skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is, you're wrong, historically, on what MVP means. The person who coined the phrase intended it to mean something else, and it's meant something else for a few years for anyone who was in the community (who are also the only people who knew the phrase).

Now that it's become well-known, people are totally misunderstanding what it stands for and why it was coined in the first place. So sure, you can argue all you want about the term being misnamed, but that doesn't help you or anyone else actually understand what it's about or why it's useful. It's not about building a product - it's about turning the idea of "product" on its head, and realizing that the only "product" you need to "build" is the minimum possible thing that will get you feedback on whether you're on the right path.
>How can you stop malware fiddling with bits to allow installation of extensions?

Require signed extensions - and have the code that does the signing check be locked for modification (e.g. 755 root in /usr/)
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I found hugely inspiring/interesting things written by pg, spolsky, pmarca, zedshaw, AndrewWarner, dhh and others.

None of them comment here much these days. This is natural as HN has become a much, much larger and more mainstream site.

Interestingly, it's not like the shifts away from Slashdot and Reddit, where there's a new forum where people have moved to (except their own personal communities). If there's a place that has sucked up most of the conversation, it would be Twitter.
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This is excellent. Independent, consumer-empowering size analysis, especially measured over extended wear and washing. I'll be following you.

I wonder if there are any companies that sell inexpensive custom t-shirts? Provide your measurements, specify desired fit, neck type, color, and fabric, and order exactly what you want.

As someone very hard to fit for pants (28" waist and cyclist thighs), I would be thrilled if you also do this for jeans and shorts.
Once you get it, always pay your balance before statement cuts and let only 1%-9% of the balance report to the bureaus.
...what does this mean?

A rule of thumb is to always keep utilization under 30% for a good score. The credit score like all other things are /can be manipulated. So the 1%-9% balance reporting instead of 30% is the best to get the best percentage of the amounts which is factored into getting your overall credit score.

This is how scores are calculated - Payment history[35%], amounts owed [30%], length of credit history [15%], new credit [10%] and types of credit used [10%].

The balance owed counts for 30% in calculating the overall score. So the lower the balance, the better.
Except for some pockets around Austin, and some Retail Energy Providers and co-ops, Texas does not have net-metering for distributed solar.
Actually I believe these problems are fairly common. I've seen them mentioned before and I experience them myself. I think it has to do with integrated vs discrete graphics in Mac laptops.

Disabling transparency in the accessibility options used to fix it, but it doesn't anymore.

I'm very much hoping that Apple will include this functionality in the next major release of OS X as f.lux has historically had trouble keeping up with OS and hardware updates.
This has nothing to do with Texas being forward thinking, but more with the huge subsidies dealing with wind power in the US. Private companies are building turbines and farms all over as Washington is fronting much of the bill for awhile. This is all about profit. It just so happens we get something good out of it, and yes ERCOT has some great engineers.
Their food culture is the problem. Obesity is a massive issue for islander communities in NZ and the country at large, and there are plenty of other cuts of meat available.
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This is the funniest thing I've seen all day. Awesome!
A similar hack I learned to avoid ironing:

Just before hanging them, while they are still wet:

Grab each t-shirt from the top with both hands, then do a couple of violent whip-like movements. This has the same effect of stretching the fabric so that no ironing is needed.
Many people (that I know / have known) frequently misplace their wallet and then their cards are in this limbo state where it's unclear if they are stolen and have to be replaced (expensive for the co., inconvenient for the customer) or just not found.

Seems like a useful feature to me.
You're twisting my words. I am saying there is no work disincentive. None.

That said, certain types of work that are more aggressively taking advantage of the lower class and those down on their luck will no longer have as an incentive staying just a hair above total homelessness and bankruptcy. Therefore they can pick their work with more dignity (goodbye Amazon warehouse pressures, hello treating people better).

I'm also saying that the work people choose may not be entirely typical, or fit within everyone's definition of "work" as they define it as a moral imperative.
Well, that's one way to look at it. Another is to say that it was perfectly clear what it meant when it was coined - redefining the idea of "product" to mean "something that gives you feedback on your plan", rather than "something people can use". It was the idea that you don't need anything more at this stage, not a "real" product.

Sure, without the history people won't understand it, but then that's true of most terms in most fields, and I'm really not sure if there is a way to prevent it.

Remember, naming things is hard.
So sorry I missed this thread when it was hot.

