skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I love and identify with these rants (keep 'em coming!), I think as much damage is done by trying to think long term (and guessing wrong) as by focusing on short term. In the abstract, I agree with the author in general that there's too much short-term thinking in software development, but in my experience, the cure is usually worse than the disease.
it was a polemic, but that is not the same thing as a rant.
Alexis is amazing with all things product, marketing, and community. Alina is best with engineering, hard tech challenges, and hacking growth. I focus most on product and design. Kim helps people with marketing and PR.

We all help people with their ideas, helping founders manage the difficult psychology of starting something new, and making sure that the startup can get to the next milestone: engagement, growth, and profitability.
This is a project to build a new transmission line to Haymarket, a site of an existing AWS datacenter [1] and rumored to be a favored expansion site for more. This project would also allow AWS to designate Haymarket as the 6th Availability Zone in Virginia by separating it from its Manassas-Gainesville datacenters serviced from the 'Gainesville substation' near Wellington.

See also page 14 of this pdf [2] showing electricity transmission infrastructure for the wider area.

[1] http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2077000-iad-55-jan-14...

[2] https://www.dom.com/library/domcom/pdfs/electric-transmissio...
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>They should also sell those tokens as a means of generating revenue. I'd buy some and hand them down.

That is the point. http://memory-of-mankind.com/giftshop
I had not heard of Chronicles of George. I have been laughing almost continuously reading it.
Why is party discipline undemocratic? Why is party discipline undemocratic?

Can you explain why you think it's not? I think party discipline is simply autoritarianism applied within a political party. If anything, it advertises to me that said party doesn't really believe in democratic principles.
One relatively easy option is to use Jekyll on GitHub Pages. You can eventually CNAME your own domain to it. The content is in a git repo you can easily clone and take with you somewhere else such as Netlify or other hosts that compete in this space, if/when your needs change.
Well, they can take risks, but new projects have to make sense to their bottom line. If you are 10B company and you are looking on 5 - 10M opportunity than it doesn't take much sense for this company. There is great book on this topic called Innovator's Dilemma.
Thus I have practiced learning if our inaction is genuine and how to spin you off if it isn't.
> The only difference this year is that Intel has been having problems delivering on time (and without problems).

That is the entire difference. You're correct in that this is the expected time between redesigns, but we also haven't gotten a spec bump in over a year. That's unusual, and it's giving real fuel to the usually-overblown "[product] is so stale!"
Some of those are not very good i.e. not quality standards. Is there a quality standard for quality standards or does the buck stop there?
Great Recession, not Great Depression
Fallen London is dangerously brilliant - think of browser games like Kingdom of Loathing, but with a spectacular depth of storytelling and complexity. It also has an interesting rapid-feedback structure; instead of things like lengthy 'fights' everything runs on probabilistic outcomes.

...would you happen to know if Ambition: Enigma is real? No hints, but one of the devs suggested it wasn't and I'd like to at least know if there's actually something to look for.
I always liked the idea of standardizing on notes with the formula Cx = 2^(x+4)Hz. In reality it's fairly arbitrary, but in this method the frequency would follow numbers familiar to programmers, e.g.

C5 = 512Hz
C6 = 1024Hz
C7 = 2048Hz

In such a method, 'A' would be closer to 431Hz, so slightly flatter than the 440 we use now.
This has nothing to do with governments, it's freaking hard to build secure software. There'd be bugs in American software just like there are bugs in the foreign software.
Apple bought Siri, and then largely did nothing with it. The founders left, and started another AI startup: Viv.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/09/siri-creator-shows-off-fir...

That AI capability could have been Apples.

Instead of concentrating on user experience as a whole, they concentrated on "look and feel" of devices, along with UI.

Those are all good things. But having an iPhone with a useful AI would be a killer.

Instead, Google is pushing hard in this area. And will likely do well. Because they're a data analysis company. Not a "pretty picture" company.
It's better than it used to be in some ways: much of the worst have moved on to other forums.
If electric bass (or maybe even if not) try Thomastik-Infeld strings, especially the flatwound strings.
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So is it true that the screening interview is with 2-3 non-technical HR people?

