skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a ballpark feel for the org. An admitted problem with my theory is that I've only seen behemoths (massive, nasty publicly traded beasties) and start-up to mid/small orgs with only 1-200 ppl having access to source control and/or servers.

If an org can grow beyond the tribal size & still maintain trust & agility - please share! I've got a good theory about how Spotify operates (see https://labs.spotify.com/2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-cult...) but I don't know if they've effectively crossed or exceeded this scope of personal trust & relationships.
cool idea, but how the hell does it cost 19.95?!
No, immune memory is provided by memory T cells and B cells. Losing all your antibodies but nothing else would only leave you temporarily immune-compromised until your body has a chance to replenish its supply.
Or another way of looking at this is the following. If you take on new, large projects, you're often worried about the problems you face, how things are going to work, if your skills, effort and knowledge are enough. More often than not, you will end up with something reasonable upon completion (if you have enough self-control to get that far) and even if you fail miserably, you learned valuable lessons. So it is not a bad thing to confidently step into new directions, even if there's a risk or certainty that it won't be better than bad.

Example: I never baked a cake (ok that's not a large project ;p). I will bake a cake. I know it is most likely not going to turn out well. The result of my work might even be garbage that I have to dispose of. I will bake a bad cake. But the next cake will be better, I learned something from my mistakes.
I don't get how any of this could have happened. So many WTFs. Fraudulent bank wires are reversible, even months after. And how in the world do they not check who they send the money to?
Just last Spring, he lent me his copy of "What Color is Your Parachute" and invited me into his office to discuss two job offers I was contemplating. He did all this after he passed by the CS library and saw me looking for something.
>That is not the case for disagreement

The reason why Github added these votes in the first place is so that people can give a signal of how welcome or not a certain change is to the project. If you only provide the signal for agreement but remove the signaling for disagreement and make it costly, then you'll get more people voting one way than the other. If it costs more to disagree then you're already rigging the game towards agreement.
> Microsoft is not suddenly going to recant on the direction of unified UI that it's taken.

I might be wrong, but I don't think the users that haven't switched to Windows 10 yet have not done so because of Windows 10's UI.
But when OSX does this or nags me to switch from Chrome to Safari, it's a "feature", right?
Very many HN threads would be improved if people would just downvote for disagreement and shut the fuck up.

Those downvotes would soon be corrected by other people reading the thread, and we wouldn't have to read bad tempered bickering.
Apple doesn't have to be a ring leader to be legally responsible for their actions. I don't know why you act like that is the case, but I can see you'd rather do anything other than admit Apple was guilty of any sort of wrongdoing here. You will talk about literally anything other than the simple naked fact they participated.

So please, respond as you like. But I'm filtering out your posts from now on. You're the exact kind of person I shouldn't engage with on HN.
Is it just me, or have some of the comments here missed the point of this entirely? This isn't about MVP or Lean Product Dev.

It's about doing the things that are "worth doing". And about doing them yourself, instead of outsourcing them to someone else. Take responsibility for doing the things that are difficult but worth doing.

Things that people outsource:

Gym - people outsource their Gym attendance to "the experts", Personal Trainers.

Their health - to "the professionals", be those Doctors, vitamin salesmen, or chiropractors.

Music - to professional musicians.
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> ... which is something we never had with Java or, worse, Flash.

I liked a lot Java Applets. It was fantastic to be able to draw pixels or use a toolkit in a web browser at that time.

I gave up Java near after the dispute between Sun and Microsoft about J++. Java was far less interesting for me without that feature.
Sure, but that is already the case - posting a :+1: costs much less effort than writing a counter-argument (and is already widely socially accepted, spammy-ness aside). The addition of an upvote button doesn't change this.

That's not to say that I wouldn't like that bias resolved, but it's a bias that exists precisely because of the difference between 'agreement' and 'disagreement' that I described, and I'm not sure it can be solved in a technical manner.
Dude my first professional programming experiences were on a 486/33. Compared to that a P1/133 is pretty darn fast!

