skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll add one more sign: they've got a sex room.

Joel Spolsky being down on aquariums seems rather quaint now.
Hmm what should it be named?
"Very very slow" might be a bit of an overstatement. The initial React render for that page takes 200ms on a MacBook. A release build will speed that up slightly, and cut down the bundle a little, but in the scheme of things it's not going to be noticeable to the end user.

If you actually wanted the page to feel fast you would probably do something like <script>document.write(window.navigator.userAgent)</script>
S/he wasn't justifying sneering for the rich, they were saying they understood sneering at lifestyle businesses in the case of people who succeeded at building unicorn startups.

It's not about money or class, it's about success in a particular field and judgement of that particular field.
I think we read the injunction differently. On pages 13-15, Judge Alsop states that he found two instances of what he thought was obvious influence of trade secrets.

I agree that this was Alsop's backhanded way of getting Uber to fire Levandowski; either Levandowski will reveal the documents and face prison, or he never had them on personal devices and Uber still has to fire him because he didn't produce them.
I highly doubt that anyone depends upon a personal blog for food.
I don't know... I really think it depends on the audience you're catering to. As someone who only ever deals with compiled languages, this has never seemed to be a problem.

Now, viewing this as someone coming from Python, Ruby, Node, etc., I can see compilation as being annoying. Is it really the only reason that they are disliking the language or is that just a strawman?

I wonder if too much attention is being paid to this. Now there are legitimate things we can focus on, such as making cached precompiled libraries very easy to use. This can especially be important in CI environments... This would also generally make most compilations fast.
Smart loading assets for production with Webpack
That's a conspiracy I can get behind.
The question isn't "Is Windows installed"... it's "Is the install of Windows on a laptop legal and legitimate".

A sticker says Windows is installed... it doesn't say anything about legality.

OP said "I couldn't find a laptop with a legal copy of Windows installed". Responder said "Everything I got was legal, and had no issues buying new discs with legal licenses".
Patrick Logan on Lobste.rs comes to mind. He talks a lot about using Smalltalk for robust applications. Here's one paper he shared where Smalltalk team killed the others in productivity. Unfortunately, I didn't get defect rates on all the teams where Ada or C++ were usually winning in those kinds of comparisons.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0cKsRm-3yprYTR5YTRaRFBfR28...

He said they mostly just test everything at the interfaces. However, it's simplicity also allowed for powerful tools in code generation, refactoring especially, and so on.
That's what happens when a city government doesn't protect what to private owners are externalities. The owners of the building couldn't care less, and the architect gets the benefit of free publicity.
Fetter one's stable of unicorns? Heaven forfend! They're such delicate creatures.
Stanford CS234: Reinforcement Learning
It's funny you mention people from an older generation. My mother worked as a secretary at a law firm in the UK in the 1960s, where she met my father. When I mentioned to her that "60% of women in tech reported unwanted sexual advances" [1], she yawned (quite literally) and said, "Is that all?" It seems hard to imagine that this fiasco, Magic Leap from last week, Uber, etc, might actually be construed as "progress", but, well...

[1] per https://www.elephantinthevalley.com
No idea why this is being downvoted. Pretty sure it's legal to run FreeBSD and Linux in China, if you can't afford an Apple. Convenience isn't an excuse for copyright violation.
> The question of who is actually responsible for removing the mitigation measures

Same as the design phase. It is guaranteed that engineers would have foreseen and been able to calculate the heat intensity.

They just didn't have enough influence or ownership of the problem.
There are 10 of them and some work remote often. It's easier to get everyone in one place than to try and track down 10 people. I'm very busy getting work done myself as I'm not the actual boss of anyone, just a lead.
You should do a lot more reading about healthcare if you think there isn't pay for performance. The payers in the system all have massive incentives to reduce healthcare utilization.

Docs and hospitals have been dealing with 'P4P' for decades and the ACA ramped it up significantly for the CMS.
We have two family members in an assisted car facility for almost eight years now, and between the two of them, they've tapped Medicare for just under $700K. Together, the sum of both their incomes throughout their entire working lives never totaled that amount.

Oh, but it gets worse. It's bad enough that the government is being bilked for hundreds of thousands of dollars on behalf of those without the ability to pay, but even for those with significant assets, there are "perfectly legal" tax dodges that can be set up for $XX,XXX so that Medicaid pays the $XXX,XXX bills while the family inherits the $X,XXX,XXX estate. And if you pay the lawyers a little more, they can probably even figure out how to avoid paying capital gains on the distributed assets if they are below $10 million.

I don't see much hope for the insurance reform in the US until we can get end-of-life costs under control. I don't if "Ponzi" is quite the right term, but it's definitely a system rife with fraud.

