skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We were encouraged by our boss to look up the new hires (international women doing an internship for free) on Facebook and other social networks to see if they were hot before hiring them and we did have veto decision based on looks. Later my boss wasn't so happy that I didn't show my excitement about this even though I'm a straight young male (my other coworker wasn't so happy as well).

It was my first job, then something similar happened in my second job, but there I told my bosses that it'd be better idea to hire someone based on their knowledge and not on looks. I got scolded but stood my ground on this (even though in this job my coworkers were supportive on only hiring hot women). Now I've decided never to work again in this shitty country and I'm a freelancer earning 10x more money.
You're right. I simply haven't had time to implement this. Features are prioritised according to the number of votes they receive on a public Trello board [1]. There's a card for implementing a proper context menu [2].

Regarding Ctrl-Shift-P: I've created a card for this [3]. You can vote on it to have it moved up in priority.

[1]: https://trello.com/b/WpIUiPAd/fman

[2]: https://trello.com/c/wHX5czeT/22-make-it-possible-to-open-fi...

[3]: https://trello.com/c/PhdT0G7v/144-ctrl-shift-p-allow-to-beco...
I hate to say it but the Chinese Regime actually looks more fit to govern than Trumps administration...now some might take that as a blow against democracy, but I'd rather think of it as "With great freedom comes great responsibility"
Democracy didn't fail, America did...
Yeah, and at least to a small extent I think it opened up for more against the grain reviews. Grading games on aggregate scores of graphics, sound, story, etc was kind of pointless (pun intended).

On the topic of that new review, it was written by Dan Ryckert. Even if he has integrity, that guy even loves Yoshi Island and thinks Taco Bell is the greatest restaurant in the world, so clearly there's something wrong with him. :) He's basically wrong about everything other than movies.

But that's kind of the point with reviews IMO. Scores (even if looking at metacritic which is better) only works when you know who graded it, since it obviously ultimately is a subjective thing.
A browser only OS isn't for everyone, but it does work well for the many people who literally never use anything other than their browser. If you know someone who never uses office applications and is always ending up with three layers of malware, a chromebook might be good for them. Video chat is a bit iffy too, if you don't care for google hangouts.
Fiction writing on touch screen keyboard is as good as your laptop's keyboard? I can sort of understand the painting/video creation even though I don't do either. But I would guess you would be a special minority in the writing department.
I've addressed this in two other comments [1], [2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13777696

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13778808
Perhaps you could consider, as another poster suggested, that you're talking to two different audiences. One is technical.. a 'terminal expert'. And one probably isn't.

Have you ever had a simple ping command running on your terminal and had someone exclaim "Wow! That looks technical!" with a hint of fear in their voice?

Perhaps you should offer the user a chance to explore this terminal interface of their own accord? "Click here to see my technical portfolio" - which then takes the user to a page of different apps, this one included. And otherwise default to a less technically demanding interface to start with.

You may get lucky, and the recruiter may be totally technical. But even if they are technical, and your page isn't immediately a terminal, allowing them an opportunity to easily get to it may be a good compromise.

Hope that helps!
I did this and left after the next paycheck. When they realized that an important part is missing, I was threatened in e-mail with being sued for stealing company equipment. I replied with the receipt I got from the retailer and asked them to attach that to the lawsuit as well. Never heard back from them.
Netflix’s new AI tweaks each scene to make video look good even on slow Internet
Nintendo Switch and FreeBSD
He probably has a keyboard, but students don't.
> Sure, they could hire up an infrastructure team

Their original proposal on bare metal was for 64 servers. They need an ops team regardless of whether they control the hardware or not.
No, everyone does not have to force developer mode on. If you need the extra functionality then it's an option for some people. As for the point of Chrome OS, well, it's for people that don't need the bag of hurt desktop OS's provide.
Yes, McAffee complains as well [1]. I don't know why :(

[1]: https://trello.com/c/dFLnJXLr/121-mcafee-complains-that-fman...
I taught myself C++ programming high school and was building an x86 operating system kernel during my sophomore year for fun (going to a midwestern public school really was boring for me, I can tell you that), but 16 year old me still would have found this article very challenging to digest.
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It's the most frustrating "feature" I've ever seen. GitHub, the platform for hosting code, has a search function that doesn't work for code. How does that make any sense?!

