skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia has some figures from 2011-2013, which says the "total bandwidth between Cuba and the global Internet is just 209 Mbit/s upstream and 379 downstream" for "2.8 million users" [1]. A bit of a personal reflection, but my life would be much different, in terms of work, education, and entertainment, if I did not have access to reliable high speed internet.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Cuba
Ad hominem comment about comic-sans.
It was at a Danish firm, for high-functioning people with autism/aspberger's.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/putting-the-...
Office complex implants RFID chips in employees' hands
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You considered only the cases of honest/good and honest/bad exit interviews. Also interesting to consider might be: dishonest/good. And "dishonest" does not mean you have to lie about anything.
If you're looking to play a open source minecraft-like game, without worrying about microsoft copyrights on world files, http://minetest.net/ is a lot of fun.
A dream that cannot pay for itself is not a business. Do not seek venture capital for your hobbies.
Microsoft has been acquiring aprox. 1 company every two months for the last 28 years...
I think if you treat this situation like the lords and serfs, then yes, you should probably not be honest with yourself. You should definitely not make any trouble, ruffle any feathers, avoid 'staying foolish'..

But if you think of it in the reality of your life and you are your own master, then you owe it to yourself to be honest and say what's on your mind. This isn't illegal (yet) and yah, you might run into someone who knows someone in the lords network.. But, is that the way to live?

I'm not saying to be rude or insensitive or a jerk on the way out. But once you realize a place isn't for you, then why does it matter what they say or think. Does Mark Hurd care what anyone connected to HP thinks? (Granted, he's an extreme case and if only we didn't have to play by the rules too..)

If you're leaving a place where there were people that were jerks, then sure, it's up to you to tone it down or turn it up. I've seen a lot of both kinds of exits and the people I know that turned it up were never ostracized and denied good jobs later. In fact, most found great jobs that could stay with for a long time.
Freed CIA Whistleblower Kiriakou: “I Would Do It All Again” to Expose Torture
You are precisely correct. Said another way, HR exists to protect the company from you.

One of the hidden purposes of an exit interview is to "lock in" your story before you leave. For example, if you say in your exit interview you are leaving because the commute is too long it will be harder for you to credibly say a year from now that you left because your boss was sexually harassing you.
Hi, sorry for the non-disclosure: Pieter is part of the external advisory team, so mentioning him feels like mentioning other nomad* startups and it's definitely a good go to source.
Well, that could’ve been awkward. If I had written what I really wanted to say in the exit interview, our final conversation could have gone much differently.

So? Leaving a company is always uncomfortable. And you're leaving. Who cares if your parting conversation with your ineffectual boss is a slightly worse experience?

If I had been harsh in my exit interview, what could have happened? What might my old boss say if he was called to verify my previous employment?

This seems like much anxiety over theoretical possibilities.

It seems to me that people's attitudes toward hiring would utterly doom anyone who has ever had an incompetent, a-hole boss. Personally, I've found that employers who actually want me will hire me on the spot. Ones who want to dink around with references and confirming employment history have proved to be wishy-washy and overly cautious in everything. If someone wants to chat with your last employer, expect them to be reluctant to approve that new machine you've been asking for all year.
The 'net was meant to empower users, but it has turned us into victims
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If you asked me for proof that Evolution is scientific (and true) I'd point you to some (yet-unfalsified) falsifiable statements in Evolution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objections_to_evolution#Unfalsi...

Please point me to some (yet-unfalsified) falsifiable statements in Mainstream Economics.

Thank you.
That critique was a poor one. In fact, what you quoted was the meat of it, with little to back up the hyperbole, except for the argument that we shouldn't have all connections encrypted because that will make the NSA work harder to break all encryption. Which is not a good argument.

The discussion on it covered it pretty well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8850059

edit: it's still in google cache if anyone else wants to read it for themselves: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3i6EwF...
Just like FaceTime. It won't happen and all the rumors and gossip based on a few comments will just give false hope to people. Swift was designed to lock-in developers just when objc<->java converters were gaining popularity.
I always conduct exit interviews in person (how on earth would it be possible to conduct an exit interview anonymously!?). Often I have to press and poke and ask the same question 10 different ways before I actually get to the real meat of what the person wants to tell me. People naturally want to leave a good impression, they don't want to rock the boat, even if they've had a terrible experience. I don't want to hear your canned responses about getting a better opportunity elsewhere. I want to know why this company isn't that kickass opportunity. I what to know where and when we went wrong so that I can improve.

