skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also used to want to work for Google, but for a different reason. Early in college, I had read the original Google whitepaper from the 90's, and I had a view of google doing lots of cool tech work and lots of open, beneficial research. I viewed them as a positive force on the industry.

Then, senior year, I ended up flying out to California for an onsite interview. The all day event included meeting many people for interviews, tours, and discussions. Not a single one was doing open research, or Android development, or anything similar.

They were all directly, or at least moderately involved, with Building and targeting ads "better".

That shattered my world view. I had always viewed working for large companies as a positive thing, a protective and supportive environment that could afford to invest in employees and their future and work with them to improve lives.

Nope, every member of google was a cog to either squeeze more ad revenue out of the world, or burn money to push their ad infrastructure into other markets.

The amount of money Google makes is mind numbing, and it nearly all comes from selling space on infrastructure for programs and software whose core design is to convince you to spend money, no exception.

The amount of money spent all around me every day just to attempt to bend my will, to convince me to spend my hard earned dollars on this or that, utterly terrifies me.
while I agree with you, I think the regulators (SEC already said as much) have even more of an issue with unregulated securities/shares
This comment exactly expresses my understanding of the issue.
It looks like the law examines the "trade area":

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...

So you just need one joker actually selling gas at market price before the storm and the whole discounting scheme falls apart.
Stay long at your own risk, imo. Selling rallies has been the regime for almost a week now.
Because great discovery has no roadmap.

When the Electron was discovered it was useless, and now it runs our entire world. Who can say where undirected research and exploration may lead us?
Let me prove your axiom wrong with a counterexample.

I love these games, and I can program (and have shipped to prod) in over a dozen languages including Erlang, Haskell, C++, C, Common Lisp, Java, Clojure, Scala.

What you're saying is nonsense. Practice in programming is practice in programming. If we wanted to, we could make the TIS-100 system real for embedded computing and I bet it'd be popular with some instruction extensions.

I did an annex course at a local middle school with TIS-100 to teach kids that programming is fun. It went over well.
I took that figure from the USGS per capita household water use[1], which was 300-380 liters per day. Watering plants may make up as much as 20% of that but the biggest culprits are toilets and showers. This report[2] directly measured 1000 households and found daily direct water consumptions from 456 liters to 1815 liters(jesus).

[1]: https://water.usgs.gov/edu/qa-home-percapita.html

[2]: http://www.awwa.org/portals/0/files/resources/water%20knowle...
If you're looking for a purely financial reason, tax benefits and better insurance rates.
Synaptics drivers are horrendous. In addition to the terrible performance, mine has given me 10+ bluescreens on Win10. I'd love to remove them, but they're needed for some of the basic functionality. And they also seem to randomly make my mouse laggy (when I'm at a desk and plugged in).

Honestly, a generic trackpad driver that suppliers 2-finger scrolling, 2/3 finger mouse button emulation, and _maybe_ pinch-to-zoom would be all I want. If someone put in some plugin interface with an API so everyone could add the additional magic, it would help people with more complex needs. I'd love to kick synaptics to the curb. They've had decades to write a driver for the only thing they're known for, and yet still can't seem to handle it.
Google used to want me to work for them, but some years ago, the fairly frequent recruiting attempts became less frequent and then dried up.
> This is evil. (...) This is the kind of stuff Microsoft did in the 90s

and

> at no point did I think Microsoft was doing something evil

It honestly seems like the author is lacking empathy and looking for a way to justify going back to Microsoft.

I sympathize with his point that Google seems to be doing many things that aren't "good" but outright calling the entire company "evil" is not productive.

And I also turned down an offer from them, in part from the increased focus on share value, but I don't consider them outright evil. Companies are complex and should never just be reduced to "evil".
Exactly. At its essence, advertising is manipulation. There is no good manipulation, at least not from a corporation.
Why is my $millions in quotes? Do you think when I deposit my money Bank of America puts my balance in quotes because it came from Bitcoin?

My point is, as time goes on, your type of nay-saying just becomes more a parody of itself. You will probably go to your grave thinking only gold, silver and the all mighty USD are "real money".

Whatever, i'll just keep laughing back at you all the way to the bank.
Hello! Lynne here, the creator of Key Values.

I’m an indie hacker, and I've spent the last few months putting this together. I interviewed dozens of engineers to come up with a list of values: things we care about most when evaluating new opportunities. I then worked with engineering teams (which you see listed on Key Values) to identify the 8 values that best describe their engineering team and culture.

I’m working to add more teams to the site and would love to hear from you!
And copies every installer somewhere into system directories... (and if you delete it, you cannot uninstall it without pointing to installer file)
Have you successfully followed this plan? It seems to have a couple of holes in it.

I tried #2 at 3 separate jobs over 10 years, to no avail. Best I got was "does it have to be on the books?" i.e. I could call in sick or take random afternoons off and my manager would look the other way. If you are in demand, companies want you to work more, not less.