Fixing that seems like PM101 material, yet here we are in 2017 with this still being a thing...
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I would say cross platform and more of a focus on moving/copying files.
I can't find a primary source on this (and Googling along the way was reminded how broken the internet is with generated content...) but there is this - http://faculty.uml.edu/ethan_Spanier/Teaching/documents/Cyri... (it's chapter 9 of this book - http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405110422... )

> Famous Roman gladiators, who also attained celebrity status through specialized types of fighting, were known to endorse products. too; some of these endorsements survive in ancient frescoes and wall graffiti. Ironically. the makers of Gladiator downplayed this historical angle on the assumption that modern audiences would not believe it.

Hmmmm...
It's not possible yet, sorry. There's a card you can vote on [1] on the public feature requests board to have it moved up in priority.

[1]: https://trello.com/c/zTua4A7f/58-make-it-possible-to-disable...
I wonder if you (core devs) could get full-time jobs to integrate Sandstorm with company infrastructures.
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I didn't say it was. It's an option you can explore if you need to extend the functionality of the Chromebook.
Can you please share that c# code?
Well, urban doesn't necessarily mean "Manhattan". But I get your point. Bizarrely, I'd argue that D.C. has probably less diversity than the 'burbs in many ways. For example, there's not a single Korean restaurant in the entire city. Heck, AFAIK I've never even seen an old fashioned deli in D.C.

NoVA also suffers from the worst habits of mid-20th century civic planning, designed heavily around cars. All of the urban areas in NoVA are urban automobile areas. It wasn't until recently that dense, urban, mixed-use classic city-type areas were even being built outside of D.C. and Arlington.

>how about a museum?
http://www.restonmuseum.org/

okay okay, it's about Reston's history, but Reston is smack in the middle of tons of historic sites, many of which have small museums. If you want the big museum experience there won't be one until you get to Baltimore because the entire museum "scene" (such as it is) is swallowed entirely up by the Smithsonian, the National Galleries and the smaller museums all along and near the mall. I'd probably challenge the notion that urban cores necessarily have lots of museums though. Even Manhattan doesn't have as many as D.C.

If you want art, you're more likely to get into the local gallery scene. NoVA has quite a few fine art galleries.
"There's nothing stopping anyone from using structured data over pipes, but I think it's a mistake to assume there will be or needs to be a 'standard'."

Then I'm not sure how the problem would be solved. The main reason why "everything should be plaintext" is problematic (aside from being inefficient storage-wise) is that there's no "standard" format. My interpretation of the article's criticisms is that overreliance on tools like awk is the problem, not the solution.

Hence, the recommendation to just standardize on YAML (or some stricter subset thereof). If unstructured data is really needed in the pipeline, then it can easily be encapsulated in an ordinary YAML document. This would unify the strengths of the Unix way (ease of human inspection) and the PowerShell way (ease of plugging arbitrary tools together without needing to stick a bunch of text filters all over the place).
High school in the US == 6th Form in the UK.
It's a "I'm strong enough that it doesn't matter that I'm being brazen about it, I'm not going to face any consequences anyways" sort of thing.
not surprising, theyre already banned in many video game tournaments and such as far as im aware. i was a little surprised they didnt include an amphetamine in the study though.
Stanford CS department updates introductory courses
Just curious, what's the rationale behind invite-only licenses?
In Spain, when you talk to people you know, the standard way to ask questions is bluntly, without "please" and "thank you". Even with people whom you don't know, it's still the normal usage in many situations, e.g. practically no one would say "please" when ordering at a restaurant, bar, shop, etc. You typically only say it when you are asking someone a favor outside their normal duties (e.g. asking a stranger in the street for directions). If you used "please" in Spanish with the same frequency as one does in English, most people would consider you pedantic.

Interactions still work fine, we aren't sociopaths or anything, it's just a matter of codes and expectations.
That last paragraph was absolutely hilarious. Thank you :-)
It's cross platform.

It's more modern than the alternatives.

It has a Python-based plugin API with a vibrant (given its young age! It's growing) plugin ecosystem [1].
India frequently gives contracts to build nuclear power plants, metro railways, and a bunch of other infrastructure projects to foreign companies, including American companies. Indian also has a bunch of big data projects, like a national data registry to which US companies contribute.

