skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't take 101, take 280, traffic on Sand Hill is not too bad outside of commute hours.

During commute hours? A helicopter is the only way to do it in 35 minutes.
> their peers know that communications skills are lacking and then don't even raise the issue to avoid the possibility of a (quite common) poor reception of the feedback.

That's an interesting thought. It never occurred to me that feedback on technical skills is more commonly given than feedback on communication skills. How did you discover that?

Also, withholding certain kinds of feedback because of fear of reprisal does not seem like an effective way to manage or improve your employees. So they'd rather fire you without telling you how you needed to improve? That doesn't sound like good management to me and it sounds like these are the types of managers I should avoid.
I'm amazed that at least three people bothered to downvote this. Pizza prejudice.
You're smart people. I'm serious. For any of these types of concerns, you will come up with reasonable answers. My only advice is: don't overthink it. Solve problems when you know you're going to need to solve them, but err initially on the side of making things less onerous for candidates.
Because it's a good proxy for knowing whether you will make your lease payments
Ask HN: Why are single-gene diseases not cured yet?
I'm specifically interested in SDS, which is a rare genetic disease that impacts blood production. It seems like numerous viable options exist for the modification of hematopoietic stem cell DNA, which I believe would partially cure the disease. Is this not just a matter of extraction (marrow) -> isolation -> modification -> confirmation -> implantation? What is holding us back?

Some references:
* DIY genetic engineering kit:
http://www.the-odin.com/genetic-engineering-home-lab-kit/

* Order custom CRISPR lentivirus vectors here:
https://crispr.sigmainformatics.com/templates/CRISPR%20Custom%20Editable%20PDF_v8_savable.pdf
Really? I don't buy it.

A corporation needs my name, address, and probably email to do business with me. They need a credit card number when I purchase something and never else.

That's IT.

My phone number is not necessary (and everybody using it for 2 factor just makes everything less secure). What I buy is not necessary to record past fulfillment. When I buy is not necessary to record. Where I am is not necessary to record. etc. If a company stores this stuff and it gets leaked, they should be liable.

A couple of egregiously expensive fines will stop companies from collecting this information quite nicely, thank you.
Why do some people (which includes me, I guess) have poorer foundational skills while being better at certain specialized field-specific skills, such as programming?
Because money isn't just for sustenance and shelter - it's also a way to buy power, freedom, and autonomy. As the shares become more uneven, people's ability to act to better their own circumstances without a handout from the ultra-rich (or without the permission of the ultra rich) is curtailed.

Look at businesses being dominated by companies that can afford high fixed costs in order to gain huge economies of scale. Good luck opening a mom-and-pop grocery next to a Wal-Mart, or even an independent gas station within two miles of a Sheetz.
One of the dangers of writing structural critiques like this is that it's easy to feel like the problems are structural in a way that makes individual effort irrelevant. On this particular topic, I think there is a huge amount of individual latitude to attack the problem.

I'm lucky enough to work on problems that I find interesting, important, and personally challenging. I optimize for this at the expense of salary and stability. One of the biggest things that's helped me in a cultural safety net of believing that this is OK, with a network of people that help me out. I think there's also enormous potential for individuals to reinforce the values they think will define work in the right way.

- Can you support your friends when their companies attack their work/life balance? Can you help them come up with ways to fight back without hurting their careers?

- Can you share information that's not typically public, in order to help others make better decisions? Salary to peers is an easy place to start. Harder is telling younger folks what Sales Engineers and Product Managers do (and how it can be really fun, fulfilling, and lucrative!).

- Can you normalize behaviors that benefit workers at the expense of companies? Unions used to be great, but I personally think they're the wrong tool for the problems of 2017. Working from home 2 days a week shouldn't break any team, but it's still a cultural taboo.

I'll admit that these are pretty 1st-world problems and I can't do much for people outside of Bay Area tech, but Bay Area tech is where I live and work. We can't change where we are right now, but there's a pile of small problems that are right on your doorstep that you can shove in the right direction. I think there's more ground to be won there than trying to overhaul the whole system.

