skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's very simple - it is harder for younger managers to work with older subordinates.

A good manager would figure out how to make it work. I've worked with younger managers, and I've even had to teach them how to deal with problem workers.

I've also had people all the way up to the director level that I've had to manage, as a developer, because they were so terrible. I even had one ask me once 'Why are you managing me?" and had to reply "Why are you making it necessary?".

I don't think that we've got the whole management thing down - I think that there are probably the same % of bad managers as their are bad devs. I'd also suggest that there are 10x managers, probably ones that read Peopleware and took it to heart.

It is easy to manage most people, all it takes is a bit of diplomacy.
What is your basis for "rights"? The idea that there is a right to having a gay marriage recognized as a marriage by the state is very novel. How did that novel determination happen exactly? It can't be the will of the people because then rights are not recognized so much as commanded or agreed upon (in which case, it's possible that the will of the people can change and poof go your supposed rights).

P.S. My impression is that you believe that opposition to gay marriage is bigoted, that it's not possible to have intelligent and powerful arguments against the idea.
Honestly, if one can not create a monolith that isn't a giant ball of mud, one has not chance at all of creating a distributed application, microservices or not, even ignoring quality.
Plus coder, software engineer, dev. It's all the same really. Like film vs movie.
This also shows that the architecture of the web is wrong, i.e. to have the browser vendor in control rather than the developers.
There's a massive range of IAPs though. Some games have stickers or hats or other little bonuses that don't impact the playability of the game. Some have a purchase to remove ads or unlock extra levels. It's not obvious if IAPs are part of the gameplay or not just because a game says on the tin that it has in app purchases.
I don't want an easily replaceable battery, the trade-offs are too costly and benefits too small.
I've also seen the "add-on functionality" go sideways. Look at some of the Lego Whatever games vs. their console counterparts. They make the install free but then make every. single. level. a separate IAP. It's literally not a complete game unless you buy all of them. Instead of just labeling the game the true $49 it's bucketed under "free" instead.
> Chrome doesn’t implement WebAssembly
> NaCl, PNaCl.

It does, and both of which are being deprecated and removed in favor of WebAssembly.

At least your point about Google using underhanded tricks to get Chrome in the hands of users is accurate.
JavaScript and WebAssembly are used like DRM on steroids. I explained myself here a bit more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15982323

Edit: Those who downvoted, do you disagree, or was there another reason?
http://donkeycar.com is "an opensource DIY self driving platform for small scale cars" (e. g. RC cars).

The page claims all necessary parts can be bought for about $ 200 on amazon. It looks fun.
Dealing with Disinformation: Evaluating the Case for CDA 230 Amendment
There is clearly a distinction that can be made, and arguably making it has great value.

If speech is either not distinguished, or is indistinguishable from action, then there can be no free speech... or else initiating violence could not be a crime. It could get worse too. You could end up with no free speech and with initiation of violence by elites being legal or effectively legal. These cannot be desirable outcomes! Of course, if you don't value free speech at all, then you might not see a problem with these outcomes.

The distinction is obvious: you don't have to listen to a speaker, but you don't get a choice if they throw a punch your way. The distinction is about freedom on your part.

That said, we're all constrained in what we can say because we cannot stop others from judging us based on our speech, then acting on their judgements.

Imagine a CEO who never once behaves inappropriately at work, but on social media says that they have no problem with what Weinstein did (for example). Now how can subordinates not feel uncomfortable in that CEO's presence? Maybe we should say "tough", but real damage will have been done (to the company's brand, to its culture, and so on). The board of directors surely would have a cause to replace the CEO.

It is a fact of life that the higher one's social position, the more constrained (by the Overton window) one's speech is. But that's not the same as saying that speech is not distinguished from action. If there's an Overton window as to acceptable actions, it surely changes much more slowly than the Overton window for speech -- perhaps that's the real distinction to be made?
>I haven't heard him repeat it since.

If the dude can afford to hire a $120K/year nanny to teach his kids Mandarin, he can afford to hire a guy to remind him to never repeat that.
Professor Tim Weninger on how we consume and curate information
Stop being non-sensical. Just be sensical, man.
Well, what can you do?

Mozilla has a very unique problem. It's most ardent and loyal users are technically savvy. They expect a high quality, privacy-respecting, ad-free product.

But, here's the catch, they will not pay for it. How does Mozilla survive?

Google finances Chrome through its Search/Ad business. Safari and IE costs are bundled in the cost of the devices/OS they are on.

