skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's important not to understate the fact that both options are a false choice. you can have it the right way Plan A, or the right way Plan B. There was no offer of a Plan C where we hack stuff and then just hope for the best.

Plan C is what the Strategy guys always want to go for, because they can't recognize when the repucussions happen. They just tell themselves it's those good for nothing engineers screwing up again.

But too often there's been one guy ithe engineering group who values accolades over stability and will offer to be a hero, only to wander off without finishing anything. Later in life I've realized I should have suffered through more of the issues at companies where the team at least had solidarity. I knew I wanted that in a team, but didn't know that I needed it.
Product Research Interview with Skyscanner (2015)
I agree there should be visual feedback, but maybe more of a compromise. E.g. bundle all unzip tasks into 1 single progress bar and rotate text strings for informing which task is underway.

The "dancing" modal is quite ridiculous.
When looking for a job, one does not always feel in a position to turn down a job offer, especially when one does not already have a competing bid.
Ask HN: What will happen to make VR finally explode, if anything?
No one should... but that doesn't mean the don't/can't.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-08-17/wayback-machi...
What Punch said, basically its a maturing of the Internet Advertising market, the early enthusiasm for lots of metrics on engagement being dampened by a gradual understanding of click fraud. This is reflected in Google's financials as a falling 'cost per click' (what Google gets for an ad click).

The other factor is that Google search has been slowly losing its quality edge on its competitors and so services like Microsoft's Bing start developing more significant inroads, the combination of more market share and higher CPCs on Microsoft's service lead it to be profitable last year[1]. And the reason is in part because Microsoft can preferentially send search traffic to their properties, but it is also tied to the fact that consumers don't then switch their search provider later.

To counter-act that Google has been paying more and more money to third parties to send search traffic their way (this expense is called 'traffic acquisition costs') and Google was horrified when Oracle's lawyer disclosed that they were paying Apple a billion dollars a year for their search traffic[2]. They paid millions to Mozilla to send their search traffic to Google [3] and had a material dip in traffic revenue when Mozilla cancelled that deal[4]. What the author of the article in [4] did not realize is that all of Yahoo!'s search traffic is in fact served by the Bing index and servers. Yahoo! hasn't had a native search service since they agreed to send it all to Microsoft. So Bing+Yahoo! market share is really just Bing market share. That money paid, their TAC, comes right out of the profit margin for their ads

At the end of the day this is neither good nor bad, search is being commoditized. And as it commoditizes that puts pressure on margins since discrimination based on cost always puts pressure on margins. Eventually Bing and Google will be equally expensive from an advertiser point of view and the one with the best operational efficiency will make the most profit. Neither of them will be able to use "excess profits" to fund moonshots.

That is why it is so critically important for Google to find additional viable businesses to augment its search advertising revenue.

The current road leads to a very un-fun place to work, long hours (maximize work done for salary paid), few benefits (reducing costs), and little room for new development. They won't end there, it's like saying if you drive west in the US and never turn eventually you'll drown in the Pacific ocean, it's true but there is always a turn before that point. But if Google of 2003 was one end of the spectrum, Google is inexorably moving toward the other end. Ruth is there to make sure what's left is still a viable business that deserves a high stock price.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/22/bing-is-profitable/

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-22/google-pa...

[3] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398046,00.asp

[4] http://www.geekwire.com/2015/yahoos-deal-mozilla-draws-searc...
> Mies and Wright both had licenses to practice architecture.

Which proves that licenses may be necessary to prevent dangerous architecture, but certainly aren't sufficient to prevent hideous architecture.

> There are problematic professional licensure categories. Barbers aren't one of them. The practice is licensed because hygienic practices are necessary to reduce the spread of disease. It's why I probably won't get headlice or a bloodborne illness from a shave and a haircut.

What level of licensure or inspection is required? How certain are you that the current level is the correct level?
I don't think that's true: https://whispersystems.org/bigbrother/eastern-virginia-grand...
He was an amazing man.

Fun fact: the most popular years for babies named Glenn and John was 1962 and 1963 respectively [0,1], and you can see a little spike in births for both around the time John Glenn orbited the earth. Glenn entered the NASA test program without the required degree in a scientific field. He was the oldest man to fly in space, at age 77, and one of the last people to receive a ticker tape parade (the last one to receive multiple ticker-tape parades)

IMHO if he qualified as one of a handful of people to get a ticker-tape parade, he definitely qualifies for a black bar.

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=first+name+john

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=first+name+glenn
US airlines often sell their older planes to foreign airlines, which may account for some of the increased issues those airlines have. Your point still stands though - culture and processes rule.
Location, the kind of position, perceived company reputation and pay...

