skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article goes out of its way to mention 'regrettable employee turnover' which is a polite way to identify the group "people who left you wanted to stay" vs "people who left and you are happy with it." However, that requires that you also understand the impact of an employee on the organization.

There are people who have been "let go" because their manager had no idea what they actually did, and that caused a huge impact on the organization overall. There are people who have been "retained" because their manager felt they were key to the success of the group/project but didn't realize the toxic impact they were having on the organization.

These are the "inverted" cases where you really need to keep the person having high impact and manage out or move the person who is creating stress on the rest of the team.
Even the Impressionists, regarded as pleasing wallpaper now, were originally considered outside the realm of serious painting. That's not going all the way back to the cave of Altimira, but still...
Leaking something to the press is an entirely different class of failure than a technical screw up.
The "logic" probably goes that somebody with internet access is well-off enough to not need food assistance.

(Internet access still being seen as a luxury rather than a necessity to participate in modern society/economy.)
4 reasons Microsoft Teams will kill Slack… and 4 reasons it won’t
For the overwhelming majority of people, it would just lead to alert fatigue, where users start ignoring the alerts because 99% of the time they're not actually indicative of a problem.
German data protection laws do not offer as much privacy as you think, not when it comes to the state in fact many of them mandate data collection and retention requirements even when it's not needed or wanted.

They also offer very little visibility to what is collected.

Sure data cannot be easily shared or exported but this doesn't increase privacy as much as you think of at all, in fact it can hinder it.
The sad thing is she has to say this to appease her public sector clientele that still holds to the believe that life benefits tied to 'jobs' are the only way to keep the unruly masses under control.
First of all thank you for making Nylas Mail, keeping it both free and open source. It takes courage to have such a free client competing with your commercial product. Also, thanks for developing the backend within Nylas Mail so a user can easily run the client without depending on a backend with SMTP/IMAP credentials hosted within the USA.

Have you considered an iOS or Android version client? Why?

Is the backend within Nylas Mail still in Python? Isn't this inefficient, performance wise?
High wind usually disrupts mine.
> My example here is Instagram, a company of a dozen staff or so when acquired, is the digital replacement of photo labs in every city.

While not trying to dispute your main point, I hardly think Instagram replaces all of what photo labs do, such as large size prints, professional correction, and specialty products such as cards and books. There are other companies online that do compete in these spaces though. I think most labs are probably getting by with their services targeted towards professionals, who want a bit more accountability than they are likely to get using a large service. That may just mean a semi-large to large lab though, so small labs likely have a hard time of it.
It also absolutely would create fatigue, I don't know why WhitneyLand thinks it wouldn't.
>I'm sure some of her subordinates could

Where do you think CEOs get their information from?
free maybe. The real point being that it is one that works. A big part of the financial but also the entreprisey world in general have never left the 80s/90s. The idea of scale does not exist.
No, keep it.
> Wealthy chinese are often upset at hearing criticism of a communist dictatorship with an atrocious human rights record - but they don't want to live there themselves if they can avoid it.

Yes. I agree with this part. I try not to "waste benefits of western civilization" by engaging in meaningful discussions on topics like this. Unfortunately I have my own circumstances that forbid me from going back. Also, I find your tone quite intimating. Since you already figured out that these "wealthy Chinese" people are hypocrites, why not accept the fact for what it is and move on with your own life. It is not like they are going to follow your call to action.
I said isn't just, meaning you need both.

XMPP was a tower built too tall and wide and it crumbled under its own optiomal extension weight.

Just bridges mean you are still selling your soul to a primary operator, which prevents trust.

Federation and bridges without extension hell means you can use whatever homeserver you want, bridge to whatever you need to, and finally have working interoperable IM.
So if TDP is a measure, given in wattage, of thermal dissipation of a CPU under a typical load. Why can't I simply assume double that value for a CPU's actual power consumption under heavy load?

I mean, using that logic the max power consumption for the same six core processor Atwood tested would be around 280 watts. A number only 40 watts higher than his for heavy load. Too bad I used "false information" to reach such a usable number.

Now if the actual power consumption was double that, I'd definitely be berating Intel. But alas, no.
I definitely see this happening on the left as well (with identity politics). Makes sense that the response on the right follows suit.
More corporate propaganda where they leave out the key details and don't address easy questions.