But as you say, there is not much point debating subjectivity here. It's not like I had the foresight to record benchmarks of how long it took web pages to appear, or to open a window, etc, back in the mid-90s.

Edit: How about if I put it this way:

If you go back in time to the 90s and tell everyone "20 years from now, we will have a much more advanced web where EVERYONE WILL HAVE A SUPERCOMPUTER IN THEIR POCKET", people would imagine the web would be amazing, and responsive and beautiful, and we would be doing some seriously intricate stuff.

Instead ... no, we have a pile of junk that only kind of works, and slowly at that. In terms of potential unreached, the web is kind of a massive failure. (Yes, it is "successful" in the sense that we are able to do a lot with it that we could not 20 years ago, but the mediocre is the enemy of the good, and all that).
Right after they sealed the huge deal with Spotify? Seems like a near-term shutdown is unlikely.
I still only see it for the comment and not the issue itself.
> The problem with trying to make friends "on your own" is that it's really uncomfortable.

Social interactions and relationships take effort, as well as nurturing. If you're uncomfortable making the attempt, like any skill, you will get better the more you try at it.

An app or website is not going to make socializing any easier. If anything, it will handicap you further.
Threshing is about as far from a skilled craft as you can get whilst still having a name for the activity. You can describe how to thresh in less than a minute, and it's pure labouring drudge work.
> "one step forward, two steps back"

This only works if you're facing away from your destination.
> Having a uniform experience for all clients

An experience that is uniformly slow and uniformly broken a different way on every browser...
Terraform has worked incredibly well for us so far. Definitely deserves a look by anyone.
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Yes, your manager was an adept politician. I'm glad he was able to handle the issue without alienating you. However, this is not evidence that an honest rapport existed; in fact, it's evidence of the opposite. If your manager was being honest, he probably would've mentioned the performance issue, that it never should've happened, and that it was a frustrating experience.

Instead, the manager made a political calculation: he a) wanted to maintain a good reputation with you, his report, because that makes his job a lot easier, improves his advancement opportunities, etc.; and b) valued your skillset sufficiently that he didn't intend to risk it by dwelling on a failure that he understood you were probably already aware of. His response to you was absolutely political in nature, and not an expression of his honest feelings. The fact that such responses occur is the reason that trepidation is apropos for such meetings.
This comment is now getting downvoted. To be clear, so people stop downvoting this comment, this parent comment was initially downvoted to -1, it obviously isn't anymore.
> We should not judge the potential of a technology only by the worst-case scenario for which it may be used.

That's exactly how we need to judge any important technology. This is a basic part of making things that "fail safely".
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>If you continue to use MS Windows, then you are getting just what you deserve.

Victim blaming?
The language is just too complicated at this point. Any time you want to add something you need to ensure it plays well with everything else. It is a huge amount of friction.
Wipeout done in JS
So, I'm trying to figure out the general HN view based on the comments in seeing ...

Is it the case the HNers generally view programming as a fairly low paid blue collar position?
Only if you get rid of the behemoth slowpoke trains, elevate the rails, add more rail lines, and add a corridor to the East Bay. The Millbrae Caltrain/BART connection is a joke.
At my company, we also share a ton of our collections internally (typically managed in git). My last meetup also covered the use of Postman, and showed off its ability to import from Swagger & RAML - and export into most language & cURL.

