skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be more inclined to believe this if the pro-manager view didn't come from the managers the vast majority of the time. It seems too convenient and self-service. Of course managers want to think they make a massive difference.

Certainly some aspects can: keeping politics away from your group so that they can work, focusing work tasks by eliminating extraneous ones, advocating for people in the company. However, once you start getting into things like values and metrics it starts becoming a lot more grey. On the one hand metrics are a great idea, a tiny step towards making management more science driven. But on the other, the metrics so often used are such a poor and overly simple representation of a very complex system that it's often hard to see how they provide an accurate view of any given work place.

Goals and values are often completely lame. We value hard work! Your goal is to do your job! Somehow managers must know that they are ridiculed for this. After all entire movies are made doing so. Yet they still seem to want to believe this rhetoric works.
It distinguishes meaning in all contexts as far as I can tell.

In some words, either the voiced or unvoiced variant do not have an assigned meaning, but you must use the correct one.

In some cases, there is a near clash. For example, "thin" and "then" have a different vowel, which is clear when they are enunciated clearly. However, when it's an unstressed vowel in surrounding speech, particularly fast speech, the difference relies much more on the leading consonant, because unstressed vowels in English gravitate toward the central [Ə] sound.

There are also situations like "this'll" (contraction of this will) versus "thistle".
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Possessed by demons/evil. Dead things don't come back - if they do it must be because of evil spirits.

That's the general belief at least, upheld by the beliefs of various religions and cultures.
Well, if the store isn't paying for it, and isn't discounting for working for the store, then yes it's "Free".

People are just too stupid to see it that way, and are willing to be flesh-automation with no cost.
The story isn't _good_, it's just a bit more complicated.

The pharma company's trade association published this recently which talks about it in depth:
http://www.phrma.org/report/commercially-insured-patients-pa...
No, it's the attitude. Saying "I don't know depth first search" is fine, saying "I'll never need this and by asking it you've revealed what a terrible company you are" is sour grapes.
Pretty sure he was referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy ;)
If we're talking about a single species, sure.
As an engineer you should be able to see the global picture and know other things. Because you wont be able to use something to solve your problem if you don't know it in advance. I mean, you don't need to know the details, but you need to know how things works.

For example, you might not need an AVL tree in your daily job, but if one day you need it to use it, you wont be able to notice if you don't know what is an AVL tree and what is its advantages over other trees.

Another example, you don't need to know http1 and http2 differences for your daily work. But if you know them you will change how you do web pages and you will see a leap in terms of performance and scability. And that knowledge also includes some knowledge about TCP, UDP, cache and other stuff.
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Profile:

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I tend to find that people with your view have a psychological and material necessity to believe the mythology.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair
Also, I think of all the services I've used that (usually quietly) limit their "free forever" service into a tier and scrub it from their marketing once they get rolling and don't need to over-promise in their marketing anymore.

I'm sure it converts better, but it feels more honest to remove the "forever" part.
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I’m looking for someone to join the security team here at Blink Health, primarily to help out with (like it says) policy, risk, and compliance. This job can be as hands-on as you like, and hopefully you like that! Also, this job requires creativity; not in the sense of “how dirty can we be and not get fined?” but in the sense of “nobody’s done this sort of thing before, how can we comply with both the letter and spirit of the regulations without a clear precedent?”

What does the job entail? Obviously designing policies and procedures for Blink Health and our other ventures. In addition to taking the lead on designing our governance, you’ll help implement, evaluate, and improve our policies and procedures. There will be audits, both internal and external. There will be partner evaluations to answer, and partner evaluations to perform. You’ll be figuring out how we can use 3rd party services more securely, and how to segment and protect our data internally. These activities won’t take all your time, though. You’ll have plenty of time to pursue other things that help improve Blink’s overall security, and plenty of discretion as to how to go about that. You’ll have a lot of responsibility, but you’ll also always have help and guidance.

Maybe you’re a governance & risk management consultant who prefers to hang out with the pen testers. Maybe you work at BigCo and are frustrated with how long it takes to get things done. Maybe you’re a technical security person who’s discovered that they find the organizational aspects of security really interesting. Maybe you’ve got some other reason that you’re interested. It’s all good, let’s find a way for you to do interesting work and contribute to fixing health care.

Why you want to work for Blink Health:

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What you should have to apply:

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* Desire for varied work

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I'm not sure if you have understood my argument. The precise ratio at which it becomes noticeable or at which things start breaking down is not relevant to gauging whether an implementation is well-behaved or not.

Fundamentally a p2p network can only work if averaged over the nodes the following holds: resources consumed <= resources provided. If everyone tries to consume more than they provide (possibly zero) then the network does not work. This can be extended a bit further by also looking at whether some node behavior impacts how much other nodes consume. Ultimately means selfish nodes are harmful to the network on a fundamental level. They simply cannot satisfy that inequality.

Even a single misbehaving node will inflict an - admittedly miniscule - amount of harm on the network. It's akin to stealing a dollar from your wallet, it probably won't even impact your day.

And just like stealing dollars gets worse and worse as you take more of them from people the noticeable impact in a network gets worse and worse as the fraction of misbehaving nodes increases. It starts with wasting everyone's bandwidth (metered internet!), then increases the latency of lookups because you need to visit more hops and then less strict implementations start to fail lookups. The most strict, defensive implementations gradually failing more and more of their lookups is just the last and most visible kind of harm.