Much like IBM's bullshit 25,000 jobs PR stunt this one has no substance besides the empty words of a suit who will do anything to increase revenue.
Lifting the curse of stringly-typed code
> we had issues with people stealing cups before the pot was done (don't do this).

That's some amazingly annoying and inconsiderate behavior. We had the same problem at one place where I worked, so when the coffee pot was low I had to not only make a fresh pot, but then stand watch over it while it was brewing.
Another example in this vein is Henry Ford's $5 work day – wages dramatically above then-market rates prompted outrageous enthusiasm and loyalty from workers.

http://www.henryford150.com/5-a-day/
>I don't know if Finland does it as well, but this completely ignores how US tax brackets work. There's never a point where going up a tax bracket means you'd take home less money than you would have before your raise.

False. Capital gains rate, many tax credits phased out, etc.
Right on the money with the "Real World" anecdote.

We do penetration tests for a wide range of clients across many industries. I would say that the bigger the company, the more childish flaws we find. For sure the complexity, scale, and multiple systems do not help towards having a good security posture , but never assume that because you are auditing a SWIFT backend you will not find anything that can lead to direct compromise.

Maybe not surprisingly, most startups that we work with have a better security posture than F500 companies. They tend to use the latest frameworks that do a good job of protecting against the standard issues, and their relatively small attack landscape doesn't leave you with much to play.

Of course there are exceptions.
And Donald Trump too I guess...
For me, it still mostly comes down to usability. A big part of it is probably that I just have more experience with Photoshop, and if I really forced myself to use The GIMP more, it might grow on me... But when I am working in Photoshop I always feel incredibly productive, where as whenever I have to use The GIMP, I feel like the interface is constantly fighting against me, trying to keep me from getting my work done.
Apple's App Store continues to pay developers more than Google Play
The $5 Day (Henry Ford)
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So smartphones? I thinking looking at this from the point of view of a single product category is too simplistic and likely inaccurate. A better way of looking at this may be "one new ecosystem of jobs is replacing another".

If you look at it this way, it's possible that the new ecosystem is just as big in terms of number of jobs.

I think a bigger problem may be that the pace of change is accelerating and people used to sticking to a job for a decade or longer may find themselves having to do more drastic career changes every few years.
For context, Accenture has been criticizing blockchains for their immutability. [1] [2] [3] So I would not take anything coming from them seriously.

[1] Downside of Bitcoin: A Ledger That Can’t Be Corrected: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/10/business/dealbook/downside...

[2] EDITING THE UNEDITABLE BLOCKCHAIN (PDF) https://www.accenture.com/t20160927T033514__w__/us-en/_acnme...

[3] Accenture Launches A Way To Edit Blockchains: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomgroenfeldt/2016/10/06/accentu...
There's a lot believers in technological unemployment here on HN and one thing I think that viewpoint misses is just how darn resilient humans are to changes in the economy. In the past 150 years, we've seen human manual labor replaced by mechanical labor. Think about that -- a lot of early California settlers walked here, and now you're commanding power roughly equivalent to 100 horses when you hop into your car. Agricultural employment went from 90%+ of the population to ~1% over a few generations. People using computers at work went from less than 1% to complete ubiquity in 30 years. And against all of this, unemployment is still near its target rate. Is the large scale rollout of predictive algorithms really a bigger wave than those that have come previously?
I'm wondering how useful deriving functions yourself is in the age of computers. I feel like knowing axioms about the mathematical structure you're dealing with and how to do proofs is very important, but it always struck me as odd that were still stepping through complex applied maths functions manually in pen and paper. Programmers don't bother say, writing our own hashtable implementation more than a handful of times in our lives, do we? Does forgetting how to derive hashtables mean we won't know how to use them effectively?

Genuine question - more than happy to be proven wrong.
Honest question: what would you use 64GB of RAM for? I rarely use half of the 16GB I have in my MacBook.
They probably have to do their due diligence to get it back or they are held liable. Who knows though.
Plenty of people on the left were talking about it, but they live in highly populated states (CA, NY) where their vote counts for a lot less.
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A society is more than its government.
One widely-used system is Higher Order Logic (with various extensions sometimes), one core of which you can find here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hol/files/hol/kananaskis-10/...

This is based on type theory (and has a model in set theory), but isn't as powerful as the logics used in Coq and similar theorem provers (the Calculus of (Inductive) Constructions).

You might be interested in metamath: http://us.metamath.org/, which lists the axioms used in its largest body of work: http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/mmset.html#axioms
It does, since 2010.

