skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. I'm not sure how long it's been since you left but we even had a (very moderate) earthquake here in Indiana several (~8?) years ago. It didn't really cause any damage but it's rare enough here that it was a "big deal".

I want to say it was around 5 a.m. when it happened. It woke me up and I instantly knew what was going on (I've been through an earthquake before in California) but the girlfriend slept right through it. Many people had no idea it had happened until they heard about it on the news.

The tornadoes, as you well know, can spring up out of nowhere.
I used the Google Goggles app of my phone to transcribe these to text, then paste the result in a HEX to ASCII website and voila :)
I don't think it was 10K per employee (that'd be a ridiculous amount of soda). It was 10K total.
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This would be why I always tell people to fly major U.S. legacy carriers if possible, or their western equivalents (e.g. British Airways, Qantas). As a general rule, major carriers from countries that have a pool of predominantly native English speakers to hire from.
Did you mistake Proof-of-Stake for Proof-of-Concept?

The Satoshi whitepaper that introduced Bitcoin was released before any running code and the code was in development for a while before the currency launched.

At this point in the development of cryptocurrencies there is room for experimental cryptocurrencies that aren't immediate attempts to get a production system running but provide research which currently adopted cryptocurrencies can draw from. Inventing a better jet engine should not require starting an aerospace company that builds and sells complete airplanes.
I thought we aren't supposed to talk politics on HN anymore..
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So the opportunity for the current owner/operators is to pool their resources and become the specialized self-driving truck agency.
Ha, yes, I know. The reference to Vermont was more relevant.

I actually chose Washington state intentionally over North Dakota since its mild climate made for a more striking comparison. Factually correct, but perhaps a bit misleading.
> You sneaky devil!

He he. Never copy/paste shell code found on the internet :-)
It does assume these things - but they're relatively reasonable. If your next closest competitor is doing worse than you, then your best employees, on average, must be better than their average employee. If an employee leaves your company for your competitor, they're adding value Day 1, whereas you have to go through the process of hiring a replacement, and hoping that they're just as good.

It also assumes that you don't pay your employees well enough to retire immediately after leaving ;)
This is a common misunderstanding about H-1B. For hiring someone on H-1B, the employer need not prove that they made attempts to hire a citizen or permanent resident first. But to sponsor an employee on H-1B for green card, they have to provide such a proof. What you describe happens during that process - you have an employee you are happy with, want to sponsor her for permanent residency in the country, and are willing to go through the expenses, but state insists that you have to try find another person first.

The right solution for this is to keep employers out of the skill-based immigration process.
Yeah, definitely. Smart investors with no management or operations experience install capable people as CEO, as Buffett has done on several occasions.

Arrogant investors seem to think, "running a business can't be that hard..."
Absolutely agree. "seeing what sticks" is also called innovation. It's what Amazon and Microsoft are excelling at and what Apple has forgotten how to do
The week-long experiment was terminated early. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13133855
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> For another example, see Bill Ackman...

Guy Spier also comes to mind. He won the charity auction to have lunch with Buffett and wrote "Education of a Value Investor." You don't hear as much of him or Mohnish Pabrai after the Horsehead Holdings bankruptcy.

[1] http://www.valuewalk.com/2016/09/mohnish-pabrai-horsehead-ho...
Yep, and this is very noticeable if your using windows and select any portion of the terminal. All stdout/stderr is blocked.

I had a call when one of our services stopped responding. Took a while to figure out there was a tiny one-character selection in the power shell.
"a remarkably healthy life spent almost from the cradle with Annie, his beloved wife of 73 years, who survives."

His marriage lasted longer than global average life expectancy! Truly a remarkable man.
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Even if only on relationships with gaming studios (or game engine builders, which are overlapping but not identical groups), AMD is lagging in a market-critical area for GPUs if games don't run as well on AMD GPUs.
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Or perhaps there isn't causality either way. For example, perhaps good management tends to produce both happy employees and successful companies.
They're not playful, I agree, but they're not restricted. They're made up of primarily generic pieces.
LEGO does have Technic, but it's a small and relatively unpopular subset of the whole universe, hence he may still be right. And the rest of LEGO not only has less of an emphasis in machines, as it also comes with minifigs and other components that can be used for more typical "roleplaying with dolls/action figures" over construction.
Ah - good find, I'll edit my prior response.
The scenario in the linked post was not a "fire", and it makes sense that it would require going through the regular process. If it were a fire then where was the CEO after step one? Why didn't he (or the 'operations manager') send out an email to everybody informing them to bypass the regular process?

A fire is something like, "the site is down for XX% of customers!" (for a large value of XX) or the "the software is routing product to the wrong place!" No doubt a real fire would have been handled differently.
I have, I stick with cygwin because it has better interoperability with the rest of windows. Ubuntu bash is more like using a virtual machine.
John Glenn was an engineer.