We overestimate what we can do in a year and underestimate what we can do in a decade ;)

Aside: I disagree somewhat with the framing as a Wicked Problem. That method seems to deliberately conflate multiple problems, in order to make the discussion more sweeping. I think there's value to breaking down "Work" into smaller, more tractable problems. That aside, there's a lot of meat on this bone, so it's good to acknowledge that.
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There are only finitely many states. Detect loops.
The problem isn't increased productivity, it's how the revenue generated from increased productivity is distributed in society.
Well I'm not certain what that age limit is, but their requirements sound strict. FWIW I am 34 years old.
I believe that is a utopia, because of human nature. There will always be something you will want to not tell beyond your family or friends, things youe government might think inappropriate by the societal standards at a given century, and so on.

There are things that only should matter to me: my wealth, health are among some.

Society's views on matters change over time. I dont belueve there will ever be a time where "anything" is ok by everyone.
Future commute with no air pollution
Html Iframes
How do you view the associates?
The photos are definitely unusually bright. That said, the 360 video in there seems strangely "dusty" as well. From my recollection, reality is somewhere in between. The photo composition is also having an effect on things- they are crafted to show, as you say, order.

It's also worth considering that there may well be an intentional effort towards aesthetics. These are frequently hard and unglamorous jobs. If white poles and good lighting help make the place feel less oppressive, then I think we'd consider those merits.

Side note: I liked "self-moving crates". Those are Kiva robots carrying pods around. They're fascinating and oddly adorable.
> You can also define each of the states as its own binary random variable and then the probabilities of two states conditioned on the temperature can add up to more than 1.

Yes, but then you're defining a probability distribution over the space of fuzzy states.
I used obscure languages as a filter for interesting jobs in interesting companies, worked really well. Unfortunately, Common Lisp now is so strong filter pretty much nothing left :) Try Haskell, it is great.
"It can just take a while" is a pretty egregious understatement. As the busy beaver question shows, even an extremely simple turing machine with just a handful of states can execute for a completely unfathomable number of steps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver
Or maybe we just end up with more stuff at the margin?
I was only there a week but when I was in London 20 years ago, a sizeable number of the people in the office lived an hour or more away by train. The first data I could find bears out that London is different from the rest of the UK.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-13627199
I think it's more like opening a new McDonalds down the street, but it's automated so you don't need a bunch of minimum wage workers to staff it. Or in Amazon's case, maybe more like doubling the size of a warehouse without doubling the staff.
Why is that necessarily bad? Does everyone need ongoing employment? Why can't more people build and own a business (or a robot, or other productive capital) instead?
I don't, post some citations. How's that related to anything I wrote, though?
The climax of the book takes 500+ pages to get to (at least that is what I remember). Finally Ahab fights the dang whale! Too much about whales.. I get it .. whales are big... get on with it..
I'm kind of hoping Amazon's new HQ goes some place not on the coast just to jump start jobs inland somewhere.
No.

The majority view seems to be that there are none.

But Facebook has a very large patent portfolio, so if they wanted to sue/counter-sue you, they could probably find something that was close enough to lock you up in litigation for a long time.
> Trying to sell it like no jobs are lost is quite naive at best, and purposefully misleading at worst.

Well, the article does literally say "No people were laid off when the robots were installed, and Amazon found new roles for the displaced workers, Mr. Clark said.". Either Mr. Clark is lying, or this point is moot.
There's a big pattern at work if you look at the author involved in both articles. I've basically stopped reading anything by Annalee Newitz as she has basically had a run of 5 or 6 articles at this point that use hyperbolic language and are usually complete incorrect. The author occasionally posts a weasel-word apology or an "update" to the article that is a 180 from the strong claims she made, without explicitly stating she was dead wrong or, apparently, learning anything from it.

