skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like that's equivalent to saying "DDG is not bread, it's a sandwich built on top of other breads"

Maybe Google makes the best bread, but it might be true that someone might make a sandwich on inferior bread that makes for a better overall snack.
I'm just going to say that I really doubt Yelp's status as a public company forecloses on any opportunity for them to establish quid pro quo between their sales and their reviewing processes.

That's a banal observation, I know. But I was moved to comment when you suggested that they'd face criminal penalties stemming again from their being public. No, that seems very dubious.
> I'm guessing that these structures are only effective in firms like Valve

Valve seems like the poster child for upsides and downsides of this system.

They release cool games, make lot of money, Hats!

On the other hand, steam is still really clunky and their customer service has historically been horrible.
Like what? I've tried to do CAN stuff with cars before, and outside of a few standard measurements it's almost impossible to find any documentation on what commands do what.
It's too late to edit, but since a couple of people have contacted me, I wanted to add a few details: if I do start my own company, it would probably be self-funded and mostly do work for external clients on things like websites and apps, process automation, AI/deep learning, A/B testing and optimization, and maybe a bit of embedded/IoT work. And, of course, it'd be all remote.

If that sounds like your cup of tea, feel free to send me an email: nathan@nfriedly.com and maybe we can work together.

But, bear in mind that I'm still more likely to stick with IBM than start my own thing at this point. And even if I did leave, it would be at least a few months before I'd be ready to take anyone on full-time.
Hi, I am like you.

I graduated 7 years ago from ITT. I went for the same reason you did as I looked at the processes of traditional universities and didn't want to be in a lecture hall. I got a 2 year degree in CNS. I have been a software engineer for 8 years now professionally. Like you I saw it was for profit and the teachers were pressured into passing people even though they clearly shouldn't have. Some of the teachers knew what they were teaching and some didn't; in my linux class I was paid by a student to help them understand the curriculum because they couldn't learn it from the teacher. Was it worth it to me? For what I paid no. I wouldn't tell anyone else to go. My degree did transfer though to a non-profit regionally and nationally accredited school so I am hoping to complete that soon. Even though I am in the top bracket of software dev earners where I am I chose to go back to school for personal reasons as I study at night regardless and think at least get a degree out of it now, and man am I glad I transferred the degree when I did.

My attitude on our entire education system has changed, as I believe the government should have had more regulations in place in the first place so this would've never happened.

I know more people like you and I that went to ITT and regardless whether we would have not gone I do not think it would have affected our current situation at all differently, only that we would have had the money we spent on students loans to do something better with it.
The modern version of this is to add a new emoji. Apple used that to push out a major point fix in Yosemite.
Agree with you here - this is essentially the reason that I don't use Chrome on my desktop (aside from brief testing, or to load up something quickly that requires Flash).

Firefox is still a lot better at RAM and CPU usage when hundreds of tabs are present in the browser. This persists when using e10s.
Thank you! Usually I miss out on these things :)
To add to that, C-P will go up in your history and C-N down. It is extra useful when using GDB in TUI mode (which is activated using C-x,a), which will capture your UP/DOWN arrow to navigate the source...

Actually, just go read http://ss64.com/bash/syntax-keyboard.html or something, once per day, integrate a new one each time, and you will improve your productivity on the command line (as well as comfort).
> Looking at Steam itself, has the service dramatically improved since launch? Certainly there have been a lot of good incremental updates, e.g. two-factor auth. But the Apple App Store has seen a lot more updates in terms of search, discoverability, etc.

This may not be your main point, but have you ever used the Steam store? It's the only app store that I've ever encountered that actually gives me valuable suggestions, and thus the only one into which I've sunk a considerable amount of money. (At least 200€, probably more. In second place is Google Play, where I spent some 7 € or so on apps.)

Just look at the huge percentage of games that are only purchased and never played (or even downloaded) to see that Valve has absolutely nailed the Steam store.

Regarding the actual argument: I agree that for a company this large, the turnout in form of actual products (esp. games) from Valve is surprisingly low. But I'm not sure if that's even a bad thing: For some studios, it works well to release 10 mediocre games within a certain amount of time. For other studios, it works better to release only one extraordinary game in the same timespan.
it happens everywhere. at least they were honest. i went to a 'good' UC, literally one of the best schools in the entire world, like in the top 20 if you believe certain 'rankings'. some of my professors tried to schedule 6am exams (which is a fucking absurd time to be in class for a college kid) or just didn't show up, because they were doing consulting work on the side.

one of them was obviously banging the female students for grades. like, really obvious, so obvious that my naive 19 year old self could tell what was going on.

one time one of my professors showed up stoned and showed us pictures of sea turtles for 90 minutes. i couldn't even make that up if i tried. luckily, he was a good teacher and it had something tangentially to do with the class.

