skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're young, take it as a life lesson and move on. Whatever financial gain you get from "going after them" will not be worth the time and emotional costs of suing. Not to mention the cost of an attorney.
I just don't see it. I don't see something this low level spun up to board level.

I'm also not sure what "new Microsoft" you're referring to. Their attitude is much much better under Satya; they're not perfect but they're moving in the right direction.

The board level may very well have set down a strategy which was "Hey, computers that are running old versions of our OS are a real pain. Let's tell our OS team that we need them to get customers to upgrade. Hell, we've looked at the figures and it's actually cheaper for us to GIVE Windows 10 away - so keep that in mind technical peeps".

The technical peeps come to look at it and decide on this stupid idea. Interestingly, Microsoft applied a half assed fix to the problem:

"Based on customer feedback, in the most recent version of the Get Windows 10 (GWX) app, we confirm the time of your scheduled upgrade and provide you an additional opportunity for cancelling or rescheduling the upgrade. The screen you see may change slightly based on new feedback."

From: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3095675

So you see, they did address the problem.

It's really not some evil plan to screw over their users. It was a dumb mistake, made by a handful of people who then half-assedly corrected it.

As a tech community we're fixated on this shit but in the real world it really doesn't reflect all of Microsoft.
>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.

No it doesn't. I've contacted companies who weren't advertising jobs a few times and it was because I had a specific interest in working at the company in question. In my experience people are usually quite pleased to get these kinds of inquiries, whether or not they have a suitable position. Of course your initial inquiry has to be tailored and not just some kind of generic "gimme a job please" spam.

That aside, who exactly do you think you are? Most people who are going to be applying for jobs are naturally going to be applying for jobs at a bunch of different companies. After all, it would be a bit presumptuous to assume that the first company you contact is going to hire you, and most people are able to identify quite a number of companies where they would probably be happy to work. Is your outfit really so special that you can demand serial monogamy from job applicants?
Also check out the work done by LocationTech: https://www.locationtech.org/
You are absolutely correct, I need to talk with the other senior folks and this question here was my way of hearing some thoughts before going through that process.

> Do you feel connected to the overall vision of the company?

If I answer honestly, then no, not really. I think it's an interesting idea that will end up making a lot of money but no, the central 'theme' of the business doesn't touch any interests or passions of mine. The role came about via my network and I was much more interested in moving into the role of CTO than the product. Writing that out like this makes me realize that was a big mistake.
Putting aside the potentially bad combinations, i feel as tho a hierarchical schema with the potential for arbitrary accuracy may be more suitable.
Depending which verticals you're trying to target, and who you think your end customers will be, there's a much larger shadow market for these kinds of services, currently being well served by a combination of "pure" logistics companies (UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc) and the largest contract manufacturers (Foxconn, Flextronics, Jabil, Sanmina, Pegatron, Quanta, Compal, and a couple more). If you haven't already researched this area, I think it would be a good way to spend a couple weeks.
That seems akin to a dating site that bans users for discussing marriage...
i think you can dump audio files into dragon(nuance) and get the transcript back for data entry.
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That strikes me as kinda neat, actually -- is that not the purpose of putting the slides in this order? It's a shortcut to just the topic slides, so you can skim through them even faster and only dig in once you want to.
That sounds like a terrible environment to lock yourself into, but it also seems pretty ineffective. If I was temporarily banned for hinting that I was going to leave the Upwork platform, that would be a trigger to leave it even more quickly.
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Well, I enjoy the doomsday economy predictions. Probably due to holding a negative view of fiat currency. He was one of the few pointing out systemic issues before the 2008 crises and is consistent ideologically and politically. If you don't like the Austrian School or Libertarian thinking you'll probably not like Schiff.

Hyper-inflation is hyperbole warning for ignoring national debt, because it's likely the only end-game. Federal spending has doubled in the last 15 years, and politicians continue to make more promises. It's unpopular to talk about the national debt or federal spending which is exactly why Schiff is great; he consistently highlights gratuitous spending. Predicting specific bubbles is less important than pointing out fundamental issues like devaluing the USD and over spending. His doomsday attitude is a constant reminder there are larger problems than specific markets.
Why did apple never put a lightning port on their Mac computers?

One more reason to get rid of the 3.5mm jack: To annoy people like Square who avoid paying the Apple tax to connect to an iOS device
The idea is quite interesting, but the implementation only makes sense for sparsely-populated regions. An apartment in the city with two side-by-side doors to different units will easily fit within a three-meter square, meaning that you'll still require "Apt. #1, Apt. #2" designations to disambiguate. Similarly, the fact that this system accounts only for geographical surface coordinates means that any building with distinct addresses stacked vertically, like an apartment building, won't be able to be served by this system alone.
I've loaded the full Freebase dump into Cayley one year and something ago (Freebase is probably already big-sized). It took around one week on a pretty beefy machine, the problem being mainly the way the data was structured in the dump.

