skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a metaphor, but it does imply that the employee is a chattel - perhaps tongue-in-cheek, but nonetheless.

It's always worth thinking about the language we use to describe things, because that language does have an effect on our modes of thought.
This is why you don't put young people hiding behind a computer screen in customer service.
Chasing the (Literal) Dragon
I'm using electron for a few years now. I believe it's the most efficient way how to create/maintain a multi-platform app. Also you can use the best from the web world: HTML5 APIs (SVG, canvas, WebAudio) and all the libs/frameworks available (React, RxJS,.. ). Also you can share most of the code base with a web version if you need any.
Alas, for me, developing said domain is the last step in the process. This can be costly unless one values ones time in zeros.
I don't think you understand how anti-science the current Republican movement is. The problem is that science often disagrees with these foregone conclusions that the party comes up with and ends up being an obstacle to their goals.

As they say, when you're a hard right-wing person reality has a left-wing bias.
You really can't say losing top engineers is like losing a file clerk. Granted, engineers aren't EVERYTHING and there is more talent than a handful of people. I wouldn't call losing these people company emergencies, but they're different dimensions from losing an employee in a commodity position.
Ask HN: Anyone need an Ember JavaScript Dev? Side projects? I'm bored
I work full time as a dev doing 90% Ember JS stuff on a big app. I'm looking for ideas or projects to work on with someone or help out when needed.

Let's chat.

joel@joell.ca
Whats the challenge in doing something that is easy huh? :)
Building a business isn't relevant anymore? And finding a unique way to promote it?
That is exactly what they realized when they created me.
A lot of public universities have been hijacked by elite career administrators and they've raised the price of tuition well past what most middle/working class families can afford. Then there are the Universities of California that turn away local citizens so they can charge out of state and foreign students a premium. Meanwhile the local applicants are funneled into less prestigious UCs like Merced and Riverside. It feels like a public resource has been stolen from the public and turned into an institution for the elite.

Look at how UC Davis's Chancellor had university police pepper spray peace student protesters, while she sat on the board of Devry, King Abdulaziz University of Saudi Arabia, AND a textbook publisher--clear conflicts of interest. The chancellor then spent university funds to try and hide the search results of her actions. Then after all this, she still leaves with her pension:

>Under the settlement, Katehi will remain on administrative leave for a year as chancellor emeritus, receiving her $424,360 annual pay with the promise that she will return as a faculty member. If she should choose not to return for at least a year, she would forfeit the chancellor’s salary payment, Klein said. Her faculty pay would be decided by UC Davis campus officials.

The UCs and other public universities are run by crooks.
The PageSpeed Insights[0] tool is better. Less scrolling to see results, actionable steps to fix issues and no scroll hijacking. Also seems to scan websites quicker.

[0] https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
The stupid thing is that the content of most websites is mostly ads, at least from my perspective as a user. (I don't care about the nuances of who is serving the ads) On top of that, a lot of websites waste bandwidth on what I consider dumb shit, like megabytes of javascript needed to make a reactive layout. Said layout is pretty much guaranteed to be so annoying I will disable mobile viewing on my phone.

I work in marketing, and I think the issue is that advertising is a disaster. It's the tragedy of the commons. Highly annoying or misleading ads (CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD) get way more clicks and impressions. Don't even get me started on autoplaying videos. The worst offenders are traditional media companies, who are both the reason why I'm using an ad blockers and also the most likely to block me for using an ad blocker.

I don't particularly feel bad about blocking ads, but I think ads are a good way to support websites. There are very few sites I trust enough to unblock ads on though, and it's because their ads are both unobtrusive and relevant to the content.

Just for example, the Chicago Tribune's print ads are fine. Their website ads are almost entirely link to fake news articles that make the National Enquirer look like the New York Times.
Is NEAT among the methods you refer to?
Nuclear weapons aren't especially useful for pushing things around. You need a sustained, directed force to make any meaningful change in trajectory.

Nuking an asteroid would likely just bust it up into smaller chunks that are still going in roughly the same direction. Instead of one threat you now have millions.
Hardware and robots to watch at the HAX IX demo day
What was wrong with it?
From Chris website: "My overall objective is to improve large software systems through the development of novel techniques as well as the application of known engineering principles. Of particular interest to me are programming languages, compilers, debuggers, operating systems, graphics, and other system software."

So his new work will have a lot to do with his inters ;)
I very much doubt osx let's you disable all data collection and still allow you use the store and its apps and iTunes content and all that.
Hi Sam. Big fan of the yCombinator team, philosophy, and all the great work you all do!

I'm working in a B2B startup as the sole founder where I'm developing software to help agile software engineering companies capture and document their R&D work for government R&D Tax Credit purposes.

