skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever been 'promoted' into a new role with only a small salary bump, and an inability to hand off your old role to someone else?

Or perhaps you are a driven/smart person. Which management rewards by increasingly spending your attention on various areas of the business that need to be rescued, organized, straightened out. Yet management drags their feet on any permanent changes which would prevent the fires from starting in the first place. What begins as a rescue operation gradually becomes normal practice. Over time agglomerating your responsibilities across various critical areas.

Job postings like these are what happens after you leave.
The relationship between commerce and actual culture is always disparate. When companies speak of culture, they are speaking of business culture, which is inherently non-culture.

That being said, they are most likely either just connecting words for the hype of it or they are referring to morally questionable or discriminatory hiring practices.
Wait, what? Since when is Microsoft good?
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Perhaps. But it certainly is yet another incremental step, among many others, back towards that dystopic vision.
Looking at Reddit data on BigQuery, the number of sitewide submissions has been growing steadily, despite the continual drama: https://i.imgur.com/V8AptYU.png

Query to reproduce:

#standardSQL
SELECT TIMESTAMP_TRUNC(TIMESTAMP_SECONDS(created_utc), MONTH) as mon,
COUNT(*) as num_submissions
FROM `fh-bigquery.reddit_posts.*`
WHERE (_TABLE_SUFFIX BETWEEN '2016_01' AND '2018_02' OR _TABLE_SUFFIX = 'full_corpus_201512')
GROUP BY mon
ORDER BY mon
Feedback:

- Consider a contrasting color for some of the elements. You have a pretty monochromatic palette and it unintentionally reads as "plain".

- Chunking. I think you can cut down that home page a ton, and get to the point clearer. It will feel more "marketing fluff" but fight that urge. It's not to make it fluffy, it's to simplify the things to parse.

For example, if you remove:

"You're looking at a very simple but powerful tool that will help you:

Develop a daily writing habit.

Massively increase your writing output.

Master the art of writing in a fun and engaging way!

If that sounds interesting - read on to learn how it works."

and start with your second paragraph, It's so much stronger:

"
Write every day, skyrocket your productivity

There are three ways to increase your writing productivity:

Write more consistently.

Write more words.

Write faster.

Let's see how this app will help you to improve each of these metrics.
How would you structure that bonus if you get a promotion that takes you to 7,501? You would get an impressive pay cut. If you structure it like taxes where only the first 7.5k get doubled then a bunch of people that don't need it will also get free money making the program cost more.
Anxious to finally play with this, been wanting the full library/stack update for span<t>/memory<t> to get a feel for actually using them to optimize code.
> Walmart, I think, would probably be doing better by their employees if they offered a more traditional tuition reimbursement plan

By cutting deals with a few institutions and offering mostly online programming, Walmart can keep prices way down. I suspect they do it this way because the equivalent value of the tuition reimbursement would be way too low for any of their low-level employees to actually afford the education.
> zero problems with GDPR

Do they comply with right to be forgotten etc?
What is the Go alternative to generics?
Like phkahler, I don't want C to grow any more. I've been a C programmer for a long time, the vast majority of my day-to-day work is still in a C codebase, and I expect to continue working in C for a while yet. Nonetheless, its time has passed. It will be around for a while, just like FORTRAN and COBOL are, but there's no good reason for new code to be written at that poor level of abstraction. Even for systems software - what I write - there are always better choices that provide higher-level data and control structures. They variously use garbage collection, reference counting, ownership rules, or whatever you call that hot mess C++ has. Writing safe, secure C code is certainly possible, but it's too much unnecessary work - especially in the concurrent and/or parallel world that any non-trivial code has to live in nowadays.

That said, I really wish proponents of other languages would get their stuff together about creating libraries that can be used from other languages. A library written in C can be used by anyone else. Many other languages are avid consumers of this functionality, many advertise it as a key feature, but very few return the favor by producing reusable code. The industry doesn't need such Balkanization. If you're one of the very many people who look down their noses at C and want to get rid of it, do your part.
Same. I have really enjoyed Cinnamon after taking a spin with everything.

