skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If humans evolved to withstand car crashes
The EU commission levied a $2bn (yes, billion) fine for Microsoft antitrust problems, i.e. the stupid removal of the choice popup for the browser in XP SP3 and not giving the API documentation to some editor. Those two things were very stupid misgivings by Microsoft: They were almost going out unscattered, and they played with the fire towards the end of the trial.

Since then, I like the EU commission. As long as they can bend the master plans of dominating US companies.

However, I don't see how the forced Windows upgrade didn't lead to a requirement to reimburse every user of their stripped Windows 8 license.
check the coffee machine, general cleanliness of the office especially breakroom if they are clean and well stocked,look for notices on printers or washroom's that "xxxxx is not working & repairs has been notified". See if they have a gym,check the condition of office chairs,are they ergonomic ?. Ask about appraisal process and career path. If they dont answer well and the interviewer is not clear on that,it means an unhealthy org structure.
Finally check on glassdoor and a wild card search on google with the email domain of the org,something interesting might come up.
This is a definite sign that policing organizations need to have better tools when recruiting and training police officers, and need to take responsibility for the incompetence of there officers. Even in engineering, an incompetent engineer on a great team can wreck havoc for others.
It'll make the world a better place. Normally that would be a bad argument, but for someone who has pledged 99% of his wealth to charity it might actually be on point.
Musk wants to change the world directly by providing products designed to be world-changing.

Zuckerberg hopes he can change the world through the side-effects of a product designed for advertisers to sell stuff.
Facebook internet connectivity drone completes first flight [video]
Do you speak e.g. Mandarin? If not, how does cooperation with a team that is probably 90-98% Chinese work?
(disclaimer: also not a Trump supporter)

I don't think Trump's opponents assume that his supporters are against all immigration at all. I think his opponents deliberately misinterpret Trumps' message to paint his supporters as ignorant racists. That's not to say that there aren't Trump supporters who are actually racist, but I see little actual evidence that it's the norm.

Throwing the racist card has been a pretty effective tactic for the left over the past 8 years, so I can't blame them for drawing from that well until it's dry, but I do get tired of the rhetoric. It's not helping the divisiveness in the United States.
This isn't a matter of incompetence. This is a criminal matter - or at least, it should be, if the police policed itself.
Java6 is even less end-of-life'd than python 2.7.
It's interesting in these situations to see the outgoing manager's departure as much as a failure of that manager as of the organization itself. I think you're exactly right to be diagnosing why the manager didn't work out as an org issue itself.
> Normally going from no calculus to the multivariable chain rule as applied to differentials or as a best linear approximation takes at least three semesters in university.

Multivariable chain rule is much simpler than the 18 months learning curve would imply. It boils down to figuring out what a function is, what a derivative is, what the chain rule is and generalizing to multiple dimensions. We could probably teach it to a sufficiently logically apt high-schooler within a week, provided we could find a sufficiently motivating use-case.

The lack of compelling use-cases being the other major obstacle in learning math. Why bother rote memorizing tens of concepts and hundreds of factoids, when a lot of math texts pride themselves of building the perfect theory in abstract, decoupled from the original motivations.
What happens if slow down causes a crash? Aren't we back to the same spot we are now?
This is an implementation of "Flow Based Programming", right? Its a programming paradigm invented before its time IMHO; perfect for a world of streaming data.
Is facebook really not just an extension of Hot or Not.

It started as a place for dudes to see if girls had boyfriends.
Now, it's all about using people's baby pictures to sell advertisements.

I don't know why women would want to use a service that is so inherently anti-woman.
I'm not going to waste my time with responding to this. You obviously haven't a clue or an eye for design for that matter.
>During your interview excuse yourself to the restroom at some point.

And annoy the hell out of the interviewer because you can't time a toilet visit to fall outside of a key event? No thanks
If Musk was after money, he wouldn't have started SpaceX. A rocket company is the dumbest way to make a fortune that you could imagine, short of putting your money in a pile and lighting it on fire. That he's made it work (so far) is miraculous.
Its really simple software, essentially a VU meter.

The therapy involves getting patients to shout in a certain way and try and reach certain volume levels or follow certain volume patterns. E.g. shout gently for five seconds and gradually ramp up the volume over 10 seconds.

It would be really easy to replicate. I reckon the most time consuming part would be testing and calibration.