More generally, "House of God" is a stunning inside look on how the US medical system actual works: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/10/book-review-house-of-go...
Residents are in a pretty good spot to write things like this. Fresh enough to have their fingers on the pulse. But, just becoming seasoned enough to pick out WTFs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14317231

From the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Are reposts ok?

> If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.
Some of the negative comments here exemplify why the mainstream is starting to hate on the "tech elitist" types in the same way FinanceBros were viewed negatively in the '90s and '00s.
These scripts are why I'm surprised Reddit doesn't have sub specific edit permissions. I mean, on traditional forums, we avoid these issues by simply blocking the edit function after a certain time limit. Or limiting who can remove content.

Not sure I'd want to see a community where people removed useful content on a whim because they were that worried others would use it against them.
to be fair, the article refers to the paper obliquely with the words, "just described in Langmuir by Jürgen Rühe of the University of Freiburg, in Germany." It's not a link and I couldn't find a link in the article - so it's easy to miss.

why don't articles like this ever link to their primary sources? online, it just takes a hyperlink - it could be added without any additional comment, just turning a part of the sentence into a link.
Because the most successful blogging is not writing for people, it is writing for machines. The most successful bloggers understand that using keywords to trigger algorithms that lead to higher rankings is key. This is not literature by any stretch. I would read a periodical that dedicated itself to fine blog writing with critiques from a human and machine perspective, though.
Hey I have this sick idea: How about we instead let passengers carry laptops on planes?

Wouldn't that be a hell of a lot simpler?

Wait, no, you're right, it's inherently dangerous. In fact, it's so dangerous, that in the past decade during which we've let people do just that, hundreds millions of people have died (Maybe some of that was old age, but we can't be sure it's not laptop-on-plane related).

Clearly something has to change.
Yup, I'd strongly consider something similar. But I'd have to seriously consider the security implications: giving Windows access to the graphics card could end up being more hassle than it's worth.

GPUs' memory management isn't exactly security friendly.

-> https://arxiv.org/pdf/1305.7383.pdf
A kink room in office ? I will not be surprised this might actually be a positive for UploadVR.

Honestly I am not sure why SV tech companies don't hire lot of pretty girls for no good reason but to simply keep the male employees happy. Why can't office Friday parties be at local strip clubs ?

However there are some things that seem inappropriate such as

> Male employees, including Mason and Freeman, would even speak sexually about women that worked in the office, right in front of them. For example, male employees stated how they were sexually aroused by female employees and how it was hard to concentrate and be productive when all they could think about was having sex with them.
Newer versions can. But older versions of windows, I believe are still gated by Genuine Windows check.
Yep.

I'm specifically writing it to find any log file that isn't being pushed into our third party logging service. It's a surprisingly difficult problem, especially considering the amount of tech sprawl that's accumulated. Since it's also a relatively low latency environment, it has to be written in a way that doesn't add too much load (without core isolation..).
The narrative of Levandowski's theft of the documents is premature. If you read the forensic examiner's report, it amounts to "checked out project using TortoiseSVN, plugged in a USB device, installed proprietary Google Linux distribution." The "wiped" adjective is inaccurate since a disk format is required to install Linux. Levandowski didn't zero the hard drive or anything like that. There's no evidence yet that Waymo files touched anyone's personal device.

That said, on pages 13-15 of the injunction document, Judge Alsop sees clear influence of trade secrets in the design of the Lidar's PCB. This is the damning portion that lead to the injunction.
I think we should always pay attention to the other side of the story before we buy into the allegations.

I am not playing down the possible harassment of any employee but let us not be blinded by the allegations alone either.
> If your language doesn't have a REPL, your language is less productive

Am I the only one who sees this as pure BS? Some people like REPL's, and that's cool. But not everyone. I find it utterly annoying that in any REPL I've ever used I first have to import (or similar) the libraries I want access to in that repl environment. You end up generally writing a file to do the imports for you, or cutting and pasting.

With all that effort I almost always find it easier to just write a test-case, even in languages with a REPL. At that point I have a repeatable and testable piece of code that can be run, with almost zero error due to the REPL environment not being setup properly.
There could also be a general fuck room anti-discrimination clause where nothing that happens in the fuck room can be held against anybody.
An air-gap might indeed be inconvenient, but it doesn't need full network access just to send images. It can send the images to an up-to-date system over a "data diode" network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional_network
Hum, that's interesting. I do have NODE_ENV=production set. I'll have to see if Next.js needs something additional.