Anxiously awaiting the Mint 19 update with all of the new Cinnamon work too.
For every short, there's a long.
I know a friend who's employer was throwing out an E4A. OS/400 is also pretty interesting from an architecture perspective too.
It probably gets favorable weighting, but I've learned tolerating Sam's writing and seeing a few too many plugs for YC alum companies is a very small price to pay for this place to exist.
ZenMate VPN Extension Deanonymization and Hijacking Exploit (3.5M Affected)
You do not need any consent for essential services. But you do need to make sure that those services do not sell your users personal information to third parties, and make sure you can comply with other GDPR requirements (right to be forgotten etc) by getting a data processor agreement with that core service. You are responsible for what your suppliers do.

If you would have built your whole app on "free" services for which your users pay with their personal information, that would be problematic under GDPR. And rightfully so.
Doesn’t DDG use Bing and Yahoo? I’m not sure how well would they work in a vacuum where they can’t take advantage the benefit of “tracking” through outsourcing.
This is multicore and new hotness, think pgBouncer is single core and older than me.

Glibness aside, this has a few more interesting options, like configuration at a user-db level.
the second paragraph is just not true. every popular website without privacy as a selling point has dozens of trackers. journalism and social media have been tilted heavily towards clickbait because ads are perceived as the only way to make money. the only companies that will get to continue doing what they do without much hassle are widely liked services like netflix and spotify.
I actually googled that recently (in response to this announcement) and they seem to be break-even or possibly profitable. But yes, they were unprofitable for a long time.

They don't disclose their separate financials so no-one not related to Alphabet knows for sure.
It's amazing to me that Target has managed to cultivate an image as the kinder, gentler alternative to Walmart.
The Polls Are All Right
“Have the ‘big four’ firms become too cosy with the system they’re supposed to be keeping in check?”

Yes. This was clear in 2001 during the Enron scandal. Which by the way triggered the collapse of one of the then-“Big Five” and created the “Big Four”. Nothing has substantially changed.
I experimented with Zig for embedded programming. The language is very promising for this application. It still needs some features and maturity, but it's getting there. The cross-platform support is also has some missing stuff and bugs, but many of those were actually in LLVM in my case.

To me, Zig is the most promising replacement to C right now. It seems to do everything right.

Rust is of course another candidate, with a different philosophy, but I don't consider it a pure C replacement due to core language features requiring an advanced compiler. Zig, for the moment, should be pretty simple to write a compiler for. I consider this a strength of C, that something like TCC can exist.
True enough, but we have been on this course for quite some time.
EU Proposes to Ban Plastic Straws, Stirs, and Cotton Buds
I didn't realize Quora was so incredibly dependent on search...even more so than Yelp.
Funnily enough, GDPR explicitly requires you to have a representative (which for many companies will take the form of a lawyer).

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-27-gdpr/
Same could be same for Reddit, and their app ecosystem.
Step-By-Step Guide: EOS Mainnet Token Swap with MyCrypto
May I know how you got job in SV self driving cars startup. I am trying but not getting job.
In Portugal we have the same expression (probably copied from French). It gives rise to some conversations that sound funny when translated, such as "do you have bridge this Friday?"
Considering the hardware mitigations aren’t some magic bullet, but are a “big hammer” that cripples CPU OoO behavior in crrtain ways for everything, software mitigations don’t seem that unreasonable. Of course, “software mitigations” use CPU facilities as well, and can allow for making critical sections safe. In practice, it is well understood what code needs to be written in a spectre-safe way. The difficult question isnhow to write code to anticipate the next 10 varieties of speculation attacks...
Once the coins crash, you'll get the cards pretty much bargain priced.
I'd think you could probably apply a business or supply chain management degree elsewhere, although it'd be nice if you could just study whatever.
Now that GDPR hysteria has passed, the Internet has survived, and we're all still here, it's time to start ePrivacy hysteria.

