skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use our own tool internally (https://www.intuo.io/). It works pretty well I'd say. What we do is basically:

* Continuously give each other 360 feedback

* Each manager does a monthly one-on-one with all of their teammembers

* We have quarterly objectives, on a personal, team and company level (using OKRs)

* Apart from that, we do continuous pulse surveys, measuring the happiness and engagement of our people
I absolutely agree with most of that you've said. But remember, this happened in an evaluation environment. Not a day to day work environment.

If you can't fail an eval by locking yourself out and being unable to complete the task, how do you fail?

The ideal is proper config management, test/stage/prod envs, automated deployment, etc. I've come close to that ideal at certain points in the past, but it's far from universal.

Remember the problem is that OP was using unfamiliar tools and being careless. We have all made that mistake, but for it to happen in an eval or an interview has to be a failure. In day to day ops, it would be tough to justify giving root access.

You want to pass or hire the person who will not do that because they have already cleaned up that sort of mess in the past.

As OP states in followup, they weren't interviewing for a systems admin position, which does change the equation. If the eval board is sitting on your desk and requires just a firmware flash to recover, then OK, it's safe to not care so much.
This sounds like complete bunk to me, even contrary to every trend I've heard of.

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TBH React itself is another thing I don't quite "get". Isolated components make sense when you have a big webapp like Facebook with a lot of isolated parts, but everything I read about it encourages slicing your code into lots of teensy little modules (which you then have to keep track of, and frequently are used only once), and then goes on about how the amazing Shadow DOM keeps everything fast despite this massive abstraction. Meanwhile I have my view model(s) plus a single big HTML document with bindings in it (and sometimes a few includes for particularly complex bits), bound together with Knockout, and I've never noticed this monolithic approach causing any problems.

Basically, it seems like everyone is talking about how amazing it is and how much it improves their productivity, and this makes me feel like there must be something I'm missing but I can't figure out what that is.
> But we don't write tests to check if our code works.

So what methods do you use for that purpose?
I was pretty impressed the other day by what hobby roboticists are now able to build leveraging stuff like api.ai:

http://imgur.com/a/ue4Ax
Bandwidth was the major motivation for building Aphrodite, too: Khan Academy wanted to decrease the number of bytes required for the initial pageload. http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/aphrodite-inline-cs...

> We must deliver the absolute minimum amount of CSS necessary by only sending down CSS in use by components in the server-side rendered body. This rules out extracting all the CSS used in all of our components at compilation time, as much of that CSS would not be needed for the initial page load.

Colocating styles with components is a win, but, more importantly, styles-as-JS-objects was the simplest way to get this perf feature out the door.
I'd bet most of them were through it at least once.

What does best mean anyway?
I tried to find the stats on this and haven't found the right ones yet. There are odds of dying in a lifetime, which is flawed because people drive more than they fly. There's also deaths per mile, which isn't right because planes go faster than cars. It seems that what people care about is what is the probability of dying in a time period of engaging in the activity?

Are there stats for driver-deaths-per-time-spent-driving? It'd also be interesting if it could be broken down to driver-deaths that 100% clearly weren't the driver's fault. I wonder how that compares to deaths-per-time-flying (via a major carrier). Or probability of death.

Best I could find is the micromort wikipedia page [1] - apparently to spend one micromort, you can drive 230 miles, fly 1000 miles, or train 6000 miles. Looked at that way, you're burning micromorts at a faster hourly rate on the plane, so according to that it's riskier if you squint your eyes just so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
The biggest issue was building emacs. I couldn't find a clear binary distribution that didn't set-off all my malware radar(hello sourceforge!) so getting mingw32 to play nice and build took much more effort than it should have.

MinGW/GitBash include Vim by default so there it makes the setup process a no-brainer.
With LEX and Polly anyone can essentially build its own Alexa chatbot nowadays. Alexa will just be Amazon-version of it. I expect more apps and more devices will compete with Alexa as different products.

Api.ai from Google can also be integrated into many popular apps(twitter,facebook messenger,etc), not sure if it's apps-agnostic, i.e. I write an Android app and can use google assistant directly, do I need any special API-key or something from Google first?
But that's not the content that the HN echo chamber wants to see. Amazon is a terrible place to work, so we can only upvote stories that support that opinion. The last time I saw a positive Amazon article on the front page, the comments were filled with absolute vitriol. Amazon could cure cancer and HN would bemoan how terrible the on-call must be for whoever ran the protein folding servers.
>While life expectancy is strongly correlated with income, it's actually uncorrelated with inequality and access to health care.

