skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been at Microsoft at the time they made the exact same transition (from "bell curve" to "goal/commitments"). Anyway most of these big companies just follow one another on subjects like compensation and review system.

Frankly, both systems are just a stupid loss of time... It always end up the same: you don't want/are not interested to fill in those lengthy and boring papers, so you just write pretty much bullshit in there. Your manager (usually) being a good guy will help you rewrite part of it so that it's "corporate". And that's it. Nobody really cares.

For those who did not had to write that kind of papers, it's just always more or less the same. You have to answer 5/10 lines on questions like: "What did you do this last quarter?" "What are your commitments for the upcoming quarter?".

90% of all the "commitments" of the department at MS looked like that kind of BS:
1. Describe your project and mention you're happy with it.
2. Say that you plan to work hard to reducing the technical debt (every single MS project has 20 years of debt)
3. Say that you will try to improve the overall quality of the project and work with QAs
4. Find some trait in your personality or skills that you will improve for next quarter. e.g. "I will try to spend more time studying component X so that I can help on that matter".

After some time you don't even pay attention to these reviews. Just copy/paste what was written for the last quarter, change the commitments as accomplishments, and create some new commitments depending on the trending problems in the team.
>Isn't + == "or" and x == "and" like in boolean algebra?

In a sense, yes. "×" denotes the product of two types— i.e., the type of pairs of one value of the first type, and one of the second. "+" denotes the disjoint union of two types, the type of values which are taken from the first type or the second type. Importantly, when you have "a + a," taking a value from the left "a" is distinct from taking a value from the right "a."

>So then why is the Bool type 1 + 1 == 2? Shouldn't it be 1 + 0 == 1 if you want to map the possible states?

"0," "1," and "2" here do not denote states; rather, they denote types. In particular, "0" is the type with zero values, "1" is the type with one value, "2" is the type with two values, etc.

The reason that "1 + 1 = 2" is true is that there are two ways to form a value of type "1 + 1:" take the one possible value from the left "1," or take the one possible value from the right "1." The Bool type, by definition, has two values, so it needs to be given by the type "2," or equivalently, "1 + 1."

>Same question for "maybe" that seems to work like in Rust or Swift - shouldn't it be a + 0? If not, what does "a or unit" mean?

"a + 0" is, as the algebra suggest, just "a." This is because the only way to form a value of type "a + 0" is to use a value from "a;" there are no values in "0" to choose from. The Maybe type is effectively the identity type plus a single "None" value. Thus, we call it "a + 1;" there is a "Some" for each value in "a," and a None for each (i.e., the only) value in "1."
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The reality is that if Java was a useless language, it wouldn't be the most used programming language in the world. It's not the right tool for every task but more people in the world find it the right tool for their job than any other language. There's a reason for that and it's not that a now defunct company funded its development decades ago.
Nice congrats guys!!
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I tried Circa because I have interest in this category of app/site but it didn't stick and I can't remember when I last looked at it. I'm surprised there haven't been more solid plays at the abbreviated news area, even despite the content component itself being challenging.

If you have expertise in this field, I've got a concept I'd be keen to collaborate on. It'd need iOS/Android development and someone handling content. My usual app guy is wrapped up in other projects. Email in my profile. It'd work as a skunkworks thing within a media company or a second project by a news startup even.
In Spain we definitely have mosquitos, and most Augusts we have these summery storms, sometimes bringing also hailstorms (sizze varies though between drop sized ice and golfball sized ice)
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Interesting article, I certainly learned something from it.
Thank you, that clears lots of things up.

Edit: Wow, even currying is explained nicely. This blog entry is pure gold.
Having a good PR company can be a massive advantage.

This is a whole NYT article spun out of "company hires employees instead of contractors." A long one, and it sounds like they're doing something revolutionary and trend changing.
You sound like a good manager. Right on.
>Recently the use of derivations to implement regular expressions has become popular again

And they're not limited to regular languages; with the right computational tricks (lazy evaluation, coinduction, whatever you want to call it), it can be used with context-free languages in general: http://matt.might.net/papers/might2011derivatives.pdf
Got it, thank you. The other link posted by tikhonj is also very good at explaining. Your phrase

> "0," "1," and "2" here do not denote states; rather, they denote types. In particular, "0" is the type with zero values, "1" is the type with one value, "2" is the type with two values, etc.

should IMO be included in OP's post in some form or another. Also an explanation for void would be helpful, as in do not confuse 'void' in Haskell with e.g. 'void' in C or 'None' in python, as in those types are rather corresponding to 'unit' in Haskell.
Please consider contributing to something like Freifunk, instead: http://freifunk.net/en/

Similar technology (OpenWRT based firmware), easier to use, less privacy issues as it's not necessary to track your network usage. And completely free.
Aww. I was hoping he also took care of the App Store banner using the content blocker. Would be great if those banners could be turned off.
GCP has a push-to-deploy https://cloud.google.com/tools/repo/push-to-deploy

That along with the cloud debugging from their git repo are some nice to haves.
Does anyone know who did the restoration work on The Boy in the Plastic Bubble? (The made for TV version, with Travolta, and Mr. Brady--197?)

