skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not being disagreeable itself that's bringing those benefits, it's the unpopular but necessary decisions that are getting made by being willing to stick your neck out and piss people off.

In many situations the popular decision is not always the right one. People frequently approve of decisions that bring them personal benefits or ego gratification at the expense of the group, or that seem beneficial now but have hidden downsides that they don't know about, or that bring short-term gain but long-term pain. Saying no to these decisions isn't going to be popular, but it's necessary for the long-term health of the team.

Rational employees can see this, and can see the consequences of always giving in to what the more vocal team members want, and so they quietly hold leaders who make the right choice rather than the easy choice in higher esteem. It builds trust with the team to show that you understand the difference and won't let a need for approval cloud your judgment.

The idea that being disagreeable itself is an advantage in business is sometimes known as the Steve Jobs Fallacy, i.e. "Steve Jobs was an asshole and he was successful, therefore I'm going to be an asshole too and I'll be successful." This fallacy ignores that Steve Jobs was an asshole in pursuit of something greater, that a lot of his tirades and emotional manipulation were tactics to draw peoples' best work out of them and build really great products that consumers love. The key part there is "build really great products that consumers love" - if you can do that without being an asshole, you'll be even more successful than Steve Jobs, but that's the high-order bit. (Arguably, some of Steve Jobs's verbal abuse was gratuitous, and the same product goals could've been achieved with less emotional pain.)
Diversity Poll: Democrats Welcome Ethnic Change, Republicans Don’t
I take the approach of telling people to call or text me if something is urgent (my number is in the company directory), because I likely won't notice an email quickly, and will ignore Slack/IM completely so soon as I walk out the door. The only time my phone buzzes is when something is actually on fire.

I remember previous jobs where late night emails demanding edits to someone's slide deck were routine (and anything is not urgent, it is editing some product manager's slide deck). That shit can wait until Monday, and if you are throwing it on me because you procrastinated, that's your problem.
Redis page is a good example, the other 2 not so much..

Check the "Contributors" page -- Redis has probably 95% of commits/code-volume from 2009 to 2019 by antirez himself. Yes there are other contributors but they make up a minority share.

https://github.com/antirez/redis/graphs/contributors
I spoofed my UA to "Linux", got page loading normally and my login worked
I used to work on near Earth satellites that had a <15 minute contact window about 10 times per day. Sensor requests and aiming commands would get pre planned about 2 days out with a gui that would let you point and click and it would package the proper commands automatically. Usually a team of ~2 analysts would work together to make sure all of the requests would make it into the upload package but always with a gui.
We could also get a short notice request for data and could speed through the process in about 2 hours. Still just with a gui. The manual commands would never get sent ftp style because we only had short windows of contact because the dishes on Earth would only have the craft in the sky above them for so long.

Some satellites pay for time on a set of air Force satellites in Geo called TDRSS to give them continuous comms but those are really expensive and really slow compared to what you can downlink to the ground.
A must-see for those who loved this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFl31p89VCM&list=PL9DA5B1371...

EDIT:

In case you need English translation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCpbBVthD7o&list=PL2FC1B24C6...
Absolutely DO NOT use Flippa or BuySellEmpire. I made the terrible mistake of trying to use them. My experience was so bad I ended up saying "screw it" and never sold my product.
Random Search and Reproducibility for Neural Architecture Search
The only way to clear history with Facebook is to create no history to begin with.

If you want to "clear" history to delude yourself that revenant Facebook information is gone (or at least make it difficult to obtain from your own account), there's plenty of options for that.
Good article on this subject (the example is Tulum, Mexico)

https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/who-killed-tulum.html
Per the actual thread, they're not blocking "Linux", they're blocking "X11; Linux" (case-insensitive).

Remove any character from that string and it succeeds.

dang: are you able to update the title to reflect that it's not just 'linux' being blocked?
> with the justification of companies subsidizing to make up for lost productivity.

It's not just productivity - after a 6 hour flight starting from midnight, I have no idea how people are allowed to drive. I hear complaints about "why do people stand up immediately when the plane lands?" - I stand up so that I'll have enough feeling in my leg that I can actually walk off the plane by the time the doors open. Every bit of you is reduced by the time you're clumping off that airplane.
reason with him about income-protection (about 75 USD a month)?
Forecasting in Python with Prophet
I'm pretty surprised to hear about the district-level focus here. I was born and raised in NYC and have always heard of the city as a single entity. NYC has a massive number of people who come from every district into Manhattan for jobs and leave at the end of the day.