The article mentions

"If I had written what I really wanted to say in the exit interview, our final conversation could have gone much differently"

Yeah! With the sanitized responses, this conversation is just wasting my time. With the real responses, I can actually respond to your feedback and make the job better for the next guy.
When a free HoloLens?
1300 for your own place?!?!? ;-)
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks! (I guess I got downvoted because people thought I was trolling? Fwiw it was a genuine question).
I'm more familiar with CA's "A Pattern Language" and would liek to dig a little further. Anyone know of an additional resource?
This really feels familiar for me. I was emailed an "anonymous" survey when leaving a Big Corp, and filled it out honestly and mostly positive.

Of course they bring up my answers in the exit interview, and when I told them "I thought that was anonymous." they told me, "Oh it is, only HR is allowed to see it. We remove the names from the surveys before we send it to [the boss]."

Of course turnover is low enough there that the boss could easily match the responses to the employees. So essentially, the "anonymous" aspect is a giant lie. Wish I could go back and amend the anonymous survey to tell the what I think about companies which lie to their employees, even if said employees are on their way out.
Though in this case it makes sense to compare it to the "reference implementation" in Java. Regular Minecraft has noticeable GC pauses in my opinion.
China fines Qualcomm $1B
True, but still wouldn't solve the problem: the best outcome and worst outcome look the same in that data set ($0 raised).
This is quite horrible. I wish they would leave Objective C alone.
What? At my last exit interview, I told them (HR) that the boss was a poor communicator, incompetent technically, and didn't know how to manage a project.

They asked me if I'd consider working for another team.

I laughed.
New multi-purpose backdoor targets Linux servers
I thought Coke's commercial was a great response to last year, when there was such a backlash against including a gay couple in their advertising.

It's one thing for 4chan to come in and ruin the day, but for an actual company with actual managers and employees to ruin another company's advertising campaign by quoting Hitler? That's crossing a line, unfortunately one that Gawker has crossed many times in the past. How have they not been sued out of existence...
With the real responses, I can actually respond to your feedback and make the job better for the next guy.

But where's my incentive to care about that?
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/
Digital Risk Management Lessons of the Anthem Breach
Wait, it being a binary protocol is a good thing. No longer will we have proxies mangling Upgrade handshakes and such.

Header compression, server push and proper multiplexing (which avoids all the problems with pipelining) are all features most applications will benefit from.
> Absolutely true. Should we give up? Of course not.

It seems rather backwards to me to have historically well tested methods of storing value and to throw those at the wayside because we "know better" now. If you can't prove it's better, don't change it.

I realize that it's incredibly unlikely that we'd ever go back to a gold (or silver) standard but in my personal opinion the positive value that such a standard has far outweighs the negative. You may well disagree with me on the relative values of the benefits and downsides and that's OK. But it doesn't make me wrong either.

When so much of society values things differently (some people find Audi to be worth the money, others BMW, others Ford or Jag or whatever!) it's kind of crazy to assume that one person KNOWS that paper money is better.

Maybe a bunch of people would choose to transact in other currencies given the choice. A recent attempt was made to do so; the Federal government did not welcome the competition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Dollar
One could argue that global gentrification is inherently impossible...
Atleast your manager did not show up un-announced in your exit interview with the HR! Mine did :)
The old Microsoft (Ballmer era) is dead though.

Microsoft in the last 1-2 years is like a new scrappy competitor who lost market share on hubris. They are now willing to work how developers like to work not forcing them into the corral. Azure is the new OS at Microsoft, lock in higher up the stack but actually not as lock-in as before.

Microsoft went back to developer focus over biz/marketing focus and it is working like it always has.
I'm not sure how Azure intends to compete in this space. I've used Amazon, Rackspace, Google Cloud, Azure, and a bunch more.

Professionally, for simplicity I'd choose Rackspace or Google. For Scalability and price I'd choose Amazon. For personal projects I love Digital Ocean.

I dislike Azure's control panel and VM setup, and find their VMs slow. I'd only really consider them if I planned to implement a project that required leveraging the entirety of the Microsoft technology stack.

I can't see technology companies embracing Virtual Windows Server RTs and MSSQL Servers. Startups enjoy technologies that are easy to manage and scale with smaller teams. Enterprise level companies still need inhouse dedicated hardware for security.

Azure is kind of an oddball in the virtual hosting space.
Yet companies still ask for references from supervisors, even companies that have this very policy in place.
The Uncanny Valley of HN comments gives plenty of credit to the author's post (which I enjoyed). Most of the comments sounds like coming from underdeveloped AI - awkward perception and total lack of human sense of humor.
I'm surprised Dropbox or someone similar hasn't tried this already
George Scialabba's 40-year fight with depression (podcast)
Fake AMD processors in circulation
Nice job, now if you can make a simple Rust in Minecraft I'll be even more impressed!
This is pretty cool but I'd still prefer to use Google Apps and Gmail. The MS office web apps are pretty poor in comparison and unless you're a dedicated windows shop or have a lot of ex-finance people there is little benefit to the office suite.
I agree with saying it as it is. Also: don't you think that this "system", whereby nobody is supposed to say what they really think, either in these interviews, or in giving references, is deeply counter-productive and demeaning to all concerned? Things did not always used to be this way.