But after the import, it worked pretty well without issues and with decent performances. With decent meaning: not good for a Front End, good enough for running analysis in a back-end using a little bit of caching.
Was you by any chance living in USA at the time?
The city of Toronto is a lot bigger than SF as a result of amalgamation[1], but most vagrants "live" in downtown core, which is an area a lot smaller than SF.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgamation_of_Toronto
I hate to ask for an explanation here, but I can't find what IP means in this case.. Can you define?
Fun with DNS
I also didn't say some things that the article did say (and which I think are unjustified). For example:

"This could mean nothing less than the fall of the Standard Model of particle physics (SM)"

No, it means that the SM is an approximation to a deeper theory, which everybody already believes anyway and has for several decades. Models don't "fall" just because they turn out to be approximations.

"The SM describes what the building blocks of the universe are and how they work, and from there, at least in principle, explains every other phenomenon in nature."

No, it doesn't. The SM doesn't include gravity. It also has twenty-six free parameters that have to be determined from experiments; it doesn't explain why those parameters take the values they do. So it's obviously incomplete, and everybody has known that for several decades.

(Yes, the article does go on to talk about the SM being incomplete. But that just means it contradicts itself.)

In short: the article talks like this discovery is somehow a huge change in how everybody views the SM. In fact it's business as usual: we built experiments to try to discover new physics to help us extend a model we knew was incomplete, and now those experiments are bearing fruit. This is normal science. It is not some huge rift in particle physics.
BT5 is coming out with 4 times the bandwidth and 2 times the range. This may be enough to compete even in the audiophile market.

Nobody wants to be chained to a cable while wearing headphones.
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The calls on LNKD are looking pretty sweet http://i.imgur.com/EMdaiMO.png
Merchandising is huge, I imagine its doing very well in that regard.
they are also heavily propped up by the fact the gov will cover a large portion of the costs of install and migration. if these costs wasn't covered or subsidized, i believe the picture would look very different.
I'm honestly a little bit repulsed that a person could consider that scenario to be a plus.
Sure why not. I am surprised why poker bots aren't better considering they can try different strategies over a huge number of hands. I was just saying that sometimes preflop reraising makes a lot of sense. The AlohaGo program made some awesome moves that challenge traditional theory. And so forth. That is what I was getting at. Not that they aren't bots.
what site is a great example of good UX?
Jack plugs are just an awful design. If you've ever pulled a jack plug out of its socket and had the speakers make a horrible loud crack, you've experienced it: you can't unplug them without shorting the signal to ground.

Their only saving grace is how robust they are, but that's mostly thrown away by 3.5mm ones, where either the plug bends with remarkable ease, or the plug doesn't bend and the socket gets knocked out of shape with the slightest provocation.

There are better analogue standards around. There always have been. It's mostly a lost cause.
> It's not "MBA-speak"; this sense of the word "secular" is used in economics, time-series analysis, astronomy, etc.

Of course it's MBA-speak. MBA-speak does not mean that they invented the word, or that only MBAs use the word. It just means that MBAs prefer to use the word where another one would do.

Nadella could have talked about "long-term trends" or "ongoing trends" or "sustainable trends." However, he chose to use "secular trends." His fondness for jargon makes him harder to understand.

Another example of MBA-speak is "synergy." The OED traces "joint action, cooperation" to 1632, and "a combined effect which is greater than additive" to 1904 ("synergism"). The first listed MBA-speak usage of the term is a 1981 article in The Economist on brokerage mergers.

Does that mean that "synergy" is "not MBA-speak" because the term is also used by scientists? Of course not! It just means that the MBAs adopted a term that others had already been using.

I would place "secular" into the same category as "synergy." The OED traces its astronomical usage to 1801 and its economics usage to 1895. Its first appearance outside a scientific context is in 1973, in an article in The Daily Telegraph on interest rates.
Leaving the Upwork platform permanently isn't what bothers them[1]; they're worried more about the while loop where you:

* Obtain a lead on Upwork

* Request moving off of Upwork to avoid fees

* Do subsequent payments through Paypal or similar.

In this case, you aren't moving off the platform entirely and banning you will hurt your lead generation.

[1] At least in the context of this specific case.
That's for Germanic languages. In Romance languages the words for century look like "seculo", "siglo", &c.
Along the lines of more traditional "cursing" like you mentioned, would you count more modern/internet-popularized examples like "die in a fire" or "get canceraids"?

