skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well. I think I get the gist from that. Let's see if it's the one intended :)

"Imagine ordering from a Sears catalog and not knowing if what you ordered is genuine or not."

There's the thing. That would mean they'd failed, and someone in their buying department may get yelled at. They'd feel it was their reputation hurt even if it was someone else's fake. On the high street it's the same unless you go to markets or "sub-prime" independents.

Amazon seem to feel their brand is entirely separate from the people selling crap on their platform. I think they're very mistaken, and are in for a rude awakening if they keep it up.

Amazon could have taken marketplace in a different direction when they started it and kept much of their early reputation. Simply by doing enough of the buying checks the traditional sector did to ensure legitimate sellers and baseline quality. It'd cost a little more in staff and time, but would probably pay for itself in fewer returns, refunds and complaints. Marketplace could have been for products that meet Amazon's standards, rather than Amazon, the store with no standards, but fast refunds. Limit it to "enough" choice, lose the counterfeiters friend of co-mingling etc.

I'm disappointed someone else hasn't tried to do this, even if at a smaller scale than Amazon. Etsy, ebay etc leaves it all to the sellers and ratings. Price isn't everything.

No one benefits except the garbage sellers from 30 copy "brands" of every product, and crap promoted in every search. Most with fake reviews, terrible quality, short life, and no chance of warranty service.

Someone should disrupt them, but given how large and pervasive Amazon are, they'd better have deep pockets.
hehe I think his description of the left and your description of the right are the more correct ones. Both other descriptions more accurately describe the political center.
I'm not empathetic and have poor EI (medical reason) and have concluded similarly that being rude as a general rule is unproductive. First, I don't want to be on the receiving end of it myself(!), but nor do I want the time sinks of drama, a mutiny, or a revenge attack. Being thoughtful about your words seems to be a good idea for anyone, whether they're emotionally intelligent or not :-)
So what happens if a you realize your government is not adhering to the law? Shouldn’t you inform the public?

That’s what Snowden did, with high costs to himself. Snowden taught a generation to have a moral compass.

This article adds no new insides. Instead it drifts off in conspiracy theories.
There is never an excuse for being an ass, even less so when it's a known pattern of behavior. When you screw up without bad intentions once that's one thing, when you continue harmful behavior having been told by many that it's harmful then it's intentional.
Except that China has a state sponsored IP exfiltration program (like Alexander Hamilton funded for the US in the 1700s). So the same logic doesn’t apply to Indian, Turkish, etc. employees.
It's very poor tabloid style reporting. Whether Trump is or is not a criminal future will tell, but from what we know today he has risen to power thanks to an international network of criminal enterprise.
That's a really interesting perspective. I wonder if you/we could learn this without going to therapy... Maybe we should/could teach this in school?
It would be great in a satire or fifty shades of grey: programming edition spinoff
> https://video.ias.edu/PiTP2009-Kernighan

For some reason this appears as a completely blank page to me.
Hmm, that's a good point. I'm not sure I agree, but something to think about.

I think it might be more accurate to say the negative descriptions accurately describe the bad-faith actors, and the positive ones describe the good-faith actors.
oh, I shouldn't ask that, mysterious downvoter?
It was not necessary, it was not helpful.
see also: Steve Jobs

Mr Jobs was an entrepreneur who ran a company - a very influential one, I'll grant you. Mr Torvalds created something that turned out to be quite important and gave it away and encouraged others to help him improve it.

When I consider "ends justify the means", I like to start with which ends might be important 8)
Ricardo Semler is an example which comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler
But equally important is everyone on the other side working to avoid being consumed by emotion, and learn to control their emotions better

You just described exactly what Linus needs to do.

It's not any easier for Linus to always be nice

He doesn't have to be nice. He just has to curb the sadistic and unnecessary meanness and maintain some minimal level of professionalism in his communication.
>The left is overly sensitive and looks for things to be offended by.

>The right is concerned with maturity and personal responsibility

I think this is the perspective of the right. Specifically of that kind of right that does things "to trigger the lefties"; I'm sure you know the kind. Which is funny since those kinds of people can only be described in my head as the opposite of mature...
You also often need to tell people they need to improve themselves. To criticize the person, not just the code.
I was half-joking; but I do think that when it comes to language, if the majority of people believe something to be true then that consensus is enough to make it true. Languages evolve constantly and the correct use for terminology should be determined by the majority of people.

Day-to-day terminology and scientific terminology don't necessarily have to match. There are examples of this in most fields of science and engineering; sometimes complex concepts have to be simplified for regular people.
Ohhh, thank you! One of my biggest annoyances so far was exactly this - every time I split off a new pane, I'd have to cd back to wherever I was working.
But is it though? If your objects are immutable I agree but if you have setHeight and setWidth I don't.
This is quite complicated. Primarily, the measurable bit of a manager's performance is what's produced. If you start measuring people's emotions then that's going to be very hard to quantify.

