skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect it has to do also (in the basic idea of the article) to knowing a different way of doing things.

Those who are born in one place and keep doing the same things won't know about ways of doing it differently

The article seems that it's trying a bit too hard though.
> you get to know when you have a call coming in and not miss it

People still get phone calls?
Interview guidance programme by chankyaias academy
As a person consistently dealing with lots of tabs (50+) having another tab for solely playing the music is not welcomed. Tab pinning helps, but not much.
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Huawei
In South Korea, a rehab camp for Internet-addicted teenagers
In this case, the 8 bit DAC doesn't imply a fixed 256x256 "grid resolution", but the "velocity" (which I am not sure is a completely valid name for it either). The beam moves relative to its last position, and the overall magnitude of its movement depends on a different register value.
I'm pretty sure those kind of terms, at least in The Netherlands and most of Europe, are illegal. So lets Class-action them in Europe instead? I'll pitch in 100 euros.
To note: Python 3, due to the whole string vs unicode literals thing (\u)
I use https://ititch.com/ for over a year now. You can pay with bitcoin, they don't make much validation around whois input values. I use it for my domain registration and whois protection, they support IPv4 and IPv6 which in my country are not supported by biggest companies like 1and1. Customer support answers in less than 30hours.
Placing documents into the public domain (2008)
Not really -- security by obscurity is a re-statement of the idea that the security mechanism shouldn't need to be secret for the security to have meaning. You're allowed to have secret data, just not secret mechanism.

And relying on what looks like secret data (changing the SSH port) where the number of bits of entropy is low enough that it's plausible to try them all (16) probably still counts as security by obscurity -- it might hide you from many attackers, but it's not enough to make you secure.

Relying on data that's not actually secret, just hard to find, is just insecure.
Absolutely, let's not forget that nodejs makes it easy to do the wrong thing. While it's great to lower the bar to learning to program it also often results in great ideas that are poorly executed of which I think most of the nodejs community demonstrates.
There's currently no 2FA for Amazon.co.uk and (I assume), other non-.com Amazon domains :(
>...then keeping 50,000 workers employed at Sharp seems like a smart bet, compared to keeping 100 people employed at some nimble, fast-moving startup.

Where does the money to subsidize those jobs come from? Are you seriously suggesting that sucking subsidy money out of the productive economy to pay for those jobs is not depressing demand? All our economies could do with some of this magic money, it sounds like it would solve all our problems.

>...More so, Japanese electronics firms still hold great global market share...

Japan functionally has two economies, an export economy and a domestic economy (of course they're not completely decoupled, as Sharp shows). It's managed to maintain a fairly competitive export economy because those companies have to cope with foreign competition, but the domestic situation has festered for a whole generation. It seems like China is following the same pattern.
By this logic any entertainment-related transactions are zero-sum. People gain utility by being entertained, sometimes you can even objectively measure it, e.g. higher productivity after holidays.
Yeah, it's true. Read the article pkaye linked. There are some odd (to US eyes) implied agreements when you take an office job in Japan. The biggest is this: the company is expected to keep you on until you retire. In return you're expected to not quit, ever. To quit is to betray the company.

It's not like nobody ever gets laid off or quits. But that's the expectation.
function gs() { open http://www.google.com/search?q="$*" ;}
Hmm, perhaps you're right on the confusion, though the quote

> So, the minimum viable product is that product which has just those features (and no more) that allows you to ship a product that resonates with early adopters; some of whom will pay you money or give you feedback.

Seems pretty clear to me, perhaps the trickiness comes around whether or not absolutely anything that gets feedback is an MVP? I don't get how you'd say with a straight face that you shipped a product when what you actually did was go around with a questionnaire.

> How do you do know if it's "smallest" or "viable"?

You explicitly chose situations where there were extra, unused features and where the product as a whole was completely useless. If you have a product with more features than you needed, you can't really say you succeeded in making the minimum viable product, and if you have a product nobody wants is it really sensible to refer to it as a viable product?

Is the startup world at such a point that nobody knows what might constitute a viable product? Sure, there's some blurred points around not-yet-profitable-but-growing things, but if your target audience finds your thing absolutely useless is it really that unclear?

> Walk me through your process.

Again, I have no problem with the process and it's a shame this has picked up so much attention instead of actual discussion around that. I just don't want to have to deal with the following conversations:

"We've built an MVP"

"Great! How did the launch go?"

"Launch? Oh my no, we've just finished a focus group session. The next MVP is at 4pm if you want to sit in."

> I think it's fair to say that you need more than an acronym to understand what to do.

Yes, this is true, which is surely why we already have terms like market research. I just don't understand what benefit calling market research "building an MVP" has.