If so, that's completely incompatible with the procedure you've outlined. Non-technical people are by definition not capable of evaluating points a), b), c), or d) on your list.
The middle class just gets screwed, you mean. A large part of the working class are also poor.
Dirty self-reply here because it's too late to edit, but it has occurred to me that the ending is also indispensable to that character's arc.
If you like this, you would probably appreciate

https://www.reddit.com/r/videogamescience/

And

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/
The reason investors are not interested in funding enterprise software (which usually increases productivity, and eventually standards of living) is that big companies have not been interested in optimizing their operations for many years now, because:

- business is good due to lowered competition (market consolidation)

- cheap/free debt can be used for various forms of financial engineering (stock buybacks, etc), making EPS look good
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It would still have been divided down. There aren't many "Hz" oscillators. They're all usually in KHz/MHz range.
Trump has advocated for the death penalty to be used against innocent teenagers. I'd say that's worse than torture.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/08/do...
I really like the dichotomy Steve Blank uses between "process" people and "creative" people. I've only been working in tech companies for ~10yrs but all my experience working in companies have shown me that the more a person is obsessed with processes and structure, the less they contribute to the real business value (product, design, marketing, etc). Not only in their own time investment in the company but in their influence on others around them, which tends to be high because they usual get managerial roles somehow.

These are the people who obsess over flaws in how work is done rather than the work itself. Which has it's place in larger companies but even there it really needs to be balanced, much more in favour of outward work.

Being a front-end dev I've had to work with many 'product managers' who spent a big chunk of their time on the process stuff and most of the product ideas were just shots in the dark without backing it up with data or experience, or otherwise entirely reactionary to local customer issues or the bosses moods, rather than with a strong vision or focusing on high level trends in customer behaviour. Largely, I believe, because they spent a lot of their finite resources focusing on the wrong things (internal optimization rather than external, ie talking to customers, value prop).

There are many many traps that startups can fall into and this is a big one. Especially when companies get VC and start adding non-core team members, then feel the need to bring in managers.
> For some, Trump's actions have crossed that line. For others, it hasn't happened yet.

I think that's a good description. And this is making a lot of people think about where that line is.

There's another dimension here as well. Putting aside the particular actions and stances of these candidates, the US has effectively a binary choice for the presidential election. We all have a large number of beliefs, and we rank those beliefs as well.

Given a binary choice, it's highly unlikely that your personal beliefs are going to perfectly align with either candidate. Which beliefs are you going to compromise on in choosing your candidate?

Given the record-high strong unfavorable ratings of both candidates[0], it's pretty clear most of the voters are going to be compromising on some values they likely hold to be pretty important. That's a tough place to be, both personally, and when you see others making choices that you don't agree with.

It's heartening to see people vocally take (civil) action on their beliefs -- on both sides. As long as we can remember that in addition to the things we disagree on -- a particular issue, who we end up voting for -- there are things we agree on as well.*

[0]: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-distaste-for-b...

* Please don't take this as advocating false-equivalency. We need to at least start from a position of being charitable towards each other if we're going to work together.

In the hopes of better communication, if you'd like to down vote this comment, will you also take the time to add a brief reply? I appreciate it.
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I wish they had come up with something else than "const". I can't not see it as anything other than "the traditional meaning like const API_URL". Those writing the spec should have forseen this and used something else. I suspect that this is something like arrow functions. The concept of arrow functions is great, but using something that looks like "equal to or greater than" was poor judgement. I know that this was taken from other programming languages and I can't help but suspect that using const to mean something other than it's tradition meaning is something borrowed from some other language.
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One proposed pitch standard that was never widely used set C at 256 hz just to make the math slightly easier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_pitch
Maybe but it'd have been significantly more complex, here they could take a MHz piezo-electric crystal and tack on a few electronic multipliers and dividers (/1000 *11 /25) to get the desired frequency.
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Isn't the rise just based on how much water these glaciers hold? Intuitively I would expect that to be noticeable within hours, a day at most.
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You should go through the exercise of posting a mea culpa after the election (assuming the IBD poll is in line with the election results). Or just write the mea culpa on a piece of paper that you burn.

What you are doing here is taking your facile analysis of what their skew correction might be and using it to speculate that a relatively conservative, information focused publication is trying to influence the vote by lying in a way that won't really do much to influence the vote.
The media was entirely on Pao's side. They were claiming discrimination before the case hit trial, during the trial, and after the pro-KPCB verdict!

