skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I inferred this a little differently

In his quote about the iMac* I think the strategy is essentially laid bare that they expect the top end to continue to drive appeal by being powerful and cutting edge - letting consumers continue to drive new experiences and productivity with that form factor

And the waterfall model will, as such, continue as innovation / component miniturization collapses features downward.

Look to the soon arrival of full ar/VR for a "desktop best" example.

Eg VR is best via Oculus rift on a high power PC.

There are translated experiences via Samsungvr and goog glass but nothing like the experience of say assetto corsa racing or elite dangerous on a 2x980gtx system.

Naturally and over time this quality / set will roll downwards to mobile.

* iMac: "It's job is to challenge what we think a computer can do and do things that no computer has ever done before, be more and more powerful and capable so that we need a desktop because of its capabilities. Because if all it's doing is competing with the notebook and being thinner and lighter, then it doesn't need to be."
How is it misleading? That's exactly what I thought it meant, personally.
Math notation is all over the damned place. It's like certain areas of math are allergic to standardized notation or minimization of complexity. Parameters to "functions" go after the function name, or in subscripts, superscripts, in positional slots around symbols like Σ.

Lets not even go to the annoying tendency to use single letter variable names.
Thank you. Definitely not surprising after this blog post.
as time passes and systems evolve there will be constant pressure from within and without to re-establish a network connection somewhere

Thank you.

Proponents of electronic voting and tabulation (eg central count of physical ballots) enthuse about security, air-gapping, data diodes, etc.

Alas, it's turtles all the way down. Dig deep enough and you'll expose the fiction.

Then you're in the trap of explaining technology to policy makers, testifying against trained bureaucrats supported by an army of vendor sales minions defending their cheddar.

You can't win.

It's nutty making.
"Next, you would need to understand that equity compensation is almost the only difference between an SV startup and pretty much every other type of company (I do)."

Except that is completely false. When I worked at Western Digital, which is decidedly NOT a startup, they still gave me plenty of stock. Amazon, which is also decidedly NOT a startup also gives out lots of stock. So your differentiator is not really a differentiator.
Is Medicare not covering their healthcare needs? Sidenote: Its a fucking travesty that Congress prohibits Medicare for negotiating drug prices with pharma companies.
I'd call an SFTP client or SCP client an SFTP client or SCP client.
Maybe YC was super busy with YC Fellowship during the same time Startup School normally took place.
We don't see multicast any more, in OTT streaming formats such as DASH or HLS use cheap and scalable HTTP infrastructure and HTTP caches, which can be seen as application layer multicast
They helped a local 30-year-old coffeehouse by buying them and their neighbor at above market rate. Backed by illegal secret tax deals, as it turned out.
And, contrary to Betteridge's Law, seems (per the conclusion of the article; not characterizing any other research that may be out there which may conflict with this article), in fact, to be responsible.
As a counterpoint. I've only really been exposed to unix tradition files (bag of bytes). I learned something new and different from the discussion about this article. It's this kind of random knowledge that keeps me coming back to HN.
Uber for food is logistics. Cleaning is trust.

I would argue that a recommendation engine would be a far better thing for cleaning services than a logistics solution is. Facebook are a lot closer to the solution for cleaning services than uber is. I want a cleaner who people say are trustworthy and who is reasonably local. I want a driver and food delivery guy who is very local and somewhat trustworthy. Very different domains.
You should also bear in mind though that these values are not a guarantee even if the founder's shares pay off in the 'high' range.

There are a lot of ways for investors and founders to squeeze value away from employees.

Your equity options are not the same quality as the big buckets of options: they are employee options.
"Brogrammer" seems to me to be a reaction to the increasing number of "finance" types into the startup/tech world.

The perception, if not reality, was that software development was the domain of "nerds" and it was a sort of safe zone where most people were like minded fellow nerds. Nowadays, as startups and entrepreneurship have gained momentum, the sphere of people that are coming into the tech world has widened. A portion of those "newcomers" are the people that previously would have found jobs in areas like finance.