Having a district-level focus seems like a poor resolution -- should queens residents then conversely be restricted from working in Manhattan? It seems pretty regressive since poorer districts would get poorer.
NDA's are ripe for abuse, and should be severely limited by law.
Narcissism is a psychological disorder. Is it okay to attack and shame people for something they can't control? That doesn't seem right.
"Hazing" in general has a "let's subject you to hardship to see what you're made of" component to it, which is sometimes of value and sometimes is just a cargo-cult.
I just started using Notion (https://notion.so) for organizing to-do lists, links, notes, and reminders. It's simple yet amazingly flexible. I highly recommend it.
Very much so. The documentation is the specification, so it's not merely writing the documentation, but writing the specification.

Another interesting tidbit that plays into this...the syntax coloring is programmatically derived from the documentation (yet another consequence of the documentation being the specification). This wasn't mentioned in the meeting because most or all of the participants already knew this, but it's an important part of the subtext of the discussion.

Speaking as an insider who wasn't present at that particular meeting, but has been present in some other live-streamed meetings.
> Whether silence should mean tacit approval and whether it does mean tacit approval are two entirely different questions. I'd argue that it shouldn't but it does.

Silence can also mean dismissal. Wolfram is hardly at a level of cultural influence where he is rallying up support for a narcissistic lifestyle.

In the course many years we moved from an honour culture where tolerance was a weakness and misbehaviour was something to strongly react to toward a dignity culture where we try to lead by example and where (in polite conversation) criticism needs to be more nuanced.

Moreover by that logic I am silently approving of many things all the time, when talking about Obama and medicare I often omit drone bombing as a topic.
A few days ago my fiancée asked me to delete her Instagram profile. There's no user friendly way to do it. You have to go to help.instagram.com or search Google to find the link.
The Risk in the Fracking Boom
NYC has far better museums then SF.
Some companies like Microsoft have affirmative action for autists.
I think the most critical flaw in Sudbury's plan, is that people would have to live in Sudbury (no offense)

It's a small, cold, somewhat-remote city known for mining, and particularly for having an incredibly tall smokestack visible everywhere in town. You can fund startups, but who is going to move from other places to Sudbury?
True. But I expect the statement from BP would have sounded a bit more like it had been written by a human being :-)
A little off-topic, but I'm learning CSS and this seems like as good a place as any to ask: What are the alternatives to material design (which I think I understand is a certain aesthetic that incorporates shadows and textures)? Is flat design the only main alternative in modern web design, or are there others?

Secondly, the online course I am doing is using fluid grid but I understand that flexbox is another option. Am I better off focusing on one or the other? Thanks.
I agree with you, but data science is a separate field, so I don't normally factor it into my discussions of tools for software engineering.
When an input-filter person talks to an output-filter person, the speaker might sound overbearing, arrogant, or impolite. When an output-filter person talks to an input-filter person, they might sound smarmy and unwilling to convey essential information.

I wish there were a safe place for such people to communicate online. Getting downvoted every time you say something you perceive as completely innocent is quite tough.
Yep its just an ad hominem attack with no critique of the content/facts
When Facebook releases a tool to clear your history, how will you know it’s really cleared? It will probably work as well as these instructions you can already use to remove your digital fingerprint from Facebook and several other sites: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
> considering the majority of phones are androids.

This is one of the ways they are trying to change that.
Oh boy, scrolling through that page in mobile is a nightmare.
Gardfield Plastic Phones Keep Landing on French Shores (In French)
> It's in Development™

Probably somewhere in the backlog :-)
Reclaiming the Word “Woke”
I think they have to be more proactive in engaging journalists. NASA is really good at doing this.

And in general US media is very centered on the US. The outside world doesn’t exist much to them if there is no connection to the US.
Let's put an emphasis on the fact that this cannot be a technical limitation, as everyone else in the world manages to build websites that work on most devices, including android.

The appleid is a security nightmare anyway. I used to use an account, associated to an email I own, with a password I know, and still I can not log in, because it keeps asking the insecure "personal questions" that I never answer, because [generic privacy statement] and because I use a cryptagraphically secure password manager. As I did not save the personal questions I answered when signing up (tbh I probably just put garbage, as those are usually never asked when you know the password), and now I just cannot access it.

That's right, I own the email address and I know the password, and yet I cannot access my account. However, knowing who was my best friend when I was a teenager, or what was the name of my first pet are questions, in spite of being known by dozens of friends or acquaintances, that Apple requests as security measures needed to trust me as the owner of the acount.
Having them on the phone provides zero help, 1 year later, I still cannot access it. It's definitively lost, and I feel happy I do not have any important information stored on the apple cloud.
Rare earth metals are a bit of a misnomer, they're not that rare at all.
"And—partly out of caution about having a radio transmitter next to my head all day—my headset is wired,"

What is the current medical consensus on how dangerous wireless headsets, bluetooth headsets, cell phones, etc are?
There is employment (96%) and then there is good employment. I'd argue the Amazon HQ2 jobs were good employment -- good salaries, benefits, training, etc.