Lee Iacocca was an engineer.

Elon Musk is not an engineer.
You can buy Craftsman at other stores:

http://www.acehardware.com/category/index.jsp?categoryId=215...

They also stopped going out of their way to honor the warranty.
> why aren't they leaving toxic work places like Amazon in droves?

They are leaving Amazon. http://www.ibtimes.com/amazoncom-has-second-highest-employee...

The point here is that it wasn't the sodas that made them leave. The sodas were a tangible, visible thing that made them evaluate everything else, which also wasn't good.
Ask HN: What factors affect the result of an interview?
I've gone through a couple of tech interviews (over phone & onsite) for internships, and I got rejected by all of the companies I interviewed with. I know I did poorly in some of the interviews, but I think I did well in some of them problem-solving wise. Because none of the companies gave me detailed feedback, it's really hard for me to improve my performance against a black box. Maybe HN can provide some help?

I'm kind of socially awkward, so I tends to just focus on technique questions and ignore other things. Does that negatively impact my chances? Should I have small talks with the interviewer? Like talking about my impression on the city and workplace and stuff? Or maybe discuss some of the recent news in tech circle? In one of the interviews, an interviewer (a really nice person) showed me around the office. And I wasn't able to make any comments. Was that bad?

How detailed should I be when I talk about the project I current work on? Is sounding unenthusiastic bad? (Working on same project for years can be tiring) Does this really matter?

And what about the way I solve technical problems? Since I had a bit of ACM/ICPC training, sometimes I was able to see the optimal solution straight away. Should I go right to that? Or should I lie and start with a inefficient solution and start from there?

How bad is it to take a hint from the interviewer when you stuck? Is it really true that the most important thing is the way I think, not whether I can solve the problem?

And what about when the interviewer tells you to ask them a question? At first I always tell them I had nothing to ask. After several rejections I started to make up questions to ask, but the result didn't change. So maybe this doesn't matter at all?

Sometimes it really fells like I'm the interviewee in that Monty Python sketch.
It really sounds like something between modernified Fordism and in-setting cyberpunk horror story.
This old, famous article from Steve Blank... not sure what to make of this?

Did Google started to charge for it's meals or something?
Ah. I must have missed that.
There is little reason to believe that humans are so good at matching from screens to reality that proper located AR information isn't better (in domains like mapping it's quite well studied how error-prone humans are/how hard it is to communicate the right subset of details, while VR research has demonstrated how well real-world representations work).

Regarding distractions, attention management is extremely important for AR, but has also been researched a lot. As long as we keep advertisers out of AR applications we'll be fine.

Not surprisingly, the military already uses it, and I doubt they'd give figher pilots AR helmets if a screen would be more efficient.
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History is full of people knowingly taking such risks.

For example, my father was a B17 navigator. 80% of the group he went to England with became casualties. He was convinced he would not survive his tour due to the inevitable mathematics of the B-17 loss rate.

But he went anyway.
Did you read to the end of the article?

> The engineers focused on building product never noticed when the company had grown into something different than what they first joined. The sodas were just the wake-up call.

As for why engineers aren't leaving Amazon in droves, Amazon actually has pretty high turnover. The average employment term for engineers is 18 months. So engineers are leaving, but there are more engineers replacing them. Newly graduated engineers join big name tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook to boost their resumes before going on to do other things.
There are definitely a lot fewer Classic sets, but like... the point of them is that they're just a bunch of generic pieces. You don't need that many different sets, just sets of different sizes.

Of course, a just-pieces set of Lego technic would be amazing :-(
Oh, I don't disagree, and I get the jitters every time I get on one of those regional jets. I was just trying to clarify the parent's confusion.
I don't get it, why didn't he used nodejs from the start instead of JSCore so it would have windows,linux,osx support?
You can't have unit tests that don't lock you down to a particular structure of units. That's really the definition of unit testing.

I'm not saying anything about bad architecture. You have a good architecture for today's requirements that is a bad architecture for next year's requirements. Tests lock you down to whatever your first architecture is.
I see what you're saying, but if everybody is getting paid at the breakeven, or close to breakeven point, the company is going to be starved of capital it needs to grow, take bets, weather a bad sales cycle, etc. Also, how can a company give bonuses or raises to employees when all employees are already being paid what the value they are generating for the company is? You can play with how short of the breakeven point (or marginal benefit as you call it) the company pays at, but the closer you are, the less breathing room there is for the company.

Secondly, the salary of an employee isn't the entire cost to the employer. I've seen some different ranges, but a random Boston Business Journal article [0] cited the total cost as 2.7x base salary. A CNN Money article cites 1.18x to 1.26x [1]. It's obviously really different on a case-by-case basis, but whatever that multiplier is has to be taken into account.

