skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Copenhagen, Denmark. Full Time. Onsite. Senior Systems Developer. Salary Negotiable. https://www.agileresponse.com

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We expect you to have at least 5 years of development experience, with a focus on the creation and evolution of innovative products and a solid interest in programming and system development. Some specifics: C# and .NET, Quality assurance with unit tests, Git source control, MSSQL, MySQL and Elasticsearch databases, REST APIs, HTTPS and HTML5 and computationally high-performance algorithms.

It is a bonus if you have an interest in cryptography, data-structures, forensics and distributed systems.

Working with us means being surrounded by passionate, intelligent and creative people that are determined to solve real-life problems with bleeding edge technology, world-class research and unrivalled products and services. We have a flat organizational structure and the working hours are flexible during weekdays.

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Back when newspapers actually did good, valuable work.
It seems like a disservice to society to isolate and protect antisocial software geniuses just because you might be able to get good work out of them.
The things people do when staying in an Airbnb are different than if they lived there as a resident.

Case in point, I rented one once to try it out. It was supposedly non smoking.

The entire place reeked of cigarettes. Upon complaining to the owner, she said she had clear rules but the previous guests had been over smoking, doing drugs, the stripper they brought over wrote all over the mirror in red lipstick, etc.

Now picture a situation where you live in a building that you picked because it seemed generally safe, quiet, etc. and seemed to have a certain kind of resident that you felt comfortable living with.

That all goes out the window when a significant chunk of your building becomes a nightly revolving door.

I'm not going to comment on the rent or housing issues. However there are plenty of reasons why people who live somewhere might be upset to see their building turn into such a place.
So IMO what you are referring to is a difference between urban and suburban/rural. Where I live, properties are well separated, and multi-tenant apartments and condos already have rules for things like this. As I'm sure you are aware, in an apartment or condo situation, you do not really own anything outside the drywall. I am speaking primarily about where I have the most knowledge: single family homes.
Wow NIMBYISM extends to people who don't want to live in hotels now.
I take the distinction between private and personal property to be important, as Proudhon and later Marx described.

>There are different kinds of property: 1. Property pure and simple, the dominant and seigniorial power over a thing; or, as they term it, naked property. 2. Possession. “Possession,” says Duranton, “is a matter of fact, not of right.” Toullier: “Property is a right, a legal power; possession is a fact.” The tenant, the farmer, the commandité, the usufructuary, are possessors; the owner who lets and lends for use, the heir who is to come into possession on the death of a usufructuary, are proprietors. If I may venture the comparison: a lover is a possessor, a husband is a proprietor.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/proudho...

And to learn about why property is against individualism, I recommend Oscar Wilde's The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Bookchin's concerns: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/wilde-oscar/soul-...

Even the Stirnerian egoists take issue with private property: http://www.spunk.org/texts/intro/faq/sp001547/secF4.html
Unity and creating content in a Post-Flash World
"Platform that makes people money dominated by people best at making money." Shocker.
I remember being fascinated by GAs as an undergraduate, but haven't seen much discussion come out of the space in a while. I'm guessing machine learning took off (in particular deep learning) and put an emphasis on the impact of large-scale gradient-based optimization via backpropagation/adjoint approaches.

In other words, rather than apply GAs to the optimization of a large complex system, these days the paradigm seems to be to find a way to derive the needed gradients (or extract them via automatic differentiation). Does this seem to be the case, or are GAs still shining in some applications?
Do you think you will do a better job of backing up stuff compared to google, msft, etc.? They have dedicated engineers and spend lots of money on this stuff.

Think of it from a statistical perspective what is probability of you setting up this back up system vs them?
Certainly debatable. For those interested, see a description/discussion here [0] and check it out in Tcl 8.6[1].

[0] http://wiki.tcl.tk/18152

[1] https://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/download.html
Let's see:

> Gmail

This one gained popularity when promising a whopping for free 1Gb was crazy good offer. People seriously thought it's a gimmick that won't last. Now that you can pretty much buy 1TB drives with pocket change it sounds funny, but back then it was spectacular. UX had very little to do with it, and frankly I still kinda avoid using gmail website, much preferring to use mail client.

> Youtube

Excellent idea, and excellent decision whoever decided to buy it. Social aspect is not that clear - youtube comments are notorious for being utter garbage, and while everybody is using youtube, nobody does social networking on youtube. UX is ok, not spectacular.

> Google Productivity Suite

Google drive and google photos are UX epic fail, IMHO. I'm still pissed about them killing Picasa, it wasn't excellent but at least useful.

