skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is quite terrifying. In my life I have never seen so many supporters of Putin and Russia in American Government (Republican Party). The support Putin receives from the folks that surround Trump is unsettling. Even the National Security Advisor has a private relationship with Putin.

The President Elect is very fond of Putin, so much so that he would admonish organizations like the CIA or FBI when they come forward with information that casts Russia and Putin in an unfavorable light.

So many questions...Interesting times we live in.
I always thought of Joel as one of important Excel authors. I was very much surprised to see he is CEO of Stack Overflow now. Giving context of the article, I am going to re-read carefully Stack Overflow ToS.
Obligatory scene from The Jerk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSWBuZws30g&feature=youtu.be...
Have you compared DuckDuckGo and Google lately?

I ask because I used DuckDuckGo almost exclusively for about three years (had it as my search engine on desktop and iOS Safari) until a few months ago. A few months ago I noticed that DuckDuckGo's results began becoming very spammy and that I was having to use Google for anything more than a trivial single keyword search. So I switched back over to Google for a few days and never went back - Instant Answers actually turned out to be not that useful, Google's result quality is miles ahead, and the !bang feature is almost redundant because browsers support search-by-site natively. I know DDG has privacy as a selling point - but it's just not important enough for me to not use an overall better search engine, as much as I root for the underdog.
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High school teacher.
I always thought Google gave out hardware strategically because they wanted every engineer to easily do side projects targeting, e.g., a phone with up-to-date Android and a smartwatch. I wonder if this means end-user adoption is now more important.
Secure Messaging App Signal’s Downloads Has Increased by 400% After Trump’s Win
The plan drawing and model making in architecture is to a large extent utilitarian; would you say that architecture isn't creative?

Have you seen a sculptor at work? There is nothing inherently creative about the hundreds of hours spent chipping away little bits of rock.

What you describe is true in any art - the macroscopic creative vision is supported by the microscopic repetitive work.
As a target of a lot of both marketing and sales, from my pov they are merging.

These super targeted email and phone campaigns are more like a sales process. Marketing traditionally was about educating with propaganda and matching problem with solution for lead generation. Now there's more attempts to actually sell!

On the sales side, the old school salespeople who were really there to build relationships and solve problems are a dying breed. Modern salespeople are hamsters on some micromanaged CRM wheel, even from big companies.
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I've given up on trying to find the perfect developer laptop and have instead gone for the desktop/chrome book combo.

I built a desktop with equivalent hardware specs to the MB Pro (2x8GB Ram, Intel i5-6600 3.30 GHZ, 750GB SSD, and a GeForce 1060 6G video card) for a little under a thousand dollars, and I dual booted it with Windows 10 and Fedora 25.

I set up Ubuntu 14 with Crouton on my Acer Chromebook 14. I basically have it in my bag all the time, and when I'm doing work on the go I'm in Ubuntu, and I'm in ChromeOS while in class/Internet surfing.

Essentially I do school work and hobby programming on my desktop, actual work on the computer in my workplace, and for everything between I have my chrome book. Between github and Dropbox (and my work's ssh server) I don't have problems syncing anything. Plus that's still cheaper than the bottom of line 13 inch MB Pro.
checkout Opendoor

https://stratechery.com/2016/opendoor-a-startup-worth-emulat...

https://www.opendoor.com
> I feel like charging on an hourly basis is a common pattern in many industries that opens the doors to competition from startups with different pricing structures...as long as the startup can do everything in a manner compliant with the existing industry.

That last step's a real doozy, though. Startups are a field that thinks "move fast and break stuff" is actually a good idea. That kind of thinking works when you're slinging viral social media and personal productivity services, but it is catastrophic when you try to move into an industry where your customers' lives or livelihoods are on the line.
I find this mindset totally disgusting, but I'm glad it's been summed up in such a concise way.

> Being an employee of a high tech company whose product is intellectual means that you have decided that you want to sell your intellectual output, and maybe that’s OK, and maybe it’s not, but it’s a free choice.

Let's clarify that phrase, "sell your intellectual output". Keep in mind that earlier in the article we discovered that "during work hours" or "related to your work" are not limits on its scope. What are the limits? The evident conclusion is that there are none. You are selling all of your intellectual output.

A situation where every idea you come up with, everything you think, every last shred of creativity is owned by someone else is one of the most profoundly dystopian things I can imagine. But this isn't a sci-fi story, this is standard business practice.

