skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a much bigger insight here.

High-flying companies in SV have become another form of cover-your-ass pedigree that allows the entire management chain to pass the buck on hiring decisions. I see this at the lowest level from IC engineering hires up to the CEO. Hiring someone/investing in their company/putting them in any position of trust, after they've been "minted" at the successful big company is "safe"; it hardly matters what the person did, or what results they achieved, just that it's "on their resume". Whereas hiring someone from a scrappy startup that worked their ass off and executed but wasn't in a position to influence strategy will be branded a "loser" and in a much worse position to get hired vs. the safe bigco candidate.

This is really a big problem/opportunity, and it's all down to our inability to measure/attribute individual performance in a team setting. But it does make you wonder, from a career-planning perspective, should I optimize for "name" or actual learning? Should we all follow Sandberg's advice and just "Get on a rocket ship" and "let our careers take care of themselves" even if the company is already on a breakout trajectory before we got there? As someone who's spent a lot of time optimizing for actual learning, I'm starting to think it's the losing strategy, but then, all my friends work for big companies like Apple / facebook / google, so maybe their influence is just rubbing off on me.
Majority rule without checks and balances is mob rule.

And a simple majority can take away something that 49% of the population thinks is important. This is where your democratic utopia goes to die.

Open voting is a blame shedding trick. If 'everybody' agreed with your bad idea then it's not your fault when the consequences happen. Even if you were the one who put it in people's heads in the first place.

As a citizen of a country in crisis, who to blame might be of some importance, and organized media will certainly get you fixated on that aspect. But maybe the fact that there's a crisis is a little more important, and you should try to avoid then in the first place instead of just having an audit trail.
The optimal solution is probably lossless for archival, lossy for portable playback. I ripped my whole CD collection to FLAC and gave away the CDs. Now if I want to try something like Opus I can easily re-rip from FLAC. As you hint at, you shouldn't rip from lossy, that makes no sense.
Status quo matters in this narrow context of discussing the validity of reversed headlines and responses to them because "Remain may never happen" would be nonsense with a reversed result; remain is what happens until some action by the government changes it, so if remain won, remain would immediately be happening, just as it was happening before the referendum.
You probably don't actually believe that popular opinion constitutes truth, it's just convenient pretense for your argument. If you really do, pick up a history book or some modern polls.

When the majority decides that a minority should be mistreated, is that justice?

If the majority is misinformed by a powerful minority, will they not act against even their own best interests?

When the majority is short sighted, is disgracing the future the proper thing to do?

An ideal government is one that uses the truth to optimize according to some anthropic value system in the short and long terms. These do not arise from popular opinion, just as they don't form under the force of authority. Unfortunately, they are probably impossible to form at all.

People are selfish, stupid, and short-sighted and that doesn't go away once you reach any particular number or proportion of them making the decisions.

Democracy can (arguably) produce morally just decisions, but that isn't the same as producing factually correct ones.
The problem is that reddit is trying to be both a neutral platform and a cohesive community at the same time. No one gets mad at phpBB when someone deploys a forum with an objectionable theme because it's understood that they had no involvement, they just provided the code for anyone and everyone to use in accordance with a FOSS license. reddit tried to do that with hosted subreddits, but it also tried to cross-pollinate and make one big reddit family and see everyone on reddit.com as "redditors". That results in a lot of infighting and resentment (/r/the_donald v. /r/enoughtrumpspam, /r/atheism v. /r/christianity, etc.), not to mention some doxxing, harassment, brigading, and invasions.

It's tense in the real world when people with diametrically opposed worldviews are forced to mingle, but it can sometimes go OK because the human aspect tempers it. Occasionally, with especially open-minded participants, a friendship can be kindled. That doesn't seem to happen at all when these people are not put in a room together, but on a message board, especially an anonymous message board.

reddit didn't know whether it wanted to be a warm fuzzy community, for which common ideals and values are foundational, or whether it wanted to be an agnostic, neutral, unfeeling platform provider. IMO that's responsible for a big part of the culture clash that we see on reddit, and it's left them in the awkward position discussed here.
http://www.displaylink.com/downloads/android
dang: Title change?
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Man was not meant to travel faster than sound.
Ask HN: If you don't permit telecommuting, why?
I'm writing a feature story tentatively titled, "Why the Company You Want to Work For Won’t Hire Telecommuters." I'd like your input.

Plenty of businesses are interested in hiring only onsite staff. I want to explain the viewpoints behind such policies – and then, ideally, address what it would take for those organizations to hire telecommuters or remote workers.

So I’d like to hear from two types of respondents:

* Someone who has been in a hiring role at an organization where the job requisitions typically say, “Local candidates only, please.” (Whether or not you’re in agreement with the policy.)

* Someone who’s applied to a job that says, “on site only” and gotten a remote job despite that requirement.

