skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a tough problem and it goes beyond visual design and has to do with the difference between a "group" and a "team".

In a group everybody thinks their responsibility starts and stops in a narrow scope and they get defensive when people push on them to rethink that and the last thing they want to do is slow down working on their little piece to help somebody else or get consensus on something.

In a team there is a sense that we are pulling together to attain a greater goal and people do what it takes even if it goes outside what they think their job description here.

Often teams are created by a real or artificial crisis. At one place I worked, I got gelled into a team right away because they put me on a project that was horribly behind schedule and that meant getting a huge amount of support from everybody in the office to get it ready. I worked at another place for about 4.5 years and it turned out the crisis that got me integrated into a team with (one of my overlapping) workgroups was also the one that got me (and my other workgroup) fired.

Military training of course works this way, and so do "team building" exercises.
You could say that about almost any comment, and yet you don't see people constantly creating brand new HN accounts to make comments (in fact, brand new accounts are often viewed with suspicion). Besides, their comment wasn't anything overly inflammatory, it was actually a point of view that a surprising number of people tend to express, it just happens to be completely wrong.
What do you with your money? I assume you have some to spare...
But what if some of the best candidates aren't getting hired because the system that created the applicant pool is skewed/biased and leads to under-representation of talented candidates?

Isn't it be perfectly reasonable for a company to try to correct that bias in order to ensure they're hiring the best people?

It would be great if gender/race/age bias didn't exist in hiring, but there's a lot of evidence that it does.
The good diversity programs acknowledge the problem and aim to fix it in order to get the best talent.
IMO medium sized startups that have raised a lot of money are the worst to join - still giving out options but are too expensive to consider early exercise and too expensive to exercise if you end up leaving after 1 year.

IMO you should either join a super early startup that you really believe in and pay a few thousand to early exercise OR
join a proven late stage startup that converted to RSUs and avoid paying for options in the first place.
Is it me, or does all this follow from some unproven assumptions?

In 2008, Tononi proposed that a system demonstrating consciousness must have two specific traits. First, the system must be able to store and process large amounts of information. In other words consciousness is essentially a phenomenon of information.

And second, this information must be integrated in a unified whole so that it is impossible to divide into independent parts. That reflects the experience that each instance of consciousness is a unified whole that cannot be decomposed into separate components.

So, we've been given constraints, but where is it proven that those constraints match what we think of when we talk about consciousness? Or is all this predicated on "consciousness" being an overloaded term here, and it's not necessarily referring to what the layperson would think of as consciousness? Is this just a matter of overlapping terms and an article taking advantage of that misconception?
Camlistore – open-source content addressable file storage
She was simplifying; most likely she meant:

"I have 14 years of commercial experience overall, with recent emphasis in high-demand technologies like RoR and Node.js"
I love Hypothesis.
He is responsible for the software engineering evolution from a model that was good for building static stuff like houses and bridges to a model that works well with dynamic stuff with continuously evolving requirements.
Why do you hate TDD, agile and pair programming and what software designing methodology are you following?
I'm not sure this model works, in at least my case. Where there is perhaps some circuit you need to validate actually works with some sort of code - it's often useful to write some bad display driver for example so that the hardware team knows what needs to be changed and that process is not blocked.

The code may drive a very dirty clock signal that tells them:

1. Circuit works in the basic sense
2. Some part of the circuit doesn't work
3. Some other part of the circuit can now be added now that the basic circuit has been confirmed

It's okay saying "build the entire thing perfectly", but spending the difference between one and two weeks validating that something at least has the chance of working is massive. You can't afford to block every team that needs to know whether the part you are writing is even a valid concept.

This may come back down to design, but sometimes - especially with hardware, the manufacturer/API doesn't tell you the whole story and you need to know that as soon as possible to start compensating for it.

I think building a rough implementation and re-factoring it is way more agile than trying to build the correct version first time, possibly leaving some unknown problem to remain undiscovered for longer. It seems backwards to me when we're talking about anything that has an element of risk.
If you read between the lines, the author has already chosen the Eagle Scout ;) Although, I'd much appreciate the analysis of "every programming language" too!
The Subtle Art of Reaching Your Potential [Taylor Pearson]
Very impressive stuff, way to go guys!
There are two kinds of programming language: the ones people use, and the ones people wish they could use.

If LISP was a big mainstream success there would be a huge literature on everything wrong with it, the same way everybody likes to bitch about Java.
I am not sure the answer is framing this as a Left/Right issue like a lot of the thread is doing.

The underlying reason for cuts in Mental Health is the same reason 1,000 State jobs got eliminated this year or $1.2B was cut from FL education the Governor's first year...it is a finite budget problem.

