skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those PC-as-appliance people are better served in the mobile space and it would be best if they left us and our computers alone
If Slack was down for 5 minutes in a month that will break the 99.99% SLA.
If you pay $6.67/mo for Slack, 6.67 * (0.01%) * 100 = 0.07

Yea I'll rather have Slack for that 5 minutes than save my company 7 cents.
It's an investment they think they'll see return on, and apparently don't have moral compunctions about.
You don't need to trust the third parties, that's the point.
Imagine someone invents something currently illegal then lobbies to make it legal, in order to sell it. This is just capitalism and liberalism, and it's a good thing.
Next.js: Framework for server-rendered or statically-exported React apps
Perfect. At state level. AND: legislation.

Unlike what prior administration did, at federal level, without legislation - congress was NOT involved. (never mind if it was good or not http://easydns.com/blog/2017/11/27/net-neutrality-wasnt-all-... )
I recommend reading Bronte Capital's take on this. He regularly evaluates short opportunities mostly related to fraud.

He actually visited Herbalife clubs before making a decision on shorting. He's not a fan of Ackerman.

https://brontecapital.blogspot.com/search?q=herbalife
Clearly the vendor thought it would be reasonable. They failed at communicating it, though. Putting a number on it would have made things clear: “The system must be rebooted after at most 12 hours [or whatever the appropriate value would be] of operation.”
Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad it's helping you out in your day to day.

We're currently working on bringing the extension to Safari. This makes the extension more aware of browser differences which will allow us to keep everything polished in all of the browsers we support.

Keep your eye out for updates and as @sqs said, we'd love to hear any feedback you come across @srcgraph!
How could anybody digesting Pinker's message come to that conclusion? His whole message is that we got here primarily because we embraced reason and science and that we can get to an even better place as long as we continue to embrace reason and science.
I completely agree about the software on Hildon based Maemo devices, but Meego on the N9 (Harmattan/QT based) was downright gorgeous, and managed to see some quality official apps for services like Facebook, Twitter, and Spotify.
I agree, its pretty wild what they did back then.
The Nokia adoption of WAP/WML was pretty groundbreaking.
Wild to think that was 20 years ago or so.
I have no opinion on the future price/direction of these stocks.

From end of 2017 to today:

NFLX: 192 to 291 51% gain in two months
AMZN: 1169 to 1512 29% gain in two months
TSLA: 311 to 343 10% gain in two months
> the vast amount of e-ink spilled on interviewing practice debates is proof of that (tech interviewing also doesn't correlate to the actual work being done!)

You're right that CURRENT interview screening practices are far removed from actual work, but that will change. I don't think that it's proof that there aren't better assessments (which should be aligned with how work is actually done on the job). If anything, this is an opportunity to experiment more, and find better assessments.

> I disagree that there are objective measures...

I agree that there aren't fully objective measures, and may never be. What I do believe is that you can get SOME signal of competence from, say, someone's code about their competence at building something right now, which is a more objective, impartial signal than what happens in other industries which relies mostly on a behavioral interview (which allows for a lo t of bias to creep in)
Or less realistically, if Slack went offline for 3.65 days, everybody would presumably get free Slack for a year.
Having had Buy Me A Coffee promeniently featured on two websites and a newsletter I never had anyone actually contribute a penny. YMMV of course but with a quarter of a million page views you'd think people would have contributed at least once.
How come fixing bugs to make data pipeline more robust and data more accurate does not fall under "things that are good for the company"?
I was on the fence, but a lifetime waived fee is irresistible! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/plwinn
On functionality (not google product history etc), is this worth switching a small 40 person company from slack? Killer feature in slack for us is probably granularity of alerting and mobile desktop handoff (read a message on one and that carries across), and full featured mobile.
My interactions with Triplebyte have been less than good and honestly am concerned about the company as a whole (perhaps my thoughts are misplaced).

In a prior conversation on HN (link below), I brought up some aspect of my interview (interviewer late, argumentative, smug, etc.). Then the interviewer came on to HN and PUBLICLY SHARED PORTIONS OF MY INTERVIEW. Honestly, should have been fired on the spot, but nope.

To the interviewers credit, after I was the number one comment for most of the day he deleted that portion of the comment. I am grateful (looking back now) that was removed, however I think it speaks volumes.

The prior discussion is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13830444

My two cents, is the idea is good - there is some room for improvement. What's scary is putting one company as a wall between you and the employer. I hope it never comes to pass where they control even 5% of the market. No one should be able to interview better than the company itself and employees shouldn't use a service which upon being declined blocks them from other companies. I don't believe that's the case (yet), so no qualms for the time being.

