skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like he didn't have the best manager, but red flags right off the bat:

1. He didn't approach the manager once they got back. He says it wouldn't have changed anything, but I feel he is VERY wrong. Yeah, the manager dropped the ball. But the effective first impression was "So this guy has been here two weeks and doesn't care what he does? Probably on reddit all day..."

2. Lots of wording makes this guy come across as a "I am hot stuff" kind of guy. Especially the "he would have inferred had he read my entire email" which tells me that he didn't say he had found that resource and he instead feels that he was being talked down to. Also, that his email was too long. The response to that is to wait five minutes and reply "I just re-read that and still have questions A, B, and C".

3. It definitely sounds like a personality mismatch, especially as his coworkers liked the boss. My experience is that the horrible managers are horrible to everyone, even if they are playing favorites.

Still, a good read and useful for folk starting a new job
Anyone noticed http://teambition.com ?
I had to evacuate for a hurricane and spent more than 12 hours in stop-and-go traffic (traveling just over 100 miles). I did that in a manual transmission and vowed never to own one again.
Books are most useful for matters that don't change very much, which would probably include most academic subjects. Programming language books are good when they're more general in nature (e.g. John Resig's JS book) but are less useful when learning, say, a specific library. In the latter case, online materials seem to be a better guide.
https://notion.ai/features - Offers snooze until later

https://postbox-inc.com/features - Offers reminders (near bottom of page)

Both are email clients that should work. I don't use Fastmail, so I cannot comment for sure on that.
103bn is lot to spend on a hoax.

http://www.publicfinanceinternational.org/news/2016/03/china...
Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China
> Shouldn't the lesson be, "don't allow any singular company to become a single point of failure?"

Yes, but that requires more detailed analysis.
Related: "Manual Transmission Enhances Attention and Driving Performance of ADHD Adolescent Males" http://jad.sagepub.com/content/10/2/212.abstract
At microwave frequencies, skin depth is essentially zero (microns anyway) for most metals. So until the bag is melted, nothing will get through.
I see that my comment is unpopular. For those who might care to explain (linked from the article):

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/53260835850816716...

Why do Republicans always appear to be the ones who want to burn the entire building down just because it has a leaky roof?
It seems like an iteration with a plastic coating could make this a product with a longer life.
I also find it annoying that it seems people have transitioned from progressive enhancement meaning 'detect if we can use JS' to 'detect which features of JS to use' to 'detect how much processing power we can abuse without the user noticing'.

As someone who really enjoys his <0.3s page loads (that is fully fetched & rendered, less when from cache) even on mobile it feels annoying to not have a 'middleground'.

For example my current project, which is basically a small website where people can upload artwork, does not need to be a SPA. However, I'd like to integrate some interactivity to make browsing easier. Like a 'browser' view when you click a picture, or in place reloads (so the CSS doesn't need to be reloaded, nor perhaps the JS. However there doesn't seem to be a library for that to my knowledge. All I know are either on the jQuery level where you have small seperated pieces, or the React/Ember/Angular level where you have to write all or nothing in that language.

I wonder if it is even possible to have an 'augmenter' library that just makes existing HTML better (Perhaps with some hints in the 'data-' attributes), or maybe my google-fu is just bad.
It has been more than 20 years since I learned to drive and admittedly I'm only really familiar with Indiana laws, save for the last 3-4 years. And you are right, there are some vast improvements in the area, some a little ill-thought out. Most of these I've seen were increases in driving age, Requiring a longer permit holding time, more indepth written tests, and restrictions on either new license holders or teenage license holders.

That said, I wasn't aware of cases where drivers ed was a requirement at all. Everywhere else it doesn't matter so long as one can pass the both the written and driving test.
Skype broken sign-in issue
So, if I will follow best practices and will prepare backup, then restore backup locally (to check that backup is OK), then will play with backup until problem will be solved (to not harm target server), then prepare runbook, and then will just execute it at target server, I will pass your test? Just two commands.
Also don't forget that We proxy pay google service with Ads. If you are paying something for free doesn't mean that there is no hidden costs.

