skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess would be that laying off this many is a big hairy job. A lot of people need to be involved. They would all need to know about it.

Keeping it secret is a lost cause. There would be rumors and theories and half truths flying around.
There is indeed some work going on with failsafe parachute deployment and one or two commercially available solutions. So far they are not very popular from what I have seen being very much involved in the hobby.
Arguably the article is the one that's moralizing, with its comment about "as nature intended." As to your other point, devaluation of procreation and family is as substantial a threat as it gets.

Anecdote: having a kid has made me a little crazy. Every now and then, someone will do something like ignore the "yield to pedestrians" sign on a crosswalk, and come a little too close to clipping my daughter's stroller. When that happens, I literally, not figuratively, want to drag the person out of their car and beat them with the stroller. I can't help it, it's a brain-stem level parental instinct: first eliminate threats to your kids, ask questions later.

Familial bonds are a primitive and powerful force with little comparison in the human experience. Huxley was incredibly insightful in realizing that if you really wanted to control a society, make it docile, you have to break down these bonds and mitigate the threat they represent.
Hi roel_v, you're assuming I'm arrogant because I'm French, and it is not nice because I was careful to also praise the upsides of both US and France.

You're also too keen on assuming I like social inequalities. In fact, the place I grew up safe from violence was a Catholic high school: They amount to 20% of French schools and cost €800 per year, compared to the $24000 it costs in Australia. Catholic school are even careful to have hallal meals and the vice manager of mine was muslim. I'm telling there is no discrimintation on race, religion or money here. I'd capture more truth with "People from public schools just hate to be krelboynes" in lieu of all discriminations I hear.

I like Klapaucius' comment because it emphasizes more on a "user story", and it tells us much more than statistics: Inuit people have 27 different words for snow, and we don't have a translation for "this guy is a bully", "wedgie" or "swirlie". "Harceleur" isn't colloquial for schools.

So when one makes a video game about it, he has to take care of culture and markets.
In a galaxy not so far away, someone is remaking Star Wars as a Minecraft film
So they've hired 150 people over the last 10 years, and currently have 13 people.. Turnover much?
Thanks for posting this; I submitted an "Ask HN" entry a few days ago to ask other start-ups how they go about hiring technical people (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7978111) - it didn't get much traction but this might be a good opportunity to find out a bit more :)
I think he meant liberal capitalism in the liberal/free/laissez faire sense not in the sense of the US slur for someone not quite as right wing as the tea party sense.
So MS Bought Nokia and ~30k employees for ~$7.2 billion last April.

3 months later, MS may now be firing ~half of the Nokia group. The executives who drove that catastrophic deal stay.

What a testament to how disastrous big M&A really is. Is there any large acquisition that succeeded in the last 10 years? I'd feel sorry if I was a Nokia guy there, they pulled out the best non-Apple phone hardware in the last years.

Probably also a good reminder for Blackberry - dont sell yourself and die trying, it actually can't get worse.
"The generated password is also site-unique and thus leaves you more resilient against sites losing their password databases or being outright malicious"

Assuming this tool would become popular, I do not think it would make any difference in scenario you described. If I know that a lot of people use this to generate their passwords, I can:

* guess the door id (e.g. facebook or fb for facebook.com),

* concatenate it to usual attack guess,

* hash the result one more time and continue in exactly the same way as usually.

Bonus for attacker: if any of password databases leaks and attacker manages to acquire your passphrase the above way, he needs only few door id guesses to get access on any of yours accounts.
http://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_nexus_i9250-4219.php
I am eagerly waiting for that, let's check google analytics in ios what's new
You basically just said "this perception might be wrong but it's one we criticise anyway", which... yeah.

In any case, MBAs can help start-up focused entrepreneurs. They can be start-up focused entrepreneurs. Your perception that it can't be so is exactly what I'm talking about.
Introducing Intel Galileo Gen 2 development board
Once again, Hacker News is tomorrow's newspaper today.
I would spontaneously combust if I were responsible for a $364B company on a good day, never mind deciding how layoffs should be done. It's just surprising that parody-level corporate-speak still gets used despite having being derided for years in mainstream press and conversation.
Is there any large acquisition that succeeded in the last 10 years?

You might have the wrong criteria for acquisition success. I'm sure both Nokia and MS knew these layoffs would come before they agreed to the purchase.
Heh, sorry if that wasn't clear. Our team (through working at various other organisations) has hired more than 150 people over the last 10 years.
Not necessarily true. The prepackaged food industry has plenty of offerings for foods that are partially prepared cutting out tedious (time consuming) or expensive parts of the prep process while still requiring further processing by a cook for finish. Like most things this is not as black and white as many here are making it out to be.

