skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People should use the credit card dispute process more often. If a company has made it unreasonably difficult to cancel, or charged money that you didn't actually agree to pay (because they hid the notice too well), that's exactly what chargebacks are for.
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I had 6 bottles of protein shake in my checked bag and it was searched. Kinda makes sense, probably looks a lot like an explosive in a CT scan. I suspect that was the reason because the bottles were all moved to the top of the bag, when they were originally on the bottom.
Yeah, the Library of Congress isn't exactly a licensing body. Well I guess they technically are "the" licensing body, just not in the business of earning money doing it.
26 bit encryption! Because "Crack takes too long right now!"
Knowing what packages to choose, and what works together wouldn't be a problem for them to worry about.
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There is no guarantee that what they're providing will be anything of value--and in fact, usually isn't.

Emails on the other hand can reliably fetch prices/be put to use.
I live in Seattle. I get really depressed from December-February due to the lack of sunshine, and I've found it to be a more difficult place socially compared to other cities I've lived and worked in. To the point where I have frequently thought about leaving.

That said, I played beach volleyball all day yesterday with some friends as the sun set over the Olympic mountains in the background, and it was greatness. But it took me a couple of years to find my place.

Happy as can be at the moment, but it's odd how the gray can send me into a spiral of inward reflection that drives me nuts. Everyone posts the beautiful pictures of Mount Rainier and sunsets, which are gorgeous, but half the year you can feel lethargic and go into a hibernation mode which messes with your head if you don't have a strong social circle already.
Isn't Waze data incorporated into Google Maps? If that data significantly improves the product and helps them stay the market leader in maps, its value, while hard to quantify, has to be pretty huge.

The Nest acquisition seems to be part of a long term robotics strategy, so probably too early to call on that one.

Orkut I'll give you--Google seems to have basically thrown in the towel on social networking.
Only if one has accepted the offer, which, spoiler alert, this guy did not.
Ok, I noticed I forgot another requirement. 5" at most. This is 5.5" though. :(
... in the United States.

They filed for a patent under the European patent regime, right?
stanford, harvard, yale, university of chicago, mit, williams, amherst, princeton, penn, cal tech, ... all private schools that not only require standardized test scores, but prefer top percentile.
Salary transparency, remote work, open source, great startup culture - these are a must nowadays and you can find Startups with these qualities here: http://www.TransparentStartups.com
It doesn't really matter what it looks like, because it underperforms in the market and is at best a feel-good curiosity.

Users at this point at trained--if they weren't already--to go ahead and do all of the things that make these techniques successful.

A starting point might be having software/businesses that don't rely on advertising and surveillance, but lord knows nobody wants to give that cash cow up.
That one has been going since the middle ages.

It used to be common for record clubs, book clubs, magazine subscriptions etc.

Fill in this bank debit form, get two months trial subscription, if you do nothing we'll charge you 14 months for your first year and your trial period. (The more reputable places would give a genuine free trial,but it wasn't uncommon for the trial to be charged).
I think the crystallised male fashion is a massive cultural achievement. Right up there with shaking hands, sending letters and using cutlery. Shame about the loss of hats.
Most people are lucky to squeeze 3 hours of actually-useful work into a single work day. In your average office, the rest of the 8-or-10-hour work day is burned on socializing with colleagues, responding to and reading emails, attending interviews, trainings, or other rote meetings not specifically related to one's job, traveling around the building, eating, taking restroom and Facebook/reddit breaks, and so on.

I don't think this number goes up as you expand the requisite work hours or push people against their will. I think people just find increasingly creative ways to avoid real work while still filling the butt-in-chair requirements.
I get your point about wanting people to be all-in. (Must make for a good sign for everybody to stop being it, but yes, it's a point.) But this:

> When a company is going down, a 10x or 100x or even 1000x developer (whatever that means) won't be able to save the company alone.

Committees don't save failing companies. They also don't steer successful companies.

In fact, the one thing you can expect from a committee is business as usual. And if your company is already failing, that's failure.
In the case of the website, could also be security, or enforced work-life balance...?
I really liked this article, and I thought other web developers would enjoy it too.

The concept is to write functional UI components which are decoupled from the DOM rendering engine, such as React, hypserscript, etc. There's an example repo (https://github.com/jxnblk/universal-components) which demonstrates a couple "universal" components being rendered by different libraries. Pretty interesting to compare final minified file sizes, and I wish someone would create performance benchmarks based on this concept.
So, what were they doing for 15 years and why weren't they replaced sooner?
Turok worked with Steinhardt on those ekpyrotic models, which at least have something to say in principle about CMB polarization and gravity waves and could be linked to the BICEP results sorta (which ended up being a no verdict). Does her model even do that?

