skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting comment on DeMarco's Peopleware:

> This book seemed convincing when I read it in college. It even had all sorts of studies backing up what they said. No deadlines is better than having deadlines. Offices are better than cubicles. Basically all devs I talk to agree with this stuff.

> But virtually every successful company is run the opposite way. Even Microsoft is remodeling buildings from individual offices to open plan layouts. Could it be that all of this stuff just doesn’t matter that much? If it really is that important, how come companies that have drank the koolaid, like Fog Creek, aren’t running roughshod over their competitors?

The answer is in another recent post (http://danluu.com/sounds-easy/#fn:S):

> For a lot of products, the sales team is more important than the engineering team.

Put another way, every measure of engineer / software quality and project success (including the qualitative ones that are harder to measure) like delivering on time / under budget, correctness of implementation, system performance, uptime / reliability, number of bugs, ease of maintenance, minimal technical debt, etc. etc., are very often only nice-to-haves. Not necessarily all of them at all times, but often enough most of them except one or two (not the same one or two, though).

Which is a good thing, or startups would never be able to trade off covering edge and corner-cases, or scale, or 'standard' feature-completeness, etc. in favor of new and game-changing capabilities (or business models) & incumbents could never be disrupted.

But as it happens, we know that 'worse is better' in lots of ways and in lots of circumstances. So companies that 'drink the kool-aide' and focus on developer productivity and happiness may produce 'better' software by any and all measures you care to use as a developer, instead of focusing on only the most important ones that directly relate to optimizing the customer acquisition funnel and subsequently reducing customer churn.

At the level of the corporation, programming is a competitive sport, but companies are not scored on software quality, or developer productivity, or developer happiness. Companies are only scored on 'getting and keeping customers' and 'making a profit' (which may require paying attention to some quality measures, just not all of them all the time).

Put yet another way: If you're doing Lean Startup / Customer Development right, the customer decides what 'quality' means, not you.
The main reason is if you think that the financial industry does create value through high volume trading. If we could all agree that certain issues have no social value it would be easy to build consensus on a tax for them. Unfortunately reasonable people differ on the matter of HFT.
Biometrics could be used as a username, but should not be used as a password...
Does nginx not have HTTP/2 or a free download? I've got a couple of webservers that as best I can tell are responding to HTTP2 requests, running nginx (that I didn't pay for)
Sam Altman: “YC not going to fire someone over support of a candidate”
A sign of the higher freq / lower amplitude of todays era ?
Bet this would be really good for audio.
I think they mean something a great deal faster than just dividing by each number to check.
Minitrue
To conflate being gay with fascism is beyond the point of false dichotomy and well into being grossly offensive.

You should be ashamed of yourself.
Part of the problem is that the abstraction of "a sorted list" will never change. But the abstraction of "twiddle my foobar" can change on a weekly basis based upon business needs. Because of this the abstractions we write will never be as strong or enduring as those found in the standard library.
Publishing and speaking are constitutionally protected acts. The other things journalists may decide to do (e.g., trespassing to gather evidence or threatening others) are no more protected than for any other citizen.
...Some webapps just flat-out won't consistantly run on FF. Given that FF is fully standards compliant, some of both of these problems could be attributed to shoddy web developers.

Then again, FF could be at fault. I don't really know in this case.
I prefer learning what I find interesting, since I'll learn the most that way. I suppose that gets informed by the advice of others to some extent though.
The bibi-binary notation is somewhat similar (16 === 2^2^2). It was patented in 1968 by Bobby Lapointe, a French variety singer, but didn't get much traction AFAICT. Bibi-binary also has a custom pronunciation for hex digits.

The article is in French[0], but the main illustration that describes the system is self-explanatory[1].

0. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syst%C3%A8me_Bibi-binaire

1. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Table_de...
Fun fact: lego was originally commissioned for use in Caddy. Sebastian has done a great job with it!
My favorite fast response to disarm that is always: that's not up to you [whether or not you have something to hide]. I've found it instantly shakes the false comfort they're trying to derive from their premise and opens up a moment of rethink.
> (even native speakers make mistakes)

> colloquial diverges from the proper grammar.

Since we are here on HN I'll allow myself to jump on your, to the topic of this thread totally unrelated, remarks. A native speaker can't really make mistakes, because what a native speaker speaks, defines the language. The grammars have to follow the speakers, not vice versa. The widespread world view that there is a proper language and beside it a inferior colloquial language needs to die.
You can already do that...

function ConditionalSpinner({renderIf, children}) {
if (!renderIf) return null;
return children[0];
}
Instead of name calling, lets try to create a productive discussion and define some general goals on what reproductive rights should be as human rights, rather than women rights or men rights.

1# No person should be handed responsibility to create or support a offspring without their consent.