Given my experience, I hope they've improved and would happily change my view if I had reason to.

EDIT: Added prior interaction for reference
Only verbs and smileys? Sounds great, sign me up at once!

Actually, I should say, ":-) sign :P"

Who needs nouns anyway?
If you build your house out of sticks, don't cry when the big bad wolf comes to blow it down. Sounds like LittleThings could have used a few more BigIdeas
Isn't modafinil/stims a treatment for apnea?
yeah, herbalife is like a lot of the mlm schemes, taking advantage of the poor and disadvantaged. maybe now that he's given up on it, it will conveniently just die? just because you know something is doomed it doesn't mean you know when it dies.
Why do you say Utah? Near as I can tell Herbalife came out of California.
There are clothes that don't need folding and lifestyles that don't need clothes that need folding.
The important part is near the bottom, free components of X-Pack will no longer require the cumbersome registration process. Also of some concern is that extra care will be required to find a version of the software that is Apache 2.0 licensed as the proprietary licensed X-Pack components will be included by default in the code base instead of as a separate install.

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"Also, X-Pack features will now be bundled into the default distribution. All free features are included and enabled by default and will never ‘expire’, and commercial features are opt-in via a trial license. The license for free features never expires,you no longer need to register to use these capabilities. In addition to this, an Apache 2.0-only distribution will be created for download."
Even non DV PKI uses a lot of trust of the DNS. Where I work, I got our first non-DV certificate issued, and while the CA verified our organization exists (and made our certs show the city listed in our corporation filing instead of the city I wanted to show), the only reason they issued certificates to me is because I did essentially Domain Validation for the domain.
Every company I've worked at for software development has had review / feedback opportunities for my manager. I can't imagine working at a company where feedback from direct reports wasn't a major factor in someone's job performance evaluation.

Then again, I've been very selective in where I work. People like to bash the "culture" stereotype, but it's definitely something I consider when I'm looking for a job... you know, how people are expected to interact with other people, not whether there are ball pits and the like.
Who carved the first soap knife and what tool did they use?
Around the middle of 2017 I interviewed with them to be a part time interviewer. It was something they promoted on HN for a while.

They put me through the standard interview process along with additional discussion about the interviewer position.

Overall they're much better than most startups but have room for improvement.

The good:

They kept me well-informed throughout the process and set proper expectations. They were prompt with followups and stuck to the schedule they set. My interviewers were knowledgable, clearly software engineers.

The bad:

Too much focus on algos and CS fundamentals, not enough on higher level concepts and what makes someone a good fit for an available position.

I understand it's really hard to have a generic evaluation that covers multiple potential roles. That said, I believe that these questions do not select for good employees for most roles. They are biased to select for recent college grads and people who are willing to study before interviewing.

For example, they asked me about bloom filters. 95%+ of startup software jobs will never have to deal with bloom filters. Why would you ask about them? Ask something that will actually be encountered on the job.

To add a little background I was responsible for our hiring process in my last position, including interviewing, so I'm a bit opinionated about this.
I still do not understand why these people choose to reveal their positions. In ackman's case, it actually made people a lot of money because other people who didn't like Ackman got together and said 'hey what if we take the other side of this because we think that there's another puff left to this cigar."
Total ban on bee-harming pesticides likely after major new EU analysis
5000 / 3,500,000 = 0.00142857142
$1,800 per month is $21,600 per year. $64,000 put in the bank or invested without risk, gives you, very optimistically, $6,400 per year ⇒ if you think they will keep using this for years, that $64,000 is too low by at least a factor of 3.

Also, if AWS becomes more expensive, or they start to use the product more, you can increase pricing, but if you took a one time payment, that’s all you got.

I would think you need to ask at least $500,000, and probably something closer to a million. That gives you money to spend on putting the source in escrow, which, if they really are a big company, they should want, and also gives you money to talk to a contract lawyer (e.g. about the feasibility of your idea ”if I release an update after that I will charge for it”) and an accountant about this deal.

They may not want to pay that much, but they shouldn’t be surprised, either, if you explain to them what extra costs you have to make.

Disclaimer: don’t take my word for it.
I mean simple in terms of the theoretical possibility of a single binary vs. any form of local compilation, packaging, or dependencies. In practice, I didn’t check, maybe they depend on other native libraries and installation is more than downloading a single executable.
Trustico now posted a statement on their site[1]. My favourite part is this:

> Trustico® followed the requests of DigiCert by initially recovering Private Keys from cold storage and subsequently e-mailing the associated order number and Private Keys to DigiCert in a ZIP file. The file did not contain any other type of data.

