skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She never demoed a project or took credit for something she didn't build herself. Like my teammates, I had to demo every product I built

That sounds strange. Didn't you ever work on a product with other developers? Who demos in that case?

And what would be wrong with a manager demoing a product that was built by a team he/she manages? It seems to imply that the manager should have no sense of ownership, but a good manager is absolutely crucial to the success of a project. Taken to the extreme, it would imply a CEO of a company could never demo a company product he didn't "build himself".
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And how it might work in the future, semantic code search (submitted 30 mins after this thread):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18022357
How this map is printed in simple C language?
Curious who else is in Puerto Rico. I'm moving to either Rincon or San Juan later this year, decided back in January.
Not necessarily, but it can quite often be the case if the person in question isn't actively aware of the nutrients they are consuming.
Compile times are really a big pain point, even slower than C++, when taking advantage of incremental compilation, linking, binary libraries and experimental modules, while not being crazy with templates.

I am also looking forward to the incremental compilation improvements.

Still think that until cargo actually supports binary dependencies, the experience will not be as fast as it could be.
I think you are in a very lucky situation, and that's probably not the manager's impetus, maybe it's something else.

There are very, very few managers who are realistically in a position to be able to say something like that.

There's a good chance you might be working for a nice guy / purist / engineer's manager ... but who might actually not be a very good manager at all.

If 'getting it right no matter the cost' were a good company building philosophy, we'd all be doing it!

'Getting it good enough for the market to accept given a limited budget and timeframe' is basically how 99% of the world must operate. It's just reality. That's why being a manager or starting/owning/running a business is hard. Usually really hard.
What's the reason companies tend to do huge layoffs like this, a bunch of people at the same time, instead of firing them slowly one-by-one? It doesn't seem like a big public event like this is optimal to the companys bottom line, and it's not great for motivation for the remaining employees? Are there legal reasons you can't hide a "big layoff" as a "slow series of firings"?
That's especially acute considering China is more and more opening to foreign labour - despite the fact there is no path to Chinese citizenship for foreigners, well, except Nobel prize and Olympic gold winners.
We've solved the trusted-third-party problem by having a trusted-third-party (i.e. the lawyer).

All hail blockchain as the most amazing non-solution to the problem.
Scanning every ip is relatively easy, as long as you stick to ipv4. It was done a number of years ago by some grey/black hats. See: http://census2012.sourceforge.net/paper.html

And yeah, the explanation of memcache as a type of DDoS is laughable, but it sounds like it was just used for amplification like I think DNS and NTP have been in the past.
I have no idea what you mean by 'addressing "Track changes" and "comments" in the reports', care to elaborate?
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It sounds like she gave the dev team a 'day 1 boot camp' treatment -- if it works for the military, then why not a bunch of petulant developers...

Hopefully she transitioned to a more compassionate and positive management style after whipping the team into shape, instilling discipline and earning their respect as an effective leader.
Bike technical details: https://www.facebook.com/FireCycle/videos/533738473717627/
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China is approx. the same size as the USA but with 4 times the population.

The US have the more powerful economy today. But given the above, once China is on a development path then it is simply inevitable that it will overtake the US.

When I say 'time' I'm not looking at the next quarter or next year. That's shortsighted.
I'm looking at 20, 50, 100 years.

In fact, I would argue that the US government knows that and that's why they are increasingly alarmed.
So where does this "cultural" change end?

Do you want to have control over not only the used terms, but even the thought constructs that they represent?

Most peoples throughout history have been enslaved at one time or another. Most peoples have waged war on one another, most of them brutal and prolonged. A small percentage do criminal acts even in peace time. Do you want to ban/replace terms like war, battle, kill also?
References? I only see vague assertions...
> A company is not there to solve stereotypes.

That ties into the question if companies should have a responsibility to society or just be a vehicle to make money. Opinions differ on this.

