skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The declaration that "people like you are terrible, terrible evil people" is intentionally designed to offend the person to whom it is directed. It moves beyond the realm of civil conversation to a shouting match, and hence is inappropriate for a discussion forum. I (mostly) don't agree with 'rubicon33', but I'd prefer to keep an environment where his position can be discussed without personal insult.
Yes, we call it 'mighty'
Except that Jobs knew what customers would need, and Besos doesn't have a clue, he builds what mini me would want.
The other thing about YouTube takedowns is that they're often technically not DMCA takedowns anymore. Technically, false DMCA claims open the claimer to penalties. But, if the Content ID match (even on a false positive) or one of YouTube's contractual obligations triggers, the content is flagged without going through the DMCA process.

https://www.eff.org/issues/intellectual-property/guide-to-yo...
Fuck you, Amazon. And your security hole, too.
Wholeheartedly agree. I see some people here would benefit from reading, 'The Inmates Are Running the Asylum' by Alan Cooper.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Inmates-Are-Running-Asylum/dp/0672...
> I would research the terms of the H1-B visa. It isn't all roses and sunshine for the employee, essentially you will be stuck working for them, and if you ever get fired you have to find a new employer very quickly or risk getting deported.

While the last part is true (about having to find a new employer quickly if you are fired or laid off), it's not true that you are stuck with your sponsoring employer. H-1Bs are allowed to switch companies. The caveat is that if the previous employer had started the Green Card process, it is reset with the new employer, unless the employee is at the last stage of the process (adjustment of status) and has been in that stage for at least 180 days.

> Even if you do keep your job it is extremely difficult to convert it to residence (I believe that requires costly employee sponsorship too).

All of the big tech companies apply for Green Cards for their foreign employees. Some have a requirement that you work for them for some amount of time (I've never heard of more than 1 year), others will start the process as soon as you join.

However, there's one BIG gotcha for someone coming from India: they will have to wait for a really long time to get their Green Cards. I'm talking about 10+ years here. For China it's bad too but no so bad. For the rest of the world it used to be 3-5 years (for EB-3, EB-2s have had it quick for years), but recently they sped it up a lot. I'm from Brazil and it took me a little less than 2.5 years to get my Green Card, counting from the day I set foot in the US. The actual process was a little more than a year.
"But there were some serious problems with it like forced promotions where users would would prefer instead functionality, useless gimmicks, and other silliness. Without fail everytime I pointed one out, the Lead looked down a bit bashfully and admitted Bezos had insisted on this nonsense."

Quote from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10127205
I really like this article.

I've been learning to interviewing potential hires. One of the questions I ask is, "Do you have any questions for us?" The questions can tell a lot about the prospective hire.

Turn this around: "What is your onboarding process?" is a great question from prospective hires.

This past year, having taken a number of short-term contracts at small teams, I've learned the hard way how to survive getting thrown into the deep end. You have to get really aggressive about communication, especially on a remote team. A lot of expectations can get lost. It's possible to survive and thrive without a good on-boarding process, but you have to step up and assume that responsibility yourself.

This isn't everyone's thing, and often feels like straying into rude, invasive behavior -- and from the startup's perspective, you lose a lot of great people too -- so asking this question will give the prospective hire an idea of whether they are getting set up for failure. Even an honest answer from the potential employer, "We don't have one, we are very busy and everything is really chaotic here" will tell you a lot about expectations (for both parties) within the first couple weeks of starting work.

And obviously, if the potential employer gives some BS in lieu of a straight answer, why waste time joining?
Ah, it's since been edited. It was more specific before.
Some science television perspective from a parallel universe where nobody has heard of Mr Wizard or Bill Nye (ok, I confess I saw him in Stargate).

Australia's ABC used to have a show by US Professor Julius Sumner Miller http://www.abc.net.au/science/features/whyisitso/ in the 60s. The ABC's stodginess and budget made it much like watching a grumpy old lecturer which I like but interestingly not much attempt to direct things to kids at all.

In the 70s and 80s commercial television made the Curiosity Show https://www.youtube.com/user/curiosityshow which was a bit more sophisticated.

I have a son who watches Backyard Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_Science which is presented by kids. He also likes shows like Operation Ouch and Deadly 60. And lots of animated fantasy crap besides.

It is interesting to look at how presentation has changed over the years but I am fairly sure you could pick a show from the 60s, 70s or 2010s and find someone demonstrating the same phenomenon in almost identical manner despite the window dressing.

I went with my son to ANU's travelling Questacon Science Circus recently and it was packed. My guess is interest in science education hasn't diminished that much, just that people don't notice it so much due to all the competition.
The point you make about hiring ordinary people is an important one. The timeless, old essay "Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men"[1] makes a lot of great arguments to this end.

