skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems we're talking about cash registers here. If their software happened to be running on Windows but the business bought them as self-contained devices, I'm not sure why the business staff would necessarily even have realised Windows was running on them, never mind been responsible for any software licence agreements or the like. The supplier of those cash registers might have made mistakes here, but the business staff are well justified in being upset at critical devices stopping working because of something like this.
The fire-fighting thing sticks out to me a bit, in part because it's caused me pain in the past and in part because you keep mentioning it. I might venture a guess that one of the underlying issues that's really getting to you is not the lack of actually writing code, per se, but that you have always had environments where you can get lost in deep focus or flow, and now your brain is being actively rewired to support continual rapid context switching. This is uncomfortable and unfamiliar and your brain is rebelling against this new environment.

I've never had a CTO title, but I've been in many similar positions.

In case you decide to stick it out for a while, I would suggest several easily implemented opportunities immediately:

(1) Establish an #engineering-support channel in Slack and a Triage calendar in Google Calendar. Put your team members on a rotating schedule to triage any engineering fires that the business has.

The Calendar should pipe into the Slack channel at 9 am every day. For a few weeks, send an "@channel please remember $engineer is your point of contact for today." By then the rest of the business should get the idea. Instruct your team that you trust them to decide which issues need to be addressed immediately and which ones need to go into the queue, but if they have any questions they can escalate to you. Also explain you understand that context switches are expensive, and you are totally okay if this causes a productivity hit on their given triage day.

It doesn't mean you won't be interrupted with real fires, but it does keep the less urgent ones from creating a context switch for you. Include yourself in the schedule, and you can send the message to your team "we're all in this together" instead of "hey I'm too good for this nonsense."

(2) The Business guys will respect your calendar, and if they don't, you have leverage to call them out on it because The Calendar is sacred in the business world. Block out 2 or 3 hour chunks throughout your week to work on hard problems. You drive a lot more value this way than with the fire fighting, anyway.

(3) The Calendar also works for time with your family. Daughter's Ballerina Recital? Block out 4pm-8pm on your calendar as soon as your hear about it—"Blocked—At Home"—and again, leverage if somebody wants to interrupt you with a fire.

(4) Train everyone on how to add each others' calendar to their own calendar view; this seems obvious to engineering, but less engineering-minded people may not know they can do that.
Actually something I picked up in my summer at McKinsey.

For web content, we think of "above/below the fold".
For executives/investors, the analogue is "above/below the [first screen of my blackberry | iPhone alert]".
Keep in mind that authors don't always write the headlines and subheadlines.
There are a good subset of developers wanting to work full time in any functional language, and most of them have walked through haskell at some point.
Geohashes are not human friendly. It's easy to screw up a geohash when transferring it.
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Yeah, even assuming Microsoft cuts losses and makes the company profitable again through some product integrations, it's still a huge price tag.

LinkedIn has stalled growth and brought in $2.9 billion in rev last year, which means that all things constant it will take nine years to cover the $26 B price tag.

Microsoft must really have some big plans for it to justify the costs.
This PBS video helped me understand the discovery, and put it into context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFOgIijPWGY

There's speculation this could be as mundane as a penta-quark proton, or a number of exciting particles.
StackOverflow did something similar. In the early days, Spolsky and Atwood podcasted their weekly phone conversations. An advantage of their approach was that other than recording and publishing the audio it was an organic business activity. That's somewhat different from writing blog posts about the process.
Re side note: back in the day, yes. ALAC went open many years ago: https://alac.macosforge.org/
This already exists. It is called a Total Return Swap. It allows the purchase of the economics of a security without the actual ownership.
Being paid for your work is a basic human right.

Walk.
The words were literally translated? That makes no sense... the meaning of the words is not important.
What's interesting about this deal is what didn't happen
1. Google who is right next door and wants to make a dent in Cloud didn't go after them
2. LinkedIn who is a monopoly in this category- decided to give up trying to go its own- seems like they knew they topped out
I think this more and more every year. The amount of technologic obsolescenced is growing with each passing day - and some of it, for no good reason. Getting rid of analog jacks that go directly before analog devices (like headphones) is just stupid. Putting DACs and amplifier circuitry inside of cables and headphones for the purpose of listening to high quality audio is just stupid.
This sort of reminds me of fasd[1]. The thing is I think I would prefer a menu instead typing "e6". Typing line numbers to go somewhere seems to be an inherent Vim user trait that I just haven't picked up (ie typing the command plus some number is just too much of a cognitive load for me.. I would rather press the keys over and over again).

Maybe you can pipe ag to the venerable "dialog" (yes that thing is garbage and reminds me of old school RedHat installs) but I wonder if someone has something better.

