skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would think, but often things fail in unexpected ways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc_pest is destroying thousands of die-cast zinc-alloy toys from the 1930s to 1950s. Zinc alloys are pretty corrosion-resistant, so this was a surprise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulose_acetate_film#Decay_a... is destroying a lot of historically important documents in libraries that were laminated in acetate during the 1930s to 1950s in order to preserve them.

But this kind of thing sometimes happens to architectural materials, too.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminosis is destroying a lot of buildings in Spain in the 1960s and 1970s. I've seen a similar process underway in buildings built during the same period in Montevideo, Uruguay, but I don't know if it's from the same cause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentinite#Serpentinite_reac... will destroy stone walls pretty quickly if you build them out of olivine-rich rock.

Reinforced concrete, especially in chloride-rich environments, will eventually spall from oxidation of the reinforcing minerals. Some kinds of aggregate, like dolomite, although resistant to weathering themselves, also have a tendency to slowly destroy concrete.

You can definitely build a wall that will last thousands of years in the absence of earthquakes, war, gray goo, or acid rain, if you make the wall out of quartz-rich or otherwise slow-weathering, low-TCE rocks like granite, cement it with lime cement instead of Portland cement, don't try to reinforce it, and don't make it too long, thin, and straight, in order to reduce thermal-cycling stresses.

Most of us would never think of most of those issues when we tried to overengineer.

The Roman aqueducts have some other interesting virtues, though: due to the arch, they used very little material. We could probably do better with stainless steel today, but they did pretty darn well with masonry. I don't know if you've ever tried building a masonry arch, but there are some nonobvious considerations, and a mistake can kill you.
Management Challenges in Early Startups
Bench is hiring it's next great Software Engineer
Programmers, yo don't neda lemma.
I thought I was having procrastination issues. Turns out I was in heart failure from an atrial septal defect. Get a cardiopulmonary stress test, check your thyroid, blood sugar. Make sure it's not a treatable physical issue too. Hacker types (intj, intp) don't procrastinate.
If you don't mind me asking, where are you finding such cheap SPARC hardware? Even 5-year old hardware still goes for thousands of dollars on the second-hand market.
> A US court is about to slam the hell out of Uber for violating labor law

The class action suit will be tied up in the courts for another decade. FedEx has been fighting this same fight for years and the vast majority of its drivers remain independent contractors.
Your code of conduct is not enough if your guests are illegal
Pop ups still occur, even on legitimate sites. Tripadvisor creates a pop-under when you click on a search result, for instance.

Basically, the user will click something at some point, the page can then unexpectedly put malicious stuff into the clipboard. No amount of protecting will stop this.
fwrapv?
Absolutely yes. I with I'd doubled, or at least minored, in English literature. I was Physics/Math.
I was quoted in the NY Times article about working at Amazon. Here is my story
I don't know if it was most effective because it was the only thing I tried and it worked beautifully. Earlier this year there was Cricket World Cup and most of the world cup schedules I checked were in the form of a long table, nothing interactive. It was a pain to find matches happening on particular day/team/venue in one glance.

So me and another friend set out to create a schedule viewer that will give us match info within 1~2 secs and wrote a simple but interactive schedule viewer[1] with AngularJS over a weekend. We posted it to r/cricket subreddit but didn't get more than couple hundred views. I also tried tweeting other former cricketers,cricket writers but my tweet got buried in no time because these people had fans ranging from 100k to 2mil.

Then I noticed espencricinfo.com website had a twitter section that listed tweets from all these prominent cricket figures in real-time as they were tweeted.

So during the match when everybody was watching and tweeting, I started tweeting these folks link to our interactive dashboard. This increased chance of them seeing my tweet and we got RTs from a lot of them this way. Of course for that our dashboard had to be the best out there and it was (it worked on mobile browser too).

With just few tweet to celebrity cricketers/sports writers we went from hundreds to over 30k page view and 7k recurring viewers over the course of world cup. The key I think was to get noticed when they were most active and also have a nice app/content to convince them to RT.

