skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how I feel about this blog post but I think it reflects poorly on both the author and GitLab.

I feel that a company should always give feedback to an employee who is let go. Whether it's a simple letter or an exit interview, individuals should have closure when they're leaving a company and it doesn't sound like the author received that feedback. Furthermore, if nobody - a manager, for example - explicitly says "your job performance is not up to par for your position and we need to improve that" before an employee is let go then that shows a lack of organizational maturity.

I think the gripes he had were somewhat fair; if a mid-level engineer is given a task outside his comfort zone and he communicates that he's having trouble then a good senior engineer should be able to provide design and implementation advice to the less skilled employee. In my opinion, that's a huge portion of being a senior engineer - if one employee is floundering in his technical task then you need to be there as a patient, understanding, and willing mentor. Heck, even senior engineers aren't immutable bastions of knowledge and should rely on their fellow senior engineers to be a mesh network of interlinking skill sets.

The email about the tweet seemed justified if a little petty. The author was expressing pride over contributing to the product his company was putting forth. While it could be argued that he should have linked to GitLab itself, it is a gray area and I feel that stark admonishment isn't a fair or correct response.

In the end, it's still a very public complaint and these articles are mostly frowned on. That being said, I appreciate that this Medium post exists. It's a point of view to take into consideration if I ever plan to interview at GitLab - even if the author is enacting the definition of 'burning bridges.' To conclude, whenever I read articles like this I always have to think "well, what other points of view are there to consider?"
Depends HUGELY on a person.

I hesitate (i.e. take time to consider) for ALL questions I intend to provide an honest, as opposed to obvious answer.

I hesitate for "Do these jeans make my behind look fat" and I hesitate for "Do you like working here" (and myriad other questions in between).

I want to provide a considered, accurate, detailed and granular answer.

If anything, if they answer with immediate and resounding "Yes!!!", I'd think it was a fake, canned answer rather than one they gave genuine thought to...
> Is the F35 advanced enough that not being the best still leaves the USA with better than everyone else and therefor less than the best is good enough?

The other question is "and for how long?". Is it worth the price for a 5 or 10 year edge?
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Divide people into groups and then make certain groups the scapegoat for whatever problems your society has. A time honored tradition.
CEO rightly advised

I don't think it's right at all. What gives him that right? Why is it morally wrong to do otherwise? What kind of right are you talking about?
We still haven't learnt our lessons. I guess we can tolerate a blackout once in a while.
SF is horrible. Junkies and fog and cold. Never again.
I agree mostly, except the last part about DRM. I don't like DRM either, but this isn't DRM, this is a case where a physical device is dependent upon a cloud/internet service to actually function. So if the company either goes belly-up, or (as in this case) decides to capriciously revoke your device's access, you're left with a device that simply does not function.

Personally, I think this is terrible, but I think this incident is a good wake-up call to how ridiculous this kind of thing is, and why consumers should stay far, far away from such devices. I hope this gets a lot of mainstream media attention. But it's not DRM; that's an entirely different animal. That's where your own device (usually a computer or mobile computing device like a phone) is sent some encrypted media content, along with keys to decrypt it, so that it can only be viewed on your device (and according to certain stipulations), and this is enforced by your own device against you, the device's owner.
PowerShell is very serviceable, but it has weird points of failure. Especially with some FOSS projects that seem to think cmd is the furthest they will go as far as Windows support, then they completely choke on powershell.

I think if I liked the rest of the .Net toolkit more, I'd be more enthused about it. It makes things livable on Windows, which is better than the dark days of Vista/7.
Here is a really great write-up on the F-35 from Quora: https://www.quora.com/What-are-your-thoughts-on-the-F-35-Lig...
Brilliant. I'm stealing this one. Not only does it provide insight into the company, but if done right into the interviewer (who may well be your boss) as well. Thx! :)
I quite like it as a story telling and thought provoking one. It is different yes. But movie is different.

The original one is deeper but more confusing ...

This simplify a bit. It is ok. Sad it is doing so bad in theatre.
I doesn't do anything. By including a GPL-licensed work into your software, you promise not to place any additional restrictions on the result.

And it's really just that. It doesn't force any license on your code. You can still release your individual contributions under a BSD-style license[1]. The one thing you can't do is placing additional restrictions onto your peers.

[1] The combined work may be effectively distributable only under GPL-like terms, of course.
You just pay them to leave. Expensive for sure.
All adult males in the UK that you don't know the first name of but do know the surname of are called "Mr $Surname" as a social norm. Adjusting that designation because the Queen says so is very common too, but maintaining the status quo is just being apathetic towards the Queens edicts.