I've been iterating through various prototypes using the MEAN stack attempting to make the product that my B2B clients can't live without. I'm currently focusing on Canadian companies (who claim SR&ED) and am constantly juggling sales and engineering, which makes things go slower than ideal. I'm having a little trouble finding a technical cofounder because this startup is so niche and focused (for now) and the product is still in the experimental phase.

My question: I'm the sole founder and dream of having cofounders to help drive this forward with me. So, right now I'm not sure if my primary focus should be on building the cofounding team, or if I should remain completely focused on proving this out on a smaller-scale by building a scrappy prototype that proves this concept is viable before building the cofounding team?
I absolutely agree about the power of language to shape thought. But consider, whenever you've heard of company A poaching employee Y from company B, has it really subtly made you think of Y as a helpless object?

Whenever, I see it, I think of the two companies plying Y with enticements, with Y manipulating them until (s)he finally gets rich rewards with the new company.
Water takes up more space as a solid.
Don't you think such people would be interested in investing on their own rather than part of YC as their partner? I don't know the revenue sharing approach that YC uses with their partners but I don't believe that it is good enough to make successful entrepreneurs who built a company with >500 employees to join them. Someone with more insider knowledge can comment.
It's not that I don't consider any one else worth following; that's neither what I wrote nor meant. My apologies if that's what came across.

Surely there are tons of talented folk behind the scenes, and I am not disparaging the people that remain employed with Apple. It's simply that they are (to date) invisible to me. That's not surprising.

It's hard to break out as an influential contributor and personality when you are perhaps a quiet hero, humble team member, or hidden behind the branding of a large software corporation.
He says that this has been happening since the '1970's' - but historically, most Universities were effectively private, or run by the founding charities, i.e. Churches etc..

Queen's University in Kingston Ontario was founded in the early 19th century and run basically by the Presbyterian and United Church until the 1950's - when Ontario reorganized how public Unis would be funded.

Which I think is ballpark similar to how things operated in other countries.

I'm not making a point for or against - other than to say that this idea of 'government funded directly secular education' was kind of an anomaly in the history of higher education.

Worth noting.

It'd be nice to have a way to truly judge the merits of research ... so hard ...

Even harder in 2016 when everything 'must be measured' ...
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He was exceptionally difficult to work with. He didn't rape or kill anyone. He didn't sexually abuse people. Seriously, get a grip.

The problem with tech is that behaviour way, way worse than what Jobs ever did is given a free pass. The problem is not Jobs.
Using caps lock as escape is pretty common. I think there is a virtual escape button on the touch bar.
Just use Incognito mode and clear your cookies. The NYT paywall is a joke
I carry the Fjallraven Kanken backpack variant with the laptop sleeve.

These are pretty good bags. They seem to have become ubiquitous in Vancouver.

http://www.fjallravencanada.com/kanken-laptop-15-inch.html
I went and looked it up to be sure and yeah, looks like empirically I'm off base with the dynamic range question.

That said, subjectively I still feel that way. It might have something to do with digital noise and how the experience of actually witnessing different exposures feels between the two media.
Looking at the definition of poach, as it relates to this context, the subtext seems to be of the case where an employee leaves without warning or discussion of why they no longer want to remain at their place of employment. Like you cannot save an elephant after it has been poached, but maybe you could have if you know that there was a problem. The poach is the realization that you didn't see it coming.

Of course, the employee is free to just up and walk away at any time, but if you feel it is courtesy to discuss the relationship before parting, and it wasn't discussed, then poach does not seem completely inappropriate.

Having said that, in this case, we don't know many details about the parting. He and Apple may have had a good discussion about the future and came to a realization that the relationship wasn't going to work anymore, for whatever reason, and parted amicably.

From another perspective, perhaps we should not even think of employer/employee agreements to be relationships in this day in age?
"I Didn't Get Hired. Here's Why" Doesn't say why.
https://www.incase.com/shop/bags/incase-icon-pack/black/

Bought my first one in 2007 and the zipper only gave out last year. Bought the current version soon thereafter.

I ride the bus and I love the side pockets that give me easy access to my pass. I pack a laptop, two books on average and a lunch. There are all kinds of isolated compartments for things like legal documents, battery packs, and e-readers without opening the main two compartments. The laptop has its own compartment. There's little pocket on the very top for your phone.

I don't think this bag can compete with others when it comes to storage space, but it will take the best of them when it comes to user experience. The placement of some of these pockets/ compartments is very well thought out.
Tesla just poached one of Apple's top engineers
I don't think I could do that work; even though I already have a low opinion of humanity.

