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Time to short Google. It's clear they are out of ideas and their core business is under siege by ad blockers.
This US city is first in line for a Japanese train
Well, then it isn't world-class then.
The two are not totally incompatible. If you can decouple segments of huge projects, you can mock input and get quick feedback on the specific segment you are developing. Insanely long builds still exist today, I know of and have worked on software that ranges from 1 hr to 1 day to build quite recently...you just have to find ways to avoid that huge cost :p
You don't need the full versioned repo, just the top commit (ie cloning with depth=1). Also, git compresses the objects before sending them.
That image in the article makes it look like a terrible place to work: http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/56495c0e112314ef038...
So how would have been an acceptable way for the commenter to make his point? Saying they sh*t on the other person is IMHO really dramatic.
Well, yes. This is why proprietary ecosystems are ultimately bad for everyone but the proprietor.
Did the Yazidis attack them? Do you know what they did to the Yazidis?
I don't think they were trying to paint you in any way. The whole "A player" thread of thought is quite common in tech - I think this is what he was getting after.

I'd disagree his comment is unconstructive and argue that the aforementioned philsophy is a _destructive_ one.
Same here, even after logging out and back in, no opt-in for the "new" UI yet.
Interesting! I never heard of that. The blogpost reads like a joke so I don't know if he's serious about it, but if he is I would like to read about people's experience on this technique compared to the Pomodoro one.
Show HN: Micromort Calculator
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I will fully admit that not having one happen is not good (or even so-so) evidence that it works.

However, this article does the reverse. And claim that it is useless because it hasn't prevented something that never happened in the first place.

My seat-belt never saved my life but I put it on anyway.

0 for 0 isn't good information in either direction.
1600 employees and only $80 million in revenue? That's only $50k per employee, which seems very low for a company hiring that aggressively (+25%/quarter).
Maybe Google webcache would be more appropriate than plaintext: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fD4utpl...
I wonder how many of these children have been given anything to live for, rather than simply goals like material gain.
Are there any similar timer solutions that link to github or bitbucket issues?
I strongly disagree, but I'm up-voting to get this comment back up where it belongs. Plenty of smart people -- including, I imagine, some supreme court justices -- feel this way, so I don't see any good reason for censoring it as "noise."
Submitting this because food is always interesting, but also because:

1) Naming. This product has a name with an unusual derivation.

2) "Johnsons Fluid Beef".

3) "beef tea"

4) When you think it can't get worse: Chevril.
Depends on the words, the picture and the audience. I wouldn't attempt to understand your API's system contract via a picture of the computer.

One of the concerns I have is that we may end up moving to a very image-oriented media that finds it difficult to meaningfully communicate certain thoughts - and perhaps encourages an audience largely unable and/or unwilling to meaningfully attempt to understand them.
People in Midwest, I lived there from aged 0-22, value tangible things with present day value.
I did my best but quit when my face started hurting.
Quantum field theory doesn't seem very much like the luminiferous ether. This seems like finding a new species of grasshopper that lives on a mountain, and saying, "Ah-ha, I've found Zeus! Zeus is a thing that lives on a mountain and has never been seen before, so this must be Zeus!"
After yesterday's micromort discussion[1], I whipped up a quick app to calculate micromorts & micromorts/day. Written in React, code on GitHub.[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10571077

[2] https://github.com/RoryStolzenberg/micromort-calculator
I really like that the author describes work as fitting into two categories: the really focused stuff he uses the Pomodoro technique for, and all the peripheral stuff. I think it's a very important distinction and I'm keenly aware of it in my daily work.

I've found there are two advantages of Pomodoro that are under-appreciated:

1. At the end of your day you have an integer number of "Pomodoros" done. An integer number is very easy to grasp and compare with other days. So you have a very strong sense for how well you did with your day, or how well you are doing so far in the day. It's a powerful thing and it keeps you honest.

2. After you have used the technique for a while, the timer you use not only serves as a timer, but its start mechanism/button/gesture/whatever actually serves as some sort of psychological "switch" that puts your mind in work mode. On mornings when I am lacking a little motivation, I can just start the timer and I'll get into gear. It's not magic, but when I need a little extra kick the timer does it very well.
They're going to cure heart disease, not write the next snapchat. I bet in most states and most cities it'll buy you a lab and 50 staff and enough goods for a while.

They won't have to actually produce the cure, just develop enough theory and experiments to convince investors to drop a billion on them for going through everything that's needed for human testing.
As a major point in their favour, at least they kept the old version. They could have just redesigned the webpage and put it on i.reddit.com. Instead I can keep using the same good old layout while those who want can use the new m.reddit.com.