[1] http://www.itinora.com/worldcup2015
The Mistakes Of Writing About Company Culture
I think LastPass acts like that - when you copy a password, it will clear the clipboard after a short time.
That's the big fallacy of capitalism. Nobody buy books about the guys who took a risk and lost everything, but everybody buys books about the One Guy who became millionaire after being a drop out.

What you call "popular culture", is just propaganda to make people believe that if they don't became rich is their own fault.
Are there open source/open protocols for something like Slack? Rich IRC?
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First Tesla Model X Buyers Now Picking Colors, ‘Ludicrous Mode’
And as a result we now outsource all of our manufacturing to China.
> Hmm so if race is a social construct then racism doesn't truly exist so there should be no outcry about it?

I refuse to believe that you're that stupid.

Don't feed the troll, guys.
Codecs and what you should know
If the long tail is happening, than I'm truly oblivious and don't know where to find it. I've been looking very hard (believe me) for anything even moderately fitting my tastes in any media (books, music, film, games, etc.) I can't find anything! I wish there was a guide to whom I could describe what I'm looking for or even tell the things that I've liked previously who would give me even marginally better recommendations. I'm struggling!
Why Founders Should Not Outsource Sales in the Early Days of Startup
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Rather than griping about inaccurate dislikes, I would like to highlight the much, much larger number of books that you will never read simply because you've never knew about it. Go check out the Amazon best sellers list, for example.

It's not worth worrying about, I think. Even if 90% of all (fiction) books are destroyed irrevocably tomorrow and no more are written ever you'll have enough to last you the next thousand years.

An interesting problem may be how to maximize enjoyment per reading hour given a functionally unlimited library: something like a cross between spotify and tinder for books, perhaps: present random high-interest page of a book. Swipe right to read next page. Swipe left for next random book.
One technique mentioned was delaying access to common timewasting sites. That is way too complicated and doesn't get the job done. Just put it in your hosts file and "block" it by pointing it at 127.0.0.1. If you really need access, "unblock" it by undoing that. This sounds stupid, but it really helps. Everytime you waste time at a site, add it. That works for most sites- not all, but enough.

Another technique mentioned was breaking tasks up into hour blocks with rewards. This sounds like Pomodoro technique. I tried that on multiple occasions and it never worked. The timer and breaks distract me and interrupt whatever flow I might have been lucky enough to get into. I've never worked with anyone that has continued to use this technique. Rewards in-general work, but I'd just have a reward when done with a task and have smaller tasks.

Here are other techniques that really work: (1) Find work you like to do and that you are good at, and find an environment where you excel. If you can't, then try to reduce stress through music, taking brief walks, etc. (2) Sleep more. (3) Lose weight in a healthy sustainable way. (4) Get exercise regularly. (5) Take care of your physical and mental health. (6) While at work, write down one thing you need to do. Finish it before doing anything else, unless there is an emergency you should assist with. Repeat.
Why Shouldn't Copyright Be Infinite?
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Use whichever works best for a particular variable. If you don't know, you haven't thought about it.
That's true, they could be just targeting people in the major cities, and I suppose there is nothing wrong with that. But would you rather have a phone that has 300GB of storage and is backed up to a NAS in your house on the daily bases (or to the cloud), or would you rather have a phone that guesses what you may need, and constantly shuffles things around. Even if you have a gigabit connection in your house, are you really comfortable with all your data AND usage patterns, being uploaded to the cloud? Seriously, flash storage, especially the slow kind, is so cheep nowadays.
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It was interesting for me Josh; A specialised internal talk, external window into product developent. That's how twitter sort of felt like when it started. A Re-invented .plan file.
I use both iOS and Android and I experience the problem pretty often, regardless of which mobile OS I'm using. It might actually be more common on iOS since there are more apps in the App Store than in Play Store, however I don't have numbers backing my guess. In either case it's very annoying, as this type of interstitial prevents you from accessing the content. As the article explains, small install banners at the top of the page as still OK (and honestly I'm OK with that too).
I thought you were going to say some videos blocked from some users and not from others!
Whopps, it was actually the other Big Data class.

