skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not nearly as relevant/helpful it's often made out to be.

Executives are more helpful than most give them credit for. If you're a credible contact with real experience, and authentically ask someone for input or advice, most are happy to chat.

The thing about the vaunted "HBS network" is that if you're qualified to get in to HBS, you're extremely likely to be otherwise credible; those who wish they had access to the alumni network also tend to not have enough meat on their CV to get access either way.

I personally suspect that the most important networking aspect of an HBS degree is just humanizing executives and learning how to communicate with them. If you've got those two things down, actually connecting is much easier.
The trick is to pull the cable by the plug and not by the cable. I've got a few of these $5 cables for different applications and they're great. Smile link: https://smile.amazon.com/Mediabridge-3-5mm-Stereo-Audio-Cabl...
British Airways' 747-400 carry between 275 and 345 passengers, depending on configuration. But still. Similar in principle :)

http://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/information/about-ba/fle...
MIT’s AI Passes Turing Test for Sound
N.B. This here is HN, not Reddit.

It's like asking - is the next major version of something just a hype.

Okay, Bitcoin was good, it introduced the concept of the blockchain and solved a long-standing issue in a very energy inefficient way.

To run all this computing power just so that Chinese thieves and speculators can sneak out stolen money or increase it as they either lack means to invest elsewhere or it'd be just too sophisticated for them to do, is a ridiculous concept that cannot be sustained for too long!

P.S. By promoting Bitcoin, you support Climate Change, illicit businesses, and stinky speculation.
> In the extreme cases (and ultra-small sizes like 2 or 3), we can even run into deadlocks (!).

If this happens to you, you're doing it wrong. You have deadlocks; they just aren't happening "usually" unless you're "unlucky"... but happen they will!

Build your program to run correctly when all queues are buffer size of 1. If it doesn't work, you're doing it wrong.

Now raise the buffer sizes to something reasonable to reduce the performance frictions of too-strict scheduling. You will never have deadlocks.
> You have to leave code behind at a certain point and spend your time on people/financial/planning issues

As an exceptional case, you can get into a large tech company like Google/Microsoft and thus enjoy a higher position while still being able to do what you enjoy (coding and technical stuff).

I was faced with this same dilemma when I quit my day job in a large multinational company and started freelance programming. As you said, there are career roadblocks in most companies when you are more technically inclined than managerial. Besides, there is no large employer like Google/Microsoft/etc. in my country, so freelancing is my only option.
Yes, but I think it's fair to say that any supersonic service would cost more than business/first in subsonic planes today. Therefore, it doesn't make a lot of sense to look at supersonic passenger flight as a fix for traveling trans-Pacific in coach.
Trust isn't just the flavor of the month. It's the only tried and tested currency of the future. How does your company cultivate it?
The difference is when I update on iOS 9.something things will work.

When I update windows, I have to buy a new printer or, the headphone jack no longer works...
In fact: century in Italian is "secolo"... :)
Or what about something as simple as inheritance? Does passing a stock by bequest reset the voting clock? If not, then we can rig people's wills to pass ownership, creating a perverse market for the nearly-dead to sell their services in exchange for cash up front.
Investors Warn Unicorns: Share Information Evenly or Get Sued
Most recruiters view a LinkedIn profile as an invite to reach out to almost anyone, and many recruiters apparently are reaching out to people who explicitly say "please, don't contact me if you're a recruiter".

There used to be an "interested in" section at the bottom of profiles. It appears to be gone now, and you could check off things like "Career opportunities", "networking", etc. That section appears to be gone now.

Using LinkedIn isn't lazy for recruiters, it's smart - it's just the easiest way to find people. The easiest way to find active job seekers would be resume/job boards.

Recruiters who limit themselves to only using LinkedIn to identify potential candidates are lazy. Many devs could be found in a host of other places, and many like you don't want to be on LinkedIn.

The other reason recruiters tend to rely on LinkedIn is they can get quite a bit of value out of it even at the free level.
Just an aside, but I really like the videos that Hiss and Roar makes to accompany their sound libraries:

For example, "Vegetable Violence": http://hissandaroar.com/sd001-vegetable-violence/

"Vegetable Violence is an organic sound effects library for creating your own orchestrated sonic mayhem. Vegetable rips, tears, squelches, hits, punches, stabs all recorded & mastered at 96kHz for stomach churning realism, this component library of gore sound effects is available for immediate download."
It bases on:

- video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khuj4ASldmU

- paper: Manuel Ruder, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Thomas Brox, "Artistic style transfer for videos" https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.08610

- code: https://github.com/manuelruder/artistic-videos
Developer.apple.com/macos/ redirects to developer.apple.com/osx/
Try it https://developer.apple.com/macos/
Well, I was recommending Upwork to nearly every developer I know. Plus founded a russian slack conference about freelancing through Upwork.

