skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what stuck out to me the most. I'd rather work for a CEO/manager that communicates through actions that it's perfectly fine to go home at 6 and ignore work until you come in the next morning.
What's a Data Science Platform?
All that just so you don't have to treat your employees like human beings?
I really like the philosophy of Wileyfox. Good hardware, latest Cyanogen Mod, and cheap on the rest.

The battery situations is strange, though. The battery is replaceable, but you cannot get a battery?
Great idea, but please show some respect. Emacs was first designed in 1976, when startup times were a very big deal.

"My .emacs is older... than most engineers..."
I can chip in my experience for hour of code event. I volunteered to help run some sessions. Most of the things that we did was to give a bunch of website out of Hour of Code website. We made sure that the usage of coding exercise doesn't have to make the users register. Alas, in spite of instructions, many students and parents still were not able to skip the page asking for registration. Of course, some sites were more deliberate to place registration as if without it, nothing is going to happen. They say it is growth tactic. I say it is abusive one.
Show HN: Current Input – detect input type and fix sticky hover on mobile bug
I'm actually talking about sort of the reverse. Secure Input is a system-level thing; it disables input capture via the accessibility API (which things like TextExpander use), which effects everything on the machine. That is what you want; when typing a password, there is no good reason for other code to be reading what you (or LastPass) is typing. You just also want it to be turned back off when you're done.

But after the first use of the LastPass Safari extension, TextExpander (or KeyboardMaestro, or a bunch of other tools) won't work anywhere until a after reboot or some other method of disabling SI.
Google Glass. Even without the camera controversy, wearing anything on your head is hard to pull off. Bluetooth headsets approached acceptance at one point but have gone back to serious fashion faux pas.

Or to take the other angle of it, anything remotely "feminine" is still violently opposed for the modern man at least in the U.S. Although the way I read it, umbrellas were rejected as "feminine" but weren't really allowed for women either.
I think even in the case of people who appear to be productive that long (and I'd argue most people aren't productive more than 4-5 hours a day, if that) in executive positions only appear as productive as they do because of extensive support networks.

It's a lot easier to be productive long hours if you e.g. has executive assistants that manage your calendar so you don't need to think about it, people to delegate all the menial stuff to, staff at home ensuring you don't need to worry about coming home to a messy house that needs cleaning and so on.

Doesn't mean it won't still be hard, but it's not as hard as it may seem when looking up from a position you have to handle 100% on your own.

Another factor is that while e-mailing late nights when you're low down the hierarchy generally means you are working long hours, e-mailing late nights when you're high up the hierarchy can mean that, and it can also mean that you have sufficient freedom to structure your day that you've chosen to e.g. spend that day taking a long lunch and chill in the afternoon and catch up on e-mails late at night instead, possibly realising that this ironically will make it seem like you're working harder.

A lot of people who are not used to have that freedom automatically assume it's the former, and then end up falling into trying to live up to that. My advice is don't. Carve out time. Appear busy. Seeming busy ironically often makes you seem harder working even if you just say you are and use it to give you breathing room to work less.
$600k real estate puts you well above "upper middle class" nationally. Maybe not in a limited geographic area, and certainly not SF/NY/DC, but that's well over 3x the median home value for the entire country.
I'm pretty sure I had to sign NDAs regarding coding questions before any interviews happened (not Amazon, a different company).
The difference in practice is nowhere near that though: I made those 60K when I graduated, in 2000! Salaries in the midwest for experienced engineers are far better than 80K: A few years ago, I made 120K as a full time employee in St Louis. A darned good house is 200K. Consulting gigs pay more: Last year I billed 220K, just a single customer.

In comparison, I know senior engineers in the bay area making 150K at companies you'd recognize, with stock packages that don't mean squat without liquidity events. And a SF house equivalent to the 200K St Louis house is 2M. They aren't getting a good deal.

It seems to me that the problem with your argument here is not that you aren't right, but that you are providing numbers so far away from reality that people can pick them apart and claim that the midwest is a bad deal. A 60K salary upgrade would make San Francisco appealing. But in practice, the range is far smaller, and that's without taking into account companies that hire remote.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 is coming soon: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/dynamics-365?WT.mc_...

From their email newsletter 3 days ago:

Microsoft Dynamics 365 available later this year

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This article is more than a year old.

> 28/02/2015
Maybe that problem only impacts productivity significantly when attrition is high (suggesting that the problem might be with talent retention and not engineering effort spent on interviewing)?
I really don't like him.
It's a way of fucking with neo-nazis in turn. The three parentheses were originally meant as a sort of euphemism or code: rather than be publicly anti-semitic, people would put the parentheses to highlight how often Jews were being heard from, the idea being that once you notice the amount of Jewish voices around, you'll think this can't just be a coincidence (hence the name "Coincidence Detector.") It wasn't meant to be something those not in the know would get.

