skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a side note related to Amazon's culture...of the people I've worked with that had previously worked for Amazon, the only ones I (or most anyone, for that matter) enjoyed working with were the ones who hated working for Amazon.

So anecdotally, it seems like culture fit for Amazon is largely about what you're willing to put up with. There might be a component of that at a lot of places, but clearly different companies do have very distinct "cultural" differences. Basecamp is certainly no Amazon. The diversity of different criteria among businesses makes me feel like it's not a particularly unethical practice (obviously it can be, but I don't think it is typically), and overall cultural fit would probably make you happier at whatever job you do end up at.
That's one possibility. Another is that a lot of managers are simply paranoid that no one does any work when they're not watching them. As if the minute the bosses walk out the room everyone slacks off and watches YouTube videos for the next four hours or so.

It'd certainly explain the similar distrust towards remote working...
This is the account of a man who was a slave in the US decades after the Civil War:

https://www.amazon.com/Emancipation-Robert-Powerful-Twentiet...
That 3rd set exists and functions fine in... Waterloo/Cedar Falls, IA, of all places.

Is it flat like Copenhagen?
I believe I first saw it here: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/20/only-4-percent-of-uber-drive...
How Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever [video]
Give us the power back
I don't know why Mozilla thinks it's okay to politically align themselves. Shouldn't they stay neutral if they want to make a browser for everybody and all of that? Reminds me of the Tor project calling themselves a "human rights project"
I knew my 100% Native American great grandfather. He was a kid in the late 1800s. Not one to tell many stories. Mostly just a friendly elder who likes to listen to us kids

He did share a couple anecdotes about being moved by the government for a book report I wrote in grade school

Not very far removed from that bullshit either

But yeah American wealth was generated by free enterprise as the story goes, right?

What a shithole country
Odd, we don't let adults do "anything" but somehow we don't place all of them under virtual house arrest
I'm on board! I used the first NeTV to experiment with 10-foot UI design using web technologies. I would rather have a dumb panel television and roll my own interface but I very much remember running into the HDCP issue Bunnie is fighting against which prevented me from doing that.

I hope the new hardware will support HDMI 2.1.
If you can answer that from a round of interviews, throw away whatever your business is and pivot to that: you’ll print money. More likely, it’s a hunch based on signals and cues.
Culture fit certainly isn't just good/bad attitude. It's whether the way people do their jobs is compatible with the other people. Some companies release early and often, while some test thoroughly before releasing. Some have long meetings, some have short standups. Some start work early, some work late into the evening. Any of those styles can work as long as people agree. Considering culture fit means trying to hire people that share the same style so they can work together effectively.

Culture fit is also a way of excluding jerks. You encounter some abrasive, abusive, or misogynistic personalities in tech. People usually don't want to say "this candidate is a jerk", so they use "bad culture fit" as a euphemism. Once the answer is no-hire, the details don't matter anyway.

Building a team that works well together is extremely difficult. Unless you've actually hired dozens of people and seen them either work well as a team or kill productivity with interpersonal conflicts, better not to sit in judgement of people who have.
Did you read the article? because it is very clearly about historical books explicitly about mothers.

If you want ~100CE greek doctors to be more inclusive you're gonna need a time machine.
Wow, that's even more impressive in some ways. That was a huge gamble to rely on another company (though perhaps they already have a good relationship I'm not aware of) and it's great that the system was "easy" enough to build with different parts (though, again, perhaps they've always kept multiple vendors in mind)
For just doing updates, you shouldn't have to (or be able to) touch the flash descriptor, AFAIK. It's fixed at manufacturing time (without touching the flash with an external programmer of course).
The real lesson is to avoid iterating over large result sets in JS by filtering them in your DB.
Except that gene mixing is a highly quantum mechanical process, and so we are precluded from predicting the result of a single event. We can only predict the probability of a particular mix of genes. They could direct averages, but not individual events.
While I agree with you on companies aligning themselves, net neutrality isn’t a partisan issue. The only people who make it partisan are Congress
His point is that a Watt is a unit of power being equal to 1 joule per second. As an aside, this corresponds to an electric circuit with a potential difference of 1 volt and a current of 1 Ampere.

Saying a human produces 100W/hr is wrong. What I assume he meant is this:

A human can produce 100W for 1 hour, on average. This is reasonable, since humans produce about 1/8 Horsepower, on average; and 1 HP = 746W.
the land that is now the United States of America, started in fractured parts by many, very different, groups of people. Please do not throw the entire USA into the history of slavery -- many abhorred the practice at every stage, while others did not, and used it to varying extents. A whitewash of history is unfair, but to tar all peoples with the stain of slavery is, as well.
Periodically, I realize that the 80s are now as far back as the 50s were when I was growing up in the 80s. So also, the 50s now as far back as the 20s were then.
For instance, you might try to push a particular movement to an extreme by selectively targeting and pushing the most extreme version of their ideology. This isn't standard outreach ("come join our org") but it's trying to build a radical faction inside the existing organization.

