skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I think there's a balance here. One of my favorite managers also didn't understand my project (although he did understand software engineering in general) and I later found out everyone else hated him. I've seen what I suspect is similar later: managers who just see their job as defending their team. Someone needs something from the team? Push back. Their teams needs something? Hound those responsible. Team has an opinion? It's undisputed truth now. No ability to mediate or help with the bigger picture. Just like a lawyer for their employees.

What you need is someone who will take care of the employees and jump on grenades of distraction so they can focus on their job. But you also have to have enough context to step back and say, "hmm... doing this would be best for the greater good - my team should take a look at this." It doesn't need to be the ability to do it themselves, but they have to have some.
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Just because some dudes in suits or some bureaucracy academic had not talked about it yet it doesn't mean it's now been "discovered", don't fall for this trap. Everyone's who's experienced a virtuous workplace also "discovered" this as it's a self-evident truth(when it happens). How many times will we "discover" human nature again? Depending on psychologists, economists, administrators and business gurus, infinite times(corollary: we will keep on 'discovering' the same things because we never actually learn). Edit: To try and make it clearer: we are all human yet we systematically neglect our nature/ignore it in others and treat it as if it's a million pieces puzzle we can't figure out. Seems we're just looking at stuff ever more fractioned, we take 1/2, make it 1/10 and act like we made a +8 advancement in knowledge, but we haven't. Holism and shit. To me it's an example of the stupidity of modern thinking.
Probably a joke? I saw a 60 Minutes(?) episode a few decades ago about how people in LA(California?) loved their cars. There was no way you were getting them out of their cars and into mass transit.

At least they're finally adding some mass transit with the light rail. Give it 3 or 4 decades and LA will be livable without a car.

[Update]

I wasn't implying that Elon was going to build mass transit. Simply pointing out that people are paying for poor choices made decades ago.

Since, I've already been downvoted to the max, I can simply point out that stupid decisions made decades ago by won't be fixed by building more roads. In fact, it's probably a really bad idea.

http://laist.com/2016/08/11/la_hasnt_gotten_smog_this_bad_si...
>Here in France, and probably lot of places in Europe, when you make the decision to leave, you have to stay 3 more months after informing your employer.

Seriously? You are required to stay for three months? That seems like it could be suffocating in some instances.
Kind of a blanket statement. The anti-Trump crowd is rather large.
> When I picture a heavy user I picture someone who gets high all day, every day.

that's what I think of as well. however, many people will interpret "heavy user" as meaning like, someone who smokes a joint with any regularity at all. once a week might count as a heavy user by some definitions.

the disagreement on what counts as heavy use is really the problem here. what you're describing is someone who is basically high all the time. very little disagreement that being high on cannabis profoundly effects your concentration and memory while you're high. a lot of controversy and ambiguity about what happens the day after.
You might enjoy http://beautifulracket.com/

In addition to going over how to write various DSLs in Racket, there are 'explainers' for a lot of Racket concepts.
This is known as idiomatic speech, with any particular phrase being an idiom [0]. They are absolutely a part of translating natural language, and the must be treated as a complete phrase set-piece. One of the big original advancements in Google Translate was actually exactly this: Treating the phrase as the unit of translation rather than the word. I'm sure they didn't lose that moving forward.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom
So if 100% of my income is taxed away from me, then I cannot enjoy the produce of my labor. In effect I am working completely for someone else, without my consent. Thus, I am a slave. Slavery violates the basic human right of liberty.

Thus, controlling your own wealth (right to property) is a basic human right.

Dignity is not a human right, since it is subjective.
I think that sweet-expressions (http://readable.sourceforge.net/) & CL-INTERPOL (http://weitz.de/cl-interpol/) could be the basis for a new kind of shell:

let (foo bar)
ls foo "bim/baz" ${foo}

Might be turned into the equivalent of 'ls foo bim/baz bar' in sh.

In fact, with a minimum of work I think this could be turned into a Lisp shell …
Did somebody let an owl in? You, of course. Although it's a perennial problem on HN, which is why I was speaking more generally.

You haven't gotten to reasoning yet. I critiqued your style of argument: the outraged hot take, the instant defense of something that wasn't even attacked. It was a spew of semi-random points, not a coherent argument.

There's no point in discussing the details with you, because you aren't interested in learning anything. When called on your drama, you pretend to be purely rational. If you can't even admit your reaction or look at your own post honestly, why would I ever engage with the details of what you claim your point to be?
On parallelizing gradient descent using data parallel methods
Is that what I said?
Missing from this study is the fact that we tend to project confidence, intelligence and wisdom on those that we like.