Also, I am not sure to about drawing a correlation between cost and climate impact.
MIT’s MoVR Uses Millimeter Waves for Wireless PC-Based Virtual Reality
I'm sure genital mutilation is already prohibited under British law. The problem with the burkas is that is it of course difficult to determine or prove that they are not worn voluntarily. I know some girls from liberal (Christian/Atheist) families who converted to Islam who wear a Niqab. I can guarantee you that they are not "forced" to do this.
For me, Turkish airlines have the best food and ameneties so far.
The Cisco Certified Internetwork Engineer (CCIE) certification used to be the gold standard amongst network engineers 10-20 years ago.

Becoming a CCIE required a passing a notoriously difficult hands-on 8 hour in-person lab examination[1]. SysAdminsArena reminds me of a remote version of the CCIE Lab Exam for sysadmins.

Fun fact: the CCIE program was established in 1992 and was originally going to be called "Cisco Top Gun"[2], but they had to choose a more serious name.

[1] https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/certifications/c...

[2] http://www.bradreese.com/blog/how-the-cisco-ccie-program-was...
It's been a while since I've been on a non-European carrier that fed you anything for free. The last few times I've flown American or United or US Air, even long, cross-country flights, the only sustenance available has been these little shoeboxes with some crackers, nuts, beef jerky and what-not that they sell for some exorbitant price.
Finding your place in Silicon Valley as a European investor
Yup, this is what i'm trying to avoid by backing up my life. The data storage mechanism is my hardest point.. I like Camlistore, but really i'd love something that is accessible from anywhere.

Eg, a distributed access system like IPFS, but for personal use only (closed network, as best possible) would be ideal. Including distributed though, it needs versioning like Camlistore.

Ultimately i'll just go with Camlistore and likely build tools around the access UX. It's the best i've found, without rewriting it myself (too much work for too little gain atm, imo)
"..today we spend way too much time on accidental complexity than on essential complexity"

This. So much this!
Why Narcissism Is Good in Customer Service
iPhones send call history to Apple, security firm says
> Even on a twelve hour flight why can't people just eat
> before boarding and after getting there

I'm not paying airport food prices, which means accounting for security and transport it could be 12+ hours between meals.
Sorry I have to disagree here as well. I do not think the time or number of commands or typos should be measured. I do not think you can do any quantification here.
I believe a lot of sysadmins (talking about unix) do w;uptime;inspect syslog as soon as they connect to the system. Most of the time it's just not necessary to do this but for a lot of sysadmins it's a habit that actually saved their asses several times.

Does it make sense for a sysadmin to know a numeric notation for chmod ? Probably. Would I ask that on an interview ? Nope
If you need to ask why then you have probably never worked in a heterogeneous environment.
Indeed, those are pretty basic tasks. We will have 3 levels of difficulty and the examples mentioned are in the easiest category. In a early phase of a recruitment process, an experienced sysadmin would solve in less than 3 minutes and this is helping screening process when you have a huge number of applicants. But for latest stages of recruitment process, we will have more advanced scenarios for the tests.

Definitely your suggestions are great and we will discuss having tests in this area.

Cheers!
The premise that technical people with in-demand skills are hard to recruit has very little to do with the screening process. The screening process is not a difficult problem to solve.

The real difficulty in recruiting in this space is finding and engaging these people, not testing them.

If this is a Hacker Rank for sysadmins, then great. I'm sure you'll have plenty of users but we're still a long way away from solving the bigger problem.
World’s best navigators mostly come from Nordic countries
UK to Sign Paris Agreement
Rethinking the Ban – The U.S. Blood Supply and Men Who Have Sex with Men
Google cloud chief skeptical of ‘AI singularity’
Heh. It's much easier to write a kludge and patch it 500 times than perform a culture change at my place. I'll get rewarded for "fixing" the application and be seen as valuable in the former, and quite easily despised in the latter.
If

racism = prejudice + power

then may still be possible for a local maxima of power to exist.

