skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless the turnover is ludicrous such that very few lasted over a year, survivor bias would probably make it seem those left are content... For myself I've read a lot of really bad posts from ex-employees (and talked with a few as I'm in the area) and it's enough to make me never want to work there under even desperate circumstances despite my great appreciation as a customer and acknowledgement of their superior tech practices in some domains. (Like use of TLA+, being API-driven...) Maybe you can update me on these, but I currently ignore Amazon recruiters because I can't figure out which few-words complaint to send by itself in response: "free snacks", or "personal side projects including games", or "40 hour weeks", or "stack ranking", or "aggressive non-compete".
How about this fix? Does it solve it? Https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3172729
HN's lack of sections is the real problem. So much interesting stuff gets submitted and drops off the first page of NEW because there is only so much stuff that can get to the front page. subreddits solve this, and another problem is that HN's outgrown its initially designated purpose. If HN wants to stay relevant, it deserves to have some features rethought.
I'd call it "a matter of principle" rather than "knee-jerk reaction".
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A friend of mine implemented something similar[1], but as a pre-processor for the source code. I'll be honest, it's very scary code but I thought it was interesting. :P

[1]: https://github.com/sysr-q/assets
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>The problem is that in a world of cloud backups, a mistake tomorrow can endanger yesterday's backups.

This. This is the big problem with password managers. If your master password ever get compromised, you can't effectively change it in all backups and replicas, new and old, local and cloud, on various media supporting reliable wiping or not. You either can't track or can't control them. Even periodic rotation of master password is almost pointless.
Other face posts mention a structure of hiring bonus (getting less after 2 years) and some 4 year reason to stay. Can you elaborate?
WebGL crashes on Chrome on my Nexus 5 (2013).

Funny how that works.
In terms common on this site, Fermilab "pivoted" around 2011 to neutrino physics. After they got most of the possible results out of the Tevatron project, they switched their focus to something with a better cost to discovery ratio.
The second article gives some quotes, but does their mere existence change anything, if the medical science remained where it was even in 1541, or much later? Apart from learning that some people wrote something clever, is there any evidence to some meaningful results? That's what counts. I don't see them still. Until then, I don't consider the poor state of medicine between Galen and Renaissance a myth.

The periods of the strong religious dogma de facto existed and they really significantly limited the advance of sciences. The opposition to science is strong even in the present times among the "fundamentally" religious. It surely wasn't better before.
IMHO it's rather disappointing that they decided to tell MS about it, instead of just releasing it as a jailbreak, because every time secure boot comes up I'm reminded of https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html and that classic Benjamin Franklin quote...
>The cost of classifying documents isn't in keeping them secret as the only cost of that is your storage space, the cost is in the man hours required to go over each line and paragraph and determine if it exposes any classified material, source or method and then classify it accordingly, beyond that you also have the added cost of tracking the dissemination of classified material as distribution and access lists have to be maintained and approved, copies tracked (most importantly tracked down for EOL/recovery) and you also have to do an impact analysis every time you change the classification or declassify it

This. You have warehouses A, B and C full of documents. Let's assume that B and C are full of birthday cards and stuff that doesn't need to be classified. There's an operational cost to those two warehouses. With classified info it's not just some 12.50/hr security guards and lighting. You have tons more compliance auditing and other policy stuff that pushes up the cost. When some unlikely event finds a bug in your security protocol that results in a revision it costs 3x as much (because you have 3x as much to secure). If it's mixed material there's a huge cost associated with periodically determining what's what. It's no expensive compared to other things but it's a big unnecessary cost. Imagine if FedEx's policy was "employees should be hard on equipment whenever possible". It's not all that expensive compared to employees themselves but broken equipment costs money and slows things down. Classified info is the same way. Stuff should be classified per a "need to classify" standard the same way classified info is shared per a "need to know" standard.

