skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can try. :)

The industry this was in was moderately high pressure, but by no means a grind like you might see in games, etc. We painstakingly avoided bs deadlines, for example.

To a first order approximation, five years by 200 engineers is a thousand engineer years. So naively, that'd be two PIPs per thousand engineers per year. Of course, you can argue that this isn't true since the performance of an individual from one year to the next is correlated. But this was a very rapidly changing organisation where people move between departments regularly and there's a lot of growth. The latter means that you get a lot of new people that might turn out to be a poor fit. So I actually think the original approximation of quite conservative: 2 out of 1000 engineers being disagreeable about their performance assessment sounds like a total luxury for managers!

But you're right to point out that that's only the bad cases. Our company had a(n HR imposed) rule that anyone receiving sub par ratings (needs improvement) for two consecutive quarters had to go on a PIP.

In a growing organisation, complexity keeps increasing: more coordination overhead. More things all going on at the same time, more scaling challenges, etc. So naturally, performance that was just about alright last year just about DOESN'T cut it this year. This means that in my experience, it would be a sign of rating inflation or managers that avoid difficult conversations if the fraction of "needs improvement" in any given quarter was less than ~5 percent. That's a number I just pulled out of thin air, but in the right ballpark in my experience. And there you go: you get several times as many PIPs as the "bad" ones discussed above.
What a game! I used to make massive spherical space-ships with annihilation beams and the computer would make about 300 small ship fleets. The turn-based combat meant my 5 ships would kill 5 ships with my huge death beams, then all 295 of their small ships would fire each of their 3 dinky peashooters, then 885 shots later, I'd destroy 5 more, then 90 of their ships... Fast forward to today, and I'm setting my data analyses to run for 2 hours and walking away just like I did back then with battles.
> This has the same format and value as %Y

"Sweet, I can stop reading here, this is what I want!" I'm sure I'll make this mistake at some point.
Berkeley is intentionally a subsidized public school, so their deficit is entangled with their subsidy. Nearly government-funded programs are likewise.
This is now the 6th duplicate of this article, click on the (trent.me) link to see the other discussions. Excellent article of course.
BBC talks to recipients in basic income village
Amazon Prime, Office 365, and now Google One. Definitely the major players are looking towards a unified mainline of income for their services.
Yes you are right.
However, this is not the New York times nor the economist nor the guardian. This IS hacker news. :-)
Well! That explains the .t. Thanks! :)
IEM has received multiple no-action letters, and also has limits. So basically the same situation as PredictIt.
Don't underestimate the value of circulating amongst the children of the wealthy. These are the connections that will get you work and investors, especially if you manage to marry one of them, which has always historically been the most common mode of class mobility.

Your wealth is directly related to the people who you associate with. If you're any lower than upper-middle class, college will be your last opportunity to associate with the rich through simple elbow grease and charm.
On average maybe. Trash drops off sharply once you get beyond what's a reasonable day trip from a major urban area.
Sweden has since a long time been working on building out central heating for whole cities, connected to garbage/oil/electricity plants (with good filtering of gases). While doing this network of hot water pipes all over the place we also put down fiber so on top of it we have access to minimum 100 Mbps internet almost everywhere, even out in the northern forests. Our small town was doing this already 20 years ago, only 3000-odd inhabitants. Now we live in a bigger town and this area was built already new with central heating from the power plants about 15 years ago.

Garbage dumps have mostly been closed down and we recycle and compost what we can't burn. We also import garbage from our neighbors to burn. Handling our old dump sites is a problem still though, a lot of toxins there.
I suppose it's a lot simpler these days compared to when ISPs provided e-mail, news, shell accounts, web hosting among other things...

That said, I wouldn't say it's "easy." You still need to track your customers through their full lifecycle with you, you still need to provision/audit both locally and in concert with CLECs and you still need to monitor, backup and keep everything up.

Moreover, if you plan to scale out in any way, you need to be principled, lest you end up with enormous flat files filled with bespoke configs that no-one even understands.
Nice find! "Probably because it comes first in the man page". Amazing!

The Twitter situation is in fact what got me looking into the problem where I worked, and I patched a great many potential holes. I also left behind things that'll hopefully keep it from being re-introduced.
Linus Torvalds blogs (or at least used to) on G+.
> lawyers make a lot of money on defending AND putting people to prison for stupid things

The idea that lawyers are part of a conspiracy to make _money_ by running more people through the criminal justice system is completely senseless.