Even for the foods that are nearly completely ready to server the ingredients, recipes, and flavor profiles may have been created by the actual chef from the restaurant. The packaging process offloads the labor in this case but not the creativity. In that case the argument against prepackaged food seems to be against time/place shifting labor more than anything else.
From reading the email, I looks like the majority (~12k) of the cuts are in the Nokia division, not sure how many of those are developers but I'd imagine not the majority.
There are scores of these sites out there, like http://oplop.appspot.com/. The nice thing about having a small application do it is that you don't have to run it on a browser, which I inherently trust less... all the same, it's pretty convenient to have it on a web page (e.g., when you're trying to enter something in on your mobile phone, or on a device that isn't yours).

My favorite password manager, pass, is fantastic, but unfortunately I can't use it if I ever leave my laptop.
He's talking about cultural alignment in the mail, and there's no reason to assume that that's not the reasoning behind the Nokia layoffs. Acquisitions and mergers are very difficult to get right, particularly in terms of culture. If there's a cultural gap between the two companies, then the layoffs for the acquirer probably make sense.
Integer Factorization in Polynomial Time
GitHub Link: [https://github.com/bosons/rsa-redis]
Copy-paste defects
Depends on the viewpoint: When you acquire a company, are the employees assets or liabilities?
Both. If you deal with a value type (struct or primitive) and never take the address of it, it can't exist anywhere besides the current stack, value types are copied if you return it out of a function or call another function with it.

For reference types, they do have escape analysis, not sure how one would compare it to another language.
This is a bit of a bad sign. It means Microsoft won't have their own AOSP-based product. Android apps and ecosystem elements will always be second priority, no matter what any management claims. This makes it less likely that "mobile first, cloud first" actually means something different from "devices and services." If Windows Phone fails to gain altitude, it will drag the rest of the strategy down with it.
So....Shamir's Secret Sharing algorithm[1]?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
No reason to assume everyone works like you. My teen years was spent busily writing code and I had no interest in sex or the opposite gender. It's not implausible that the fraction of the population working like me could increase over time.
This strategy deftly sidesteps three potential problems:

* Oh great, I forgot to sync my password list on my MacBook before I left the house with only my iPhone

* Oh great, my MacBook got stolen and my backups are all corrupted

* Oh great, my MacBook got stolen and I don't know the password to my backup service that has all my passwords because the password was stored on the machine that just got stolen

Yes, all solvable problems. But, essentially, if you can commit this algorithm to memory, you can always retrieve your passwords, no matter what hardware, backups, or 3rd-party systems go missing.
I can't tell if you're trying to be sarcastic or not.

A lot of people have been saying for a long time that Microsoft's biggest problem is that its various divisions work at cross-purposes, even competing and fighting with each other.
http://www.ukhas.org.uk/guides:faq
> Is there any large acquisition that succeeded in the last 10 years?

Yes, many. Think of the Lenovo-IBM deal -- massive success. The Facebook-Whatsapp deal is 2.5x bigger than this acquisition, we'll see how that works out (financially).
Google-Youtube is a big one that can be considered as a big success as well. Ebay-Paypal. FB-Instagram.
Personally I'd much rather hear about a potential layoff far in advance. It would give me a chance to prepare financially and start looking at new jobs.
Not really, because then the police have the control over the cameras. This officer in Albuquerque [1] was wearing a lapel cam in 3 separate serious incidents, after two of which he was accused of using excessive force and during the third incident he shot and killed a 19-year-old girl. During all three incidents his camera "died" before anything serious started happening.

They just learn where the wires are that keeps it running and they pull them out, then reconnect them when they're doing normal stuff. The same thing keeps coming up with dashcams, too. The dashcam footage gets "lost", etc. Maybe one day we'll have technologies and policies that don't allow officers to mess with them, but for the foreseeable future we're the ones who have to be vigilant.
Very small and seemingly innocent changes in a Haskell program can vastly change the runtime characteristics, especially if they introduce a space leak or alter the compiler's strictness analysis.

That isn't a factor at all in OCaml - in fact the compiler is fairly "dumb".
I'm sure Nokia itself knew these layoffs were likely-to-inevitable whether that deal happened or not.
Getting rid of the senior management and board members who allowed the Nokia buy to happen in the first place would address the cause. Layoffs are just a symptom of such management failures.
Under the important things they've learned, "A startup is a war. ... lots of life changes shouldn't be made together", and then a biblical quote saying that a newly married man should not be set to war.

Doesn't strike me as truly the bias-free process they were earlier promoting.
The door is just the identifier you use for retrieving a certain password. You can just use your username, or the e-mail address you used to sign up. Said identifier is not a password in that it's not secret. You can even write them down.
The USGS is amazing. They have incredibly detailed information for the US: elevation (within 10 ft in many places), demographics, geology, and others. They have an amazing geologic map for Big Bend National Park [1] (a very geologically interesting park in southern Texas). Global maps are a lot harder to come by, unfortunately, although I did find a similar geologic map of the Earth as the one for Mars (divided by pieces) at [2].