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-i...
If your threat model is the government compelling Facebook, then you should be using a different product that's geared specifically towards security, such as Signal. WhatsApp is a mass-market product aimed at the whole world, which means it makes different tradeoffs, providing a less comprehensive threat model in favor of higher usability. And that's a perfectly fine thing for this app to do.
"Legitimate" is not the right word for this. "Feasible" is more correct.

Set the video as hidden and it bypasses content checks, but you can still share a direct link to the video, thereby taking advantage of YT's infrastructure to spread porn.
This thread seems to suggest that the big barrier is energy. The reason why natural gas and petroleum are used as feedstocks for the manufacture of plastic on earth is precisely because using them reduces the required energy input. The thread is also a good source of a few interesting links.

http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=6970

In terms of having enough output from a material standpoint, the requirement is still mostly energy. It would require a lot of energy to move enough CO2 through the plant.
I believe this was actually the case, Arkane Studios was contracted to work on a Half-Life title before they were purchased by ZeniMax
2015 was the absolute pinnacle for Apple devices. The 6S is amazing. Semi water-resistant, headphone jack, fast NVME storage, fast processor, 3D touch, good movement coprocessor..

Likewise the 13" (not sure about the 15") Pro is an absolutely joy. 10-14h battery life, good screen, good keyboard, normal size trackpad, no touchbar, magsafe..
They talk about "reconciliation". Is this the practice of moving actual money following a bank-to-bank transfer of money? Or is this strictly an auditing function? Any bankers want to comment on this?
Alt-F + W will save your file back to the original file.

(or File menu + "Overwrite {filename}". I complain a lot about GIMP's UI but I don't really see a problem here.
Well, speaking of software… I assume LaTeX-to-HTML is the reason this formatting is so horrendously screwed up? It’s even mirrored in your copy-pasted text (“the  rst time”, “ She exh orted me:” “any ofour friends”, etc).
I tried Safari and Chrome and got the same result, and had to read the PDF instead.
My take: it's a human means of systematically exploring implications of already accepted beliefs.

There are implicit and explicit forms of it.

The implicit form is something our brains do automatically and is a consequence of its structure. Perhaps the way it models things intrinsically does not allow for what we would call contradicting statements (though it contains many separate models which if unified would contain contradictions); then, the space of desirable implications is narrowed by a motivation to find a certain kind of implication (i.e. there is typically a goal when engaging in reasoning—we aren't often indifferently interested in all implications) combined with the fact that contradictions aren't allowed. It seems like implications are usually discovering that some entity belongs to a class it wasn't previously known to belong to, at which point it inherits the attributes of other things in that class.

The explicit forms seem like attempts to model the implicit form in mathematical language, in order to bring logical processes more under control of conscious thought, or 'executive function' (plus reasoning on paper extends working memory). It seems possible that with the 'correct' formulation, a logic could viewed as a theoretical science describing properties of the structure of the human brain that give rise to reasoning.
There are no "data" in this post -- just "citation needed" assertions that, even if true, are skewed to tech giants in the Bay area, Seattle, and maybe NY finance scene. These numbers are easily the 90th or greater percentile of software engineering compensation. If you want rigorous random-sample survey data, look at the Bureau of Labor Statistics - Occupational Employment Statistics. The median software developer salary is around $100k ($65k for web developers - don't call yourself a web developer!), and $150k is 90th percentile. (However these don't include equity.)

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151132.htm

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151133.htm

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151134.htm
The fivethirtyeight R package
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intelligence and mental fluidity to weather hardships

You weather hardships with money. What's with this four-minute-man talk?
Tech never creates as many jobs as it destroys buy it doesn't have to. When there were less farming the economy compensated by creating manufacturing jobs so I don't think that the worst case scenario is a given, at least in the reasonably foreseeable future
Why minimum wage is bad, illegal immigrants are good and ticket scalping is fine
The discussion was around trustworthy data, so I think they want proof that a page served up and stored was in fact the actual page served up and stored, for later audit. HTTP doesn't give you that. Bittorrent doesn't give you that. But blockchain can, if you pay a fractional coin to store the hash of the page in the chain forever. With a reference to the page and to the transaction, you can then later determine whether the page is intact or has been modified. And for bonus points a signature could be stored as well.
That was a wise decision. The LibreOffice team have essentially been doing the same thing.
If a malicious party successfully attacked the Nylas auth servers, how much of my email data would they be able to get? All of it?
employee turnover is why enterprises rarely build any useful software and have to buy startups to more forward

projects or operations with fragmented continuity because of turnover contribute near zero additional value and existing value decays quickly over time - each time a role is replaced more knowledge is lost - to the point the project is permanently on life support

paying people more and more to stay isn't enough - you also have to remove all the oxygen stealing layers of bureaucracy to create a bearable working environment - but that isn't usually possible in an enterprise as everyone senior tries to avoid being responsible for anything which almost always leads to more management and compliance layers until someone soils the bed over cost

