skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I do print source code. If it's somebody's code (or mine from long ago)
I need to rewrite or reorganize and it fits on several pages of paper, I find
it much easier to analyze it this way.

I can doodle and write remarks on top of the code, but I think much more
important aspect of written code is it gives different friction profile than
browsing the same code with editor (or on a screen in general).

This "friction" thing is hard for me to put into words, as it's quite subtle
feeling. I can't freely search the code for identifiers nor run it, so I'm
sort of forced to make notes and remember things, but I can mark parts of the
code in different ways, and I can write an alternative pseudocode alongside
the original, and I can add a TODO or REMOVE or UNNECESSARY marks.

I do a similar thing for code I need to write, except, obviously, I have
nothing to print yet. I write the parts of the code on paper, (what allows
me to omit all the uninteresting trivia). Then I can proceed with what I would
do with printed code.
Yes. Young/childless people don't understand this, but there is nothing that older people want less than to harm their children. They've just spent the last 50 years of their lives taking care of their posterity so that they could have a nice life in a nice world. Parents and grandparents are not just going to muck that up casually; it would counteract everything they've worked for.

You can argue that the policies of the older generation have unintended consequences that will negatively impact younger generations, but it is not credible that the older generation as a class is intentionally selling out any part of their posterity that is currently living for short-term personal gain.
I bet the majority of your Safari numbers come from iOS users. A lot of Mac users ignore Safari and use Chrome.
I prefer function composition for that when possible :)

Aspects I feel are more useful when you want to modify the behaviour of existing code you don't own.

Maybe if I had easy access to them I'd find more use cases :)
It is very rare for a Pixel, but Galaxy phones are a very large step behind them.
Not everything has the same economics as illegal substances. Kinder Surprise eggs are illegal in the US but you don't see much of a black market for them. That's because they are perfectly replaceable by other goods, just like most luxury goods.
>Rather: the company we started was an experiment, a very opinionated one, to see if we could port a hiring model that had worked extremely well for us at one company to a larger set of companies.

Matasano?
I wonder if they just tell that to foreigners who ask questions.
As long as California or the federal government has taxing authority, there will always be money.

Just because you don't like how the current system is set up, doesn't make it not so.
could be VTOL

http://moller.com/ - this project seems dead =( hopefully either I'm wrong or something more interesting takes its place
I actually agree with you. I believe all drugs, including the illegal ones, should be made accessible if I want them. Now, having said that, everyone else has great arguments, and these things can not go unregulated. I'll want officially sanctioned reviews, warnings, I want labels to be truthful, I want legitimate access to accurate and quality information, I need more then known side effects, I need propbability of each one, I need to know the amount and quality of the studies that have shown efficacy and effect, etc.

I think cigarettes is actually a pretty good example of regulation that's not restrictive. I don't want to deregulate to enable business to sell more crap for higher prices with disinformation and attractive pitches. I want deregulation so that I am free to use any drug I would decide to use for myself. Granted, I would need to be guaranteed access to the correct information. Even today, there's not enough regulation around package labels. A lot of products don't mention important facts about them, or are allowed to lie on certain facts.
From my experience (for a sub 100mil aum firm, 1 day or grater in a any given position), the stuff people use is mathematically simple: moving average crossovers and correlations between assets. All it requires is usually enough init funds to for it to be worth your time vs crud apping it up an taking it easy.

I have no degree nor any desire to seek one out.
You are being very charitable to the WSJ. The WSJ article in question said in the second paragraph [1]: Apple's orders for iPhone 5 screens for the first quarter, for example, have dropped to roughly half of what the company had planned to order, the people said.

In the three first months of 2014 Apple sold 37.4 million iPhones, compared to 35.1 million in the three first months of 2013 [2]. Unless you believe that they internally projected to sell anywhere near 75 million phones (more than the 47.8 million iPhones sold in the last three months of 2013, traditionally their strongest quarter by far), that rumor reported by the WSJ was flat out wrong.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014241278873242351045782410...

[2] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/04/23Apple-Reports-Seco...
I'd agree four years ago.
No decent ultrabook nowadays is made of plastic or has the other build quality issues you mention (the linked Lenovo included).

I have an HP Folio 1040 G1 which is a few years old now and is just as sturdy as a MacBook air, nearly as thin, but has better specs. Also much cheaper. The only place the Apple really outshines it is the tracked (and OS X if that's your thing.. it isn't mine).
The point Manisearth is trying to make is that "having privilege" is not the same as "doing bad things" and also not the same as "having privilege in all things". You're at this point choosing to be offended by reading something indiscriminately that, when used well, isn't being used indiscriminately, but in a context.
This is such shit, but it hit the nail on the head so hard.

