skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Fired" is such a loaded word. There are many reasons for a company to want someone to leave, and not all of them necessarily "negative."

Off the top of my head, when the oil and gas market dipped in 2014, tons of great engineers lost their jobs because the companies simply didn't have work for them. Or a CEO that's really good at 5-50 startups simply not being a good fit for scaling 50-100 and upwards of 1000s of employees. Etc.
Isn't this word for word (picture for picture) the same BBC article that was on the front page yesterday?
Trump attacks Amazon for paying 'little or no taxes'
Except that so far it remains to be seen if that can work at scale. Bitcoin is moving towards the lightning network which changes things quite a bit, in particular potentially adding some centralization and giving some nodes advantages over others (well connected nodes with large open channels will have an advantage over a newcomer without connections for instance).

Bitcoin cash is trying an other route with bigger blocks but it remains to be seen if it scales well enough to real-world currency usage. And of course there's the big problem of cryptocurrencies being useless as currencies because they're not stable enough. Which itself can be largely blamed on their limited supply and inflationary nature which is necessary to bootstrap them (there's an incentive to get in early) but seems to turn against them in the long run since nobody wants to spend something that's by design supposed to become scarcer and scarcer.

It might be theoretically free but it doesn't work great so far. And of course we could discuss whether a completely free market is a good or a bad thing, but that's a whole different debate.
No, never experienced them on my machine while switching between headphones and external speakers. Maybe you have some misconfigured driver?
but but but I thought it was a 'secular democracy'?

That's what CNN always says..
Bad people are often smart.
Live coverage: Indian GSLV launches with communications satellite
Migrating from PostgreSQL to GridDB
Ah yeah, re-read it and realize I misunderstood.
About a year ago, I quit my job at Apple because I wasn't able to apply my technical skills in my role and I was not successful in transferring to another department (full blog post: http://minimaxir.com/2017/05/leaving-apple/ | HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14270897)

Despite the loss of a salary and frustration in getting another job (Tweetstorm about data science job hunting: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/951117788835278848), quitting was 100% the correct move in retrospect.
> Linux: 0 MacOS X: 1 Windows: Lost count a long time ago. Had to do it twice with Windows 10 in the last year.

When I was first reading your comment I assumed it was experience in the distant past. The different experiences people have with the same software is incredible to me. I have owned four Windows computers, up to present day, and maintained those of family and some friends, and not once have I had to reinstall Windows since the days of Windows 2000, excepting harddrive failures. I always wonder what makes the difference.

But I guess if I knew, Microsoft would know (being staffed by people smarter and more informed than me), and hopefully fix whatever causes the problems necessitating reinstall.

It's like all the complaints about Firefox's memory usage - people have complained about it for years, it's clearly a real problem for some? many? users, but I have never seen it on any platform.
The lens quality barrier at 24MP isn't arbitrary; that's basically the equivalent digital resolution you get from 35mm film.
almost certainly going to run into regulatory problems. As the former head of an former MSB, I did not enjoy the experience.
Which is one reason why the high-revenue/low-profit growth strategy is so good. It feels similar to me how in chess you sacrifice pieces to capture control of the center of the board.
Nvidia Co-Founders Remember Their Startup Roller Coaster Ride
Ah damn, can't edit a comment?

Wanted to ask if you are interested in merging some ui? Your output looks much better ;)
There is a lot of headroom. What shows up in consumer cameras is never state of the art. I'm hoping BSI sensors will drive the noise down even further.
Unless you're looking at the Mamiya or Hasselblad MF lenses, good 35mm lenses tend to out-resolve MF and definitely LF. Projection circle is only part of the effective resolution.
Right, it wasn’t their core product but it was a thing that had a clearer monetization strategy.