That said, the NSA loves looking for patterns and/or needles in haystacks and may be worried about other organizations doing this to them. It would not surprise me if a lot of the stuff that seemingly needlessly stays classified stays that way to make it harder to build a big picture view. They may see the same kind of scaling problem as the one between non-networked license plate readers on toll booths (few data points, hard to build big picture) networked license plate readers on every police car and traffic light (tons of data points, easy to build accurate picture).
Have just added alias ls="ls -p" to my .bashrc.
This election has been a bit unusual (e.g. multiple Republican politicians announcing they will vote Democrat), I wonder how much of a problem that is when your model builds on historical data? Though it seems they mostly use that for longer term predictions, and trend towards just believing the polls later on.
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MotionChart is being rebuilt in HTML5. See demo here: https://www.gapminder.org/tools/bubbles

I believe this is the library: http://vizabi.org/examples/bubble-chart.html
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In my current job that's all there is, and 1 month worth of work is pushing it, unless "work" also means manipulating the information and the situation, then they are working hard, giving their 100% in that department.
Don't work for Amazon, don't buy from Amazon if you can.

I've started to order my books through my local bookstore recently, it's surprisingly easy. I do my research online (often times via AMZN tbh) and pick up the books on my way from/to the office.
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You're right. Re-reading it does sound harsh and if extreme lawn care is his thing then more power to him.

To some I already am "old one day." My daughter used to pretend to be David Attenborough and narrate aloud whatever I was doing while drawing unkind pictures to document it.

"And this is the Dave in his natural habitat. See how he struggles to climb under the car to reach the oil pan."
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That was not Russia. That was Soviet Union. Those parts of Poland became parts of Ukrainian and Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republics (Western Ukraine, Western Belarus). Most of them are still parts of Ukraine and Belarus today.
In 1938 Poland invaded Czechoslovakia together with Germany and Hungary to "protect" Polish population in Zaolzie. In 1939 Soviet Union "protected" Ukrainian and Byelorussian population.
In 1938 Stalin's plan to fight Nazi Germany and protect Slavic Czechoslovakia was rejected by the West.
Microsoft Application Architecture Guide
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff650706.aspx

Domain Driven Design (The book is hard to read, but worth it I think)
http://martinfowler.com/tags/domain%20driven%20design.html

This uncle bob talk is not too bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpkDN78P884

I think the microsoft guide is the most comprehensive, but don't limit yourself to it.
That's an exaggeration it's considerably cheaper to over classify or simply shred any documents that are not needed (or as far as the US goes do not fall under the records act since you can't shred those AFAIK) than to do a full impact analysis and declassify them.
Even if you do need to build whole new warehouses and staff them it is still cheaper than allocating the manpower for reviewing each document.
> Whenever somebody finds a new algebraic invariant that is capable of differentiating between simmilar structures that's a big deal.

Not every dinvariant needs to be an invariant. :-)
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A lot of games now simply ship the shared libraries with the game and use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to at least partially fix that issue; it works OK in most cases (as long as you don't have a glibc that's too old).
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> Lots of large applications have extensive telemetry without any significant blowback (as far as I'm aware). MS Office, Firefox, Chrome, ...

Not sure about the others, but AFAIK Firefox telemetry is only enabled (or at least sent to Mozilla) on pre-release channels.

> It's not undoable for utilities either

It's undoable in the sense that you'll be bundling more telemetry code than there is actual utility code, and downstream is going to remove it as soon as it lands.
But you can already do that with an Android phone with any of those banks...
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Why has nobody mentioned opportunity cost?

There's a huge opportunity cost of not being able to travel as fast and far as a car lets you. You can't* get an Uber or bum a ride from a friend to your mother's house in the middle of nowhere on Christmas morning. There's few parts of the country where walking/biking year round is feasible.

*at a reasonable price point.
The banks want to offer contactless payments on iPhones which they already do on Android.
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Yes I wish Australia put the effort into science that we do into sport.
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If something doesn't work you can return it in the case of some of the bundles it might be a bit more problematic since you aren't buying a single product but a bundle and you can pay as little as like 0.01$ for it:

Not a single store verifies any product to be functional prior to selling it, if you have a problem they'll exchange it or refund you, if they have a problematic product which simply does not work they will usually stop selling it (it's not worth dealing with angry customers) and contact the supplier to figure out what's going on.

So I don't know what expectations you have when you go to a store but when I buy a lamp while I do have a general expectation for it to work I don't blame the store for not verifying that it does before selling it to me.
Doctor is way simpler. You create categories or headings. Copy paste links to your documentation files (MD) from github.com into Doctor's Dashboard. There is no creating, editing doc content from within Doctor.

It looks to me like Gollum allows the user to use a wiki like interface to create and commit docs in github. Gollum also seems to allow a variety of formats other than markdown when the user is creating documentation through their server.