This passage of text should be passed to every employee at every job ever on their first day.
Structuring income to avoid taxes seems like a jerk move to me. But a bigger reason is that as long as my income is over some threshold, I'm happy. Dealing with business minutia reduces my happiness, so I avoid doing it.
Why only 4, 8 or 12 rotors? Can a group of much smaller rotors replace the thrust a single bigger one produces? Would add a lot more redundancy and limit the costs.
The company was two people, then three. That's all the bigger it was. You can do the same thing as a one-person company. The distinction isn't that large. (I did not make that much money but first, I was a special case and second, this is about price, not about wages.)

And I do think this advice is applicable to non-training stuff, but Patrick already wrote about it at length so I won't get into that here :)

> whether it takes 30 minutes, one week or a year.

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood. Thanks for clarifying.
Isn't Apple just as bad as google with user data?

I feel that all of them, apple, google, facebook, amazon, they all disregard our privacy.
I too am interested in the T470. But read disappointment with the display: https://www.thinkscopes.com/2016/12/28/lenovo-announces-new-...
I've been running Debian on my X1 gen 3 since the day I got it. The only problem was Debian doesn't ship with drivers for proprietary NICs and you have to supply them separately, but that's a Debian problem, not an X1 problem.

I'm currently typing this while USB-tethered through a stock Android phone, which 'just worked' when I first tried it - the only settings screen I've ever seen when USB tethering is the one that toggles it on.

It is normal for linux to perhaps have a driver issue with a very new laptop, but it's usually sorted out in a month or two, especially with thinkpads as they have a large linux-using population.
Japan has a serious problem that would prevent that: who would pay? They already don't have enough to pay for current subsidies.
When the 0.1% nudges the pitchforks away they usually gesture in the direction of one of the two most convenient villains - boomers or robots.

I'm sure your grandma will be very sorry for her part in corrupting politics with money, deregulating the financial sector and de-taxing land when her social security is cut to the bone.
Throwaway because I work in a related field.

Folks, now is the time that we need to make it clear that posturing and PR statements do not constitute valid, independently verifiable evidence. As a citizen of the United States, I am beyond terrified that our government has made public statements, buttressed by newspaper articles supported by nothing but anonymous sources[1], vilifying Russia for a nation-state-level cyberattack. The support for such claims, as presented, is the "sophistication" of the attack, which is not evidenced here (phishing is not a particularly sophisticated means of entry). At best, this is a mistake, and at worst, it wreaks of anti-Russia propaganda that will only serve to escalate tensions between the two countries. Every single person who absorbs a report like this without seeking supporting evidence (note that this report immediately starts by claiming Russia's involvement, and never provides support) is, to some extent, culpable in a hypothetical reality where the US Government is blatantly wrong about this one.

There's only one thing we can do at this point: File Freedom of Information requests. The fine folks at Muckrock[2] make this absurdly easy. Send requests to the CIA and FBI -- hold them accountable to their statements, which have to date been unsupported, that Russia as a nation-state entity was behind anything.

1: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/us/obama-russia-election-h...
2: https://www.muckrock.com
There are plenty of options, but it really depends on your definition of good. Different people making the same complaint as you on HN have very different and sometimes very particular criteria. If you look at the systems overall the MBP's have good alternatives now.

The X1 is actually really impressive. First gen had a short battery life and the display wasn't high resolution, but they addressed that pretty quickly.
No. Certain employment sectors like Silicon Valley and Wall St. have created cultures of expected overtime, but they're very unrepresentative. The US overall averages only 34.4 hours worked per week.
I guess I'm just lucky to work at a place where technical people make technical decisions. The management does not decide what languages are used or how developers are onboarded where I work.
If you feel upset or angry about what public employees receive, realize that the problem isn't that they get too much but that you get too little.
Weird, I have a T530 that I have carried literally everywhere with me for 4 years and the thing just won't die.
MacBook air? Base MacBook pro?

I'm running Fedora on my Razer Blaze Stealth.
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Any time I observe corporations latching on, apparently/obviously for their own PR (e.g. the Komen "Pinkwashing" blitz and stunts), I become extremely suspicious.

I'd also look out for efforts that will or may seek to privatize their outputs. (E.g. the increasing role of such in much university research.) In this case, as much because resultant costs may withhold treatment from many. Also because such private interest tends to sale-able product over fundamental research.

Not cancer, and I haven't followed up to confirm my suspicion. But the recent news about Merc having a "100% effective" Ebola vaccine? IIRC, that comes out of Canadian government or government-funded research that was sold off a few years ago to Merc for a relative pittance.

Guess where your dollars should go. And also, don't let politicians trade the fruits of such to their business cronies. Not without controls to ensure public benefit shares equal or greater weight with/than private profit.
Yes, it's one of our goals
Reasons Not to Quit Your Job
> The average investor made just over 5% in 2016.

