skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll try to answer from my non-sales POV about what good sales people bring;

- Existing relationships - the old 'who you know'. This can really be a game changer, or at the least speed things up.

- Pricing expertise - sales should be financially savvy and work closely with finance to work out what is the most profitable products they can sell, how they can add/reduce for greater over profit or for leaders how to best stimulate sales teams.

- Product knowledge from the field - The can be a great source of feedback. A good sales person will separate what matters at the core vs why the latest client didn't buy.

- Business knowledge and lateral thinking - so many sales turn up and pitch what expect to sell. Really good sales people get to a business and offer solutions. The need to understand your business fast. When I'm on the customer side I find this most important. You quickly know the people that are trying to sell a product vs those with businesses savvy looking where their solutions can benefit your outcomes. Often they will find new ways to utilise their product to offer benefits.

- Internal fixer/project manager: for many products the person selling hands deliver off to another team. The better ones ensure your happy ongoing and make sure any down the line problems get resolved internally even when they get involved outside of their sales area and have to become temporary project managers etc.

Off the top of my head that's the other value add. Interpersonal is important but is a smaller component than most people give it credit for with the 'fast talking' sale image that is often displayed.
Regarding Sound Transit's marketing budget - I have yet to see any critics on this point compare ST's marketing spend with other transit agencies. Pulling a number out of their budget is misleading.

They claim their public relations spending is on par with other agencies.

As someone who lives in Seattle, this argument against ST3 is old and hollow.

http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/06/21/24241690/sound-tr...
Because we aren't happy with our jobs and want better ones and unions are about helping people keep jobs they don't plan on moving on from.
I think it's mostly just me. It's not so much "get in line", but "before you complain about getting in line, maybe consider why there is a line in the first place".

Getting burned by pissing off one or two people in your department is unfortunate. Pissing of more than half the people in your department? Plus lots of people in other departments? And the administration too? And even the local newspaper?

Either he is the only good guy in a sea of jerks, or maybe he's not quite the good guy he thinks he is. I don't know the which it is, and the article doesn't tell us either.

I'm not sure why this story upset me so much. I think it is because when I started in my department, I saw things I thought were terrible -- courses that hadn't been revised in years, the wrong languages being taught, outdated exercises, poorly-written web pages, cumbersome processes, etc. And I said so, frequently. Thankfully, I had some great mentors to help teach me to slow down and listen to others, and work with others. We've now made lots of changes, updated the curriculum, and done it all together. And some things I thought were terrible I know realize are actually elegant solutions to problems outside of our control (e.g. finite money and time and expertise, and a college administration that needs to think about public perception, alumni, gifting, athletics, other departments, and lots of other things besides "what will make the CS department awesome").
It's only natural to feel more empathy for people in situations we've been in, but this isn't the entirety of morality. I've never been a cow but I go out of my way to avoid causing suffering to cows and other animals.

Rich people haven't necessarily experienced much hardship, so they need to have a more abstract kind of empathy, but this doesn't make them worse people. Indeed, if a rich person felt that had done enough by paying taxes, I wouldn't blame them. From a utilitarian perspective, I would rather have another person who pays $100,000 in taxes and gives $0 to charity than someone who pays $20,000 in taxes and gives $1,000 to charity.
Maybe AirBnb should allow neighbors to comment on disturbing behavior by tourists. Responsibility and consequences could follow a tourist wherever s/he goes.
Perhaps soldiers should be exempt from due process because they don't apply it to the people they kill. Even if they don't directly kill anyone, they're stomping all over laws and rights in the countries they attack.
I like tipping. When I have great service, I tip 25%+. When it's terrible I have two times tipped zero. Employers must pay minimum wage. If a tipped employee isn't being made up their wages up to the minimum I will (and have) happily supported their contacting the appropriate authorities.

European service, in contrast, is terrible. I've similarly found myself avoiding no-tip restaurants in New York - their service is noticeably worse.

And why wouldn't it be? If you are a good server, you pull a multiple of the minimum wage. Only your inferiors would prefer a guaranteed lower tier. Hence, self selection.
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The overall concept is interesting, but an SUV with that passive-aggressive pseudomasculine styling just feels passé... Will be interesting to see the full lineup though.

(Also, is the brand really supposed to be said aloud as "Lynk and Co"? That sounds like a cheap clothes retailer. Maybe the association is intentional.)
For the jargon:

I'm making it clear that I'm responding but I'm not Hondor (aka, the parent comment to your comment). You don't generally have to be explicit, but since your questions were very much directed at him, I didn't want you to accidentally read that and think it was from "Hondor". I also didn't want Hondor to think I was putting words in his mouth (again, because it was a very one-on-one discussion).