Edit: made my statement less sloppy
I think you are dating yourself - I seem to recall being part of a Microsoft Great Plains rollout in 2002, and a Salesforce rollout shortly after.

Wikipedia confirms - 2001 acquisition for 1B. Probably a profitable one!
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It means that if you're acqui-hiring, you're paying a massive premium to get good talent you couldn't get another way. I'm saying that nothing about Summly suggested that it was worth spending $30,000,000 for 18 months of the sole employee's time.

I wrote it that way to point out that I'm not calling D'Aloisio a bad hire or a bad developer. He's got a good reputation, and Yahoo News Digest (his big project there) was actually really well received.

Rather, it wasn't worth the commitment Yahoo made for him, because he wasn't taking on the kind of sweeping rework or major new project needed to help with the death spiral. It fit into the general pattern of grabbing shiny new things at high prices, without really chasing the outcomes in users or revenue that might have mattered.
Yes, but in that case you're reading up on algorithms for the sake of the interview and not the job. There, it becomes a filter or rite of passage. There are better filters, and rites of passage (in employment at least) are complete bullshit.

My favorite filter is to just ask the candidate to talk about technology, open ended, like they would to a friend. You get a real sense of what they care about, and you give them a chance to lead the discussion. Do they ask questions back to you (I hope so), or do they monopolize the discussion. Are they even prepared to have an open ended discussion? You'd be surprised how many 'software engineering' candidates can't do that.
Whenever I see a page like that, I imagine there is a guy in a low-rise building in Sacramento. Every day he arrives at work at 9 am, switches on the computer in the corner of his office, and then he switches it off when he goes home. After 20 years he will retire with a pension and move to South Lake Tahoe.
Eat24 (which was acquired by Yelp) does this a lot too. ("Give your thumbs a rest: You just made food happen!")

The jokey things they encourage people to tweet about having ordered from Eat24 are really something. (It would be interesting to think about what some of the messages in them are; I think there's something more than talking-to-little-kids there.)
No, Adwords makes them billions in advertising revenue.
This feels like a list of complaints -- some legit, others not so much -- that don't support the very major conclusion that Apple has a "declining aptitude for the discipline of user interface design."

If you're going to draw that sort of conclusion, you need to support it with a lot more than just a laundry list of stuff like "progress bar animations are more difficult to see" and "drop shadows are lighter."
Folding umbrellas.
The system able to do that will have to be designed by someone and maintained by someone, because it cannot just appear out of thin air, work perfectly and never have bugs. So, ultimately there will be someones with enough power to change the way every single thing in the system operates and therefore enough power to destroy the system.
I just moved to NY myself a few weeks ago, and am generally a pretty light sleeper. I didn't have trouble falling asleep, but I had trouble with waking up at 4AM, as soon as sunlight really started coming in. Luckily, the solution was easy - $100 or so gets a set of blackout curtains that can just about make the place pitch black in direct sunlight. Apparently New Yorkers are oddly averse to curtains for some reason...

Noise is a little tougher. Luckily, my place is pretty well insulated. But white noise like fans and such and earplugs can help a lot.
Still absolutely no way people talk about D here more than JavaScript. And I imagine the reason assembly scores so high is treating "x86" and "ARM" as keywords, so that raises the question of why "Node React Angular Ember Meteor" etc aren't treated as keywords for JS.
Some features I love to see:

- ability to export my data

- ability to close my account

- ability to upgrade, downgrade, end subscription

- everything private by default

- explicit consent to make stuff publicly visible/shared

- don't automatically bill me when a trial ends
It's my impression that a dark pattern is not so much a con, and more like when a ballot is intentionally printed in such a way that a voter intending to vote for Obama is misled and unwittingly marks the ballot for Romney instead, or vica versa.
Hubspot maybe?
Yes they are different technologies and have different strengths. Before Docker, a VM was just about the only way to decouple a software environment from specific hardware. Now some people are migrating from a VM to Docker if that's all they need.

I have no idea how big the impact of Docker is on the various VM vendors, but it isn't zero.
I've only received one job offer in my lifetime that wasn't open to negotiation.

It was bad form to make an initial offer that far below the author's stated salary requirement, but I'd be shocked if there wasn't room for negotiation. The author didn't mention whether he tried pushing them higher.
There is no benefit which is why he failed to give any.
$200M for handing out free lunch, a self-esteem boost, a poorly implemented personnel ranking scheme, and a few emails at weird hours ... sounds like a pretty sweet deal. sign me up!
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It makes me angry and sad to see all the sniping about her $200M (or thereabouts) earnings over 4 years. The spotlight has always been on her, and her failings are magnified beyond reason. Is it because she's young woman and pretty?