If India can survive outsourcing of her jobs to American companies, America surely wouldn't perish by outsourcing American jobs where it makes perfect business sense to do so.
I've addressed this in [1], [2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13777696

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13778808
One thing I love is how it reads the whole source file into RAM and operates on it as an array. So many compilers (including my own...) avoid this, which I guess ostensibly lets them handle huge machine generated source files (but that's an extreme outlier, and really I'd be inclined to let people depending on that use something else or work around it). The first compiler I saw that didn't was Wouter van Oortsmerssen's AmigaE compiler [1], which demonstrated that it was a viable strategy even when your compiler is expected to run on a machine with 512KB RAM. It's one example of where we often over-abstract for dubious benefits.

[1] http://strlen.com/amiga-e
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I'll give this a shot, but I suspect bash will remain my 'file manager' of choice.
Jeez, there are just so many scarier things to me in the world today. Is it silly, yeah, sure it is.
> and wonder if we can do better today.

No, we can't do better today. We may start something better today and enjoy it in 40 years, but for the time being, these are the tallest giants' shoulders we have.
What is this? Civilization 2 or something. HN too is subject to such juvenile commentary like Reddit, I suppose.
I'd just be happy if students had digital only textbooks. Would save a lot of back pain and locker trips.
Ask HN: What would be your next move for Snapchat?
Curious to see HN's opinion on what Snaps next move would be. What do you think about spectacles? How would they secure their dominance with the younger generation, and how do they increase profits without taking away from the user experience?
I think it looks great. Elegant and concise. Programming was never mathematics, anyway. That hasn't stopped the butchering of notation ("=" for assignment, functions with side effects), why is everyone suddenly a mathematical purist, now?

It's a fine theme.
Yeah, indenting with spaces wastes so many punch cards! Oh, wait.
I'm optimistic, but I'd like to see benchmarks for compiling code. Right now I buy really expensive 8 core cpus, because multiple threads do speed up encoding quite a bit. If Ryzen can match that at half the price, it will be much welcome.
A neat LICENSE gen tool
It is always going to be like that. If you write software that has a rule "do not remove more than 5% of capacity at once" it will always work, yet if you tell a systems engineer please do not remove 5% of the capacity at once it fails with 0.0x% chance. The solution is that you move the execution of change into a system that spits out steps that is automatically executed by the system itself, entirely removing the human factor.
Some rude behavior is widely seen as acceptable in the US: snubbing, status slaps, insult delivery through jokes/sarcasm, interruptions, slouching during presentations.

That is the textbook behavior of a jerk. Anyone behaving consistently like that is a cultural liability that needs firing immediately.
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How does that thing boot and does it work with a mainline kernel I do not have to compile myself?
Sure there are some errors where lore overrides historical fact. An article ranging over 30 years of history via hops between minute detail is probably permitted a few factual errors. His tone certainly could be moderated if he wants to provoke less visceral rejections when he is wrong, though.

But I'd submit that the central thesis-that it is somewhat ridiculous to adhere to many of these conventions simply because they are established-is a very good one.

We have learned so much about how to make computer systems better and almost none of it is applied to Linux. The Linux kernel in particular is the work of brilliant people using archaic methodologies and adopting conventions that have long since ceased to make sense.
You would have to be prepared for a flood of data then, if I type get-printer I get a handful of useful properties, if I add ConvertTo-Json then I get 385 lines.
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Even when the customer knew it was show, I see it as a way of saying, "yes, we acknowledge that we screwed up and make a public, highly visible note of it that will be recorded in the annals of peoples' gossip in this area".
Actually, it is running ChromeOS. You can switch back and forth between Linux and ChromeOS quite easily because they're both running simultaneously.
My kid is being shaped by Siri in that she asks a question, Siri gets the wrong answer, she asks Siri why Siri is so stupid, 10 minutes of arguing back and forth ensue.
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Up to a point. They've added some great news coverage, but they still also do the rubbish they always did. There are effectively two Buzzfeeds, not a single reformed entity that is now a credible source.
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Are the videos also somewhere or only slides and notes are shared?
Classic lazy rich guy
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Most of the issue there is that, due to tradition, the official definition keeps getting bumped up so Samuel Adams counts. (Most recently from 2 million to 6 million barrels)

More practically, I'd say to look at microbrewery limits, which are 15,000 barrels/year.
It has definitely become less common to see companies build much outside of cloud environments. And the talent has dried up to an extent as a result. Expertise and interest in building outside of cloudland is important to find, but there's also a challenge in finding the right operational mindset as well.