When a bunch of black power advocates beat a white person because nobody is around to stop them, they clearly show that they are the local maxima of power. Even if "systemic oppression" occurs as a global maxima, there is certainly a lot of variability of who's in power in the rest of the graph.
It takes two to tango on court appointments. If the Democrats had a majority in the Senate, then Obama would have gotten his nominee.
I think it's fair to say at this point that people aren't buying manual for the fuel economy, but for the fun and control provided by the interface. I think if you take a look at cars that come only in manual in 2015, they take a distinctly sporty direction: http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/g6415/13-manual-only...
Really helpful. Thanks.
I only worked on a react/redux app last year and things have changed again... sniff
I don't think the problem of the article is with quantitative methods per se. Rather, I read it as a gripe about the specific metrics employed, frex, the h-index.

A problem is that any such metric is only ever going to be a proxy for some assumed real value, and such a proxy is always going to be controversial, particularly if it's used to control access to funding.

Which I think at the end of the day is the big issue here. All this soul-searching is just a big attempt to decide what we spend money on. Who gets to be a scientist, and who gets to become a person with a lot of useless knowledge and an incurable sense of failure.
Don't forget, they can launch on used rockets for a fraction of the cost. This will also help them to prove the reliability of those used rockets. Mass produced satellites are perfect for that.
The important thing is CLR support. Everything else is just semantics. (literally)
I'm late to this thread and very disappointed in the HN crowd that nobody has mentioned any of these things.

OneWeb is trying to do the same thing and already has rights to the spectrum from the ITU. They are using Arianespace to launch and Airbus build their spacecraft. It's possible this whole application is a ploy to disrupt Arianespace since SpaceX is upset about not getting a massive launch contract.

http://spacenews.com/one-year-after-kickoff-oneweb-says-its-...

Commercial satellite constellations do not have a great track record. Iridium and GlobalStar tried to do phone networks and both went bankrupt. GlobalStar was backed by Qualcomm and Iridium by Motorola. Though they both have complete, functioning constellations. Look at GSAT and IRDM to see how well they are doing post bankruptcy.

Teledesic tried to do the same thing in the 90s and was backed by Bill Gates. It didn't go anywhere.
Licensing fees.
How was the experience on Norwegian otherwise?

I've been seeing wildly low prices from them ($283 RT LAX to Oslo) for instance and been wondering about quality.
Not really, because Google also retroactively removes the license for devices already in production if the OEM later on decides to sell forked devices, as was threatened with Acer.

Or even just delivers parts for such a device, as was threatened with SAMSUNG and Amazon.
All bathrooms matter.
I really like the idea of Camlistore. But I really want something my family could actually handle if the worst came to the worst and that just happens to be bitlocker encrypted NTFS. Plug the stick in, plonk in a password and you have all my things.
In the React ecosystem, there are several really good tools for managing build, deploy, and test harnesses. See kyt [1] for example, or the list of Create React App Alternatives [2].

[1] https://github.com/NYTimes/kyt
[2] https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app#altern...
Confessions of a Google Spammer
Isn't that just using a cherry-picked definition of "liberal"? How do you define "liberal" if you say history has been a march towards these ideals?

My understanding of how Americans use the word "liberal" is that it's an alternative way of saying "left wing". In that case history has not been a march towards left wing views, surely the fall of the USSR, the rise of Reagan and Thatcher ... it's been the opposite.

And aren't "liberals" now pitching for unequal chances? Like, HRC should be President because she's a woman, affirmative action, get women into tech funds etc?

It looks like you just picked a few things that are widely regarded as good, and labelled them liberal.
How Gamification Creates Engagement
Looks similar to https://wakatime.com but focused solely on Git-based projects. From the source code, the time tracking is done the same way using periodic heartbeats from the IDEs.