Of course, the total stock market is up 15% YTD (including dividends), so a simple index fund did better than most investors.
>Innovation in the recruiting space is a really hard task

s/the recruiting/any

or, simpler:

s/in the recruiting space//
I wasn't a foreigner: I lived in the UAE for 14 years. Besides, she was pretty taken aback when I asked, and I made sure to convey my surprise at the dish.
Yao Ming is actually doing a lot for this cause as well. I posted about this a while back as well

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8271382
Totally agree. I made a comment on the original MBP thread that Apple dropped the ball here by not releasing the iPhone 7 also as usb-c. I'll be shocked, and really wonder WTF, if the next iPhone is not usb-c.
Kickstarter, AirBnB, Github, Scribd, Bleacher Report, Hulu, Codeacademy, the 100+ startups that message me for interviewers every year, etc.

I was only making claims for rapid prototyping. I still contend for prototyping there is no better framework than Rails. From the start DHH designed Rails specifically for prototyping of web apps, and your custom prototyping infrastructure will sit very nicely on top.
> Soda tax: no

Soda tax is a way (albeit a somewhat flawed one) for state and local governments to nullify the effects of agricultural grain subsidies, which is something I wholeheartedly support. If rural constituencies have a right to spend urban tax money to support their crops, then urban constituencies have a right to claw that money back with a tax on products made with those crops. Now, if the federal government dropped all grain subsidies tomorrow, I'd drop my support for a soda tax.

> It will catch up.

No it won't--TFRs have been dropping across the world for a few decades now, and soon it will be at or below the replacement rate. People don't have kids for shits and giggle or just because they can--it's just that in the past, for agricultural and pastoral societies children were short-term investments, not long-term ones, and child mortality was high, so having more kids==better. It takes a while to shed traditional wisdom, but it does happen.

> I would rather have freedom to reproduce and poverty than totalitarianism and the "theoretical promise" of no poverty

Speak for yourself. If I had to give up reproductive freedom in exchange for prosperity and all other freedoms, I'd do so in a heartbeat. You don't need to control every aspect of citizens' lives in order for them to have less children.
What do these usually go for? Does anyone know?
TBF, aren't most people who work under 40hr/w want to work more, but are underemployed?
Thanks Kevan, the work of Docker UI was legendary, however, as you pointed out, development slowed. We initially built portainer for our own internal use (as the UI for CloudInovasi.id), but liked it so much, we decided to focus on it. We are now wanting to add substantially more capability so that it becomes truly production ready. There will be a select few paid add-on's in the future for things like AD authentication, multi-tenancy etc, but the core will always be opensource and free.
I remember him from the Nasa BPP page, that was a very nice work.
Highly recommend http://Haskellbook.com
What isn't mentioned here is that the state usually mandates binding arbitration for public safety employees, which eliminates the ability of the municipality to negotiate. That's how police pensions get so crazy -- the pension allows the city to kick the can down the road vs a 10% raise or whatever.

The supplemental pension thing for bigshots is another matter. That's pure greed, and a city shouldn't be able to do such a thing if the are part of the state system.
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Facts are a bit thin on the ground in the article - they list the city manager as poster child, and that's that. You'd like to see averages to get the picture how generous the city government really is. I guess it's all "fake news".
Countries where cash is on the verge of extinction
The situation in North Korea actually works out quite well for a very small number of people which is one of the main reasons why it endures.
Superfish didn't happen to the ThinkPad line of computers - it was a different division in Lenovo that made that error.
The privacy thing is part of it, but Apples AI problem is deeper than that. Google and Amazon both have huge supplementary personalized datasets to pull from. Normal interactions with Apple just do not give away as much personal information, even if their privacy policy did not exist.
I don't think I disagree substantially, I just think it was super weird to complain about the use of "function" in an article that was all about using bashisms.

Personally, I find a lot of bashisms a nice affordance at the command line, and tend to avoid them in scripts meant to persist or be run outside a UI/bash-specific context. Bash is a great UI, poor programming language (sh isn't any better a programming language, but at least it's better standardized).
>If the final price was $215k it certainly seems possible to pay off most of $120k with that.

Right. I was "implying" that perhaps the business wasn't as good a business as I thought.
I like to think of solutions and not problems, and costs:

There are too many bugs in the code. Okay. Why? Well we don't have good testing set up. Why? Because time was not allotted for writing test code. Why? Because it was rushed. Conclusion: You either pay the cost up-front or after-the-fact. Either way. However if this is a constant thing then the real problem is: "You have too many features being built for the size of your team, either increase the size of the team, reduce features, or prepare for big problems."

