skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article inspired me, next time I'm on a product team, to pair Slack with the discipline of the Pomodoro technique. If a notification comes in and I need to take a "soft interruption" to check it in the midst of a pomodoro, I'll respond like I would IRL: ask "I'm in the middle of a pomodoro; can I get back to you in 12 minutes?" If yes, write down a task on my to do list and return to it at the end. If no, cancel the pomodoro and reflect on how to improve our process in the future to avoid such costly interruptions.

If enough Slack interruptions happen, it will hopefully become clear that I just need to close the app in the midst of the pomodoro, only opening it on breaks, and even then only to triage to do items for future pomodoros. If not, then simply continue down that path.

The trick would be to get everyone to buy in to protecting their own time to focus. That requires a very disciplined culture indeed. One that values balancing people's ability to create with clearing other people's obstacles and above all else encourages every person to participate fully in the governance of their team.
I keep hearing great things about Stripe. But I live and work outside of the US (in Israel), so I can't use them.

I'm also interested in Stripe alternatives, particularly those that can work with companies that aren't based in the US.
I think your mate should write a blog post.
> "Not having an online presence" makes as much sense as "not having a presence at the pub"

It does make sense, your Facebook/Twitter/... presence doesn't go away when you go to bed or go on holiday, it's always there to be ogled at, poke and prodded, unlike your non-presence in the pub when you stagger off home at closing time.
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"So the trick, it seems, is to design a world that excites but doesn’t overly assault our faculties with a constant barrage of information"

I just got back from my first trip to Chicago. I've been to quite a few cities, but the variety of architecture and juxtoposition of certain styles throughout the city made for a very enjoyable experience. Not every single building in the city is pretty either. But taken as a whole and hearing how history, art, architecture, and engineering shaped the city was fascinating. I actually did the architectural river tour, which I found to be one of the most enthralling guided tours I've ever been on. Highly recommended.
While there's room for improvement, I don't think the building looks bad. All the glass makes it seem airy and full of light. The windows probably make it a nice place to be inside as well. Its only problem is being too big, so that it becomes monotonous. But how would you fix that? Design parts of the building in different styles?
> "Not having an online presence" makes as much sense as "not having a presence at the pub"

Not quite- if I don't make it to the pub one night, people just brush it off and think "I'll talk to him next time."

People seem much more vitriolic if I don't respond to whatever internet/text message they sent with near immediacy- because it's always available.

It seems like there's a shut-off valve with the pub, or a land-line and answering machine- not so with facebook, texting, what have you.
Gaza is practically enemy territory for Israel ..
I usually think the same for vast majority of stuff on HN, i.e. most articles could be cut down to one or two paragraphs with little value lost, but... There are generally two reasons why I read - to extract information and for the experience of reading. Stephen Fry's blog is one of the rare cases where I just enjoy the writing and the information value doesn't really matter.
Sure but SSL identification is a very small part of the process of having a "trusted source".

There is, I'm sure, malicious software hosted on github, so I can download things from that trusted source and still have trouble.

there is insecure software hosted on github, again there's no protection based on hosting company.

If a developer who hosts a repository on github has their credentials compromised, their software may become malicious.

Also as an end-user (particularly a non-paying one) I have no visibility of Githubs own security policies and practices, so assessing the level of trust placed there is tricky.

The debian model has more checks and balances (i.e. it's harder to get from one set of compromised creds to a malicious package in a production repo.) but still not perfect...
You mean there are hackathons that aren't just trying to get me to build something with (insert company X)'s technology?
FWIW, this is Meteor's justification in /usr/local/bin/meteor:

# This is the script that we install somewhere in your $PATH (as "meteor")
# when you run
# $ curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh
# It's the only file that we install globally on your system; each user of
# Meteor gets their own personal package and tools repository, called the
# warehouse (or, for 0.9.0 and newer, the "tropohouse"), in ~/.meteor/. This
# means that a user can share packages among multiple apps and automatically
# update to new releases without having to have permissions to write them to
# anywhere global.
*unless it's prescribed by a doctor for "back pain", then heroin is a-ok!
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Because we have so many lawyers.
They try to do complete crawls of sites (mostly of user-generated content) that are known to go offline soon or at high risk of doing so, vs the Internet Archive crawler which as far as I know crawls everything every now and then.

If a siteowner is willing to hand over a data export to archive.org or another archival site they don't have to do that, but not many do.
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But it's not the beginning of a sentence. It's supposed to be a continuation of the implicit phrase "When applied this commit will ..." In which case capitalizing makes no sense.
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If anyone wants to take a look at the TLC Yellow Cab dataset for December 2015 (without downloading the entire file), it can be viewed here: https://putdat.com/WgsjFsT

It's 2GB and ~11.5MM rows. That's about four trips per second!
Ahh but that's one of the hardest pieces of the trust puzzle.