To start, criminal justice is easily in the running for least highly remunerated category of law. The median pay for public prosecutors with with 11 - 15 years of experience is only $81,500. For public defenders (who handle roughly 80% of all felony cases [1]), the median pay for someone with 11 - 15 years of experience is only $62,550. Oh, these fat, fat cats in criminal justice! And if anyone here thinks the work life balance in SV companies leaves something to be desired, I encourage you to read about the bat-shit hours that the average criminal attorney puts in. 20 hours of overtime a week would not raise any eyebrows.

And basically those salaries are not affected by caseload. Whether 100 or 50 people go to prison makes no financial difference to lawyers on either side. Some prosecutors have bonuses contingent on conviction rate or volume, but such agreements are rare and when they do exist, the bonuses are never contingent on sentencing, so there would be no incentive to send people to prison. There is no equivalent for defense attorneys.

And all of the above just speaks to your claim's stunning lack of circumstantial evidence, to say nothing of the lack of actual evidence that lawyers are intentionally putting more people in prison to make money.

The US justice system is rife with problems. But the idea that a root cause of those problems is lawyers trying to make more money just doesn't make sense.

1. http://www.pbs.org/kqed/presumedguilty/3.2.0.html
GDPR applies to company doing business in the EU and/or have customers from the EU.

If your app doesn't allow EU users but if your marketing website uses third party tools such as Google Analytics, email marketing, and you don't block EU users from visiting the marketing website, you may need to have a look at GDPR requirements for compliance.
You can't hover over icons on mobile.
Or use conda and include your c libraries and your python modules in a single python environment.
I read it as "use abstractions over the (problematic) standard library, and ideally don't roll those yourself".
Right. The "basic core education" is what you get from a community college or a European public school -- and look at what the expenses is for those (total funding, per student).

The rest is all up-charge for intangibles
Reminds me a bit of this toolbar in Google Sheets. The last option is not underline (it's text color). Always trips me up.

https://imgur.com/a/7w1NwvO
Don't believe 6 different fonts in a piece is considered good design.
depends on the team, a web app can still run, 32 bit apps like the one Carmack built are deprecated
Unambiguous, non-disruptive and not distracting. Life is to short to live by the whim of profit-led iconography which aims to keep people guessing and attentive whilst distracting them from the real utility and product necessity.
Inside the business model for botnets
Can you provide examples of the behavior? Not names or anything but the severity of the harassment. There are times when people feel something is sexual harassment but it actually doesn't qualify unfortunately. In any case you should not go to their supervisors or HR on their behalf, this could open you up to all sorts of litigation if they end up losing their job etc. You need to tell them you are there for them and if it is severe you should strongly suggest they bring it to either HR or police.
Everything has germs... The idea that you can get rid of them is flawed.
I felt the books started off quite well but rapidly ran out of pace - there was just a lack of big picture development. It had a lot of potential.

I gave up after book 5 (I think) but I only really enjoyed books 1 and 2 (and parts of book 3) and couldn't face another few hundred pages of "will anything interesting actually happen any time soon?".

The characterisation got dry very rapidly (almost all of the characters are unsympathetic and boring) but that wasn't so much of a problem in the first couple of books because plot and world building drove them much more. By book 3, the world building was pretty much done and the plot seemed to become much more formulaic and the "big picture" development just got frozen it seemed. The series turned into something different which I didn't want to read.

I tried watching the TV series but gave up much earlier as I didn't think it translated properly - in TV characterisation is much more important because it's what drives shows so the flaws showed much earlier. It didn't help that the acting was pretty bad too (who knows whether because of actors or script - probably both).
So you’re looking for a job then?
> How many cases has SCOTUS taken over the last decade dealing with hard problems about deciding who owns a physical object?

I don't see the validity of this argument. Look at the number of freedom of religion lawsuits which have come to the US Supreme Court. That doesn't mean that people don't have a reasonable and practical understanding of the topic for most cases.

Going to your question, one sprang quickly to mind, and I'm not even a lawyer. Kelo v. City of New London, concerning the use of eminent domain. The holding was "The governmental taking of property from one private owner to give to another in furtherance of economic development constitutes a permissible "public use" under the Fifth Amendment."

Here are some of the physical property cases from the last 10 years (based on the list at Wikipedia; many of which are not described, so there are likely more).

There's Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States, "holding that it was possible for government-induced, temporary flooding to constitute a "taking" of property".

There's Marvin Brandt Revocable Trust v. United States which "held that a railroad right-of-way granted under the General Railroad Right-of-Way Act of 1875 is an easement. Therefore, when a railroad abandons such a right-of-way, the easement disappears, and the land owner regains unburdened use of the land."

In Horne v. United States Department of Agriculture, No. 14-275, "The Fifth Amendment requires that the Government pay just compensation when it takes personal property, just as when it takes real property."

In Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection the Supreme Court addressed a question concerning "littoral property owners' rights to future accretions and to contact the water".

Does that mean that no one understands the laws regarding ownership and control of physical objects?
Did you catch some of the Firebase product announcements at Google I/O 2018?
It is different. An applicant is free to put whatever they want on a resume and I will have no way of verifying it without devoting a ton of time to the process.

On LinkedIn they are less likely to make stuff up. The public nature of the process keeps people a bit more honest.

So yes, if I get a .pdf/.txt/.word/etc resume emailed to me I will not read it.
Gmail stopped being mined for ads last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14620608
Moreover, things like tags and manila envelopes are very Western or even American. A lot of the world doesn't have these tags or manila envelopes.
There is some evidence that income inequality raises the economic growth of poor countries and decreases the growth of high- and middle-income countries.

See for example this OECD Economics Department Working Paper http://www.oecd.org/economy/growth-and-inequality-close-rela...

or this https://voxeu.org/article/effects-income-inequality-economic...

>Specifically, we find that, on average, a 1 percentage point increase in the Gini coefficient reduces GDP per capita by around 1.1% over a five-year period; the long-run (cumulative) effect is larger and amounts to about -4.5%.
Normally I would agree, but I just don’t see how it would work in an institution where teams are often required to be physically isolated from each other, and almost everyone works on-site.
This is a solution for optimizing existing small ISPs that are overwhelmed by growth, it is not a solution for starting an ISP.

If one cannot figure out how to solve all these problems himself or herself that ISP will go out of business in a matter of months.
Writing code without an IDE forces you to question your assumptions and acknowledge your ignorance of the language, operating system, runtime, and application themselves. If I'm creating a new data structure and find myself unsure whether the type for one of its members is initialized to a certain value implicitly, that's an opportunity for me to learn something when I transcribe the code later.

Handwriting in particular is useful to me professionally because it forces me to slow down and consider each line. I find that I wind up with better implementations when I write an initial version in longhand, if only because I frequently circle blocks and ask clarifying questions about my own work.

I doubt this approach is generally useful to every programmer. I hesitate to recommend it. But yes, there are benefits to me at least.
I'm unclear on the specifics of the patriot act, and I think that's to be expected. The reason is that whatever provisions may or may not expire are then wrapped up in enormous new bills which expand some, modify others, and generally make everything absolutely incomprehensible while being packed up in a new goofy name like the 'Freedom Act.' The whole thing helps to obfuscate things beyond belief as opposed to having a simple yes/no vote on maintaining or scrapping a bill.
Understand that this is a deeply ingrained cultural problem in the US. One of the founding cultures was the Barbary Slave Trade, which quite literally worked people to death. Responding to the tiniest infraction with the whip comes naturally to some, and that inclination has permeated the whole of US culture at this point. Its sad to witness.

Read http://www.colinwoodard.com/americannations for more info.
That's like saying piracy costs $TICKET_PRICE * #viewings, or that the value of donated software is its sticker price, or that buying a department store shirt "on sale" costs the seller any money.

It completely ignores the possibility of non-purchase, which is the dominant alternative among options. "Would have paid" is a tiny fraction.
I specifically remember your quote "It is always better to not have a problem than to mitigate it" from the "Latency Mitigation Strategies" post on #AltDevBlogADay. It was so poignant to me that I wrote it on a post-it and stuck it to my monitor, where it remained for several years thereafter. Bummer that that content is no longer available (although I found a mirror of that particular post here: https://www.wired.com/2013/02/john-carmacks-latency-mitigati...)
If you don't work for the same company, and their HR won't do anything, there's very little you can do besides giving emotional support.

Even if you are in the company, if you don't see it happening (and don't work in HR), there is very little you can do.

> Moreover, majority of them don't want me to tell anyone or do anything about it even if I do it discretely.

You might consider honoring that request.
As a defense of medieval society, I see where this is going, but a lot of the details of the defense are just wrong. Just a couple examples:

"Foreigners. I can read about far-away places in a book or look up a street-view picture of a city on the other side of the world. I live in a multicultural city. I'm not so much tolerant as apathetic, but that's good enough (and might even be better; tolerance implies tension). Anyway, forget all that. Ignorance and fear all around." We often think about how the educated spoke Latin in addition to their local language. But on top of that, many commoners were bilingual. There was a fair amount of movement of people between France, Scandinavia, Ireland, England, Scotland, just as one example. With that, came a sharing of culture, artistic style, literature, and so on. Elements of this shared culture can be seen from the Black Sea all the way to Ireland.

