skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's awful. So they train people to never ask for clarification or refresh if they misunderstand or forget, so instead they go on to make a far worse mistake acting on incorrect information.
It depends on a lot of factors including but not limited to: age of company, industry, how much tribal knowledge this person possesses and estimated ramp time. As an example: a 2 year old tech company, an employee that's been around since inception and possesses a lot of quirks and random information in their head, it's going to cost the company a shit load of money.
Innovate...?!?! It replaced tabs with circles and moved the sidebar from the top to the right. Under the hood, it's still a Chromium browser.
Julian Assange quoting blockchain hash does not prove he's alive
I understand this was prob a sort of joke, but I'd be interested in a data point on how much a free db could help save. Is $12B reasonable, would it be much lower/higher?
It's just an illustrative example. And I'm going to bet that most of us, the vast majority of us, really only have experience with household usage. So it would make no sense to get into other usages, which most people won't understand.
Whatsapp does have the option to add a password to your account: http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/11/10/whatsapp-enables-two...
> what would be the benefit over a clustered database

With a blockchain, the database and the revision history would be part of the same artifact. Not sure how advantageous this is, however.
The point is not that Angular 1 is bad somehow.

The point is that trying to keep up with all bleeding edge technology is a waste of time, because it's constantly being replaced.

While at the same time you need to learn whatever technology you use at work, which may not be the latest-and-greatest.
But your code doesn't even handle the trivial case.

"She said, \"Hello, world!\""

You can drop the "meh, I know I didn't handle all the complicated cases" act.

We all recognize the classic developer I-could-build-that-in-a-weekend hubris when we see it. :)
it uses the diffie-hellman key exchange: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exc...
this is the only tedtalk i approve of
https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy
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Because they are doing other things
Gabe Newell is doing an AMA on reddit later today: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Gaben/comments/5o8fsy/gabe_l_ne...
> But both of these are things that are fixed with Single Window Mode (which it's clear you know about).

They aren't entirely gone though. Eg. if I find my chosen font in the font selector, click it or press enter to select it, and continue typing I'll end up with "Nimbus Sans Lsomerandomtext" in the font selection box.

Another example - the default shortcut for "Show / hide docks" is Tab, which is also the shortcut to cycle between tools. So which of those things happens depends on what part of the screen happens to be focused.

It's true that Single Window Mode made a lot of those sorts of problems go away, and possibly I'm holding on to the years of frustration at Gimp people saying there was no problem before it was finally introduced.

I didn't know the two font boxes did different things, I always used the one in the floating selector. Thanks for clarifying the behaviour. The floating selector is generally a source of annoyance for me. I can move it up or down, but that'll also move my text. So if I want to see what's under it while typing, as far as I know I'm SOL. Maybe there's some way to turn it off or make it behave differently?
> Deterrence

If I see someone getting axed for making a mistake, I'd be making a mistake if I didn't immediately start firing up the resume machine.
Any abandoned or maintained at a huge cost Java EE and related crapware would be a definitive example.
I was a bit bummed to not see Windows support either...especially when there's a screenshot showing how to install on Windows on the download page. I registered for an account thinking that an auto-download had already started, so I was extra disappointed by a "Coming soon" prompt. Just felt a little bait-and-switch-y.
Yes, return it.
Perhaps they should sell the rights to another developer. I wonder how that would work in the flat structure.
I remember the gulf war, I remember long established members of the boards I inhabited at the time, usually but not always with a right-wing lean, going absolutely bananas at the time. And even the more reasonable ones basically lost the plot. If you really want a conspiracy theory, I'd point to the government and Fox news being desperate to pivot from 9/11 to one of the wars they'd been planning.

I also remember Reddit during the last election. Political sub-reddits that only had Bernie fans and internet libertarians during non-election years suddenly got swamped by "normal" people, and the regulars started conspiracy theories about who all these people were with their "weird" opinions.

The fact is, reddit's demographics skew young & educated, any outside observer would expect them to be more liberal than the average American, and they mostly are, even accounting for the male skew and the pockets of reactionaries that make their home there.

The whole Correct the Record thing is on a par with pizzagate. I'm always saddened that I can't tell the difference between those who've been naively sucked in and those who repeat these things out of a political motive. I used to assume they were mostly in-the-know, but my faith in humanity has ebbed and I can no longer attribute to malice what is adequately explained by them mostly being brainwashed by the most feeble of conspiracy theories.
People don't understand that Valve is not really a video game company anymore.
He may be referring to the illegal / gray area tap rooms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
The interesting question is whether their Social Contract will survive. So far, the people are generally satisfied with the Party's performance but in the years to come growth will inevitably slow, if only because their economy is so massive that compounded growth is difficult. I think the strategy is that by then the Party will have a much more efficient way of enforcing control over individuals than they did in 1989...

