skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think his go-to "how did you handle layoffs" interview question is interesting and probably a good heuristic, but I would think that a discussion of individual firings rather than mass layoffs would provide a better data point for evaluating managers.

Layoffs are bad if they involve a lot of people, no question about it, especially if there's been a sense of dread around them for the days/weeks leading into the announcement. But at the end of the day, "we're laying you off" means one or more of: "our business is not healthy enough to support the team we think we need" and/or "we made a poor managerial decision and mistakenly hired a whole bunch of the wrong people" and/or "the nature of our business is changing and we don't need you to do what you currently do".

Telling people they don't have a job sucks, but it's a lot harder to fire individuals for underperformance, especially if they've been trying hard and don't want to go....they like their jobs and they don't want to deal with the finality of "we don't want you to work here anymore, $name."
What is the budget for hardware?

What is the budget for power?

How many flops are required?
EDIT: I included natural gas in the total generation mix. That's my mistake.

I don't discount additional natural gas coming online; that's a good thing. It throttles faster than nuclear and coal, and produces far less CO2 than coal generation. Natural gas is almost a requirement as renewables scale up until batteries for utility scale storage have dropped in price to be competitive. This is already happening: Tesla is contracting with several utilities to replace their natural gas peaker plants with battery storage substations.

http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=25172

"Electric generating facilities expect to add more than 26 gigawatts (GW) of utility-scale generating capacity to the power grid during 2016. Most of these additions come from three resources: solar (9.5 GW), natural gas (8.0 GW), and wind (6.8 GW), which together make up 93% of total additions. If actual additions ultimately reflect these plans, 2016 will be the first year in which utility-scale solar additions exceed additions from any other single energy source."
There's a 40" UHD Samsung television for $300 again at Best Buy[1]

[1] http://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-40-class-40-diag--led-21...
> This is a 'want' not a 'need'.

This is probably subjective, but I at least feel much more productive when working with big screens. Every once in a while I prefer to have a couple of windows side by side - for comparison, for monitoring, etc. To me it's much easier to look on the side of the screen rather than flipping windows with keyboard.

To me, 4k isn't too much at all.
SF blasts Uber, Lyft for downtown traffic congestion
>Just because you have the /power/ to block their ads has nothing to do with the morality.

Sure, but one should probably have to start with making the argument for there being a moral burden incurred when sending a digital message to another persons computer that says "what have you got sitting there?" that requires the person to then execute everything they receive.

>Don't you think it is in your interest for these publishers to survive? It sometimes seems as if people are spending hours and hours reading these publications but have nothing but scorn for them, cheering their demise.

I don't think you necessarily need to be cheering to be fine with their demise. As for their heavy use? It's effectively dead time. I might read a lot of crap on the internet but if not that I'd be watching some tv show I don't really care about or doing a crossword or watching a bug on a wall. It's not high value entertainment it's something to do to make doing nothing slightly less boring.
Reputation doesn't work well enough because of ads. I think that's the gist of the complaint here.

Ads means otherwise reputable websites serve malware. Even when the ads themselves are trustworthy, they very often do not have acceptable security practices, preventing interception.
I don't think it is morally right for a majority to enact legislation that targets a select group of people negatively. The extreme metaphor is two wolves and sheep voting on what to eat for dinner.

Many people realize that such legislation would benefit them, but don't feel justified in depriving another individual of their property.
"Every measure of a good developer is qualitative. That makes them all subjective."

^ This post scratches the surface on a timely and relevant question many teams face, but the author seems to throw hands up and say everything is subjective.

Our work suggests otherwise: https://blog.gitprime.com/check-in-frequency-and-codebase-im...
Yeah. Well, maybe having AntimalwareServiceExecutable use 50% of the 2.2GHz 2 core CPU constantly will help with that? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't know. I mostly use Linux. But when I do have to use windows, I like windows 10.
That's the general industry definition. Here's the ones I've learned (I have a CTO title, but I don't believe it is well issued)

Junior Developer isn't an insult, it's just someone who may need about 1/3 of your time to showing them around.

