skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You seem to start from this very distrustful premise and never look back.

The OP writes "they want to replace the existing manager". Chances are this would have been phrased "the existing manager is moving on" if no deceit was involved.

> Would you say the same of someone who gives significant notice of their departure

When to make the information known to the rest of the team should be a management team decision. I don't think there is a one-size-fits-all answer.

> What if that person were a fairly high ranking one in the organizational structure

Finding a replacement before announcing the departure to the team makes sense. It sounds like in the OP's situation the outgoing manager is not aware of his/her status.

> Confidential replacement is pretty typical when the outgoing leader has no apparent (temporary) replacement and transitioning duties twice would be difficult/disruptive. It's not broken culture to ensure the wheels keep turning despite a pending high-profile departure.

Not sure if you are referring to keeping it confidential from the employee being replaced or from the rest of the team.

> ...the presumption that the nature of the search is somehow underhanded or deceitful is pretty one-sided

I think you are suggesting that it is appropriate (not deceitful) to attempt to hire the replacement before informing the current manager. Ideally in situations where something isn't working out, both parties can collaborate to phase things out in a mutually respectful way, especially in a startup.

Yes, in big companies there is an HR department and all sorts of reasons why "typical" HR practices make sense. But a person joining a startup should feel that the team he/she is joining is not typical and has the sort of integrity to act cooperative (in a game theoretic sense) in these sorts of scenarios.

FWIW these sorts of scenarios are inevitable. Sometimes employment arrangements don't work out. How they are handled offers an indication of the character of the management team.
A lot of people look back on the period from 1945 to 1970 as a golden age of growth under a more left-leaning economic regime than today. It sounds like you are one them, based on your "let's organize the economy" enthusiasm.

The problem with that is that the post-WWII period was much different than today. Pretty much every other advanced economy besides the US had been economically devastated by a long and bloody war. The US didn't have to be competitive to compete against a Germany or a Japan where people were boiling shoes to eat the leather or catching rats for meat. They only had to be relatively competent. Also, both before and after WWII, scientists flocked to the US, fleeing from repressive and doomed regimes. US R&D got a huge boost from these people.

Another question is just how "organized" the economy actually was back then. Most of the really complicated regulations like Sarbannes-Oxley were still far in the future in the 1940s. By the time the EPA was created in the 1970s, the US was already well on its way to stagflation and economic incontience. Tax rates looked high back then, but just like today, most truly wealthy people found ways around paying them.

Of course the government has a role to play in funding research and moderating some of the excesses of capitalism. But to argue that some bureaucrat can just push a button and bring back the golden years of the 1950s is a leftist fantasy.
I agree with him, but a new movement, stronger will emerge from this, just like free software started. And I bet in #indiewebcamp (Freenode)
I hate the name, the website, the logo. I hate them all. But I guess this all my fault.

And, I agree. PageDuty is one of those terrible product ideas executed right.

Good luck guys.
There is also the convenience factor. I do remove my battery frequently from my phone but it is too easy to just leave it on. People will generally not want to hassle with it if they don't have to.If security is easier and requires less effort then it lowers the cost and will be favored more often and it will protect more people.

There are also many times that people have been unhappy because I have my phone off and unable to reach me. There are also other times you want to be available.

Unfortunately, if your phone is owned then they can just exfiltrate the data when normal data transfer occurs. The data will still need to be stored for transmission later though.

With the iphone, you also need to monitor Bluetooth and WiFi in addition to cellular activity. Hopefully they will also monitor these.
Which would be the case for anything he writes and publishes under his own name. Your point?

It's clear that he was saying that no one's paying him to write this political reasons.
>Nobody is going to be gentrified when the old dirty warehouses in south SOMA get replaced.

Well, there was a decent uproar when a large wholesale flower market was slated to be shut down.
It's not. Reddit could easily sell targeted ads based on subreddits (e.g. inking a deal with Uniqlo to advertise on /r/malefashionadvice or /r/femalefashionadvice).

It chooses to pursue other monetization means to preserve the Reddit experience.

We'll see if it's able to stumble onto another sustainable business model.
A great book is The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws, 2nd Edition [0] - by learning how hackers search for and exploit various web issues - you'll be naturally aware of them to defend against. i.e. start thinking like a hacker and you'll be amazed at the issues you discover in your applications.

[0] http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118026470...
TensorFlow has kind of won the Python deep-learning community, although frameworks like Keras[0] make it easier to use. While Python programmers make up the majority of deep-learning practitioners, they don't have much penetration in enterprise, which is chiefly JVM and lower-level languages.