I don't care for the high sounding "rights" justifications. What about the most basic right of everyone to speak the truth as they see it?

Clearly, it is better not to needlessly exaggerate any criticism. Nevertheless, it works both ways. If a leaving employee has only positive things to say, I know he is being disingenuous - and if some friends ask about him/her, I would actually be far less likely to recommend such an "a.se licker".
I agree with this. Use it at as an opportunity to say pleasant things about the company and people you worked with, considering you're leaving because you found a new job and not because you were harassed, etc.

You will probably run into some of these people again or they will know people you use to work with at such-and-such company.
Alleged Bitcoin scam leaves millions missing
You never know who you might run into in the future. Or whom those people could influence. That's why its better not to burn bridges for the sake of feeling good about yourself.
Wow. Such a rapid feedback loop here. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks! I'll go take a look now.
You can post a review on glassdoor or similar site.
The Paris gun could go 81 miles and that was in 1918. I'm assuming the rail guns are much more efficient though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Gun
The people who need this (like I did a few years ago) if they notice it at all are still willing to suffer through plenty.
How Good Is HTTP/2's Server Side Push, Really?
This is something of an audio addendum to the BAFFLER article that rose and fell here last year. It's moving to hear Scialabba talk it through himself, with some of the notes read aloud by an actor. As a sometime-depressive myself, I found it to be a Big Time Relief to listen through to the end + make the connection to somebody else's vicious, hard-fought, victorious war of attrition contra depression.
It's still pretty good if you're not in YC, of course.
They already started doing it a few months ago with private annotations. This "nonnull"/"nullable" syntax is a result of their work on annotating Cocoa APIs.
Sandwich ordering with Amazon Echo
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Kinda hard to describe but Saver Screensson creates stylish, unique patterns on your display by stacking vector stencils. Screensson contains 340 individual images and 19 predefined color palettes, generating countless multilayered compositions.
That's so lame. It's so easy to set up a new website today, it's going to be a huge burden in the future. Some of us still make websites for fun, not as businesses. I guess I have to buy a cheap ssl certificate from some sleezy website every time I feel creative.
I am not a chemist, but I love this guy's writing:

"But I have to admit, I'd never thought much about the next analog of hydrogen peroxide. Instead of having two oxygens in there, why not three: HOOOH? Indeed, why not? This is a general principle that can be extended to many other similar situations. Instead of being locked in a self-storage unit with two rabid wolverines, why not three?"
I'm all about not burning bridges. I'm also all about not being afraid of confrontation.

It sounds like this article's main reason to avoid being HONEST is to avoid the confrontation that be a product of being honest. Yay passive aggressiveness!

ZOMG SOMEONE MIGHT READ MY FILE AND BE UPSET BECAUSE I CALLED THEM OUT.

In reality, if you haven't been honest and confronted the negatives in your job by the time you leave, this is actually pretty good advice.

Life is too short to hate where you work, what you do, or who you work with. Not happy? Put plans in motion to change that. Don't hide from reality. Embrace the confrontation, you'll be happier and in a better place because of it.
This method implementation feels a bit dubious - the same effect, making it harder to exploit buffer overflows, can be achieved by moving the whole stack around randomly in the process' address space while preserving its size.
Okay. Fair enough. I concede that efficiency is important and that SPDY / HTTP/2 can improve upon it. But I don't believe that this is worth the hype because the exposed featureset is otherwise tiny. Efficiency is cool, yes, but I'm personally waiting until HTTP/3 fixes the other wrong things with the Internet before I implement anything. I think the amount of effort that goes into this is not worth the result. Why include tons of small resources on your page if they're not necessary? Why revamp a protocol entirely if all you have to do is stop including tons of small resources?
oh man i love the sound it makes when you break the modal! haha this is a nice concept, might be a bit annoying for end users with the sound tho
Really great site. The call to actions in-line is kind of distracting though, may be necessary to get enough volume but it's annoying until then. You could have the footer information be at the top and then remove the call to actions mixing with the data.
A Use of the Y Combinator in Ruby
Value is in the eye of the beholder (or potential buyer).

I see you cut my quote halfway so you didn't have to present a case that mainstream economics is scientific, which I'm yet to see.

