skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>leadership isn't "given" it is earned

Yeah, but; earned by whom???

The board? What if they are inept? What if you have X0,000?? employees - especially those who are 99.9% NEVER going to set foot in an office of, or the presence of "dear leader"?

Why/how shall they 'earn' the respect of said leader?

Not going to happen...

Leadership respect is earned by those in proximity to direct results that affect THEM...

Driver results from leader in Uber's case == "all gripes drivers have due to proximity to leader/leader's policies that affect their $$ line...."

Tell Zuck to be a line cook in the BBQ stand in MPK - for two months, and not having to go to his palo alto compound, attend his 'charity' events for new-parent-syndrome-billionaires, etc... the outcome will be diff...

He will never earn the respect of a line-cook, as JK will never earn the respect of an uberdriver doing their "side-hustle" (the recent uber commercial is advertising to young, black, urban females to "get a side-hustle"^ by being an uber driver.

^ -- Yes this is the actual quote from the commercial.

Oh look; they have the male trope going as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsbWt6FjlTk

So black science teachers who chill and play pool needa side hustle as well??
Is it? Does putting something in writing automatically force you to do it, legally, if that writing is not a contract?

Perhaps the mistake here is Benchmark's. If Kalanick agreed to do this in writing, and then didn't do it, that makes him look bad but it's unclear to me that Benchmark can do much about it. Maybe Travis has the last laugh.
A relative has a fruit tree out front. He does not particularly mind when somebody walking by takes a piece. He does mind a good deal when somebody comes along with a shopping bag and starts to load up.
Not really a question of sympathizing, it's the fascination of watching warfare at these levels. Travis getting himself a right to appoint three directors, just before he is asked to step down, which he does and appoints himself as a director and has tickets for two more. While Benchmark was organizing other members of the Board to fire him, and now dealing a counter play to Travis' board seat strategy. It's rare this stuff goes on where people can see it.
Money flows from product companies to ad companies to owners of ad space, such as radio, website, tv, movies, billboards, sports teams, apps, etc.
> Maybe there could be a policy of only counting articles in open-access journals.

Unfortunately it's not a policy, it's the easy option for those evaluating scientist, which is why they do it. Sometimes there's a policy to ignore the reputation (or actually, the flawed metric that's supposed to represent it called "Impact Factor"), but that's not widespread. Academics unfortunately have more to concern themselves with than spreading Open Access.
You can setup interviews with text chat and screen shares at a large company without including someones voice or picture. Some places also remove names and other details from resumes.

Most companies don't do this in part because text chat introduces other biases, but also because most people ignore their own bias.
Travis is a very sympathetic figure to many employees. He has poured his life into the company, to the point the two were indistinguishable up until his resignation. Travis was Uber, and Uber was Travis.

Benchmark's letter makes me wonder about the full content of the Holder report. Their lawsuit listed scandals that were already public, but whatever was in the report seems to be what triggered their initial request for Travis to step away from the company.

I wonder how many of the "Travis loyalists" would reconsider their position if they were aware of the full extent of the risks the company was exposed to as a result of his management.
But then multi-interpreters would allow that, and the article discard it as a valid solution. I find it harsh. It seems much easier to implement, doesn't have the same serialization problem than multiprocessing has and allow to utilize all the CPUs. Yes it's not as good proper threads because you do have more overhead, but it's an order of magnitude better than what we currently have, while being way easier to do that getting rid of the GIL.

Too bad the current project is on hold.
But is $4000 the high before the crash? Or will it go up to $6000 first? And when it crashes, will it go up again? Or is it just the start of a 6 month bear market?

Attempting to time the market will cause you to lose you money roughly 50% of the time.

If you believe Bitcoin is undervalued, buy it. If you think it is overvalued and you own some, sell it.
Originally we only taught functional programming (Haskell), but as we moved more commonly-used languages we kept the name. At times I regret that, but I like the name.
AI Is Here and Your Human Job Might Be Done
Well he already said in a couple of interviews something like "I write C++ so that you don't have to".

Also a few other Swift team members used to be part of ANSI C++ comitee.
I had precisely the same problem when I visited the UK about 18 years ago. Finding authentic souvenirs was not at all easy.
Should perhaps be titled: "How to Write an American Indie-Rock Song". There's a lot to the world of composing outside of acoustic guitar and verse-chorus-verse.
They can find a registrar which has a ToS they are willing to comply with.
Do you know what will happen to the Yahoo-Mozilla deal?
Come on, guys. You all are smart enough to read between the lines.

Benchmark is desperate to get out. Why do you think that is? Do you think they'd be all hands on deck trying to get out of a rocket ship investment? Of course not.

Uber's unit economics are garbage, and will remain garbage until self-driving technology becomes universal. That will not happen in a timeframe that Benchmark is comfortable with - or to put it another way, within the preferred close dates of their fund - and even if it did, they clearly have little confidence that the current leadership (or lack thereof) are the right operators, either now or in the future.