A "Developer" without Junior or Senior should require 1 day out of 14 for advice/assistance.

A Senior Developer should only require assistance when the building is on fire.
This is QI - Philosopher Alain De Botton's take on the new industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKvOW6RwmFg
Indeed, growing up on a pirate ship might make one an excellent sailor in the Navy as well.
> This is a 'want' not a 'need'.

You are absolutely correct. Strictly speaking, he doesn't need a monitor at all. He has a new Macbook Pro. It's got a monitor attached which is just dandy.

As an overly privileged software developer, I like to have lots of stuff on the same screen. It's also a lot easier to navigate a giant SQL schema diagram when you can have a much larger chunk of it on the screen at once.

>How far do you sit from the screen? What's it's effect on your eyes?

I stand at a normal distance from the monitor. It's essentially like having 4 1080p monitors stacked 2x2. At that size the dpi is approximately the same. There isn't any difference in eye strain.
Sorry, but there actually are people who admit to writing fake news: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503...
If it served a useful purpose in the first place, yes. And if it were properly documented and didn't cripple certain areas of functionality (and probably hurt performance a bit, but I don't yet have a system to measure this with).
> Read three books on a topic and you know more about it than 99% of the world.

This.
Then knowing algorithms and data structures would be intermediate -> senior?
Yeah, that whole ongoing saga is very unfortunate. Also very illustrative. Reading between the lines, my take is that AMD senior management are a bunch of generic MBA types optimising for higher profit in the present (Windows gaming market) by stealing from the future (HPC & server segments + growing niches like ML ---> Linux and open standards, in other words).

It makes zero sense for them to place increasingly large bets on proprietary drivers when they're clearly not the market incumbent.
Farming could go on without fertilizer, heavy machinery, gasoline for said machinery, for sure...and yields would go down, indeed very much by "a bit". Definitely "a bit" for some definition of a "a bit". I mean if you want to argue a pre-1900 lifestyle is sustainable without all that then I agree...

The point about cities seems quite backwards to me: cities are places where enough enough wealth is produced and enough economies of scale are available that the routine-but-necessary chores can be farmed out to professionals, taking advantage of specialization and the division of labor.

Given the generally increasing returns on density it isn't surprising that most cities have grown to the point that the mundane chores need dedicated professional staff to keep things running, but what of it?

It's also very foreign to see "a government" as some kind of abstract entity at the municipal level, where it's going to be (almost) entirely comprised of other people in your own city of residence.

So trying to put some kind of bright line between something like a volunteer rural fire department on one side and a full-time, professional fire department on the other side seems silly and artificial: they're both local organizational strategies to provide for certain highly useful services, but different resource availability leads to different strategies.

If that isn't clear, saying "the government doesn't do much for them" when we're talking municipal or at most county government is silly to me because--especially at the municipal level--they are their own government in a way you can't fairly say for state and federal level government. So in that light "the government doesn't do all that much for them" is just pointing out that they don't do those things to the same extent--or with the same level of organization--as is done elsewhere (without getting into how much of that is (not) done by choice, and how much is not done due to lack of resources to go beyond ad-hoc, volunteer-driven collectives and coops).

Anyways, you aren't as bad of a "rural pride" fellow as the commenter who has somehow come to believe that the ag sector is somehow exporting trillions each year (it's not) and that it's the biggest export (it's not and it's not even close), and that is more the kind of delusional self-importance I find rather grating.
I wish to thank the dedicated people who make this happen. I'm forced to use Apple hardware at work, but thankfully can run whatever OS I choose. Here's to the crazy ones.
Yay! More pride of ignorance...
> [...] or did show you near a protest, family planning clinic, etc.

I agree that people relying on the argument from gov't ineptitude are making a gamble-- and one that history of technological development tells us is incredibly risky.

