skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience with our last acquisition some of the best performers ended being cut just because they were in the wrong area. So if MS actually evaluates each employee I would be surprised. It usually just comes down to numbers. We need to save X and that means eliminate Y people. Here's a list.

For example. We got acquired. New companies decides we need to cut some of our staff. They get rid of a co-worker who is solely responsible for training companies to work with our product. His pay was way under market anyway so they didn't save much letting him go. Then he goes and gets a job making double with better benefits doing training. Then a few weeks later our group is scrambling to find someone, anyone, capable of delivering customer training....
I use a combination of a Yubikey and GnuPG. My GnuPG private key has a password which consists of two parts:

1) A long secure password stored on my Yubikey
2) A shorter password (stored mentally)

Passwords are saved into individual files and encrypted with my private key using pass[0].

[0] pass: http://www.passwordstore.org/
"£5000 points in-game and, after paying tax (one of the more annoying features - who asked for that?)"

If you had spent some time playing Civilization, you would know that taxes allow your country to have things like roads, an army, public education, and many other things that put together create the conditions for you to play "business" :)
The NTSB is involved in the investigation of any crash involving an American-made aircraft. That's SOP.
This is why the problem inevitably gets worse over time. If you think it's bad at Microsoft, visit IBM. It's mostly insiders, and everyone has a way of looking like they hit their metrics, while the company falls apart.
Do you want to amend or respond to this comment in light of rrhoover's reply to you?
... and just like that everyone all of a sudden hates product hunt on hacker news. I don't understand most of these comments.

Product Hunt is still very new and we're already talking about how the algorithm is no good and bad tweeting practices.

Of course other users are going to ask their friends to upvote their submissions. Of course the founders are going to make sure that quality products are shown near the top. Of course the founders are going to make sure that engagement is higher even if that means notifying users via twitter.

Why can't we just say congratulations!? Why do we have to hate so quickly? Everyone acts like they have been doing this for 10 years and they should have all this stuff fixed by now.
I'm sure passenger planes will circuit that region from this day on, so chances of a similar event should be extremely low.
Airlines won't be flying in that area for a while, I'd imagine.
i use it every day. nice work.
So, how does this affects http://www.myanalyticsapp.com/
interesting!!!1
This seems doable if the CEO is the final interview. I can't imagine the CEO overriding the team on more than 30% of interviews, so it's ~200 interviews on the high end.

I know the Palantir founders still interview every candidate and they seem to be doing fine.
Oh, this is great old tool! :) Here's PHP extension for Expect that I've created back in 2005: http://pecl.php.net/package/expect
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Airspace was only closed to 10,000ft. MH17 was at >30,000ft.
Why was this civilian plane over Ukraine to begin with?

I seem to recall (can't find the link now) that Ukraine declared their airspace closed to civilian aircraft after the Ukrainian Troop Transport plane was shot down recently.

Even if the airspace was open, it seems highly risky to fly over a battle-zone anyhow where direct radio communication with troops on the ground may not be possible, and opens a wide door for an accidental grounding, if not on purpose.
Yes, thanks pranehsp.
(Strava retired their API w little notice, and only granted access to its replacement to a handful. Many got left out in the cold. Not very developer-friendly. Made me mad.)
Not too surprising. After all, the only passenger airliner that's been shot down in Iranian history was an Iranian one by the USA.
You should find whether they'll change the flight route. I clearly remember my plane from DXB to NCE dodging Syria by less than 10km.

And Syria was not officially "at war".
Expect is one of the few reliable ways I've found to automate crufty, closed source things. Say, like a perforce client pull that uses a caching proxy so that the proxy is up to date for actual human pulls.
Yup. Loads. reach out at wtpayne-at-gmail-dot-com if you want to talk.
In case you're in NY this weekend.. come to H.O.P.E. http://hope.net - gotenna is on the vendors list!
Presumably satellites were watching this area due to the conflict and all data will have been recorded.
I was a data engineer for a couple years at one of the largest websites in Europe. My job was to develop applications to handle our data pipline and deploying the infrastructure on Amazon EC2, Redshift, EMR, etc.

What is it that you need and what are the problems you're facing?
I have seen way too much dead weight in engineering functions too. Basically, people who keep their jobs because they write horrendous code that nobody else can manage.

