skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the original comment, my original thought was that it was probably something to do with people referring to line numbers on HEAD. A less link-bait title that confirmed this would have allowed me to easily skip this this article which, for my purposes, was useless.
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Discussion from 2011

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2615096
Microsoft employee here: I took this exactly the opposite way. I know I'm valuable, I know many others aren't (sorry: being honest) and this is a good thing from my perspective because at Microsoft we are finally facing reality and getting the right people in place.

My only gripe is that the layoffs are not larger - we need about 20% of the marketing folks and 20% of the program managers that we currently have. I would cut deeply in those disciplines as well and then Page-style cut all of the deadwood non-strategic low-revenue projects (and there are a lot of them).

Laying off Terry Myerson (Windows) and Kevin Turner (chief hacker culture killer) would be a great improvement as well - they are both cancers.
...which Ubuntu supports.
If you use anything other than a very strong master password, this scheme leaves you unprotected. When you sign up to a site, you are effectively giving that site, and anybody intercepting that communication SHA256(base_phrase + " - " + door_id). This enables anybody with one of the generated passwords to crack the hash and obtain the master password. This should use a very slow hash function instead.
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Good point. Perhaps a better comparison would be doctors?
Haha, very nice work! So let me get this straight. They selected only 3000 people from 16-49 (not 9000), then of those, they managed to find the addresses of only 2693 to give them the survey, and then only 1540 actually did the survey. Of those 1540 just 126 were between ages 16 and 19, and from those slightly under half, so 60 people, said the thing that was quoted.

That's some serious sensationalism going on..
Low cost is key. MS wants the Chinese, African, and Indian markets as they ride the wave to income parity.
Having worked for several subcontractors, I can tell you there's a vast difference between the cost of Microsoft doing HR and a much smaller company doing HR.

Microsoft probably keeps good records and actually has good HR staff.

A lot of subcontractors don't keep very good records, outsource their HR staff to India and aren't against closing up shop and reincorporating with a new name.

Edit: Out of 5 of these companies that I actually needed employment verification from after leaving, only 1 of them could actually locate a record saying I worked from them. I always have to go to pay stubs.
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Or link directly to functions on Sourcegraph, if you are referring to a function and not just a line range.

Like https://sourcegraph.com/code.google.com/p/go/.GoPackage/net/....

(Full disclosure: I'm one of the creators of Sourcegraph.)
You immediately had to make it racial despite the fact that one of the guys recording is hispanic (Jose)?
This is dangerously insecure.

Let's say badsite.com stores your password in plaintext and their database is compromised (or they're malicious actors in the first place who created the site with the purpose of gathering login credentials).

Now, an attacker who sees this will try go to gmail.com and enter the password gmail.com!@#t3st1ng (with your email address), or bankofamerica.com and try bankofamerica.com!@#t3st1ng.
Eh, I think they are just talking reasonable and are in reality anything but.

The film group obviously has an anti-police bias (somewhat understandable given behavior I have seen from cops) and the police obviously would prefer to remain completely unaccountable to the public.

But you can't air these feelings in public and expect to be taken seriously so everyone is "reasonable" while secretly pushing their real agenda. Just like everywhere else I guess.
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Watchguard Video, which provides dashcam tech for police departments, is working on a streaming video solution that sends the live video feed back to HQ. I've seen a demo of the system and it's really neat. Cell, WiFi, satellite and a few other receivers are built into one board and firmware dynamically switches the active connection to the device with the strongest signal, ensuring the highest throughput as well as redundancy. It's all locked away in the trunk where it can't be accessed. It won't stop a determined rogue officer but it's a step in the right direction.
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Have a look at Paradox Development Studio games:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_Development_Studio
I'd recommend EU4 if you're new. Next to it, Civilization looks like a game for kids.
When taking pictures of something becomes "vigilante justice" then we're in the world of newspeak.

Reminds me of when, in the wake of 9/11, the Justice Department released a list of domestic terror organizations that included environmental activists who had never hurt anyone.
"Last week in my email to you I synthesized our strategic direction as a productivity and platform company..."

Good old corporatespeak. Anaesthetize them with tedious bullshit so you never have to say "You're fired."
> Everyone talks like 'Last week in my email to you I synthesized our strategic direction'?