The meat of the essay comes down to this quote:

Business and life are built upon successful mediocrity; and victory comes to companies, not through the employment of brilliant men, but through knowing how to get the most out of ordinary folks.

Your grandfather-in-law is the perfect example of something I wish we'd see more of today.

1: https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Why_I_Never_Hire_Brilliant_...
If you found out your friend's spouse was cheating, you would understand if people were upset if your idea of telling them was to post their pictures, address, relationship status and credit card number on every street corner in the neighborhood.

Also, you do it to people who weren't cheating at all. You don't even know them.

Then you start buying billboards.
There are a lot of people complaining about a future w/o grsecurity and I share your feelings. However I was surprised to see that nobody has mentioned that you and I can also donate to the project.

Yes, it sucks that MegaCorp and InnoTrode are not compensating Grsecurity for the work. Its probably just as shitty that I have used grsecurity for as long as I have and just got around to donating to the project. If you use grsecurity and don't want to see it disappear go donate. Grsecurity accepts paypal/bitcoin/dwolla:

https://grsecurity.net/contribute.php
From looking for front end jobs for the last few months, so far as I've seen, everyone not running C# is on a Mac

I haven't seen anyone at all running Node or Angular/React using a Windows environment

That's a very big long term problem for MS
I think you are confusing Graphic Design with UX -- Just using your first example, Google has an awesome UX. One field, one button, and everything is about the results. Its simplicity is its design. UX is not about how pretty a site is... it is about how smooth of an experience the end user receives.

UX is required for success. You can have the best engineering in the world, but if your customers don't understand your product, cannot work with it, or get frustrated by it, all that beautiful elegant code means nothing. Products need to solve a problem, not add new pain to existing problems.

That does not mean that engineering is less important. Trying to put one above the other is like answering whether the chicken or the egg came first. They are two components that complement each other.
I haven't had any issues, it works really well for me. I got a new device and didn't switch an existing device.
Wow. Sounds like Microsoft really nailed the experience on that one. Step 1: replace everything with something else.
Visual Basic was awful to work with.
Well played, Amazon.
True. I'm starting to realize that these seemingly rock solid "places" are really just ephemeral watering holes. BBSes, AOL, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram... Let's drink up in comradeship before it dries away.
> I haven't seen anyone at all running Node or Angular/React using a Windows environment

This is what we run in part of my company...

I don't see any issue with developing in NodeJS in Windows (except compiling native bindings and Visual Studio issues with long paths). Microsoft is incorporating more and more plugins in Visual Studio to help web developers. It is just a matter of time.
I want to invest into VR. but the thing I 'm mostly worried is the resolution issue. it is said that 16k resolution is needed to fully solve this.
> - Gnome 2, KDE 3 - The old-style interfaces. Simplicity.

and associated programs deprecated along with them -> Gnome Blackjack, Kooka OCR and Quanta Plus IDE. Also the quick desktop responsiveness.

> - BZFlag - no one cares about this anymore :(

Been there a few times in the last couple weeks, yeah kinda quiet.

> - MySpace - I liked how you could customize it. It was more individualistic

I think if someone refactored it they might get converts from Facebook.

My Additions:

- FoxBase +/Mac (very underrated tool, you could do a lot more than you realize with it)
- Claris Works/AppleWorks (the database on it was quite simple, creative and usable.)
- AI/EPS exporters for PrintShop Deluxe graphics
- Software that had MORE features when new versions come out.
That gets into a very hairy definition of "free." How much did Hacker News pay you for the time you spent commenting? Probably not market rate. Yet we'd still probably say that Hacker News is free.
> In all western democracies that I'm aware of, the central bankers are meant to be independent of politicians.

What do you mean? They are appointed (and reappointed or not) by politicians.

> But that doesn't mean it's impossible, or that it'd never happen even if the users were collectively strongly in favour.

The difference is that in a state these things are done as part of bargains, which help prioritize. For example "I'll support your nomination for the chair of the central bank if you support my law allowing same-sex marriage". Sometimes these bargains can take the form of hostage-taking and be annoying, e.g. "If you don't repeal the ACA, I won't vote to raise the debt ceiling", but that's all part of the same process of keeping people in control. That bargaining, BTW, happens regardless of the political system (i.e. even in autocracies), only in a less explicit way and sometimes with different people involved.

Once you completely separate the power structure for the currency from other concerns, you lose that control, and you lose it in a very radical way. Thing is, it's harder to bargain with people with money because they are relatively immune to many social effects. However, one of the classical checks-and-balances mechanisms in history is that of money and violence (and, at some point, religion). The two are both forms of power (i.e. ability to influence), but unlike money, violence is much harder to concentrate in the hands of the few (technology is changing that, but there are other, subtler sanctions at play that resist total concentration of violence). So the rich could starve the poor and had horses and swords, but they knew that if they went too far, they couldn't withstand an uprising.

