skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To quote from the Valve Handbook [1]:

> We value “T-shaped” people. That is, people who are both generalists (highly skilled at a broad set of valuable things—the top of the T) and also experts (among the best in their field within a narrow discipline—the vertical leg of the T). This recipe is important for success at Valve. We often have to pass on people who are very strong generalists without expertise, or vice versa. An expert who is too narrow has difficulty collaborating. A generalist who doesn’t go deep enough in a single area ends up on the margins, not really contributing as an individual.

Where you choose to be deep should be an area of interest to you and which the market values.

[1] http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...
That's revenue for the quarter. $640k revenue per employee per year is not bad. They do seem to be spending it wastefully if they can't turn a profit.
Movies and later games.

Monitors were always 16:10 or 5:4 to allow for a task bar.

Then LCD makers didn't want to make separate panels and console gaming as well as later on streaming solidified the 16:9 home entertainment AR as the defacto standard for computer monitors.
The trick that worked for me was to use something like https://coffitivity.com/.

The sound is similar enough to the usual office noises and thus is very effective in cancelling them out. Also it has enough chaos to avoid becoming a distraction by itself. And then it doesn't hurt your hearing that much because you don't have to turn the volume too high to be effective.

I like to combine it with a little music. The only problem is, I can't find headphones that don't hurt after an hour...
Did not stop Gopro. If you have been to a ski resort in recent years you have probably noticed that at some point, Gopro saturation started to become inversely proportional to riding skill. Where Gopros are sold with the promise of being like those who get really fast and have spectacularly high jumps, Snapchat specs will be sold with the promise of being like those who get really drunk and have spectacularly great parties. That is a very promising market to tap into, but no way that it could ever be a four billion market.
Qualcomm intends to fund the transaction with cash on hand and new debt.

As a layman, I'm surprised a company can simply raise more than a third of their market cap. At this level, isn't debt almost an investment in the company? If revenue falters, how can the lenders make sure they're made whole?
> This guy should grow a thicker skin.

I think I have a very thick after dealing with so much shit thrown at me over years.

> They should steal his pixie dust and unicorns too.

You have not read my links carefully. Nobody stole my code. I voluntarily gave the solaris, arm64 port, and now sparc64 port to the Go project. You are welcome to grep the git log for my name, or try running Go on SPARC: https://github.com/4ad/go

Many tens of thousand of lines given away with no expectations other than human decency.

It was a different person's, and a different project stolen by a completely different project. How I am treated by the Go project is completely orthogonal to what happens to other people's stolen code. However, I have provided links so that anyone can independently verify that part of the story, if they are interested in it.
The Anatomy of an Epiphany
I am a part of the society. So are Goldman Sachs directors, and their clients, and their clients, and clients of those clients etc. GS is an investment bank. Their main activity is investment -- meaning giving money to the entrepreneurs (not directly -- but instead investing in funds who assemble venture funds who give money to the entrepreneurs), as well as providing financial lifelines to existing companies.

For me, investment banking is what enables society's economic well-being. Without investment banks, there would be much less companies created, jobs retained, and economic activity in general.

Investment banks make high profits? Good, every business should strive to do that -- Apple have much better profit margins than GS. Nobody blames Apple to be ruthless capitalistic profit-takers, as long as their new iPhone is better than the old one.
You're right - the employees accept the bargain. GS and many other banks run a force or stack ranked grading system. Those at the bottom are shown the door when there's a round of cuts. I know from first hand that after several rounds of cuts the people at the bottom of the stack rank are strong performers because all the duffers are long gone. A lot of politics surrounds the ranking system, so the results can be brutal. It's a Faustian pact accepted by all the players in the hope of getting those juicy bonuses. And I have even mentioned the complete lack of work life balance.
$500 a day, and it takes an hour per victim, and they're asking for thousands?

Then "they all pay" can't be true. Either it takes longer, or the payment rate is lower. The numbers don't add up.
If the artist is 1 in a million, in China that would be over 1,300 people.

That is still less than the number of current NFL players in the US.
Don't get me wrong, there are failures, Ping, or MobileMe being some examples, but I think that is the result of not trying (and learning) enough.

For example, it is said when designing the iPhone they tested (tried) two different operating systems, one based on OS X and the other one based on Linux. Even the hardware itself was first started as an iPad like device and was later decided to shelve the original project and do the iPhone instead. When you try an idea you learn, and you might even learn that it is a bad idea. I don't think of that as failure, the only failure is to not use what you learned. I'd be worried if they, despite the knowledge gained and to not be thought of as a failure by pundits, decided to be courageous and go to market anyway.
did you apply Deep Learning / ML techniques here? ;)
Qualcomm just announced the biggest chip acquisition ever
I could. I would rather put it in an email or PR. I'll try to put it together as soon as I have some time.
GNU tar extract pathname bypass
One time some years ago I found myself with too little time to dedicate to all my interests. Every bit of time that I spent on, say, cinema, was biting into available time for say, electronics, or cooking improvement. I grew frustrated.