> Orkut

Yeah, this is an undeniable success in social networking, and everybody I heard from in Google are equally surprised and have no idea what happened there and why it took off. I suspect it's one of those "right place, right time" moments.

> Chromecast

That works reasonably well, but does it have any UX to speak of? Then again, maybe it's exactly Google's forte - the products that don't need any UX beyond plugging them in and turning them on. That, however, I think would also kind of play to my point of technology being stronger then UX.

> They didn't try to become a "portal" like Yahoo

Yes, they avoided a dumb mistake, which is a plus for them, but I'm not sure that this qualifies as being strong at UX. Unless you say that there is to be no UX anymore beyond the very basics - which, again, works for some tasks, but far from all.
How This U.S. Tech Giant Is Backing China’s Tech Ambitions
I'm deeply troubled by the response to this "manifesto". Pitchforks are out for this guy, and when they find him, it won't be pretty. I think that's wrong. He has expressed his opinion, and people are free to confront, and denounce him all they want. But this guy might lose his job. His career. All for voicing his opinion. I don't think it matters that he did this internally. Had he stood up at a discussion in Palo Alto and said these words, the pitchforks would still be out. Our country has reached a dangerous fork in its evolution where the freedom to speak can literally ruin your life. There was a time when people were, and still are, shot for speaking their minds. Is this the natural evolution we are heading towards?
I've occasionally played with Gobo for years now. I am delighted to see it coming back to life of late.

One thing I've always thought would be ideal would be if either or both of the 2 Linux desktops that natively implement the idea of application-directories were top support Gobo app-dirs.

Those 2 are GNUstep:

http://www.gnustep.org/

... and the ROX Desktop:

http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/

GNUstep implements NeXTstep/macOS style app dirs: a top-level Appname.app folder with an OS X-like structure inside it.

ROX Desktop implements Acorn RISC OS-style app dirs, called

!Appname

... and containing a different but comparable layout.
I didn't say that - AirBnB's model is agnostic about who actually owns the property, since as far as the platform is concerned, you can AirBnB out a property that you're renting. (The landlord might not like it, but that's for you and the landlord to work out.) Many people are both hosts and guests on AirBnB: they own one or a few properties that they rent out for income, and they use the income to live where they really want to live, in other people's AirBnBs.

The idea of mainstream property ownership is dying in America for different reasons, notably easy access to credit and poor financial education of the masses.

What AirBnB offers is a decoupling of "location" and "residency". The post-war dream was the idea that you'd put down roots at the place where you are physically located: you would think of yourself as a resident and a citizen of the municipality and nation whose borders encompassed your home, you would have a home that you would live in for many years and make improvements to for the long term, and you'd put down deep social ties with the people closest to you. The post-millenial dream, for many people, is that you would live anywhere that strikes your fancy, you would meet lots of interesting strangers who would become your friends, and you would have a lot of interesting experiences rather than just the same monotonous daily life. AirBnB is tapping into the post-millenial dream; they don't exist in a vacuum, they exist because a large number of people actually want the world to be that way.
From their FAQ:

"We don't just ship any item that comes through our front door. Airmule only partners with TSA certified shipping companies.

"Under their Certified Cargo Screening Program, the TSA certifies cargo screening facilities throughout the United States to screen cargo prior to providing it to airlines for shipment on passenger flights." [1]

The TSA however does not search for drugs however from the TSA's site:

"TSA security officers do not search for marijuana or other drugs."[2]

[1] https://airmule.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005116068--...

[2] https://apps.tsa.dhs.gov/mytsa/cib_results.aspx?search=marij...
Uh like none of this happened when the dumpster bombs went off in Chelsea last year. They closed the streets for the investigation and to look for more bombs but it wasn't even close to a "lockdown of all public buildings", I'm pretty sure they just halted traffic. You could even - yes- walk around the area where the bomb went off the next day. It was a block from my office.
From the article.

"Men, on average, can more easily juggle items in working memory. They have superior visuospatial skills: They’re better at visualizing what happens when a complicated two- or three-dimensional shape is rotated in space, at correctly determining angles from the horizontal, at tracking moving objects and at aiming projectiles."

From this article: http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/picture-yourself-as-a-s...

"As it turns out, there is zero statistically significant gender difference in mental rotation ability after test-takers are asked to imagine themselves as stereotypical men for a few minutes. None. An entire standard deviation of female underperformance is negated on this condition, just as a man’s performance is slightly hindered if he instead imagines himself as a woman."

