skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. I've been part of multiple startups; Only with the first two did I actually expect to make more money than I would at BigCo. Not because the later startups were worse, but because I was less naive.

The reason that I joined those other startups -- and the reason that I more often work for startups than big companies -- is not about money. It's about pace of career development.

Everything on my resume that is interesting or exciting was done at a startup. Every big jump in skill and in compensation has been a result of that startup mentality. Who's fixing this? Me, I'm the only one here. Who's going to deal with the fallout of my poor architecture? Me, I'm the only one here. Who learned a hard lesson? Me.

I can only speak to the cogs side of the house (I'm devops or whatever they're calling us this week).
Peter Senge's Fifth Discipline is great. Related, I would also recommend "Thinking in Systems" by Donella Meadows and "An Introduction to General Systems Thinking" by Jerry Weinberg.
It really depends on your pages.

If you are building a blog or a news site (a classic "content" site), it should absolutely work without javascript.

If you are building an admin interface for said news site, where articles are edited and published, it is okay to require javascript.
That's true, but a bit of an unfortunate example since the point of the article is to demonstrate transducers, and instead this demonstrates a bunch of chained collection functions.
From the study itself: http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2353

> Principal findings

> The relation was dose dependent, and increased odds of hippocampal atrophy were found even in moderate drinkers (14-<21 units/week in men).

That seems like a big range.

> Strengths and limitations

> The hippocampal atrophy associations we found in the total sample were replicated in men alone but not in women. This could reflect a lower power to detect an effect in women, in part because the sample was dominated by men (a reflection of the sex disparity in the civil service in the 1980s) and in part because few of the included women drank heavily.