In short, I <3 Postman.
No thanks. I'll take the extra keystrokes
Here:

http://cnn.com/

- Opera 37 + uBO: Average (valid): 2280.89 ms (11/16 iterations)

- Opera 37 + built-in: Average (valid): 2113.47 ms (11/12 iterations)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

- Opera 37 + uBO: Average (valid): 1135.04 ms (11/15 iterations)

- Opera 37 + built-in: Average (valid): 1072.35 ms (11/12 iterations)

http://www.businessinsider.com/

- Opera 37 + uBO: Average (valid): 1517.48 ms (11/15 iterations)

- Opera 37 + built-in: Average (valid): 1489.73 ms (11/17 iterations)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

- Opera 37 + uBO: Average (valid): 304.43 ms (11/13 iterations)

- Opera 37 + built-in: Average (valid): 274.84 ms (11/16 iterations)
Only reversible if they consider you important enough. Source: got defrauded.
I think the image a lot of us have is that an atomic clock is a PC-to-dishwasher-sized box. Rubidium standards are smaller than that but less accurate than the lab grade equipment.
I went through the same downturns as you, and while the companies I worked for went out of business, I was still able to find new work easily - and STILL had trouble finding qualified people when I was hiring.
That part of the story makes the least sense. So casino gets $100M. Then what?

If the casino isn't involved in the scheme, how can a thief take that $100M, using chips or not?
If there is such a strong counter argument, someone will make it (see XKCD 386) and it will be possible to upvote the dissenting opinion.
z has supported Linux for a long time, they sell Linux-only models now.
How a hacker’s typo helped stop a $1B bank heist
Oh definitely. People did some great stuff with Flash, and I'm excited to see what people come up with using WebAssembly. I'd just temper our excitement because it's going to make some things better and it's going to make other things shitty.

Somebody's going to write a DOM-replacement page layout and rendering system, other people are going to adopt it, and we'll have to go through another whole phase of

"Guys, we made this shim layer that will make your website compatible with screenreaders and HTML5 semantic tags again!"

"I dunno, that sounds like work. And people could copy/paste from our articles? I'll pass."

<5 years later>

"The new version of PageRenderingFramework natively supports screen readers. Can we maybe make your content accessible to non-visual browsers now?"

"Yeah, I guess. We'll install it next time we rebuild our website."

On the plus side, I think most websites have outgrown the autoplaying music, so maybe we'll skip that part in this cycle.
If that was the case, then this would be accomplished constructively by people upvoting a strong argument rather than downvoting an argument they have a disagreement with but either a lack of will or ability to articulate the reason they disagree.
> Compared to what?

A single core processor, of course.

> What does ordinary code mean?

Say, simple random sample of all the other
code being run.

> VLIW has been around for a while

Yup. I never claimed otherwise.

> Itanium is probably the most famous "general purpose" example

Yup.

> and has failed to gain traction outside of GPUs and DSP (ie not "ordinary code").

Yup.

Still, yet again, over again, one more time, once
again, VLIW can get 9:1 speedup.

Why mention this? Because the OP
was talking about the challenges of
getting faster computing. Well,
if want faster computing, one approach,
that, indeed, works on general purpose
code, and gives ballpark 9:1 speedup is,
and may I have the envelope please [drum
roll, please], VLIW. Really new? Nope.
Tried with Itanium? Yup. Works? Yup.

Bottom line -- we still have 9:1 speedup
available to us.

Maybe an objection is that pay a factor
of 24 in transistor count and electrical
power but get only a factor of 9
in performance.

Not everyone knows about VLIW.

Where did I say something wrong?
How does that work if the money is no longer at the destination account?
I worked on this a couple of weeks back and its almost complete - but I thought I would share it with the world.

Good for JSX projects transpiled using Babel

https://github.com/ganarajpr/gotofile-chrome

Its a set of 3 plugins ( chrome plugin, atom plugin and Babel plugin) that allow you to jump to the right JS file in your editor directly from chrome. I was thinking how would View Source look if it was implemented in this new world of Front End JS. . This should provide a more seamless experience of going from the Browser to your editor. Would love any feedback on the experience or any enhancement requests.
Yeah I just installed Ubuntu anyway because I like the unix utilities. I agree that eventually it will be too dangerous or difficult to use Windows 7, though for now it's probably serviceable.