If you know you're not going to pay SF (or even US) sized salaries, why waste everybody's time with multiple interviews then? State up front "We're only willing to pay $80k, even if you've got the history (previous salary, measured prior project impact, demonstrated skill in the areas we need, etc) to justify 2x or 3x that". You won't be able to pick your interviewees brains on possible solutions, but you also won't be wasting their (and your) time.
I believe this is a known issue, I have the same issues on elcap
Christie Blatchford's coverage of this case is essential reading, IMO: http://news.nationalpost.com/tag/gregory-elliott

The briefs and the decision themselves are also worthwhile to read, here's the decision: http://www.canlii.org/en/on/oncj/doc/2016/2016oncj35/2016onc... Interestingly, there are a few mistakes regarding how twitter functions, and a tweet was falsely attributed to Elliot. This was noticed by the blogger over at genuinewitty.com, which also has more depth and detail in its research and coverage of the case (also essential reading, IMO).
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F.lux is based on a very, very simple idea. It comes from the basic idea that "white" is not a universal when it comes to human vision, because not all light sources are the same. That's why "white balancing" photographs is necessary, because you need to balance colors appropriately for the given light source. But our eyes do this automatically. If you take a white sheet of paper outdoors, indoors, wherever, it will generally always appear white to your eyes, even though its appearance will change color in an absolute sense.

This is where computer displays confound things, because they are a source of light, but they are used among other sources of light. And those light sources change over the course of a typical day. And thus the white balance changes over a typical day. Let's say you're using a computer in an office with white walls. Those walls don't seem to change color throughout the day, but they very much do, because the light illuminating them changes. From sunlight to artificial light. Your eyes adjust to this naturally though. But computer displays don't change, which means that during daylight hours your eyes might perceive the display as being normal while after sunset your eyes start to see the display as blue-ish or excessively bright. Alternately, your eyes could perceive your surroundings as different, seeing artificial lighting as yellowish and dim.

F.lux is simply an attempt to harmonize the white balance of your display with the white balance of your surroundings, based on some information about the type of lighting you have and the local times of sunrise/sunset. Once you get used to it it seems perfectly normal that displays should do this.

The problem is that a lot of the underlying technology (monitors, display drivers, OSes, etc.) are built on entirely different assumptions, the idea that the display itself is a universal arbiter of the "correct" color choices and there's no need to white balance harmonize with the rest of the world. Which means that sometimes it's difficult to get something as simple as F.lux to work on a given platform.

That's why it's a topic of frequent conversation. It should really be a feature built into all displays and operating systems as it's a very straightforward idea. And essentially every digital imager in the world is built based on a universal understanding of the need to account for white balance, but there is still an uphill battle in getting people to understand the need for white balance management in digital displays.
You'd think so, but no.

I actually uncovered a bug in a JWT library once when I wrote a test for my application to verify that an invalid token would be rejected.

Let's just say there was no corresponding test in the libraries test suite.
I've been using it for a few years. It works.

Sometimes, if using a laptop in bed, I wish it would be possible to make the LED backlight dimmer than the minimum setting, or apply a black semi transparent overlay to dim things, from within f.lux. At the moment I have to use another 3rd party app for that
It is about acquiring information, in the right place, the muscles that can actually handle all the nuance that's too much to think about and do correctly in real-time; people and culture are the same, no amount of reading will make you behave like a native, only time can do that and thus to the point of the thread, you can't learn it until you encounter it and practice a while. Intellectually thinking you know something isn't the same as actually knowing something that takes more than brains. What you know before practicing is wrong; practice is the actual learning and letting go of all the wrong stuff you knew.

At the root of this, you think all knowledge can be encoded in words and shared, and that's the problem, it isn't true. Many things cannot be shared via words, only experienced.
I always cringed when Mulder told Scully to do something, "You stay here and do X while go there and do Y." I guess he out ranked her, but it always bugged me. But I don't like to be told what to do ...
He conspicuously missed the part where time spent working a job, studying and generally acting like a responsible adult is time not spent networking.

The "poor" kids also tend to find each other at college and over the first few semesters form separate networks from the rich kids. People tend to want to hang out with people who are similar to them. One group goes out partying together, the other sits in a dorm room listening to music and drinking a $15 handle. Their friend groups don't overlap over much.

The poor kids tend to build networks where the members personal skills and resources they bring to the table in the present are important (or that was my observation). I guess when you can't throw money at a problem knowing who's the IT guy and the car guy becomes more important.
You have no idea how keto actually works. You must deplete the glycogen stores in your liver for the metabolic shift to take effect. If you eat more carbohydrates then your body burns (Basil or through exertion), then these glycogen stores get replenished.