So now you have this nerd paradise enclave (tm) being "invaded" by young frat guys in pink pastel button ups who captained their high school football team. And the nerds are reacting a little poorly to that and giving those guys the "bro" and "brogrammer" name.

It's funny sitting between those two worlds (nerdy prep school grad athlete). I'm guilty of making fun of "bros" and people who live in the marina (in sf), but for me it's just poking fun. I think the more traditionally nerdy of us aren't being so charitable with the term.
14th July isn't referred to as Bastille day in France though, and the parade doesn't have much to do with the Revolution either, it's just common for countries to have a military parade on the national day.
Given that he was terminated and marched out immediately, I feel that he owed them nothing, not even the courtesy of answering the call from the IT Director.

He gave the company an interim solution because they demanded it, before the actual solution was available. It sounds like he had every intent to switch them over once it was available.
I use Linux for many of the same reasons I use Firefox. But at least with Linux you can avoid Ubuntu's weird privacy violations (like Amazon affiliate links in desktop search) by using other (equally good) distributions. And you can always remove the bad parts (`apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping`).

Firefox is still really the only fully modern web browser that isn't the proprietary Safari or privacy eviscerating Chrome. It's a shame that it can't be a pure and neutral operating system for the web.

It seems like Mozilla could use its resources more wisely if this was the goal. They seem too much like a competitive startup looking to grow and not enough like a non-profit with a specific mission.
Also time is easy to quantify and measure. Contribution across departments though? What % of building a major feature of your product for a key customer goes to marketing/sales/design/engineering/etc.?
Yep. The Apple Store near me sells the iPhone 5S, but there's only one single device in the entire store.
Could you explain in more detail how a reverse split (in which value should not change) is an indication for the bankers delluting everyone else? If there was no reverse split the delluting was any different?
To get a sense of what kind of work is done at facebook, please visit their careers page:

https://www.facebook.com/careers/teams/
I was under the understanding that Apple never originally really intended people to use the Unix side of OSX and that the whole command line standard Unix utilities became commonly used in spite of Apple's design. I could be wrong.
has someone done a survey of tech equity that gives us an idea what the expected value of x points is worth? even so, its a lottery ticket to me, and i never consider it when considering an offer.
The examples seem like they would consume a lot of memory, since every update allocates a new object to the heap. Java's garbage collection solves this, but does anyone know of an annotation or method to use to mark the old object as unused so the runtime can deallocate the old object as soon as the new object is created, rather than waiting for a stop-the-world gc pause? I guess a better way to handle this would be to return a new object with most of the attribute references unchanged, besides the updated fields.
Good analogy. You've framed it in a way that makes it sound like this person has infringed my rights. But what right of mine is he infringing, specifically? The right to own property and keep it secure when I am not around? That's a positive right, not a negative one.
More like Tylenol is paracetamol.
Hypergraphia
Clearly this is not so, because if both are left unaddressed, the former will take care of the latter automatically.
OPEC fails to agree production ceiling after Iran pledges output boost
Yes the filesystem is from the 80's and from a period where Unix filesystem model had perhaps not gained the dominance that it did in later years. The question is why is it still being used in OSX 15 years after a complete redesign of the system around a Unix kernel?
there are frequently backups by the warehouse in Bellevue, Washington, out onto the street. They park on the side of the road, but they are there.
If it impacted investor/founder equity, then, absolutely. If only founders, most probably. If only employees, probably.
* What do you say are the biggest challenges?

* What's the oddest problem you have had to solve while building/operating this?
I'm not sure what purpose you have in mind.

The main purposes of fat arrow functions is the auto-binding of this and succinctness.