yet another professor quit the department (or was he fired?) and started a test prep company ... for the tests he used to give. apparently they just use the same shit over and over, so hey, why not.

all of that is relatively harmless compared to the wing-nut profs that are clearly pushing a political agenda in their coursework and grading, and have absolutely no qualms about punishing you academically for having dissenting opinions.

i don't know, college is kind of a scam all around. there's a lot of fuckery afoot. it's adults doing adult things, it's not high school anymore. having been through it, i know to not to put too much faith into a 'good school' on the resume. i've heard some stories from my friends who went to ivy's and other elite private schools along these lines too. it's endemic.

i think i never liked school because all of this horseshit goes on in industry, except you get paid to deal with it instead of paying to have the privilege of being shit on by professors.
> Where is the empirical evidence of a mother's love?

Everywhere? When they care for you when you're sick, drive you to sports practice, clean up after you and what not?
Background tabs already have their timers run less frequently. In Firefox, that was added in 2011 [1]. Certainly further improvements to reduce background tab activity would be nice. One way you can sort of get that effect is to use Reader Mode, on pages where that works.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633421
Not necessarily. When we talk about someone being a good culture fit at the place I work, we look for someone who's respectful, approachable, not condescending, and who wants to empower their coworkers.

There are many brilliant technical people who are jerks—we don't want to work with them. (And not to say that there's not a place for super-smart people who are assholes, but we try not to hire them.)
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So, if tax payers paying for something they're not getting value out of is of interest to you, what about the 600 billion (well over half) of federal discretionary spending that goes to "defense" which involves contracts that we're aware regularly goes over budget and time with no guarantee of success?

Even if you're fine with the amount we spend, the F35 is just one example of exactly what you're talking about, but in terms of defense instead of education. Should we cancel contracts to Lockheed Martin because of how they fail to deliver? Or perhaps consider that even wasted education spending is probably more productive than wasted defense spending?

It's clear that they deliver an education. The question is whether they then get the people who have an education a job, similar to how a fighter plane maker may make a plane, but it may not do its intended job well. I guess I just find it interesting how a lot less time is spent talking about taxpayer spending on wasted weapons, while the measly education budget gets scrutinized with a fine tooth comb.
Given the current political climate and default skepticism and fear that comes with air traveling, I would not take $50 to take someone else's goods. Heck I double check if one of my friends of family member try to send an item with me (that has happened like 1 out of 1000 times I have traveled). This app has funding from Russia and it might be a success there. Sure they just wanted a media footprint catapulted by US media outlets.

What I would like to see is airlines encouraging me to check in a few days/weeks earlier and state how many bags I am planning to check in (international travel as domestic airlines dont allow free check in bags except southwest ). If none or less then I should be compensated in some sort of air miles. Then the airline can sell the extra space to a private shipping company. No need to turn travelers into Uber for taco bells for a nostalgic digital nomad living in Reykjavik.
Terence McKenna used that quote a lot actually, but it was from Watts.
I noticed that Trix allows me to paste images directly (with Google Chrome). Can I do that with Quill?
What is all this Musk vitriol about? This seems like complaining from public market investors that Tesla is still acting like a start-up--which it is and has always presented itself as such in its filings.

If you want to invest in mature companies, do that, but if you want option like upside, you're going to be investing in companies that are not done raising capital--not sure why this is shocking.
You could plug in an IP camera.
> I have been searching in vain for something like that: stop scripts in background tabs except for specifically whitelisted pages.

Have you tried UnloadTab?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unloadtab/
How's Devry? I worked with a person that got a degree from there. It's for-profit too. I can't imagine it's any better than ITT with it's vendor lock in.
Doing half life 2, then switching to episodic content so you can get things moving faster, then taking forever to release 2 episodes, then sitting around for a decade with an unresolved cliffhanger is ridiculous.

I don't buy your reasoning either. Right business move because DotA 2 and their Hats! are a cash cow business, sure.
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Then they are useless. Send us the boss directly, will save a layer of communication.

Problem is the boss wants a unique interlocutor, and one who says yes. Then if he is friendly enough, engineers will prefer to do a shitty job (rush "features" and even more bugs) rather than inconvenience their manager who already committed on behalf of the whole team.
Thanks for the response -- interesting stuff.

But any thoughts on what to do in the "allergic to non-autonomous people" situation?
Provided you screen for things like heart conditions, contra-indicated pharmaceutical or supplement usage, or some mental health issues, psychedelics are, on the whole, profoundly physically safe.