Its a way of softening the blow for the people being laid off. I mean, sure, you are losing your job, on the other hand, do you really want to work for someone whose brain works in a way that would let them write "Last week in my email to you I synthesized our strategic direction"?
One other thing I would add to this is that I believe there are legal problems if they were to revoke a job offer in a situation like this (what I heard - IANAL). Keep in mind that an obligation to still hire you may mean you're walking into a situation where they no longer wanted to hire you. In my case, people I went to for advice kept pointing out that if the company was making such a drastic cut of their engineering staff, they shouldn't have been hiring less-experienced employees anyway. That doesn't seem to be the case in Microsoft's specific situation with Nokia, though.
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This was almost certain to happen. It would have been extremely uncharacteristic of Microsoft to continue this product line.

Unfortunately, this also closes off an avenue to Nadella to prod Windows Phone to become truly competitive as a mobile platform, and for Microsoft's ecosystem to have an in-house target for platforms other than Windows Phone.
An exit story... except without the actual story about the exit.
>Those of you who scoff at the idea that people will prefer to have sex with robots rather than each other, be warned: the tipping point is within a generation, and when that tipping point hits, the revolution will happen very quickly.

Shoutout to the webcomic "Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life", which used this as a starting premise ten years ago (scroll right):

https://web.archive.org/web/20040306080712/http://www.bohemi...
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E-bike in a cardboard box (IKEA)
I don't think cramming then taking a couple of weeks break and then cramming again is an effective strategy. It only works with tasks that have a slow rate of decay.

Good for making progress on a side project and yet horrible for learning.

I think slow and steady combined with a few sprints each year is optimal. I do 1 hour/day most of the year and then 40+ hours/week for two non-consecutive months.
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Facebook-Whatsapp are you serious?
And would highlight a hell of a lot more abuse of position.
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>'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.'

My understanding, primarily from friends at Cisco which has its own history of acquisitions and layoffs is that this is roughly standard procedure, catastrophe or not.

Basically, there's always going to be a lot of overlap when acquiring another large company. Loads of people are made completely redundant and things that didn't come out via diligence are discovered.

There's a wait and see period where some people leave, followed by jockeying for position and finally layoffs of people who remain redundant and/or lacked the awareness to pursue either of the former two options.

Obviously, a merger which doesn't pan out would amplify the effect.

What I wonder is how much such a process actually affects the success of these mergers? Do the consultants and banks who assist in these sort of things have a variable to account the back-biting scramble that will take place in each first year?
I'd rather know ahead of time so I could start finding a new employer.
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The Netherlands, I think.

I agree, Papers is great. I have been using it since the earliest version, both on my Mac and on my iPad. Neither has ever given me trouble.
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My Chrome extension (which I don't use anymore, but here it is: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cryptopass/hegbhhp...) uses similar technique, but instead of displaying this "PIN code" it uses different colors for master password input box text: the color changes as you type.
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Why the rich and famous need quickie loans too
No change in writing style will let the researcher who reads it get out of thinking about how the ideas might be useful in their own work, what the authors might have done wrong without realizing it, etc.
I would be satisfied with a ( future )society where everyone wears a recording system, officials have to or they lose their status, and the data is automatically encrypted and uploaded to state servers. Then if proof is needed, the legal system unlocks the appropriate data.
I don't think RMS will succeed ... unix will be the last operating system – 1985
Many commenters claim that pastor is not watertight, and that is of course 100% true. I completely agree! There is much room for improvement and I appreciate these comments very much.

However we all have an Achilles heel in our online security management strategies. I'm guessing that master email addresses, used to reset passwords and authenticate and also smartphones are a much much weaker link then a system like pastor, even when it is only used to generate parts of passwords and everything else is written down. Would you continue reading this comment if you suddenly became aware that you had no clue where you phone was and vaguely remembered putting on some counter in some store somewhere? I even had to checked the presence of my phone when writing that. Twice.

Also there are alot of integrated systems for managing passwords. Centralized payed services can of course sport far higher quality assurance, but pastor is a completely self contained script that can be remembered and kept anywhere. By using a simple solution one removes a lot of the pitfalls that are present in more complex solutions. The weaknesses, which are always there in any system, can be more easily understood and managed.
Apparently about a thousand.
http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/business/11224-microsoft-plans-c...
Does anyone know if there is some sort of UI kit they are using for those graphs for the app?
Ask HN: What password manager do you use?
I know the benefits of using a password manager but have yet to find one that I feel comfortable with.
I thought this was the TSA application process!
Nice. Did you see the iMobileSitter app yet? http://www.imobilesitter.com/index_en.php

It's very equal but working in the cloud.
Ok, so the tenderloin gets gentrified. Where do those homeless go now?