I'm glad you were able to find something you like better.
That's true for carry on luggage, but checked luggage (I've learned) still fogs.
Jobs wrote the Atari game brick breaker. So like Gates, Zuckerberg, and Musk he does have a technical background.
DOJ: Let’s make eyewitness identification more scientifically rigorous
Yes. It is language policing nonsense. Quit trying to tell people how to talk because of imagined slights.
When I was an intern, I worked in IT for a Fortune 500 company. They'd recently decommissioned their old tape loaders for the mainframe and had moved to an automated tape silo, so no longer had need for the tape room. They converted the tape room that was connected into a conference room, but they didn't disconnect the HALON. Although, smoking wasn't allowed in the facility anyway (this was early 2000s), they always made a point to remind us visitors (the data center was a several hour drive from corporate) to not smoke, and if the alarm went off, you had about 10 seconds to exit the room before the door automatically shut, with no way to exit from the inside and all oxygen would be evacuated from the room, and you would die a horrible, horrible death.

I always tried to get a seat as close to the door as possible.
I'd think most people would mistake it as implying that depression was caused by, say, lead in your pipes or that time they were mugged and felt powerless. External factors seem to me to push the blame away, not towards, the individual. The alternative of saying that depression is causeless to me sounds more likely to induce people to think it's "just their fault" or "if there's no cause, why can't they snap out of it?" But I don't have much experience dealing with such people to know.
Feynman mentions that giving lectures was very liberating to him because it made him feel useful when he wasn't making any progress with the research.
Last year, I decided I wanted an age appropriate backpack and got a Piquadro: http://www.piquadro.com/us/bags-backpacs-briefcases/laptop-b...

Not as rugged as some of the other models discussed here, but very stylish IMHO.
It's a valid POV, but consider all of these advances made without these salarymen.

Where would we be in the computer industry is the university of California and others didn't get DARPA and other funding to do their work on Unix. Ditto Bell Labs.
I watched the video. Are they selling waterproof phones ?
They already dropped support for older freebsd systems and at some point discussed to drop freebsd as a first-class target. Already hard to judge the risks for non amd64-linux systems.
It's also the stages of companies. Apple is in very much a "maintain the working business model" phase, especially with the current management. I'm not in a position to say they are wrong for doing so given they've continued to grow and now make as much money as ExxonMobil but with far better profit margins.

While Tesla is still on the upward rocket phase while they are still figuring out their product/market. Much more exciting for the type of talent who are looking to make a big impact on the world.

Steve Jobs brought that life back into Apple when he rejoined and maintained that environment through various product launches over many years.

I'm not sure I'd want them to still pretend they are the same company or not, rather they should work on the talent they have. Just like how basketball teams rebuild after losing their star players, you rebuild around new talent instead of clinging on to past glory.
For better and worse, photography is largely an artistic endeavor. Finding emotional appeal is a big part of that.

On the other hand, scientific imaging is definitely something where non-emotional performance matters and I doubt people use film for any kind of scientific work these days.
Echoing games comments... get to work on Factorio or mods for it!
Omidyar, Hoffman create $27M research fund for AI in the public interest
Harvard and MIT maybe, but there are thousands of mid range universities catering to middle income kids.
Because it's easier to garner clicks for ad impressions by making bold claims about the amazing (unproven) future benefits of a minor scientific discovery than by presenting readers with the actual science.
plea deals should just be outlawed. They only benefit the government and hurt the poor. If every felony had to be taken to trial the government would be quick to stop wasting their time arresting people for a single crack rock or other petty drug crimes. For people who plead guilty you can let the judge show leniency on them but most people would clearly fight things they were not guilty of if there was no incentive to plea to a lesser charge. It is the same with why most patent trolls are successful because it is easy to just pay them than to fight. If you make it so fighting and accepting it have the same risk than more people would fight
Apple Developers are a prerequisite for a good Apple third-party ecosystem. Especially if you expect the software to be idiomatic to the platform.

But in this case we're talking about web developers or developers for open source server software--not Apple desktop or iOS software. For a very long time Perl and Apache served the web while Photoshop and Illustrator ran fine on a different platform. Windows had both IIS and Adobe products but still didn't overtake Linux and OSX. Yeah, there is some bleed over to regular users and yes, losing them might be the downfall of Apple's desktop computer. But it's less than 30% of their business and the growth potential just isn't that high. My expectation is for them to milk the current situation with minimal investment (while trying to keep the perception of relevance) so they can focus on the "next big thing." I think they pushed things a bit too hard and people noticed, but I don't think they'll change course. They'll just try and change perception.

I would love for them to double-down and heavily invest in desktops and laptops, but I just don't expect it because I don't see a business case for them to.
So? Let's say Apple has 500 "top engineers". What will losing two mean? Probably nothing.
> Every device I own is made by Apple and has been since 2004.

I don't care for this part, fanboyism was old in the 90's.
Also - to note - only 1/3 of people realistically go on to 'higher education' ...

What about the other 2/3s?

Those 'with degrees' seem to be doing ok, overall.

This without - not so good.