So I sat with a pencil and a sheet of paper and wrote throughout the paper things that interested me. Then I linked all the related things together with lines, and ended up with my graph of interests. Things that, on contrast with those already in the paper, were too supeficial, I didn't write; and I wrote about 30-40 of them.

It was more illuminating that I initially thought! As I now had a clear mental image of how all interacted, and where the center of my interests laid. So little by little I started seeing the more fringe interests as what they were, and even as a function of their "path from the center". I started dedicating more time to the central thesis, and the fringes helped me gain new perspectives on the main "leit motiv".

And eventually I had an idea that resulted from all of that. Now it is the basis of my main side project. I do play from time to time with the rest, and the center is moving around a little bit, but there is a strong focus on reaching the goals that most interest me.

(Sorry if this ended up a little bit too abstract and vague; I hope it helps!)
I see beginner questions at the top of most tools on S.O. I don't think that implies anything about the UI of the tool.

If anything, it probably implies something of the popularity.

(I'm not arguing whether git's ui is good or bad, just that S.O. questions are probably a poor yardstick for deciding).
I was indeed wondering that. Thanks!
It seems like you are in the stage of your career where you are mostly making decisions based on who you want to work with and what interests you. So, if this meets those criteria, you should do it. That being said:

A) I think you underestimate how out of wack their expenses are. There is a decent chance that larger cuts will come in the next 12 months.

B) Additional cuts, along with internal management turmoil, are likely to effect your day to day job there to some degree. Are you comfortable with your manager changing? With the composition of your team changing? Are you the kind of person that just rolls with this sort of thing or will you find it frustrating as it impedes your ability to plan and execute? If I were you, I'd be asking myself these sorts of questions.
Is there anything similar but browser based ?
Not call, Intel – not call: Chipzilla modems in iPhone 7s fall short
Anonymous messaging has proven in practise to be full of cruel gossip, hate speech, and bullying. I can't see a positive use for it, really.
I'm not so sure this should be allowed. If Qualcomm buys NXP that means they'll own Freescale. That would reduce the number of mobile phone processor manufacturers down to just Qualcomm, ST Micro, Nvidia, Apple, and Samsung. Realistically this means it will be just Qualcomm and Samsung covering almost the entire market of Android devices as the other manufacturer's chips are more niche.

I suppose maybe Marvell could catch up and wind up in more phones but they're already the bargain basement chip that winds up in cheap junk tablets. They'd have a long way to go.

Intel could also make a sudden change of course and enter the market. Their foray into tablets didn't work out well for them (I own several Intel Android tablets) but at least their performance was on par with the competition at the time.
Based on the last earnings call, they still are.
Can I place my order here?
That's an interesting problem. But I'm not seeing much upside for you and there's a high chance of being laid off before you get situated.
> The next day she sends me a message: "Hi, how are you? I saw your profile and I liked you." So I looked at her profile and, I mean, she was really hot

If that's all it took, Samir is an idiot.
"High quality chips" wasn't about Intel, we all know they are reliable. I'm talking about dodgy wifi, audio, ethernet, etc. chips, that offload their work to the cpu to save on silicon, have crappy drivers, or are otherwise flaky. That's been my experience with non-Apple laptops.
Gut instinct drives battery boost
My impression was that by only using Mobile Chrome for browsing (which gets updates through the play store), I was at least save from being infected by surfing the web. Is that correct?
Presumably that's why it says "in a place with more opportunities"....
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> HN has been guilty of shocking lack of scrutiny and unilaterally hyping Docker

Spot on. It's sad how often people behind code that does the real work (LXC, Overlayfs and many more) get overlooked, while marketing-fueled operations get all the glory.

It's also worrying to see that people driving technical decisions are so easily swayed by hype and fail to investigate what's under the hood.
Inspiring list!

One thing I notice is quite a few qualification. Obviously, some of them are more-or-less essential if you want to do, e.g., scuba diving -- but for the others, how valuable have you found them?
The Edge JS performance is interesting for me wrt serverside rendering - previous benchmarks of the engines running on node (rather than the browser) I've seen have had V8 edging ChakraCore out on Octane circa May this year.

If this still the case? The relative Chakra performance looks pretty strong here.
>Terrorist attacks and the multiple wars fought affect most people, certainly everyone in the West.

