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> I often find myself self-censoring or abandoning the comment halfway, because I know it will get down voted and it's just a waste of time.

Please don't, it is just karma.

> Which brings me to the thought: If one of the most intelligent and open minded online communities can exhibit censorship or can determine users to self-censor, then what can be said about other communities/platforms ?

I think its an example of a problem that is difficult to solve because you want to surface the content that makes the majority happy which becomes naturally self reinforcing.

That said, I'd like to see a platform that surfaces heavily downvoted content that received some upvotes as a hybrid with purely upvoted content. [e.g. +70, -100 is a comment probably worth ranking at +35 because the downvote/upvote split is likely opinion-based rather than purely factual]
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I moved to San Francisco when the startup craze began, here's what its been like
As always, if you're HNs darling, it's fine to send the lawyers.
I love this :-) However, how does 10s of millions of dollars in investment pay off in the end? Are the efficiencies that important - and if so, does anyone know where precisely savings are made?
I think this post misses the point.

Company values are only meaningful when they differentiate that company from others. Everyone wants to "Move Fast and Not Break Things".

"Move Fast and Break Things" was a value judgement. For Facebook, moving quickly was worth the penalty of sometimes breaking things.

This is why most companies have lame values like "Do your best work" or "Be honest". Great values, but nobody disagrees with them—so they're meaningless.
In my field- biophysics- and also in the larger bio field, the vast majority of PhD recipients intend to go on to be professors, or research scientists at a national lab (I went the latter route when the former turned out to be too hard), rather than academia. Nearly every single person who graduated in my program went on to do either med school (to be a research MD), or postdoc (path to professor). Now, my school was in SF, so a fair number of people were highly incentivized to start companies (NOT go work for companies- to be founders), but I'd say that's rare and fairly specific to prestigious programs in larger cities/higher profile universities.

I don't know a single person in my program who actually said they wanted to work in industry (other than the company founders).

Perhaps it's different in other fields.
The future home of the Bot Framework: https://www.botframework.com/
I disagree. I have sometimes faced reply comments that are quite unreasonable and at times meant solely as insult. It's very rare here, but still a risk.

But what's far worse is that the moderation of Hacker News functions with very little transparency. Even just Googling for the moderator `dang` turns up a lot of angry rants on other blogs and in other sections of the internet, full of people who feel wronged by black-box and one-sided moderation.

It can be quite psychologically upsetting to post a comment, fall victim to group-think downvoting, try to add clarity or try to defend yourself against unreasonable comments, and then find yourself on the non-negotiable end of a black-box moderation action.

If it was just meaningless karma downvotes, few would care. It's the actually hurtful responses and, there's no other way to put it, mean-spirited moderation activity that give pause.

And I'm speaking as someone with a lot of anti-authoritarian tendencies. I'm not shy at all about speaking my mind and I struggle with finding a way to feign respect for authority apparatuses that are not legitimate, like HN moderation. If I feel this apprehension and backlash, I can only imagine that more timid readers feel it to a much more damaging degree.
Would macros win you over?
Really enjoyed this. I'd often get in political and fiscal discussions with my friends and found that it just really wouldn't click with some people. They'd get mad and things would get personal (I can get pretty defensive myself). The realization that "When you attack someone’s opinion, you attack their identity" was huge for me.

People have different values of associations with different opinions, and while it's a shame I can't discuss things like international development issues with some friends because they hold their opinions about that too close to their personality, it has helped me to start looking out for bad conversation paths.

However, as the top comment on reddit says: "They're still my friends, but I just don't ever have any actual proper conversations with those ones - we instead just have boring conversations about cheese or something."
Yeah, I read the study - the sample size is small, but I'm still freaked out by the science - as in, I'm worried if I go hiking to that altitude and what the permanent effects could be.
Can we stop pretending the iPad represents the future of computing?
SSHFS?
Everything's broken and nobody's upset (2012)
Code of Conduct: http://botframework.blob.core.windows.net/web/docs/Developer...
Other topics to avoid Anything negative about: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Ruby, Rails, Github, Vim and Javascript.
Sounds like all your questions would've been answered if you read the article.
I couldn't agree more. I'm not sure how to solve the problem though, other than trying to teach people to treat the down vote button more respectfully.

IMO there shouldn't be a down vote button at all, and to be honest I can't see its purpose. If a comment is trolling or being aggressive then you should flag it, so where is there room for the down vote button?