Lastly, for many companies, engineers are worth far more than 150% of their salary as value to the company, on average [2]. Apple makes 1.87 million per employee, Microsoft at 732k, IBM at 244k. These are obviously huge tech giants, but they are employing quite a lot of the highly skilled employees that you think are being underpaid. I'm not interpreting your comment to mean that your idea should be adopted for everybody in every situation, but certainly in a lot of (most?) places it can't work. Many tech workers are not paid what their true value to their organizations are, but I'm not sure that's a problem in of itself.

[0]: http://web.mit.edu/e-club/hadzima/how-much-does-an-employee-...

[1]: http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/28/smallbusiness/salary-benefit...

[2]: http://www.businessinsider.com/see-how-much-tech-giants-like...
Sears is a jack of all trades store that doesn't have much value these days. Before Home Depot and Lowes were everywhere, Sears was a good option for appliances, lawn care, power tools, etc. They were good for fitness equipment before Dicks. They were good for electronics before Best Buy. I suspect a place like Kohls took over their clothing audience as well.

Of course the internet didn't help them much either.

I'm sure someone will gladly buy up Craftsmen when it goes up for sale but I agree with you that it's their only exclusive asset that sets them apart.
The answer to that depends on the cause.
"You" in my comment means a hypothetical person who could be doing the changes. It wasn't directed at you personally, since it's obvious I know nothing about your context or environment.

I'll be more careful about writing "one" instead of "you" next time.
This should probably use the original source at http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2016/12/worlds-larg... (cited by this article itself, which didn't seem to me to add much).

What a great achievement!
They put business people in charge of the Electrical company instead of engineers...

Service quality went down, new projects were put on hold, and investments in new technology was basically killed... Prices went up too.

Quebec has nationalized electricity and really missed the boat for newer technology.
Absolutely. The article itself (it's a short one) talks about doing just enough tests to have confidence in a product, and I think that's fantastic for early phase development.

But when changes can come from anywhere (lots of developers potentially making changes) and the need for changes can be urgent, there's a great deal of value in complete code coverage.

Not every developer thinks the same or has the same tendency for errors. I would caution people against thinking about tests as personal verification. With any luck, you'll be handing off that code base to someone else in time.
Well, C brings ... functional programming over assembly, right? Look, calculation with machine words, but without side effects:

int x = 42;
int y = x / 2;
double z = sqrt(x*x + y*y);
return 1 + z;

We're just binding fresh variables, and nesting expressions that evaluate terms and return results. No assignment anywhere.

Yes, functional programming matters. It lets you add two things together in C without worrying about allocating a destination operand for the result, whose clobbering won't affect anything anywhere else.

This sort of thing in turn makes it a heck of a lot easier to write OS schedulers, drivers, memory managers, codecs, ray tracers, database engines, ...
DoorDash (and most other food delivery companies) have a major flaw: The drivers don't compare the order I made through them with the receipt from the restaurant.

In my experience, most of the incorrect orders DoorDash delivers can be caught if they just compare what their system says I ordered and what the restaurant receipt says I ordered. There have been multiple occasions of entire entries missing from the restaurant receipt. I don't have much trust in a company that can't do something as simple as that.
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Which other big company have you heard of using interview technique described in the OP? The fact that Amazon thought up the process as described here says something about the as a company which you can't explain away as the "new cool company to hate".
I agree with this 100%. Some non-technical person that I've worked with were just living inside a bubble. It's really difficult to work with someone that doesn't contribute other than talk, especially when they are just waiting on you to finish with the development. If the product flops, they take zero responsibility, drops the ball, and you end up with wasted time.
Is it possible for anyone to share the full text of the post for those of use behind a great firewall?

Edit: thanks!
Yup. I've been eagerly awaiting this since they announced earlier this year. I was getting worried I'd have to contract with a different provider. I'm a heavy RDS user, too, so I wasn't looking forward to it.
>frugal consumers

I feel like nobody is attempting to hit that market anymore in the US. As the income gap widens it seems foolish to ignore the majority of the marketplace.
If it's really old, shouldn't it be faster as it would've been designed to perform adequately on way slower CPUs? ;)
When I bought my house, I had to buy some appliances... fridge, washer / dryer, etc. I bought them at Sears because my Dad said, "If you ever have a problem, Sears will make it right..." So anyway fast forward a bit... everything was delivered by contractors (not Sears employees) and Sears did nothing to remedy the situation when one of the appliances (a dishwasher) was installed poorly and leaked because they bolted it in on the sides and stretched the frame out. Something like 50 emails with photos and calls, and Sears did sent a new dishwasher but didn't schedule an installation... so I had an extra dishwasher sitting in my living room and was told I couldn't do the install myself or it would void Sear's warranty of the work... like 3 months this crap went on. I finally just said fuck it, installed the other dishwasher myself and since they never came back to pick up the old dishwasher I left it on the curb for large item trash day. Total debacle.