2# No child should be without enough financial support to live and grown into an adult.

Reproduction should only be legal when there is two consenting adults that want to bring a child to the world. In every case there isn't, that is a problem we as a society should try to fix as best we can without causing too much harm to either the unwilling parent or child.
> Both the eraser nub and trackpad buttons feel like they’re still here for legacy reasons to keep ThinkPad customers comfortable, and frankly, I wish Lenovo would just kill them.

These buttons are essential to many ThinkPad users. It's a defining feature of Thinkpads. The non-ThinkPad Yoga machines do not have them.
Agent/asset also explains related attitudes including homophobia(blurring lines between agent and asset), culturally accepted abuse(instrumental to asset control), and honor culture(no room for expression outside the agent hierarchy).
The problem here is that the opposition is still trying to go through the proper channels specified by the constitution.

They don't realize that the incumbent party already controls all the rules and the processes. It's like when Lucy holds the football for Charlie Brown. The opposition still doesn't realize that when the time comes, Maduro and his cronies will simply yank the ball away again.

There is very little chance for a constitutional, non-violent change in power.
Oberon might be worth checking out. I've heard neat stuff.

However, from what I've seen, it's a bit too verbose for my tastes (the language, not the OS).
The line is, their content is free, even though they were not required to.

If it was a teacher that put his content up on his personal website, nobody would care. But because it was done in MIT's name, people start throwing dirt.

I've asked some hearing-impaired friends what they thought about this article. Their reaction was that it was ridiculous to sue over the accessibility of information given away for free.
To use another saying, the frogs in this pot are just about boiled... if not now, it's going to be too late, if it isn't already.
It reminds me of a story how Red Digital Cinema Camera Company was born.

Few years ago I've found a motivational article that everyone can make a successful business out of their garage even in the field of high end technology. I googled RED camera's founders name - multi-billionaire founder of Oakley. Probably his garage looked like a high tech version of Jay Leno's car garage and not like the Jobs' and Wozniak's garage.

Dude have been building his blog business/image/trademark for many years and successfully capitalised on that. Kudos to him.

We do not say that Apple successfully reached 1 million dollars in phone sales in 10 minutes. No - it took them 30 years to reach that point.
Counting in binary gets you even further. If each finger is one bit, you can easily count to 2^10-1 == 1023. I frequently use this to keep track of running totals over 10.
After working at BigCo and saving steady pay while nurturing your startup at night for a few years. You have a visibility to traction. And a cushion against failure. So you can take the "risk". It's easy to take a "risk" when it's not really there.

It's not like this founder started with $100 and made an ongoing business employing a few others.

Started on second, scored on as RBI and media talks about your Grand Slam.
> How do you expect me to have a discussion with you when all you are doing is trying to twist my words? We were discussing if there's a connection between Anti-Semitism and Socialism so I commented on that.

You said that I wasn't far off from being an anti-semite because I hated success to which am saying that I don't hate success, but even if I did, suggesting that that means anti-semitism is a stretch at best.

Also, I have never heard of anybody paying 90% tax anywhere.
The problem with splitting function up a la OOP best practices will ironically result in zero code reuse because all functions will depend on each other.
espn?
The golf was maybe of our location, there was a council course nearby. He took it up sometime in his 50s, and I guess 5 years after he left the council for the private sector. Maybe it was to progress at work or just for the friends.

We certainly weren't rich, going on the house and lifestyle, though with a car not poor either. That highlights another difference, he'd never talk about work much and money not at all. With our kids we were far more open about work, less so about money - they don't need to share mortgage worries.

Of the rest I think you're entirely right, especially as he grew up in the 30s. The post war world would soon be unrecognisable. From the 30s through to the typical home of 1970, the changes were dramatic and fundamental moving from poverty to consumer society with healthcare.
I appreciate you taking the time to find something worth responding to in the mess I seemed to have touched off. I agree with all of your points, but I'm also careful to suggest that if raising a child is something you're unwilling to do, you need to restrict your sexual activity accordingly. That can just mean protected sex with someone you trust, and know would be willing to terminate an unexpected and accidental pregnancy.
It seems they use Go IPFS[1].

[1] - https://github.com/haadcode/ipfs-daemon/blob/master/ipfs-dae...
Team creates first quantum computer bridge
I reject your false dichotomy.
404 at the australian
Not sure if this is helpful, but for myself, it was essentially a post on ProductHunt & emailing some journalists.

The ProductHunt post was augmented by the fact the product (https://uimovement.com) was clearly for a certain community (designers), so it was picked up and shared on other publications/social media accounts within the community.

From the PH post, it was picked up and shared on DesignerNews, r/web_design, Webdesignernews, Codrops, Smashing Mag, etc. The other sources brought in way more traffic than PH in the end.

