skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's a typical high school chemistry experiment in the USA? Do the students do things, or does the teacher do everything?

Burning hydrogen was a standard method for testing its presence, from when I was about 11-12 in 1997.
Any way to do this for LTE on a non jail broken phone?
That feels like a good reason to fire 100% of whoever is in charge of interviewing/hiring.
> I'm not classifying them as dead weight, Tesla is

Then use quotes, that's what they are for. Otherwise you are implying you agree with Tesla corporate vocabulary.

Let's not be hypocrites, at the end of the day it won't change people's fate, however they are still owed a minimum of respect as human beings, they are not mere cogs in the capitalist engine, no matter what Tesla's management thinks.
This is Reuters REPORTING on the case. Not make a claim. Take of your fanboy glasses or go home.
"A DIY Epinephrine Autoinjector for just over $30"

Do it wrong, and a child dies...
I am an investor in Tesla. This doesn't worry me at all. Culling 1% isn't a financially bad choice and people are eager to work there. Replacing the employees should be pretty easy.

It sounds a bit rough but sometimes you need to let people go, for a variety of reasons. Long term, I'd only be concerned that it gave them a poor reputation because they didn't adequately warn people and that may turn away good applicants. But, that seems unlikely, so I'm not terribly concerned.

My investment in Tesla is worth about 10x what I invested, last time I checked. I don't check often as it is a long-term investment. I feel comfortable keeping my trust in Musk.
I was working as a remote developer on frontend. I literally had to explain what is difference between get and post requests in REST apis to the android guy. When I checked his profile, he had mentioned he was working from three years as Android developer. :/
My gut reaction any time a beloved company/product is bought by a “big” or “old” company, particularly in gaming or media or tech, is “oh no, they sold out” or “uh oh, that’s the beginning of the end.” This type of reaction seems to be the dominant “hot take” in online communities as well. I don’t think this is necessarily a reasonable reflex, but I confess I feel it here, even when the buyer (IGN) is a company I trusted and enjoyed for many years for video game reviews and news (in this case, from about 2002-2012).

I welcome interesting arguments for why my reaction is inappropriate, or for that matter, appropriate. It’s pretty easy to enumerate acquisitions that went well and others that went poorly, but I certainly wouldn’t claim to have sufficient data to make a reasoned prediction about how this will go.
A Day To Remember. A short video where they ask Chinese University students, "what day is today." Filmed in 2005...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCPkkGArVy4

I watch this clip a lot around the 6/4 anniversary. This is not the original copy, that's somewhere on Vimeo I think.
I have purchased a fair amount from Humble bundle, and have been a subscriber to the humble monthly bundle since it's inception. Suffice it to say, I have a great appreciation and admiration for the way Humble Bundle works (worked?).

Meanwhile, IGN has been around a lot longer, and has earned a terrible reputation for selling reviews and generally being shameless. I lost all respect for IGN long ago, and I absolutely refuse to contribute to it in any way, so I've cancelled my humble bundle monthly subscription.

Is there a name for the feeling you feel when you're watching a movie and the bad guy wins? That's what I feel now.
IIRC, it’s always pay what you want (even a penny) in the bundles, but paying more gets you more games.
Same here.

Very often it's the questions the interviewee asks in the interview that make my mind up on a hire/pass decision.
Your link indicates they aren't covered by the WARN act. It is fewer than 499 employees and less than 33% at a single facility.
That lists one libel lawsuit by Tesla, against BBC and Top Gear. Claims dismissed. (And that's with the UK's quite liberal libel laws.)

There's one other case mentioned, but that involved a libel suit against Tesla. The characterisation of GP is not substantiated.
Can you comment on what you figured out? Was it about making functional/persistent data structures performant enough, or something else?
You posted this like 4 times. That's obviously not cool. Also you're breaking the HN guidelines which ask users not to make gratuitous accusations of astroturfing or shillage without evidence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Incidentally Latin also employs a habitual verb form in the imperfect tense. For example the imperfect ambulabam (was walking): "He was walking to the store" can mean "He was in the habit of walking", perhaps more informally "he used to walk" or "he would walk".
> What I don’t understand though is this: why not just do the problem?

Because none of the work I'm interested in deals with CS trivia at that level, and it generally is a strong indicator that the company is engaged in one or more terrible practices like, e.g., incorrectly thinking Google's hiring process is generalizable or that CS trivia is the same as engineering. Or else it is looking for someone who doesn't know or care to think about the bigger picture and solve bigger problems than what they can pick out of a textbook (i.e. they're looking for a technician, not an engineer).