The whole app directory is less than 2MB.
Some nice quality of life improvements here. Any opinions on vmprof?
A variation of this should do the trick:

\newcommand[3]{\triangle}{{}_{#1}\overset{#3}{\Delta}_{#2}}
His conclusion about Doctrine and other ORMs eating CPU and being the huge bottleneck in the app lines up with my experience using the same. The MVC framework itself, Symfony/Rails in his case, can indeed also be a huge bottle neck, though much less than the ORM yet higher than the DB calls themselves. That too has been my experience often.
I only suggested it since "facebook.com" as the domain is not really sufficient to indicate the prominence of the author, which what makes the article credible/interesting...
> Here you could imagine the same algorithm with energy consumption as a score, a set of datacenter metrics as the screen (state) and change of metrics as actions.

What you have described is easily instantiated with any numerical optimization technique of the last 40 years. The devil for any of these problems is in the details.
Very hand wavy of me, but I'd say there is a way that it's true you can sense it. We may not yet know how you can, though. An example that I like to think of is of infrasound. People can't hear it, but there are some who sense when it's moving through them.
I would say this is fine, this position will likely inherit the bad juju from the previous candidate and should go into the position eyes-wide open. What they need is a person who can acknowledge previous mistakes and make incremental changes to guide the team to the right operations. They want to understand what about this candidate will make the situation different from the last candidate and in order to do that they need to discuss the previous employees shortcoming.

I actually enjoy replacing someone who is a poor communicator because you have a real chance to influence direction and growth just by acting like a normal, decent person.

To answer the original poster's question - if you have to ask this question, it's very likely there are organizational challenges. In fact, at every company there are organizational challenges, team challenges, your job as a leader is to address them. If you want to only work for great teams and never have to deal with challenges, you should consider not being a manager/leader at all, then you don't have to worry about them.

I would pay more attention to whether the company itself is financially stable, growing, hiring and innovating. If not, run.
This is extremely complex and it's taking me a few reads to understand it, but I just want to plug this particular journalist as extremely good in reporting complex subjects in a way the rest of us can understand. Do check out his previous article on how T. Rowe Price voted for the Dell buyout by mistake.[1] Truly a great job at reporting.

1] http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-13/t-rowe-pri...
Floppy disks and dollar bills. Also known as Benja-MinMaxing.
> the compounds from the smell of the chicken can be extracted and could work as a repellent

Might actually work as long as only a statistically insignificant minority of ppl is using it. After that point, it's Darwin all over again.
Most people called socialist do indeed support socialist policies - they support government programs like medicare, public schools, and other social welfare programs.

Those calling them socialists are probably a bit socialist too, though.

This only fuels your argument that political words lose meaning over time.
"Communication" issues is a catchall b.s. reason rarely used for legitimate reasons. Whenever i hear it my b.s. radar sounds and I instantly suspect the person claiming another has communication problems as trying to undermine them...throw them under the bus etc.

The reason being is its an abstract issue that is hard to define or fix.

Have them clearly define the "communication" issue that led to the person getting fired.
How does a Sharepoint administrator and high school drop out perform research on how to keep smartphones safe? Especially since he's under control of the FSB?
HTTPS' massive speed advantage
Thanks for posting such a nice reply.

> I'm working on being a less confrontational/snarky/douchey person and rationalizing everything I do is a big impediment to that.

Me too, and I suspect the same could be said (or should be) of nearly everyone here. It's all work in progress.
If human lives are not at stake here, this whole incident is hilarious enough to be an Onion article. A white autistic male with a toy truck in his hand is okay, while his black caretaker, with his back to the ground and hands up, is shot.
I am not painting anyone as anything. It is mathematically and logically correct to assume that there is substantial likelihood that when you hear someone say something idiotic, then that person saying that idiotic thing is in fact an idiot. If I hear additional information, I am happy to revise my opinion if necessary. But innocent until proven guilty is not necessary, this is not a criminal court
...and lose market share. Microsoft really needs to keep its product proeminent, especially today, especially in home products. So the EU commission actually has leverage to forbid certain behaviours.

Microsoft, then Android, please ;)
>If all our illegal immigrants were from Germany and Ireland, I am certain that there would be far less complaining

Very curious, on what do you base this certainty? Is it just a feeling based on personal experience?
As of 2016, the number of American car companies that haven't gone bankrupt is a grand total of two: Ford and Tesla.

Also, four entities have launched rockets into space: the US, China, the Soviet Union (Russia) and Elon Musk.

This guy is thinking and planning on a scale I find it hard to even imagine, to fit in my brain.
Two Years of Eve
The worst part truly is what happened after he was shot:

"The therapist said police then rushed him, patted him down and put him in handcuffs. Kinsey said what police did after the shooting is what upsets him the most. “They flipped me over, and I’m faced down in the ground, with cuffs on, waiting on the rescue squad to come. I’d say about 20, about 20 minutes it took the rescue squad to get there. And I was like, bleeding — I mean bleeding, and I was like, ‘Wow.'”"
http://wsvn.com/news/local/video-shows-moments-before-north-...

