skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...they need managers that can actually evaluate someone's work. Most of the time this is not happening...

When the situation that managers in aggregate do not know how to evaluate their staff's work prevails at a company, forcing everyone on-prem and letting the managers evaluate that is likely what causes a lot of the organizational dysfunction we talk about. WFH definitely offers managers fewer readily-available cues to evaluate their direct reports, but I wonder what a quantification of those cues versus those available on-prem by a professionally-trained anthropology observation team might turn up.

I hear a lot of stories of people getting pissed off that a less-capable coworker is far more successful within the organization because the coworker was fantastic at say, face-to-face networking within the organization. Could such activity be much more difficult to pull off in a WFH-dominant organization, and fool managers who are deficient staff evaluators in an on-prem-dominant organization, sufficient to offset the drawbacks of WFH?

To a certain extent, I think the WFH-versus-on-prem debate obscures an overarching requirement that managers still must sweat out the details, and cannot delegate to a set of company policies the need to lead and manage, a core component of which is knowing your direct reports at a granular level in many dimensions.
Ah, I didn't realize you were talking non-profit. That's actually a relatively established model: http://cdvca.org/
They haven't for most cases but to be fair, even if the publisher would respect DNT, it doesn't mean that the ad-server at the end of the line or any of the other partners will.
I think you're putting too much blame on Microsoft here. DNT was always garbage, the fact that as soon as anyone used it (it becoming default for IE being the push in this case) it would fall apart just shows that it was always doomed.

Shouldn't not being tracked be the default? Shouldn't we be opting into targeted ads, not out of them? Seems reasonable, if DNT weren't garbage, to have it be on by default. But it was garbage and so it was never really any help to anyone anyway.

Really, everyone should just install an adblocker, and whitelist sites that are non-invasive, don't track, and that you want to support. Then the responsibility isn't on advertisers not to track us, it's on citizens to whitelist sites that they genuinely should be supporting.
Depends if it is going to be your primary home.

You need a roof on your head. You might as well pay the rent 10-30 years and own the place, rather than have nothing.
Yeah, I was looking around and it seems like banks are pretty popular.

What's the banking culture like? I'm curious as I'm in banking as well but doing credit card analytics and being the bridge between the business and technology teams.

Also found something curious. There was a job posting for a senior analyst position but it's considered a VP-level role?
It's already what I'm using everyday at work and at home.
At this corporate scale and future market size, their legal bills are approximately free.

I'd say that the bad press they'd generate through a protracted legal process in an attempt to drive Uber into the ground may be strategically wise.

Also the ill will they'd amplify would lighten the competition for talent between the two companies.
What a nonsense apologetic approach. Define "the right thing"? Blocking tracking by default sounds like the "right thing" to me. I'm not sure how "being a good citizen on the internet" became synonymous with "bending over to advertising moguls" or "thinking about the poor starving blogger who must partake in that advertisement tracking ad tech nonsense and blocking that is taking food from his kids".
Advertising and tracking blocking has become a gatekeeper of democracy on the internet these days. Unfortunately, with the idiotic political direction in USA (and USSC), I wouldn't be surprised if politicians are not bribed to introduce legislation against blocking advertisement ("it infringes on first amendment of Coca Cola!"), followed swiftly by "America's interests" - much of Europe.
It's not a terrible metric. It's only bad for companies who have high debt loads, or companies who have to periodically upgrade costly equipment.

These downsides to EBITDA are well known and should weigh on the mind of anyone who looks at the metric.

For a company that rents all its equipment, EBITDA is a pretty good metric.
Curious when did shopify go with Ruby/rails. If I remember when the company was initially started they were looking for php developers. Was the orginal stack built in Ruby/rails?
My personal opinion: They had a good start, but it's still a bit unclear how they will make money since the app is free. There are multiple investors that will want to see a return on investment someday. Also, there are again some privacy tradeoffs to improve usability, e.g. the fact that a list of all your conversation partners is stored on the server until you delete your account. Finally, the servers run on Amazon (Ireland) and all development happens in the EU, so I doubt that Swiss jurisdiction is really applicable. But I'm biased :)
Neural Networks to Fight Spam and Porn in ICQ
No Linux version? :-(
Is renting out really that low risk even with a property management company?

You are also now exposed to the vagaries of rental pricing and demand.
Tools for automating the mundane tasks of running a co-op, sounds like a great idea for a project. Something along the lines of the GNU tool suite.

How does one build and maintain a co-op? Could anyone recommend a book on the subject, that covers a variety of nations or regions?
"Already making enough money" sounds like a contradiction :)
Check the blame log. That section's all me.
I moved the goalposts to "what our scientific research has found," not to some anecdotal evidence of a particularly bad psychological withdrawal someone you know had. That wasn't the drug's fault, and your friend could have done many innocuous tasks before sleep and had the same problems quitting.
Yes. Any high paid job actually. Point being don't do this solely because you "want to make a difference".... making a lot of money at a different job and giving to causes you care about is a legitimate way to make a difference.