On the internet, how do you know who's who. you download a package from npm. Who wrote it, what's their background, where do they work? What are their security practices like, what are the security practices of the hosting company?

so we say Redhat/Apache are more trusted sure, that's one of the reasons that I dislike curl|bash from random sites, there's no way of assessing trust in that software or its origin...
Netflix at -12% is hardly an implosion. For a growth stock like Netflix, it's not too uncommon. Just look at their chart, it's had plenty of jumps in either direction when their quarterly report exceeded or failed to meet expectations.
I also thought it was a Lutheran thing. Kinda matches the cold depressing churches the Lutherans build
Thanks! I appreciate the points.
They ain't a set of car keys, are they? It's not as if they're incon-freaking-spicuous, now is it?
:O this is a bunch of memories for me.

I'm a few days late and nobody will see this, but I had to say - I'm also of the opinion that this is a truly amazing game.

Looks like it's available here: http://dedomil.net/games/2743/category/2 (or just Google for JAD/JARs of it).

You can run it anywhere (including I think on Android) using MicroEmulator.

If you like sidescrollers and pixel art, this game is a little cramped, but it made a real impression on me around 17-18 (I think it was).
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Theoretically. Unfortunately, Markdown has many potential ambiguities in interpretation, and unintuitive aspects.
no.

It is a semantically readable text document, that is easy to write and understand by humans too. It really shines when you do something with it after you wrote it (e.g. make a html and style it).

I use it as a plain file/folder wiki and to have a future-proof format for the wiki.
Email hn@ycombinator.com, that said I did try that once and nothing happened. But that was long before dang stepped up and took a more active role in moderating threads. Kinda glad it didn't happen because the site's improved a fair bit since then.

I'm kinda a bit like you, I'm really only active online on StackOverflow and here. I have a twitter account but to be honest it's mostly full of re-tweets. I binned Facebook to no great loss, and I broke my mobile phone in January and have never bothered to replace it. I feel I have one foot "off the grid"...baby steps :)
Yes, what you described is a pure meritocracy and all things being equal, that would be GREAT, unfortunately, all things are not equal.

If all people got equal encouragement, inspiration, and opportunity (from the moment of birth) then we could simply focus at the moment of judgement (which btw, is also currently biased [1]). So that is basically what STEM advocates are working on, making sure women and other disadvantaged minorities have equal encouragement, inspiration and opportunity (specifically to learn) so we can claim to have an equitable meritocracy.

[1] http://advance.cornell.edu/documents/ImpactofGender.pdf
After designing a car like that, I can see how they run away. Why can't anyone design normal electric cars?
>I don't know anyone who thinks its ok to hunt

For fun or for necessity?
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Nice work. I've added "monod" to the "Editors" list at js.libhunt.com. Cheers!
> You can view women as a group or tribe, competing against other groups or tribes, or you can view each person as an individual with one of the characteristics being gender.

This distinction results from a poor understanding of what you call the "collectivist view". This approach does not view a social group as a constructive set -- a tribe as you call it -- but as an empirical, emergent set. The idea is that certain shared experiences that arise in society create a correlation of viewpoints and goals. Note that this isn't a statistical construct alone but also a social construct. If social dynamics give rise to certain shared experiences, then the shared experience would likely give rise to certain shared views and goals. Once again, this is not a philosophical question, but an empirical one. It either really happens or it doesn't.

Either women statistically have common goals or they don't (they do). This isn't a tribe also because a single person can be part of many such correlative social groups. A woman could be working-class and share goals with other working-class people (men and women).

In other words, I don't think that there is a difference in philosophy, but a difference in a philosophy vs. empiricism. One side says that philosophically every individual is on his own (based on the premises that the people holding this view seem to accept), while the other groups says, well, maybe, but in practice there are clear group dynamics that arise and can be seen empirically.

> One woman isn't really helped by another woman being in the government.

How do you know?

> The tribal point of view does the opposite: rather than de-emphasising characteristics irrelevant to the situation at hand, it amps up those characteristics in a tribal us-vs-them conflict situation.

Nah I think that that's just the common description among those who oppose the liberal view, and is usually a result of failing to notice what the demands really are. It's not us-vs.-them but a group that is empirically and statistically found to have opposing interests to those of another group. What you call "tribal conflict" is either empirically found to be real or it isn't; I don't think it can be argued against based on some philosophical notion.
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> Technology is an integral part of cycling

Cheating is an integral part of cycling
Alexander Sawchuk estimates that it was in June or July of 1973 when he, then an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the USC Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI), along with a graduate student and the SIPI lab manager, was hurriedly searching the lab for a good image to scan for a colleague's conference paper. They had tired of their stock of usual test images, dull stuff dating back to television standards work in the early 1960s. They wanted something glossy to ensure good output dynamic range, and they wanted a human face. Just then, somebody happened to walk in with a recent issue of Playboy.

