skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apart from easy web access, is there more to the HTTP than the NNTP interface of Gmane? Like search over every message, maybe? If not, people should find their favourite newsreader and be all set, cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders
" British Airways lists flights that are the second-lowest price as the lowest,"

That sentence makes it sound like they deliberately always put the 2nd lowest price as the lowest every time. It was pretty misleading or poorly written.
SAP BusinessObjects Cloud has Modeling and Financial Planning capabilities: http://go.sap.com/canada/product/analytics/cloud-analytics.p...
Why people are so afraid of self-modifying code? It enables some cool hacks, it is no more and no less secure than non-self-modifying code (as long as it is properly contained), and, well, this what makes computers and programming interesting rather then limited to boring table lookups and finite state machines.
The myth of the pay gap has been perpetuated by the Obama administration, the Clinton campaign, and the Trump campaign.

There are 10 million more female voters than male voters, so everyone is taking part in the demagoguery
Gravity waves are the waves forming on top of atmospheric layers, like ripples in a pond.

Gravitational waves are the spacetime waves generated by black hole mergers and the like.

Very different phenomena.
https://github.com/blindglobe/common-lisp-stat
Is Siri big in the US? Here in Europe I see a lot of people with iPhones but I have never seen anyone use Siri. I have seen my friend attempt whatsapp messages via the vice recognition thing while he is driving, but it looks way more hassle than what it is worth.
Hootsuite could have used taking on the CC fees as leverage for obtaining a concession on a different point. Instead they negotiated a clause that benefits individuals, and not the company.

If I were an investor in a company and they accepted suboptimal contract terms because of terms that benefited individuals and not the company, I'd be unhappy. If they promoted it as a best practice, I'd be livid.
Since it's PhDs you're after, maybe you could offer something along the lines of a small lab that they can pursue their own projects in for 1-2 days a week and establish that you encourage them to publish research.
I've worked at Amazon for around 4 years now. I work 9-5 most days. The days I don't I'll work 10-6! I still work there because I get to work on interesting distributed systems. I've never really had any of the bad experiences that others have seem to had. I reasonably get along with my manager, his manager, and the VP of my organization. They are not the assholes that every complaint seems to mention.

Even in Seattle my pay definitely puts me in the upper middle class. I can afford Seattle property reasonably well ($600k range).

Interviewing at Amazon is kind of weird. They keep trying out new ideas to see how they work and includes things like: standard phone screen, coding test (don't know a better word for it), on site all day interviews, group interviews, etc... Chances are that if you had a weird interview process it was probably because you were trialing some different interview format.

I guess I don't really have a point in this post but I didn't see one positive post about Amazon and thought I'd share (at least anecdotally) that it's not all bad.
You lost us at the "healthy and free" part, where press and media is actively censored. Don't get me started on freedom of religion. Where's the freedom in that, again?
I meant the tone of the response. Specifically, mocking my OP by adding 'or whatever' at the end was distracting.

I think the substance of dgemm's comment has merit though. It could be Amazon was trying to place the candidate so were assessing the breadth of his/her skill.

My OP was more generalized. Most positions in software don't require fine-grained understanding of algorithms and data structures, but interviewers nevertheless focus on those. A general understanding is good enough along with more important factors:

Are they talented at what we're hiring them for? Are they an asshole? Will they finagle their way out the door and on home when production is on fire?
Most interesting, thank you for posting. Kennan in his memoirs remarked that timing was a large part of its influence: a bit earlier and it would have been ignored, a bit later and it would have seemed obvious.

Kennan's memoirs and histories are interesting and well written. Those wishing for a taste might have a look at Sketches from a Life, which is relatively short and still in print.
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> The other option is to live way out in the burbs, where prices are probably closer to 1.5x-2.5x, and spend 2.5 hours commuting every work day.

I think I've mentioned this before, but when I interviewed at Amazon, the topic of affordable housing came up. I asked the interviewer what was affordable these days, expecting Kent, Auburn, or maybe even Buckley. His answer was Puyallup.
Veertu doesn't seem like a contender in the $0 category either, considering that the website has statements like "with free tier to run Linux VMs". Since no actual price is mentioned I'd assume that it's in the "if you have to ask..." category.
> They can't take it away from you, they can only charge you for support. You might even have unlimited users/business units. Add 100 employees and it doesn't cost you a dime.