The state made an interesting deal: a central authority (though ideally not concentrated -- the two are different concepts) would have a monopoly over violence (up to a point), and, in exchange, it would regulate money. It wouldn't let the poor kill the rich (again, up to a point), but, through regulation it would make sure that the rich don't starve the poor. Once you separate the two, and, in the process, make even extreme violence less disruptive, you break a very important balance that has been reached. Like some sort of a MAD doctrine, you want to keep a mutual, implicit threat going.

Which brings me back to the first point about central bankers. Even after their appointment, and even if they're not interested in another term, they still have a responsibility toward their community -- as I hinted at before, democracy only formalizes certain rules that have always implicitly had an effect, and certain sanctions are always at play even if not made formal by the democratic system. Bitcoin breaks that, too.
You're right. I think this falls into the "announcement of an announcement" category.
Listen man the best UI and UX comes from not having the stuff get in your way.

Once could argue that the best UI/UX is UI and UX that gets out of your way, that is UI that is none at all. If we could interface with our machines without UI/UX and through some other means like thoughts or electrical impulses that would be the best UI/UX there is.

And anyway, I'm not arguing against research or against UX, I am arguing against the fact that the article is alluding something not true, that design is the gauge of a high tech companies health. The idea that those researchers are finding out anything that a few engineers can't find and iterate over is nonsense.
I'll kinda miss the portability there of those. Not the multiplicity. Too many "standards", especially as you piled on the megabytes. 50MG Optical disk? Yea, where do I get a drive for that?
It's very fast after the model(s) have been trained. The training can take a long time, it might be something like N^4 where N is the number of distinct types of features. Something about intersecting planes for each dimension.

It is used in several DARPA programs including XDATA and MEMEX to name a couple. One of the committers is actually now a DARPA PM (Wade Shen) who has taken over some programs from a previous PM you may remember from MEMEX on 60 minutes.

As far as speed, once trained we used it as part of a batch job to enhance various types of freetext and semi structured text, and the performance was very good (I don't have numbers in front of me, but some groups should)

We also would wrap MITIE with a Tangelo wrapper so we could use it as a REST client (for other webapps to hit at runtime), posting freetext to it and getting back a list of entities and annotated freetext.

It can also work well on semi-structured text, for instance a table of semi-regular data that was pasted into a string, losing it's pagination/formatting. This requires a tailored model but works well.

The training of MITIE can be a bit challenging if you have too many types that might appear in similar locations in text. One of the DARPA teams built a MITIE trainer which allowed a SME to annotate text in a web ui to help build the model, which is then run against the corpus of data in batch.

The stock model is built on newspaper data, IIRC, so it may not be suited to something like, say, tweets or books.

I hope this helps. I highly recommend checking it out if your project needs something like this. A lot of man hours went into developing it, and the developers would love for it to gain traction and have the technology transfer outside academia/defense. Drop them a line or a pull request!

Note: there have been suggestions for including some rudimentary low-hanging-fruit post process techniques, like applying supplied regexes, whitelists, blacklists, pronoun dictionaries, etc. One variant was also looking to pull out relationships as well as entities as tagged fields.
Here come the copy cats.
no, i think you're spot on. it's always interplay between reading reviews, while factoring in cuisine, distance and price.
It's less Google Play and more breaking the control Google has over the Android platform, despite Android being open-source and spread out across a number of manufacturers. Google Play is a critical piece of that control.

The ads look like a way to defray that cost.

I wonder what Samsung will try to do. Something similar or something from out of their own playbook?
Dollar Shave Club... but for Scandinavia.

Or a brutally fast Handlebars implementation.
Does anyone know of a source for more of the "Watch Mr. Wizard" episodes (the black and white ones)? A few are on YouTube, a selection was made available on DVD (since out of print and quite expensive) but I have found no others.

According to his Wikipedia page he filmed 547 episodes but only a handful are still accessible.

I ask mainly for my son who keeps asking to "watch a Mr. Wizard video" and who is well into reruns of what is available on YouTube.
Are you telling me that Amazon has written off the smartphone business, one of the most quickly adopted pieces of technology since the original PC and which has made Apple one of the most profitable businesses in the world, as an idea not worth pursuing anymore?
Part of what you're missing is that designers are closer to the user than engineers usually are, and the article relies on that link. I did support for many years, and I am very aware of the disconnect between what non-customer-contact engineers think users want, and what users actually want. Your customer-contact staff are an excellent barometer to the mood of your users, because they're actually looking at what's going on. And in the case of support and sales staff, they're at the pointy end.

