skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also interesting to compare with less thematically structured work. Probably not the greatest example but what comes to my mind is some of The Mars Volta's lyrics; a lot of it is pretty abstract and stream-of-consciousness and it's hard to really pinpoint a narrative as such, compared to the example poems which were pretty straightforward

"Last night I heard lepers
flinch like birth defects
its musk was fecal in origin
as the words dribbled off of its chin
it said I'm lost
I'm lost

Now I'm lost

Dolls wreck the minced meat of pupils
cast in oblong arms length
the hooks have been picking their scabs
where wolves hide in the company of men
it said I'm lost
I'm lost"
Why Should You Care About Virtual Reality? Because It's a Source of Hope
When Emacs started supporting variable-width fonts well, I tried coding with them for a while. It works fine. I went back to monospace not because I'd been more productive, individually, with it, but because I needed to see my code the way others would see it.

There's a book https://www.amazon.com/Human-Factors-Typography-Readable-Pro... on typography for more readable programs.
Exactly. It's understandable to be angry about this, but I think many people overestimate the magnitude of the issue here (or perhaps have misplaced their anger).

Consider the fact that in some states, heavy duty diesel trucks (8,500 lbs or more) and trucks older than 1997 are completely exempt from all emissions testing.

I bet a single one of those trucks produces more emissions than the "actual vs claimed" emissions delta of dozens of VWs combined.
Doesn't the existing title say the same thing but in a more pithy way?

As an aside, it seems that Project Gutenberg has the text of Nitobe's book that the article discusses:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12096/12096-h/12096-h.htm
Your argument is the one that has degenerated into name-calling. Mine hasn't.

Founders routinely ignore the advice of board members. In fact it's almost a meme in the startup community for founders to politely listen to, and then ignore, their VC's advice. This is no different.
Chivalry, Bushido... the reality of knights wherever they cropped up and under whatever name, is that they abused people beneath them, and each other. A lot.
Related, and an excellent write up on Shalin Monks: Demythologizing Shaolin Monks( https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4516 )
This is the kind of book I'd imagine is on a reading list for young adults and precocious children who want to bend their mind. I'm going to assume it's being taught at Altschool and Ad Astra. It's a total gem of a book. I recommend it for those that enjoy math as well as those that dislike math at any level.
This directory seemingly contains both a copy of the Alto OS and a Smalltalk-80 image/changes file. Not sure which file is the VM executable though. http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/Indigo/BasicDisks/Small...
I don't really understand the analogy.

Are you saying kids are more likely to read paper newspapers than online sources? I would think the opposite is more likely true. Or if you were saying the opposite...doesn't that support the point of the article?
So, the only academic paper in the sources in the post is a PhD thesis which appears to be the entire argument undergirding this post.

If you're interested in the subject, that might be a good place to start: https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/...
We moved to it (edit: JIRA) recently from Trello, a story almost ubiquitous among young, growing companies in my community. (So there's my anecdotal evidence.) When we finally hired a project manager/producer, we tightened up our processes and after much searching, landed on JIRA, no matter how much we wanted to find something better.

I can't imagine Github is eating into any of JIRA's core users.

FWIW, Github Issues didn't make it past the first round of trials in our company, but I'm very happy it exists for (and for its integration with) the few open source projects I own/contribute to.

Edit: the article says moving to Github Issues, and then talks about code hosting. We host all our non-open-source code with Wildbit Beanstalk (http://beanstalkapp.com) and use JIRA for project management/issue tracking. The article is a bit confused.
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If you're talking about Japanese conduct during the war, I'd find the rampant war crimes a lot more notable than the fighting until death.
Not to mention the car transporter ships which pump out bunker oil soot and Nox while idling at port while the VWs get unloaded. An extra 30 minutes of that is probably worse than all the extra emissions combined.
That's a fair point, but cliffs are more severe than exercise windows. Many employees still get to keep some of their equity in a 90 day exit window scenario. I think Kupor modeled it at about a third of vested shares on average.[1]

More mature startups may be able to simply abolish the long-term incentive that the 90 day window provides, but I suspect younger (<30 employee) startups need added turnover protection. Perhaps backloaded vesting would be a more comparable replacement? Transparent, predictable, fair, and not as harsh as cliffs. You keep what you vest, but 70% of it vests in years 3-4.

[1] (Although there's certainly unfair variability based on personal financial circumstances in that average.)
Plenty of things can go wrong with a place to sleep. Bedbugs, for example.
Where would one go to get started in building artificial life programs? I find the idea very fascinating.
Interesting that the author mentions that the term "Bushido" wasn't really a thing until last century. I was sure I saw the term mentioned in the writing of Miyamoto Musashi, but I assume that might have been a modern translators interpretation. (I read the English version, not the native Japanese one).