The West? I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the people in the Middle East (you know, where the bombs are actually being dropped*) are "certainly" affected.
This is how you do git. Read it. Learn it. And you will see the light of version control awesomeness!
It's the same reasoning behind Steve Jobs choosing quackery over medicine to treat his cancer.
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Wow is right. I had no idea they were doing so poorly!

Did some of their key patents expire or something? Or maybe we've hit "peak phone/tablet"? Haha
Out of curiosity what niche is this? Did you read theit T&C carefully? you are not allowed to put pricing on your website for example.
The most successful people are often specialists, but that's because they took a high-risk bet and won. To maximize your average success (rather than chance of runaway success), it seems more efficient to be a generalist, due to diminishing returns from any single skill. Just take care to be actually good at many things, not average at many things.
First-class citizen IPv6
While this is true, its also not the point. Russia and other places have and had tons of programs like it, but they don't have a Silicon Valley.

Government is usually always involved in nearly everything, because they are spending almost 50% of the GDP, and even 100 years ago they spent 20% or so. Other countries its sometimes as high as 70%.

Saying that computers, the web, satellites would not exist without government is a pretty absurd claim. The idea of satellites, networks and all this stuff was around and would have happened. The US was commercially successful, actually uniquely successful in almost all of world history, during a period when federal government spent only about 2% of GDP. During this time tons of innovation, the most in the world, came out of the US.

Tesla is successful not because of government handouts anymore then many other large companies. It of course helps them, just like with any other large company. Elon would be a idiot if he didn't advocate for tax breaks, you have to play the politics game.
There are already enough people saying how good phone cameras are getting. They're right. Software tricks like this help overcome some of the physical hard-limitations.

But let's not be too silly. They still don't hold a candle to high-end DLSRs. Not really.

What this really drives home for me is how lazy Nikon and Canon really are in their markets. There's almost no innovation and when there is —assuming we can really call adding wifi connectivity is innovative— it's awfully executed. It's easier to take the SD card out of my camera and stick it in an adaptor in my phone than it is to turn on the wifi, connect via my phone (which disconnects it from its wifi) and then slowly copy files out. The idea that you might want to take a photo and use it immediately is completely foreign to them.

One day somebody's going to notice this, make a pro-lens-compatible system with modern interfaces and connectivity and completely displace Nikon and Canon from their own pro-sumer market.
I am not sure the watch is a failure yet but not the best start. I wrote a piece on how much the watch devalues which I find odd how high that figure is https://medium.com/@AndyStannard/apple-watch-depreciation-so...
Meanwhile, TechCrunch led with "Twitter lays off 9% of its workforce as it posts a desperately-needed positive Q3," [1] a clear and obvious sign that there is a shareholder struggle within Aol, TechCrunch's parent, and that ultimately they decided to split the difference to avoid the website shutting down. I point to my magic slippers as evidence supporting this fact.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/27/twitter-lays-off-9-of-its-...
Manufacturing's Productivity Myth
When I can get rent both a house and a car for the same amount health insurance would cost me, the system is totally broke.

HillaryCare isn't working.

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/697967580770869248
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It would be interesting to know how many of these people are from states that didn't expand Medicaid. Of the two mentioned in the article, one is from Georgia (didn't expand Medicaid) and the other is a customer of someone in DC (could be from DC, Maryland or Virginia; the first two expanded Medicaid, but Virginia didn't).
Have you talked to this person in order to understand his "serious personality problems" or just basing these on what you hear or observe? You said you brought all the team members, so I assume all of you think alike, which seems obviously different from this person, so the difference in perspective is magnified that much more. I say have an honest discussion. If you have already discussed, share the gist of it with HN so that people can assess things in a fair way to provide useful solution. You also haven't told us how and why he has the most equity. Who knows, he might be an eccentric that not many can understand!
And that's of course because pre ES5 you couldn't use keywords (class) as property names.
> Phase detection takes advantage of the mirror in a DSLR camera
> Mirrorless cameras, on the other hand, use contrast detection

Now even some phones (i.e. iphone 6 which is released 2 years ago) has phase detection autofocus. Seems that article is slightly outdated. Lack of phase autofocus was primary reason to choose SLR over mirrorless for lots of people some time ago.
There's a reason why they're targeting people of specific religious backgrounds. Religion has the ability to take garden variety embarrassment and passing judgments and turn them into suicidal embarrassment and public stonings, scarlet letters and the like. Obviously, the scammers doing this kind of crap are horrible excuses for human beings, but the organized religions of the world deserve some of the credit for creating such fucked up environments where scams of this sort can work so effectively.
Year-OverYear Change
Minus signs are missing
That's a very generous view of the investment banking sector, and one that doesn't quite align with my 17 years experience in that line. For example, your view doesn't accommodate how GS packaged credit derivs designed to fail and sold them to AIG, then sold default insurance on the same instruments to hedge funds that would profit from their failure.