From personal experience I can say me working at "optimal" power, that is optimal sleep, no external life problems, not sick, generally very happy is maybe 30%-40% more productive. That seems like a lot, but if you need 500% the productivity, you ain't gonna get it by making a person feel like junk, not get needed rest (vacation / day off), not letting then handle family issues, etc. I can get a developer working at 100% more productivity, but only for a short amount of time, then they burn out which requires EVEN MORE rest time.
Yep, must be.. I doubled up the period in my comment and it looks like that fixed it.
I hope they fly themselves as well. Humans can barely manage to safely pilot a car in 2 dimensions. I don't want to think of the carnage that would result if we took existing traffic and moved it 10,000 feet up in the air. Every fender bender would become a multiple fatality.
That was quite a thoughtful, and IMHO balanced, discussion. I wish this was the usual level of discourse on scientific news.
>This is an annual story, not super interesting. Nikkei itself actually posted something similar at this time last year:

They reference that in the second sentence
You may or may not be a bad developer. But lines of code has nothing to with being a good developer or providing value or solving problems. If your employer thinks all developers are equal and that they are just cogs in a machine, then that is not going to be a good place to work regardless of how fast you are.

And you shouldn't beat yourself up about bad estimates. Everyone sucks at estimating. (Read "Thinking Fast and Slow") Which makes sense since we are estimating how long it will take us to make something we've never made before. Everything breaks down into day or week or weeks or month or.... You could also take 4 weeks to fully define every requirement and create tests for validation for a task that would have taken you two weeks.

You are a bad developer if you keep making the same mistakes or if you don't spend anytime learning new concepts/languages/processes/etc. You are a bad developer if you approach your job as doing exactly what you're told and not caring or thinking about how your contribution is part of the bigger project.
Is Zhang a genius? Maybe not, but consider the possibility that he is. We have a particular expectation of what a genius looks and sounds like that he doesn't conform to.

Jeremy Lin, again, didn't look like a star, except to a few geeks who reckoned his numbers told a different story to that his own coach believed.

How many people like Lin and Zhang are we missing? Those who, given a little more opportunity, could have become obviously exceptional.
I have an X1 gen 3, and it has a dongle for the ethernet port. Given the thickness of it, I don't see how this new gen machine can hold a 'native rj45'. Perhaps it's one of those hinged ones that opens out?
I pay about $1.5k/month for colocation and the amortized cost of hardware, and that's the major expense.

The site isn't finished so much as frozen. I.e., I have a lot of stuff I plan to do, but it's been a suspiciously long time since I've done anything at all.
Bad news for the low skilled. Good news for highly paid engineers.
Because he can.

That's the only answer.
Commonality and Variability in Software Engineering (1998) [pdf]
Amazon doesn't leave everything alone. Zappos is one of the few Amazon acquisitions that included a culture clause. Everything else is rewritten as soon as it's on the Bezos radar.
Caveat lector: I'm one of the two founders of Dreamwidth.

Yes! Dreamwidth is a fork of the old LiveJournal code that is still being developed by a small team of folks who would rather see a small site run in an open, transparent fashion than be beholden to large corporate interests and the whims of monetization.

We're a very happy little family and it's always exciting to see Dreamwidth links end up on HN. :)
I have no business telling you how to run your life but you would be surprised how much an accountant can help you in totally legal and ethical ways.
>A typical quad/hexa/octo copter type vehicle is much easier to fly

They're easier to fly because they have software providing artificial stability. If you had to control each rotor individually it would be virtually impossible. There's no reason in principle why a helicopter couldn't have similarly straightforward controls.
As an involuntary user of a corporate-issued MBP 2015, I have to say that its keyboard bothers me quite a bit after many years of using Thinkpads, and even after MBP 2013.

The trackpad is nice, though; I almost don't miss the trackpoint any more, but I do miss the separate mouse buttons, and especially the middle button.
My overall team is about 30 devs, and we're broken up into teams of 3-5 devs. My immediate team consists of 5 developers.

>Sure anyone can learn clojure syntax in a day and write imperative code in it. But not sure if everyone can throw out their thought patterns from decades of OO and learn an entirely new paradigm of thinking about code.

We don't have to hire everyone though. We just need to find one person who fits the team. A lot of developers nowadays are already familiar with functional patterns, so it's actually not that challenging to start doing stuff in Clojure.

We also do code reviews and pair up as needed. Developers are a long term investment, so spending a bit of extra time to get somebody onboarded is well worth the effort in my opinion.

We're using jira/bitbucket internally. Our process is that everybody works on branches, and when you finish a feature you tag somebody for a code review. We found that this helped us catch any non-idiomatic code fairly quickly.
The key is in tracking quality, latency, and refresh rate. High-end VR (Oculus, Vive) have spent considerable time and effort solving this issue in particular, which unfortunately requires a lot of hardware, but are largely acknowledged to be successful in their efforts.