I've been on your side of the table for a similar role and had the same experience. Literally 20-30 candidates who can't answer basic questions for every 1 who can (and usually the 1 is "just ok").

I think it's just due to the particular pool your company is dealing with. Maybe there is a surplus, maybe there isn't, but you're not able to judge that objectively from your vantage point.
That's true, but I'd argue that a window that appears and disappears within substantially less than one second is often a bad idea anyway. Progress indicators are for things you wait on.
A common in-memory columnar data layer would make a lot of sense because a) columnar is generally better for analytics, and b) converting from one columnar format to another can theoretically be done without decompression because columnar data is typically compressed using standard algorithms (vocabulary compression, LRE, etc). Here I wrote a few suggestions for such open-source data layer: http://bi-review.blogspot.ca/2015/06/the-world-needs-open-so...
Not knowing how this works internally, I think "Program Files (ARM)" would be unnecessary - the native platform is ARM, so it gets "Program Files", x86 is emulated (how different is x86-on-ARM than x86-on-x64?), so it gets "Program Files (x86)".
// For me it was not about the money, but a show of how much a company appreciate me and how they think of me. //

Never think this. Never assume this.

Talking to a company about salary is a business transaction. It's a negotiation. Unless you're somehow at the type of unicorn where they're not only small, but already have a lot of $$ (basically nothing out there right now) there isn't going to be any amount of "oh yeah, we like you" that will significantly impact your compensation.

// However, all of the offer were with not-that-interesting tech stacks and really bad compensations. //
How 'bad' is 'bad' here if you don't mind me asking? Also, mostly startups or what?
Google hired the team that won the Darpa Grand Challenge.
Seattle landlord says lots of interest in $750 ‘prison cell’ apartment
To add to this, "rational number" comes from "ratio" [2], not "rationality".

They look similar because (per [1]) they both come from Latin ratio ("reckoning, accounting"), which derives from reri (think, judge).

[1] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/ratio?s=t

[2] They're the numbers expressible as one integer divided by another.
Ceretropic only just announced its availability: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/5h1mge/its_here... I assume this is why the sudden renewal of interest and a January article on it showing up on HN...
What does what a few Americans believe have to do with the comment made?
Only nano and mcedit zealots are allowed to joke about :wq. The first time I started emacs I had to kill -9 it :p
Graphite's pickle format does this:
http://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/feeding-carbon.html

We ran into a similar issue when someone was trying to send a line protocol data to a pickle port.

Yes this format stinks.
> the number of legs per day flown by regional aircrews may be an issue

More take-offs and landings, more human and equipment fatigue, more opportunity for mistakes and breakages?
I couldn't (respectfully) disagree more. He has inspired a generation of us, myself included.

My grandmother used to lead the Indianapolis Aero Club and somehow managed to get him as a speaker. My parents made the 2ish hour drive up just for me to hear one of my heros, Col John Glenn, talk for ~30 minutes (I was maybe 12-13 at the time?). While I did not ultimately achieve my dream of being an astronaut like him, I did however find my way into aerospace engineering and engineering in general as a result. He really inspired me on to greatness by being so down to earth and matter of fact.

And now I'll say something a bit controversial. The world needs more people like him, and less people like Zuckerberg. While building the next $web_thing or unicorn startup is cool, inspiring an entire generation is a whole lot cooler. Rest in peace John!
>And do you expect that people with mortgages, families, commitments are just going to walk out as soon as they hear about something like that?

No, I'm expecting that the people with the most options will start drifting away. You know, the ones they most need. And now we know they won't be hiring any stellar replacements any time soon either.
U.S. Life Expectancy Declines, and Researchers Are Puzzled
>Also, "support for AAA games" isn't really a graphics card feature, per se. AAA development studios choose what hardware they want to support, and many choose to target Nvidia technologies (e.g. HairWorks).

Yes, but who cares? If NVIDIA beats AMD for the games I want to play, the why completely irrelevant. Games run better on NVIDIA. I buy games and want them to run as well as possible. Sold.
Once

1. Magic Leap/Microsoft HoloLens for Mixed Reality

+

2. Google Soli for hand gesture control

become low cost and developers release cool apps for them.
>It's up to us in the tech community to protect people from companies that use dark pattern behavior like Google.

Are you a self appointed privacy vigilante or were you elected by the people to protect them? Do you also protect people from Credit Card companies, ISP's, Cable Companies, e-Commerce sites and Cell Phone companies or are you just infatuated with Google?
Yes. Many management books and theories confuse correlation with causality.