You probably don't have an unlimited-seat license, because that's not how most are sold, and the market that buys ERPs (and enterprise software in general) is primarily motivated to pay for software for support, so "they can only charge you for support" isn't a meaningful limitation.
I don't get it either; the article sounded like the guy was in way over his head to me.
Wow that is incredibly shady. I doubt that's even legal.
If the company goes under because it can't make the full payment, I'd accept a transfer of the remaining copyrights and promptly place everything in the public domain.
No surprises, but the source is a right-wing think tank: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Manhattan_Institute_for...
Loading the content then redirecting to or popping over an uncloseable email form is a bait and switch, especially if you are coming from a search engine result.
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It is less than half a percent of the $100k and quite honestly an expense the vendor would likely spend anyway on business development to maintain this relationship anyway. Hootsuite feels like they're getting something, the vendor is agreeing to something they'd probably pick up the tab for anyway, and both sides feel like they gained something.

The credit card fees really don't enter the frame for me. Hootsuite blinked and conceded that term.
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Add to that "temporary imprisonment". How temporary that is depends on how much you value your freedom.
Google indexes Gmane, so there is search over every message, and I've found it useful in the past.
> Has Rust identified the core demographics of who they're targeting
> in order to provide the most applicable platform? Is the target
> everyone and all application type, therefore there is no default platform?

Our target audience is still a bit too broad; "systems programming" can mean a lot of things. Application developers build a _lot_ of different applications, those who embed Rust in other languages have different set of requirements, OS/embedded devs have another. There's a lot of stuff in common, but there's also significant differences.
100,000 sq feet and 100 companies
Ask HN: What was that Facebook site built with Wordpress?
Yahoo is a publicly traded company. Selling Yahoo went very well for the shareholders and the first rule for any publicly traded company is to maximize shareholder value.

I think it's very clear that the goal when she was hired was to sell the company and get the shareholder's some payout. Considering where the company was when she came in, I'd say she did an admirable job at this.

You might say that's not success, but I think the (shareholder elected) board had the company on that trajectory before she was hired. She came in to finish the job.
All kinds of architectures and algorithms can be implemented at the chip level in silicon. But, until recently, the "just make a faster Von Neumann machine" school of chip design has always beaten the "make a task optimized chip" school.

Is there a similar tension of the deign of Q-computers? Can we make an educated guess on which design school will dominate?
>connect two unrelated things, cyber crime vs sexual offenses.

Are you absolutely sure they are that unrelated?

Anyway, my point was that some of the things classified as "crimes" -- more explicitly, sexual offences -- in UAE are just a vile miscarriage of actual justice. Therefore, just referring to something not being a problem because it's "throwing the book at people already committing crimes" is not that good.

I don't know if people misread my comment because I did not elaborate too much about the case I linked. The problem is not that a sexual offence is a crime in UAE. The problem is that when a group of men rapes a woman in UAE, it is a sexual offence committed by that woman when she makes the mistake of reporting it to authorities. I find that approach reprehensible. Yes, I know I'm applying my own Western norms to other people. When visiting places like UAE, I of course respect the local practices to avoid committing offences there, but I still do think some of their ideas of sexual offences what are backwards, reactionary and reprehensible.

What you say about UAE as a sovereign state is of course quite true: She welcomes people to live there in a very healthy and free lifestyle as long as you dont step out of your bounds.

The same could be said about any country, every repressive dictatorship. Life is fine as long as you don't step out of your "bounds". The "bounds" in UAE are less unreasonable than in DPRK, for instance, but I consider some of them still problematic. As such, this statement "throwing the book at people already committing crimes" is not really saying anything. The VPN rules just add to the injury of having some very, very unreasonable laws.

(UAE is not USA, and I'm not from USA, either, so perhaps you are now making too many assumptions.)
The Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11327679
Google indexes Gmane HTTP, but not NNTP. That's a big feature.
How has working from home/remotely imply being a team player/enthusiastic yes/no?

I work for a non-IT company. Loads of people work in the office. There are a few which do not. They're really good at their job (it is somewhat measurable), are a team player and take their work very seriously. This in a big company where they have a dress code, etc.
It's funny you mention taxes. WAs no income tax is an added bonus. I also came from the Midwest and it was a nice perk.
Hearing that the recruiter more or less committed to a 170K+ range, only to waste significant amounts of interviewee time before rendering a below market offer is really concerning.

Amazon is in direct competition for talent with Google, Facebook and Microsoft and from what information I can gather they all pay significantly more while also lacking the bad reputation Amazon has accrued over the years for being a complete meat-grinder. (whether or not the others are actually meat-grinders is still up for debate: but they don't have a public reputation for being such)

Why does talent in our industry continue to accept this kind of treatment? If name brand law firms tried to pull this shit with associate lawyers I suspect they would get sent invoices for the billable hours.
wfh works great if your work is mostly heads-down. Remote working sucks for anything creative and almost everything collaborative -- I can't tell you how many 30 minute meetings I have every day that could have been solved with a 5 minute conversation and a picture on a whiteboard. While that's unavoidable to some extent, you should also try to be physically collocated with the people you work with most frequently to reduce the overhead of interaction with them.