Also, some of my favourite graphic novels by Stan Sakai, Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima seem to mention the term too, but seeing as they are modern writers, I assume they 'westernised' their dialogue to suit.
They are patching most of Windows XP as we speak. And not just for customers in the special extended support program. They are pacthing POSReady 2009 until 09/04/2019, and that's really a streamlined XP Pro with very slight differences, as most (not all) of the patches in POSReady won't cause any problems in a regular XP installation and it has "XP Professional" strings everywhere.

They simply decided that it was time to end support for regular customers and moved on.

They also removed most of the XP patches in the Microsoft Download Center a few months ago. I don't understand why they had all of them there for two years after support ended and suddenly they were gone without notice. Microsoft used to be more friendly, at least you could get their old files from ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/. Not anymore. BTW, this helped in my decision to start migration from their ecosystem after 20 years of Registry tweaking.
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Can't help but think of the obvious time and time again with the faux-sharing economy. Sharing is a pathetic use of neural linguistics, you're not sharing, your not doing anyone a kindness, you're making money and you're providing a service.

Uber and Airbnb will be regulated legislative or through unions. Ask yourself just wtf are cabs so much more inefficient than Uber and hotels more expensive then Airbnb?

Few drivers depend completely on Uber for their income, Airbnb is still on a legal gray zone.

This won't last forever. Uber drivers will unionise, tenants who live around Airbnb hosts will pressure the government for legislation and so will hotel providers.

Uber is pivoting to logistics. What's Airbnb doing? Wouldn't surprise me if they soon build their own hotel.
Last year I paid the $700 for custom made wheels. I fairly regularly go down short staircases (3 or 4 steps, or big curbs) and I used to blow through spokes like birthday cake candles.

No longer. Screw minimizing wheel weight. I want my bike to be an extension of myself. I want to be able to push it and for it to deliver. If I need to spend some extra joules on angular momentum, fine. My thighs need the workout anyway.
Airbnb sues San Francisco over new rental legislation
Downtown Vancouver is far less expensive than Manhattan. This is easily verifiable. I mean, you could also just browse padmapper, if you're feeling lazy :)
I find this sort of burden-shifting abhorrent.

It's the company who will spend thousand or tens of thousands of dollars having the contract made. It's the company who gets to amortize the costs of a complicated contract over many hiring interactions. It's the company who has the advantage of a strong information and experience asymmetry.

In short, the company has a lot more power. If somebody with power screws somebody without, I save most of my blame for the people who set things up.
Sure. I agree! I don't think it's fair for shareholders to reap returns that were derived in part from malfeasance.

The question isn't whether companies (and thus their shareholders) should be penalized for wrongdoing. It's whether shareholders should be zeroed out by a "corporate death penalty". I think it's an interesting question, why we don't have one of those.
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I am constantly amazed at what gets written in the comments section of a site ostensibly focussed on startup companies and the tech industry. Quite frankly it can often be scary to see what people come up with in their outrageous outrage.
Ikea Recalls 29M Dressers and Chests After 6 Children Crushed to Death
They must be extremely dependent on these commercial operators listing multiple units, else they wouldn't be fighting this so hard.

It kind of makes their whole "helping the middle class" shtick even more nauseating.
I have very similar things to say about skilled secretaries and more. Good secretaries are master organizers and information gatherers. And yes, they're incredibly effective gatekeepers too.
One thing about Dunning-Kruger that I've never heard mentioned is self-esteem affecting one's answer. As in, if you explicitly mark a low score for yourself you're both divulging to others and admitting to yourself that you think you're a failure in that category. So imagine you're presented with one of these forms... what incentive/preventative is given to not let your ego's self-preservation instincts kick in and put you down as "average" (50%+) for anything and everything?

Basically, I can't imagine how you'd account for the societal matter of bravado and I posit that it has an influence on the outcome of DK experiments. e.g. if you tried to account subvert bravado and had some kind of reward at the end to say "Hey, if you successfully guess your percentile for a given skill we'll give you a cookie." (which of course would incentivize you to put "0%" and intentionally bomb the test.)
The shareholders are suing too. They are probably the ones who want jail time most.
In my case, wild laughter.
You're being downvoted because you are not considering land use and zoning issues. Hosts need to register to ensure that they don't convert their properties into full time hotels in buildings designed for residential use.
Yup, need to ban corporations and make CEOs and executives directly responsible for all company decisions and their consequences in court.

Sure it would slow down business significantly. But it would stop this irreversible harm to our planet, the place of which we require to stay alive..
I'm a property owner in one of the identified areas, for what it's worth, and I can give a summarized piece of the debate and some additional information not everyone knows.

One pro-AirBnB argument has to do with property rights, and doesn't have to be rehashed as you implied it ('doing as you wish'). Another has to do with the idea that housing is so expensive, that a renter can help pay his/her high rent by supplementing the income. <- this latter argument is obviously not part of the 'landlords are renting out entire apartment' complaint.

