skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I work at Stripe.)

As a lot of people have noted, the test has nothing to whether you'll actually work on a Sunday (most people don't). Instead, it's about whether you'd go out of your way to be around that person. Like it or not, we all spend lots of time around all of your coworkers, and I for one want to work with people who make me happier for it.

I don't think these problems are actually easier in other fields. Both my parents are physicians, and over the past few years they've been having a lot of trouble hiring the right coworkers. Many of the ones they've ended up with have either ended up not being very good, not being that pleasant, or not being very invested in the role. Ultimately these hiring mistakes have caused a ton of friction and problems for the entire staff, and it's pretty clear that there's something wrong with the initial hiring process.
Soundcloud.. in fact YT should learn from its stream interface for its subscriptions.. cease downloading vid when users presses pause. Maybe could be done with mashup.
> There's synergy between every division

I disagree with this claim, and offer as proof the lack of Office on any of MS's mobile devices. Compare with Apple, who had versions of all of their iWork apps available on the iPad when that device launched. Further, Office has its own UX norms which frequently contradict the Windows norms.

I do not claim the article was high-quality, but I to take issue with the idea that there is intradivision synergy at MS. The opposite seems to be true, at least for now.
Ah thanks for the clarification! That makes sense and sounds like a good arrangement.
Scala Pattern Matching Part 2
http://www.scalatuts.com/blog/2013/08/24/scala-pattern-matching-part-2/
I'm truly hard-pressed to think of any value Microsoft as a conglomerate of these divisions, actually provides

You must not be an enterprise IT buyer. Here's how it works:

All large corporations use some Microsoft product, be it Windows, Exchange, Office, or something else. And they get volume discounts and significant other discounts off the list price.

"Oh, you want to replace Office with OpenOffice? Hmmm, seems we made a mistake calculating your Exchange licenses - the price just went up 300%."

Is it becoming more clear?
This is like converting ASCII art to a .jpg. Sure it looks exactly the same, but the history of the format is gone.
Insurance is about distributing risk. Instead of e.g. 2% of people taking a 100% loss, 100% of people take a 2% loss. Since a guaranteed 2% loss is way more palatable to many people than a chance of a 100% loss, this works out well for many people.

It's not "hubris", it's simple economics. If you don't like it, you don't have to take it, of course. You're allowed to take the option of being forced to live on the streets if you suffer an injury that makes you unable to work for a living. But don't think that other people are somehow deranged for disagreeing.
I think a strong case for "regular" Linux users being able to build there own kernels is that while most users don't need or want a "bleeding edge" userland, they often want a bleeding edge kernel. For example, I use Debian Stable because I hate having inconsequential stuff change out from under me every 6 months, but I need up-to-date kernels for my hardware to work.

That is a niche (a large one I think) that is unfilled by the popular distros as far as I can tell.
In any risk assessment, one must balance impact with likelihood.
So, because it had the same name of a popular PSY song, it was near-impossible to find in searches, and sold 114 copies.

But let's not focus on the fact that it was marketed poorly, nobody reviewed it on any game blogs, or the fact that there actually _is_ a market for this game (remember that Gabe Newell said that "Pirates are just Underserved Customers"). No. Let's focus on how 50,000 chinese and russian pirates, who can't use the Apple App Store, have somehow destroyed this developer.

How about the truth? A poorly-marketed and budgeted game with a forgettable name found an untapped/blue-ocean market in China and Russia. Kotaku probably can't get as many clicks with that tagline, though.
Google has responded to a request for comment from The Verge.

We’re excited to bring more content to Chromecast and would like to support all types of apps, including those for local content. It's still early days for the Google Cast SDK, which we just released in developer preview for early development and testing only. We expect that the SDK will continue to change before we launch out of developer preview, and want to provide a great experience for users and developers before making the SDK and additional apps more broadly available.
Google.ps domain was hacked
Also, if the event X covers occurs, it would put the employer in an awful ethical position.
In my opinion, in the U.S. such practice represents a clear commercial intrusion upon the First Amendment right of free association. And I hope that any and all companies that practice it are sued into oblivion. I have zero tolerance for such behaviour.

Our society does better when we communicate with each other. As in, "united we stand, divided we fall".

If we are not to turn entirely into a perpetual exercise in "pecking order", there have to be some limits upon what can be "punished" -- commercially or otherwise.

So, take your "social network credit risk" and shove it.
Just wondering about this: "World War II provides other examples of that principle" care to elaborate on that?
Leaving is a short term solution.