You can basically ignore anything she writes at this point as being in the "Buzzfeed" section of Ars, and hope that the rest of the site continues to do a decent job. Peter Bright seems alright.
That's just moving the needle though. Demand for lower prices from a competitor would likely come through some efficiency and humans are the most inefficient part of most enterprises - so more than likely there would be less and less job growth over time anyway. What you describe is creative destruction, except Amazon is doing it to themselves.
Is that why when I was applying for financing while leasing a car, my score was a bit lower than what Credit Karma was showing me?
My identity test questions were all wrong for me too. But I selected "None of the Above" for all of them and then it approved it.
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Also, i can't have a reasonably different interpretation to the quotes:
“The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly,”
“Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”
GDP != money though. It doesn't matter what part you play in the GDP if you make enough to live happily.
"Russia narrative"

It was a Russian intelligence operation, not a narrative or meme. Crowdstrike's report was pretty open and shut on the intrusion side of things. Reports like this one coming out (as well as further ones, should the Mueller/FB supoenas be true) show the scope of the operation was much wider.
This this this. If you provide a service for free, the vast majority of your user base will never care about giving you money, and will just stop using your service and find another one if you try to start charging them for it instead of keeping it free. One of my side-projects has ended up here and it's been a huge pain to deal with.
That makes them one commute zone for a lot of workers

As with most workers in the cities you mentioned. People in NYC come from NJ. DC, people commute from MD and VA (where I live).

So it is comparable.
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>The cost of failing to hire a good engineer is small - they can just take the next guy. The cost of hiring a bad engineer is large.

This is absolutely and completely backwards. The cost of hiring a bad engineer is small. You can always fire them. The cost of failing to hire a good engineer is enormous. You will never get a chance to hire them again, and probably all of their friends.
> In my experience, this doesn't make them that different from virtually any corporation.

For that matter, not any different from a typical person. Expenses that you would be better off not incurring are, by definition, frivolous. In the case of Amazon, frivolous spending at any level changes the price at which they can achieve a fair margin and reduces customer satisfaction.
I'm not following. Suppose they "normally" ran 150 full time employees and 150 temp workers for holiday peak. Suppose they have a 25% attrition rate. (37 of those 150 employees quit voluntarily.)

After the robots, they could have 115 employees working and still not laid anyone off. Yet, in terms of full time employment, they went from 150 to 115 and in terms of temp labor went from 150 to 0.

Did the robots destroy jobs in such a case? I'd think "yes". (I still support the deployment of robots in such cases; I'm only responding to the logical argument here, not the philosophical implications thereof.)
I agree. Sometimes cowardice masquerades as ethics. Things will go wrong with genetic experiments. We should do them anyway.
I think this is the result of a trend away from the previous conviction of pretty much everyone in tech that patents on software are an awful idea.

Is the community changing towards a demographic intent on striking it rich, instead of the previous morals of openness? There are also more condemnation of, for example, the GPL now than there have been in the past.

So, for a while, everyone in upper management will continue with such policies as Facebook's, since they came up at a time where patents where anathema. We'll see if this changes when today's entry-level programmers climb the ranks–or if their views change over time, or if the latter selects for people of certain opinions.
At a quicker rate than they already have been for decades now? New tech has always displaced workers but we've survived it before. Unless you foresee major unprecedented advancements in AI, I don't think it's going to be catastrophic.
I think you're assuming the left part of FB is in perfect coordination with the right. (Where "left" and "right" are different arbitrary parts of the company.)
...and the neighborhood Concerned Mothers Association (TM) that worked so hard to get the town to install them will then start complaining when they have to listen to every motorcycle and riced out Civic accelerate after the bump.
GUIs lend themselves very well to an object abstraction. The discrete elements (dialogues, menus, controls, etc) are objects that often inherit behaviour from classes of objects (i.e. A modal dialog is a generic dialog is a form is a ...). Events are messages between objects. We even see things like polymorphism eg. anything can get a "click on" message, but different objects behave differently when clicked.
Cool idea, but knowing my part of the world, people would LOVE to pop these. Lol.
There was a linked page here on HN a couple of months ago [1][2] with (I thought) an interesting overivew of this topic.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computation-physicalsyste...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14773808
Yes, but let's not forget that the variation in IQ within races and genders is larger than between them.
Two possibilities come to mind (and they can both be true).

1. Somewhere in FB's patent portfolio is a patent that is broad and vague enough to cover some part of React, so the patent grant/revoke clause has meaning and value. Changing the license would mean that they were giving up something that they value, and they don't want to do that. That might not be true for RocksDB, in which changing the license is relatively low cost.

2. React is more widely used and more easy to detect (public facing websites) so the patent clause offers protection against a wider range of potential threats. Lots of sites use React, or react-like libraries.

