skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR : don't use synchronous channels for asynchronous communication.

There is a continuum from real-time discursive to solid archived legally-binding documentation, with a whole nuanced palette in-between... But - everything in chatrooms, everything in mailing lists, everything in web forums, everything in ticketing, everything in a wiki, everything in IRC, everything in Slack: I've seen all those fads... When the only tool you have is a hammer etc.

I believe that the deeper problem is about the tool selection process - not just bottom-up vs. top-down but also the bonding produced by the community that forms around a tool and the way it emerges from peer opinion leaders... False consensus is easy to achieve and it becomes apparent once media fatigue begins to occur as practical pressure overcomes social pressure.
Wow I worked in a place where I could have spit on the 10 people that sat around me they were so close. I think I had 10sf to myself.
> The next level future of UI would be something as developer-productive as Visual Basic .NET from 2007

I was always partial to NeXSTEP 3.3 in 1995. I'm pretty sure that something post-webassembly might actually get us close.
I just read the article for a second time.

I am really not sure what assumption you think I am making is wrong?
I think it's both brave and foolish.

Zappos has been very successful and had a clear positive trajectory before holacracy/Teal. Clearly foolish to jeopardize that to such a degree!

At the same time, you may believe that a new system could truly pay off and take you to the Next Level. Maybe there would be a temporary setback, but you have to grit your teeth and believe in your reasoning that it will work out in the end, better than had you kept the status quo.

I can't help but think of Hsieh as a kind of artist. He isn't trying to just make money or "be successful" like most people. He wants to create something new and exceptional. And will reach for it while paying little mind to the risks.
What do you recommend to happen when a button changes state? The first time it opens the menu and the second time it closes the menu, as an example.
Leave it to HN to get all pedantic. Yes, its a bit link-baity, but I "got" what was meant by the title.
The problem is that the tools we invent to solve the old problem create new problems that are worse.

- At least meetings had a defined start and end time. With email you're expected to be "always on"

- At least emails can be dealt with asynchronously, so you can focus on work for a while and then circle back and deal with email. With chat you've got to be at least semi-engaged with the tool at all times
> Granted, not a Tesla, but is that only a matter of time and willpower or actually supporting your argument?

Supporting my argument. Tesla sits on an encrypted VPN, good luck with that. Maybe if you break into Tesla HQ?

You're better off going after the bluetooth (the key fobs/car are bluetooth) or NFC (the key fobs/car have NFC in case batteries die in fobs). There's also an ethernet port of sorts in the vehicle, although it has been disconnected with latest firmware.

Anyway, when it comes to Tesla, you'll have better chances of hacking into it with physical access. You are definitely not getting access to my car with "wifi".
As I read this, the sibling comment immediately under yours[1] is talking about the Zappos move to Vegas, and how it resulted in your colleagues being your support group, and you theirs...

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11240230
Would be funny (by funny I mean sad) if Apple gives them the new hacked ios build and the password turns out to be something like 'NYOEC"T80BkLYExMU7JYWaz&P}dtMBR', ie they can't ever brute force it.
As long as they make money they can do whatever they want. What happens when sales tanks (for whatever reason) and layoffs are necessary that it will become interesting.
It took about 10 days for the opt out to work for me.

"Overall, Verizon reported a profit of $4.22 billion" reported by forbes for the 2015 operating year.
That is profit, not revenue.

So, 1,300,000 / 4,220,000,000 = .000308
ouch..
Yeah it has that vibe. But I think that is kind of part and parcel of what's necessary to make change and have buy in from the group you're trying to coöpt into your vision.

I think there are lots of industries where holocracy could be just as good as the top down model is. For example, retail, hotel work, taxi companies, etc. Anywhere where mom and pops could have a business... That is wherever your average non MBA graduate can have a modicum of success you could probably create a workforce of equally qualified workers who could self assemble into workgroups according to their dispositions and aptitude. It's not far off from how the workgroups were supposed to work in practice in communist doctrine. Of course in their practice 5 year plans meant top down control.