It becomes quite intuitive to just use it for what you consider an "invalid opinion" regardless of how much you try to teach people otherwise, because it's so convenient to use and people are less rational when they are angered.
Government is in fact the only kind of institution that can finance science in the good and bad times. Companies have too much of a short-term profit-driven incentive to fund basic science. They can even do that for short periods, when everything looks rosy and they want to attract talent (examples are AT&T, Google, HP, etc.), but profit is so important that they will cut these investment as soon as necessary to improve other areas of the company.
By "crap", I think he means something like "poorly understood copy cats of successful ideas", not "really bad ideas". See the whole quote:

> I think what we’ve had is a handful of investors who have extreme vision who make great investments in things that are amazing businesses: Facebook, Google, Uber. And then everybody else reacts to that success by trying to do the thing that most approximates the thing that’s working. As a result, most of those businesses are fundamentally not good, they’re poorly run, and they never should have been invested in in the first place. But the capital came in because the person who had control of the capital was able to justify it intellectually to themselves versus something else that could have become the next Facebook or Google.
What makes you believe that these reasons were all wrong? Many (most?) technologies have failed after all, possibly for these reasons.

One recent example that comes to mind is Google glass
Given it is open source, couldn't Atom just re-use VSCode's intellisense?
I've had that happen to me before, I've built up enough karma over my time here to stop caring as much, and sometimes it comes back, other times not so much. It usually depends, but even though the karma system may have it's flaws it at least keeps us from turning into the abyss that other communities have turned into.
I've noticed a "know-nothing" strategy recently adopted by blockchain core - basically, the ideas is that community members claim that everyone who isn't part of core development is naive and has no valid position in debating the future of bitcoin. These users speak with pride about leaving social communities because of their ignorance. It reminds me a lot of the Fox news listeners who deride world media as liars.

Here's an example of the proud know-nothingness. The interesting part begins at 17:30. The speaker, Julia Tourianski, makes a fair attack against Mike Hearn for his departure, but then she goes on to point out that developers are faced with low morale because the community doesn't support their work. The conversation then moves to leaving Reddit and other media because "the trolls" (presumably persons who are in favor of a blocksize increase) have taken over.

https://soundcloud.com/heryptohow/julia-tourianski-john-dill...
I've trekked the whole Annapurna circuit and its max altitude is about the same EBC IIRC. Really, it hurts a bit for a little while but getting tattooed hurts more in comparison to what you are doing and seeing. Also, the more you stays there the less it hurts or affects your body (I have spent 40 days in the mountains). Machu Picchu is nothing compared to Nepal's mountains, go for it! You won't regret it :-)
Sorry if it sounded superior, it was not meant in that way. "sorry for your loss" seemed to become a very common phrase on most Bitcoin-related discussions where someone posted how they made a mistake, trusted a con, got scammed etc. There would always be someone saying sorry, perhaps someone tipping the poor unfortunate 0.5 cents out of sympathy, and an army of others revelling in pointing out which of the many hundreds of 'obvious' precautions they should have taken to avoid their misfortune.

My prediction is that many many Ethereum users will be hearing the SFYL phrase when their promised 'trustless' system fails or the armies of scammers converge on a new blockchain.
This would be neat if it didn't require you to leave your computer (mac) running. I only have a laptop that I always carry with me. Now get me something I can run on one of my headless machines and I'd pay but I don't have an anyways on mac unfortunately.
What if I want to recruit him on my own - I don't want to hire an agency to do the hiring for me. I need sb/sth to help me with evaluatuion of candidates.
I'm sure this is an emotional reaction to receiving overwhelming negative feedback, not a calculated one. I'd direct my comment toward the site rather than OP.
When it comes to that matter I recommend Dale Carnegie "How to Win Friends and Influence People" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen..., it's in the public domain: https://archive.org/details/BooksOfArslanhowToWinFriendsAndI...). I read it half a year ago and I regret not reading it earlier (don't be dissuaded by its title!).
As much as I'd love to use something like Nylas, the deal-breaker for me was its sync engine. Having a third party store and index all of my emails just isn't an option for me, and I can't justify jumping through hoops to host it myself when I can just use a client that doesn't require any server-side component.
"Me too" comments are usually not useful, but I'm putting this one here so that GP can see JoeAltmaier isn't the only one who thinks this.

Post away. Sometimes, I have been known to rethink my position (not a bad thing) when I get downvotes. Sometimes I even change my mind when good arguments surface. I learn this way.
The surveillance state makes our system more brittle by entrenching a status quo that is creating accelerating income and wealth inequality, and destroying institutions that enable upward social and income mobility. We're headed for a rupture, and the response appears to be more armor, weapons, and security personnel.
"Value", you say. I say, "a new trap for the greedy".
Technically it's not insecure (the app doesn't get to set data it shouldn't), it's just a DOS.

Seems odd that they wouldn't test this particular case (or put a predefined limit on it). This seems like exactly the kind of thing someone would do without thinking about it too hard (I'll just write a script and....) and cause an issue.

