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I found this comment to be really distasteful. Nothing about your "signature" proves you're any smarter than engineers that choose not to work at Facebook. It just makes you appear to be mean-spirited.
Which is fine, if there’s someone who can create it’s amazing if we can support them.
The loops are just notation. They still have sharp angles.
Yes I would really like to understand if this is different than curve fitting.
How isn't that classical ? What about causality ?
Quantum mechanics to me are just an effective model for dealing with uncertainty AKA probabilistic/meta probabilistic reasoning.
But it is about statistically predicting the state of a particle/particles (position, spin, mass, momentum, etc).
How can this model uncertainety in algorithms is something I don't understand at all.
My brain is very tempted to claim that quantum computing is bullshit and that is what it seems to a layman like me because i've never read a great explanation.
Even if quantum computing worked it would be soft computing ? By having a set of probabilities as results, that would be an approximation thus effectively allowing to be less than exponential for np hard and less correct.
How does that differ from classical heuristics algorithms that already have massive Speed like SAT solvers ?
> "Revenue" is confusing for business like this. More precise reporting usually reports either "GMV" (gross marketplace value, all the payments Uber took in)

Your description is confusing itself.

GMV is total retail value of transactions through a C2C type of business. eg ebay GMV would be the gross dollar value of all transactions. ebay revenue would represent ebay's total commissions, listing fees, and other income from being an agent in the sale.

So, while GMV is truly, quoting you, "all the payments Uber took in", because for Uber (unlike ebay) you don't pay the driver directly but rather all transactions are brokered by Uber, it is more clear to say that GMV is the total value of all rides. While stating that it's money taken in by Uber is true, it isn't as clear a description when you're trying to explain GMV.

> If an article said "revenue" without further qualification and it was a marketplace business, I'd probably assume they were talking about GMV.

I'd assume revenue, because GMV is not revenue. If only 1 number is reported, revenue, or net revenue if you will, is what we care about so that's what I'd assume is being reported. GMV without take rate is not that interesting.
>We already have a ton of Geo sat which can do this kind of communication but they are super expensive and have a limited bandwidth.

And high delay, which is the main problem.
The same age that rental car companies have converged on for "enough" judgement to have developed.

Personally, I was ridiculously vulnerable to influence by social groups between the ages of 16 and 25. So much so, that I impulsively joined the Mormon church and threw two years away trying to convert other people to Mormonism. I also wrote an anti-Microsoft rant in a newspaper editorial, since I was so caught up in the Free Software hysteria of the time.

Fast forward 8 years, and I'm ashamed to have the name "Brigham Young" on my resume, and I work at Microsoft -- hoping nobody ever runs across the misguided crap I wrote about my employer in that local newspaper.

Several of my colleagues wish some public things wouldn't show up in Google searches for idiotic things they did because of societal pressure before their "adult" brains fully developed. They really are much more reasonable and responsible people now than they were then.
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Except there are companies at the other end of the spectrum that don't seem to care. Apple was almost legendary for its long hours (not sure if that has changed post-Jobs), and perhaps as a more extreme example, the games companies are especially notorious for treating junior devs like garbage. They get away with it because people want to work in the industry for reasons unconnected with pay or work-life balance.

Unfortunately, I don't know if those new grads realize, when they work in a "sexy" industry, that they are basically paying, with either salary or working conditions, for the privilege. It seems like many don't realize this until a couple of years in, when the shine wears off...

At least at Facebook, you're starting out with your eyes open and know what you're getting into.
This is excellent. I've started moving projects over, and I'm looking forward to shifting from fosspay donations to actually paying directly for this. Excelsior!
I still prefer the GitLab UI for viewing project files, cgit style seems a bit "old-fashioned" to me.

Other then that I'm quite interested how this is going to look long term.
It could also have the opposite effect and make the candidate more attractive, depending on who's doing the looking.
The fire metaphor is clickbait, but the suggestions Swisher offers for how Silicon Valley can deal with its problems strike me as quite good:

- Embrace Transparency

- Hold Leaders Accountable

- Avoid Groupthink

- Invest in Diversity

- Don’t Be Afraid of Self-Reflection

Worth reading to the end.
Cool tech. How exactly does this "humanize retail" as they claim? Does "removing conveyor belts" really humanize the process if the cashier behind the conveyer belt is removed too?

