skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is all fine and good but it's not the real issue IMHO and it comes off a little bit like salesman like (sign up for the cure).

The real question we should be asking is:

"Why don't bad managers help people achieve their goals even though they know it's better for everyone including themselves."
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Can't tell if serious or...

EDIT: My comment was sarcastic, the blog post is satirical, and I'm from Ireland.
> Personally, I wish California's community college system would learn to move a little faster, spend $ to hire some talented instructors, and add modern certificate programs in programming/iOS/Rails/Android/UX/DevOps/etc. It's a big system (100+) schools, extremely affordable ($46/unit + lots of financial aid

To expand (rather than contracting) programs, California's Community Colleges would either need to get more support from tax revenue or become less "extremely affordable".
Not at all! I completely understand where the question is coming from! Thanks! :)

It's funny because I do find that more and more of the topics that were on the table back in school are coming back more important than ever, as I try to talk about in the post.

I knew about some Domain-driven development, Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control, Scrum and all the buzz-words that you usually hear. I hadn't put them to as much practice as I get to do now. It's a really well engineered project and I'm lucky to be on it. All the mentioned pattern and practices that I knew a bit about, that understanding has at least doubled by just working with it for a couple of weeks.

In a couple of months or so it will most likely feel like I've done this forever and I'll look at this as trivial work, but then something else comes up and you'll learn even more about another pattern. Am I making any sense? Did I somewhat answer the question? I'd be happy to go into more detail if you have any follow up questions or if I didn't answer your questions at all.
Good managers are a dime a dozen. Managers promulgate the myth that there are many bad managers to justify inflated salaries. But the pool of good managers is so vast that there is absolutely no excuse to hire a bad or an average one.

This the first of an infinite series of correctives to the standard Bloomberg-LinkedIn-Forbesesque-BusinessInsider business media line that employees better watch their step and always put their own interests last. Their bad managers, who despise "silos" (meaning "technical silos") know better. They keep their asymmetric information to themselves: they love management silos, which must be nurtured and protected against employee incursion, lest they too get the "big picture."
Not sure if this short post even begins to scratch the surface of many reasons why there are so many bad managers. Reads more like a self promotion post to me.
Thom,

You're absolutely right. I wrote the post with the hope of getting to do some customer development interviews with those interested in what I wrote about.

Soft skills are a funny thing; to succeed as a leader/manager you need them, but it's hard to quantify strength and weakness in them.

I have some ideas for a product but didn't want to make the post about the solution.
>If you accept an empirical view of the universe, no matter what you do, you will eventually die.

Perhaps you're overestimating the extent to which billionaires accept that view.

>Therefore, the only rational investment would be in life extension technologies (SENS, advanced prosthesis, etc.).

Or maybe the ultra-rich have done enough research to conclude these sorts of technologies won't be mature in time to help them. So why bother?
Package system is a breeze. That alone is wonderful.

That, and probably the breakneck pace at which it forces you to embrace asynchronous operations. As async, parallelism, and concurrency become more important, I think it's valuable to start thinking in these terms as fast as possible.
What about other options? Dead/underperforming pixels seem to be a good fingerprint as well I believe.

Would be a whole different level of identification, but would lead to multiple ways to detect photos taken by the same camera.
Great tips in here! Thanks for posting!
How Arduino Is Becoming The World's Social Network For Hackers And Makers
Because people aspire to management for the wrong reason: power.
Google to keep Motorola's Project Ara modular phone
A classic mistake. Even Gregor Mendel may have committed it.
> It causes people to isolate themselves from their experience, the contact with nature - sort of, a neo-existential prelude to doom.

Mmm, yes. Shallow and pedantic.
I did neither upvote nor downvote, and in fact didn't even notice it. Searching the page I do indeed find it now.

I am by no means the "be nice police". For some reason I found your post a bit less acceptable. Maybe because the other was more broadly painted, and yours seemed a bit more... personally directed?
Ask HN: What services are you paying for every month and how much?
I totally agree. My goal was to get some people to sign up I could do some customer development around an idea I have. Maybe I needed a little more detail.

I think the human aspect can go a long way and there are still a lot of elements as you suggest that work against you. Thing is, if you do protect your team (I've heard it called "the shit umbrella") and care about them, you can do a lot to make them happier and more successful even if you're dealing with a lot of crap yourself as the manager/leader.

Soft skills are hard to measure. I'm not sure we ever will, and my hope was to make the point that the pure measurement of results often does nothing to distinguish or incentivize good from bad management.
> but I think the way this will be accomplished is in more in a Google-esque fashion where their knowledge engine results are displayed alongside a real search algorithm.

http://www.goofram.com/ does exactly that, albeit somewhat crudely.
You can get some unexpectedly interesting stuff on the Wolfram Alpha side of things, though usually it's irrelevant unless you're "thinking" in Wolfram query mode.
I think it's a mistake to rely too heavily on productivity to explain wealth disparities among countries. Productivity increase, at least the way economists measure it, is mostly a function of rising labor costs and as such is a symptom of wealth and not a driver.