It seems more common with more mature "startups" that have done the cost / benefit analysis and realized that the only way to achieve economies of scale for their business is to exit AWS. Dropbox, GitHub, Uber and so forth. Or businesses that simply must operate their own hardware, like CDNs.

There are some smaller places that see value in building a low-cloud service from the beginning. One of those companies is where I work, e-mail in profile.
To have the benefits of ChromeOS full time and the option to use Linux part time.
> Besides, who is to tell that the newer design will be better?

As much as it's popular to think otherwise, this isn't true. Taken as a whole, newer things are more often than not better than older things.

For example, cryptography has been on a huge march upward since the days of Unix crypt().
He didn't even get the find command that he has such a distaste for correct:

> How can we recursively find all the files with \ name in a folder foo? The correct answer is: find foo -name '\\\\'

No, the correct answer:

% find foo -name '\\'
foo/\

> We need to write four backslashes here as UNIX shell performs backslash expanding, and find does it too.

The single quotes prevent the shell from performing escaping. Find does need escaping, and that's the only layer that does, so the correct answer has two backslashes.
I think the key reason tablets were chosen wasn't that it was the best learning tool, but it was the best learning tool that won't cause a maintenance nightmare for school IT when kids go crazy with viruses and bricking their laptops whenever they were late for a homework assignment. Ipads are relatively hard to fuck up fron a software side, and if they do you just do a reset.
Sometimes you can be surprised to learn what "Everyone else..." means. If the cool kids have mac it means you will be left outside the cool kids group as a pc owner.
that is correct. the whole point is we can make practical real world tradeoffs and break out of the shackles of theoretical constraints.
> We really are using a 1970s era operating system ...

Try and read it this way:

"We really are using a 1970s era operating system ..."
That's it. Some recent laptops even have metal weights inside, so the top lid wouldn't outweigh[1]. I'd rather it had a heavier battery.

1. https://habrastorage.org/files/502/9db/168/5029db1688a747518...
There is not a single Chinese "regime" - the space of contestation of politics is simply different than in the US. There's an enormous amount of sometimes extremely emotionally intense conflict within the CCP.
thats impressive. 96 cores starting at 6k? did anybody else configure a silverback workstation with all the options to see what it would cost? ($33k...but wow.)
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13730876

Of course, that's 5 days ago and any comments added there won't be seen by many, if any, readers, so if you want to say something new and have a chance that it will be seen, you'll need to comment here.
While you could always run python on windows have the WSL is a big deal for education. You can get away with running a pretty modest system and still be able to run ruby on rails and mysql or postgresql on even a modest atom based laptop.
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edgy stuff
Most people who struggle to learn to code don't do well with expected lightbulb moments, but I've seen the same people do wonderfully when presented with methodical steps as building a trunk they can branch off of.
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I read your comment to my Chinese friends in the office. They are still laughing at what you wrote.
That Linux experience isn't a ChromeOS feature, rather something that one with developer experience needs to dig on Google forums and not exposed to the regular users that buy Chromebooks.
1. Get used to rejection

2. Keep your dream alive

3. Focus on culture

4. Ignore the #LITTLEMAN

5. Get inspired

6. Stay focused

Also his order of importance:

1. Customers

2. Employees

3. Shareholders
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Well, I think there are a few nuances that make the comparison a little tenuous.

First, though this may be stating the obvious, standards in culture are an important part of language; what is normal in one language is definitely not normal in another. Russian, for example, has words for "this", "that", etc, but you wouldn't commonly use it unless you were being really specific; a few of my Russian colleagues when coaching me in my Russian have reminded me not to be so specific with Russian since it could be perceived as insulting. Whereas in English there is no such judgement for casually using the references.

Second, and perhaps I'm misunderstanding the level of importance here, but I believe Spanish has a formal and informal form for verbs, similar to Russian Вы and Ты conjugation. How you talk to people indicates a level of formality baked into the language, so even if the literal translation is "Pass the butter", there is still some formality inferred. English has no such way of communicating this with the verbs alone, so we use other words to signal this.

I get what you're saying that not having it isn't a huge issue in other cultures, but that little part at the end is a pretty big caveat. Even between British and American english there are fairly big cultural differences, and it's supposedly the same darn language. Culture plays a huge impact in how language is interpreted, and if there is a lasting effect from Alexa, Siri, Cortana, and whatever Google's assistant is, it's worth noting I think.
and imagine how annoying it gets when you are punching a punchcard.