skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But a true "top performer" would have another job in a week (especially in a tech hub), no?
You like meeting real people, they like VR. What's so difficult to understand?
What's wrong with asking questions over email? Is physical presence actually needed for effective mentoring?

Your view taken to the extreme would mean that this thread itself is dysfunctional because people aren't face-to-face and instead discussing on a message board.
Imagine our cities if everyone had the flexibility to work from home as needed/wanted.The time when you did need to commute into the office would be much quicker due to the reduced traffic. It would be a huge win as long as everyone at every company doesn't decided to commute on the same day.
My conspiracy theory is that if I sell you a thing, I can sell it to you once. However, if I can get you to buy into minimalism and instead spend your money on "experiences" (the current trend, AFAICT), I can sell you experiences over and over and...
I thought it was already used as one? I don't particularly care what it's used for as long as it's generally open to the public, are they planning on closing it off to people or tearing it down or something?
Apple Clips scored up to 1M downloads in its first 4 days
>Are there actually programmers who prefer the open-office setting?

Yes, I prefer it. I can very easily drown out everyone and everything in the room by simply listening to music when I need to, and I like the proximity to everyone else that the open office provides.
The comments on the article is something out of this world.
The internet is faster and more accessible than publishing a book, which makes government critters anxious that people will use it to spread controversial ideas and eventually take down the establishment.
When I read this, I just imagine John Nash spinning in his grave.
> A category consists of abstract functions (or morphisms, or “arrows”) that have an origin and destination (or domain and codomain, or “argument type” and “return type”).

I think perhaps Maths people need to seek more consensus on terminology.
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What makes reddit and now HN think Ataturk was some sort of beacon of democracy?

> In January 1920, Mustafa Kemal advanced his troops into Marash where the Battle of Marash ensued against the French Armenian Legion. The battle resulted in a Turkish victory alongside the massacres of 5,000–12,000 Armenians spelling the end of the remaining Armenian population in the region.

He finished off the Cilician Armenians from Anatolia, whoever was left under French protection and had escaped the Genocide.
Sorry - my bad for assuming the expression was commonly known.

TL;DR: pronouns in a text exchange are easily confusing.

In conversation, most people aren't actually understanding each sentence. Instead, we're mentally and subconsciously keeping a list of terms that we don't understand - usually pronouns - retroactively applying them as more clues come up to what they are. If you watch as an outsider to a short discussion between two people, you can usually see this in action.

In text, with greater pauses between parts of the exchange (email) and/or out-of-sync replies (IRC/Slack/Hipchat/Discord), it becomes easier for a pronoun to remain unclear. Oddly, instead of saying "I don't know what 'it' is in that sentence" (because we're tracking subconsciously) we tend to just consider what they are saying as unclear in general and mentally skip over it.

If you're communicating via text often, it pays to avoid most pronouns and bypass this sort of problem. Consider the first sentence of this post - had I said "my bad for assuming it was commonly known", you PROBABLY would have followed, because you had sent only one sentence. Had you sent three sentences, "it" would be less clear. Had you written at annoying length as I am, the word "it" would have been quite likely to be unclear.

I'm sure you've had the experience where you send something like "Would it be better to do A? Or does it make more sense to do B?" and the person replies "Yes". Similar cause, though no actual pronoun, just an implied one. Take any email thread with management involved (because everyone top posts and doesn't trim) and you can usually find where people are talking past each other or repeating themselves because pronouns/subjects of sentences weren't clear to the other party.

This post to the contrary, I've found that having SHORT posts but being explicit about subjects and direct objects greatly increases comprehension. I also tend to try and lead with what I need the person to do, or end with a single clear question or statement.

Because communicating by text is a skill, not an automatic perfect ability.
> ...writing XAML by hand.
> The GUI-based GUI designers I've tried were never very good about expressing the subtleties

I understand you like writing a UI by hand, and it's always good when a UI has a human-editable text form (if XML counts :))

But in general: it's 2017. The fact you're writing about the need to design a UI by text is extraordinary, and so, so far behind other tools.
If anything it should be a Orthodox Church, but since no one can agree on that, it should be transferred to UNESCO, and treated as a cultural site and museum. If it resumes being used as a Mosque, to avoid any slippery slope fallacies, it will most likely result in a lot of the preservation of the historicity of the location being lost.
Intro to Material Motion for Swift
Yes, definitely a good reason to re-litigate historical events from 1451.
They - at least for a time - regularly mentioned how wrong they'd gotten the invasion of Iraq. So they do that on occasion.
This is why people use Delphi and C++Builder.
Government censorship vs. corporate censorship
How is this different from pipelining?
It's not got much to do with the serialization protocol itself as such - most server software uses a library which handles it properly and then doesn't have to worry about it. It's more that web developers have to get bits of their stack (the dynamic and static serving aspects) to cooperate in ways they never had to before (in fact, the general wisdom was to separate them as much as possible as they have totally different requirements when it comes to performant serving).