The sheer number of lobbying groups each of these tech companies is involved in is amazing. Google doesn't seem to publish an EU counterpart to this that I know of, but here's how many organizations Google is backing: https://www.google.com/publicpolicy/transparency.html
If geothermal has indeed been available for quite some time and the finances work out for the US consumer, BUT there has been no significant US consumer adoption, shouldn't we be applauding Dandelion and Google for using the Google brand awareness to drive awareness around and shining the light on this proven, environmentally and economically sustainable technology?

Even better if the existing geothermal and utility incumbents rise to the challenge and out-market and out-engineering naive Google to drive even greater adoption of sustainable tech!
I know it's not his fault per se, but YC has had a horrible track record since he joined, too.
But then interests aren’t aligned. What if the insurance company denies your claim?
But when will Walmart begin scheduling for college students?
EOS Mainnet is coming: things you need to know
Reddit is getting so much usage because it hasn't been monetized yet. At the moment it's quite good free user forum/board/discussion/community-style site.

The new design will drive the users who liked that away. They will either eventually scatter away to hundreds of different places, or one or two new companies will take Reddit's current place.
I admit after reading this headline I was scratching my head as to what #2 could be. And then I looked and it was super obvious haha.
> The news has been full of dozens (maybe hundreds by now) of large and small companies using the tax change to increase employee wages and benefits.

No, there have been dozens or hundreds of companies claiming that tax cuts were responsible for employee compensation increases. Many of those were one-time bonuses, but the tax cuts are ongoing. In some cases where the benefits were ongoing (like Walmart's hourly pay increase), you'll find that they tend to coincide with the overall trend of state minimum wage increases. This is just PR: they're getting ahead of the trend and trying to attribute it to tax cuts rather than other forces.

Also, since employee compensation was tax-deductible even before the tax cut, taxes certainly weren't stopping companies from raising wages before the tax cut.
Geez, I hope it doesn't happen to Telegram! /s
> I don’t know why people are still surprised by this. There are a lot of people in powerful places that want Bitcoin to fail and die. Futures markets introduced a regulated way for them to make that happen.

Do you have anything at all to back up this flailing conspiracy theory? Or are you just Roseanne'ing for an audience of true believers?
"why my company does scrum wrong and I don't know how to fix it"

Well, because more often than not, the answer is management, and there's really no way to fix bad management.
- The ability to short (bet on loss)

- Unregulated system for whales

- already being considered a dirty currency by multiple Govs

A whale can short, influence laws and create fud. The futures market made it so people can have interest in it falling not just hope for more rising. Theres a very legitimate reason why futures market changed the dynamic
This is an awfully fancy pinhole camera. When I took a photography class we all built them by taping a piece of film to the lid of an empty oatmeal tin and poking a hole in the other end.
Now the NSA will collect data from Reddit.
>"What happens when we farm these incentive decisions out to corporations instead of deciding on them via government?"

The government(s) already incentives and subsidizes higher education in a number of ways.

>If we let companies decide what education will be subsidized and what will not, we are going to get a very homogenous (and I would imagine unhealthy) set of citizens.

This is an odd comment and a little unnecessarily alarmist... tuition reimbursement is not an uncommon perk for full time employees at mid-sized to large companies. Of course, since they are footing the bill, they want to get something out of it too, so you have to study something that's related to your job. So if you're working in sales you can't get reimbursement your engineering degree but you can get your marketing degree. I think this is pretty fair and doesn't lead to "homogeneous and unhealthy citizens", not everyone does the same job. Looks like Walmart is offering education for Walmart employees that could benefit from an education. If cashiers could benefit from a degree I'm sure they'd offer that too.

(You also have to get good grades to qualify for reimbursement - usually B or over.)
Raptor does have a sub-$2000 machine on pre-order: https://www.raptorcs.com/content/TL1BC1/intro.html

That is starting to approach the price point where it's worth it if you want to tinker, but with something that is a lot closer to a real machine than a $250 embedded board.