I personally find the Windows 8+ UI execrable, but mostly my strong distaste for Windows 10 is driven by the cloud driven nature.
Agreed 100% for Facebook or even Hacker News, however on GitHub it would be really useful for voting.

If you ask "Should we add this feature?", it's hard to understand what favorites mean if you don't have an anchor. Does 10 thumbs-up mean unanimous support, or is it just a small minority? It'd be nice to say "Oh, 10 upvotes... but there's 90 downvotes, so we won't do it."

FB and Hacker News are a marketplace of relatively-inconsequential ideas and thoughts. However, changes discussed on GitHub Issues can potentially have an impact on your company and livelihood.
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That becomes the destination bank's problem.
Yes and with a low-level interface to a (virtual) hardware it defines a VM that can be run standalone (thus without a browser).
I don't know... as a self-taught developer who has built a successful career with no formal training or certification, I would really hate having any sort of formal licensing or certification system.
Yeah we thought we were going quick. "Takes years for people to launch and we built a perfect system in a few months!" was kind of our approach. We literally just should have bought a theme, connected our backend, and launched, then iterated the moment we saw cash. Reading all the things in the world won't matter until you start or have some frame of reference for the things you read. Now our frame of reference is our past failure.
From a certain perspective, money == demand.

I don't blame him, pypy has always had a money problem (hence crowdfunding etc etc).
Let's not mischaracterize replication studies
I largely agree, but the argument is "If we rely on plugins, some users will have the plugin and some won't and since users don't install plugins, not everybody will be able to use our $THING".

And it is a somewhat legitimate argument. Whether or not it justifies having the browser subsume everything is, IMO, an open question.
I'm into it - you should check out HipCamp.com who are doing something similar.
Yeah, great. Transform everything into opaque binary blobs, as far as the eye can see. Wonderful.

Thanks for nothing.
Do you mean Windows as a Service or something else?
Chocolate

https://github.com/TristanBurnside/Chocolate

An iOS framework where UI is designed in Interface Builder and all functionality is defined in blocks that are automatically run asynchronously on a background thread.

This allows developers to avoid creating massive view controllers by never creating any view controllers at all.

Still a WIP and TableViewControllers and most of the view controller lifecycle events are not yet supported.
Weird aside, even though it's fictional I'm pleased to see that young Ryan Gauld (who went to my school) in his Moneyball'd team. It's rare for Scottish players to play on the continent - he's currently making his way through the ranks at Sporting Lisbon. It feels like our brightest prospects either settle down at Celtic/Rangers (big fish in a small pond, less so nowadays since Rangers' relegation), languish in mid-table Premiership teams or switch nationality and play for Ireland!
If you can explain the value of restricting a local initialized with a new instance being inferred to be an interface type, you'll have a point. You won't be able to, because there is literally no point since the constructor must be statically referenced anyway, but I'd love to see you try.
I agree. I'm really running dry on respect for Brendan Eich. None of the moves he's making are for the benefit of user privacy - look at Brave, his new browser project. It replaces ads on the web with his own ads, tracks you, and puts money in his pocket instead of the publisher's pockets. I'm struggling to remember why he was respectable in the first place - for making JavaScript, an awful programming language we've spent 20 years trying to fix? I don't think that his word on these issues is worth anything any longer.
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on facebook they say "like if you want A and share if you want B" obviously this is a 'viral marketing' ploy, but something similar would be simple for github

just write:

thumbs up if you want A
smile if you want B

problem solved
You're asking for the ability to make perfect UI-spoofing attacks (among other types of attack). It is vitally important to maintain a wall between the browser's UI anything the remote code can touch.
Her friend Kissinger would definitely advocate for Snowden's kidnapping and possible assassination. Then Hillary would say her advisers called for it and she followed their advice while she herself did not want to resort to such measures.

I submit that before a nation gets a narcissistic demagogue they have to first stop caring about due process.
And I expect the researchers will consider each and every one. Which deadly weapon they settle on is less important than that micro-drones can be weaponized.
Yes there is a similar procedure for marrow transplants. It is called 'Haploidentical Transplant' where you only need a half match for marrow transplants which opens the door to parents and children as donors.