Take the Zika virus, a current South Florida news story gaining national attention. I haven't seen a single news spot/article mention how Zika is linked to the budget cuts (State and local) that gutted mosquito controlling programs. There is no mention how before Zika, in 2009 under former Governor Crist the budget cuts for mosquito control lead to a Dengue outbreak (~4,000 cases). Yet about $5.5M in mosquito control cuts lead to a $5.5B (10%) loss in FL tourism in 2009, these are not calculated political decision of the Right, but difficult budget decision that had horrendous consequences.

To really put it in perspective, Crist later ran for Senate as an Independent and then re-ran for Governor as a Democrat with full support of Obama...party affiliation would not have changed the decisions he made as a Republican Governor. Further take the $1.2B education cut the first year of the new Governor, since then he has fully restored that amount and then some, why? Not because as a member of the Right he changed his political ideology towards education, but the reality is FL is $200B in debt; however, we are no longer running a $3.5B deficit, in fact not only is the budget balanced this year FL is projected to have a surplus and that has allowed the Governor to restore education funding.
Only if you look at it as media moguls try to sell the concept.

As implemented, much of the benefit goes to the wealthy with both pricey primary homes and with secondary homes.

If you instead limited it to primary homes only and only up to, say, property prices 1.5 times the median single family home price for the area, you'd recover a majority of that deduction right off the bat without harming lower- or middle-income home ownership or causing a dive in property prices or lose the stability benefits of home ownership.
Isn't Snapchat also working on a secret hardware lab?
Great, we will be looking at applying this in a new project of ours, and replace our existing feature flag implementations in other systems if things work out.
It depends on what lisp you pick. And while CL isn't my favorite, if you're a Common Lisp user, some of that stuff's already there for you.

But yeah, the JVM is a great platform. But Java is inseparable from it, and Java isn't a great language.
The first and second development kits, sure, but the consumer version was developed after the acquisition.
Tech is, ultimately, an up or out field.

The marginal return to experience is minimal after a decade or so, particularly when it comes to the average software job. If you have decades of experience, you need to be in a higher leverage position (either consulting or management) to get appropriate pay for the position.

This doesn't make tech ageist. My local grocery store also doesn't pay the senior cashiers any more than the high school ones.
Those would be Canadian $ though, I presume.
That isn't true at all. The US had extremely high standards for human rights, just much lower standards for slaves, but the framework and standards already existed for post civil war and the civil rights movement. As far as human rights go, China is somewhere before the Magna Carta in western civilization.
Which database did you use and what would you recommend?
It either means inheriting an estate (LA has a very unique legal system) or it means "LA IS LEAVING THE US!!"

And the United states gross income per capita and IQ went up by 100%.
Do some marketing of your brand, if technical team members are excited about you the titles and stuff don't matter as much.
This "conspiracy theory" has been around for long enough, and was discussed by Joel in 2002 in his "Fire and Motion"'article:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html

The idea that big companies keep throwing out new technologies to keep little companies churning, even if it didn't exist when Joel wrote about it, could have been adopted after. Of course, some of his calls were wrong in that article, but that's a different discussion.
If anyone isn't familiar with him, Aras is one of the key architects behind the Unity game engine. An excellent hacker. Whenever I see his blog come up, I know it's going to be some awesome technical stuff.
"but if the toxic employee doesn't want to risk cash, why should the staying employees take dilution on what was probably unhelpful service?"

Why don't you make them pay back their salary during that period while you're at it?

It really does not matter what kind of employee they were. The agreement was Salary + Stock for work done. Saying they shouldn't get the stock is just crazy.
Fire and Motion (2002)
> they earned their options

Yes, and that option expires in 3 months after departing... In the same way that publicly traded stock options (ie calls) typically have expiration dates.

Part of the conflict here is that "options" aren't "shares" -- the option, including all terms (such as execution windows) are what is earned. Everything is known upfront. If you wanted comp to be around shares, then just issue shares via RSPA and deal with the cap table consequences and extra legal wrangling.

This entire "problem" is caused by tax code: you owe the IRS on gains from option conversion, even though the underlying asset is entirely illiquid and frequently non-transferrable. Sounds like a "real" solution is to lobby for tax code changes.

EDIT: to be clear... I'm not saying I agree with short expirations after departure. But there needs to be a clear distinction between shares, options, and 'intent'. Clearly the existing two ways of comp are lacking since there are either tax consequences (options) or out of pocket employee expenses to purchase (shares).
I heard impostor syndrome was en vogue at Google. That strikes me as the other extreme, unrealistic (low) confidence. Which is still damaging. Haven't worked at big G though, so I can't tell.
Wouldn't 'Area 201' be a more confidence inspiring name, if we're sticking to HTTP status codes?
Im gay
"Most of the state will be part of the ocean within fifty years, but don't worry people, we've slashed services so the budget's balanced and your taxes won't go up."

