skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few points:

1. The conflict in meetings is not a negative. It is actually a positive. At the intersection of conflict between perspectives is where you get unique insights, innovative ways of doing things.

2. The problem is where conflict is seen as negative.

3. A manager who is running the meeting should be able to integrate different perspectives and find a better path forward. If you can only do this in a 1on1 this is a skill that needs to be honed. You are leaving quite a bit of insight and innovation on the table.

I ran an innovation skunk works project for a CEO. Saw him do this multiple times in meetings. In almost every single case where we had multiple opposing views he was able to integrate and actually propmpt us to come up with something better. I have been honing this skill ever since and it really is an eye opener.

4. Agree on the points on managers being lazy and inviting people that should not be in the room. You need to make sure you get the right people in the room. I would actually encourage conflict.

5. Depending on what needs to be communicated but face to face works best

6. This post seems to assume it is the managers responsibility to make decisions? I would argue unless the manager has more context then his staff decisions should be made by them with the manager providing context and making sense of what needs to be done.

The way I see management in today’s environment is more akin to facilitation rather than manage. If people are smart and self motivated management may actually do more harm then good.

7. When conflict is viewed as negative it can be counter productive as it seems to be for the author. The question is how do you manage it so you actually leverage it for better output? One way we do this is with our values

“We value diversity of ideas, thought”

8. What we have seen work is categories of meetings, brain storming, problem solving, deep dive learning session, quick updates (timeboxed) I suspect author is not managing my the conversation correctly hence he has this issue.
Who’s Really to Blame for Robot-Human Crashes? Are We Really Such Awful Drivers?
Minor point: Porter Square is not the city center of Cambridge. Central Square is.

The Walgreens in Porter Square closed due to over-saturation, not necessarily high rent costs. They plopped a store in an area with staunch competition from others and themselves. Perhaps they thought they'd steal CVS' business. Clearly they could not after just shy of two years. This article has more details: http://www.cambridgeday.com/2015/07/16/walgreens-closing-por....
You don't need one on retainer. When they say one will be assigned, they're not kidding. They will get you one.
That’s a good point! Never thought about local data sources. I’ve only mapped over SQL, REST, and redis/etc.
On our PS4 the auto-fake-video thingy runs and is SO annoying, but on our Amazon Fire Box, inside the Netflix app, it doesn't play them, you just get a static image. I assume it's down to the horsepower of the relevant client device.
80.7% of the US population lives in cities. We need to decentralized this problem by making either making more "cities" or way better suburbs so businesses like the bodegas, bars, and coffee shops you mentioned can disrupt monopolies.

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2012/03/us-urban-population-w...
On the flip side it is near impossible to buy standard cylinder filters at retail establishments because they are all Hawking proprietary systems.
There's a build from 12/25 that might be sufficient for that:

https://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx-intel/vlc-3.0.0-...
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I'm not sure about that really. It's like bashing your shin against a coffee table vs walking into a lamppost. Both painful experiences in their own unique ways.
> How grossly manipulative

Thanks for this. It's interesting to see that the main comment threads are:

- how interrogations leverage psychological manipulation to divulge information
- how to use verbal and visual tricks
- tabeth pointing out how people perceive social interactions as insincere

Yet a lot of people claim that it's ok to deploy psychological manipulation when your intentions are "good".

It's been said that the end doesn't justify the means.
They lost the battle when they failed to realize that having power in the real world is better than playing the game of "activist".

A meat eating shitlord legislator in Nebraska has a greater ability to put through animal welfare laws that would help a greater amount of animals than hippies trying to LARP at saving the world by the force of their moral conviction.

Moralists are the worst enemies of human cognition. They rarely think of the scope of the problem space and how inadequate their cognitive hardware is, for dealing with such a large space.
I think this is designed to deal with the low prices offered by ovh and heizner. And in favor of Google and Amazon.
I think what's missing is to understand and adapt the speech rhythm and pauses based on the language. At first sight I would say that this requires human intuition, but then again, lots of literature is repetative, so I think ML could actually work quite well well, with actual understanding of the text, given enough data.
Yeah, but it can't skip 5 seconds ahead. I mean, ostentatiously, it can, but with horrible lags and jerking. I can't watch a video where I don't have fast skip. MPlayer, a much worse player than VLC, had instant skip for all file formats. Youtube has instant skip. But VLC doesn't even use the forward/backward keys for skipping, it uses Alt-Cmd-Arrow or some arcane combo. Clearly they dropped the ball on skipping.
>one-on-one meetings

good luck defending against the sexual harassment allegations after that one. i'll stick to group meetings where i won't be risking my career and reputation.
They are professionals with a single goal in mind and years of combined training and practice to learn how to acheive it. If you think you can somehow talk them out of doing what they came to do and not put yourself in a worse position than what you began with [1], you are either a very good criminal lawyer or are being naïve.

