skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In (almost) all open office environments, people above a certain level have private offices.

Why?

Why don't they want to be as productive and collaborative as their reports? Conference rooms and phone rooms are just as available to them as they are to the rest. They can probably even afford much better head phones than the rest.

I just don't see enough of a difference to justify it.
As of four years ago, Germany at least had the same restriction on operating pharmacies (I was not aware of any legal restriction on their number, but it wouldn't surprise me either).
ML is a set of techniques derived from math.

Instead of giving up you should push through that. Use what you know to get familiar with what you don't, rather than asking for things to be made accessible to you. Math is much older and bigger than computer science and refusing to learn it is over-specialization.
The HN description says: "users can opt to have a “Wali” present in their conversations "

The site says: _Women_ can include a guardian in their conversation for extra peace of mind.

Which is correct?
The OODA Loop: How to Turn Uncertainty into Opportunity
| The biggest deterrent, for me at least, is not the price but the need to switch platforms. I'm already annoyed when I have to go from Netflix to Amazon to find a movie/show I want to see but can't remember where it is. No chance I'll add a third, forth, or fifth platform to the mix.

That's my biggest pain point as well. I already have to switch between Netflix / Hulu / Amazon to figure out who has the content I want. I've always been a huge Stargate fan; Netflix and Amazon used to have it, now only Hulu has it. Amazon is the only one that has the latest episodes for shows that I like, (although I have to pay extra, I'm willing to bite the bullet for my favorite show).
Inexperienced recruiter wants +100K for fwd a resume cut them?
TL;DR: recruiter adds zero value - I've signed nothing with them and they want to work with me directly...

Recruiter and employer has also signed no agreement.

I am highly technical and experienced (22 years) recruiter has literally 3-months as a technical architect recruiter (was a Peets coffee worker prior)....

Am I shady to cut out recruiter when client wants to work with me directly?

More details upon request.
If by dead on arrival you mean incredibly useful, yes.
I'd consider a string of < 1 year positions a red flag when hiring. I think there's an element of courtesy and maturity in staying 2 years unless there are reasonable circumstances why it's not possible. As a hiring manager I want to make sure that my time and effort recruiting are not wasted. Same for training and development of subject matter expertise. Obviously I need to reciprocate in compensation/learning opportunities.
MalwareTech suspended from private threat intel feeds
ZeroCater (YC W11) hiring polyglot engineers to flip an industry
Don't forget the ability to access mobile tabs/history from desktop and vice-versa.
$200 is left for food and medical and clothing, and won't buy you a very healthy diet, at least where I am, which is considered a cheaper place to live. Also that's ignoring, the systematic barriers in the way of doing that. In a place where you don't need a car to get from cheap apartments to work, "cheap apartments" cost more than $600. In a place where apartents are actually cheap enough, and someone walks say a mile every day to work, they're competing with everyone else to find work in a small radius. That's a tiny tip of the iceberg, but in a perfect world minimum wage would be enough to live on for everyone everywhere. We don't live anywhere near there
I could see everyone getting away with $5 as long as they have the same "no-hassle, cancel anytime" policy.
I love fast.ai's course, but I also appreciate having a solid and thorough free machine learning course. While fast.ai is good for getting onto the cutting edge of deep learning quickly, it doesn't go through a lot of material that most people in the machine learning industry are assumes to know.
the guy is a shut in... even before his exile to the embassy.

Its hard to imagine him having been able to develop the social skills you'd expect to see on a smooth Tinder playa...
Sure. Robert M. Solow's review in the New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/117429/capital-twenty-first-...
There has been work done toward re-working our current laws to fit observation without dark matter, but I think it just breaks way more stuff than it solves. The new model ends up being a worse fit for pretty much everything else but the galaxy rotation thing.

We already have weakly interacting particles like the neutrino, which don't interact with matter outside of the weak force, making them rather difficult to detect, it's not really that far out of the realm of possibility to have other particles that only interact via the gravitational force.
the most hacker news comment ever
If you're conservative at Google and tired of getting muzzled and want to help his case you could do the following:

1. Go to Memegen

2. Find a meme made by a liberal (check around the time Trump was elected) that is denigrating or demeaning towards conservatives

3. Leak the photos and ask Google to fire them for their "harassing" views

4. If they don't, they are selectively enforcing their own "rules"

5. Point out their hypocrisy
It worked great for hiring orchestra musicians.
When the Australian public service tried it though, it backfired.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tria...
> Why are people throwing money at these?

Futures for Tezos are already trading at 6x the amount people invested during ICO.

> It makes no sense.

In the short term it makes a lot of sense (600% ROI). In the long term: An Ethereum based on OCaml has an interesting potential.