It's not that you get wealthier because you're more productive. It's that your measured productivity increases as increased labor costs make automation pencil out.
To be fair, it's still a little bit your fault if you end up crashing the car.
For two more anecdotes, my coworker and I have had similar experiences. My RSI isn't entirely gone, but I had to take a long break from pushups because of an injury. I'm able to start doing them again so I should get to it, because I had a significant reduction in symptoms after only a week or so of pushups.

This site might seem a little spammy, but its methodology for figuring out how many to start with and at what rate to increase the # of pushups was a big help for me. I started at about 3 pushups and even after a long break due to the injury I can do 15, which is saying a lot since I am completely out of shape!
In the IT services industry, we'll often talk about running a "war room" for the hours following a significant change, and then follow with a period of a nominated on-call person who has the authority to wake the project team up, tell them to drop everything and fix the issue.

Funnily enough, change control actually runs a lot more smoothly in terms of getting past senior non-technical managers when you include elements like that
Ask HN: IT/Network setup for our 15-20 person office?
Hi everyone,

Can any networking experts here help? My company is about to move into a new office from old, shared space where all IT was taken care of. I've been put in charge of the phone and networking in the new space.

Our office is 15-20 people, plus visitors fairly frequently. The office is primarily developers and will have a FiOS connection with plenty of bandwidth. The electrician we've hired will take care of the actual ethernet wiring.

I'm a developer, and am somewhat familiar with networking but at a smaller scale. Can anyone provide some advice about what the best setup for this is along with recommended vendors/models without spending a fortune? I don't mind learning how to configure them.

My assumption is that the network will basically look like this, but please feel free to correct me (we don't have any on-site servers; just computers and mobile devices):

Incoming ISP/Verizon -> Router -> Firewall (?) --> Switch --> Cat5 to computers and SIP phones

Will most routers (or switches?) take care of the wireless connection or should we use a separate device (attached to the switch?)? Are there generally good manufacturers and product lines that we should look at? I assume my usual household choices aren't right for this.

Also, we're planning on using a hosted VoIP system so will need to set QoS for that.

Thanks in advance!
(I am the lead developer of SymPy)

The important thing to note about SymPy Gamma is that it does only the mathematics part of WolframAlpha. It's also relatively new. There is no natural language input. There are no non-mathematical capabilities. The syntax should match Python syntax for the most part, though there are extensions to allow things like "sin x" or "x^2" or "2 x". All this will hopefully improve in the future (and pull requests are welcome!).

Most of the code was written by David Li (who is actually a high school student). You can watch a presentation about it here: http://conference.scipy.org/scipy2013/presentation_detail.ph.... It started out as a "because we can" toy, and it's gotten much better.

The real benefit of SymPy Gamma over WolframAlpha is that there are no barriers around it, since it's entirely (BSD) open source. For example, if you start computing something interesting and want to try more, you can move to SymPy Live (http://live.sympy.org/) and compute in a more session like environment. Or you can use SymPy locally on your own computer.

Regarding the comments that wolfram is mostly used for play, I'm not so sure about it. Wolfram is invaluable to students as a calculator. Sure Google can compute 100 * pi, but it falls apart when you try to compute integrate(sin(x) * x, x). When I was in college (which was last year), I saw people use it all the time. It's been very successful in making computer algebra accessible to virtually everyone.

By the way, probably the best feature of SymPy Gamma right now is the integration steps. See for instance the "integral steps" section of http://www.sympygamma.com/input/?i=integrate%28sin%28x%29*x%.... This is a feature that used to be free at WolframAlpha, and it's extremely useful if you are learning integration in calculus. It doesn't work for all integrals, because not all integrals are computed the way you would by hand.
How many people can spot a good manager (that isn't his boss)? We complain about that in IT, but there are other professions just like ours.

Also, 90% of anything is bad. That includes the workforce.
Depends on the company and the culture.

Do you have ideas on how to recognize and praise great managers?
Yeah, I think it is. Personally, I'll just taylor it myself. But if I didn't have the capability, I'd say it's worth $50, sure. I think paying some amount of money to avoid assholes will often be a good investment.

And honestly, if you can get more focused feedback early on and avoid pointless forum rants about bootstrap, that's probably worth it even beyond the emotional benefit to avoiding assholes.
I would just like to point out that even if they "anonymize" the records it's generally not that hard to de-anonymize data.

During the Netflix prize, randomly generated IDs were eventually matched to people based simply on movie ratings and matching public information in other public sources:

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securityma...