Or so says one published study, but scientific consensus develops across many studies, responses to them, meta-studies, and over a long period. Here is a counter result for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15650149
I am surprised there wasn't more than a token mention of terrorism. People like to bemoan airline security and I think there is a valid argument regarding the effectiveness of the TSA, but this is also the safest stretch the US airline industry has had against terrorists and hijackers since the early days of the industry in the 40s and 50s.
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They do - http://store.steampowered.com/curators/recommendedcurators/
I disagree. Most people can get what they need done on something like a Chromebook which have comparable specs to the devices in their pockets. It's more so that the interface of the app, which is based on the screen size of the device is inconvenient. For instance, you wouldn't want to type a paper or do spreadsheets on your phone.
Note: Firefox on android has only supported plugins since a few months ago.
One of the best toys I've seen are "snap circuits", which are basically one of those simple electronic lab kit "toys" only that they do not use cables. Instead you snap blocks together like legos.
Nervous flyer here.

I tell myself this on a loop while flying and my lizard brain just does not care. Weirdly, I've flown hundreds of times and this didn't start until I was near 30.

I think one aspect is not the fear of death, but the fear of being in a situation of knowing death is certain for minutes as you fall out of the sky. (Which is a situation I also know is a small fraction of the already tiny chance of dying in an airplane).
Living near NYC/SF does include "large swaths of America".
Out of curiosity, what makes 42030 better than MB Arocs (42043) or Mobile Crane II (42009)? I was just looking for a gift for myself a week ago, and 42043 looks great.
Under the title click the web link. The top result should give you a non-paywalled version of the article.
I was personally expecting a piece about a baffling resurgence in the use of ICQ.
"except AWS" I've been thinking about things like this, where for example, if you only buy vegetarian food at McDonalds you are still supporting deforestation and inhumane treatment of animals.

If you buy AWS you are supporting the inhumane treatment of humans.
I used to use expect to automate testing a medical device over telnet.
In an all-volunteer military, I think (based on talking to friends who were in the services) the prevailing attitude is that they want to find people who genuinely want to be there. They don't want to waste taxpayer dollars on sending you to boot camp, etc, only to have you wash out because you can't cut it, or to have you be a Crappy Soldier because you don't believe in the mission 100%.
They do, you just need to be the owner of a Steam Group. http://store.steampowered.com/curators/
This depends entirely on the underlying distribution of the data. In your example, the distributions are not at all similar, so it makes sense that you can't compare medians or averages between those populations.

I suspect that the distribution of incomes in the US remains fairly similar to what it was 40 years ago. Thus, if the median has remained the same, then the average probably also has.
If you read closely, it was only 6 days because the CEO did some rulebreaking at the end. I imagine it would have been several weeks otherwise.

At some point organisations forget that the process is there to serve us, and not us to serve the process. Moving variables to parameter files, renaming legacy variables, these all seem like much more risky things than simply changing the value of the variable.
I didn't previously know about this. Now I won't ever have to waste my time interviewing at Amazon just to get to this point and have to quit.
lamda, anonymous functions are so popular in JS that it migt be a suprise that you can actually name your functions. Heck you can even use them like any object, pass them along, store them in lists, return a funtion from a fuction etc.
I'm sorry, but if I'm in a tin can 30,000 feet in the air, defying gravity, I'm going to freak out at the smallest bit of turbulence, whether it's rational or not.
I misspoke, 44 visits per capita would be ludicrous (related: I'm curious how many hours are spent in some kind of medical practice per capita)

Thanks for following up, perhaps I'm overestimating the degradation to the ability to receive ems. Some quick searching didn't pull up any studies done on this, so perhaps it's not significant.
I basically try and update the game whenever a new stable version is released. I don't typically monitor the website myself though - usually someone will email me asking when I'll update it, and even then I'll need to find time to do the update.
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> We are taught that a very achievable ideal is a middle class existence with one parent working

I'm pushing 40 (upbringing: United States, middle class, medium-sized city) and have never, ever heard of this dream of a single-income household.
Even if you use Babel your users will still benefit from less polyfill.
The context is what makes this interesting, that the number showed up in an unexpected place.
Use Signal. It's the best you can get right now.

I understand all the concerns people have about Signal and I share most of them. But these discussions really are for people who want to build something better, not for people who look for something they can use now.
> They meant to have a product in an indeterminate future which should be immediately perfect and better than a human, essentially not needing a wheel.