I love it. It helped me so much to bootstrap my freelance career.

In the same time things described in the post made a lot of good freelancer leave the platform. B/c it's an easier way to cope with it's mechanical support.
Hello, WWDC 16
The sound of the hamburger rain in "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" was wet brown paper towels (you know, from school?) being flopped against a floor.
Jeez, I don't like the TPP either, but can you really call it the "wrong" side? This is a perfect example of the kind of general arrogance that I see on the left which allows conservatives to mop the floor with leftists.
You didn't really say anything the article didn't say.
I love being a CTO. You can design the technical organization you want to lead. If you are unhappy, change the design of your organization. It takes time (and money), but totally worth it.

I think the key when you achieve product market fit is filling the roles in your technical organization with stronger leaders than you, and stepping out of those management positions. Plus, you can learn from and partner with these people.

If you're a technical CTO, and want to code more than manage/build a team, then hire/promote a VP of Engineering with strong soft skills to grow/manage your team. If its the reverse, hire/promote a VP of Engineering who's technically stronger.

If you're constantly being pulled into engineering battles, hire/promote an architect you respect to negotiate.

If you're running engineering meetings (ipm's, retros, etc), hire/promote a SCRUM master or equivalent.

If you're battling sales, operations or marketing, hire a Director of Product Management with solid communication skills. That person will 'fight' your battles (and probably love it!).

If you're putting out fires in production, hire/promote a Director of QA. They'll work on designing systems to catch those bugs.

If your infrastructure goes down a lot, hire/promote a senior devops engineer.

On the engineering/coding front, I find it super helpful to rotate into teams and pair one-on-one with engineers. You get exposure to their day-to-day code battles/challenges/environments, the tech decisions at the lowest levels, the ability to code/manage daily and respect with your team. You can then prioritize stories/epics to fix problems that you see across your organization that plague a technical team like debt, environments, knowledge gaps, etc.

Don't step away, stay positive and solve for the organization you want to lead.
> Then why are people arguing? I honestly don't think I wrote anything even slightly contentious in my original comment.

I think your original interpretation was slightly pedantic, and even though, to your credit, you were very careful to repeat your exact phrasing multiple times in many comments, nobody commented on what was likely the crux of the difference (which I have to admit, I'm confuses as to why that was ignored). Should everyprogram be converted? Definitely not. Is conversion even necessarily the goal? I think not. I think the goal is to get a rust representative of each area for promote choice.

It's about trust, and not necessarily how much I trust the specific developer, but that in using a language the requires specific conformance to compile, I can replace some subset of the trust I had to afford to the developer to the tool I use to compile. Do I trust code written by DJB or the OpenBSD developers? Yes. Would I like a way to transfer some amount of that level of trust to the random author of a library on github that would be really useful for my work? Hell yes. Does that replace my need to look for markers, whether in the code or based on project/author status, to determine whether the project and/or developers are competent and trustworthy? No, but it can reduce it.

> I agree, but I believe more benefit will likely be gained by writing new libraries and programs, not from rewriting old ones. I think only concrete absolute necessity should guide any rewriting effort.

Depending on what you mean by "new libraries" (new concepts or new versions?), I don't think that's sufficient. True, most of the real benefit of a rewrite or new implementation of a need won't happen from a language conversion from an existing library, but if it comes down to getting a new (for example) libc and our choice is to convert a small implementation so there's something or to wait for the next project to come along and hope they don't choose C, I'm happy with the conversion for now. If we're lucky, it will also show those about to start on the next libc-like project that Rust is a viable option, so it isn't done in C.
How do you plan to use this information? What does "us" mean in this context => "Please tell us"?
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Have you any idea how difficult it is to revert something like that? It doesn't sound like a trivial Cmd + Z to me. It sounds like a lot of work with limited upside for the team that implemented it. Nobody likes undoing their own work...