The goal is, you destabilize the whole organization and hope to end up either cleaving it in half or getting the whole thing coopted by the extreme nut jobs.
This timing seems about right to me. Most of the wrinkles appear to be out of the Model 3 production now. Designing the Model Y is about to start. Right now would be the right time to take some well deserved R&R.
Kind of?

On the one hand, it's a decent source of news if the news you're after isn't related to politics. For instance, keeping up with the goings on at Apple or Google or finding out about announcements from E3 this year.

In that sense, it's pretty useful.

On the other hand the actual community is horrendously 'toxic', and even supposedly normal people and organisations seem to have a tendency to blow up over minor political dramas and perceived 'bad behaviour' online.

So while it's a decent source of news, it's also something that feels incredibly miserable to use because of the negativity as well.
This often isn’t possible.
This statement wouldn't be helpful even if wasn't incorrect. You clearly don't like Python but accusing other people of malice for not sharing your personal taste is not going to accomplish whatever you believe it will.
A wrapper around Netbsd's RUMP kernels would be my first choice for a transition solution.
J. Jones: “There is a reason I trademarked the phrase ‘Spread the Love\'”
>1. Why don't browsers execute (interpret?) languages other than JavaScript?

I believe the general idea was that they would, because the "type" attribute in the <script> tag didn't need to be "text/javascript", but javascript happened to win because it was supported by Netscape Navigator. Microsoft had VBScript, but that was an IE only product, while both browsers supported javascript, making it the only choice for cross-browser compatible scripting (albeit with lots of irritating hacks, but then jQuery came along.)

See this decent StackExchange thread here[0].

Then HTML5 deprecated the type attribute from the script tag because there really was no point anymore. Why support other languages when one language was adequate and already ubiquitous?

>2. What would be involved in having a browser execute (interpret?) other languages, such as Perl or Python?

Today? Browsers could ship with support for those languages (the way Chrome did with Dart) but of course, that would fragment the web unless all browsers supported all options. Or maybe plugins. Or "compiling to javascript." Or Webassembly[1].

I 100% believe that seamless, dynamic language support through WASM is going to be a thing eventually.

[0]https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2894...

[1]https://github.com/mbasso/awesome-wasm#languages
Who is saying "women having it all" and not "men having it all" ?
Well 1000 Buses going electric can displace 430 barrels of diesel use a day. That alone is a big enough reason for the world buses to go electric as that would mean removing a million barrels of smog producing diesel from the world's streets a day.
What exactly is your point? To me, statements like this are like “all lives matter”. Yes. We know. But we don’t need to point this out, because it’s just an undercover way of diminishing the point being made.
Montréal for AI
I am really sad to see this go. Though I didn't actually use it for more than a few hobby projects, it always struck me as very cool to be able to link things.
That Endless Series of Menu Options Is Paralyzing Diners
Is it normal in America to be in the news when you take some vacations?
> Yeah, in the interview with Holiday, he muses whether it might be good for a handful of billionaires to conspire to destroy public education in America, including planting stories about the evils of schools and teachers in the press

Yes, he proposes a thought experiment, and them points out how it sounds interesting from an ends getting something accomplished point of view, but also specifically says he recognizes that if he were on the other side he might find it a lot more suspect, and questions (as in actually questions) whether this approach, which is the whole thing being discusses, as it's what Thiel did, is something we should support or not.

So yes, a pretty stand up guy that's willing to note that even if something works for an outcome that he supports the method about which it's achieved might be suspect and we should examine it much closer before supporting it wholeheartedly. What more do you want?
Can you explain in this model, how any useful bipartisan investment happened, in the past wartime expediency aside?

I think its true this has always been a dimension of things, but the scale of this dimension set against other dimensions has substantially changed in the last two decades. Before this, there were some things that both (notional) sides were prepared to express some unanimity on.

For example: "soviet power plus electricity == socialism" did not actually stop anyone of a more rightist persuasion from investing in electic generation.. did it?
Jack Ma's Ant Snags Carlyle for $10B Funding
for sale: weaponized dog-robot and baby cradle.
baby cradle never used.
I used to work from home for years. Recently rented a desk in a coworking place. Best decision I’ve ever made.
You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

The State of California has passed a law declaring its opposition to "winner take all".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...
1) This is the best argument I've heard so far and has come the closest to getting me to change my mind. Conditional on ASL interpreters being reasonably priced and getting them to show up requires a minimal amount of bureaucratic rigmarole, then my above sentiment was wrong and ill informed.

