skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PeopleWare.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Tom-...

Worth its weight in gold.
True! I guess in this case the Rubik's cube enthusiasts first coined the term, and the question was most discussed and studied in that community, so for them the intended reference was still clear even though the concept had also been applied to other puzzles.
Ask HN: What software/apps are available for creating SOP's and WI's?
I'm looking for software or app that makes creating work instructions or procedures easy. I've looked around and the types of programs that keep popping up are task managers like Trello. I've seen Sweet Process but even that isn't what I'm looking for. I'd like to find a program that is designed more like "If this...Then that"or something similar. I'd also like it to be interactive and responsive. Currently our company is using Oracle information center to store Microsoft word documents with our instructions. I've googled this to death but I can never find the right words I guess. If there isn't something out there, I'd love to work with someone to build it. I don't want to reinvent the wheel if I don't have to, but if I do it might end up being a fun project.
I guess China's folks would be a hell of a control group for Stockholm syndrome. I can't really think of any reason in the rational realm why would somebody in their sane minds would support a government that doesn't even let you Google... [..]
They're like a drunk looking for his keys under a lamppost because the light is better.
One of the best performances in ‘Rogue One’ is by an actor who died in 1994
For anyone interested in this space one of my buddies made a site / apps for helping write Arabic transliterations: http://www.arabictypist.com/

Not sure if he's active on HN so posting it for him and forwarding Eskéndereyya to him. Great work OP!
Show HN: I made an NLP based essay grader
> they are a peaceful country (read: are in and have not been in wars, are leaders of the UN peacekeeping forces, and do not militarily interfere in other countries' affairs). Plus they have done nothing to me and I love all the Chinese people I have met.

This is alarmingly disturbing nonsense; it doesn't even make any sense. What does "are in and have not been in wars" mean? The Chinese engage in lots of wars, they're just not that loud about it in recent history.
Ask HN: Comprehensive List of Startups
what's the best way to find a comprehensive list of startups and as many attributes as possible? U.S. companies only
Things like "no home address" are actually the least of one's difficulties getting a job while homeless. Technically, one can be homeless and couchsurfing at friends' places, and that's relatively easy to recover from. And, yes, some people do do it "by choice," if you mean people living in their van and working at Google.

What's tough is being stuck on the streets, possibly with mental issues, possibly addicted to something. There are enough places to get a meal that few people starve to death, but homeless shelters are generally not good places to be, and one has to stand in line around 4 or 5 in order to get a chance at a bed for the night, which rather limits one's options for work. Then, there's the problem of maintaining hygiene, getting to and from interviews, etc., because being homeless usually means being poor.

Even without mental or addiction issues, these logistical issues can really take their toll. To have any hope of getting through it, one needs to be able to swim through a river of bullshit.
Can't help much with your specific problem (I mostly do println debugging) but I've found that figwheel is a great workflow. Following cljs tutorials and whatever is at best painful and it is ridiculous that you need to read a giant webpage like a torah to get started. Use figwheel and add some years to your life: https://github.com/bhauman/lein-figwheel
> My employer is starting the transition from .NET to .NET Core and we're pretty confident that it's ready.

What's the reason for the switch ?

For us ( the company where I work ) it would be very difficult to rewrite our applications to core, so we decided to only introduce core to new in-house projects.
>the question is, as always, what to do about unproductive assets.

If we consider the goal of society to be increasing overall utility, then someone enjoying their free time is not unproductive because they are producing utility (for themselves). There may be more productive things they could be doing, but we shouldn't ignore that baseline. If the work offered by a Job Guarantee scheme is not producing as much utility for society, then it would be more efficient to just give them the money.
Take an undamped double pendulum and divide the space up into 2 sections. Suppose you can only check which section the pendulum is every N seconds. Every time you check, you record the value, and over time you build up a sequence of K numbers: 1,0,1,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,1,0,...

Suppose you know the exact initial state (dx/dt, x) of the pendulum.

What bounds on K and T are required such that the sequence of numbers is asymptotically indistinguishable from a purely random sequence?

So, because of a silly thought experiment, one might think there is very simple order to the apparent randomness. But, as Pauli would say, "it's not even wrong"...
It really isn't fair to compare Cyrillic script with Arabic. Cyrillic is basically the same script as Latin, even characters are alike. Hell, even something like Japanese hiragana is pretty much the same stuff as Latin alphabet, even though it looks nothing like that and is built upon syllables, not letters. And hence it is a bit harder to learn, but not by much.