With medical data, it will probably be trivial (maybe easier or more appealing to insurance companies?).

We're a lot more unique than we think. Reminds me of this EFF project:

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

Some companies will probably resell this information to potential employers, banks (there goes your loan), etc.

Well, that's going to suck for people in the UK.
Actually one of the attractions for Google is the Irish weather (cooler so less costs in keeping data centers cool) anyway, perhaps you should read past the first paragraph..
A great idea. I bought three.

Also, thanks for not using GoDaddy. It's one of the reasons I decided to make some buys.
I once accidentally ruined the Internet.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ptacek+kaminsky+leak
I would like a return of ghetto blasters. Those things are cool and I have one wired up to an ipad cut into it to play tunes.

I have a google glass too and I don't wear it so much in public. You can't really see it with a hat - probably mounted in real glasses and long hair or a hat is best.

I'd hold up for the contacts over the eyes, this is sort of a half step that will be great proving ground - but ultimately too invasive into life - like at a partttty!
>So while poor countries are now better off than they were 50 years ago they are still about as poor as they were 50 years ago in comparison to other countries that also become better off.

That seems like unambiguous progress to me.
The comments on this article are not technically interesting and mostly seem fear-based. An HEVC encoder is perfectly usable for home use, nobody will break in and sue you.

I suppose not many people are qualified to comment on the program, though.

Anyway, this code is unusually clean and actually structured, which is rare considering the horrors of most encoder codebases (libavcodec mpegvideo, android, any commercial source…). That's probably because it's not optimized for speed; most people act as if writing optimized code literally requires you to leave out comments and make the program ten times longer.

But it is pretty much an academic codebase and doesn't really do much. Following x265's progress would be better for the moment if you want to use HEVC for anything.
Yeah, it doesn't appear to be very advanced. I tried:

I have two mangoes, Jill has three mangoes. Alan has
three oranges, and I have two apples and a carrot. How
many mangoes do we have? How many fruits do we all have?
How long can we survive?

One would think it did some basic parsing, and managed to file away three oranges and two apples in a parse tree of some kind -- and if those were associated with "fruits" -- it should be able to answer?

And if it were able to answer, one might be able to have it hand out advice on diets ("Give me 30 examples of a 3000 calorie diet featuring no red meat") and a lot of other things that would be "easy" to answer based on ingesting some pretty standard databases.
AWS Ec2 for personal website, 20-30usd,
AWS S3 like 3 usd,
Google Apps (1 user) 5 usd
Ha. So true.

DomainAddictsAnonymous.com is taken btw :(
my first day ever using unix. Left with a root shell. Trying things out, learning, made a few junk files somewhere or other. I was done with that and decided to delete them... "delete everything from that directory" I think: rm * /path/towhateveritwas

now on to my tasks.. had some files to print out. Where did they g...... FUCK.

I found a box of tapes and some sunos manuals. Spent the next several hours figuring out how tar and tape drives worked. Got everything back. Never told a soul.

1992. I've never done anything so careless since.
> housing, education, healthcare, legal expenses and taxes

Interesting grouping, as each is more or less fully depended on government to limit supply and create scarcity. The only really exception looks to be housing.

Education is information, and information is only held limited thanks to copyright.

Health care seem to spend most of its money to pay for patents.

Legal expenses differ strongly between countries and different legal system. Some demand the loosing party to pay for both sides, some demand that both side pay their own costs, and lastly some ask government to provide/pay for legal aid. In system where looser pay (or government), there tend to be limits on how much a lawyer can demand.
From what I've seen, there's a lot more trawling than trolling going on. "Troll" as the creature who demands toll for a bridge he didn't build seems the more fitting analogy.
No comment on the access time and having only one drive means reading only one disc at once. This puts this storage solution in the realm of "I don't need this data within an hour" so I presume the application this system acts as redundancy for failed disks.
I think if you look at the language someone uses, you can tell a lot about their quality as a manager...it's about we and they when it's good and I when it's bad.

Look at pro athletes; the best leaders on those teams generally are the ones that give all the credit around in wins and take ownership of losses. Peyton Manning used to throw his lineman under the bus in playoff losses and now he's all team as the Broncos are in the Super Bowl. Obviously there's other factors at play, but think about how a good leader is going to motivate his team through the human element things I talked about: people love to be recognized for things they worked hard on and it means a lot when people show they care about them. Who do you go out of the way to help on your team?