Sometimes you need to spend money to protect against a future where the costs are even higher. The mosquito control initiative could have paid for itself with the sales taxes on that $5.5B in revenue that never happened.
Health should not be for-profit. Such a system puts the needy at a tremendous disadvantage. Needing a heart transplant etc. does not put one in a situation to shop around.

Blind worship of a free market can lead to some pretty obscene outcomes.
My pattern is that I buy a MacBook, use it for a few years, resell it and get a new one.

I'm at my 5th or 6th MacBook in over 10 years, and I've always sold the laptops back with their original charger.

I have a 2011 MacBook Air that I take everywhere with me - the battery is at over a few thousand cycles (and lasts about 40 minutes) last time I checked. The charger for this one is dirty and chipped, but not frayed.

I've seen frayed cables, so I know it's a real problem, but given my experience I can't help but wonder... what are people doing with their chargers?
Absolutely. In my experience, most unforeseen issues are related to performance at scale with unexpected data (the kind that seems to only ever crop up in production, and is really hard to design a load test for).

Performance issues in the browser are rare, and have nothing to do with the number of users using the application.
It sounds like you are using a bad tool if feature flag creation or changes require editing a config file. We use Gargoyle at Eventbrite and there is a nice API and UI for making changes.
HP chargers / bricks for their high end laptops are pure engineering marvels.
http://www.terapeak.com/worth/genuine-hp-elitebook-8760w-877...
Was curious about the data on this, here is green house gasses per capita (circa 2000):

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

Does anyone have more recent data then this?
Canada, America and Australia were some of the worse offenders back in 2000. It would be interesting to see how this has changed.
What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone
I've thought about it like this for the last couple of years: Finding a good partner is the most important decision you can make. After all of the promotions and successful business deals/ventures, if you fail to do so, chances are you'll lose ~50%. Easier said than done though.
> Papa John's didn't violate CAN-SPAM

Ya, they sent text messages, so they skirted that issue, but the CAN-SPAM Act fines are very real - and the point I was making is that Papa Johns essentially had to pay out through the nose for sending unsolicited messages.

> And there has never been a case (that I've seen, and I follow this stuff pretty closely because I really dislike receiving newsletters, personally) prosecuting anyone for sending a cold sales email.

People get fined all the time. Just because the likelihood of not being fined is pretty good, doesn't mean they aren't violating CAN-SPAM. Most people just mark the email as spam and move on - people have to report it to the FCC for them to get fined.
Seems like we're far from going "all the way" on autonomous vehicles by tomorrow or next year, but to me the progress on this tech is pretty hard to predict 4 years into the future.
That was the plan, but you'll still see a lot of audis in front of the ministries.
The CIA was heavily involved in drug trafficking in the US in the 1980s, so it's hardly surprising. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traffi...

If you need to do things off the books one of the best ways to do that is through illegal operations, something made easier when you can do these things with almost zero legal ramifications.
Democracy doesn't require capitalism. Even free markets are possible without capitalism (as we currently practice it). I'm not making any argument about whether we want a democracy or a market without capitalism, but it is a false dichotomy to suggest that the alternative to capitalism is a dictatorship.
> Diversity is an inherently good thing for a company, because a diversity of views and knowledge allow a company to better understand and work with an equally diverse market

Are there any studies that provide supporting evidence for this claim? I see it being thrown around all the time but I never see any data to back it up.

P.S: I'm not trying to dismiss what you're saying, I'm genuinely curious to know if there's any truth to your claim
One of my favorite readings is http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011.... Notice that they did not mention the problems with the "32-bit Windows extenders" for example. On the later attacks, look up "Microsoft Munchkins" and "Steve Barkto" for one example of them.
They sit around a table voting on stuff to add to the DSM... You sit with them for like 10 minutes and "Oh you're bipolar." No MRI or blood test... The same people who said being gay was a mental illness. So why trust a industry promoting hate and still promoting ADHD which was admitted as being a work of fiction.

There's a group called Citizens Commission on Human Rights that made documentaries on the subject which are really convincing. Seen their commercial one day on TV, and spent a night watching some of their material.

There's a clip somewhere on YouTube where someone went to like 5 different psychiatrists but was told all different things. Then they also had a mother tell her story about how a psychiatrist killed her son Matthew.

I already had a bad view of the industry, but after watching their content it really reinforced my feelings towards them.

