skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I just think GGP is mis-interpreting the situation because of the article's unfortunate wording. Once the stock is vested it stays vested. Whether it is 'worth something' or not doesn't matter, if you've got it it stays unless you sell it. I suspect 'worth something' translates into 'something for which there is an easy market', merely whether or not you can easily sell it.

Whether this particular stock will go up or down after the IPO is any-body's guess.
You can argue for their intelligence, but they can't argue for yours.
Thank you for saying this. I was going to say the same thing. The difference between facebook and my side project is not the core functionality. Anyone competent can build something that seems to look and act like facebook in a weekend or two in the general sense of "look and feel." Which is also perhaps a dangerous way to go, lest you get sued.

It's getting the nitty-gritty details hammered out and then implemented that takes time and people. I'm currently trying to do something similar but directed in a very different way. Facebook feels like a CRUD app. But there's a lot of different moving parts that you have to deal with on top of the CRUD pieces.

And every single one of those things--while not necessarily difficult to implement individually--add up to tons of decision time.

When the expected outcome is already decided, the problem becomes much much easier to solve for a developer.

Assuming that you're dealing with some kind of a reasonable web stack, implementing any individual feature is often not that big a deal. Deciding to do it, and also perhaps making the choice to have a reasonable web stack to begin with, are potentially problematic.

And of course, building something that can massively scale is hard as well.

But from my experience with side projects and also my day job, the hard part is making decisions.
There are bad reasons to quit a company and good ones, but there are few better ways to make an exit than on the spot when the CEO of your company personally and publicly berates a low-level employee in front of the team.
I went through a long drawn out sales engagement with them. It seemed like a cool product at its core (basically a sort of meshed set of interconnected nodes that you could do live "natural language" queries against predefined collected data (i.e. "what machines are running ntpd?") but the stuff they were trying to sell on top of it at the time like patch management ranged from half finished to promises for future releases to things that ended up simply... not being true.

My perception at the time was that it was a good product for what it did but maybe after the demos were over too many potential customers said "so now what?" and they were putting pressure on engineering to release way too soon. And it turns out they were probably right, even though it was an obviously useful product for live reporting, detection and triage those things aren't appealing to managers so we didn't buy it.
I think so it was from the show Silicon Valley. I know way to base your facts on a show. But I did hear that the show had at least one real engineer advisor.

Even so with regard to work vs. time what determines the time? Launch date?
California native here. This is the first time I've ever heard anyone say this about LA. Most generalizations usually go the other way; this is new.

To be clear, all the generalizations are bad, IMO, but this perspective is new, and I think maybe the least accurate.
In addition to the other great projects mentioned, I'll throw out fwup [1] (A/B partition update, used by nerves.io) and snapcraft [2] (containerized packages, not whole-OS.)

For myself, I'm comfortable with some form of A/B partition update (assuming the problem of distribution and verification is solved elsewhere) however at the very least you still have to patch or script u-boot (or your bootloader of choice) to make it smart enough to try booting the primary partition and also have some sort of canary file it can check on the next boot to validate that the partition booted successfully and e.g. made it all the way to the target runlevel. And if that check fails fall back to the secondary partition or some recovery image.

Embedded firmware updates - especially for M2M devices that are not necessarily user-facing - are sort of like changing the engine of your car while driving down the highway. It's a very tricky thing to get right. Plus if something goes wrong, it's not like you can just SSH into your server or kill that cloud instance and start a new one :)

[1] https://github.com/fhunleth/fwup
[2] https://snapcraft.io/
This is exactly right. First project I saw using this approach a couple years ago was Play Framework + scalariform.
That matters more for the Skylanders games... outfits and special equipment in Breath of the Wild are mostly cosmetic.
My sense from the story is that they're being accused of ruthlessly terminating employees just prior to their cliff.
The metabolism is to simply wait for resources to react naturally. PNA in sufficient concentrations and conditions will continue to polymerize and grow just by random chance. It's not any different from what happens inside a simple cell, really: ATP and other resources are for the most part just present inside the cell. It's just that for life to come about those conditions or something like them have to exist naturally.

As the RNA/pre-RNA chain grows, there will be natural selection for any sequences that catalyze polymerization. This will eventually either lead to self-catalyzing replication or a mutual replication. AFAIK the second one is considered more likely because although RNA can self-catalyze it's not very good at it (of course, it doesn't really need to be). Mutual replication would require a primitive polymerase being spontaneously generated, which would allow an RNA-like molecule to -self-replicate. Eventually an chain would be created that could replicate via copies of itself, and that molecule would be able to spread beyond the original catalyzing molecule and outcompete anything else (since it would be able to replicate with any copies it made, it would grow exponentially rather than linearly).
But it seems to me that when it comes to security, efficiency etc. only large centers can get it right, because they have more at stake. The majority of small providers will mess up. Like compare AWS uptime and security to a regular host.