That's more than I can say for many, many other things, where whether I like it or not I'm forced to have the latest design fad (flat, pastel colours, long and inefficient animations and huge, unnecessary padding nowadays) shoved down my throat.
Totally agree with this analogy.

I would be surprised if one of the primary drivers of high CTR isn't the image, just like it is with other similar experiences.
Yeah, I have the same complaint about Pinterest. My wife likes it, but I find it an incomprehensible mess.
Sadly yes. Doesn't mean I can't feel sad that is the case, though.
Like most of you, I think mass surveillance is a fairly big problem.

Even so, how do we KNOW that there haven't been any major terrorist attacks thwarted? If I were the government, I would keep my thwarting as secret as possible (up until the point where the public turns against me enough to start trying to shut me down).
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Using the pomodoro technique, I managed to write a 50k novel in eight days.

Taking a 5 minute break for every 25 mins of uninterrupted work seems to preserve 'flow state', dramatically increasing my productivity :)
What's wrong with Pintrest?
Out of curiousity, why do you want to stop the timer? To me the point seems to commit to lay out a specific segment of time to be productive and holding to the commitment helps. I imagine you have a different perspective on this though.
Well, apparently for them it's way easier to aquire people than space, I mean, in the last quarter they hired 350 people, and since 1st November 75. That's like 3 people a day? Sounds crazy to me! With such a hire rate the quality must be going down at least a bit, and I can't even imagine what the on-boarding must look like, they just point at a desk(or a corner of one) and leave you at your own devices...

I might be wrong... but I would be surprised if I am very far from the truth.
Especially with that poster in the background where the only visible part is "WORK HARD"
Now there was an engineer.

The musical version.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21QqXumEWFU
> Dollar, yen, euro, bitcoin(!) have no direct relation to resources.

Made up numbers (ie the value of the dollar, bitcoin, etc) need to be reconciled at some point. The value doesn't come from nowhere. If the bitcoin value GOES UP it's because people are putting money into it. The price doesn't go down when people buy it, it goes up. That's a currency exchange, it's not creating value from nothing.

That's what I'm referring to as a "resource." Not just iron or silicon.

The entire 2008 crash happened because people were trying to create massive amounts of value from nothing.

The idea that any system needs resources to grow isn't an opinion, it's a universal constant.
small desks + stacks of mess... i'll take my cubicle over "open office!"
The article makes it very clear that they are not yet profitable, and won't be for at least a year. Even if they're burning $100M a year, they've raised almost 5 times that amount - so they can sustain losses for a long time.
Wait wait wait...Google+ still exists?!
Claims, yes. Succeeds, expert opinion suggests not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10576434

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10580444

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10580709

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10581323

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10581649

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10582234

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10584118

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10584358

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10584366
Yikes...tend to agree. Can't imagine how I'd get anything done in such a cramped, open environment like that. Way too many distractions.

Also couldn't help but notice the "Work Hard" poster in the background. Hopefully the subtext that is too small to make out is something that makes it sound less severe than it seems on the surface.
When I read they recently raised $500 million I thought that must be a typo. I thought it must have been $50 million. I was wrong, they actually raised $500 million.
"Any such person will likely know of Erowid, as will most toxicologists and many E.R. doctors"

Uh...

"Any such person will likely know of "the pub", as will most policemen, judges, a&e departments, robbery victims, battered wives and children...."
Once again, where are you getting your facts? The largest killer on the planet only requires that we all get more exercise? My guess is that you're just making up your facts.

Sure, some deaths are preventable but you're completely wrong in saying that it's a 100% lifestyle issue.
I agree. But how can you realistically solve this?
The majority of adults will never give up their beliefs. Even if we convinced every single child that religion is bullocks, it would still take ~60 years to flush out the adults. Maybe we should just hop on the rocket with Musk and start over on Mars.
I don't know why people are considering these terrorists to be so smart. They arrived at the Stade de France and were naively thinking they'd be able to come inside with explosives tied to them. In January, they didn't even know where the Charlie Hebdo meeting room was, they had to ask for directions and were even sent the wrong way (at first). Really, I'm far from worrying about their communication's encryption as much as I worry about the lax government.
Shame, the single anti-feature that prevents me from joining is still in place:

>Join Google+ by creating your public profile

I don't want a Public Profile. I don't need my gmail account to have a public profile. I don't need search engines, randos, nobodies, everybody to have access to my profile.

Why does Google mandate Public Profiles? I don't understand. Facebook does not mandate Public profiles (if you visit my Facebook page, it says 404 error page does not exist unless you are logged in and within friend of a friend distance to me).

One day Google will allow me to be apart of their network without mandating that I provide the public internet a profile.