As far as I can tell no one has figured out a way to monetize private DM/group messaging via advertising. I actually deleted Facebook messenger from my phone in disgust a while back the first time I saw an advertisement mixed in among my list of conversations; I can’t even imagine what it would be like to have ads directly inserted in the messaging flow.
It is true some can always choose but maybe not everybody can, because people react differently to drugs and alcohol. Psychics can already read minds better than existing primitive devices. But AFAICT the gov does not employ them, at least not at scale, so don’t worry. I don’t believe actual mind reading device will ever exist, the closest will be like a synthetic / robotic AI brain with the same abilities as human psychic. Meaning it’s a synthetic AI not “device“ that you completely control. So if you want to read minds without people’s consent you better use psychics or torture.
> I do see how showing negative news to people would have affect on what people post.

Get this. Every single time you visit facebook, right above the fold is some depressing news. Every. Single. Time.

It has an effect on some.
Why does @dang encourage, promote, and sponsor these lies?
You can image non-flat things
TL;DR: Uber charges more if it thinks you might be expensing the trip. When going home from the airport try setting as destination a place close to your house. That will fool the system and will give you a non inflated upfront price. Then wait to be in the middle of the ride and ask driver to change destination and take you home.
what stands out to me, is what appears to be the "get rich quick nature" of all the articles. call me old fashion, but at that age I'd rather be teaching kids the value of hard work, delayed gratification, research, skepticism, etc, etc.

In fact I'd rather kids would read the WSJ than this garbage, at least then they'd understand how hard it is to start and maintain a business. Otherwise you're setting this kids up to follow every MLM trap they got offered later on in life. HODL HODL HODL am i right?
There are some more recent kits[1] which come close. I wouldn't think it would take a big change to hexapods like these to give the legs a rounder profile to roll on, if they curled their legs like the Festo.

1: https://youtu.be/-Dt2yVR3FJQ
I'm curious... what kind of action were you thinking of?
TBH I was able to find your name and portfolio website with just the information you provided and a couple google searches. I won't post it here, but you do have a good amount of experience and quite a few repos in your github. (I am from the Chicago area as well). Judging from the articles about you, I definitely understand why it's been hard for you to find a job.
Fortnite is now the biggest game on YouTube
The problem is that the hardware is not really solving the problem it was procured for. And that bad decision was facilitated by the USG. So the USG is crippling other nations defense capabilities while protecting its own armaments industry. Does that make sense?
Have you seen this post [1]? I think this is the closest thing to what you're looking for that has been posted so far.

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104712037900071
And how would a blockchain stop a government from putting a counterfeit record in to start?
This is all about the Washington Post. If it starts publishing a pro-Trump narrative he will back off.
So that iced tea company that announced it was entering the blockchain space didn't pan out, hm?
I feel like a private/closed blockchain would defeat the purpose. I want a future where a public blockchain would act a repository of everything that has happened to the final product throughout its history, on top of which applications would be developped, relevant for each step of the chain. The producer A that would input certification of origin, the manufacturer B, and the end consumer C would need very different services, web, app, industrial applications, ERP integrations and so on.

To express it in an analogy with current services, I would like the blockchain to be a database, exposing a universal API. I don't really see a private blockchain allowing this, but I may be wrong. And indeed there will be the thorny authentication issue... I don't know the solution, really !
You may have misread the post. OP didn't ask for value judgments, but for advice on getting a job.
Knowing Canon it still only supports 1080p video...
> When plugging headphones stops being a complicated and finicky process

Apple solved that problem by not even letting you plug in headphones!
How about just quitting because you don't get good work (whatever that definition might be)?

I find it hard to believe that most people in so called "top tier" tech companies do compelling work. Not everyone gets to work on de jour areas, most people work on maintenance and improving old code bases (BTW, there is nothing wrong with this)
A pop-up advertising window for Quickbooks? Really? No disrespect to QB, they got some fantasstic product.. but.. pop-up window??

Dear Stratechery, you were just added to my adblock list.
Update them priors!
Yes, that's it. Indeed i'm really open to support other platforms; i used linux-only epoll because of its beautiful API and only support linux because i can only test on it.