The ship is sinking. They want out. Softbank wants in - for reasons I can't understand other than they have the money and want to spray it around aimlessly - and this bit of messiness is surely throwing a wrench into the plans.
My mistake. I skimmed over the word "Land" without really noticing it.

Add voice dictation and things get even weirder. A lot of times it's magical with some crazy word thrown in.
Everyone seems to agree that only the best should be hired.
But may I ask isn't that a form of discrimination as well?. Being the best in an intelectual
activity such as programming is highly corelated with the level of intelligence of an individual.
No matter how hard you try if your IQ is below 80 you will never enter in Google. I even dare to say
that even if you are in the normal range of intelligene your chances of entering in Google are still very low.
Isn't intelligence a biological attribute in the same way of the color of the skin or a gender?.
Who decided its own IQ level before they were born?.
> The only reason not to do blind hiring is if it produces results which are indistinguishable from standard hiring.

This will possibly result in less women being hired. See: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tria...
"I have come to bury Travis, not praise him."

Last time I checked, Benchmark has one board seat? A bit bizarre for them to assert themselves (note the plural) as a benevolent agent for employees. I know 'corporations are people too', but how are employees supposed to respond to this letter? They're not. This is a PR release. Good thing "this isn’t about Benchmark versus Travis."

The CFO inclusion screams IPO, which, consequently, is all this comes down to: money. Benchmark wants to cash out.

Entrepreneurs will still work with Benchmark. Yes, they'll push you out a la Twitter and Uber style, but, at the very least, you'll be a billionaire by the time they do.
Which is what multi-interpreters is a good solution. You keep the GIL and the benefits of it, but you loose the cost of serialization and can share memory.
This is very interesting and I like the finance model a lot. I'd be curious to see more details on the syllabus, however.

I also have questions about the quality of instruction. There are some big name institutions listed, but that doesn't necessarily indicate quality instruction. The best researchers are often emphatically not the best instructors, and for this venture instructors are much more important.

I sincerely hope this is successful; perhaps this can prompt traditional institutions to be more innovative (in delivery, instruction, finance, all of it).
Plus, the Mongols improved the environment.
I don't want to discourage you, because i had the same dream 5 years ago. But what you are saying has gotten VERY expensive. As an initial investment (at least for me, I have very few to share plants/seeds with) its pretty high. Then you have some deer take out a tree and all the berries, so you need to invest in deer block (chemical or physical), then you have the fricken EAB borer killing your 30 year old Ash Tree, and the black fungus that's taking out the pear and cherries, and then you forget to close the fence one day so most of the cucumbers and beans go missing and the rest get taken out by the cucumber beetles and/or the wilt they carry with them. Oh, and i invested about $200 on some "deer resistant, rabbit resistant" flowers (useful flowers like sage and lavender) which slowly disappear each season.

In other words, start saving now :). Though I haven't checked your link yet, so maybe the solution is in there!
I didn't know what a diaresis was. I was a bit naive (!). Thanks
Many adult websites operate as a company with a completely different commercial name. I guess this is for legal reasons. I found that finding what company operates each websites (or website network) is extremely difficult.

Some job boards do the work for you by automatically classifying companies by industry. e.g. try filtering by "adult" at JobFluent job board. e.g for Barcelona: https://www.jobfluent.com/jobs-barcelona/adult

However, the same problem applies the other way around. Getting to know what adult websites operate each company is also a problem on its own...
If that's what universities are, that's fine, but I'd argue that's not why the vast majority of students attend a University.
That only works if the editorial board "flips", though - unfortunately, universities mostly aren't able to start journals with reputable editorial boards.

I'm currently leaning towards finding a way to convince large numbers of boards to flip as the most viable path to proper open access.
The best tip I ever got (other than to use f.lux at all) was to set it to 5800K during the day. It's an almost unnoticeable difference, but makes a huge improvement in reducing my eyestrain.
Protecting speech is often in tension with other individual liberties that are supposed to be protected, and the purpose of government is to arbitrate those disputes. I don't think there are any that grant unfettered protection to speech-- a government that permitted advocation of treason, for instance, probably wouldn't last very long.
> The point of a university is to develop your mind, not train for a job.

I think that's true in practice, but not in most university's marketing, or even the general cultural/social attitude towards going to university, which is in general viewed as the surest path to the best job.

> Let the market decide which one better serves students.