Edit: Found the video I was talking about it. http://www.cchr.org/videos.html The first one on that page, It's about a hour but I think it does a great job at exposing psychiatry. I think everyone including parrents should watch this before visiting a psychiatrist
UX person here. I can do the spectrum of work from BRD and research through to wireframes and prototypes, but I stop before visual design.

You've enough detail in here that it's probably not entirely you, but rather your organization. The org has probably hired artists not designers and doesn't know how to make them properly accountable.

The simplest difference between an artist and a designer is who they work for. An artist works for themselves, a designer works for a business goal. An artist wants to be personally satisfied, a designer has metrics.

I've never met an artist I would trust to also do research or usability design, however, so wanting to push them be UX people instead of artists is probably not going to work.

However, you might be able to exert pressure by giving them design constraints.

A visual designer isn't designing a UI for themselves, they're designing a UI for the users of their application, so their business goals are things like user satisfaction, user comprehension, and user efficiency. Do the users like the look and feel (measured with things like desirability tests)? Do the users understand what they are looking at and finding what they need on each screen (measured with comprehension tests)? Do the users get their activities done as fast or ergonomic as possible (measured with usability tests)?

The last one you can directly influence on the engineering side. Chapter four of _The Humane Interface_ explains how to quantify usability. You can literally measure the usability of a UI and establish standards for performance, just like you establish standards for your code's performance. You can mathematically determine the minimum amount of input required to accomplish a task and measure the UI against that, with goals of improving the UI a certain amount over time. You could create test suites that measure a click path to see if a UI change improves or regresses it.

Putting these design constraints in place and then making the designers responsible for hitting them are a good way to see whether they're really designers, or just artists.
Protectionism and currency manipulation in a free trade setup will end badly. Every trade deal we do needs to address these issues with consequences.

China joined the WTO in Oct '01 and full participation in '05, the US has suffered since then.

Problem is sometimes our greed drives these deals over long-term futures. The time of selling out the whole country with non-protectionism for a country that does protectionism and currency manipulation is truly a catastrophic deal for trade partners futures.
Goddamn it, my dental hygienist told me to use mouthwash after brushing + flossing :(
But you're not 25% poorer, because your basis is now stepped up. In order to access the value of your current shares, you're going to pay the taxes. You either have $100 on paper and owe $25 on it, or you have $75 on paper and owe $0 tax on it.

Unless you think the tax rate is going to be lower in the future, once you've hit the long-term capital gains threshold, I don't see a reason to believe that paying taxes now and switching investments is worse than holding investments and paying all the taxes later.
What is R2D2 written in?
This! This!

I used to lose chargers frequently, when I was in college, but I didn't take good care of them. Knowing how I treated them then (Stuff in bag, and even if I wound it, it was without the slack you're supposed to give the cord coming off the brick) it doesn't surprise me that I destroyed so many.

Now, I've had the same charger for three years without issue. I suppose part of that lifespan improvements is I really have two of them -- one for my desk that never moves, and one that's always secured in my bag and well-wound.

I wonder if I had just one and moved around with it all the time if things would be different.
I disagree, at least for some sub-fields. In embedded systems, 20 years of experience is more valuable than 5 years (and has pay to reflect that).

In web programming? Maybe not so much...
I'm quite excited for this release, too.
In Firefox, go to URL bar and click drop-down list button (or press Alt+Down).

Not sure about Chrome now, I thought it was the same but turns out it doesn't work.
If a 2nd world country with nuclear weapons cannot adapt to climate change, then nuclear war becomes more likely...
International Champions Cup: Barcelona Wins Leicester City 4 – 2
I thought the point of the one year cliff is to weed out toxic employees. If you're around more than a year, why shouldn't you get to keep your vested options, even if issues emerge later? What's the point of a vesting schedule then?

Look, if you think the company should have the right to determine how much equity employees get to keep when they leave, that's fine. But if you're an honest company then you have to be transparent about it. It is not "tough" to be transparent if you are proud about what you are saying. You can simply say, "Look, vesting doesn't really mean anything until we have a liquidity event. Before that, you aren't guaranteed anything, but we can make exceptions."

So, will you start saying it that way to your recruits?
It sounds like we actually agree. Most of the accusations of ageism seem to be for fields where 20 years of experience is not so valuable.
It could be something being floated to inflate the price in private markets as a prelude to trying to raise more money.
Mark is out on bail... But I'm sure his inbox is full (if he's even allowed to use a computer at this point).

Your next best bet would be Jesse Powell of Kraken, I believe he's the one in charge of the bankruptcy.

Sorry for your losses.
The more commonly used name for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

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