Disclosure: I built WakaTime.
Interesting problem you're addressing but I've been working on this problem from a completely different set of metrics. Fundamentally, I really don't care how a problem is fixed as long as it doesn't have bad repercussions. If a web server is "slow" users don't care why - giving freedom to admins to approach higher level problems while still measuring them is something I'm confident that can be done while I take a number of issues with assessing anything based upon commands entered even in realtime (I'm mostly concerned from a security / bad or illegal practices in prod perspective, to be frank).

The approach I'm working on is easier to do technically but requires some more costs.

With that said, glad to see I'm not the only one that's been frustrated with hiring devops / sysadmin / SRE roles. Google's even commented how hard hiring for SREs is for them and I think we have a huge gap between people stuck in the 90s approaching systems and those that modernized.
I'm coming from learning all about toothpicks and glue, then seeing every problem solved as building things with toothpicks and glue. It was quick and fun at first but my creations were brittle and sometimes were dangerous even. Gradually I became aware of ductape, saws, plywood, nails, hammers, steel, etc, then pre-fabricated parts. Eventually, I ended up buying some from vendors even that had compatible standards so I could make things quicker piecing them together. In the end, just having to try to come up with things that were already made seemed stupid and a waste of my time but unfortunately, that idea only seems to make sense to people that have gone through the same.

But it ain't all bad, see. I hear some young folks are coming up with brand new types of toothpicks and glue, hell some of em' I hear put themselves together.
Advice for the 99%. Some of us do embedded, where you need an actual driver or app. Can't dispatch interrupts in bash.
Why Do Developers Hate LinkedIn?
You don't need state intervention to encourage people to reproduce. I am sure that groups that believe in waiting until marriage to have sex would acknowledge church marriages as they always did.

Cynically you could argue that the state benefits far more from dysfunctional families who are more likely to become dependant. I would rather the government spend money on sex education and contraception for teens than supporting married couples.
I'm paid to kill jobs. I meet with a group of internal customers to ask/watch/learn what they do. Then automate the business tasks so that one person can do the job of the entire group more effectively than before. Then provide pretty charts to the managers as they "downsize" their groups.
Former 2004 Holden Monaro / Pontiac GTO driver here. Six speed manual transmission, 5.7L LS1 engine. 2nd gear lockout disabled, high RPM range cam.

One of the best driving experiences of my life: a V8 and a manual transmission is a match made in heaven.
That's sort of what I was wondering. Not the overall issue of security so much as the title's focus on "unlocked" devices.

Sounds like they're talking more about disreputable or negligent OEMs than anything to do with having an unlocked bootloader or unlocked SIM.

Past phones I've owned that weren't as good with security updates depended on me being able to unlock the bootloader so I could keep them as up to date as was feasible. No timely security update from Samsung or HTC? Find a patched version of the ROM image built by some helpful developer on XDA and flash the phone.

Even today, as I only buy Nexus/Pixel/etc Android phones, they're still sold as "unlocked" in terms of SIM because I don't have any desire to give a carrier more influence over my device than I have to. Again, not an issue with security as even my older Nexus devices are getting security patches (if not the big, hardware-dependent OS updates).
> people in the West have this idea that everyone not in the West is a dirty savage living in a mud hut.

Yes, very much. Now I've been moving around for 5 months my eyes are very much open to the reality.

People also thought I would be murdered on day 1, when in fact I have met many, many kind kind friendly people who have welcomed me into their home.

The culture of the West really does teach it's pupils they are the best, and everyone else is crap. The Media further enhances this idea.

I loved when I met a guy in a rural, poor part of Gambia - he said "Oh yeah, my brother lives in Australia. I was there for a few years. I came back here, I like it more".

Africa is not the hell-hole people think it is.
I'm not sure; I believe that any (viable) attempt to reduce the possibility of head injuries due to cycling accidents is a good idea. This definitely seems to hit the mark on "if I had one with me I would".
Quote: "And it takes a really patient instructor to teach it."