One anti-AirBnB argument has to do with some of the target areas being gentrifying neighborhoods (Bushwick, Bed Stuy, others; we're not talking about Tribeca here). In these, further increasing the scarcity of housing by taking the apartments out of the long-term rental market increases rent and displaces long-time, mostly poorer residents. This argument is given more by progressives. Another anti-AirBnB argument, this time by the hotel lobby, is that hotels have to pay different taxes, and abide by different standards of code and safety [ similar to the anti-Uber arguments, I guess ] and that it's not fair.

In 2010 a law was passed which made it illegal to rent the entire apartment for less than 30 days. So if you're a renter, for example, you can rent out a room. One item of note is that in the State of New York, occupying a unit for 30 days or more grants one to certain rights as a tenant, meaning the landlord has significant hurdles in pursuing an eviction. I believe this set of laws [ edit: <30 days, not the tenants rights], which I believe went into effect in 2011, is referred to as the illegal hotel law.

One often overlooked fact is that the law here excludes 2 and 3 family homes from the illegal hotel law.

The punchline I'll add is that, in the gentrifying areas I mentioned above, a large piece of the housing stock is 2 and 3 family (especially 3 family) homes.
Another important point about sending the requests to different servers is that it reduces the tailing latency (higher percentile latencies) and the variance in latency
Thanks for responding, and I'm very happy that there are people like you out there; but trust me when I say that despite my poor recollection from the time I practiced, my fundamental point is not wrong. Most engineers I've worked with in Canada are not to be trusted with advanced design. If you disagree I'd like to really talk to you about it because I felt like I was surrounded by people that had no idea what was going on and I would really like to be proven otherwise.
Because it's marketed to parents and governments as "skills for the future" or "necessary for a modern workforce". Yet the "real-life" programming world in its current form is both elitist in attitude and genuinely difficult, and a miniscule percentage of kids will actually write code for work (barring a genuine effort to make it easier, and for businesses, developers and consultants to change their attitude to "amateur code").

Literacy is not vocational: it can be applied in many contexts-everyone uses reading all the time. Arithmetic is also plenty useful.

Or that children should be taught to touch-type so that they are eligible to work as transcribers.

Touch-typing isn't widely taught anymore, is it?
The license is not to ensure you know how to host. It is designed to limit the impact of hosting on neighbors and the housing supply. People didn't sign up to live next to a hotel when they move into a residential neighborhood.
Stop getting on everyone's case. Lighten up & learn how to have fun.
Have you thought to do everything by software only? If yes that may help you acquire much more customers.
The City of Toronto blacklisted us because our engineering fees were over 25% of the construction cost. If you're still in engineering and want to meet send me an email. I think there is loads of opportunity to make building buildings more efficient and I would love to combine my undergrad with computer science.
There are two parties in the rental car transaction:

Hertz <-> Driver

The AirBnB transaction has three parties:

AirBnB <-> Host <-> Guest

While you can construct sentences that look similar for both cases, and the word "license" is used in both contexts, it's a fundamentally different dynamic.
These numbers don't make sense to me.

You're saying an average tech company that exits has over 1000 engineers alone? Certainly a $50M company can't support 1000 engineers. Or a $100M one.

(And, just for fun, if a co exited at $1B with 1000 engineers... Let's use round numbers to sketch it out. Let's say the engineers alone get 10% of that value (which seems generous). That's $100M. Divided amongst 1000. So $100K. Not that much if you've given up income for years! Even if that amount is split across 100 engineers, $1M's not necessarily a super-duper return on investment if you're taking a bit pay hit.)
The company I work for is scared to use open source often, much less let people release it. They care more about scoring patents on useless processes than on releasing useful code that could have been written by a competent intern at LITERALLY any company in the industry.

Decisions made by lawyers and bureaucrats.

(These opinions are mine and not necessarily those of my employer)
> Would we rather have a situation where a big influential vote affecting the future of an entire nation comes up and no one does any research about it?

Funny enough, that's exactly what happens in the US though...
> Basically, the city wants to hold Airbnb responsible for user-generated content.

Airbnb gets paid for the rentals, not for the listings. Also, they actively control the content (try putting an URL in the listing).
Mistaking Airbnb for a publishing medium for user-generated content seems disingenuous at best.
It's baity but maybe high-enough-quality bait that we can indulge it.
Where would one go to get started in building artificial life programs?

Just do it. You probably won't break any new ground, but it will be fun. You can dig up Levy's book from the library. There's also "Wa-Tor" from an old Scientific American article. You could probably knock this out very quickly drawing on a browser Canvas in Javascript.