Most universities exist outside of the market in how they receive funding etc.
> serious cahunas

I think you mean "cojones" (which btw is a very rude word in Spanish). A kahuna is a kind of Hawai'ian shaman.
The other issue with multiprocessing is that it requires the enclosing code to be pickleable, and many Python objects are not pickleable. For example, if I have a thread-safe RPC client and want to send thousands of RPCs using the client, I can't do that with multiprocessing (subprocess pool; threading pools work). RPC clients manage a TCP connection, if you use multiprocess you end up having to make many TCP connections.
Could you elaborate how exactly? What would you rank lower than Uber?
I find the stance of HN admins/managers on these type stories incredibly biased. When something is agreeable to the "more X in tech" trope it stays on the front page for hours and gets hundreds of points. When a story that is counter to that trope gains traction it quickly drops off the page and admins/managers are all over the discussion picking and chosing what to suppress. The whole google memo/James Damore thing is a perfect example of this. I don't know if it is general community bias, astroturfing, censorship, or whatever. It is clear that the community has a lot of interest in this and some entity is very eager to minimize the discussion. It's disgusting.
You can just order them via Amazon now. I think the initial exclusivity worked ok to build a bit of excitement and hype around what probably would have been a lackluster launch if they'd just dropped them onto Amazon. Though even with that all the people I've seen using them were mocking them half the time for being ridiculous.
The war against security researchers continues to dismay, and it always feels like the boot of the man showing up to put the intellectuals in their place.
I feel like these simulations refute "if you are not a liberal at 25, you have no heart. if you are not a conservative at 35 you have no brain":

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/24/heart-head/

The older I get, the more it seems to me that context is the basis of strongly held political beliefs. Growing up in Idaho, I'm often dismissed out of hand when I offer my (by regional standards) liberal opinions. I've met many people from liberal states (even California) who offer conservative opinions, which always struck me as ironic. How would our positions hold up when confronted with a change of context, if we saw how their application backfired?

I'm wondering if there is a duality here, where different approaches can both be right but one could and should be chosen based on desired outcome. People unaccustomed to pragmatism may be performing a logical fallacy by assuming that their way works in all cases, when it practice they would lose to experience (and in the case of the prisoner's dilemma, cooperation).
Why call a VC fund Y Combinator? People love borrowing random CS terms for company names.
For those of you who are using VSTS: CI/CD or VSTS: Build please note that we're still updating our hosted build image but that should be done in the next few days.

We'll also be sure to update the docs here with the list of what is supported: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/build/concepts/agent...
> paper wealth

What wealth is not paper wealth?
They can't stop a team in a small boat from boarding a merchantman, positioning it cross-ways in the canal, then sinking it. Do this once at each end, and your carrier group just lost it's mobility and much of it's ability to project force.
> The best researchers are often emphatically not the best instructors, and for this venture instructors are much more important.

This is very true. Most of our instructors are refugees from an academic world; they really just want to teach, and research for them was a necessary evil.

We have a pretty rigorous hiring process (and we're hiring now! careers@lambdaschool.com)

>I'd be interested to see more on the syllabus

What would you like to see?
There are protected classes in America because of Jim Crow. Its the same as refusing to bake a cake for someone because they are black.
But would you bake them a Nazi cake? ;-)
The new eyestrain preset is 5900K, so good call.
> Considering that IP addresses you get from most service providers are dynamic you need a lookup system for others to be able to access your speech.

Static IPs are available and if you are hosting content you usually should prefer them.
Former anti-spam guy here. Spam is hardly something everyone agrees on. There are big grey areas where people spam without thinking they're spamming, and yes they do get upset about it.

The primary moral and legal defence the big email providers have with respect to spam filters is that they're essentially democratic: they're powered by user reports. So if someone complains to Google that their mail goes into the spam folder, Google can just say "it's our users fault, figure out how to make them happy" and that's a good answer that puts them back in the driving seat. Also, users can whitelist mail if they disagree with the mail providers opinion. Spam is ultimately not a matter of politics then, it's a matter of aggregate user opinion on what sort of mail they want vs don't want.

This particular issue seems rather different. There are no user votes involved here and it's unclear why you'd want such a system anyway, given that people who disagree with a website can just not visit it. There is no way for visitors who disagree with Google's assessment to access the site anyway. And so on.
A what tree?
As much as I love guitar, these principles can apply to any instrument, so don't think you're pegged into learning guitar because you started late.

You can pick up the bassoon or piano just as well.
Are Benchmark's interests not aligned with employees' interests in this case? They would have preferred stock, so it seems like there's plenty of scenarios where they extract benefit, but common stockholders don't, there's one scenario - perfect execution - where common stockholders benefit while Benchmark benefits enormously, but there are zero scenarios where common stockholders do well, but Benchmark doesn't.
It also serves as a cautionary tale; as an entrepreneur, be very careful whom you accept money from. In many cases, it's a Faustian deal.
How many characters was your password?
Indeed, I know now that I will never own a domain via GoDaddy or Google. GoDaddy was already a known bad actor, but Google is an interesting one to add to that list.