The reason I did reply though was that regardless of any individual belief, there's some facts / laws about this that should be considered.
China is not a communist state these days nor I'm not aware of mainstream Western liberals praising communism. (sources on the latter?)
Since the exploit is known: I wonder, is it possible to hack all these devices and let them DDOS localhost?
> (Another interesting fact - contra Trump - is that poor Hispanics seem far less criminal than poor whites/blacks. This also contradicts popular left wing narratives - if poverty makes poor whites/blacks beat their wives via "stressors" or other mysterious phlogiston, why are Hispanics immune?)

Presumably, within immediate memory they have a comparison available with "the old country" which makes a low-end existence in the US seem positively posh.
True, but these are privately owned communities and if you disagree with their standards you can go join some other community or start your own. A Chinese citizen can't exactly go start their own competitor to the Communist Party.
There was a nice demo of using stenography for programming by one of the Open Steno Project developers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBBiri3CD6w
For an interesting contrast, see Who Really Gives?
Partisanship and Charitable Giving in the United States, by two political scientists at MIT [1]. The results there surprised me, for example, there is a positive correlation between the states that voted for Bush in 2004 and charitable giving.

Also from the conclusion "Although previous research indicates that conservatism is a reliable proxy for identifying potential donors or donor communities, our results suggest that organizations would be better off simply targeting wealthier donors, regardless of political beliefs."

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1100...
I feel like a crazy person every time I try to point out that North America is already there. We've just done it in a less reductionist manner, in which multiple scores are used for different purposes, because you can discriminate better with better targeted data.

The IRS rates you on likelihood of fraud, border patrol rates you on your likelihood of breaking residency law, the FBI rates everyone's chances of being a terrorist, credit agencies rate your worthiness of a loan, insurance companies rate your chances of being a cost, banks rate your likelihood of paying a mortgage, your friends rate your worth and you let them, and if you're in the media biz everything comes down to a numbers game. Your income is used to sort you into pidgeonholes in virtually every aspect of your interaction with every social institution.

Your worth as a human is already determined by a set of numbers; we've just done it so much better than China, because nobody noticed.
The obvious (not necessarily correct) answer is religion and community enforcement of norms. No idea if this is empirically defensible; maybe you'd need to compare north vs. south (and control for about a thousand other variables) to disaggregate the root causes from the noise.

I also wouldn't say that intimate partner crime, etc. has "no plausible economic motive"; the rich have far more to lose from a stint in prison, and so might be far less likely to commit these crimes. The "economic motive" is that impulse control prevents economic loss. This (again conjectural) thesis dovetails with the idea above; if it's not economic losses that scare you straight, it might be community/church pressure that does so.
Cool work around. Just adding another cool way to get laptops IP without ifconfig.
AVAHI. install avahi daemon (comes pre installed with most distros) and your laptop can be referred with a domain name(generally LAPTOPNAME.local, "local" domain). By using this you won't have to worry about the changing IPs, you always refer to the laptop with that name. Very handy.
Most relays are rated for a "number of switches", usually in the few hundreds-of-thousands for both mechanical and SSDs. If you switch twice a day (on/off), you've got a few hundred years.

Note, however, that switching voltages/currents higher than rated will likely shorten the life of your relay.
I'm glad for the relatively low amount of breaking changes this time. npm prepare should be a nice addition (using prepublish for, e.g., installing typings is such a non obvious hack).

That said, I'm still not certain about shrinkwrap excluding dev deps. I mainly use it to ensure my build agent uses the same dependencies as my dev box, and at a time when things like babel pull in a ridiculous amount of sub dependencies, it really does not make sense to not lock down _all_ your dependencies by default.
(My god am I promiscuous with semicolons when I've been drinking)
If you're dropping a hundred thou on a car you can afford to pay a little more in taxes.
npm search will at least return results now ahah. I didn't know about https://npm.im/npms-cli , sounds like a great alternative. Thanks for sharing this release here :)
Human perception is highly relative - our capacity to feel suffering is necessary for joy to be meaningful. Kind of like there would be no far without near, and no up without down.

What if this isn't just a simulation, but a game, and we're avatars? A game needs challenge and conflict, nobody wants to play a game that is basically "press start to win."
> I don't understand the mentality where if anyone dares shares their opinion about a former place of employment that has anything remotely negative about the place, that it is looked upon as poor form.

Mmm - I think it's an extension of the "praise in public, criticize in private" mentality. Not everyone in all environments takes blunt critique of their work well, even if it's not intentionally aimed at them, especially if everyone can hear it. A little diplomacy can help a bitter pill go down much smoother.