[1] e.g. by making a false statement in violation of 18 USC 1001, and trust me, they will be counting on it and have planned for it)

https://www.popehat.com/2007/10/26/shutupshutupshutupshutup/

https://www.popehat.com/2011/03/18/just-a-friendly-reminder-...

https://www.popehat.com/2011/12/01/reminder-oh-wont-you-plea...
I'm really looking forward to those actually being available to use.
> not as nice as RSpec

Right, well that probably answers the question about what they thought the magic is.
While I agree with your overall idea, they've been doing a great job of making San Francisco less attractive these days. BART and the feces-plagued sidewalks to name a couple examples.
9. If an employee were to “blame” someone else in a one on one meeting and I was the manager? I would look at myself. The manager has as much to blame. In an environment where there is a whole lot of finger pointing this started somewhere and my dibs are on it started from the top.
> Making sure that her pets are properly taken care of is something that she needs from the agents and that's outside of her control in this situation.

Exactly, and she knows that pets frequently get shot in situations like the one she was in (although to be fair, that's usually with city and state police depts, not the FBI).
Dear HN please help Quantum is cool but I don't know what to do with it. What are some excellent things I can solve with a quantum computer and how can I incorporate probabilistic solution sets into something like automated self-driving or solving a chess game? It seems like there have to be various times at which we take a measurement to really get a specific answer for an interval. Really cool, but it occurs to me that we will have quantum chips that are asked like oracles (very specific questions with a presumably "clear" result) and have conventional processing equipment engage these results in a meaningful way. Is there some super secret quantum computer representing neural network transform that I'm not savvy to? TY HN and Happy Modulus.
I think you missed the entire point of the article

> What we call “corruption” is a smaller scale of cooperation undermining a larger-scale.

The vast majority of people don't work for some abstract social good. They work for specific concrete goods: helping themselves, helping their loved ones, helping their friends first and foremost.

People also believe in reciprocity and fairness. Sometimes that means that if someone 'helps you out', you do the same back... even if that interaction wasn't completely 100% sanctioned by the rest of society.

Corruption is not people ignoring their moral instincts and choosing to be evil. It is them weighing one set of moral instincts more strongly than another set of moral instincts (egalitarianism, not breaking rules).

The struggle is to align the incentives properly so that 'helping yourself' also means to help society. Unlike what many libertarians and pure free-marketeers seem to believe, this doesn't just happen magically, but requires careful thought and planning.
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Agreed. I regularly listen to audiobooks at anywhere from 1.2x to 1.6x, and find that much more satisfying.
> "When they, too, fail, the stores lie vacant, and landlords, often institutional investors, are unwilling to drop rents."

And later it's said losses can be written off.

Point being, it sounds to me, like the tax code is such that it's a win if you lease, as well as a win if you don't.

That obviously drives up demand (to own such properties).

That obviously increases price / value.

That obviously increases the owners expectation on what to charge for rent.

So now we have owners who are subsidized (read: incentives with ill effects) and need not be mindful of the market.

What could go wrong?
> it's not any more expensive than allocating a new object in Javascript.

so you mean bloody expensive ? seriously, if everybody thinks like you no surprise the current web crawls on beastly computers.
I saw a recent figure that around half of residents want to leave. Where did you get the idea that few people want to leave?
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I am starting to hate languages that are not super picky and precise. We are working with C#, PHP and JavaScript and between them it's almost Impossible to remember what will evaluate as what. I would be perfectly fine if the only input to an if was true or false, no number, no strings.
I am excited. Wish they wrote more details on how to participate in ICOs as some - like me - never have.
What do you mean, 'that definition'?

The definition of terrorism is defined by Alex P. Schmid -
The Revised Academic Consensus Definition Of Terrorism. The website I normally link to is down though, so I'll have to link to [1].

Relevant are:

"6) The main direct victims of terrorist attacks are in general not any armed forces but are usually civilians, non-combatants or other innocent and defenceless persons who bear no direct responsibility for the conflict that gave rise to acts of terrorism;

7) The direct victims are not the ultimate target (as in a classical assassination where victim and target coincide) but serve as message generators, more or less unwittingly helped by the news values of the mass media, to reach various audiences and conflict parties that identify either with the victims’ plight or the terrorists’ professed cause;"

Hence, I'd say we used the term "personal" wrong in this context but "bringing the war home" is described by #6 (which is what I meant but apparently wasn't understood as such) whereas #7 explains the targets are a means to an end. Though that wasn't disputed its an important addition and addendum to #6.

As a side note, I recommend to keep these 12 rules in mind when discussing terrorism. It makes discussing terrorism much easier because we're using definitions as agreed upon my academics who study (counter)terrorism.