This is not even to get into persistent connections & server push etc., which is quite a big subject for developers used to handling independent fire-and-forget requests.

I guess I'm saying the massively complexity comes in trying to use these new features.
Don't Use the Force, Luke–Use the Targeting Computer
Although pretty cool - I am not convinced that the browser is the right medium for this but I am happy to be proven wrong!

While the web is an amazing platform and I do wish it grows beyond what any app store and I think that we need to fundamentally rethink some parts of it to make it better and allow more streamlined clients to operate on top of it.

Luckily WebVR is just a client API which should not be hard to mirror in streamlined clients but I do not see yet the adoption of such approach and I think that will be awesome in terms of performance and in order to make it more portable/emendable into all kinds of devices.

That being said, having a VR experience provided on a web site like Amazon, Google, Facebook or Youtube could be interesting but I am not sure if the adoption will be wide and I do not think this is due to the technology itself but the fact that VR obstructs your entire view - it is immersive for sure - but you need to be comfortable to use it where you are sitting and most people are out and about and not exactly in their safe surroundings of their home.

This is why AR in my opinion will have a much wider adoption.
This is similar to the classic blunder by service product strategists who tier pricing by both capability and scale, rather than one or the other. This results in nonselection of the product rather than the hoped-for upsell.
I see no reason why this isn't compatible with gql. But even then, gql is hard to architect right unless you fence off a rather minimal subset of it.
> These men [Cheney and Rumsfeld] planned for suspension of the Constitution, not just after nuclear attack, but for any “national security emergency,” which they defined in Executive Order 12656 of 1988 as: “Any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attack, technological or other emergency, that seriously degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United States.”

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/Chene...
I assume you meant "taze", as in incapacitated him with a Taser electroshock weapon. It's an unfortunate typo, because he seemed quite thorougly distressed, disheveled and without composure - fazed.
This is not a good comment for Hacker News—it contains more inflammation than information. We're hoping to optimize for signal/noise ratio here, which heads in the opposite direction. If you'd comment accordingly, we'd appreciate it.

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I have definitely been on Delta flights in the last year where crew in transit used the jumpseats.
As a European who has visited the US: you put a lot more chlorine in your tap water.

It smelled and and tasted like our swimming pool water to me.

Edit: and your swimming pool water had if course even more chlorine, much more then I'd expect to find in Europe.
To add to sibling, Hendrix didn't work alone. Not only did Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell (the rest of the Jimi Hendrix Experience) contribute massively to his work, but Hendrix spent the first 3 years of his (unfortunately only 6 year) career cutting his teeth (literally) as a backing player for much bigger performers (Isley Brothers, Sam Cooke).
Also, a large part of being an architect is basically shuffling and convincing people to get on board with your vision, since you're not going to write much of the code yourself. Being personable goes far, being difficult means people tend to not actually do what you need and make fun of you after the meeting. I've witnessed both.
an office doesn't necessarily have:
(2) walls that are made of drywall and are floor to ceiling
(1) drywall + door
(1) window

I am looking at new office space now and I am thinking about setting up glass cubicles and having an office sound system that will pump out white noise.

I am concerned about aesthetics though.
Thanks for that link. And the breakdown. I agree with everything you say here. You have a great handle on the task at hand. Perhaps you'd like to exchange ideas / collaborate? Can you shoot me an email at andy at scrollto.com ?
it's not hard, let government block all your international competitors and you will see astonishing growth in brainwashed spoon-fed population

only people amazed by wechat are those who never lived in China

next time - Democratic party would like to repeat success of CCP, they get 100% of votes! same goes for railways, all companies in liberalized European market are crying tears and wanna go learn from Chinese state monopoly railways how to win the market
Exactly: the people this hurts the most are usually the ones voting for these politicians. So I don't even have any sympathy for them any more. If they want to vote to screw themselves over, who am I to tell them they're wrong?
The only certifications I've picked up so far along my industry journey (I have no college degree and don't plan to get one, so these are necessary) are the Redhat RCSA and RHCE. Both of these certs can't be solved with rote memorization, and required me to log into a virtual machine and solve problems in a live environment, running through a plethora of common systems administration tasks that were then graded by how well I accomplished the requirements. Often the requirements were vague enough that I had to do some digging.