But doesn't the fundamental danger depend on those activities or locations being viewed by society as suspicious in the first place? Also, doesn't the contingent danger of wide-surveillance thrive mainly off of the asymmetry of access to its inferences? Isn't an activist who speaks publicly about their struggle with bipolar disorder and builds a strong support group inherently safer than one who only tells a wide-net surveillance database?
I agree that ultrawides are a great option. I have a 29" LG and I'm very happy with it, wouldn't hesitate to buy another one.
Your analogy is pretty and while I agree with the sentiment I disagree with the scenario presented. I am glad I don't remember everything, yes, clearly perfect memory would be a burden. Rather I am frustrated by my lack of violation, I am not making a conscious choice to remember or forget; the decision is made for me by my flawed existence. The inability to exercise my will and make a meaningful decision over what I remember frustrates me.

That you think life is short is merely because you've forgotten most of it. When you stare at an analog clock, the seconds feel like long eternity.
I had megabit cable modem in 1998. It was nice. (:
This is exactly what I've been using for a while now, and was hoping something better already existed in ES6. Great to know there is!

FWIW, this is supported in the newest Chrome as well.
China has a long way to go for sure. It's just that I do get the impression that the Chinese government is pushing clean energy not just for show. If any place can do massive changes in just one or two decades, it's (atm) China. And since they currently need to find ways to become a fully developed nation with high tech exports anyway, energy tech certainly seems like a good bet. That's why I'm more worried about the US - yes the numbers currently point to China first, but in the US all indicators in the government point to the wrong direction.
I love you. This is what I needed in my life.
"Algotrading" generally refers to execution algorithms only, despite popular culture's interpretation.

When the funds portfolio is decided based on a system your fund is systematic. It's an important distinction.
I should apologize. My comment was a dishonest smear but not one motivated by fake news, just dislike for the man; he is merely very, very left-wing. He doesn't seem to desire seizing the means of production, just vastly inflating government services and calling everyone a racist for no reason.
A link that may change your perspective on electric cars: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/how-tesla-will-change-your-lif...
I don't recall the titles, but I remember at a bank recruiting event at my college they basically laid out the career tracks and were upfront about how you needed to quack to reach them.

In informal settings, they also talked about other things as well. If you're driving a civic, you will not be a VP.
Google images: “happy white american man” returns only african americans
Every morning, I start my day by loading a bunch of news sites I enjoy reading and look at the top couple of headlines. If something piques my interest, I read it.

My news sources: NYT, BBC, CBC, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star. I'm Canadian, as you might be able to tell.

Sometimes I read what Brookings puts out, but it's important to keep in mind their biases as a think tank.
This makes no sense what do they think would happen if Uber and Lyft went away????
you should get in touch with @beeps of Kubernetes. There has been quite a few discussions on replacing the iptables based Service architecture of k8s with something like Ingress (ingress-all-the-way).

Your work could be perfectly integrated into k8s
I managed to get answer from one of such downvoters: "I don't know, but it looks contradictory to general knowledge, so I downvoted you".

I hope, it will help.

If you have high IQ but lazy at explaining of basic things for regular Joe, regular Joe will downvote you, because he cannot follow you nor discuss with you.

At work, to check is my explanation is simple enough, I play a challenging game while thinking (I use sopwith, my IQ is about 140): if I'm able to think and play at same time, then my brain has some power to spare, so it is simple enough for people with IQ about 120. If not, then they will not be able to follow me. I use that technique for almost decade. Works well at work, when I have time to explain, e.g. in comments to tickets, emails, and so on.
For me personally, the randomness works. Anyhow I was doing the same thing manually before. If I have something in mind than it's different thing.
Macintosh Portable: Used in Space Shuttle
United States 1,068.4 Gigawatt

It doesn't make sense to include natural gas. We added 15GW of renewable energy to our 1068 GW. We really need to do a lot better. Your optimism is unfounded.
nothing for 10,000 years - however long ago they built it.
Why NASA is crashing Cassini, a 20-year-old spacecraft, into Saturn
Surprise virus in child mummy unravels thousands of years of disease history
I'm not sure to what extent exactly, but iirc they instrument APIs and pass them through IPC. It may not really be the best example, for some reason it popped into my head but maybe it was an incorrect assumption.
It depends on your definition of reliability. Is driving a car reliable? There's no way of knowing it will crash but that doesn't stop you from getting in one.