I just saw a restored copy on one of the cable channels, and even though it was not a full screen copy; it was watchable.

I liked the original movie. It was shot of video tape, and was made for T.V. movie. I don't even think they bothered to copyright it? The original copy(master) degraded over time, and for years I thought it was lost.

I'm can't find any info on the Internet on who did the work? It's not a theater quality restoration, but I'm suprised anyone could restore that old, degraded video.
Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition is now available
GTA5 took a long time to come to PC.
9 seconds of page load for ads is unacceptable. Mobile browsing has become a pita because of all those poor ads network, and i think once again (after the flash controversy) apple is going to save the web by making radical decisions like this one.

It may very well be that mobile web content browsing becomes even more pleasant than using native apps thanks to that, since they too seem to fall for the trend of putting the maximum number of ads possible. Only with native you'll never be able to block anything easily.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, the App Store banner is gone after the content blocker is run
Google Shoots First, Asks Questions Later After Facebook Trademark Complaint
Fair point. Not trying to minimize what you're saying -- But I am genuinely curious as to how you'd test such a vast code-base written by so many different people for security issue?

e.g. how will 1.0 be any more secure than alpha aside from developers having more time to "run into" the security issues by sheer luck/accident?

Maybe someone vet the code by hand -- or maybe they will use a security testing suite to automate it? If so, wouldn't it make sense to do that before accepting code that could potentially introduce security bugs?
The example 'Matrix Console' iOS & Android apps are aesthetically very ugly, but still very functional and usable from a geek perspective. Meanwhile we're currently replacing the example Matrix Angular webapp with a Matrix React webapp which will improve the performance enormously.

In terms of polished UI/UX, we were hoping the community would fork the example apps and put the necessary polish and usability on them. Features should (almost) all be there, and we're doing our best on platform ubiquity.

However, as ex3ndr's comment below shows, there are people still creating their own per-app proprietary protocols rather than building on something like Matrix.

So in order to help bootstrap Matrix, am sure we'll end up building a killer client app sooner or later if nobody else does :)
I do not think open sourcing is only PR. It is a different model that should increase quality of software and less deception. I think there is a financial interest in open sourcing and listening to a community. The financial benefits of being "fair play" is not so clear.
>its manufacturer claimed that it is powered solely by the user's static electricity.

He missed out on a great opportunity to sell proprietary magic battery packs, then. A lump of concrete and a coin cell to shine a LED, all wrapped up in plastic with an oddball connector.
Eleven seconds to load a single page is hilariously bad. Javascript puts far too much blind trust in developers.
Undoubtably a deep philosophical argument, but brighter minds than ours have written at length about it both in science and jurisprudence. "Research ethics" and "Exclusionary rule" would be good illustrating Wikipedia articles.
should password protect /dashboard
The 'price' you had to pay for that was waiting 6 month from the console version came out before getting the PC port.
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It's not just bullshit, it's actively harmful. It encourages people to game the system, often by playing political games. Secondary to that it encourages work on short-term, easily measurable projects, which tends to be the least valuable work. If you spend a year cleaning up garbage code you won't get nearly as many gold stars as if you just built some useless shiny bolt-on feature that nobody will actually use in the future. Now you understand a lot of what's been wrong with software development at places like MS over the last decade and more.

Perhaps even worse than that, this sort of bureaucratic BS tends to be extremely off putting to talented engineers who are intrinsically motivated to do good work. So they leave. Because they have the most talent and experience and are thus the most able to find work elsewhere easily. Bad corporate culture has a tendency to cause talent to evaporate out of a company. It's been happening at MS for decades and has seriously damaged them, it's happening at a lot of other places too. The problem is that when the people in charge look at what's wrong they don't see these things because it's practically invisible on a macro scale. Individual people on specific teams could run you a laundry list of former heavy hitters in their part of the company who left for greener pastures because they got fed up. But at the highest levels the only evidence that tends to show up is that for some reason it's become more and more difficult to execute on challenging projects, which is easy to attribute to any one or multiple of the countless other changing variables.
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The SDK's were slow to update, the Java App Engine doesn't support Java 8 yet the Python and/or PHP version are behind a bit I think. There's a bunch of bugs which haven't been resolved after a long time. The instances were underpowered for the price, Java ones took a long time to start up which compounded issues with the auto-scaler.