Jews putting three parentheses around their own names is a way of saying "I see what you're doing. I'm onto you." And non-Jews doing it is just to mess with them.
I just looked at AllTrails, and it's pretty clear what the value is - you get to download and print the maps, and use them on your phone.

I appreciate what you're saying about an honest transaction, but "dark patterns" is a useful term that is being diluted to apply to any company that doesn't offer everything for nothing. If asking you to create an account to use the product is a "dark pattern", what do we call moving buttons to capture accidental tricks, getting you to open your contact list with tricky wording and spamming everyone, etc? Surely those aren't the same as "please create an account to use our product"?
I can't speak to the technical specifics of the story, but it was riveting regardless! I can't really fathom why someone would go through all of this trouble, was it obvious and I just missed it? It almost seemed as if the grad student was just actively trying to be difficult.

In any case, it seemed pretty phenomenally sneaky and well done.
Still not enough depth, but it is better.

Eventually I hope we settle on something between bootstrap 3 and the original OSX visual easements.
An odyssey to find a sustainable icon system with SVGs in React
As Wikinews is pronounced dead sometimes, it could become a News/list mirror :) Or maybe Wikidata?
Exact inference in Bayesian networks is known to be NP-hard (see http://www2.stat.duke.edu/~sayan/npcomplete.pdf) (apparently, it's actually #P-hard). I'm not sure inference in Bayesian networks is in BPP in the first place, so the claim that this is grounds to prove BPP=BQP is pretty unlikely.
I didn't look too carefully. There were other options open and I quickly decided to pass on that much hoop-jumping for something not high on my list. The general implication was that it would just be to ensure you didn't cheat (so there'd be no value once your candidacy ended), but I don't remember any actual contract, and I assume that anything not stated to expire is kept forever.
Sounds like just a fancy way of giving your students unit tests. Our early CS classes will have unit tests but later the students are told to write and submit their own. I think that experience is more intuitive than a black box grader.
Replace "private" with "for-profit." I conflated the terms a bit. Many people mistake "for-profit" schools for private schools. For profit schools are perfectly fine with the ambiguity.
Note though that the contract stipulates that two employees will go, not which two. It therefore is a benefit for the company, provided the company chooses the best people to go to nurture the relationship.
Even if it works, do we really want to read tons of content biased by the fact that the author is getting paid to promote a product/brand?

This is like a lighter form of referral marketing posts where you read an entire text only to realize the person was trying to convince you to click a link and buy something (Then you can't trust the neutrality of the post you just read).

Edit: At least, with adsence, you can monetize without being biased towards a particular brand/product.
> There's a certain workaholic personality that excels at executive-level positions

Except that Marissa didn't excel.
No yet, but the cost of living in the Bay Area has leveled off somewhat (or even dipped slightly), while it continues to rise in Seattle.
> And as result of her failure people will lose their jobs

They will most probably get jobs again like they did earlier. Life is full of ups and down, you can blame one person for that..but try not to.
Clickable: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.1025v5
His package (base salary + bonus + average vested stock each year) seems to be standard with regard to the position he's applying. Still, with that package, if Seattle's cost of living is the show stopper (not cheap by any means), then I guess never bother trying at Google/Facebook/equivalents in the Bay Area...
At the risk of just repeating what deegles said, do startups really want the overhead of a new grad? I've met people 2-3 years out of school who can barely communicate or work in a professional environment. I can't imagine dealing with a new grad plus the faster-than-average-corporate environment of a startup.
Does it ad up?
It lets you bypass some classical limits. It's a well known idea. For example, John Preskill mentioned entangled telescopes in a non-technical talk back in February [1].

A specific case is "NOON" states [2]:

> NOON states are an important concept in quantum metrology and quantum sensing for their ability to make precision phase measurements when used in an optical interferometer.

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Here's an example that doesn't exactly use entanglement, but does use quantum stuff to give you the general flavor. Suppose you have an optical setup like this:

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When a photon is emitted from A, or B, it passes through a beam splitter then continues on to the two detectors and triggers one of them. If the detectors are classical, then there's no way for you to distinguish whether A or B emitted the photon. Both are a 50/50 split. But if the detectors can store their readings at various times as quantum information and keep that information coherent, then you can bring the stored qubits together, simulate un-applying the beam splitter, and voila! The same basic idea applies to telescopes: photons from different sources spread out in slightly different ways, and we can undo some of that spreading with quantum computation.