For more long-term, but slower growth, automating social media has been helpful too, but that can only work for content-heavy products.
And I reject your false equivalency.
There was a notable incident where the price hit $1k/hr in 2011.

https://moz.com/devblog/amazon-ec2-spot-request-volatility-h...

From talking to AWS, when people pay above-on-demand prices, it's because they carelessly put in a huge bid.
His silence here is assent. He'd rather we not recognize it as such, and I feel bad for him because I think he'd rather not recognize it as such either. But Graham's own writing spells out what makes his relationship with Thiel different than that of a relationship between employers and employees. If he can discriminate against mothers with young children, he cannot claim that the unfairness of discrimination prevents him from severing ties with Thiel.
This man built a VR app to cure his fear of spiders
The biggest problem with 3d chips is the heat from the logic die down below. It might not be an issue when the logic is simple and doesn't do a lot.

But once you want to put complex and fast logic there, it's a big issue, the same issue preventing putting memory on top of the CPU.

So it would be interesting to see how they would approach this.
He retired in 1996, but judging from his CV it looks like he stopped doing research in the 1960s or 70s. [1] His last research paper was published in 1979, and the paper before that was published in 1966. Perhaps he was an excellent teacher, but it doesn't seem like he needed to be in a research university.

[1] http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/higgs/peter-higgs
The laws already exist, and Harvard et.al. have been operating under them for years. If they followed those laws and subtitled the videos, the problem would also be solved.
Try an incognito window. I hear that WSJ is setting cookies once you see their paywall and showing it every time after that regardless of referer.
In the legal filing, the government says (in a footnote) that there is no Fifth Amendment issue because the Fifth protects against self-incrimination but that, here, no one has been charged with a crime.

The government is on a "fishing expedition" -- obtaining a warrant to search the phones so that they can (hopefully) find evidence. As mentioned in the article, it doesn't work that way (they're going about it backwards).
Could you possibly identify it first?
That's kind of an unnecessarily rude and condescending reply. The funny thing is, in your rush to showcase your command of logical fallacies you perpetrated a straw man fallacy. I merely said she is brave, worthy of our deep respect and likely to persevere in the face of adversity, not that we shouldn't be deeply concerned about this case.
QUIC is a UDP based network protocol. It is an alternative to HTTP2 or HTTP, which are TCP based protocols. If you visit google.com with a recent version of chrome, you're using QUIC. Open chrome://net-internals/#quic in another tab and click a connection UID to see the conversation.
And such a company would be Amazon, and such an example would be Amazon's services for the government.
It would be impossible - the language already contains huge numbers of loan words.

All our eating meat words are French for instance (Beef, Mutton, Pork) whereas the animal words are "English" (Cow, Sheep, Pig) because the Norman invasion replaced all the old English aristocracy - the commoners raised the animals, the nobles ate them. That was just one conquest and we've had several - the Romans, Celts, Danes etc.

To say nothing of important words taken from German, Italian let alone Latin and Greek.

That's the reason it's such a mare to learn - it's accepted that we have more words than any other language.

There is no such thing as pure English - and a good thing too!
The linked article states that a "voice print" would likely be sufficient (but hasn't been tested legally).
The prosecutor couldn't care less what the definition of journalism is or isn't, except insofar as it applies to winning the case.

He is acting as an arm of the state government, trying to protect moneyed interests by using his prosecutorial power to punish Goodman and intimidate other reporters from getting clever ideas about covering the protests. To that end it's not even worth considering the argument he has presented; it's just a thin veneer of legality, a diversion, and not worth the paper it's printed on.
That he works long hours doesn't necessarily mean he is good value for money
In my high school orchestra, I'd count the rest measures on my cello's fingerboard using binary. Usually I'd only need four fingers, but occasionally I'd need my thumb as well if the composer mistook the cello for a bass.
Not the person you were replying to, but I'm greatly interest in learning more regarding to market microstructure. Have any books you'd recommend?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=80LKF2qph6I
> But because it was done in MIT's name, people start throwing dirt.

Well, perhaps its because that material was paid for in part using public grants - your tax money and mine? These aren't poor, barely solvent community colleges, these are private institutions with huge revenues and investment funds in the hundreds of millions.

> If it was a teacher that put his content up on his personal website, nobody would care

If it were created with money from a federal grant, then yeah, people would still care.
> typed arrays [are] allocated outside [the heap] and involving the browser bindings

Nit: The spec makes no such demand, they can be anywhere. In v8 small TAs are indeed on the heap.
Short term, I readily agree. Longer term... I start to get resentful, I get tired of doing the same thing I've done a hundred times before. A kindness extended for long enough becomes an obligation. I think people should basically be able to handle things on their own.