Seems that sort of curse is still around on the English-centric parts of the web and now that I think about it, I wonder if it's just naturally emergent or if it's partially the result of US/UK English speakers coming into more contact with people from elsewhere where those sorts of curses never went "out of fashion".
I think that's a very aggressive line of thinking. You put your profile on LinkedIn. Someone else, looking for a job, is researching opportunities and likes what you are doing. They contact you expressing interest, and you blow them off just because they found out about you via LinkedIn?
> a country isn't going to be beholden to a small foreign company for much of anything.

Mongolia depends on foreign aid. They'll think thrice before angering Uncle Sam, justified or no.
> As a company in the lucky position of hiring for a Haskell role you have a pool of people who have self selected to be above average in determination and smarts

[citation needed]

There's really no evidence that people choosing Haskell are any smarter or more determined than anybody else.

I'm mainly pointing this out because the Haskell community's "We're smarter than everybody" attitude is a big pet peeve of mine.
I would not imagine people will do that on YC.
so in the end, a recruiting problem is solved bya software company, now could be named as the big L. wondering what happened to all those people who studied Human Resource as a management branch and what are they doing now when whole recruiting thing is being run by bunch of sw engineers sitting in silicon valley and crunching big data.
What they meant is that in Romance languages century is a cognate of secular: secolo in Italian, siècle in French, siglo in Spanish…
Hey, I aimed that ^ comment at OP, but someone else responded, and I just sent them the workbooks. So I just want to let you all know, the offer is open to anyone who contacts me.

The only thing I ask is don't mass share the files I send to you. Send to your friends or whatever, just don't put them up on megashare or some shit like that.

(I know that that will happen, but at least I tried :)
Intellectual Property.
I fall in a weird bucket: very advanced understanding of some other languages and good work experience, education, etc., but even though I love Haskell and practice it all the time, I think I am just somewhere on the boundary between beginner and intermediate, and even with focused daily effort I would remain on that boundary for a long time before there is a phase transition to solid intermediate.

Because of this, the only kinds of FP shops that would hire me want to hire me at a junior or low-paying level, but my market value in lots of other skill areas (machine learning, Python, database stuff, etc.) is much higher, so I'm not willing to take a salary anywhere close to what they think fits the position.

As a result, even though I would love to get industry experience with functional programming, there is a market wage energy barrier preventing me from considering it. I was burned once early in my career with malarkey about how you should accept a lower salary for some alleged other benefit (like cool functional programming, or working with a team of awesome people, or getting in on the ground floor on something, etc.) -- I won't make that mistake again.

So I basically had to learn to divorce myself from real world Haskell practically just as soon as I learned how much I really love it.

Plus, and this should not be discounted, the professional tooling with Haskell is still extremely immature with lots of esoteric corners duct taped together in unsatisfying ways. It's getting better, but if you work with Haskell for real there are likely to be as many, if not many more, extremely frustrating painpoints of the language tooling as with any other language, enough to amortize away all the warm fuzzy happiness you'd get from the status effects of being able to say you do pure functional programming for a job.
I have the second one. It's... well, I don't know whether to recommend it or not.

Part of the conceit of the film is that it's continuously interrupted by snarky title cards. The action continues, you can hear the audio, but all you see is the title card. For me, this single thing completely ruined the otherwise excellent film --- they weren't required to understand the story, they didn't add anything to the theme, they just got in the way, every single time. They're painfully, painfully long, too.

If there was a version of the film which was otherwise identical but without the title cards, I'd definitely suggest checking it out. As it is, YMMV.

Hey, it's on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfglluny8Z0
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Integrated supply chains are incredibly complex once you get to that level, and not really candidates for a new entrant. The big logistics players you list go after those contracts rabidly, and newly signed contracts have payoffs measured in decades.

It's a massive industry, nearly 1.8T$ this year. (Yeah, that's a T.) I'll be happy with carving out my little 50B self-serve niche before digging into integrated supply chains. :)
It can't be that hard to reverse engineer the algorithm, can it?
I'm not GP but my answer to this question would be "I wouldn't"
I'd expect the aggressive data gathering and windows 10 upgrade practice to have been OK-ed at Microsoft's ExCo.
Exactly. It is usually possible to find other links with the same content, and on a site like HN we ought to be able to expect better.

Perhaps there ought to be some feature on the part of HN itself, to automatically recommend the better links, when possible.
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There was a spreadsheet floating around on r/libraries from 2007 about the subscription costs in Tennessee: https://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/comments/4jodic/found_an_...
> Your reply seems to indicate that this is a yawn

No, just that it's not the kind of event the article is trying to portray it as.

> it seems to me that experimental evidence of a new, hitherto unforseen particle is about as disruptive of an event one can expect in particle physics, no?