> You have no guarantee that they won't just run off with the money

If the developers are not anonymous, while no guarantee, it makes it less likely. When you cross the road you also have no guarantee that the cars won't run you over. Some amount of trust is needed, whether for money or your entire life. Benefit of crypto is that you don't necessarily need to rely on trust. I doubt Tezos has contractual access to all the money they received, or are allowed to dump their shares as soon as it starts trading for real.
It's hard to convince someone of something when their income depends on them believing the opposite.

Steam was successful because it combined advantages for producers and consumers with minimal changes to the business model. The old business model is people buy games that come on a CD or DVD in a small cardboard box for $30-50; the new business model is people buy games that finish downloading in a few hours for $30-50. Not really much of a change in revenue stream.

Cable TV, however, relies on splitting up the channels people want into different packages, that each come with lots of channels they don't want. They also need to overcharge you so they can afford to cut the prices for the "package deal" (TV/Phone/Internet bundles). What people want instead is more à la carte options, with a discount from package deals because they're asking for fewer channels.

So moving to a service that would cut piracy would still hurt financially. Another advantage of piracy is that they can blame their financial troubles on "filthy criminals" and use that to extract some benefits from compliant government allies. Offering a less profitable service that reduces piracy robs them of that as well.
Seconded. I get the desire to free up the resources but unless you’re running some extremely hot resource paths (huge db queries, etc) the need for this is minimal.

Useful, yes. Absolutely. But I’ll wait on a standard spec first.

I’ve yet to see a clean implementation of this (bluebird comes closest though).
Speaking of price, were you able to get them expensed?
Heh. My elderly father watches 100x more Netflix than I do. It makes him happy, particularly for the price. I'm glad he enjoys it, even if I also wish I could nudge him towards a wider variety of shows.
I used to feel that way... then I gave up :)

I wish we had better federated sign-in solutions, but open-id probably won't be it... and U2F while cool won't solve the account recoverability problem.
The epidemic problem with bay area companies mixing their leftist politics and business is very disconcerting. They are alienating the majority population of the country, and are acting in the same manner as groups they claim to loathe. It is pure hypocrisy.

Bay area companies enjoy diversity and inclusion, as long as it fits within their narrative.
There's a theory that people with enormous paper ETH gains are just diversifying by buying into all the ICOs. And the ICO "fortunes" are also on paper; I don't know if there's enough liquidity to sell the $500M per month that ICOs are bringing in.
I mean... isn't it still technically correct though? We have an opaque horizon of light, it's just all in the microwave spectrum.
I used with Firebase a while ago, it was quite pleasant to use initially.

I think that all these SaaS/BaaS services do speed up development initially but they slow things down in the long run. I had the same issue with Amazon Elastic Transcoder (for videos) and SNS; once you need to split out different environments (development, staging, production) and then scale to support more regions and start splitting up jobs into more streams; it can get really difficult to the point that you wish you were running your own service instead.
Old vs. new money. It's a lot easier to get money from 15.000 people who got so rich with BTC and ETH, they have money to spare, than to find and convince 15 Venture Capitalists to put up 1.4 million.
The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Meaningless (2013)
"It struck a nerve and was harshly criticized inside a company and an entire industry struggling to explain why women are underrepresented in key engineering ranks"

I believe there are less female graduates in software engineering than male, and more male software engineers so wouldn't it follow that they would be underrepresented? Unless that underrepresentation is in relation to those figures?
Arguably the Model 3 isn't "currently available" but Motor Trend is a big fan for more than straight lines:

"The Model 3 is so unexpected scalpel-like, I’m sputtering for adjectives. The steering ratio is quick, the effort is light (for me), but there’s enough light tremble against your fingers to hear the cornering negotiations between Stunt Road and these 235/40R19 tires (Continental ProContact RX m+s’s). And to mention body roll is to have already said too much about it."

http://www.motortrend.com/cars/tesla/model-3/2018/exclusive-...
Will be interesting to see where the Netflix content based on Disney properties goes from here.
> Liberals / progressives keep missing the point - silencing your opposition and calling them names

You're conflating a political movement with a company doing PR damage control. Google management didn't "call him names".

You're not thinking about it like a corporate manager. Google is trying hard not to be seen as just another Frat startup like Uber (albeit an older one). They are actively trying to hire the best engineers in the world and this memo just put a dent in their hiring process for 50% of their potential hiring candidates.

> Fight bad ideas with better ideas, better arguments.

Of course.