My initial criticism was that you'd redefined what I thought was a well understood term. If I'm wrong about that (which I seem to be) then I'd change my criticism to "If something is poorly understood, please don't redefine it to mean something different again". When I see a title like "X isn't X, it's Y" my immediate thought is that someone is trying to give an old idea a new name to make it more current and sexy, that may not be fair but it's my first reaction to this kind of thing.

Perhaps I just need to step back from all this for a while. Perhaps in this world you really can refer to a marketing video as a viable product, and I'm a crazed outsider. I'd hoped to be clear about simple definitions of words yet caused/opened up even more confusion and disagreement, so I guess I've failed at my minimal useful comment.
"I am fascinated by the idea that our civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness" - Herzog
Namesilo works well for me, and they have free whois privacy.
I use Chrome's Add to Desktop feature for SoundCloud and other webapps, which adds a shortcut to launch the webpage in a dedicated window (without the browser chrome, etc.) The window is managed separately from your normal browser windows (if any) and acts like a first-class native app.
> Hopefully if enough people do this, it will get some internal attention at Amazon.

This is very smart, why has no one thought of this before? When people post it on Medium and share it on HN/Reddit it will not get enough internal attention at Amazon for sure. So let's do something totally stupid which could easily get us in trouble with the law enforcement to make a shitty point to Amazon so that they can notice something is wrong on their end.
"" Java already has 4 "weak" reference types with different
"strengths": SoftReference, WeakReference, Final reference and Phantom ""

Is it normal for a language to have that many types of weak references ??
Humans are lazy thinkers. We need some impetus to break ingrained patterns of thought.
How BetaList (almost) doubled Build Focus's pre-alpha signups
> ... depending on the viewer and camera position, different areas are occluded.

Can it be made to look good for viewing with separate rendering of each eye?
Just a note: if you do change it, keep it below 1024. Otherwise if ssh dies anyone on the server can create a client listening on that port and steal credentials.
The license information is broken too. README says All Rights Reserved.

License file says MIT.
You're mixing up the buyout option that is a result of the switch to holocracy and the 2k option to quit you get when you first start.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7525198

His daughter was also attacked...
Interesting data! I remember the excessively short/wide t-shirts well from my early university days, when I still took my laundry to my parents who had a dryer. Now I dry my clothes on a line, and they don't seem to deform so much.
The infrastructure/economies of scale to make that profitable don't exist yet, but Tesla is working at setting them up. Elon Musk: "Model 3, our smaller and lower cost sedan will start production in about 2 years. Fully operational Gigafactory needed."

http://www.techinsider.io/we-now-know-when-teslas-cheaper-mo...

Two things are at play:

1. Tesla doesn't really give a crap about owning the entire market. If their competition causes the big 3 to build low cost zero-emissions vehicles, then Tesla has fulfilled their part of Elon's goals towards saving the world. Basically, putting a stake in the heart of the internal combustion engine and putting automotive economies of scale behind battery and energy storage development.

2. Cheap cars have awful margins, only worth playing in at scale. SUVs on the other hand are hideously profitable. The sport SUV has been the savior of BMW and Mercedes over the past decade, with high margins versus their cars. Porsche got in on this and built an SUV, now Lamborghini is too, margins are just too good to ignore.

Tesla's pursued an Intel-like tick-tock strategy, where they shoot at the high end to make money and get performance knowledge (Roadster, Model X) and with the cash reserves take their next model downmarket (Model S, Model 3).
What would you say if your software colleges tried to write their code in as few characters as possible? <grin> It always result in "obfuscated" code.

Maybe there should be a code competition where you get points for simplicity as wells as how impressive the result is!?

In sports there are no secrets, just different philosophies.
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I guess I would have to agree with the unnamed developer, common usage means that OO is C++/Java and C#, hacker is a negative thing, and decimate just means to reduce by a significant portion not reduce by a tenth exactly. Perhaps to the detriment of all these terms.
Alternative: surfraw - written by a famous person:
https://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/
Scroll through your tumblr dashboard in the terminal
> There were three things that killed gopher: multimedia, licensing, and search.

Gopher was dead before the Web gained practical advantage in any of that.

In 1997 the bookstores were still selling compilations of "best links on the Web". Gopher at that point was already an obscure historical remark.
The 9 free tools that let Build Focus bootstrap
Hi, I'm the author of DWV. You're right still WIP and happy to help solve errors! Pull requests are welcome!
> Freud is a classic case. As a little boy, he and his family joined a flood of immigrants from the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian empire to Vienna

Freud a classic case of immigration? Příbor the fringes of the Austrian Empire? He moved at the age of four 130 miles southwest to the capital. The Austrian Empire included at that point parts of Ukraine. That is hardly immigration, let alone a classic case.

> He wore lederhosen and played a local card game called tarock

Neither "lederhosen" nor "tarock" is local to Vienna.