It's glossed over how these things are prepared, are they breaded and fried? Basted in corn syrup? It also mentions heavy soda intake.
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This is a bit off-topic, but just to be clear, Target is considered generally politically-progressive for a major, publicly-traded retailer, while the direct descendent of its founder is the current, very liberal, governor of Minnesota. Having said that, I'd say that they were focusing on the wrong methods of creating an appealing retail environment, their other issues being noted.
Oh man, that's fun.
Nice, good and cheap amp ($19) mentioned at the bottom of the article, in case you need immediate boost over stock audio from your phone - http://nwavguy.blogspot.bg/2011/03/fiio-e5-headphone-amp.htm...
I'm not saying that education is complete disconnected from familial background. But the latter isn't solely a determinant of the former.

Ricky, for example, has a Stanford degree. No hiring manager will know about his low family income. Pretending that VCs/managers somehow have an invisible ball to peer into an applicant's entire life is completely disingenuous.
I don't think so – this happens for me as well.
I drove from Austin to Denver once. From Abilene to Texline it's pretty much nothing but wind turbines...and that is a very long drive. It's pretty cool that such an oil-driven state has a large amount of renewable energy.
Well consider this example (idk how similar it is to the case in the article)

@abc, 11:10 Yay football #superbowl #football
@xyz, 11:11 abc sucks #superbowl #football
@abc, 13:20 I just had potato soup for breakfast #soup #breakfast #goodmorning
@xyz, 13:21 Wow I really don't like abc #soup #breakfast #goodmorning

Imagine months of that
Aren't most people at least putting their TV behind a firewall / NAT box?
Hi there! Did you look into VoiceXML and AIML?
It causes their posts to be automatically marked [dead]. Users who have 'showdead' turned on in their profile see these, but other users don't.

[dead] comments that are good can be rescued if enough users vouch for them. To do that, click the 'vouch' link at the top of the comment's page (which you get to by clicking its timestamp). But please only do this for comments that are both civil and substantive.
This is the exact line of nonsense that was used to sell the original transition to welfare statism. Literally the exact words - "It will be just enough to survive but not enough for anyone to ever be satisfied with".

History proved them wrong. This isn't "a tired argument", as if it were some speculation based on beliefs. It's a recounting of what actually happened and continues to happen with welfare/handout programs.
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I expect better content. The India videos seem incorrect. Lots of East Asian films and Indo-American stuff...why?
Here is an interesting insight on this issue.

http://apps.texastribune.org/perry-legacy/energy/
Am I understanding correctly that you consider your adversary to be the National Security Agency, the world's best funded, best equipped, best staffed SIGINT agency, and that you think they're limited to passive observation?

Again: I just think this is a bad idea. I'm sure you're great people, but cryptographic security is hard enough for native apps, without trying to deploy it in the jungle gym of some random browser runtime.

You should stop deploying this app from a web page. Altogether. And soon. Port it instead to be a Chrome extension that users install.

I'm sure you're not hurting anyone right now. But you've built the kind of application that will, if it ever gets to be very successful, probably get people hurt. Better instead to work on something that will help people more as it gets more popular.
I think knowledge of his work is for the most part split by generations.

Other influential people in computer science and software engineering have recently passed away, without any black bar. I think even a Turing Award is not enough to qualify. Some of their fundamental contributions to CS and SE reach back to the 60s and even the 50s.

For people who weren't writing software in the 70s, 80s or 90s -- how would they have known Ed and his work?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Yourdon
Do you have any insight into when Zeller's was good and what went wrong? HBC seems to have done a much better job turning around The Bay locations (albeit very gradually) and apparently they also own Saks?

I'm pretty young and all of my experiences were a combo of dirty, badly stocked stores, products that I didn't care about, bad fluorescent lighting, and employees who didn't give a shit. I also don't really shop at Walmart, but Walmart seems kind of sterile and organized, at least. I honestly did not know why anyone would ever go into a Zeller's - they had clothes and housewares and groceries and stuff, but somebody else seemed to do all of those things much better.
Konsus.com (YC W16) is hiring a product-oriented developer as lead engineer
User Timing and Custom Metrics
They're actually pretty popular non-drunk on the continent - it's a slightly different offering, since back in the UK they tend to be a little bit of a mess while here they tend to be wrapped up neatly in a flatbread.
We don't want to waste anybody's time, actually efficiency is one of our values https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/#values. We do pay SF and US salaries (see https://about.gitlab.com/team/ for an idea where our team is). But as said the higher the salary the higher the bar. We think there are exceptional people in the SF Bay area and we would like them to work for us.

I tried to figure out a salary range for positions to prevent wasting everybody's time. But we still very frequently go higher or lower than I guessed based on the person's ability and their location (and cost of living).