[1]: https://www.trustico.com/news/2018/symantec-revocation/certi...
Another test which I think has been done on rare occasions is measuring the inter-rater reliability between different juries (which could be done by having several juries hear the same trial and then deliberating independently). (It's harder to do this with judges if the judges are also overseeing the trial and ruling on evidentiary and procedural matters.)
Just tried to sign up, but it appears the Stripe form doesn't work on iOS Safari. Can reproduce by filling out the whole form, not entering a phone number, hit submit. Then, I get a brief error that my phone number needs entered, which then skips directly down to bank account numbers not matching (which they do) and then, suddenly, the account number changes to my autofill password. Very odd behavior!
I feel like that would be better paired with the "dough" double meaning instead of bread. "Life's a shit pizza, the more dough you have the less it tastes like shit."
Only some of us have a deep, abiding distaste for centralized authority, fewer still to the point of violence, and our nation was founded by elite slaveholding landowners who still shut down petty rebellions after they took power rather than duly submit themselves to the gallows on behalf of some common hatred they held with the people for their own state.

Hell, when Benjamin Franklin said that "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety," he was arguing in favor of the government's right to form a collective defense, collect taxes and regulate the militia.

The founding fathers didn't mistrust centralized authority, they mistrusted the authority of the Crown.
Which companies do you consider the reputable ones? I've been looking a little, but I haven't found any.
This is incredibly user-hostile, and if you read this expecting this is an open-source release, consider yourself clickbaited.

Want to contribute to the open-source version of Elasticsearch? Want to ensure you're running an open-source database without running a custom EULA past your legal department?

Well, make sure that after 6.3 is released, you don't accidentally download the default distribution, or browse the official Github repository, or clone from Github, as all of those will have components subject to an as-yet-unreleased, non-OSI-approved EULA (see the final paragraph in https://www.elastic.co/products/x-pack/open), which may have clauses that trigger liability to Elastic if you accidentally flip a switch or look at the wrong thing. (I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, but I shouldn't have to be to know if I can use software freely, and I can only guess worst-case scenarios because the terms aren't released.)

If Elastic were truly committed to transparency, they would release the terms of their new EULA immediately, provide a way to access the head of the open-source portion of the repository without accepting the EULA, and make it clear what the pricing ramifications are if one opts into certain flags or reads certain files in a commercial capacity. (Pricing requires a custom quote, but a quick Google search suggests that the lowest tier in which REST and node-to-node communications are encrypted begins in the tens of thousands of dollars - not the kind of thing you want to take lightly.)

Now more than ever, it's important that projects like https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard , a free and open-source (Apache 2.0) alternative to some of these X-Pack components, are supported, and that the word is spread around them. (EDIT: Yes, they have commercial components, but those are in a separate repository, so you avoid any entanglements. Why isn't Elastic doing the same?)

And hopefully, if Elastic doesn't maintain a fully-OSS repo, someone will create and maintain a friendly fully-OSS fork that can be combined with third-party software to carry on the legacy of this otherwise excellent database in the right way.
What if that thing is dangerous?

I can't think of many historical examples where something was already illegal when it was invented for no good reason. Can you? Maybe pharma fits that category, but no rational person would argue drugs should be legal by default...
Downvote? Both points were stated in the FAQ. I did extrapolate from Go to the installation point.
Would you ask users to change or do you change your development process?
As a internal IT team, our challenge is to have a clean process of request, changes, test and release. However, we have people just coming directly to developers and they want things done immediately. That's good for the users but it just creates a mess. We have hard time tracking who did what and often get ourselves into this loop of fixing things. Once fix breaks another and we are in this cycle since a while and doesn't look like it'll end.

So, would you tell users to work in a different way to fix the development process ? Or would you continue or change current way of development?
If you look at the happiness income in East Asia, you'll note it's higher than in the US. This indicates that the value is not absolute (things you need to be happy) but it's relative to the area.

The best indicator of happiness related to income I have seen concluded that the income is relative to the income of your peers: if they make more money, you will be less happy, if they make less, you will be more happy. This goes well with the idea that people feel more fortunate when they are around people who are less fortunate.

In short, if you want to feel happy about your life, hang out around people who earn less.
Oh, and it looks like your system doesn't accept the cancel back through the API. I just get a page that says "The user denied your request."
Analysis of Microsoft-Ireland Supreme Court Oral Argument
You can have as much purpose as a cat or you can build bridges, write poetry, study philosophy, invent new things, and help the poor. Your choice might not fit in with how you saw yourself but that's a higher level problem.
You'll be surprised.