If, however, this is prohibitively expensive then things change. E.g. A quick google search led to the hourly cost of an ASL interpreters being between $50-$145 per hour. Assume $100/hr, 5 hr days, 5 days/week, 4wks/month, for a 3 month program and the cost is $30,000 which significantly higher than bootcamp tuition. I don't think it is a trivial thing to force small companies to take customers that create losses in excess of 10K.

Of course, this also depends on how "small" the bootcamp is. If, e.g. it is a huge machine with thousands of students then this could be a reasonable expectation.

2) Yes you are correct. See my above edit.
Well, I am start to writing some Typescript with tslint configured on save, and it takes way more than 1 second for a small toy project.

Even just building this project with Typescript compiler takes more than 1 second. And I don't think it is that bad because at least the process is async.
> how are these any different than the standard appeal to emotion arguments that groups make in good faith?

That's what's so fascinating about this. I don't see a reasonable way to prevent it from happening. The tools optimized for extracting money from people are also apparently pretty good at sowing discord.

> curious to know if you believe the power to disseminate info should be regulated by the govt.

The term "pirate radio" is a thing.

The internet democratized the power to disseminate information without permission or consequence (with some exceptions, obviously), and I think that's a good thing.

Honestly at this point the only reasonable solution I can come up with is a "one weird trick" ad campaign that directs people to a magically effective MOOC on critical thinking.
I'm feeling very grateful for sticking with the same phone number I've had since high school in rural Minnesota. 100% of numbers I receive from "my" area code that aren't my mother, are spam. :)
good point; that could indeed cause 'unnatural' dissension.

(a related phenomenon that occurs even w/o impostors: people in group A tend to pick the most outlandish, crazy members of opposition group B to critique (and vice-versa); each group, by focusing their criticism & attention on the least-reasonable members of the opposing group, becomes convinced that only unreasonable people are in the opposition. (and any large group will have unreasonable members, of course.))
Personal experience tells me that size is probably a proxy for "this code is mathematically written". If you have even a vague idea of the math of the code you're writing, the code tends to be both shorter and have fewer bugs. But, I'd be wary of turning that around to a blanket endorsement of terseness. Terse code often needs to be restructured when requirements change. Restructuring takes more time and also risks adding new bugs. Then there are problems with readability during debugging and understanding interfaces.
It's amazing how "politicized" net neutrality has become in the last 6 months. A year ago I couldn't find anyone honestly arguing to repeal it. Reddit, HN, everywhere I looked people (and companies) besides ISPs said repealing net neutrality was bad.

In comes Trump and Ajit Pia, and suddenly there is another side, the "against government regulation". It's a talking point anyone who watches Fox News or reads the Wall Street journal can proudly stand behind. Now we have a side, Net Neutrality is a "liberal thing" and ISPs determining what content we can get at what speed is up for debate.

Linked in is a horrible platform to get news on, and especially to read comments on, but the top comments for a NN article were all PRO-REPEAL, what a reversal! And looking at comments on HN & Reddit you can actually see people who fell for the bait and took it as a "government encroachment" argument.

It's truly sad, this particular debate was beautiful for a bit because of the the political spectrum united behind it, that has crumbled to the perennial partisan debate of left vs right.
I can see how you might say that but... what about...

std::vector<std::pair<std::size_t, std::complex<float>>> data = SomeMethod();

vs

auto data = SomeMethod();
I think one could build a proper desk in something like Sprinter. It’s high enough.
So what would I be looking at, prison time?
If that was the "initial core idea" it was never implemented. It was narcissism from day one.
Parents can block channels in YouTube Kids, but I don't know of a way to block channels in normal YouTube. The closest I've seen is telling YouTube you're not interested in recommendations for a certain channel, but I assume that only prevents videos from that channel showing up on your home page.

Though I usually just use the Video Blocker extension, so perhaps there's something I'm missed.
This is true and it blows my mind. It also makes me sad. We have some really smart and educated people in this country. What's the problem here?
Often?

There are cases where large data sets are generated in the browser, but that is not even close to often.
Nothing. I've got a good ad blocker in uBlock Origin, a decent news site funded by taxes in the BBC and a bunch of free sites run by hobbyists and fans for almost everything else.
It is not only mozzila remember a long time ago youtube also show it's icon into red to show that they are against net neutrality.

Another thing is it is their domain (Internet) they are not fight for global warming or wars in syria or anything else.
Of course with the spice and mentats, they could probably use some limited form of prescience to explore possible avenues the future was likely to take. It is a universe in which magic, by another name, works.
Almost certainly Klout is shutting down at this moment because of GDPR, which means they probably have been selling user data for a long time and/or stored PII insecurely and accumulated too much tech debt over the years to be able to do anything about it.
An interesting question, actually. Presumably very, very large.
It's really confusing that it's in red.
A vacation of several weeks when you’re a chief? Most certainly. Investors need to know.
If the organisation is not setup for remote work you will sign yourself up for hell.

I guess it can work if you work alone and with high autonomy.