I take my hat off to Microsoft over the last couple of years - what those guys (Scott Guthrie?) have done with .NET, SQL etc. appears, from the outside, to have reversed that trend
You can argue that any limitation is simply due to the feature being mislabeled, but in this case it seems pretty clear what people both expect this feature to do as currently named, and that happens to match what people also seem to want, and that would include changing the viewport to make certain you actually get the desktop site functionality.
Banks spending billions on complex technical processes could save billions if they replace those systems with a new system and you ignore all costs associated with implementing and running that system. Well yes, but..
I stand corrected, thanks for the info!
AWS Lambda time/cost comparison across CPU levels
So don't put the stuff you want to protect this way in your home directory, but somewhere else, and symlink the relevant directories to your home directory.
Maybe it is a poor example, but I don't understand how IndexedDB and WebCrypto have anything to do with a distributed chat system like Slack.

For a system where I can join a channel at any time and see what's been said in the past, the information has to live on their servers and be readable. Even more so if you want to be able to search for something someone said across your entire Slack account. You aren't going to have all of that data local to your machine and browser.
There should be some further study in this area. I'm skeptical of the quoted costs of replacing employees and missed productivity ie.. 213%. Not to mention replacing poor performers can often be a value gain not loss. About cost, we're talking managers' time - but maybe hiring is most valuable thing they can be spending time on, other than directly generating revenue.
I actually really like it. It's funny how many Electron apps I have been using lately:
- Visual Studio Code
- Hyper Terminal
- Nylas Mail
- Slack
- Whatsapp Desktop
- ...
As a founder, how do you know when the right time is to leave/quit/sell your company?
> Another example - the default shortcut for "Show / hide docks" is Tab, which is also the shortcut to cycle between tools.

Not anymore.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=52ad5bb2a11e39f...
If You Can’t Empathize with Your Employees, You’d Better Learn To
Wherever a scapegoat is needed it always seems to be the foreigners and immigrants first to be fingered.
I theory you could add a BIOS password, turn off booting from USB, sign your Grub bootloader, import the signing key, use full disk LUKS (including boot) via the Grub-Luks unlocking module (you need a key for your partition in your initrd too if you don't want to enter your password twice) and enable TPM.

In that setup, even if someone stole your laptop, it would be unusable, short of opening it up and fully resetting the BIOS/UEFI to its factory state, correct?

(My laptop has full-disk LUKS, a BIOS/UEFI password and doesn't boot from USB, but I still have TPM disabled and haven't signed my Grub bootloader yet.)
I think part of what drives your view on this is a particular idea of what a "job" is. It's likely that the meaning, in aggregate, will shift somewhat over time.

Another way to look at it is that some people like working, and find having a job fulfilling, regardless of whether it pays the bills or not (many senior people get simple jobs after retiring because they like it).

If we think of a "job" as a means for acquiring the resources for happiness (all too often money for basic needs, but also often a feeling of advancement and status among peers), then it's not something we necessarily want to do away with. It may be that it's less based on money and more on some other capital (social?) instead though.
Says your societal norm.
Well, it's subjective of course, maybe I should have said "the things I liked about Opera". Those "dry" configuration dialogs that always seemed to go that extra mile, for example. I doubt Vivaldi is ever going to reach that level again, and their other offerings aren't even trying.
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it does work. I just tried it.

#> watch -n 1 dmesg &
#> fg -- brought it back
Why is wealthy chinese in scare quotes? You have to be very wealthy by PRC standards to relocate in a western country to study or work. Think about what percentage of Americans (3.5-4 times the GDP per capita of china) could afford to relocate to relocate to a country with a much higher cost of living like Australia.

My call to action is not intended for overseas chinese. It is to make westerners think about the reality of the situation.
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