This is the question that keeps me up at night. Their rate of growth should naturally slow as their economy reaches capital saturation. And there are a lot of worrying structural features of the Chinese economy. For instance, they hit their 2030 metropolitan housing target a few years ago due to their stimulus packages driving a massive residential construction boom. So technically they should cease all residential housing construction for the next 15 years or so... They're also going to have a harder and harder time maintaining their capital controls (e.g. pegged exchange rates) as their foreign currency reserves run down. All hell could break loose if they can't defend their peg against speculative attacks.

If it's a slow melt scenario, maybe there will be enough time for the CCP to re-negotiate the social contract. But if any of a number of possible economic shocks hits China, and they're suddenly staring down the barrel of recession or a Japanese-style lost decade or two, I can't help but think the only way to avoid being dragged out in to the streets by angry protesters would be to declare war on another country (...Japan).

Maybe start taking a more aggressive stance on the Senkaku Islands, for instance. And the vague sense I have (and correct me if I'm wrong) is that the Trump administration intends to pursue a more 'isolationist' geo-strategic policy.
Cool story :) You are bang on point when it comes to software engineering at what are thought to be "top tier" development houses. In the ideal world sure they will build the very best software but the real world has [unrealistic] deadlines and when you have deadlines it means corners get cut. Not always but very often. This leads to the whole "does it do exactly what is required?" and if it does then you are moved onto the next thing often with the "promise" that you will be able to go back and "fix things" at a later date. Of course we all know that promise is never kept.
Two thoughts:

* It's a good idea to try to quantify the cost of losing an employee. If you at least understand what basic costs you'll incur, such as cost of hiring, training, etc. it'll give you a basis for realizing the importance of minimizing turnover (perhaps you'll even conclude that turnover isn't a big deal in your case). But it's very hard to quantify some of the largest costs such as employee moral. I was once at a company where an entire (small) team slowly left after a single person departed. Perhaps any individual's departure could have been handled without too much of an issue, but the loss of entire team and all the institutional knowledge contained there was quite damaging to the company.

* The article mentions some tips for retaining employees and I think they are spot on. But I don't think it emphasizes the importance of salary enough. A lot of employees jump ship because of the higher salaries they can get when they move around. Meanwhile, the original company they left will likely have to pay market rate to get someone with similar experience (and none of the institutional knowledge), so they would have been much better off if they would have just bumped their employee's pay to market rate in the first place. By the time it gets to a counter-offer stage, it's often too late.

EDIT: The article briefly mentions the importance of paying market rate salary, but I missed this sentence when I read it over the first time. Updating my second bullet accordingly.
(And how Valve doesn't care since Steam prints money.)
Just a quick hack i build around ForwardMX (In ShowHN a few hours ago) as i got bored after finally finishing that :)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13416966
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Interesting that there isn't anyone at Valve that feels enough ownership to the franchise to push it along.

It seems like if you threw a compelling script into a development studio it would be hard NOT to make it happen... there's such a desire for it (but maybe that's also scary now).

On the other hand... I guess a huge part of Valve isn't a development studio these days and a lot of their development projects involve short-term profitability vs long-term investments (DOTA kind of is/isn't an exception to that).

I also wonder if the flat "do something good for the company" structure cramps the creative process a bit — if someone tools around with an idea for a year without anything beyond concept work to show for it... is that welcome at Valve? or would it be perceived as a burden by others who are working on short-term projects?

I do recall there being a previous falling-out there with an employee doing R&D hardware work (was it VR related? I can't remember)
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A set of general rules for not losing a connection to reality.

Could be used in reasoning or computer programming.
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You're right. I stand corrected. Thank you.
I suspect you were thinking of Mashery.

https://www.mashery.com/
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One of the features is anti-theft, which reminds me that the war against laptop theft is ridiculous.
How is it possible to get a remake done by deadline? How did the original have so much extra time padded into its schedule?

> Steve Jobs's rallying cry that we could in fact get it done by the deadline later that year

There interesting but here is that Jobs didn't know if his cry was true. But he needed it to be true, so it was. Jobs was a member of the "action-based community", not the "reality-based community" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
Please have a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
then go away
Yes, but when a company asks for experience they aren't thinking in playing with large datasets unless you create an open source tool that becomes useful for a lot of people. Just playing with them wouldn't be suffice.
I agree with others that everything has always been post-fact in a certain sense.