I'm generally a big skeptic of company missions (which this 'tagline' appears to be) in the first place, but completely non-sensical ones like this rub me raw. What's wrong with the mission/tagline being "reducing costs and improving shopper experience"? I'm sure their customers (retailers) would still love the product

/rant
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The move to single page apps have definitely surfaced a lot of JSON-speaking api endpoints that make scraping for data a thing of the past. A great thing for the web, I think, whether or not the site owners are aware!
Even though my intuition is that the lousy product manager who made that decision did it because of this reasoning, I would venture that 99.999% of the people prefer to find their phone when they lose it than having this guarantee by default.

If someone has my password and is trying to track me down, all you have to do is let me know that this is happening with a notification on my phone so I can rapidly change my password by using the device I am holding in my hand.

If you are the kind of person where this small time window of physical location disclosure is a significant vulnerability, you shouldn't carry a Google-manufactured phone without putting it in an RF-proof bag anyway.
Oh please. "19-year-old kids" can sign their life away to the military. They can vote in elections.

To suggest that we shouldn't allow people who are adults by every meaning of the word, voice their opinions publicly and attributed to themselves is ludicrous.
Cool! I thought I had a test recording for this, but (un?)fortunately, my workplace sprung for a fancy directional mic that already did a very good job of isolating the speaker's voice.

I still plan to play with the app for voice chat, though.
In the same vein if the weather is good today, there is s large probability that it’s good tomorrow, but if it’s been good for 14 days there is an increasing probability of bad weather.
Are there any VCs that openly invest in Porntech or sextech?
Wondering if any VCs focus on that specifically or if it's shunned upon.
Agreed! I love the text only sites. I would add text.npr.org to the list also. I am very tired of sites that spill media and JavaScript all over the place and add no real value, just to slow the site down or to make it completely unusable. A typical site of mine breaks all the rules of current UI design. [1]

[1] http://vqRN.com
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> Article says $2.95b revenue. Where did all that money go? Wiki says they have 12k employees, is every single employee getting paid $300k+?

Sounds about right. Total loaded cost of a tech employee of a company with HQ in SF would easily average $300k.
I will fight for you to say something offensive but not for you to say something that puts others at risk. This is where the ACLU's support of the KKK and Nazi groups to say dangerous (not just offensive) things becomes a risk to the melting pot or salad bowl and to the economic powerhouse.

This is how we end up in a world where people think nothing of putting up Confederate monuments (for comparison, try putting up Nazi monuments in Europe on public land and see how far you get) and implementing policies like repatriation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation
Ask HN: Expecting Promotion but Now My Manager Is Leaving
My title is Senior Engineer. The Lead of our team left a year ago and I've been acting as the lead/manager. I have a Manager, and his boss is a Director. My duties include planning sprints, scrum master (lead scrum calls), back log grooming, sprint planning, sprint retrospecitve, security audits, trouble shooting and otherwise support prod. A whole ton of crap a Senior shouldn't be doing. All with the dangled carrot of "do the job for a year and next review we'll see about a promotion".

I approached this situation with a healthy does of skepticism to begin with knowing full well if they can get the work for nothing they will. Next annual review is in January, My quarterly reviews have been good, the team has been delivering, and we're delivering on a major project I spec'd, planned, train and led the team on.

I was planning to bring up the promotion situation then. Now my Manager who've I've been working with has been moved to another product, and I'm reporting to his Director.

So how do I not get lost in the transition? I want the lead title, I don't care about a raise at this point. Thoughts?
That's a lovely conspiracy theory, and it makes people feel better about the situation, but it's not how things work in real life.

Speaking as someone who worked in this field for a couple of decades, it's more likely that one or more New York Times reporters have developed good sources inside Facebook, and are milking them.

The New York Times didn't make Facebook a monster, Facebook did.
It is an extreme example to illustrate the point, not a direct comparison of FB to atomic bombs.

However, one might argue that FB is actually worse. It is hard to quantify widespread societal effects and determine if they would have occurred through other channels. The massive privacy violations across the world through FB is another item that is hard to quantify yet 100% morally wrong.
Could we apply the rule of three for the larger context here? Something along the lines of: "if I haven't seen a book with unequal typos distribution yet, what are the odds this current one will be an instance where editors got lazier in the second half?"
Wouldn't the 'ReaderView' tools that present the article in a more comfortable / distraction free format count as user-applied stylesheet?
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Source re: motivations?
Noticed that, I will remove the function on the demo website.
NFC has nothing to do with this as I am talking about a regular U2F YubiKey that I could use by physically plugging into a computer in the rare scenario where I might lose my phone.
I just mean that "enjoying your job" has a monetary value. The employer can recognize that or not, but the employee always does.
> Developers are largely undercompensated for the utility they provide for firms

Perhaps, though I tend to think that developers are largely overcompensated for the benefit they provide to society as a whole. (Yes, I'm one of them.)
i think you get more bang for your buck if you try to understand the mechanics that generate successes and failures. assuming a flat prior is crazy in almost every real world case. in otherwords, i think effort is probably better spent understanding the problem rather than understanding how to make the most of ignorance.
The design is neat and cute but doesn't serve any useful purpose. I like the concept but the website only gets in my way.