I always thought that was interesting.
For anyone who hasn't yet seen it, check out Jonathan Blow's Jai language, it is fantastic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWv_vUgbmug
in terms of ADHD Vyvanse/Elvanse/Lisdexamphetamine is more interesting in my opinion, its dexamphetamine bound to lysene. your body naturally strips the lysene away releasing the dexamphetamine over a period of 12 hours.

it doesnt rely on being mixed with something to delay its action or be pressed into a solid pill, in fact you can open up the capsules and eat the powder inside and there is no change in its effects (its also ineffective intranasally or as far as i am aware even if injected) its rate of release is difficult to change, its just how long the average body takes to strip the lysene away from the chemical.
Claiming areas that don't belong to them is one of China's strong points, they do it all the time and there's a dispute in the China Sea that could tie into this
Thanks for outline.com! Was not familiar.
Why? You're saying that without any supporting evidence. And frankly, what you're suggesting sounds to me like an unreadable mess. You're going to bloat your code with closures all over the place, simply so you can attach a name to the closure, all to avoid having a simple comment. Naming closures is not a good substitute for comments.
Sure there are alternatives on Android and the Windows phone platform (which nobody uses because running multiple app stores is cumbersome) but Apple has their entire ecosystem, silicon to cat videos, locked down hard.
None, except for the very occasional glass of wine.
I'm sorry but I don't even know what you're referring to, else I'd respond more completely. I can't really see the relationship between what you quoted and what you wrote.
In their guidelines, IAP is specifically for virtual goods and services (i.e. definitely not physical goods).
Nope, we've been Rails since before Rails was even public. I'm sure we've hired a PHP developer here and there over the years, but our core platform has always been Ruby.
You just need to add an escape character, "\". This is python 101

This is properly interpreted:

foo = 1 + \
2
Downloads are powered by Go, which was a huge port from C++.

https://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide
As a fellow Ruby CLI developer, I feel your pain exactly. I've been planning on exploring Traveling Ruby[^1] for exactly this reason (as well as the fact that telling users they need to `sudo gem install` something is non-ideal) but hadn't yet gotten around to it.

Out of curiosity, what's your tool(s)?

[^1]: https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/friends/issues/160
Back when I was in the university, we weren't allowed to pick Lisp, Prolog or Caml Light for our compiler design projects, because they would make the whole project too easy. :)
Awesome. Lucky you!

Thanks, I'd love to meet up when we're both in Edinburgh. I'll shoot you an intro email and perhaps we can go from there?
Hah, I'm a big fan of his as well. It's a very small and weird internet world. I never thought that MREs would be something that's interesting enough to subscribe to.

It's ironic because he's a gourmet of the ultimate pre-packaged food. And he's so infectiously enthusiastic about it, even when something tastes nasty he's so upbeat about it.

"Hmm... yeah... that definitely tastes a little off... (another bite, chews thoughtfully) yeah that's definitely starting to go... /nods sagely as he chews."

"(opens bulging can of creamed corn) Oh yeah that stuff definitely has botulism... the smell is AWFUL! /shit eating grin"
Ever been to a commercial pig farm or looked into the conditions at commercial milk production facilities?

I'm sure there's a range, and I've no strong feelings in either direction on the matter (had great wagyu beef last night), but I do believe there is probably a good bit of inhumane treatment in our food supply chain, sadly enough.
Yea, but I mean when you have $256 BILLION sitting around doing nothing you can probably afford to stop squeezing the hell out of artists and developers.
“We've had serious discussions on TC39 about supporting Mars time in JavaScript”
The bit about better "errors" for Allman style braces really drives home to me just how proudly opinionated Go is. "We know about this other indent style and acknowledge it, but it's WRONG."

I really gave Go a good shot, built a project of decent size with it and used it as my go-to first choice for a few others, but every time these little nitpicks come back and make it feel like Go is smacking my hands away from the keyboard. "Bad programmer! You didn't do it the way I wanted you to!"

I would love to use a hypothetical "Go++" that's built from the same roots of Go but forgoes its opinionated nature, even if it's at the cost of messier code. Someone somewhere has to be working on that... maybe I should give it a try.
I think it's probably fair to say that in Utah, there is fairly strong social pressure to be a member of LDS. (58% of all denominations are LDS) Which gets you as close to a single church as you can be in a democratic society.

Combine that with the fact that LDS always seems to take a very pragmatic approach to things (little "vanity" churches, congregations are need-based), and I wouldn't be surprised if this is a fairly unique outcome.