The procedure requires a 'rebooting' of the immune system which is analogous to the "remove then let it regenerate" approach mentioned in the kidney procedure. I guess the insight comes from the immune system changing to accomodate new organs after it reboots. Its a really interesting area of research.

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/kimmel_cancer_center/centers/...
John Baker's quote makes more sense if you realize there is no judge or trial or defense in a grand jury indictment. A prosecutor just makes their case and presents their best evidence. One hopes the majority of the indictments he refers to would be foolish to actually prosecute.
Video game about a cat exploring Kowloon Walled City
Anyone else not having much luck on mobile?
We have been doing this for -decades- with Shockwave, Java applets, and Active X controls.
Same here. Groovy rocks my world and is the main reason I've barely even looked at Java 8.
Even as an Apple "fanboy", I can't see how that's a "feature" in any sense of the word
What are the bad practices being promoted by this? How does it qualify as dumbed down? Simply ranting about things that, charitably, you don't seem to understand, does not make the rants valid.
haha hey Jash! should just find you some day after work and show you =)
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Job security at any big company is about finding a niche and making yourself indispensable. It's easier to find a new niche from an old one, when everyone else is spending most of their time worrying about today.
>I never said it was completely impossible to make money by selling a bad product,

from last comment in the thread -

>An advertisement will _never_ convince people to buy things they don't want and don't need; if you disagree, please go and try to sell a bad product, and we will see how well your 'mind control' works.

le contradiction
Or they could just have a thumbs-down button, and expect a higher level of discourse than Facebook.
You've done a very good job at illustrating the way I'm interpreting the parent and grandparent comment. Of the list of languages you just wrote out, I've never heard of "C--". I've written code in 22/31 of those languages. Depending on how you want to measure the duration of my career, I've got somewhere between 10 and 20 years of experience.

If leaders in an organization haven't at least heard of a language that's in the top 5 of TIOBE (http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index), I'd have some serious concerns when considering whether or not to work with them. These days I'm mostly hanging out in embedded land, but I at a minimum spend enough keeping in touch with what's happening in other industries, just so that I can at least understand what other people are talking about and what they're up to.
But then why can I go to a Microsoft store and buy a copy of 10 for full price?
The logistic function (or "S-curve") describes systems that expand first at exponential rates, then logarithmic ones. With respect to new technologies, it's been observed that adoption rates and most measurable improvements follow a logistic function.

For example, people did not go from buying 1 car to buying 10 cars and then 100 cars - most of us hit saturation somewhere between 1 and 2, and stayed there. Similarly, the average speed of our cars did not increase at an increasing rate except in the earliest years of automotive technology; we have a "highway maximum" between 50 and 70 MPH, and a "technical maximum" in the high 200's range for production cars which do not rely on rockets or other not street-legal tricks (a quick search brings up the Hennessey Venom GT at 270.49 MPH). Likewise applied to fast moving vehicles as a whole, including supersonic aircraft and rockets, we've already brushed up against vehicle weight and power density limits that slow the rate of improvement in acceleration.

Applied to the Moore's Law measures, that indicates we have a "endless sunset" period ahead of us where we'll still get more doublings of semiconductors, but they'll come increasingly slowly as more fundamental innovations become necessary to realize them.

What we don't know is whether there is a logistic curve on technology as a whole. Belief in the Singularity is premised on this not being the case.
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"... by way of the New York Federal Reserve". That's ambiguous enough to make it not at all obvious what an accurate, neutral title would be. We're happy to have people suggest one, but don't have time to study this case.
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WebAssembly... Wow, if we keep going, we'll re-invent what Sun achieved 20 years ago with Java. If only they hadn't f-ed it up...
Couple this with a System Bus AM Radio [1] for super fun times

[1]: https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio