skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a tech-bro type person I'm not enjoying our daily two minutes of hate from ivy league and oxbridge types against our various failures of moral purity.

As an Ivy-leaguer, let me say this: There was plenty of questionable stuff that went on when I was an undergrad!
Canonical/Ubuntu | Product Managers | Remote US or Europe timezone | Full time

Product Manager

Canonical leads the development of Ubuntu. If you’re inspired by: shaping the daily software experience of millions of users, and their billions of customers around the world, high stakes, tough, distributed problems in the cloud and on all sorts of devices, seeing your skills and talents make a meaningful difference in the world, and
craftsmanship in everything around you and the work you do, then read on.

Role description

We’re seeking a detail-oriented and articulate product manager to spearhead the roadmap of cloud and IoT products from Canonical.

Working with the head of product strategy, engineering managers and lead designers, you will deliver a distinctive product in a high profile category in the cloud market that delights our users.

You’ll love this job if...

You are familiar with the cloud computing industry, excited about the dynamism and competition currently characterizing the industry and keen to define products that will capture attention in a crowded marketplace.

You are business oriented and commercially minded - you understand the needs and motivations of key players in the industry, across the hardware, software and service landscapes, as well as the needs of users. You believe that the last word in cloud computing has not been written and are keen to dive into the market to see what else is possible.

You are intrigued by open source and free software, and believe in the importance of free software in everyday computing, regardless of the device. You’ve used free software platforms like Ubuntu before, but have an appreciation for the challenge and difficulty in tastefully defining paid, commercial products, the success of which ensures the future of the free platform.
> Finally, how does space and time look like in boson's world, roughly?

Fundamental particles don't really have a size. The size of a particle depends on what force you use to examine it.

Remember that particles can only interact by the fundamental forces, so your typical expectation of a "size" is incorrect. If two particles don't have any forces in common they can pass right through each other - i.e. they don't have an edge that says "I'm here".

So looked at gravitationally or electromagnetically particles have infinite size, and their "existence" (to each other) is not binary "I'm here/I'm not here", but rather they are partially there, in ratio to how strong their interaction is.

Their size as measured by the strong force will be different from their size measured by the weak force.

Composite particles are different - they are made of fundamental particles in some particular spacing. The fundamental particles they are made of have no size, but the spacing between them does have a size, so that's the size they are given.

It would help you to stop thinking of particles as objects, but rather as areas of force, which get weaker the farther away you are. Like a kind of fuzzy ball that fades out, but never goes to zero.
I wonder if Apple's satellite operations (like the Siri team in Ottawa, Canada, for example) might have some autonomy and self direction simply due to distance from the mothership.

As for a shift in startup culture, what is more tempting than 5 to 10 years of hard work into billion dollar exits? Local governments could start offering tax incentives that build over time—or more aggressively, have steep disincentives on corporate takeovers.
You have three types of mega corps.

1. Vertically integrated

2. Horizontally integrated

3. Conglomeration (not integrated)

And there is a "strategy tax" in whatever method you choose.

Except for FileMaker and Beats, Apple is mostly a vertically integrated company. They have no real desire to be everything to everyone like Google. If they didn't play to their strengths and tried to service Android users, it still wouldn't be a great experience.
>What's up with all these sensational articles about Silicon Valley?

I suspect some of it is due to SV being under attack by political opponents. Telecoms who want net neutrality/open internet dismantled, and perhaps politically right folks who see lots of political support and donations for Dems coming from SV. The recent spate of articles advocating breaking up Google and other SV "monopolies" is especially suspect, considering they don't have strong competitive moats (at least not compared to owning the physical infrastructure of the Internet).
I guess that explains why tech companies always complain about having a tough time recruiting talent then. Relative to other locals their salaries aren't competitive.
Predicting Google product shutdowns
It's ashame there's no Windows support, unless I've missed something.
Excellent work btw. I love the simplicity of the display construction. I'm curious to see what it would look like scaled up to a 32" 4K display as the 'base'.
(OP here)

I wrote them again a week later. Still got no response. Then I contacted the HR people on LinkedIn and got mostly rejections - but one interview, actually. So I totally agree, you have to follow-up. Didn't mention that in the article.
Had no idea! Will take more stock of LV and research what happened there.
> What would the government do with your money? They most likely wasted it with 0 accountability.

Hmm, good question.

They’d definitely never fund open source software https://prototypefund.de/en/, they’d never build new seawalls and more to protect against rising sea levels https://www.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/Landesregierung/V/_star..., they’d of course not invest more into schools and universities http://www.uni-kiel.de/pressemeldungen/index.php?pmid=2016-2..., nor into streets, canals, bridges and other infrastructure https://www.bmvi.de/SharedDocs/DE/Artikel/G/verkehrsinvestit... http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/18/127/1812764.pdf And they surely never would use it to pay off government debt https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-economy/german-ov...