A named fat-arrow function would still retain both, and in fact the feature was considered for ES6 back in 2013, but didn't made it. Syntax would have been like:

if(objects.find(functionName(object) => object.id === id)) {}
Air gaps can also be bridged by using radio or sound waves. There could be a bunch on non-networked computers in a secure lab all talking to each other. This assumes trojaned hardware and/or operating system software in the systems that can send and receive data and commands.

Finally, technology such as Morse Code is still useful in these scenarios. Dits and dahs. Zeros and ones. That's all you need to be able to send and recv data.

http://www.jocm.us/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=...

http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/air-hopper-m...
Nitpicking, but he died before the Empire (and I don't think there were imperial gardens) so I suppose it was the royal gardens instead (maybe Versailles or the Tuileries?).
How is Chrome "privacy eviscerating"? Do you have any evidence or are you just paranoid because it's made by Google?
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My personal favorite solution: http://i.imgur.com/fdHpJS4.png
they already sell cars. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/06/huge-amazon-box-del...
Donate a robot to a school or library
Sure, but that necessarily means that the "middle" will always be muddled. Only the edges can ever clearly offer unique value. This wouldn't be that big a concern if it wasn't for the fact that apples most valuable products are in this middle.

the proof is in the pudding, regardless of what the theory is, from iPhone plus to iPad mini 2 to iPad mini 4 to iPad Air to iPad Air 2 to iPad Pro to the new MacBook to the MacBook Air to the MacBook Pro (all distinct products), I get some vague sense that I want two, but I'm not really sure which two. And my decision feels like I'm always going to leave something on the table, and unfortunate trade off (like lacking a pen device vs a natural trade off like performance)
And it happens to be included in several composite pain killers as well. (Excedrin, Vicodin, ... etc.)

http://www.knowyourdose.org/common-medicines/
It was straightforward to turn the sponsored tiles off, which seems to directly address what you are saying.
This is from 2013. Why has it seen essentially no news coverage? I can't, for instance, easily find it on sites like Science Based Medicine; you'd think they'd have lit up over this.
> all the decision-making was done client-side, which meant that Mozilla didn't have to collect any information about the user

This should have been made way more apparent! Even then, most people would hate it because of the visual clutter.
Chrome calls home with all kinds of private data and it doesn't ask permission.

https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/privacy/
Onsite in San Mateo only. For suitable candidates otherwise eligible to work in the US, we'll be happy to consider reimbursing for relocation expenses.
> Instead of waiting several minutes for reload, I just load in new code manually (typically I change only 1-2 files per reload). If something breaks - hey, it's only dev server.

Someone wrote a module for elixir that uses inotify (and similar) to -I think- watch .beam files for modification and perform the required hot-reloads automatically.

I would be reluctant to run this in production, and I can see situations (even in development) where this could trigger unwanted code purging and would be disastrous, but it's a pretty neat thing to have and -it seems- a must for Web Dev people.
I recently found maybe 6 "third place" style cafes (for laptop camping) in the entire Phoenix valley that weren't chains. Years ago, IIRC, I found none open after 5pm.

To have "local culture" you need to get people out of their cars, houses, offices. Tellingly, the best cafe I found was next to a church and affiliated somehow.
To attempt to answer my own question about marking objects for deletion, it seems like there aren't a lot of options besides making sure there aren't outstanding references to the dead object:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11332239/is-it-possible-t...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5331422/marking-an-object...
Good. Sponsored tiles gives me an icky feeling using Firefox. Haven't even gone on the internet, and already being tracked. It feels like I have adware on my computer (which it literally is w/ those ads), and makes me want to uninstall it.

They could have at least put in an option in the settings to disable this.
A huge amount of infrastructure is needed for Facebook's scale. People have to create, manage, and maintain that infrastructure. And that's ignoring the multitude of complex user-facing products Facebook has (the number of which has grown significantly over the last few years).
That would certainly be great if true.

But when I look at things like iTunes or the Music app on iOS app, it sure feels like they have tacked feature upon feature overloading things in a big way.