And sadly this explains the rise of centralized everything including gmail and facebook and iOS app store and - for thousands of years - centralized cities and states and federations.
Nobody walks in LA
Pentagon drops Mother-of-all-Bombs (non-nuclear) in Afghanistan
I believe in this case it's Change Log.
What you state is factual. In the context of "as revolutionary as transistor", then I'd say yes as well. But when it comes to jobs, deep learning's impact is overstated.

When I hear claims on how many jobs will be replaced because of deep learning (in contrast to the base rate of the long, steady slope of automation over the last 175 years), it's often about an abstract and simplified notion of the complexities of jobs outside the claimant's area of expertise. In such cases, it's useful to ask the claimant whether their profession is soon to be made obsolete. Will AI replace the pundit anytime soon? The economist? The enterprise programmer? The AI researcher?
I think that's becoming less of a norm. More and more companies seem to be moving to 4-year vesting, distributed annually.
Me too. College turned me into a men's rights activist
Ha. I see he walked down Gage Ave. I grew up on the opposite end of it Next to East LA. The area (s)he walked thru can be pretty sketchy.
Lol. Everyone thinks they can predict the stock market and no one else can. Like only they know about the lockout period and the hordes of shareholders buying it today at $20 have no idea a drop in a few months is near-inevitable.
I permanently turned off my last desktop around 2007, and have been using a laptop exclusively since. I had a media PC I built under my TV, and I shut that off permanently around 2010, replacing it with a Google TV device that I later stopped using. Nowadays I have a laptop (no external monitor, even), a reasonably low-powered NAS, and a ChromeCast, and that covers my computing/media needs at home.

In that time I also went from a CRT TV to a plasma, and at some point in the next year or so I'll probably swap that out for a (lower power) OLED TV or similar.

(As an aside, 35W for a laptop today seems excessive. Assuming PowerTop is accurate, my laptop is using 9W right now. While charging it's undoubtedly using more, but even plugged in while fully charged, with less of the power-saving features enabled, 35W seems a bit high.)
That's why it got that much better. Before it was barely usable, now it is positively stunningly good (with the occasional booboo but if they keep improving at the present rate that will become quite rare in another 3 to 5 years).
It's that whole guilt thing. This one guy kept insisting he was hungry/homeless like it was my problem. But first he asked for a cigarette, then a lighter, then $1,$2,$5 ahh... I had just gone to a store and had a bunch of singles/quarters for the bus.

Could I spare a few bucks sure. Do I waste money on myself sure.

I remember one time I was scammed haha. This old lady's like "You're a good boy, you had a good mother." Haha as they walk off with $20.00 for "gas" where I could have pumped gas into their car but insisted on cash.

Oh well I just think if it's my time it's my time.
> I think it's unique to tech that people are biased toward thinking things are good just because they're new.

I take it you haven't worked at a big company? Companies get big, stakes get high, people get entrenched and complacent--and newness is viewed exactly as you describe.
I'll concede that LA might lack a true urban identity since it can be very disjointed, although even this is debatable if you spend some time in the historic core, but I'm not sure I would say it's featureless. The mountains to the north and the ocean to the west make for a pretty dramatic cityscape, along with the Wilshire corridor[1] and downtown. LA also tends to look great at night, particularly from the air[2].

Hopefully the LA River revitalization goes according to plan and it can be better integrated with the neighborhoods it runs through[3].

[1]http://www.lanebarden.com/linear-city-wilshire-boulevard/

[2]http://www.michaellight.net/new-gallery-1/

[3]http://www.changkimphoto.com/where-the-water-once-flowed-la-...
For this you can still run the background daemons from the other DEs, for example gnome-settings-daemon or lxsession.
I was born much before yesterday, and I know how bad elections used to be, and how well they are now. An improvement wholly attributable to the EC.
Yeah, I think Tanium's ultimate issues are their firing of employees to prevent vesting (and thus erosion of control of the company) and actions by the CEO whereby he berated an employee in front of the employee's team.

You piss off your lower level employees, that builds resentment and causes employee churn, and if it was a habit of the CEO the other execs would likely jump ship as fast as possible (as they've been doing).
Maybe dealer was stressful in the past, but I interned at CSL a few years ago and it was pretty relaxed. People seemed to ask questions for clarification, or because they genuinely wanted to improve your research.

Being in your early 20s something giving a talk at PARC is inherently stressful, but having spoken at a multiple conferences they were a very respectful crowd.

PS: Yes, PARC still exists, though it's "PARC - A Xerox Company" now, as they repeately remind the interns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)#PARC_today
This is what it's become. I just scribble a line mostly, because most signatures are done on an electronic device (nothing beats good ol' pen and paper). And this is how employees actually feel about a signature.