Another common example, "Companies with happier employees are more successful." But perhaps causality is the other way, "Employees become happy when their companies succeed."
Culture yes, but also consequences.

The consequences for a failure in aviation, is often death, and this is probably why everyone is on their best behavior. Consequences for a failure in banking policy are less obvious.

I get the feeling that people don't regard wiping out someone's savings and destroying their retirement, as grave as death, and so profiteers will either consciously or subconsciously, use that as justification for their actions.
A timer EJB jar that reads and posts GitHub notifications, 1.1.0 released
I love popular math book recommendations, but that particular one gets pretty terrible reviews: http://www.ams.org/notices/200009/rev-gray.pdf
The window animations in Mac OS itself can make things feel very sluggish as well, although the velocity-based ones seem better with Sierra.
The longer time I spent programming, the more at least the functional paradigm (even within non-functional languages) made sense, mostly as a labor-saving device (like all things in programming) resulting in fewer bugs, easier modularity, easier unit testability, etc. etc.

Apparently I'm not alone, here's John Carmack's take on it after "trying it on" for a while in C++, he has some very strongly positive things to say about it: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functional...

You haven't listed the specific disadvantages of FP, one I noticed with a bit of dismay was that the code for a basic quicksort in functional languages looks like this (Elixir in this case: https://gist.github.com/rbishop/c742ab53b12efc162176) and is actually quite beautiful BUT performs fairly horribly. (It is rare for me to find code that looks this good/simple and yet is one of the worst-performing.) The same algorithm is also slow in Haskell (which is where I first saw it).

Some might cite the preponderance of recursion instead of looping as a fault or flaw (since the language implementation needs to then implement TCO in order to not trivially blow the stack... and the programmer needs to be AWARE of how to trigger TCO), but in practice I prefer it because a semantically-infinite-recursing process ends up being a "nicer" paradigm even if in actuality it's implemented underneath with a loop construct.
> he's more pro-union and pro-safety net than a typical Republican nominee.

That would be true if he had the first interest in actually governing. So far his approach appears to be "Hand off decisions to existing Republicans and talk shit on Twitter".
The subreddit /r/WhereIsAssange/ has been going on about it since he went offline around mid-October. Of course, the discussion there is mixed, and conversation is starting to turn towards him still being in the embassy.

The point being that it is possible that Wikileaks is compromised and that could explain the parent's observation of changed behavior.

Of course, this could just be noise too. -shrugs-
Is "passive data collection" close to what you want to say? Or "opt-out data collection"?
> I generally take a dim view of regulators, who generally seem to have less expertise than the people they're regulating.

The thing that always worries me is — if we try to prevent the "revolving door" whereby regulators hire from the industry they're regulating, then how will we ever have regulators who know what they're doing?
Trump was not a labor candidate and if there had been one in the race I think that candidate would have performed very well vs Clinton. Trump's strategy was successful mostly because he was allowed to continue unchallenged.

edit:
To clarify I meant that if there were a pro-labor candidate in the general election Trumps populist message would have been less effective.
>The idea that it's possible to overflow the governments secret lists is founded on the idea that the government cares if a list gets too long. I'm not sure that's the case.

It's not just about governments having extensive and precise information on us, it's anyone who might use it (i.e. hackers, insiders) for nefarious purposes.

Whether or not they "care" if the data is superfluous is unimportant, the goal is to make reliably narrowing down a target more time consuming.
This seperation of programmers to mindless programmers and somehow superior engineers is bullshit. You have to follow the best practices in whatever you do.
Is anyone actually mining this cryptocurrency? It seems a bit odd to say this is a proof of concept, without proving the concept by actually running the code. It might be happening somewhere, the topic just seemed avoided by the README.
A stub on the iterator interface would do it..but like I said..terrible use of testing
Blockchain vs. Fiat: A Confrontation of Ages
Intel also has their Compute Stick devices for people who need a full x86 PC in the same form factor. They're surprisingly inexpensive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Compute_Stick
Also totp hardware tokens suck (get out of sync) and totp smartphone apps suck because Android phones are so insecure/malware ridden.
i agree wholeheartedly, but the next comment by boona ("Considering it costs between $100 million to $1 billion to get a drug approved by the FDA (depending on the study you look at), I can see why they wouldn't touch it.") highlights the issue: profit is only an incentive to do it; the initial cost is there either way and somebody has to cover it. if it's not private companies, who would that be...?
Adobe Flash is directly built into Microsoft Edge, they collaborate on this. Chrome doesn't support ActiveX or NPAPI plugins either, and the Flash plugin also doesn't work with Chrome, because similarly to Edge, the Flash plugin is built directly into Chrome.