Let's say that your company is trying to revolutionarize transportation by breaking the monopoly of ICE engines and replacing them with electric motors. What's the compromise you can allow yourself if there's a conflict between your employees' life and emotions and your company's success? If hundreds of people get totally burned out working for you but you help millions of children growing up with less pollution, then is that acceptable?

It isn't always true that you can have your cake and eat it as well. I don't know the right solution, but it's definitely not a simple that "produce great output and also make your employees happy" -- there are countless situations where these conflict. Sadly.

Regarding the case in point -- I think Linus' contribution to the world is so overwhelmingly positive that these rants and hurt feelings don't even compare. It'd be better if he didn't do them but this is his character, and nobody knows how this roughness correlates with his perseverance and care about code. (I'm really not saying it does, but it could.)
I think you are needlessly dismissing resume driven development.

While I agree that it is no good from a technical perspective, it’s really a fairly big part of what companies look at when they hire you (as I learned).

Make sure it contains at least the latest fancy technologies in a professional context, and it will really help with your desirability.

Then after you join the company, you can try improving their code to be up to standards.
My favorite knife is a Northman crafted hunting knife. It’s beautiful, imperfect, and holds an edge really well.

https://youtu.be/J3nojb-gFH4
Can you point to one instance where Snowden supported/defended Putin or opinions of Putin? Couldn’t find one in the article.
haha fuck you.
What are some examples of him insulting people (as opposed to their work/code)?
Correlation does not imply causation. It's absolutely possible that Linux is the exception. There are many oss projects which don't have the same level of abuse.
I would focus on communication skills. Knowing what the end user wants is really important.

For technical skills, I recommend reading Clean Code, Test Driven Development, and The Philosophy of Software Design.
NSA programs exposed by Snowden have been ruled unlawful, unconstitutional and in violation of Human Rights.
Snowden has been loyal to the Constitution in blowing the whistle, while NSA hasn't.
Working within the frameworks of politics and working within the framework of the law are not the same thing.
Yea. I fail to see how something like CoC can ensure a truly harmless community, when it is the covert power (the unspoken vibes, ambiance, etc.) that ultimately dictates the level of malice in a community.
That sounds like blaming the little kid for stripping the emperor naked. Rule of law was already ravaged by secret laws, secret courts and surveillance.

It will take more than politics to fix things. Disobedience is key to fixing evil institutions. Communist states fell when soldiers refused to shoot civilians. Technically a departure from law but the law was meant to serve us not the other way around.
Well, then your comment dismantles the topic of the article.
Yeah. Of course it shouldn’t be possible, but I guess no one had thought of it before or they thought the risk was too low because they figured you’d have to make an app to do it not some random HTML on a webpage.
A good illustration of your point is how people reacted to the study finding that there were ~3000 deaths in Puerto Rico that are attributable to Hurricane Maria.
> dictates how to start a note (lacking the English term here)

Intonation perhaps? I often used the word "attack" to indicate the style of start of the note when I used to play flute, but I'd say thats far from proper terminology
Actually this was written by Eric Raymond in "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". Raymond dubbed it "Linus's Law" which may be the source of the confusion.
You could more neutrally put that in terms of tact filters:

http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/tact.html

The left believes in outgoing tact filters, where you watch what you say to avoid offending people. The right believes in "incoming* tact filters, where you just ignore people who say things that offend you. Both approaches have particular situations where they are superior, but it's hard to identify a general strategy that works better in all situations.
Of course it is not Soviet Russia, and I'm aware of those activities.

It's one thing for amateurs doing those 'trainspotting' type of activities with commercial- or even professional grade equipment, but another to do it with research-grade telescopes and listening equipment.

Obviously the amateurs are basically unstoppable, and are getting the same level of open information that any foreign agent can get by looking in the open. Nothing new is lost and there is no purpose in chasing the amateurs.

However, we're talking about professional astronomers with both higher-grade knowledge, much higher-grade equipment (and likely operating under at least partial govt funding for the project or equipment), and operating under some regulations and laws. It is silly to expect that being noticed breaking those laws or regs would go un-addressed.

But, as stated above, if you feel differently, feel free to do the actual test and report back your results.
I'ts not an company per se, but the rust community is fairly big and full of awesome, well mannered and cheerful leaders.
These are all red scare-like neomccarthyist Trump jabs (I am not defending Trump) that sound more like tabloid articles than anything. The whole world does this stuff day in, day out, and it's no secret that Russia does it too, but recently it's been entirely focused on Russia.