What gives?
When someone makes a statement that sounds potentially plausible-and-interesting but could also be pulled-out-of-ass then asking for some evidence isn't unreasonable.
Probably 2nd bomb tactic was something unheard of back then
> Ordinary folks just didn't travel like this in the past, getting to know distant cities right from the ground floor.

Not quite true. In 2005, I did a long road trip in Italy. In that year, in almost every gas station in Italy, you could buy books with listings of local B&B's and "agriturismo" locales, which were essentially B&B's that were on farms and usually included a farm dinner with the hosting family, in addition to breakfast and accommodations. The cost to stay in these places was always a fraction of the hotel. It was a little inconvenient to use them though: you needed the books, and then you needed to dial the owners and ask if their place was available ahead of your arrival.

You can imagine why this market exists in Italy: the hotels in every city are geared toward tourists (thus, lots of $$$) but Italians have such a beautiful (and geographically small) country, and they needed a way to do local tourism at affordable prices. I imagine the fact that you needed to call the owners (and speak Italian to them) acted as a barrier against tourists.

I am a huge fan of Airbnb. I point this out, however, because I always personally viewed Airbnb less as an "improvement over hotel travel", and instead as a "platform that brought efficiency to the B&B market".

Basically, B&Bs were a great way to travel, but most people didn't hassle to do so, because inventory/availability was too hard to scan, and it usually required at least a little local knowledge.

In 2005, if you had done a road trip through Italy like I had, while seeing the kinds of transactions going online, you could have put 2 and 2 together and realized this needed to exist as an international service. But, even I didn't see it, then!
It's not a sovereign state. If you're an American, you don't need a passport to fly there.
Simple: it is great at solving problems, but not so great for middle management.
Addition backups only add, not subtract, from reliability.
How (not) to memorise mathematics
This is all fair and true, but then why isn't the answer "fix the outdated housing regulations that are driving rents sky high", which is likely to have a bigger impact than banning AirBnB.
> Compute an approximate distance between nth powers, interpret this as the probability of an integer being an nth power, integrate this probability over the sum x^n + y^n, see that the probability of this being an nth power is also very low.

You're mixing up "N is an nth power" with "there exists an N that is an nth power". The purpose over summing over all the integers is to obtain the latter from the former, and it's not necessarily very small even if the former is small.
Maybe. Or maybe we just dont want to share a wall with a hotel. I know i dont.
Textbook thoughtcrime punishment.

People are fired for exhibiting corrosive, counterproductive, or otherwise bad attitudes every day. Are they all victims of "textbook thoughtcrime punishment?"
Tldr;
This is what we attend / do to get clients that's not into tech already:

- lots of general network events where only C-level staff attend (often paid networks)

- side by side with consultants and business developers that haven't got technical staff

- get references from companies we've befriended by giving them leads before

You need to find a way into non-technical companies.
We find them by going to network meetings with companies not in the IT sector. I have a large network of tech companies, but more non-tech companies. Sometimes a CEO for a marketing firm have a good lead they want in the long term, and then he brings in us to deliver something else for their business, such as an internal app for tracking deliveries. His potential client gets hyped up and I suggest potential marketing angles of the app and in doing so direct the business back to him. Other times I have a few drinks with CEOs from different companies at network events, they get to know me on a more personal level, and then pass me / us as a reference when they hear about jobs. We also go side by side of business developers, letting them add "digitalization" as a part of their brand.
> because it was used search vs. painstakingly moving messages

In other words, we eliminate UX (folders, etc.) with superior technology (just search for whatever thing you need). Of course, people still use folders (renamed labels - that btw I think is a win, but most people afaik don't use that aspect too much). And BTW Inbox - their attempt to redesign the whole experience - is not that popular as I understand?

> And most of all it was very fast.

Technology! :)
Good directors communicate (e.g. they don't manipulate and lie), make good decisions (early enough), are straightforward (and not overly polite), don't avoid conflict and cannot be easily manipulated.

Usually good techs make better managers than typical politically-embroiled middle management.
Does Puerto Rico have its own passport? Also, the UK plays as Scotland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland in the World Cup but they aren't sovereign. So that Olympic argument doesn't mean anything.
God I hate those backyard cottages, did you label yours as a "casita" too? Some AirBnB hosts literally go to home depot, haul a shed, plant it, add crappy insulation and list it.

I actually find that to be the worst aspect of AirBnB, if I go to a hotel and I do not like my room I can switch it. If I use AirBnB and the place sucks, well, I'm stuck. Unless I want to go through a lengthy customer service battle.