However Arabic script is a whole different thing. It has a whole lot of diacritics, characters change their shape depending on the position within a word, characters are notably less distinctive for an unaccustomed European than Latin letters, Cyrillic letters, hiragana or runes.
Food for thought though: Western philosophical thought prefers to draw distinctions between parts of a whole and then focus on how those parts are different and opposed. This is in contrast to Chinese philosophical thought, which stereotypically emphasizes the oneness and compatibility of disparate concepts. You can see this in how Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and other philosophical schools were all accepted and syncretized, while the West has always undergone violent ideological conflicts over relatively minor differences in doctrine (Protestantism vs. Catholicism vs. Eastern Orthodoxy).

Of course the interests of the state and the people can sometimes come into conflict, but by and large, the state and the individual are part of an organic whole, namely, all of society. China's own political culture has had a long, long history pondering the question of what government's role should be, and has mostly concluded that a government must rule justly and well in order to be a legitimate [1]. The question is not be 'What's more important, the individual or the state?', but rather, 'How should society be organized so that the individual and the state will cooperate for mutual benefit?'. Just like one usually doesn't ask the question 'what's more important, the hand or the foot?'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven#The_right_to...

> Throughout the history of China, times of poverty and natural disasters were often taken as signs that heaven considered the incumbent ruler unjust and thus in need of replacement.
Why should we care about a disincentive to work more? It's like that trope about welfare recipients all being drug addicts. Or that taxing the rich will make them not want to work.

What motivates people to work is MASTERY, AUTONOMY and PURPOSE. This is very different from the profit motive, and is why people contribute to open source and science.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

And anyway, why in the 21st century does everyone need to work? Why should wages be the primary mechanism by which living wages trickle down to the plebes?

McDonalds will soon cut its workforce. So will Uber. Thanks to automation.

If you are jealous that someone somewhere is receiving free stuff, realize how much free stuff you have just by being alive in the 21st century!

If you are upset that you'd be taxed for the free stuff -- then make sure that we develop systems to tax machines. Yes you heard me, start taxing the machines.

If people were more free to choose what to do with their time, they'd probably spend more time with their family and study more and contribute more knowledge to society. Instead of working a dead-end job at McDonalds.

If you want to read more about the economics of this, I wrote an article:

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=185
>Why do you think China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group is based in Hong Kong?

Because Hong Kong is part of China, probably?
You posted this 3 times in 5 hours.
It's an example of ideological self-destructive universal.

Take freedom of speech, social justice, progress,... as an universal and it's ultimately destructive (to believers and itself).
From the article: "Big-data systems in democracies are not designed for social control." First I don't think calling western countries "democracies" is correct. From Europe the USA is certainly not embodying the model of democracy, if democracy is power to the people (it's more akin to power to the rich people).

Buy even then, big data is designed from the ground up as a way to serve better ads, which is the companies way to do social control. So you have the choice between Pepsi/Coke controlled society or Gov controlled society. I'll have neither, thanks.
>Observe the insanity in health care, where patients are not people but raw materials to be put through the medical factory and turned into a finished, aka healed, product at the other end.

I'm not sure how else it's supposed to function. There are not enough doctors and nurses to spend exorbitant amounts of time answering every medical curiosity. Making you healthy again is pretty much everyone's goal (if it's possible for your case).

What are you saying that MBAs are taking away from patient care?

Personally I have seen the opposite: non-profits with a large percentage of income from government programs. Project Managers that buy a hundred-thousand dollar contract for a piece of software and then end up not using it. Unwillingness to address basic IT problems that drain time away from caregivers in favor of prestigious projects.
GiveDirectly is precisely the model I was talking about. I don't think of that model as a traditional charity. The overhead on charities is absurd a lot of the time and there are quite a few scams out there. I have a hunch that a government based BI would be better than what we have right now. Though, to make that happen we would need universal health care for all and eliminate all the social safety nets other than BI and health care.
Perhaps something like status.ycombinator.com for the briefly summarized current states of various things?
>>One of the odd things about business in the US is that most people can't even conceive that there are other approaches to business beyond the standard US MBA dogmas. Even when those other approaches clearly are successful, and even when one's ass is getting kicked by somebody using them.

I appreciate the comment, but your Amazon example was jarring because it seems that HN does not like Amazon's culture in part due to the dominance of MBAs in the senior management ranks. This anecdata aligns with graduation numbers across some of the top 20 US business schools in 2015, and one would presume this leads to an overwhelmingly US MBA-centric Amazon management style, albeit one that may be different than "other" US MBA dogma.[1]

[1] http://qz.com/636539/amazon-is-hiring-the-most-mbas-in-tech-...
I didn't say that you voted for Trump. That would be rude. I said he is a true reflection of your principles and values. As for my argument about values, I've always found that it's better to judge values empirically.
There would need to be at least ~50-60 years before evaluation of the results

There needs to be at least 2 generations that have had UBI for their entire life. UBI affects the motivation to work on skills, so the subject would need UBI for their entire life.