Yeah, the government never releases any information on where the money is spent, and wastes it all https://www.bundeshaushalt-info.de/#/2016/soll/ausgaben/einz...

Luckily, Google is much better, they invest it all into society with no profit motive of their own, and always give us full reports where every cent goes.

(Just in case, /s)
It doesn't help that people specifically like yourself tend to be weeded out of jury pools under voir dire.

An educated person such as yourself might be able to influence the other jurors (or at least hang it), and we can't have that. It's much easier if everybody simply accepted the prosecutor's explanation of how IP addressing works.
I've been wanting to try Chinese-Mexican food ever since I learned about it. The US border patrol was originally created to keep the Chinese laborers from coming up through Mexico. As a result, many Chinese immigrants found themselves stuck in northern Mexico in the early 1900's, and some decided to open restaurants. Today, Mexicali alone has over 200 Chinese restaurants, many of which serve Chinese-Mexican fusion. Every combination I've heard of sounds amazing.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/04/16/399637724/th...
I don't think you know what the word 'lens' means

I'm not really interested in having a semantic argument about the meaning of lens, but what the heck...

To be a lens the object has to focus or disperse light via refraction, the objects used in the paper and then referenced in the article diffuse[1] light

What do you think the "bumpy piece of plastic" in the article does, if not focus and disperse light using refraction? There's no separate optical effect called "diffusion" that isn't based upon dispersion. As a matter of fact, often a diffuser is referred to as a "diffuser lens":

https://www.ylighting.com/element-lighting-accessory-lenses....

the diffusion filters referenced in the article weren't designed but chosen arbitrarily

Nothing I said indicated that the specific bumpy plastic patterns needed to be designed. See my related thoughts on decoding images seen through privacy glass. It's the same concept, except they use the refracted images to specifically select for multiple incoming light angles to create 3D images (when they're doing the 3D image part). I actually understand how they did what they did fairly well. I read the first couple of lines in the article and knew that they had implemented the same concept that I had thought about years ago.

Now, the lenticular lens you referenced is a lens because of how it operates, but the referenced in the article technique definitively does not require a lens because lenses aren't diffusers. Does that make sense?

I think maybe you're coming at this subject from photography terminology? Perhaps that's why you think there's some kind of distinction between a "lens" and a "diffuser". I'm coming at it from a physics perspective where these are really the same thing.
As a sibling comment alludes, everyone underestimates how astoundingly vast Earth's oceans are.

I did too, until I looked out the window on my first daytime flight over the sea. A seemingly endless stretch of unbroken blue. It was probably the next best thing to being in space and made me appreciate just how much water there is!

And that's just the surface.
My experience with chefs: Lots of fun to party with. Terrible neighbors. In general, do not date, or at least be cautious. (Based on a low sample size.)

Dog walkers: Can be lots of fun to party with. Terrible band mates. In general, do not date, or at least be cautious. (Based on a low sample size.)
I agree publishers were incompetent (in clinging onto old models rather than adapting), but has streaming really helped the average artist?

Having the option to distribute music for free has been good, for sure

Setting the expectation that music should be near enough free, less so

You could argue this is one of those public good situations universal income is designed to address, but it certainly hasn't yet.
> They might as well do away with the H1-B program all together.

They can't do that by executive action; they are attempting to limit the program without Congressional action.

> I understand that H1B is a non-immigrant visa, but if this change goes into effect, most people won't even apply for the H1B because it would make no sense.

It makes perfect sense as a limited term work visa; this would reduce the significance of the dual intent nature of the visa that allows immigration intent unlike other non-immigrant visas, but that's arguably peripheral to the purpose of the visa.
Sure, we're on the same page. For Google, building out a Maps service is a way to increase inventory for an ad platform. They can accept much lower margins on the geo services business, since they have high margin ads efforts.

Theoretically, if Mapbox could get enough views, they could also enter the advertising market. But from my understanding of their company and business model, that would be a really tough sell.
Youtube seems more and more to be turning into a kind of wasteland of unmoderated, self-published content. Apparently, and sadly, that's where the money is.
Selling all $10,000,000 of shares kinda reveals that fig leaf for what it is: giving himself the shares was never about aligning his incentives with shareholders - he just wanted the cash.