The real problem now is that opinions and attitudes are being driven so much by ideological group membership. That is, people are explicitly or implicitly making decisions on the basis of "is this the sort of thing that X sort of person would or should do?" rather than "is the sort of thing that is in my best long-term interests?" They're taking for granted what is consistent with their ideological identifications, which often aren't flexible or nuanced enough to deal with the real world.

To be clear, I see this as happening on both sides of the political spectrum, although I admit in the US I see it as becoming more extreme with social conservatives.
Building a resistor out of silicon was a nonobvious idea
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Didn't it take some guy like 200 pages to prove logically that 2+2=4?
They also cite "run some processes, like finance reporting".

How would storing this data in a blockchain have less overhead than an http server? Or even a torrent?

It seems like a hammer looking for a nail.
+1 Also present at http://www.sql-ex.com/

Not shiny, but very functional. It's been around 5+ years and has lots of great practice for advanced queries.
In the case of AMP the only source that works with google is the official one. As soon as you fork it's not "AMP" compatible anymore.

You see the other half of AMP is completely proprietary and runs on Google's servers. It doesn't matter that you can edit AMP because the server (Google's end) will refuse to run your edited version.
Whether Comey influenced it or not is also a moot point, since Comey was a high-profile public servant making an official statement to the mainstream media, not a bunch of anyonymous forumites and Tweeters arguing with other anonymous forumites and tweeters across random internet backwaters.
It mentions that market rate salaries are table stakes.

So view market-rate compensation simply as table stakes, and spend your energy focused on the next level of Maslow’s hierarchy of employee happiness: opportunities for growth, the ability to have impact towards a purpose, and a caring environment that makes them feel valued.
But then I can't add files to my home directory...
How about an entire company?

I worked for a dotcom back in the day. The underlying tech was appalling, to the extent they couldn't actually stay on the internet. We fixed this. They then proceeded to vastly expand the site, but every part of it was written as a special snowflake.

Five years later, they decided on a rebrand. This was literally a reskinning of the existing site. It took 50 odd people, ten months and more overtime than you care to think about. Many of those people were contractors.

Not only was this a huge expense, it prevented us from making the site any better. It was an extremely competitive market and the other sites ate our lunch. The next year was to be after round of redundancy, a financial statement that wrote the value of the business down to its cash reserves and finally a sell-off.

Ironically, the new owners turned it back into a viable business, but they had a very different attitude to technical debt.
What the...? Were they expecting you to radiate the remaining 15kW as microwaves or something?
> This does not happen with products that are highly successful business-wise, no matter how bad the suffering, so it's really a business failure rather than a technical one.

One thing often feeds on the other. Because the system is hard to change, it does not get necessary features. Because it does not have necessary features, it provides less business value. Because it provides less business value, there is less of a budget for improving it. And so on.
Americans have to pay extortionate amounts for their health care. If you have to re-mortgage your house for a few more years of life and saddle your survivors with debt that can't be paid off then it may be best to do the responsible thing and accept your fate.
Estimate the floor for replacement cost based on the average recruiting fee for the title.
PowerShell PM here. You just made my day :)

Shameless plug, we're still in alpha, but this already works great with PowerShell 6 on Mac and Linux as well: https://github.com/powershell/powershell/releases

Plug aside, the service looks great for quick conversions when PS isn't available (especially on mobile). Nice job with it. :)
Most of that prestige comes from the mandatory education required to enter the profession. Whereas there is no minimum qualification to become a software developer. (I know some employers have their own minimums but there is nothing for the field as a whole.)
If I had to guess, I'd have to say that the first artist and the first person to proclaim "this is not art!" lived at the same time and probably knew each other.
"Much Faster" is a bit of an understatement.

Sure, "vastly faster" then, if you like. :)

Vulkan IS simpler than OpenGL

I hope so! I haven't yet used it seriously. I don't care so much about simplicity per se, I just really really hope it's more reliable. I'm skeptical because the design rationale seems to be "make it simple so that implementations can be fast" rather than "make it simple so that implementations are more likely to be correct". Hopefully those will go hand in hand though.

And even in software rendering you still get different results on different hardware

That's true -- I considered editing my post to mention that but felt it wasn't relevant enough. It's true that any high-performance software engine will have tuning for cache efficiency, inline assembler (or at least intrinsics) for SIMD and the like. But I think the situation for software is still easier than for accelerated 3D. 98% of software will Just Work anywhere; the remaining 2% is stuff you've explicitly hand-optimized, and might be fiddly to port, but you can at least write tests for those parts. In accelerated 3D, almost anything can and will fail on some platform, and automated testing is much harder.