[1]: https://github.com/clvv/fasd
I guess it goes with the saying that "Hiring (Haskell) developers is not hard, hiring good (Haskell) developers is hard"
On the other hand, though, any developer that knows Haskell is much more likely to be a good developer. So even if the overall pool is smaller, the percentage of that pool that is qualified is probably much higher.
It's consistently the top selling game they have over there, it's continuing to print money at a constant rate (compared to most games which tend to make most of their money around releases).
Neo4j, like all graph databases I've tried, is only okay with small data.

Suppose I want to import a medium-sized graph into Neo4j. Medium-sized as in "fits on a hard disk and doesn't quite fit in RAM". One example would be importing DBPedia.

Some people have come up with not-very-supported hacks for loading DBPedia into Neo4j. Some StackOverflow comments such as [1] will point you to them, and the GitHub pages will generally make it clear that this is not a process that really generalizes, just something that worked once for the developer.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12212015/how-to-setup-neo...

Now suppose you want to load different medium-sized graph-structured data into Neo4j. You're basically going to have to reinvent these hacks for your data.

And the last time I tried to load my multi-million-edge dataset into Neo4j through its documented API, I estimated that it would have taken several weeks to finish.

Don't tell me that I need some sort of enterprise distributed system to import a few million edges. Right now I keep these edges in a hashtable that I wrote myself, in not-very-optimized Python, that shells out to "sort" for the computationally expensive part of indexing. It's not a very good DB but it gets the job done for now. It takes about 2 hours to import.
I certainly wouldn't call it "spyware"

Do you have a better term for code that does user-unwanted tracking of their behavior, on any level, which hides itself from view, is difficult (in many cases impossible) to disable, and resists the will of the user when they try things like hosts file filtering?

The only difference between 3rd party spyware and Microsoft spyware is the stated intention of the author. Oh, and the former generally being easier to remove.

Somehow, we improved OSes and UIs before this kind of always on bullshit was commonly accepted. And I see it as a negative besides, it means that any "improvements" are always going to be pointed at the lowest common denominator, which has a habit of leaving power users out in the cold.
Ask HN: What are the alternatives to LinkedIn?
I am not happy that my data now will belong to MS and I want to migrate to an alternative. Any suggestions?
It seems that there were unusually large amounts traded on Friday.
The article lists Mongolian US embassy address as "constants.stuffy.activism", except the map they link to gives me the address "indoor.sheepish.blues". How can it be an address if it changes with time?
This is likely why Apple is so interested in killing the 3.5 mm jack. They want a cut of Square's business.
Tangental, but are there any laws against SMS recruiter spam in the U.S.? Some recruiters have found my SMS somehow and text me with offers now. Mildly infuriating.
I will work on text filter for technologies. Right now there are not many options.
Probably easier for Haskell: for Java (and most other broadly-recognized-as-industrially-popular languages) a lot of the problem of hiring good developers is separating the people that are self-motivated, will dig into to new challenges, and do something more than cargo cult coding from the herd.

With Haskell, well, that's probably a lot less of a problem, for now.
remember that both nokia and apple already tried that.

nokia with custom headset pop ports. and apple with pins changes on the 3,5mm plug that resulted in the plagged state of incompatibility screwing users to this day.

thanks apple greed when one 3.5mm headset mic and buttons don't work on one device.
tag is very cool, but please don't implement the shortcuts with shell aliases:

~/badcode$ echo "func" > badfile.go\;\ echo\ \"Gotcha\!\"
~/badcode$ ls
badfile.go; echo "Gotcha!"
~/badcode$ tag func
badfile.go; echo "Gotcha!"
[1] 1:func
~/badcode$ e1
Gotcha! +1

In case that's not clear, I was able to create a file with a name that contains potentially malicious shell commands that is now bound to an alias via tag.

Other ways to implement the shortcuts: create a flag or subcommand to look up an hit from the results file and jump to it (I can alias this command to suit my taste) or prompt me for input before returning to the command line.
I disagree that we should discourage engaging discussion just because it happens to be meta or only tangentially related. This is a user experience problem, not a content problem. More specifically, this is a use case for comment-thread collapsing where when, as a user, you come across a long thread that doesn't interest you, you can collapse it and immediately be at more content, rather than needing to manually find the end of the uninteresting thread.

This allows both for the community to drive the discussion to what most interests the community, and to allow those with different tastes than the majority to still participate without alienating or frustrating them or those involved in said discussion.
> If you saw a LinkedIn profile that you thought would make a good addition to your team, would you not reach out to that person just because you found them on LinkedIn?

I'd never approach someone cold like that.

>If someone approached you and said "I saw your profile on LinkedIn and I like what your company is doing, I'd like to get together and discuss the possibility of working with you", would you say no?