(Legality is another topic, but for the sake of this thread I propose to assume that this behavior is legal)
Agree. I hope we also agree that this is extremely unfair, internationally speaking.
> when you price cap what you are doing is telling shop keepers and warehouse owners that there is no purpose to risk your safety and open back up until things return to normal because you cant make extra profit

Sure, if your only motivation in life is money.
The best plot twist I read all day. I had to reread after getting to the last 2 sentences.
I don’t know about the US but there are rules in regards to job postings in the UK and likely the EU at large that would make that a violation of anti-discrimination laws.
Even if there are differences, generalizations will overemphisize them. Minorities are overlooked and you cater to the lowest common denominator. It's easier to sell people a conforming stereotype then to provide a diversity of options. It's cheaper to exclude by category, but it is deeply unfair to everyone for whom it doesn't apply, and even if in mant important ways you are fairly normal and benefit from it, most people are in some kind of minority.
I believe that is written that way because it's using futures. Once async/await lands this year, all of the futures combinator madness goes away.
Me too lol, thinking "here's another way of calling me an autistic data geek"
Lisp in Lua? It does not have Lisp syntax and semantics.

Why would one call it 'Lisp' (which stands for 'Lisp Processor), when for example it does not do list processing as in Lisp?

> (list 1 2 3 4)
[string "return list(1, 2, 3, 4)"]:1: attempt to call a nil value (global 'list')
> (append '(1 2 3) '(3 4 5))
Compile error in '3' unknown:3: cannot call literal value
Same here. Ten year check, worst company ever check. I never ever walked out during the trial months but this time I did and it was liberating. I will stay in tech, but after this "experience" my expectations just went down to zero. Whatever will be, will be.
I think I'm a homeowner in California. Property taxes here most definitely do not work like they do in Texas.
I would add:

- RC<RefCell<data>> for lambdas to access struct data, specially painful on GUI callbacks

- lack of support for binary libraries on cargo
Out of curiosity, assuming that Node 10.8 (or the latest version we're on) doesn't break anything from 10.2, and also assuming that the Node abstraction layer protects developers from underlying V8 ABI changes; why would Electron release a new version with dated versions of Node and V8?

Is it because of a release cycle?
Hear hear.

That might be a big drawback of the very experimental release and fail method of development. You eventually start loosing trust in an organization that keeps giving you things, you make the effort to get used to them and then it takes them away. I'm sure the learning they get from it is very valuable, but you just spend a bunch time and energy and got nothing in the end.
Sourcegraph CEO here. Thanks for posting this. Happy to answer any questions!
An Amazon-published book, winning a prize, pisses the "traditional book industry"

A Netflix-produced movie, winning a prize, pisses the "traditional movie industry"

In both case, these are syptoms of tectonic shifts in the way media, entertainment and art are produced and consumed. Both fights look like rearguard actions, although I am much more sympathetic to the bookstore fight (they are not the one who chose not to publish the book)
It’s true - some people only respond to that type of authority.
I've only seen restaurants in exhibited historic Shinkansens.

Fret not. There is an on board service, which provides from ice cream over sakes and cold beers a variety of up to 3 bento boxes for sale directly at your seat.

The better option is to buy something on a train station, since the variety is much bigger.

Tokyo (station) is famous for the shop that sells ~ 200 different bentos from the whole country. A short stop makes a delightful train ride even more delightful.

The nice thing in Japan is that eating some fermented fish out of a bento box is completely acceptable, while yakking away on your cell phone is not (you can move out of the carriage if you must make a call).

As for timings. The most impressive for me was 85 minutes from Brussels to Paris, city to city. You must be pretty stupid to use a plane for that.
Do you know what helps? Trying it out yourself and trusting your own judgement. To too many people nowadays, this is the first thing they abandon, while it should always be the last thing to be abandoned.
In fact we were told recently at my company to keep every ppt deck under 4 pages if we can. No one has the time to read long presentations.
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Thanks, I must have missed that when I glanced through this.
Thanks! That seems quite expensive in terms of hardware needed and the license for VM Ware. Any thoughts on this (this is an investment decision for low cost housing in Africa)?

