skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah or don't be shitty to your employees, or don't hire managers that are so bad at giving negative performance reviews that the employee goes out for revenge. This is definitely a people management problem.

The only way to rid yourself of the threat posed by other humans is to run a single-person company, and even then you might screw yourself over.

You will never be able to completely neuter a threat that does any useful service for your company, and it's foolish to think you can. Any useful amount of delegated power or responsibility without the ability to misuse it is very rare, if not impossible.
I'm a director. I developed an easy test for whether my status reports mattered. One week I simply stopped sending them. It was mentioned to me once, about 3 months later, so I sent one that week. And then never again, for about the past year at least. It's not like I didn't have weekly 1x1s with my boss, in addition to our hallway conversations, so what we were doing was already communicated.

The only time I asked members of my team to write them was when I needed certain individuals to really think about their work and focus on what was important vs low priority. We talked about it, but then I had them write status each week for a while mostly to force them to stop and think about the connection of their work to the larger business objectives. I really value developers who have some level of business acumen and ability to understand the "why" of their work at a more strategic level - and if someone doesn't have that I'm going to coach it. That's just one way that works for some people. More of a coaching tool than an actual status report, though.
You have to click on the hamburger menu and choose the dark theme. It uses the light theme by default.
Antibiotic resistance: 'Snot wars' study yields new class of drugs
What kinds of mailing lists did Gmane host? I'm not familiar with it and the site is down now so I can't browse...
> NetSuite sells to SMB space. Those companies lack IT expertise and prefer cloud-based solutions.

Another comment identified "SMB" as "companies in the $10m - $250m revenue range". Other definitions are based on staff count, with "<200", "<250", "<500" accepted 'standards' for Australia, European Union and USA respectively.

So, your basic premise is that a company with up to 200 staff, does not, and cannot have any staff capable of installing/maintaining a CRM tool, despite the fact that many companies have sold on-premise CRM software for many years, including NetSuite.

> Hence they were successful

I would argue that a number of major SaaS products are only successful because they already had an entrenched user-base who basically had limited options besides moving to the SaaS solution.

My point was that there are already several SaaS CRM tools for those who don't want to control their own data.

SaaS is not about making software better, its about getting continual income from the users of the software, and increasing vendor lock-in.
> Also, why the hell is Getty charging for public domain photos?

The article was not clear on where Getty got the photos. If they did not get them from the Library of Congress, they might not have known that they are (purportedly) public domain.
Every year at my company we are required to take a business conduct standards course that says, in no uncertain terms, that you will be fired if you do this.
You can create your own specification from the stakeholders' requirements. If you can't create a specification, how do you define what you're programming in order to develop towards some goal?
That was my experience as well. I wanted to cancel because the interface for pausing deliveries was so painful to use that my wife and I often failed or forgot to pause weeks which were too busy to receive a delivery, thus wasting large amounts of money. After cancelling they hounded me with phone calls for weeks. We have since signed up for a competing service (Green Chef), and I have no interest in going back.
if they ever find evidence of the crime, they can tack this on then
The stats regarding the horrifying amount of student debt in this country speak for themselves. The stats regarding historically low levels of household formation and milestone purchases (home, car, etc.) among millennials also speak for themselves. This article is garbage.
IMO, that space (minus the AI component) is occupied by BPM and workflow automation platforms.

But what a business needs is an application and not a platform. So if you have a specific business problem and a use-case in mind and can prototype a solution, you can find a company to at least hear out your pitch.

Good luck with your idea!
> Crushing pre-existing Russian national pride was central to Soviet dogma

Dogma and reality often differed quite a bit in the Soviet Union; I would say that the evidence is that the USSR did not actually crush pre-existing Russian national pride, although they managed to temporarily transfer the outward expression of that pride into what was, at least superficially, expression of pride in the Soviet State rather than the Russian nation. This still, though -- despite the internationalist orientation of the Leninist ideology -- retained a substantial nationalist tinge, even if oriented around a new and somewhat broader national identity.
That's actually not totally unreasonable. Also maybe getty ran some clever image recognition to auto tag them up and organise them all? That's all a useful charge-able service. Going after existing usage is clearly BS, though.
I LOVED the show, but hated the intro because it broke into the binge watching flow. Eg, because it was not at the beginning and/or just after "previous episode" scenes meant that it didn't get auto-skipped when binge watching. So it interrupted my viewing experience every hour or so.

Yeah, I know, first world problems.
That's why they'll only be able to remove

https://www.voidtools.com/

from my PC out of my cold dead hands... :-)
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That's what it's like from your side of the glass - on the other side there are still sysadmins who either execute those commands, or have access to the API keys privileged to run those commands.
I didn't mean to imply corruption strictly by the federal government. I meant more broadly that whenever there is a huge pool of money, many actors (individuals, corporations, government agencies) will do whatever possible to get a piece of that.

