skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article also attempts to paint them as overworked and abused and treated differently because they were contractors. Having worked in the big tech industry as a contractor, their description of contractor treatment and workload is pretty normal (no employee perks, quotas, etc.). This is due more to Vizcaino vs. Microsoft [1] than any sort of abusive contractor agenda.

1. http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
Manage a team.

Wasn't my cup of tea but at least I know what it is like on the dark side.

Only danger is after doing it for a year it was harder to ace the technical questions at interviews.
For a standard GPS head unit, the burden of proof that a road exists and is appropriate to drive on may be some purchased telematics database, itself combined from all kinds of different sources. The burden of proof for a Google self-driving car is that the road recently had every feature (curb, sign, mailbox, lane marking, etc) mapped by a Google employee.
That argument only works in a constant-vector-forward time-dimensional context. ;)
Indeed; in Europe, you can find the same reproduced at the village and hamlet level, too.

It's a density issue, at heart. Any US "city" (if it should be called that) of 100K-500K occupies 10x-20x the surface area that it would in most parts of the world, removing much of the cohesion that leads us to call places cities or towns in the first place.
I'm not sure why people who can afford modern houses complain about noise levels; I'm living right under the flight-path for SJC and it is super loud. But if you close a double pane window? it's pretty quiet; my place has a third single-pane of glass on the outside of that, and if I close the doors and windows? the place is just about silent, no matter how many airplanes go overhead.

It's not a fancy building, either; the construction is typical of the late '80s, early '90s, I think, aside from the third pane of glass, which I think was a retrofit.
American Dental Association mailed malware-infected USB drives
uh if it's so secret, then why allow outside agencies to use the equipment? FBI should only provide an interface 4 local LE
While sitting on the fence of this whole question, it simply astounds me that most religious people don't have an answer to this (IMHO) very obvious question/problem with the popular God conception:

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

Again, not making a criticism, just an observation that I find oft unanswered
I shall just leave a link to Douglas Rushkoff here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87TSoqnZass to explain to you the deep flaws in the "default" techie thinking that your comment is a classic example off.
The benefit is customization to your needs to make your unique workflow faster. There is a reason people spend tweaking their ".emacs.d" configurations - it just makes them so much faster. For example, I use a light theme in office because I have a glossy monitor and I prefer a dark theme otherwise, so I wrote a few lines of elisp to choose the light/dark theme based on the time of day and day of week. Try doing that in other editors / IDEs / etc. :) Of course, I'm quoting a trivial example here, but this is a glimpse to what is possible.
What aspect do you dearly miss? (Honest question, I've never understood the S-expr trade-off, especially if macros are off the table).
To your first point. Comparable housing units are used to price new listings, so even if a specific home is only sold every 10 years, there are comparable homes sold every year that drive up the value by 6% yearly.

To your second point, I can't speak to specific markets, but assuming other market forces for the most part balance out over time and the only things that constantly change are inflation and increased brokerage fees, it could still show 6% growth.
I'm not sure I understand how that would even be possible. I'm in an unfamiliar neighborhood without my phone, looking for a business, and all I have to go by is: WQ.TY. How the hell am I going to find it? That's not written anywhere. Even if I know I'm currently at YW.SRN, how does that help me? With number, street, city, I can get to most places by just looking around at street signs and asking people.

Yes, as the article points out, there are places with unnamed streets. That's a bummer. But these map codes don't help unless the proposal is also to put signs up everywhere telling people where their map codes are and how to get to the next ones over.
I can't fathom of how a chat-bot could be more convnient than a well designed UI.

Feeling sick? Click here, select these options, etc. etc..

Having the ambiguity of AI in between, with the ridiculous bits about 'hope you are feeling better' is rubbish.

Furthermore, if someone isn't feeling well they should just not show up and manage it on their own. In my last job I took a good 5 sick days a year and never said a thing to anyone. I just moved a couple of meetings and that was that.
I'd say it's more true that you rarely need to write a macro than it is that you rarely need to use them. Lots of very useful things across the language, from builtins like the threading macros (->, ->>) to libaries like Compojure, are built on macros.
In essence gone from convicting a bunch of non-violent criminals and activists (modulo a sting operation run by a corrupt agent to convince the silk road guy to hire a non-existent assassin) to a company that helps the tobacco industry.
And i've known for some time that LE agencies in general collect "lead" information in this way, which would be otherwise inadmissible in court. However, doesn't this violate the 4th amendment? Depending on the degree to which it is used, of course.
Indeed, it's quite odd that the suburban sprawl model is held up as a triumph of choice and freedom, as if the market has spoken in favour of the one true way to build an entire country.
Of course contractors are treated differently. If they were treated identically to employees, the IRS would probably have some questions.