Also, is there a way to charge for traffic beyond a certain quota? There’s a product called Sputnik with some firmware you can download for various router brands which lets you run a hotspot/captive portal with billing
The idea is that it's temporary pain for long-term gain.

Whether that's actually the case is debatable, but people who support those policies genuinely believe so. So you can call them misguided, but not irrational or inconsistent.
Easy, using abduction to get offended using minimal assumptions and misinterpretations.
Code Podcast [1] is an outstanding in-depth podcast for devs, without the usual blabla. IMO the best I have found so far.

[1] https://codepodcast.com/
Same on Android, twitter.com works half of the time on my phone, the other half I have a blank page with only the top rendered. I don't know what they are doing exactly but it clearly does not work well.
> entire charade of fines for "anti-competitive behavior"

Isn't this the same sort of thing as the US anti-trust legislation?
If anyone wants to try this, on x86 getting a regular interrupt for preemptive multitasking is pretty easy, you can write an interrupt handler for the [real-time clock](https://wiki.osdev.org/RTC). This will work on any PC and takes about 15 lines of code to set up. Every 1ms, whatever's running will be paused and your scheduling code can run. Actually writing the scheduler is the hard part ;)
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Who will watch the watchmen?
You're missing the fact that under a scenario where supply is restricted, increasing prices also discourages those who already supplied themselves from exausting the supply. I mean, if water is 0.10€/bottle then I'll gladly buy the whole supply with my pockey change just to avoid any chance I might feel slightly peckish.

How does price-fixing solve that problem?

However if the same bottle is sold for 1€ or 10€ then I'll think twice before pulling out the bottle, and I might even open a stand to sell part of my provisions for less to undercut the competition.
title is misleading, it's MOTOR PACED BICYCLE, not just bicycle
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More fiction is written in Excel than Word
Thing is, an oppressive government can deal with more discontent from the citizenry than a democracy like US. So it's not just a question of relative GDP and balances etc - purely economic issues - it's also a question of who is more resilient politically. I'm not so sure US is, if only because politicians have to chase votes, and even relatively minor economic pains among important constituencies can blow up very quickly.
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What did you do with the rest of your time?
Context matters. The question is one of harm... is it perpetuating or expanding an existing injustice or privilege, and to what extent? People who dislike action movies aren't the subject of any severe underrepresentation in a job market, so it's clearly not as big of a problem.
For the rich individuals: they either get taxed at high rates, resulting in a loss of enjoyment in their rights, or have to suffer the disruption of emigrating to a new country.

For the former tax haven: it loses out on capital growth, which means less economic growth.
I think you need to be skeptical about their 7% growth figure, the reality is probably quite a bit lower.
> It takes more than engineers to run a company

It depends. First company of Evernote founder was run by engineers, had a contracts with Apple (Newton handwriting recognition technology), Disney, Microsoft, and their tech is still sorting mail at USPS[1]. This is the photo of the Paragraph team circa 1991 - https://maxkotin.com/2018/03/12/book-about-paragraph/

[1] https://www.parascript.com/usps-awards-parascript-contract-f...
That's a shame, to be fair I only use their iOS app now and have all my desktops switched over to tusk ( https://github.com/klauscfhq/tusk ).
I've read that Bezos doesn't allow power point at all - only prose. Apparently no one has time for slides and oral presentations
Learned that the hard way. :( Unfortunately can't be said enough. Managers have to learn how to deal with bad apples. Tried too hard and long giving benefit of the doubt that the apples were actually good inside in some situations.
Tackling food waste in Nigeria with an app
If it's truly a skill question alone, US could trivially resolve it by opening the borders to qualified Chinese engineers, until it gets a large enough quantity.
No bullshit, ever.