You can also learn a lot by talking to people they've worked with before re: management. I love an interview tactic I heard before where you ask someone to rank them on a scale of 1 to 10 on something. If they don't say 10 on something, you can then ask what made them not a 10 and usually get some good answers.
The article states that the 4-year-old is "smarter than you." How ridiculous, anyone who knows how IQ tests knows that they are based on your results compared to similar age groups. I'm pretty new to Hacker News, but how this could make it so high is beyond me.
How we test fake sites on live traffic – 42Floors
I've worked with a global services industry organisation based in the UK but with MAJOR work happening in the middle east, India and Asia-Pacific regions. To add to that, because so much of the service industry's core activities tend to be based around the weekend and start of the week, we can't simply push at the weekend. Add in regular scheduled downtime and backup periods, having to work with people in the US, and many, many dozens of systems...
Great post! I've sponsored a couple of hackathons and so far what's happened is that I ended up:
a) being part of some team that was struggling internally because there were conflicting frameworks/products;
b) supporting several other teams that didn't know how to use my product.
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> It's my own life, a life I'm not burdening others with.

You are invited to drop your American citizenship and live on an island. Otherwise you don't really get your life and not be affected or influenced by others. That is a silly idea born out of fairy tales for kids and teenagers.

You are a part of a society. The moment you step out you are on a public street that someone paid for. On a private side-walk that someone else owns. You ride in a public transportation system that someone else has paid for. You are also driving a car because someone has granted you a license after you passed a test. Like it or not you are also protected from random other countries coming in and taking your stuff away by having a very very large military force.

If your house catches on fire people will come in a red car with sirens on it and drag your ass our of the building and save your life.

If someone assaulted you, you can sue them in a court of law and ask the judge to rule in your favor and force the other party to pay you some money.

If you have a family and your break your arm you know cannot earn money for them. It is not just you suffering in silence, now your children, wife, other dependents are now starving. Same happens if you happen to take up heroin and start stealing and not going to work. It is not just your doing whatever you like in a hypothetical bubble. You now your family is starving. You just going about doing your own thing have caused quite a bit of a mess.
Well, sort of.

In the US, about 85% of households are "food secure". Non-capitalist sources -- eg, charities or government assistance -- close the gap for about 9% of households, and in the remaining 6% of households one or more people are missing meals.

I don't really think that's a success.
I'm glad you've had good experiences with managers. I know a lot of people who have really suffered under bad managers multiple times across their careers, especially in startups.
Past results do not guarantee future results. Behold the stack of counter-example dorky looking technologies that didn't catch on.

The missing ingredient is cool and popular people have to be seen using the technology, and make it look good while doing it.
Can you talk about what requirements you have for connections back to origin servers? Will you refuse to speak weak ciphers?

Given the volume of traffic you have and your large international presence, it is not unreasonable to assume the NSA is tapping all your transit and peering circuits. Failing to protect the origin connections effectively leaks all the connection data while giving end users a false sense of security.
That would be refreshing to hear.
I disagree that people will become comfortable with Google Glass - the primary negative reaction is the voyeuristic-rejection of having a camera always pointed at you (that may or may not be recording).

To which the analogy vs. headphones is not relevant.

I anticipate, however, that Google (or somebody) will find a way to make this product largely invisible to anybody but the wearer in the near term future.

Through more discreet projection / camera placement, or future-tech incorporation with a contact lens.

So for a company in the business of printing money, investing in BETAs at this stage to understand UX, function, etc is wise.
Gogle keeps motorola division which builds Project Ara modular phone
Pretty much. It's arbitrary, but is fixed, not the first week or last week of the month (often reporting periods), not Monday, and not the weekend. If you then assume that organisations test the patches, that means they can deploy them for thursday morning
Tax benefits from the purchase I think. They were saving something like $700m a year in taxes for a bunch of years following the purchase. I forget the details.
I've hold for a while the attitude that if a company pays attention if I'm wearing a suit in a job interview, I shouldn't get a job there.

I don't have anything to complain about that attitude. In retrospect, it saved me from quite a few bad situations that my inexperience would make me accept. But things changed and it does not apply anymore (am not even technically working on IT anymore).
vps $80.00, internet $45.00, phone $80.00
I almost feel like we should come up with a "How the hell would you test this?" challenge for TDD advocates. At least, my impression is it is mostly naïveté rather than snake oil.
What is actually going on in Iceland (2012)
Sort by length brings up some fun results that nobody wants: Sore, Gamy, Lewd, Nosy, Pale, Damp, Dull and Glib. They sound like foul dwarves.

EDIT: it goes on for pages and pages. quite an alarming list of words. you could try and turn them into poetry but it might be a bit upsetting.
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How about $3B cach minus $1B debts, make it $5B loss?
Even without the clause I doubt Lenovo would choose to drop Android. With the Moto X/G, Motorola has strong momentum as an Android handset manufacturer. This includes consumer expectations that it will continue to make Android devices. Since Lenovo has no desire to (and is too late to) start a forked Android ecosystem a la Amazon/other Chinese manufacturers, sticking with Android makes the most logical sense.