That's what a lot of Redditors found shocking/disgusting. If there were indeed six KPCB PR firms in play, they did a terrible job.
When I started, I was agnostic and an optimist; now I'm a pessimist athiest.

Psychologically speaking, debugging forces you confront and correct flaws in your reasoning. If you do it 10 to 100 times a day for 10 years or more, I think that your reasoning skills become a lot sharper.

I think you have a point though. Maybe it's more of a feedback cycle. Anyway, it's just a random thought.
These were not just product transitions, but radical business model transitions – new channels, new customers and new markets–and new emphasis on different parts of the organization
The arguments are so bitter because the stakes are so low.
If it was let loose tomorrow, you'll notice at some time around tomorrow, with some hours of delay.

And if it was let loose on a single day, you'll notice rises way bigger than 3'. I'd recommend you not to be on coast on such event.
600MB is a huge exaggeration. Looks like about 34MB for babel-cli, babel-preset-es2015, and babel-preset-stage-0.
do not post job ads as stories: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
So you created your HN account an hour ago for the only purpose of complaining about a product which is best of class and being offered to you for free?
This isn't a very helpful comment, what do you mean?
What printer do you use?

Only prob I have is some places insist on original docs :-/
This is just false.

The web-font icon, if tagged with aria-hidden="true" (as suggested on the accessibility page) will not be read by any modern screen readers.

Additionally, if the web-font icon is representing meaningful information the span with a class of "sr-only" allows you to represent the icon in a meaningful way to users requiring a screen reader.

Please, read the accessibility page that has been linked to you. You're saying things that are flatly untrue.
People who work in auto shops love the ThinkPad to the point it's probably the only model they buy. It's the AK-47 of laptops.

It apears there's little dogfooding in products, whether laptops or cars. Design flaws that just nag you right from the first use that make you wonder if people who work at laptop or car manufacturers use laptops and drive cars.
Here's what I want. A very quick and preferably non-obvious / grossly apparent way to trigger my touch ID enabled phone to force prompt for passcode/word.

Push the power button thrice. Touch with a different finger. Whatever. Something that takes a second, involves no "obvious" movements or none that can be stopped part way through, and that disables touch sign-on until I actually enter the passcode/word.

Will it stop someone rubber hosing me? No. Will it hinder BS like the above? Maybe. (Especially when I have a few moments to react before the aggressor gets to me.)
Also not the GP, but I think San Junipero goes beyond just the inevitability of aging and death. It hits upon the meaninglessness of both life and a hypothetical afterlife. Although the people of San Junipero “live” in paradise, their existence borders on the hedonistic: thrill-seeking, sex, and drugs (alcohol.) Is a life of this nature worth living? The characters in the episode certainly seem to think so. Yet, I’d argue that living in this manner is a kind of hell.
Yes, but since Iceland is geographically part of Europe, it is better to use the European definitions to avoid ambiguity.
Well in my experience I must say: Node.js+Express is the way to go for making simple page-serving servers that can handle many many clients. If you wish to do something more complex with the front-end, I have been using socket.io and also Angular.js. Angular adds to the mix a "controller" that holds a per-client state so that you have your node "server," your angular-based "client" and then the view (which is the browser/html+css).

So, since your question says "basic" I'll leave it at that.
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What are typical American taxes? It was hard to find info, the calculators are confusing. I also heard some cities like manhattan have income taxes too. What would a New Yorker or Californian pay?

We do have a 13% national sales tax which I don't think states have.

Yeah, for those earning over $200K it's quite punishing, and would probably amount to more than the health savings. I think there aren't corporate structures that make it less rough though.
came here to say this, they have some amazing content! Sort by top > year/all time gives you tons of good stories.
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Can someone smarter than me (not a high bar) explain why they didn't just fix var, rather than introducing let?
>Pao is generally not a very tactful or likeable person, but with that gender discrimination lawsuit dripping off of her she was dead on arrival as far as Reddit is concerned.

AKA a post-hoc justification of the improper acts against her.

I'm not claiming she was a competent CEO. I'm saying the general Reddit community acted inappropriately against her. It was a case of "get rid of her by any means necessary", which included baseless accusations.