When I bought a new oven, I bought it from Costco.
Yes that has been a problem... Let me tell you, everybody would have been investing in the infrastructure if there had been a social desire to actually attract datacenters...

Nobody will invest in good internet lines if the only thing to go around is middle-aged people who think the internet is useless...
If I had a crystal ball and could look into Amazon and Sears's respective C-Suites, this is what I imagine I'd see:

Amazon Manager to subordinate:
How is the progress going on our new jet and drone fleets?

Sears Manager to subordinate:
Why the HELL aren't our website sales up?!?!
People feel a natural obligation to be rewarded for their work. "Don't work, don't eat". The fact is, giving people a small income makes them inherently lazy. Lazy people don't like to work, but they will do just enough to get by, so if you give them a min amount of $, they'll do nothing. Others will look at that and say, "How come they get money for being lazy?" It actually acts as demotivation for people who would work some. The guy who isn't making much to begin with isn't rewarded - it only makes his labor less valuable. Does it make him strive harder to gain opportunity? Not really. People who have tried multiple times to jump over the hurdles in their economic careers won't feel that obligation to continue to jump if they have their precious safety net.

Is a safety net nice? Sure, but as much as it's nice, I know full well I wouldn't be sending out resumes or even looking for what I should be doing if I didn't feel some obligation to work, whatever that be from.

The idea of giving people a flat income sounds nice in theory, but that's all it is: in theory. Practically, I believe it fails to account for the basics of human nature after that point, which is why the idea wouldn't work in practice. That doesn't mean it isn't humanitarian, which is where I guess it shines for some people. After all, it's nice to think everyone is taken care of, much like social medical plans. But in both cases (income and medicare) I think it's the reverse solution to the problem: It's trying to raise people up rather than lowering the bar. Vague analogy, sorry, but maybe it makes sense?

>> I'm all for doing work, but never understood worship of hard work for hard work's sake.

I'm not sure what you mean by this, so let me try to answer this in a general way, for the sake of practice if nothing else. Personally, I view the body as being made to do work. It's very functional, well designed "equipment" - or at least better for all-purpose usage than anything humanity has ever created. Some people feel like they wouldn't be fulfilling their purpose without work. They wouldn't feel complete I guess. Notably, it is a personality-type thing, as there are types of people who enjoy doing much more than thinking, but everyone enjoys doing something, even if not work related. We'd get bored otherwise. Some people naturally associate the doing of things with working for a living. Some people find work to be therapeutic.

I'm rambling alot here trying to toss out ideas. Maybe I already answered the question in my feeble way.
urandom.pcap: Belarus (finally) bans Tor
Leonid Evdokimov 2016-12-08 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Country: Belarus

Probed ISPs: Beltelecom (AS 6697)

Censorship method: TCP injections

We have recently heard of network anomalies in Belarus. Tor has been finally blocked in December 2016, although it had been explicitly declared that Tor should be blocked since February 2015.

Directly connected users from Belarus

An anonymous cypherpunk has helped to gather some evidence regarding Tor being blocked in Belarus. It’s neither a complete study nor an in-depth research and it’s unclear if any other further evidence will be gathered, so we decided to share current knowledge as-is:

Tor directory authorities are not blocked

Public onion routers have their ORPort blocked by TCP RST injection

The onion routers’ DirPort is not blocked

Plain-old non-obfuscated Tor Bridges from BridgeDB circumvent the interference

Beltelecom (or its upstream) has strange configuration of the networking gear injecting reset packets

The strangeness in equipment is the following. The first injected RST packet does not have have proper SEQ/ACK numbers. These packet fields are just filled with zeroes. So this packet is dropped by the client’s TCP/IP stack per RFC5961 and does not actually terminate the client’s connection:

$ tshark -Tfields -eframe.time_relative -eip.src -etcp.srcport -eip.dst -etcp.dstport \
-eip.ttl -etcp.flags.str -etcp.seq -etcp.ack -r urandom.pcap | sed | awk | perl

0.000000 192.168.1.2 42555 87.118.94.227 443 64 **********S* 899897236 0
0.029459 87.118.94.227 443 192.168.1.2 42555 125 *********R** 0 0 (sic!)
0.096914 87.118.94.227 443 192.168.1.2 42555 52 *******A**S* 1984028404 899897237
0.096958 192.168.1.2 42555 87.118.94.227 443 64 *******A**** 899897237 1984028405
0.136874 87.118.94.227 443 192.168.1.2 42555 125 *********R** 1984028405 0

That’s all for today. Remember, fried potato is better with onion!