If you applied to an “on-site only” job ad and got the gig anyway, there’s just one question: How’d you make that happen?

My questions are primarily for the people on the hiring side:

* Why does the person who does this job need to be on-site?
Please be specific. Give me examples of things that can only be done if she were in the office.

* Have you been in a position where you personally would be okay with an employee being a telecommuter, but a decision-maker deemed otherwise? How did you handle it?

* How has the policy affected your company’s ability to attract candidates?

* Have you hired someone for an in-the-office job, and later given permission for the individual to work from home? What happened to make the change okay?

* What would it take for the company to change the no-telecommuters policy, even if only for one specific position?
For example, “If a rock star in my field applied for the job, we’d do anything to get him to say Yes – including letting him work remotely.” But there can be many other answers, and I’d very much like to hear yours.
Can we formulate Mobius Strip using this?
I wish someone would try their luck with the spam laws on the books against linkedin. The likelihood of a win would be very low, but the benefit if they did win would be enormous to everyone.
1. "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle.

This may sound like an odd one, but years ago, I almost never took the time to read. My girlfriend, who knew that I loved Sherlock Holmes books when I was younger, convinced me to try this book as an audiobook while I did my ~40 minute commute to work. I was skeptical, but within days, I was hooked. It made my work commute much more interesting (a British person was reading me Sherlock Holmes!); then I started listening to audiobooks during all my driving (instead of wasting time, I can learn!); then I got an iPod, put audiobooks on that, and started listening to them during all sorts of odd chores (e.g. cleaning, walking, biking); after that, I was so hooked on books, that I started making time to read them too. This had a profoundly transformative effect on my career.

2. "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries.

I got a copy of this book when I went to a talk by Eric Ries. Eric seemed like a humble, down-to-earth person and helped dispel the notion that to be a successful entrepreneur, you need to be a prescient, superhero, god-like visionary. Instead, what you need to do is to treat your startup and product ideas as hypotheses and test them, as quickly and cheaply as you can (i.e. lean development, MVPs, etc). This fit very well with what I had seen in the real world and with how I thought about problem solving as a software engineer, and gave me a lot of confidence to try out many of my ideas. Since then, I've used these ideas to start a company (http://www.gruntwork.io/) and written quite a bit on what I learned, including an article on The Macro about MVPs (http://themacro.com/articles/2016/01/minimum-viable-product-...).

3. "On Writing Well" by William Zinsser.

If Conan Doyle taught me about the fun of reading, then William Zinsser taught me about the fun of writing. If you want to learn how to write, what it's like to write, or why you should write ("Writing is not a special language owned by the English teacher. Writing is thinking on paper."), it's hard to find a better guide. This book significantly improved my writing skills and even gave me the confidence to write a book (http://www.hello-startup.net/).
I was attracted to hard sciences because the subjectivity of things like psychology turned me off. Statements like yours make me concerned that liberal arts departments are going to try to make science fit their narrative. The roles of male and female is one of the most universally common behaviors across specifies. If I grew a vagina and had a baby it doesn't make me a different gender. It means I took on some of the attributes of a human female. At that point I wouldn't consider myself male or female. But I certainly wouldn't try to make up a 3rd gender for my unique situation.
Sane defaults and pieces made to go together are critical to lowering the adoption barrier and building a community, so huge props for that. But no ability to configure anything at all? I think that for most people, at some point there will be some small change to the default configuration their environment will require[1], and that means they'll need to jettison the entire project. It's nice that this is easy to do, but it would be better if it weren't necessary.

[1]: For example, I run my app from within a Vagrant Virtualbox machine that doesn't forward filesystem notifications correctly, so I have to configure Webpack's hot reloader to poll for changes instead of listening for fs events.
There certainly are decisions which are wrong, and the majority can certainly make those.
Is Marmalade dead?
There are dozens of issues (incl. mine) on the Marmalade github repo https://github.com/nicferrier/elmarmalade

Can anyone give me some insight? Is this place dead or is the maintainer just on vacation or something?

Thanks,
Kevin
Why would you hope that continues? They validated startups that probably wouldn't have been validated by any other means. Unless you're an investor, that's probably a bad thing, not a good thing.
There's no substantive information here.
The fact that multiple generations of humans who have ever played Pokemon, have independently "invented" the idea of the Pokemon MMO, and wanted their idea to come to life, makes this unsurprising.

"Oh I wish Pokemon were real! I could run around and catch them! Get strong and battle other people.. I would totally be like Ash/Red and travel around the country to catch a rare Pokemon and beat the gyms!" - Thought every Pokemon player that has ever existed

Compound 20 years of interest in a Pokemon MMO and this is the result. Even though Pokemon Go has only the tiniest fraction of the features we envisioned for this MMO. Even though we have to live that reality through a two dimensional screen rather than in the Matrix like we would've preferred. Even though the majority of the time there are issues and we can't get access. Even though it takes way to long to grind up. Even though the experience is a grind rather than an adventure.