No, it's not disruptive. What has been disruptive has been the several decades without any new experimental results that could help particle physicists to extend their models. Now we might finally be back to the way science is supposed to be done: building theoretical models using experimental data as a guide. This is what particle physicists have been hoping for; it's not a disruption at all.
I guess he's referring to Intellectual Property, so the code probably.
The mirror I keep of all HN items (posts, comments, jobs, polls, etc.) in JSON format is at 5.32GB uncompressed.
Is this the future or is it too 'quick'?
Paper is here:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.08512
Fooling humans is fairly impressive - they didn't just ask "is this real sound", they played the real sound and the synthesised sound and ask "which one is the real sound".

Although it looks like they only used a sample of 3 people which is pretty small, I imagine the parametrically synthesised sound would have fooled no-one.
I went for the Samsung Galaxy Note for the same reason. I don't know about any other customers but I for one would buy a long battery life phone in a heartbeat regardless how thick it may be.
Dude, you can publish all the sex tapes of me that you want for, say, $10M. Probably a lot less if you're a decent negotiator.
> I get downvoted all the time, and would never dream to complain about it. We can disagree without being confrontational/preachy.

Aren't up/downvotes meant to reflect whether a comment contributes to discussion? Up/downvoting things based on whether or not people agree on them would turn this into a Reddit-like echo chamber.
From a personal/financial perspective, you're probably best just walking away: hiring lawyers is expensive. But walking away silently enables them up to repeat their crimes. Reporting them criminally and giving them a record will make it harder for them to victimize more people.
That's very likely true, but it doesn't say much about the relative access each has to a VP office.
At 1k EUR for a 5 minute video, I can't imagine they're getting much in the way of sales.
Post-9/11 it was often possible to make weekday morning flights at OAK arriving only 20 minutes before. (I did it a number of times!) Self-print Southwest boarding pass, almost no security line, everything is 3-4 minutes' walk from everything else.

Nowadays OAK has been expanded and the security lines are longer (and they have body scanners, which I opt out of, which also then takes longer).
RISC-V is the best open one to get on right now. The ISA is well-designed plus open. There are simulators, high-speed CPU's, compilers, and so on for it. Surprisingly, many big companies are also backing it on top of the academics doing it. There's at least a dozen RISC-V implementations in progress.

Many examples here:

http://www.lowrisc.org/blog/2016/01/third-risc-v-workshop-da...

Arduino-style implementation:

https://github.com/pulp-platform/pulpino

Note: OpenRISC is not RISC-V. It was a competing ISA that's fallen to the wayside as RISC-V's popularity soared. It did get used in Milkymist IIRC. Best to ignore it except maybe out of personal curiosity in favor of RISC-V and SPARC.
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Same thing with the airline industry. People often say they'd pay more for extra few inches of leg room, but when they shop online, it's the cheapest price that wins.
Their demo is very pretty... and they seem pretty keen on performance.
> Correctness is an external property of an algorithm.

While true (depending on what you think I meant by correct in that context), it's largely irrelevant to my point. Any external tooling can be merged with the compiler or VM.

> I just think it's a waste of effort to rewrite old infrastructure in new languages.

As you've stated multiple times here. Can I get a few examples of what you mean? I suspect there's a mismatch in our interpretation of the meaning of that statement.

Where does taking a libc implementation and converting with light refactoring fall, given there exists no other implementation in rust?

What about a new libc implementation from scratch in rust, using rust, given that there exist (non-rust) libc implementations?

What about a new libc implementation from scratch in rust, when there exists another rust libc implementation that isn't just a conversion?

What about an SSL library conversion (OpenSSL or NSS)?

What about a new implementation of SSL that conforms to OpenSSL's API?

What about a new implementation of SSL functions that has a completely new API to achieve the same operations?
Ha! I said "customer", not "end user". The customer is the hospital and/or HMO administrator!

And I used "good" to damn with faint praise. It generally meets customer requirements, and probably doesn't cause as much iatrogenic harm as whatever systems it replaces. For what it costs, I would personally expect quite a lot more out of it than it delivers.

But there's only so much you can do with a perpetual parade of recent college graduates that generally turn over after about 2 years.
I love the "Flexible Timezone" filter.

It puzzles me that companies insist on remote workers working to specific timezones. Having everyone work the same hours seems to negate a key advantage of remote workers - ideally while you are sleeping, progress is still being made on your projects by the various remote teams. They should be able to work independently, asynchronously.

I can understand if they are remote support roles, where you want to ensure you always have staff to deal with enquiries. But for most roles, it seems more important that the work gets done, rather than that the entire team are tied to Slack / Skype at exactly the same hours.