skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever a discussion of Amish comes up, I have to link to my favorite hard core Anabaptist sect, the Hutterites. Unlike th Amish, the Hutterites love technology. They choose what technology to use as part of a very strict church system, like the Amish, but are very much into diesel engines and the internet and the like (note the link below). See [1] and [2] below.

They also live communally in farming colonies of about 80 people (half Dunbar's number) in very remote parts of Western Canada and the Northwestern US. Historically, the Hutterites have pissed off the local non-Hutterite farmers because the colonies are successful and can buy up local land from the non-communal/ religious/ pacifist local farmers; they were run out of South Dakota for their success combined with their pacifism in the early 20th Century.

They are pacifist, just like all Anabaptists (Mennonite, Amish, etc). Unlike English variants of Anabaptism (Quakers, etc), Hutterites and other German derived sects drink quite a bit of alcohol, I think. I think they have a great a-capella singing ritual tradition. I bet their food is great, too. I heard they like hockey.

The ~1900 Hutterites are also famous among population theorist/ demographers because their historical data provided the baseline of the highest possible, yet realistic, human fertility society. They married early (probably with quasi-arranged marriages), had lots of babies (much cheaper to raise in a communal setting), were healthy with relatively low mortality, and kept great records (German heritage...).

They are very much a going concern today, continuing to found new colonies even a few years ago, one in Oregon 14 years ago [3] below. I have always wanted to visit a colony, but I live in the urban Puget Sound and the closest colony is about 3.5 hour drive away. I have read that they are quite welcoming, as long as you are quite respectful in return (a fair trade, to my mind).

[1] http://www.hutterites.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutterite

[3] http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=200...
I can't use a laptop with a screen smaller than 17 inches for at least half my work. On a 13 to 15 inch screen everything is a pain in the behind.

CAD (SolidWorks) is punishing, CAM (MasterCAM, CAMWorks) is just as horrid. Even other applications not at that level become a chore to use. And this is particularly true if you have a situation where you might be referencing website data or PDF's and need to use additional tools.

For me the small laptops are tolerable in the context of a trip where you want to check email, do some stuff on the web and maybe some single screen coding. It's very hard to beat the productivity and convenience of a multi-monitor high resolution desktop setup.

We don't have any less than two screens on our desktops, with most having three. For all new machines the minimum is three screens.

I don't understand why Apple won't make a decent large (17 inch) laptop other than we (technical, engineering, graphic arts users) ceased to be their primary market years ago. What a shame.
This is a great post! Thanks for sharing your experience and good luck on your launch!
IIRC the economics of a moon base (which is presumably what you're referring to) don't make sense in terms of fuel costs vs potential revenue. Could you illustrate what a "cash crop" might be for the moon?
This model they're referring to won't be using DDRL4.
This 'learned communicators' thing is silly.

Pretty much everyone knows they aren't supposed to swear at a priest. Many of the ones that do anyway are being transgressive.
No, I'm not complaining that they are updating yearly. Like I said above, I'm bitter that a mid-generation update like this would be so big as to make my 2016 model obsolete. These things don't exactly sell for pocket change.
I would be interested to see the relative poverty of the US poor vs the relative poverty of Indian poor.
Things like affording food, shelter, and transportation based off their income.
A large percent of phishing sites are hacked wordpress sites.

So if a CA offers a certificate to a legitimate wordpress site, which then proceeds to let itself get hacked and host a phishing page, that CA now has to pay a fine?
Caps lock seems like an obvious one, no? It's on the home row and I've never used it in my entire typing life (apart from to turn it off if I turn it on by accident).
As they say, any time there's money on the table, people suddenly come back out of the woodwork and start knocking...
HIV treatment might boost susceptibility to syphilis, say researchers
My bet is that they were worried that no one would find a use for the touch bar if it didn't replace an existing function
Game Designer Rapping to the music in his own app
I've had problems remapping basic functionality keys in the past. I switched ':' and ';' for instance, it works great in vim when my profile is loaded but leads to a lot of mistakes in other environments, either machines or one of the million emulators.
Madagascar is a large island about ~400km off the coast of Africa. It was settled by Austronesians who embarked about 2000 years ago launching from the island of Borneo (of Malaysia), not by Africans, although Bantu speakers do appear to have colonized the somewhat closer Comoros Islands.

Cape Verde, the Azores, the Falkland Islands--the world is not lacking for places that were never colonized until the Age of Exploration despite being remarkably close to continents. Actually colonizing a place is more difficult than getting a few people together on a boat and hoping you hit land (read up on how the Austronesians actually colonized the remote islands that they found). When crossing such massive bodies of water as the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, you need stores of rations if you want to live to make it to the other side, and it's not clear that a Paleolithic society could have produced a sufficient food surplus to provision the voyage.