Also, wfh can be a bad thing if the company has a paranoid, avoidant, passive-aggressive culture like Yahoo did. Life situations that require flexibility can seem like extended absences to coworkers who aren't in the loop, which in turn spawns rumors, misinformation and resentment among employees.

By the time she took over, Yahoo had been in a death spiral for years. Most of their best employees were already gone, and everyone left was mostly punching the clock. You've gotta make changes when that's happening, and scaling back wfh is reasonable in that context. I'm sure they made exceptions on a case-by-case basis anyway.
IMO the problem wasn't the employees.

The CEOs one job is to set the direction of the company. To create a vision of what a successful Yahoo looks like.

In this article, it talks about Mayer being responsive to email, turnstiles, food, etc. These are things a mid-level manager takes care of, not the CEO. And these things definitely are not a strategy.

All the way up until recently Yahoo wasn't even sure what type of company it is--media or tech. This is not possible if the CEO is clearly communicating what Yahoo is and should be.

If you want a company full of team players.. forget about this idea of dividing them into 1x vs 1000x. Make the vision of the company clear, so that people know what they're doing and what success looks like. When you get buy in of your strategy from the employees, it doesn't matter if they're 1x or 1000x developer. Everyone is working toward the same goal.
> Imagine if that lone guy at Microsoft didn't figure out trick with 286 protected mode that allowed Windows to survive and wasn't heard by top management - we would all be running OS/2 10 now.

I haven't heard this story before. Got a link?
> why is it bad for the industry?

I already explained how Microsoft has a history of violating people's trusts, and how an investment in Microsoft's technologies is therefore risky.

> Why wasn't it bad when V8 came out and enabled node?

This is off-topic: you don't know my opinion of V8 or Google. My opinion on V8, good or bad, also does not change the validity of my criticisms.

> Why is there a different standard you apply to
> Microsoft's open source efforts?

You don't know me personally, so it's presumptive of you to assume I'm applying a standard unevenly.

You have done nothing to address the criticisms of Microsoft, instead you have resorted to cheap red herrings -- a tell-tale sign of a lost argument. Until you decide to actually provide an argument of substance against what I've said, rather than arrogant name-calling and presumptive assumptions regarding my standards for open source, this conversation cannot serve any constructive purpose.
I wish I were you. I am incapable of sleeping without some sort of aid (alcohol, weed, utter exhaustion from extremely strenuous exercise).

I'm pretty sure it partially has to do with my environment (living in NY, which is loud and full of light, even at night).

But also some people are simply lighter sleepers than others. No one in my family is ever able to stay asleep longer than 5am, and all of us are very light sleepers.

My boyfriend is able to fall asleep and stay asleep WITHOUT being blackout drunk. I am amazed by this.
We can only go by what's written in the article, but it sounds like the CC fee was the only item at issue. Hootsuite was willing to budge on it and essentially had the vendor put business development activities into the contract. I agree that it does start to look like personal services, and I'd not be happy about it if it were something larger. But the vendor was buying dinner every once in a while anyway - why do you think they agreed to it? And while Hootsuite maybe could have leveraged that term for something else in the contract, it sounds like they're very happy with their end of this. It'd be one thing if the Vendor was promoting this, but it's the party that conceded the larger term thinking it beneficial. It's certainly a YMMV situation.
Question re "Massive Heat Source": Is this a case of a very hot, but very thin gas?

For me, a "massive heat source" is something that is pumping out lots of heat energy, not necessarily something that is hot. But the OP speaks of sonic waves heating upper-atmosphere gas ... very thin gas. It doesn't take much energy to heat a very thin gas.

We are into that weird place where a gas can be thousands of degrees hot, but if you were standing in it your flesh would still freeze (after you die of something else).
People don't like "go to" either:-)
My opinion of this paper is not very high. It's not totally confused or crankery or anything like that, but the author doesn't show the data structure they propose doing anything well. Also they seem to think that it will somehow lead to a polynomial time classical simulation for quantum mechanics for no good reason.

I'll just list three quotes that bugged me:

> The X, H, R(k), M and SWAP gates are discussed in detail and results show linear scaling as the number of qubits are increased.

How did they manage to spend linear time per operation when you can't even make two qubits interact with the given operations? Just working on the qubits individually will be constant time instead of linear time.

> The efficiency is still unresolved for these coherent control gates. The number of edges can still grow exponentially for coherent control gates, however, it remains to be seen if duplicate edges can be efficiently merged.

They didn't do the hard part yet, but the easy part was easy, so they expect the hard part to be easy.

> if BPP = BQP then it is possible that quantum mechanics can be de-randomized by a deterministic theory thus confirming Einstein’s conviction that nature does not play dice

Confusing "can be simulated classically in polynomial time" with "is not random". The existence of merge sort doesn't prove that quick sort isn't using randomness.

The arguments for randomness in quantum mechanics aren't based on complexity in the first place (e.g. we can trivially simulate Bell tests).
do you mean the UX on craigslist is bad? i find it to be fantastic. could be better on mobile screens, i'll grant, but it all still works, and is fast enough for what I need.
> Yahoo is a Failure, but Marissa is a Success

I have to be living in some alternate universe. Because in my universe, if you do not accomplish the goal (revenue grow) you failed. It could that the goal was too hard to achieve, maybe the goal was impossible to achieve, etc. But, at end of the day, she failed.

And as result of her failure people will lose their jobs :(
How is that different than the proposal? The only part that's maybe different is "feel essentially invisible", which is something that might happen, I'll grant you that. But I don't think that people feel invisible when some package is in a standard library, which is roughly equivalent here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12176697
Read the court filing. She can win this.

She owns the rights to the images. She licensed the Library of Congress to distribute them for free, but did not release them into the public domain.

Getty is selling her images. That's a for-profit DMCA violation. The statutory penalty applies, which is from $750 per image to $30,000 per image. She makes a case that the higher end of the scale should apply, because some of her images are quite famous. Two have appeared on US stamps, for example.

Getty recently lost a DMCA case for doing something similar. That makes this a second offense and triggers the triple damages provision in the DMCA. So, as a matter of law, she is entitled to at least 18,755 * $750 * 3, or about $42 million. That's a minimum.
Thanks. I didn't recognize it either, but guessed it was Cockney rhyming slang (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang), another somewhat similar way to do wordplay in English.
Don't forget IAALBIANYL "I am a lawyer but I am not your lawyer."
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Both are bound by fashion. But since somewhere around WW1, mens fashion have been somber and largely static (the largest change being the reduced use of hats since JFK).
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The world and the internet does this anyway, with forums, meetups and anywhere else that people talk. Sites like HN, Product Hunt, and some subreddits do a great job in the tech world, for example. There are other specialist blogs and subreddits for other interests - think Board Game Geek.

The hard part is building a system that can't be gamed.
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> "Tell me what you promised to do and if you actually did it."

More like, "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't fire you right here and right now. Ok, well then, give me another."
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It really sucks when your manager thinks this kind of work ethic is healthy.
I think it is perfectly reasonable to be suspicious ("outraged" is perhaps too strong a word) of both.
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That dude ran an account called 'WhiteMotivation' which is just about exactly what you think it is.
I think this has less to do with the tech industry and more to do with a culture where your value is strongly tied to your work. Work more = have more value.
I can tell you personally that going TX -> CA 60k->120k I was able to save way more money (in the five figures a year range) despite taxes and despite housing costs in a way that the naive "online cost of living calculators" wouldn't tell you about.

Yes, the square footage of my apartment went way down. Pretty much everyone out here lives in less space, generally it's less a "standard of living" thing than a "that's the norm" thing, but obviously if you really need 2K sqft you're going to want to evaluate things separately.
The difference is that she was getting paid tens of millions each year to do that job. (Sorry if I'm making a wrong assumption about your salary!)

The original post makes Mayer sound like one of the most people-centric CEOs in the business. The contrast to someone like Léo Apotheker at HP is stark (just to pick a random tech CEO who seemed like the exact opposite).
Wow, it seems nobody from the comments actually got what this is about. It is about thinking outside the box to finding something else. This is a very reasonable and common bargaining tactic. Yes there are situations where this doesn't apply, like when you make a deal about card fees as representative of a company you don't own. But this can be applied in so many other situations. E.g. you or a colleague discuss who should debug that one ugly thing you both didn't want to touch. And in exchange for submitting to the bad task you ask your colleague to not go to the sports bar on saturday but to the cinema.

TL;DR it's valid practice. Please read the article again if you don't think so. (not the author)
It makes me happy that this list is in the list.
> if it's easy to tell they've been intercepted by a third party that infers it's possible to do it so

This is a logical fallacy. Furthermore, it says nothing about how difficult a DOS attack would be to perform.
I did read that part, it's even quoted in the article posted.

However, you don't go from happy trotting elf in candy rainbow land to martyr by the flip of a switch (at least not that I know of). So regardless I'd still want to understand what contributed to creating an environment that caused someone to retaliate like this.