Doctor sticks to aggregating, categorizing and presentation. Postgres is used to manage document links and categories and not content itself. Doctor lets github do all the heavy lifting on document creating & editing and versioning.
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IMO, it's a part of the API driven culture.

If the API is the glue that ties business units together, you don't need as many knowledgable employees who understand the guts of the company -- the company itself is self-documenting.
Back when scrutiny of Amazon's working conditions blew up after a NYT investigation, there were several HN'ers who had good things to say about working there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10065243

Here's an anonymous comment that backed Amazon:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10065713

(there were plenty of negative experiences too)
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Because QA is the service they offer developers who want their games ported.

To be fair, though.. the porters DO keep the games updated, especially if someone lets them know there are problems. Most of the games on the list run fine for me (I have nvidia graphics, though).
The number of employees in a company doesn't necessarily limit its monopoly power or ability to collude, though.

If you tried this, you'd just get companies avoiding the law by working with subsidiaries or contractors, a bit like they do already for different reasons.
It adapts, like my parent comment has said. Most of our energy is spend on keeping the system running, not running with our feet. If we start to run, we burn more energy, because our metabolism has not adapted yet, once it adapts (see his example with Africa), there is very little change. Obviously this is simplified.
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Ask HN: ReadBoard User Onboarding Process Review
I have been trying to get the user onboarding process right for my recently launched product "ReadBoard" based on following insight.

"Please review your current onboarding (what do users experience during their first time inside your product and in the first week, including emails) and assess how much is about WHY vs. HOW."

from following article

https://uxdesign.cc/dont-assume-new-users-want-to-learn-how-to-use-your-product-6ef9042efbca#.7n26n25hs

I would really appreciate if HNers can help me improve it further. Here is a link to review it.

www.readboard.io

Continue as guest (or sign up:)). Am I doing it right? WHY vs. HOW?

Further if you can tell me.

Are my users leaving because they can’t figure it out or because they don’t care to?

Thank YOU :)
The better tool I know for this use case is fileb0x[1]. It work for all my needs, has some features that the alternatives lack.

[1]: https://github.com/UnnoTed/fileb0x
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They're called the dark ages because the historical records from that time are pretty scant. Both their predecessors and their descendants seem to have shown more awareness of history as it was happening, and kept a much more thorough record, sometimes deliberately, sometimes not. But for that period, we're largely in the dark, hence the name.
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That really doesn't sound right. I have an Nvidia card, too. It works flawless without any workarounds..

Also.. the Steamupdate did not move the steam folder.. There are two versions of Steam. The one from the Steam website and the one from Ubuntu. They have different app folder locations. You probably switched one with the other.
You obviously have never had a contactless card stolen as absolutely none of what you have said is true, well except the opt out thing. You report your card stolen then pay pass will not work ( unless the merchant your using is "offline" which no merchant I know is. Burden of proof is actually on the bank not the holder and the banks are always more than happy to help. How do I know.....I live in Australia and have had my card stolen 2 times in 2 years and apart from a couple of days delay in getting a new card, there is no issue at all. Over here its actually reducing fraud as people dont see you use your pin number.
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I bought one of the first Humble Bundle and I couldn't make work any of the games. Awful support and unclear (or just wrong) instructions, and because it wasn't that much money and I wanted to support the developers... I let it go.

I won't buy another Humble Bundle though.
I'm not sure if it's still the case but The Elements of Typopgrahic Style by Robert Bringhurst was my bible for picking up the nitty-gritty on typography: https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Bri...
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What about adding a deprecation notice and see who comes screaming.
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Should we launch a spacecraft to collect energy?
Should we launch a spacecraft along the same orbit in reverse and collect it in 6 months?

it could have a supercapacitor to collect the sun's energy and then we could use that to power the earth (or a country's) energy needs?

how big would it have to be?
Can we get the IDE for free, too?
Exactly this. Besides not paying a fair amount of tax (= not giving back to society), it also drains money out of local economies if everybody just buys everything from Amazon.
I believe parent's thinking is that a total identity chain comprises all human-influencing bits of identity. Most of these social engineering attacks fuzz boundaries in human-arbitrated authentication systems. And I wouldn't categorically rule out any portion of my identity as never being useful to an attacker.
They do advertise very specific Linux software and hardware compatibility and requirements as well as the state of the port in the fine print.