If anybody asks for support for some other OS, i can think about switching to poll(), even if i find epoll-like interfaces to be much more enjoyable to work with. As stated on project's readme, any patch is welcome.

About licensing, GPL is my usual choice there.

If you think any of these points is crucial, and you'd like some changes, please fill a bug report.
Plug in order is a terrible idea. With potentially every restart/power cycle, the cable would have to be unplugged and re-plugged into the receiver.
Bing desktop? Really? What do you use that for?
There's nothing particularly insane about not breaking the APIs with every single release like OS X does with user-facing stuff or Linux does with kernel-facing stuff.

In fact, you have to go the extra mile to break stuff.
PhaseOne sell a 100MP IQ3 B&W digital back, which is basically exactly what you're after. The quality of this is brilliant - I've seen some really astonishing work out of it - but it might be out of price range a bit - you're looking at north of $50k for a working setup, so many people just rent them when needed.

There might be some B&W scanning backs that are a bit cheaper, but those don't really work too well if your subject is moving.
I checked SNAP and MUSICA.LY for the first time 2 weeks ago to see what my 12 year old was seeing.

Hint if an adults first exposure in your app (before connecting to their existing social network) shows them pornography, or a random teenager cutting themselves... your business might not be sustainable.

I'm not saying you can't profit massively off of teenage angst. But if you LEAD with that like Tumblr and Myspace, people will grow out of your platform.

I think Reddit and Pinterest profit just as much from that questionable content without alienating the people who will ultimately be doing massive ad buys.

Also Snap tried to FORCE the Kardashians on you. They couldn't afford to have them go against the platform. They should have hired them as brand ambassadors to publish multiple times daily, and maybe even exclusively if Snap could afford it.
Question: How do you have 0 references? Your website makes it seem like you have been a professional developer for a long time and your linkedin lists several reputable past employers, including one of the larger consulting agencies in our area.
No, nor I didn't suggest otherwise.
Hippo Video has a good editor and can be used for the instructional video purpose. It has a free trial period, do give it a try.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 1 – Simplified Boot
I've had $5 Ubers for the past like 4 months. No idea why they keep giving me $5 ubers, but I save a TON of money every month thanks to it.
See also WAAS [11] and ARGUS [22]

[11] https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/how-one-new-drone-tech-fin...

[22] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p4BQ1XzwDg
> Now if the controls break, “I can go to any video game store and procure an Xbox controller anywhere in the world, so it makes a very easy replacement,” Senior Chief Mark Eichenlaub told The Virginian-Pilot.

I get his point but that sounds hilarious. "Hey guys, could we surface for a moment, I need to visit the North Korean/Russian/Antarctic Gamestop for a moment"
It works about 70% of the time on the first couple of keystrokes. On obviously easy stuff like the examples you mention, it's fine.

On others, i.e. multiple apps that share the same words or prefix, like `photo`, or multiword apps where the keyword is not the first word in the name, it fails miserably.

For example, if I type in the word `power` on my desktop, and I have Cyberlink PowerDirector and Cyberlink Power2Go and Cyberlink PowerMedia installed, only Powerpoint shows up in my app list to run. For me to even get all of my Cyberlink apps to show up, I have to type in the word `cyberlink` completely. Typing in `cyber` only shows two of the five Cyberlink apps I have installed. Mentally in my head, when I think of my Cyberlink apps, I think of the app names, not prefixed by vendor name.

For your example "cm command prompt" - I use Cmder instead of the standard command prompt, which literally starts with `cm` unlike command prompt (yes, I get that the actual file name does start with `cm`), and Cmder is never the first option until I get to the `e`.

Misspell a word, and all bets are off.