I'd really like to have more control over the feature anyway. I want to redirect Twitter links to a 3rd party app and turn off these links for Amazon and a few other apps.
As has been pointed out on Twitter,

> this is funny because his main beef is actually due to systemic problems inside Intel, not Illumos or FOSS

https://twitter.com/kevinbowling1/status/714352429333086208
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"banks hold reserves that are less than their deposit liabilities"

If you hold one dollar of a ten dollar deposit and loan out nine, reserves ARE less than their liabilities.

They still owe $10 plus interest to the depositor. They only have $1, on average. That's less than their liabilities. It doesn't say what you think it does.

"the central bank (or other monetary authority) regulates bank credit creation, imposing reserve requirements and capital adequacy ratios"

The reserve requirement is a RESTRICTION on how much the bank can lend. Not a multiplier the bank can apply to deposits to print money.

If the Fed RAISED the reserve requirement, banks could not lend as much. If it completely removed the reserve requirement, banks could lend more.

That's my reading of your quote.
Considerably less than 10bln, say even if they spent 100m on legal fees, that's still about 1% of what they would end up earning that's 1:100 return on investment no one would in their right mind would pass on that.
Which came first? The toxic discussion boards or the toxic blockchain scammers?
> "What about omni-directional treadmills?"

Maybe not for home users but I think for military training, rescue training other such applications those could be viable. I don't see anything wrong with this technology being professional/luxury first then becoming more affordable to regular users.

We had a DK (or maybe DK2, don't remember) as well and yeah we played with it but I ended up not liking it. The resolution was too low, I could see individual pixels and it was like looking through a screen-door. We played with it for a while, ran some demos, everyone had fun. Then put it on a shelf and hadn't touched it since.
I think this is where the "community" metaphor breaks down; HN is not the equivalent of a civilization where a thousand flowers need to bloom to preserve the intellectual integrity of society; it is the equivalent of the club you shouldn't join if they'd have you as a member.

The problem is not that people self-segregate into (multiple) communities where there is a common creed as to what ideas are worthy of discussion; the problem is when there is a suffocating universal consensus where there are ideas that have no home. There is no (useful) better, more open-minded community; there are just places where you can say things you shouldn't say on HN and vice versa.

There's nothing wrong with circlej-rks as long as every jerk has a circle.
Thats awesome news, Thanks for the explanation!
Judging from the mess that cross compiling binary to Android is (compared to iOS), it seems that Google is not seriously offering that as an option.

Weird to me, as it is the best way to ensure every one can do what every they like on your platform (and possible re-use large portions of code on other platforms).
I also read it that way, but "What I'm about to say will be controversial, but bear with me for a second..." is probably a better alternative.
I get horridly and painfully seasick, others don't. Most that don't were "raised on the sea". I suspect younger generations could adapt to VR the way my generation adapted to the spatial awareness required for 3D gaming.

On a side note, this makes me think VR could possibly be used therapeutically to "cure" motion sickness. Something like the 3D gaming tutorials in early 3D games.
Yeah, and since I had just "switched" back to Mac and had a shiny, new MBP, I jumped and bought it. I don't think I had even used it yet when they announced the layoffs. :/
Seen any way of generating an actual LUT (a .cube file) from this method?
Every project should have a decisions making file
Google itself guarantees updates for 2 years (Android one). E.g. It was already updated to Android 6, not bad for a cheap phone.
What I still don't get is why Google thinks they're good at moonshots, or why they're a good idea in the first place. Google is great at tons of stuff, but all this rhetoric about moonshots seems really empty and baseless.
That's the nginx response time. You can see that when he scales up the loadbots but not the backends and says that the "tail latency has gotten quite high" (about 1min in).
Why does your interpretation of capitalism not have agreements? Having clients sign on to cancellation/abort fees is fairly common. In other words: contracts, contracts, contracts.

Slavery, mercantilism, barter system, communism, etc don't solve this problem any better. In fact, historically, they're much, much worse.
No - they let the whole SV lab go, but it was part of a company wide reset. The SV lab was a blow, but it was a very small part of MSR.
Money is an IOU. That is a promise of something.

When the fed create money is a liability for them:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_frliabilit...

When you pay taxes, that liability is cancelled. The circle has to begin somewhere, and it begins and end with the government.
It's going to be a farce.
>For every debit there is an equal credit, and vice versa, so globally, total debit balances are always equal to total credit balances, and total debit transactions are always equal to total credit transactions.

>Double-entry bookkeeping all the way down.

>It is really quite something to behold.