If you tap into a human's imagination, find out what they have wanted and promise "that is where we are headed!", you could release almost any resemblance to it and have that human hooked. If you find a product like this which targets multiple generations of humans, then you're golden.

Even look at other games like Dwarf Fortress. People put up with huge UX issues inorder to stimulate their childhood Lord of the Rings fantasies. The same with World of Warcraft when it came out.
The announcement of a new blog isn't an interesting story in the HN sense, so it would be better to pick the most substantive article from the new blog and post that instead.

Also, it's against HN's rules to directly or indirectly solicit upvotes for a story: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
A large part of writing optimization passes for LLVM consists of figuring out how methods/functions interact with the iterators in terms of validation and ownership. A lot of LLVM is undocumented unfortunately and it's not always clear how they will interact with the iterators. LLVM itself does not suffer from these problems much, but writing opt passes is definitely a huge pain.
With 4 of those in a desktop, you'd also have a serious cooling problem. Most likely, you'd burn them out. Note, I run many servers with > 4 of these types of GPUs in them for $day_job machine learning type of problems.
In case others are looking for alternatives to SendGrid, SparkPost has been amazing to work with and offers 100,000 free transactional emails per month: https://www.sparkpost.com/
Efficient Lock-free B+trees [pdf]
Matter does not have to cross existing horizon for horizon to grow. Imagine a horizon radius R for a mass M (R=horizon(M)). Despite no matter would be seen touching that, time in sphere between R and R+dR ticks slowly even for external observers. So matter can get into this thin sphere in finite time. As soon as dM of matter gets into this sphere so that horizon(M+dm) > R+dR, the black hole now has increased radius and mass. Everything that was frozen on the surface of BH is now inside the BH.
There are plenty of reasons to prefer that simplicity if you intend to write software meant to run on a single computer. The moment you want to deploy a service, unless the data is "mostly static" (e.g. something you might update offline and ship copies of), the simplicity that makes things like Sqlite great often ends up creating complexity.
I imagine if you have boundary markers, such as a fence line, that would remain your boundary line. Without a physically marked boundary line then you would be stuck with the shape as shown on maps.
And, perhaps not surprisingly, Ballmer didn't last much over ten years as CEO and left MS in a very precarious position when he did leave.
Does that make the engineering work automatic? If you believe so, how much of that belief stems from the fact that you don't do it?
https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/07/22/create-apps...

> “Ejecting” lets you leave the comfort of Create React App setup at any time. You run a single command, and all the build dependencies, configs, and scripts are moved right into your project. At this point you can customize everything you want, but effectively you are forking our configuration and going your own way. If you’re experienced with build tooling and prefer to fine-tune everything to your taste, this lets you use Create React App as a boilerplate generator.
Where are you from? I keep hearing that people get captchas but I wonder what triggers it. I have only seen it from a Russian hotel IP so far.
Simple questions like "would I find this argument acceptable if the outcomes were reversed" are important to consider, especially for a subject like ignoring/reversing the outcomes of democratic elections. If that sort of semantic point makes that impossible to realize, then I don't really know what to tell you.
Reverse engineering and exploiting a critical Little Snitch vulnerability
In a typical year (excluding the Alibaba sale or big write-down last year), Yahoo makes as much profit as Verizon's entire wireline unit.[1] Selling part of the FiOS network for $10 billion to buy Yahoo for less than $5 billion is a no-brainer. It'd be better to buy a healthier tech company, obviously, but Yahoo is what's on the market.

[1] While costing about $4 billion a year to run, versus $35 billion a year for Verizon's wireline division.
not sure why you feel the need to be sarcastic about this.

Marissa and Armstrong were big names coming out of Google that many would argue flamed out. The fact that Sheryl Sandberg makes what I would consider is a lateral move to another successful company doesn't really come into play.

I'd rather hire the leader from a company with a diverse set of products that was directly accountable for an independent P&L. You don't really get that at Intel as everything is a derivative of x86 and I don't think you get that very much at Google (where the real P&L that matters is still search advertising.)

I can speak specifically to Intel, that execs increasingly don't leave because they lack the necessary experience to go run an independent business. Sometimes they manage to get hired elsewhere and, in most cases, they flame out and either retire or return.
I misread the title as '20K Line “Hello World” Application in Angular 2'.
It's a good thing if you own or work for the startup. It gives you an exit when otherwise you would be bankrupt and unemployed.
As a legally blind person it is impossible to prove me not being a robot by demonstrating the use of human-like visual capabilities. Other CAPTCHAs offer audio alternatives, but not reCAPTCHA.
When I contacted Cloudflare's support about this, they first required me to associate a business account with my private request and then deflected from the accessibility of reCAPTCHA:

> The issue you are experiencing is related to the security settings that the administrator of the website you are visiting has set.