Meet Jo Qatana. A small-time embroidery artist who's making ends meet with BuyMeACoffee. She's one such creator who's receiving donations from her audience on a regular basis.

"Thanks to the Generosity of Strangers, and Friends, I've made a car insurance payment and can finally buy the supplies I need for my @PPact fundraising item. I am So Very Grateful." - https://twitter.com/joqatana/status/951943659301187584

'Buy Me A Coffee' is just a friendly way to ask for support, and do not suggest the size or consistency of support one could receive. Contributions very well depend on one's audience and creativity.
May be at that level they hope to play the market by revealing...more people could get behind the call
Icann was proping up Herbalife to just f*ck with Bill Ackman for the fun of it. Herbalife is totally going to die now, and has been for a while.
I get that way with any ad I see or hear too much. The more I experience your advertisement, the less satisfied with your company or product I am going to become.
The fact that the bug manifests after a longer than normal period of operation doesn't ex post facto make it not a bug. If you add 2 and 2 and get 42 you failed.

It is however a good explanation why it remained undetected.
Or if you like good movies, Minority Report...
I've seen people like that, and I've been that guy. Ironically, I've been that guy only because I left years after those other men and women that I'd looked up to had moved on, and I'd filled their role for the junior devs who were hired after.

Moving on is a fact of life, more so now that ever. My parents both worked for the same company over 35-40 years before they retired; I don't think I can imagine that'll be even close to the norm for many in the workforce now (especially software / other tech).
A good manager will make it so that you don't have to worry about politics. They will be able to inform you what projects are widely agreed to be impactful. Then you can focus on performing well technically on those projects and get promoted.

Your manager should be able to helpfully answer direct questions like, "What do I have to do to get promoted?" If your manager doesn't have a good answer, and you care about getting promoted, you should find a new manager.

Once you become more experienced at the company, you may not need your manager's help at this as much. You'll develop connections within the company and be able to gather widespread support for your projects directly.
Oh, man, that would be amazing. I, like probably many others, don't have a choice but to use it due to my company managing their documentation through it.

Now, if they can just make search a bit better, it'd hit enough bullet points that I'd stop complaining about it.

Thanks, so much, for taking the time to keep me informed!
>XX hours

Isn't that a metric?
It seems that the time is ripe to reconsider what it means to be a distribution. I'm not equipped to take a stab at an answer, so let me provoke a wishlist. What if...

- One could compose together (arbitrary) combinations of a kernel of choice and userspace of choice?

- In "userspace" one could cobble together dependencies as needed for any project, and run sandboxed applications, which can only share information through common parent packages.

- No single package version for the "system". (This is already being done, in many examples)

- Maybe the kernel is just another package to be managed. Just something that starts when the computer boots, and lets you invoke the package manager to change state.

- Distributions would then just become snapshots of how different pieces are combined together. Sort of like what Docker images are created from dockerfiles today.

It would be enlightening to understand which aspects are possible today or in the foreseeable future, and what are the impediments to doing this. Or reasons why one might not actually want such a structure.
Back then Peach Tree Software was the package. So getting it for $100 would seem like a steal. The context is lost a bit now so it wasn't as bad as it may first appear. Although still not great.
Wow, I am trying this now. This is very strange. It definitely makes flashing red notification badges easier to avoid. But the lack of color diversity makes it hard for me to navigate certain apps. Very weird.
> FedEx’s claim that it “has never set or changed rates for any of our millions of customers around the world in response to their politics, beliefs or positions on issues” is specious at best. On the contrary, the logic is quite clear:

An interesting letter. And let's be clear - the NRA has done more than many to obstruct attempts to address the blood shed by gun violence. I despise them for it.

With that said, FedEx's statements are quite consistent with their actions and positions. They don't provide discounts based on politics, beliefs, or positions on issues. They provide discounts based on membership in an organization that represents a bunch of customers. NRA membership is not the same as political alignment - it requires membership fees and I know at least one person with a lifetime membership who doesn't support the NRA's politics.

It may be worth noting that while the NRA's deal with FedEx is by definition only available to NRA members, NRA members are not the only people who can benefit from group discounts.

To the author: have you considered the possibility that FedEx might be telling the honest truth in this matter?
That was not the question I was responding to, which made no reference to the length of sentences. It argued that prisons were not an effective deterrent (i.e.: at all), moreover there seems to be a school of thought that we should never punish crime, at all.

I said nothing about adding ten years to sentence lengths. I don’t know, and don’t claim to know what the optimal length of sentence (or other punishment) is, except that it is not zero.
The Brexit vision that reveals England’s perfidy over Ireland
The problem is that if you don't hold China accountable, it gives them the green light to do even worse things.