Importantly you don't need highly paid managers to manage low level operations. Operations which don't require a whole lot of external supervision if you indoctrinate the workers to self regulate.
The question was not much about "new release" posting, more about spreading the word about a new project. And news could be written in a more "creative" way.

I asked the original question because a one shot news will not necessary gets "enough" attention, depending on the time or the day it has been posted for example.

Also I've read that:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11237340
this is a gem. it's hard to find all that info in one place.
Well, the all point is that /r/bitcoin is an heavily censored forum of discussion where only pro bitcoin (and now, only pro bitcoin core) posts are accepted, unlike what the OP was trying to dismiss.
The issues in the article are very similar to advices in some old book (from "yay, AJAX"-era) about JS I read in the past. Looks like not too many people took them to heart.
Not really. Most companies has some inside baseball terms, but largely they follow agile or six sigma, or some other standardized management flow.
It's worth it. Don't worry, it took me weeks too. It really helps if you are the kind of person who actually likes doing the dumb algorithm exercises. I accidentally did something clever by interviewing at a handful of small companies I wasn't very interested in first, so I got to warm up the interview-question region of my brain.
Well, yes, but in Athens there was compulsory military service--Socrates's interlocutor from The Sophist returns in a dying state from a siege, which causes the narrator to remember the dialogue--there could be service in the courts as juror or judge, or other government service. I suspect that anyone looking for distraction in Athens found it.
Workfactor isn't a criterion of copyright (under US law). Authorship is.

Composing, framing, and timing a shutter release is considered "authorship" so far as photography is concerned. Not sure a scan meant to be fully faithful to an original would be.
Seconding draw.io, have been using it somewhat actively recently, do recommend.

Seamless integration with GDrive, lots of existing templates, great experience overall.
Don't forget about Waffle House. I'm sure there is a market for an under-the-sink reactor.
That's a weird analogy. You shouldn't be your own lawyer but you should be your own accountant?
I do. A few years ago I put together a presentation on how to use it effectively for personal finance: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CUSct3YGvpVdKI_D_jCI...

The long and short of it is that GNUCash rests upon an ancient bed of Scheme and C, and so isn't quite ready for the cloudz.
>>There's caveat emptor for Indian hospitals. Be careful.

Yes, as an Indian I can confirm this. Medical Malpractice is a big think in India. What makes it possible is doctors can get away from it. Any kind of criticism is not tolerated by the medical fraternity. Remember that program by Aamir Khan in Satyamev Jayate. There was a tremendous backlash from doctors as though it was their birth right to cheat.

A few things that ordinary Indians have to undergo everyday.

1. Doctors running polyclinics in areas they have no specialization in.

2. Polyclinics running mini-labs. To sustain which, doctors order pointless tests(especially blood work) which might not even be needed.

3. Commission deals with local pharmacy stores, so that they prescribe brands only available at that pharmacy in exchange for a commission.

4. Prolonging treatment to maximize net consultation fees. Prescribing drugs/tests to boost their commission.

5. Tests claimed to be done, which aren't. Also known as the 'basin test'. Collect the patients blood and throw it in the basic, cook up artificial numbers to make it look normal.

6. A while back I visited a hospital with my mom for arthritis. To my surprise they ordered an X-ray. Nurse tells us X-ray is the regular routine no matter what patient walks into the department. The Orthopedic apparently thinks its the best way for him to recover his money invested on a X-ray machine. Same goes for colonoscopy/MRI/CAT scan and other complicated tests.

7. In government hospitals nurses routinely ask for bribes from poor patients. Administering euthanasia for burn victims especially from poor families who can't afford long term health care in return for a bribe is common.

The list can go on and on...

I know a colleague who was verbally abused by a doctor for being 'a little intelligent', it was almost like he was furious the patient was resisting being cheated.