I would like to prevent disappointing people like bitshepherd and I'm open to suggestions.
Feminist persecution.
This guy also built and open-sourced a universally admired headphone amplifier and DAC.

His O2 amp: http://nwavguy.blogspot.bg/2011/07/o2-headphone-amp.html

His O2 DAC: http://nwavguy.blogspot.bg/2012/04/odac-released.html

JDS Labs and others sell them commercially for those who don't feel like building them by hand.
I've used Sandstorm when I tried Wekan but didn't really take the time to look into it, couldn't find anything about ldap integration with either Sandstorm or Wekan.

Now I've just read a bit more about it and a centralized app portal sure looks very interesting. I'll contact you guys in the next few weeks for your "Sandstorm + Business" offerings ;)
Though finite state machines can work for simple dialogue structures, more complex dialogues generated by them will come across as robotic.

For non-naive implementations you'll have to learn about a linguistics discipline called pragmatics, which deals with conversational semantics and context:

http://nlpers.blogspot.de/2006/04/please-pass-pragmatics.htm...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521294142/sr=8-1/qid=11459...
If you want to have a one-off conversation without worrying about someone intercepting and storing your conversation, use Google's IM protocol. You won't have to install anything.

If you want to protect your communications from the kinds of adversaries who can defeat Google's security, you're talking about a class of adversary that is largely government sponsored, and all of them are likely to be able to compromise a messaging application that boots from a web page.

For those serious adversaries, users need real secure messaging solutions, and today, they need to install software to do that.
By enabling him to win New York, which would otherwise be a Democratic lock.
yepp indeed. that just made me think ... a lot of things weren't ... such as bribing gov officials when participating in tenders (example Siemens and others learned the hard way). Lot of things seemed to have become illegal in Germany just over the past 20 years. Now they're even trying to curb our creativity when writing software for exhaust emmissions test /s
The most important thing I learned from this page was that American Apparel sizes small. Since 3/4s of all my shirts are startup shirts and most of those are AA, this is good to know.
nice click bait title, should be "How eating over 1kg of stuff per sitting is killing Tonga".
Am I understanding correctly that you consider your adversary to be the National Security Agency, the world's best funded, best equipped, best staffed SIGINT agency, and that you think they're limited to passive observation?

No, you aren't; the example was to illustrate an entirely different point.

Again: I just think this is a bad idea. I'm sure you're great people, but cryptographic security is hard enough for native apps, without trying to deploy it in the jungle gym of some random browser runtime.

Do you have a specific criticism, or is your argument more of a general point that solving multiple hard problems is more difficult to do correctly?

If that is what you're getting at, it seems like it would be effectively addressed by frequent audits of the Cyph source code.
If you suffer from any kind of eyestrain, it's a godsend. I have it set permanently to my night temperature here in the UK at the moment due to the short days and overcast weather.
oh wow that is awesome background context. thanks!!
On a tangentially related topic:

When I used to listen to music on my previous phone (a Nexus 4) I would have to constantly adjust the phone's volume: all the way to maximum when using an aux cord in my car, and way back down when using headphones. Recently I upgraded to a Nexus 5X, and noticed a surprising new feature. Somehow, the phone detects which device it's plugged into, and remembers a separate, previously-set volume level for each device.

Does anyone know how this works? It's really convenient, which makes it surprising that I can't find it documented or even mentioned anywhere online. I'm assuming the audio hardware is somehow sensing the impedance of whatever it's connected to, but is that really a reliable indicator of headphones vs. line-level inputs?
As a customer, that's really not very valuable to me

It is an excellent feature and something consumers crave knowing they can curb fraud. Many companies are now doing this. Capital One has the lock card feature, Discover has the Freeze it feature among others and hopefully their video convinces you as to why it is a good feature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ZNAHZlkMY
That confusion matrix makes Edward Tufte so very, very sad.

How on earth am I to tell from that visualization how often it mislabels financial emails as personal? Eyedropper the colors and hope the values in the shades of blue follow a linear scale?
I was living abroad in Canada at the time and when Target showed up I was super psyched. I was the only one.

I think it's easy to blame the horrible and run down locations they took over from Zellers but people still shopped at Walmarts in similar places. In the end, it felt like the same experience we had with Amazon (or Netflix) in Canada; the shell is there with some good products but mostly lacking in everything that makes Target a fun (and addictive) place to shop. The lack of products didn't help but that had more to do with Quebec's super bizarre language police/laws.

The irony is Target Canada was at least slightly better than Walmart Canada and many MANY times better than Canadian Tire, a place that was almost always packed with people.

It's sad but I don't think Target ever had a chance in Canada.