You're right that floating-point gets fiddly (but not nearly as much as floating-point on GPUs, which vary enormously in precision!)

And multithreaded software is definitely a different beast. That's very hard, and different CPUs have different memory models. But even there, you aren't typically hampered by bad drivers.

You can't replace having to learn the hardware and the APIs to access it in order to build a game engine.

I think I only partly agree. My beef with 3D hardware acceleration is that while the hardware is ridiculously fast, it's also very flaky, with tremendous differences between platforms even when they claim to implement the same API.

Using a framework like Unreal or Unity helps a lot, but still doesn't entirely fix the problem. Some of Unity's basic demos don't work correctly on all versions of Android (they use textures with alpha, but Android defaults to ETC1 textures which don't support alpha).

Overall, I'm not saying there's a solution to any of this, just lamenting the fact that 3D hardware acceleration is so painful! And I still think it's painful in a qualitatively different way from plain unaccelerated software. Current APIs are simply not dependable. I do hope Vulkan will be a major improvement.
I would argue that w is a ligature of double-v but since the latin v was pronounced like todays u, its pronounced double-u.

Works very well in english and other European languages.

Uuindouu... One cant help but make a w sound.

Vvindovv... Not so much.
What is Facebook going to do?
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Sometimes it's done in confusion or while people are asleep. Hard to imagine an agenda there.
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> "Instead, focus on growth, impact, and care"

Since a lot of tech companies employ young talent (relative to other industries), this video by Simon Sinek on "Millennials in the Workplace" can be enlightening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hER0Qp6QJNU

Forewarning, he goes off the deep end on a few points, but IMO the general ideas are valid.
Blockchain here refers not to the distributed database technology loosely coupled with Bitcoin but rather "assert the existence of a database; simultaneous adoption of it across all parties that matter in the financial industry sure would be swell now wouldn't it."

Which is true. Databases are pretty useful things. It's a shame banks never thought of adopting one before.
The cost of not having employee turnover can be substantial also.

It would've been interesting to see this addressed. In some particularly bad cases, organizations atrophy and lose the ability to respond well.
At this point, it is probably worth it for Apple to skip Kaby Lake and go to Coffee Lake/Cannonlake if it supports LPDDR4.
I've never heard of a manager being reprimanded for high turnover. I would guess that this metric has to bubble up to the level of investors' analytics to make a difference in management performance assessment. Perhaps Glassdoor sees a market for such a product. The stakes are high enough that it would move the needle at an organization like YC.
That 50 watts only happens under a fully-loaded PSU scenario. 500w PSU at full load would deliver at 80+ rating ~400w. That same PSU just rolling barely enough equipment to keep a processor fully fed might draw 300w from the PSU, of which maybe 20w of that is wasted.

This is basic PSU and power supply principle.
That seems like a very irrational reason for not using an app.
I don't care where anyone stands on the UBI proposal but we should demand a higher quality from a supposedly scholarly news source. This article reads like a first year econ class paper. Nobody who reads this piece who supports UBI will be convinced in any way by these arguments and the comments seem to suggest that this site is entirely an extremely libertarian echo chamber.

The author makes matter-of-fact claims that are not backed by anything -- no data, no argument, no analysis, no citations, nothing. Even if I agreed with the author it's hard to believe him.

As the author progresses it's clear that he actually has a problem with all progressive taxation, social welfare, and most government regulations and actions. It's fine to take this position but it's completely useless in a discussion about regulatory policy. You wouldn't answer a public policy question like, "should we raise the federal minimum wage to $9.25/hr" with, "I deny the authority of the federal government".

Someone in support of UBI is likely fine with all of the listed 'downsides' in general -- arguments that would convince them would be an analysis or data showing that it would be ineffective. A lecture on econ 101 free market fanboyism is exactly the wrong approach to this discussion.
I love the Walmart bikes as they are my designated beater bikes. I've purchased a handful of them over the years - since they are so cheap, when parts do get stolen you can simply just replace the entire bike and use the old one for parts. I live in NYC and my goal was to get around quickly (without bringing my bike in and out of my apartment everytime I wanted to ride). So, I've learnt to lockdown my bike, and generally make it look unappealing to thieves (gorilla glue on bolts and screws, duct tape,dremel "Property of..." into the paint job) - while greasing regularly and ensuring the brakes are tuned. Another trick is to always use 2 U-Locks, one for each tire. Granted, I agree that the materials and build-quality are terrible, but not to the point where I've felt unsafe riding around at a good pace.
The road to SVG and Custom Elements for an icon library
Sort of. Only right at the end: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12993945