I understand that too low unemployment (<3%) is bad since it constricts movement and creates inflation. However, aren't high paying high benefit jobs always a good thing?
I didn’t say anything about values.
Google Search Is Down
dunno, have a look..

https://mirror.cat/1a9OzXi
Vintage CGI
A friend of mine works in theoretical physics and some professor in his groups use Mathematica notation/functions also on whiteboards. I don't know in the field in general though
At least for me:

Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site.
We can’t connect to the server at www.google.com.
Apple is also sniffing UA (and doing some crazy heuristics with it) when delivering webpages to its apsptore.
I think it's because they want to try to serve you a different webpage that opens up the appstore application when you are clicking on a link, but it just doesn't work reliably.
It's a pain for me, my users, and an other instance of Apple just failing at the web.
> Lefties also embrace the idea that words can be violent and that if someone is allowed to say something entirely opposed to their beliefs then responding with physical violence is okay because that person was violent first.

That's the part where you are going to be downvoted and you know it. Everything else may be relatively right, but that's part is just plain wrong. There's no evidence that "lefties" are more violent, except your feeling, based on a bunch of articles the right has pushed toward you.
“Is Anyone Here a Time Thief?”
If that was true, then
"Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://appleid.apple.com -UserAgent '(Linux)'"
would return a 200 status, but it returns a 502 Bad Gateway
Not for me. (Berlin, Germany)
My project is pretty much a shameless ripoff of ^W^W^W^W heavily inspired by The Mac Index. :D Yep, I'll see how much traffic it gets and then work on the design some more. Right now it's mostly Bulma (https://bulma.io/) default styles.
And last time he thought Transmeta was a good idea.
Stock Trading vs. Forex
I own a business that is selling a lot of #MeToo merchandising. High demand and profitable.
Exactly. Of all the groups that might know how to spoof UA, the linux community is the most likely.

Clearly they didn't think this through.
Does it support conversation trees like we do here on HN? Does it let you edit your messages?
I use Firefox Nightly on a MacBook (Retina) and it performs very well with WebRender on and gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque set to TRUE. Faster than Safari even! Worse battery life though.
Chrome OS is okay but typically leaves me wishing I had a more flexible system. Sure, you can install Linux apps on some models (not my Samsung Chromebook Pro because of the old kernel it shipped with!), or flip the developer switch, but I'd hate for this to be my main system. They're making strides with every release but given Google's track record with support and listening to community feedback, I probably wouldn't purchase another (though maybe a sub $200 "disposable" model?). They also EoL these things so one day it will be frozen in time and your only option will be to flip the developer switch which warns you on every boot that you're in developer mode, though there may be a way to remove that with hardware a hardware modification. There is some chatter on the product forums about enabling "unknown source" installations on ChromeOS, but it's been open for years now and progress is slow on that front. I'd only suggest it as a supplemental system, not a main one. A used Thinkpad can run Chrome.
I have the same issue with my TD Ameritrade account. I have the correct email and password, but then it asks for a security question that I have no idea about. I can’t get in.
Of course I agree with you, but, I wish I could find a credible article where someone disputes the idea that most people should use index funds for the stock portion of their portfolio.

The closest I can find is that capitalization weighted indexing doesn’t give you enough diversity.

https://money.usnews.com/investing/funds/articles/which-are-...
There's a startup in this space called Synthorx which recently did an IPO:
https://synthorx.com/
It's clearly not a priority. Such a tool was a nice rhetorical device to deflect some heat during the congressional hearings, but there's no way to monetize it or use it to "increase engagement" so it's languishing in some Facebook backwater. I think it was naive to think that it would turn out otherwise.

And to be clear, I'm not saying that Facebook has necessarily been malicious or lied. It's just that a product manager faced with the choice to prioritize this vs. some new engagement enhancing widget is going to pick the widget every time unless there's constant pressure from above.

Edit: This is why legislation is required. So privacy issues can't be ignored simply because they don't contribute to the bottom line.
In the all hands meetings they would talk so much about establishing or re-establishing trust, and I always wondered why they don’t just have a “clear everything from high school and college” option. People would _love_ that option, and it would make so many more people comfortable with using the platform again.

Their loss.
Oh, Is the damned planet earth. Is doing this things everywhere since millions of years. Bigger, faster and with more teeth.

There is a limit to how large an insect can be. Couldn't breath effectively with the body mass of a retriever (fortunately).
Best Writing Contests for 2019, and Why You Need Them at All
After my macbook pro keyboard became completely unusable and keys literally started to fall off I went out and bought a Pixelbook and handed my Macbook in for repair. I'll tell you right now, I'll never go back and I immediately understood that Apple are truly screwed. The macbook is dead and they don't even know it. All developers will eventually move to a Chromebook, Surface or whatever else.