A staffers perception of the competence of their boss may mostly be a function of how much they like their boss.

Also - staffers may have no ability to judge the competence of a boss.

Example: boss is highly technical, nice, gives you good feedback, stays 'out of your hair' - and 'let's you do your job'.

Problem: you're all way behind schedule, and he's afraid to be unpopular by steering you and the team in the right direction. From a management perspective, he's failing, and causing the whole company to fail.
Actually, it's a necessary infringement upon your right to property for the good of the many.
> Take the people who are living on the largess of others (e.g. grad students on a stipend,
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Hitler was also democratically elected, democracy can fail.
I had this exact thought once getting an award. I actually opened my acceptance speech with, "This is when I'm supposed to get up here and tell you how humbled I am by this award. But that's the exact opposite of how I feel. According to you, I'm awesome! In fact, I should probably apologize now to my co-workers for how much more difficult I'm going to be to work with after tonight."

EDIT: messed up some grammar... this mistake has humbled me.
Does the brand of company matter later in your career?
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>It's not absurd at all, and your first example is nonsensical.

It is absolutely absurd, and my first example makes perfect sense if one has the capacity to understand what is being discussed.

>There's a fundamental difference between creative capitalism, which is the application of intelligence and organisation to the creation of new resources and opportunities from new materials and ideas,

Proudhon's argument is that all property is "theft", so there is no such distinction in his philosophy. He was the angsty teenager with the edgy arguments of the 19th century.

>It's incredibly hard to destroy a monopoly through market means alone, and lower prices certainly aren't enough to do it on their own.

Government is a monopoly of force. You want to cure market monopolies by expanding the power of a monopoly that employs threats of violence. Good luck with that.

>Why worry about monopolies? Because they're the inevitable outcome of limited ownership. Unequal access to resources is magnified until either a monopoly or a cartel results.

This is unscientific quackery. You have provided no evidence at all for this inflammatory fearmongering. You're making a very specific argument about the cause of a particular outcome, in a system with an untold number of factors at play that could explain any set of outcomes.

>Any suggestion that equates the ability to create this outcome with a basic human right is preposterous.

Violently attacking someone and/or throwing them in prison for their refusal to hand you a share of the currency they received in private trade is a grotesque violation of human rights.

Trying to justify this grotesque violation of human rights with economic quackery that you are trying to pass off as fact (just another variation of the "if you don't rob the rich guy, you'll starve to death" snake oil that is always used to justify socialist ideology that violate human rights) is childish idiocy.
Not required at all. Most contracts in the UK have a 6 week period, although 3 months is fairly common. It is usually easily negotiated down.
There's no such thing as gourmet coffee, gourmet rolls or gourmet pizza. Gourmet means one thing: “We're going to charge you more.” The same is true of the word cuisine. The difference between food and cuisine is sixty dollars.

- George Carlin
That's what struck me hard as well. I was a poor kid in a largely wealthy Ivy league school, there on scholarships and a whole lot of debt.

There's no difference between you and the wealthy folks in class, your brain works the same as theirs.

Socially, it's a whole other story. I could never afford to go out, and all my evenings were spent working at either a cafeteria or as a lab assistant, anything to pay the minimum payments on my loans. My classmates would invite me out with them for dinners and trips, but I never went, and eventually they stopped asking. My social circle became other students in similar situations, but it definitely made me feel like I didn't belong.

This social stratification was also present in class, when people had to form up for groups for group projects, since those groups tended to form along social group boundaries.

I don't regret going one bit, though. I have a great degree, paid off my debt, and have been working in preeminent silicon valley companies for more than 20 years now.
IMHO you should ask the new employer and act depending on their reply: they may appreciate the fact you are indeed so kind to avoid leaving before the release. However, if this will not be possible, to leave before the release makes sense to me, the problems after the release will go forward for weeks or months, one week more one week less is no difference IMHO. I would just say that I'm at their disposal for email questions if they find some of my code impenetrable, of course in a best-effort basis.
An incredible book if I may add. Zamyatin was one of few dystopian writers to actually be involved in the going-ons in the Russian revolution at the time.
IANAL, but I'd assume that Windows Defender is "deployed" to the system at the time of "deploying" the OS.
I can relate to this, though my situation is a little weirder than most. My parents were immigrants and we were very poor when I was younger. They became doctors sometime around middle school, so we effectively shifted up to upper-middle class. Our quality of life changed in a few ways - didn't have to think about the cost of healthcare or school. But we also didn't start buying fancy clothes, cars, or food. My parents have never gone to fancy galas, and they don't exactly rub shoulders with the wealthy.