This isn't what happened. The first iteration of Google self-driving cars, the modified Lexus', had wheels alright. What Google found and told the industry was "almost autonomous seems to be more dangerous than not autonomous at all", explained by the driver getting bored and complacent. This isn't surprising to people doing Human Factors, and while Tesla certainly made money off ignoring it, the result has already been tragic.
>How many successful companies do the exact opposite of Google? Have you done any research to determine which company succeeded: in spite of, because of, or no effect, from these models? What about the - surely - hundreds or thousands of companies that failed with Google (or not Google's) model?

Do you know of any examples offhand? Definitely agree that it's a virtuous cycle of talent -> revenue - > perks -> talent

>Trying to imitate success seems to turn into a cargo cult.

Love the apt description of this.
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How a Rust Belt Native and SV Technologist Is Re-Thinking American Manufacturing
Judging by the article and the comments, that sounds to me like more effort than Amazon is worth.
You don't need unsafePerformIO for any of these.

> Anything that needs rewriting a memory address without losing time by allocation and garbage collection.

ST gives you mutable references. Or just use IO.
Big Data, Small Data or Bad Data?
Curious - what's a disaster about Stripe Atlas? I would have considered going down that route if I was to start a company
You misunderstand my point; by "scrutiny," I mean the media coverage on + testimony of things that amazon is doing wrong. I am all for bigCos being subject to watchful eyes. My qualm is that you somehow see this very specific problem we've gathered here to discuss as an excuse to hold moral high ground over the thousands of people who works for the company in a wake-up-sheeple style rant.
Resurrecting a Macintosh Plus
Hey, that guy designed his software using boxes and lines. I can do that too, and update it to current practices.
Nice things. I like such material
From the article it sounds like this will only work with the next gen CPU , 835 not current 820/1
Manager agrees, rulebreaking then fix later.

Later...never arrived for tomorrow is another Very Important Thing that must be done now!

Somehow management continues to forget the critical resource: time to do things right
I doubt you would give it access to arbitrary memory so to actually get the data they would need an exploit of the USB connections and while it increases the attack surface I don't think it increases it unreasonably. The larger concern to me would be someone could be capturing the keyboard and monitor you connect to and could get most of your information through that.
Coca-Cola targets Foodies as more people move away from soda
More importantly - is mutation rate what we want to consider?

I think it is quite important when considering this particular interaction. Horizontal gene transfer will help a population of bacteria share a successful strategy, rampant mutation will help the virus try more strategies.

The article mentions that the particular infection reached a balance with the phage overnight, so it is likely to be a quite an issue. But the population of bacteria resistant to the phage had become susceptible to an antibiotic (for reasons related to the resistance). So it can still be a valuable tool, even if resistance happens quickly.
What else can Microsoft do? Without this, there's really no mobile strategy except to support users and developers on Android and iOS (which isn't a terrible strategy).
My guess is they simply won't allow that. Every action will require a unique name.
> You can't make that mistake in production. They were right to fail you.

When I took the RHCE exam, someone made an extremely simple mistake similar to this that led to the machine (a VM) being unusable.

They knew exactly what they'd done, they knew how it could be fixed, etc - and the instructor sympathized and was apologetic, but it was just not allowed for them to restart that portion of the cert exam over, and it was impossible to pass without this section.

The person in question had to pay to re-take the exam at a later date.
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and NIH Director Francis Collins on Music and the Brain
They already are. I've talked to some recruiters who laugh at bootcamp programs on a resume. A few years ago nobody would ask me about my academic background in a job interview, but now they've started asking explicitly. I've been out of school for seven years, and nobody cared about my CS degree until this year.

The reality is that degrees and certifications will be used in hiring as long as they are a useful indicator of aptitude. HR departments need to eliminate candidates from the hiring pool. At their zenith, the bootcamp programs were useful for recruiters because only the truly dedicated survived the bootcamp long enough to graduate. But with the proliferation of such programs, I think the day is quickly approaching when the market will be oversaturated with graduates and it will cease to be a useful indicator of aptitude.
R0oT, a network to achieve global self-coordination to face climate crisis [pdf]
Time has arrived for civil society to start real global changes. Governments, banks, global media, big corporations... are just trying to maintain their current and unsustainable status quo in which a ridiculous minority benefits from having the rest of the natural and human world under inadmissible conditions. We cannot trust
them anymore. We need to take over. The ominous prospect of the climate crisis urges us to start acting now. This is no utopia. It is an imperative and urgent need. The whole ecosystem in general and humanity in particular need
a wise plan, a smooth renaissance to peacefully build a sustainable, fair and life-friendly future. This manifest introduces r0oT, a nonprofit global network conceived to allow people to be strongly coordinated. A coordinated society, properly informed, will start acting, for once, in its own favor, for its own survival. This necessarily implies acting as
well in favor of our natural environment, to which we belong and on which we all depend. If you really care about the world you live in, about yourself and your family in the long term, about human civilization, about our fellow
creatures living on Earth... just read this, study it and join. You are indispensable. Give it a chance. It could be the last.