The assignments are here: https://github.com/spark-mooc/mooc-setup
I built an app without having a website before so I get the perspective of the app developer here too - trying to get people to their app. But I agree that interstitials is not the answer. We ended up building mobile app content previews (deepviews) for all the apps using our deeplinks (I work for Branch.io) which work much better.
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This makes me sad, much like how Microsoft's logo change made me sad.

Microsoft's italic bold lettering was iconic. It was the logo the company had used for the longest time, the logo that adorned their best (and their worst) products. It was a logo that everyone had seen, everyone knew, that was incredibly recognisable.

And then they threw that all away, and created intentional brand confusion by swapping their logo for the Windows logo, then completely replacing Windows' logo with a grayscale tilted pane of glass.

Why? Why fix what's not broken? Why replace the well-known with the unrecognisable?

Google's logo, the one they used from 1999-2010, was also iconic. It was easily readable: it had a typeface made for legibility and style, not made to be mathematically simple. It contrasted well with any background. It was the logo that everyone knew.

And while this particular change isn't quite so drastic as Microsoft's was, it's still strange to me. Why is it necessary? People surely won't think less of Google for sticking with the one they've used for so long. It doesn't make them look dated: they had already tweaked the hues and the drop-shadow slightly so it fits in. And the company's not headed in some radical new direction that they need to symbolically gesture about.

I don't get it. I probably never will.
To be fair, are there good web maps? OSM is much worse, for instance. Google maps are pretty usable by comparison.
Amendments to CISA “Cybersecurity” Bill Fail in All Regards
That's a lot of work.
A couple of other things this inspires in me:

1. Your systems can last longer if they're based on free software, so you don't have to worry about a dependency going away and you not being able to fix it. (And of course effective copy protection here is the kiss of death.)

2. Your systems can last longer if they have less dependencies. (I tried to compile a six-months-old Guix from six months ago from source for several days. This was difficult because it depends on so many things.)

3. Your systems can last longer if the dependencies they have are more popular. Installing DOSBOX today is a lot easier than installing an emulator that will emulate the Tandy 1000 version of MS-DOS. (I think Lotus 1-2-3 had a Tandy version, right?) This is synergistic with the previous two: your free-software dependencies are still going to be a pain to handle if nobody else uses them.

4. Your systems can last longer if they're internally simpler, so that you can fix them when they do fail.
I am saying that that there should not be an interference from a third party into a consensual contract between two parties.
Yep. ADHD is not a problem of perception, it's a problem of motivation. A problem of inhibition. "ADHD is a failure to direct behavior forward in time." "They are best thought of as executive deficits, not attention deficits."

For anyone who wants to really understand the disorder (even those who have it and think they have a good grasp on it) Dr. Russell A Barkley, PhD is a great place to start. In particular this video, "Essential Ideas for Parents": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCAGc-rkIfo

If you have ADHD I can't recommend his books enough.
How can engineers improve their design skills?
As an engineer I can build products which are great in terms of features. What I dont understand is how do I make it usable and appealing?

We are a startup and cannot afford to hire a design expert. So UI/UX is done by the engineers. It works but we agree that it can be a lot better.

How can we fix this? Are there any startups where engineers do UX? How did they do it?
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It seems defining what "native" means on Hawaii is a bit sketchy. Clearly no animals were on the islands when they first were created, so everything is more or less "invasive".

Speaking of ants that live in trees, the Big Island is being overrun by the Little Fire Ant, which has already spread across much of the rainy side. I'm sure it protects the trees from pests, too, but in this case that unfortunately also includes humans. They have a nasty bite, and are very hard to control, which is making farming in infested areas hell. http://littlefireants.com/
We do! All hiring is based on doing the actual work with your actual peers. It's hard to imagine a more realistic way to decide who to hire.
For service I use frequently, I pin a tab so they are always open. So for me, the app drawer is rarely used.
People procrastinate because work is painful. Naturally people want to avoid pain.

To stop procrastinating:

- Stop doing things that are painful. Do other things instead.

- Improve your pain tolerance by becoming stronger, better rested, etc.