How should Mozilla survive? Should they go the shareware route and have a paid copy for 20$ ?

They have to make money somehow.
Economically no problem with that race, of course it eventually means cutting out the human driver and usually people who can only drive are not really ready to get a different job. They have no other skills that are "in demand".
> Intelligence and other temperamental traits aside,

You can't just conveniently "leave these side" for no apparent reason when they could easily explain the effect that you're trying to explain otherwise.

> do you think there'd be any difference in their inclination to wait?

Not in favor of your argument. If you were in poverty and could get an extra marshmallow in this situation by simply waiting 15 minutes, wouldn't you be more likely to wait? Heck, make it more tangible: if someone offered you $100 now or $200 in 15 mins, wouldn't you be more likely to wait if you had nothing vs. if you were already well-off?

Unless you think the subjects here thought the whole experiment was some kind of taunting prank, I don't see how you think your explanation is likely.
This is what first got me started, and I highly recommend it:

http://www.brokenthorn.com/Resources/OSDevIndex.html
> I don't know if that's true. Do we have more transparency into Trump's income, businesses, or even taxes after he became president?

Owning a bunch of hotels is a fundamentally different type of power than owning a demographic database + messaging system used to manipulate people's moods.
I don't think that is what happened. The media didn't hold him accountable for what he said. They wanted viewers. Websites wanted clicks. There was disinformation everywhere.

Even in discussions with people who could calmly talk about it, Trump supporters would cite obviously fake blog posts and other completely fake information that could easily be discredited with quick online searches. Even when shown that the information was fake they would not change the opinions that the fake information had created in their minds. He was talking about things that they cared about, because they had little grip on basic facts about reality. They cared about the wrong things.
What rights? I'm serious. It's not a mantra. It's a very radical claim, to say the least, that gay marriage is a right. I have yet to see an argument for its recognition as bona fide marriage.
Have you read Snow Crash?
It's exactly like email if you use gmail or yahoo. So... WHAT'S THE POINT? Whynot use twitter then?

With email, you can use gmail, or yahoo, or buy a domain and host it yourself, or pay a provider (including google) to host your domain.

Are there options to host your domain on Mastodon without hosting it yourself?

Also, what are the chances that the current servers/providers will still be around in 2 or 5 years?
Hyperion

Einstein: His Life and Universe

Ready Player One
My Nexus 6P starting having spontaneous shutdowns at 15-30% over the past few months. I replaced the battery and it's back to normal. My old Galaxy S4 before that had similar problems after 3ish years.

So a feature to throttle the CPU while I waited for a battery replacement on Android would have been great I think! It needs to be toggleable and it needs to clearly surface to the user what the long term fix is though (i.e., replace the battery). Apple's solution did neither of these, but if it did I think it would have been fine.
Yeah, I won't defend Microsoft. I was honestly convinced for several years that we were descending into a dark age of computing.
Just get a power bank for that, way more useful than carrying extra batteries that only fit your phone.
>if they really wanted to treat their customers well, they'd have easily-replaceable batteries

It's an extremely infrequent service, but it's not difficult. Certainly much much easier than an oil change on a car, which is a frequent service. Instructions, third party supplies, and third party services are abundant for it. I don't think it's fair to call it anything but "easily-replaceable."
Nope, hiring fewer more experienced programmers is also better for cashflow.

My bet is that it's about easy and hard to measure costs, and how our modern big government world insulates large companies from competition.
I've always viewed myself as a developer. I know how to very effectively and efficiently put pieces of already written code and libraries together to build new products. I say I'm not a programmer, because I feel that requires more lower down knowledge and implementation details.

From my experience, a programmer/engineer can build a very efficient reverse tree sort doodad, and it come out PERFECT awesome, but they rarely build entire products. Then a developer/architect comes along and takes that brick and sticks it alongside a bunch of other bricks to release a product.
Thanks for the recommendation. I like "Data Science from Scratch" for the same reason you dislike it :-)
But ultimately, should Google have hired me? Yes, absolutely yes. I am often a dick, I am often difficult, I often don’t know computer science, but. BUT. I make really good things, maybe they aren't perfect, but people really like them. Surely, surely Google could have used that.

No, Google shouldn't have hired him, and he made it very clear why: he's a dick.

