiency, those who find new growth paths, and if not that, it will build reserves to help it through lean times.

In that system, people who don't "add value" are a carrying cost, and the system will try and reduce them.

The system we have, can not be expected to spend its surplus generously, or happily.
I highly recommend using popular short stories.

Books are far too long.

Short stories give the user a sense of success. Even just covering news articles would be pretty solid. :)

Current events provide a lot of context.
I have a sinking suspicion that for every homeless person helped, more people are getting evicted and becoming newly homeless.
Thanks for the measured response!

I'll have to give your book a read because it reflects some vague ideas I've been having. It feels like having "more liquidity" in the job market could benefit both employees and employers: it would make it easier for me to find a job that's a good fit and to adjust my role as my circumstances change; similarly, it lets companies be more flexible.

My theory is that this is the sort of thing that's only a problem relative to our expectations. If everybody expected people to move between jobs more often, it would have a significantly lower cost while conferring the benefits I mentioned above.

Then again, I'm the sort of person who can't imagine spending 40 years climbing a hierarchy at a big corporation, so I might just be fundamentally different from the people who actively want that...
I don't want everybody to always worry about performance. This would lead to people spending their time optimizing non performance critical parts of the software, creating hard to maintain code.
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You have no idea. The people that pull the strings in the tech industry all know each other, and meet regularly coordinate 'business'

See this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlocking_directorate

Also play with this
http://www.theyrule.net/
Your last statement is incorrect - they care about their job, but are not passionate about it.

Your statement inadvertently highlights the point on language which is being made in the article and in this thread.

Lack of Passion != disinterest.
When you want to cast someone in technology as an antagonist up front with prejudice you use the epithet "tech bro" (or, tech sis, some day). The article made some good points but the exhausting insistence on using the overwrought tech bro takes away from some insight.

Two people, a homeless person and a person of means. Both people, both can be equally mean but we insist the person of means is more "civilized" and thus we implicitly demand more from them while simultaneously demanding less from those who have achieved less. Take those two people and imagine both going off on incoherent booze induced bigoted rants, who do we "expect to know better". They are both people under "the influence" yet we presume one should be able to be "more human" than the other, to be less grotesque.
Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals (2012)
> If Gopman has any hope of winning you over, it’s IRL. Watching him work a room is witnessing a guy who’s put in his 10,000 hours of mastery; every person — man or woman, nerd or preppie — usually comes away beaming. “You could drop him off in a desert and he’ll find friends somehow,” his friend tells me. He approached Mark Cuban cold in a cafe — and finagled a coffee date later that week. When he spotted Mayor Lee out on a mid-Market walkabout months after The Rant, Gopman talked his way into an impromptu meet-and-greet with the mayor.

To me, this was the most interesting part of the article. That Gopman has charisma. I'm curious why they talk about the "10,000 hours of mastery". When I see my very few friends who can work the room do this (e.g. go up to complete strangers and make friends, go away, make more friends elsewhere, come back and continue), it's quite like magic to me.

Who do you know is like this? Have they always been that way?

When the pitch forks were burning in Valleywag, there was no indication about this part of Gopman. So much of gossip is just echo chamber stuff, even in niche areas like technology.
http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/
The very often do and did! Read about the history of the Telsa Fremont factory when it was GM, or teacher's unions for cases like Mark Berndt, etc.
This is from 2013; I believe Ubuntu no longer sends your search terms to Canonical by default. There's still a pre-installed Amazon program, but you have to manually open it.
I'm pretty sure he meant that no car has electrically actuated intake and exhaust valves, which is mostly true, but the Fiat/Chrysler MultiAir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiAir) line of engines does have electro-hydraulic valve actuation which allows for variable duration and lift, and I think they don't even have a throttle plate.
Are Most Body Cavity Searches Even Constitutional?
The fused uop also can't be executed on as many ports as a plain add.
The 10000 hrs is something put out by Gladwell. Lots of people take it as gospel.
Dan Lyons didn't mention expensing lunches in that article. You are speculating why your book was mentioned. The issue you seem to have is the bit about your "tour of duty" concept, which it looks like was indeed mischaracterised (I have to read your book to know for sure). But apart from that I'm not sure what can really be stated as anything else than fair criticism in that article - and by which I mean he disagrees with your ideas and critiques them.
It's not that processing payment client-side is wrong, it's that the Dominos app implement it wrongly, or DataCash simply doesn't provide any security feature for protecting against http request data tampering, which I believe the latter is not the case.

Most payment gateway have a security mechanism to ensure the response from payment server have its integrity remain intact. Most of the time by hashing some combination of responses value and shared secret key between merchant and the payment server, and comparing if both marchant calculated value and payment server hash matches. If it doesn't match, then it is safe to to throw an error and prompt appropriate message to said attacker. When implemented as such, the system are expected to immune to such attack as described by the author.

The article is a perfect case study to showcase the consequences when the developer decided to skip the security part. (yes it's entirely up to the web master if they want this or not, the payment server won't care).
That's the thing: medical insurance in the US is a weird hybrid between actual insurance and a complicated web of collective purchasing agreements. They let large organizations, companies and even individuals to get together by proxy to get bulk discounts on health costs.

You can see why this second function might be useful, although it also does weird things to the market. But it feels like it should be fundamentally distinct from insurance against risk. Having both functions in one line-item just makes everything more complex and confusing.

It also makes sense because medical insurance is a special channel for companies to give additional compensation to their workers. I've heard this originated from salary caps during WWII—turns out that if you try to ham-fistedly control the markets, you'll get weird ripple effects. If you're just channeling money to your employees, paying for their routine expenses makes sense especially since people can appreciate immediate benefits like that a lot more than the abstract benefit of having a low-probability risk hedged for you.

If you were actually going to design a system for managing health care from the ground up in the US, this is absolutely not what you would come up with. It's hideous legacy code. And it's just as hard to update as legacy systems, with the additional barrier of politics thrown in.

It doesn't really make sense, but you can sort of trace the reasons it evolved the way it did. And it's not changing significantly any time soon.
Climb stairs, overcome obstacles, and tell you that you have 20 seconds to comply.
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It's not, because it's being applied outside of its defining group. It's a circular definition if the term is only applied to "start-ups", because of course those have "start-up culture" by definition. But one can apply the term to companies that are not "start-ups" -- even if they once were -- but yet carry the same "start-up culture".

There's also the idea at this point of a stereotypical "start-up culture" that lives beyond the idea of whatever a "start-up" is. This also breaks the circular definition, because from that perspective "start-ups" no longer define "start-up culture".
Wasn't this on HN recently?
Exactly - thank you. You wrote this more succinctly and clearly than I did! That is precisely my concern.

I guess I'll read the book now if it isn't too expensive (or even available in my region!), but I think many of these ideas about mutually beneficial employment only really works where power is relatively well balanced - in other words the employer can't get rid of you or treat you badly because you are irreplaceable it very hard to replace, and the employee has loyalty towards the company.

The instant this changes, then one party will often be largely unfairly affected.
They outperformed aluminum because of the iron content in the steel of the sphere walls or the matrix itself of the steel-steel composite metal foam.

The composite metal foam that was comparable to lead utilized steel with higher concentrations of tungsten and vanadium.
On the contrary, it can also be that those who stick to the same job for 10, 20 or 30 years, care for the job rather than jumping ship. They care for serving the public, through government or through the private sector.