Manifest:

Manifest: https://rbfi.io/dl.php?key=/ajgK/r0oTv2.2.pdf
Tangent on the tagent: Phillip Greenspun touches on regional airline safety in this post comparing US to foreign airline safety - http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/foreign-airline-safety

If having a newbie in the right seat represents a challenge to safety, how do U.S. regional airlines manage? The U.S. regional airline is hiring pilots who are more experienced than those hired by foreign airlines (the U.S. regional F/O typically has been a flight instructor) but less experienced than those hired by a U.S. major airline. The answer is that U.S. regional airlines have an accident rate as much as 5-10 times that of U.S. major airlines. The culture is the same, but apparently there is no substitute for experience.
That isn't going to happen easily. My experience: I've talked about this to many people (highly educated, smart people) - most of them are adamant on the idea that human beings absolutely have to work to deserve anything, even food and water. This might very well be anecdotal, but very few people get ideas like Basic Income intuitively. It would likely take tremendous amount to first make people understand, then accept radical ideas.

I'm all for doing work, but never understood worship of hard work for hard work's sake.
The effect of culture should not be underestimated here.

There really is a cooperative spirit among pilots, air traffic controllers, weather briefers, mechanics, the FAA, etc. Controllers are willing to help pilots with special requests if able, pilots file weather reports for other pilots if what they encounter aloft is different from what they expected, mechanics take pride in their work and are highly regarded by pilots. I generally take a dim view of regulators, who generally seem to have less expertise than the people they're regulating. That's mostly not the case here. I'm libertarian and a pilot - and I like the FAA. Nobody is out to nail you for a minor technical infraction, but they will yell at you for something that's unsafe but technically legal. This encourages people to report near misses, even if casts them in a bad light. The regulations themselves are generally reasonable, and frankly feel like they were written by pilots, controllers, and airport operators.

The point is this - regulations matter and budgets matter, but if the culture is toxic, people will find a way around it anyway. When I see a problem elsewhere in society - investment banking in the 2000s for example - people propose heavy regulatory solutions. That may work, but wouldn't be so much of a battle if the culture were better.

I haven't thought deeply about what "better" means in this context, nor about how to intentionally change a culture. I'd rather just fly.
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The labeled forms give my brain a chunk of code, with a name, to compartmentalize / internalize. In the nested forms, I have to either chunk it on the fly (every time I need to read it) or not chunk it and make my eyes do a bunch of work.

Code that comes later in a single code base will usually copy the patterns that are already established in that code base.
(Assuming the starting patterns are decent, this is as it should be.)

If you add one more level of fun nesting or something like that, the labeled examples become even clearer. Since it's entirely likely that new code will copy the existing pattern, I prefer code shapes that will grow cleanly.
Then you're just a serf of the State. Do we want to go back to feudalism?

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How do you feel about the people who voted contrary to your political choices? Do you view them with more or less disdain than you appear to have for those who sat this one out?
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html

This is where I've gone for my binaries, and I've never had an issue (for windows, on OS X and Linux I just use the appropriate package manager I use for everything else).
just registered and got an email saying, for pricing please email sales@api.ai, so I guess it is not free, and it needs not to be, just not enough straightforward info comparing to Amazon's announcements.
Well, "Medicaid substantially reduced the prevalence of depression", which IS a health effect.

It also helped people treat their conditions and illnesses (the increased visits, etc).

What it didn't no is have lifestyle-level health effects ("had no statistically significant effects on blood pressure, cholesterol, or cardiovascular risk") which I don't see why anyone would expect it to have. For one, they just checked after 2 years -- not a significant time unless somebody starts dedicated and determined lifestyle changes.

Those people remained poor and retained their lifestyle habits regarding exercise, food etc (which is what accounts for blood pressure, cholesterol, etc). They just get better access to healthcare.

If Medicare gave them leisure time, a private chef or high end restaurant gift cards, and a personal trainer it would be a different story...
Moving at 100 mph in a car does not seem exactly natural either.
Growing up in Michigan and being around manufacturing people my whole life this guys thoughts really resonate with me. Love to see him as an adviser to some of the politicians and educators locally. Once the boomers retire I am not really certain who will do these kinds of jobs?