Selling all your intellectual output is selling yourself, and I think it's unconscionable. If you don't even own your own thoughts, what do you have left?
Australian who lives in the US and is looking at buying a house. What's different? Almost everything, starting from the basics like there aren't auctions, you have to submit a secret bid that the seller will read and then tell you if it was accepted or not. Factors that can affect acceptance include what percentage of your purchase will be made with cash, whether you are willing to buy it without bothering to inspect the house first, and how many days it will take for you to close the deal if accepted - and of course, everything else like whether you are the kind of nice quiet couple they think their neighbours want to live next to, whether you have the same name as their brother-in-law, and whether you are the kind of person they want to imagine living in their house once they are gone.
I picked up an X250 last year w/ the extended 6-cell battery primarily for the better battery life.

With TLP setup, I'm able to get 8-10hrs of battery life w/o issues (I've gotten up to 13hrs if all I'm doing is editing text).

According to powertop, I can get power usage to go to over 18W on full load (100% CPU/DRAM, 100% display backlight), but under my normal setup (wifi, 30% display backlight) idle power consumption is about 4.8W - my idle states never goes below C6/pc6 even running the latest 4.8 kernels. (Did the SATA power state stuff ever get fixed?)
This is what got Henry Ford fired from making watches, isn't it?
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Google Fit would probably be the smartest choice, because it has support for different hardware vendors. For example, Withings has Google Fit integration so you'd get their range for free.
Interesting. I'm actually part of a agricultural genomics data consortium with similar concept (companies contribute $$ and data in exchange for licensing rights to research results).
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I think PureScript would have been much more popular from the get go if it used a syntax closer to existing JS syntax. This is why TypeScript is so popular, and also why CoffeeScript is now very unpopular among Javascripters.
Their revenue is from Windows, Apple and Cknsoles, not from Linux.
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Off topic, but I was surprised at the end of the article to realize this was Joel Spolsky's blog! I like the new design.
The biggest one is that realtors exist entirely because of regulation a the state level.

After that is the extremely entrenched business interest in the status quo - a lot of people are making money off the current system, and any real disruption is going to cost 95-99% of the real estate industry their jobs.

As noted elsewhere, the level of regulation is such that even offering better data to buyers/sellers has a lot of regulatory overhead, including physical offices with real people.
5 Reasons every entrepreneur should start blogging
For those of us out of the loop, if AMD has been "losing money for most of its existence" and "almost went bankrupt on a number of occasions", then how is it still alive? Did it make a ridiculous amount of money at some points?
The thing is though, if they shipped a driver like Nvidia does, where it's this blob that just wraps its tendrils into what ever systems are needed, that's not the graphics maintainers problem either

It's a net loss for users of AMD hardware (though AMD's hardware on Linux has been a dumpster fire for as long as I can remember) because they have to suffer arguably worse driver support, but that's on AMD for wanting to have their cake and eat it too
And I often find this very useful in JavaScript
This makes me think about the importance of being able to separate the content of a message from the presentation. I wonder how much better off we'd be if everyone was just able to do that (or if we just took for granted that other people were sufficiently discerning). The throw away marketing is still just throw away marketing no matter how much highlighter there is on it, unless it actually happened to be relevant in the first place. In which case what point was there to the attempt at persuasion?
I guess I'll explain how the business side of drilling a well works. An operator (think Chevron) will decide where and when the well is drilled. They will then hire a drilling company (say H&P) that owns and operates rigs to drill the well. Even though the drilling company operates the rig, they basically drill it however the operator ask them too.

So to answer your question, any operator requires these services, though most dont know it. A company called Pason is the leading company in the drilling data industry. Their bread and butter is just data measurement and streaming, though they recently have entered the analytics space. Their technology seems pretty promising.
I don't disagree, but consider that person B is a 45 year old man working for an insurance company he is probably running Windows 10, and Microsoft knows quite a bit about him.

My point is that in my opinion you are over valuing Google's user information advantage. Most purchasing and buying habit information is collected using web page based analytics to an advertiser rather than coming from Google directly.

When Blekko was operating at a consumer search engine we got a great inside look at what tools advertisers have at their disposal to "qualify" their ad bids. If you send the query's source IP to the ad network when you request an ad they match that up with all sorts of cookies and beacons that have fired off that IP address. None of that comes from Google, it comes from all the trackers that are running all over the Internet.
Second this, I also suggest trying to drop a project for three to six months then come back to it. You'll start learning to document things and where you went wrong. It's all about a feedback loop
Opendoor is already doing agentless open houses with access codes (smart locks) and cameras throughout the house where people can visit whenever they want without calling ahead, not that difficult
LA Musician Built $1200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them
@athollywood Are you available for offline discussions? Maybe you could put some contact info in the public section of your profile. Feel free to email me: xenon@mailworks.org
The interments didn't happen in a vacuum:

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

It's also interesting to note that J. Edgar Hoover was opposed to the interments, but FDR overruled him.
You said earlier:

"In my search I keep coming back to the Thinkpad T460p wondering if the bulky plastic case is worth the tradeoff for the raw power. It's maddening I can't have both."