But... I don't know. And I can't really find much data on income distribution in individual congregations. Well, one paper from Pew, and it confirms that the LDS split is quite close to the national split: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/10/11/how-income-v...

But still, nothing about how individual congregations sort.
You would be welcome to also give it a shot and publish your results
> In 2017 there is really no reason to defend a monolithic architecture.

I wonder if in 2019 I'll be seeing "In 2019 there is really no reason to define a micro-services architecture".

The pendulum it keeps on swinging.
I think that has been true for AST editors because they remain halfway in the traditional text-editing paradigm, which involves these invalid states because the granularity of the interface is single character operations, while the model you are specifying with those characters (the AST) doesn't recognize those units.

An alternative is to have the editor operate on language constructs rather than characters. Rather than parsing the program view in order to arrive at a model of your program, you arrive at a view by rendering the model in some way. But the key thing is the model always stays intact because the operations you perform on it through your editor are in terms of language constructs (e.g. a single action in your editor might be 'add property' or 'create class', which is ordinarily accomplished by typing out lots of characters that can hopefully be parsed into such things).
Completely this. The companies talking about "democratization of AI" means "yeah, come use the models we built" but the data is the real source a democratization of AI should be focusing on. That's where the source of power is.
An AI invented a bunch of new paint colors that are hilariously wrong
The ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star Is Dimming Again
I think they just compressed too much due to computational constraints. They say that themselves. However, there is always a question of rate control in these autoencoder methods, and also the error function. In the original paper they don't seem to use a very good perceptual error function.
...are you sure you haven't confused him with Kalanick?

Levandowski isn't a poster child of greedy, anything-goes, etc. He's not a poster child of anything, full stop. 99% of the country doesn't recognize his name or the only company he ever founded. Most Silicon Valley engineers couldn't pick him out of a lineup. He's not even the most famous alleged code thief of the last few years, because that's Sergey Aleynikov.
"and renting for $3K per month"

I think you make a lot of assumptions, like the one above, which don't fit my admittedly anecdotal experience. I live in one of the hot markets, I bot a place at the peak of the market before the last crash, and found myself nearly $200k in the hole on paper. That was roughly 10 years ago, and here's what happened.

I lived in it for 10 years, and I just sold it for more than I paid for it. Obviously this in isolation wasn't a good investment, but I did nearly the worst thing, bought at a peak before a crash, and still came out net positive 10 years later.

Second, you said "and renting for $3K per month" which is a mistake because it's assuming rent will not go up in any significant way. Where I live, rent goes up a lot. That place I bought 10 years ago, a couple years back we thought about selling and renting (to get into a different school district) and we realized that our mortgage was lower than what we would have to pay in rent to get a similar place in the same area.

Again, these are just anecdotes, but my experience doesn't fit with the assumptions you are making above.
> To me it is encouraging that Go has its own conference Gophercon and not riding on Google I/O

That's correct - GopherCon is a community effort. It originated when a community member expressed surprised that there wasn't already a Go conference, and then, upon encouragement from others, decided to organize one themselves. They remain the organizers of the event, and they do not work for Google.

Google has been a diamond-level sponsor for the last three "main" GopherCon conferences[0], but no different from any other sponsor of the conference in that regard. And that's by design - the Go project aims to be a community effort, not solely the work of Google employees, although Google does hire a small number of people who work on it full-time.

This isn't inherently better or worse than the model that (for example) Oracle uses with Java. It's just a different philosophy - and in the case of Go specifically, one that everyone involved seems to be happy with. The Go project contributors (including those employed by Google) want it to be a community-driven project, and the Go community members are by and large happy carrying the mantle themselves as well.

[0] GopherCon happens every year in Denver, but there are tons of other conferences around the world that carry the GopherCon name - for example, GopherCon Singapore is happening a week from today[1]

[1] And, similarly, traces its origins to a single tweet from a community member expressing interest in a conference.
A lot (not all) of rich people who inherited money actually do nothing, they have money people managing their wealth (for a good cut of the profits).

And making money on your capital in a perma-bull stock market (casino?), engineered by the Fed is not that complicated.
As far as I can see, QQQ seems to perform a fair bit worse than the S&P 500 itself? Maybe it's an unfair metric, or maybe it's just a fair commentary about the risks of index funds.

But in any case, I said you'd make that much on average, not that you could withdraw that much every year. In reality, you would draw down a smaller fraction of that (but still an immense salary for no work). And since your capital would be growing on average, you could increase your drawdown over time accordingly.
Well, ad blockers are still here.
I've tossed around the idea of writing zeus again now that I actually understand the language I wrote it in. Spring is much simpler, but because of the manner in which it's loaded, it isn't capable of detecting certain types of file change, which reduces developer confidence in it.