Related discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15474893
It's one of those things that woukd get bad press whether they were out in front of it or not, so you might as well keep quiet until it comes up.
Why didn't you replace it the first winter you had it? Would have been free.
MUSE: Multilingual Unsupervised and Supervised Embeddings
This looks like an interesting resource, however the first link I clicked (regarding TF analysis of 1.4 billion records breached) links to a github repo with a couple of python files for parsing raw data and a big ol “todo” for the actual analysis/ML part.
Kinda sorta. A consequence of the redlining era in Banking (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining), banks are not supposed to micro-geographically target their advertising. (So... blocking Florida is find 'cuz you don't have offices in Florida. But not buying ads for people in Harlem while you target the rest of Manhattan - not OK.)

So there's precedent for saying that "not including" can be the same as "excluding".
Can you summarize what the differences are between ETH and EOS?
Firefox's webGL support is abhorrent. Microsoft is undoing some aspects of their browser/OS decoupling. Google is no longer Don't Be Evil. Honestly without that getting better, I think the browser wars are pretty much moot.
The Future of JQuery UI and JQuery Mobile
>The entire structure of the universe makes no sense without tons of dark matter and dark energy we can't observe

It's not directly observable, but it's effects are certainly observable in the surrounding organization of baryonic matter. It could very well be an incorrect assumption, but we would need some evidence to the contrary to change our minds, no?

edit: spelling
Because it is not a "feature". It is a band-aid for a design defect in the affected iPhone models, advertising it as a feature would only draw attention to those design defects.
1. Use a freezer to make a tray of ice cubes
2. Use a kettle to boil water
3. Pour the boiling water over the ice and enjoy lukewarm water that required an excess of power to create.
Thanks for your answer.

For what it's worth I think the result is incredibly adapted to the art style; I think you overestimate your conclusions and I don't think that is fair to extrapolate claims over the importance of skinny triangles in art in general.

This representation conveys most of what the originals had to offer, and has the added benefit of being a light content in a meaningful format. It's a good sign that your questions pulled me into the subject but I don't think there's much more to extrapolate from the experiment.

Now how about trying delaunay triangulation on animated content with the added constraint of optimising for fluidity? (Like the works on incorporating art styles to pictures and videos from last year that you may have noticed, and that were published in siggraph.)
> A personal belief held by a public representative is still a personal belief.

I agree with that, but I also think a public comment about a personal belief can interfere with a job that involves speaking on behalf of others. When ones publicly known personal beliefs conflict with the beliefs one expresses while doing ones job, it causes a severe credibility problem, at least.

I'd say the other factor you mentioned is the conflict between "personal" statements and "official" statements. Some people do seem to be able to manage that, in part by avoiding uncompromising statements like "bread is terrible, no one should buy it". In your example, the conflict was so obvious and so provocative that it would be untenable and render the job of CEO impossible.
Thanks, I meant asm.js instead.
Fine, but that doesn't make the points in the comment you're replying to any less valid. That's... not how it works.
As for realism vs fantasy, Disney did some great work in improving physical realism as part of making the highly fantastic Wreck It Ralph.[1] Once they had the knobs set up that accurately tune the physical properties of their materials, the artists were able to push certain properties beyond realistic values without having the result be completely fake looking. Multiple real time rendering systems, including the Unreal Engine, site this paper as a source for their new "Physically Based" material systems.

[1] https://disney-animation.s3.amazonaws.com/library/s2012_pbs_...
Marriage is an abstraction invented by humans. This is why the details vary from culture to culture.

Humans didn't invent gravity. This is why it is the same in the US as it is in Asia, as well as everywhere else in the universe.

Thus, gay marriage can easily exist. People simply have to believe that it is a useful abstraction.
Does anyone have the grading script? I'd be interested in giving it a shot and seeing how well I do.
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You're conflating two very different concepts. The mantra is not "journalists are Democrats, owners are Republicans."

Cable news and entertainment fawned over Hilary, not Bernie.
I think this is the take-away point: "Beyond stopping and starting a given piece, it is the job of a conductor to decide how it will be interpreted. How loud should the middle section of the first movement be—and ought the violins to be playing a bit softer so as not to drown out the flutes? Someone must answer questions such as these if a performance is not to sound indecisive or chaotic, and it is far easier for one person to do so than for 100 people to vote on each decision."