They knew they were signing up for contractor position. Frankly, they were lucky to get any benefits at all.

The article fails to provide any evidence of abuse though. The worst that Facebook did was not inviting them to company happy hours.
See it's a tough balance. To me, the fun of emacs is getting it exactly as you like and continually optimizing little things. By not having to do SOME painful stuff, you miss out on appreciating the minutia that goes into it. At the same time, many of emacs default settings are very strange so starting with some sanity would be better for newcomers. Maybe some sort of "these are common tweaks that people make right off the bat" page would be the way to go. That way people have to do it themselves (outside of using e.g. spacemacs or prelude) but they have a common place to go to find out about those things. Or at least link to some well known emacs files for developers that code in major languages (a C guy, a Java guy, ...) to give people a place to go to read some elisp and get a feel for what people to do to their editors.
Sometimes it feels good to know you are not alone. I have never understood this fascination with phone apps and mobile, and hourly prognostications that desktop is dead...
I love my desktop(laptop). It provides me with a more comfortable interface. Phone screens are too small, the navigation buttons are more difficult to use. I use my phone to browse the web on occasion, and as a last resort.
The desktop is not dead.
Can you elaborate on that? Seems to me there must me a creationary force that is uncreated.
Is it Apple's fault if the manufacturers discontinue the drivers?
It's somehow hard to believe that clever engineers couldn't come up with something, although I don't have anything to offer in this regard.

Maybe one would need to think about entirely different sewing patterns (that must look the part) and cloth stretching/folding mechanisms for this problem.

It's easy to see why you (with current technology) can't simply "make a robot that does what the human does" here.
They are totally oblivious to their own double standards. Some of the smartest people in the world. That's the tragedy.
"...FBI is mandating manufacture of a whole new chain of evidence to throw defense attorneys and judges off the scent."

Fraud works. Perjury even. This is lying to judges. Pure and simple. Every case should be thrown out or discredited and overturned. It's the only way to restore true balance to justice and let it be known that pure lying will not be tolerated, from anyone, ever.

Edit: it's the same as planting evidence. I've been trying to differentiate it in my head, and you can point to actual guilt, but procedurally (and in the name of justice) it's the same to me.
Probabilities of election fraud is higher than 80% in 20 states
I'm happy to give up grime, drug trafficking, and violence

Well, sure! Anyone would be happy to give up those things; me too! I don't know a person who would say, "I would like to live amidst grime, drug trafficking and violence, please."

... but it's a bizarre non sequitur, unless you're just grossly misinformed about how urban life works.
Recently I have been noticing how Uber/Lyft drivers in NYC are "gps sheep". The lack of common sense is astounding to me. They are very often only listening to their gps and nothing else.

One time, a driver chose to circle around after two blocks instead of turning directly right at an intersection, because Waze said it had a lot of traffic and therefore chose that route. If he had bothered to turn his head right, he'd see that the road was empty.
>Even at a casual glance, your statement is flatly wrong; the peak of the last BTC bubble was 2013-11-30, 1163 USD, a couple months later that bubble had deflated to 826.40 USD, a loss of just over 29%. In the last 20 years, the USD has lost 31.38% of its value, so no, a 29% is not "much worse" than a 31.38% It has rough parity, if we want to get pedantic about it, over the two periods you nominated, the USD actually technically did worse.

Are you listening to yourself? You just compared 20 years to 2 months, and they were approximately equal. That's terrible. Follow it out until the fall of 2014 if you like and it has declined another 50%. Add another few months an in a year from december to december, your wonderful currency has lost nearly 70% of its value. But wait, there's more, let's say you loaded up then because you have so much faith that this is the future (TM). Ride it for just another month and it will lose 30% of the value between December and Jan (~$330->$220).

Methinks you also forgot that money in a bank earns interest and you forgot to deduct that from your devaluation of the USD. $1000 USD in a savings bank in 1996 with a withdrawal now would be about $1500, which essentially nullifies your entire devaluation when talking about holding value over long term.

>would assuage the sense that one had made a bad investment purchasing

Currency is not supposed to behave like an investment. For it to be useful to real humans that depend on it for living day to day, it cannot behave like that.

>price you're dimly aware of from your shallow knowledge

You can just pull prices from here: http://www.coindesk.com/price/

You don't need to pretend that it takes a very complex understanding to recognize an unstable financial instrument. Also, trying to insult people into accepting your views very rarely works.

>The pessimistic projection is a lot less rosy, and involves a massive sovereign debt bust and the collapse of fiat currencies and the corrupt world central banking apparatus, all expenses paid courtesy of your shallow, misplaced faith in the benighted institutions of the modern status quo.