A lot of countries are scalating in surveillance because there is the perception that US is trying to desestabilize a lot of governments with this disclosed programs. And, of course, could be for real, so the country where you land could eventually be desestabilized in a few years, and things will get ugly (look at middle east for a hint).

And, as a foreigner. your privacy on the global internet is ensured to not be respected by US intelligence agencies, at all. Not that it would make a difference in a few years, but still is something to take into account.

The only place on the world where you can have a chance to revert this trend is US, staying, voting, being active, chances are pretty slim, but better than the zero you get if are outside.
It's cheaper because of information disparity. Basicly, individual learns he has condition X tells no one and buys insurance and suddenly the inshurance company is out 200,000+$ or worse (AIDS can easily run 1,000,000+$). However if a company is buying insurance then presumably the insurance company knows more about the risks than the HR person setting up insurance.
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Do you feel the same about say, the NSA snooping your data? After all, you never lost access to your data, they just made a meaningless copy of it.
Have you tried .hs-boot files for separate compilation with circular dependencies? It’s not bad, but it does lead to some extra crapwork when changing interfaces, much like with C++ headers.
What happen with article is now down?
Piracy and Movie Revenues: Evidence from Megaupload: A Tale of the Long Tail?
That sounds more like Napoleon's Russian excursion, than the Nazi one.
> If you don't like it, you don't have to take it, of course.

Unless you live in a country that funds such programs via taxation, which is most (all?) Western democracies.
The snapshot + "live upgrade in place" has quite different semantics. First, while I am actually looking at LVM snapshots for a different project, making them actually atomic would require integrating with the bootloader in a manner similar to what OSTree has done.

So...what you end up with is a bit of a layering mess because you have to keep track of both block and filesystem level bits.

While OSTree does pay a penalty in complexity in other ways (mainly the chains of indirect symbolic links for boot=), it's extremely flexible in that you can do whatever you want at the FS and block layer.

You can absolutely use LVM snapshots and OSTree together, and that's very much intended. For example, in the OSTree model, if one object gets corrupted, all trees using that object are corrupted.

So it's very much still recommended with OSTree to add redundancy at the block layer with LVM/RAID/BTRFS - again, you can do whatever you want there.

Finally, LVM snapshots don't directly help you parallel install independent operating systems with their own /var, and optionally /home.
Google Homepage Hacked By Palestine Hackers
Not smart; Outlook is driving Exchange (or the other way round), so are lots of other products; a breakup would not help the bottom line.
It is, they link to the presentation in the beginning of the article.
And what corporation doesn't have a five year plan?
I know you intended to be sarcastic, but anyway.

Governments want innovation, originality and critical thinking for its ability to foster wealth and a rich culture. At the same time they are afraid of the disruptive changes that is results of it, so they set up mass surveillance for the fear that is coming out of control.

At the same time they probably know that this have a bad effect on the society. That is why it was taken enormous measures to keep it secret, including gag orders on anything that could reveal its existence, likely in a hope that the bad effect won't happen if people don't know about it. Now the people know.
At least in my area (NYC) the value of dental insurance is also they negotiate very low prices with their providers. For a root canal the difference was 50%.
Ukraine had just suffered a forced famine (Holodomor) that killed millions.
Option A) You can port any thing you have written previously in other languages. Take something from ~/src/ that way you know how it works and you will focus in learn the language.

Option B) You can think about something you're passionate in real life. Code something about it. Does not need to "solve a problem", maybe simply try to improve something that already exist and you love. That way, maybe your state will be positive and the learn experience, better.

Option C) Try to automate and improve your workflow in the new language.

If in any case you need an idea... "a blog engine".

Update: added option "C" and an idea as requested.
Your story of spending $1200 on health care in three years could very well have been one of being completely bankrupted because you suffered a serious but not life-threatening injury. Unless you're a millionaire, you cannot self-insure when it comes to health care. It's not hard at all to rack up a couple of million dollars in hospital bills if you get unlucky, and you'd probably never be able to pay that back.

Of course, the hospital would still treat you, and the rest of us end up paying for your care through slightly higher insurance premiums.

In short, you're implicitly mooching off society, and apparently proud of it. You managed to get away without actually triggering it, so far, but you were pushing a lot of financial risk onto other people. (Ignore this if you are, in fact, a millionaire.)

You wonder why individual plans are so much more expensive than group plans. It's because of people like you! Group plans include every employee, healthy or not, while millions of healthy individuals forego buying individual coverage because they think they don't need it. This gives the individual market a much riskier pool of customers.

