skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no insight into the decision process used by these companies, however there are several issues that would be less appealing to workers. I can only imagine that retaining talent and productivity is their number one concern. The most obvious is the language barrier. Many of these immigrant workers have invested a large amount of their time throughout their lives to learn English, and move their families to an English speaking country. It's a disruption to move, but at least the transition process can eased if the country speaks English.

The primary goal of these companies is to profit. I get the sense that many of the companies doing this are smaller venture backed companies that don't have enormous resources to spare. If they go under, then they won't be helping anyone. That said, Google has offices in Mexico.

I say this as an American born Latino who can speak Spanish.
I'm a bit curious here. Do you think that your issues with scalability and reliability have to do with your tech choice (I think it was Ruby on Rails)? Don't want to bash Rails, I'm just genuinely curious, since I come from a Rails background as well and have seen issues similar to yours in the past.
If you wanted to run your exhaust next to me in a restaurant I'd complain about that.

If your exhaust pipe was pointed at my face on the sidewalk again I'd complain.

A lot of offices have gone to perfume/cologne free because it is offensive to a lot of people.

Of course you still have to smell the person who just finished a smoke outside which is far worse than even the most liberal applier of perfume.
Who owns the company that produces the HGST 3.5" drives? (the former Hitachi drives)

Is it Western Digital? Is it Toshiba? someone else? (afaik the HGST 2.5 and 3.5 production lines were sold to different companies -right?)
In addition to what the sibling says, if you actually read the bit on the page you linked, it says their source for their determination is "secondary research" and their confidence in it is "low".
>> candidates will be invited to schedule a first 45 minute behavioral interview with the Infrastructure Lead

Yes, go right ahead and filter out some (disclaimer before the rant: some, not all) of the best talent. The kind of potential employee that gets rejected due to perceived personality problems is exactly the kind of person who would tell management to shove a stick up their ass for demanding a 2 week deadline for a project requiring 3 months to execute properly.

Maybe if GitLab had hired the best talent, instead of the best "behavioral/cultural fit", at least one of their 5 backup systems would have been functional. Many people who are perfectionists in their craft, who would never have allowed this kind of failure to take place under their watch, come with abrasive personalities. If you only hire those who are submissive during the interviewing process, you will get exactly what you chose - people with no backbone to push back against unreasonable business expectations.

Case in point: would you want to hire me based on this comment of mine? Hell no! You're going to steer clear of me and give me an instant fail during a "behavioral interview", because you can't look past my belligerence to understand that there is value in having employees who obsess over the little things like having systems that do what the fuck they're supposed to do, rather than being able to give a conformant first impression full of social prowess. "Whoa, he used the word 'fuck' to hammer home his point; definitely avoid hiring this guy!"

tldr; Sometimes, people who are "talented" or "skilled" get to that point by being obsessive freaks who sit at home in the dark all night hacking away at stuff, with no social lives. The result can be someone who knows what they are doing because they invest all their personal free time into the domain, but consequently has absolutely no social skills to put on display.

shorter tldr; Businesses focus on the liability of a person without considering the potential.
If I'm not mistaken, that's one of the features of Tslime[1], which is a Vim plugin that allows Vim to communicate with Tmux.

[1]: https://github.com/jgdavey/tslime.vim/
Alternatively, why doesn't the gay couple just go somewhere else? I would imagine that only a very small minority of bakers/photographers/florists have strong feelings on this issue, so it's not like it would be difficult to find equivalent service elsewhere.
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

> 2.5.6 Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript.
> Trump is systematically wrecking the process.

Systematic how (what's the system, so far)? Wrecking how? What process? Talking in vague codewords without meaning (except in your head) does not tell me anything about what's wrong. I cannot agree with this kind of babble.
> Most of the software engineers at Microsoft are not focused on developing scalable web services architectures.