1: https://youtu.be/lN8zT_Yk5sg?t=3m58s

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOON_state
Huh, there's a lot of interesting stuff there.

One striking thing to me there is the consistent use of "democratic" and "democratization" to refer to governments that the U.S. referred to as "communist". (For example, Novikov says that an important outcome of the Soviet military role in Eastern Europe was the creation of democratic regimes friendly to the USSR, and complains that the U.S. will not agree to the democratization of postwar Germany.)
Edit: I debated how to phrase some of this and apparently was not careful enough based on the reply. I in no way meant to imply that OpenBSD was for profit, scummy, taking money or any such thing or hadn't carefully formulated their bylaws or weren't following them. I have tons of respect for them and have repeatedly donated myself. What I was arguing (and am far from the first) is that they have made it harder and less rewarding in numerous small ways that affect donations, and I stand by that.
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True, but at the same time (and this is not an uncommon pattern with the OpenBSD team) they have thrown up some silly roadblocks that shouldn't deter individual small contributions, but are certainly of concern for large contributions or GP pyvpx's suggestion of organized donations and matching ones, ie

>"and get management to make a donation in kind"

Unlike FreeBSD and pretty much every other serious donation-supported project (including NetBSD) the OpenBSD Foundation is not a [strike]legal non-profit[/strike] "tax deductible charity" (in the US that'd commonly be a 501(c) tax empty). So donations are not tax deductible and may run into barriers that others sail through. Many of the matching programs I've seen for example simply have official non-profit status as a flat-out requirement. While of course it might be possible to negotiate exceptions with management, just in having the conversation at all we're already talking massively more friction, and friction is the enemy of spending.

OpenBSD has some little bit of handwaving about it (Canadian, too much trouble) which may well be valid in isolation but is irrelevant in the larger picture, and feels more like a common pattern of prideful disdain at being about "anything but the code". But to the extent money from non-coders is considered important, the interests of non-coders also have to be at least mildly considered if an increased response rate is desired. It's the 100% right of OpenBSD to make it a PITA and have snark and proudly run rough sites and such, but of course that's going to have natural consequences in interactions with the rest of the world.

There's no right or wrong answer here, but I don't think your "it's pretty sad and says a lot about the IT industry that they are not" actually fully captures the situation. Other foundations are registered non-profits, have somewhat nicer pages (not crazy webapp monstrosities, but even little things like simple acknowledgment of smaller donors that OpenBSD blows off), and so on. Donors are special and rare, and a bit of personal recognition and appreciation is free and can go a long way. A lot of coders may dislike the softer general human networking side of things, but tossing it aside will generally result in a reduced experience unless there is some other form of stickiness.
>In her essay “The Cuteness of the Avant-Garde,” Sianne Ngai, a professor at Stanford, theorizes cuteness as an “aesthetic of powerlessness.” In the face of the overwhelming question — “What’s it for?” — a strain of avant-garde art responds by playing up its inutility, she argues.

When I began reading this article, I was reminded of the cuteness that overwhelmed social media/web branding about five years ago--everything had a little laughing monster or a big smiling whale. At the time, I figured it was trendy and a means of appealing to mainstream, non-geek/non-nerd/non-whatever audiences, but now I wonder to what extent they were staring down their own uselessness.
Technology and the “End of Management”
In https://web.archive.org/web/20160708085949/http://gmane.org/... (in the section titled "A Statement") Lars wrote he wouldn't "use any of the contents of the Gmane news spool for spamming, for advertisement, for sending mass mail, for gathering profiling information, or anything of that kind, or willingly allow anybody else to do the same". So I assume he wouldn't be fine with just making it all publicly downloadable but would want his successor to provide a similar guarantee.
Yes I definitely agree with this assessment. There's more than a few scenarios in which Getty unintentionally infringed but is still liable and will look to sue the third party which misled them.
One might say that these things happening are the market telling Citi to stop being a dick. Unfortunately it seems like they're not really taking the hint.
One need not have ever personally used a floppy disk in order to recognize the symbol and pick up its meaning through cultural context; this is exactly how we learn to associate meanings with most of the symbols we use. We gain familiarity with all kinds of obsolete technologies throughout the course of an ordinary education, and easily recognize images of such devices whether or not we've ever seen one in real life - but beyond that, we learn to recognize all kinds of completely abstract symbols and use them as comfortably as words or numbers. There's nothing harmful about the fact that the "save" icon happens to look like an obsolete bit of storage media; the "save" symbol could have any shape, as long as it doesn't already represent something else.