Had my corner.

Didn't get in the way.
Not only that: the trade dispute is also consequence of the rising vulnerability of the US in the capital markets.

Once it is discarded as the "one and only option", once real alternatives emerge, once the US loses its dominance, the US could end up being subjected to the same financial constraints that all countries are used to operate in.

That has the powers that be trying to delay the inevitable.
This guy is rad, I met him on the trail and we bike toured down highway 1 for ~3 days together. Amazing to see him in this video like 10 years later!
Unlike “Shark Cafe”.
Is this concrete with no rebar?
Running Ubuntu VMs on Windows just got a whole lot more streamlined
The last thing you want is a slow trickle of people being let go. Then the only thing on everyone's mind is whether they're next.
Now, that is exactly what an NSA agent would say at this point in this conversation, to further dissuade people from using PGP! Tinfoil hats at the ready! :)
1)

"We will fight this policies, if needed at the personal level, by selectively consuming products according to country of manufacture."

No. Nobody really does this. People mostly just buy stuff. Chinese will continue to be enamoured by iPhones. The only change will be any supply/demand function due to price.

2)

'Fair Trade' is not a relative issue.

If China does not respect foreign IP then nobody should respect China's IP. That would be 'fair'.

If China wants to control and invests in strategic winners then it's only fair that Europe and America do not allow those companies to sell into their economies without a big tariff.

It's also not 'fair' that China pollutes quite a lot, and does not have have basic worker protections. So 'fair' would be if the US and EU imposed tariffs for those externalities as well.

I don't like Trump, I don't think he really understands what he is doing - but effectively it's the right thing: 'fair trade' would ultimately for nations to be on equal terms.

So how about: all Chinese software outside of China is open source and they shouldn't have recourse on IP, and there should be tariffs to offset environmental/worker externalizations, state actors face tariffs, and Chinese purchase of external companies and assets are severely restricted.

That would be 'fair'.

That said, it would probably be in China's long term best interest to improve the IP situation, environmental and safety/worker issues, and to have less dependance on central planning. It's totally fine if China wants to 'make it's own' path, that's natural and positive. But all those things will yield long term benefit.

Trump I don't think is smart enough to put it this way - but the world should see his movements as an opportunity to address core and fundamental trade issues that we are facing, since the 'old order' is not going to work.

I hope that in the end they're able to sit down and work it out because there's plenty of room for compromise and it will be a win-win.
I can't tell if she's nervous or awkward or excited but it reminds me of myself when giving talks, even to small groups. I get so flustered that my mind races and then the rest of my body tries to catch up so I'm now talking really fast and moving and jumping all over and being very fidgety with things. Anyway the difference is that she managed to get her points through while mine often gets lost.

I still don't know how to fix that except to practise and memorise what I'm going to say, and then just read it. But then it just becomes very monotone-y.
It’s time based. If I say anything about it it will be upvoted in European hours and downvoted as soon as the West Coast comes online.
All “foreign” products even those which are manufactured in China have a foreign goods tax of 25% some have additional taxes beyond that.

China doesn’t want foreign companies selling cheap goods in China so essentially everything needs to be imported even if it’s manufactured down the street from you in China.
I totally agree with the idea of caffeine being more destructive than beneficial to one's life. We think it's a mild addiction but it is not.

I didn't start until my 30's but I regret I did.

I've tried to quit a few times but each time I start again a few months later. I can get past the physical withdraw symptoms but mentally I continue to crave it and ultimate return to it.

If you have not started be smart and never start. It makes for a better daily life experience and ultimately it does not help. Also, you'll save 1000's of dollars in the long run.
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Hi, All!
I wrote a start-up simulator game. Where you can test your skills for making start-up.

The objective is to build a company from first sales (ideas) to entering the IPO. Each stage has its own goal, which must be achieved in order to move on to the next stage. At each stage, the player is given a set of tasks, fulfilling which, the player must achieve the goals of each stage and the game in whole. The process of the game is to select the right tasks for the specific time and their implementation.