Uh, MS literally runs Azure, which may not be the biggest IAAS offering, but is certainly vastly larger and more complex than Gitlab. There are certainly numerous engineers at MS who would have experience relevant to Gitlab (though perhaps not with their particular tech stack). It may not be most of the engineers there, but in a company with literally tens of thousands of engineers, there are few things that will be true of most of them.

> Microsoft isn't even in this same field (git hosting)

How is what they're hosting at all relevant to the problem at hand? This could have happened regardless of what the end product was - it's a database issue. In fact, the git infrastructure was explicitly not involved in this issue - it was only their DB-backed features that had data loss.

Additionally, Microsoft is in the business of git hosting, if only tangentially. TFS supports git, and has since 2013: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2013/11/13/... Your objection is both unkind and factually incorrect. The "mindshare" comment is a bit silly - even though they may not be as active on forums like HN, developers working on MS technologies are still one of the largest groups in programming (as a non-MS developer looking for work in the Pacific Northwest, this is something I'm constantly reminded of). I doubt your estimate of Microsoft's real mindshare is anything close to accurate.

> Are you an employee there or something?

This accusation is eminently not in the spirit of HN, and Microsoft was hardly the only company he mentioned. Whatever your personal vendetta against them, it's absurd to think that Microsoft is not one of the top pools of talent in tech - they're a huge company with a vast variety of offerings and divisions.
Really? Most health guidelines suggest drinking no more than 2-4 standard drinks per day. I'd be very surprised if one standard drink per day, spread over a long period, caused any measurable harm.
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Counterpoint: People call the USB ports on phones (micro/mini) USB, despite not being compatible with the full sized port.
Thanks for taking the time to explain this to me, it's definitely helped my understanding. It sounds somewhat 'static', assuming I haven't misinterpreted. Where does the 'learning' part come in? Again, this is almost certainly due to my lack of knowledge, but it sounds like RL essentially brute-forces the optimal inputs for each statically defined 'action function'. Meaning the usefulness of the model depends entirely on how well you've initially specified it, meaning the problem is really solved through straight-forward analysis.

(I've obviously gone wrong somewhere here... Just walking you through my thought process)
I happened to be watching a girl smoke once, and caught myself thinking, "grr, she's probably going to drop it on the ground". I realized I was being uncharitable, and just because a lot of people leave their cigarettes around doesn't mean this one person is going to.

Then she dropped it on the ground, stomped it and and walked away. It's really hard to be a generous person when others constantly prove cynicism right.
Aussie living in China, ex-smoker. Every time I went back I used to always take a bunch of cigarettes to sell to people at cut rates, specifically because they are so expensive in Australia. This year I couldn't even find anyone to buy them! Won't be bothering in future.

I strongly support the progressive anti-smoking policies in Australia, but I do think the nanny statism has come a bit far in other areas. For example you can't catch a taxi or go to the (now 100% non-smoking) pub with a child. What the hell? Makes it really hard to stop for a drink when you are carrying a kid and walking to the nearest mass transit facility in the stinking hot summer sun, because you can't catch a taxi. Come on, people take buses without seat belts all the time ... it's off the charts stupid to ban young families from the use of taxis!
At my $currentJob, we restore 30TB worth of database restores every day in automated processes.

We do this because the DBA insisted that the DB backup process was fine. We tried to restore 3 backups as a test, and they all failed. We no longer have DBA's. We have automated procedures and very thorough testing. Zero failed restorations since then.
but web of trust means you have to trust your neighboring nodes, and trust that they are determining trust correctly for their neighbors, and so on.
The smoking rate has dropped down to nearly single digits. They exact cause is impossible to tell.
Screen readers and spiders do look at tables as semantic content though. Tables are simply the wrong idea.

