skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are onto something. I work in tech and am a recovering gadget addict; my hobbies (notably photography and ham radio) includes lotsa tech, too.

Picking up a book (of the dead trees variety, not on my Kindle) makes me relax, free from interruptions. (When I sit down to read, I leave my phone in another room).

A quiet, interruption-free hour in the company of a good book works wonders for my well-being. (I then run back to my phone to see what I've missed, alas)
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Education, experience, diligence. I'd expect that of anyone basing their livelihood on delivering production systems.

Secure out of the box is nice, except that when the boxing is done by others, and delivered to under-informed, unexperienced people. It's too easy to npm yourself a "full stack" or just pick a Docker container with full stack on it, then place it on public inter-web... there are dangers to be had, and others can save you. It's up to you.

And yeah, the click-bait titles including the word "hack" are laughable.
Capitalism don't require irrational behavior. What is needed are things like comparative advantage and economic profit[1]. Someone who has capital has different incentives than someone who whose major offering is labor or expertise.

Newton's studies were motivated by his dislike of farming and need to revenge a bully. He got time for his most productive work because plague closed the University for two years.

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[1]: if you are not familiar with these terms, look up definitions, because they don't mean what you think they mean.
Unibox, Capture One, XCode, Contacts/Calendar syncing to iphone/ipad, iMessage syncing. Theses are required applications.

That's awesome you enjoy that, but I'm not one to waste my time polishing, and modifying the OS I'm using. That's just insane to me.

One little side mention, the font rendering on Mac is so much more enjoyable to look at, that it impacts me immensely. Especially when dealing with web sites. Looking at them on Windows or Linux is horrific.
Yeah, I mean I don't think he's complained about the EPA busting emissions violators, has he? He at least seemed to be pushing a "clean air and water" thing, which something like this should certainly fall under, even if you don't want to police carbon emissions aggressively as some would like to.

I think problems like this deserve investigation effort and aren't particularly political - probably an easy play to your average citizen.
With a purpose-built protocol called Golix [1]. The documentation goes into a lot more detail but it has three main aspects:

1. Encrypt things like PGP, except key encapsulation is separate from ciphertext delivery. Specific primitives used are AES-256, RSA-4096, and X25519, though deprecation of RSA is planned soon

2. Everything is content/hash addressed, which helps substantially with the above. Specific primitive: SHA-512

3. Data retention is governed like a reference-counted programming language; data gets a container, and then you make a signed "binding" to give the container an address. You can then sign binding revocations ("debindings"). When no addresses are left, the server removes the content.

[1] https://github.com/Muterra/doc-golix
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While it's definitely fake, do you not think it's an interesting idea?

Trump refused to let Jack Dorsey go to the "Tech meet" at Trump tower over refusing a "Crooked Hilary" emoticon. Would be interesting if they retaliated in a similarly childish manner.
Their idea of a "space counselor" wouldn't work in a startup or even a small company. In a large company like Google or IBM or Microsoft then having someone who just specializes in knowing where all the buildings are, their floorplans, and who is currently using which rooms would be quite important. When you form a team (of 3-5 people, ideally) in this company you would go to them and find a spot where you could all work together. They would help you pick out furniture, design the layout, recommend putting in a couch and coffee table, etc. They would basically be the front-end UI for the entire facilities department.

This would indeed be happening completely independently of your normal manager (except that your manager probably told you where to find the space counselor, made an appointment for you, etc).
Spec-ulation keynote by Rich Hickey at clojure/conj 2016. He discusses the worst part about semver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk
Glad it helped! If it works out I'd love to hear what the outcome is.
An addendum to this: Many of the greatest unconventional thinkers of our time are similar to Newton in that they are right about one non-consensus thing and wrong about lots of others.

Some of those people become fantastically rich as a result of the one right thing.

Just because someone is wildly successful and right about one non-consensus bet, doesn't mean they aren't wrong about most of their other beliefs.

The occasional out-of-the-mainstream idea is a revolution, but the vast majority are just nutty and wrong.
Let's not forget that the designer of Rijndael (AES) is also the designer of Keccak (SHA-3).

RC4, by the way, was bad even for the time. It would be worth studying how it managed to survive as long as it did, because flaws in RC4 were well known long before the browser drama.
From what I read, majority of the focus of page bytes reduction to optimize fro mobile experiences is on lowering JPEG image quality (AMP Lite) and/or fixate it to 85% for AMP.

I wonder why Google is taking a fixed reduction of image quality reduction rather than considering a dynamic image quality reduction approach like JPEGMini[1] and Kraken.io[2] took?

The latter ones will take visual perceptions into consideration hence they are usually able to squeeze out more bytes savings in the end.