Maybe I should have been more persistent for Cloudflare's sake, but when you're frustrated it's not really easy to be politely persistent. So, now I'm just voting with my clients' wallets.
We were previously using SendGrid but noticed a lot of email ended up in the Junk folders.

Now we're using Postmark; much better service and no issues with deliverability.
Moore's law is a linear constant. Catching up to super computers could mean that progress on all fronts is slowing. Even if performance of super computers increases by 1.01x, and personal computers increase by 1.02x, that would still fit the bill of "catching up to supercomputers." Neither would be the required doubling required to fit the definition of Moore's law.
I'm not really sure why people keep thinking that you're supposed to lug this around. If I were to get this, I would only use it at home when a keyboard and bigger screen would be nice; or I would buy one for the office and the house. imo the whole point of this is so you wouldn't have to carry anything huge anymore.
It's more like notification of an ongoing event and provides a placeholder for accessing updates on the situation. You don't need a full story to warn people of potential danger.
So corruption shouldn't be exposed because someone else may gain political advantage from it?

Clinton defenders's arguments are getting stranger by the day.
Maybe SendGrid suggests using a courier instead of email for fast and guaranteed delivery of messages.
> The format has three different modes: speech, hybrid, and CELT. The basic speech mode is pure SILK, up to 8 kHz, while the hybrid speech mode combines SILK for the speech and uses CELT for the frequency range above 8 kHz, allowing an easy fallback to pure SILK at very low bitrates.

> Opus combines the speech-oriented linear predictive coding SILK algorithm, and the lower-latency, MDCT-based CELT algorithm, switching between or combining them as needed for maximum efficiency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)#Features
Well, that's how representative democracy works. It's not how democracy works.

But even in a representative democracy, there's still this line out of history: "deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed". If the EU (or the US Congress) makes decisions that alienate too large a chunk of their citizens, then you wind up with a government in power that does not have the consent of the governed, and which therefore is viewed as illegitimate by a large chunk of the people. And then comes trouble, in one form or another.
That definition of 'most' is common in textbooks, but it's generally considered a bit too naive and that 'most' does not express a simple majority.

Suppose you have $1000 and say "I've spent most of my money on drugs and hookers". Many people feel that this means that not much money is left, and it would be kind of misleading if you've spent $501 on drugs and hookers and have a generous $499 left.

I think I remember vaguely that you can use ultrafilter logics for getting a better semantics for 'most'. Or, some sort of thresholds as a poor man's solution, I guess.
I like this idea; let's see who has the best and biggest cheats. A comedian once suggested we have the Olympics and we do today, and a no-holds-barred Cheaters Olympics where those competing can take any substance they like, to really see how far the human body can be pushed.

I wonder how long until we have to have a regular and an augmented Olympics.
That's happened:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/20/linkedin-sued-hacki...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/linkedin-class-action-email-...
Actually Moore's law is about the number of transistors you can etch for a single dollar.
TrueConf Videoconferencing Benefits German Hospital Network
Ortenau Klinikum, a hospital network based in Offenburg, Germany, has exchanged their outdated hardware videoconferencing system for TrueConf Server, a modern UC software platform. Deployment of the new system allows the clinic’s radiologists to improve the quality of cancer diagnostics and cut decision-making time.

Ortenau, the oldest clinic in Baden-Württemberg, has been offering diagnostic and treatment services for 114 years. The clinic represents a regional network of hospitals located in Achern, Ettenheim, Gengenbach, Kehl, Lahr, Oberkirch, Offenburg, and Wolfach. Overall, the network serves more than 1,800 hospital wards. 5,000 members of the Ortenau staff annually provide hospital care for more than 75,000 patients.

Offenburg clinic is located in St. Joseph’s Hospital and is the largest of the nine clinics in Baden-Württemberg. While studying the possibilities of diagnostic and therapeutic use of X-ray and radioactive substances, the radiologists of Ortenau use a special computer program which calculates the radiation dose to treat cancerous tumors. The specialists then record their findings and develop an appropriate treatment plan for the patients alongside other doctors.

Video conferencing has become a basic tool for exchanging information and facilitating cooperation between doctors in Ortenau, as prompt staff communications are extremely important for the clinic.

“We wanted to install a user friendly system for conferencing between three locations to deliver medical applications to all conference members with good quality,” says Florian Kammerer, the Head of Ortenau Klinikum. “Previously we used legacy VC systems based on hardware MCU (Lifesize), but the quality of content delivery from our old infrastructure was not satisfactory,” Florian Kammerer, the Head of Ortenau Klinikum, comments.
Given that the market is big enough for a single player to develop a chip for internal usage, minimum efficient scale is probably not an issue.

I'd guess NVidia sells far more cards than Google will produce TPUs.
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