The article seems to contain some public, blunt, and very clearly coworker-targeted critique:

>> And of course I’m angry with my colleagues. I trusted that they would be able to put aside historical personal grievances and act in the best interest of the department. I was wrong.

I'd be this blunt with close colleagues and friends. With everyone else, I'd take a moment to consider the possibility that I might've had something to do with the personality conflict (to be fair, the author does seem to do this earlier) and reword more diplomatically. Because we should strive to have empathy for our peers and colleagues - even if we don't get along with them perfectly. To do otherwise risks contributing to toxicity.

But as you say:

> In general, this post is mostly positive.

So here's hoping nobody sweats the small stuff.
Because of historical accident, a lot of us come from families that distrust unions. I grew up on stories about how unions are greedy for money, which they use to fund liberal social causes, and also create wasteful regulations, and ultimately destroy industries. The Schlock Mercenary comic, week of June 18, 2001, is an example of our attitude to unions. [0]

And by pushing for labor-saving technology and measurable outcomes, that makes us villains to the unions. Capital trying to cut labor out of the economy. It’s sad that unions discount intellectual contribution so much, but that’s often the way it is.

[0]http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-06-18
This is wonderful. A fully gamified life. It is so dystopian...

America has the credit rating system. With much hand wringing and energy devoted to increasing or altering the score and so on (companies advertising a way to increase it for you, landlords claiming they'll ruin your credit rating if you ask for a deposit refund ...).

Now imagine if the system was even more corrupt and you could pay someone under the table to alter your score directly. Now imagine that is not just a number for your credit worthiness, but a number for your, well general-life-worthiness. There is no way that is not getting exploited, hacked into or gamed. Maybe that is the ultimate goal, it lets those who control this system, control the population?

Imagine an implied threat of getting -150 points for joining a protest. Or maybe your relative is going to court, you imply to the judge he might get a +50 if he lets your nephew walk. Possibilities are endless, as they say.
The US does track what you say on Facebook to see how much of a terrorist or criminal you might be. Just because you think "praise the government" isn't worthy of reward, doesn't mean it isn't. Afterall, China doesn't have a democracy, so if people are too dissatisfied with the government, instead of voting it out, they might have a revolution, which would be disastrous. In that environment, praising the government can be helpful to keep people safe from violence.
Quite correct, but nonetheless, that RFC does explore the topic of "why not just mark the traffic?" One basic objection which detaro pointed out is that there's nothing to stop attackers from clearing such marks.

As Wikipedia puts it:

> The evil bit has become a synonym for all attempts to seek simple technical solutions for difficult human social problems which require the willing participation of malicious actors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit
Go and spend some time on a country like China. You have the exact same problem but in reverse - westerners sticking with an English speaking social group, living in areas with large numbers of other westerners and so on.

The human experience is really quite universal.
The same backdoors that owned the devices as a botnet, should be used to brick the devices. And the courts should support that purchasers are entitled to refunds and damages. Your IoT refrigerator got bricked? You can sue for $500 worth of spoiled food. Encourage class action lawsuits and watch how fast this is fixed.

https://github.com/jgamblin/Mirai-Source-Code
Here is a list of the XiongMai-based devices – I was wondering if I owned any:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/who-makes-the-iot-things...
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But speaking out here about the reasons he was denied tenure may be the only chance he gets to present that to some schools that might otherwise say "Buffalo knew this guy and tossed him, they must know something."

It may also prompt potential employers to look at the makeup of the department that rejected him - is it full of people who got their initial degrees when 32-bit architectures were theoretical novelties?
There are some basic "timeless" regulations that would make sense over an entire device lifespan. For example, requiring unique admin passwords, or an internet off switch.

Nor would this regulation have to come from government. The details could be delegated to a UL-like industry group.
And yet... credit scores are maintained by private companies, and are inescapable in the US, as are their effects on your opportunities in life.

So "It's a company, not a government" is not a useful argument to make for this kind of situation.
> If there were actual accountability, there would be bigger seats.

I expect the professionals running a transit system to make informed decisions to maximize the efficiency and capacity of the system.

By extension, your argument is that publicly-traded airlines aren't accountable for their actions, because accountability would mean they reverse the trend of smaller seat pitch for passenger comfort?
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In some sense it doesn't matter, because the tools are now out there and the problem is structural.

Delving into motives can have the effect of encouraging people who want attention.
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I think it's a play on Ford's Lincoln Motor Company

http://www.lincoln.com/
Not sure why you were downvoted, but some states allow paying wait staff less than minimum wage. What most needs to change is not allowing sub-minimum wage jobs subsidized by tips.