I was at Yahoo from 2004 through 2015. I saw some seriously stupid CEOs. One of them being Terry Semel. He made more than $200M in just one year (and even more, according to rumors). Here's an article from around that time; I wish I had time to dig up more: https://3qdigital.com/analytics/terry-semel-you-owe-1000-yah...

But you never hear his name ever brought up. Because he was a white, male CEO?
Trust me, at that level there are many things that help you artificially. It exists at lower levels too, of course.
Salesmanship i guess.
Anyone would be way more valuable to a startup after a couple of years in industry. I would say that Amazon more so than others (maybe a little biased..) because of the team structure, engineering tools and development practices.

Knowing what I know now, if I had gone to a startup straight out of college I would have been worse than useless.
From the article:

> The photographer’s photos are listed on the library’s website as being in the public domain with “no known restrictions on publication.”

> However, Highsmith says she never abandoned her photo copyrights
When people say things like "really courageous" (Hossenfelder) and "really very different and hardly acknowledged by leading researchers in the field" (Turok), those are polite ways of damning someone with faint praise in writing a recommendation letter for them if you think they're a crackpot. Only Lloyd struck me as genuine in that article (and Hossenfelder because she's in a similar spot, not because of her quote)
I think you guys are here just to argue and make excuses for google. I get it that you are fanboys, but please...

The GP said that they are like Berkshire Hathaway - basically a conglomerate of profitable companies. This simply isn't true. Acquiring a company to incorporate their assets into yours is just M&A, nothing like BH.

Nest is a miserable failure.
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Only hardcore masochists use ed(1) ! I think she used pico, but not sure.
I believe this is it:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2005/02/08/fa...

The IBM way required IBM BIOS and an absurdly long time (as I recalled it was hundreds of milliseconds, not just milliseconds) to re-enter real mode.

The motivation was to be able to run DOS real-mode programs as well as protected mode programs.
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They're in part a community-driven content site though, that's understandable. The trails, and feedback about them, is all user-derived.
I'm curious, what were the "dog ate my homework" excuses you got for why a story or project was running late?
Like it or not, Perimeter was getting a reputation as a place for crackpots.
Special projects
> I hope at least Guile Emacs will try getting rid of it.

Guile Emacs is dead, isn't it? No activity in over a year: http://git.hcoop.net/?p=bpt/emacs.git
My experience is that this works well in an IT infrastructure sort of environment where you're assigned tickets that takes a couple of hours on the average. It sort of works in a project-based product development effort where programmers are implementing features and fixing bugs, but breaks down horribly on anything that involves any sort of research and experimentation (you know, the sorts of things that actually create breakthroughs and make money?) And God forbid you ever try to learn anything new: "Yesterday: read 50 pages of the ElasticSearch manual. Today: read 50 more pages of the ElasticSearch manual. Tomorrow: get fired for not having anything immediately profitable to put on status report."
Only in programming would this type of statement hold any merit. I was an air traffic controller for 10 years prior to becoming a data scientist. Experience is more than just being able to code (or do your specific job), it brings a wealth of knowledge you have to yet notice or realize.
I totally get why someone would push coding tasks even on experienced devs - if you're meeting someone without a recommendation then history doesn't guarantee value.

But it still seems weird to push heavy coding sessions without even speaking to the candidate, and that seems weirder the more experienced people are. You might assume that a new grad doesn't care what work they're doing and can just be interviewed for a job in "software", but why throw somebody with 15 years behind them into a funnel without even talking about what it's a funnel for?
Gossamer threads is the closest. But, in so many ways, Gmane is just more reliable, and tends to pop up so much higher on Google.
judging from the article, I was under the assumption that he had a poor review, not a firing. Possibly set to go on an improvement plan or some-such.

This leads to a messy set of compensations:

* When we fire people, they may take revenge, so we escort them out immediately

* ...but then people start assuming the worst when we tell them they are doing poorly, so we stop doing that and just fire them once it's bad enough (escorting them out immediately at that point)

* ...so then they start trying to guess when we are unhappy with them, and now we have employees that weren't at any risk of firing taking preemptive revenge...

It's a mess, and the less respectfully you treat people in the name of "policy", the more it can escalate things.
If you want performance and the data is not critical like a Facebook post you need to use MySQL. But if you deal with money, like a bank or an ERP then the way to go is PostgreSQL. It should be a known fact for software developers.
Everywhere I've worked has made up for it by demanding both a weekly status e-mail and a daily standup (and a daily status e-mail and a twice-a-year performance review).
Agreed. They should probably have held off till they can demonstrate the set of gates required for universal quantum computation. These are well known and have been the target of experimentalists for decades now. In fact, what has held back a quantum computer from being made thus far is that no single hardware implementation has achieved the required accuracy across the full set of gates. If single qubit operations were all that was needed we'd be done by now :)

The tone of the article also seems to imply that the quantum information community is remiss for assuming that P != NP. Everyone is aware that this is a open question: it's probably the largest open question in all mathematics. So if this new approach does yield a way to find new efficient solutions to NP hard problems, that would be amazing and prize worthy.
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Oh I agree. I think if an engineer has to spend over 2-4h a week interviewing long term you are spending too much time on hiring.