Please show some yet-unfalsified falsifiable statements in mainstream Economics so that it can be shown that it is scientific and true. Don't give me a run around with lots of words and no proof.
You're right, better do it on the internet and post on hacker news. More impact that way
The world is not fair, period. You can't expect individuals to work their asses off to strive for something better for themselves and their children, only to turn around and complain that their children suddenly have "inherent economic advantage"... followed by a swift call to somehow "fix" that so that everyone is equal all over again.

Oh yes, of course. Some individuals did some rather bad, questionable things to get an advantage in this world. But until you can prove that all "well-off" individuals did that, you have no moral ground to stand on.
The standard advise is to never do an exit interview!

http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/haexit.htm
You are right - the big outage happened in November. Feels like yesterday (it was a stressful day for me). AWS outages have been more limited in scope/geo, still took some sophisticated users of AWS offline (Netflix, Instagram come to mind).
A large chunk of mycareer success you have in life will come from your professional network. You never know where folks will end up. So its never worthwhile to burn bridges.

Second. Its just not professional. If you have some constructive criticism that can be provided without being "harsh" its valuable and reflects well on you.
"But if we can ever jump past this uncanny valley, that’s where we’ll basically build AI."

To me this seemed like the main conclusion of the post.

And I agree. Voice recognition seems like an AI-complete problem. I think conversations will always be awkward and frustrating until Siri can construct a mental model of my habits, my particular turns of phrases and accent, what I'm up to right now, what I think is important, who else is in the room, etc. etc. I don't think you can (only) throw deep learning at the problem and expect anything but superficial responses. (Maybe if you had one neural net per user?)
Hong Kong Bitcoin exchange disappears with £254M
Hey Netflix, what about Italy?
Or we're about to see a whole lot of market incentive to make it easier to set up a site under TLS, which may only happen with this kind of unilateral move.
Exactly, thanks for posting the details.
At every opportunity to burn a bridge, don't do it. That bridge might be rickety and you'd never cross again but it is a possible path in the future or maybe a recommendation that brings in some other bridge to cross.

Exit interviews just gracefully decline or say the good things that happened at work, I am sure over time there was some gained experience.

If you truly don't like the place and they did things that will lead them to their ultimate ends, just let them. You are leaving, you are free, it isn't your problem, you tried to help when you were there. Nothing amazing will happen with words if you couldn't change it with actions in possibly years of work.
Thanks for the clarification, I was fairly wrong before.

I'm not completely sure now, but at least i'm not wrong.
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This would be against the spirit of the offer, but I wonder if there is any easy way to arbitrage that credit into cold hard cash with low effort.

E.g., boot up a bitcoin mining cluster (though this particular idea would obviously yield low return since it would be running on off the shelf hardware)
Just dockerized it: https://github.com/srangwal/kafkamanager-docker
20s/30s: I'm 32. Of the last 15 years I've spent ~12 in Asia, one in London, one in LA, one Australia/NZ. I can highly recommend traveling around Asia on the slow, looking around for somewhere that suits you, and settling awhile. My choice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunnan
Nifty idea, but my page [http://roberttomsons.bplaced.net/] get a "Cannot GET /error/notsupported" error.
I'm going to go for the embarrassing question, but I don't understand p-values or how to design a study. Any pointers gratefully recvd

If I understand correctly, let's say I am concerned Earths gravity is increasing underneath Kent school buildings this stunting kids growth.

I decide to test this by making a statistical survey with a p-value in it.

We shall sample the heights of 10,000 randomly chosen children from 10 counties, one of which is Kent (so 1,000 kids from each school district)

My null hypothesis is that there is no gravitational anaomloly and so the height distribution should be equal or the mean height should be equal or ...

So I get a bit lost here.

What is 95% significance ...
Now you can save and share combo from the web app :)
This is huge for Microsoft, because this is how Azure is finally starting to get accepted by the startup/VC community. They never had difficulty selling Azure to the enterprise, but for startups - AWS had always been the default choice.
My free account can access the release notes though. Which I admit is not that great.
great project!!

I remember watching the world cup on an ASCII terminal

:)
2015 sees mobile manipulators coming to market
How are you getting to them? Trying the obvious avenues from a free account only gets me release notes up to 6.1.1.
I work in the particle accelerator control systems field and always get my hopes up when I see "accelerator" :)
I would hope a good recruiter would ignore the form and try to contact the OP in a non-spammy way like most recruiters do these days.
That article is basically a contentless teaser.
This is disturbing to say the least.
I know people who have been involved in a modern version of this, and they do insist on taking peoples phones and other such security measures.