You haven't solved the problem. Just moved it far away where you can't see it.
> The presumption that people won't 'get it' because they have an MBA is laughable.

Uhh... who said that MBAs didn't "get it"? The original accusation was that MBAs sometimes employed a particularly objectionable type of vapid and duplicitous speech, not that MBAs were lacking in any particular mental department.

I see several people trying to extend an olive branch ("my personal experience coincides with the stereotype BUT I know my experience is limited, please fill in the gaps"). Instead of filling in the gaps, which you are presumably able to do

> I've just worked with people who were both gifted and in possession of an MBA.

, you insult the people asking you for information and you ignore their polite request. WTF, mate?
They admitted that Civilization's co-designer, Shelly, had played the board game extensively.
"Culture fit is really important."

We could discuss hours about culture fit but this might reveal an uncontroled bias on your (remarkable) bias free hiring process because it is highly subjective.
How do you ensure a recruiter assesses culture fit correctly (i.e not by the way someone dresses for example or just by ensuring that the candidate looks sufficiently like him).
A license is a permission granted by the author, and an extension of the authors wishes.

This is why relicensing as a term indeed leads to confusion. People think the license is inherently a part of the work, and thus can be as readily changed as the software source itself. It is however not part of the work, but part of the author. If you want to change the license, you need to get the author to change his mind.

Some licenses allow people to add new licenses on-top of existing licenses. That is not re-licensing, but simply the addition of more requirements. If you remove the original license, you loose the permission needed to use/copy the work created by the original author.
> But to really guage the scientific merit, you must compare the paper to other works in the area.

Know what you read!
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For fun, check out our Show HN from January :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7144815
Here's my attempt at removing some of the worst fluff from the email:

Last week in my email to you I outlined our direction as a productivity and platform company. On July 22, during our public earnings call, I’ll share further specifics on where we are focusing our innovation investments. The first step to building the right organization is to make changes to our workforce. With this in mind, we will begin to reduce the size of our overall workforce by up to 18,000 jobs in the next year. Of that total, Nokia Devices and Services is expected to account for about 12,500 jobs, comprising both professional and factory workers. We are moving now to start reducing the first 13,000 positions, and the vast majority of employees whose jobs will be eliminated will be notified over the next six months.

It’s important to note that while we are eliminating roles in some areas, we are adding roles in certain other strategic areas. My promise to you is that we will go through this process in the most thoughtful and transparent way possible. We will offer severance to all employees impacted by these changes, as well as job transition help in many locations, and everyone can expect to be treated with the respect they deserve for their contributions to this company.

Later today your Senior Leadership Team member will share more on what to expect in your organization. Our workforce reductions are mainly driven by two outcomes: work simplification as well as Nokia Devices and Services integration.

First, we will simplify the way we work to drive greater accountability and move faster. We plan to have fewer layers of management, both top down and sideways, to accelerate the flow of information and decision making. This includes flattening organizations and increasing the span of control of people managers. Our business processes and support models will be more lean and efficient with greater trust between teams. These changes will affect both the Microsoft workforce and our vendor staff.

Second, we are working to integrate the Nokia Devices and Services teams into Microsoft, completing the acquisition announced last September. To win in the higher price tiers with our first-party phone portfolio, we will focus on design and technical innovation. In addition, we plan to shift select Nokia X product designs to become Lumia products running Windows. This builds on our success in the affordable smartphone space and aligns with our focus on Windows Universal Apps.

Making these decisions to change are difficult, but necessary. I want to invite you to my monthly Q&A event tomorrow. I hope you can join, and I hope you will ask any question that’s on your mind.
The original title is "Don't Link that Line Number" which also isn't what the article is saying, so the HN re-title is an improvement.

An accurate title would look more like "Use commit-specific links when linking to line numbers on Github".
Love Expect, simple yet so functional.
I'd be happy to see a people power democracy movement bring freedom to people in any country. Freedom belongs to everyone. But a hard-headed realist about winning freedom for people everywhere from all of humanity will recognize that some national regimes today are more harmful to the cause of spreading freedom than others.
It isn't just that Nokia X is dead. This says they're killing of all of what use to be "Smart devices" - which is/was the feature phone division. So that includes the Asha series, etc.
It was already as good as a bunch of PhD's could make it after working on it for years. Removing 25% of the remaining errors after that is a grand payoff!
This is awesome! Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
What I mean is fewer layers in the org chart and fewer people to pass decisions through/get approvals from could result in faster product changes. Not necessarily better changes of course, but there is the potential for quicker iteration
First I was surprised because AFAIK in EU pure software patents are forbidden. But then I have seen that it is a US patent.