And of course engineers are essential to a high-tech company. It's like saying lawyers are essential to a legal firm. But in a lot of tech companies, the engineers are insulated from users, or are even dismissive or abusive of them.

Also, the biggest tech company in the world was led from near-bankruptcy to "more cash than the USA" by not an engineer, not a designer, but a business guy. To make a great company - google, microsoft, whatever, you need hardcore business folks that can play the game hard at the highest level. Having a clean engineering setup is nowhere near enough.
> pass the beginner stuff in this world.

Sorry? What do you mean?
yes you can. Maybe he/she is talking about the same window instance?
Embedding D3 in an IPython Notebook
It's not "my job is more important than yours", but instead "I'm doing my job AND yours."
>This includes Twitch, which Amazon bought for ~970MM plus an earn-out.

These kinds of companies with massive bandwidth costs rarely become profitable, and even if Twitch bucks the trend, Amazon could easily use Hollywood accounting to avoid any payments on the earn-out (for example, it could charge Twitch retail rates for use of AWS services). It strikes me as a bad decision to accept an earn-out when the overwhelming likelihood is that the clause will result in exactly $0 going to the former owners.

Re: stats, 40 out of 940 are worth more than $100M. Dozens more are probably worth at least $25M. That is an insanely high success rate. The YC system works!
Your first paragraph about Google having great UX, one button one form.

That was built by engineers not by designers or by UX guys who do "research".

So my argument stands.

The best UI/UX is the type that gets out of your way. That is If there was a way to do away with UI and Ux all together and simply control our machines with thoughts or electrical impulses that would be the best UI and UX there is. Engineers know this that all of that stuff just gets in your way, and if they don't know it they quickly learn it through seeing their users interact with their software.

We don't need a bunch of people standing around doing "research" telling us that.
> people like you are terrible, terrible evil people. [...] You are awful.

Absolutely not allowed on HN. We ban accounts that do this repeatedly.

Please eliminate incivility from your comments here.
> Wouldn't want him to get in trouble at work for comments like that

In the off chance that he wasn't one of the engineers who took the fall.
They (Moz. dev team) have now even gone wild by hiding the Addon SDK from developers. It's not on their servers but buried in github, covered by several versions of a new app./development tool. It took me a long time to locate it. It all appears that they don't want us to use it (perhaps because of the cfx they are deprecating for jpm). Yet, a developer needs it to upgrade or develop their (new) extensions ( xul->bootstrapped extension with/without the sdk lib.). On another note, extension development is now like a node app. dev. -- their directory structures now look like. It's funny yet interesting (standardizing addon dev.??).... This whole gospel about the SDK is a way of hiding the details/core of the FF browser from developers - ending the use of XUL/XPCOM, going HTML, e.t.c. Perhaps, Moz. needs to help make extension dev. easy for 'web designers'.
Yes. That.
Interesting, my interface is extremely laggy and the video stutters. The apps and remote are nice though.
He lost all credibility with me when he sold his CROWDFUNDED project to Facebook.

Of all the companies that I don't want running a VR world... Facebook.

( owner of 4 oculus rifts )
> Your white guilt horse-shit

You can't do this here. Please comment civilly or not at all.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think your opinion is misguided and it comes across as immature. Design can be indicative of a variety of important things, like a company's commitment to its users/customers. Google's simple search experience was a conscious design decision that helped it stand out and build a following early on. Although Facebook has changed considerably, when it first launched, it was a design inspiration compared to MySpace. For all the dismissing you do of design, it's interesting that, at least with these two examples, you've picked companies that made very smart and very conscious design decisions early on, helping them rocket to the success stories they are today. For pioneering companies that are tackling hard engineering problems and bringing these breakthroughs to the public, I would agree that design might not be as important initially. This is one of the advantages of being first to market with something people want. You get to set the bar and you can get away with a lot of things (Although it's not an example of breakthrough tech and more an example of a first mover advantage, Snapchat's UX is horrible [it has improved!] but since they popularized disappearing content, users were willing to deal with a poor user experience.). As markets mature, as technology spreads, or as established players attempt to enter new markets (Google with Google+), it can be harder to stand out on engineering alone unless you continue to push boundaries and break new ground (Hangouts!), but even then, it might not be enough (Hangouts...). In other words, in scenarios where technology is getting commoditized, you could argue that design (how it looks and feels) can become even more important than engineering (how it's built). Is the iPhone's success due more to it's revolutionary engineering or it's thoughtful design? (Personally, I think it's both + brilliant marketing, but you get my point).