That's the thing. It's a trade off. If Apple could make a laptop with >16GB RAM AND a sleek design AND good battery life, they would do that. But they can't.
Paywall-removed: https://web.archive.org/web/20161210041940/https://www.washi...

(The "web" link method doesn't work when the title is changed.)
My first programming job was writing a real estate database system for that beast. With the twin-floppy expansion box. Built like a truck, and thankfully a much better keyboard than the PET.
Many sites use the provided MaxCDN URL though, which would be cached between sites.
So that company owns any work he does for any future employer? That sounds absurdly unenforceable.
Seems like you did get something out of all that time you wasted on philosophy. :)
previous discussion of reports about the Nielsen estimate of ESPNs subscriber loss: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13076812
I'm about your age, and I agree with everything here. My "process" is thinking through problems thoroughly and being careful. I used to be able to find whole teams full of people who worked like this, and during that time I worked on at least 5 outrageously successful, stable products, with no automated tests and no process other than test it manually and check it in. Eventually, time moved on and (mostly younger) people decided that this was impossible, refactoring without unit tests is impossible, humility demands you admit to sucking at programming just like everybody else, etc, etc. So now I mostly avoid working at companies at all, because I can no longer find teams that don't pour 80% of their energy into processes and methodologies.
I need to work and sleep and spend time with friends. TV just isn't a priority because the vast majority of it is pure trash.

I can't even spend the attention required to watch TV most times. I find myself just leaving it on in the background and then realized that I've paused it because something was more interesting on my laptop. Sometimes it takes me hours just to get through one episode.

There is also piracy. I don't have cable but I still watched Walking Dead. Which I've also stopped watching. Live TV just seems so pointless. If a show is good I can just pick it up after like 3 seasons and binge it if I want.

Paying $80 a month for TV is just absurd. And paying for sports is even more ridiculous. I like the NBA, and occasionally the NFL during playoffs. But I'll never watch a game live which just spreads 35 minutes of content over 3 hours to maximize ad revenue.

TV had it's heyday, the idea that it isn't on a steady downward decline towards some new steady state is delusion. ESPN in its current form is done. The impact on athletes salaries should be interesting though.
EVE has had formalized rules and forums for GTC trading dating back to roughly 2004 or so, at least. There was nothing automated but it was 100% officially sanctioned and scamming in a GTC-for-ISK in the official forum would get you banned.

That actually made it rather unique in EVE, where the official line was "trust no-one" and social engineering was officially encouraged. Actually hacking is over the line, but subterfuge, social engineering, and privilege exploitation have brought down superpower alliances in EVE.

Most famously: BOB. The Mittani sends his regards. (RIP vilerat - your horrible tattoo will never be forgotten)
You could take a look at Jira. I understand most people reading this are probably cringing right now, but the cause of that and what makes Jira appropriate is just how customisable it is. You can setup custom fields, validations, workflows.
> I don't think becoming less automated to save jobs is any less of a pipe dream.

It may seem inevitable. Until you have an entire generation of the work force put out of work. Then the only thing that will be inevitable will be civil war. We always need to have work for people to do. It's fundamental to our nature. It's the modern expression of hunter/gathering.
Pdb has saved my sanity so many times I have lost count.
Anything that has to do with mining engineering and the use of software is just ripe for startups, getting the industry to adopt thought is a different story.
Yum typically upgrades packages through very minor version changes. Like a.b.c to a.b.c+1.

Rolling back is not nearly dangerous as you are implying in a curated distribution.
6. Being a really good programmer may not correlate with being a really good teacher. Or even a good teacher. Or even not being a really poor teacher.

This is not a simple problem. Calling people idiots does not make it simpler. It just feels like it does.
When I get pain in my right hand/wrist after extensive trackpad use, I just switch hands. I'm a little slower with my left, but overall it's a good solution for me.
"Apple is not even in the same spyware league as Google." - Why? Seriously asking.
"This is something you need to fix, or it'll stay completely painful
forever. It's hard work and takes years, but here at Intel we pulled
it off. We can upstream everything from a _very_ early stage (can't
tell you how early). And we have full marketing approval for that. If
you watch the i915 commit stream you can see how our code is chasing
updates from the hw engineers debugging things. Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation"

Intel got their sh*t together, why can't AMD ?
Awesome. Thank you for the update.
I don't remember where or what but I remember this idea being discussed a few months ago on HN and there were quite a few reasons this is unlikely to happen. Because safety of properly cooked food and human consumption and other reasons. If you could stay relatively small and under radar. And get lucky enough for nothing bad to happen long enough to make billions like Uber. Then maybe have chance to pull off and get proper legal support/lobbyists
I think that's a great way to characterize Chapman's writing.