The engineers tore away the top third of the centerfold so they could wrap it around the drum of their Muirhead wirephoto scanner, which they had outfitted with analog-to-digital converters (one each for the red, green, and blue channels) and a Hewlett Packard 2100 minicomputer. The Muirhead had a fixed resolution of 100 lines per inch and the engineers wanted a 512 x 512 image, so they limited the scan to the top 5.12 inches of the picture, effectively cropping it at the subject's shoulders.

Cited from https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/
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It might look weird at first. But it is a very capable and fun car for city driving. Some things like the doors might not be 'normal' but you will appreciate when using. The whole thing is very compact without being cramped inside. Super tight turning circle. Nice materials. If I was responsible for this car I would be very proud.
The same thing seems to happen everywhere. In Germany the industry proclaims they're in need of around 50.000 software engineers, but if look for a job, you won't find that demand. Last year VW alone advertised they intend to hire 35.000 software engineers. I don't buy the numbers at all.
Actually, Companies House does require that private companies ("limited by shares") file an annual statement listing all their shareholders. It's the "AR01" form and is available for free under the Filing History tab on a company's page - e.g. this is one of the companies mentioned in the article: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05292775/filing-h...

This doesn't force the disclosure of beneficial ownership though. Shares can be held by nominees without that being disclosed on the register. If the shareholder is an offshore company that can also be difficult to trace.

Another fun fact: it's possible to work out the exact most recent valuation of a UK-registered startup by reading its SH01 filing (when it issues new shares). I'm always surprised that the tech press doesn't do this as a matter of course given how excited they get about funding announcements...
Interesting idea. Found it useful and working so far? Care to share (part) of your structure?

I've always found wiki's and the like extremely difficult to organize. Lots of knowledge and little things, but it always runs out of hand quick.
The other selling point is that you can use any/every editor you want, as long as it handles text. Sometimes it is helpful to use an editor with a live preview; other times it's preferable to use vim, or an ide.
I'm so glad this is happening. My only fear is that Google will end up making the deals they make manufacturers sign different by region of distribution: That this decision won't help those of us living and buying devices outside the EU region. I really hope Google realizes that their agreements on Android are not in keeping with the spirit of Google's vision and morals, and apply changes to their business globally.
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The fourth Facebook goldrush just started
"Integrations.. are a gimmick"

I disagree, some are. Giphy, though a pleasure to have on the team is a gimmick. Hubot is an essential member of the team. Our company is deploying pretty much all day, and the integration of our deployment system with the bot scripts make things so much easier.
I don't know if you're joking or not, but I'd totally be up for a Stupid Ideas Hackathon in London.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=exploited+by+porn&t=keywordsearch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Lubben
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The shameless shilling for H-1B bodyshops
It'll definitely impact performance.
Do you have a death wish? Because that's what I generally associate with travelling to Africa.
Chris came to give a talk at the DocklandsLJC recently, which gives a great intro to these to technologies.

http://docklandsljc.uk/2016/04/truffle-graal-clojure-neo4j.h...
Great tool. Years ago we started teaching kids Openscad(we volunteer teaching kids to make things with 3d printers, cnc mills, laser cutters, drill machines...), but right now we teach mostly to use freecad.

Openscad only for the most advanced kids for making parametric design. Parametric design(and other tools like blending or assembly) in Freecad is getting shape fast.

Not solidworks but totally free and without artificial constraints(pay for important features). We are convinced our kids will do amazing things when they grow up.
> some people are just manifestly stupid and/or incompetent

Some are. Even more are just plain incorrect for all the many reasons human beings are incorrect.

At least in the states, we've spent the last 30 years making people believe that simply because you feel it is so, it must be.

That's got to be a huge factor in the degradation of discourse in the same time period- if instead of coming from the classical position of some attempted mutual understanding, people are essentially following their own religion of self.

If what I feel is always correct, then you disagreeing with me means that you are wrong. Thus, I can't listen to you anymore or even attempt to see where you're coming from. This leads to the same types of responses you see when you are saying things that might make someone doubt their religion. You get the hyperbolic, emotional, even physical responses that go nowhere. Now look at the outbreak of safe spaces, refusing to let people speak that have a non-popular opinion, etc.
we can get better compartmentalization than that with things like user namespaces (firejail[1]) or spawning a temporary user id[2]

[1] https://l3net.wordpress.com/projects/firejail/
[2] https://github.com/teran-mckinney/raru
They are, but they are relatively short term, 1-2 years. Plus companies don't just take out one, but they take them out regularly (and have done so for quite a while now). Since they revolve the credit, they effectively become variable interest rate.