I agree with the basic idea that the US health insurance market is completely messed up, but you're really doing it wrong, here.
I guess if you consider 2010 "a while". That is when Microsoft released the Kinect.
Sounds a bit like SET ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE?
I dare you

I double-dare you, motherfucker
Still getting one.
Indeed. Obama's speech speaks right to it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHBdZWbncXI

Everyone, including(maybe even especially) black americans, should watch this speech. Anyone who feels Obama is wrong after watching the video should closely examine themselves for why that is and what beliefs they carry that the speech conflicts with.
The Constitution and its amendments are designed to protect citizens from the government, not from private corporations. There may be other laws preventing this sort of credit reporting, but the Constitution does not.
I find a lot of value in the summarization. Frankly, I'd rather read the notes on a 38 minute video and maybe watch the original source, rather than have to watch 38 minutes without knowing what the value will be.

Aggregation and filtering is value, too. Like HN, it's a channel with the expectation of a certain type of content. I can't possibly discover good tech talks (or any other content) entirely on my own.
Wants to load the real player plugin. I don't it's a good idea to enable or install it. I don't see any other scripts. Doesn't load anything else suspicious unless the images are somehow compromised.
The real Gamasutra article, written by the developers, points out the unusual levels of engagement of their pirates. Even if they got it by accident, they still like it at least.
Ripping functionality out from under paying customers is not something that just "bothers" people. Hiding behind terms of use on SDKs isn't something that mellows the sting of this to users who probably don't even know what "SDK" means.

This situation invokes to comparisons to certain companies that had rather poor reputations in the 90s. Companies the slogan was almost certainly meant to differentiate Google from.

If hyperbole to shareholders is a-okay with you but hyperbole from angered consumers is out of line, then we just are not going to see eye-to-eye on this. I hope people inside Google do not share your attitude or Google truly is doomed to become what they assured us they wouldn't. This attitude towards consumers is extremely toxic.
An undesirable side-effect of discarding the images is that there's no paper trail. This has been a problem for electronic voting machines.

Imagine you wanted to fight a decision later in court ... assuming that's possible ...
Um? Office is on all of Microsoft's mobile devices. My Lumia 920 sure has Office. My Samsung Focus before that had Office. My Nexus 4 has Office OneNote. Surface RT has Microsoft Office 2013 RT
If Google were to correct me then I would gladly eat my hat.

Personally I feel no such animosity towards Google, however any perceived hostility towards Google is purely coincidental -- my hatred is towards bait&switch and other parasitic corporate practices.
If we think of PCs as terminals and clusters of servers as "one computer" it's not way far off.
Why do you call them "dictators" instead of "royalty?"
> flying is a privilege, not a right

The government began to make claims about traveling being a "privilege" in the 20th century. The Soviet government used to claim the same thing, so perhaps the US government took a lesson from them.

Traveling is a right, regardless of what power any government exerts to claim otherwise.
One would assume that the act of visiting a web site, from a personally identifiable IP address, using a web browser that accepts cookies is an act of consent to receive those cookies. The behavior is both expected, avoidable, and blockable.

This approach -- either by law, or by some "do not track" flag broadcast to web sites is the equivalent of walking through a busy city with hundred dollar bills hanging out of your pocket, with a sign hanging around your neck requesting that no one takes your money -- all when a simple wallet in your pocket would be adequate.

There are serious privacy issues when it comes to the internet and tracking. The "solutions" we've seen targeting cookies in both the US & EU would be laughable if they did not threaten to add considerable legal obligations over even the most casual of web site owners.
Sigh, I should have known I'd get a reply like this.

The conversation is about commercial, private insurance plans, not about government social security systems. That is what the "it" refers to. You are talking about something completely different.
Unique Content versus Duplicate Content
And the Xbox itself before that.
You actually need to avoid cookies getting stored until users give their consent to do so. Probably something like the rack-policy Ruby gem linked below will help making sure there is no cookies at all.

https://github.com/peter-murach/rack-policy#rack-policy

I ignore if there are similar libraries for other platforms.
Actually the major thing with group insurance is the number of people.

It is unlikely that more than 1 or 2 people in a small company will have any major health issues, so if you are signing up 20 people your overall risk is lower (in your example a $10,000 per person cost).