Germany has a 'vocational' system that enables/empowers those who don't want to go off and study Math or History, and it seems to work well, though it's very deeply entrenched into industry, into culture - and maybe somewhat unfair as it is kind of 'class perpetuating' ... by the time kids are 14 they are already being slotted into one stream or another (richer parents = more likely to go upstream).

I'll never speak out against 'more college' but America actually does put more than anyone else through college, and spends more $ and more $/capita than any other nation.

It'd be great to figure out a way to put the other 2/3's into the economy in a meaningful way. Nobody seems to want to speak for them ...
Can you expand on what you mean by non-sequential and non-hierarchical?
The girl whose sweat turned black
Mm, I disagree. It's amazing and admirable how hard Chris has pushed on LLVM and such, but if he sees an opportunity to do something he thinks is really important, why wouldn't he take it?
Building the Future of IoT
It doesn't take long at all to teach the basic tricks of how to draw. Maybe find a short course of evening classes at your local college? And have fun :)

Edit: I hope that doesn't sound patronising, I am assuming you are a beginner but of course you might just be someone with impossibly high standards
Why would someone that accomplished join this group? Peter Thiel started the Thiel Fellowship to do his own program.
They are served from the newer CMS
A poor background can help your career. But rich is better
I received a Everki Titan https://www.amazon.com/Everki-Checkpoint-Friendly-18-4-Inch-... from a friend of mine after he no longer needed a backback which could hold a 17"+ laptop. I use it as my mobile office for PC repair. Surface Pro 3, tools, cables, adapters, flash drives, and a Canon PIXMA iP100 for printing invoices.

Everki stopped making it a few years ago and have replaced it with the Beacon https://www.amazon.com/Everki-Backpack-Console-18-Inch-EKP11... which I'm considering seeing as how my bag is finally starting to fall apart.

Or maybe I'll go big and get the GoRuck GR1 that was suggested in this thread :)
Er, no. You can reduce your risk of cancer greatly by living and eating healthily, but you cannot avoid it. Being alive is in itself a cancer risk, because there are many different cancers and many different ways they can arise - and some of those ways are pretty much purely random.
Yes, but not by the federal government. That's a BIG difference.
Thanks for responding and clarifying, it's helpful.
Since when is only testing in Chrome an acceptable way to develop web applications?

I wish the author had shown us some other browser results. I'm curious if the iframe changes affected Safari, Firefox, or Edge. (Others have noted that app cache is deprecated).
Anyone got a microscope I could borrow, to read that page on mobile?
It touches each of us or someone near us:

"In 2015, an estimated 16.1 million adults aged 18 or older in the United States had at least one major depressive episode in the past year. ...6.7% of U.S. adults."

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/prevalence/major-...
I think OS X opens captive.apple.com
As the story goes, Wozniak was actually the primary (or maybe even sole?) implementer on that project:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(video_game)#History_...
I hate that they had the audacity to call it standard.
Was there a cultural conflict for the myriad other ex-Apple employees at Tesla?
Insurance is another industry with the same inverted pricing structure.
You don't even need an actual website. I just type 1.2.3.4 and it always redirects fine for me.
Yes, but take it way further. i.e. How can you use a Deep Network to direct NEAT? Can you model the topology generation as a latent space, and what would some of the properties of that space be? Can we integrate the best parts of transfer learning to speed up the generate -> evaluate cycle. That sort of thing
It's not always that simple. Execs like this take entire teams of talented subordinates with them. The headline focuses on one person but the real brain drain occurs when that person turns around and starts to poach the absolute best talent from their previous orgs. I've found recruiting and hiring at the very top to be as much (or more) about the individual exec/manager than the company itself.
Sure, that works fine for specific articles but I miss the serendipity.
The good thing about this kind of data mining is how easy it is to feed it bogus data.

Give it a try, create a partially fake identity of a fairly rich man and see what happens ;)
So even if you are getting the digital subscription, you still have to phone in to cancel?
Not really. He was contracted to do it, but subbed all the actual engineering work to Wozniak then essentially lied to Wozniak about how much that work was worth.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(video_game)#History_...
True true, but I'll spout off this: I hope it works out to some key decision makers realizing they need to rethink somethings - purely as a thing I wish would happen.
Using the site for captive portal access does not actually generate any traffic for the site, because the middlebox intercepts and rewrites the request. Traffic only occurs if there is no captive portal. Hence the easily parsed "Success" body of the Apple site.
What happens with local LAN machines, like the admin webpage for your wireless access point? It's not like they can go HTTPS?
Sleep Tips from a Top Neuroscientist
i can think of several ways for an app to provide usefulness at that level.

they could have a do not disturb mode for x amount of minutes, provide other peaceful sounds for a duration of time, and continue to currate new mindfulness seasions and techniques.

something like the nike+ of meditation.
Pretty sure Woz wrote Breakout, with er ... "assistance" from Jobs.