Also, the possible discovery of Newfoundland based on the Grand Banks doesn't predate Columbus by all that much. The clearest indications of its existence postdate Cabot's exploration in 1497. Claimants of precedence generally still date to the 1400s--usually making reference to around 1470. Archaeological evidence of any pre-Columbian, post-Viking contact with Newfoundland has not been forthcoming.
Snapchat is the next Twitter (wrt financial performance)
Bring back the 17" MacBook Pro! Having a retina 17" would be great for those of us that need more screen real estate. For example, when debugging in an IDE.
Yes. Sigh.

A signal that Ruby is dying? ( Or in maintenance mode, or not growing, which ever you may prefer to word it ) Only Last week someone replied to me on HN that their areas dont have any Open Jobs for Ruby Devs.
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"Would you swear in an interview? No."

Yes. And if someone held it against me it's unlikely to be a place I want to work.
Linux panic on fragemented IPv6 traffic (icmp6_send)
Realistically what are most shareholders going to with a voting share? Unless you are big fund manager with a significant voting block, what are a few votes going to do for you? I think most people are content to put their trust in the people who got the company this far, for the most part their interests should be aligned anyways.
Who embodies both(builder + schmoozer)? Surely they exist right?
It's not my brain that's the problem. It's my shoulders. I tend to want to view the screen dead-on, so I'm typing with my hands shifted a few inches to the left. For a few minutes that's no big deal. Get into a 3-hour coding bender and my shoulders are killing me once I unfold.
Carmack is a great person, one of my coding idols.

An interesting piece of history is that it was confirmed in the biography Masters of Doom that he started iD software with Romero using company hardware while he was employed by Softdisk, and they had to come to an agreement to continue developing software for them (including Keen games) for a bit after they left in order to appease Softdisk into not suing them into oblivion.

Apparently, old habits die hard.
Drupal's Productivity Curve
I thought he did mention them - PeoplesHost? Or is that a fictitious name?
The Decentralized Cloud, or serverless cloud 4.0
A job at a big tech firm, reasonable spending habits, and 20 years investing in the markets is likely to make you extremely comfortable financially. With almost perfect certainty.

It's not going to be private jet money, but it's going to be easily flying first class money.
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I always map Caps Lock to Control. It's pretty darn useful that way. In Vim I remap "jk" to escape.
> Of course, it's just one data point.

And mine is another :\ FWIW it is really implausible to be a tech worker in the SF bay area and qualify for subsidies.
Click the web link and use the AMP version (you may need to spoof your browser's user agent as being either Android chrome or iOS Safari).
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I don't understand why Apple won't make a decent large (17 inch) laptop other than we

Does Apple ever release sales figures for the breakdown of models? I don't believe they do. If the 17" MacBooks made economic sense to continue to produce them, I'm sure they would have. Since Jobs' return, Apple has tried to keep the product line as simple as possible as well.

Another idea is that there may not be suitable 17" laptop displays. From 2012:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-apple-dumped-the-17-inch-ma...

I don't know enough about the state of display technology, and I'm sure that things have progressed since 2012.

I would think in the scope of market, CAD-CAM laptop users is likely a small percentage. It's understandable that you would like to have one, but it may not make sense for Apple to produce them. Personally I'm surprised how much work I can get done with a 13" MacBook.
I can vouch for this. It's much faster for me to hit "jk" (my preferred mapping for escape) than it is to hit the Escape key. And given how frequently you need Escape in Vim, the time adds up really fast. It's also just a lot more comfortable, because my hands can remain on the home row.
They've approached someone out of the blue, and offered no incentives or value over their competitor other than some arbitrary statements about how they 'just know' their service will be somehow better.

This avenue of "cold calling" is a bit new and interesting, but the way this webhost has done it just reeks of desperation. This isn't hustle, this is begging.
> Not only was that happening, but further cost increases were easily hidden by terms and conditions that reduced actuarial value for policies at the same premium. The ACA prohibits that practice; if the broader narrative about ACA was true, you'd expect even steeper price increases because insurers have fewer ways of hiding them. But we don't see that.

We are seeing higher deductibles instead.
I didn't buy the emoji MBP because it wasn't good enough for me. But if you bought it and it is good for you today, it won't become any slower when a revised MBP comes out.
How is that different from DV certs?
Artificial intelligence predicts when heart will fail
The average blogger cares that their password is encrypted when logging in to their blog. They probably don't care very much whether someone can also verify their legal identity, and in fact quite a few bloggers probably explicitly don't want that.

The average banker, on the other hand, does care about the identity verification.