So you can BS your way in many functions.
I'm trying to figure out if this was purposefully meant to be ironic.
People are downvoting you because this quickly became blatantly off-topic and distracting from the subject at hand, not because of your political views.
Both links imply that Donetsk militia could be involved in downing of Malaysian airplane.
It used to be here
http://vk.com/wall-57424472_7256
now it's gone
http://i.imgur.com/VmwbElq.png

oh and here is them bragging that they've captured Buk
http://oi58.tinypic.com/29gmnah.jpg

I think it's pretty clear

EDIT: there is another image of it
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bswy4VtCUAAJCDS.jpg:orig
Worse still it is stationed between houses using their own people as human shields
I do not mind feature branch rebasing, when it does not violate the publicity rule (let's call it that). After the history is public, rewriting history is such a dangerous endeavor as to be completely inadvisable. More so, if one is actually looking at the end goal: a linear repository history. I can't even understand the need for a (fake) linear repository history.
this is really cool, finally real security!
There's so much hype over big data, analytics, machine learning, predictive analytics etc. In silicon valley, we're predisposed to think this disruption is the result of startups, tech companies (google/yahoo certainly get a lot of credit), and top engineering universities. But the truth is the only company effectively doing, and more importantly, selling this stuff at scale is IBM. Everyone in the data management space is hoping to get just a piece of IBM's pie. While we talk about the latest updates in hadoop and spark, IBM is closing $50m deals with telcos, banks, and governments all over the world. If you're a startup in analytics and you don't think of IBM as a competitor, you're probably naive or your market isn't big enough.
Still seems highly risky to fly over a known battle-zone where similar planes (albeit, military) have been shot down recently where direct communication with troops on the ground may not be possible (opening a door for an accidental grounding, if not on purpose).
It might be different in the browser, but in Zotero Standalone (which is what I use), right clicking the name of the collection in the left sidebar will give you an option to Export Collection. BibTeX will be one of the options. It works pretty well. I occasionally had issues with special characters and had to make changes every now and then for biblatex.
Trigger warning: debug Backbone with TriggerHappy
This is why some browsers don't trust any code running in the webpage and sandbox everything in it
He's lucky it was in China and not in the US and that he was not a chinese. I've had friends doing a strip tease in front of a group of cops, other smoke weed not far from a police station, and a lot of other stupid crap. The fact that you're a foreigner they will allow a lot of things.

Actually I had my fair share of police encounters in France as well and it never went bad. The last I remember was asking cops to take me in their cars to a club (I was completely drunk), they told me they were not a taxi company. I then told them they had to take me because I was inebriated, they just laughed at me and left.

In 2 weeks in the US I got arrested twice. Once for eating a sandwich 5meters from people drinking alcohol in the street. Then the second time, while I was going to court for that stupid shit I got arrested for going through the subway gate twice in less than 15 minutes even though I had an unlimited pass.

/rant over. Cops are cool in a lot of places. Not in the US.
The rebel army (there isn't really any government to "declare" anything in eastern Ukraine right now) warned that it was a no-fly zone, but Malaysian probably assumed they were referring to the Ukrainian air force, which had been shelling eastern Ukraine fairly heavily. A recent FAA notice warned of the potential of misidentification of civilian aircraft over eastern Ukraine, but surely nobody thought they would shoot a civilian aircraft out of the sky.

That being said, touching eastern Ukraine with a 30,000 ft. pole would probably be less than wise at the moment.
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I recommend making this about strength and flexibility (vs weight loss). If you really want to lose weight, have lean protein for breakfast, eliminate all concentrated refined sugars, don't eat anything after 8pm, and start running 3-4x / week.
I was also down voted. Had no idea about the conspiracy theories (I'm not American). Just saw a documentary about it recently.
Considering that if you look closely at the screenshots and see that it is Erik himself commenting on products, so as to have a reason to notify users, no, not really.

http://www.producthunt.com/posts/instant-chemistry

http://www.producthunt.com/posts/jumpido

http://www.producthunt.com/posts/customeed

Maybe if they made it something you could subscribe to, opt-in, I would think it wasn't spam, but as it stands now, getting a notification on all of my Twitter enabled devices about something I don't care about, that I didn't ask for nor subscribe to, is spam. That some are advocating actually "scraping emails" to automate email notifications because this is so useful just leaves me a little bit dumbfounded.
You could say the same thing about Austria going after Serbia.
A great blog post on this topic:

http://www.bhorowitz.com/the_right_way_to_lay_people_off

Though it's advice aimed at much much smaller companies than Microsoft it still resonates. Also I bet HN readers are much more likely to have to one day lay off 18 people than 18,000.
You think those imaging satellites aren't constantly recording everything they see and sending it somewhere? Especially in and around such a hot area as the Ukraine, I'm sure there is near-constant surveillance.

It would be a waste of resources otherwise.
What does "MRD" stand for? I've been searching for a definition but I can't seem to find any, that makes sense in this context.

Given the context, I guess it's some kind of product development order?
Wow, that guy's pretty much cornered the market on that particular three-word google search!

Do plants grow well like that?

https://www.google.com/search?q=broccoli+row+spacing
https://www.google.com/search?q=cukes+row+spacing
https://www.google.com/search?q=carrots+row+spacing

When I search the internet for information about agriculture, I usually keep an eye out for results from .edu webservers, rather than yuppies.

