skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it is. it's a stupid idea.

although, when I go vegan, I don't like taking supplements. If we could engineer some foods to provide all the B12, Zinc & Iron etc we need that are hard to get from vegetables (without a a lot of effort) that would be nice.
The main concern of the question is the side projects, not whether the employee is performing adequately. This two questions are inherently tied together. If the employee wasn't performing then they would be fired regardless of the side projects.

So in order for the side projects to be a concern, it implies the employee is still performing their job at normal levels. So then the question becomes, why does the engineer have time and motivation to work on the side projects?

And ultimately I think, the answer to that question is that there's some failure on the part of company leadership, as other commenters have pointed out, regarding motivation, available work, and how over accomplishing is valued.
Why did that trigger you?
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I did this in my resume for my first job out of college, and I still do: "Open Source Software Project Experience". List of projects, with details on impact and relevance.
Anyone have online resources for testing C/C++ software? The resources I find online always seem to not cover much.
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That's a narrow view and inaccurate over the long run. I make more money than my colleagues who only do what they're asked to do. And if my company has layoffs I'm one of the last who would be let go.
Based on value of assets, same as everyone else.
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> Do you want to sit around waiting to be told what to do or engineer your own path?

It can be very difficult if not impossible to engineer your own path in most environments these days. These days most devs are simply trading time for money. If the backlog board is empty, they're on retainer waiting for it to fill up.

Because of the eternal effort of the enterprise to commoditize developers they're given no decision making power. So even though they continually identify work that could be done to improve product or process, they know it's a crap shoot to follow through on such work as it's more than likely to be rejected for one subjective reason or another.
I do that too and look if the person has a project he/she is excited about and can talk about decisions that have been made and other details with some clarity.
> To me the problem is not net neutrality, it is monopolistic behavior in broadband providers

How do you solve that problem? It seems expensive.

Companies probably invested in building out their networks, paying government to have guaranteed access to subscribers.

If the government took all this back at once, it'd be costly, either in immediate money or just the reputation that the government holds with businesses. You want investors to be comfortable investing in future American development projects.

I agree that working towards a more competitive environment in the long term is the right thing to do, though it doesn't seem practical to do overnight, as evil as some ISPs appear to be.

What we don't need is to kill net neutrality, which would further line content providers' pockets with money they don't need. They're not a failing industry.

They're also not being so abusive as to require government takeover, in my opinion. They're not currently "poisoning" our internet, like Flint water.

There's no perfect solution for anything, public or private. We need to assess the conditions of today and decide what's the next best thing to do to increase our quality of life.
Why are so many stories X company posts X revenue? Who cares?
It seems to be that the only two parties that really care what revenue a company makes in a quarter are investors in that company or its competitors. I really, truly, do not care what your quarterly profit is, at all. Is there some reason I see these articles popping up so often on consumer tech sites, like techpowerup.com?
Remind him that work done on company time is owned by the company, and that he might inadvertently give up ownership of his side project to the company.

It's not worth the risk.
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Love skiing and coding? Here's the job for you!
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Hours let you develop much better estimation models. Agile/Scrum isn't a silver bullet and it is valuable information for any development shop.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch...
Oh I'm sure I am :)

It just seems like a total non sequitur from what I had said. Trying to figure out what they meant. Sadly, we'll probably never know.
Oh I mean the "we own your ideas" bit. They did enforce the side project part, asking me to take down the site. There were other things going on at the time which meant I had a bit of leverage and we parted ways amicably with the rights to everything side-project being given to me as part of my exit.
>Even then it can be difficult.

Yep. The other problem is that if you're going to try to make your shopping mall vaguely mimic Castro Street in Mountain View, in addition to climate you're going to need Mountain View-like demographics. I can pretty much guarantee you that the shopping mall nearest to where I live that has JCP and Sears as two of its anchor stores isn't going to support a boutique hotel and swanky ethnic restaurants with sidewalk seating.
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Same in Czech, which I believe still enforces the -ova ending. (Please correct me if that changed)
Ok, done. It's only a short one.

https://jacquesmattheij.com/just-say-no
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I'm talking about the optical illusions such as seeing a small person next to a car makes the car look bigger. Anything based on ML instead of geometry, or even using ML as a strong prior, will be susceptible to this kind of problem.
My talk at LambdaConf last year. Practical category theory refactoring couched in the language of middle school Algebra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhw4FD0pCU8

We learned sums (a+b) and products (a*b) well. The leap is understanding that exponents count function spaces a->b.
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It's a non-trivial problem to provide all the devices with enough electricity and network bandwidth and know how to handle soft & hard resets for devices that were never designed to run like servers. Yeah, a book isn't needed for managing just a few phones, but definitely needed as the number of devices increases.
Much like the last episode of the 1988 TV show Max Headroom, “Baby Grobags”.
Absolutely - there's currently discussion around a Carrier trait which would make it generic, once we have some variety of HKT. Still, it's good enough for now, and any future development of it will be backwards-compatible.
Looks like any senior job at google/facebook/microsoft/apple.

150-200k in salary + 50-100k in stock + 50k-100k for health/401k/parentalleave/food//office/hardware/concierge/gym + employer taxes + ...
Alternatively, if you're happy with the employee's output and don't want to increase his salary, maybe work with him to reduce his official hours. Maybe he can work on his side project on Thursdays and Fridays, at home, on his own equipment.
Those are all habits that developed organically over centuries based on our desire to live and lead happy, fulfilling lifestyles.

This is a brand-new procedure that just a couple years ago would be written about in a sci-fi novel. Perhaps you can understand how someone might think it's a little strange.
Yup, but that's not what this net nuetrality removal will do - it keeps the regulations that give monopoly positions possible, while removing regulations that prevented certain abuses.

I'm in favor of removing some regulations here. I'm not in favor of calling all regulation removals good.
It's an easy to use page, and I enjoyed noodling around for a bit. I didn't get results that I expected, and I'm not sure if that's your product or Twitter. If I had money I might spend a little bit to try the product, but I don't think it's aimed at people like me. Good luck though!

I searched for [suicide prevention] in the UK. I expected to see near the top of the list Professor Louis Appleby (13.6k followers, advises UK government on suicide prevention) and the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with a Mental Illness (only 3.6 k followers, but is the most well known suicide prevention research project in UK)

I got a single page returned, and these two accounts were not on that page. If I change the location from UK to England I get a completely different, worse, set of results, and again these 2 aren't in there.

@ProfLAppleby

@NCISH_UK

(Also, it's weird to see me (300 followers) at number 12 in the UK list.)

Is this something that Twitter sucks at? Is it something to do with lower numbers of people using twitter for suicide prevention tweets?
How would you like to fall from 5 meters height while carrying 6 lit jet engines and a bunch of flammable liquid on your back?

The answer is pretty obviously safety. That, and I doubt flying is terribly reliable either given he is doing it with muscles and his muscle memory (super impressive, by the way), so if he did it over water just to prove a point, there's a good chance he'd ruin tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment.
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> Is there a single good argument for removing net neutrality?

I think it's relatively unknown among the public. Techies are trying to raise awareness among public and politicians while content lobbyists are angling from the other side.

If the public agrees with lobbyists, then they won't factor this issue into their votes. However, if they make a stink, politicians will take note and make sure they end up on the right side of their constituents.

You can thank our democracy for the flood of propaganda on both sides of this issue.

I don't think there's much argument for privatization, but I don't doubt that content lobbyists are trying to make one a la "free market" and "I should be able to do what I want".
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Sorry, but you are too honest to work in our industry.

Have you thought about going into politics or drugs instead?
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Right, of course, since we live in an universe devoid of genetic differences, it stands to reason that two groups described differently are in fact different.

Genetic differences are FACTS. If you do not account for facts, you're operating in the twilight zone.
I think the other commenters have answered this question better than I could at this point. I originally bought mine through a "The Art Of Shaving" retail store on a whim when I saw one at a mall. They're overpriced and I wouldn't necessarily buy from them again.
Having done many interviews, mentored interns and full employees, I'd argue storytelling is a _key aspect_ of performing our job in a larger team. Perhaps I'm being too liberal in my definitions, but I see substantial overlap between "talk about your last project" (and then digging into pitfalls, hacks, workarounds, conflicts; and mind you, I don't mean just PASSION projects, literally any work prior one can speak fluently on) and "tell me how you want to spec this architecture; why".

Much of how we discuss what we do can't be empirically precise, unambiguous, and scientific. Certainly the more social and abstract aspects of our jobs begin to sound, as you put it, like storytelling.

(To be clear, it's far from the only thing I look for, and can be taught/learned to a degree, but I consider it as a key skill in the broader bucket of "communication"; alongside problem solving and base competencies. And like programming itself, having some experience helps.)
My wife argued in a college essay that these would be used at an abortion to save the life of the baby - that someday, an abortion would come to mean the removal of the fetus from its mother, and not its death.
I'd wager that much of this could be explained by the "masculine" verbs being used in relation to a protagonist more often, whereas the "feminine" verbs describe reactions to the actions of a protagonist.
> And technically, they're right

My salary is seriously low if technically they've paid for an entire year of my time!
You can have disks of differing sizes with ZFS, though you are making things difficult for yourself so your point still stands.

However the cost of ECC is not negligible because you need your CPU and motherboard to support it.

The total budget for my NAS was 1000 EUR in 2013, 500 for the 5 3TB disks, 350 for the motherboard+CPU+8GB ECC RAM, and 150 for the case, PSU, system SSD, and accessories. In reality I salvaged 2 3TB disks, lowering the cost to 800.
By using non-ECC I could have used a cheaper motherboard and CPU, in addition to cheaper RAM. In fact I would probably have used hardware from an older desktop PC. It would have been a 15-20% saving, or 45% if I take reuse into account. Not negligible.

My previous NAS, running linux soft-RAID, entirely made of salvaged parts except for some of the disks had a few corruption problems. One of them caused by a defective disk. ZFS would have caught it, so even on cheap systems, ZFS has its use.

I also had defective DRAM, rebuilds not going smoothly, etc... That system caused me too many scares, so I decided that the next system would be cheap but not too cheap as to endanger my sanity. I also got a proper backup solution.
> Normal people don't connect with or understand facts.

I consider myself and, almost by definition, most of the people I know to be normal and I can assure you us plebians are perfectly capable of understanding facts.
To my knowledge, gender is thought of as a complex of at least two aspects: those differences between what is thought of as masculine and feminine, and the roles assigned to genders. In these cases, gender pertains to the ideas of gender identity and further gender expression. In other cases, gender is also thought of as including or being inextricably related to biological sex.

Gender isn't "made up" in the same way that words aren't "made up"; it is an aspect of society, but unlike words, gender is with some relation to observable physical biological expression, usually termed as 'sex'. But the concept of gender as I have seen it used is certainly depending on society, rather than physical sex.

Variations within sex (such as intersex) is another question and is unrelated to gender, as far as I know.
Brazilian here with a somewhat good english proficiency. Could understand almost everything. Thanks for that experiment :)

edit- also a little german knowledge by i don't know how much that helped.
The last few jobs I've worked have had the policy that they own everything by default but you can declare in writing past and new side projects and ideas to exclude. I think this is a reasonable balance between freedom for me and securing the company interests
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If you don't agree with this slightly-contrived (I'm talking about the 'start with punchline', specifically) storytelling technique endorsed here, at the very least, please be aware of the STAR technique commonly used in behavioral interviews.

One benefit of using the STAR technique is that you are not going to ramble. It should not take you more than 1 minute to fully lay out the Situation, Task, Action, Result. After that "executive summary", if they want you to go more in depth, the interviewer(s) can ask you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation,_Task,_Action,_Resul...
Did you read the article? It's not about banning fake accounts. It's about information operations. The government wouldn't let Russia use our phone lines to spread a disinformation campaign.
If you look at the specific time code mentioned, you can clearly see that the back of his shirt is lifted by something that looks like an invisible cable, and that his movement in the air indeed looks like he's being pulled.

But then the astronauts walking on the moon didn't look real to some people either, so we should definitely give him the benefit of the doubt.
Not just Bulgarian. I know Latvian surnames have the same concept. Probably others too.
> One aspect of this that's interesting is the extent to which factors like the sound and pulse of the mother's heart, her movement, and sounds from the outside world affect fetal development.

Not to mention the influence of everything else that the mother provides (hormone levels, immune system, ...).

I mean there are people that research whether c-sections vs. natural birth has a measurable impact on human children (and believe it has), for example. In that context, this would seem like a big diffrence.

And unlike things like sounds and mechanics these are things that are quite poorly understood. How humans develop their immune systems, get autoimmune diseases and allergies etc is tricky stuff. What this will do is at least help figure out what comes from where, because you can use identical twin animals where one is born naturally and one artificially.
> Do you know how they become oligopolies, by using regulation

Perhaps. Without any regulation, what we might consider criminal activity increases.

> Government should just help by removing barriers. Let there be innovation in ISP space

Not sure I would call content silos "innovation"

It isn't true that any and all regulation is bad, nor is it true that it's all good. We've chosen to make some laws as a society over which we will punish law-breakers for thousands of years. We just need to decide how to approach net neutrality in 2017 and make the best choice for increasing quality of life.
while I don’t know your employee, I know why he’s daylighting

Sorry, you don't (always). I've worked on side projects during office hours before and will probably do so in the future. Yet none of that text applies to me. For me is is is not about feeling underappreciated or bad reviews or money or being fed up by middle management. I am appreciated, get extremely good reviews and get all tasks done, don't care about money enough for it being a factor and there is no middle management to be fed up with. It's just because I took a job which came with a certain amount of freedom I (ab)use that freedom, that is who I am.
Several times this week Reddit has rendered a blank screen w/ header & footer with JS disabled. Enable JS and it populates. I assume this is in relation to the site changes being
instituted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/66q4is/the_web_red...
This is a deposition, not the trial. Lawyers ask as many questions as possible in the deposition and drill in on all problem areas looking for contradictions and undisclosed information. That's how the Waymo lawyers found out about Spider. "Waymo learned of Spider’s existence during the deposition of Asheem Linaval, an engineer Levandowski recruited from Google to join him at Uber..."[1]

In a trial, they only ask questions that whose answers are beneficial to their case. They know the answers are beneficial because they already asked the questions in deposition. If the answer is different at the trial, it is perjury. If the answer is the same, it helps their case.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/26/a-waymo-filing-leaks-lidar...
This might get more attention if you submitted the URL as a story. You can always add your thoughts as a comment.
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This is a very tired meme. If anyone doesn't understand it, perhaps one can understand its usage by context, usually accompanied by ideas such as "gender isn't real, to prove it, I identity as a helicopter" (ironically/jokingly of course) and the classic "triggered".
That fits the "lack of fine control", doesn't it?

So he's not going to fly much then, is he?
You think the internet would be just as efficiently run if the government controlled it without a profit incentive?

I think the left are naive to how lazy people are without the right incentives, and how without a monetary incentive office politics can be ridiculously crippling.

Maybe the HN perspective is driven by the fact that open-source in software engineering has flourished - leading many to think that great things can be built without monetary incentive.

Or perhaps its because they are surrounded by very smart people and start believing that the rest of society operates at the same calibre.

There is enough politics involved inside companies where huge monetary incentives are up for grabs, when you take away this monetary incentive, it becomes insanely political.
Aristotle's works were never lost to Europe, they were doing fine in Spain the entire time. This entire thing is a long propagated mythology that things were at their best when Europe dominated the Mediterranean. The Middle ages were Islamic and Chinese golden ages, and the Han dynasties equalled or surpassed anything in the Greco-Roman sphere.
yeah, I see your point - in my experience people who proclaim "atheism" tend to lean towards believing there is no God rather than not personally being faithful, and that the latter tends to be reserved for agnosticism. I see your point though, and I guess agnosticism does belong under atheism if treated as an umbrella term.
Although if confronted with the two options (abortion, bag fetus), I'm sure pro-lifers would always choose the latter.
Co-founder with double digit equity shocked to discover employee with fractional percentage equity more focused on becoming founder than being good employee. Shocked.
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Birds nests and termite mounds. Ants invented farming and animal domestication (and slavery) before humans evolved as a species (certain strains of fungus have gone extinct in nature and only still remain because of their cultivation. Hermit crabs. And a few years ago (can't remember where at the moment) it was shown animals self-medicate when sick by instinctually eating certain plants they would otherwise not consume.

You're not in traffic. You are traffic.
>> I'm getting kind of sick of this "deep learning is a black box" trope, because it's really not true anymore.

I know, right? Like, take this model I trained this morning. Here's the
parameters it learned:

[0.230948, 0.00000000014134, 0.1039402934, 0.000023001323, 0.00000000000005]

I mean, what's "black-box" about that, really? You can instantly:

(a) See exactly what the model is a representation of.

(b) Figure out what data was used to train it.

(c) Understand the connection between the training data and the learned model.

It's not like the model has reduced a bunch of unfathomably complex numbers to
another, equally unfathomable. You can tell exactly what it's doing- and, with
some visualisation, it gets even better.

Because then it's a curve. Everyone groks curves, right?

Right, you guys?

/s obviously.
The $10,000 change at United depends a lot on the implementation.

For instance, if they continue to have rapidly-expiring vouchers, most travelers will not have any practical way to use the whole reward. Also, the airline could add conditions to vouchers such as a voucher that is completely “used up” by a ticket purchase even for tickets that cost less than the voucher amount. There are lots of ways they can try to create good press by technically giving you something that is hard to use.
I would imagine 99.999% of the time adoption is better than being dead.
I'm almost certain that if you successfully blow up the moon the piracy stops as well.