[1] http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3142/

[2] http://energy.usgs.gov/OilGas/AssessmentsData/WorldPetroleum...
That's true, and adults can get trapped. But it's not the norm, and even then, there's always the option of quitting your job and going out to live in the woods or something. It's not necessarily a good option, but even having a potential out that's a bad option can make a big difference, mentally.
الان اليكم درجات الحد الادنى لكليات العلمى والادبى المرحلة الاولى
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
We don't have any data on the blinded vs. non-blinded looking at CVs, other than the anecdotal (and deeply embarrassing) realization that in the past there may have been instances where we were favoring "normal" names or becoming overly impressed with specific universities. These types of subtle biases exist, no matter how much we wish they didn't, so we thought we'd try to remove them as much as possible.

We like the hiring manager to know how to do the jobs they're managing/responsible for, but the expectation is that the person working the job should be and needs to be better. So for the first few weeks they work how the manager did things, then we specifically ask them to step out and start experimenting. It seems to work pretty well. Someone told me 37Signals has a similar policy in place, not sure what it is exactly.
Google is not really a search company. It's a machine-learning company.

It wants to be seen that way, but until it abolishes closed allocation (and maybe it has, but I haven't heard anything to indicate that it has) it will just be an ads company. It's still a pretty good place to work, by industry standards, but the percentage of people who'll get to work on machine learning is very low.

Google definitely wants to have the image of being the machine learning company because that's a great way to attract talent (even if that talent is mostly wasted under closed allocation). And if you land in the right place, there is interesting work. The reality most people face, though, is that most people (especially outside of Mt. View) aren't going to get real projects and won't be anywhere near the machine learning work.

Google does have a lot of talent and probably would be the undisputed #1 tech company if it implemented open allocation, though.
key_data = hashlib.sha256()
key_data.update( base_phrase + ' - ' + door_id )

Congratulations, your program is vulnerable to length-extension attack [0].

What you want is something secret determining the output of something public... so instead of reinventing the wheel (the number 1 source of issues in crypto), use the standard, ie HMAC [1].

Now for the rest of the algorithm, IANAC, but truncating sounds like a bad idea.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_extension_attack

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC
A few people may express derision for the political apparatus, but the reality remains that this type of language is extremely effective.

I used to believe that if one were selective, he could find discerning groups of people where political shenanigans were of minimal effect. I've since learned that no matter what, politics is a matter of survival in any group of 5+ people, especially in cultural circumstances that emphasize individual independence and freedom.

We can't fault a corporate CEO for donning highly-sanitized corporate political speech. Like it or not, executives would be dead meat without it.
> 3. Interview

> 1. Review blinded CVs (remove name and university whenever possible)

Interesting that they remove the name of the university, considering the seemingly widespread habit of name-dropping Ivy League universities when people want to show themselves in a good light/give indirect credentials, or is talking about someone who they want to show in a good light.

Though I've seen this behaviour on "The Internet", and The Internet is more American than Scottish.
Thanks - glad you like it. :)

I was gonna call this Dayboard - Internet Attention Vampire Repellent but it's not SEO friendly, ya know?
Expansion of Microsoft Research–Analysis and Download of 1997 Plan
/s/corporate\ speak/lawyer\ speak
If you use Sublime Text the Githubinator plugin provides shortcuts to create a permalink to GitHub for the current selection in your editor. I use it all the time - it's great.

https://github.com/ehamiter/ST2-GitHubinator
Yikes - "over the next 6 months" => MS will be a disaster area until 2015 as people bicker and fight for a position on top of the human life raft.
IBM has about 3 times this number. But like you say is split up in to 4 or 5 main divisions.
Project Kotlin Moves On
Any references where this K and r drive distinction is put forward?
"We strongly value reliability, so we're testing this with every email..."

What if the candidate is in an all-day meeting at the job he's currently working and doesn't have time to open his personal email?

This process seems to involve a lot less of the weird psychological-tests-designed-by-non-psychologists, but it's still there.
Did MS? Including the cost of the lay off ($1.6b says Recode), Nokia price was actually $8.8b. What was their business case that was so easily scrapped just months into the purchase?

It may be successful on a tax/accounting perspective since the purchase was made in € with cash that couldn't be brought to the US.

Yet this does look like a gigantic waste of assets. Warren Buffett says that a successful business is all about mindfully allocating its resources. This looks like the oppsite - no wonder that Nadella has a hard time explaining what happens in simple words.
For a second I thought he was tortured with cupping glasses, but no, that seems to have been self-inflicted torture...
Solving these issues was a fun challenge when I built a project similar to this a few years ago. It's one of the few things I've built that I use every single day.