And yes, I realize that aspects on the public profile can be manually disabled (it takes some 100-120 clicks to turn off every feature, one by one, even though the page itself remains public including your image and name).
That may be. If you think it's dehumanizing bullshit, it's up to give an analysis like GP did without dehumanzing people.
If there is a service that converts your G+ feed into a rss feed, would you use it?
The last report I saw on FISA warrants said they were for targeting criteria rather than individuals. So, one warrant is like a blank check for certain parameters and analysis across all their collection schemes. That's more significant than 3,000 warrants from a regular court for individuals or companies.
Designers from San Francisco, that's who. Current design trends favor "negative space", so text has to be spaced widely, with huge margins and hairsbreadth-thin fonts.
Thanks for the suggestion, I had been thinking about building something similar. I will give Pomello a try!
Ok, let me make this a little bit more clear then. Taken straight from wikipedia we have the definition of a straw man argument.

A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument which was not advanced by that opponent.

Your reply to the parent poster was "So you are proposing that the French should respond to having over a hundred of their fellow citizens killed, and hundreds more injured by loving the supporters and leaders of ISIS?".

I was correcting you because you suggested that the parent was "proposing that the French..." and leaving the absurdity of the proposition to be its own refutation, when in fact the whole statement was "an argument which was not advanced by [the parent poster]".

Let us be clear that you can still desire to know what the parent was proposing the French do while also attacking his original position with a straw man arguemnt, which is exactly what occurred.
Do these calorie numbers not seem high? The US eats 3600 calories per person per day (2800 in 1961?), and the vast majority of countries are running well over 2000/3000?
Atom editor has a word count package and within it the option of setting a threshold-- 750 words. A progress bar grows as you type towards your goal.

Thank you, atom community :)
Their key differentiation? "Earnest says its approach is particularly data-intensive, which it says allows it to tailor rates to individual circumstances. It asks its customers for digital links to their bank, credit card and retirement and investment accounts, and information on all their loans. “They are willing to share their data for a better consumer finance experience,” Mr. Beryl said."

Apparently they found recent grads with very large student debt load but commensurately high future earning potential had inaccurately low credit scores. Bypassing the credit agencies and doing their own scoring let them offer more competitive rates to that segment in particular, whose big loans probably carry a lucrative underwriting fee, not to mention bigger savings for every basis point you can shave off.

Interestingly they are underwriting as well as servicing ("Earnest will never pass you off to a Third-Party Servicer") which I see as a huge selling point. I wonder how hard it was to get the Federal approval for that?
This is incredibly simplistic. Cardiovascular disease are a large umbrella problem. There are many causes, and many factors. And even atherosclerosis related heart disease is not always just a cause of exercise and diet.

If you think exercising and eating right are going to save you from heart disease, you've got another thing coming.
Currency controls yes, strict no. It's a sieve. Most countries actively manipulate their exchange rates to help boost exports. That's normal. They do it by adjusting interest rates and setting various policies.
Your seatbelt can't blackmail you, nor pull "LOVEINT" like maliciousness against you (i.e., it has no real negatives). Extensive surveillance, mass or not, is rife with the possibility for abuse.
It took us 6 months to find, renovate, and move into a new office. If they're adding as many people as they claim, that's more than enough time to go from "we're going to need to upsize soon" to "we needed to upsize months ago".
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Correction: A local spotify install can find music on your computer which can be played through the spotify client, but you cannot UPLOAD this music for use on other clients.

The Spotify desktop client can act as a Media Player for your other media, but you cannot upload it like you can with other services (which would be pointless, seeing as you already have access to 100% of Spotify's catalog).
Point taken. I'll tentatively argue if all your functions can return null you have other problems to contend with, but what you said makes sense.
Not at all. Was trying to elucidate on the comment and add some insight. It appeared OP just operated off the headline with some generic wisdom about Bootstrap being just fine for most things (which it absolutely is not). Upvotes are easy when they reassure the ego which was just threatened. The fact that a lot of egos on Hacker News appear to be tied to a shitty framework like Bootstrap is a bit upsetting, thus the Eternal September comment.
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Was that sudden switch from Galton to Fisher conscious or a mistake?
UX is terrible for a re-do, It's confusing and the whole layout is out dated.
I wonder how hard it would be to add basemap support to https://plot.ly/javascript/choropleth-maps/, a-la Leaflet.js.
Would a balkanized afghanistan be politically stable eventually then?
The selectors apply to data already collected from the few people the FBI has under surveillance. There is simply no "mass" about it.
Click the G+ sidebar, Settings, Manage Google+ activity. Then click in the Search box.
I never said you mentioned anything along the lines of "humans as resources" - I meant that the A Player mentality lends to this. Apologies if it came across any different.

