skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's how Peter Thiel wrote that event in Zero to One:

> “When Yahoo! offered to buy Facebook for $1 billion in July 2006, I thought we should at least consider it. But Mark Zuckerberg walked into the board meeting and announced: “Okay, guys, this is just a formality, it shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes. We’re obviously not going to sell here.” Mark saw where he could take the company, and Yahoo! didn’t. A business with a good definite plan will always be underrated in a world where people see the future as random.”
Nope, don't like that idea. I enjoy reading replies to comments - that's usually where discussion gets interesting. A static list of "letters to the editor" can be interesting, but there's no life or action happening there. More spice and counter-arguments are found in someone's reply to a comment. Sure this increases odds of domination by few users... so perhaps limiting people to 3 comments per article would be an idea.
http://dilbert.com/strip/2007-02-02
I want to find research that tells me how a dashboard should work in order to deliver insight to a user.

Dashboards are important artefacts for business users, but their design seems to be about aethestics rather than function; and whereas individual visualisations are researched to understand how they deliver information (for example the uselessness of pi-charts) the overall design of dashboards doesn't seem to have any understood structure or known methods of adding value.
USS Akron – An Airship Aircraft Carrier
Shareholders want to see profit increase. If other firms find ways of making more money with fewer morals, then the pressure on your firm to do the same increases, until you either succumb, or get bought over.

Shareholders are driven by the same dopamine system that normal people are, and are unlikely to sit by and change their incentives for the sake of morals.

The people pushing journalists to drop long form, in favor of revenue and attention generating articles with lower costs are shareholders, correctly responding to clear market incentives.

Theres an excellent article from mother jones which provides a possible solution to this problem (its been shared on HN but there was no discussion when I found it)
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/08/whats-missing-from-...
I wonder in what ways people who donate their body are statistically different from other people. For instance, I suspect this group is not religious, but I could be wrong. Are these people more wealthy than others? Are these people more likely to be doctors themselves or scientists? Is it an inherited property?
Why can I only downvote some comments here? I don't downvote much, but any time I see a comment such as "I like it" it really deserves a downvote for reasons that shouldn't need to be explained.
Well...tbh this seems far more just like a cheap way of promoting the novel than a way to actually provide useful information
Sure, but locations aren't randomly chosen. The IOC certainly has the option to push hard for sustainability and longevity.
I have one of the largest database of camping sites and hostels globally at http://www.wikibackpacker.com/
I get pretty decent organic footfalls and it's stressing out my hosting bills.

I tried to get some media coverage & some funding for it but it's getting impossible from Australia.

It's stuck in a limbo for now until I decide what to do with it.
Show HN: Screenja – Efficient OS X screensots with names (⌘ and SHIFT and 5)
Tech Talk (transcript): Simplifying the Future with Adrian Cockcroft
Milwaukee Brewers at Chicago Cubs, Thursday, Las Vegas Sports Betting
> learn InDesign

Ahem, or learn the open-source Tex/Latex, from which InDesign took inspiration. If you can format a beautiful scientific/mathematical textbook for print using Tex, you can format anything. And Pandoc is a great adjunct.

But yes, it's not for people who wish to avoid screwing around with tooling. It's for perfectionists who want absolute control over layout/notation.
Edit: I know the parent comments are comparing to Github. I thought that it would be useful to let people know about Gitlab's offering.

It appears Gitlab provides support for custom domains on their hosted Gitlab solution as well as support for different site generators via their Gitlab CI solution. It is probably not as easy to use as Netlify though.

http://docs.gitlab.com/ee/pages/README.html#gitlab-pages-on-...
Speaking from personal experience, I would strongly recommend against seeing a job as income solely and pursuing your passion in your free time.

You spend a huge amount of time in your work. We are mostly privileged enough to choose the job we take. Don't stay where you're unhappy. Don't settle for a job you don't find fulfilling.
My car ('02 Peugeot 307, 1.6 petrol) has done 155k miles. Fuel pump and filter is still original, fuel injection system is still original, etc.

The ICE-specific expensive parts that have been replaced is the timing belt and water pump (once, at maintenance interval), battery and alternator (once, broken), the clutch (once, worn out), and some of the exhaust (rusted). Total cost of those come to about $400+$400+$300+$200 = $1300 over 14 years. After 155k miles and 14 years, the electric car will be looking at a new battery pack, costing in the $5000 range.

Then of course there are wear'n'tear stuff like suspension parts, wheel bearings, brake pads, new tires etc. that you also have on an electric car.

But take e.g. brake pads, I just replaced both rear ones, cost me all of $40 for the pads, took two hours to do myself. I did the rear shocks two years ago, that cost $70 in parts and an hour of work. For most people, who don't fix their cars themselves, the main cost is for the work at the shop. Local garage quoted me $340 for replacing those rear shocks. A Haynes manual for your car, some coveralls and some spanners is a ridiculously good investment.