Foreign nationals may not face all this as they go to top line hospitals. But the ordinary Indian continues to suffer at these people's hand.
I don't mind downvotes at all, but...

http://www.napoleon.org/en/magazine/interviews/lemaire.asp

"In my opinion, the great leap forward in medical knowledge, the birth of modern medicine, occurs somewhere in the period between the beginning of the Revolution and the end of the Empire."

I don't if or when this became obscure knowledge, but I don't even remember when I first learned it.

To be sure, Koch, the germ theory and understanding of sepcis came later, almost inexplicably.
A more interesting/relevant article for HN would be how to explain this to customers. I usually sit there in sales meetings belabouring that there will be bugs, more than you expect, more than you could dream of, there will be bugs - yet when we hit UAT there's always indignant outrage that when you click X, then Y, then worship the moon on a thursday while sacrificing a goat and singing kum-bay-ya, this one figure that nobody sees is out by a tenth of a penny, and the feature that we didn't mention or even think of until Just This Moment doesn't exist.
aws spot instances can cost from $0.30 down to $0.10/hour, and if you have a fluctuating load with image generation, that can be a good price :)
If you just want to get somebody interested in cyptography, I HIGHLY recommend: The Code Book (http://amzn.com/0385495323). It's a great read for anybody who's done a little bit of history by walking you through the role of cryptography and hiding messages throughout history.

Covers most everything in the context of war history as far back and shaving a person's head, writing a message on it and then letting the hair grow back to hide it. Great read that will lay the groundwork of interest for a lot of people.
That's a lot like saying that after searching the Usenet, you didn't find that IE supported the <blink> tag, while Netscape did :)

Android should let you set system font sizes. It's a usability thing. And if Apple, Google, and MS can agree on how this is done, that'd be a good thing for everyone involved.
> in a parser hack called JSX!

React doesn't need JSX, and I'd like to think about it as if it is a macro, not a parser hack.
What I took back from this article was that it's not about Slack vs. Hipchat vs. IRC vs. Skype vs. Basecamp or anything else. Whatever you do with your S/H/I/S/B app settings, the very mode of communication without specific granular contexts and separation of those contexts (like in email) is a big issue, not some notification setting that could possibly get rid of the issues of this medium.

Chat has its benefits as mentioned in the article, but there is a big deal of frustration -- "How do I respond to point #1 by A, point #2 by B, point #3 by C, point #4 by D that was in reply to point #2 by B"-- and exhaustion -- "I can never catch up with this" -- not to mention it being futile in some cases.

If the topic at hand is granular enough (which never is the case, especially when dealing with complex things like software design and development) then chats could be useful. For anything broader, depending on people's availability, asynchronous communication (say email) or synchronous voice communication (say a phone or VoIP call with a shared whiteboard) may be better choices with more focus and productivity.

The whole problem exponentially increases in its (negative) impact with the addition of more people into a group chat. This part has commonality with other communication modes, but the way to control it and the effectiveness of controlling it vary.

On a tangent, a voice call with a larger group is useless unless it has a shared screen or presentation to keep people's eyes also busy and in sync. If there's a way to make people participate, that's a big bonus. Otherwise many will drift off to chat windows, email, browser tabs, etc., resulting in the oft-repeated phrase in conference calls "Sorry, I didn't get that last part. Could you please repeat it?" :)
That logic does not follow. One could argue that Zappos could be making more money with a traditional org structure.
Every Zappos article I've read has the vibe of "YOU WILL ENJOY WORKING HERE OR WE WILL PAY YOU TO LEAVE. OR ELSE."
So, there is a strong chance that you are comparing very different things, and frameworks which perform not good in terms of speed can be far superior in terms of models quality.
While I am no fan of Trump, I don't think there I understand the attack angle here. This program is a government sponsored program to get foreign money into US based capital development programs. They don't get ownership or equity of the resultant buildings, and the only thing they do get is a visa into the country. I understand there are security risks, but I don't think anyone who is raising funds via this method should even concern themselves with that. This is a government sponsored and run program, all the developer is doing is trying to raise funds to build their project at the best rate possible. If there is a security concern then the people who need to be concerned with it are the government officials who are processing and clearing the applicants.

