skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen the OSHA recommendation, but I don't agree with it.

Maybe I'm just weird, but my neck hurts more having to tilt my head ever so slightly forward instead of leaving it neutral.

Also, as a side effect, and maybe largely why I find it uncomfortable... it makes me aim wrong in FPSes due to perspective issues.

I have mine where they are centered in my vision, and I don't move my head to look up and down, I just move my eyes.
>> They struggle enormously at providing solid cloud services,

> So does everyone else.

That's fair, but given the size of Apple they're doing disproportionately poorly.

>> their websites suck (particularly their developer portals),

> I'm sure consumers care about developer portals.

I didn't say consumers care. Consumers care about design, which is what Apple focus on, that's my point!

>> they can't write a functional USB stack,

> Never had any problems with it.

Plug in a USB 3 hub. Any USB 3 hub... seriously.

>> macOS has more bugs than ever,

> How did you quantify this?

As mentioned, Apple have a complete lack of transparency that makes this difficult to quantify. However, articles like https://eclecticlight.co/2016/09/28/known-bugs-in-macos-sier... give some incite. I've been using OS X/macOS for years, and at least in my personal experience it's been mostly downhill since Snow Leopard. Finder is particularly buggy, although Apple Mail also crashes at least once a week. Waking from sleep seems to wreak havoc on all sorts of things, why does my mouse and keyboard start playing up?

>> even iOS' stability seems to be going downhill.

> How did you quantify this?

As above. Just personal experience. I genuinely do not use iOS much, I do admit that. I use it purely for development, a lot of which recently is just web development. However, Safari seems to have an uncanny ability to crash iOS entirely! Allocate a lot of large WebGL textures and watch the system burn.

EDIT: To clarify the "downhill" statement, large WebGL texture allocations on iOS 8 do not cause a system crash, just the expected Safari tab crash. On iOS 9+ you'll be sent to the white boot screen at least 50% of the time, and things will get hot (on the same iPhone hardware).
There are low margins generally in the phone industry, too. And in the computer industry.

My point was that Apple probably cuts large projects with too little earning potential.
I'm on mobile, and I've taken a look at the site. I'm not sure what it does.
> the things he's working on will never affect me.

Perhaps not in next 5 years, but what about 20 years? Do you expect that electric cars will never be cheaper than petrol cars? Do you expect to never ride in an autonomous vehicle?
> Why doesn't Instapainting hire american artists?

Give me one argument why they should. You speak like it's an axiom but I don't see any reason to be a protectionist in this matter. Especially when the customer base is as global as it is (I'm a customer and I'm much closer to China than the US).
> Relative growth and absolute count is not the same.

That's exactly why it keeps coming up. It's easy to grow 50% when you're making a relatively small number of items, it's another thing entirely when you're much larger. So for Tesla to post these growth figures is meaningless without taking the actual numbers of cars shipped into account.
Twitter Q3 2016 Letter to Shareholders [pdf]
"throw shit at the wall and see what sticks" - Is this really a bad thing? You have to try things in the real world to get anywhere. Are there any companies that can see into the future to see what works?
Great work! Congrats on finishing a side project, that's the hardest part. :) I look forward to seeing it on the Play Store.
sorry just curious why you say this policy incentivizes more risk at the end of the year?

is there an upside? explicit bonus/P&L part of it?
From Zero to a Million: Launching a startup is like crossing a desert alone
I've read both, thanks. I clearly remember the fact the total ordering is "somewhat arbitrary" in Lamport's own words, which is what I pointed out here [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12803907], too.

I admit I haven't read the implementation to see what kind of bounds you derive, and I couldn't find them in the wiki either. So, I think I'll go with "accidentally exaggerated" instead of "manipulative".
Twitter Third Quarter Earnings Release
Great thing, I laughed hard, never reaching Mars. It's a bit too hard :-)
you seem to be missing the point. If you oppose civil rights protections for LGBT people but support them for non-LGBT people then you're a hypocrite. But more so you're also for the same socioeconomic system that supports oppression of minorities which means you're acting against your self interest and that of others. And throwing out that you're LGBT doesn't exempt you from criticism from anyone especially me since I'm a bi trans woman. So trying that "but I'm LGBT how can I vote against my self interests" meme doesn't mean much when your ideology opposes individual freedom and the protection thereof.
Use maximum possible JPEG/PNG compression, enable AMP, use HTTP/2.

And host the 20MB zip somewhere else, DropBox, Google Drive, Mega or something.
Too bad git clone and fetch are still not resumable.
You could say the same for a lamppost (that I can attach a photo with a message to) and just about every other means of communication where the sender is not known (regular mail, for instance).

Technology can be used for good and for bad, this tech is no different in that respect.
What work do you do?

Everything interests me, superficially[1]. Most of it is useless except for playing trivia games.

If I were a FU-rich autodidact that wouldn't be a problem but I'm a poor schmuck with a family to support.

My brain is so full of interesting stuff and tangential thought that there no room for focused attention on anything mundane enough to count as useful work (though I'm sure with an equipped workshop/lab and a couple of years I can turn one of my book-of-ideas concepts to something useful for mankind).

Don't we \have\ to do what gives us a living?

[1] superficially perhaps isn't the right word, the minutiae of everything is infinitely interesting too, more that things are only interesting temporarily, which leads to flitting about across diverse subjects.
How we went from 0 to $1,596/MRR in 48 hours
> Frankly, any photo or video on digital media is just a tiny little step away from being irreversibly published to the internet. People should never make photos or videos of that kind if they don't want it to be public.

Alternatively, a photo of me in my nude being public should not mean that I am unfit for public office. Nobody would ban Jennifer Lawrence or Kate Upton if they wanted to be a teacher. Why should we fire our school teachers for sending nudes? Why should we refuse to hire people who have made sex tapes from teaching?

All this "think of the children" hysteria is pretty stupid.
Bitcoin seems to be going through an issue at the moment where many transactions are taking hours to complete due to a large backlog. This might be transient but when I ask any questions about so what happens if volume doubles, I just get attacked for asking such questions.

It seems bitcoin just doesn't scale very well.

So my question is does ZCash?
How will it cope with current bitcoin volumes? Or 10 times? Or 1000?
"given that computers are much better drivers than humans"

I can't tell if the author agrees with this premise or not. Clearly they are not better drivers than humans or there would already be fully autonomous cars on the road.
FTA:-

“So what if it limps. Its purpose is to get you into the next stage of the
story and you take off from there. Time enough when you go through the novel
again to correct the transition. For all you know, the material that you will
write much later in the novel will make it plain to you exactly how the
transition ought to have been. No amount of rewriting and repolishing now will
get it right in the absence of knowledge of the course of the entire book. So
let it limp and get on with it … Think of yourself as an artist making a sketch
to get the composition clear in his mind, the blocks of color, the balance, and
the rest. With that done, you can worry about the fine points.”
– Asimov’s advice, in a letter, about ‘limping transitions’ in first drafts

This would seem to be good advice in any creative endeavour and particularly relevant to startup culture.
Attracting Engaging Audiences with Your Digital Content
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Think highway patrol stealing money company, or DEA tracking every cellphone company.
I have done this many times. I generally wait until after the offer has been made. At that point the company is convinced in my work output. They should want to maximize their investment. My hope is that asking for specific work accommodations to maximize performance comes across as conscientious and carrying about the value I deliver.

I phrase it along the lines of "I have trouble concentrating, so if I have to work in an open office environment I would perform the best if I face a wall".
I don't call this events failures, I call them tries. And many, many tries are required to learn and create a single success.

But maybe that is why I'm no analyst.
Great write up! If you're not up for the read, it's worth watching the 45 second demo video at the bottom.
7,500 people to get texts asking for info in homicide
Indeed that is how we break ties (not exactly the PID, but you get the idea).

The reason this works is that the only time we can have a tie is if there can be no causality between the events. I.e., the two sending events happen concurrently: the two ioctl calls overlap in time, so there would be no way for one to have caused the other.

What problem do you see with this?
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How to Prevent the Next Big DDoS Attack
Millennials in Your Team
How does this work if a person that is 500m away from me is currently chatting with someone 1.2km away… will it seem to me like that person is talking to himself (because his chat partner is out of my reach)?
"I don't get lower rates from the artists than my competitors, so I just undercut them in final retail price instead."
What Counts as Science?
Over a 25 year career I've worked on most key Microsoft technologies, but started out my work life as a Sys Admin for DEC VAXs using VMS. I'm also conversant with Linux, and can pretty much pick up anything IT orientated quite easily - I can design and build almost anything if I put my mind to it.

I see myself as an IT generalist, but in the workplace I have to specialize. Currently I focus on making Single Identities work across systems for large Corporates. It's quite niche, and at times monotonous work (the design is pretty much the same wherever you go), however in order to be GOOD at whichever specialism I'm pitching at the time I heavily draw on the cross knowledge I've gained over the years. This extra knowledge has ended up being invaluable in separating myself from the herd in the recruitment marketplace.

So in short. Early on you should generalize and learn as much about stuff that interests you; later on (10+ years) start to specialize based your preferences (or mortgage size, or whatever).
This instagram account - https://www.instagram.com/prisma/ - was posted below and contains selected images produced by the Prisma app. They might not compare with the masters, but they are definitely art in my opinion. Examples:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BL-ngYTjXZH/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BLfxvgyD-mu/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BHnZyddjumg/

This is a very new field, I find it very exciting and can't wait to see where we are in 5-10 years, personally.
Or even better yet, build it into the keyboard as a set of forward-facing LCD buttons!
> I chose not to go down the route of scamming because I consider it incompatible with our Moroccan and Islamic values

Or... with basic human decency, whether you're Moroccan and Islamic or not.
You can do `$foo('bar')` and `baz('bar')` though. Which is horrible ;)
Something must be wrong with me because I almost never remember the command to do that. Perhaps its because I only do it once in 2 months or so. Thankfully my browser has me covered. I type in "git delete" and it autocompletes to links describing deletion of branches and tags.
Twitter to Cut Workforce as Revenue Growth Slows
Because not everybody knows even if they should. Because it makes things easier for others. Because it facilitates contacting you for licensing deals and you want this money. Because it makes infringements easier to prove since you haven't officially registered your copyright. Because you want to sign your work.
> LXC and cgroups and aufs and overlayfs and whatever else do a lot of the heavy lifting, but Docker glued it all together

For being just glue, Docker has an unjustifiably large code base, it's quite opaque and a lot of stuff to learn if you want to go beyond "hello world"

If a bash script can do the same (admittedly, using btrfs) using 100 lines of code something is wrong^W hyped up.

https://github.com/p8952/bocker
How does this compare to YikYak (or the German equivalent 'Jodel')?
Seem technically very similar.
UK copyright law is old and unusually strict. E.g. crown copyright can be perpetual.
Yes, you and dilemma make great points. I Agree, that given these companies exist this is beter than a pretence at being 'nice'. However, it's the prediminance and ruling of our lives by the existence and systemic power of such unvalues that is what ruins lives (time, overwork), and the environment. It's simple agent shortish term maximising, for a money game, rather than what would be better: a human / AI collaborative effort to figure out optimal outcomes, and work towards them in informationally rich ways.
Progressive JPEGs and Green Martians
Premium is very premium in the car industry. It is one thing to find $3000 to buy a laptop. It is expensive for a laptop, but it is in the realm of purchasable by a large chunk of the population.

It is quite another endeavour to find $100K+ to buy a car, no matter how you can rationalise it. The total market size for car at that price is probably in the 6 digits cars worldwide and shrinking in the western world.

That falls quite far from Apple business model and expertise.
Exactly this.

I have a current specialism within a fairly specialised field, but this leaves me plenty of bandwidth to move within the field in the short term.

My background is loosely related but has given me a set of core skills which I can draw on where I see other people being employed as specialists. I try to maintain my core skills in other areas to the extent that I can commoditise them for my own purposes if needed, even though I have no interest in actually pursuing 'excellence' in them.

When I first started down my specialism a number of years ago my expectation was that my previous background would become irrelevant as it felt like quite a big pivot. I was (and remain) surprised at just how wrong I was - having additional background skills that aren't directly related makes me more valuable.
Great software idea! Customization to your needs~
As an IT guy (I'm a developer, BTW), I think T model is probably the best model.

Technology is progressing rapidly nowadays and we need to know about them in general (the horizontal bar). But we also need to master 1 or 2 (or a few), and these will increase our "value" (this is the vertical bar).

For example:
I know how to build web apps using some PHP frameworks, I know how to write Android apps using Java, I can write desktop apps using Java, etc. This is my "generalist side".

My "expertise side" is smart card (at least this is my current plan). So I focus on mastering Java card, ISO 7816, GSM 11.11, GSM 11.14 and so on.

I keep my eyes open on new, emerging technologies, but will not put much effort to master them.
Twitter beats estimates, cuts jobs with eye on 2017 profitability
Issac Asimov's later works are known to have been ghostwritten. Hiring other writers to write under your byline is the easiest way to be prolific.
Data ethics in IoT? Pff, you and your silly notions of privacy
It has a Dunning-Kruger coefficient > 1, where Cdk is the number of successive aha moments before you really do get it.
Looks like. At least in Ingress (location based game) there is radius [client-side-]limited chat and it looks exactly like that :)
Those glasses are designed to be the party Polaroid of a generation. The person holding the camera gets the attention of everybody keen on presenting themselves, the bet is that putting the camera on your face intensifies this experience. Expect these things to get passed around a bit when in use, so there will quite some local virality within groups. This is good for immediate sales, but long term usage could suffer hard if market saturation coincides with the novelty wearing off. If there is one Polaroid at a given party, it is the center of attention, if there are three of them, they are all just annoying. The me-too buyers well get quite the opposite result compared to the early adopters.

If Snapchat sets up the glasses business as an additional revenue stream, it could well become a reasonable but limited success, if they set it up "strategically", maybe even selling at loss, I predict terrible failure.
I never actually open the maps app on my iPhone. I just ask Siri for directions, and I presume she uses the default Apple maps as the base.

I'd suggest that the data is skewed because a lot of people would be doing the same thing. The evolution of the phone UI basically indicates that individual apps are fading as identifiable components. Modern bots and mashup interfaces just pull data from different app/sources and present an amalgamated view. I neither know, nor care whether Siri is pulling her route data from Google or Apple maps, or somewhere else.
Tilted Abstractions
> Win-win.

That's not complete. It's win-win-lose. Win for you, win for GS, and lose for the society.
...going with the toothbrush analogy and gits mixed concepts:

The toothbrush actually has a brush on one end and a power drill on the other.

One side can be used for dental hygeine, one for dental surgery (if you're careful).
Of course it shouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately humans are still humans, and judgemental attitudes abound. Hence the advice.

As an example, right now the pirate party in Iceland is being smeared with a picture the press found of one of their high-profile candidates of him shooting guns in Afghanistan. He was there doing charity work and they shot off some rounds one day in their off time. I'm still not sure what message is being sent by reposting this picture, but it seems to be working to some extent - I just overheard coworkers talking about "that gun nut running for the pirates".
I've seen the same (also a marketing guy), but we both know that most companies always chase the shiny new thing regardless of its actual effectiveness. I'm a Snap fan and can't wait to experiment with the ads API at some point, I'm just wondering where its place is come budget analysis time.
Using uBlock requires reenabling it every time the browser launches, since unpacked extensions are disabled automatically each session. There is no documentation on how to package an extension to make it stick; this knowledge seems to be restricted to the select few developers that have Microsoft-endorsed extensions in the store.
I think having good grasp in different domains and tools can be good for you both career wise and for your own sake (entrepreneurship, creativity etc). But it can also be a disadvantage depending on where you work.

When I first graduated from the university (at 23), I got a job as an IT support guy in a growing company (80+ employees at the time). I was the only IT support and my job was to help people with their issues and maintain the IT infrastructure. I managed to solve all types of issues which I guess people started to recognise. This was fine. However, since I also knew programming, my managers wanted me to help out on development (PHP), to ease the load on the developers. As time went on I became better with our framework and started to get more more complex programming assignments, while still being IT-support. For me this became a real struggle, completing programming tasks on time, maintaining IT infrastructure (servers, network, buying hardware, phone calls) and helping people with their issues. Somehow I managed, which my managers recognised (I assume, and hope), so I got additional assignments regarding "Big Data", basically get information, store it, connect the data with other data sources and so on.

At the end I was doing everything with IT. Data science, development, IT support, system administration and more. The reason it become like this, at least what I think, is because I had a sufficient grasp on most domains and tools so I just continued to get more stuff to do. When I finally quit, I actually realised that I was not feeling that great. I could feel the stress inside me slowly diminish.
If Steve Jobs hadn't returned to Apple, we would be talking about the Macs the same way we talk about Amiga and Atari nowadays.

I clearly remember the not so good situation Apple was in around 1994, with Copland failing to impress.
Is it really that hard? My shit Phillips VGA monitors brightness can be controlled with software via an AMD E350 APU that I used to have...
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So... Jodel?
OT (or not) -

Of 20 most popular Qs on SO, 7 now ask how to do trivial operations in git.

http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/36656/most...

Take it or live it, git has facts-based proven track record of ui wtfness.
TV Viewership Falls in N.F.L. And Premier League: A Blip, or Something Worse?
This is a series of reports from BBC2's Newsnight weeknightly current affairs analysis show. Been a flagship show for decades, and has as times been very good.
I can't help but see this as a post hoc rationalization.

When Steve Jobs was at its helm, did Apple have failures that it needed to rebrand as "tries"?
Node.js callbacks vs. promises vs. generators vs. async-await
Wizdish ROVR Promises Alternative Treadmill Solution to VR Simulation Sickness
if the phone's browser has a remote execution exploit that allows for dirtycow to be run, the phone isn't yours anymore; it only takes one infected webpage or a driveby malware containing ad on a popular page to get there. i don't know if the browser gets updates.
>ZFS, dtrace

These are both using a incompatible license (CDDL), they can't be merged into mainline.
Nobody should use JSON::XS anymore, everybody switched to Cancel::JSON::XS which does have those features, and less bugs.

I just added those great testcases, and found previously unknown bugs. But the python test runner from this repo gives a few false negatives, PR coming soon. It was much easier to write it in perl.
I didn't notice that was Mitchell. Makes sense. The one time I met him in person we talked about Tesla.

Now I need to track down Elon Musk to discuss Consul.