But when you open a credit card the employee is supposed to verify that the signature matches the signature on your state-issued id, and a basic AI program would only better enable the employee. Seems like such an obvious solution to counter fraud too
The welder, the courier, the truck driver, the cab driver, the pilot, the GP, the gardener... I could probably make a really long list of jobs that will be affected, pundits are safe for now (but composers and painters are not), economists are probably safe too if only because they always seem to manage to weather the storm without damage even if they caused the storm and still failed to predict it. Enterprise programmers are safe - for now -, but keep in mind that humans already know how to teach each other stuff, as soon as programming becomes hard to distinguish from teaching by example that enterprise programmer had better watch out.

Let's review this in a decade or so and see what happened.
We used to think all animals are incapable of intelligence and everything they do is "instinct".

Whenever I see this written I like to point out that the "we" in this case was only a vocal minority of people throughout history.

Anyone who's ever lived or worked with animals, at the very least mammals and birds, would have observed them being intelligent.

I'm sure this idea that people used to think animals weren't intelligent is a myth in the same way we think people used to believe the Earth is flat is a myth[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth
"and on top of that they have become better at most classification tasks than humans."

That hasn't been my experience. But perhaps we should define better?

Computers are faster at doing the classification than a human, but not as accurate. So it depends what variable you're optimizing for when you say "better."

I'd be careful with that.
Yes, so before the first batch of stock vested.
Who's Hiring in Tech Companies Which Are Making the World a Better Place?
My background is in database operations and software development. I have a lot of experience in solving scaling issues. I feel like I have a lot to offer at a wide variety of companies and I've never had an issue getting offers and landing jobs.

I'm extremely grateful that working in tech has given me a field where I can excel and be well paid for it. However, I find myself wishing I could do more to give back. I'm tired of the scandals & indifference found at many tech giants. It would be a dream come true if I could combine my technical skills with a company that is working for an company that is truly trying to make a positive change in the world.

I'm looking for small to medium sized companies (50-500 people) who are focused on more than just disrupting a market and making some cash. Possible scopes are: Environmental, sustainable energy and environmental protection; Social, such as education & economic equality; Healthcare and medicine.
>"NYC is not representative of the rest of America in any way"

You want to make sweeping blankets like "they all close at 5:00" and then you want to move the goal posts and say the discussion is only about "regular America" whatever that means or "back in the 1970s".

Replace New York with Boston, Austin, Los Angeles or New Orleans etc and the majority of businesses are still Mom and Pop. For some reason you have(incorrectly) equated Mom and Pop to mean rural America. Mom and Pop businesses are not the exclusive domain of small town America. Similarly they are not just a thing of the past as you keep referring to them.

It really appears as you have no interest in engaging in a discussion but rather just want to argue for the sake of arguing. Even your diction "oh please", "Spare me" and "bogus"? What are we in a dive bar?
The Refugees – Human Failure and a Challenge to the Host Countries
Airbnb account hijackers burgle homes
It would still be visible in the fossil record, IMHO. Stone can still form around structures that long faded away, and there is zero evidence of any tool before our recent relatives (apes).

EDIT: fossil record -> geological record.
Curious why you have the str() cast around pickle.dumps() where you make the md5 key. I thought it would always return a string. Does that catch some known corner case, or just being cautious?
Instagram is oriented towards consumption; when you open it, it takes you to your feed, and as you mention after posting or viewing stories it makes it easy to consume more.

Snapchat is oriented towards creation. When you open it, it starts on the camera.
The article addresses private solar, though admits to incomplete data and some uncertainty:

"The Energy Information Administration actually started estimating power generation from small-scale solar installations at the end of 2015... and found that it accounted for only about 1 percent of U.S. electricity. That estimate could be off, and there's surely room for more study, but mismeasurement of solar generation doesn't seem to be the main explanation here."
I'm getting sick of reports like this. Setting up unfair vesting schedules and firing people before their stock vests... somebody should vigorously investigate it and put the CEO in jail. Startups are fucking hard work and a CEO stealing glory is a crime not a culture issue. These guys need fear of God.
So you also scanned and didn't read.

They're not pesticides and more importantly they are not poured on the crops. Read it.
I'll start with what you already have: There is a small value in the Ruby/Python experience. That kind of thing serves to script some of the tools, including: IDA Pro, Binja, gdb, and scons. There is also a small value in the Devops stuff I think, but Devops isn't my thing so... you mean server admin tasks? The hobby c and Linux stuff is most valuable. We write emulation in C. Most of us use Linux for everything, but we also have Windows experts who just use that.

Mixing personal projects and work and education...

Some of our people have backgrounds doing driver development and embedded system programming. An excellent background would be compiler development. We have hired people who did assembly back when that was totally normal, getting their first job around 1970. We hire some people straight out of
college; Carnegie Mellon University has the best program for this. We don't actually require a degree, but most people have one, and there are a few people with the PhD. Some people have worked on cars, writing software for stuff like airbag deployment (no bugs allowed!) and infotainment stuff.
We hired a former Atari 800XL game developer who was kind of famous. I had done Linux kernel development, been an embedded RTOS developer, and written the "ps" program that Linux uses. We hired a guy who wrote a TI calculator emulator. We hired a guy who got himself sued for exposing
security holes in a speech at Blackhat or DEF-CON, and almost hired another person who did the same thing. (the one not hired had an awful attitude) We hired a person who wrote code to run hardware that would extract platelets from blood. Some employees have written boot loaders. A few
people have done stuff with neural networks. Some have worked on radar. Some have done GPGPU and FPGA programming. We had an employee who wrote a PC demo scene boot sector (512-byte bootable screensaver) that used one of the bytes 3 ways, as data and as two distinct instructions. We have many people who participate in hacking competitions such as ShmooCon's "Ghost in the Shellcode" CTF and DEF-CON's CTF. We have people who got addicted to hand-optimizing code, vectorizing things and counting things like pipeline stalls. We have a person who worked on the JIT for an open source Nintendo emulator. We have some people with math backgrounds
who take interest in automated proofs that programs will or will not do various things, and who can figure out how to automatically create program inputs to make the programs excercise various parts of the code. We hired
a guy who bought his own parking meter (!!!) and then figured out how to hack into it via the pass/token thing it used. We hired a guy who hacked into a bathroom scale that had WiFi. We hired a person who did Dell's BIOS.
Huh? Sure, the employee could sit through the CEO taking a dump on them in front of their coworkers, but if the employee has other options for employment, I'd say there isn't a usually solid reason to stick around a hostile work environment.

The bridge is already burned with the CEO, and your unlikely to burn the bridge any worse with your direct boss/coworkers by quiting immediately versus a few days/a week later. Might actually gain some respect from them which could net you a job later down the line at another firm one of your coworkers ends up at!

That being said, its all corporate politics, so it is hard to derisk it, and you should try to be aware of as much of the political situation as possible before making a move.

Edit: added last paragraph to clarify.
That implies a 2.4 percent rate of real growth in a hyperinflationary era, so assume a 4.4 real rate of return in normal circumstances. That is the number we should be basing projections on, as it correlates more closely to real dollars in the retirement age years. 8-12 percent estimates are bs, and red herrings because they don't relate real returns.
> with less of the power-saving features enabled, 35W seems a bit high

That's wall plug consumption, and a pretty beefy laptop, i7, high res screen, as much RAM as it will hold and a large (spinning) disk (Lenovo T540p).

Even totally idle it is still around 20W.
It allows everyone in your company's dev organization share a common `standard` of JS style, which you have agreed on, even if it differs slightly in the way it bikesheds things like single-vs-double quotes or the presence of semicolons. (I mention `standard` because we use it as the basis for our linting rules, and would LOVE to use prettier to reformat our code.)
If there were any high-intelligence species before they must have exited in a time predating current coal and oil formation, or were not technologically capable, or found some other way of harvesting energy. The fact that we found massive amounts of planet-killing coal and immediately started exploiting it with abandon means that that did not happen before, ergo no technologically capable species on this planet for at last 300M years back. Now you could argue that 'intelligent species' tend not to shit in their own beds. We talk about Fermi filters for a reason.

Do keep in mind that diversity enables diversity. If biosphere complexity falls enough changes are it will never recover. Earth had live almost immediately after formation. It took more than 2.5B years for something more complex to emerge from the ur uni-cellular broth. Evolution or linear increasing complexity is not guaranteed by any means. What will a chimp bashing rocks in the bush be doing in 1000 000 years? Building quantum computers or bashing rocks. Overwhelming evidence points to bashing rocks.
Sure, tenancy is special. But so is common carriage: "A common carrier holds itself out to provide service to the general public without discrimination (to meet the needs of the regulator's quasi judicial role of impartiality toward the public's interest) for the "public convenience and necessity". A common carrier must further demonstrate to the regulator that it is "fit, willing, and able" to provide those services for which it is granted authority."

We are not talking about a random piece of property being trespassed upon here. We are talking specifically about a situation where the airline is licensed to take money from the public in exchange for letting people put their "arses" in those seats.
Have a look at the latest imagenet results. It's stunning, to put it mildy.
Mainly because we're in a recovery period from the recession that started in 2008. The trend is clearly still upward, though it's starting to level off. Too soon to tell if that's temporary or not.