That is bullshit.

It is not that hard, everybody can learn it with little guidance and practice.

The law here in some parts of Europe (e.g. Slovenia) states, that if you make licence with automatic, then you are licensed only to drive automatic, but if you make it with manual, you can drive everything.

So literally everybody here learns manual. Most of them are 18 years old when they start.

Most of the cars are manuals here anyway. But trend goes in favour of automatics for high end cars,
Yes and no. Depends on the project's importance and funding. It's always about funding.
I'm one of them. I drive a 2001 Hyundai Elantra GT, with 190k miles in it, still in the original clutch kit. I refuse to drive anything else, especially automatic transmission cars. They're BORING!
What's the date on that video?

Edit: You may find this to be interesting reading. Sorry, it's not a 30-second YouTube clip. Note it was published in July, four months ago. https://rewire.news/article/2016/07/20/republicans-history-o...
Coca-Cola made a selfie bottle like Spectacles
Duplicate (and recycled): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12976586
> .NET IS NOT a viable stack for developing on Linux and it's an inferior one in macOS.

.NET isn't, and wasn't officially meant to be. That's your problem.

I've been working on a .net core web app on my mac exclusively now for the last 8 weeks and have had no problems with it. I do check to make sure it works in full VS/Windows occasionally and every single time its worked without fail, and without a single change. Just pull the code and go. I haven't needed to touch windows but its nice to know it still works over there anyway.

Using VS Code as my main editor. Tried Rider a little yesterday and I'll probably switch to that once its more stable as it has a few more tools for refactoring etc.

So .NET core is clearly what's intended to be used cross platform, and it works great.
The U.S. Census Bureau Gave Up Names of Japanese-Americans in WWII (2007)
I think the reasonable thing is to eliminate the institution of state marriage.
NYT started reported on wikileaks emails very late in the revelation process. This already shows dishonesty on some level.

It also coincided with release of emails that didn't actually matter, thus the narrative was - hey she is just human and yes there is some bad, but nothing that terrible.

For example, they didn't report on leaking questions to debate organizers until Donna Brazile got fired.
I think people lied on both sides, but I always assumed democrats were better than that. And I used to take my news from New York Times. Now I can't because I know they'll try to present just one side of every issue.

Finally, an example of bias is I am yet to see a single positive news story on Trump from NYT. Like they did a story about him hiring lobbyists. All commenters on the site and the story itself tried to say that he is being hypocritical since he promised that he would get rid of lobbyists. They didn't cite his reasons for that decision that he talked about on the 60-minutes interview.

The story about him firing all lobbyists was instead merged into the "campaign is in disarray" story.

But biggest problem for me is that any tech site I go to, I am constantly bombarded with "Trump is evil" and I never hear his side of the story.

I mean half the time the bias is so bad, I actually think I'm reading the onion (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-steak-well-...)

If you go to Wired, they currently have an article on the front page that starts with:

"Mark Zuckerberg is trying hard to convince voters that Facebook had no nefarious role in this election. But according to President-elect Donald Trump’s digital director Brad Parscale, the social media giant was massively influential—not because it was tipping the scales with fake news, but because it helped generate the bulk of the campaign’s $250 million in online fundraising."

This is
a) bias as they're not being impartial and
b) it is saying that allowing people to post whatever they want is "nefarious".

Basically, this one-sided approach is what I think drove people to twitter/facebook for news in the first place.
This is honestly where I thought this was going when I saw the title. It would be cool for a font to be invested in the language it's used to describe to the point where it supports features of that language.

I use Fira Code for JS, HTML, and CSS and it's great. Very rarely to the extra fun ligatures get in the way, and when they are printed they look absolutely gorgeous. I wish all/most code samples in tutorials and articles were set in it so they would be a pleasure to read.

But these fonts left me scratching my head.