And then there is regular ICE maintenance: oil and oil filter once a year, $50. Spark plugs, about every four years, $60. And regular maintenance that also EVs need: window wipers once a year, $40. Washer fluid, ~ $40 per year. Regular washing and polishing, $80-$150 per year.
Stadiums and Other Sacred Cows: Questioning sports is seen as blasphemy
Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend?
Wouldn't a 'painter's algorithm'-style solution of:

break all the shapes into boxes that can occupy only 1 space

for height = 0 .. n:

for <however many boxes can be displayed in a column>

for <however many boxes can be displayed in a row>

draw box, step to next box (x+1, y+1)

solve these problems? I'm not sure how fast it would be in practice.
Making a 3D browser game from scratch
Why so condescending? Reading your comment, after reading both of the author's posts on his methodology, I take that his approach might not be everybody's, but I took a lot more from his writing, then from your writing.

You tell the author, not explicitly but non the less, that his method sucks and he is an idiot for not using "the right" (TM) tools. Using your method is ok - for you. Using his method is ok - for him. His is not more right or less right. Both of you got your work done and your book(s) published.

> no reason to spend your time futzing around

Well for some it is also the process that counts. And the ability to get stuff done without proprietary software.

On a final note:
Maybe I just misread your tone (at least, it's the internet) - maybe you weren't so a stuck up. Or didn't mean to be.
Things that are too large/heavy for a helicopter where there isn't a runway, or things that are too large/heavy for an aeroplane. At one point I remember them talking about transporting a turbine for a power station with it.
There are ways to disable/block or outright remove a lot of the things you list.

Only with Pro or Enterprise though and only by performing a series of registry/policy edits, third party tool use and blocking of IP ranges.

You should never have to jump through these kind of hoops just to get your own system under control.
Work is a spectrum between specific repetitive tasks and the need for deep creative solutions to problems. On one hand we have the need to pull this lever every 36 seconds. on the other, is The Problem. We've all faced The Problem, but perhaps not for work. It's the thing that's at the top of the stack for days, weeks, or months on end. Perhaps solving a Rubik's cube. Perhaps understanding recursion. We've all gone through that phase of not understanding something and thinking about it constantly.

IMHO, the 9-5 is is useful because, in the pull the lever case, the lever gets pulled. More importantly, a substantial fraction of time exposed to The Problem. You have nine hours to kill, odds are good people will spend those hours possibly getting hooked on solving The Problem. There's little chance they'll solve the problem in those hours, but they'll get hooked on The Problem and think about it while washing dishes, in the shower, and sleeping. Once you're hooked, it's tough to get away from it without solving it.

Ultimately, i think anything repetitive will be automated away. But we still need some way to hook people on The Problem. Hours and hours of exposure is probably inefficient, but it's effective.
> As countries become richer, they tend to move away from cash on grounds of security, convenience and cost.

Makes me wonder why switzerland is still pretty much on cash, at least for typical daily needs.
It would basically double the memory bandwidth and cache requirements for drawing if you used a full 32bit depth buffer.

But it would probably be worth it. A 16 bit buffer would probably be good enough for isometric drawing and would be faster.
`ApplicativeDo`[1] do-notation works with Functors

[1] https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/master/users-guide/glasgo...
Managing Unconscious Bias
Cool stuff. I'd have liked to see a signup box to leave my email.
I always liked mullvad, but they don't offer multiple countries and stuff. It really comes down for what you need it actually.
Writing a novel in LaTeX is not the best approach if you're looking to write a lot of text and don't have to worry about notation. But Neil Stephenson famously wrote Cryptonomicon in Emacs and LaTeX, so hey, it works for some people.

Edited to add that InDesign is much easier for back matter, front matter, laying out images, covers, etc. . . . And that's coming from someone who LOVES LaTeX. I set my old software company with some sweet templates and all of our proposals were typeset in LaTeX. It was awesome. But if you're writing a novel for print I really wouldn't recommend it.
That's what we attempted to remedy with `capabilities`[1]

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Capabilities
How to Digital Sell When Prospects Don't Have Social Media Accounts
Planning for a Large Team
I saw this a couple of weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtieBc3KptU

I really like how he has no idea how to pronounce stuff, but he still managed to bend emacs after his will.
Hell, I'm only 35 and they make me old. Variety in hardware and software we had, back in the day, is what's lacking these days.
> see what bodybuilders look like today

That's quite a bit more than training, nutrition and knowledge of physiology.

> Those guys from the beginning of the century look like (or even worse than) your dedicated amateur gym goer today

Afaik "strong man" =/= bodybuilder so just as most weightlifters don't look like bodybuilders the "strongmen" of yore didn't necessarily look like bodybuilders either.
Did the Olympic Pool Give Some Swimmers an Advantage?
I didn't discuss transparency because transparency handling comes more or less free with a graphics engine.