You see it as a problem, if you are used to the idea of earning money instead of taking money I get that angle. But to investors it's not a problem but a fact of life.
Daily telegraph has recently switched to a stronger freemium model with a lot of premium content only visible to subscribers.
But OP is talking about TV:

> To be clear, I’m mostly talking about following TV and internet newscasts here

Title is clickbaity, but that's not any commenter's fault.
It is easier to imagine a world where VR based MMO sex games dominate the market, aka Clusterfuck(tm). Entertainment tends to take priority over utilitarian spending because people are ultimately selfish. Adult entertainment has historically been at the forefront in adopting new tech.
Well, Omni-Path has a 48 port switch ASIC. So that's it for consumer accessibility.

But if you want to buy the PCI Express cards, Newegg has 'em. Intel has a great channel organization.
What precisely is SF's theory here re: congestion? Previously taxis would circle streets much less efficiently than a smartphone-hailed pickup. Also they wouldn't pool rides anywhere nearly as effectively. So if they're seeing more traffic on the road, what's the cause?

Has there been population growth of riders? That wouldn't be Uber/Lyft's fault. In fact they may have handled the growth more efficiently than just putting more traditional taxis on the road.

Are riders shifting from public transit to rideshares? That would be Uber/Lyft's fault. But also public transit's.

Is it that more availability has lowered the wait times vs taxis? That would definitely be Uber/Lyft's fault. But it also makes riding a much nicer experience, saves riders a lot of time, etc.
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-biased-is-your-media/

I think the PBS Newshour has them beat. NPR's Morning Edition is slightly more liberal.
Perhaps they think people would switch to public transit like buses or Caltrain.
No Middle Road: The Growth of Electric Vehicles and Their Impact on Oil
Evolutionary Neural Networks
TensorFlow-backed Evolutionary Neural Networks.

Simulate a population of neural networks as individuals and evolve their structure to find your optimal mix.

Written in pure Python and TensorFlow. Also buggy as hell considering I wrote it in an afternoon.

Enjoy
Obviously anything non-trivial. Lately i've been mixing version control with various things that haven't gotten that feature yet.
Blame OJ Simpson and that fucking white Bronco.

That started this era of nonsensical analysis and up to the second coverage of random car chases, progressed to constant updates about other random things, and then the 9/11 ticker sent it to the moon.
If they weren't bad enough mistakes to remember, how much can they really matter?
The whole point is that there might be more effective alternatives. It's not rational to argue that the alternatives are bad because of things that can happen (in extremes) when the proposed alternatives are not used.
Ask HN: What Unix tools are unfarily ignored, in your opinion?
So last week there was this thread about GNU Expect.

I can tell, a tool i recently discovered is GNU info and info-based documentation. Way better than manpages, more thorough, more easily browseable.

Wha tool do you think is unfairly ignored or underappreciated ?
Oh and to answer you question about Inifiniband, I think the previous poster might be referring to this: http://i.imgur.com/2ciM4qy.png

It's also why I figure Infiniband would be a likely acquisition if Nvidia wanted to head in that direction (i.e. GPU to GPU networking a.k.a NVRAM RDMA).
Calling it "alternative energy" always strikes me as a bit silly. It's an alternative source, the energy stays the same.

From my limited research into energy sources, both solar and wind seem like good short-term goals. The fundamental problems with both seems to be that it's not viable in many locations and it's not steady or predictable. With the space craze that has started developing in the last few years, I'm hopeful people will open up more to the idea of nuclear power. Nuclear is our only path to the stars!