With the latest redesign of the iOS Music app, I can't figure how to just shuffle the tunes I have installed on my phone. ARGH.
Back in the early days of Ethernet there were fiber to AUI widgets, that used 2 multimode fibers, one for TX, one for RX. We used these on classified systems with ony RX connected - we could send data in to these systems over UDP, and it was truly a one-way path.
That misses the point. People don't want to have to turn off ads. They don't want them there in the first place.
And that's what the title says, unless it's been edited since you wrote this comment.
Seconded, and Backroom Boys [1] by the same author, is very enjoyable, too, even if Red Plenty is really in a league of its own.

1: http://www.amazon.com/The-Backroom-Boys-Secret-British/dp/05...
why do you think they pay for ads for people to install it? google makes money directly/indirectly from people using chrome, and they do it by collecting data from chrome.
A pre-competition glycogen depletion training block, where a significant amount of medium intensity training is logged in a fasted/glycogen depleted state, followed by a glycogen load immediately prior to competition is the gold standard in terms of competition preparation for sports that need a mix of aerobic and anaerobic endurance.

As for athletes that get the majority of their surplus calories from carbs rather than fat, look up various world champions and google their diet:

* Sprinters
* Rowers
* In-season bodybuilders
* Powerlifters cutting weight for competition
* Mixed martial artists

There is a bit of movement towards paleo eating in the MMA community (though oats, potatoes, rice and dairy are still typically consumed) and offseason bodybuilders/powerlifters will frequently eat a balanced mix of carbs and fat. Almost nobody at the top levels does low carb/high fat though.
DDoS any Wi-Fi network with just 7 lines of Python
Should this be called the rise and fall and rise of SVG?
Heck, you could even do it with a never-on network connection, if someone wants to periodically ferry the ingoing/outgoing email over on a drive.

That probably isn't what the requirements makers had in mind though.
It looks like this is just a correlation based on historical availability of Tylenol and related compounds in developed countries. It's not obvious from skimming that the author identifies the cause by which Tylenol allegedly causes Alzheimer's, which would be crucial in prevention (e.g. by changing Tylenol) and/or finding a cure.
Excellent point. There's got to be a sweet spot between visually interesting and "symbolically" useful (maybe algorithmically is a better word there)

I tried a rather ham-fisted restaurant menu example below, but that's boring as hell. I wonder if there's something better?

I really think a nice simple language like Python is a good choice - python has a few WTFs for beginners, but the more immediate visual niche languages give immediate payoff (good) but then later their impracticality re-enforces to the child that learning it was a fun intellectual exercise but ultimately useless.

Challenge: Whats the shortest, simplest, most appealing python program we could use to teach kids? I dont know the answer to that, but it's fun to think about :)
Agreed, at this point the wired services are not profitable and they want to let the plant rot as you said. I agree, there needs to be a mix of fiber and wireless. The emphasis on wireless is because it is seen as being more profitable, however that is eroding quickly. Perhaps Google fiber and similar initiatives will spark some more activity around FTTH, FTTN.
Half of those are perfectly valid responses. "I don't have time" or "I don't know anyone who knows how" or "it is too expensive" - these aren't the passive-aggressive responses that you're implying.
Credit unions are thing as well. USAA is one of the largest, and very pro-consumer.
Not that it really matters after this announcement, but it has always been possible to disable the suggested tiles, from the little settings gear icon on the newtab page.
There was a toast bar around the corner from our office. Bread supplied by a bakery two blocks down.

It was frikkin delicious. Swedish toast, with some nordic cheese and jam. Garlic cream cheese with fresh cherry tomatoes. Avocado.

But it doesn't scale. The long queue and wait time deterred customers, with the over flow going to other cafes.

The owners tried all sorts of gear to make toast reliably, consistently, and faster rate. (I have no idea why that's a hard problem.) They finally ran out of energy (will to live) and closed shop.
The main problem with this line of thinking is that it is materialistic. People get more out of their jobs than money, and just shovelling cash at the unemployed does not make them happy.[1] Most people are happier with a job that pays minimum wage than a welfare program that pays significantly more.