A con man selling a book spilling the secrets of his cons? Sounds like a con - I'm kidding (mostly). Reminds me of how self-help superstars peddle their wares.
What That Election Probability Means
5.7... to 8..

Oh right, Oracle. Like how Java 1.5 became Java 5, eh.

Is >=8 going to be Semver?
F Oracle.
Pretty sure that's a novelty account, considering the username.
Pres. Buhari Shuts Down Nine Foreign Embassies
> terrorism doesn't have a religion

Given the facts of the numbers of people killed in the UK since the end of WW2 by terrorism, what would you say the religion of terrorism was?

(yes of course this is a trick question)
To be fair, a lot of the attractiveness of SaaS is how poorly purchased / inhouse IT management has worked out for SMBs. Before, there was a floor to how few people you could manage a system with, which meant there was a floor to the size your company had to be or else... problems.

SaaS solves to that initial "we need process but can't afford the minimum buy in" gap. Admittedly at the cost of lining someone else's profit margin. But when your choices are between "nothing feasible" and "pay some overhead", it starts to look pretty attractive.
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I'm sure he did say that ;) but consider that he was not entirely truthful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10065243
One would think that is true, that tuition is seeking a new equilibrium based on: subsidized lending; lack of bankruptcy protection from student loans; desire of high school grads to enroll in university. However, we do not seem to have reached a tuition plateau yet. Further, the expensive tastes of both public and private institutions, and the leverage undertaken by students, means that this system overall is fragile. If there is a rapid change in economic circumstances, we will find that overlevered students (including those that we thought had "reasonable" debt loads) and high-cost institutions will fail at an alarming rate. Endowments will shrink overnight. States will slash funding for state universities / research. Tuition will not possibly be able to come down fast enough, in those circumstances. Until then -- business as usual!
My goodness gracious, I hope she wins and helps inform other Copyright-based individual professionals of the avenues that are available when one's work is being exploited in ways that aren't legal (the whole "pay us a penalty" aspect here, not the selling Public Domain stuff which is okay). Good for her. Will stay tuned to see how this plays out.
> In theory this sounds good

It doesn't sound good to me, even in theory. If I'm becoming aware of what is or is not getting done on my teams via an email once weekly, I'm really not doing my job. I should have a general sense of where things are at a more granular level than that, and be able to synthesize that information through the regular communications of my teams so as to not impose administrative burden (which takes time away from their work). Assuming I'm doing that, I can be the one that writes about it if someone else really wants that from me. That's part of my managerial responsibility to keep shitwork away from my folks.
Money doesn't buy you happiness, but at some point you prolly stop blaming it on your employer haha
Apollo deep space astronauts five times more likely to die from heart disease
I'll work for them in a heartbeat. Seriously, I want to work somewhere where I'm never bored, and can take part in conversations, etc. It seems like a good place for an ambitious new grad for a few years. If there are any Amazon employees reading this, please reach out!
I'm running the Anniversary Update. Maybe things got better. It also sounds like you might need to rebuild your search index and make sure all the folders you want to be searchable are indexed.
Yes? That is the entire point of this discussion. That just strikes me as a sign-up for more info. Granted I haven't signed up there so who knows if there are nefarious pre-checked boxes and massive ToS agreements, but signup for access to the site doesn't seem malicious.
Windows 7 has extended support through January 14, 2020[1], so even if he was forced to do so for some reason, it likely wont be years. And with the rate things are changing, who is to say that Windows will even be a requirement for him in 2020?

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifec...
I'm a little confused. The recruiter said that $170-$200k was an acceptable range. Then they offered him the position for significantly less than that. I don't understand why he even considered the offer. I would have been really upset that they wasted my time with a bait and switch. Am wrong for feeling that way? Are there other factors to consider?
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Build your own game
Practically speaking, people only need to like products enough to be able to tolerate them, even if they're gritting their teeth in anger the whole time they use them. Many people end up buying things they hate because they don't really have any better options (e.g. virtually every telco, cable company, or ISP). Microsoft would have to intentionally make Windows completely broken, meaning so broken it's very difficult to get even basic applications to run and stay running, before the switching costs would be justified (that is, before people would stop buying it).

In a theoretical world, consumers are free to simply buy whatever they like, and their purchases directly reflect their intent to reward the company that made the product they're buying. In the real world, there is lock-in, there are exclusive vendors, there is employer mandate and inflexible custom processes with dependencies, there are other forces that make it so you almost have to buy certain things. Windows is definitely one of those things that many users feel they practically have to buy, whether they like it or not.