I'd absolutely say no, because that kind of unsolicited approach means that you're just fishing, and that I happened to wind up in your net along with umpteen others. In other words, you approaching me via a LinkedIn profile doesn't mean you're actually interested.
It's designed to be dependent on their proprietary implementation.

MGRS is (approximately) a dense encoding of UTM coordinates, at similar precision it's a lot less memorable than 3 words:

4QFJ 12345 67890

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_grid_reference_system )

But it does have the property that coordinates are easy to compare to each other. Less precision can be used just by dropping digits:

4QFJ 1234 6789 - the 10 meter zone that the 1 meter zone above falls inside

4QFJ 123 678 - the 100 meter zone
If Wikipedia is to be believed, that's intentional as an error-detecting mechanism:

"The result is that if you enter athree-word combination slightly incorrectly and the result is still a valid w3w reference, the location will be so far away from the user’s intended area that it will be immediately obvious to both a user and an intelligent error-checking system."

I'm skeptical of just how well that'll work, personally. Witness the example of the truck driver who drove to Gibraltar, England instead of the one next to Spain.
You are so right and yet downvoted of course. I think this goes to show the way Microsoft runs its business. Keep the world 10 years behind because people are gullible enough to keep using it. They would have been better off spending the money to buy Canonical.
The market corrected itself which is really what markets give you.
At supersonic cruise (M2) Concorde used fuel at the same rate as a Jumbo, a quick google search reveals this:

"BA said a 747 cost $100,000 to fly each way across the atlantic in wages, fuel, maintenace etc, before fixed costs. At the same time Concorde was costing $120,000".

Having read in the past the various Concorde threads on pprune.org, one view was that it was killed of by Airbus who didn't want to keep on supporting it as the manufacturer so helped get rid of the certificate of airworthiness. see this url http://www.concorde-spirit-tours.com/concorde.htm for at least one view.
Just added it.
If meaning of words is not important, I say let's default to Euskera.
RDRAND is probably microcoded, so they should just be able to patch it out. Since they can't be charged with anything malicious, Intel gets off scot-free.
It also provides access to an alumni network.
/s/TTP/TPP/
faster and stable

And uglier, and limited. While the people here might not have any problem with the entire web looking like Ward Cunningham's wiki, I doubt the public at large feels the same...
Looks exactly like what Mountain Duck from https://mountainduck.io/ already does.
What's easier for you to remember -

ample.estate.racing

or

хангалттай.хөрөнгийн.уралдааны
> So with airport time, let's say ~6 hours total.

How'd you manage to spend (average) only 45 minutes in the airport on each end? Even pre-TSA, I never managed to go from front door to jetway that fast.
US citizen here, early 30s. My wife and I are preparing to head out as expats when our child arrives. We're paying ~$700/month in health insurance premiums (going up to $1000 next year per our insurer, before adding our newborn), real estate is expensive anywhere where non-remote jobs are plentiful, as well as the issues you mentioned.

I love my country, I simply hate what its government and citizens have done to it :(
Not an expert, but I would think it depends how broken down they are. Assuming you have the tech to examine millions of fragments, you would still need long enough sequences for the overlaps to be unique. For instance, you probably couldn't put a book back together with nothing but ten character phrases, but you probably could with 100 characters. It would be interesting to run a simulation to see where the cutoff lies.
There is a nice animated video about people waking up the wonders of a natural night sky:
https://vimeo.com/67419875

I can still remember the first time I saw the Milky Way. At first, I thought it was just a cloud, but man, it was beautiful.
Thanks for the link, but that's the same point about the reduction of fair-use of copyrighted works.

I meant the analysis of all the -other- things, besides copyright harmonization, that make TPP bad, which the author refers to briefly:

"There's so much in there that's about blatant protectionism and supporting certain business models over others."

and

"(...) other problems in the agreement (such as the corporate sovereignty provisions that will almost certainly come back to bite Google and others)."

These could be good points, but since the author mentions them only in passing, and does not expand on them. After reading both links it sounds as if the author's opposition of Google's stance is entirely predicated on the copyright/fair-use topic, despite implying that TPP is deeply flawed for other reasons that should warrant its abandonment.
Spam them.
> "The TPP ... limits governments’ ability to demand access to encryption keys or other cryptographic methods"

This seems good though.
I foresee a synergistic relationship between the companies. Microsoft is reorganizing to focus on business cloud solutions, built upon a subscription-based model. The online Office365 suite is the future. Acquiring LinkedIn will allow for targeting IT professionals.

That said, I hate LinkedIn.
... or spin the motor with another motor. It could be motors all the way down . . .
Except this time Clippy's serving ads.

And my documents/presentations/spreadsheets are going to be cross-referenced with Linked-In? Sounds like a mechanism to put me one click away from accidentally sending sensitive info to someone working for a competitor.