Of course it's possible to pick a different symbol to represent the action of saving data to permanent storage: but why bother? We have a symbol, and it's as good as any other arbitrary symbol might be. Changing it would create confusion for no benefit, since it's ultimately the association of the symbol with the action that matters, and not the history of that symbol's origin.
Python for Entrepreneurs
I can recommend Sinoia Caves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRmsMyiBN8k
Thanks. I could not find a link on the website.
How Do I Build an Agile Organization – Part 3
> Youtube is required to police copyright

They do police copyright. Whether they are required to (other than as a contractual matter with certain owners) is a little more debatable.
What are they going to do? Take you to court for vaguely describing a coding question?
Oracle and Google both make astonishing amounts of money. Nobody (least of all shareholders) is marching on their headquarters with torches and pitchforks. So nobody cares what the leaders of those companies do with their time -- so long as their companies continue to make astonishing amounts of money.

If the money dries up, rest assured that the line of people demanding that the leaders start paying attention to the business would rapidly become quite long.
Ask HN: Do you pay for any SaaS's? what would it take for you to switch?
There was another article recently discussing cuteness and its disarming effects [1]. This author is obviously hyper aware of cuteness in apps. But the average user is not going to give much thought into it. In fact, the cuteness is probably not supposed to convey a thought, only a passing feeling. Too much cuteness is easily revolting (think the PINK barbie aisle in a toy store). But just enough cute helps give an emotion to a brand.

Brands of the previous generations were arguably more masculine (Reliable, Tough, Powerful, Extreme, New). But these emotions don't really work for everything. Do I really need Yelp to be Mountain Dew Extreme or Ford Tough? No. I am not sure what I emotion I want Yelp to be, but cute is an easy default. Especially for a generation that is accused of not growing up, aligning a brand with a "child-like" emotion is not a bad idea.

We should be aware of it though. The "NEW" obsession of the last 50 years has resulted in a massively wasteful consumer culture. Arguably companies want to sell new stuff, so they sell the New version. But the obsession with the New version has probably had some amount of feedback forcing companies to constant produce upgrades.

[1] Related article and discussion
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/19/kumamon-the-ne...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12127650
You are not wrong, but there are always other factors to consider.

The recruiter has no incentive to tell the truth regarding salary unless it's way off. Think of it this way: worst case scenario, exactly what happens happens. The recruiter gets someone to apply who everyone likes but they don't accept an offer. Best case scenario, something makes the guy take the lower offer - whether it's his wife losing her job or he gets wined and dined enough that he's willing to take the hit to COL to have Amazon on his resume.

The recruiter already got "credit" for having the person apply.

What isn't clear is whether he countered. It sounds like he didn't because he mentions family as the main reason not to leave. But I imagine had he countered he could have easily gotten to that $170k number or very close.
This is a poorly justified solution to a real security problem, which is the elimination of password logins. The author assumes that the weak point in logins is the password hash, and rarely if ever is this an attack vector in modern Linux.

Disabling password logins, moving to SSH public key based login and hardware tokens (such as the SSH private key stored in Yubikey) is a much better solution than the one proposed here.
Seems to me like she was the "I say hello to you by first name in the morning but lay you off anyway" kind of CEO

Worked with a bunch of such people. Always nice in the front.
Anecdotal evidence: I know some new grads who took this test when Amazon rolled out this automated form of hiring 2 years back. There were several crazy things with this process.. the questions in the test were changed only once a week and they did actually make offers to new grads after just the 3 hour online test. In dorm rooms where a bunch of students are applying for jobs at the same time, news travels fast. In short, there are a whole bunch of people working at Amazon who got their jobs by just typing out answers to questions they memorized.
His answer to the last question is something I believe a lot of people in the tech industry need to understand. Health is above all else. You can be the most successful person in the world but put off taking care of yourself and all that success can come to an abrupt end.
The vast majority of people don't want to pay and many of those that might are still put off be the little bit of extra effort/risk (enter credit card details?, sign up for an account?, ...) and will go look elsewhere instead.

And if if the money would be enough to make the enterprise worth while that is not his main point. He was doing it mainly as a fun side project to help others and it simply isn't fun any more. Maybe it could make enough money to make it worth while in a purely time/income based benefit analysis but he still would rather stop as it isn't enjoyable to him at this stage and if even he wanted to spend that much time/effort to make that money perhaps he has other projects he'd rather spend the time/effort on.

If the service truly could be made a going concern in that way he'll no doubt be inundated with offers to take over and try running it in that fashion, so you'll see the new pay service appear in short order.
Better title: 6 generic questions answered by someone who should be answering much more pressing questions
I am seeing much the same attitude out of FOSS these days. Taking away options in the name of "user confusion" and "security". In effect they do not trust the end user to not shoot themselves in the foot. aka, paternalism on a grand scale.