I don't even trust the upvotes and downvotes in these Russian hacking threads as it seems the most logical get downvoted into oblivion, while the most emotional arguments are upvoted.
It's not even a dichotomy. The poster is just saying which one out of two negative situations s/he prefers.
You are right, I did not understand fully the article and the consequences of his actions
I'd say take the Google option, live like you took the startup offer and bank the rest of the money. Then you'll have runway to do whatever the you please for a while, and the Google name/network backing you up.
This is great. Can you point to any other similar sites, where I can download printable high res images of significant or interesting artwork? I found some at the Library of Congress, for example.
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Okay then:

> Herein lies the real power of the Gerasimov-style shadow war: It’s hard to muster resistance to an enemy you can’t see, or aren’t even sure is there. But it’s not an all-powerful approach; the shadowy puppeteering at the heart of the Gerasimov Doctrine also makes it inherently fragile. Its tactics begin to fail when light is thrown onto how they work and what they aim to achieve. This requires leadership and clarity about the threat — which we saw briefly in France, when the government rallied to warn voters about Russian info ops in advance of the presidential election. For now, though, America is still in the dark — not even on defense, let alone offense.

So then, why does Trump not care about it? This article indicates that his shining a light on Russian activities could be effective. I think I know the answer but your reply doesn't actually answer the question.

https://www.politico.eu/article/new-battles-cyberwarfare-rus...
That's maybe not so different from upvote, downvote, and flag?

HN's system is long established. I don't see much upside to reordering it, and considerable downside.
A code of conduct alone doesn't, but it's a start. A statement like this one from the project lead(s) helps as well, to set the overall direction.

This isn't the end of the process for the kernel community; it's a major step in the right direction.
I agree. I liked his rants, I found them entertaining, and I wish I was the target of one! (I would probably need to work on my coding skills first.) I wish people would grow thicker skins and get more emotionally mature, and be able to tolerate harsh words without taking them personally.
In Europe, distances are much shorter, and they have a different taxation regime. This I think is the bulk of the issue.
That report is EXACTLY what I mean. Apple is having to push the narrative based on segmented data in order to appear to have market dominance. 'Early 2018' is when they released their last model - and prior to the S9 release. Even then, Apple was barely beating Galaxy models 2 and 3 years older.

That report was the moment I knew Apple had lost their position as the leader in the market, because they had to take specific dates in time to say they were best-selling...as opposed to a few years ago, when they were best selling all year long in a runaway.
They got data centers in North America you know. Canada and US.
If your app is as good and parent comment’s is as shit as you claim, you shouldn’t have any problem succeeding in the open market.

Dare you share the name of your app on HN, or are you afraid of someone taking a big steamy anonymous dump on it like you just did?
>what we know today he has risen to power thanks to an international network of criminal enterprise.

Are you excusing domestic criminal enterprise networks, or are you claiming the extremely narrow viewpoint that Russia was entirely responsible for Trump?
What does 'growing thicker skin' mean then? How thick?

Shall I start to bully you and we'll test the thickness of skin required?

I get the sense that often the people that write these kinds of comments are not on the receiving end of the behaviour.
Yeah, we should all be like career politicians and learn to say nothing with as many words as possible.
Gosh, you'd think they'd build a fast train that goes around the Silicon Valley then :)
youtube version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SUkrR7ZfTA
What counts as a monopoly? What about calling Apple?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18001314 and marked it off-topic.
We’ll be here all day. He would associate the code to the person, which goes against the “I am not my code.” that many adhere to. Linus is stepping up and finally owning up to his behavior. We owe him a lot so we gave him a pass before. Now we won’t hopefully need to anymore.

To be fair, he has incredible judgment and we defer to him when it comes to being the road block to merging bad code.
>So then, why does Trump not care about it?

Everyone does it. It's impossible to stop and having him care about it more is just going to implement further censorship, further surveillance, and further privacy rights removed from Americans. It's two+ years in and they haven't found anything linking Trump or his associates to Russian interference, only your normal everyday domestic fraud of all sorts. I don't like Trump, but this is the Benghazi of the liberals. It's a distraction from real substantive issues that effect real working Americans.
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> If hundreds of people get totally burned out working for you but you help millions of children growing up with less pollution, then is that acceptable?

It may be an acceptable tradeoff, but I wouldn’t say it makes someone a ”good manager”.
Wat. I been there and it's a fairly small community.

They do have awesome and well mannered leaders but most are connected to Mozilla.
Apple hold some responsibility here.

Remember back when almost no labels would sell Music digitally, and kept blaming piracy on kids?

Apple had enough leverage then to force many labels into agreements.

They definitely have enough leverage today to force global licensing of movies sold through their store.
It used to be better than both, flat out. Information-dense interface, mid-weight size-wise, semi-relevant search results at least 90% of the time, etc.

