skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest power of a CEO is culture. Look at Uber and all the negativity their culture is getting, fed by the specific instances where that culture allowed terrible things to happen.

And yes, a CEO does not change the culture on their own. That's impossible by definition -- the culture is the sum result of all the actors within the company. But a CEO is expected to lead the culture of the entire company, typically by stating values and setting goals and incentives that actually match those values. If they cannot do this, then they are unable to do their primary internal-facing job. This is one of the reasons that Steve Jobs was so well regarded. For whatever flaws he had, there was no mistaking the culture he was leading, and the results matched.

A great example, from a development perspective, is unit tests. Everyone loves to talk about how much we need unit tests. How great unit tests are. How they will make our software better. This is stating values, but you also have to back that up, and that's where things fall apart. The moment any kind of crunch happens, unit tests are the first things thrown out the window. Despite the fact that when you're working quickly, you probably need those tests even more. And all this is because, even though everyone states the value of tests, it's not actually part of the culture. The goals and incentives aren't there; there's no penalty to not following the line.
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I think in that sentence, "hydrogen peroxide" is an example of "cleaning products", not of "chemicals in our cleaning products". Could be clearer.
Jenkins. We use it to manage our automation of Jira and our tests. It is also where we manage other teams automation integrating our team's automation framework.
So.... Companies used to using information-hiding to manipulate negotiations with employees find that Thierry culture and skill sets aren't well adapted to maintaining the 'house advantage' in a free and open market place for talent.

This is my surprised face.
Am i missing something because this actually looks like a really good cash back card.

Unlimited 4% back on dining and 3% on airfare and hotel are really good. 2% cash back on online purchases matches the best straight up cash back program i know (double cash which is 2% back on everything). The 1% matches most other programs for generic purchases.

I might actually get this as a second card (currently just have chase freedom).
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Isn't it all ?
Mattermost, the (leading?) Slack open-source alternative, seems to be HIPAA compliant if you know what you are doing:

https://docs.mattermost.com/overview/security.html#hipaa-com...
The argument for systemic racism isn't anything like some sort of "original sin" for white people. Black people were legally second-class citizens, denied access to the education and employment of white citizens. The consequences of segregation did not evaporate with the civil rights movement. It will take several generations to escape that shadow.

That is the 'systemic' part of systemic racism. The opportunities that I was provided were in part based on the opportunities that my parents were provided.

Yes, people will blame 'systemic racism' for their personal failures; people will blame God, or the weather, because people will blame anything for their failures. I don't think that is an argument to ignore reality.

As for the "triggering" thing, I somewhat agree. On the one hand, you are going to math class to learn math, not to have flashbacks to past trauma; on the other hand, it seems absurd to slap an "ingredients" label on social interactions so people who are allergic to certain topics can steer clear. I think this is an area where society is still refining its tools, and the current 'safe spaces' wont be the way we collectively settle on dealing with these issues.
Why is it counter clockwise?
The broadcaster for broadcasting misinformation. The PhD student isn't producing misinformation (unless, they are, which is bad af).

I'm sure that every professional reporter, whether science popularizer or something else, understands and takes seriously the need for obey the Hippocratic Oath in their own profession, too ("first, do no harm").

But.. it's not like the reporter isn't aware that the constraints they are subject to (much higher time pressure + less familiarity with the topic vs the researcher's low time pressure + intimacy with the topic) don't automatically absolve them of their responsibility to own any mistakes they make once the genie's out of the bottle. It mostly hurts their readership if they start employing non-facts once they add them to their repertoire of decision heuristics.

Sure science reporting is definitely a good force in the world for helping people make decisions over important stuff, but.. like.. the researcher's reputation is ruined for causing potential damage to academia, but a reporter doesn't have skin in the game and has little to lose if others trusted them.
Is the altwork a real thing or a satire? (I honestly can't tell).

Looks uncomfortable, like a dentist's chair (but maybe is amazing once you get in it).
And yet having a hardware enclave is necessary to secure private keys for device encryption and user privacy.

I'm not against, non-network, hardware-based security features. In fact, I think we need them. I would certainly desire a phone where someone can't simply access my private key with a soldering iron and flash programmer.

And I wouldn't mind a bootloader that is locked to prevent tampering with the device, as long as I can unlock it, and unlocking it wipes the device or something. I wouldn't mind using Android as intended without root access. But, I want control over the decision. I want to control the OS I run on my device. I want the freedom to increase its lifespan beyond whenever the manufacturer stops provided security updates. I want to have the ability to enable root to inspect my data on my device using my storage, without sacrificing my ability to watch movies on the $600 device I paid for that somehow has a better quality display than my monitor. And also, I want the ability to block ads that gulp down my expensive mobile data so that I can instead pay for a service like Netflix.
> The Python code can be made a lot faster by using xrange and also reduce.