I was, however, able to negotiate 80% time at my last job, because I made it a condition of my employment before I started working. But that was a hard sell too. In particular they wanted to make sure I was not going to be moonlighting with my extra time. I don't agree with that attitude (my personal projects certainly take a lot of time and energy, even though I'm not making any money with them), but that's how the market works, even for a software engineer.
If you google my name and youtube you'll find an depressingly large cache of content. My recent stuff is not really for random consumption, but my older stuff was when I was considering becoming a fulltime gamer.

I have a still-relevant tutorial on Dwarf Fortress, SpaceChem, and over a hundred hours of very technical modded minecraft play.
Can't you just run docker in something like firejail?
There are multiple projects providing user-space file systems for Windows, dokany and WinFSP for example.

> That said, isn't it true that Windows drivers are userspace-based, anyway?

No.
Well damn. Someone added my 2014 article to the "generics" section. I didn't even know this wiki page existed.
All those companies named there can be considered "evil"(operating with their interest in mind) in one way or the other and yes Amazon is. They stopped selling the Chromecast and Apple TV because it competed with its own product, the FireTV.

If Google decided to pull all Amazon's apps that competed with its own in the Play Store people would have been running around with their pitch fork at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway.

People sometimes also dont care to work for a company because of the company's altruistic nature but for "selfish" reasons like, the prestige, paycheck and perks.
There are non profits for those who care solely for this kind of thing.

I am not condoning or criticizing people for working wherever they please but not everyone wants the same thing.
The overemphasis on coastal areas is a real problem, actually. I have known people that evacuated away from the storm, only to get kicked out of the hotel as it started to flood (~100 miles inland).

The whole, "everything on the coast is about to be destroyed" trope that gets blasted all over the nation doesn't help with proper risk assessment and planning.
Ugh RHEL stopping commercial btrfs support in their long term support kernels [1] does not equate to btrfs "being phased out in linux distros". It's just Red Hat, and Red Hat was never a major btrfs promoter. It's also just commercial support, all Red Hat, Canonical and SUSE kernels will continue to be able to use it.

I'm not a btrfs fan myself (quite the opposite) but the gross way in which this minor Red Hat move is being exaggerated as the end of btrfs makes me think something's up. People are willing to spread the FUD a little too easily. Fact is that btrfs is still one of the top two most advanced filesystems in the world, part of the kernel, and SUSE for one is all in on it.

[1] They have legitimate reasons: it's a big chunk of code to maintain backports for and not at all popular in RHEL deployments.
Store owners guarding their stores from the roof w/ AK-47s will do that.
I wonder what happens if we get robots that can provide a complete living off some plot of land. Like agriculture, energy and whatever you need. So in theory you could live autonomously then.

Somehow I think the owning class will come up with ways to make this illegal or impossible.
There are regulations for casinos as well.
I think I will be checking this one out
In a continued appeal to Trump, Tim Cook says 250 Apple employees are Dreamers
>There's a lot of money that goes into disaster relief and recovery. I think that's great and very worthwhile, thoughts on charity accountability notwithstanding.

>What I wonder, though, is if there are any organizations that provide pre-relief (prelief?) for disasters.

Future Aid: Why Prevention Efforts in Humanitarian Aid Often Fail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZwFG63TNxQ

http://aid.works/2016/10/billions-spent-why-isnt-haiti-ready...

>Humanitarian response is reactive, in part, because funding is reactive. Giving is emotional and irrational. If people can’t see the problem, it isn’t likely to garner support.

>Disaster preparedness is too abstract for people to take out their wallets. Even when someone says, “Hey, if you give $5 now, you’ll save more lives and money in the long run…” people just aren’t inclined to do it. Consider the slogan, “Build Back Better.” The emphasis is on what is already broken. A more pragmatic slogan would be, “Build Better.” It’s not likely to catch on.
already sent my resume.

I failed to mention my opensource contributions. not much but here they are.

https://github.com/chrisdev/django-pandas
https://github.com/xieziyu/ngx-echarts

not my projects, 1 PR on these to scratch my own itch. Got accepted by the maintainer. happy hunting.
I wish drivers were open source so we could fix these issues ourselves instead of helplessly waiting for updates from manufacturers.
Do you have an example of a non-pagerank based page ranking algorithm that I should look at?

Duck duck go isn't an independent search engine, it's a layer on top of Bing. That solves the privacy issue, but not the censorship issue, if you're worried about Microsoft censoring content. (At least we have two major search engines and not one.)
I'm happy to be stuck with my wife for the next 4 decades and have more than one to look back at. When you find the right person, it isn't much of a compromise.

I'm curious - what is the more "modern approach"? No commitment, no family?
So are those normal thin-film deposition processes? I don't know much about those, but am interested in them - are any of the materials particularly tricky to work with?