But for what it's worth, it does work nicely on my mobile device. That was a pleasant surprise.
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Active listening. I'm amazed at how much better discussions go when this simple tool is used. Conflicts big and small melt away. Understanding, trust, and confidence are built. And even if not everyone agrees at the end, they at least feel heard, which is such an overlooked and underrated need.
You've got to be kidding me. How many churches are there in the US full of welcoming people?
Have you ever considered that some people do things when they are 16-25 that they aren't ashamed of?
One of the coolest projects I've seen in a while! Really excited to see where this goes.

Some quick feedback: viewing messages on lists.sr.ht on mobile gives the "<code> block experience" of moving a horizontal a scroller for every line.

This might be intentional (wrapping can wreck formatting/alignment) but it might be worth wrapping for it to be less painful to read from a mobile browser.
"Demand" really means "demand at this price". That's why there's a demand curve - the amount of demand changes as the price changes. So, no, the pool of candidates is not "genuinely smaller than demand". The pool of candidates at this price may be genuinely smaller than the demand at this price.

What I think is happening is that companies are offering less than the market-clearing price for talent, and then complaining that they can't find talent (at that price). Well, yeah, that's usually the way it goes when you offer less-than-market prices for anything.
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I think a "Thunderberry Pi" version with 2 thunderbolt ports instead of power, usb-a and rj45 would be really sweet for hobby purposes and provide a neat way to learn more about that tech
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What do you think investment is exactly?
Have you actually tried indexing on your own? Most websites whitelist the google crawler and backlist anyone else they detect. If you want to be nice and respect robots.txt a lot of those whitelist only Googlebot.

This isn't the 90s where anyone can crawl the web without countermeasures.
I don't work at Facebook... I'm probably not smart enough, to be honest, and also don't have much interest in the product either. I just bought their stock after the IPO.
UK and Switzerland only. Germany is traditionally a low-wage country.
What's perplexing is why Iridium is not doing way more. They are essentially just letting SpaceX to cannibalise them. Sure, they don't have fancy rockets, but still can scale their satellite net before Elon catches up with sat tech or outsource launches to even cheaper Indian launch provider.

p.s. the story of Iridium and how they recovered is quite amazing.
Interesting coincidence, I just had lunch in the booth next to Wayne. He's a kind person.
I'd argue that mentioning that labour becomes more expensive after tax cuts, while glossing over that the same amplification happens to other non labour expenses and other revenues, is a rhetorical trick that doesn't really help a clear discussion of reality.
Few comments on this because I think about this quite a bit.

1) I always read these articles and sigh. Seems like they only focus on 2 elite tech companies at the expense of all the others while only interviewing students at the #1 CS school in the country. I feel like a 2nd class citizen in the industry because of it. When will the normal people be heard?

2) I'm kind of surprised they listed a $140k starting pay. That's pretty low for new grads in the industry and very low for Facebook.

3) I think it requires an immense amount of privilege to say no to a company for relatively trivial reasons (you're probably not going to be working on product code if you don't want to) that pays as much as Facebook does, especially given the $75k signing bonus on the table for interns. I think any discussion about this on the student level has to start with this. Any comparison to the defense industry is silly because defense pays significantly less than big tech.
It's sooo weird here on HN, even for sharing incident, victim gets downvoted.
Not sure I'd want to try moonshine from Monsanto...
Your example perfectly illustrates why I prefer the California method. On my morning walk or bicycle ride to the train station, I have to go through easily 30 lighted intersections. Having to analyze traffic for a gap 60 times a day sounds exhausting. I much prefer just zoning out at the red light, listening to a podcast or whatever, then doing one quick left/right check when my signal comes on.

I don't have to analyze anything, I don't have to negotiate with a driver, don't have to guess speed, I just go when it's my time to go.
People working at Facebook are the ones who are economically privileged
> I don't think enjoying your job and being paid well need to be mutually exclusive

If there is a job, say museum docent, that the majority of qualified people would love to do then the salary of that job will approach $0. Museum docents are usually volunteers, but the chance for an art history major to practice their craft is valuable to the worker even at $0
> Will FB be chock full of juniors with an ever depleting number of seniors?