Spotlight on Mac was way better at guessing what I wanted than Windows. IIRC, the accuracy was in the high 90% range on the first couple of keystrokes.
Tesla Asks for Model 3 Factory Volunteers to Prove ‘Haters’ Wrong
It's also been done with things that failed to deliver on their promises.
"How about just quitting"

That might be irresponsible, from one point of view. I think TFA takes that stand.
I think he was already at the helm of Windows by the time Nadella took over as CEO. To be honest, I think they've been looking for an excuse to do this for a while. Microsoft seems to be doing well in general, but all the bad press I hear about comes out of anti-patterns in Windows (ads, telemetry, forcing updates, UWP or "Modern apps" or whatever the hell they call them now). Sometimes it takes a really long time to fire people....
Judea and Samaria are fine, but I'd stay out of Hamas-controlled Gaza.
In case anyone else is interested in Bayer filters...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter
You could shoot film.

"Lomography" is cool enough now that even where I live BW film developers are back in business. And if it dies down I might just start doing it myself.
Why is it untenable to want to quit a job? If you want to quit a job (or make any other life choice), and you can afford it, go for it.
Maybe it just certifies a "company" headquartered in an empty office in some commercial park entered the info.
Lol, we still don't even know what Fuschia really IS.
I agree with 99% of this. I don't think there's any value in publicly naming the companies that have rejected you, and there is a potential that it would be detrimental (how would a potential employer view that?). I just don't think the risk (however slight) outweighs the (practically nonexistent) reward.
I have no experience with C++, so don't know how it compares.

There is some truth in the statement, in that a Scala team will often gradually adapt more advanced features of the language. I wouldn't call them different languages, but rather say Scala is a "Java N+5" in that sense. Java 8 is objectively much more advanced than Java 4, but it's very much the same language and a Java 4 dev will get used to and see value in Java 8's new features. Same with Scala .

The main schism is what some people jokingly call the "compiling Haskell with scalac" crowd. They are hardcore functional programmers who value FP ideals like category theory over all else. There even is a forked Scala compiler [1] (luckily the fork and mainline reconciled, and now every change in the fork is a PR for mainline). The crowd is mostly exemplified by libraries like ScalaZ [2] and to a lesser extent Cats [3] and shapeless [4]. Some even advocate replacing the whole Scala standard library with their own. Can you at that point still say you're using Scala? You can probably read that I do not personally like that style, and consider it a detriment to the community†, so consider my statements in light of that opinion.

The main reason why I don't like the style is that Scala is not powerful enough when compared to Haskell or Julia, requiring lots of magic and boilerplate to make it work. Maybe this will ultimately be resolved, as there have been gradual improvements over versions, and this will be the final niche Scala will occupy long-term, as I have not seen any contenders yet.

† I have tremendous respect for the maintainers of the library and their skills, but I don't think the schism is healthy.

[1] https://typelevel.org/scala/

[2] https://github.com/scalaz/scalaz

[3] https://github.com/typelevel/cats

[4] https://github.com/milessabin/shapeless
Whisper from the First Stars Sets Off Loud Dark Matter Debate
I second the military route. Starting out it will be substantially less pay than a developer job in the civilian world, but it is a valid path of redemption. Contrary to popular belief a prior felony, depending upon what it is, won't necessarily stop you from even getting a top secret clearance.

Join the military under any form of "signal" branch MOS. All enlisted signal jobs require a secret security clearance and you might be able to get that directly depending upon what you were convicted of. Once you have been in for a bit and become an NCO you have some internal credibility to possibly transition to military intelligence or become a signal warrant officer of which both require a top secret clearance.

The trick to passing a security check in the military is disclosure. Be up front about your prior legal troubles with the investigating authority and don't hide anything. This is typically a recipe for immediate failure in the civilian world, but the military has greater resources to further investigate these issues and make more thorough determinations.