Anyway, I'm not saying it wasn't a dick move by Microsoft. I just don't think it's representative of their entire company.
I wonder how many audiophiles are aware of the drawbacks of Bluetooth? The protocol only allows for lossy compressed digital formats. Even if you're starting with a lossy compressed format like mp3 anyway, the typical system flow will result in a second compression with the consequent loss in fidelity.
Art of software outsourcing. How to save money and still get quality developers?
The article's about the FAA ban on supersonic travel over the US - there is currently no ban on transoceanic flights.
DelaneyM, your posts here, especially when combined, would make a pretty compelling article in their own right. Please consider writing them into a blog post and submit that to HN as well.
What 5G Engineers Can Learn from Radio Interference’s Troubled Past
This would mean that a floppy disc (hardware) and the filesystem used to arrange the bits thereon (software) are each a database. How is breaking down the distinction between database, filesystem, and storage medium helpful?
I know switching jack standards is always a hassle, but at least USB is at least a little less prone to foreign object contamination. I tried to watch a movie during a recent flight only to discover that there was a dog treat crumb stuck down in the bottom of my cell phone's 3.5mm audio port so I couldn't insert the headphone plug.
TPP could change that
When there are enough passengers to saturate full all-standing throughout, reducing throughput to allow individual latency improvement will soon cause waiting times before the bottleneck. Once a sufficiently long queue has formed, newly arriving walkers will not have a quicker total journey than they would have had under throughput optimization with shorter (or no) queues.
I agree that a manager somewhere in the organisation did OK this change but that's one person. I don't believe he or she is representative of the hundred thousand people that Microsoft employ.
The new Square reader which supports contact-less payments uses Bluetooth - so they're moving in the right direction at least.
You don't have to pollute your environment with Java.
You are most likely an officer of the company (unless you are "CTO" informally?). You know the company to be violating local employment law and taxes. You probably have an obligation to attempt to do something about this if your CEO will not. Conversely, you may (?) bear some responsibility if you do not take action.

IANAL, and this is not free legal advice. My advice is to talk to a lawyer ASAP. Your inital consultation is likely to be free of charge. Consult.
The Use of Millimeter Waves on Security, Defense and Surveillance
I think the difference that the author wants to stress here is that this new particle would be something that no one has predicted. The discovery of the Higgs, on the other hand, was an experiment that confirmed a theory which had been formulated several decades ago. And while this is also an amazing achievement, finding a particle that can't be accounted for with our current theories is much more exciting (to me at least), as it means that our current understanding of particle physics is fundamentally or at least partially wrong.

This, I think, is exactly the kind of discovery that people expected from the LHC: Something new and exciting that invalidates our current theories and gives us a possibility to devise / test new ones against real experimental data. After all, the real shortage in particle physics is not the number of theories (we can invent a quasi infinite number of them), but the data against which we can test them.
Yes the title may give that impression, but the video explains clearly the source of the audio
Great idea, until your address is something like "persistent.ugly.pancake" "white.power.manatee..."
Kube2haproxy: High Availability HAProxy Auto Configuration for Kubernetes
kube2haproxy is a centralized high availability proxy solution which we build to replace the built-in kube-proxy. If you intend to replace kube-proxy, also be familiar with HAProxy, please give a try: https://github.com/AdoHe/kube2haproxy
India Is Building a $60M Monsoon-Predicting Supercomputer
on in this case, microsoft.
Or you have a fullscreen program open, say a video game or a movie. And bam. Computer just shuts down without warning. What the heck? Installing Updates. :(
What exactly is ctags? That README and the accompanying docs seem to only describe how the project has changed from an unseen progenitor on SourceForge.
As the ex-CTO of an ecommerce startup, I really hope you succeed and wish you the best of luck.

There's plenty of us, little guys that need logistics/fulfillment and the options just suck. There's a huge space between starting (when you can do it yourself with UPS/equivalent or even standard post) and when you hit a few thousand packages per day (when Fedex and similar is a decent option).
Are the words english only? Hoe are they translated?
What about:

https://github.com/GovernmentCommunicationsHeadquarters/Gaff...
Depended heavily on the airport layout and how close you want to cut it on the departure side. Avoiding checked bags is a significant timesaver.

I missed a few flights doing this but pre-9/11 it was definitely possible (but not advisable) to get to a smaller airport 30-45 minutes before departure and make the flight.

On the arrival side, back in the good old days (mid to late 90's?) with no checked luggage I could get from the arrival gate to Hertz #1 club gold rental car pickup (when it was in the terminal A garage) at SJC without breaking stride - probably 5 minutes max from the aircraft door to car door.
I'm not sure what to say - there isn't a proper word to substitute with.

I don't really know what the limits of resolution of paranoia, racism or misogyny are.
That's odd. You didn't mind your data belonging to LinkedIn (which has suffered some rather large data breaches) but are not happy with it being with MS (which, arguably has better protection)? In anycase, I would assume, the value of LinkedIn was the network, so unless the alternative has the same level of networking it would really be pointless to migrate.