[1]: https://www.jpegmini.com

[2]: https://kraken.io
Capitalism is also quite rational - feeding human greed while exploiting the proletariat. Initially, it can be irrational to take some risk, but beyond that, it's clean-cut rationality, and a business must behave rationally (considering rising returns as a consequence of rational conduct) or be out-competed or fail.
AMP is horrible and I wish European Union or someone would hit hard on google. They are essentially forcing websites to format the sites in exactly the way Google wants, then they steal the content. All these google SEO guidelines inevitable end up helping google becoming even more powerful abusing their almost monopoly in search engine market.

When power is too concentrated in one area, its never a good sign for the common good.
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> Thank you for contacting Carla’s Nice Nunnery (CNN) owned and operated by The Reverend Paul Horner!

http://cnn.com.de/contact/

This isn't CNN. This is someone with the cnn.com.de (German TLD) performing some trademark infringement :)
Why wouldn't they have done the same thing to Ford months ago?
> How much software do these things have in them, anyway?

Any answer other than "fucking zero" would be terrifying. I'm not risking my life on some guy properly writing a software module (says the guy driving a car to work this morning)
Am I the only person that hates "Start or stop timer with a single click"? I don't want timers. I never remember to start them, I never remember to stop them.

What I do instead is write down in my little (edit: physical, pen and paper) notepad when I start a task then note when I stop it, later updating the timesheet with the difference. I just want to be able to enter a hours:minutes value for each task when I get a moment, does this app do that? It's literally the only reason I still use Basecamp Classic (v1)

Another pet peeve: If I click "Features" in the header or footer I want more information, I do not want to be scrolled back to the thing I already read.
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Presidents don't create jobs or lose them. The demands of the economy do that. Presidents can influence the economy, but they also have Congress and the Fed to deal with.
The Heroku 2016 Retrospective
I agree. We were lucky (not smart, I'd say, just lucky) in the sense that we turned on PMD as a CI portion prior to a lot of major code being written. To share one experience of my own, I wrote an entire application - not a major one, probably < 2000 LOC altogether - right when we were midstream.

I began by ignoring PMD's presence (it wasn't blocking my work at the time) and merrily went about writing the code. Right when I was nearly finished the application, PMD went live and I ended up realizing - with PMDs help, code review, input from more experienced devs in the domain - that my code was shit - poorly structured, not very testable, not following great design principles - and as a result I re-wrote the entire thing. It wasn't time-costly but it was an eye-opening lesson - getting some things right off the bat is important and saves a lot of headache later.

If we'd had more code like mine in place at the time PMD went live we'd have spent an order of magnitude more time re-writing so many things, in many cases nearly from the ground up.

Even the initial effort caused a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth, but in truth it did help us learn and improve more quickly than if we'd kept left to our own devices.
The code implements a pretty close model to what Google Translate has published (https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08144). However the two systems are likely trained on very different datasets.
That's a good news!!! Amazon offers high-quality jobs.
Docker: insecure opening of file-descriptor allows privilege escalation
Have you tried this? The amount of bandwidth consumed is non-trivial and especially impacts compute workloads or anything that does read-back from the GPU.
Potentially, but my take is that this is unlikely to explain the productivity puzzle.

I think your question is asking whether we are mismeasuring the value of dollars over time. And certainly there are worthy criticisms of inflation measurement, and good reasons to think that they overstate inflation as a result of undermeasuring quality improvements. But these flaws are not unique to recent history, so by themselves, they cannot explain why productivity growth has ostensibly slowed.

One way to sidestep the issue of statistical dollar measurement is to just read direct history of past time periods. Doing so has given me a much richer appreciation for the radical transformations caused by industrialization, urbanization, electrification, etc. A terrific article on this subject was published last year in the New York Times, comparing the years 1870, 1920, and 1970:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/upshot/what-was-the-great...

The article was inspired by Robert Gordon's lengthier book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, which followed a somewhat similar structure:

http://amzn.to/2jc6zkF

His descriptions of 1870 really made me appreciate how truly impoverished the average person was in those days. The rise in quality of life as electricity and automobiles and running water percolated through society over the next 50 years was radical, far more radical (in my view) than getting computers and the internet and phones, as monumental as those achievements have been.