Help for game – https://medium.com/@daniilkhanin/start-up-simulator-v-1-x-843b7b7fffe2

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I need any suggestions, opinions etc about game and its development.

I test this game in Russian start-up eco-system at more than 1200 startapers, and we had only 22 IPOs!
Out of curiosity, can anyone post screenshot for this form to choose targeted demographics for Facebook's ads?
That happened already. The Intellevision Flashback console wasn't great but the controllers were reproductions of the original and most were probably bought just for the controllers.
> In terms of public policy you have to decide what you're optimizing for and that decision can't be made with data alone because it does not help resolve questions of value and fairness.

Sure, but once you decide, then you should use data to optimize it. Seems pretty straightforward, and I don't think anything in this article would disagree with that.
90% of these things also applies to my best manager.
Hi, I work at Mobile Jazz, a 100% remote "devshop" and I think the single most important thing that I can point out from my managers (both the CTO and CEO) that make them and the company so great is their constant focus in empowering others pushing people to be proactive and self-managed.

We enjoy a level of autonomy that I've hardly ever seen anywhere else. Being a 100% remote company, this is super important as it means you have to trust that your employees are doing the right thing and the most important way to make sure they do is to actually empower them to make decisions and being responsible for them while reassuring them them you have their backs.

Besides this specific thing. There are other things that make them stand out like the fact that they reinvest most of the profit of the company back into it while splitting some of that margin amongst all of us in the form of dividends. They also invest a lot in the happiness of the team, organizing gatherings several times per year both for working together (like a "workation" month in Cape Town) but also for pure fun (like skiing in the Alps).

Hope these insights help and light up the debate!
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What if the ads were targeted at "people with an interest in driving"? I'm fairly sure the percentage of men that fall under that category is higher than women. I mean there's a bunch of car magazines that are gender neutral (that is, they avoid juvenile jokes or cat suit models), if there's an Uber ad in there it'd still mostly be men that read it.
Just to put that in perspective :

Shinjuku station in Tokyo (the world's busiest train station by passenger count) serves 3.64 million passengers per day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjuku_Station
How much energy is actually transferred from car to cyclist?

Records with too strong assisting wind often are not recognized. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_assistance
Try to buy a branded jeans, shoe whatever here in a street shop. Super expensive. Taobao? How much is fake? How can you know that it is fake? Buy from an expensive seller and hope it is not fake? Try to buy DocMartens, Caterpillar, whatever shoes. They should be cheaper since they are produced here. Good luck.

Okay, you can buy cheap and fake, for example in the "Silk Road" department store in Beijing. I think it is impossible to buy a genuine item there. A fake Armani jeans cost you 100 RMB, now it is more like 160 RMB. Branded underwear 10 RMB. But the quality is very poor. No comparison to the US. And if you buy in outlets in the US or EU then their prices are unbeatable. EU has about 20% sales tax that you can get full or at least 50% reimbursed as a non resident.

IT? It is not really cheaper, no guarantee (2 years in the EU!). Many stuff may be relabled, refurbished, defect or of poorer quality, even for the same brand. Where to buy? Who to trust? Newegg has now a shop in China. If I were to buy my stuff here this would be the place that I would try.

I just checked a Seagate 8 TB HDD. Is was 262 USD (Newegg CN) vs. 249 USD (Newegg US).

I bought a smoothie mixer in a Chinese warehouse. 32 Dollars was the cheapest option. In the US I bought one for 10 Dollars (okay, long time ago). I am sure you can order a cheap one on Taobao, but it gives you an idea.

Also, you may have realized that some super cheap Chinese sites like DealExtreme (DX) are Chinese, but don't offer shipment to China (at least the last time I checked).
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This is true.

But additionally his inclination is against any kind of treaty or multinational body which doesn't involve immediate tribute paid to the US.