Iowa State University has a great Ag program, for example, and they cite their sources and publish their data.

I mean, you can of course rent sqft chunks of land, one unit is as good as another. Just try not to picture a 100x100 grid of squares each with a customer in the center--the plants would not grow for various reasons outlined in this thread. :)
By that logic we should all be happy that Flash isn't a spec implemented in 4 different browsers, but rather on monolithic monster from one company, in all of them.
Awesome! I have spent days wondering which events were called! Definitely useful for debugging.
Science: fucking up childhood dreams since forever.
If there was anything else they could do that was profitable then they would. Do you have any suggestions?

The only reason Apple has as much money as it does is because it greatly overcharges customers, doesn't participate in research that benefits society, and takes advantage of it's customers psychological need to have the latest model (even if the improvements are minimal).
Every point of the Iraq and Afghan wars have been "harder times" than the current Ukraine conflict.
You're an ass. Nobody is trying to "Americanify" the event. They are simply remembering another event that is linked to the current one by coincidence. The anti-American knee-jerk reaction is 10x worse than any "Americanification".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
Super helpful to know whats firing when.
The birthday paradox tells us that we'd expect to see coincidences like this after less than 30 crashes.
However clever you get with your mental encoding, it can be decoded by anyone at least equally clever.
Google launches official AdWords Express app for iOS
Yes, this is XPath 2.0. I don't bother with 1.0 if I can, because it is soooo far behind 2.0.

data: <data attr="1" />

xsl:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" exclude-result-prefixes="xs" version="2.0">

<xsl:template match="/data">
<one>
<xsl:value-of select="@attr = (2,3,4)" />
</one>
<two>
<xsl:value-of select="(@doesntexist,2)[1]" />
</two>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

gives: <one>false</one><two>2</two>
Dude. Russia is annexing by duplicitous force parts of a neighboring country. Full stop. There is no way to spin that as OK.
That could be changing and the US is not the only market that matters. There is a reason Google, Tinder and other companies deny perfectly working apps on the Windows ecosystem and its not because Windows phone is irrelevant.
> I'm afraid the memory management scheme might cause the Nimrod ecosystem to end up with too many libraries that require GC, and since the building blocks are already using it, why not use it yourself?

And what would be the problem with that? The number of application domains where even soft real-time GC is inappropriate is very, very small. And designing freedom from garbage collection into a language (other than the simple option of allowing manual allocation/deallocation) is not cost-free, either, and can weigh down the design, too. You can optimize your language design for having garbage collection or for not having garbage collection, but if you try to do both at once, a language design that specifically favors one or the other will likely beat out the compromise solution for the case it's optimized for.

And yes, that means that Nimrod (or any other language) won't be perfect for everything under the sun. Which is fine: there's nothing wrong with having multiple programming languages, each of which is better suited for a different task.
"The problem is the CEO needs an internal partner to get a list of people who need to be let go."

Prepare three envelopes...
Snowdrift.coop
Why can't we just say congratulations!?

Because not everything should get a gold star just by existing.
I don't think they even have a concept of an official app, unless someone's figuring it out and entering it manually; it's certainly not a declaration you make on submission.
Really? This is what bothers you the most about this war?

I don't think you'll have any trouble finding other poor countries that haven't yet erupted in full-out war.
go home ur drunk , rc models were accessible long before that.
This will be ported to GWT 5.5.0 in a FiveLabel. It would fit nicely.
that is an amazing project. surprised they have no software partners to help build open platforms that help run the place :)
Not available in the Polish App store.
and especially this:

"when you're writing software that only has to run on your own servers, you can use any language you want"
There is probably more interest in developing the technology and then licensing it. It seems like IBM doesn't want to be in the hardware market unless it's high margin.
You think the recent Gaza conflict has been "barely news?" Are you kidding?
How has plum.io worked out for you? What kinds of things does it test candidates for? I admit, from the front page: my impression is that it's less like Moneyball for hiring and more like Dwarf Fortress.
Anything's possible, I suppose. But the rebels and/or Russians are the only ones to have shot down any aircraft in this episode so far (so far as I know). And if the goal is to broaden the conflict, a Malaysian Airlines flight is a pretty odd choice when there were numerous other flights operated by big western airlines (British Airways, Lufthansa, etc.) also flying in the area.

There's also the fact that Ukranian officials have specifically said that Russian-backed rebels shot the plane down. We shouldn't accept those statements uncritically, but they're out there and they are worthy of some consideration. Meanwhile, I'm not aware of anyone credible, who is in a position to know, asserting that Ukraine is behind this.
Sure, and companies might need some middle mangers. That doesn't mean none of the middle managers, lawyers, and politicians are dead weight. This latest session of Congress has been historically unproductive, passing fewer than half as many bills as the previous record set in 2013.
There are incidents:
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/south-asia/spicej...
I know these phones started life at Nokia before the purchase, but post-purchase why weren't they killed immediately?