For many jobs just having someone say "yeah fine" is not good enough for success.
He donated blood every week for 60 years and saved the lives of 2.4 mil. babies
Not from the article, but this makes me think of something that we learned back in my college probability course: "wealth gravitates towards the wealthy." Even in fair games and situations, it is much harder to come out ahead when you start out behind. Think of how the house always wins in Vegas, or how a random walk can experience heavy drift.
I still find it amazing that everything has degraded from the independent hacker culture of the 90s to continually begging for the government to control and regulate the Internet. If you ever posted “what the Internet could really use is for the US Congress to control it!” to Usenet or 1999 Slashdot you would have gotten flamed to a crisp.

I mean, God knows I’m not going to use a Google product, so I’m sticking with Firefox anyway, but Mozilla certainly doesn’t do themselves any favors.
"You are not a good person."

Not sure that's warranted, relevant, or complies with HN guidelines.
Why not highlight the actual most performant for that specific method?
I hope not, but I think it's normal for newspapers to maximize revenue by playing up potentially mundane events.
It does seem a bit high because that is a peak statistic, not an average. The energy regulator keeps some statistics on the subject at [1].

Regardless, there is a good point to be made that South Australia was a strong competitor in the hypothetical 2017 Worlds Most Expensive Electricity Competition. It is possible that the batteries success is due to some quirk of their particularly poorly run grid. It is also possible that wind-battery combinations are now a competitive option. The situation continues to unfold.

[1] https://www.aer.gov.au/wholesale-markets/wholesale-statistic...
> I think there's yet another model possible.

Oh, sure, there could be, but I wouldn't invest my money in trying to prove that.

What number of users do you think would be willing to pay how much for all the content they access for free today?

Are you willing to pay 10 cents for every single ad-supported website you visit?
Just like anything Trump seems to become a news article, so does anything Tesla.

I can't even read the news without rolling my eyes and thinking WTF?

An article about Trump or Elon Musk/Tesla even if it's completely uncalled for or factually incorrect seems to become "news".

Journalistic quality has definitely gone downhill in the last decade or two.
Turn on LED in Dark with LDR and Arduino
I was wondering why it was red when it was the fastest. Red implies slow commonly right?
Ask HN: How would you prepare for a Product Manager interview at Google?
Besides "cracking the PM interview" book, what tips do you have to come up strong during a Product Manager interview process at Google? I'm coming from a tech background (so I'm not worried about the coding challenge). Thanks for any tips!
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I am AB+ and CMV- which makes my plasma particularly valuable. I have donated at the maximal rate for decades. However I am in a quandary because they do not test for Lyme or other tick borne diseases and I do thousands of hours of field work and live in the country so despite precautions (I recommend powdered sulfur over DEET) I get a non trivial number of tick bites. I am a biologist and my medical friends and I agree that both volunteered and paid blood donation in the US is mostly safe but riddled with illogical choices, managed by the wrong kind of organizations and generally ripe for disruption.
Not the book's thesis - by the time the walkaways have started forming communities in harsh enough environments to require environmental suits to go outside, the only ones making their way to these communities are the "already indoctrinated."

Earlier in the book, we see what happens to "bad actors." For example, a meritocratic bad actor shows up as a newbie at a bed and breakfast that's at a popular crossroads. After hanging around for a bit, he starts trying to put up leaderboards tracking who's making the most code commits, who's taking out the most trash, who's cooking the most meals, that kind of thing. Other people don't like this because they have evidence of it causing other communities to go sour or outright disintegrate, so they revert his changes. Revert wars go down, huge discussion threads, think like the sort of stuff that caused that weird Node fork years ago. Anyway, he gets frustrated realizing nobody wants things his way, and leaves. He comes back months later with a little troop of like-minded people, uses force to take over the codebase of the Bed and Breakfast, puts up his leaderboards. Some of the original developers turn up, he says they're welcome in because of how much work they'd done. Instead, they pitch a tent outside, and say "tomorrow, we're going to head north, and build a new bed and breakfast up the road." By the morning, nearly the entire population has joined the original group, and the malcontents are abandoned once again. Hence the title of "walkaways."

Back to the original point - that very malcontent can be found in the mars-esque base of a poisonous city, but he's now indoctrinated to the walkaway culture. Having seen firsthand "the way," he doesn't "act up." The thesis is pulled from Japan - why is crime so low? Mostly culture, is the common answer.

As walkaways of this type don't exist right now, we can only hypothesize how it would actually go down, which is exactly what the author is doing, pulling from examples from hippie communes, communist groups, anarchist groups, wikis, the free software community, hacker groups, and for the converse, what the author calls "zotta-rich" and those living in "default," examples from banana republics, rampant corruption in plutocracies like Russia and the United States, copyright enforcement actions, etc.

It really is an interesting book, I highly recommend it.