Not saying shit doesn't happen, but if you're going to the jungle to work with these plants, with a reputable practitioner, you're at vastly greater risk from things like snakes and mosquitoes — or even jaguars and alligators — than you are the plants, themselves.
No, it's very useful! It's called "a git repo, which you can identify by its hash." A completely tamper-evident track record of a history. Without the power consumption of Ireland.
>Under normal conditions, when people walking in front of you stop, you stop also so you don't bump into them. Makes sense, right?

By that logic, there should be no car crashes.
> GitHub is taking on increasingly ambitious tasks, such as organizing a two-day developer conference on Sept. 14 in San Francisco that’s expected to attract 1,500 attendees.

This can't be serious...
To be sure everyone understand you correctly:

– "normal" publishing (behind a paywall) is free for authors,

– the open access option was set arbitrarily to $2000 by the publisher, and they decided to offer a discount at $1200 instead.
Our email list hygiene tool won #1 place on Product Hunt a few days ago
Sure, but what you think is pure maths today might become applied maths tomorrow. So nothing we consider today to be pure is necessarily so.
4 companies set to benefit from Brexit
I was there on a holiday a few weeks ago. While they told us that malaria isn't a problem anymore, they still warn tourists to protect against mosquito bites as they can still carry dengue fever. From a quick google it seems that malaria and dengue are spread by different mosquitoes, which might be why only one if the two is gone now.
You horrify me, sir. You truly do.

Good. That's a start; it's a horrible business.

What effect do you imagine yourself likely to have on someone who does not start out with such sympathy?

I can only recount the emergence of my own point of view. It's 1990-something, and I'm killing a Saturday afternoon in a used-book store in Austin, somewhere near the UT campus. Wow, lots of dust on this one. I'll bet nobody's touched it for 20 years. I've heard of this Solzhenitsyn guy, wonder what it's about? Didn't he win a Nobel? I guess for $1 it's worth a shot.

And then, a few months later when I got around to reading it: Wow, I used to think that the Russians were like the Nazis or something, a bunch of inhuman demons, maybe a barbarian race that evolved from a worse sort of ape than the rest of us. But they aren't. They really aren't. They're just like us. They are us. And the stuff in this book didn't really happen because of differences in politics or religion or economics or communism versus capitalism or whatever. It happened because the Russian people allowed their political system to dominate their judicial system. The courts were their last line of defense, and when they fell, the rest was inevitable.

The best time to stop the Black Marias would have been before the first one rolled out. The next best time was just after the first one rolled out. Either way, it didn't happen, and now I see the same thing happening here in the US that led to the events described in the Gulag Archipelago: the political subversion of justice.

It seems to start with the elevation of the cult of law enforcement as a privileged class, or at least that's something that tends to happen in the early stages of metastasis (to use Solzhenitsyn's metaphor.) In Russia, the rationale was the struggle against counterrevolutionary forces and the bourgeoisie. In the US, it's the War on Terror, Drugs, and Kiddie Porn. I don't see much difference.

So, yeah, horror is an appropriate expression when you think you can see a map like this starting to unfold.
Kratom allows people to become productive, taxpaying citizens with full time jobs that otherwise aren't able to. Look up the #iamkratom hashtag.
Very much depends on the project.

Staying at 0.9 can just mean having very high standards for 1.0.
It's taken from here - https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs

The author of that repo did the hard work of listing out some great blogs. (Many added their own blogs into the list later)
updated ;)
Suffice to say, we were amazed, now reverse engineering what we've done right, will report!
Your point is well-taken, but notice that I wasn't claiming that not investigating bike thefts is evidence of the slowdown. I doubt these thefts would be taken too seriously anywhere, but I still think the work slowdown is some relevant context that people need in order to understand more about the situation.
I think the point is that it wasn't ever a complete loss of signal. Signal strength drops a little, maybe the baseband turns up its gain and burns a little more power, and the call stays connected.
Lucid Emacs is now XEmacs. Work would've begun right around 1989, so it's likely you just never crossed paths with it. =)
Compensation for Venezuela...
> Your goal is to replace your manager ... without higher pay.

Sounds like you have the wrong job then.
> but you can't base national policy on emotion.

As if the majority of the pro-gun ownership arguments aren't based on emotion.
For 1, I'd use clojure/script
I think he means it still wouldn't matter to him because someone like the guy interviewed would have obviously already contributed/was there early/etc.
There's a lot of bullshit - and most people are drawn in by pseudoscience nonsense. I was interested in seeing what people were talking about and the perspective change (also Sam Harris, lots of historical people, Huxley, What the Dormouse Said, everything I'd read etc.)

I tried it basically with as most preparation as you could possibly have and it wasn't enough. There's more detail in my posting history, but I'd suggest caution.
There are other forms of structural organisation than strict hierarchies.