Zeus is capable of detecting any sort of invalidating file change, but is pretty buggy (or at least was historically -- the Stripe guys improved it a lot after I stopped working on it).
In this case, you need to analyze not only the applications source code, but also the size and quantity of its dependencies, which inflate Ruby's LOAD_PATH, which as discussed makes `require` slow. The issues raised here are typical for a large Ruby application with many gem dependencies.

I think it's safe to assume the author using reasonable SSDs on a Macbook Pro, given that the iseq cache targets only macOS.
I always liked C++, but having had the luck of experimenting many alternative concepts during the university (FP, LP, GC system programming languages) I never bought into the idea of using the C/lex/yacc trio.

Always preferred more productive ways to prototype programming languages.
Damn, that's like $10k
>> VCs survive by maintaining portfolios of companies in which 1-2 in 10 survive (most VCs fail to generate returns that beat the public markets). This means more than that you need 10 companies --- it also governs the kinds of companies you can invest in. Despite being a message board in part dedicated to startups, it feels like very few of the relatively specialized people here understand why VCs don't back quietly, steadily profitable companies.

You're assuming all VC funds are like SV/NYC type funds. Most VC funds in FL (and I'm assuming most of the US), are small funds that invest fewer than 10 times a year, and take large equity positions in companies that are steadily profitable (but will NEVER be crazy big). They prefer companies that are making profits over companies that have growth potential, low risk low reward funds.
My hope for crowdfunding would be that it would be exactly like you describe: spend the time, connections, and pal around with people doing projects, but the only difference would be the dollar amounts. $1,000 here, $10,000 there, on things like performances, food carts, etc. Stuff a VC would never touch because the max payout is like $50k.

But for a small investor to make 10 ~$5k investments, and get back principal plus $50k over the course of a few years that's pretty good. And they can do it in their own community on projects that don't make sense for someone in New York or SV to even know about.
Does your Python app load all at once or lazily load as you hit different parts of the app?
Sounds like a classic MS EEE[1] tactic. Except it went from embrace to extinguish right away.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
So this is a fun topic. I own 3 places, two apartments and one house. One of the apartments I lived in [and co-own with my partner] before we moved to the house, the other apartment I purchased because I was able to make the month to month math work [read: cash flow break even] and it gave me the 60(personal property)/20(market funds)/20(investment real estate) net worth split i wanted.

The only reason real estate can work for me is because I'm able to put down 30% of the purchase price in cash for the apartments and borrow the rest at crazy low rates [2.99% & 2.59% for the more recently purchased unit]. If we assume a reasonable return on the apartment (4% annually) and a healthy yearly stock market return (8%), if you consider the fact that I couldn't borrow money to play with stock, the 'bonus' I get on appreciating portion of the property that is actually borrowed money makes them experience very similar performance when modelled[1] over a 10 year period.

At the end of the day, as with all financial advice, what you should do dramatically depends on your current personal situation, goals and age.

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1esgwYfYhDo0JaFP0qGhr...
A former spouse of a founder may have different (or even opposing) interests versus those of the company. A dissident shareholder might be able to block or delay important corporate actions; would be entitled to information not otherwise available to the public or without an NDA; and might seek to sell their shares to someone even more hostile to the company, and/or at a price or on terms that disrupt further financing rounds for the company.
I can talk as a startup who took institutional capital. Our investors have been super hands on, board meetings every month, and if I need to talk to them about something or get help with a company problem they are never more than a day or two from being able to give me a few hours.

It's helped a lot. In my mind we are much, much better off for having their guidance and assistance.

If you crowdfund, you aren't getting that. You are weaker relative to the companies that did. Doesn't matter if you were stronger initially, the company that got institutional capital (especially first time founders) is going to have training that gives them a huge edge.

Having been on both sides of the fence, there is no question to me that good institutional capital will make a better team. Smart money goes a long way.
Tracking the Trump Scandals on Brietbart, FoxNews vs. NYTimes
3/4~ Months Learning Elixir – what got done
Looks beautiful. Did you use any css framework ? And is it usable on mobile ?

EDIT: Added mobile question
> There were so much hype about swift

Probably would have had the same as Kotlin if Apple hadn't announced it in WWDC.
Sure, but would be cool to know where to find some particular areas or projects to help.

This is the core problem here: I could personally name a ton of industries and endeavors that could use software to be better - but finding a particular need and someone willing to work with you on fulfilling that need? That feels incredibly hard.
Or, "Why Duck Duck Go is important".
You're just speculating. But sure, in case the accusations are fabricated that's a much more plausible explanation than that there's a big conspiracy going on.
Ask HN: Do you use a UI layout constraint solver?
If so, what has been your experience? What are the promising libraries available?

Since CSS layout continues to be a real PITA, I am especially interested in JS implementations like cassowary.js [1], which seems to be inactive, though

1. github.com/slightlyoff/cassowary.js
Excellent answer. Very much agree with the part about automation.