I'm not a fresh graduate looking for my first job in which I'll spend my day throwing code at an editor to implement someone else's designs because I lack the experience and wisdom to participate in the design process, nor am I ignorant and arrogant enough to believe a little understanding of DS&A is sufficient to cover all or even most of the important problems in engineering a product.

> They ask questions to known problems so they can see how you will handle unknown problems

That doesn't make any seunse. These kinds of problems test memorization and little else.

> How else do you expect them to interview you?

By asking intelligent questions having to do with problem solving and not running through the college level CS equivalent of basic arithmetic.
> Even if the fired employees are good, this keeps everyone motivated and allows you to churn through employees to find the really excellent ones worth developing. The system is not inherently good or bad, as long as all parties are aware of it.

Everything about these statements is wrong. Take it from someone who worked at Microsoft before and after they finally smartened up and ditched stack ranking: it's horrible. It creates an atmosphere of paranoia, where people sabotage each other at great cost to the company instead of working together towards common goals. Worse, contra your claim that it weeds out the worst and lets the best rise to the top, what actually happens is the best quickly get sick of the bullshit and leave, while the ones rising to the top are the ones most adept at politics and gaming the system.

Stack ranking has no redeeming qualities whatsoever, and if that's really what Tesla is doing it's enough alone to make me more bearish on them. It's that bad.
> but transaction fees do not decrease as more transactions occur.

Yes, it does. The transaction fee is a dynamic fee based on the block size. As the block size increases, the transaction fee decreases. The theory being that an increased blocksize means there's increased demand for Monero, which implies that the value of Monero has increased, so the transaction fee should decrease.

https://github.com/monero-project/monero/blob/4a20a5b5ea4adc...

https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/2531/how-does-the...

> There are limits to how big the blocks can grow

Perhaps. But they are not hardcoded. The limits are based on the network infrastructure (lag, node calculation speeds). Basically, the blocks will grow until orphaning becomes a serious problem.

> and also how quickly they respond to demand,

This is in, in fact, the only hard coded limit of the things you mentioned.
That's a change that's happened in the last year or two. Before they decided they needed to be running 2-3 bundles at a time all the time it was actually pwyw.
Doesn’t seem to work in the real world. Most orgs over-value their content and don’t seem to realize that more effort put in does not translate to higher value (or real/perceived utility to the reader).

Hence the passive revenue generation of advertising. Once people have to put a number of resource they’re willing to pay next to the article they clicked on out of curiosity, they decide it’s not worth bothering.
Um. I find references to a grand total of one libel lawsuit of note by Tesla, against BBC / Top Gear.

Claims rejected by the court.

That fails to meet the threshold of "notoriously fond" in my book.
So "free" as in "paid for by some interest".
(Because after all, publishing isn't free).

The Internet on the other hand is actually much more "free" as far as that goes. The necessary role, and indeed the actual freedom, of the "free press" (in the traditional sense) in this democracy is in my opinion much overstated.

We need rights, methods and opportunity to distribute information in a free society, very true (which Silicon Valley has given us on a level paper never could). But what is really of very little use are media conglomerates shoveling unified propaganda.

I don't sympathize much with NYT's hand-wringing.
Poly-Chlorinated Biphenyls? What other acronym would they use?

Or is it just that some might find it contentious with Printed Circuit Board?

Three letter acronyms are always suffering from name space collisions, in mixed or broad context.

It’s really a symptom of using three letter acronyms at all, rather than any one acronym being reasonably preferable to another under any circumstances. When you only have a symbolic trigram combining any of 26 letters, reuse is not just inevitable but frequent.
While it is common amongst companies to remove some % of lower performing individuals, or housekeeping as you have phrased, it is important to note that there is a distinction between being fired due to performance and being laid off.

The former is your fault as the employee, the latter is due to larger business conditions and generally recognized as no immediate fault of your own. In real world terms, you can be personally fired for not doing your job and can be laid off because the company can't afford to keep your plant/office/division running due to outside conditions.
Population of Australia: 24.13 million (2016)

Population of USA: 323.1 million (2016)

Population Density of Australia: 2 people per square mile

Population Density of USA: 84 people per square mile, with much higher density in some areas.

Your statistics are a little like saying "There sure are a lot more murders in the big city than in my small town!!!" If you aren't making any attempt to look at comparable data like per capita incidents, it is a classic case of how to lie with statistics (an excellent book, btw).
It's definitely not a layoff, and FYI 10% is also very high for a F500 layoff.