Even if it is not a "simple" linked list, but contains auxiliary pointers to allow traversing in a different sequence, it really shows why we should get rid of patents.

I am sure there must be a lot of prior art for this so-called invention.
From an academic perspective, maybe. In terms of practical use of machine methods, not much. Machine learning is largely hype. I pity the army of PhDs they must have building training sets.
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If that was the case, do you think most of the Nokia employees were actively looking for another job and were just riding the gravy train until it finally pulled into the station?

I would think if I worked at Nokia and we were acquired by Microsoft, I'd probably be looking for another job fairly quickly. Considering the writing was on the wall for a while even before they were acquired by MS.
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Yup, in this day and age simplicity and clarity stand out and are appreciated by most people.
Bing is not a "break-out hit". It loses $1 billion every year for Microsoft last I checked about a year ago. It's relatively little used and rarely do any of my client sites get search referrals from them (I own a web dev company).
Tech is my community as CTO, and this is one of the few examples on the web using the new Famo.us JS framework. Aside from that, everyone is creating video for marketing as professional quality video is more readily available to consumers. Thanks for the input on the Freemium model as well! We have heard both sides, and will be a tough call! :)
I know a guy with an MBA who runs a successful interactive agency thats had 100% revenue growth year over year. His MBA has better trained him to handle the operations, accounting and marketing side of his business, since up to the point of starting his company he'd only worked as a software engineer.

YMMV.
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For a cult that asks founders to attend weekly dinners I'm sure they can ask for simple statistics once a year that takes 5 minutes.
I think they're referencing Apple's move to flat icon design.
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I think you overlooked his point, which is that corporate politicking inevitably means that it's not just the bottom 5% that will get laid off.

Also, I disagree with your assumption that it's easy to know if you're in the bottom 5% of performers. Of course you will have a general idea of where you stand, but in a company the size of Microsoft with considerable organization dysfunction I really doubt anybody can judge themselves with that sort of granularity.
My father (PhD in Malacology) taught me when I was a kid, that a research paper should be read in the following steps

1. Read title and abstract
2. Read introduction
3. Read conclusions
4. If the content of the 3 previous steps makes sense, and the paper is relevant:
- Read the body of the paper
- Archive it and write bibliographic record card (yup... that old school).

Worked me wonders in my PhD.
Cisco does buy a lot of companies, but only about as many as google has bought. Though Cisco has has more billion $ or higher deals.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...
This man is an articulate hero of our generation.

Also I noticed he mentioned using Spideroak instead of Dropbox - they are about to get a hell of a lot more customers...It's great to see business competing over privacy.
> Yet the specter of an entire generation who do nothing for their money other than speed-dial their wealth management advisors isn't particularly attractive.

Why?
Product Hunt started surfacing during the previous Y Combinator batch because founders told each other to upvote their products.

Er, on most link aggregator websites, that's supporting a breach in integrity, not a "we'll give you $120k seed money" event.

It's worth noting that this behavior is explicitly punished on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7972941) and will get you banned extremely quickly from Reddit.

This also leads to a massive conflict of interest for any YC products that are posted to Product Hunt in the future.
Ok, but the lifestyle of just hoping on a plane somewhere to get into the mind of an explorer requires you to be getting funding from somewhere (though perhaps not dev work)
Colonization beats hand down Civilization for me, anytime. It's more realistic and coherent (the tech trees in civ feel completely artificial) and it's great fun to play as different nations. The manual itself was also a great read, teaching you many thing about how the actual colonization took place. One of the best games by Sid Meier.
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Not picking a language fight.

My intuition tells me that if your alternative hypothesis were true, then php programmers have higher standards because they ajudge more code 'ugly and C++ programmers are universally perfectionists...or at least when they are not confused which it appears they usually are.

Just for fun with hypothesizing, does Python's near 50/50 split between 'ugly and 'beautiful suggest a large degree of random use? Or more interestingly, does it suggest there is a tendency to classify middle cases as extreme cases, and is this a result of the community having 'a Pythonic Way?'
Google is an Advertising company and it delivers ads via these platforms like search, mobile apps, etc.

It clearly is a tech company, but to pretend it's anything other than an ad delivery machine is sort of ignoring the elephant in the room.

Everything goes back to ads. Even Google doesn't bite the hand that feeds it.
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