Why have we decided that everyone must have the banker's use case?
I don't know, I would have also personally felt pretty unhappy if I was one of the Xerox PARC researchers whose hard work was essentially given away for free to Steve Jobs.
Timing bits are considered emissions equipment. In California (and states that follow California requirements) this means a 150,000 mile warranty. Most manufacturers will thus specify a change interval that avoids warranty service. Some, like Mazda in the 90s, will use the same belt rated for 49-state compliant intervals and simply bump up the interval.
Sorry, this is a lame blog post. I did not feel any pain in using AMP powered pages.
unfortunately, a simple DNS filter is enough to deter many.
You don't understand; this is not about what YOU (or should I say WE, highly sought-after engineers) can have. The point is that it is an ENTIRE COUNTRY (for the most part) that has access to those benefits and standards of living.
AMP is one of the most frustrating experiences I've had with Google. the fact that it's foisted on users, with no option to disable it, makes it borderline infuriating.

If you're stuck on an AMP page in your mobile browser, you can click on the browser's "Request desktop site" option to load the full page.
PDF has two problems for me:

One is that you can't have speaker notes integrated in the presentation the same way you can with PP or reveal.js.

The other one is that it doesn't scale. You export the slides in one display ratio and it stays like that. Most web presentation formats will adjust to whatever your display is doing.
So that's the problem, "we" virtually never recognize that the builder is the right one for the job. The charismatic person always gets the job/money/fame/whatever.
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The phrase was misleading twenty-five years ago when applied to private sector positions, most of which were software development back then as well. There were few private sector positions analogous to a "tenure track" position even then, possibly a few at corporate research laboratories like HP Labs and Xerox PARC.

In any case, with the closure or heavy cutbacks at corporate research labs, AIP should update its language to reflect current realities.
I love that part when he asks a question "is driving more like chess or more like soccer". I understand the question is rhetorical?

But generally seems like a good intro with good hype busting cautionary statements, particularly towards the end.
So lets analyze this for a moment.

We have defined a "Builder Type" CEO who is not charismatic yet is defined by being able to build and ship things. Like Mark Zuckerberg minus his team of PR people.

Then we have a "Charismatic Type" CEO who people like but who can't get anything done.

By this definition, Obama would be the useless yet charismatic CEO. Hillary, who has never built anything (that I can identify), would be a "Builder" type (apparently?). And Donald Trump...who indisputably has built things despite being both charismatic and hated would blend both of these together?

I don't agree with this analysis. It isn't that easy to slice this one.
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Xerox did not give its technology away for free. Xerox got a lot of pre-IPO Apple stock options in exchange.
Instead of banning it, what is the harm in letting the supposedly sophisticated investors who play in the stock market determine if it's worth the risk of not having a voting share in a stock or not?
You must have not wanted access to the site's full set of features, not wanted to use a mobile ad blocker, now wanted access to comments, etc. That's fine, but for many, it's an annoyance.
Pardon my ignorance, but may I ask a question?

The GP mentioned 5 weeks vacation + public holidays. To make my example easier, let's say that I worked in France and decided to take the month of July off (using the 5 weeks vacation). Would I get paid for that vacation? Or is the 5 weeks vacation unpaid??

In Canada, my vacation is paid, so if I take an entire month off, I collect my pay cheques as usual.
Uh, I do understand how socialism works.

The point is that, from an individual financial perspective, you're much worse off in the EU. I'm not making a normative judgement, just a financial one.
AMP is okay for news, but terrible for other forms of content. The reddit implementation is way less usable on mobile than going to their actual site.

It also results in lower quality news appearing at the top of searches in cases where they have implemented AMP and the better sources haven't.
Where do you that salary number from, American tech salary of 200k/yr?
Gotta talk to those subs somehow, those ultra long wavelength Comms aren't exactly high bandwidth. (I'm just making this up but it feels plausible, at least a few decades ago)
From the title, I imagined a snippet of CSS. Instead, the article went so much deeper, comparing with SVG, etc. Great stuff.
Not exactly duplicate. This thread is for video link but the one you provided is the link to MIT DL self driving cars course
You actually read cold sales emails, and believe promises by sales people like "customer service" or "solving your problem?"

That well was poisoned by "hustlers" (in the derogatory meaning) a long time ago. Unless I have experienced it myself or a trusted acquaintance recommends it, it goes into the bin for me. No exceptions.
I've had many of these concerns about AMP myself and have seen other posts on this before. I tend to agree with their points. If you want to optimize your mobile view, than you can do that without a Google pseudo-standard. When someone clicks on a link to your site, they should go to your site.

This wouldn't be that big a deal if Google didn't emphasize the rank of AMP pages. There aren't a lot of alternatives out there to search, and Google dominates the market in much of the world.
I agree with some missing content and linking issues with reddit, however the improvement in loading time is probably 10x. I'd be interested in seeing this quantified - I didn't appreciate just how slowly reddit loaded until loading the amp version, followed by the real version. Loading the amp version on a less-than-stellar mobile connection is much preferable to the real version.
You should know that this worksheet is just one small sheet of a fairly comprehensive guide system they have in place at 8000 hours. [1] This part is a little limited in scope, but the full guide is well-balanced. It really encourages useful introspection in an area of life that many people decide by inertia. Their guide is definitely not aimed at getting you to being worth X millions, it definitely is about finding a path that you find fulfilling on several levels and on how to have a job that's a positive impact on the world. I'm consistently impressed with 80000 Hours's output.