That right there is the money quote for me that invalids my "pieces of flair" metaphor. You're right, the very best thing one might say about flipping the shares for cash is it's a bit crass; at best.
IIRC companies with offshore profits in Bermuda invest it in stocks/bonds/etc, rather than having it sit there and do nothing.
And are you invited to an instant pot user conferences too?
Why is this a service?
Send it via a third party who can read your messages or MMS where everyone can read your messages?

Nice alternatives...
> In order to bring about structural change of the scale needed to end poverty, we need to reach levels of technology, productivity and social organization that we have not yet reached today.

They been sayin' this since the wheel, methinks!

Jesus said, "The poor will always be with you." Not being a Christian, I still see the wisdom in this statement.

In wealth-oriented societies, rich people have been fighting a war to get rid of poor people since the beginning of time--throw them in jail, lock them in ghettos, deport them, wall them out. The structural change needed is in people's attitudes, society's values, not our technology.

It's getting worse, not better, and the more hopes we pin on our techno-fantasy, the harder the crash is going to be.
India and China are not the only country with backlogs in employment-based immigration.
The point is that even if you add the module for the browser, you’re still significantly smaller than Electron – while, at the same time, Java can actually eliminate unused modules for you, which Electron doesn’t.
It is possible that what we are seeing is just what you suggest, that people are fighting back and trying to fix (as they see it) society. Perhaps this is what participatory democracy looks like when the publishing tools are all very accessible; this is just what it looks like when you make the presses cheap enough.

It's possible that passion is now the main resource needed to get your political message out, and radicals tend to be more passionate than the rest of us.

Of course, to moderates, this looks terrible. I consider myself a moderate (or at least I did before the last election; the overton window, it would seem, has moved) and so I personally think this looks terrible, and it's not the most likely possibility, in my opinion. But you could construct a self-consistent narrative in which this was simply democracy in action; it matches much of the available evidence.

The big hole in this explanation is the evidence of foreign powers buying advertising to prop up our radicals. My understanding is that the investigation in that direction is still ongoing... but even then, the idea that a (much poorer) nation could buy our election would be in line with what I suggested about the presses (or at least the opinion-shaping part of the presses) being much cheaper than expected.
Hi guys. I happened to stumble across this thread and was pleased to read your comments. Let me try to answer most of your questions in one reply.
1. The Kindle versions may not be available any longer, I am sorry to say, due to the fact that it does not display the images well, as well as the tables and figures. However, I have not totally abandoned the thought of updating them.
2. My web page is simple and to the point. I don't have any desire to make it otherwise. I do hand code it, as one mentioned. The reason for the script at the end, to display the few lines of text, is simply to allow me to modify one file and all pages will see that update. Yes, I could do it differently, but as you mention, it loads in less than a second. If that isn't fast enough for someone, they are in too much of a hurry. Besides, web development is not my interest.
3. My books are an on-going project that I enjoy doing and thought that others might benefit from my work. Yes, I make a slight profit from it, but nothing is free. You have to earn it some how. With that said, I fully support each book and its contents. If something is not clear or understandable, a simple email asking about that subject is happily accepted and replied to. I then try to make that subject more understandable in the next issue.
4. About the "Vanity Publishing" comment. I never looked at it that way. I started to write the book and looked at other books to see what they had for a Contents page. I filled in my name expecting to replace it with other names as that process was done. At this time, no outside sources have been used. Maybe a later time. However, please be assured that it is not due to "Vanity". I am a humble man, and am writing another book explaining exactly how humble I am (Yes, sarcasm intended) :-)

My books aren't the next best thing, I admit that. I don't expect them to be wonderful and the best reference out there. The main reason I do the work is for the enjoyment of the project. If you see an improvement you would like, all suggestions are welcome. I won't promise that they will be added, but all suggestions are very welcome. I give credit at the end of the book to those who contribute.

Again, if any questions are asked, I freely do my best to answer them, whether someone has bought my book(s) or not. I suggest obtaining the book first, then ask a question, but that is not required.

Thank you for your comments. I was pleased to read them.
Ben
> If you have a colonoscopy done, the medication they give you will make it so you don't remember things or (I hope) feel things

Maybe a bit off topic but I skipped the drugs for my colonoscopy and it was less discomfort than a trip to the dentist, plus watching my insides on the screen was very interesting. I definitely recommend considering no medication.
We'd leave out the nerve cells, of course.
Related discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16052451
Meh with the details, and the amount was tiny.
Your submarine gets a free baptism by the godfather of typos
I've done two reconciliations in my career, each lasting a month.

Never again.
Sometimes I wonder if all those laws could just be distilled into a few universal truth laws or something.