Deeplearning4j [1] has won deep learning on the JVM. Nothing else comes close. (Disclosure: I'm one of its creators.) DL4J has the most sophisticated Spark integration, plugs into Kafka and works as a Hadoop job. It does all that while running on distributed GPUs, multiple CPUs and heterogenous hardware. It wraps cuDNN, which is faster than Tensorflow.

Finally, part of our stack, JavaCPP [2], is used by the TF communities as well as other big company projects to bridge the gap between Java and C++.

Dev mindshare in the form of Github stars doesn't equal revenue.

Finally, there are a number of strategic problems companies face when adopting a Google project. First, they are leery of depending on Google when they also compete with it. This is particularly true because Google doesn't open source a lot of its best work, like code from DeepMind. So Tensorflow adopters are getting the leftovers in a way, and they're kneecapped in the AI race.

Secondly, Tensorflow is not platform neutral. It's optimized for TPUs, which are not publicly available. It's a play to attract people to the Google Cloud.

[0] http://keras.io/
[1] http://deeplearning4j.org/
[2] https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp
The big deal is w10 breaks my laptop (dell l502x) with not working video drivers and not working (At all) touchpad drivers. Even if I install those of win8 they do not work as expected. Also one of their cumulative update keeps failing to install without telling me why (and then at every restart I had to wait 5 minutes for "we are installing updates" -> "we cannot install the update" -> reboot -> "we are reverting the changes" -> reboot ... and then windows would try again to download it and repeat. I had to block that update, block the automatic download and set my connection as "metered" to avoid all this shit. Online there are various posts in ms forums about that update and the only answer is "we are working on it, we think we know the problem, thread close." since Jan 2016.

Long story short: do not force-update a system if you are NOT DAMN SURE it works as expected, or at least decently.

It works all flawlessly with win8, win8.1 and win7. And basically any linux distro I used in the last 5 years.
If you don't like the house prices, move out of San Francisco
> There's also the novelty factor: people from high status countries are seen as interesting, and the more uncommon your presence is there, the more friendly interest officials take.

My in-laws were in Iran during the revolution. He's American and she's Thai. They have a long story whose climactic confrontation with guards is suddenly resolved when they decide that the Thai lady with the fuzzy hooded coat must obviously be an American Eskimo and that this is the most amazing thing he's ever seen.

So the two of them have a story about the time they got out of a terrifying situation, and there's an Iranian somewhere who has a story about that one time, for reasons he will never understand, an American Eskimo wandered through his guard post.
He seems pretty smart. I'd want a second opinion, but I wouldn't mind the help!
I didn't realize drinking on the job was a thing. I've had the odd company party with beer in the late afternoon, but that's perhaps twice a year.

I'm not a teetotaler by any stretch of the imagination, but drinking at work seems counterproductive.
More to the point, with the phenomenal centralisation of control of global capital (~45 firms, per a Swiss national science foundation report a few years back), that increasingly affects all new business capitalisation.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354-500-revealed...
You can't. On one, Gielis even put the equation in claim 1 but somehow they got the village idiot for an examiner.

http://www.google.com/patents/US7620527
I used the $100 to express that I would be willing to spend a decent chunk of cash on a great service, I agree the price would need to be adjusted depending on the country.

I've lived in South America for quite some time, and paying $20 for a movie is completely out of the question for 95% of people. Piracy is completely open here, everywhere you have shops burning and selling bootleg DVDs for around $1.
Not sure I understand why this is problematic. Can someone please explain?
I have "hard programming" personal projects. All my projects are in low level C. I have a data structure library, (think C++ stl). I also have a programming language I built in C with an AST, and function calls, variables, all that.
For any notation, there are trade offs between ease of learning and power after learning. This is the same for mathematical notations as it is for programming languages. If you can effectively subsidize a complex notation/language such that everyone knows it (for example, through primary education), it pays dividends in many locations. There's a reason we use '+' for addition in many programming languages, and it's because it's familiar to everyone. Why is that? Because we all learned it long ago and have been using it ever since.
Node was designed to hit 100K users/core, and in fact can do closer to 1M users... for simpler chat relay, a single server should be able to handle 1M simultaneous users... Growing beyond that means you need to segment/orchestrate your channels. I haven't used the app to comment... but something written in golang could probably handle a couple million users on a single server via websockets (or raw sockets), with appropriate backing services in place.

The original article is condescending to say the least, that doesn't mean that $4k of ongoing hosting costs shouldn't be able to handle a few million simultaneous users... though, something tells me that Pokemon Go could approach twitter or FB overhead, and related apps like chat could see huge swarms as a side effect.