That's besides the point that partial transparency is actually intentionally used very sparingly in games because it's computationally expensive.

In the same sense that you almost always start a web app front-end with some JS framework, you almost always start a 3-D game with some graphics engine. Graphics engines generally take care of the depth sorting for alpha blending for you.

If you're building your own graphics engine, then I'd mostly just question whether you really need to. Sure you might make something leaner, but the benefits will be marginal at best.

In other words, yes, you're right, transparency complicates things, but it's a well-understood problem and the solution is more or less free with the package when you pick up a graphics engine.

Of course, when you really dig into the bowels of the problem, you'll notice that most graphics engines don't gracefully handle the circular overlap problem. In practice, it's more efficient and lower cost to just cut the object up at asset creation time than to dynamically split things at render time. That means you're just avoiding the problem, but it's a rare enough corner case that it's just cheaper to work around the corner case.
That's interesting. I'd assume a market so performance driven would compete such vendors out of existence.
> could I go back 20 years and start again I would have pursued a career with greater job security and pay, less stress and more flexible working conditions

Why not do this now?
Well I was and I wasn't. I certainly don't begrudge a person for getting really involved with their tools. Depends on what your goals are. If it's productivity and a nice finished product then the tools he was using are likely not the best for the job, even if they are fun. No way to know for sure, but if I was handing out advice I would absolutely NOT suggest people use the tooling he used, even for developers.
I'm riding a carbon road bike and I have to say that 22km/h is insanely fast for a runner. I'm not that much faster but I also do it for 6 hours straight. (with wind and some climbing)

It's still mind boggling that a guy could run besides me for 10 kilometres.
Uncovering the brutal truth about the British empire
Why would a taxi replace brake pads 2-3 times a year? They're not that frequently replaced, about 100k miles is normal.

And looking up "Tesla drive unit", you can see it's actually the electric motor + gearbox + inverter.
Keeping to the comparison with Russia, I think the data bears out my point.

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

That's a very different story than the Russia link you provided, which, as I suspected, says that the country is mostly a) ethnically Russian and b) the rest are minorities the Russians have been dealing with for most of their history. I've even seen suggestions that the "White" category is perhaps too coarse, with observable cultural and political differences between whites of English descent and whites of German descent.

There's another pertinent datapoint, which is that Russia has a very low TFR and is experiencing a population decline and is pursuing policies to reverse that, as it is seen as a major problem. The US, on the other hand, continues to grow, largely because of immigration; policies to increase the number of children are superfluous.

That said, as I mentioned earlier, I think that's just a factor. Every country is special and has to be considered on its own terms. Is geographic size a factor? Probably. Is population size a factor? Probably. Is population diversity a factor? Probably. Is some remnant of the mythological self-reliance of American frontierism a factor? Probably. Is the rivalry with the USSR a factor? Probably.

Moreover, while I personally would like at a minimum a year of paid parental leave, the idea that parental leave represents Forward Progress and any country that doesn't have it is backward and deserves to be shamed is rather disturbing. Instead of trying to shame America to conform to somebody elses' norms, we should probably work instead on convincing them that it's a worthwhile and workable idea, and that the potential tradeoffs are worth making.
Interesting to see that open source DTP is still a challenge in 2016.
git stash && git pull --rebase && git stash pop
Win+left/right arrow also works for this since Windows 7
"To create this file, I used Pandoc again, this time to convert the Markdown files to ODT (OpenDocument Text), which can be read by LibreOffice."

Ouch. WYSIWYGs are terrible.
Human collective intelligence as distributed Bayesian inference
Good riddance. The problem with backspace is that it means "delete one character" unless you managed to unfocus a text box, in which case it means "lose the whole form and maybe hose the whole application flow". It was actively harmful.
with – Program prefixing for continuous workflow using a single tool
Didn't you ask the same question two days ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12290362
Ask HN: Should I choose big name or big salary?
I have two offers for Sr. Software Developer position. One is big brand Deloitte and I read on quora its work culture and learning opportunities are good. Other is Sears Holding.
Sears offered 50% more than Deloitte. I really wanted to join Deloitte from beginning because I have never worked in Big Companies and it was my chance to see the culture and all. I am technically very good and it is huge amount of money Sears is offering.

Money is real problem here. I can not make that much money in Deloitte if I remain their for two or more years.

Which company should I join? Which company would be better in long term?
I do not have any details about the project work and company internals.

Thank for all your help.
I suspect more mentality change is going to be required in the following areas: trust, economic efficiency, value of money, materialism, stigma's, what makes people happy.
Or another economic revolution.
Yeah, I like that too. Makes you think twice about re-implementing widgets because of the insane amount of functionality that is tied even to the simplest widgets and still invisible.