Combined with different feelings toward risk, usually health insurance is a win win. The annoying thing about the recent "reforms" is it mandates preventative care be covered, eliminating the ability to get pure "oh crap" coverage.
Interesting, I encounter the same set of problems as well last year when working on two side projects. Ended up building a webscraping service with a point and click interface on top of it : https://krake.io
Wait a second, this is if you do get fired for breaking your hand right? In most European countries I guess you'd just be on sick leave for 4 months.
Interesting, but the inability to delete posts and host it myself make it useless for me. I want freedom, damnit.
Video games kill people? CNN, sensationalism, and how to fix it
if you are doing business anywhere in Europe you should.
That is insane. How is that rationalized by the credit card companies?
That changes nothing. The aggregate probability should be the same. Even if we assume that the insurance company will modify premiums based on the type of work the company does, they'd do that to the individual as well, as they ask your occupation. The chance that the insurance company could get scammed by a covered person lying to indirectly through their employer is is the same as the insurance company getting scammed by a covered person lying directly to the insurance company.

Regardless, this is all covered under pre-existing condition clauses and contract law: i.e. they most definitely WON'T be out the $200k from your hypothetical.
The best balance would be to present the user with a page that lists all the things the site would like to track and let the user opt out of anything they don't want tracked.

Some people may value a "degraded" experience over being tracked.

I put "degraded" in quotes because it's often a degraded experience for the company's profits not the end-user.

Please, give us some examples of how this is "devastating" for the UX of a swathe of websites.
They are equating critical praise with success instead of sales. I think that's pretty unusual, and I wonder why they would say that it is a success.
Ya: free to go but free to starve isn't much of a choice. Outright slavery isn't necessary.
It's more because building a game of this kind is an intensely personal effort and developers have trouble seeing it as "ready" for others, plus, don't care about player feedback because it's not the players they're building for -- it's themselves.
They may appear to be returning a fresh copy, but internally much of the structure is shared rather than copied. See Persistent data structure:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure
I agree with your essential claim that it is poor reasoning to support a pre-disposed view, but sometimes folks reason backwards to see if they can justify their opinion.

Microsoft is clearly a complex place, and huge in ways that are hard to comprehend. But it is also conflicted. The 'essence' of the breakup argument are that the company's business units need to be able to execute on their objectives independently of the other company business units. And that is true for companies of this size. When it doesn't work well, which we saw in AT&T and Sun Micro, it causes internal friction and damage, when it does as IBM and GE have shown it can, it really does allow for getting more stuff done over all.

There are lots of ways that Microsoft could go, personally I think they would do well to create three 'views', Microsoft Consumer which presents the 'Surface' operating system to end users, Microsoft Developer which presents a developer focussed system to end users, and Microsoft Enterprise which presents a managed infrastructure to Enterprise customers. Each view has goals, but they grow from the same roots.
As the article implies, this is exactly the type of argument that goes nowhere in politics, because the questions are too big.

You're right that if we could all agree on these things, political compromise would be easy, or even unnecessary. The problem is, we can't all agree on these things.

Politics works better at the practical level. Not so much "what do you believe," as "what are you prepared to live with" or "what will you give me if I give you something you want."
I haven't, and it does look pretty cumbersome. So far a couple of Types.hs, i.e. for functionally separate components, have worked out fine, but I'll check it out if that becomes unwieldy.
I'm not sure how you prove that you are partially disabled for any job that is primarily mental rather than physical. For example I once worked with a guy that was a lead software engineer. Shortly after he was hired, he got into a car accident and sustained a serious concussion. He claimed that after the concussion he could write basic code, but he didn't have the ability to concentrate enough to solve difficult problems or architect complex systems. How is an insurance company supposed to determine his level of disability? They don't really have a baseline to determine how strong of an engineer he was before the accident. Are they obligated to pay the difference between the salary of a junior and senior level engineer if he gets fired?
Windows Phone ships with Office. So does RT.
> Basically the Russians weren't fighting to keep the Nazis from invading, but were focused on a counter-invasion.

The thesis of Icebreaker [1], a controversial history book by an ex-GRU officer, is that Stalin was planning an invasion of Germany right when Operation Barbarossa happened. However, his interpretation is disputed by most historians.

What is certain is that the Red Army was caught with its pants down and got a sound beating at the beginning. However, they did fight with tremendous tenacity (eg, at Stalingrad) later on, and eventually pushed back the Germans.

You'll also note that Germans and Japanese troops fought with particular determination even when it became clear that defeat was the only possible outcome. Contrast this with the dismal performance of French and British troops during the Battle of France.
Ukraine had very recently suffered an artificial famine caused by Stalin so it had less to do with form of government and more to do with that genocide does not breed loyalty.
I responded asking how far it should go. My name is for people like you.
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