That kind of problem would kill most first generation apps, as those who've seen twitter grow can attest to. I don't think there are any IRC networks that big at this point.
I’m with the Banned
I have to disagree with that quite strongly. Almost any instance where an officer is dealing with a member of the public who does not frequently deal with law enforcement, it's going to be stressful for the member of the public. Knowing how to talk them down has to be more valuable than being able to shoot them.

I'm British .. we have pretty much the exact opposite of what you describe - we arm our officers with their mouths, and have firearms teams that can be called in if required. I guess this makes me biased, but I do see asking an autistic patient (especially someone severe enough to need to be homed) "what's wrong?" to be more intuitive than firing at them.

Missing and hitting someone else just has to be the icing on the cake.
Aurelia – Brain Generated Art
It's a strong vision but...is it anything more than that? Have they actually built anything that accomplishes what she's talking about?
Richmond always feels distinctly Asian to me.

"In the Richmond District neighborhood in San Francisco, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (50.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.5%), along with some Russian ancestry residents (4.1%), among others. In addition, 35.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country."

http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/richmond-d...
We have beer in the fridge and a keg at work. Sometimes it's nice to have a beer at the end of the day, but after a working all day I usually just want to go home.
The normal result is people end up living a near homeless lifestyle. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084971/Hong-Kongs-c...

200$/month * 20people = 4,000$ per room.
Hopefully any higher up officials can recognize this just gave what is probably on average a fairly affluent tech class on HN a more positive outlook on Kazakhstan. Its positive advertising for the country to hear that you don't end up in a gulag for having your passport lapse.
Misallocation of demand for labour. Which is to say: a massive misallocation of financial capital and purchasing power.
If you are going to make a blog about something like this, at least change the names.
The "free rider" problem has been solved. Unfortunately the solution is to have ruthless for-profit businesses, which is where we're at today.
#3 is one of the weirdest, most interesting ideas I've heard regarding a Facebook alternative. Talk about having an incentive to leave.
Interview them. If they're hiding something a few innocent questions can expose their ruse.
Right. Now what was "deep math" in 1860 is learned by every physics undergrad the world over. I would count vector calculus notation as helpful in that regard in the same way that gamma matrix technology helps graduate students grasp spin-1/2 transition amplitudes. Imagine doing these writing out the explicit matrices!
The word "job" as used here is a technical term. It doesn't mean "anything that needs doing". It doesn't mean "anything I find enjoyable or worthwhile". It actually means "activities that someone will pay me money to do because I can do it better, faster, or cheaper than anyone or anything else, including machines." (For the purpose of this discussion there's also an implied meaning of "someone will pay me enough money for those activities that I can purchase adequate food, shelter, and discretionary items so as to have a reasonably comfortable existence.") That set of activities appears to have peaked in per-capita terms and is probably on a decline which will accelerate rapidly in the future.

So yeah, you're right that this problem is inherently an economic problem, not an "I don't know what to do with all my free time" problem. That doesn't make the problem any less urgent or less difficult to solve. It's actually incredibly difficult to solve because it'll involve rejiggering our social contracts, which will probably take several generations to complete.
What is the better way to start my career: Uber or Zenefits? (2014)
Will flying cars ever get off the ground?
Millennials Are Spending More Time at an Unexpected Location: Theme Parks
Don't worry about that pension, America, Benjy from Silicon Valley is here to tell you that life's never been better!
Yeah, i can see that. Finish a big project and have a beer with your team. I have a hard time seeing that as a daily or even weekly thing.
A large sample size of people isn't necessary to verify the ability.

Case in point, the woman who can smell Parkinson's disease, to some ridunculous p-value.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/one-woman-s-abilit...
BTW, I have seen another post saying that the original Quora poster decided to work at LinkedIn in the end. I wonder if this is true or not.
I wonder how much of not evolving the site is due to legacy code. A few years ago I briefly read some of their code, since it is open source, and found it difficult to understand due to a lack of comments and descriptive function and variable names. And it is all Python. So basically any change to the code can be catastrophic because you have no guarantees everything will still work.
This is entirely false for most modern phones
> They made a purchase on behalf of a client

That's the thing though: Technically and legally, they did not do this.

An agent buys things on your behalf from the people who are selling them; they have an obligation to obtain the best price for you. A principal is selling you things which they bought on their behalf; they have an obligation to sell to you at the price you agreed. And in this case, HSBC was a principal, not an agent. They made no purchases on behalf of the client; they made purchases on their own behalf so that HSBC could fulfill the order that the client had placed with HSBC.

It's awkward though because it looks a bit like they were buying on behalf of a client, and it probably felt to the client like they were acting as an agent, and the price they agreed on was one that HSBC had some control over, which is really not a good idea at all without an agent relationship. And yet: The purchase was not being made on behalf of the client and HSBC was not an agent of the customer.