I remember feeling very jarred when I first met "rich white people" in high school. It blew my mind. What did these people do? What are their families like? It truly fascinated me. This continued well into college where I met even more people from very, very wealthy backgrounds. I dated someone whose father was a dean of the school we went to, and I was extremely nervous when I visited their... mansion.

Because I met a bunch of "rich white people" in high school, I became fairly acclimated to them. It really does taking meeting someone face-to-face to realize that they're not so different from you. I imagine it's the same when rich people meet very poor people.

It makes me think that the issue isn't that poor students feel uncomfortable around rich students, but rather that the first time they ever meet rich students is in college. If they met earlier - perhaps in elementary or middle school - this discomfort would not be there.
Lots of people with strong opinions on what not to do.
Not seeing any opinions on what TO do.
Subjectivity, huh? Who can truly say what is "due" in "due process"? Dispense with it!
Why do you think he's not humble? Of all the billionaires I've seen talk he appears to be a pretty decent and grounded person.
TL;DR: if you don't debate, you lose the argument.
Nice to see some KNL usage outside the traditional large HPC centers :D
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I agree completely. I bought an iPad Pro (although the smaller one for convenience of carrying it with me wherever I go) and an Apple Pencil and love it. I use it for sketching ideas, diagramming, note taking and brainstorming. And if I want to write a lot of text, I can type with a physical keyboard too (I'm a faster typist than I can hand-write).
It can be, but in the same time it leaves everyone some time to handle the transition. You can always negotiate the 3month period.
UK based so soon to be not Europe, but I'm used to 1 month.

I've also seen +1 month for every 5 years of service, so 9 years = 3 months, 11 = 4 etc.

3 for front-line staff seems excessive
if by people you mean me as the person evaluating the site and looking for information about the production, I'd want to see the source code to give it a once over to see how / where my data was being handled and if it was a sensible choice to recommend to friends or relatives.

No I don't get the source code for all of Facebook, although they do open source a number of projects, they're widely known or at least suspected of misuse of peoples information and / or meta data and because you can't see the source it's a good reason not to use the platform, and I for one no longer do.

Twitter and google are the same story, they open source many projects and services that run and monitor their platforms, those are trustworthy and it shows an investment in society in general, the bits we can't see however are the parts of I am wary of.

I personally would like to export point-in-time state of contacts before / after sync A) in case anything wrong B) for my own personal trending / information over time
In the case of Ruby, it's because the vast majority of the Ruby community is tied to a single framework. Ruby developers go where Rails goes.
> Also individual property rights have not been the norm for most of human history, and in much of the world they still aren't

And those places can be easily recognised by their widespread abject poverty.

Papua New Guinea has a GDP per capita of $2k, Australia $42k. PNG has a 40% poverty rate and it's ranked as one of the worst places for violence against women. Life expectancy is 62, a full 20 years behind Australia. But, hey, they're more egalitarian, so that's great.
I agree with you that I want to work with/for those sorts of people. I disagree that I want them as my boss.
I just want to point out that poor student are absolutely not at the mercy of rich students.

Poor students are needed at these schools to maintain the prestige and reputation of these schools. If they only allowed those who could afford to pay, a lot of great talent would end up elsewhere and then the reputation of the school would suffer.

In terms of real scarcity, it is actually the rich students who are the most easily replaceable. If those poor students went somewhere else, they would still do well and within a decade the new schools would start challenging the reputation of these elite school.
I'll definitely get that submit link feature in. Also, thanks for notifying me of the broken link, will get that fixed right away.
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"hold my joint, I'm gonna go eat cheetos on the couch until I die"
>And that's why some people put science into question, like, how can we be sure of anything, which is defensible from an epistemological standpoint, until you discover they are creationists.