Also, Adobe Reader is a standalone program, you don't install it to embed in the browser. (Both Edge and Chrome can display PDF files natively.)

This has nothing to do with "recommended" apps. Chrome is pushed with Adobe Reader because Google pays them to do so. Similarly, McAfee pays to have their software installed with the Adobe Flash plugin installer.
On paper, yes. Consumer deleveraging lasted for a long while after the 'end' of the recession though. If people are paying off debt with their money, that doesn't really help grow the economy. Google 'debt deflation'
Just want to add, `unzip` from your terminal window can be used as well. If opening those gz's every month is a pain, you could handle it with something like: `unzip -r my_stuff_{1..99}.zip`
Bad: as in mostly for rent & food, forget about savings.

Details (if it matters): Country: France
Yearly salary before taxes : ~31000 euros
Using Samsung batteries might do it.

(I'll get me coat!)
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Stop worrying about an 'interesting tech stack'. Most development work in the world is decidedly unsexy. Watch the job market carefully over the next couple weeks and pick the most promising looking jobs (no more than say 5-10), research the companies and apply. Accept the best offer.

What you will find is that there's a lot about professional development that you need to learn yet. In time you will see your salary go up. Unless you live in one of the high cost, high salary areas like NYC, San Francisco or Seattle, you're not likely to see the crazy salaries you read about online.
They had five nines safety. Well, in the sense that Wernher von Braun asked each of his lieutenants in turn whether they could think of any reason the rocket wouldn't work, and the reply went "nein, nein, nein, nein, nein". Wish I could remember the source of this joke.
Can you cite where Android is a loss leader to drive traffic? Their Play store makes more than enough to fund Android development.
He's in Western Washington, but not too close to Seattle. To him it's "in the country" but it's right next to town. I live in a rural place, "in the country" means something entirely different to me.
Obligatory https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
Thanks for the plug, but just to clarify, while BOOM approaches the cycles/instruction of Intel's server cores, it does not approach their clock frequencies! Still, I'd say its competitive with the current mobile processor segment. =)
Speaking of Chuck Yeager, he's quite active on Twitter and has some really funny responses to random questions people send him.

https://twitter.com/GenChuckYeager

For those that don't know, he is a WWII P-51 Mustang fighter ace and famous test pilot. He was the first pilot to break the speed of sound. Really amazing guy.
You don't need that `cemerick.pomegranate` import. Boot can already do that - the `deps` functions should look like this:

(defn deps [the-deps]
(merge-env! :dependencies the-deps))
Thank you for the links
Belarus finally bans Tor
You're a recent grad and expect people to appreciate you and think highly of you before you've even started? Maybe the problem is your perception of how the world works.

This whole thing is a self-indulgent whine fest. You're not depressed because some people didn't offer you a gig that you think fits your imagined status and because you didn't take a shower in a few days. The fact you think depression is such a trivial thing says a lot.
checking for an insert into the database in the most general fashion is okay. checking for the exact dynamic data?? you are basically copying your code.
I really home recruiting at Amazon takes this comment to heart. They won't, because they're too busy milking the college newgrad pipieline and that looks fat and happy, but experienced engineers in general won't work or even interview for Amazon. You get the naive people, everyone who knows better stays far away.
Mind to share a trace route to such destinations?
Until you factor in employee turnover costs... Amazon spends an enormous number of man-hours and resources recruiting to backfill and has thousands of open job listings un-filled. It would be difficult to argue that they are saving money at the end of the day by crimping benefits and salary at the expense of employee loyalty.
If you debug math for a while, you get similar skills in recognizing the decimal versions of factors like 1/(2 pi) and 1/e. You get a little tingle: that looks familiar ...

Sometimes it can save a lot of time chasing down constant factors.
Apparently he will delete his youtube account tomorrow 5pm GMT in protest to the latest round of youtubes suggestion changes.

https://twitter.com/pewdiepie/status/806981139399405569
I agree, it's one of the most unusual and great movies of the eighties. The book is good, but the movie stands on its own, and while it's factually based on the book, it's quite not the same in spirit.
> Office 2010

Why would FIPPA affect Office versions past 2010? 2013, 2015 and 2016 are available as standalone (non-365 subscription) versions, and regardless of your purchase model (subscription, retail, volume, etc) you can still store documents locally.
Completely agree with you. I fly tons for work, and was just fine until I got into my mid-late twenties when I started to have horrible anxiety.

And like you, I don't necessarily fear death, but I definitely don't want to see death coming. More than anything, I fear helplessness.