Listings managed by professionals are pleasant on the other hand, I honestly do not want to check-in putting up a front after lining my "host"s pockets. I pay for a service and receive service. Let's not pretend they're doing this for any other reason. AirBnB damn isn't Couch Surfing.
Haven't laughed so hard in a long time.

The "Made with notepad: THE RIGHT WAY" and other spurious badges just added that extra touch of realism to the theme
That extension is no longer installable.
I assume it's a lack of resources, namely money, time, energy, and knowledge.
Sounds like a placebo effect.
Did I really get downvoted for stating that people who argues about gender diversity should be aware of one of the strongest psychological differences between the sexes? It doesn't matter if the cause is biological or not, fact is that women are on average significantly more neurotic than men in all modern societies.
Chroma's summary is a "charitable interpretation" (his words), and shouldn't be considered necessarily accurate or representative of the manifesto author's intent. A straight faced reading of it yields something not nearly as constructive as what Chroma presented.

Yonatan isn't simply berating the author. He's explaining in detail why the manifesto is problematic in many ways that have to do with context and circumstance. What the author presents as ideological intolerance, Yonatan describes as the host of practical considerations to running a business and a workplace that, one suspects, the author wouldn't have a problem with if he weren't feeling constrained.
Travis Kalanick reportedly sought to reassert control at Uber after ouster
Sorry, you are definately right about the motivation for the change. My first paragraph is off base. I should have said "this seems incomplete" instead of wrong.

I just wanted to see the architectual reasoning behind how switching from tristate -> unidirectional leads to faster interconnects.
Even if the travelers inspect the shipments, are they supposed to open every single container/bag inside to ensure that everything's legal? How would common folk know how to tell between heroin and baby powder? What about hidden compartments, sealed containers?
Managers in large companies will push anything in a top-down fashion. Before, they pushed waterfall. Now, they are pushing something they call Agile. (They do, I don't.) In 5 years, the consultant-managerial complex will push something else. I agree that is bad. [1]

But the top-down thing is explicitly not what the Agile movement was about. As the early Extreme Programming community would say, "By-the-book Extreme Programming is where we suggest you start, but it's definitely not where you should end up." The notion was always that teams would take time every iteration to look at how they were working and improve it to match local conditions.

That was definitely true even at the beginning; "self-organizing teams" was one of the principles from 2001: http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

So the way to think about it isn't in terms of manager interventions. It's in terms of those non-interchangeable teams experimenting and then sharing what they've learned with other teams. Teams will learn things! Some of those things will apply to other teams. A few will apply widely. And that's exactly how the good Agile teams work today. They may start from some recommended set of practices, just like any novice does while learning things. But they are supposed to evolve from there to match local talent and conditions.

[1] I've written more about that here: http://agilefocus.com/2011/02/21/agiles-second-chasm-and-how...
It's just about keeping out people who might live in apartments. Really not racist or classist, just that we want our neighborhood to stay for people who can afford millions in land.
I could have said things better, as I was trying to make a point about the dispute/discipline procedure of a major university. The victim, IMHO, in this instance is the student. The school believes they are the victim, but they also happen to be the judge and jury. I found the process, the evidence procedures, finding of fact, and guilt, to be seriously flawed.
Is Boeing making any military systems at Boeing WA, or only airliners? I'd assume they make at least the military versions of civilian airframes (e.g P-8 Poseidon) there?

If that's the case, won't Boeing often be doing long test flight campaigns for various subsystems out of Boeing field?
Yes, but plenty of other non-programmers also learned what it means, when they first heard the English word. So it's not a huge conceptual leap.

Whereas "prototype" has completely different English dictionary meaning, and thus requires in-depth redefinition.
If you are scared of technical projects being stolen document all your learnings and store code on git.

Everything is timestanped and proved you were there first maybe?
The customers don't care how the programmers work as long as they get good results. But the people on the team should really care. And if they do, they should a) experiment, and b) exchange ideas with other teams.
That's not how probability works, and the risk of developing cancer isn't stable throughout your life, it increases significantly with age.
>anti-communist red scare

McCarthism was as much anti-fascist as it was anti-communist, but of course commies would rewrite history to play the victims. Read the actual laws, it never mentions communism without mentioning fascism in the same sentence.
Okay, I understand the reasoning for most of these choices, but what kind of barbarian argues that a tab should be 3 spaces?
There is this thing called a stock market.
Exactly. If I had devoted my career to a different industry that had serious diversity problems, I would be advocating for corrective actions in that industry.