[1] http://www.internationalsecurityinterest.com/index.php/resea...
You can fill GB/s with net/http. You could do so easily with 1.9. The GC shouldn't be a problem unless your object graph is very complicated.
I hate truthy- and falsy-ness in general. It just seems like it's ripe for messing up expectations. Why not just get an actual boolean?
If you don't allow uninitialised variables
Step 1: don't live in the US.

(I'm a bit jealous.)
Awesome. I don’t live in New York and that part might be challenging to pull off without taking a job there, due to cost of living, but it sounds like exactly the kind of opportunity I’m looking for and ready for so I’m going to apply and feel it out. If you have any tips, I could use them!
So can anyone declare an act of terrorism? Can it be declared terrorism if an armed (almost by definition) whaling vessel approaches a protecting ship?

I'm curious as to whether the Japanese scientists involved in this "scientific study" actually ever release anything, or does Japan not bother to carry the pretense that far? Or is the contention that their scientists are too incompetent to actually get any useful research out of these oh-so-important hunts?
Note how I said compiled languages, I expect Python to have some very similar capabilities. :) But as an example, take the cleanness of the following mock:

allow_any_instance_of(Set).to receive(:member?).and_return(true)
<rest of test code>

Contrast this for example with testing IO monad code in Haskell, where the best practice is to define a new monad 'underneath' your original monad stack, rewrite all your functions signatures to have a type constraint (of your new MonadIO type) and then switch out functions for their mocked equivalent as required by the test. Rspec can do the same switching out on any object or class, without any code required outside the test code. (Although as far as "handle with care" goes, monkeypatching the 'send' method has to score pretty high)
I did my Master in CS 17 years ago and took a course in L-Systems under Dr Prusinkiewicz (aka Dr P.). Dr P. is (was?) probably the leading authority on L-System. They provide an interestig high level building blocks for developmental systems, but they’re a bit cumbersome and they gloss over the biological details so as as to offer limited biological insight.
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I agree that there is something like an Overton window in social interactions and that it is centered at different points of the continuum in different cultures. Still, for some people at least (me!) thinking about where I sit in that window in my culture is interesting and I hope helpful.
Pretty amazing to think that our position at the top of the food chain is as tenuous as a change in diet. I hope no one ever starts cooking for dolphins.
I can't wait to get type providers on net core! Great to hear it's a priority.

For those of you who don't know F# type providers, check them out, they really are amazing. Providing type inference from HTML web sites, json payloads, SQL Databases amongst others.
True. But they never incur the full extent of the loss. They write it off.
This isn't without precedence. IIRC the LVM (Linux Volume Management) metadata is also mostly text format

https://github.com/libyal/libvslvm/blob/master/documentation...
Sometimes there have been region-wide issues. Running cold has its own set of problems. We do not rely exclusively on auto scaling when we do failover.

Disclaimer: while I work at Netflix, these views are not necessarily those of my employer
I saw another comment on here in the distant past that said an ISP owner decided to pull out the GGC boxes because they would sync vast amounts of data (largely YouTube IIRC) and it wasn't worth it bandwdith wise for them.

It sounds like 10:1 is a decent saving but still objectively a lot of data.
You can talk shit about your government, legitimately criticize them, read papers discussing news from different sides even they all biased but they still offer angles, express your opinion freely and perform your citizen duties in NY LA or Chicago.
Tell me about all these in China.
FormatInt doesn't write out to a buffer and doesn't pad the output with zeros, so it's going to lose out nontrivially in actual use.

I have tested some FormatInt-like code that does do those things; if I recall the results correctly, the article's is slightly faster with unpredictable sizes and significantly faster with predictable sizes.
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> If you remove all the properties you are left with the bare quantification claim: "there is one of..."

On that view, the square root of two does not exist because there are in fact two different numbers with the property that their square equals two.

Defining square root as "the positive root" doesn't help because then the square root of -1 would not exist. There are two numbers whose square is -1 as well (more if you're dealing with quaternions or octernions), but neither (none) of them is positive.
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FYI: I've collected articles / blog posts about what's new in Ruby 2.5 over at the Ruby Advent Calendar [1]. The list so far includes:

- Standard Gems 2.5.0 - Default Gems, Bundled Gems //
by Jan Lelis, Idiosyncratic Ruby

- 10 New Features in Ruby 2.5 //
by Junichi Ito, Ruby programmer @ SonicGarden.jp

- 10 More New Features in Ruby 2.5 //
by Tom Lord, Software Developer from London