Now, though, they revamped the interface, it takes three times as long to load, and the results are less and less relevant as time goes on.

Loses 100% to DDG presently, I'd say it's a tossup between it and Startpage, just because Startpage's interface is kind of the anti-Qwant; a semi-clunky, lightweight extreme rather than a semi-fluid, heavy extreme.

I'd recommend skipping out on it, personally.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18001144

He doesn't seem to hesitate to get extremely personal.
Sorry, I guess I read your comment uncharitably at first, but I do know there are people who do think that the workplace where we are free to behave in an agressive, insulting ways is the ideal workplace, in 2018.
Yeah that's probably fine. Humans have some sync tolerance because speed of sound is so low. Something 15m away will have 44ms delay of the sound compared to the vision.

But there are other areas where tolerance matters more I think. Say you press a key and sound comes either after 5ms or after 50 ms. I think that would be noticeably different.
Depends on how you define a market.
Just one example from that manifesto: “We have an ethical responsibility to refuse to work on software that will negatively impact the well-being of other people.”

This a terrible slippery slope. It eliminates any military, security or even anything useful.

A thief’s well-being is meant to be negatively impacted by a security measure. A guidance system in a missile is intended to negatively impact the well-being of the enemy.

I feel negatively impacted by this manifesto. So by definition every signatory is in violation of that manifesto.
Linus is stubborn, persistent, and unyielding to what he sees as bullshit. These I believe are all very valuable qualities for the head of a massive software project, and may be part of the reason as to why Linux is where it is today.

However, Linus is also a bit of an asshole, turning technical criticism into personal seemingly personal attacks. I believe those 2 sets of qualities are separable, but I would guess it's uncommon to find many people who are capable of being as tough as Linus without in some way alienating those around them, it's a fine line at times.

Anecdotally, one of the most effective engineers I worked with, who asked penetrating questions during code and design reviews, did come off as a bit of an asshole at times. Whether by genetics or through childhood, I'd bet people tend to cluster onto the line separating "agreeable and lax" and "rude but firm" (as a sweeping generality). We often label people who are all smiles while simultaneously extremely strict as passive agressive. Add to that the fact that many technical people are less socially adjusted than average and I can see why we have so many examples of mean but effective project leads.
May I say that the whole message seems forced?

A sort of "shape up or ship out" from the Linux Foundation management.

Especially with the concurrent switch to the new, more community acceptable code of conduct.

Will Linux have a new maintainer in a few weeks?
Centask is a task manager integrated with Gmail inbox. You can hide emails by scheduling them you can also group emails, to-dos, links and files under the same task.
Demascene.
According to Linus himself his comments often became personal.. He's a smart guy I am sure he's given this a lot of thought.
>Its really concerning especially because Democratic nations seem to be especially susceptible. Europe and the United States should be condemning these attacks.

Once the American people stand up to their own government's foreign election & democratic interference, we have no basis to talk about other countries doing what we've done in mass forever. USA is the biggest threat to democracy worldwide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_electoral_intervention
This is somewhat ironic considering Linux is written in C, which is the most stubbornly "one thing at a time" language in widespread use today.
Well, easy relative to a startup which has just one engineering role (wear all the hats). In the startup world, changing roles generally means going through the interview process at a new company, starting over on seniority, vesting schedules, etc.

I'm sorry to hear about your bad experience at Google. It is a large company, so I don't doubt that there are dusty corners with bad management. But I've seen a pretty broad cross-section of the company and find most of it to be quite great in terms of mobility.
It remains to be seen how this all plays out.

Personally I remain skeptical, because in one community I saw first-hand how the people at the top used something like CoC to justify their malicious acts, in the name of being welcoming.

It is the same old morality game that does not ensure any genuine harmony.
USA alone is responsible for Trump not Russia. Russia is background noise. Yes they set the stage, but in the current climate they are overrated. All they had to do is push the dominos already lined up. They did the same thing in Europe - yet none of the far-right camps made it yet (apart from Austria).

Amercia got exactly the president it deserves.
Yes I suppose longer cable would make it more do-able.

I've been wanting to have half a keyboard just below each of my pockets. Maybe with some kind of thigh-holster kind of thing.

So two wireless halves would work, but have a longer cable would also make this possible. I plan to be sitting / lounging when using, not walking, so could be possible.

I think that would be the most comfortable position for typing for me, and keep it fast and for long periods. Hoping to combine with a zero G chair from relax the back store kind of thing and monitors on swing arms up above a bit.

Now to think more seriously about the size, this could work.
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I don't even have of 80k USD in after-tax inflation-adjusted expenses living here. It's a cheap city.