The parents of the subject also needs to have UBI for their entire life because the parents could transmit the scarcity, pre-UBI mindset onto the subject. There is a still chance that the pre-UBI mindset of the grandparents could be transmitted to the subject. Ideally the subject would be at least 3-4 generations removed from the start of UBI
You can do a simple cheesecake with ricotta, cream, and sugar (and a biscuit base). Flavour it with coffee, seems like it would taste OK.
I read it more as 'people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones'.

The line of 'their restrictions on human rights are worse than ours' seems like at best a race to the bottom. I feel western democracy should be setting a standard so far above what this article describes that there are no comparisons to draw. In which case the OP has a good point
By that logic no individual has a right to contest any law no matter what
That's not how it works. Payment reversal is only possible via chargeback or by the vendor themselves refunding the charge, so Domino's will absolutely get a fee.
There needs to be an "Ask YC" weekly.

It'd also make for a great way to nudge the community in the desired direction by focusing attention (and away from becoming what's effectively a standalone subreddit).
A rolling barrier system could save many lives on roads
Compared to a regular welfare system where they stop paying if the recipient has the ability to support themselves / doesn't need it (from each according to his ability, to each according to his need) UBI is the opposite of communism. This one where people have to be jobless at the start isn't ideal though.
Your comparison is meaningless.

1) A corporation is not the same as a German citizen.

2) "Contest" is not the same as "suing"

3) No German has a net worth of over U$300B (FB's Market Cap)
And don't install Chrome extensions because Windows antivirus doesn't block Chrome malware, and Google doesn't remove extensions that were sold and updated with malware.
How did you go about this solution?
The factor changes for a 1 point increase are different.

Richter 10 (to the power 1)

Moment magnitude about 32 (to the power 1.5)

For an increase of 2:

Richter exactly 100

Moment magnitude exactly 1000
Ask HN: Shall I share my product ideas to the startup I work for
I have been working (contracting) remotely happily for a startup company for a couple of years. It looks like their funding is good and they will get enough cash to pay me for another year at least. This is a really small shop, I am more or less the only developer there (we have external contractors on demand).

However while working for them I had a few ideas of product not directly related to their line of work but inspired by work I did for them.

I was refining these product ideas in my head in case funding went short and was in need of a plan B.

I am keen to pursue these ideas but am wondering what the best course of action is. My main problem is that I am a family man and my after work time is very limited + the pay is attractive/needed.

I can see 3 course of action:

1. Do not tell them about it, and try to work on the product on my own time. Risk: I dont have enough time and nothing gets produced. Advantages: I don't burn any bridges and have possibly a passive income generating product.

2. Leave the company and work on these products for a while until my savings are gone and/or I have validated that there is a need for them. Risk: my stress level go too high and my family suffers. Advantages: I work on things that excite me.

3. Talk to them about it and offer them to pay me while I develop and ship some of these MVP and we analyse the result in a few month. Risk: they now know that the startup I work for is not my commitment 100%. Risk2: if it there is revenue/value for these products then I have given it away a little bit to this company.

I guess I was wondering about the option 3: how realistic does it sound to people working in startups. If someone at Airbnb came in and said "hey lets build this cool car sharing product to disrupt the taxi industry", what would the CEO/founder most likely say? Is there value in the company for side projects?
The mt= parameter in their URLs, when used, defeats the automatic dupe-checking, and posters who post dupes don't look first (or do so knowingly). For such people, HN appears to be a write-only interface.

Sites like signalvnoise, medium, etc. add artificial tracking fragment identifiers (everything from the final hashtag on); one motivation for this is to defeat dupe detection (it's easy to code to catch that, but it hasn't been done thus far).
I don't know about that. I think it's pretty common for people to build up a strong rep and then at the end pull off a big scam before re-registering as someone else.
Probably not (but who knows, you could probably use this as part of a fuzzer). Instruction emulation is a superset of instruction decoding. You need to decode and then emulate the behavior.