Sorry Wall Street Journal, but please get your facts straight before writing rubbish. Also, as the article is drawing comparisons to the flow of migrants right now, it should be noted that the current events are not comparable to any of the given examples in the article.
Do you have any good tutorial on how to use pkg_resources ? I use pathlib.Path(__file__).absolute().parent but it's not zip safe. Problem is, I can't wrap my head around pkg_resources and the docs don't help.
I would have expected to see at least some of their source code on Github (https://github.com/Crypho), especially the client-side where the private key and passphrase are handled (as described at https://www.crypho.com/security.html). Without being able to inspect the source, why should anyone trust this company more than, say, Google or Facebook?
Things will only get more difficult. pick the stack and move on.
Notes on Kent Beck's 'TDD by Example'
The problem is that the models don't relate well to reality, and it's too difficult to isolate confounding effects from natural experiments.
This is highly disturbing. What are people suffering from mental illness supposed to do when confronted with such affirmations ?
I experienced this myself and it was completely confusing!

Back in 2008 before I had a smartphone with GPS, I had a camera and a separate GPS device I would use to "tag" places where I took interesting pictures during a 6-month trip around the world.

When I got back home I ran some code to match picture timestamps with GPS timestamps, correcting for time zone offsets (GPS was GMT, pictures were local). All of the pictures of the rest of the countries matched just fine, except for China :) Since I had relatively few data points, it took me a while to realise there was a systematic error in the data, not something I was doing wrong with the timestamps.
"And how in the world does Twitter have 4300 employees? The product should be sustainable with less than 10% of that."

Assumption for this comment: many of them are working in engineering.

I have thought about this for some years. I have no explaination yet, some hypothesis though. Many CEOs and VCs think engineering is key. CEOs don't know how many engineers they need. So often they have as many as they can afford and are rarely challenged for that. I've seen many companies where I look at a Kanban/Scrum board for the features and think "Hu? This is what they working on?", a lot of features have no impact. Number of features seems to be a function of number of engineers not number of good ideas (with impact). So there is no downward pressure on the number of engineers, work fills the over capacity. This leads to 4300 employees.

But far from sure, still wondering about that mystery of high employee numbers of many companies.
Depending on what the word "civilized" is supposed to mean it could be true. Nations where the death penalty is still given are not considered civilized in Europe, so there's that. (But everyone chooses not to care in America's case :))
Pick a stack and go, your just wasting time and effort that is not focused on your value prop.

Strictly pair program the implementation to facilitate quick knowledge transfer of the tech stack.

In the early stages, it is about finding a minimal solution to fit your value prop so you can get people to engage with it and validate your assumptions. This requires more thinking than code. Pairing the implementation will not only allow tech knowledge transfer, it will facilitate those important idea discussions that need to happen too.
This article seems a little inaccurate to me, or at least incomplete.

On phobias, it's not quite as simple as a 'fear memory', although certainly a part of it when we're discussing 'conditioned fear' (e.g. PTSD). There's a part of your brain called the amygdala that is implicated in modulation of memory formation and emotional processing. It's part of the limbic system, which is tied in to the body's autonomic nervous system. This controls your 'fight or flight' response, essentially a sudden release of adrenaline into your system which causes 'anxiety symptoms': increased heart rate, increased perspiration, butterflies in stomach (due to diversion of blood flow to large muscles in your limbs).

The amygdala is sort of like a 'heuristic co-processor' that receives sensory input earlier than other parts of the brain. If the input matches a heuristic, the body's fight or flight response is activated. If the amygdala is dysfunctional, is 'pre-programmed' with heuristics now considered maladaptive, or you've had experiences that have 'programmed' inappropriate heuristics, it will activate your fight or flight response in response to non-threatening stimuli.

Drugs like propranolol, which I take daily for a panic disorder, antagonise (i.e. block) beta-adrendergic receptors, blocking the action of adrenaline and noradrenaline, which dampens the fight or flight response. This reduces or eliminates panic/anxiety like symptoms, and alters how memories are encoded while under its effects (however I'm not clear on whether this interferes with memory formation, or whether it causes the memories to be encoded in a different way).

The part I find most interesting is the 'pre-programmed maladaptive heuristics' still present in our heuristic database. Evolution is a slow process, and has not caught up to our rapidly changing context. For instance, if you've ever given a public speech, you've probably experienced a 'fight-or-flight' response. It's not because you've had some bad past experience with public speaking that has conditioned a 'fear response'; it's because of a left over heuristic in your amygdala that may have been adaptive a thousands of years ago.