Once you hold a TS/SCI for a couple of years you can put that on a resume when you are ready to reenter the civilian corporate world. When people see active "Top Secret / Secure Compartmentalized Information" clearance on a resume they immediately think trustworthy despite that a background check will ultimately identify your prior felony. You are vetted, at great expense, by an external federal agency.
No nothing. Also, forgot to mention another test, went to hibernate while the sound playing through laptop's speakers, plugged in headphones while the machine is off, started the machine. Sound was coming through the headphones after the boot. I'm on a t450s.
Not an Uber fan but this just seems like price discrimination with better data, which in principle could subsidize rides for poorer drivers. Student rush tickets to the opera could be framed as price gouging of non-students (by probing into their personal lives, no less). But in reality more students get to go to the opera this way. Hard to judge without knowing the tradeoffs.
And unless you're selling drugs or malware, you can't do that.
My notebook had some issues re plugging in headphones and Bluetooth because of some bad Realtek drivers. Uninstalling that and using Microsoft's own drivers solved the problem.

3rd party software on Windows machines is an ongoing problem.
Or you could raise them without the threat of violence using positive reinforcement. I hope you aren't seriously beating kids....
I use Windows and that's how it worked since I can remember. There must be some issue with your OS installation, driver or laptop.
It’s likely not ideal but I rather breathe and possibly consume trace amounts of burned paper than burned sponge.

EDIT: ... and immediately after writing this I googled “paper towel carcinogens” and ruined my day.
I haven't used them since I only have one bill I realistically have negotiation power on, but BillShark seems like a pretty good deal if they actually are skilled negotiators.
Because he was already a sex offender and it happened in a residential area, the parents contacted the police obviously.
Experts find answer to the knuckle-popping puzzle
Leica had the M8 Monochrom but yeah, Leicas are at least as much about the red logo on the camera as they are about actual good photography. Their lenses are quite good, but not unequaled.

Fuji has some cameras with a monochrome mode I think. And their sensor doesn't use a low-pass filter so it's sharper at the same MP count than some others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujifilm_X-Trans_sensor
I'm currently about to quit Microsoft and am going through the exact same set of questions in my head. I joined the company a few months ago and am blown away by how bad the culture is - or how badly I fit into the culture, take your pick.

If you don't fit the culture, it's time to leave.
Is the learning supervised? How were the labels generated and represented in what form?
Jay knew where the car was.
Erlang's pre-emption points are specifically inside the implementations of the CALL and RET instructions, not on every opcode. It's just that every stack frame effectively takes O(1) runtime before hitting one or the other of those instructions, because of the lack of primitive loop instructions. (Mind you, there are O(N) instructions—there's cryptographic-hashing BIFs, for example—but they're internally reduction-budgeted, so the scheduler can yield from inside them.)

> Technically, you can still freeze the interpreter (or a thread of it) by calling into some C code that counts as one "reduction" but never returns.

Actually, you can't! (Or, well, at least as long as you've given a moment of thought while coding your NIF you can't.)

Avoiding this used to require explicit calls to the reduction budgeting functions in your native code. But as of recent ERTS releases, you just have to mark your NIF as "dirty" and it'll get offloaded to a separate scheduler-thread-pool that exists just to run dirty (i.e. long CPU-time) NIFs. There's no reason, today, to not just mark your NIF as dirty when you start writing it, and then take the dirty flag off only when you're ready to add the calls to the reduction-budgeting logic.

(If you flip it around in your head, having a dirty flag is essentially the same as having a "clean" flag—or, in other words, an "I know what I'm doing, I've guaranteed this has reduction-budgeting" flag. Which is no more and no less than something like Rust's unsafe{} blocks. To say you can freeze a runtime with unsafe{} code shouldn't be surprising ;) What's more surprising is that you can run native code within ERTS that's not unsafe{} in this sense! ...though, as every Erlang maintainer will tell you, "it's a last resort and you would probably have been fine with a port program, which provides much better isolation.")
Out of interest, how will Scala Native work with projects like Apache Spark, which rely on shipping JARs around in order to run the same code on multiple nodes? Would you build "native" JARs containing object code?