Chrome OS for me is perfect, especially since they introduced linux support and android apps. I can run anything I need, I do not feel like I took a step back, in fact I feel like I leaped forward by pushing towards a cloud first experience. I was already using Google for all my apps, spend most of my time in the browser and I personally have not felt any pain beyond adjusting to my new keyboard layout.

I highly recommend everyone ditch their macbooks and buy a Pixelbook.
Well I am in europe so we have GDPR and I have deleted my account in january, waited the (non-optional) month without logging in to confirm I want to be gone. I will now request the information they still might have. That will be fun.
I'm born, raised, lived most of my life (though not now), and still vote federally in NYC. As a NYer by almost any definition, I agree with AOC that this was a bad deal, and partly due to the influx of new people. Maybe not for her reasons.

Particularly, they picked a part of NYC where neither the housing market nor the neighborhood's transit infrastructure can handle that extreme rapid growth. The 7 and G trains would be overwhelmed, lots of residents would be priced out disruptively fast, etc.

They also don't need billions of dollars of subsidies from NY. They are among the most valuable companies in the world, already have an office in NYC, and will still be growing that.

By contrast, I have no problem with Google doubling it's NYC office from 7k employees to 14k, because it's in a different part of the city which can absorb that just fine in all regards. And no subsidies involved, as far as we the public have been made aware.

(Disclosure, I used to work at Google NYC for Google, but I really would be saying the same thing about the locations and growth plans if the company labels were swapped. I have no inside info on either company's real estate plans and don't work or speak for either now.)

You and I agree that the people who thought Amazon's NYC HQ would pay below living wage are misunderstanding - at least for directly employed workers. Not sure how their office contractors are treated, but I expect the answer would match whatever's true in Seattle.
James Gosling Q&A
I've used a Chrome OS device for a long time as my primary device. I'm a researcher and never do any "real" development besides some web stuff or writing code locally, though (most of my code runs on clusters). However, using just web stuff like Cloud9 was not for me, so one of the first things I did with my Chromebook was to install crouton.

If you need to run any specific stuff locally, get a Chromebook that has an Intel CPU, not an ARM. Some stuff (especially proprietary binaries) are not available for ARM. If you get a device with a touchscreen, Android apps sometime will be good enough for things that do not work well on Linux (e.g. Skype).
> If you're uneducated and barely scraping by in LIC

LIC is already a 10m commute to midtown and home to nothing but shiny glass towers.
I've worked for a few, consulted for others, have friends working for yet others. It's a mix. Java shops go Win/Lin, .NET generally is Win/Win, for now.
I've had a lot of fun with agent-based and discrete event simulations. Hook it up to a visual and it's basically a game. Writing a basic simulation engine is also a lot of fun. Simulation is also the only application where I've felt comfortable with classical object-oriented modeling. I always find that object oriented programming forces me to deal with a lot of emergent complexity, but when you're doing simulation modeling, emergent complexity is the whole point.
Asking Your Big Security Data Questions (Part 2)
Yes, it’s possible. Not out of the box usually, but someone probably added a custom rule.

Especially if you’re facing an attack from a common UserAgent with all the other variables changing. And the admin likely thought “Linux users don’t use this service.”
What's New in Java 12?
There is a great interview with him that was recorded a couple days ago where he talks about the status of the history tool: https://youtu.be/WGchhsKhG-A
I looked at the first seven of those; one was a hotel and the rest were all high-density luxury towers, not affordable housing for blue collar workers.

For example:

https://www.buzzbuzzhome.com/us/the-forge
Somebody has to maintain the runtimes, they are not typically set up to be cross-compilable, I'm doing JVM development on my ARM systems right now.
More in their line to design offices for loud extroverts and office-pest type characters... a sturdy door with a lock is usually good enough.
For non french readers, the article also says that nobody knows where they come from.

The theory is a sink in the 80's but there are no trace in archives.
The plastic is heavy so it stays at the bottom of the ocean and phone are randomly popping up on storms.

There were around 200 pieces of the phone collected in 2018.

Ashore from Ouessant, there are around 40 000 boats each years, importing 90% of Europe foreign consumption
Even in a bytecode language, there is no guarantee that an application is write-once run-everywhere. I converted a small app that was running on Windows with Oracle JDK to run on Linux with OpenJDK and it was not plug-and-play. It was close, but there were a few errors particularly surrounding path resolution (and yes, the Windows application was already using Unix-style paths, this was actually a difference in how paths were resolved). Similarly, there are small differences between Tomcat and Jetty and so on.

This wasn't showstopping by any means, but it did take a couple of hours to tweak it until it ran properly, and this was just a small webapp not really doing anything exceptional.

Our main line-of-business app (on Java) runs on SPARC/Solaris in production, so we have on-premises test servers so we can test this... and yes, there have been quite a few instances where we identified significant performance anomalies between developer machines running x86/Windows and our Sparc/Solaris test environment, and had to go rewrite some troublesome functions.