Running an internal project to get Android working with Microsoft's services as a hedge against Windows Mobile failing - a bit like Apple did with OSX on Intel - I can understand.

But to actually release it as a product only to kill it a short time later I don't.

Good though they may have been (I have no idea), they should never have seen the light of day. It demonstrates a lack of focus, makes it clear Microsoft isn't confident in its own platform and is a waste of resources and effort. Like the Kin.
On this topic on rt.com:

> 16:05 GMT:
> The Donetsk People’s Republic – where heavy fighting continues between Kiev and opposition – has denied reports in the Western media which claim that the Malaysian plane was shot down.

http://rt.com/news/173628-malaysian-plane-crash-ukraine/

Not seen that claim reported elsewhere. Lets see what happens.
"Cops deserve respect and deference, if only because they stand for public order and that deserves it."
Whatever good they do happen to do is rendered moot by the fact that they are complicit in the bad things that their colleagues do without them speaking up about it.
I couldn't find the source for the second part of your translation - "we warned them ...". Has it been removed? I am curious to see if AN-26 was also shot down, or they mistook Boeing for AN-26.

EDIT: got the answer in this thread - post was deleted.
You are making an ad hominem argument. Just because there exists a mention of neo-nazis by a relevant news organizations does not LOGICALLY imply that group, or those people associated with that group, shot down the airline. On the other hand, knowing a Buk was deployed in the region where the plane was shot down (and the fact it was shot down in separatist territory to boot) is a much more compelling line of reasoning than what you've put down here. I get that you may be angry about this, but that doesn't justify making up a rationalization about it.

FWIW, I don't like neo-nazis or people who shoot down innocent civilians who weren't even involved in the area (other than being over it) to begin with. Whoever did this will be determined. Are you OK with accepting the outcome when it is?
From the article:

"How does it make you feel when you see a cop behind you?" said Tye. "If they're going to do it, maybe they should get a taste of their own medicine."

Maybe having cops around endangers peoples safety--when driving, for example, slowing down and causing accidents.
It looks like that if you turn the device, the recording interface switch to 16/9, so you can do both.
> A recent FAA notice warned of the potential of misidentification of civilian aircraft over eastern Ukraine, but surely nobody thought they would shoot a civilian aircraft out of the sky.

Yes, but without any direct communication, no organized Air Traffic Control, and without tracking satellites, it seems very easy for ground troops to mistake a civilian transport with a military transport.

Seems ludicrous for anyone to attempt to fly over Ukraine right now.
There is no motivation for the separatists to do this.

"We don't recognize the current government and want more autonomy. Let's shot down a foreign passenger plane! That'll help our cause!"

But the point I was really trying to make is that there is no "overwhelmingly likely" theory at this point. There are just knee-jerk reactions based on your preexisting world view.
Lots of info on Wikipedia for anyone who wants to read more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800_conspiracy_theor...

I recall the conspiracies got a lot of attention at the time, but I'm sure it all depends on how old you are and what you were actually watching, listening to, or reading.
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Isn't he just saying that Google does this automatically for you?
> blown away
they're probably going to retire the brand. i don't think you can recover from 2 crashes in the same year.

this can be done by simply liquidating the airline and walking away, or by buying/merging another firm and operating under the new name.

see: valujet
You can of course link to a line number on a specific commit. You don't need to avoid line numbers, you just need to link to a specific commit.

The y shortcut is super helpful though -- I was always trying to figure out how to get the the latest commit hash on my own before, clicking on the latest commit in history etc., very cumbersome.

This is important enough for linking to sourcecode (I agree), that I kind of wish github had an actual button for it on screen, instead of having to know the magic shortcut. But I realize github screen real estate is precious.
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According to BBC, major airlines like Air France and Lufthansa are only now rerouting their flights to avoid the conflict zone. So, until now it was assumed there was no risk in flying in that altitude.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-28354787
If you looked at a random cryptographically secure hash on the internet, would you be able to determine what hashing algorithm was used? Would you know how many rounds it was sent through, or whether any other hashing techniques were used prior to the final hash?
Living with dependency injection
I think the overall advice here is pretty solid. I might add a couple comments:

--- The time budget is extremely sensitive to how much you already know about the subject. If you're generally up on the literature in an area, it is often much easier to isolate the chunks that are genuinely new to you and thereby grok the paper very quickly. In a new field, even several hours to really read a paper might not be enough, depending on how much backtracking you need to do to understand core ideas.

--- In physics, the conventional wisdom (which I agree with) is that the main thing to do when checking out a paper is to look at the figures. These are generally chosen to highlight the most important points of the paper and will often quickly convey what was measured/calculated, how the effect scales, etc.