As an Internet phenomenon postrationalism currently resembles Bayesian rationalism before LW. Meaningness might be its Overcoming Bias. Do you know if anyone is building a LW-style discussion hub for it?
You don't have to trust them that much, though. These are all COTS components used in every other computerized system everywhere, so any backdoors the authors want to slip in would have to impact only the voting system, and not raise anyone else's attention.

That's pretty hard. How, for example, are you going to get a CPU bug to do this for you?

I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's sort of like saying that we're fools for using gas-powered engines for the military. Thousands of people design them, so how do we know the designs haven't been sabotaged? You might be right, but you're probably wrong.
Sadly your commission on that million dollar house is actually $45k -- Redfin cuts their seller's agent commission in half (3% becomes 1.5%) but the other half goes to the buyer's agent, so you pay 4.5% rather than 6%.
>the code is generally messy and horrible, rife with race conditions and barely holding together in parts.

immediately followed by

>I'm proud of my work — especially design-wise

ummmmm.... what?
See, that's just it. There's a spectrum of involvement. I may not want to run a campaign, go door to door to collect signatures or spend days in council meetings.

At the same time, I do want to vote directly on issues I have a strong opinion about, I'm willing to put in the effort to find different people to delegate my votes to in domains I'm not competent in. Occasionally I may have an idea I would like people to discuss and vote on. If people like the idea, they may even delegate their votes in that specific domain to me and I would be further motivated and empowered to come up with and champion similar ideas.

I think technology would allow everyone to find their sweet spot of involvement in this spectrum.
Actually, I'm a lawyer and a product owner at a big accounting firm, so I'm pretty well positioned to discuss this topic. I have half a dozen solid startup ideas that I'm tempted to take and start running with right now. Documentation management alone is in desperate need of innovation. I build toy apps in my spare time that cut thousands of dollars of charge hours young associates waste on bullshit tasks, just within my one small practice group. The whole legal software industry is a joke.

But here's the real problem for anyone looking to innovate in that space: the customers. Lawyers are as a rule anti-technology, slow to adapt new techniques, and set in their ways. Worse yet, they just bill their clients for their shitty software like Lexis or WestLaw, so they aren't even personally motivated to reduce costs.
They got acquired by another company and then gutted, most of the management that did that got thrown out after anyway so I don't know how much it matters.

That being said I always read my employment contracts now.
I assume proud of completion, and proud of UI design.
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It's possible it's completely unrelated - but I wonder if the constant threats to move teams to different cities if people aren't* willing to fund billion dollar stadiums is related? I know for a lot of casual fans, that's a massive turnoff. You see teams making a ransom in profit year after year, but then they expect the public to fund them above and beyond. The whole thing just feels like it's gotten out of control.

That's completely ignoring what I can only assume will eventually be massive lawsuits around concussions for the NFL.
Funny thing is you don't even need a compiler to do what the project is ostensibly doing which is just stub generation aka struct type mapping (i.e. data objects). You can use reflection (you only have to do it once so its not slow). I have done this with Java (use reflection to generate JavaScript stubs).
This is just beautiful:

"First of all, it helps to be ignorant. The time when I did my best work was when I was most ignorant. Knowing too much is a great handicap. Especially if you’ve been teaching for some years, things get so fixed in your mind and it’s impossible to think outside the box."

Great article, thanks for posting.
This is kidnapping plain and simple. The fact that it is done under the guise of a corporate/medical structure should not be relevant. Those involved in these crimes should be arrested and prosecuted under RICO laws, from the top to the bottom.
It will be interesting to see what happens to the NFL if TV viewership continues to decline and networks can no longer pay huge amounts for TV rights, ESPN alone pays around $2B/year.

Can ESPN make up the loss of cable viewers by online subscription fees?
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AMD has had ups and downs, but over the past 15 years they've had a net loss of $7 billion. Yes, they've had some good years too. They made over a billion dollars in 2000 alone, and they've been knocking around since 1969. And they've been written off for dead many, many times.

That being said, the current situation is bleak, and no, they never made a ridiculous amount of money. They've had to go to pretty extreme lengths not to go under already (eg, selling off their headquarters building, then leasing it back, just to scrape together some quick cash). They're very, very cash strapped. So much so that the news they signed a somewhat nebulous licensing deal with a Chinese company to help them make servers caused their share price to jump 52%, just because they'd be getting ~$300m in licensing fees.