There was no real memorization needed, and I had the full man pages of the operating system at my fingertips, but the time limit ensured that I needed to have at least a certain degree of proficiency with each tool to finish all of my tasks before the end of the exam.

I assumed this was the norm with certifications, but the comments here strongly suggest that it is not. Are Security Certifications really multiple choice questions without any practical applications? That seems like it could stand to be improved greatly.
I am sure i am not alone with not wanting a IDE. I catch bugs with testing and context aware auto complete every proper editor ships with. IDEs just sound like bloat to me.
Ha, fair point.

If you upgrade enough to private then you can get the flying experience of the 50s: Small Planes, no security, walk on the tarmac.

It's like paying more puts you further back in time.
You spend 8 hours a day working. Why would you want to be isolated from other people? As a kid you go to school you are around people. Working from home seems like you are kind of isolated from people. Its not the same as over skype or slack.
What does "certification" have to do with scaling the industry? Training and nurturing talent is a hard problem, but expensive tests don't do anything to mitigate that problem.
I wouldn't discount that last reason. There's some research suggesting that friendships between coworkers can greatly increase worker engagement, productivity, and satisfaction.[0][1][2] And a self-report study from LinkedIn suggests that workers perceive workplace friendships as beneficial for both themselves and their work, for what that's worth.[3] Of course, it can also blow up in your face and do the opposite, occasionally slowing down more productive workers as they match their speed to those of their less productive friends when it comes to individual work.[4] That study looked at fruitpickers, but it could be relevant to the tech industry as well.

Paradoxically, at least in the US, we're seeing a trend towards fewer workplace friendships and greater detachment.[5] I/O (industrial and organizational) psychologists have a lot of interesting interpretations for those trends. Almost across the board, employment is far more transitory today than in past decades, so there's less pressure to invest time in meaningful relationships at work. And we're so connected nowadays that it's easier than ever to preserve relationships in some form (regardless of whether they're preserved, or we just believe they are), so we don't feel the need to generate replacements as much.

Having done a lot of freelance work myself for a couple of years, if I'm being entirely honest with myself, this is one of the disadvantages at times. I enjoy getting to work on different projects, but there's something to be said for getting to focus on something with the same team. Even if open offices and talkative coworkers can get in the way at times :).

0. https://hbr.org/2013/07/we-all-need-friends-at-work

1. http://www.gallup.com/services/178514/state-american-workpla... (behind a form)

2. https://www.fastcompany.com/3051290/why-having-friends-at-wo...

3. https://blog.linkedin.com/2014/07/08/work-bffs

4. http://www.lse.ac.uk/website-archive/newsAndMedia/news/archi...

5. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/opinion/sunday/adam-grant...
The MVC variety was barely getting started when I was working at the time.
You let such people participate by designing systems where content producers can make money without getting money from every individual.

I think you have a point, but perhaps you should submit it as a suggestion directly to Patreon. Second, I have tip jars so people can give once without making a monthly commitment. Monthly commitments are a serious burden for poor people.

I intentionally list dollar amounts of $1, $3 and $5 to solicit small sums so people who can't afford more than $1 feel okay about giving $1. The jar is set up so you can then enter a quantity if you want to give more, for example 2 Tips at $5 to leave a total of $10. Most people who tip leave me $5 or more. But I do sometimes get $1. (This is really about 67 cents for me, but I don't want to treat other poor people like charity cases. I think that actively creates problems.)
It was war not genocide
Absolutely! I've tried so many other tools, but LaTexTools + Skim is so simple. It makes writing LaTex almost comfortable.

(I love LaTex, but it is still one of the most frustrating pieces of software ever conceived.)
This is a black and white interpretation. Here's your refutation:

When we try to outlaw people being themselves, we overlook their needs. That isn't a productive framework and will ultimately compile into systemic issues over time. Tolerating intolerance says nothing about timberline, types of intolerance, scale, etc. It lacks make and is therefore a problematic principle for governing human behavior.
You're presenting a false dichotomy. The choice isn't between "security certification" and "people learning on their own".
Gnome on Windows would so much made my day when i still worked on Windows. I tried everything that promised anything like that, but essentially you are stuck with Windows in every corner.
Same saga with Brexit. 52% condemned the rest and the generations to come to political insanity.
I recall reading somewhere that Judaism may have believed in existence of other gods...in genesis it says created in 'our' image, and I read some theories once that the sumerian god Anu might have become Elohim or the God of the jews...