This is a 'company on the up' dropping people, which is quite a different thing from a 'company who can't afford to keep people and letting them go;
They had to add a dollar minimum because of abuse.
Discussed extensively at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15467379, still on the front page.
Show HN: Barttar – Easiest way to trade anything, even your time
Not off the top of my head.

I've discovered that Android does seem to have dnsmasq installed by default in explorations of my own non-jailbroken phone. Though I've not configured it.

Most of this I deal with at the router, using wifi.

AT&T in particular are exceptionally bad about this based on my exploration.
The official blog post from Humble Bundle is here: http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/166366386976/humble-bundle...

It was posted earlier today but didn't get much attention (possibly because the title didn't make it clear it was an acquisition): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15468583
I am working in a Startup, we have outsourced some jobs to third party team. I can’t tell you how horrible Code they write. Just to give a context they will store values in JSON inside the DB, just to lower the effort of converting them later

I totally agree that the quality of work is way to low.
I think that it’s up to the developer how well they write the code and develop themselves nothing to do with what majors they had in School. It’s all about handling the minutest details well and this is what differentiates a good Dev. It’s like carefully selecting the proper screws while building a drawer even though the screws might not be visible to the user.
1) 67.2 years for males, and 72.9 years for females[1], as opposed to 73.7 years for American Indians and Alaska Natives[2].

2) He's gone, and resigned to having fun on talkback radio.

3) Cloudy today, but it's being shut down[3].

[1]http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/lookup/4704.0Chapter...
[2]https://www.ihs.gov/newsroom/factsheets/disparities/
[3]http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-26/refugees-told-to-leave...
In Monero, this is known as a "subaddress", and has recently undergone review by the Monero cryptographers.

https://github.com/b-g-goodell/research-lab/blob/master/publ...

All I can really say is that the cryptonote protocol was probably designed to focus on privacy within the blockchain. Intrablockchain privacy. Anything out-of band was not considered within scope, maybe. I'm just speculating because who knows what the cryptonote developers were thinking. The Monero core team is working to advance what cryptonote started, and subaddresses are a step in the right direction.
The bounty could be for all drugs, some drugs, or just the super important ones. Scale the system to however much socialized medicine you can take.
Functors in JavaScript
C certainly isn't the language where one expects to encounter deep abstractions, is it?
Fat.... Cancer.... Ma Ma Hu Hu - same same but different. Things that must be removed.
It can be hard to correctly and objectively measure and determine who adds value and who does not. My experience in the workplace is that lots of people add value seemingly indirectly or through unexpected social connections that management is unaware of.
It's sad that the GP's post is showing support for Americans by pointing out that they should all have health care, and someone is triggered into believing it was an attack.
If you can't report on pro-union organizers being fired in retribution because the facts aren't there, don't make the suggestion.

I have no Tesla stock, products, nor am I employed by them. Not a "fanboy" in any way.
Though it may or may not be true, it would be very easy for Tesla to do a trimming and to 'make sure the baddies' got let go.

I generally don't like unions, but I've of the mind that wherever they are 'trying to be formed' - that there is probably a reason for it.

Quite a number of auto-plants in the US don't have unions, because there's some kind of 'de facto' standard-ops that have been established, and as long as the company plays by those rules, it works out.

There has been some negative press about worker situations at Tesla, and it's hard to say for sure, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised if there were corners being cut etc..
How morale used to be improved: "You've been promoted! Keep up the good work!"

How Tesla improves morale: "Congrats! You're not with the group that got fired! For now..."
Ah, good eyes. I wasn't sure quite what the threshold was.

I've seen companies get spanked for a pattern of layoffs which stay just below the threshold, so there's that. If there's a plausible case that this is targeted at union organisers / organisation, there's that as well, though prosecution at the national level strikes me as unlikely, even with Musk's testy relationship with the Trump administration.

There's also California law to contend with. Same article:

California requires advance notice for plant closings, layoffs, and relocations of 50 or more employees regardless of percentage of workforce, that is, without the federal "one-third" rule for mass layoffs of fewer than 500 employees. Also, the California law applies to employers with 75 or more employees, counting both full-time and part-time employees.
This is verifiably false. The car is at fault in the majority of crashes. Search if you want sources, there are dozens of studies on the issue.

You're complaining about cyclists killing pedestrians when the ratio is at minimum 5,000:1 when compared to cars? Really?

Your "overwhelming majority" claim is also absurd. You as a non-cyclist, see a few bad actors and come up with a generalization that is verifiably false. Meanwhile, when you see a bad driver, you don't blame all drivers. It's the same us vs them principal that allows racism.
"DDT seemed, initially, like a miraculous savior of human health and crops from harm by insects."