One interesting one proposed by cyberneticist Stafford Beer was dubbed Syntegrity [1].

It involved relationships between workers structured like a bucky ball, where each person had direct influence over a number of topics, and oversight of a number of others.

The result was (in theory) an arrangement where everyone had some responsiblity, but there was no overall "leadership". In theory

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntegrity
Sri Lanka have had 38419 suspected cases of dengu so far this year: http://www.epid.gov.lk/web/index.php?option=com_content&view...
In the US I suppose?
In case you don't see the problem inherent in even your analogy: If the bakery goes away, or refuses to sell further bread to the sandwich maker, the maker is fucked.

And there's less than ten bakeries world-wide.

And if the sandwich maker actually got popular enough that people would only buy from them, then the bakeries would indeed give them the finger.
If it is copied as HTML containing the image, yes. Usually works if copying (via highlight) from a page. Otherwise: https://github.com/quilljs/quill/pull/821
On a side note, why are areas separated based on countries of origin? If I were a muslim on the Hajj I'd be enthralled to be around people of all cultures and countries around me.
Can you explain what it means when you say you "won" #1 place on Product Hunt? I ask because we went through a launch recently and hit #3. However, we did a lot of stuff to hit that and we certainly didn't feel like we "won" anything. Interested to hear your take.
Other companies I'd guess.
You describe a consistent viewpoint, but of rather ideal workplace situation. In reality, instances of "your manager" go from "you have your manager to thank for mentoring and advice" to "he is constantly pushing you around and making threats for no justifiable reason, bringing zero value to your work". Unfortunately, there are managers who do not know how to communicate and do not know how to be a good leader.
I think doing a simple digital marketing checklist on top of just having a website would be worth while for a small business. My brother runs a small vape shop that helps people quit smoking.

He gets hassled all the time by people wanting to do his marketing for his website, and he cannot tell the difference between someone that is going to help his business and someone who is a snake oil salesman.
That's not very nice.
Auditors should not wear more than one cap.

I don't know how often I haven't been asked to either recommend something, some party, some solution or even to solve a problem myself but I'm extremely strict about this, I simply won't do it.

The conflict of interest is such that I think that any auditor / company that doesn't understand this basic principle should not be in this business at all.
I don't give a cunt's hair whether some feminazi thinks Douglass Crockford is rude. The conference is about Node JS and JavaScript, not about the radical agenda of some identity politik feminazi cunt. Fuck all this noise. I'm not going to Nodevember or any other conference Kuntsandra speaks at.
The problem on Ethereum is not that it's limited, the EVM is capable of handling it.

The problem here is that there is a cap of how much gas[1] a block may consume which is the moving average of consumed gas plus some extra.

A few contracts got stuck that way; by getting to a point where they could no longer use that much gas.

[1]: Gas in Ethereum refers to the amount of value paid for computation, once gas runs out the execution is terminated and the gas subtracted from the senders account.
I pay around 4,5% in the Netherlands, with the smallest 'own risk'. I don't know the English term for it, but if anything happens the first €350 in healthcare costs for the year are on me (excluding family doctor visits). I could choose to pay more for a lower monthly cost, but I don't.
I second this. Well, the pushing features part but hopefully documented and without (many) bugs. But features for the sales team is considered important.

I usually like researching and fixing bugs, especially when they are mine. But compare business value between bugs versus new features and guess which one wins the most.
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> They were asked to put up collateral because the Department of Education didn't believe they would survive the multiple fraud investigations (securities as well as consumer fraud).

That's not entirely true. They were asked to put up collateral and then banned from accepting new federal-aid-dependent students because the DOE received word from ITT's accreditor that ITT's accreditation was at risk due to, among other issues, ITT's financial status.

Now, among the sources of the problems for ITT's financial status were the SEC and CFPB fraud lawsuits themselves, and, IIRC, changes in ITT business practices that were taken in response to those lawsuits. But the primary direct trigger for the DOE actions wasn't DOE's evaluation of ITT's financial status, but the risk that ITT's would lose its accreditation, which would make it ineligible to enroll any students accepting federal student aid (not just new students, but continuing students as well.)
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Does this work in Linux ?
People forget how hard-fought the battle for Steam really was. Half-Life 2's release on Steam nearly broke them. One word for it could be "coasting", but another might be "reaping" the rewards of choosing to fight that battle long before anyone else believed it was winnable.

And they're not really coasting. They're at the forefront of broadcast gaming, competitive gaming, whatever you want to call it. I've watched Riot grow, and Blizzard falter in that industry, but I'm damn near positive that Valve has the better framework for the long-term.

Edit: I also think that Valve's primary product is "not having to deal with industry standard financing and deadline problems so we can make games that are actually good without burning out like everyone else does."