Most of her subjects do not complain. Some of them think we should have done away with such notions of reigning over other people already.

FWIW outside celebrity circles it is often considered quite gauche to insist on such pompous titles.

If you insist I'd be happy with calling him Professor Berners-Lee (even assuming he doesn't still have an active official professorship). If you want to talk about proper titles then is Sir Berners-Lee also rude when it should, by the right of HM EIIR be "Professor Sir Berners-Lee" [when spoken]?

If you're worried about recognition I think Mr Berners-Lee is not lacking in that department and was already party to the Queens inner circle as a holder of the Order of Merit which appears to be a far greater royal honour than a "mere" KBE. He has my utmost respect, if you doubted it.
Nginx v1.11.13 Released
Https://Node.js.org is down
https://nodejs.org is down.
Hunt for cancer 'tipping point' heats up
Two Google products named Espresso? That won't be confusing at all.
*) Feature: the "http_429" parameter of the "proxy_next_upstream",
"fastcgi_next_upstream", "scgi_next_upstream", and
"uwsgi_next_upstream" directives.
Thanks to Piotr Sikora.

*) Bugfix: in memory allocation error handling.

*) Bugfix: requests might hang when using the "sendfile" and
"timer_resolution" directives on Linux.

*) Bugfix: requests might hang when using the "sendfile" and "aio_write"
directives with subrequests.

*) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_v2_module.
Thanks to Piotr Sikora.

*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process when
using HTTP/2.

*) Bugfix: requests might hang when using the "limit_rate",
"sendfile_max_chunk", "limit_req" directives, or the $r->sleep()
embedded perl method with subrequests.

*) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_slice_module.
Battery Status Not Included: Assessing Privacy in W3C Web Standards
Off topic but I hope this medium.com trend starts to fade. I can't read the damn thing on my mobile when there are social sharing icons AND green open in app icon floating, taking room on my small screen.

Why would I want your app or open it on app? It's s damn simple blog not some kind of webapp.

Svbtl.com was also a thing here time ago, why did that platform become uncool?
Capitalism as a mode of production has many things in common with other modes of production and certain salient qualities that set it apart from other modes of production. In our current situation, the qualities unique to capitalism are being superceded (which is different from being replaced) by qualities unique to the information age, or whatever you want to call it:
1. value is increasingly extracted from peoples' information rather than their labor,
2. informational rather than industrial technologies are in the driver's seat,
3. commodity reification is no longer the most striking aspect of our social relations, etc.

At what point do these new aspects of our current "mode of production" reach a critical mass? I assume that by 2140, "neoliberalism" will not have much currency as a concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_mode_of_production_...
We actually really like (and use) Postgres inheritance. Our extensions add functionality specifically geared for time-series workloads. Namely, we add:

- Automatic table-sizing. This includes dynamically creating new tables for new data, closing old tables as soon as they get too big, etc. (more challenging than meets the eye because of deadlocking issues, etc.).

- Related to above, optimized inserts to correct chunks. In Postgres 9.6, this is slow using rules/triggers. In upcoming Postgres 10 the situation is supposed to be better (waiting for finalization of 10 to test). But in Postgres 10, auto-closing and table creation are still not supported, and implementing them would probably require the slow path. In contrast, Our inserts are very fast.

- Hash-partitioning query pruning according to partition key

- (Time based pruning supported also, but that's standard Postgres)

- Time-based query optimizations. For example, we enable the planner to group by time-intervals using indexes on time-columns. Plain postgres can't support that because it does not know that truncating/rounding time is order-preserving. Other optimizations in active development.

- Our upcoming clustered version will include distributed query optimizations. In addition our scale-out design takes advantage of many workload features unique to time-series (see white-paper for more details)
Do you have any data that supports the assertion that liberal politics are on a strong downward trend? That struck me as odd and my (admittedly short) googling found a lot of evidence that the opposite is true.
Return the product if you're not happy then. You're not entitled to a service, only the piece of hardware.
I loved it.

Also, my wife who was never able to grasp the original movie "got" this immediately.
It was the other way around. The dogma was that it was caused by excess acid and the revelation was that the bacteria were a major part of it. I was pointing to the story in general.
I wonder what devices will come in the next 5 years that require significantly new developments in UX.
I don't know anyone in the Bay Area that uses Indeed for Job Search. So this survey may be a little skewed
ew. gross.