The article left me with more questions than answers. How do they define being a "leader in alternative energy", and why is it important? They don't provide enough evidence to prove this is the case. How do their efforts compare to other countries around the world? What effects would we expect this have on the host country? e.g. improved economy, quality of life, etc.?
Could you elaborate on which various things? Interested to know
Their theory is spelled out pretty clearly in the article. There are 1800 taxicabs permitted to operate in the city and many more Ubers/Lyfts.

The fact that people who use Uber and Lyft have to wait less is nice for them, but not so nice if the extra cars for hire circling for fares results in slower commutes for public transit users.
For political articles it's good practice to read the "Talk" page in addition, I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Syrian_Civil_War

It's worth noting that Wikipedia has collectively decided to call this conflict a "civil war", which is in itself a political judgment. There is mention in the lead paragraph of the other term being used to describe the Syrian conflict, which is "proxy war". I would prefer if this page were called something more neutral, maybe just "Syrian Conflict of 2011".
M1: Each CPU has four memory channels, each node has 16 DIMMs (8/CPU, 2 DIMMs/channel) which means that you can use 1 DIMM per channel -> maximum memory bandwith and speed with RDIMMs. Using 64GB or 128GB LRDIMMs with E5v4 CPUs won't affect your bandwith or speed as long as you populate all the channels.[0]

Your memory options are:

1TB - 16x64GB / 8x128GB

2TB - 16x128GB

[0] - SuperMicro X10DRT-PT Motherboard manual page 35(2-13).
Answering the phone when it rings. Not so much old clients, but new clients are consistently impressed with this. A lot of our competitors don't answer and some don't even have voice mail.
These types of things have, historically, been terrible investments.
The Enquirer was bullshit news, not fake. They always sourced their stories and were often sued, but rarely lost.
And by complete coincidence, they now have a lot more to get people riled up about (and more clicks to sell) for the next four years.
The programmer competency matrix:

http://sijinjoseph.com/programmer-competency-matrix/
Very interesting. I always thought that climate change is a tough problem because it requires cooperation, but that some uber-billionaire might say, "I'll write the 100 billion dollar check to make this happen" (Assuming an expensive technical solution exists without a good short term P&L) It would be the ultimate legacy for them. "I was the one that saved the planet" I worried that it may be too big for one fortune. It looks like several may be required.
This seems really cool. It can be pretty unintuitive sometimes which activation function(s) to choose.
The same story has been in the top 10 on HN for 2 hours.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13155146

How does a duplicate go straight to #1?
Urban Homelessness Done Right
The women scientists who took India into space
You quit FB so that you could read a shitload more of news?
Junior Dev: knows how to do stuff ... in a way, kinda. Hopefully asks a lot of questions.

Mid. Dev: Knows Best Practices and how to implement them. Knows what questions to ask.

Experienced Dev: Understands why best practices are best practices. Can give insightfull answers.

Senior Dev: Pushes the boundaries of best practices and when to ignore them. Questions him/herself a lot.

And then there are D. Knuth level developers which I still have to figure out.
That's the definition my work uses.

A critical differentiator is understanding not only the technical side of things but the business and politics of getting a project completed.

In essence a junior can give you a widget, an intermediate can give you an application and a senior can give you a satisfied customer.
One client used autocad. We re-built it in javascript/html, then added version contol and reports.
No one caught it, that's all. Dupe ^
With 16 points in 4 minutes no less.
I was just in SF for the first time and couldn't believe that the public transit was painfully loud.

We switched to Uber because of how uncomfortable the transit ride was. For all the hand-wringing over too many cars, they might consider quieting the metro.
Or you could be writing smaller checks trying to colonize Mars ;) Just teasing, cooperation would be necessary from humanity as a whole.
Telling someone, "or maybe you should learn JavaScript" is kind a really jerky way of saying, "you don't know what you're doing". I do think it was a terrible way to share knowledge. Yet it was an excellent way to say, "I know more than you".
Recalculating: New Directions at Vanhawks (YC W15)