Essentially I read this as Trump's subsidiary used a government program to raise funds, and it turns out the government can't even be trusted to do a proper security screen.
Do you have any linguists consulting / on staff?

Bryan Garner might be a careful compiler but doesn't seem to be a linguist and seems to be a traditionalist who makes simple errors.

e.g. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001869.h...

"His chapter is unfortunately full of repetitions of stupidities of the past tradition in English grammar — more of them than you could shake a stick at."

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=5630

"So why did Bryan Garner, a highly intelligent and insightful person, make this elementary error?"

http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2007/01/02/editing-chicago/

"A good editor should know that Bryan Garner’s take on the subject is misleading and incorrect. It’s become apparent to me that many of the self-appointed guardians of the language don’t even know what it is they’re guarding."

etc.etc.
The Athenian culture was a money culture. The Spartan (League) culture was not.

The Athenians won.
20 women: Why we love working in tech
The link has more concrete (non-subjective) timings.
> you bring the car to a professional mechanic and have him inspect the car, or inspect it yourself if you have the right knowledge

Or, a second hand Tesla might have a much higher market value if it has a recent inspection certificate from Tesla. Tesla don't have to enforce this on this basis because the market will.
Since you claim these drugs are a natural monopoly, what prevents a competitor from producing them?

I'm discussing the fact that the FDA has incentives misaligned with the public good. If they approve X and something bad happens, they get heat from Congress and the media. If they reject something unnecessarily no one cares.

The biggest problem facing R & D in the phrmaceutical industry is that incentives for investment that the market provides are completely at odds to what is needed on the ground.

Could you explain this claim?
By which you actually mean it would be more difficult for the union to form a closed shop and lock out competition from non union labour. this is a feature, not a bug.
Rather, what strikes me is that for all the excitement over the buyout, Zappo's seems to have survived with management-by-holacracy for surprisingly long time with seemingly good results. One would have thought, based on the conventional wisdom at the time, that without a sclerotic managerial bureaucracy the organization would be completely unable to coordinate and manage itself. This does not seem to be the case.

Holacracy a cult? Why not traditional management a cult? The difference being simply that traditional management is broadly accepted as "normal" by society at large.

Ostracism via "the Beach" is just a different kind of social power than the traditional hierachical institutions, with different tradeoffs. Generally you think of these kind of power-diffuse societies as unable to scale, but Zappos has 1500 employees.
Indeed. So, now with Moore's law coming to an end there will be an incentive to try 'strange' and off-the-beaten-path technology, it will in a way be the most interesting time for semiconductors in many decades. There is just a chance that we'll hit on something that would not even be considered only 10 years ago that will actually make a huge difference. Before that all you could pretty much set the clock by was a predictable speed increase, now we're going to either get stuck or there will be something revolutionary in computing to move us to the next level.

Some of the options:

- 3D (heat issues, but biology got that one solved to some extent by using massive parallel low power, extremely slow and clockless architectures)

- Quantum Computing

- biological computing

- exotic semiconductors (for instance: GaAs)

- optical computing

- Totally new software architectures to take advantage of existing hardware in an un-foreseen way

- non Von-Neumann machinery (for instance, computing memory)

And a whole raft of even lesser known and researched tech. I'm really very curious what the next decade will bring.
>But is that printed copy a derivative work?

It's clearly a derivative work. If printing a copy is transformative (and my opinion is no, it's not), then it is also gets its own copyright. So the owner of the original work doesn't get the copyright of the new work, but can still sue for infringement.

There was a case on this topic recently.
Ask HN: Do you need a degree/diploma for a TN-1 (or other work) Visa?
I'm from Canada and looking for input from someone with experience getting a TN-1, or similar, work visa (with or without a degree).