I used it a little bit a few years ago and despite the issues with the original platform I'm quite interested in the new Docker based managed-vm app engine platform, where you can build your own images and have much better control, and compute engine pricing.
If not nickel-and-diming your workers counts as good PR, then good.
When I quit the program the process doesn't end, and I can't seem to terminate it myself
> We have a transfer of momentum (force times time), but no dissipation of energy (force times path).

Even the transfer of momentum is much less than it would be if the mosquito were heavier though. The droplet maintains most of its original momentum. That seems to be the point they're trying to make.
Can anyone else see how to dismiss the lightbox?

(How do we get Google to penalise lightboxes?)
Personal experience in fixing Unreal Engine bugs
yes, but if you read the article, the author states that was not blocked by the content blocker, he was just unable to get it to reappear.
Thought I'd reply on my own comment.

Caffe has been used for handwriting, seems like OCR of typefaces would work just the same with a typeface dataset.

https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/tree/dev/examples/mnist

Here is the only other OCR example with caffe i could find:

https://github.com/pannous/caffe-ocr
Lying about what your product is and does should absolutely be illegal.
You must not know many artists.
The problem is that there's no way of holding the buyers accountable if their own countries and the taxpayers whose funds they are misappropriating refuse to do so.

It turns out the American World Police isn't so effective in things that could actually use some policing. And even sections of their proper police bought into the scam.
Even your girlfriend will buy Bitcoin here
Ask HN: If you were CEO of Microsoft what would you do different?
What would have done differently and, in your opinion, better than Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates and Satya Nadella?
Or EODatabaseContext.qualifierForLockingAttributesPrimaryKeyAttributesEntitySnapshot().

Work with WO made me prefer this style of long, self documenting method/variable names.
> I want free speech except I want people I don't like to not have it.

No, actually, koko very loosely defined actual free speech. In a nutshell free speech means that you can say whatever you please so long as you don't venture into what the American courts call "fighting words" (words/images designed to cause harm to another person or words/images that inspire others to cause harm to another person).

Example:

Let's say that I am prejudiced toward piglets (those damn curly tails!). I can express my extreme disdain for the swines to my heart's content. I can talk to people who share my bacon-related woes in the open.

However, I can't encourage people to go and harass or do harm to the hogs. I can't dox Babe and let everyone know the specific pen of residence: that would be encouraging others to harm, harass or make breakfast out of the pig.

*May not actually apply to pigs.
that would be BS. the new deal was a big push into socialism, programs of the FDR admin. FDR and esp his wife were socialists. Thes type things depressed he economy for years an needed a war to alleviate those problems.
The skeptic in me makes me think - because VC's set the rules mostly as they are the one who provide capital; They do wan't to make sure they get the most out of their investment with best possible terms.
"Dead wood" is a myth. Few employees are useless and it's always obvious if it is the case.
That is a joke that makes more sense once you've been bitten there.
Zurn - i'm confuseed. So in the study the article presents they say production is the biggest polutant for a car, and bigger for ev than for cv; In your UCLA paper they argue that the greatest cost to the env is given by use itself and in that sense cvs are worse.

Which one is accurate then ?
Friefunk actually is a pretty cool project. Any such initiative would typically require quite a bit of community involvement if it has to grow organically. How big is the Friefunk community btw ?
this... if all those rules were followed, the workplace would be a very stimulating place to be! which is sadly not true for many, or not most of the time for almost all
Let's just hope that function doesn't end up being the one that's invoked to adjust for leap years.
so if mosquiotos are oblivious to rain is there some way to make artificial rain with different properties that could destroy mosquitos en masse?
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The UK has an allowance for a company option plan which allows employees to buy stock also.
Save As You Earn is different, you get options, but you don't buy in for them directly.

SAYE allows the employer to deduct upto 225 GBP a month (pre tax) from the employees salary and put it into an investment scheme that ties that money into a share options plan.

The shares have a set value at the entry into the scheme and the company "allocates" an amount of shares based on the end savings projects for that period.

At the end of the period when the options mature you can decide to cash out get your "deposit" + a proportional revenue from the shares maturation value, or to buy out the option at the set price and own the shares fully.

The payout out, the control over the stock, and some other factors are quite different than just a simply option scheme when a company allows employees to buy option/shares or gives it to them as pure compensation.

Basically the best way to describe SAYE is like an ISA/401K but one which the employer controls, and also greatly benefits from.