(Disclaimer: haven't read the article yet.)
I ceased killing invasive ants with borax, a substance taken back to the hive to destroy it, when during one such defense I saw them divert from the track I was poisoning to attack newly hatched termites that were emerging from under an appliance. They were incredibly effective. They also raid termite colonies and carry away the eggs. I switched to a lemon oil based repellent applied locally as needed.
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This restaurant replaced humans with tablets
Dependent types – Idris documentation
I ha-- I'm used to it.
TextRiley: Text-message-focused real estate service for realtors
The tech stack for building an app in one weekend
If it wasn't for Thimble I would never have done anything locally. I wouldn't have been able to install Git.

I am an educator and a volunteer contributor to Mozilla Learning. I can honestly say that everything I have learned about HTML/CSS is due to using Thimble in my teaching for the last year and a half.

For my students, who are not in digital arts, computer science, or web design programs Thimble is a wonderful scaffold. This new version is even better.

If they get to the level where they are editing locally my students will now be able to download projects.
Google OnHub Router: My First 24 Hours
Are they? I don't think so. And especially not if the all is uninstalled within minutes. Apple puts much more weight into the ranking than into 'total downloads' (which would be the only increasing metric in this case.
Offtopic but am I the only one seeing this? http://i.imgur.com/3pnOXot.png I thought google moved away from that black bar.
In Washington State, the state will pursue them with glee and vigor free of charge (to you). I think 20 years is a little outside how old a debt they would track, though.
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The human side of technical debt
I think they are just as attracted to the termites themselves. They love the eggs.
This one was quite sad. The suicide of an inmate: http://www.drc.ohio.gov/public/after_action_castroA643371.pd...
I won't say it was my worst job ever, at all, but I can empathize. I joined a consulting company a few years back and ended up doing performance optimization on a legacy point of sale system written twenty years before, in C, for a large home improvement supplies company. Some of it actually proved interesting, but in terms of career moves it wasn't the best.
NSA Codebreaker Challenge 2015
Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes, San Francisco Bay Area

Technologies: C++, MATLAB, R, Machine Learning, Image Processing, Statistics, Optimization

Resume/CV: http://xinyu.zhao.gao.io/resume.pdf

Email: xinyu.zhao@gao.io

I’m currently a PhD student at Auburn University and will graduate in summer of 2016. I’m looking for machine learning and image processing related positions.
Same boat here. Really like UI Router. $stateParams saves me so much time.
SnappyCheckout has been rocking this functionality for several years now... and they're cheaper as well.
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Come join a small tight knit team and build platforms to solve a very interesting set of problems around ad fraud. I am on the System Engineering team so am most knowledgable about that position. But would be glad to field questions on all three areas.

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I went to University in Australia initially planning to study Biology. I took an introductory Philosophy course and I was hooked. I ended up completing my Bachelors and doing some postgrad work. I committed all the way - I had no other major or minor.

In my experience, that introductory course was key in convincing me to follow that path.

Now I work in IT ;)
I wasn't totally skeptical - we did RAC on AWS in tests back in the day using a third node as an iSCSI target, but it was a) sketchy as hell, b) not at all redundant, c) not something I thought Palm would go for.
I don't know why "news" like that are always considered so important. That logo is ugly, but so was the previous one. It doesn't seem like it terribly hurt their business. Not that I don't care about style — I admire good style. But it is secondary, at least for google. They do well with whatever logo there is.
This is a case where two blatant truths are hard to swallow together.

1. People define themselves via their career and their hobbies and these are often correlated with certain races and genders. This gives rise to a kind of social-gravity that attracts those type of people more than others.

2. People prefer to work with friends.

Taken together you can have highly homogenous companies that were built from the group up without a single racist or sexist thought. So its not as simple as "I'm definitely NOT a racist."
And it's also happened a lot with the IRS, for whom IT is a core competency.
I don't understand marketing either, but I doubt a company like Google makes a change like this until it's been focus-grouped and A/B tested ad nauseam.
> I'm really hopeful that one day it will be as successful as Opus.

I assume you mean more successful.

I have never seen or even heard of an Opus file in the wild.
bool question = toBe || !toBe;
Social impact investing is changing the way philanthropy is done
Actual honest question: what does it mean to "use a logo for a week"? I don't understand what I would do to "give it a day," unless you just mean wait and see how I feel tomorrow.