Since the purpose of the patent clause is as a protection againt offensive patent suits, they seem to think (probably with good reason) that React is a worthwhile shield that they don't want to give up. For RocksDB they feel that balance is different.
In a group improvisation, I understand "going out" as one person, usually a soloist, exploring another direction (a rhythmic idea, a motif, anything) where there's some risk that you won't come back, i.e. you might derail the whole thing. I grew up in New Orleans knowing lots of musicians and this is just my recollection. The closest documentation I find is about playing "outside," which is more specifically about using extended or unconventional harmonies. I've heard this usage in college settings, but I was referring to the more general concept.

"Stepping out" might be a more mainstream version, and it's apparently the title of like fifty albums.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outside_(jazz)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppin%27_Out
If they can't, then that's the end of that. If they just don't want to, they can be strongarmed.
You can click on any of the circles on the website. In the main website click on the 4 horizontal lines.
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"I don't think k8s operates as a Meoss framework"

Have you ever used Mesos? It is the only way k8s could run ontop of Mesos. Also:

https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/kube-mesos-framework

Also, you could maybe compare Marathon to Kubernetes Dashboard + the Kubernetes apiserver maybe, but comparing the two directly is not remotely close.

With Mesos + Marathon, you still need a load balancer for both North <---> South AND East <---> West cluster traffice. This is builtin to Kubernetes via Service and Ingress objects and their associated controllers. There is also Federation, and so much more.

Mesos is just a resource scheduler, and a very good two level one at that, built to prove the theory of two level schedulers working well with interactive and batch workloads concurrently. Kubernetes is the entire package and includes a default scheduler, but allows you to plug in your own.

Disclaimer: I spent a full year working on Mesos and went to MesosCon twice. After speaking in person with Kelsey Hightower at Monitorama, he convinced me to switch to Kubernetes on purely technical reasons. The stuff that you have to DIY on Mesos is built sensibly and pluggably in Kubernetes. From a cluster operator standpoint frankly, Kubernetes is leagues ahead.

Lots of fortune 500s and enterprise customers find the lack if sensible RBAC and real to the core auditing support in Mesos to be seriously lacking.

https://twitter.com/nirajtolia/status/903437346443378688
> Suppose they have a 25% attrition rate. (37 of those 125 workers quit voluntarily.)

Why would they retain employees which they would not rehire (minus wages in place of hiring cost)? They have no obligation to retain these workers, so clearly Amazon's base (non-seasonal) demand for labour increases fast enough to justify retaining them. At the current rate you would expect them to hire more labour, not less. The human jobs described here are still so far beyond current robotic technology that it's likely there will be no easy gains in automation here. Meanwhile, as Amazon's efficiency increases, throughput will also increase, which means demand for labour will continue to increase even if there are marginal increases in automation.
What patents, exactly, is Facebook infringing? And considering Facebook has one rather specific product: How would it help these companies if Facebook avoided their patented technology, unless they're trying to start a social network? And if they're starting a social network: is there anything that makes it plausible that their lack of success in unseating Facebook is due to this technology?

And if they're feeling the pain, have any of them sued Facebook and won? If not: Is it because they're using React? If not: How does the patent grant make a difference then?
So, until all (or some large quantity) of software produced by an organization is open source, any software produced by an organization that is open source should not be considered worthwhile efforts?
The point of the CMM is that it is a measure of an organization's capability to develop error free software. The trick is that it is a very time consuming, deliberate process. Not exactly agile. Read: vastly increases cost of developing software, certainly increases time to market.
On the frozen meat point, I'd bet large sums of money people can't distinguish between fresh and frozen-within-3-or-so-months meat. In fact, frozen meat can be reliably made even tastier than fresh if you cook it straight fron the freezer with no thaw. It's a cool little hack really. By cooking from frozen you get more time to sear, char, and crisp the outside of the meat while the inside doesn't overcook. It's next to impossible to get the right mix of seared/charred outside but tender lightly cooked inside with the normal thickness stock cuts (~1inch) you get at grocery stores. With frozen, can do it no problem everytime. On that note, another trick, if you must cook without freezing, is to just get a custom thickness cut. For example, I need a 2-3inch NY strip if I want to grill straight from the refrigerator and get the right outside to inside done-ness.
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