Or can you just sputter the oxides one-by-one onto a silver substrate?
At this point, the large compensation package offered at these places is starting to look like hush money to keep your mouth shut and to turn a blind eye towards anything that looks from the outside like some kind of systematic manipulation (e.g. of public opinion, suppression of disconcerting viewpoints).
Meh. Get rid of the big cow farms and you have removed the biggest threat to the climate. This solution here is nice, but it's just a small amount compared to the big players.
It's not about the ownership of the equipment, it's about whether the communications are official actions performed by an employee on behalf of the company. If they are, then the employer obviously (IMHO) has a right to know about them. And the best way to keep things from getting complicated (again IMHO) is to segregate work email (which the employer can read) from personal email (which no one but the user can read) in separate accounts.

I really don't see how any reasonable person could disagree with that.
I believe it's because as you get older, the 'single life' becomes less interesting, less rewarding and culturally less acceptable.
While I really respect Brendan's opinion (I've got most of his books and he is one of my IT heroes) I do think he is very netflix-IT-scale minded. When your Netflix you can maintain your own kernel with ZFS, DTrace, etc. and have a good QA setup for your own kernel / userland. Basically maintain your own distro. However when your in a more "enterprisy" environment you don't have the luxury of making Ubuntu with ZoL stable yourself. I know from first hand experience that ZoL is definitely not as stable as FreeBSD ZFS or Solaris ZFS.
Multiple explanations, not all of which need to be the case:

* Not everyone needs or is an expert on containers, just as not everyone is knowledgable about the TCP stack, dynamic routing, assembly optimization, or name your topic.

* It's a true and well-stated comment in itself and deserves to be recognized, even if many already know it.
TopSpeed's Take on the Motorscan Smartphone Diagnostic Tool for Harleys
I have mixed feelings about these videos.
I mean can reality match up? If more people like the illusion than the real thing what is the incentive to do the real thing...maybe this marketing stuff is reqd though...idk.
UBI doesn't limit employees from walking away from their jobs, it enables them to.

> The option to work for yourself isn't taken away by a jobs guarantee.

Obviously. Job guarantee programs however still don't allow you to truly walk away from your job unless you're able to financially support yourself, whereas a UBI does.
Yes. The blog for the Windows Insider Program makes frequent references to beta features that were shipped in different forms to different users and then a decision made based on the telemetry from those flights.
Check out the 99% Invisible podcast[0]

[0]http://99percentinvisible.org/
Stop Faking Service Dogs
That's an interesting value and I will definitely consider adding it! In some ways, this describes companies that are B-Corps/PBC but I agree, it's not perfect.
> Most people prefer their money increase in purchasing power, not decrease. I also don't buy the argument itself.

Most people with money would. Most people with debts wouldn't.

The problem is that most people don't have money, but they do have a mountain of debt. (And even among people who are above water - they have assets that exceed their debts, not dollars.)

Actually, while we're on the topic of what most people want, that would be a debt jubilee. And, while we're at it, a redistribution of wealth.

Again, what part of the argument do you not buy? Billions of people have been lifted out of poverty, by entering the debt economy. Aside from communism, there has been no example in living history of an increase in standard of living without a debt economy. A debt economy is only possible in an inflationary system.

* It doesn't matter if its still dominant, and whether or not it will be overtaken. The point is that in 2017, I can do international business with traditional currencies just fine. Saying that you can use crypto-currencies to do international business is quite literally, a non-solution to a problem that I don't have.

* If you have escrows, you've just re-invented the financial system, with all its non-blockchain ledgers, arbitrary judgements, and middle-men.

You've given an example of the least reversible fiat monetary transaction (Non-erronous wire transfer - second only to Western Union in its capacity for fraud) - where you get exactly the same protection as you do with crytocurrencies (None).

If you used a credit card, you could have charged back. If you used any one of the pseudo-escrow services, like PayPal, you could have disputed the purchase. If you wired money to the wrong account, you could have have it reversed. Yes, fiat currencies have some sharp edges. In contrast, cryptocurrencies are like trying to hug Edward Scissorhands.

I can supply an anecdote where I once gave fifty bucks to a guy in exchange for a bike, and he laughed at me and rode off. For some reason, though, there aren't very many anecdotes where a lapse in OPSEC results in someone withdrawing five billion dollars from the Bank of America's systems into a Bahaman slush fund. In the crypto-coin world, this happens every other month.

* You misread that part of my post.
Would it kill you to join everyone else in the 21st century and use numbers instead of romance numerals
Boston Red Sox Used Apple Watches to Steal Signs Against Yankees
Yeah but you can't ask a historian why this is happening and thus you can't ask them what to do about it moving forward. A technologist on the other hand is able to advice on why it's happening and help outline potential solutions.