My project, Cryptasia (www.cryptasia.com), uses a Google Spreadsheet as a data-source where each line defines a single set of generation parameters: the allowed character set, number of characters, domain name, hash seed, and name of the key. When you pick a service (e.g. gmail) and enter your passphrase, it creates a password for you using that unique combination. It also hashes the passphrase and displays an image based on what you typed, so if you recognize your image, you know you typed it properly. Some advantages of using a data-source like this are that it can be entirely client-hosted (the google doc need not be public) and you can regenerate your password for a site at any time just by changing the seed.

One interesting difference in OP's implementation is the use of a PIN as well as a passphrase. What led to this implementation?
Semiconductor processing is amazing technology. A quote you'll hear in these circles:

"Gallium arsenide is the material of the future and will always remain so"
Ask HN: Do you have a Bay Area warehouse to start a warehouse incubator?
I promise, we won't use it for a grow operation...

We're running up against a deadline and it isn't looking like any of the warehouse space that we've looked at is going to come through by when we need it.

I'm willing to do (virtually) anything to get us a decent space (5,000sqft+) as a temporary location while we finalize our longer term lease.

Think of this as starting a warehouse space incubator, and we'd be your first company.

We do have cash to offer, but no, we won't do your dirty coding for you.

We would, however, print a huge number of miniatures for you so you can have a collection of yourself to play with: http://twindom.com

Anyone?
Introducing Typed – Your New Favourite Markdown Editor for Mac
Natero (YC S12) is hiring front end visualization engineers
Hoe boek je een goedkoop vliegtuigticket? – Richting Vakantie
Whether you think you are going to be fired or not, working in a company with that atmosphere is not pleasant. It may not be you, but it could well be those people you like to hang out with in the coffee room.

Generally a company making big layoffs is a sign of a sinking ship. If you are a hot programmer you aren't going to want to hang around waiting for doom. Much better to move to an expanding and thriving company.
Welp, neither of those are true.
This will be huge financial data, operational data, etc that is spit out of age-old systems in CSV format. Excellent.
If you choose a suitably expensive hashing algorithm (I don't know if the author did), brute forcing is not practical.
Yeah, was wondering in retrospect if that would be a bit bizarre without the context of the talk.

Essentially, we were saying that this idea of making sure we're not hiring people who are undergoing lots of change in other areas of life isn't a new idea, and has been recognised by ancient cultures long ago (hence the quote from the Old Testament). If you can find any similar quotes from a long way back, let me know and we'll add them!
Microsoft Metro inspired the new airbnb design.
Reminds me of vault by James Coglan : https://getvau.lt/ except you can customize the size and characters.
Political tap-dancing has been parodied for generations and that still happens.

Heck, Cheney all but quoted Reagan's "I don't recall"-defense as a 20th anniversary tribute and that had been lampooned specifically.
Samsung Launching Its Premium Headphones In The U.S
I had a real hope that this would provide a decent UI for Google Analytics, one which I could actually navigate.

Nope.

(Try navigating from one site's analytics to another. It's like completing a 2D sliding puzzle)
Some of us who use GA write/run iOS apps and use iPhones/iPads as primary devices. An iPhone app for monitoring GA provides additional convenience. Encouraging us (thru not providing a native iOS app for GA) to use Android devices is encouraging us to use something other than GA (and yes, there are other options). Seems pretty obvious to consider.
Beachstartup is right, I was being over-generous in my characterization when I said "on par". I really meant for the kind of driving you'd do every day, the cars are on par, but in raw performance, cars like the M5 and C63 AMG absolutely destroy the Model S P85+.

That video is a fluke. In (instrumented) test after test, the M5 is over 1 second faster 0-60, and more than 2 seconds faster down the quarter mile. That might not sound like a lot, but imagine a car drives by at 100+ MPH, now count...

one-thousand-one

one-thousand-two

How far down the road is that car now? That's the distance between an M5 and a 85P+ in the quarter mile.

There is a realm of performance at the very top end where the dino-powered engine still has an advantage. Electrics can achieve the same performance, but you're fighting an up-hill battle to get there. You have to make too many compromises along the way [1] in order to beat them. Right now, at least. It'll be slow coming, but I believe the transition to electric advantage is coming.

1: Here's an example of an extremely compromised all-out electric that is capable of beating its petrol powered equivalent. Have a look at 3:35 ish for a drag race. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gFGX43vubM.
Wikipedia has a good synopsis of the concept in general: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_and_K_selection

Worth keeping in mind is that most higher animals (humans included) aren't one or the other. It's a continuum. Higher animals tend toward r-selective patterns of behavior when under stress (to repopulate after a catastrophe) and K-selective patterns in stability.
It's completely erroneous to think that nature "intends" anything. That would require intellect (at least a little), and that's only within brains, to the best of our knowledge.

Things happen, in evolution and elsewhere, when random chance and external pressures come together.