Every vendor of computer products (hardware or software) is trying to achieve this lock-in effect, because it means a lot of easy money, a much more stable and less sensitive income stream.
I’m seeing lots of analogies here, but are they really necessary? A rights company notorious for fiercely defending its own copyrights flagrantly violates those of a photographer, appropriating and then aggressively defending illegitimate copyright over her work. Is this not a straightforward enough situation to explain without the overhead of analogy-making?
These are good. Some more:

- along with multi use, use pipelined calls when you don't need a transaction but are going to need more than one reply rapidly. This can increase performance literally 10-100x if you need it and your not using it.

- check replication buffers of your running more than a few gigs size data set. The default won't let for example a 30gb dataset to sync from master to slave and you will end up in the dreaded replication loop.

- instead of not using 'keys' command, disable it in configuration.

- remember to run twice the ram you need.

- setup monitoring based on the output of redis-cli info replication and redis-cli info persistence.

- it's better to run a handful of small to medium redis sharded than a single huge one. Safer, faster, easier to backup, easier to recover, and higher performance.
I save downvotes for truly awful comments made in a blaming way. If a comment I've made is non-blaming, yet addresses the more uncomfortable bits of reality, I fully expect to be downvoted. In this case, within several minutes I was at -2, even when there was no "fuck yourselves" in the post. Interestingly enough, when I added it, there appeared to be more commenting occurring.

While I would agree that this place would be better off without judgment, and harsh judgment as I've shown here, the reality is that we all share this place equally with others who do not stop and consider their actions as affecting others thought processes in a negative way. I put this on here to illustrate that point in a non-obvious way, and in a way people CAN understand: anger. It's not the only way of course, but it does get the bug into people's brains quite well.

I appreciate your comment and intent behind it.
This may sound petty, but it is sincere nonetheless; I'm curious how someone with his command of the English language rose to such a position of power to be able to cause this much damage.
What is the general take on the initial ballpark of 170k - 200k vs. the actual offer of low 6 figures? Is that just how the game is played and to be expected (e.g., never believe anything they say to get you into interviews), or is it something to be affronted by: why did we both waste all of our time on this process?

Or is it likely to be somewhere in the middle...maybe if he blew everyone away in the interviews he would have received an offer for 180k, but he didn't so it was more of a 115k assessment?
> But if you have a large standard library and want to break the API, you can.

We have a policy of no breakage for stable libraries post 1.0 (as does Python, and Go, etc.). So no, we can't.

The size of the standard library has nothing to do with it.
I'm not sure which law school taught you that, but it's just wrong. Here's a law review article that discusses the differences in mental state between negligence and recklessness: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...
I would say this is not just a case of faster, but more aware.

Linux does not have the same meta-data knowledge that the native cache has. There is a layering problem which makes it hard to add this. For example: after some page splits and fragmentation pages are no longer stored in physical order. How can a logical read ahead work on the Linux level?
That's the rub in this case it seems, that if Getty never took this action against the creator herself, who understood the situation and, I'm not sure they'd run into much stink about selling Public Domain images as a business component (they provide a service). Her catching them in the act is stunning.
They don't have to participate in state-run primary elections, but if they choose to, they are not allowed to commit election fraud. Primary elections are still elections.

Of course, they don't have to provide equitable treatment to candidates in other ways.
> its about getting continual income from the users of the software, and increasing vendor lock-in

Unfortunately, lock-in will occur regardless of whether it's an on-prem software or SaaS. Companies don't go around changing their platforms every year or even every 3 years. So, one way or the other, the vendor will derive revenues from Annual Maintenance or Subscription. How's NetSuite unique in that regard?
Not legal to trawl the internet and find people using that photo, and make legal demands of licensing fees.

That's fraud and misrepresentation.
Zilog Z-80 User's Manual:

http://www.zilog.com/appnotes_download.php?FromPage=DirectLi...

Design For A Brain - W. Ross Ashby

https://archive.org/download/designforbrain00ashb/designforb...

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms - David MacKay

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.pdf

Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency - Nikola Tesla

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13476.epub.images

Capitalism - A Treatise on Economics

http://www.capitalism.net/Capitalism/CAPITALISM_Internet.pdf

AMD64 Programmer's Manual (Volume 1)

http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/24592.pdf

AMD64 Programmer's Manual (Volume 2)

http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/24593_APM_v...

AMD64 Programmer's Manual (Volume 3)

https://support.amd.com/TechDocs/24594.pdf

If you like sci-fi, check out the Baen Free Library:

http://www.baen.com/categories/free-library.html

and of course there's bound to be something at Project Gutenberg that you'd find interesting. You might find it interesting to go browse around there a bit.