That said, CSS layout should have been based on tables/grids from the get go, ie. specify a set of blocks as rows and cells, with colspan and rowspan. It took way too long to get to this point.
This is what I usually do to connect to a remote server and enter a tmux session:

ssh hostname -t "tmux -CC attach || tmux -CC"

Of course, I picked this up from an HN comment :)
I've not checked for "table beers" and don't know what that actually is. Goses aren't my style. IPAs are, and I've seen few if any session IPAs in person that hit at or below 4%. Just looking at the top 10 session IPAs that show up when I search for "session" on Untappd, I see only one below 4%, Even Keel at 3.8%. So I guess someone's making them, but no one's making them at 3 and almost no one is making them below 4.

Although honestly I don't think I'd want a session IPA at 4 or below. Most (though not all) session IPAs are pretty terrible at ~4.5. They'd probably taste like watery trash at 3.5.
> In a country with taxpayer funded healthcare.

I believe that taxes paid by smokers help to subsidise the healthcare of non-smokers, not the other way around. Or put it this way - if all Australians stopped smoking then either everyone's taxes would have to go up to cover the shortfall or the quality of the healthcare would be lower.
Check your backups daily. The whole process is automated and shouldn't cost much.
I good portion of them would end up with some other chronic disease if the live to an older age.
Can you get similar knowledge through books? In general what book do you recommend? I'm specifically interested in deep learning.
UIKit and AppKit are pretty different, I don't see them convereging anytime soon.
"Deep learning is fantastic at for instance building appearance models and exploiting hierarchical nature of natural images..."

Agreed. And contrast this success with the lack of success of first-principles latent-variable modeling for natural images. A lot of very good researchers spent decades building multi-layer probabilistic models for natural image structures - I'm thinking about the Grenander school, for example. The jury is still out (I think) on the ultimate value of that approach.

But for classification, it turns out to be much more tractable to use DL. You don't need all the semantic information the multi-layer model contains to tell a car from a truck.

As you say, it's better to view these approaches as complementary.
Not a physicist, but I've been quietly hoping something like this was the case for years and would usurp Dark Matter as the reason for rotational anomaly at the outer galactic edges.

It makes sense that space-time is both attractive or repulsive based on the presence or absence matter. Throw in an overlapping inverse square law at the galactic boundary and perhaps this solves the anomaly by way of a steep gravity wall where attractive and repulsive forces meet.

Again, not a physicists either, but I agree, it seems to make sense spatially.
I appreciate the effort going into aggregating this information and information should always be judged on its merit.

At the same time I'm concerned that this fuels a "with us or against us" mentality that drowns out more nuanced discussion.

Just an initial thought, thanks for building this.
> [smoking] places an overall burden on society

Are you sure about that?
We've done this every day for 2 years now. Anyone can do it (and should). You don't need to be Facebook's size.
How does this compare to something like sublime + anaconda?
"This includes the iPhone 5, 5c, and older, the standard version of the iPad (so not the Air or the Pro), and the first iPad mini."

This implies there is still a "standard" iPad for sale. In fact, the iPad Air was simply the successor to the iPad 4, and the iPad Pro was the successor to the iPad Air 2. There is no "standard iPad" on sale anymore, and there hasn't been for years.

This won't directly affect any device Apple has sold in some time. The iPhone 5C is the last iPhone they released that was 32bit, and was likely to be dropped for software updates with the release of iOS 11 anyway.

In short, there's nothing to worry about, except if you want to run an app that hasn't been updated in 2+ years
"This includes the iPhone 5, 5c, and older, the standard version of the iPad (so not the Air or the Pro), and the first iPad mini."

This implies there is still a "standard" iPad for sale. In fact, the iPad Air was simply the successor to the iPad 4, and the iPad Pro was the successor to the iPad Air 2. There is no "standard iPad" on sale anymore, and there hasn't been for years.

This won't directly affect any device Apple has sold in some time. The iPhone 5C is the last iPhone they released that was 32bit, and was likely to be dropped for software updates with the release of iOS 11 anyway.

In short, there's nothing to wor except where users want to run apps that haven't been updated in 2+ years
As production costs approach zero, many industries will resemble intellectual property with it's 0 marginal costs more closely.