This is a key distinction since it reveals that most of the difference is due to these programs doing different things.

Changing this to compare the same thing shows why this matters:

cadams@jupiter:~ $ sbcl --version
SBCL 1.4.0
cadams@jupiter:~ $ python2.7 --version
Python 2.7.14
cadams@jupiter:~ $ pypy --version
Python 2.7.13 (84a2f3e6a7f88f2fe698e473998755b3bd1a12e2, Oct 05 2017, 16:34:13)
[PyPy 5.9.0 with GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.37)]

cadams@jupiter:~ $ time ./test.lisp
5000000050000000

real	0m0.209s
user	0m0.194s
sys	0m0.011s

cadams@jupiter:~ $ time python2.7 test.py
5000000050000000

real	0m0.758s
user	0m0.744s
sys	0m0.008s

cadams@jupiter:~ $ time pypy test.py
5000000050000000

real	0m0.123s
user	0m0.101s
sys	0m0.019s

So at the end of that we've discovered two things we already knew: an interpreter is slower than a JIT given enough work to balance the startup time, and that allocating a list with millions of items and then immediately discarding it is more expensive than summing an iterator.

Since Python 3 made range() lazy by default, the core developers clearly agree that this is better than allocating lists unless explicitly requested.
Sometimes I think that the staff at the WSJ has no understanding of irony.
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That's a fair point. There are some areas where "no trespassing" applies to everyone. A good example of this is in the Nevada gold fields. If you don't respect those signs, you'll be staring at the business end of a gun.

But again, if you talk to one of the locals they will tell you that. I always made a point of doing that, most people don't.
I have one (centos) machine with zfs on /. Looking back, it was a mistake - I always dread, when I see grub update in the yum update list, what will break this time.

And of course, after each kernel update, link your /dev/by-id/... devices into /dev and rerun grub2-mkconfig by hand. Otherwise, you won't boot the new kernel you just updated.

If this machine weren't a pet, it would be wiped clean and reinstalled with xfs /.
Sure, sure. And if you followed the letter of the law I’m sure you deleted it all from your laptop promptly and is unavailable to you no matter what.

But if you didn’t, for whatever reason, and you happen to have an illegal copy of some production CRUD app hanging around so I can look at how you organize your thoughts, nobody I’ve interviewed has ever gotten even a whiff of heat for letting me look over their shoulder and see how they wrote their schema. I don’t want a digital copy and I could give a shit about your illegally retained IP (and there’s a whole lot of it floating around). I want to know what you name your variables.

The best way forward is absolutely some open source code, folks clean up better in public and you don’t have to make apologies for things that weren’t your fault.

But this smells like folks just wanting me to take their word, and it ain’t gonna happen. I’m flexible, but when in doubt I choose ‘no’. If the next guy can prove it and you can’t, hey, plenty of fish in the sea.
The fact remains this was a sensationalist piece.

People lose jobs every day. Happened to me 20+ times in the last 10 years and was hard. I don't see value in comments like yours saying "you need to be more compassionate". What you are missing is that I am -- but that doesn't help anybody.

And, again, the article was of extremely low quality and it seemed to have been pushing an agenda.
I am well aware that several critical projects have incredibly awful and hostile communities. I'm also aware that a subset of people in those communities actually attempt to claim that their hostility is a feature. That's a bug, and useful to warn people about, and to attempt to fix, and to not copy in any new community. It's not a thing to revel in, excuse, and encourage, lest we end up with more.

You seem to be reading more into that statement than I've actually said. You're also attempting to ascribe a ridiculously patronizing tone that is of course easy to argue against, having been artificially constructed for that purpose rather than representing any actual position I've stated. I didn't say "don't use Linux because LKML is awful"; that would indeed be counterproductive. I'm saying "make new communities more friendly and welcoming than LKML, and don't encourage or excuse being awful to others".

Are you actually attempting to claim the document has no issues at all? Or are you simply trying to claim that despite its issues the document also contains useful information? I'm not arguing against the latter, simply stating that that's a good reason to create and propagate new documents that don't have those issues. If you're trying to claim the former, you've done nothing to actually support that position or reply to the detailed list of such issues.
If we ignore the twin case, since that doesn’t apply to most people, as long as the odds are better than 1:50,000 it’s still just as good or better than TouchID.
> In contrast, people typically do not "lawyering" for recreational fun.