A little break to talk to humans is good. Shouldn't be your main job, unless you work in HR or something...
Great write-up! I'd love to see the linked in profile that generates such great leads. I've tried to improve and polish my linked in profile but still not hearing from recruiters. I must be doing something horribly wrong
Of course, with a new baby in the house, it's possible she was going to be up at 1 AM anyway...
That it doesn't matter how good they are; their skill could not explain the reason to spend that much money.
Worth it just for the amusing discussions in the Talk page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_lists_of_lists
> Are there effective teams who don't do anything like this at all?

I'm pretty sure that the only effective teams are the ones who don't do anything like this at all.
> Having said that, if it turns out that the library of congress is responsible for the infringements (because they published the images and labelled them incorrectly as being public domain) then Getty would be off the hook for infringement

It seems to me that mislabeling wouldn't make the LoC legally responsible for the infringement, but might make Getty not liable for any infringement that happened entirely before they were made aware of the incorrect labeling. Or maybe not; since willfulness is an enhancement on liability for infringement liability [0], not a prerequisite, the fact that Getty did not know that the images were subject to copyright may not be a defense.

> I suppose it's possible that an unscrupulous third party falsely licensed the "public domain" images to Getty, which would make Getty responsible for neither the falsification of copyright information, nor the infringement.

AFAICT, that wouldn't necessarily legally relieve Getty of liability, though it would make the other party liable to the copyright owner for willful infringement, fraudulent claims of ownership, and contributory infringement (with regard to Getty's infringement), and also liable to Getty for fraud and potentially other torts.

[0] see, e.g., 17 U.S.C. Sec. 504(c)(2)
I think most companies can be characterized this way: "Develop a business that generates large cash flows, then relentlessly plow that money into more profitable side ventures."
I would say the more matching phrase would be "can a single iron worker shutdown the whole factory?"

Most IT guys can do that.
What types of things can a good manager do that increases an output by triple? That seems incredibly high to me. The little bit of research that's been done looking at how managers increase employee output have found the vast majority of force multiplication comes from training.
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My youth? I am old enough that I saw both Ghostbusters and Caddyshack as a kid in the theater when they were new movies. As such your comment or attempt at snark is quite laughable. I've been an avid Bill Murray fan for I guess most of my life now. He was not a legend back then, he had modest success post SNL with those movies and a long string of flops and was actually considered "washed up" for quite some time. So no, the whole "living legend" thing started around the time that Sophia Coppola cast him in "Lost in Translation" and introduced him to a new generation of kids. This phenomenon is particularly amusing to Murray fans in my age group.

Your lack of facts is showing.
Agreed, it sounds like he shifted the blow up the world key from Engineers to a Board president.

Which is fine, but seems like a roundabout way to do it.
I wouldn't call it a high quality of life, just a life I understand how to appreciate. That doesn't mean we should blindly push forward.
Have someone tried BetterBack?

I purchased mine but still have not received it.
pico being the default editor for pine would make a natural choice.

I wonder how can someone who prefers console-based email clients ignore mutt.
They made him lose his time, I think it's fair game.
I did an internship there and didn't see catch a glimpse of the sun for three straight months. I've never been so depressed in my life.

That's the main reason; it also smells like pee, there are aggressive hobos everywhere, the public transit is useless, it rains every day, and everything closes at 6pm.
> did not transfer her copyright over to the Library of Congress to put the works in the public domain

This isn't a thing. There's no well-defined mechanism by which that could be done.
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Youtube is required to police copyright, why not Getty?
What is a coders worst nightmare?
Yeah I think Google's on a much better track with material design. It's "flat" enough to look modern, but gives you better UX cue's.
GI is in quasi-P, but you could consider another languzge like Quadratic non-residuosity which also is in CoNP but has zero knowledge proofs.
> There were problems with skeuomorphism, to be sure

One big problem was that UX people never figured out what the correct way to operate a thumb dial with a mouse was.
Absolutely. That's part of why I stressed that it didn't seem to be standard Amazon policy - it looked like some hiring agent had decided "No fraud on my watch!" and pushed through an aggressive policy to make it happen.

My complaint was that it seemed both ineffective (imagine candidates with the Big-O cheatsheet taped above their monitor) and obnoxious (I wasn't even going to talk to an employee until I jumped through a bunch of hoops). If you're going to be demanding (and uncommonly so), then security theater with no engagement with the candidate is a bad way to go.