To be clear, I don't think it's good that I feel this way. I don't think more people should be like me. But this is how I am, and attempting to deny the fact has only led to resentment, depression, and a bad time for all involved.
I know about Magisk and it's a hassle. Not worth doing for pokemon go.
Be aware, there is existing DyNet protocol in Dynalite systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynalite
> a sizeable majority don't even participate

That might be your best hope.

(Respectfully submitted, etc, etc.)
Just open sourced Kvpbase object storage platform
http://kevinsuttle.com/posts/jsx-2-adobe-flex
Excellent question! I like playing the role of gadfly, but will now try to construct my own argument for demolition to the enjoyment of others.

First, let's examine the virtue of accessibility. We start with the observation that nearly 1 in 5 Americans are disabled[0]. The source provides a breakdown by disability type. 1 in 5 is a high enough ratio to appeal to purely selfish reasons for the virtue of accessibility: there is quite a good chance you yourself will become disabled and require accommodation, so you should advocate for accessibility while you are still fortunate enough to be healthy. Other reasons to support accessibility include improved economic output by including the disabled in the workforce, ensuring a path to success for exceptional disabled people, increased quality of life among the disabled populace (about which you may or may not care), and an appeal to the abstract ideal of equality.

Now that we have established the virtue of accessibility, let's consider the virtue of enshrining accessibility requirements in law with penalty for non-compliance. Clearly, not all services desired by the disabled will implement accessibility (an example is the topic of this thread). Of those services which do not voluntarily implement accessibility, does the government have any interest in compelling implementation? Your answer to this question will depend on your own beliefs about the role of government; to head off an enormous digression, we'll just assume that yes, the government does have such an interest.

If the government has an interest in compelling implementation of accessibility, to what services does this interest extend? Certainly not all; it would be absurd to require every favor or interaction between individuals maintain full access compliance. For our purposes here let's use a classification function unlikely to be controversial (and more restrictive than is practiced): services provided by the government, and services provided by institutions receiving money from the government.

Both MIT ($460m in 2015[1]) and Harvard ($656m in 2012[2]) receive funding from the federal government. Thus they satisfy our restrictive classification, and so services offered should implement accessibility measures subject to penalty. These free online courses are services offered by MIT and Harvard. Thus they should implement accessibility measures. They certainly have the means.

[0] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/miscellane...

[1] http://web.mit.edu/ir/financial/re.html

[2] http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/12/30/sequestration-r...
> You are making a complicated thing into a binary. I'm sure that feels pleasantly dramatic, but it confuses issues where we need clarity.

I'm happy to recognize the middle ground where someone can effectively just be whining and have nothing useful to say, and the appropriate thing to do is just shut up. That middle ground has nothing to do with respect though, which gets back to my point.

Certainly I agree that the way a concern is voiced has a major impact on how it will be received.

> But you are only competent to disagree with his decision once you have as much information as he does and has put a similar level of thought into it. Otherwise you're one of those people who froths at a trial outcome without actually looking at the trial record and carefully reading the judge's decision. Not all opinions are equally valuable. If I suggest my ignorant opinion is just as good as somebody else's informed one, I am unavoidably being disrespectful to them.

Absolutely not. This is a terribly unhealthy attitude. By this logic, you can virtually never question someone's choice because you effectively never know everything that goes into someone else's choice. This is yes man logic that leads to an echo chamber. Less charitably, this is apologist behavior. This is the argument put forward to defend every shady government decision in history. "Oh, you don't have all the information so you can't have an opinion on the issue."

What you should be doing in a situation where you disagree but don't feel well informed is to become well informed so that you can either defend your position or understand the decision.
And this is why I don't use my fingerprint, passcode only for me.
Russian Hackers Faked Gmail Password Form to Invade DNC Email System
Someone got financing for a crowdsourcing of data mining of commercial data set. Very clever.

It seems that only very few nerds are taking the theoretical impossibility of predicting the future seriously and we are missing the opportunity to get funding for some crappy models from the greater fools.
And a SaaS was born
I don't really know how to prove something, but for the first problem, it seems like any odd number multiplied by any other odd number (in the example, they choose 3) will always be odd. This can/has been proven. Then, any odd number, negative or positive, with 1 added or subtracted to it, becomes even. Finally, any even number divided by two is still even and approaches two.

"Mathematicians have tried millions of numbers and they've never found a single one that didn't end up at 1 eventually. The thing is, they've never been able to prove that there isn't a special number out there that never leads to 1."

Why are they trying millions of numbers? It seems like those 3 statements are very easy to prove, and explain this "phenomenon." Also, isn't the multiplying by 3 part kind of arbitrary. It seems like the only important part to consider is that if the number is odd, add 1. The multiplying by 3 is unnecessary, and could just as easily be swapped for multiplying by any odd number.