Think of how hard it would be to re-implement a dropdown, for instance: You would need to implement keyboard navigation (arrow keys), jump-to-entry (using the letter-keys), srolling with the mouse wheel, flipping through entries while the dropdown menu is closed and probably a thousand other things that I never used but some people do.
A nice open-source replica of Stackoverflow in Java
When you sign a key, you can use the flag `--ask-cert-level` and it will prompt you to specify on a scale of 1-3 how careful you were. This would be a case when you could specify a lower number (namely, 1).

Personally, I save level 3 signatures for people I know personally, and only if they show my their fingerprint on a trusted device.
great feedback,
I get now how the pointer can be confusing, will change that very soon. I will also take a look at a clearer 'to the map!' I have had more feedback about this, and made some changes, but apparently not good enough. Thanks!
> Afaik "strong man" =/= bodybuilder

Yes, I wrongly assumed there weren't "exclusive" bodybuilders on 1920 but it seems there are

But you can look at both for comparison
nanoc, i can just hack whatever i need in my favorite language based on a platform that already offers all the basics.
One person I know was from very good college and he got calls from recruiters from big companies.
An example to illustrate the tools usefulness:

$ with git
git> add .
git> commit -a -m "Commited"
git> push
I want to build drone startup.
Personally i dont care about both. As dev i earn enough whatever i do and big names are just that, big names. I would go for the one you felt the most comfortable with in terms of environment and coworkers.
Why Culture  Perks
That comes back as 'access denied' for me.
Issues \w GitHub pre-receive hook
Anyone else seeing such error on github push:
remote: ruby-jemalloc: symbol lookup error: /data/github/current/vendor/gems/2.1.7/ruby/2.1.0/gems/json-1.8.3/lib/json/ext/generator.so: undefined symbol: rb_data_typed_object_alloc
To git@github.com:Username/repo.git
! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined)
Taxing exceptional achievement
> Ex Google Zürich

Badge of Honor
https://dateutil.readthedocs.io

http://crsmithdev.com/arrow/

http://pythonhosted.org/pytz/

http://delorean.readthedocs.io

http://github.hubspot.com/sanetime/

https://github.com/zachwill/moment

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/i18n/timezones...

The most similar to this are Arrow and Delorean, maybe Django timezone if you use Django.
Hey, OP! I admire the fact that you took all this on yourself, and also from reading the linked blog post[0] it seems like you took the hacker's approach to the planning and writing of it too.

Honestly, I'm not sure it's a book I'd read - not a big Dan Brown fan - but I am deeply envious that you've completed such a huge undertaking :)

[0] https://medium.com/@gabrielgambetta/how-i-wrote-my-first-nov...
Is the button hidden on purpose, or is it just a mistake?

It seems a little weird that they didn't just remove the button, except of cause as others point out it would break the work flow of some people.
How to Survive Rapid Business Growth
You are being very rational and there is little to flaw without argument in that context.

Unfortunately (or maybe not), the world (and the organic chemistry that you are made of) is not a collection of rational entities. It is extremely hard to stay rational in that context. Good luck with trying to do that. (meant non-sarcastically)
Prices won't lower at all. This is a movement by large SF landowners to raise the worth of the land they already own, using credulous tech kids as patsies. They will use new units as tax writeoffs and collateral for loans to scarf up land in gentrifying neighborhoods in other cities and other countries, so they'd rather let them sit vacant than let rents or prices drop by a penny.

This is the same as when pharmaceutical companies set up and fund patient advocacy organizations.
Thanks for taking a look. can I ask what you expect after leaving your email ? Would you expect a newsletter about more features, new examples etc ?
Yep it doesn't feel natural in this case. It took me a second to realize I needed to scroll all the way down and read from there up.
I have a question regarding the 9-5 working day. Do Americans really work 9-5 and regard this as an 8 hour working day? Or is this a legacy of the old days with paid lunch or such?

I officially work 8.25 hours per day or 8-17 with 45 minutes of lunch, this is roughly the standard working day in Sweden.
He says that in the article. He states that he had started two small businesses, one of which was successful enough to let him finance this.
OpenCL supports Iris.
Deutsche Bank retail chief urges bonuses be waived for second year: Bild
I agree that writing large volumes of text in LaTeX is cumbersome, and the same goes for text that includes many code samples. \begin{verbatim}...\end{verbatim} is just too verbose, and \verb|...| for inline code is also too verbose to my taste.

So right now I'm writing my book in Markdown, and put it on leanpub for now (https://leanpub.com/deploy).

For print, I'll either figure out a way to get a PDF formatted as I want it from leanpub, or use pandoc to create the markdown to LaTeX, and then write a custom template with all the customization.

But this is something that I won't worry too much about until the manuscript is really finished.