Honestly, if skeptical arguments in epistemology can be used to strengthen Creationism, I think that's a major point against taking them seriously in epistemology. Good epistemology ought to have a low enough false-positive rate (disbelieving things when they're true) to throw out "all the evidence is wrong, because I got this book someone wrote a while ago".
Tabs playing audio will include a lot of people listening to music on youtube.
Can't upvote this enough. I've been in a very similar scenario multiple times (including being screwed by the people I work for) - remember most of these companies will not hesitate to step all over you to get the things they want. Tailor your response appropriately and keep looking for employers that see you as more than a means to an end.
There is substantial evidence of a statistical association between cannabis use and:
• The development of schizophrenia or other psychoses, with the highest risk among the most frequent users (12-1)

But it will also make you crazier.
To sum it up, you'll become a smarter, crazier version of yourself.
And how is that coming along?
I'm always surprised by variants of your argument because it presupposes there is some sort of dialogue being held. I'm an outsider and it's very clear that the right doesn't see it as a dialogue, they see it as a no holds barred fight.

Your right wing has been caricaturing and demonizing your left wing for a long time.

I've learnt a lot watching the Republican Party follow its discipline. The day Obama won, they rallied and fought for a one term president. At their nadir, they turned themselves around. That's something.

Today they have won most of the seats of power and have stymied the president for 8 years. They even have the chance to decide the next SC judge, something Obama should have had the right to (as I understand American politics)

A few of the things that come to mind - the complete shutdown of your government, the creation and agitation of the tea party, birthers, gun boats (or something), the refusal to increase the federal debt ceiling, their positions on medical insurance.

Not to mention Manufactured issues on evolution and climate change.

My rebuttal is that this fear of demons is redundant, the right is long past believing that demons have (literally) been sent. Their tools and tactics are specifically designed to stall and steal power from old liberal strongholds - science and learning.

You no longer have the luxury of deciding the terrain on which to fight. Tactics are all that's left.

For the record I used to be a bridge builder. A few months ago I would have given similar advice. But building bridges in the networked era is unlikely because of the echo chamber effect.

Until that problem is solved, other tools are needed to deal with current issues. And these tools also serve a bridge building purpose - negotiating with a party who has no leverage is redundant.
Understand that trade was made for greater job security. His employer must also provide him with a similar level of notice in exchange. Business leaders in the US opted out of such protections in order to be able to fire more easily.
Requiring a signup probably impedes feedback in this thread.
> Take the people who are living on the largess of others (e.g. grad students on a stipend, poor undergrads on financial aid)

Graduate students at schools like this are funded primarily through grant money and sometimes endowment money, not undergraduate tuition.

Undergraduates on financial aid are never funded through others' tuition. That's 100% donations and endowment.

> and give them constant reminders that they are there thanks to the contributions of others

I suppose we should also have a special line for everyone who's using daddy's credit card?
Natural resources, from which most current wealth is created are 'edge cases' ?

And your first paragraph is pretty much "all taxes are theft", that is usually the mantra of fanatical libertarians.

The economic illiteracy required to come up with your conclusions is astounding. But then I actually looked at your comment history and the pattern became clear.
The real shame is that his boss didn't know how to manage him. Unfortunately, it's not unusual for middle managers to languish without decent coaching.

I feel like this often happens due to one or more of: a) the senior management chain was similarly not coached and so they wouldn't recognize a management failure if it bit them in the arse, b) the evaluation structures in place aren't suited to evaluating management types so bad management is "invisible" (e.g. skip level feedback), or c) there's an expectation that if you promote someone into management because they were a strong staff member at the line level, that they'll just automatically excel as a manager, too.

I suspect there are a lot of bad managers out there that could've avoided their fate with early intervention...
Great!

I get the appeal of non-career politicians voted into office, but I'd much rather take reasonable, well-educated scientists than the opposite.
I know about Dijkstra.

I didn't say Dijkstra was talking out of his ass in this case. I'm saying you often can't tell when people like him are talking out of their ass, as they sometimes do. Who would think the inventor of all these algorithms would ever utter a half-formed thought, on a whim? Unthinkable! Yeah... no.

Another distinction you fail to see is that somebody who is great at finding the best or optimal algorithms (i.e. a great theorist) isn't necessarily a productive programmer. To the contrary, perfectionism and productivity are at great odds.

Dijkstra was heavily at odds with real-world programming as it was done, to the point of isolating himself with his work. If we followed his opinions on how to program, we wouldn't get much of anything done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R42mFx3_ss
Weed is a religion. My most downvoted comment on Reddit was about stoned elementary school kids coming to my wife's class in the morning- apparently it doesn't happen and it's all just hearsay and gov't conspiracies.
Look up one of the lists from 10 years ago. How many of the people listed are still relevant?