Doesn't sound like the officers had an ounce of common sense. Shouldn't they have applied some pressure to the wound or elevated the leg? I really hope that they didn't just roll him over, cuff him and just watch him bleed.
Is this a calculated derailment technique? Why MS? Because MS is the subject of the article. Feel free to submit articles about others. As mentioned above, you simply cannot compare a smartphone operating system where one handles, emails (in the cloud anyway) some personal apps and a browser to a full desktop operating system where among many other things serious work is done as well as private and enterprise data is stored. Many people don't want to trade access to that data and act as a product - it's as simple as that. Sadly there isn't an Windows 10 edition free of the tracking stuff. Let's hope France gets Microsoft to stop that or offer a new edition without that stuff.
Would be easier to do a hex search on the binaries, find the device id of the old mic, and patch in the device id of the new mic. I'd be surprised if they had bothered to obfuscate the id in any way.
Ask HN: Can you please invite me to Lobste.rs?
Let's invite each other to https://lobste.rs
It probably is, but iTunes data is not encrypted by the user. So if it is encrypted at all, Apple can decrypt it, and it can and will give that data to the police, as it has in the past as well.
Communications issues are usually two-sided so I'd lean more heavily towards figuring out what those could be. 30 people split between 3 timezones is challenging.

1) Ask why the other person is leaving for real. They should be vulnerable and tell you the truth. Sometimes they'll hide behind something like "thats confidential" which you can't really argue with, but I'd dig into it. If they get nervous walk away.

2) Ask them what systems or processes they want to improve or change and why. What isn't working? etc.

3) How will you be evaluated in your role. Sometimes there are unclear expectations from managers or any other "leadership" style role at a company. This isn't OK because it might just take one person to change their mind about how you're doing for you to be "not good enough". Again; dig into it.

4) How is the company doing from a financial perspective. Whats the burn? Whats the revenue? What's the LTV/CAC? If they can't answer or won't, I'd consider that a red flag.

5) How is the product roadmap set. How far out are they thinking? Make sure it lines up with your vision of how to organize groups the right way.
That's not how nuclear weapons work.
I understand this is (for now) for devs. I would love to see an equivalent (including private offering) for infra.

Getting people to document things on the infra side is deplorable in general and I would love to try anything that helps improve that.
How far away is the nearest gym?
Are there even any 'stops where you might meet others for lunch?

Pretty much, what is the density of the tech-aware crowd in that area?

Another good one: are the near by ash trays in use? If you're a non-smoker (like me) this is a red flag too.
They gotta pull that ladder up behind them. If they don't they might actually have to innovate and compete in the future.
> Counterargument: nearly every medium-large scale project I've seen in Rails ends up full of mismatched idioms and confused usage of Rails core utilities and just general jankery.

I think you could remove the word "Rails" and say the same about any medium-large scale software project with several developers working on it. Say what you will about Rails, but after working with it for about a decade, it's actually prevented more confusion and stupidity from creeping into the projects I've worked on rather than enabling it.
I agree.

I mentioned Owls above. You wont believe what it is... just clipart in a nice easel book form. I'm not joking, its just page after page of clipart, accompanied by a manual and 20 page copyright warning booklet.

The thing is Pearson has convinced governments, schools, charities, hospitals etc that this system is the best way to diagnose speech issues. My wife and a lot of her colleagues would beg to differ.
Repos: How we use MySQL as a key-value store
New battery technology seems to sustain 95% capacity with existing lithium cells
I still don't get it. Who do you think paid for planning, buying, organizing and the cost of maintaining of all that??
> I'm curious what others think about the vision for a more-connected world.

I don't know about anyone else, but giving people Facebook-only service and calling it pretending that's the same as full internet access is not my idea of "more connected". Free or not, that's an insane level of lock-in.
Show HN: Twitter Graph Visualization
My startup YesGraph is testing a new way to visualize your Twitter graph. This is a bit of a side project for us, but the result is so cool we decided to open it up to see what others think.

If you want to see your graph, go here and connect your Twitter account. We request read-only access, so your account is safe.
https://www.yesgraph.com/twinmaps/

Creating high quality visualizations is really hard, and there is so much for us to do. We’d love to get your feedback after you check out your graph. Take our 60s survey here:
http://goo.gl/forms/W4PwSfqbySXBTNqg1

The shape and structure of everyone’s graph is different too, which is another interesting layer. We should probably build better clustering and comparison tools for seeing how your network intersects with a friend.