Although, with server-side rendering (which is part of what I really like about Next.js), the impact should be reduced somewhat.
Are you sure? Again this is just how I'd do things, but after I had a bunch of disengagement snapshots, the next thing I'd do is start taking snapshots of similar situations. We live in an age of easy and super-accurate image classification, it wouldn't be too hard to start a snapshot every time the front camera view contains a roundabout.
Snapchat ads three new ad products with lenses and filters
You are a pathetic little man.
Wow, I remember reading a paper on this as a theory about 10 years ago in Scientific American. At the time I don't recall the paper actually having a way to do the experiment, it was in the category of 'look what the math says is possible'.
I guess it's mainly that bookstores don't do it?

It's like that restaurant that only allows up-front-paid reservations. It's kinda obvious once it's brought up, but goes against how that industry usually works
> I highly doubt that you actually tried this in practice.

I told you explicitly that I tested it. Now you're calling me a liar. I am not "merely assuming that it works", I actually tested it to the point of controlling the exact bytes that the server sent to the client using a hand-constructed HTTP response and then pointing Chrome at that server.

> For Google to overturn their decision …

I just looked into the specific behavior here. Here's what I found:

* If you point Chrome at localhost, it includes "br" in the Accept-Encoding header.

* If you point Chrome at some other domain using HTTP, it does not include "br" in the Accept-Encoding header.

* Either way, if the server actually returns a Content-Encoding of "br", Chrome will respect it.

So basically, Chrome always supports Brotli-encoded responses. However, it only requests Brotli over HTTPS and doesn't request it over HTTP, and the only reason for this distinction is to avoid middleware servers from mucking with Brotli-encoded pages that they don't understand.
Dispatch Redux actions as events, not commands
I'll see about getting it into a public repo soon and let you know.
I think perhaps you haven't read the legal complaint in the article. This isn't a culture fit issue. Read the legal document and imagine your mother working there.
I just can't fathom how anyone working there could think this is acceptable. And why has it even been allowed to continue this long before without someone telling them to knock it off.
Highly skilled technical employees cost time and money to build/train.

People who don't train for highly skilled jobs typically do not have the money or the support infrastructure required for that training.

This gets compounded when a low skilled worker finds themselves between jobs: they now have the same constraints but also need to find money quickly to service debt such as rent or home loan.

When you describe as "mismatch" what is a bona fide shortage, you are completely ignoring the structure of society which leads to this problem: education is a profit industry, at cost to the student. Industry has few apprenticeships or cadet ships available. Industry doesn't want to train the good people ("matches") to become skilled the way industry wants.

Once the inividual has been trained, industry will trip over themselves to hire or poach them.

So industry doesn't want to pay for training even though they can afford it, the individual can't afford training even though they want it.

If only there was a way to provide training for highly skilled roles in such a way that all industry pays for the training and the individual only shoulders the time costs.
Wow, I think the article was being very kind.
Is this industry standard? I'm not high-level so I wouldn't know. Are you saying this because you have first-hand knowledge?
You'd be shocked how many engineers I've had to personally tell not to download pirated media or porn on their work computers.
This is spot-on. There's an assumption that if you have large/big data, then AI will be your next big step. That's absolutely not a given. I've been told that AI is just "Statistics at scale", but you wouldn't call simple decision making like A/B testing "AI".
> It still hasn't been resolved

.. and now we know why. It's politically impossible.
If anyone else owned the building it would be fixed or the owners sued.

> "The Dallas Police & Fire Pension System, which had earlier made a small investment in the Museum Tower project, announced that it would jump in with both feet and finance the entire thing, all $200 million of it"
If it was just general allegations about sexual behaviour at the workplace, I would be a bit skeptical. However when they provide concrete factual examples, it seems somewhat unlikely that it would be completely made up.
Webkit CVE: memory corruption, arbitrary code execution
> I think they key is your dad being a programmer.

I don't think so. My experience was pretty much the same as jslabovitz's, just without the progamming dad.

I started programming in 1984 and pretty much only had books, manuals, and magazines to work from. I only had one friend who had a computer and it wasn't the same as mine (and in the 80s, there were scores of different CPUs and operating systems to choose from) so I was more or less on my own.

I still miss the BYTE magazine with the Robert Tinney covers ...
> Gig Jobs- TaskRabbit and other services—there are people who perform these tasks in the gig economy, but as a client one does not necessarily have to interact with them in a meaningful way.

The alternative for these gig jobs is often to them yourself. House cleaning, furniture assembly, truck loading, tidying, repainting... Hiring help for these services clearly increases human interaction.
"The far bigger problem than drugs with side effects is a lack of drugs."

I'm not so sure about that. Arguably the market is actually oversaturated with drugs, and too many people rely on them to an absurd extent rather than changing behaviors and habits to improve overall health.
Despite the potential inconvenience I would suggest airgapped + sneaker net is a far better option for anything running XP at this point.