Aside: Instruction emulation is pretty finicky and bug prone. I'm not too familiar with Xen, but KVM has had at least 10 instruction emulation CVEs. There were talks at both KVM Forum and Xen Summit last summer mentioning the sketchiness of instruction emulation.
Anecdata point: I've heard SQL Server Enterprise runs $20k a core. I've never heard pricing for Oracle.
Germany does not view free speech like the US does. For example, to this day anything related to Nazism is illegal. You can be arrested and fined for giving the Nazi salute. Germany likes to pick and choose their free speech now a day.
> Our silly laws, and the greed of the blackmailer, created this situation. The person attempting to pull the trigger is nearly blameless.

lmao. OK dude
That's my impression of the statement as well. Even if technically they can be called diacritics it doesn't make much sense, not within this discussion. "Й" sounds absolutely unlike "и" and has pretty much no connection to it. "Ё" is a bit more tricky, but nevertheless — there's no another letter in Russian alphabet we could put umlaut on and get the result similar to putting umlaut on "е".

I guess "ь" has more right to be called diacritic, because it genuinely has 1 purpose: altering the other sounds. But even that is treated as a separate letter.

It's nothing like diacritics in French, German or even Latvian, let alone Arabic.
Keynesianism is like making waves in a pond and pointing out how much higher the water has risen.

It ignores where the resources come from and the jobs being performed in other parts of the global economy that must be cut, often in some other country, because the resources are being used for something else.

If a country is going into debt to stimulate, its pulling resources from other countries where jobs have to decline. But perhaps those declines are more spread out and harder to measure and understand. So we can make the mistake of thinking they don't happen.

But what if a country stimulates by printing money, not borrowing? Money is only a medium of exchange, not an actual resource. Creating more of it just means more it has to be used to get the same result, if you look at what really happens over time, as opposed to comparing prices the day before you print with prices the day after.
If they are operating within Germany they ought and I'm sure do have a right to file a lawsuit.
Before eating at a Michelin star restaurant, I'd have suggested sea urchin, raw beef and meringue as an incompatible triad.
Chinese presidential plane was sent to Boeing in San Antonio for maintenance. When it was returned it was found to be full of bugs (microphones not insects).
Clickbait headline, as usual. "Most of Greenland Melted about a Million Years Ago" is much more accurate, but probably failed A/B testing. To add some perspective: we've had an ice age about every 100,000 years during the last million years.
The story of FXSAVE/SSE (I wonder if you were there for it):

http://web.archive.org/web/20000817193452/http://www.tbcnet....

http://web.archive.org/web/20000817084210/http://www.tbcnet....

Obviously, XSAVE/AVX was handled better.
What Clojure excels at (expressive data structure walking/manipulation) is, in my experience, seldom used in typical frontend programming, often taken care by underlying frameworks like React.

JSX works fine, looks like HTML, and Cljs needs precompilation anyways. Sexps being a pure representation of HTML trees has absolutely zero impact on productivity.

I use Closure Compiler, hot reloading and native Sets with regular ES6. I agree that immutability is a must and JS immutable libraries are just not ergonomic. If at least JS had operator overloading...

I love Clojure, but it just doesn't click for me in the frontend.
Here's an interesting fact, he used his own move for the first time earlier this year[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11787093
...and an excellent reason to put 100% of available resources into anti-aging research.
Alternate explanation for the fact that people describe having qualia?

I've seen qualia described as "qualities or feelings, like redness or pain, as considered independently of their effects on behavior and from whatever physical circumstances give rise to them."

I go into a good bit of detail about how such a thing is unsurprising in this thing I wrote (8 years ago). http://www.karmatics.com/docs/violet.html

The thing is, you have this intuitive feeling that something (say, redness) is real. Fine. But the external behavior you are describing as "proof"? I would consider that beyond weak. There is nothing at all surprising about an entity that can communicate, expressing that there is a certain something that it is having trouble communicating directly.
I came to the same conclusion when thinking about this too. It might even make sense to counsel people too about what they can do with the extra time/money. There are a lot of amazing things to do in the world, but most people will always try to emulate their immediate environment.

For some people, I would expect they would end up getting hooked on something unwholesome (drugs for example) with their newfound free time. You could probably make a huge difference in this just by suggesting the right things at the right times.
> Do they get depressed?

I think this is a huge factor that isn't getting enough focus. When people's jobs are replaced by automation and they are on UBI, how do they achieve self-worth? A lot of people get their self-worth from their work, even if their job is monotonous and relatively low-skill. We may be able to replace a low-skilled worker's wages with UBI, but we can't replace their feeling of self-worth. Not everyone can become an artist and even if they could, that may not be enough to give them a sense of purpose. In the long run, this may be a much bigger question than whether or not we implement UBI.
accepting "only" $30,000 at the age of 22 is a lot less stupid than accepting "only" $30,000 at the age of 52. people's lives and motivations are vastly different, especially the most qualified, smartest people's lives.