For people who live in California, FYI, wait staff is required to be paid minimum wage, which can not have tips counted against it.
I found a HN post that recommended switching my nameservers to OpenDNS, which uses SmartCache. Seems like a better approach in general.
I'm not trying to attack you personally but you've stated very misleading things in your above post.

If the true reason you don't support light rail is that you own luxury cars that the majority of the population cannot afford and you wouldn't ever take public transit that's fine, but don't lie to make a case.
You are total wrong. In fact,today China is not communist/Marxist at all.China is more Capitalism than USA. The word communist/Marxist is only mentioned when holding big meetings.
I think most of the people making these comments would identify as anti-racist. Furthermore, they would be shocked by similar comments addressed to students from Africa, the Middle East or Latin America.

Personally I think everything said about Asian students is true, I just wish we could be as open and realistic when discussing other cultures, rather than simply blame "racism" when people from other cultures encounter difficulties.

It's a general pattern that comments that would be considered "racist" when applied to any other non-White culture, are ok when applied to Asia (see the constant flood of orientalist articles about Japan on HN).
For a bit of context: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/141604/why-x-server-...
Thanks for clarifying the jargon. That makes sense.

Yeah, your points were useful, and close to ones I was thinking as well. I was just a little confused by the "you guys are conflating" as I wasn't making any claims, but that's minor, and I should have probably just let it go. Pedantry will get me nowhere!
Note that they moved from their longtime location north of Costco and are now one "block" to the East, on Corvin.
List of the XiongMai-based devices:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/who-makes-the-iot-things...
I've seen reports of this for at least 6mo to 1yr. Is this vaporware by China or do they have anything more than a press release at this point?
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I always give out fake DOB. Unless I know they will check it. Most frustrating "Authentication" dimension.
You can imagine why that's a non-starter. You'd be locking millions of people out of their Internet access with no workable way for them to get it back.

Just imagine how many scammers would pop up to 'secure' things for people locked offline.
I guess you're right. I took a class once where the prof was denied tenure about half way through. He was completely deflated and it affected his teaching considerably. He'd expected he'd get tenure.
After reading this, I'm at a loss for what to do about stuff like this on a personal level. The simplest way to put this seems to be: "How do I avoid being some inhospitable jerk that drives people away?", because at times, I know I've been that jerk, usually when I'm frustrated at something (usually technical, not interpersonal) about a project.

So, how does one do technical work (or any work) but avoid becoming a Brian? Is there a way to turn this proactive - some list of things that you should do rather than not do?

Also, how do you go about making it obvious that you want this kind of kind of critique and feedback?
Fun to see renewed attention to this article recently. Happy to answer any questions.
I despise this aspect of our field. On the one hand we're ushering in a new era of learning and knowledge. On the other we're creating tools of unprecedented power.

They're searching for enemies of their state and they will probably find them. Let's not ignore the fact that heroes and patriot's often start out as an "enemy".

Sarah Winchester believed she was haunted by the men, women, and children killed by her husband's invention. What will keep us up at night in the future?
I think the giant of used office furniture in the 1990s was Curtis Trading Company ("Surplus Stuff") in Milpitas.
Absolutely. You can also provide arbitrary memory-mapped devices based on any memory in your host process, including a memory-mapped device or shared memory region.
Looks like they weren't making money, it was a passion project, and the burden of seeking legal help just to protect a site that may not have had a future was just too much. We've all been there. See you around Mixcrate folks! Somewhere else, some other time...
Mind you I don't really know the rest of the "behind closed doors" stuff, so I can't tell if this is just a one-off chastizement or if this was a system-wide thing. I have heard of some broader school-wide drama associated with funding; in fact, more than one computer science professor had expressed concerns through personal blogs regarding the overhead taken from funding for research when I attended. So I don't think these concerns are necessarily unfounded or written by a wannabe superstar.
I work in industry, but the key to getting stuff done in a hierarchical organization is tact. I think he is a poor politician, and is clearly very unhappy about being denied tenure. I think putting out feelers and going about a new job more quietly would be more effective.

Hypothetically, let's say you (the person reading this comment) want to make a big change in your organization. You identified a problem, and honestly think the solution is a fundamental change in direction. The incorrect next step is to bring up your opinion in front of the decision makers! This causes strife, anger, embarrassment, negative attention, etc.

The correct plan is to quietly gauge support, get allies, make your case one-on-one, and get things going with multiple stakeholders on board. No one embarrassed, the majority in agreement. Rocking the boat publicly (as this post clearly shows he is OK with) is not the mark of good political skills.