I tried taking a look for cloud services that offer POWER machines, but couldn't find anything that I could just sign up for and try for relatively cheap. There are a couple of universities that have free POWER clusters that you can request access to, but for tinkering I'd actually rather be able to pay for what I'd need rather than having to manually request access.

Do you have references to cloud services that would allow you to easily get access to POWER9 systems by the hour? IBM's own cloud services only seem to offer bare-metal POWER8 servers by the month; as far as I can tell (from their fairly confusing pricing page and docs), all of their virtual servers or hourly servers are Intel.
I used to have a very low opinion of Best Buy but I’ve recently found myself going there for the majority of electronics I buy...no shipping or filtering through counterfeits like on Amazon, and there’s one that’s open 24/7 within walking distance of my office in NYC. Employees are friendly and helpful if not extraordinarily knowledgeable. Hard to beat on the convenience front.
U of a researchers find a way to build smaller, faster, cooler computers
EU Considers Ban on Single-Use Plastic Products
Or because there's finally a competitive labor market due to 7 or so years of declining unemployment rates.
Or, in the US, you can just make your customers sign arbitration agreements and deal with it on a case by case basis without incurring any significant penalties. See Equifax, Yahoo, Apple, and pretty much every data breach ever. If those companies didn't have arbitration agreements, it's only because they are behind the curve on this trend of doing an end run around the judicial system. Sorry, I fail to see how this hurts big businesses in any of the ways you list.
What would be the downside of buying a large flawless synthetic diamond? You can be sure it is not a blood diamond.
I still haven't seen a good explanation for how UBI on a truly universal scale isn't going to just raise housing prices to capture the surplus. I mean, if my landlord knew I (and anybody else who could theoretically live in my apartment) had a spare $2000/month, forever, I'm pretty sure he'd want it.
Tesla has recalls as well, like this recent one for a faulty power steering component:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/29/tesla-recalls-123000-model-s...

Rarely are recalls for serious defects (those are usually caught before a model is sold), but they are overall a good thing for safety and long term reliability.
Almost a little bit embarrassing, but to share an anecdote -- I bought a higher-end TV late last year (>$2k) and the price difference on Amazon was $2.

I half-jokingly asked the gentleman helping me if we could price match, and how long that would take. He said that if their automated system "accepted it" then it'd be instant.

Their system did accept it pretty much immediately, and so I saved $2 for about 90 seconds 'delay' (half of which was borderline laughter/seeing if I was serious; I was only half-serious).

Made for a positive experience for me and my wife, and I now won't hesitate to consider Best Buy, via price match, in the future if I'm ordering something that they stock locally. It was also the first time I'd ever asked for a price match in the last 10+ years, if ever. :)
I keep seeing Sam Altman tied to clickbaity 'How-to' articles, but never managed to apply any of the lessons to start and grow a successful company himself. Obviously from his position now, he has a lot of insights into what other companies do, so It'd be great to see factual data from his insights, rather than top-down advice that he wasn't able to apply to his own career.
Do you think it would have been any different if pg was in charge? I don't.

I think it's rather that the 'low hanging fruit' are all gone. The whole mood has changed. It's become harder. Notice for example that YC places a lot of importance on growth when evaluating applicants, I think in early stages you could've had practically zero users of your product and they would have considered you -- now, not so much.

Secondly, there hasn't been enough time to see what his track record really is, we'll need a few years to really see.
No restocking fees, and pretty much a no questions asked return if it's within the time window which changes depending on your reward level. I can return anything except software within 45 days of purchase and they price match Amazon.
I wonder how if this would have any effect on the racial makeup of their employees. Currently:

> Nearly 46% of Walmart’s 1.5 million US workers are African American.

http://changewalmart.org/issues/african-americans/
Depends on how you define hardware and software. There are global workarounds that amount to crippling CPU behavior, to provide guarantees for code not written to be spectre safe. I guess that’s what you mean by “hardware”. But “software” approaches are localized mitigations to code written to avoid spectre attacks - and these localized mitigations use arch specific sequences to do so.
You’re close.