- Performance Improvements in Ruby 2.5 //
by Jesus Castello, Ruby Guides

- yield_self in Ruby 2.5 //
by Michał Łomnicki

- Improved stacktrace display in Ruby 2.5 //
by Michał Łomnicki

- Ruby 2.5 Series //
by Amit Choudhary, Mohit Natoo et al @ BigBinary

[1]: https://planetruby.github.io/advent2017
so how mature is this tech? is this really feasible? writing browser client code in rust?
Background radiation in Mars is way lower than would be necessary to kill plants and, like, it might increase cancer rates in animals, but the kind of animals we'd want to breed there have short lifespans and we don't care if they get a few tumors.
Many older plastics were (and are) made from materials other than oil. For instance, Polyvinyl Chloride can be made from coal via acetylene chemistry.
They certainly made me laugh out loud! It reminds me of the kinds of unexpected language one finds in experimental poetry.
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100% disagree. People fundamentally understand the power of the web, even if they don't realize it. To be able to link/chat/discuss quickly, freely, and easily will still win out, and people will still use it.
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One of my US high school history teachers once taught us that bureaucracy and endless mounds of red tape were the natural consequence of Americans valuing fairness over efficiency, and in the end getting neither.

We want a system that is:

1. fair, and Americans immediately suspect that humans tend to favor their friends

2. based on clear, written rules, so everyone can compete on an even playing field

3. good enough to handle any edge case, so that 'exceptions' to rules via human override (and potential corruption) can be avoided

Implementing 1-3 means building a giant, inflexible bureaucracy, where responsibility is widely distributed (so nobody can be corrupt) and an immense book of rules and red tape (so it can handle every edge case).

Unfortunately Americans don't even really get fairness in practice.

The cost of following all the rules to the letter is so incredibly expensive and inefficient that obviously government agencies and their favored contract bidders have back channels with one another so that they know exactly how to structure their bids to win.

This is why conservatives sometimes have a point - many regulations not only do not do anything for the public good, but they actually help entrenched interests.
I didn't mean HFTers hold stop loss orders. I mean they look for others who hold stop loss orders to try and arb them.
I meant the OP as she should have been smart enough (spoke 3 ME languages IIRC) to realize she should stop talking.

IF she did something illegal, she must have thought a day like that may come and had prepared herself.

It's interesting that people who should know better keep falling for these techniques, e.g. General Flynn.
So much so that some of it appears bordering on psychopathy: concentrate on the colours in someone's eyes to pretend you care about what they're saying, indeed!
i was going to ask if DOM support is on the road map and this comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13614886

claims it is but it's no longer in the high level goals in the spec link is dead... so do you know if it is?
"If 2016 was the year of JavaScript fatigue then 2017 was most certainly the year of convergence." First sentence.

Granted that then it focuses on how major frameworks start converging. But then the 1st sentence is kind of unrelated. What generates JS fatigue is not that frameworks are different - at least, that's not the reason I read about more often.
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Relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/73dafr/vlc_creator_...

s/creator/maintainer/
mutating in Rust is not like mutating in JS, Python, Java C# or many other languages. Rust tracks ownership, you always know who might mutate the object and when. It is a very unique experience programming Rust
I was literally thinking "Maybe I should try using stdweb with React" last night. Awesome work, can't wait to use it/contribute!
It has not but I think it's not enabled by default now, and you can declare you want it but limit to a certain amount if on a metered connection, or just turn it on fully.

I think it was the metered connection bit people were annoyed about, especially those who were tethering to their phones and then it downloaded/shared a huge amount of data.
That's mainly because the unions have some power in Germany. Without them German employers would also happily have people work overtime.
“If a person is running late on a project, the best way to find out the reason is to have a one-on-one meeting with them. “

10. Interesting that he mentioned ducker. Performance is as a function of the system the people are working in. The assumption in this post is that “somebody is to blame”. In most cases I would argue that it would actually be a fuction of the underlying system. You as a manager are also part of it. You are to blame as well, so is the processes team members, values etc.
I don't really like 0 being truthy or falsy. For 'true' or 'false' flags you could just have a bitset, and everything else can have specific tests for type or value. I actually kind of half suspect that you don't need booleans or 'truthy' things at all. Or null.

I'm probably wrong though.
See https://www.amazon.com/Legitimation-Crisis-Juergen-Habermas/...
I think stewed was announced about 8 months ago.
> Mathematicians love greek letters, and if there are a couple of them it's easy enough to read the equation, but you can easily end up with 5 or more in a single equation,

Is there any fundamental reason why Greek letters are harder to read than Latin ones? Harder to write, I can accept, if Greek is not your first language.

> What I often do when I want to better understand a formula is to rewrite it by replacing greek letters with plain words.

Try actually writing proofs using verbose variable names, and you'll see as clearly as daylight why single-letter variable names are preferred.
But I think we can agree that truth should be truth and that false should be false and that we shouldn't be able to assign false to truth.
I guess you can start with [1] and ask people in community, there may be a couple of simple examples to show.

[1]: https://github.com/red/red/wiki/Red---Rebol-Dialects:--Selec...
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