"The person of the monarch was literally sacred - divine matter" - Compare this claim, for example, with the story of England (https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/story-of-medieval-en...). Actually, the opposite is closer to the truth: the king was not held sacred and was almost continually under attack from the lower nobles.

"Neither speech nor assembly nor the commonest transactions of life are free." - This would depend in large part on where you were. In Ireland or Scotland, this was certainly not true. In England, customs taxes didn't come about until the second half of the Middle Ages.
But a KERS system stores only a fraction of a kWh.
This is a pretty common way to bridge the gap between when utility power drops and when emergency generators are started and ready to handle the load. I believe flywheel systems can be more compact and don't have the same maintenance demands, but may be more limited as to energy capacity and duration of service.
Guess what: I was implementing (at least some of) them too, successfully.

> but I can't tell you which of the three or for relevant ones are the most relevant

I can. Check out XEP-0359. MAM and some other XEPs depend on it.

Also, unique message IDs are not a feature. They are means to provide some feature. You will deal with different kinds of IDs when trying to ensure network reliability (0198) or when trying to implement read markers and delivery receipts (0333, 0184). Without telling us what feature would you like to implement (threading? attachments? something like 0367?) just spewing all different kinds of IDs from various XEPs starts to look like a FUD to confuse uninformed reader.

> multi device? Oh. My. God. It's bananas.

I can agree with opinion that the protocol is really "bananas", but it works. Basically 0280 solves this issue, especially when combined with 0198 and 0313 - the only situation where it breaks is if you connect with a legacy client that doesn't support carbons and set it a presence with higher priority than any other client. You'll still get the content of the messages on modern clients thanks to MAM though. So, basically, don't use legacy clients on your account, cause they will degrade your overall experience. Doesn't seem very surprising, especially given that you can't connect at all to most IM networks out there using outdated clients. My N900 with stock OS won't connect to Skype or Facebook at all, even though it tells me it can. It will to XMPP - with limited functionality, but it's better than nothing.

XMPP accumulated its great share of backwards compatibility weirdness, but it doesn't seem unmanageable and I believe that the way XEPs are handled made it better, not worse. I suspect that Matrix might be in worse shape when it reaches current age of XMPP. I would like to be wrong though, I wish them best.
That machine looks like an excellent way to take in macro plastic and convert some of it into micro plastic, and then redistribute it onto the beach, where it'll be impossible to remove.
So to clarify, we can choose to use time whether it's real or not.

The question is, given it isn't always applicable, and it may not always be necessary where it is partially so, are there situations where it causes paradoxes where it is a source of noise instead of information, and how can we know when applying it whether it causes one or the other?

Godel as a logician would have approached it as just another formalism.

If reconciling models of physical phenomena with models of time produces inconsistency and paradoxes, he'd ask whether we were first sure that was time intrinsic to those physical phenomena, or does our model of time impose an arbitrary constraint on our ability to reason more abstractly about them.

My point is that it's a reasonable question with related applications. Not sure there is a wrong to be here.
I believe you meant to say "I think many people start at Recycle and call it a day."
Websockets severely broken in current stable Firefox (Bugzilla: Cannot connect)
Skype and Slack, Impacted by Severe Electron Framework Vulnerability
Awesome!

Most of what we collect is aggregated & anonymous. Our privacy policy explains the categories of information that we collect and how we use it. Within each category, we collect too many data points to create an itemized list. For example, for users who haven’t opted-out, we collect aggregated & anonymous event logs for every tap on every screen within the Siempo launcher. However, we could offer to answer any specific questions. Anyone is welcome to do there own packet trace, but that won’t help them understand what is anonymous and what isn’t.
That would be impressive. I'm not sure, but I think if the north pole was at the center of the flat-earth disc and the disk was spinning on the axis through the north pole you would see the sky rotate around the north pole.

You would see this from anywhere on the disk, which would not be a problem if you never traveled south of the equator (decent assumption for most of the population).

I'm just putting on the flat-earther's hat for fun.
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We're using Apache Airflow [2] internally as well. It's pretty featureful and addresses most concerns mentioned by OP, such as orchestration, retries, open source code reuse, and dependency management. It has primitive monitoring and alerting, but one needs to bring something external for that today.

Shameless plug - My startup [2] offers Airflow as a SaaS as well as an enterprise distribution with monitoring tools to build upon core Airflow.

[1]: https://github.com/apache/incubator-airflow

[2]: https://www.astronomer.io/
> Why would Google would rub up against Microsoft OneDrive with Google (One?) Drive?

Beancounters running the asylum. Corporate envy: "Their name is cooler than ours!"