Buy only from those who are willing to host controversial content - DynaDot has secured the wikileaks domain for years for example and gone to bat for them in court. That's the type of thing I want from a registrar. Those who don't protect their own customers are not worth a penny.
OP here.

So yes, we could have gone the "move up" route. In fact, we did at one point! Even then though, icons were far and away less intimidating.

The problem is, real programming languages don't eschew punctuation, Logo included (once you include loops and such). AND our primary goal was to get kids familiar with reading real looking code (in this case, Swift).

The last option would be to start with "move up"s, and then introduce punctuation later... but then players would get confused as to why punctuation, unneeded before, suddenly becomes required?

Finding the middle ground of jumping from icons to textual code (with punctuation) resolved all of these issues best.

And yes, we've read Mindstorms ;)
The Theremin is probably really Instagram friendly (not sarcastic).
It shouldn't be career ending unless there's been malfeasance or some kind of sloppy work. The people who go down hard usually have some crime beyond audacity.

It could easily cause some painful embarrassment, but hopefully that would pass with time.

Maybe embarrassment similar to that faced by researchers who's results suggested FTL communication, but it turned out to be a bad fiber-optic cable. I didn't follow up but I assume that team is doing OK.
The best mobile VPNs can ensure your privacy anywhere
Actually, I can't identify you from your HN profile. I guess I could google your username or something, but I'm a little unclear why you wouldn't just, you know, say where you work.
git has shallow clones `--depth N`
We use WPF/UWP on Windows projects, Java/Web when needed to be cross-platform, depending on the use case.

Native or Web on mobile projects, again depending on the use case.
I was originally testing BCC to BTC, so it looks like it depends upon what you are exchanging:

Shapeshift: 1 BCC -> 0.06773499 BTC

Evercoin: 1 BCC -> 0.06682701 BTC
> Google still is the best search engine

Define "best"? By what metric?

Given that we know Google use your own search history to influence current search result rankings, there is a bubble effect. I don't consider that to be a good thing. Their privacy policy and general business model (give away services for 'free' and data-mine the living bejesus out of user content to make creepy stalker-level profiles of them, for the purposes of showing adverts) are very much at odds with what I want from a search engine, or any business really.

I've yet to see anyone do a comparison of Google with browser settings such that they can't use previous search history to influence results, vs other search engines which don't rely on history for relevance anyway.

For me, DDG is good enough that I use it all the time on all my devices. I use !bangs, but the only google-related Bang I've used at all recently is !tr (Google Translate).
George Washington was a great first president. He would probably have been a crappy first king, though.
It looks like in some regions HipChat is a thing, while in others people don't even know what it is. I haven't seen it yet in my professional practice in Germany, whereas Lync (Skype 4 business) is almost everywhere...
>> even if P = NP it is possible that no one finds an algorithm.

If someone could prove P=NP but no one could find an algorithm. That would be incredibly funny in some sense. Like a huge joke played on us by the universe.
How to rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac
My neo-luddite instincts told me to agree with parent, but you make a good point. Copying keys is trivial (I used an automated booth in a pharmacy that was android based the other week, cost like 10 bucks for 3 copies) when having to deal with potentially malicious guests adding complexity to the simple act of locking serves a real purpose.
No, it's not. There are a finite number of .com registrars-- how many of them do you suppose want to be associated with Literal Nazis?

Even if it only serves to waste their time, hassling fascists is still a public service.
> It would be interesting to find out how many users switched back to Google after Yahoo paid Firefox to switch the default for new installs.

Many, but the net effect was still positive for Yahoo.

http://searchengineland.com/yahoos-firefox-deal-tells-us-pai...
Is the content your teaching currently openly available or are there plans to make it available in the future?
So you're arguing a private business has no right to refuse to do business with an individual customer, for any reason? What's your reasoning behind that? Are you against personal liberty and freedom, or do you believe the liberties of the Daily Stormer's operators somehow override the liberties of the people who operate Google's domain registration services?
A Java compiler lacks optimization and code generation (generating IR is not code generation). So does Javascript. But they are both great languages for learning how lexing, parsing, and semantic analysis works because those operations are relatively simple.

C is a harder one because the multiple "phases of translation" add quite a bit of complexity. It's easy to get lost in the frustrating and pointless complexity of the preprocesser. C++ layers onto that mixing semantic analysis up with parsing, and an unusually complex semantic analysis. Not for beginners.

I suggest reading the source code to a professional compiler because there are books about how compilers work, and then there's how compilers really work. Pro compilers tend to be built differently from academic or side project compilers.
Could you please tell me whether its applicable in India or any other counties or not?
I should have been more precise. By problem, I was referring to whatever, "Berg and Ulfberg and Amano and Maruoka have used CNF-DNF-approximators to prove exponential lower bounds for the monotone network complexity of the clique function and of Andreev's function," means, not "P ? NP."