My issue is that A/B/C boxing is almost binary view.

You're either good or you're not.

Life isn't that simple.

I've worked with fantastic developers who are a pain to communicate and participate on a team with. I've worked with average developers who can anticipate customer needs from a spec better than most and are energising for a team. I've never worked with someone who is excellent at all facets of their job. I have worked with some people who seemed hopeless at all facets (though it always struck me that they're in the wrong sector rather than just being completely useless individuals).

The largest team I've led has been 5 people whom I had much experience with and so knew various strengths and weaknesses.

And I'm rambling here but that loops back to my first point: people have strengths and weaknesses and boxing them into lettered teams just ignores this.
I think the article is abusing Bayes Rule.

Keeping in line with the other examples in the article, why not: 1 out of 1 bombing attack resulted in death? Because bombing attacks are not something you choose to do (as opposed to skydiving or riding a motorcycle). Also, the threat level is not uniform across the country. Also, there haven't been a million bombings so we're doing statistics with one sample. Also, we're also expecting the bombings to continue. There are a lot of misinterpretations and oversimplifications here.

I find it highly irrelevant, as a person working in a large town, frequently being in highly populated areas, in a country that's possibly a target for ISIS to compare myself with the average person living in a different country. It's almost like assuming that smokers and non-smokers have the same chance of dying from lung cancer, and then using the entire population of the world as reference to prove that smoking is actually pretty healthy.
Why hasn't craigslist been disrupted yet?
You can't escape trolls entirely, but they're pretty rare in my feed. I don't go in for politics and policy, though. Many long-time linux kernel and userland developers are on G+, including Linus himself. Linus usually posts scuba-diving pictures. Lennart Poettering is also on G+, so I had a front seat when all of the major distros were debating systemd.
Seems like “fat” in this context just means “vegetable oil”, and animal fat goes into the dairy & eggs category.

Weird grouping.
Group (3), of which I am a member:

If the developers take a specific principled stance against $really_useful_feature on account that it would introduce complexity and thus degrade performance, then compromise this same principle in order to accomplish $entirely_unnecessary_port, it put the obvious lie to their avowed principles.

I don't mind that go compiles more slowly. To Thomas's point, it's still really fast. What I mind is that a good portion of the go community has accepted the lack of generics on the basis of principles that they haphazardly violated in order to scratch the useless but fun intellectual itch of bootstrapping the compiler.

Now that they've done this, they have revealed themselves to be entirely dishonest about their complexity/performance principles, and now the one legitimate objection that has kept generics out of the language has nothing to stand on.

Again, I don't care about performance per se, I care about dishonesty and hypocrisy in the platform's objectives.
> as much as I worry about the lax government

You mean the same governments that are already collecting everyone's private communications and swabbing babies for bomb residue at airports under the guise of stopping these types of things? It's not a lack of effort or resources that should be concerning, it's the sheer incompetence.
I'm curious on what type of 5-minute breaks fellow HN readers take.

I've noticed that time really distorts when you open a new tab for a "quick HN browse" or similar.
This article had been submitted earlier:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10577790

Apple Pay is the best solution. It is quick and since Apple sends a token and not the CC number there is perfect security from hackers as long as the bank ensures that the correct CC is entered in the iPhone. In other words, Apple Pay does not depend on merchants updating their software.

Target and later Lowes (and perhaps Neiman-Marcus) were hacked because they were running their POS terminals on Windows XP embedded which had been last updated in 2006 (the embedded version). Microsoft told the retailers such as Target and Lowes to update their POS terminal software to Windows 7 embedded which is still supported yet they ignored this manufacturer recommendation.

At any rate, the quickest, most efficient approach is to use Apple Pay when you can and all retailers should support it for its efficiency of use and its security.
A plugin for showing notifications, packing ~700 LOC and 25kb of JavaScript. I can admire the "no dependency" ambition but at the same time it's marketed as a plugin that has everything you'll ever need, probably targeting the audience that is already using Bootstrap and/or jQuery. Let's solve all the DOM quirks, again.

That being said, there's a probably a lot of useful stuff in there and some inspiration if you want roll your own solution!
>the true goal of all the governments and agencies involved is not "preventing the next terror threat" but a power-play for the control of information.

This is a laughable statement but typically upvoted on HN. Politicians have to appear to have done everything possible to prevent these attacks. They are not dictators, if the public feels they were soft on terror they are gone, no pentaverate necessary.
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It's a joke, doublestealth is a start-up satire blog, the subhead "The blog of (probably fictional) Brad Bradstone the CEO of (possibly non-existent) Yellow Yellow. Remember, this is a parody." sort of gives it away if you aren't familiar with it.