In the IP space, we have an example working perfectly with the communist maxim "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need": Open Source Software.
iPhone 5 users are plentiful and will be pretty livid if they are locked out of a future major version over this issue. Apple just can't get out of their own way these days. If I were an iPhone 5 user and was forced into a twinked device like the iPhone SE or iPhone 7 I would probably leave the entire ecosystem and hundreds of dollars worth of DRM purchases behind.
The law and a "no fault" postmortem are entirely different things and you conflating the two doesn't help the discussion.

Let's assume a bad actor in a company. It still doesn't help improve the situation to allow blame to rest with the bad actor. Definitely, there should be penalties applied (likely the termination of their position), but it doesn't help your company at all to stop there.

Did they delete data? Why is there no secure backup system in place to recover that data? Why was there such lax security in place to allow them to delete the data in the first place? Why are we hiring people who will go rogue and delete data? Did they "turn" after working here for a while because of toxic culture, processes, etc?

Hell, if the law worked this way, we might actually have less crime because we'd look further into the causes of crime and work to address them instead of simply punishing the offenders.
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Online banks. Ally, Barclays both are at 1.0% APY right now.
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Would you mind explaining what you like about gitlab better than bitbucket? They seem to be on par with each other, including integrated CI.
If you have no 32 bit processes on the system, then 32-bit shared libraries don't have to be loaded (saving RAM), can be omitted from the system entirely (saving disk space), and don't have to enter into the test matrix (saving engineering time). I suspect it's as simple as those optimizations.
> If you wanted to run your exhaust next to me in a restaurant I'd complain about that.

That's fine, I'm not a fan of smoke in restaurants or indoors anyway. It's already banned here.

> If your exhaust pipe was pointed at my face on the sidewalk again I'd complain.

This is exactly what cars are doing on the sidewalk. It's not like the emissions travel in a straight line. No one is blowing smoke directly at you either.

> A lot of offices have gone to perfume/cologne free because it is offensive to a lot of people.

Never heard of this.
Yep. There's a traditional style of beer called eisbock: http://brewwiki.com/index.php/Eisbock
> In 2008, Democrats controlled both houses of Congress.

And neither of the major US parties (and especially not the Democratic Party, whose major factions include both a center-right faction and a moderate left faction) are unified cohesive parties with strong discipline as you might find in a multiparty parliamentary system; the FISA Amendments Act passed with every Republican that voted in either house (except one in the House) and a minority of Democrats on each house supporting it, and the majority of Democrats in each house opposing it.
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My dad still uses an iPhone 5. Will he be unable to download any app updates until he gets a new phone?
Yes, actually, happened to me multiple times before MagSafe. I've also encountered pre-MagSafe MacBooks with broken power jacks.
> Since a 64-bit processor processes more data at a time than a 32-bit processor, you get faster performance.

Is this true? If I recall correctly, 32-bit to 64-bit doesn't always necessarily mean "end-user performance improvements."
What did you end up starting as your first success and how did you decide to start it?
Except you're adding a weak week, not a week that's expected to compete on an even basis with a typical holiday-quarter week, so that math isn't exactly telling/accurate either.
Do you have stats for how plentiful iPhone 5 users are?

The Apple iPhone 5 was released in 2012. Apple has provided those users with 5 years of updates (assuming September is when they will release the new iPhone and also update the major iOS version number).

5 years is a long time in the mobile handset business... I doubt too many people will be livid about anything.
I've been using it for at least 2 yrs if not more now. Zero issues.

Well, once I deleted files in misguided effort to move them. They were deleted from all machines :). It wasn't a big deal, it just shows it works.
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Yep. Nor will he be able to get the latest version of iOS. So just like any other upgrade that removed older devices from the supported list.
> The same polls that predicted Hillary's win
Nope; one because the Gallup daily Presidential approval tracking poll is not an election poll; two because polls don't predict anything, models that use polling data as an input do.