So when interest rates go up, they go up on 5-15% of the total debt every month or so. This does generate a delay.

Unfortunately public companies don't have to disclose their financing conditions, so data on this is inaccurate at best unless you work at a bank.
"We don’t make [choices] with our financial well-being in mind, though maybe we should."

Uh, hello? The paragraph consists entirely of "I" statements about the bad choices he made and concludes with a "We".

There's no "we" about it -- I made (make) choices to improve my financial wellbeing. If you don't, that's your problem.
While it is seen as a problem, the point is that it's not taken seriously enough than the opposite imbalance.

There are way worse examples:

Male students are getting a whole one level worse marks than female students with the same knowledge [1] (Czech).

Theoretically, each parent has an equal right to the custody of the child when they separate. In reality, with a whooping 85-90% the custody is resolved according to female preference [2]: "It is a very common scenario in divorce in England that the house is transferred into the wife's sole name, the children live with the wife and the husband pays maintenance for the children..."

Males are 400-600% more likely to be attacked than females, while it is females safety that is discussed way more.

The vector of home violence is woman against child and not man against woman as often believed: "The DHHS data shows that of children abused by one parent between 2001 and 2006, 70.6% were abused by their mothers, whereas only 29.4% were abused by their fathers."

Even worse, when child is killed: "And of children who died at the hands of one parent between 2001 and 2006, 70.8% were killed by their mothers, whereas only 29.2% were killed by their fathers."

[1] https://www.scio.cz/download/vektor/Vektor_prezentace.ppt

[2] http://www.terry.co.uk/men_div.html

[3] http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm06/cm06.pdf
> verify their install script with GPG (although note that on top of the steps they run, you should ideally also verify the script against a known hash that you verified elsewhere to make sure that the contents of the script is what you expect, as well as the authors).

If you've verified the script with GPG, the extra step of a hash is wholly unnecessary. Any change to the script's contents would immediately invalidate the GPG signature.
/usr/local exists for a reason
At first I was a bit puzzled why anyone would need to describe an editor as "secure"... but oh well, it is actually a web application. I can see the need now.
According to this article Audi developed the software in 1999 and never used it. So it's incorrect to say this has been going on since 1999 (assuming this article is correct). I guess they could still claim that this mysterious small group of engineers snuck the code, which Audi developed, into the VW ECUs.
You can do market segmentation without abusing your customers.
I could, and there are many 15 minute intervals in my day where I don't have to do something - but not so many that I don't treasure them. Meditation isn't the same as relaxation when you start off, as I understand it - it takes some concentration and effort, and my reserves of both are usually running pretty empty all day.

Like others have said, I'd rather have an extra 15 minutes of sleep, or an extra 15 minutes in the shower, or 15 minutes to just sit and eat breakfast.
If people don't have to work, it becomes a lot less appealing to live in places where rents are super high. That might counterbalance some of the effect.
Very nice, works well. I'm impressed!
I use Chromium. Just tried Firefox on a desktop, and it seems to be okay.
Social media apps and iGadgets are more profitable. It's almost impossible to get paid for thinking up new models for the economy.
The group of people that really gets purged by the managerial university are non-faculty who have roles that are not so well defined.

For instance, many universities have declared outright war on IT and library staff.
Football is the British English word for soccer, a game that is played with your foot on the ball obviously. I've never heard of anyone finding "futbol" to be cultural appropriation of that.
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Expose something nice in those windows instead of making them blind mirrors.
It's ok for neighbors to not be happy. I can be unhappy if my neighbor paints their house chartreuse, but it doesn't mean I should have any say on what color my neighbor's house should be. For those who want to ensure their neighbor's home is not turned into a punk music bar, they can either buy the neighbor's home and rent it out (kind of like Mark Zuckerberg does), form some sort of HOA, or move into a neighborhood with an existing HOA.
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Yeah, it's unfortunate because I love the idea of Atom, and of course that it's free with no fuss to install wherever whenever at whatever number of times, and that the source is open. Simply a modern version of an extensible, easy to use editor and I think definitely has its place even despite what was already there in terms of editors.

However, I'm personally on Visual Studio Code now, which shares similar ideas on platform and extensibility, although it's not quite as great there as Atom. But good enough for me, and much faster. Good enough for me to not "need" Sublime Text, and to have a pretty convenient development experience in e.g. Go and scripting languages in terms of coding support features.
not in that case

but curl -o 'file_#1.htm' http://example.com/[1-10].html

downloads 10 files and renames them