How hard would it be to put a supported windows on the network right next to the XP box and transfer files via flash drives?
If I remember correctly, my university constructed a new building for the architecture department but it was so impractical they gave it to computer science instead.
Wouldn't it be easier to change the security model on Java applets than to go through whatever the process of developing wasm is?
Sure. That's why they specified ...some startup multi-millionaire/billionaire ... Because money is not relevant to their point.

/s

Also, I hate the term "lifestyle business" because:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/03/i-love-lucy-...
Here's Marriott's announcement.

http://news.marriott.com/2017/05/marriott-international-expands-modular-construction-initiative/

And here's their contractor's website.

http://www.guerdonmodularbuildings.com/
I've worked at places people would recognize as being nice progressive workplaces --but even there you will find people with odd predilections.

Once, in a toilet stall early in the morning, someone else comes in, thinking they were the only ones, they, from the sounds of it, masturbated to their delight, thinking of course, no one else was there in another stall. I mean, what are you supposed to do but wait something like that out?
Startup Has No Revenue and Its App Doesn't Work, but It Wants Your Investment
Experiment? It's not like this is the first time this sort of thing has happened. There's piles of data and research on this, and it's not hard to make an estimate of the impact yourself. Just make an Excel spreadsheet with past minimum wage increases and the change in unemployment X years later.

Or you can just look at news articles from the past. There is long history of people predicting dire employment impacts that never materialize.
You don't have to block Windows XP from updating; it just doesn't, any more. (When I tried to get a copy set up recently in a VM to do some ReactOS cross-compatibility debugging, it was very hard to get it to even talk to the Microsoft Update service—the website version of Windows Update is seemingly just gone now, and yet XP insists on using the website to bootstrap-update the native Microsoft Update agent. You have to download and install the updated agent .msi manually.)
Go has no native support for aio. Based on this thread, Goroutines seem to do the same thing, via epolls.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/AQ8JOHxm...

I think the best bet is to build a fio equivalent in Go (shouldn't take more than a couple of hours), and see if it can achieve the same throughput as fio itself. That can help figure out how slow is Go compared to using libaio directly via C.
I'm afraid it won't reduce the impact, your server takes the initial load of rendering instead of the browser, and the browser takes over for each re-render.

Not sure how Next.js does it but you should probably try putting NODE_ENV=production in the "build" script in package.json like in "start"?

I had a quick glance over Next.js's docs and it looks like they should handle this automatically just by `next build`. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> (In Rust, it would be drastically more complex, verging on impossible to pull off with a good UX, due to various language features including wildcard impls, type-parameterized traits, and a Turing-complete type system.)

Swift can downcast, and it has generic extensions and generic protocols. I highly suspect it has a Turing-complete type system as well.

Supporting this requires heroic effort in the compiler, but it can be done.
Thanks for WizTree, you're right that it's an order of magnitude faster than WinDirStat. Only thing it's missing is that graphical block view, but for my usecase it will be perfect.
Instead of using the "code"-style formatting with four spaces, please use this format:

* > If this is your conclusion, *

// ^ remove the space between the asterisk and the text

Those on mobile or who don't want to scroll far thank you.
Couldn't agree with you more re RACS, I attended their 'gala ball' at the end of their ACS last year and was sickened by the pomp and bullshit. The (female) RCS president, visiting from England, also appeared weirded out by the pomp (and that the RACS had not had a female president).

Having said that within both organisations there are people who strongly and fiercely advocate for innovation and change, but you are right, they are severely sclerotic (even to the point of RACS making an absolute motza out of their trainees, they've got over $60m in the bank and our exams cost $4,000)
The appeal is that the shipping cost is much cheaper the more you buy.

Do you not understand the appeal of any membership service? Costco is the same idea, for example. Or gym memberships, etc.
The Intelligent Snowmelt System
At this point, I hope for his sake that the Russians are blackmailing or paying him. Because if he is sostupid to have done something like this at this point without some huge personal incentive, I almost have to feel bad for him.

Almost...
Isn't the president the one who has ultimate control over what's classified and what's not? I'm not surprised that the president would discuss classified operations with foreign dignitaries relevant to US interests.
This isnt software related exactly but my dad was several tiers above the IT managers for years in health care. Forgive me if this doesn't help. My dad works as a Cheif Strategy Officer for a top 20 health care system in the US(I am in college now). He makes more then 200,000. That was his salary several years ago though. He has a stem degree and an MBA. He consulted for many years before this. Health care seems to be really big but from what I gathered doesn't really have a start up culture as much from what I have gathered.

EDIT: He actually has a second graduate degree. Not sure how much he uses it.
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