Also note that you can export Wikipedia articles as PDF and you can even compose "books" made up of multiple Wikipedia articles. So if there's some topic you've been meaning to read up on, maybe go make yourself a WP book on that subject and take that along on your trip.
> That felt like a lot of boilerplate to abstract between str and [u8]. Is there a better way to solve that problem?

This doesn't have anything to do with large vs. small standard libraries, because all of these string types are defined in libstd.
While $1B seems excessive, and more of a number to make a point...

Broadly speaking, the "content industry" has habitually been dragging individual file-sharers into court and claiming life-altering, bankruptcy-forcing judgements for more trivial violations, in order to terrify the general public into compliance.

If the threat of a $1B judgement is enough to threaten Getty with bankruptcy, if it's enough to scare other rights-claimers into making their businesses more businesslike, that's actually very comparable.
The article doesn't seem to touch on why Getty thinks they own the rights to the images. I'll toss out a few possibilities:

• Getty buys images from many people. Perhaps an unscrupulous individual bundled up a bunch of images from the library of congress, misrepresented their ownership, and sold them to Getty. (Bonus dickery to use a false identity so Getty can't find you to try to sue you back.)

• Getty could have bulk loaded up on hoards of public domain photos to sell to people looking for images. There's nothing wrong with that, curation has merit. But at some point they might have missed setting or checking the bit that says "we don't own exclusive rights on this one".

• Or the pitchfork and torch mob could be right.
Microsoft bought Great Plains software several years ago which was SMB focused (renamed as part of Microsoft Dynamics); they say this is available in their cloud, I don't know if that's real or not, or how it stacks up competitively
I don't believe TDD adds any value whatsoever to the development process. Nor do I think pair programming is a good idea. I will not work for any employer that mandates those practices.

I'm aware that many people see things differently than I do. That's fine with me. I'm not going to try to change anyone's mind.
If your laptop is chunky or metal-cased, that's a pretty likely candidate. Not because it's suspicious but because it's just a big grey square of hard-to-scan. I seem to see a strong correlation between checking a laptop and getting a bag search.
I think one of the biggest draws to private schools is they typically don't require admissions testing such as SAT, ACT, GMAT, etc.

Of course, when you hear "private school," many people think private high schools, which are typically superior to public, particularly in southern US regions. The different is these are "for-profit," which can easily be confused, particularly by someone right out of high school.

Finally large marketing expenditures and high pressure sales targeted at people who believe people are required, morally or legally, to be honest.
To use Lee Smolin's (her ex-husband) terminology [1], she was clearly a Seer, not a Crafstperson.

The Seers-Craftspeople problem is not unlike the innovator's dilemma and the big-corp/startup.
The Perimeter, of all places, was about fostering Seers.
Einstein is the canonical Seer, and it is generally accepted that Einstein today would have been, at the beginning of his career, even less welcomed by the scientific community (before his 1905 papers, he was unable to secure several faculty positions, etc, went to work in the patent office).

Maybe Milner/Zuck can come up with something to help fund the Seers, à la startup incubator, thinking long-term, in the sense that 1 successful unicorn in a portfolio of 100 would be worth it, and you could have 15+ years to think without any pressure to publish.

Apparently the odds of finding some at the Perimeter have diminished in the last few years.

Maybe YC/Thiel/Musk want to take up this challenge, à la OpenAI.

Maybe hope lies in guaranteed basic income. (À la Buchheit: "we don't need more jobs, we need more Steve Jobs.")

[1] Smolin, Lee - The Trouble with Physics, Chapter 18 "Seers and Craftspeople"
Then they should be able to show up to court with information on where they -did- get the images (because they didn't create them), and the photographer's release, of course...
Yes I win less money because my employer pay tax. But on this way it's cheaper for everyone and everyone get health care and education. No matter they are rich or poor. If I get sick one day I can benefit from this system. And if i'm not someone else benefits.
Great, can't wait to see publishers "endorse" their advertising partners because they really "love" them so much. I wonder how many publishers would even buy into this given that their primary reason for integrating with an ad network is to make big ad revenue to support their (mostly) content-driven business.
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Ironically, in another "universe", StackOverflow doesn't have either part of this problem - they use the DB recommended by Microsoft and the OS recommended by Microsoft :)

http://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-arc...
Absolutely. Bring in 100 sales reps and suddenly SaaS pricing starts looking horrendous. The large enterprises complain endlessly about their SFDC bills.
Don't authenticate to servers with a password. Ever. Use public key authentication.

What's wrong with good old fashioned pam modules to put users in sudo/non-sudo groups?
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Don't leave us hanging; I'm really curious to hear what your side of the story was now!
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I'd imagine that in the case of such a drastic downsizing, that sort of thing was the least of the company's worries.