The government website seems pretty clear that I'll need at least a diploma to get a TN-1 visa

https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/employment/nafta.html

Trying to weigh these 2 options:

[0] General consensus I've seen on HN and elsewhere is that a degree isn't necessary to be a successful developer. I have a family so 2-4 years of schooling isn't a small sacrifice at this point.

However

[1] The US job market for software seems significantly larger and more lucrative than Canada's. 2-5 years of sacrifice could easily be made up with access to US job market.

Also, I already have a B.A. (Christian studies) and soon will have an M.A. (Biblical Counselling). They are unrelated fields, but thought I'd mention it in case it makes a difference.
Why Fintech Is the Worst
Podcast: Agilic and PiBot, with Harry Gee
Pretty much. I don't want to discount the potential in this field of research, but I really don't think they're going to achieve much with DIY transcranial stimulation at this point.
What is limited caffeine? I see/hear this a lot recently, how much caffeine impacts our sleep cycle. I have 2-3 caffeinated beverages a day (usually 1 dark coffee and 1-2 cups of tea), but wonder if even that limited amount is impacting my sleep cycle.
Will yes, and Hitler shares 99% of his values with most people. The devil is in the details.
Computational data tools for financial economics
Testing the lifetime of human-machine interfaces in a few days
Yeah, it's definitely the puppeteer tasping the kzin
When people claims newer designs have "dramatic safety and proliferation advantages" they make it sound like existing reactor technology is subject to poor safety record and proliferation problems.

We just isn't true.

The nuclear reactor technology that's been in use for the past 50 years has killed fewer people per kilowatt hour than any of solar, wind, or hydro power [1].

And despite all the proliferation concerns there are only 9 states states with nuclear weapons[2]. You don't magically get nuclear weapons by having domestic nuclear power.

1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-de...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_we...
The problem is that we're trying to think in terms of "apps" on a platform that was invented and built in terms of "documents." The web wasn't designed to be an "interface", the browser was, and it's purpose was to display interlinked documents.

On top of this, the pace of the web's development has outstripped the capability of anyone to actually plan the extensions to this base model, so everything since is just hacks on top of hacks. But it works enough for people to keep going through investor storytime year on year, so ... we continue to move fast, and break everything.
This is a great book, I based our company's own proprietary crypto code on what I picked up while skimming through it. Kidding...kidding!
Ask HN: Is the Hacker News Team Actively Developing Arc?
Is the Hackernews Team @YC actively developing Arc? If so what important developments have they made?
Just because you bought it from some guy who stole it 100 years ago does not give you any moral claim to it

That would mean no one owns the house they live in.
If you’re looking for a handful more resources https://bench.co/syllabus/ is a decent start.
See also: http://arclanguage.org/item?id=19464
I suspect there are many. It seems people are more likely to believe doomsday scenarios than ones where everyone lives. Living past the good times was a central theme of the movie "The Grand Budapest Hotel", and the song lyric, "Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone." So for me clearly the notion is part of the shared cultural experience.

My grandfather used to joke (somewhat morbidly) that everyone is afraid to die until one day they wake up and they are afraid they aren't going to die. He was always thinking about the consequences of things in the present as they rippled forward in time.

Sadly, I'm not sure what we can learn from it. It is easy to say "live every day as if it is your last, it may be." but "Save things to do later, later might be a lot longer than you think?" doesn't work so well.

I found the stories of people living on disability most compelling. They are trapped because if they did work, that work would disqualify them from their income, and how they know they are not going to die any time soon. So they can't step out of the life boat for fear that they will still be alive and now with zero financial support. If ever there was a situation of the heart in conflict with itself that is it.
I didn't get the impression that this article was overly critical of self-organization. Zappos seems to have had some struggles in transition, but the article still seems to end on a cautiously optimistic tone.
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