CAs : Web of Trust :: domains : what Tor should do
Hey, we already do it at my university.
The Vive was a huge step up from the Rift DK2 (which is hardly a fair comparison, but that's what we had) in terms of user rejection due to sickness, but today we still have people pranking each other:

gently tap the tall tripods we have the lighthouses on and it produces a barely perceptible rocking for the VR user, mostly perceptible in their stomach.

It takes no more than 30s to go from perfectly fine to crippling nausea for most people in my lab.
I made a very similar site a few years ago, except you can't overwrite other peoples work: http://paint.reednj.com

(Its not moderated, so probably NSFW)
pretty sure angry teenagers can mess up your display in ways to make you puke without using WebVR :D
I disagree, I am more likely to hier the guy after reeding this post as I want someone to know when they need help. And more importantly be willing to speak up.
I would definitely pause.

I just took an internal course for interviewing potential candidates for our company a few weeks ago. Having been recently exposed to all the ways I can easily accidentally breach the law, I would agree that I would definitely hesitate, and may or may not answer the question.

Sure - in the comfort of my home office reading this thread, I have the luxury of being couch lawyer and arguing whether answering is legal or not, and how much I can divulge.

On the spot? I honestly might not have taken the risk if the question caught me off-guard (as it would've before today). As much as I want my manager to provide feedback often and early and for negative feedback to be constructive; and as much as I would want to exhibit those qualities myself; and as much as I think those things are important and should be discussed... I'd be uncomfortable sharing what is ultimately private information with, at that point, a random stranger.
Are Websockets and WebRTC not realtime enough? They need to bake more, but they're literally standards.

I wholeheartedly agree that probably the biggest problem that needs solving is that of siloed experiences. But this is also something the web solved long ago with URLs and files on the front, and webby APIs on the back.

If we invent another protocol to solve this problem, are we not simply creating new silos?
XSD is bulletproof. Why don't we just keep using XSD?
Identity trumps economics. Idealism is a political position; it's just not an economically rewarding one. It can feed the ego, though, and taking the other road - sacrificing principles for money - may lead to more net unhappiness.
Yup, you see a very similar pattern with prototype or MVP code.

People get fixated on the code or UI in front of them and they don't think about the actual use cases.

http://www.snopes.com/weddings/newlywed/secret.asp
I couldn't find the architectural diagram on how do you scale this across N nodes, can you elaborate on that? Is it similar to Postgres XL or Citus?
Servers are necessary because many users have a dynamic IP address.

If your product doesn't need to offer remote control, this isn't a problem. But for many products remote control is a significant USP.

I've built my own IoT systems, and this is one of the first problems that has to be solved.

In an IPv4 world, with domestic networks connected through NAT and a dynamic IP, external servers are going to remain a thing, because the problem cannot be solved without an external server.

If IPv6 ever really takes off every device will have its own address, and then all we'll have to worry about is building bullet proof top tier security into an SoC running some version of Linux that was last patched a few years ago.
It's still dominated by SV, which is surprising given the number of European startups that post. I think NYC and London are #2 and #3 on the list.
The biggest problem was always that everyone hated the native win32 theme, Even MS didn't use it in big products like office.
Is the F-4 really regarded as a failure? I thought it was a pretty big success. It certainly wasn't trouble-free. Infamously, the missile-only design ended up being way premature, but that was ultimately solved with a gun pod, and then a redesign to integrate a gun. Its combat record was good, it served in the US military for three decades, and it still serves in several foreign militaries today.

However, I'm far from an expert, and would love to know more if I got it wrong!
Optima, a multi-dimensional container scheduler for Docker
The OP didn't say that the Pixel starts at $1000.

A 128GB Pixel XL with device protection is $968 US before tax and still has the same 3 year support as the entry level Pixel.

The fact is Google sells a $1000 phone with 3 years of support. They also sell less expensive variants with 3 years of support.
Wait until you hear about how 4chan's My Little Pony and Politically Incorrect(read: Nazis) became friends after this year's April Fools prank.
Video is one thing--you can offload a lot more of that out of JS-land, yeah? What worries the hell out of me is the rest of WebVR. I mean--we see frame drop in Canvas on midrange PCs that's really hard to erase (sincerely, My Last Two Days Of Free Time). The prospect of that sort of mess in VR has me worried. I have a strong stomach so I may play with it once my replacement Vive gets here, but...man. This stuff is so razor-thin on the margins that it really worries me and will continue to so long as we're stuck with stop-the-world GC (and to be clear, of course you can write GC-friendly code...but it's a lot harder in JavaScript, IME, than in Java) anywhere in this stack.
What do you/they use?
> So unless you are able to link such a site then your not helping at all.