Doubtless some of those junior devs will be willing to stick around. In for a penny, in for a pound — very few people want to suddenly take a pay cut; your lifestyle has a way of keeping you hooked on a paycheck of a certain amount, once you get used to it.

And assuming the organization follows a standard "pyramid" model, you don't need that many people to stick around to give a good balance of junior to senior people, and have opportunities for promotion for high-performing/interested junior folks. Lots of companies have to create that attrition artificially; if they get it naturally as a result of people parting ways when their school loans are paid, it's probably solving a problem for them.
You hit the nail on the head. It's super easy to attack employees of these corporations when people won't even evaluate their decisions.

If you were to evaluate each of the big companies, most of them have done some really shady stuff to get a leg up.
>Is it possible that someone smarter than you doesn’t want to work at Facebook?

It's definitely possible, but they'd probably be working at another top tech company or finance company (think Citadel, Google, Jane Street) or starting their own company instead.
I don't think it's irrelevant. Sure, you can get immediate free support, but long-term help is not cheap.
Quoting the original poster:
> but there are other options for materials and landscaping that could make homes basically impervious
> basically impervious

That (for a layman like me) can easily be interpreted as fire proofing.
In the case of a book the first pages are likely to be significantly better than the rest. An editor knows that once you have invested in reading the first part of the book you are unlikely to put the book down. This means the first pages have to suck you in, and not do anything to make want to quit reading. The most important part is the first sentence as this is often the only part that drives your buy/leave in the store decision.
thanks, same here. it's urban photography, and very mundane examples of it. the "tokyo" label is clickbait i guess.
You can do something very similar to this using R's sqldf package.
Yesterday we found out we're not having sex.

Today we find out suicide is increasing.

I wonder if the two are linked.
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Yes, if you get outside of Tarif things might look better. But at the company I worked this was reserved for >= senior manager positions.

Technically there existed individual contributor levels on that level. However they were only given to senior managers who failed at their job of leading people, instead of ICs that had been really good at what they were doing.
Because I've noticed that fast food places and similar use signage saying "now hiring smiling faces"
- implying you just have to show up to work.

No experience required, not discriminating on your criminal history or ability to pass a drug test..

at least that's the way I've been seeing it. As opposed so other jobs; home depot advertises drug testing on the front door. Plumbing places have "all employees drug screened / background checked" - some places have "bachelors degree or equiv"..

Some places have no paper application, requiring you to have internet access to apply - and then computer "personality tests" to be considered for interview.

In my (admittedly limited) experience, many of these things are saying they are trying to discriminate in one way or another, but "now hiring smiling faces" is kind of the bat signal for the X in 10 people who don't fair well with drug tests and criminal background tests, etc.

If you are aware of a similar moniker or whatever, I'd like to know. I've been trying to help people get jobs around town for years and have seriously been considering crowd sourcing a green friendly job board - there are lots of decent people out there that want to work but have been repeatedly beaten down by so many time wasters out there.
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Is it "wokeness" or just ambition? When I was 19 I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I'm pretty sure being yet another cog in a 30,000-employee machine was not high on the list.
It's not an issue of human rights but rather of journalistic ethics. See my other comments on this thread.
This is a full stack example project so I didn’t think people will change the password. But apparently I was wrong...I will remove that function on the demo.
The only people to blame here are hiring managers who think the snarky comments you made when you were 19 are in any way relevant or representative.

Why would an employer ever even see this unless their hiring practices are so broken that they think it's a good idea to go looking for this kind of thing in the first place? And if that's the case, then, sheesh, I don't even know what to say. That's so silly that it's not even wrong.
If you vehemently disagree with the core business of a company and you can easily find an equivalent job at a better company, why does your position in that company have any impact on your decision to work for that company? How is building analytics software for Exxon to help them produce oil any better than a lawyer who works to ensure they can continue producing oil? As the engineer, you know your company is "working to absolve the industry from any responsibility for climate change" You know that's wrong but you can dismiss your responsibility in helping them grow and be successful? This is just lying to yourself.
Of course everybody here who isn't successful assumes it's because of their intellect...classic Hacker News.
Yes probably should’ve been addressing this promotion question all along instead waiting the full year. I personally don’t see them following through on this. Sorry that doesn’t leave you with many options, keep doing what you’re doing (may be a raise/promotion next year...) or move on.