Nothing about this sounds "delightful" to me. It sounds intrusive and risky.
So it's like DNS for GPS coordinates. Neat!
It has been growing 35% year on year recently, at $3b revenue. No reason why this could not keep accelerating thanks to effects from MS.
Your own website. Why rely on someone else owning your data?
Oh yeah, East Germany always had a, "well-earned", bad reputation concerning racists or right wing extremists. I don´t want to question that and I don´t want to minimize the issue, I just wanted to point out that right-wing positions are on a rise all over Germany, so it´s nothing "exclusive" to the East anymore.

And the frustration surely arises from lots of reasons, the refugees are just an easy outlet for those people there now. Like the somewhat-undefined unhappiness of the last 30 years can now be pointed to the refugess. That obviously is not true, but some people benefit from the fact that other people think that way.

I am totally with you that the article is not very well written regarding that. Perhaps the whole situation is not very known to the author and he most probably had some official documents and marketing brochures as sources and you will most probably not find "East Germany is nice, except that we like to hit immigrants and burn their houses down." in there.
Wars are more often over resources, with ideology and identity (secular or religious) as a tool for the elites that want the resources to motivate the non-elites that aren't getting the resources one way or another to fight on their behalf.
This is an awesome idea and I wish you the absolute best of luck with it. As a software engineer in a startup that does our own logistics/fulfillment/warehousing/etc, I can say I'd love to see more modern products in this area.
This is a fantastic move for Microsoft, and IMO, a premature throwing-in-the-towel moment for LinkedIn. At $26B, that's less than 10% of Facebook's market-cap. That's a steal for the world's biggest Social-Professional Network, and the medium through which most recruiting could conceivably happen in the future. Given that MS currently has no social presence at all, but has a fantastic enterprise sales channel, LinkedIn is a great asset for them.

The idea of going to physical career fairs in thousands of colleges around the country, and collecting/handing out paper resumes just to make the connections happen, always seemed like a woefully inefficient way of connecting job seekers with employers. In the future, this process is going to become more and more digital, and networks like LinkedIn are going to become vital hubs in this new wave. If Microsoft can find a way to accelerate and monetize this trend, this acquisition could well be one of the best deals of the decade.
You might avoid lights between cities, but within cities, highways may have pedestrians.
tl;dr: different markets & different needs

It's not hard to get a dedicated fulfillment service once you've hit a decent size (say ~10k/day). But it's a very intensive sales process with long-term commitments.

They also tend to be both opaque and hard to integrate with other systems. Most use end of day EDI (yes, the 30yr old standard), some of the more "modern" ones have multiple drop times/day.

So major fulfillment providers (not UPS, which doesn't do fulfillment; but FedEx/Rakuten/etc.) are both inappropriate for fast-growing, flexible or seasonal loads, and don't support innovation in customer service for eCommerce companies.

FBA is a much more modern (and extremely successful!) service, but is only cost-effective if you're selling on Amazon. Their 3rd-party, non-branded service is not only prohibitively expensive but feature-light and under-developed.
The author has previously written articles describing several other reasons:

https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=tpp
aple is testing how gullible the market is for this type of things for years.

I can plug my asus devices direct to a vga or hdmi projector. for apple I need a external plug. then the same for network. then the same for SD cards, I need a special shorter one. then for 3.5mm phone jacks, for apple I ned one with COMM in the MIC pin and vice versa. etc.

the market was always gullible to all that and they know it. so they will continue with the trend until the money flow stops.
And surely the mongolian translation has been carefuly vetted like the original english one ... no offensive phrases in mongolian?
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The thing about Epic Hyperspace is that it's polarizing for those who work in the medical profession.

You either love it or you hate it, and the physicians who hate it typically hate it because of what you said - they're suddenly having to type their own notes into a computer rather than dictate it to someone else.

Personally I'm of the opinion that doctors doing their own data entry is better for liability and malpractice reasons, but I empathize with your wife and people who hate doing it.
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Tip: you should leave your contact details on your profile, in case one is reading this.
I've had no experience with Lynda but what's underwhelming about PS? It definitely seems to lack of depth in a lot of courses but provides a good overview/refresher on things in my experience.
So iOS and Android are spyware? Apps that collect telemetry are spyware? Where do you draw the line?
No setbacks, in many people's opinion is that it creates a tunnel like effect on the street and cuts out light on the lower floors shops and offices. Its also not the norm in the Area.

I guess setbacks are a 'nice to have' if you are an owner in the area. As an overpaying renter, I couldn't care less.
It does if you're a visitor trying to find an address in the local language.
TSA Pre-Check plus no checked bags feels like some sort of travel revolution
No, they don't seem to have been literally translated. My Swedish address is not the translation of my English address.

Which is kind of interesting in its own right, since you can then refer to the same physical location in different ways depending on which language you use.

This calls for some kind of geographic cross-lingual poetry.
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