You are right, we are not helping at all with proving your unsubstantiated claim.
I took a job once where they:

1. Had no bug tracking

2. Had no source control (the official code was whatever was on one of the engineer's laptops)

3. Had no dedicated build machines (builds were done on that engineer's laptop)

4. Had no release process (build that went out was--you guessed it--copied from that engineer's laptop to a CD)

5. Had no formal QA

6. Had no documentation (either comments in the code, a spec, or a user manual)

7. Had no project management or roadmap planning (the CEO would just drop in and said we should do XYZ, and then a few weeks later "is it done yet?")

They thought their software problem was just that they didn't have enough smart engineers. Yea. You have to ask about these basic "hygiene" things.
I really liked the idea that created peercoin. I.e. a currency that also enabled distributed the registrar's (at least I believe so).
If the company only makes $20 bucks on it, then they're losing $80 by giving it away. That's how profit margins work.
Vital signs data during surgical cases with anesthesia data
> Even worse, what if someone has years of widely recognized, valid experience and is also wrong?

A more practical one might be the skeuomorphic phase apple went through.
I still love how all the furry subs collapsed into the snoo and Yiff me daddy after starting with many different logos.
Yeah, definitely a possible CLM here. I still am glad that things like this exist because I was part of a great startup with an awesome culture that became toxic. If it can help others not go that route, all the better for it.
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Not available any more. It was for iOS. I pulled it from the App Store a few iOS releases ago because it was crashing on startup.

I've taken the website down but you can still view it on archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20160329053206/http://www.lectrap...

I still use Swift for finer gradation. It also worked for video files, which was fantastic (mine never did that). Swift is 32-bit and will stop working soon. I haven't found a replacement yet.

(On iOS, at least, the 1.25/1.5/2.0 thing is because that's what the OS provides for very little effort. Finer controls require use of a supported-but-undocumented API or AudioUnits.)
People, listen. "Damping" means to reduce the amplitude of an oscillation. "Dampening" means to make something wetter.

</rant>
I get the fun of /r/place. I get the flags. I get the characters. I don't get the big block of text from Revenge of the Sith, and (mainly) how supporters of that beat out other communities.
Code as documentation only works if all your infrastructure is managed programatically, there are good tests, the code is good, and overall complexity is low.

I mean, if your downstream partner calls up to say that the custom analytics feed from your xyz service is returning null data, but not erroring, and the guy that implemented that feed (with rolled eyes, thinking it was an inelegant hacky concession to a noisy customer) left in 2015, where do you even start? How much code from how many codebases and configuration management repos are you going to have to read through just to work out what kind of problem you've got?

Some type of high level documentation - what services / products exist, what infrastructure does each use, how is each one managed and tested, what is worrisome about it or what has tended to go wrong in the past - is going to help a lot.
From my reading of it, it was referring to OP's disagreement about the Service Engineer team taking on correcting the internet whenever someone is wrong about GitLab with a staff of five people.

I still think they should have just taken the options... the idea that with a current $100M valuation they won't end up being worth at least $5M doesn't seem justified based only on just these anecdotes. I assume the contract didn't allow resale of the options to a third party.
I didn't understand the purpose of cell-tags. Can anyone give an example of how they might be used?
LinkedIn, Glassdoor, AngelList, HN, referrals, recruiters, Hired etc
I think it's time we whitelist sites that can create popups and popunders. Things like the firefox popup blocker flat out do not work anymore.
Westinghouse is going bankrupt, not going out of business.
That'll apply to the strike price as well as the current "valutation", so the multiple factor between the two valuations should be around the same regardless (a strike price of a non trivial number like $0.27 suggests that a 409a valuation was already in place to price the options)
The best description I've seen of the alt-right is /pol/ as an ideology.
Friends who work in this space treat this as a fireable offense. For the uninitiated, do not under any circumstances fuck with somebody in a headset--the feeling it causes can wreck an entire day. I have a strong stomach--and in VR, games that move independent of the camera don't bother me unless it's prolonged or super sudden--but I was useless for six hours after somebody ran into the lighthouse stand really hard (and caught it, but not before it swung about 30 degrees). I dropped to my knees and had to tear the headset off my head. It ranks up there with the worst experiences of my life.
Typo on my part, thanks for pointing it out, corrected.
That's because the new one was essentially simplified to the level of a Robocop cliché. It was really embarrassing to see how limited movie producers believe our imaginations are.

The original Ghost in the Shell is still difficult for many to grasp because the core theme around the essential features of identity are not yet culturally available to everyone.
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