There's quite a bit out there on Genetic Algorithms.
Taken to the extreme, what is going to move faster, a thin strip of steel on 6 logs, or 6 logs on a thin strip of steel with, say cartwheels wheels under that?
Discussed in the article. Read the section titled "FASCISM – NITOBE'S UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE".
Licenses aren't just for ensuring competence (as in the case of driver's licenses). Sometimes, they're to make sure that the government knows about the people doing it (as in the case of car registrations), either to collect tax or to be able to find people associated with an activity. And sometimes they exist to limit the number of people who can do something (as in the case of liquor licenses in many areas).

In this case, it seems like SF wants to "license" rental activity in order to tax it, and it wants to tax rental activity in part to limit it. Zoning could do this, too, but a tax is more flexible on an individual basis.

This is especially meaningful in a city in the midst of an affordable housing crisis.
The license is to rent out your place. Does renting your property on a short term basis suddenly release you from requirements like making sure you have heat and water in the unit or meet zoning regulations? There's and argument to be made that this level of regulation is uneeded or causes more problems than it solves, but the regulation is still there and AirBnB I'd doing there best to avoid having it affect their business
I almost entirely agree with you, but you have to tailor your writing to the people you're talking too. The HN audience mainly understands technology, not economics.

The real problem is that the landlords are exploiting the cost of information. It's costly for new tenants to educate themselves and factor in the costs of potential ISP/TV in addition to rent. Landlords are exploiting that cost to profit for themselves.

Is it nearly as big as a problem as everyone here is making it out to be? No. It's like 50-100$ a month compare to 1000-4000$ a month rent for most people. That's 1/80 to 1/10 the cost of the rent.
Yeah, please try again. The problem with a lot of Connect programs is that they were tied to a specific release (MonkeyManager Pro 2008) so bugs that didn't make the cut for the product release just got lost in space (not picked up for MonkeyManager Pro 2010). Part of the reason was that there were always internal bug tracking systems, which was what the dev team was really working from day to day, and these other systems were just inputs to that.

If you look at any of the projects that are on GitHub now, the public issues list is the issues list. You can see all the dev comments, scheduling via labels, pull requests, code reviews, etc.

https://github.com/aspnet/mvc/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclose...

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Ac...

For products that aren't on GitHub, public issue lists like UserVoice have still been a big improvement (in my opinion) because they usually keep the bugs / issues / feedback around until it's fixed, and the votes accumulate so the important issues keep bubbling up.
The transaction is more like

Host <-> Airbnb <-> Guest

All the communication (and the billing) happens through the platform.
Of course I don't want a receptionist who knew nothing of the crime to lose their job; but, the same scenario can be created for any person who goes to jail. No one wants a baby to grow up without their mother or father, but sometimes people commit crimes, and are punished with jail time, leading to suffering of their whole family. It's not good (and, I think there's a lot to be said for ending our carceral focused criminal justice system), but we as a society do seem to agree that sometimes the good of society as a whole trumps that of an individual or group.

I'm not suggesting that imposing a "death penalty" on a corporation would be a nice thing, or that it would make employees of the corporation happy. I'm not even saying it wouldn't have negative consequences for more than just those directly employed by the company. But, I am saying that when someone commits a truly heinous crime, our society removes them from society by force. Volkswagen has committed a truly heinous crime. If I had my druthers, the CEO and a wide variety of other executives who knew what was going on would be spending their days in a lonely grey room contemplating what they've done. That'd be a good start toward justice.

But, we also have to address the company as a whole. It was not one person who made this decision, and it's probably literally impossible to know who knew and who did what with any precision. Pretty much the entire company is suspect. We can't expect internal processes to correct this kind of malfeasance...they had years to do so, and chose profit over human lives.

Finally: Many corporations have died, through all manner of faults over the years...often, they've failed due to inefficiencies, the Innovator's Dilemma, etc. Very few companies have failed because they killed people. But, it is not the end of the world when a company, even a very large one, dies. It makes room in the market for new competitors. And, in this case, a shake up in the auto industry is a great thing. We need new auto companies that don't willingly trade human and environmental health for greater profits. While VW exists, and wields political power, those new companies (or old companies that want to do right by the world) are competing with a company shown to have no scruples. Ever tried to compete in a business that has high health and safety costs with a competitor that ignores health and safety regulations? That's a part of why Chinese manufacturing destroyed American manufacturing industries.

Someone else mentioned Enron in another comment. I think it's a useful example. The fallout from Enron was hard for a lot of people; and, it was painful across several industries for a little while. But, I believe we're better for killing Enron (and Arthur Andersen). And, I believe the world would be better off, in the long run, by killing VW.
That might well be a reasonable way to regulate the use of computing machines. I am not rejecting the idea of collective responsiblity! But Microsoft cannot grant themselves such governmental powers just by wishing to have them. If such a collective decision about safety and liability were to arise, it would have to be established democratically.