*Assuming all the books are being kept honestly. They aren't
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This goes along with what Steve Jobs used to say about tablets being a "failure" if they required a stylus. It's not because a stylus is bad per se, and in fact a stylus makes for some superior interfaces in some cases, but rather the fact that developers will take the lazy way out. Everyone has a controller so developers start by designing around interacting with the controller instead of interacting with the world.
I totally agree with this but would add a bit of nuance. I'd love to see all companies do a "X and the cost of Y" value system, but there is another part of stating you have values like "Integrity" which is the same as the Google "Don't be evil" thing. It's a claim that you can be called publicly on, and that's important as well. You'd be surprised how many companies out there aren't willing to make a claim for something like integrity. But yeah, who wouldn't say they value integrity, for instance, when asked?

That being said, I'd also add that most values have those implicitly baked in. For instance, if you do say you value integrity, you're saying you're devaluing growth/money for the value/benefit of integrity.
> I asked for a citation on the claim that he has called for the enslavement of black people. I specifically mentioned that I had seem him talk about how some groups were better slaves than others, and linked to a thread within his recent AMA.

Which we've established is his MO, which you've accepted from other sources without any claim at all.

> You responded with a link to his blog where he said that slavery is a natural human relationship. I followed that link, searched for the places where he said slavery was a natural human relationship--and found nothing in those parts of the blog post where he called for enslavement or even said that it was a good thing.

The entire discussion was about how good Carlyle's work on slavery was. The entire subject matter is a defense of the use of slavery and in particular black people as slaves. Which he was defending and promoting, as he then directly said slavery was a natural human relationship.

> There is no mention of slavery in that blog entry, and a bit of Googling has failed to turn up a connection between white nationalists and any advocacy for slavery.

I do not believe you did this. If you did you would see that it would at its core remove citizenship rights and protections from everyone not identified as 'white.' The primary goal is the deportation or detainment of the resident black population of America.

> You also brought up, without providing a cite, that he has discussed the suitability of different races for slavery.

You had accepted this as a prior condition and mentioned the AMA. Am I obligated to cite your sources now?

> Believing that doesn't imply that one believes that the second group should be slaves or that one supports slavery.

You know, a few people told me you were a good person to talk to. That you were one of the better commenters on HN. But this level of deliberate, defensive obtuseness is a great example of someone frantically putting their head in the sand.

Maybe you should ask the other person in this thread who you trust implicitly if I'm wrong about this. Either way, your judgement of my methodology and the degree to which you require me to spoonfeed you the vile substance of this conversation is immaterial to me.

We've defunded Lambdaconf and picked up the sponsors to Moonconf. Mission complete.
Google knew Java was a risk for Android and memos disclosed in the court case show that Google was trying to figure out possible solutions.

Schmidt (being an ex-Sun executive) reached out to Sun to talk about an alliance.

http://icdn4.digitaltrends.com/image/google-schmidt-610x452....
I agree. To be more explicit, the talent is indirectly correlated with how slow your team's "slow" is going to be. I think the degree of slow-ness is what management ultimately feels when they conduct retrospectives on technical debt reduction initiatives.

We recently did a major refactor of our angular code (~1.5 months) and we've been pretty fast, releasing every 2 weeks. We've begun to outpace a lot of the backend development teams, so we now have more time to squash our backlog tickets. We have the prettiest Jira issue reports out of all teams.
The truth is, nobody personally vets the source of all the software they use. Even people who compile everything themselves aren't reading the source code that came over the wire. It baffles me when people fret over "don't blindly run that curl|bash installation script because security!" when nobody would bat an eye at a .deb downloaded from the same web site.
The first URL is gitbucket[.]github[.]io/gitbucket-news/images/gitbucket-3.12/new-github-ui.png, just saying.
Blame us more than the stack. These memory leaks are hard to diagnose. Our meta issue to do this is https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3700 We're currently we're more focussed on improving responsiveness and plan to address the memory leaks and a multithreaded app server https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3592 after that.
From a technical perspective, I actually preferred Parallels over Fusion but their constant advertising inside of Parallels really annoyed the hell out of me, especially considering I paid full price out of my own pocket for it.
That's not entirely true... C imposes some basic architecture structures (heap, stack, calling conventions, etc.) which can impose non-linear efficiency costs.
Honestly I think the reverse panopticon is both a good idea and generally politically palatable. Deep down almost everyone is a good-government liberal if it doesn't break their arm or pick their pocket.
Speaking as somebody who is frustrated with the current dev story for AR and VR...

...maybe the specs wouldn't be so goddamn high if they actually let us do dev work against a lower-level interface. Forcing us to deal with massive frameworks like Unity and Unreal might well be the cause of spec creep. :(

EDIT:

And Meta can go eat a bag of rocks--no public docs on their API, and they seem to be wed to Unity...which can really screw up certain types of AR work they'd otherwise be perfect for.

Oculus, at least, offered a native SDK for the brave and foolish.
This is the future if everything has to be free. Since you can't make money by creating content for readers, you have to instead create content for advertisers and propagandists.