skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Experience from the other side...

I've acquired and had to integrate several companies. I can remember writing the operational playbook that was used to handle the types of questions you are asking. After acquiring the companies I also had to manage them for several years and hopefully this sheds some light on what you're asking.

2 top level things. The acquired entity can stay together as a whole or it can be broken up into its functional pieces.

While there are exceptions, the back office functions and people (accounting, finance, admin, etc) will usually get folded into the back office functions of the acquiring entity. If you are an employee in this function, most likely you will get absorbed or let go.

Depending on what the terms and goals around the acquisition the other functions and roles will be absorbed. For example, if the goal is to find "synergies" then redundant or non critical resources might be reassigned or let go.

In one acquisition I kept the product, engineering and business development team completely whole and located in their own building and tried to not mess with the success they had but just give them what they needed. We planned what we wanted to accomplish and then I just let them run and help get the bureaucracy out of the way.

Cultural fit is hard and important. When I acquired another company we tried to fold them in and it was hard on everyone. Within 2 years only 1 engineer remained and he was the one that was hired right before the acquisition so it wasn't as big if a cultural impact to him. If the culture of the entities don't jibe, it can create an unhealthy tension.

Best advice I can give you is to understand the goals of the acquisition, how your role maps or fits into the combined entity, the level of specialization your role has and what your personal goals are.

It will be a process. I've been wildly successful and a terrible failure. My take away is that the goals and people matter.

Hope this helps give you some perspective.
Cache locality, not coherency.
Publishers love this. Especially when it causes ads to reload between each click. While we're add it, why don't we add a special "ad slide" that's seamless.
I find it odd medical organizations in the USA use the symbol of the caduceus not the Rod of Asclepius I wonder how that came about.

I've read the caduceus is supposedly an ancient symbol or at least in some way connected to prostitution.

A bit of a faux pas to choose such a symbol!
My only Linux computer that uses grub uses the Nvidia proprietary driver and boots grub in the monitor's native resolution.

GRUB is using it's default config, I didn't hardcode any resolutions or anything.

Whatever your issue is, its not caused by Grub or Nvidia's binary drivers.
But someone needs to make that training set.
> but the eureka moment

What Orwell calls a DYING METAPHOR. [1] This particular one is my least favourite.

The word/phrase the author is intending to replace is "epiphany" or "crucial insight", so why not write that instead!

Also this story contains NSFW language, although tbh it's not worth reading at all.

[1] http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit...
Please comment civilly and substantively on HN, or not at all.
Guifi probably started by "stealing" bandwidth from consumer ISP connections, but it looks like they are now buying 36K EUR/year of wholesale transit: http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/pubs/crowds-guifi-en.pdf (section 5.2)
I used Windows in 2015 (I never used it as my primary OS for more than a year) alongside some Linux distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Slackware and a few others). I finally settled for Debian, at least for now. Whenever I need to do something with Windows, I just fire up VirtualBox and it's working well so far.
I miss games on Windows and I'm not aware of anything comparable (without SteamOS) on Debian.
I wouldn't mind knowing this as well!
I think that's true in the same sense that it makes sense for someone to quit their job and sell Mary Kay. The exceptions that have the big downlines and the pink Cadillacs don't disprove the reality of average performance. (per annum, average salesperson makes less than $100)
In the Node ecosystem there was actually more than one person like that -- substack being another obvious example if you're into micro modules (he actually has more modules on npm now than TJ).

At various points I was fairly certain that the entirety of all my dependencies were written by no more than three individual people.
"So — what is a point? Grothendieck’s insight was roughly that a point is a landscape with only one place to stand — or, a little more precisely, a point is a space where all functions are constant."

http://www.thebigquestions.com/2014/11/17/the-generalist/
> are simply not counted as part of the labor force

Which is why I said "real unemployment." The official rate may be 6% but the real rate may be 20% (if we were to count the people who have given up and are now on welfare).
In winter driving, where the paint actually is matters very little.
Links to the relevant papers:

Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01759v2

Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04606

Both fantastic papers. For those who aren't aware, Mikolov also helped create word2vec.

One curious thing: this seems to use heirarchal softmax instead of the "negative sampling" described in their earlier paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.4546, despite that paper reporting that "negative sampling" is more computationally efficient and of similar quality. Anyone know why that might be?
This is why I roll my eyes every time Hillary tries to use nuclear weapons for scaremongering. Nobody, absolutely nobody wants to use nukes. Hillary needs to get realistic here.
Yesterday, I sat in an exit row on a plane. I remember looking at my bag at my feet and deciding to grab it in an emergency so that other people won't trip on it on their way out.
All it takes is an Olof Palme... :P
Like whafro said, that wasn't what I was trying to suggest. Never meant to denigrate their contribution, only saying that parts that were never intended to be open (like comments) were probably removed rather than rewritten, which is perfectly acceptable and consistent with their great open source contributions.
Casting Call for “Planet of the Apps” Reality Series
That's a weird analogy. It's not like there was a lack of content (good or bad) competing for attention before...

I think a better analogy is "we have now implemented a spam filter. F U spammers."
Or, in the case of my wife, a fresh change of clothes for every possible weather condition for every day. "What if it rains? What if it's really humid? It might get chilly at night."

Actually that's unfair and a bit of exaggeration, but especially for the kids, she /always/ overpacks.
They did the same thing with overly aggressive affiliate advertising in the past when the first opened up their self-serve advertising platform.
Buried fiber doesn't really develop faults once it's put in the ground and doesn't really require any maintenance either.

The deeper you put it the safer it is and when we put in fiber we put it in deep. The rate faults that occur are fiber cuts and these fiber cuts are usually the result of some contractor not using call before you dig or being sloppy about it.

Bandwidth usage is always growing, but then again the cost of IP transit is constantly going down too. Heavy users aren't really an issue and end user 10G connections are rather rare. Those that really need dedicated 10G connections buy leased lines or wavelengths and pay accordingly. More bandwidth usage isn't a problem, it's a good thing that drives more business.

Peering is easy and cheap to small and large providers alike. Transit is also so cheap that it often is cheaper to buy more IP transit than to build out more peering capacity.

Access to networking hardware is not a problem and there are products for every need and price point. The largest issues are access to capital, barriers to entry and competition.
Buddhist Opinions on Virtual Reality
>why don't they just under promise and over achieve

I can answer this one!

Because when you underpromise, you are undervalued, and if you are undervalued, then you often won't receive needed investment/trust/means/etc. Meaning that while underpromising and overdelivering is a GREAT plan for an individual most of the time, if you do it habitually as a company, you can wedge yourself into a situation where, for example, your product is THE BEST, but you've underpromised enough that you only get 15 million bucks to hire new engineers, buy up hardware/cloud virtualization space, etc., and that isn't enough - you run out of money early and go broke! Where your competitor, who overpromised, got 30 million in investment and while their product wasn't intially as good as yours, they invest time and money into it, and then they just buy you and your team at a fire-sale price when you go broke.

The market is inept at these optimization functions overall, but it is still tuned to TRY and get them right- to take promises, expected performance, indicators, and all that and rough out a risk vs. reward equation and then plug funds into it. Underpromising and overdelivering is a method by which you can sometimes 'hack' the power of the market to 'price' your efforts, but it can backfire hilariously if you use it in the wrong space, against the wrong opponents.
Oh, there's much worse problems at least when it comes to fire alarms in apartment buildings -- people simply refusing to leave their home.

I live in a (modern, 4-floor, built in 2008, steel and concrete) building with 145 apartments. We have about 2 or 3 fire alarms a year because late-20s professionals don’t understand that pouring oil into a pan heated on high for 20 minutes does nothing but generate a massive amount of smoke. Though in 7 years, we’ve had 3 actual fires. One serious enough to pop the glycerin disk of a sprinkler head (and cause ~$1M in water damage from the ~5000 gallons it pumped out before it was turned off, compared to about $20-30K in fire damage).

I am the building’s “unofficial first responder”. I try to find it, so I can direct fire fighters to it when they arrive 8 minutes later, in the hopes of it being dealt with before a sprinkler head pops and makes the lives of many of the units' neighbors miserable for the next few months (because water damage and related insurance claims). Once, management was still here, and we used the skeleton key to access the unit and I actually put it out myself with an extinguisher (and killed the breakers to the stove). As I’m running through the hall, I have to tell people peering out their doors to “get out now, fire alarm”, and that no, they can’t take the elevator (because they’re now parked) and they need to take stairs.

When there are firefighters going into the building, with hoses, and putting up ladders, you have people in neighboring apartments watching... from the windows inside their apartments. Until the fire department knocks on their doors and screams at them, through a megaphone, to get out.

Management commented to me that during the fire alarms with actual fires (which granted, were small), ~30% of people (~80-90 people) refused to leave. That's a hell of a potential burden in the event of a serious fire to put on the firefighters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful is my personal pet peeve.
Ben Goldacre - a British epidemiologist - has done a lot of work on this area, but focused on the Pharmaceutical industry and their practices in running/publishing the results of drug trials. He's got a great blog at http://www.badscience.net/ and a book called Bad Pharma.
If airlines had a clear policy that they would compensate for lost luggage in emergencies I think this would be less common. When a small handbag can be worth $1000 and it takes you 5 seconds to grab it, it's an easy choice to take it vs leaving it to burn and not knowing whether you'll be compensated.
Oh man, I completely forgot about smart inverter applications. Just thinking about the possibilities gets me excited.
NEED Your FEEDBACK
Yeah i keep seeing a small set of names from the same org and corporations pop up again and again, trying to defend where the Linux "desktop" is moving.
A Beer Mile
True but you lose your Sec 121 exclusion for the years you rent it out.
I agree. TSLA aims to be GE, not GM.

From a stock perspective, I'm long TSLA. The car business is nice, but its just a vehicle for changing the world (and already priced into the stock, really). The real things we have to price is how the technology in a car can apply to all transportation problem/solution sets, how legitimate electric is as a solution for fuel/energy problems (and, long, for space), and also - can TSLA avoid existing regulation barriers and use the US market/economy in time.
"If you’re not already familiar with the concept of technical debt" ohh how I envy thee.
Please see the FAQ section about job posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
asyncpg was designed for asyncio (and async/await). So it can be used in any asyncio, Tornado (and soon Twisted) program.

Django doesn't support asyncio, it's built for blocking IO model. So, unfortunately, it's not possible to use asyncpg with it.
>Have you actually ever thrown up a SquareSpace site?

Several actually, and didn't have much trouble with the WYSIWYG. Worth noting though that the websites more or less fit into the existing templates, but you can also do your own work there.

>It would have been faster if I'd just wrote the site myself. It's not even that great

Well, the parent was asking

>what can I recommend to non-technical people when they need a website quickly and inexpensively

and "make your own from scratch" isn't really an answer to that at all...
Planet Labs: Track civic growth, zoning, roadbuilding and more
I've considered trying to get fiber for gigabit+ wired in my subdivision here in the Bay Area (with HOA approval). We have fiber coming up to the main road and have been wired for ATT/Comcast for a long time.

Since we already have ATT/Comcast I think they will be pain to deal with when trying to run new fiber.

There are a few providers doing fixed wireless, but even that can only reach a fraction of everyone in the community.
It might even be easier than writing an adapter if you just use SQLAlchemy Core's DSL as the generative mechanism for a SQL statement that is sent to asyncpg.
This was written in 2014, I wonder what scheme he is doing today.
If it's stowed properly under the seat ahead of you, it's not in the way. If it's not stowed properly, then you're already breaking the rules.
Frugality and responsible budgeting are "superpowers".

Your neighbors who took those zero interest rate loans and are living "the life" going on vacations and buying new cars... it's all a big show, and it looks grand from outside, but they're probably experiencing all kinds of stresses that you don't. These are the kinds of people who keep the psycho-pharma complex profitable.
Moving to GitLab Yes, it's worth it
It's hard to compensate for things like your keepsakes, favorite items, and personal media & contacts in your devices. There's also the fear of being stuck somewhere without ANYTHING that makes people grab what they can, to at least have a change of clothes and their toothbrush or whatever.
Why are they the worst? I absolutely read them, especially when so many resumes look exactly the same.
"There is more potential downside than upside, that's for sure."

This may be true over very short time horizons. But if Tesla survives 50-100 years, is it not realistic to think it could be valued at 5x - 10x current? That would be a 400% upside, versus 100% downside. I say this as a habitual short seller.(haven't traded TSLA)
Building a sustainable app business flying solo
Neat variation on LightsOut (http://chenglou.github.io/react-lights-out/). I had some trouble since the rules for which lights toggle are slightly different with this one:

Classic lights out only toggles the light you press and the 4 lights in the 4 cardinal directions. I was surprised how baked into my brain that was and how much trouble I had getting my brain to adapt.
It's kind of the last option.

This kind of analysis is already done and important, but usually it takes installing a lot of sensors and giving an impulse to the structure. I have actually worked on a company that did this, using strain gauges.

The fact that this is one using a commercial camera is kind of impressive. I'll take a look on the papers someday, but the obvious way to do this would be to have a framerate at least the double of the frequencies being measured.

Being able to determine frequencies much higher than sample rate not only is non-trivial, but also alleviates immensely the cost of these measurements.
Does dropping malicious USB sticks really work? Yes, worryingly well…
As usual, the devil is in the "just". Typical US $50/month broadband service includes about $1/month worth of wholesale bandwidth; the rest goes into maintaining the last ~10 miles and profit. There may be room for considerable efficiency gains.
> people simply refusing to leave their home.

This is the same in offices, in my experience. Our shared office building has a horrible fire system, and gets about a half dozen false fire alarms a year. My coworkers think I'm crazy for always going directly outside when the alarm starts blaring.

Sooner or later, one of those "false alarms" is going to be real and people will still be sitting at their desks while the building is really on fire.
Reddit is a mainstream site these days, but sure.

The most basic of searches will lead one to articles explaining that there exist various ways of achieving online privacy. At which point one can keep exploring, or ask computer literate friends for recommendations.

If somebody spends a decent amount of time on various social sites, is concerned about privacy, and yet does not do this, their primary missing ingredient is motivation. Nothing in the world can compensate for a lack of self-agency.

(Not even money as you initially lamented, since it means you're actually more valuable to surveil)
It's game theory and herding in effect. We all know it'd be most helpful to the group to abandon our luggage and exit single file. We also know no one else will do it. Plus, we witness examples and use those as justification for similar behavior.

There have been studies done that show if you're in the middle of a crisis with bystanders, it's important to single them out and call for their direct responsibility:

"You in the green shirt, call the police now!"

Otherwise, responsibility distributes evenly among the group with no one player having enough impetus to affect change.
> Even if energy generation, storage and an auto powertrain are a seamless product, so-called vertical integration [...] That approach has gone down in automotive history as a colossal failure.

This kind of statement always bothers me.

Just because several entities experienced failure using a method in the past doesn't mean that the method itself is guaranteed to fail always and forever.
Sarcastic whining, complaining about genuinely innovative research, missing the point, nitpicking, trying to make self seem more important by criticising everything.

Yup, Hacker News Commenter.

;)
That still doesn't explain why they can't use cheap panels from China.
Exactly. Plus it's a way in a few paragraphs to show you understand what the company does, tie in your related experience to that company and how you would benefit them, and generally pitch yourself as a suitable candidate to the company.
Here in Poland they were the norm about 10-15 years ago (for programmers), now it is unique if someone attaches it.

I'm a programmer not a writer, give me a system to create, don't make me write books :)
No, I'm not. But, it might take on a different meaning to other people. Most blog posts are run by the PR and Legal team and big companies because they could be a liability to the corporate image.
Has this happened in e.g. western Europe or other places where most people's parents weren't dirt poor farmers?

I'm suggesting there's a strong cultural component to this behaviour. (Yes, I'm preparing to be down-voted by the PC brigade.)
Samsung is mass producing the A9 in 14nm. TSMC is mass producing in 16nm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A9

Intel, Samsung and TSMC have all demonstrated their 10nm processes with TSMC expected to be the first to mass production.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_nanometer

I believe nVidia and AMD use Samsung and TSMC as their advanced fabs which is how they stay alive. They get to keep the expensive factories off their books and the factories can use their capacity to make more than just AMD and nVidia parts keeping their lines full. At least that's the theory...
I used to play something similar all the time on my Merlin back in 1978. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(game)
You're right about the power dynamics, on the other hand, this is good for consumers and perhaps journalists and content provider who don't engage in clickbaity content. In other words, this may drive the news industry to be more substantive and that's a good thing for consumers.

So I guess what I'm saying is I don't mind when force is used for good --on the other hand, this strength, as you imply, can be used for conduct undesirable behavior on their part.
> The main reasons passengers gave for grabbing their bags was money, wallets, or credit cards, followed by work materials, keys. and medication.

Maybe the reasonable thing is to require small separate handbag with all the valuables.

And there are more things which prevent fast evacuation. Are we going to ban them as well?:

- catering trolleys

- less mobile persons

- high heels
Tesla says its autopilot is saving lives.  Should we believe it?
React Fiber Architecture
How to use interactive content in progressive profiling
If you need a VPN then you need your own VPN server
Group Rapid Transit: people mover systems
Most airlines I have taken even forbid you from stowing bags under the seat if you're sitting on the emergency exit row. Only in the overhead compartments.
I keep hearing about these, but which of the popular GC languages (read: lots of library support) have real time GC? Aren't we talking about industrial RT applications rather than GUIs?
Bypassing driver signing enforcement on almost all modern Windows versions
Actually what I like more is the generator.

It looks quite nice idea to fork and re-purpose it to generate projections for other languages besides JavaScript.

Specially because the documentation how to create language projections is quite sparse and requires COM knowledge.

So the generator accessing the .NET metadata from a .NET language is more appealing than the existing COM API to work with WinRT types.

In any case, nice work.
> When my RSUs at Google vested they would automatically sell some to pay my tax obligation, but I would instruct them to sell half as well. Same philosophy. Get some of the money diversified, keep a bit of skin in the game in case it had a gain.

There is no difference (except for a few bucks in broker transaction costs) between doing this and selling ALL of your RSUs as they vest ie "auto-sale" and buying Google shares on the open market.

Although the latter emphasizes the decision you are making to concentrate on a single issue rather than diversify.
RSK Federation Partners with Industry Leaders to Advance Security
Are handbags, like those ladies are carrying in the picture, supposed to be left behind? I have a hard time imagining women would ever leave something like that behind even if you "fine" them.

At that point, a compromise is needed... probably smaller bags and packs that fit under the seat should be allowed and should be incorporated in the safety tests, but certainly opening up the overhead bins in an emergency should definitely be fined.