The amount of legal gymnastics going on in court cases and things like this... It never ceases to amaze me. It all seems so inefficient.
Oh yeah I forgot to factor in the irrefutable fact that Rich is a genius and everyone else who tried building a full stack framework before him was an idiot.
Or even just an expectation that the product is going to require some DIY maintenance, and mutual support from other users. With, for instance, 3D printers, this works in inverse proportion to the expense of the purchase... if you buy a cheap one, you are joining a community - you don't expect it to be perfect, but tinkering and optimizing is likely part of the attraction in the first place. If you buy an expensive one, it's most likely because of a straightforward business need and you're going to rely on the manufacturer for support like any other product.
They have JIRA Data Center now which is far from perfect but helps with the scalability issues. It’s costs quite a lot though. DB is typically the bottleneck after that, especially since they don’t officially support any DB clustering. Postgres is their best supported DB (it’s what they use in production themselves) so maybe as native Postgres clustering matures we’ll see support for that.
Pretty smart!
Suppose I write a C program and then deploy it on a target machine where it is continuously running thereafter. Then I develop a loadable module (.so) which I compile, upload to the target and get the C program to load it with dlopen. Is that native or not?

If it's native, why isn't JIT to machine code not native? Because of the convenience of all of the above happening on a fine-grained level (individual functions), and all on the target machine?

Also, what is "compiled ahead of time"? Ahead of what time? Why is that specific time important? Obviously, code is compiled ahead of its compiled image being run; the compiled version cannot be run any sooner. Any JIT-ted function is compiled ahead of being called.

On most operating systems, we can load programs after the OS boots. Those programs can be developed after the OS booted.

I think that the only true definition of "native" is that the program image was compiled before the hardware was built and turned on for the first time, and was present in its ROM.

Anything else is not "ahead of time" and not native, damn it!

Installing a program on your PC is just a form of JIT. The system was fired up without that program being there, and the program was snuck in just moments before the user's intent to use that program. Not ahead of the True Scotsmans proper time: the time when components were stuffed into the circuit board and it was powered up.
The Red Language (which I just learned about yesterday) looks pretty good in that respect. One binary, no dependencies.

http://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html

I gather the GUI story on Linux isn't great at present, and there's no iOS support, but all of the other important bases seem to be covered.

I've tinkered with it a bit today, and so far it's as advertised.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not. If you are being serious, then mind taking a moment to consider your impact on the Earth? It's kind of in a bad way right now.
> Given we've either already destroyed or are in the process of destroying every major marine fishery on the planet

Partially related to this, but my parents live in a village on the Lower Danube (the second largest river in Europe, after the Volga). I remember that when I was a kid (in the '80s) you had no problems catching enough fish during a day in order to feed a family of 3 or 4 if you wanted, and even sell something on the side for some extra cash (not much, but it mattered). I remember my uncle telling me that back when he was a kid (the '70s) the fish resources were even more plentiful, as in whenever the river was flooding the marshland-like areas he and his friends would go in there and catch the fish using their bare hands.

Nowadays you can barely catch a fish. Some former colleagues of mine spent an entire day trying to catch something in the Danube and at the end they hadn't catch anything (bare in mind, they were using more modern tools compared to what people were using back in the '70s and '80s). The struggle is real.
I think you're painting with too broad a brush here. Concerns about the power wielded by massive tech corporarions aren't exclusive to the rightward end of the political spectrum.
I have an idea, just no concrete ways to act on it. I think that we need to make a system of incentives where the values which we care about are the ones being optimized for.

So, right now we use abstract metrics like GDP or stock indices as a metric for 'success'. So countries optimize for GDP and companies optimize for making money and delivering monetary value to their shareholders.

Maybe we could collectively view those dollar figures as value-neutral and use metrics like international education scores, life expectancy, access to quality nutrition and medical care, incarceration/recidivism rates, etc. to indicate 'success'.

But again, no concrete ways to act on that. What, should we start telling people that money is useless and doesn't matter? I don't think they'll believe us while so many don't have access to apirational opportunities, or even basic necessities. But don't we have the means to provide those things?
Here is some more context - http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-myst...

The connection between the linked article in this comment and the linked page for this post is that there is a potentially huge bug that will be made public soon and it just affects Intel processors, not AMD - hence the large sale of stock by the Intel CEO.
Afaik, ‘real’ ecstasy is still pure mdma, though obviously it’s sometimes adulterated. At least in the late 90s when we used test kits it was pure mdma that we were intending to buy.

Barring some actual test kit results, i wouldn’t take people’s self reports of what they’re taking as being reliable, because people’s response to mdma seems to change a lot with repeated use.
Yeah, they'd lose big time if they let it sit in an account for ten years.
I'm talking about feeling sympathy for the dead more than the living.