Investment banks exist to extract a profit from each transaction they do. Nothing more or less. A very large proportion of that profit goes to the management and staff of the bank as bonuses. Some of it goes to shareholders as dividends, but a much lower proportion that in other sectors. Which is why I don't buy IB equity.
Snapchat spectacles are specifically designed to transfer the "everybody smile for the camera" effect to the wearer. The absolute opposite of a disguised camera.

Hidden cameras (not terribly well hidden cameras, but hidden nonetheless) are nothing new, the Snapchat innovation is to reverse the camouflage to create completely different usage patterns.

If the Snapchat specs become popular there will actually be a knockoff market for fakes that don't even have a camera, because imitating just the recording status lights will be enough to get the "say cheese" effect.
I always love when my code shouts at me.
I thoroughly enjoy my E-PL5 Olympus PEN despite it being a few years old. It's a quality piece of kit, and I've been very happy with it.

If you're looking for a mirrorless micro four-thirds system, you could do a lot worse than check out the PEN range. I believe its up to about E-PL8 now as the most recent model.
Debunking the Patriot Act as It Turns 15
Layoffs hit engineering last in most tech companies but when layoffs happen it's usually last in-first out.
It suggests staging is confusing for newcomers (or maybe - for the mass in general).
Why BEM over the others?
What U.S. Policy Makers Need to Know About Free Basics
What Do Trade Agreements Do for Open Access–And What Don't They Do?
Samsung Sets Its Reputation on Fire with Bogus DMCA Takedown Notices
And 95% marketshare for servers?
Well I haven't been following them but my comment was based on this article.

They had a good quarter they still laid people off, their stock price went Up.

That seems to me like some kind of persuit.
Moving Docker Container and Storage Volumes Together Using Flocker Plugin
They might still be convicted for posting porn to youtube. Regardless of the involvement of the victim.
But i can avoid that by only using Chrome for browsing, can't I?
article is really low on details. they use naked lxc? what does it mean just launch containers in docker and rkt? wishy washy it sounds to me. I want details.
China’s 2,000-km Quantum Link Is Almost Complete
Qualcomm to acquire NXP Semiconductor for $47B
Show HN: Data Is Plural, one year later
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(You can see the HN bump in the first chart.)

And, as always, you can find a structured archive of all previously featured datasets here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wZhPLMCHKJvwOkP4juclhjFgqIY8fQFMemwKL2c64vk/edit

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Many thanks,
Jeremy
For what it's worth I 100% agree with you. This is some grade A bullshit in my opinion.
Hi, Harry! (We met at a Scala unconference a while back.) You are a person who knows from turmoil, so I take this advice seriously.

You're correct about my motivations; this is a problem I want to work on. After a career in startups I'm more comfortable with turmoil than most, but you're right ability to keep delivering user improvements is very important to me. I suppose the question I have to struggle with is how much this crunch will force positive change versus pathological contraction-cycle chaos. I've seen organizations do both, and from the outside it's hard to guess which one will win out.
I'm interested to hear more, especially about how impact is encouraged, measured, etc. in a startup environment.
I have a feeling that this is going to lead to a reduction of the use of shallow DoF effects in the long term. Shallow DoF is for sure sometimes creatively appropriate, but a big part of its popularity is that it's an effect that you can only get with relatively expensive camera systems. There is a natural tendency amongst photographers to overestimate the creative benefits of effects that can only be achieved with expensive equipment.

In large format photography, a $150 Crown Graphic can give you extremely shallow DoF, whereas it takes a camera with tilt and shift and a wide coverage lens to get an image that's sharp throughout the frame. Inevitably, large format photography forums are full of people obsessing about what expensive equipment they need to achieve deep focus.
You sure it's not sinking?

First Disney wanted to buy them apperantly, then Google. Then they both pulled out for some reason, and they are laying people off like crazy.

I may be wrong but from the little research I just did it sure seems like things aren't great.
> Specialization is for insects.

Yet the advancements in human civilization arose precisely from specialization. Nobody would have had time to build computers if they had to spend all day farming, building houses and writing sonnets.
I just heard a former Clinton lawyer on t.v talking about all Wikileaks emails, and trying to say something nice about the Clinton's and Bill's 501c3 corporation.

I perked up when he talked about how his son just got insurance. His son is 26, and his yearly premium is $4000.00

His deductible is $3500.00

He pays $7500 before insurance helps out. wow?

I was a former supporter of the Health Care Act. There's a lot in the bill that's good. That said, Insurance companies ruined it. They should be lynched.

I don't know how to fix it. It's an embarrassing mess.
A personal project website that's a personal project in itself.
On Living in Dishonest Times