> I'm not buying it.

Facts remain facts regardless of whether they are convenient to your preferred team.
It's false - if you want to process many bits at once, you use SIMD instructions, which you have on 32-bit too.

Generally, other things equal, going from 32 to 64 bit word size makes things slower because pointers suddenly double in size, and you can fit fewer program objects in your caches.

In practice there are a slew of miscellaneous improvements in the new 64-bit revision of an instruction set that makes up for some of the slowdown. This is less pronounced on ARM, but was big on x86 because a big flaw, the register count, was fixed.
There are two battery sizes: 56 or 97 whr. Just be careful you aren't seeing reviews on the 56.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/5q37wd/xps_15_9560_te...

Anecdotally a redditor is claiming ~7 hours?
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>This is exactly what cars are doing on the sidewalk. It's not like the emissions travel in a straight line. No one is blowing smoke directly at you either.

This is wrong go walk on a sidewalk near a smoker and you'll see them blowing clouds which go in peoples faces as they walk by and leaving clouds in the faces of people walking behind them. This isn't an issue of being in the vicinity of the smoke it is having to walk through the cloud of it.

Go outside an office building around 9, 10:30 or lunch time and you'll often have to walk through a large cloud as all the smokers hang out to get in their smokes.

Smokers are in general super inconsiderate about their additions effect on other people in public.

>Never heard of this.

Google scent free office or fragrancy free office it's not uncommon these days.
Feel free to look through my comment history and make your own opinion on whether I'm likely to be a Chinese government propaganda person.
> For example you can't catch a taxi or go to the (now 100% non-smoking) pub with a child.

I don't understand about the taxi. What do you mean?

Regarding the pubs, I live in Queensland and have never seen a 100% non-smoking pub. They always have a dedicated smoking area.
Uh, duh? That's because HLS is not a web standard and never will be so nobody else is going to bother building it into their browsers. The standard (ISO/IEC 23009-1:2012) way to do adaptive bitrate streaming is MPEG-DASH.
Yep. If it's just 32->64 there may even be a slow down as you need to pull bigger things through the various busses. However, Armv8 also brought a huge improvement to the instruction set, so recompiling with the proper optimizations will bring performance increases in a lot of programs.
Hilary did win. The popular vote. Which is really what most of the polls were tracking. 80,000 votes out of 130,000,000+ swung the EC. Aside from holding an actual election, no poll can get the margin of error down to that level. The polls were not wrong. They were polls.
Statistics aside, this is wonderful. It makes a teenager like me optimistic about our energy future. Love the fast roll out too. In 50 years we will be thanking Elon Musk for saving all our asses.
While I don't think I've seen anyone fined, I've definitely seen people 'moved on' by police in Perth for smoking in the city center (at Forrest Place). I've also seen social pressure in Perth, people asking smokers nearby to put their cigarettes out even in areas where smoking is allowed.

I'm a non-smoker and appreciate the cleaner air, but I find the bans weird when the city also allow pop-up flame grilled chicken vendors in the same space, putting out far more smoke than any smokers ever did.
Taum Sauk, an artificial pumped storage facility which famously failed, was rebuilt to 3600 MW·h for $490 million. So that was like $136 per kwh capacity, though I think they didn't have to do much for the lower reservoir (which was built in the 60s). Seems to be a lot better than batteries, though still requires appropriate terrain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taum_Sauk_Hydroelectric_Power_...
For me it's valuable the way they've constructed it. I like the idea that I can take some night classes in addition to my full time job, and just focus on one specific area.

Okay, graduate degrees fulfill that purpose too, but with life events now and over the horizon, I just don't have the bandwidth to commit to getting my Masters or a Ph.D. right now.

I really have no problem with this.
Are you talking about guaranteed advancement into a real degree?

That indeed does not exist, but if you do well on these, you are probably pretty eligible for their part-time MS program.