The irony is that social conservatives are usually the ones to cry foul when an employee sues a company for firing the employee for social/cultural reasons. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, both political poles are shown to be hypocrites.
A Summer School for Mathematicians Fed Up with Gerrymandering
Another thing I bet they'll do is arbitrarily pull movies from the streaming service for a period of time so people will flock to the service when they announce its return in a 2 minute commercial you can only see in the theater before their latest movies. They are the kings of artificial scarcity.
While obviously density improves the efficiency of almost any transportation system I don't understand why driverless vehicles would ever be less efficient than traditional cars. Sure they will initially cost more due to additional sensors and computers there will also be saving from removing unneeded human controls. Lastly accident/fatality rates are several times higher in rural areas so the potential safety gains are larger.
You aren't worried that Airbnb's net will catch innocent people? For example: Journalists covering the rally, or counter-protesters.
The solution maybe better ways to find old content.

But having the same links resurface over and over doesn't seem optimal to me.
VAT is part of the itemized receipt. More importantly, as the parent says, advertised prices must include VAT. This is different from the US, where sales tax is added as a last step, and advertised prices are always excluding tax.
I think it is a little short-sighted to see local investment as the only path to a positive outcome. Assuming employees are getting a decent equity stake then what would be even more impactful in my opinion would be some exits that enable local staff to start angel investing and supporting the ecosystem. If there becomes a strong incentive for good talent to stay in Africa, make decent money and invest back then the fact that the current up and coming startups are backed by foreigners will matter little in the future. Overall I think the potential upside of any successful is huge and the more foreign money that can kickstart this the better.
Gee -- I wonder why the Qwest CEO went to prison...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
the gifs are funny. hacker news is just a bunch of anoraks.
Korean soaps are great for old people! My mom (Caucasian middle american) also now likes running man.
write a follow-up. it's interesting
Most decent companies have two pools of money. One for raises, and one for retention. The key here is, the manager has to really fight for it. If they believe enough in the employee to battle for the retention dollars, I've typically seen it go well.

Here's the key, a lot of managers are too afraid, confrontation averse, or short sighted to make a fight for their employee.
Contentious Memo Strikes Nerve Inside Google and Out
IMO, one of the biggest design goals of Apple TV is precisely exposing content on a provider-agnostic interface, to avoid this pain. As services get more and more fragmented, Apple could become more and more competitive in that space.
I don't think that's a problem, more a question of leadership's priorities.
Well that is way better mileage than my car gets so at least I know I'm getting there in the most efficient way.
Which skills? The returns in the cryptoeconomy were much higher than the returns that high skills give.
What if they did that stuff on their own time, do they still deserve to be fired? Because he didn't.
Perhaps not. But I don't see the fact that he wrote it as the proximal cause for his firing.

I suspect it's the fact that his PR event caused by the memo makes it harder for the company to hire women and to draw a clear distinction between Google company culture and, say, Uber company culture.
I've always wondered about the CBM in this instance. Isn't that technically an opaque horizon of light? I understand that it's not stars per se, and that there is technically stuff "beyond" that, but doesn't that count as a "bright" night sky? Just not in the visible spectrum.
Dividing content by movie studio cuts against the grain. In most cases a single studio produces an arbitrary subset of the stuff I might want to watch. This is unlike, say, ESPN, where I can add it to my cable subscription if I like watching sports. ESPN is a semantically coherent unit of content. Disney isn't.

If the Disney move represents a trend, it's going to be particularly frustrating for end users, as there will be no legal solution for watching what we want to watch when we want to watch it, unless we subscribe to all services. Guess how many users will do that, and how many will just click the magnet link.
the full memo : https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
We are all, first and foremost, quitters
Greece didn't have great options at that point. If they had left EU, they could have unilaterally restructured the German loans, but they would have been hung out to dry with respect to the refugees. They don't have an easily closed border. Suddenly the ridiculous Western decision to destabilize Libya and Syria makes a kind of hideous sense...
Did you find out about the job from the recruiter? If so, they did add some value.

Did the employer find out about you through the recruiter?
If so, they added value for the employer. However, without an existing relationship, I don't think the employer owes them anything.
Pro white supremacist comments on HN. A wonderful community lately!
To be honest I've been both terrified and incredibly curious myself to seek her thoughts on this subject.

In part because the reply might not match what I have in mind.

I know we all want women to thrive in software and there is absolutely no reason for a skilled person like her to simply drop out, especially not after the serious effort that was put in.

Part of me is sadden by the thought that we may not have the next female equivalent of Linus Torvalds, because we somehow failed to make CS a welcoming field for minorities.
Originally they weren’t. That was the whole idea of cable, fund by subscription. Didn’t work out.
Train!
High-quality public television tends to make cable and satellite TV less attractive. SkyTV has been far less popular in its primary markets than DirecTV has been in the US.