Now don't get me wrong SAYE schemes especially for low paid employees in freshly privatized organizations can yield good payouts, not always, but they usually do especially when the organizations are too big to fail like BT.
It also allows companies in industries which are barred from regular employee share/options like banks for example to grant employees a share investment plan.
But it's not some magic nifty employee empowerment plan, it's much more beneficial to most employers than it is to employees.
Lol no. PS4 doesn't use anything close to OpenGL, the overhead would be too large. I mean...you can use OpenGL if you really really wanted to,but no game developer actually would, you would be losing performance for nothing.
Tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
In what way is it a myth? I've definitely worked with people who where without a doubt dead wood, but I agree that it's absolutely obvious to everyone who they are.
To be honest, I only use github because everyone else does and because it's almost expected I should to. And since I'm job hunting, it means I throw a few projects on to github as a portfolio.

But for everything that I really care about, I still maintain private repos on my home server.
Oh, in terms of the risk of federation causing lock-in: it's inevitable that folks will add domain-specific extensions to try to force people to use their platform. This is no different to me sending you an attachment over email in some proprietary vendor-specific format (e.g. .ppt) which obliges you to install PowerPoint to read it.

This can be used for both good and evil. The evil scenario is above - rather than using an open standard like ODF, it provides a route to promote vendor lock-in. The good scenario is that it provides extensibility for technology that simply isn't standardised yet, and gives vendors a way to differentiate their product. For instance, if Oculus jumped on Matrix and started using it to negotiate VR collaboration spaces, it almost certainly wouldn't work with any other vendor at first... but it's good news for end-users who get a cool feature which some day may be standardised across all of Matrix.

The bottom line is that as long as everyone implements the common base line use cases in an interoperable fashion (i.e. IM and VoIP), then vendors having freedom to put proprietary/experimental stuff on top is just a necessary evil... as long as they don't break the baseline. It's up to us as consumers to then encourage vendors to make their extensions standards rather than exploit them for vendor-lockin. It really is an identical situation to email and MIME.
Interesting concept..
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I think javajosh's first two points were intentionally designed to be picked apart. Yes, 360 is a highly divisible number, but then current years are not actually 360 days. And anyway both apparent moon size and year length in days are not fixed, but variable.

javajosh's point, I think, is that one can always make something appear to fit magically when your perspective is arbitrary.
Will Dozoff.com be the next top humor site of India?
That's a very insulting and condescending assumption to make.
I'm not sure that creating a new vendor-specific protocol without federation or cross-vendor interoperability really helps anyone but you ;)
Dirty communist hippie, you! /s
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> In most direct hits, Hu and colleagues write, the insect is carried five to 20 body lengths downward

> If you want to see this for yourself, take a look at Hu’s video

What? Nothing like that happens in it.
Is this based on openwrt? What all hardware you support?
Your articles are 25 years old though.
Hi guelo,

can you elaborate a bit more what you are looking for?
What kind of structure do you need?

Without these informations, I'll just throw gitlab in the possible alternatives pool.

https://about.gitlab.com/features/

Please note that I'm biased since I'm on the gitlab core team. :)
Out of interest, what are these political views that are so terrible that they should influence our views of his thoughts on operating system design?

Edit: I really don't have any idea what they are...
Thanks! I think I averaged about 30 minutes per day on these, with a few pieces taking up to 2 hours. The daily practise has had a huge impact on my speed, more than anything else.
ive been saying this for fifteen years.

What can we do to fix it?
Better coverage of the same research can be found here [0], with no statements such as "300 Gs is a crazy amount of pressure"

[0] http://io9.com/5916251/why-can-mosquitoes-fly-in-the-rain
have you looked at yourkarma.com?
Are you confusing wing span with body length?

In the right hand panel of the video, the insect certainly moves several body lengths, and is still moving downwards at the end of the clip.
I checked out dozoff.com.. Its good and there is huge collection of memes. It would become next top humor site of India. However, you need continuous improvements and extensive marketing to take it to that level.
whats different here from a coovachilli setup?
"Table Designer is now enabled for Azure SQL Database V12

Database and Table property dialogs are now enabled for Azure SQL Database V12"

These two are amazing for me.
the rule of separation makes me wonder if the long term legacy of Wayland will be as a hardware accelerated backend for X.
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It should be able to support any linux based router OS. The router package is combination of WifiDog (http://wifidog.org), wshaper & a couple of home-grown scripts. The server side is authPuppy (http://www.authpuppy.org/) tightly integrated.

Most of the linux based OS will support the above packages. For others, we are yet to test.
Is it more or less insulting than your username?
Yeah I meant what DanBC said.
The author might have had in mind some other video while writing that. This is another video from that same researcher that shows this: https://youtu.be/LQ88ny09ruM?t=1m5s
do you have something similar for a multi-access point setup?
I am looking for a cloud-based hotspot controller.
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Typical sexist HN poster. Half of whats wrong with Silicon Valley and tech in general is in the title of this disgraceful post.