If all currencies collapse, there is little evidence anyone would accept bitcoin instead. Also, a massive debt bust across the global financial system would imply a shortage of cash, not a surplus (a.k.a. deflation and not inflation).
You would be surprised the routes the GPS suggests when you are traveling in less populated areas. I've seen a lot of this near national parks. Often times the route seems reasonable enough but slowly it narrows and becomes worse. It takes some time for you to eventually question your decisions.
> using boiling water in snow-making machines

The seems like a related effect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ3kQPWlU-o

So evaporating water cools the surrounding air?
Why not discuss something tangentially related if people feel like it? Is it necessary to play did-you-even-read-the-article gotcha?
The IVR systems were mostly tree-structured while the bots attempt to be more freeform.

Note my use of the phrase "attempt to be". Occasionally they are!
I stopped at "spiritual deeply humanistic recharge." There's no way I'm watching 90 minutes of BS.

Also, in case it wasn't clear, I have in fact worked at several media companies directly with journalists. I'm not speculating from some distant position about the attitudes of journalists.

If you have an actual point, I'd love to hear it. I don't see how writing basic summaries of the news is a valuable or artistic endeavor.
> You can't draw firm conclusions by something someone said once.

The only people in this thread who are drawing firm conclusions are the ones expressing the firm conclusion that Empty Nose Syndrome is 100% attributable to anxiety.

I certainly don't claim to know what is going on. But I am not at all convinced by the people who are confidently dismissing the possibility of any other causes.

> So what? That's just something that was in the article. Who knows what really happened.

Even if I grant you that he might have unknowingly remembered that his surgery included turbinate reduction, that doesn't matter unless he knew about Empty Nose Syndrome before he experienced the symptoms.

> Now can I check with you whether you read what you wrote? Because it didn't make any sense at all. How can anyone who hasn't had turbinate reduction think they have a condition that is caused by turbinate reduction? That does not compute.

Here is why it computes. Empty Nose Syndrome, as described from various sources, has a common set of symptoms and is linked to one specific surgical procedure. Now let us suppose your theory is correct and it is caused solely by anxiety focused on the surgical intervention. If that were the case, you would expect many people to express this same set of symptoms from other nose-related surgeries. You would expect that the description of Empty Nose Syndrome would then expand to be linked to a number of different nasal surgeries. After all, if these patients are hypochondriacs whose anxiety causes physical discomfort, why would this anxiety be limited to only turbinate reduction?

Now maybe your theory is that awareness of the syndrome itself creates the power of suggestion that causes the patient to feel these symptoms. And without that and the intellectual link to turbinate reduction, they will not experience the symptoms. Now that theory is completely contrary to the story given in the article. But besides that, how under your theory did the syndrome begin? If it takes the power of suggestion to create the sensation, how did the first people experience it?

Anything that created this syndrome out of thin air for turbinate reduction should be able to create it out of thin air for other nose surgeries. And yet for 15 years it has continued to be linked specifically to turbinate reduction. Why?
The entirety of Europe and many countries with colder climates, where suburbia would be unsustainable due to heating costs manage to raise children in safe environments just fine.

Unless you're citing studies that explicitly show suburbia results in better outcomes for children than being raised in urban environments ceteris paribus, it seems like the only argument you're producing here is your own lack of perspective and being unable to venture outside of personal anecdotal experience.

Suburbs are extremely exclusionary (to the point of being outright xenophobic), inefficient, and in most cases outright ugly, populated by cheap, run of the mill outdated construction from the pre 1977 era, when people burned tons of oil to heat the cardboard boxes that are most of the American 'burbs.
I'm wondering if it's wise to push nuclear energy in a country that has so much difficulty keeping its factories and chemical storage all over the country from exploding all the time...
While this may be a more direct or open admission of a "moral" attempt to shape political outcomes, I think it's worth remembering that every other major corporation has its hand in the pot, albeit in a less direct fashion, when its board pours money into lobbyists, special interest groups, and media outlets. Sometimes for "moral" reasons, sometimes for economic reasons - but every major corporation is a political player.
Better bus factor.
Expecting other people to feel guilt over multigenerational sins is possibly silly, but ones' own feelings of guilt are certainly not. It's very human and admirable, even if it's irrational or not constructive or useful. I wouldn't hold it against anyone who didn't feel that guilt, but I wouldn't judge them if they did- I may just respect them all the more. These are the kinds of things that drive people to make the world a better place for everyone.
It is perhaps that hardest objection to overcome. St. Thomas Aquinas gave a good crack at it IMO ( http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1049.htm )

Something I find insightful is he argues that, like cold is an absence of heat, evil is simply an absence of good (God, grace, ect.)
It does get a lot of mention. If the overwhelming majority of housing development in the US is of the suburban sprawl type, it stands to reason that the few pockets of non-dilapidated dense urbanism will be expensive.