“learns to act in it”

we don’t even see the world, we see a hyperdimensional action space. Anything we can’t relate analogically back to some embodied action will literally be invisible to us.
Possibly yes, the included amount is: 32GB DDR4-2666MHz, 2x16GB

In theory you could go to 2x 32GB DDR4 2666Mhz.
I stopped using it when they effectively prevented browsing from phones. I'm to lazy to switch to desktop view. I don't want to install their crap app on my primary device.
...in semi rural America they are still the cheapest and most convenient. We have 3, soon to be 4 Amazon fulfillment centers in the Atlanta area. We are about 20 miles outside of the closest w/ Atlanta being about 50 miles to city center. I can order paper towels and a few other weekly necessities each week and pick up on the way home from work. 1-2 years ago it was cheaper to do Amazon and Prime...now for those essentials it saves us about $2 on a $50 order vs. Amazon. We dropped Prime and just use Wal-Mart pickup now.
>A library written in C can be used by anyone else.

This is because of how much of the unix clone ecosystem has been built around C workflows, and this wasn't true on Windows until linux compatibility was developed on it.

>If you're one of the very many people who look down their noses at C and want to get rid of it, do your part.

convincing linus and sysadmin greybeards to modernize linux and is no small task, until then we'll all still be just be scripting over archaic C apis

"science progresses one funeral at a time"
Our bodies have evolved to survive rather than sit around crunching reports.
That's still how games are rendered. Depth of field is just adding a blur filter with intensity as a function of the Z buffer.
Which KDE distros and versions are you referring to?

I liked 3 and I like 5 (the current). I never liked Kubuntu though.

Mandrake (later Mandriva) used to make a beautiful desktop and I also find Neon excellent.

Then again: I'm not really a designer and I'm partially colorblind like many other men for what I know others might find it ugly.
From the top of https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/legitimat...

"""
“Legitimate interest” may be among the most confusing concepts written into the GDPR, which is not helped by the amount of incorrect interpretations available when you search for the term online.
"""

It's going to be up to individual companies and orgs how much risk they want to absorb trying to sort this dimension themselves rather than hiring a professional; I suspect we agree on that. But I suspect quite a few companies will want to soak the cost of having a professional review this stuff rather than trust their own common sense (especially if their common sense is not European-originated but they plan to have European users).
You are correct that there have been stock buybacks, as well. But I'm not sure it counts as "most."

First, of the companies that are doing stock buybacks, not all are doing only stock buybacks. Many are doing other things as well.

Second, there's a whole great big world out there called "local news" where you'll see these stories that aren't covered by CNN, Marketwatch, CNBC, etc...

Yes, some big companies are doing stock buybacks, but there's a lot more going on in the business world than the Fortune 500.
You're right! That would be a major concern and an incredibly serious flaw in such a program.

Maybe the description could be parsed slightly differently? Some might read parent's description to be proposing a bonus on W2 income the a limit on the bonus only of $7,500. Thus an income greater than that receives the full bonus. The structural problem you have correctly identified thus does not arise!
Not one mention of an ETF (ie the availability of bitcoin to retail investors). The large run up in December was in anticipation of multiple bitcoin ETFs by major companies, the futures market was just the appetizer. And the fall was caused by the SEC putting them on hold.
... I think he meant the other class
I've had development experiences involving "all hands on deck" overnight testing of an upgrade if the boss thought it was important. Does that count?
I agree with the sentiment of the article. It’s been this way for a while though. Chrome is perceived as the more powerful browser by the masses. I love Firefox for sure, unfortunately it has been hard to convince normal internet users to make the switch.
Add to that, that an EU website is already more likely to be dependent on ad funding, as VC money to burn is scarce.