[1] http://wol.iza.org/articles/unemployment-and-happiness.pdf
I think this separation doesn't work, and you could trivially transform positive/negative laws into their counterparts of opposite polarity. In a world of positive-rights-believers, you may believe in a right to food, but if everyone else believes in the right to keep their food (and property, in general), you're still out of luck. As usual, the interesting things happen at the boundary between various people's rights and wishes.
This is far from my area of expertise, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but the second section looks like it does exactly that:

PA-metabolising enzymes are localised in the synaptic areas of the frontal cortex and hippocampus, where F-AD lesions arise. The initiating chemical lesions in liver poisoning comprise covalent binding of a highly reactive product of PA metabolism to proteins; similar events are believed to occur in brain, where alterations in the antigenic profiles of cerebral proteins activate the microglia. β-Amyloid forms, and, like PA itself, induces nitric oxide synthase. Peroxynitrite modifies cerebral proteins by nitrating tyrosine residues, further challenging the microglia and exacerbating the amyloid cascade. Spontaneous reinnervation, N-acetyl cysteine administration and tyrosine supplementation may attenuate the early stages of F-AD development.
Most of these are either of the "it's not how it used to be done variety", bug complaints (which can and do get fixed), and "straying of the unix way" (as if that is a technical argument.

Sometimes you DO need to stray off the UNIX way to improve things, namely any time "does one thing well" comes to the detriment of "needs overall overview and cooperation instead of a disparate set of things that can't be glued properly for the task based on a motto meant for simple text-based input/output programs".

There are some valid concerns too, but nothing that's a show-stopper -- which also explains why the show didn't stop.
They do collect data from chrome (see their privacy policy), but the point you're making isn't too convincing. Having people use Chrome has a number of benefits for google.. from saving money paying browsers to make google the default; to protecting Google from any anti-google moves Microsoft might make in the future using IE.

Without Chrome, Google's business is very dependent on a third-party (the browser developer) who has no loyalty to Google. Long term, it's in google's interest to eliminate such variables in their business.
That's why I like The Alliance framework [1]. It's one of the main reasons why I joined Bunny Inc. earlier this year.

[1] http://www.theallianceframework.com/
People want lots of things though. They usually end up with compromises.

(I totally agree with the banality of my above point, but I don't see where else the conversation is going to go from here)
Here's one mention:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Trucking/comments/3uzlzs/16_hours_a...?
>I think it would be easyish to fill out another 10 reasons for what "can't" really means that are more common than "it is flat out impossible regardless of budget/resources".

Yes. But the skit isn't about that.

I often get impossible tasks from managers. Luckily when I tell them why they actually listen and aren't purposefully obtuse like the team from the skit. But the obtuse manner of the meeting is part of the comedy. Sometimes the management/sales/marketing team just doesn't get it.

The most common request?

"Please enhance this 92x92 .jpg logo x5-x10 its current size without lowering the quality of the logo."

My most common pushback?

"Sure. Get with their designer and get me the original file, be it .psd or .ai so that I can work with a larger resolution copy of the image. If they don't have the original file for their logo, you are asking for one of two things: 1) Recreate their logo or 2) The impossible. If (1) my answer is no. If (2) my answer is with modern technology, I can't."

I've also been asked to uncrop photos. Not as in "restore a backup from before we saved over it with a cropped version" but literally uncrop a photo.

I don't necessarily blame these people or get angry with them. I blame CSI and other investigative shows where they "enhance" a blurry photo to 4k crystal-clear resolution and read the reflection off of a button of a guys' jeans to read the licence plate of his car. They've been told this shit is possible by TV shows that use just-enough real tech to make the fake tech seem real to people outside of the loop.
"Responsible" is a pretty strong word (and not supported by the research).
And civilization is what happens when we decide to relinquish some parts of this right.