In the US, Comcast and Verizon are more analogous to the BBC in England -- TV is less expensive (as an individual monthly cost) when it is publicly funded.

Interestingly, the BBC is investing heavily to compete with Netflix [1]. If you live in an area that the BBC serves, you will likely need fewer streaming services to get the content you want.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/04/uk-broadcaster-bbc-invests-4...
I just read the Google piece (permanent IPFS link: https://www.eternum.io/ipfs/QmYSj4Vyq5RW6jiYsiCJx3FiSc2nRiXz...) for the first time, after being aware of the outrage, and I found myself agreeing with the part about silencing the opposition. The piece is well-written and makes some good points, but the author is vilified just because he is expressing an opinion that goes against the popular political climate.

The line about "mandating increases for women’s representation in the homeless, work-related and violent deaths, prisons, and school dropouts" was especially interesting to me, as I can't easily dismiss that point.

Maybe we should engage in discussion, rather than moralizing over diversity, as the piece said?
Drivers have to rate you before they see your tip unless you give a cash tip.
I thought quasars still aren't relinquishing anything, the jets are matter that never made it past the event horizon.
For the life of me I still can't figure out what he wrote that was so offensive.

I see people attacking him in general terms, calling him a bigot/sexist/etc, but they never mention anything specific he wrote.

Can anyone point to anything specific that is upsetting so many people?
Maybe they did add some value, but not $100K worth. And if they're really inexperienced, they could also subtract value by screwing up the introduction of the employee to the employer and costing them the job.
Seems like they should punish the leaker just as harshly has the engineer.
Great reminder that none of us own land in the U.S
I come here for intelligent discussion not useless sarcasm. This is HN right, not Reddit?
To clarify, I don't mean that the delivery options won't have an impact on price. People often seem to frame the arguments around videos services as them not providing the unit of content they want (like marssaxman above), when more often than not they do. The real complaint is usually just what your saying, they don't offer it at the desired price, despite a ton of unbundling from the old model. That's a fair critique to make, although I'm hopeful the market is able to sort it out
I agree with the underpaid argument. Remove a few developers and shut down. Remove a few managers and get three hours a day back.
Being directly affected by a situation should absolutely not be a point for being more knowledgeable on it. Emotional appeal is the refuge of the ignorant.
Here's my understanding of Google's hiring practice. In essence, Google optimizes to minimize false positive (i.e. hiring unqualified engineers). Hence, even if an applicant meets the bar (i.e. qualified), it is still a crapshoot whether the person is hired or not. By lowering the false negative rate (i.e. rejecting qualified applicant), the effective hiring rate for the target demographic group is higher if all other factors are assumed to be constant (and that's a big if and debatable).

Edit:
Another way to say this is, if an applicant simply meets the bar, the person is most likely not hired. Conversely, an applicant needs to far exceed the bar in order for interviewers to vouch for the person and improve odd of hiring.

On the other hand, applicant that fits into the targeted demographics are probably afforded additional consideration, even if the person's interview did not wow the interviewers as much, hence the "lowering the bar" argument. It is not lowering the standard bar, but rather the "score", if you will, the applicant needs to clear the bar.

The best analogy I've read so far is that the candidate's score and its error bar must clear the bar. But affirmative action applicants are extended the courtesy of second look, which reduces the error bar, hence lower score is needed for the score and error bar to clear the Google bar.
That or true insanity.
Ah, my apologies. Upon re-reading your message I think I misread it the first time around. I thought you were saying more than just "we showed NK that nuclear weapons are the ultimate weapon" -- I thought you were somehow implicating us as responsible for NK's militaristic, aggressive nature. Which you were not doing. My bad!
I'd rather speak my mind and be judged for it than homogenize myself for acceptance.
So far no one has mentioned something that has my tinfoil hat tingling like a mofo. With Net Neutrality being the uncertainty that it is, why would Disney choose to be potentially burdened like this? I see a few possible scenarios: 1) They know something we don't. 2) This move has become a necessity, which I highly doubt given their enormous catalog now. 3) They see the value in pursuing this endeavor no matter the cost.

It's hard to look this up for me, so forgive me, but my assumption is Disney is not one of the big companies that can control the internet. I don't believe BAMtech has peering such as Netflix has caching servers like Youtube so I think this would be very interesting to watch closely.

My personal feeling is that if net neutrality is completely abandoned, Disney has more than enough money to print its way to making this work. I don't know if it'll be good or bad for them to be beholden to the same restrictions as other streaming services or if they'll magically become exempt. With all the properties in Disney's possession now I'm very much reminded of the phrase "too big to fail" but I'm very interested to see how this plays out. I'm hoping for a net positive for everyone involved but lessons of the past have me expecting the worst.