Ultimately, it's impossible to objectively compare value across different situations. But my own semi-informed take is that productivity growth is indeed slowing.
It's always been one of those features that sounds good in your head, but never works in practice, except when you're playing chess. They NEVER get used, and if by chance they do, they are so wildly inaccurate, because you've forgotten about it in the meantime.
There is a "good Chrome browser" on iOS. It syncs your passwords and bookmarks and works as intended. The fact that it's not sharing rendering technology with the other Chrome browsers doesn't matter at all to end users, and matters very little to developers.
I get this too. However, I can say that it's not just Indians. There are quite a few people from all backgrounds who have questionable skill levels from prestigious schools and/or who have masters degrees. I've given enough interviews to realize that there is an alarming amount of people who can't figure out how to write an "addition" function given two strings representing positive integers in a 45 minute window. So, I honestly skip over the school and education in the candidate's resume and see what their work experience is (or side projects if they have that).
You might be right. But if you're a consumer, these kind of concepts do nothing but frustrate because it:

1) sets totally unrealistic expectations

2) is total fantasy

And lesser informed people often think these are real if they see them. I recalling having had multiple people tell me about the "iPhone holographic keyboard" from some silly concept porn a few years ago...
You're right. It's now light diesel vehicles that are the primary problem with regard to excessive NOx emissions. At least in Europe, where there are a huge number of light diesel vehicles on the roads.

But there are, of course, a lot of old pre-DEF heavy vehicles on the roads too that would not comply with modern emissions standards.
We pay our engineers near or maybe a bit below the average for the Los Angeles metro area. Our coworking space is a bit cheaper than what you quoted, but not radically so. We pay about $800/month for three desks, storage space, and amenities.

Our #1 expense by a massive margin is employees and associated benefits. #2 is probably the combined cost of hosting and SaaS services we use (AWS/OVH/DO/Vultr, Gusto, Xero, Slack, Zendesk, etc.). #3 is probably a tie between travel and other incidentals like accounting and computer hardware, and our coworking space. The rest is change.

I guess some people just splurge on office space. I don't know what kind of office you'd have to be getting for it to even approach labor cost for a startup. Personally if I were an investor I'd do everything I could to veto that since it's insane and wasteful.

Does it help with recruitment? Maybe, but personally I'd rather work for a hip company in a garage than a boring company in a posh office. Maybe that's the problem.
Opportunity cost
From my experience people graduate from traditional universities without the skills needed for the jobs they want. For example, how on earth can you graduate with a degree in computer science but never used version control? But I've seen it from our new hires. Version control should be taught the first day of CS101, that's where I was first exposed to it.
> brand name because they think it might be better

There's also the "death problem". No customer likes to cut corners on something to save their life.
Thunderbolt 3 uses the same connector as USB C, and it supports the same USB functionality. (https://thunderbolttechnology.net/blog/thunderbolt-3-usb-c-d...)
How are you evaluating your confidence in him being a disaster? What're your priors? What criteria do you have for evaluating presidents after their terms? What's your track record in predicting presidential success?

How are you determining what parts of disasters are attributed to the presidency/government vs things only lightly influenced by that? We can agree that hurricanes in one year aren't caused by presidential actions that same year. What about epidemics? Large economic shifts?

I don't mean this as Trump support, just wondering how people get things like "95% confidence" and "disaster". How do they objectively define these things and avoid their biases?
I have been using toggl.com for months now, and it's really amazing. Apps for all major platforms, good reporting interface, and manual/timer tracking.
Question for you if you don't mind...

I've been out of undergrad and working in industry for close to a decade as a Software Engineer and/or Embedded Systems Engineer. I feel I'm doing pretty well in my career, but I've been looking at the online masters in CS as a way of showing that I'm dedicated to continuing learning, and to maybe open up some new doors for myself down the road.

From your perspective as a hiring manager, would this be worth the time and effort? It's not like I wouldn't be interested and learning new stuff anyways, but if I'm going to go invest the time and money to do the degree vs. learning on my own, it would be nice to know if it was worth anything.

(No sweat if you don't feel like answering, or want to take this private. Thanks!)
For those interested in Newton's theology and alchemy work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton's_occult_studies
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I think the root issue here is that most websites are now designed by people who don't even know HTML. ("You had one job!")

From there, we get years of unoptimized, bloated websites made by people drawing pictures with HTML editors. They are exclusively focused on visual presentation and ignore any mechanics under the hood. Not everyone, but most. Finally Google can't take it anymore and creates AMP as an angry middle finger to these people. ("I drink your milkshake!")

IMO the right solution is to use speed as an increasingly more important ranking signal. Push crummy bloated websites to the bottom where they belong. I read the article but didn't see Google address this rather obvious idea.
You can tell a company has this policy when every monitor has a sticky note on it with the numbers 1 to N on it, where 1 to N-1 are crossed out.
ACLU Report: Prisoners with disabilities are neglected and harmed in solitary
If you deploy in containers, it's not. But yeah, that comes with it's own challenges.
I'm sure that would be more expensive. And there are union work rules.
Sure - to be brief, the data must be actionable and understandable to be of value. A great example of value adding data gathering and analysis process is the work of Eniram - they take a ship, analyze it, and optimize it's usage to save millions in large shipping operations fuel costs globally. This after the shipping companys internal engineers have optimized the shit out of their operations.