The next step could be with more utility - like being able to follow people you find in the graph. We should also do better clustering by assigning a label to a group based upon shared interests. Clustering algorithms are hard because there is no ground truth.

Here is my personal graph. You can see a Dropbox blue peninsula in the top left.
https://www.yesgraph.com/visualize/twitter/99e35955da510815adeedc61488af57b
Care to elaborate? Because that's exactly how they work.
I really wanted to believe that cops shooting black people basically for sport was a media invention. The cases up until then were all like Michael Brown, with an ambiguous situation and useless video. But there is quite simply no explanation that could possibly justify this.

Same for the Baton Rouge "he lifted his head!" case from last week, where people try to argue that lifting one's head meets the statutory requirements for resisting arrest, as if merely checking an item off a list makes it okay to kill him, even if he is not physically able to pose a real threat of death or injury.
The point is it's not fantastically quick to drop in, in the example app look at the UserFromAuth helper - it's definitely not simple and contains a load of gotchas I'd struggle to deal with from the ueberauth documentation.

The grand parent was asking about a template/hackable starter kit with batteries included. That setup of ueberauth is the best I've found sadly.
bone marrow is one of the parts of the body that has high water content and thus would heat faster than others under radiation.

Sauna heat does not preferentially target liquid for heating.
I have been working in Shanghai for about six and a half years now and don't think I would live anywhere else in China except maybe Hong Kong. Shanghai has a very vibrant international community with a fairly comfortable standard of living ( minus the occasional bad pollution ). There is not a significant amount of xenophobia in the first tier cities though outside of these you are generally looked at as an oddity if you count that. You will never be chinese though so some doors will always be closed to you.

It is difficult to find a job without being here but on the ground there are opportunities. If you are not here companies see that as a liability. Of foreigners abroad we have hired to work in China there is about a 50% washout rate in the first year. Being here is seen as being a more reliable hire.

Regarding visa a good company will provide a z visa for you. Anyone offering less isn't a good company. Pay is less then the states generally but cost of living is lower. As in the rest of the world there is high demand for good software developers. Check smartshanghai.com, Shanghaiexpat.com, creativehunt.com, and craigslist Shanghai for more expat focused jobs. If you are interested in fintech we are hiring through hr@itr.cn.

Overall the business China is more predatory then the states. More weight is often put on relationships then talent. Coming from the west it takes a few years to really understand this culture.
Math notation is an endlessly interesting subject, but I must say I wasn't very impressed with that idea.

If we're going to give up some notation to adopt another, it would need to have some serious and obvious advantages.

I waited for that throughout the video. The author consistently seems to assume that what he's saying is "intuitive". It isn't.

Why should I put a particular number in a particular corner of the triangle? How does it help computation? I see triangles being nested within triangles and fusing together according to rules that seem completely arbitrary.

Certainly, using our visual apparatus to help us complete computations without having to think about it can be appealing, but that's probably not the most convincing example.
For some months, I have been thinking about the same problem as well. From an employer perspective, Hiring is tough. Very tough! People list down tons of skills and qualities they may or may not have on their resume and problem is you need to have good interviewing skills to evaluate them and spend countless hours to have the right candidate. To me, a good measure of someone's skills is their feedback from their current/previous coworkers (if it can be somehow achieved in a profile and which is not biased so it can be anonymous). This way you are able to screen the employees. Not trying to blow my own trumpet here, but I am trying to address this in my startup PleasantFish where you can get feedback from your coworkers and as a user improve your skills by getting latest content based on your skillset in your personalized skills based newsfeed
Serious question here: Are there any companies that aren't at least a little messy? They are run by humans, so if there's NO dirt at all isn't that a tell as well?
Yes. They're aware of this, but time is running out (both because of debt and demographics). If you want some trenchant analysis of the situation, Michael Pettis is your guy: http://blog.mpettis.com/2016/06/rebalancing-wealth-transfers...
The prior comment said that the correct term for a large social safety net was "democratic socialism", that was what I was responding to. This is a lie propagated by Bernie Sanders.[1] I agree that a welfare state is not necessarily socialist- that was my point! So, you think you are disagreeing with me, but you are perhaps missing is the point that, in the USA, Sanders continual lying about what Socialism means so that he can fit into the Democratic Party has confused the issue in many young people's minds.

The Swedish mining company LKAB is a socialist (state-owned) enterprise, however the entire economy is not composed of socialist enterprises, therefore it is clearly a mixed economy.

Relatively high taxes on their own are not "social" or "socialist".

[1]http://www.thelocal.dk/20151101/danish-pm-in-us-denmark-is-n...
Such as carbon dioxyde being main or even major source of greenhouse effect. How one would attempt to falsify this claim?