> surely that's fraud?

Simplifying a lot: Only if the customer relied on those lies. If I sell you a used car and I say the last owner's first name was Bob, and it was actually Bill, and you later regret the purchase, it's not fraud, because you can't truthfully say that but for my lies you would not have purchased the car. If I say the last owner was a little old lady who drove it down to the shops once a week, but they were actually an uber driver who drove it 60 hours a week, then maybe that was a material and would have impacted your decision. (That's a question for a jury.)

Offhand, the lies about Russians sound horrible, but I'm not sure what impact it had on the customer's decisions, especially since it happened after they agreed to the trade. Now, the lies about liquidity to get them to agree to the 3pm fix might qualify though...
Hopefully those cops are in prison now, but I suspect they're still on the streets beating people.
citation please

(good luck, as this is false)
It's called getting Elop-ed
You're Smart Enough for Elixir
>"Reddit’s Upvoted podcast, which Ohanian launched in January 2015, also appears to be abandoned. Aside from a single episode published in June, the podcast hasn’t been updated since October 2015. The “Formative” video series produced in partnership with Google, which aired new episodes roughly once a month since its launch, has been dark for four months."

Hopefully any employees hired specifically for these ideas were able to find other groups at the company or future employment.
The clear difference being that in your example, you don't need a large reserve of milk as fuel and materials to reach the next available milk supply.

Natural resources which are accessible are being consumed at high rates, and access to further resources will likely require the use of existing reserves put toward that goal.
Imagine if we used this today and we must input zenzizenzizenzizenzizenzizenic(x) to the terminal to get a desired power of a number.
Hi John, thank you! We made it to scratch our own itch with no real plans beyond getting this first version shipped. If it's useful for enough other people we'll definitely keep hacking on it.
The point you miss is: there are thousands of packages for Emacs and Vim already. Emacs has all sorts of useful programs that you can run, a list too long to even summarize. There is an emacs version in common lisp, I guess it was called Hemlock. MIT Scheme has it's own Emacs version. But you don't have Gnus, elfeed, EMMS, flycheck, Org-mode, etc., on them, and you don't have the time to write them all from scratch.
They do not need to be evenly distributed across the country. It could be a specific regional area. The stat could also just mean "installed and is used." It's possible that there are a lot of Indians that use it to communicated with business partners / etc in China.
Yeah, that's the type of stuff you'd need to stand out.

Its still harder to stay home, but if you are, here are a few tips: leave your address off your cv. Recruiters will still see the location of your undergrad but hopefully you'll get a phone interview (and pass it) and when they ask you where you are located, tell them, but then also say something along the lines of "I am moving to sf January 15th" something like that.

Bigcos will play more ball than start ups.
Isn't the original problem that someone could steal the long-lived cookie in the first place?
On the one hand you argue for a free market approach (less regulations and hence more doctors) but then you also argue for a meritocracy (those who work and think should get priority). Both of these are definitely not democratic, and for the time being democracies are the preeminent social construct with massive momentum behind them. Changing that abruptly would be seriously destabilizing for the entire world.
> The mistake was ever allowing that kind of freedom in the first place, because people developed an expectation that it would persist.

Sure, and then we wouldn't be talking about reddit but rather whatever site was actually free at the time.

The only reason web forums exist is because people are lazy about adopting decentralized Free software. Yet the owners of these centralized services, as well as paternalistic spectators, end up deluded that the communities they serve are "theirs" to mold and control. In reality these sites' power is but an epsilon, and they should be thankful they can at least exercise it to generate revenue by surveilling users who are too lazy to protect themselves.
Why does Reddit have to become a media empire?

The formula for doing that is pretty well-known by this point:

We'll see a ban on throwaway accounts and a push for real names, then a ban on third party URL shorteners, then interruption ads, and finally some sort of paywall.

Reddit is a useful piece of internet infrastructure, and I'd be pleased if it would stay that way. It doesn't need to become its own media empire with its own Rupert Murdoch, etc.

Some things that could be improved:

- opt-in home pages that are tailored at specific audiences. The standard one is pretty low quality.

- more detection/policing of voting rings and vote fraud in general.
- 2^3, log_2(8) ... why do we have 3 different ways ? Because, playing with tautologies is the whole point of mathematics (and language) !

- The new "notation" is essentially expressing the same language in a different alphabet.

I was hoping for some smack talk about partial derivatives (see SICM) or about the absolute proliferation of symbols in Differential Geometry...
Part of the problem is that Reddit even more than Twitter is structured as a meta-community, and so any standards which are imposed will be external to a given sub-community. That means that they will be perceived as, and may sometimes be, social and political censorship.