Considering how fragmented the Linux ecosystem is there isn't much they can actually do about it.
Hadn't considered that. Very interesting!
How long is the long run? People been complaining already for a Long time.
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They are at the correct side of the technology (with Cloud) and they excel at the race to the bottom (AKA sucking as employer and paying as little as possible).
So are most of the employers in Asia producing excellent gadgets (i.e. FoxConn).
The good thing with racing to the bottom is -well- sometime you reach it and then you either have to get better or perish.
After thinking about this for 20 years every day, I came to the same conclusion.
Just know that that flag will not stick around. It will be removed at some point, the rule of thumb is 2 major updates, so 12 weeks.

If you have actual issues with the new design, file bugreports or issues.
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It's too bad I couldn't locate a boxed ARM-based Surfaces for a reasonable price... It'd be a nice Linux machine for when I need something very light.
Amazon's treatment of non IT staff is well known to be bad. It's CEO said they have no intentions on improving to reduce employee turnover.
Some of these results are off. Shadow Warrior, Shadowrun Dragonfall and Shadowrun Returns are marked as not working, but they definitely work, I just played them on Linux (with an AMD gpu and the free driver). They even worked really well. It seems the author does not have a dedicated gpu, I doubt those games would run well on windows with that laptop.

Some other game that worked for me and marked red there: Spaz, Jamestown and Crayon Physics (I think, might have been another version).

To start those games in window mode is a good way to mimize potential errors resulting from Fullscreen mode, especially in different OSs, and something that many Indie games also do on Windows.

Linux sure is not a perfect gaming platform yet, but this article paints a darker picture than necessary.
This is basically a wrapper for 'go install'. See this post / linked blog posts for an explanation why this is faster/useful: https://twitter.com/davecheney/status/697171533215576064
The CAs private keys can't be used to decrypt https. All the CA does is sign your public key in a certificate that shows validity and the domain name.
Whenever a discussion about workstation software comes up, homebrew comes up.

This issue, just closed without a solution is evidence of the terrible dependency management system homebrew is built on.
Almost every big company [1] does something or the other that is so bad ethically (and sometimes legally too) that if we decided to boycott, we'd end up boycotting them all - and this is assuming people are even willing to, which most people aren't (convenience and product price trumps everything else to most). I just wish there is a way to protest and protest strongly enough for them to change their behavior. There have been some good attempts [2]. What else can a normal person do to protest?

[1] Some examples here - https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4wpl0i/whats_a_b...

[2] https://www.buycott.com/campaign/browse
You first have to explain the worship of local economies and small stores. 99% of the time they can't give you a better price, because their overhead isn't optimized and/or they operate at much smaller scale.

So your suggestion is basically to support the less efficient businesses.
I've known a few Amazonians and their stores more or less mirror the bad stuff I've heard (they all worked in the retail part as SDEs, not AWS). Some of the details about software processes and team build-up/dissolving make me wonder how the site even stays on-line.

I also interviewed once with them for a TPM position and had a fairly weird discussion with the recruiter about compensation and had to field some pretty random interview questions. Nothing was particularly terrible about my experience, but it made me wonder if I wanted to move across the country for what looked like a very non-amazing job.
The described inconsistency is in the account by the pseudonym 'River', which was one of the "unidentified individuals [who] posted several specific instances on a website in which they anonymously accused Jacob Appelbaum of having sexually, emotionally, physically abused them."

Since then, several of those unidentified persons have identified themselves. According to Wikipedia, three of them are Honeywell, Macrina, and Lovecruft.

The piece characterizes Appelbaum's statement as "the statements from "River" were completely fabricated." Neither he nor Zeit say or imply that the accounts of Honeywell, Macrina, and Lovecruft were incorrect. In fact, the Zeit piece does not mention them at all.

Casting doubt one account does not immediately cast doubt on all accounts. Otherwise it would be easy to set up the proverbial false flag operation.

As a reminder, the reason the Tor project "released" (to quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum#Allegations_of... ) is because: "many people inside and outside the Tor Project have reported incidents of being humiliated, intimidated, bullied, and frightened" by Jacob Appelbaum, and that "several experienced unwanted sexually aggressive behavior from him." Steele made no mention of rape claims published on the anonymous website.

The decision, at least as publicly given, was not due to any rape allegations. One does not need to be charged by the police before a company can fire a employee who, say, steals from petty cash.
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