But it's details in general I agree that Economists are the least interesting people to ask.
... Precisely none of these are technologies that you should use to "safely" run multiple things on the same hardware.
Seems like this list of "values" takes one side exclusively, without offering a counter-option. I would like to see an IQ > EQ option, for example.
> Write a code of conduct, make sure everyone is respected, and make that the end of it.

But that's exactly what all of your examples are. In each situation the decision and action was to make things as neutral and inclusive as possible. That there are people in any given community which want things to be taken in a different direction (any direction, social or otherwise) seems like a pretty natural thing.
You do know that J2EE has been called JEE for ages now right?
I didn't read all this. But I will say, from personal experience:

You lose your health in certain ways, that medicine can't "fix", and no amount of money will compensate.

And as you learn more (and have more life experience), you learn just how limited doctors still are in what they can really deal with. (And how dissembling some of the medical industry's advertising and propaganda -- as well as "Hollywood" presentations of it -- can be.

P.S. Additionally, you lose your health, and you are much less likely to make -- or hold onto -- that wealth. So, ultimately, it's not even an "either/or" of "get rich" or "stay healthy".

When you're young, it's easy to feel that you "have a lot in reserve" and can "borrow" against future youth and or a planned, future initiative to "clean up your act and get healthy".

Trouble is, patterns tend to become increasingly self-reinforcing. That includes unhealthy ones.

Better not to let them get started, nor too deeply entrenched.
This is very cool, and there are indeed interesting trade-offs in deciding what happens on the chain and what happens off of it. Is there a live demo set up somewhere?
You pointed out one major thing. US reliance on cars is actually worsening this. As opposed to gas prices and car maintenance, public transportation tends to have somewhat predictable prices and term discounts.
Free printable workout log
Not sure how much you can consider Work/Life balance a key value when you expect people to work 50 hour weeks (https://www.keyvalues.io/kite). Not to say that 50 hours is awful, there's certainly a lot worse out there, but I'd say it's enough to disqualify that as a 'key value'.
six

shutdown -r now
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pull the power cable out of the wall when i see the bios screen.
Why Machines Won’t Take Your Job
Yeah, it's really hard to strike the right balance here, and we're constantly learning from experience. Sorry for the pain! I'll put a note on the core team agenda to undergo a round of public discussion around policies here, which is overdue at this point.
Hm, when was the next Unix timestamp range overflow again?
Just legally speaking there's benefits: taxes, you can be on your spouse's health insurance, can visit them in the hospital, investments/inheritance, social security benefits, etc.

I could definitely make an argument that a lot of those benefits could be done away with though. For example different methods of taxing people, healthcare not being tied to people's jobs/universal healthcare, etc.
That would make sense if we only had a few friends. If you have a few hundred, you only see a small percentage of what they posted, regardless of your actions. Now I understand that my actions impact what I see, but I'm pretty sure it's way more nuanced than what you describe: what does it mean "like that"? I may like or read two posts and discussions about food, and Facebook infers it's about food, but I actually just liked the pictures of broccoli and don't want more food articles. I didn't curate anything, i just wanted to see the damn broccoli.

It's not "me" who decides what I see. I may just want the damn broccoli, but it may take a year or two before Facebook's AI figures that out. And I sure as hell will never figure out what THEY inferred about my preferences, because there isn't any "here's what _you_ decided to see" list that summarizes my inoccuous choices...

How many signals go to the feed? How many of these are my conscious choice? And I am what you could call an expert computer user who actually worked for one of those big tech companies so I can at least imagine some of that complexity and reason about it...
All file system drivers must be kernel-mode on Windows. While Windows does have usermode drivers (UMDF), it's significantly gimped. Mostly just simple USB drivers or WDDM display drivers.

There have been a few projects to try to bring FUSE-like functionality to Windows like Dokan but I believe these are still too immature.
With an AGI thousands of times smarter than us, the fear is not that it would wage war against us. The fear is that it would wipe us out without especially noticing, in the same way we wipe out ant colonies on construction sites.
It's going to be difficult because there's no real ethical "Standard" in the space that I know of.
And some Fedora developers want to bring this kind of shit to linux.
>You're thinking of Cuba, who are certainly not noobs at this. West Indies unfortunately are routinely decimated by tropical storms.

This isn't really true anymore. For example, 95% of homes on St. Martin were destroyed by Hurricane Luis in 1995, because everyone lived in wooden houses. From that point on, the law mandated concrete buildings, and now all but the very poorest people live in houses impervious to hurricanes.

The exceptions are places like Haiti, where folks are simply too poor to afford basic hurricane mitigation. But where people can prepare, they have prepared.
How do you leverage time when already working multiple jobs to make ends meet?

Sounds like you've never even met actually poor people. Most of them actually do work back-breaking hours or are completely incapable of most work for health or age reasons.