[1] https://80000hours.org/career-guide/
If the internet isn't profitable then don't they also not smooth out demand , use up money that could be used to improve their rockets and or have actual profit ?
That's because most industrial vacuum processes happen in the 15 psi context of conditions on Earth. We already know that the Sabatier process will work in Mars like conditions. The chemistry has been around for a century, and demonstration hardware specifically for Mars conditions was built over a decade ago.
I think the comment was a sly way of insinuating that the original blog post may or may not be 100% authentic.
So the browsers should show the right part of the domain name in the bar if the domain name doesn't fit, instead of the left part. Or perhaps not show it at all if it doesn't fit.
But you don't speak for everyone. I like having a job, it happens to pay well, but even if it didn't I'd still want to work. I like having something to do. I like having people that depend on me to show up.

I also like vacations, but after a couple weeks I look forward to returning to work.
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In Silicon Valley, 200K is a pretty normal salary, I'd say it's actually on the lower end for mid career people.
I would also be a little wary about it, but they're reaching out to a potential customer, with a targeted message at the exact moment they know the potential customer is frustrated with their current provider and possibly more open to change than normal.

That's awareness, hustle, and smart targeting in my opinion. Now, I'm not going to change hosting providers over a single outage, but the time to reach out is when I'm down...
Can coffee perk up heart health, too?
I get the frustration, but mobile sites in general also have this problem. "Request desktop site" should be a more prominent feature, at least in safari which is what I'm familiar with. It's quite buried unfortunately and I think that more non-techies would benefit from knowing about it.
> If I was the stock exchange I would ban this kind of crap.

If I were the stock exchange, I would let my customers decide what they were willing to buy rather than dictate to them.

Besides, most investors don't care about voting rights, because they will never own enough shares for their voting rights to matter.
For a UK contract (and probably USA), there is a clause that says 'if any party decides to end the contract, so be it, and there will be X weeks/months of notice".

I don't know what anyone's contract says, but the law in the USA is clear. Notice (and cause) are strictly optional. People offer two weeks notice when leaving by convention, but it is not required nor rewarded.

You can be asked to leave at any time with no warning nor compensation nor explanation.
It's actually a pretty nifty feature when you're browsing the web from a plane's slow wifi.
I think PG makes a few assumptions in this musing that deserve more though and criticism. Power and charisma together often brew megalomania, and I don't see charisma itself as a powerful person's antidote to being hated. Without diving into politics, I think there are a few good arguments out there for "lack of charisma" being the least of HRC's problems.

I'd be more interested to hear PG explore his own relationship to charisma and power on a personal and professional level than read this oddly deflecting set of statements.
There's definitely something wrong with Reddit's AMP implementation.
Man trying to go back a page on Reddit then clicking a link on that page and seeing "there was an error, please reload the page" gets me out of there so damn fast.
I would agree that sitting home and gaming all day would get tiring pretty quickly. But I work somewhere that I feel like I make a difference, and where my contributions are valued, and that's pretty great.

Bear in mind though, jobs created by making human labor cheaper may not be so fulfilling as my job.
There was an article within the last few weeks here where, in the comments section, this tactic was discussed. Lead generation by watching for Twitter complaints about your competitors. Wish I could find the article.
The UK has the tantalising prospect of new trade agreements with major non-EU nations here. Can't understand why anyone in the UK thinks remaining in the EU makes sense?

A bloc of 27 nations in various states of ill-health, with whom the UK has a trade deficit?

The EU - a union that prevents the UK enjoying its own free-trade agreements with the rest of the growing non-EU, English-speaking World?
The builder type focuses on building product. The charismatic type focuses on building social value, to build the product

Naturally they both excel at each, ultimately 2 different means to the same end
> With an American tech salary of $200k/yr, I can pay for all of that (health insurance, student loans, etc.) and still sock away $100k/yr in savings.

Are you sure you're counting it as 200k and not a higher number? With taxes in the bay area, at least 70k of that is gone and surviving on 30k/year is kind of tough if you want to save a full 100k.
It's so strange to see Google repeating all the same mistakes AOL did so many years ago. No I don't want your fucking garden, I want the network. If you get in the way of that I'm done with you.
Best Practices for ML Engineering from Google [pdf]
Elon Musk has a weird sort of charisma and has built a fair few things.
Do the amp links from google results to Reddit seem broken to anyone else?

Edit: sorry that was actually in the article.
Doubtful, considering advertisers still see value to buy on Snapchat's platform
Yeah, better not have it be used by anyone!