That said, I know for a fact that Xing is as popular (if not more) in Germany. So, perhaps there are other similar professional networking sites with a local focus based on where you are.
You pay for domains so it's not all that different.
Depends on the airline, I suppose. Air Canada used to fly 747-100s with 400 seats:

http://www.aircanada.com/en/about/fleet/historical/b747-100....
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No, I'm saying that a group of individuals in the company made the decision, including managers and perhaps senior execs. It was not a board level decision, at least imo.
Notifications:

* Random page 1 blah blah blah live video *

* Random page 2 blah blah blah live video *

* Random page 3 blah blah blah live video *

* Random page N blah blah blah live video *

> No option to disable globally those notifications

Yeah, sure, good UX...
Thanks. Had come across it earlier but only watched one video, IIRC. Will check again.
I don't know what your terms/conditions are with upwork, but if you've been with the same place 14 months, couldn't you cut out the middle man there? Would there be anything stopping you from going back if you need to find a new gig?
I think people here are underestimating how big a thing this actually is and I think the headline is kind of to blame for that. This is much less about fooling humans than about what this actually means.

Humans spend a huge part of our early live learning to listen and to connect the dots between what we see and what we hear.

The fact that Deep Learning algos now can simulate audio based on what they see thats the big thing here. Not the production of the sound that fools humans. You can almost sense how imagination and inspiration is inside the reach of machine learning (yes there are some way to go yet)

We are now not only seeing individual senses being simulated but also the relationship between them. And as a bonus what one machine learns one place can be instantly added to the knowledge of the other.

Thats IMO the big deal here.
I just got "donald trump liar ted cruz" as an autocomplete on google.
Here is one I saw recently:

Why I love D: Erich Gubler at DConf 2015:

https://youtu.be/jNQF3m5e2l0
It makes a whole lot more sense from a testing and EMF perspective. A connector is generally much more predictable than wireless- and the user interface is a lot easier to understand and troubleshoot by an everyday person. Getting bluetooth to pair or setting a phone into a hotspot and then joining the device to the wifi network would be a support call nightmare.

I think it makes infinitely more sense to give you something you plug in. Attackers can't hijack the signal in interesting ways, and nearly anyone who would use a Square device would be familiar with how to plug things into a 3.5mm jack.
I wish HN would ban or at least officially frown upon posting links that are behind a pay wall. How can you reasonably discuss an article you can't read?
I read this in Trump's voice.
45 years after the Pentagon Papers, a new challenge to government secrecy
Did you consider responding and letting them know you weren't interested?
I'm definitely not misremembering anything. The original (1-3rd gen) iPods sounded horrible. Maybe the amp was to blame, instead of the DAC, but they sounded bad. If you look back at the discussions regarding portable music players from the time, the Creative ZEN series always comes out ahead of the iPod in objective and subjective testing.

I was slightly late to the MP3 player game myself, but after listening to several different MP3 players I ended up with a Dell DJ because it just sounded better than the competition. That's just my personal, non-audiophile opinion, of course.

I'm not knocking the iPod. It was a better device than the competition in a lot of ways. It just didn't have audiophile quality sound.
I think these conversations don't happen because job seekers aren't really using LinkedIn in this way, at least yet. When I coach job seekers, I usually encourage them to use LinkedIn to try and identify companies that could be a fit similar to how recruiters use LinkedIn.

If you're a Python dev and you want to work within 30 miles of Dallas TX, you can do an advanced search on the word Python (maybe add a couple others) and then set location to Dallas metro. Your results will be individuals, and those individuals all should be working for local companies that are using Python (with some false positives obviously). That's a decent list to start off for someone, because it's not just companies that are currently listing open jobs - applying only to open jobs isn't the best way to find jobs.
I have some doubts.

a) suppose I am in Apt #312 in Bellevue Mansion, Whatever Street 23, San Jose, California.

Apt. #311 is on a wildly different set, so how can I find out we are neighbours? Or how can I explain to someone where Whatever Street #21 is?

b) what if I have the same 3-words square, but you are on floor #7 and I am on floor #11?
That is against their TOS.

Upwork encourages you to do all messaging on the platform, and scans your messages for hints that you are trying to move work off the platform. If so, they give you temporary bans or other punishments.

I'm not saying that no one does this, but Upwork are vigilant about it.
Think about it: MBAs learn non-engineering skills, so how could it possibly be otherwise. If you get an MBA and continue engineering work, then by definition you're not leveraging your MBA, and vice-versa. That's a huge simplification, of course and I don't completely agree with the OP, but that's the gist of her point.
Very interesting. I think the reality in a lot of situations is that most people don't really need the full feature-set that graph databases provide.

I ran into a similar problem trying to explore Wikidata's json dumps. It's a lot simpler to load it into MongoDB and create indices where you need them, rather than figuring out how to interface to a proprietary system that you may or may not end up using in the long run.

I'm still having trouble keeping my indices in memory though, and would be keen to know what sort of latency you encounter hitting an on-disk hashtable.
What the Microsoft deal means for LinkedIn users
Possibly, considering that the industry historically lagged significantly behind current reality when it comes to business practices and mindset.
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