To give a more concrete example, I have observed utorrent and libtorrent DHT implementations having polluted routing tables near their home buckets since they don't sanitize fake nodes aggressively enough. This adds maybe a dozen entries to their routing tables, it's not much. But any lookup coming their way will experience significantly increased latency because the terminal phase of a lookup should be exhaustive, so an implementation has to try all the bogus entries. There are counter-measures of course, but they increase implementation complexity and result more maintenance traffic than otherwise necessary. Those fake nodes come from only a few thousand IPs and yet they cause a negative impact for everyone because they have indirect effects.

So in the real world the impact depends on a) fraction of bad nodes b) aggressiveness of bad nodes (not all bad behavior has the same impact) c) implementation quality of those who are trying to be good citizens.
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if that was supposed to be a demonstration of samsung's 360 degree cameras and video, i'm unimpressed. the image quality was terrible, and the video paused and couldn't be resumed before i could actually see the crooked forest - it just lies somewhere down that road i guess.

luckily, google image search has got me covered. if anybody else is curious and similarly frustrated by the format provided, here's what it looks like:

http://cdn.earthporm.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/crooked-...
Globally, how many people have net debt? I bet it's fewer than you think.
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Recent work includes:

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+ AWS/Docker platform to securely host a large public-sector microservice-based web app taking millions of pounds per month in payments.

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Gah, wrong thread... more coffee...
Most programmers on the market don't have a lot of experience, due to the programmer population increasing in size quickly over the last decades. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_pyramid)

So one big question all companies have is how to interview for programming positions by kids fresh out of school or who've had a job for at most a couple of years.

This is less a question of competence and more a reflection of the age structure of the market for programmers. You will be working with people younger and less experienced than you. You will probably be hiring people younger than you -- how will you interview them?

As someone with a couple decades professional experience, I see these challenges as one of many ways for competent companies to attempt to find competent programmers despite a lack of experience by the interviewee.

The last company I interviewed for gave me coding challenges, but that's not all they asked, I got plenty of questions that allowed my experience to shine. If you only got coding challenges as an experienced developer, then yes, that would be a reason to avoid that company.

On the flip side, my willingness to take the coding challenges in my interview allowed me to highlight my practical experience, because I crushed them with little preparation. Other experienced devs who refused the coding challenges or dragged their feet and complained about them lost the opportunity to receive an offer.
The elephant on the room, the old question that it seems nobody wants to mention is, in a totally automated economy, "who owns the means of production?".

I don't think we are going to arrive nowhere in the discussion until we face that question.
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It could easily be.
Anything proclaiming its going to "kill" some other business, likely isn't.

Google Docs is a great example of solving a problem that carved out a subsegment of Microsoft Office user base. I don't think any one solution is going to be the all encompassing one like Office has been.
A few thoughts after reading the article:

(1) The writing style isn't impressive given the author claiming to be a native English speaker and a teacher. A bit wordy and incoherent.

Example:
I was in China from February 2007 until June 2010 I lived in 3 cities while I was there, 2 years in Harbin (where they have the Ice Festival, and a wicked beer garden in Summer), 1 year in Shenyang (awesome city where I started my first business) and 1 year in Changchun (where I started my second business, and met my amazing wife).

(2) Pretty obvious advertising on Ninjodo, and I feel this is the main theme of the article instead of 'sharing of lessons learned'
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Bottom line: Taylorism only works well when applied to work that can be throughly quantified into time and motion studies. When you try to apply it to disciplines that require reflection and analysis or are by definition speculative in nature (can't think of anything more speculative than research or learning new things about the world that is academia), it's a catastrophe.

Video: The surprising truth about what motivates us

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I want Adobe to make a word processor and then an "operating system" by just pulling a Google and branding Linux; the only non-gaming software that seems to lock most people to Windows or macOS is Office/Work and "everything written by Adobe", and Valve is totally ready to jump ship and the lock in of DirectX is also dwindling in power... I think Adobe could pull it off.
I believe you undevalue the passion some people have for not working.
Wrong thread, this is for people looking to be hired, not job postings.
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Yeah, it may (likely?) have been the head injury - post traumatic amnesia is a real (not to mention scary) thing even though it's played for laughs on sitcoms. I recall stories of football players getting hit in the head, finishing the game, but having no recollection of the latter part of the game the next day. The rest of the symptoms are also symptoms of a head injury.

Either is possible though.
They make their own rules and voting laws. There is no requirement of equal representation like the US Constitution provides.

Does every member of a family get a vote? How about every adult? Or is it just one vote per household?
Ask HN: Isn't it time for the completely HTTPS web and DNSCrypt?
We're starting to completely lose control over our privacy. It seems to be happening at an accelerating pace.

The recent US vote about ISPs selling browsing histories is just a hint at things to come. We, as technical folks, are responsible to do what's ethically best.

The average Joe has been boiled like a frog by companies who prey on our personal data. They aren't going to do anything about it.
The rivalry between two billionaires is reducing the cost of space travel
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But it is Apple, one of rare "experienced" companies that can pull this off well (not perfect but enough). Apple has done two (or three?) complete CPU architecture changes and developers just had to recompile their app. Remember fat binaries from the PPC>Intel switch over?

I suspect as long as the graphics tools use Metal, it will be a quick transition.
You're assuming their technical illiteracy is limited to software. My mother routinely must explain to teachers over and over that files saved to "their desktop" are accessible from any computer on the AD, or that Google Drive is different from email.