I think the theory is that the god as well as the jews were outcasts and so that god made the jews his chosen people, and wrought mighty miracles, and convinced them that he was the only true god. or something along those lines. iirc Sumerian mythology in terms of time-line has the oldest texts known to man.
Sure, but you don't always have control over an external module or service, and it still something flow is better at
EPB is owned by the government of Chattanooga, TN.
I had to do zero work and didn't need to download any software when I didn't update.
Ask HN: Should I quit my FT job and focus on startup before it's making money?
I am burned out, I hate my job, I despise my boss (terrible ethics, no drive, prideful, hard-headed and a micro-manager), and I honestly want to write my resignation letter today (as in right fucking now).

I have been working on a startup on the side (and on the clock, because fuck it, idgaf anymore) for over a year, and am weeks away from transitioning from early access to full launch, if I can just put in quality time to wrap it up (billing, marketing site, etc).

My FT job has been taxing me lately, having to put in 100% to meet deadlines. Meaning: progress towards my startup has stalled the last few months. I work on it after I get off, but I'm usually too spent to get any meaningful work done.

I'm not charging customers yet, but it is a B2B business and I have made pricing clear and discussed it up-front. I don't know how many early access users will actually convert, of course.

I believe the idea is validated (500 early access users (with varying levels of engagement) + lots of interest from larger companies). But nothing is validated until it starts making money, I know.

I have 3-4/mo runway in savings. Have a wife and 1 kid.

I know at least a few HN users have gone through something like this. Maybe it didn't turn out well, maybe it did. Could you share?
None taken.

Let me tell you about it. There are three interleaved narratives.

One is about an elderly actor who played the TV role for so long that he's no longer sure if he's an actor or the actual detective. The second is about a real life police detective called Frank Columbo who is plagued by his identity with the fictional detective and who he resembles in almost every particular. The third is about the actual Columbo.

All three are simultaneously solving different murders, all of which have their exposition up front - in the classic Columbo style.
Last time I had similar issues was about 5 years ago with ST2. Are you talking about ST3?
Those are the over-the-ear ones I was talking about. (I look pretty dorky with my on-the-runway looking headphones) They DO touch the ear, though they don't crush it, which is why I'm usually good for a couple of hours.

> I don't think it's too unusual to find it uncomfortable to have stuff pressing onto/into your ear cartilage for hours a day.

The ubiquity of earbuds says otherwise. I'm genuinely jealous of people - they can listen more places, with less inconvenience, and with less expense. Still though, this is my flaw, not theirs.
Every comment seems to be about whether the certs demonstrate anything but this article says, "a job description requiring a CISSP was a warning flag to industry elite not to apply."

In other words: if the company asks for certs it's the equivalent of wanting "6 years of react.js experience". I completely agree.
he was talking about censorship made by Wechat for CCP order
The West must not abandon Turkey

Huh? So are we supposed to meddle in other countries' politics and government? Or are we not?
It seems, like usual for American police, officers are insensitive to anything but violence; no logic, just apply force

My understanding is that there was a lengthy conversation that took place before the outrage-inducing video starts. They did attempt to resolve the situation peacefully. At some point there is an impasse. Police are making a request and he's ignoring it. There are two ways that can go: 1) Police shrug their shoulders, leave, and let the man have his way; 2) He's going to be forcefully removed.

That is, as far as I can tell, the actual reality of the situation. And anybody advocating for outcome #1 probably has some thinking to do about what it actually means to have a police force at all.
Sure, I agree that painting is not programming. But in the context of professional artists, many of them are CONSTANTLY being reviewed by peers and stakeholders.
A timely warning to the US, too - as more and more Senate votes are being decided by 50% majority rather than their traditional 2/3 (EDIT: sorry, 3/5). That both parties indulge in it should be worrying to everyone.
If you want to say, Babur was first Muslim Emperor of India, bring the argument with references. Tuglak had bigger Empire than Babur, and he was well into Deccan and even moved the capital there. This was 200 years before Babur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_bin_Tughluq

I am not arguing here, I am correcting mis-representations made in his comment.
How to tell which font is used in a PDF?
> what is a bearer share company?

A bearer instrument is an instrument which states that it is owned/controlled/usable/valid for the benefit of whoever possesses it, and normally doesn't rely on registering that ownership with an authority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearer_instrument

A bearer share company is a company that doesn't know or register who owns it. If, at a particular moment, you own the physical certificates that connote ownership, you own the company.
Restarting is indeed quick, but sadly sublime text windows don't re-open on the same desktop they were on when I quit. They all pop up on whatever desktop is up when I re-launch, and I have to arrange 4-5 windows again. It's not a huge deal, but it is an inconvenience.

It's a testament to the quality of the app that the gripes are so minor.
To the top! Really interesting read. I'd probably do the same if I was locked up and given access to PC parts.