Indeed, it's the opposite - industry bodies have to mandate pro bono work, which wouldn't get done otherwise.
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He hadn't said he is afraid of constructive criticism. He said he is afraid someone will hold something in it against him. The two are profoundly different.
I still don't see why animating the exposure explains why there's "bad HDR" in games (high contrast and over saturation)? I haven't implemented it or read any papers on the subject, but the games I've played don't look that much different than auto-exposure on camcorders in the 90's (or your phone today). For actual cameras it's more difficult because you need to guess and adjust the aperture or shutter instead of having a HDR image in a buffer and deciding how to generate a LDR image to present. Calculating the exposure (especially if you're animating it and only willing to go so far in one direction or the other), should be fairly quick.
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Agreed. The biggest issue I have with the parent comment is that the current Congress is unabashedly selectively enforcing the legality of these regulatory agencies, with a suspicious emphasis on helping corporations.
The problem with pay transparency starts with the problem of determining compensation itself. If compensation could be a direct output of an algorithm that was highly accurate based on attributes of an individual that highly predict their market worth, pay transparency works well because people could agree that this person is being paid fairly. Also, if everyones pay could be dynamically determined it would help too. Basically, people get hired and get their salary set. Then new people are being recruited and market dynamics may have changed and now maybe a higher salary is required to attract this candidate.

I'm not being very articulate here, but i'd say the problem with pay transparency isn't the transparency part, but the actual process of determining fair/market-clearing wages for employees.
If you can't explain why someone gets paid less than someone else then you have a problem that shouldn't be solved by keeping people in the dark.
I've seen team chemistry dissolve when pay information was released.

The problem is with egos, Employee A might view themselves as more valuable to the company than Employee B and vice versa. If Employee B gets a raise, Employee A will want one too, or a higher one. A spiral of trying to get a higher salary relative to other team members can begin.

Also, Employee A and Employee B might have private salaries that meet or exceed their expectations and everyone is happy. When salary information is public, unhealthy comparing can begin. Even though they're grateful for what they have, they see that more might be available if they ask for it.
Great site ... thanks for this reference!
Probably should disclose that you make it: https://github.com/eul-im

Also, given that it's not open source, I can't trust it with my private Slack teams. I would seriously consider making the source open. You can still charge for it (and I'd love to pay for it!), but I need assurance that it's not doing anything untoward. Perhaps a Patreon level that includes source code access?
Dangerous compared to what? What is your standard of measure for danger? What are the alternatives to provide vital energy for human flourishing?

What was the death toll from Fukushima? Zero. Everything at Fukushima went wrong, and yet only 8 out of 2400 workers were exposed to out-of-tolerate levels of radiation. None of the plant's neighbors got sick, and no discernible increase in the rate of cancer deaths is expected. Radiation is everywhere in the real world, it is a natural part of life, yet we treat it like any amount is a lethal danger, when in low doses it is not a meaningful threat.

Fukushima was a non-event, and yet it caused a movement to shut down all nuclear power. Fear of nuclear is totally irrational. The more we embrace nuclear power, the greater its benefits to human well being.

Nuclear is safer than every other form of large scale energy generation ever devised. The only concern with nuclear plants is a large release of radiation, which is unlikely due to the layers of shielding and containment. The scaremonger's goto example of chernobyl lacked such safety measures because the Soviets didn't care about human life.

Also worth reading is The Health Hazards of NOT Going Nuclear: https://www.amazon.com/Health-Hazards-Not-Going-Nuclear/dp/0...
Wow. Mind reading is not required. You've watched too many movies that go from strangers to married with children in 90 minutes. How about spending weeks, months, and even years building a relationship? Talking->dating->holding hands->... Spend more than 5 minutes on each stage. I know it seems old-fashioned, but it can really reduce the degree of offense when you misjudge the stage of a relationship.
I guess I see that as disrespectful of their time, but I could probably work something like that out. I run a small shop. I am allowed to use my good judgment.
Contact your bank and reverse the debit transaction, like an errant check, you have rights when it comes to reversing a transaction. Most fraud is committed during the settlement period though, while Venmo holds the money: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2015/09/venm...
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thanks, I think we need to do a better job at differentiating between hydrogen peroxide the molecule vs. the hydrogen peroxide production process. We'll update this section today so that it hopefully is more clear. Here is what I am thinking:

1.) Hydrogen peroxide the molecule is a beautiful molecule and all hydrogen peroxide molecules are the same. Hydrogen peroxide is safe and decomposes into just water and oxygen so it doesn't leave behind solid residue or pose an inhalation hazard. The differences arise in terms of purity. Today on the market, you can buy technical grade, food grade, five different semiconductor grades, and rocket grade. Bioperoxide has semiconductor grade purity. Most other hydrogen peroxide products on the market (especially in the consumer space) are made using cheap technical grade peroxide that has heavy metal and alkylated aromatic contaminants. This is what we mean by "toxin free"

2.) Hydrogen peroxide the process is what we are referring to in "the chemicals in our cleaning products, like hydrogen peroxide, are dangerous, expensive, and come with an enormous carbon footprint." Our manufacturing process is not dangerous since we are not mixing hydrogen and oxygen in an aromatic solvent, is cheaper, and our Houston facility is operating on wind energy.

Please let me know if this makes more sense, thanks!
Right, but it would be great to take full advantage of the existing rest endpoint server-side. With that you don't even necessarily need to build GraphQL apis at all, and sort of get the best of both worlds.
Apple has made plenty of very questionable design decisions in the past.

I fully expect to be proven correct when this POS is released.
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It's apparently in directive 2009/24:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering#European_U...

I think you'd want to know about the case law before leaning too heavily on that, though.
That's exactly right. GraphQL is a contract between backend and frontend. I tend to think of the GraphQL schema as documentation that is always up to date.
agreed! We are working on this one, thanks!
The EU basis is Directive 2009/24. Given it is a directive, each member state has local laws implementing it, so the exact details might vary.

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=143505754...

Article 5 and Article 6 are the most interesting when it comes to reverse engineering, with 5 allowing to study an application while using it legally and breaking some protected rights for bug fixes and 6 allowing decompilation for some purposes.
The timer runs clockwise, but the idea is to visualize how much time is left and therefore the numbers are counter-clockwise.
>Is everything that comes out of a factory pollution? Many environmentalists would say so. Even the intended products are pollution. Pure H2O steam going up into the air.

No, pollution means something going into the environment that causes harm, and in the amounts being emitted. That is how every environmentalist I have ever heard of defines it.

But I bet you already knew that. You know, when someone uses bad arguments, I tend to assume it is because they lack good ones, and they lack good ones because the idea they are arguing for is mistaken.
I personally would try wireguard instead of Zerotier for those hybrid cloud topologies instead.

Of course it's a kernel module, so you have to build for target host and load.

Anyone tried this?

Been using it for internal apps (to mesh kubernetes nodes in virtual deployments) successfully for some months.
If the layoff is part of one event, then why shouldn't it qualify?

Your "bigger company" example is just an example of scale, there's just lots of individual events.

Instead, here is SolarCity firing 1,200 employees on the same day and saying that it's all just coincidence on their individual performances, not a unified decision.
>Amazon and Google are caught up in a dumb contest to see who can produce the best hockey-puck-sized speaker that can add items to your shopping list

But you know why it is so, don't you? The allure for an information company of having an always-on, always internet connected, high-sensitivity microphone, running proprietary software doing god knows what, the allure of having such a device in as many homes as possible is only too obvious.

The only thing more shameful than them pushing this garbage is the consumers' willingness to eat it all up.
I work for a company with full pay transparency – well, complete transparency across all parts of the organisation – I can't imagine working in an opaque environment ever again. I love it.
I believe there are a host of other companies striving for the same goal, being SpaceX the loudest one.
We're probably indefinitely fucked. The future is an abject morass straddled between 1984 and Brave New World.

A violent uprising looks to be the only way. The problem is that it's against the mightiest military humanity has ever seen. Now watch me get subpoenaed for this...
As someone who is completely ignorant about this field of work, can someone briefly explain to me what the difference between something like stockrow.com and google finance is?
> And the legal basis for such rules [prohibitions on employees sharing salary information with their peers] is at best murky—indeed, a large number of U.S. states now explicitly ban them.

And besides that, the National Labor Relations Board considers employees discussing pay to be protected concerted activity. I'm not sure if just having the rule is illegal, but enforcing it certainly is.
>I think many people join the "climate change denial" crowd too push back against the "humans are evil and should go extinct, the quicker the better" environmentalist crowd.

No, not one in a thousand environmentalists believes that. You know, flat-out lies may work with the sort of people you identify with, but not people who know the truth.
Are you familiar with Strong Towns?

https://www.strongtowns.org/

They're good people, non-partisan, and also very much in line with "something isn't working":

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2015/1/7/americas-suburb...
Interestingly, some states don't require signs - purple paint will do.

http://ijr.com/2016/02/535003-purple-paint-texas/
It just wasn't ever well established in the US. States generally give themselves the right to build roads though.