Amusingly, this is often cited as evidence of suburbia's unique capacity to provide "affordable housing". Scarce things are unaffordable. Who knew!
> Corporations by their very nature are tyrannical dictatorships.

How so? A boss can only ask for so much before people leave.

(And yes, bad management of the economy can make it hard to find a new job. That's a wider political problem.)
Not sure if this qualifies as similar to PG, but I'd throw in Joel Spolsky of Trello and StackOverflow fame (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/) in there. He doesn't blog anymore, but there's a decade's worth of posts there concerning technology, product management and startups. Some other names off the top of my head: Hanselman, Coding Horror, AVC, Both sides of the table, Justin Kan (only read a few posts that showed up on HN, but I liked them.)
He mentions "The fabric of reality" by David Deutsch. It's a very good book (IMO) and not primarily about multiple universes so don't let that put you off if you think it's rubbish. He does a really good job outlining Popper's theory of science as explanation. Also one thing he notes is that it is really extraordinary that the universe gave rise to something that can understand it. We are the universe looking at itself and understanding it at a more and more fundamental level as time goes on.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01843 <- arxiv link to paper
Flight delayed because passenger thought equations meant terrorism
Another comment here mentioned a recent FAST paper talking about BtrDB, which can get ~16mil writes/sec (nanosecond timestamp, 8 byte values) on a single node, with near-linear speedup when clustering: https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/05/04/btrdb-optimizing-storage...
He's speaking in SF tonight. See you there!
At least the map gives you excuses---ie harder to get fired for doing what your boss tells you. Your detractors will have to make up another charge.
The irony, at least here in Atlanta, is that crappy car-only suburbs have become considerably more affordable than the re-gentrifying inner city. For what I'm paying here in Midtown, I could get myself a palace 30 minutes out, if I wanted to live the way I described in my article.
It depends how frequently you use a server OS that isn't UNIX. SmartOS and OpenBSD are great, but they're not popular.
Had they simply entered Las Vegas from the beginning, it would have got them there no problem..
Keep using sublime, if it works for you. I tried to do the soft sell of vim with tmux to my office, because watching them Alt-Tab between everything, losing or accidentally closing windows, missing little errors because they can't have the editor and terminal up at the same time... It was hard to watch, and made for ugly cluttered demos.

However, watching people try to use vim without wanting to, or taking the time to learn it, just made everyone less efficient, and even more painful to watch.

If you want to learn emacs, then do it. But do it because you want to, or have a need to.
> a sign, in German

Interesting that the sign was in German while you were on the Hungarian side.

I find GPS to be invaluable in countries where I can't even decipher their alphabet (Sanskrit, Chinese) and like you, I end up trusting them a lot more than I probably should!
First, please don't use "hypochondriac" - it's a horribly outdated term and no-one here is trying to diminish the suffering that people feel from this condition, even if they think it's somataform.

> Here is why it computes. Empty Nose Syndrome, as described from various sources, has a common set of symptoms and is linked to one specific surgical procedure. Now let us suppose your theory is correct and it is caused solely by anxiety focused on the surgical intervention. If that were the case, you would expect many people to express this same set of symptoms from other nose-related surgeries. You would expect that the description of Empty Nose Syndrome would then expand to be linked to a number of different nasal surgeries. After all, if these patients are hypochondriacs whose anxiety causes physical discomfort, why would this anxiety be limited to only turbinate reduction?

But these things tend to self limit. Ann says she has chronic fatigue. She undergoes some psychological therapy. She gets some relief from her symptoms. A bunch of people in the CFS organisation now shun Ann, and tell her that she didn't have real CFS.
In a job setting, don't. Integration is more important at first. Emacs is a way of life. You got a lisp, with beautiful libraries (binary parser, ~bnf parsers, hashtables, trees) that allow you to parse, interact, render data as you see fit at the tip of your fingers.

Lisp systems are dynamic, you can extend/modify them on the fly. It's a bit ugly but for a personal experience it beats Eclipse plugins by far. Most IDEs are fixed and complicated to modify. The way they understand UI and UX are also often subpar (magit is way more effective than most IDE versionning interfaces I've seen).

Emacs ain't perfect (~fragile shell integration, old culture => weird defaults), but its value offset its warts.

ps: Oh, and I forgot, you also have a symbolic calculator. Always handy.
Ummm, I'm not sure you know what that means. Your choice of editor doesn't in any way affect your bus factor.
It's because of TIGER! It groups a huge variety of roads together as something like 'minor road, open to the public'. A dirt trail all the way up to a nice highway that they haven't noticed was rebuilt.

Most digital US maps started with it and low traffic areaas are not a priority to update to something more sensible.
The past feeds the present. It's important to recognize where you come from and how that contextualizes your existence where you are.

Is that guilt? I don't know. But trying to avoid it, I think, is blissful ignorance.