This is what value added data enrichment scheme looks like.

I'm sure the analogous thing can be done to all sorts of organizations and processes.

It's not about gathering obscure metrics, running them through excel and creating powerpoints with no actionable items.
> To me, the two are related. You stay late because there's loud music playing.

That's a presumption, unstated in the comment, and it is incorrect.

I have worked at... I don't know how many co-working and incubator spaces. And of those, some had a very socially lubricated environment at night that sometimes included loud- (or even live-) music.

But never have I experienced loud music during the day except on some special occasion (ie holiday party or something).
The furniture police!
Yeah, that's what I meant, but the way you put it better emphasizes why people act this way.
I am assuming your comment is referencing Volkswagen's emissions controversy? It doesn't really fit considering six executives have been charged [1] over the incident.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/business/volkswagen-diese...
Were these 100,000 new jobs not previously planned?
Good observation. Some of them appear to be debug packages (console, debug, var-dumper) and the others seem to be quite basic stuff (routing, http handling) that is good to reuse, and is also likely something you'll have in your Symfony projects.)
Isn't that basically called "being freelance"? If the work's done by the required deadline then you're free to do what you want?
Generics are allowed to have a rather wide margin of error on the amount of the active ingredient they contain, for example.

What's the range?

This FDA brochure says that generics are held to "rigorous" standards "with respect to identity, strength, quality, purity, and potency."

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/BuyingUsi...

Should I worry that the FDA is blowing smoke?
Huh! So we had an affordable solution all around but it was illegal ?
I just checked on mine:

* Unless there is other metadata, the filename becomes the title, and the title is searchable.

* Text search appears to be fulltext-style:

* A title like "2017-01-12 09-23-45.mpg" will be found with a search for "01-12".

* "20170112" is found when I search for "201701" but not if I search for "0112".

* The web UI list view is quite wide, but still appears to truncate after about 80 characters (even though that's less than half the screen width on my 1920px wide monitor).
That's what I'm trying to figure out -- whether the standard productivity definition uses physically grounded measures (like how much skyscraper floor area can be built per year or per full time employee, how many bytes of DRAM are manufactured per year or per full time employee...) or just money-units. In the latter case building skyscrapers at much higher costs than in the past might count as increased production, as long as you can get people to pay the higher prices. That seems backwards to me but I'm trying to temper my reaction until I learn more from people with a deeper economics background than I possess.
That's not a new idea. It used to be common in America too, although usually in that case it was two floors, one finished and one unfinished for future expansion.
Not only regulation, but construction expectations have changed. Take a construction worker back 100 years an they would be shocked at the lack of detailed plans. Today's buildings are planned and costed down to ever bolt. Every square foot is pre-sold and must be built to spec. A 4-year build that delays into a 6, thats a nightmare. So too is a 6-year build that finishes after 5 as that screws up the financial/tax planning -> profits. So we aim for slow, measured, and built to expectations. That is a change in business methods not tied to regulation.
http://speedify.com/
>You can spend all you life in theology and die unknown.

You can do that in physics and natural philosophy too. What's your point? There are plenty of theologians. This idea that the only noble pursuit is scientific, which PG seems to be saying in this essay from my reading, and in fact other commenters, is borderline scientism.

Why would theology have been a bad thing to pursue, other than some sense of satisfaction you don't even get from people remembering you after you are dead?
Right, productivity has increased but is probably lagging behind our standard of living which has increased more. Additionally, look at globalization and consolidation of most business. I would venture that there are more companies that are bigger and bigger, and requires more layers of management (and bullshit work) and people concerned with job preservation and not productivity.
I am a big user of Harvest and this looks very similar. That is not a bad thing but I have a few issues with this.

1) When I signed up I filled out some information. I thought it was my first project but I don't remember now. This information has disappeared. I had to enter in new tasks, project, etc.

2) The tracking screen is too complex, I get that it does a lot but it is overwhelming. I will compare to harvest which asks very simple questions (Project, task, duration (if left blank it starts a timer))

Also is there a chrome/firefox app? This is crucial as a timetracking application should not take up significant time to use.
Love the simplicity of the setup
AMP was originally a more interesting project called PageSpeed that was open to anyone running webserver(s). I helped the Goog guys work on it by dint of having founded a premium adexchange company. It was great. AMP? Somewhat less great.
Indeed. We have pagespeed, use it as a higher signal.

But no, Google wants to own your content and users. Only very naive person believes they do it in order to fast up the web. If they started punishing harshly slow websites with 10mb of js, believe me ,it would change over night.