She may have been a poor CEO, but the judgment against the Reddit community is far worse.
> given an A they can identify the C

this is relative pitch

> what does it mean when one claims that they have 'perfect pitch'

someone starting before 6 years old (better chance of things sticking) and being sung "bah-bah-black sheep" with a piano at the correct pitch. So they manage to remember the starting pitch as well as the relative up/down of the melody.

Interestingly, more common in "tonal" language speakers, e.g. Mandarin, where the pitch can make a difference in the meaning of the same word. Apparently "ma" can mean mom, horse, lazy... depending on the pitch and its direction.

Perfect pitch is mostly a curse than a blessing as many notes in the world are off, e.g. a school bell, and hurt the person with the perfect pitch. I hear :)
"If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization".
>when you bring they back to Earth they will be confiscated

Nobody is talking about using Mars as a manufacturing base to transport to Earth, it's all about creating a self-sustaining colony. There has to be stronger incentives for people/companies to move there. Even on earth there are many economic zones incentivized by lack of regulation etc.
As someone who personally had business dealings with a company/person mentioned in one of those stories, I can say that the story perfectly matched the personas of those involved, which has me absolutely convinced that it actually happened (at least in some form). Extrapolating this to the other stories on the site, I have always assumed that they are in reality more truth than embellishment.
That's one way to look at it. Another is that, when affiliate fees are your only source of revenue, replacing all your $4 fees with $6 fees increases revenue by 50%. That's potentially huge. If you're running the company, you have to take it on faith that keeping your integrity will continue to improve word-of-mouth sales by more than 50% over the long run. And there's a constant temptation to change your mind, especially if your growth curve starts to taper off.

I'm just saying the math isn't so cut-and-dry that we consumers don't have to remain vigilant.
Moral of the story is that numbers with dimensions totally arbitrary. In theoretical physics you often want to find a small parameter to do a Taylor expansion and make some mathematical expression simpler. A small parameter is a number much less than one, but if we have a quantity with the units of metres for example, we cannot say "r is much less than 1" because you can't compare a number with dimensions to one. You could always pick your units such that the number is much less than 1. What you instead do is find some _ratio_ of quantities that is much less than one, because then the units cancel and you have a dimensionless quantity that you can then compare to 1.
Routing is complex. There are a lot of disparate pieces that come together to give users the ability to navigate a site. There is the address bar ui element which displays a url string on screen. There is back/forward functionality accessible through buttons, keyboard shortcuts or other input methods. There are <a> links which navigate to new content in various ways. There is url input through the address bar.

I appreciate a look into this world, but routing on the web isn't supposed to be very complex. One of the big simplicity wins of the web network architecture was that it was stateless almost everywhere, with hypertext as the engine of application state[1].

Anybody can write some HTML with some anchor tags and tie it to some routes declared in a server-side routing file. The back button will work. History will work. Refresh will work. Copy-and-pasting the URL into an email will work. It's so easy that even I can do it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS
It's probably more true that you realize. Salt mines across many countries are being used to store all sorts of knowledge.

For instance here in Kansas is a huge salt mine that Hollywood uses to store original prints of many many classic films and works.

In Kansas City Missouri is one of the largest underground limestone cavern converted to storage for all forms of records. From film to paper archives for government.

I imagine it's more coming than we think because it's not sexy and these types of facilities do not get much press.
Honest question here ---

What is the difference between let and global variables? There are hundreds of articles written about the doom associated with PHP globals, but let appears to be universally lauded. I must be missing something, but I can't tell where.
Can you suggest ways in which 'barely wealthy' people can help new potential entrepreneurs? For example, I don't have enough money to be an angel or involved with an incubator or VC, but I have enough money to subsidize someone's health care costs, if that's all that's needed.
Is it fundamentally different from car insurance? It might not be very useful to them if they get in a fender-bender, but a high deductible plan can still save their bacon if they have a health catastrophe.
- some knucklehead waiter applies for government assistance he is entitled for on paper, but doesn't actually need (e.g. food stamps, full pell grant, welfare? whatever)

- every news station in the country runs an article about how your business relies on government handouts
For developing browser extensions I think ES6 is currently can be used safely (at least for Chrome).