If you've ever worked with a conductor, even in high school band, the whole mystery disappears right away. In classical music, "conductor" usually refers to what would be called "musical director" in other situations: they oversee all of the big and little artistic decisions you need to make good music. Standing up there waving the baton around is a pretty small part of the job. When you explain to people this way, it's almost obvious: just like any big project, you want to have a manager with some kind of vision to give things direction. It's pretty hard to run the whole thing as a commune.
You're assuming the issue is only changing capacity vs age. Internal impedance increases with age as well. A full battery that can't source its energy in a timely manner might as well be empty.
Incorrect. We have the source, we can do whatever we want with it. Nothing that you said changes that.
bribery
If a hacker reports themself to the CIA, its the government who gets involved, not a contractor.
I played clash for 18 months. You even say yourself that it's p2w:

> (3) the 1v1 ladder is not a pure skill matchup but still finds everyone a range where they have essentially a 50% win rate based on a combination of progress and skill.

> (4) yes the top of the ladder players have almost all spent a lot of money but most of the playerbase of any game isn't serious about being on the very top of the leaderboard. A smaller factor is that the most talented f2p players are sponsored with max decks and stop grinding f2p challenges.

That's p2w. If you can't get to the top of the ladder without spending money, it's p2w. That's what p2w means. Just because there are modes that are not p2w doesn't mean it's not p2w. The drop rate of legenadaries is so low it took me ~5 months to get a bandit from a free chest. Rewards are also increased the higher your ladder ranking makes the p2w aspect even worse.

After 18 months I had 1 level 3 legendary with a smattering of level 1s and 2s. It would take me a few more YEARS to get one to max (level 5), and they were releasing more legendaries and epics than commons and rares further decreasing the odds of being able to level up cards that you use.

Also, it wasn't uncommon for newly released cards to be more powerful on ladder than their counterparts (executioner and night witch are big examples), encouraging people to level them up for money, before nerfing said cards when they became more common or other cards were being released.
To read the responses to Max's post, Quora wants me to sign on with Google. And then, when I sign on with Google, "Quora wants to manage your contacts".

Fuck that, Quora.
YC Startup Redefines the Marketing Cloud with AI
This leads to some perverse incentives, though...I have started to see like-farming "tag your friends" pages will post a video of a static image, overlaid with a subtle movement effect like falling snow, undoubtedly because someone realized they'll get more eyeballs from the all-knowing News Feed algorithm if their content is video.
Republicans Exact Their Revenge Through a Tax Bill
The safest and simplest is probably the rate of the exchange you're using.
I first heard about it in a cyberpunk video game, Shadowrun: Hong Kong, and learned today that it is real. It felt like truly something out of science fiction back when I was playing the game.
Similar to you. I can almost never follow the analogy all the way through when I read articles like this. I'm usually lost by the second or third corollary drawn from it. I had thought this was just because I'm stupid until I read your comment.
I wish the author discussed the fact that Apple doesn't allow any other browsers to target the iOS platform. Chrome / Firefox are forced to be thin wrappers against the webkit engine instead of bringing their own technology.

No other platform has policies like this and it greatly impacts the web platform and changes the dynamic of web standards in a way no other browser developer could.
There are some relevant follow-up studies, e.g.:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3730121/

> We demonstrated that children’s sustained decisions to wait for a greater reward rather than quickly taking a lesser reward are strongly influenced by the reliability of the environment (in this case, the reliability of the researcher’s verbal assurances). More broadly, we have shown that young children’s performance on delay-of-gratification tasks can be strongly influenced by an implicit rational decision-making process.
Interesting, I think your point about equalization and homogeneity is a likely outcome. I think state sovereignty is interesting when viewed as hundreds of simultaneous experiments in different ways of self-organization. Since it seems nobody has quite perfected it yet (?) I think we're not quite ready yet, though the vision is an enticing one.
He's my advisor. We've been doing some interesting stuff in this area. Our most recent publication made it to the first page of Reddit earlier this month. It was about, among many other things, the fact that many people just vote on articles based on the headline alone, and don't actually read the article itself or any of the associated comments.
If dickishness was a crime then most of our software engineers would be in jail.
What really sucks is that Apple has TENS OF BILLIONS of dollars in cash, and yet can't be bothered to throw a billion at fixing iOS, iOS safari and MacOS bugs.

Its quality really went downhill. I really loved the "it just works" stuff of Apple Past. And I loved the intuitive, skeumorphic interfaces.

Now it's all crap and HIDDEN MODES - something Apple always spoke against in its UX manuals. It's sad day that Google and Microsoft have better design than Apple now, and Apple copied them.

Steve Jobs would have never let this happen. He would have a whole department funded with several billion dollars just to make Apple products the most user friendly on the planet. And he would have Siri be a Star-Trek-like voice platform by now.