DDT saved over 0.5 billion lives before it was banned in the USA.In India, between 1952 and 1962, DDT caused a decrease in annual malaria cases from 100 million to 60,000. By the late 1970s, no longer able to use imported DDT, the number of cases increased to 6 million. India now synthesises it's own DDT and uses it. It is still made and widely used. Worldwide production was around 5 million tons last year.

Penicillin is the only manmade substance that has saved more lives than DDT.

DDT is still allowed to be used for indoor residual spraying by the WHO.
worst astroturfing i've ever seen on HN
$100 or even $50 or mabye even $10 might work too if you need to save on cost
> Do you really think unions believe that they have a negative effect on business?

They don't care. Unions drove the US automakers into bankruptcy with unsustainable pension plans, and corrupt regulators failed to adequately insure them via the PBGC. Thus Unions and firms colluded to foist pension risk onto taxpayers.

I've encountered the most bigoted, anti-immigrant, racist rants from union workers. Rather than focusing on larger economic trends and the obvious need for continual training and skill-improvement, unions focus on workers feeling entitled to a certain wage or standard of living even when economic shifts render those skills obsolete.

Because of the cronyism with regulators, massive sections of the economy get hijacked by their deals, and consumers have to essentially pay them welfare for failing to be competitive in the marketplace for decades.

Think of the most backward industries in the US, those are the ones with the strongest union involvement. Yes, those industries helped in the past to elevate people out of poverty, but now they simply hold back progress in the same way that cozy regulations benefitting financial firms and banks hold back progress in banking.
No more than 3k would be working on the assembly operations, and maybe a good deal less (based on knowledge of other automotive assembly operations).

That 3k would include line assembly workers, material delivery, quality inspectors as well as skilled trades like electricians, pipe fitters, tool and die makers (for stamping operations)

Another 1-2k assembly staff (IT, Quality Engineers, Controls Engineers, Material Coordinators).

Tesla does a lot of in-house component manufacturing, so that may be another 3-10k (I'm including gigafactory in this estimate, but I have no real clue here, as I don't know how much of this they actually do).

Then you have people like automotive designers, engineers, and buyers, no real clue here, but almost certainly less than 2k.

Then you have corporate functions: accountants, hr, IT, other back office, another 500?

Then you have the sales side - not sure how they structure this, but they have a lot of show rooms with a good number of people working them - another 1k?

3 + 2 + 10 + 2 + .5 + 1 = 18,500

They're doing a lot of plant construction and equipment installation; generally in the industry most or all of that is outsourced, but Tesla seems to prefer strong vertical integration, so maybe those are straight Tesla employees as well.
Didn't Humble Bundle essentially sell out long ago? They just sell indie games in bulk, and generally the stuff on offer these days is nothing special.
The point is to remain user-friendly while hiding the actual webservers, databases, and anything else that LE might want to take. An onion-routing proxy is easily setup and torn down and moved around quickly, making it a harder target for persistent surveillance.
I can only agree that Common Lisp is in many ways a much better language than JavaScript. But JavaScript is much more popular and it has evolved into a lisp direction, EcmaScript 6 has "arrow functions" which are basically lambdas.

One question, you say "CL is very strongly typed". Then you also say "Optional type checks". Are you saying CL is optionally very strongly typed?
In theory, Tesla might actually be the weaker party in this case. An industry-specific union is known in textbook economics as a labor cartel, or as a device which holds labor hostage.

While historically they were necessary, today fewer examples exist of employees as the captive market--where a union makes sense. In other words, many times it is the employer who is taken advantage of.

If unions were open and free to join for all people, I mean that would be one thing; but they are not. Membership is dependent on things such as family. They're tough and politically correct, but regressive and unfair.
Sounds like you were asked a ridiculous interview question.
It's hard to support groups that hire thugs to stand on the picket line and intimidate customers from going into Borders to buy a book.

I won't forget the way it felt to be intimidated by those thugs. It's worse than intimidation I've received from police, etc.

Then watching unions destroy the American auto industry with their greedy pension plans and inadequately underwritten PBGC was the last straw. They once served a noble and important purpose in society but have become parasitic and backward.

The controversial and racist rhetoric used by Trump to win over disgruntled rust belt voters was taken from standard pro-labor rhetoric.
Yes, my mistake. I think this has been posted to HN before. I seem to remember trying it out.
you added a number of links but none of them support anything that you said. you even used yourself as a source.