Humans used to live in small tribes or groups with maybe a dozen other humans, and the only other humans they might have contact with in their life would be when fighting other groups for resources. If you publicly humiliated yourself in this context, it would have likely meant elimination from the gene pool or possibly even death. In a modern context, where you're giving a speech to a room full of people in another country, this isn't even mildly the case. But evolution is a slow process, so many of us still experience a fight or flight response anyway, which is maladaptive.
The takeaway worker who set up a fast-growing IT firm
I guess it depends if regulations have forced an upgrade of the wiring.

My mum's house is from 1905, but had to be required when she bought it in 1980, and there's no problem running everything in the kitchen at once, plus many portable heaters. We did this at Christmas a couple of years ago when the gas heating broke. I can't remember ever tripping a breaker.

My apartment's main breaker is rated to 50kW, with the oven and hob and laundry machines on 3-phase power, and several 230V 16A circuits for lights and sockets.
I am trying to address your central point. Your point is, as far as I can understand, "if it's okay for the military to control soldiers' sex lives in X, Y, and Z ways, why isn't it okay to similarly control teenager's and unmarried people's sex lives?"

But the kinds and degrees of control that work successfully are totally different from the kinds that you're suggesting. The "seizing on an ambiguity" is actually seizing on the fact that the policies you claim support abstinence's effectiveness are not policies of abstinence.
> I generate random strings as answers to my recovery questions.

What's your favourite football team? -> Genghis Khan 2nd XI
What was your first school called? -> Little Horrors School for Hackers

etc. Easier to say, you won't lose the customer service rep's attention either :)
I think that the gist of the article is that you can be more creative (i.e. come up with ideas that hardly anyone thought of before), if you have more distance from culture. In other words, people that are deeply entrenched in culture, can only think of doing things in the way that the culture is doing it now.

Alan Kay tries to express this concept in his talk "Normal considered harmful", it may give a different perspective on the same concept.

I think it's very good to point this out in relation to immigration right now. However, it's just one of the reasons we should be open to immigration: humanness (brotherhood); a better outcome for both parties ("immigrants" and "natives") in the long run if we give immigrants a possibility to start a "normal" life as fast as possible; we can share the workload and may alleviate the problem of ageing western societies; etc.
Immigrant does not mean poor. Often immigrants are the most wealthy, connected, and educated people from their countries. Poor people are usually stuck wherever they are.

A more accurate title would be: "The Secret of Rich Genius"

But it's pretty obvious why the elite have such a huge share of success in all things.
Ricochet looks interesting (https://ricochet.im/), but can it scale with TOR as the means of transport?

As much as I like the notion of anonymous communication, I wonder if the TOR network can grow beyond its current state in order to be used reliably for this type of service. From what I understand, TOR needs lots of independent exit nodes to offer dependable anonymity and have enough bandwidth, but running an exit node seems to open you up to serious legal consequences because of content passing through it that may be illegal in your jurisdiction. Doesn't that rule out normal consumers running an exit node at home?
WhatsApp chose engineering cost first. It's a singular device only service, they do not retain any messages and a slew of other decisions. Look at their iOS client for more examples of engineering cost first. A new client for an obscure phone costs about 1 engineer for WhatsApp too.

Twitter is not an engineering cost first company.
I would say moving to another country itself takes lots of courage, and this can be one of the reasons why some of them can be successful and innovative.
Apple/Sony/Samsung: child labour allegations in the Democratic Repulic of Congo
Originally, reparations were postponed until there was an official peace treaty. Despite WW2 ending in 1945, there apparently wasn't official peace until the German reunification in 1990. At that time, the major allies decided to forgive Germans war debt. Greece was never a party to those negotiations, and would actually like its part of the war debt to be repaid.

So before Greece was too late, they were too early because there wasn't a peace treaty yet. There's no way for them to win.

In any case, Germany had massive amounts of debt forgiven, so them tightening the screws when someone else owes them money, is very hypocritical. Add to that that Germany is really rich and could easily handle a $100 bn or $300 bn loss, whereas Greece is in serious trouble, and that's partially because of Germany.

The reason Germany is so unforgiving, is that back in 2008, Merkel wanted to rescue the banks from their bad loans, and when the German voters questioned whether that was wise, she promised that the loans would be repaid. Forgiving the loans now would be breaking that promise. Merkel wanting to save the banks from their own foolish risks is part of the problem. Had they not lent money to Greece, Greece would have had to restructure much earlier. Instead, Greece was allowed to live on money they didn't have, and all of Europe knew and was fine with that. Until the crisis hit, and now Greece is the scapegoat for everybody's problems.

I'm not saying Greece is innocent here; they obviously aren't. But almost everybody carries some of the blame here, especially Merkel, and now they're sacrificing Greece to absolve themselves of their own mistakes.
This "concatenative inheritance" seems like a symptom of JavaScript's limited support for prototypal OO. Objects in Self support multiple prototype slots: you can add to an object without copying more stuff into it.