That seems like it should be mentioned in the CBS article.

~~~

I wish more studies accounted for how drinking is done. It is worth wondering if drinking 2 drinks a day, 3 days a week is better for you than drinking 1 drink 6 days in a row.

Moderate drinking some days but not others, perhaps your liver/brain do better because they get "total rest days", whereas light/moderate drinking every day may put them in a constant state of irritation or stress. Just like with workouts.
I used to work at PR Newswire, THE corporate press release distribution service. Ricky demo'ed this product to me a month ago, and in the course of discussion he exposed even more of the marketing bullshit of PR Newsire than even I knew to be true. Never again will I pay for a PR Newswire or Businesswire blast. That budget goes straight to Upbeat.
With all due respect, you don't know the real issue. Your response is the same thing the guy who installed Puppet said to me... just have them unblock it.

Our sales pitch is "these devices use plain http and will work behind your corporate firewall". The blockage wasn't an issue that could be solved, it was our whole business model to workaround the blocks by using simple http instead of https, proxying everything through our IP, and things like that.

Even the puppet documentation says not to run a puppet master when you have devices that are behind firewalls or limited network. The guy who added puppet apparently didn't read that.

I wasn't the one who decided the business model just the guy who fixed it to work as advertised while dealing with the pressure of everything crashing & burning. You're right no one had experience but thats not the point.

My point was that the fancier tools sometimes just add new issues without solving your real issue. Despite my lack of experience I solved the time drift using a linux built in "date" to set the date time. It didn't account for network lag like NTP, and an NTP developer would probably laugh at my solution, but now all devices are accurate to within a few minutes & that particular problem was solved. So don't always go for the most complex tool is all I'm saying.

For what its worth I do plan to bring back puppet but run it in "puppet agent" (offline) mode. We'll using custom scripts to copy in new puppet configs so puppet does not need to phone home.
The UX of Design Systems: Material Design and Templatization of Digital Products
Does it matter?

I'd put the emphasis on the outcome: women being able to express their opinions and contribute to the conversation / problem. Being interrupted (while speaking less in the first place) seems counterproductive to that end.
Reddit thread: About to be an engineering manager at a young age. Any advice?
Safari Technology Preview 32, with WebRTC, Is Now Available
Fortunately: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_Nuclear_Test_Ban_Treat... bans all above ground tests . This was largely spurred by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Tooth_Survey which showed that the levels of radioactive Strontium 90 in baby teeth around the US were steadily increasing. Nothing like radioactive baby teeth to get people to take action.
Website Visitors Tracking with Zero Coding
I wouldn't be surprised if the feature of 'blocking snoopy ads' become a browser standard. And considering Chrome + Safari take a majority of browser market share, this feature, basically, is a death sentence to all the Internet ad companies. Of course, Google will be fine.
Ask HN: Why hasn't Twitter done anything about this bot army following Trump?
90% of his new followers are all brand new accounts that have no followers, no profile pic, etc.

Yet Twitter is completely OK with this it seems.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/followers
What's a Unicorn Saddle?
You mean you are one of those 5?
Nitrogenating definitely changes the taste--it flattens it out a bit, and it for sure does dissolve into the coffee. The wine systems probably use a low pressure so that they don't dissolve as much.
Parallelizing a Python Function for the Extremely Lazy
What changed: status and money. It will pass.
On a tangent, but where do you source your beans from?
I'm not sure what the job description and constitutional limits of all spy agencies around the world are. What can Swiss authorities look into without a court order for instance? I don't know.

But in any event, there is only one country with a significant globally active IT industry and a capable globally active spy agency. That combination is becoming more problematic, which is unsurprising as well.
Somebody read Gibson's Pattern Recognition and got a little carried away...
Not exactly the same, but there's Privacy Badger [1] from EFF that works on Firefox, Chrome and Opera. If you'd like to see a visualization of the tracking for your browsing habits, there's Lightbeam [2] from Mozilla. Both these have been around for a few years now.

[1]: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

[2]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/
Yes, I remember once I needed to print something on my laptop and I realized I hadn't set up printing yet on my Arch system (a non-trivial process that requires at least 30 minutes of time reading the Wiki) because I hadn't printed anything in years. The thing I was printing was an important legal document for my startup, and it was very frustrating to my other founders that everyone on their Macs had already printed and signed their copies right away but me.
Now, if I want to print something on Mint/Ubuntu, all I have to do is just plug the printer into my USB port, and it Just Works.

We also had an intern who could code but never used Arch who spent the majority of his first month learning how to set up and use Arch. Not very productive time spent.
Arch is fine if you're looking to use a hobby distro (I had the showstopper problem once where I was trying to work remotely and couldn't connect to wifi but I didn't have wifi to read the Wiki to figure out how to troubleshoot it and so I was screwed -- after all, who remembers how to use wpa_supplicant by heart from command line?), but for getting shit done, it's far from ideal.

This was a simple auth based network too where my Mac user founders were just typing in the username and password they got from the receptionist and they were good to go. Meanwhile, I was still trying to figure out what the hell mschapv2 is, unable to get any real work done for at least a half hour. By the time it was working (I was using the GUI wifi frontend recommended on the Arch Linux and it still required me to manually select from every permutation of encryption possible instead of autodetecting like any friendly OS does for you -- how would the receptionist possibly know if the network uses WPA2 Personal, WPA2 Enterprise, ...), my brain was already wore out from the troubleshooting and frustration and so I really wasn't able to write as much code as I wanted to -- we had to leave shortly after anyways, so effectively, I got nothing done.

I also remember Arch choking on connecting to a wifi network that had an ampersand (&) in the password. I was stuck using NetworkManager because I needed to connect to wifi in command line to unbreak Xorg (NVIDIA driver update hosed it), and while I was perfectly able to connect to this wifi network from the GUI (the only one I had access to in the vicinity -- this was a desktop computer), I just couldn't connect to it at all from command line no matter what escape sequences I tried (quotes, \&, etc.) and no amount of troubleshooting trying to Google and read Arch Wiki and manually copying and pasting on my 4" phone screen (since I had no Internet access otherwise) could fix it. Even the guys on Arch Linux's IRC channel were stumped.

Yeah, I'm just going to continue using Mint.
I had actually wanted to reply my original post to people discussing mdn not being the first result on a google search but I find my general work flow falls around ctrl+t (new tab) - I have a specialized extension for something on that page so it doesn't redirect me to google.ca. For a search I just type 'm' as I have it setup to be my main keyword and 'y' for youtube along with 'h' for hacker news search. And if I want to do a search from the same tab I do alt+l to get to url and I'm not losing any thought process or needing to filter through some other ad garbage coming from google when I'm in the flow, just get me to the meat and potatoes (of course YouTube and hackernews are not things I search for regularly during productive work flows ;) )
Off-topic, but:

> Full-page screenshots. Take a screenshot of the entire page, from the top of the viewport to the bottom.

I'm surprised to see the Chrome developers not know what 'viewport' means.
iPerf: The ultimate speed test tool for TCP, UDP and SCTP
Good thing this country doesn't have a State Secrets Act!

(Maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act if they filed for a patent.)
There are two factors -- first, as you guessed, it's much easier to get a missile "close enough for a nuke" than it is to hit an ICBM.

Second, nukes produce electromagnetic pulses, which could disable ICBMs which are too far away to be destroyed completely.
I'd prefer plain old stock without restrictions and a larger proportion of it.

I think we ought to target a controlling interest for the employees (i.e. employees own over 51% of the company) and shareholders vote on the weight of their shares, like they normally do.

In sum, I'd rather see a founder worth $100 Million and 999 employees worth $900k than a $800 Millionaire and 999 employees worth $200k. And I actually think this would have an important impact on the economy by balancing out the income inequality. In other words, not only would we see far more ~$1 Millionaires, but also more $100 Millionaires because now the money is moving faster with all the fresh Millionaires buying goods/services.
We are originally from Moscow, Russia.
http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/DA-major-flaws-i...

The last hyperlink has it and this is them paying the fine

http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Uber-settles-lawsuit-...

What's odd to me is those 25 apparently were only found because they had been cited by the police. So the 99.9% that weren't cited by the police could have tens of thousands more at least how I understand it
I cannot remember the terminal program, but I had a file that set the colors and logged me in to the environment then set a bunch of variables. I was on a NT then 2000 box. Might have been a version of teraterm.
Why Pinterest's Growth Has Stalled
I remember reading a scaling-out article from some startup. Some of the things felt a little over-engineered, some were impressive, some seemed wrong. But then they get to the point where they brag about their scale, and the metric they used was that they can handle thousands of requests.... per day.
I have not used Javascript in years. I boot to textmode and use a text-only browser.

There are exceptions when I use JS. When I have to use someone else's computers or manage certain accounts using the www. The later not being by choice.

In the 90's, there was an attempt to allow web developers to run their code on the user's computer via the user's web browser. This was called Java applets.

There was no limit to the pie-in-the-sky promises that developers were making back then. All based around the web browser and Java.

Not surprisingly, Java applets failed. I think there were some security issues. Maybe. Not sure.

Javascript reminds me of Java applets.

I am not sure if there are security issues with Javascript. From discussion surrounding this language, today we are asked to believe there is nothing that cannot be accomplished with a web browser and some Javascript. Unlike Java applets, this time, it is real. I think.

But, as far as I know, I too can do anything I want to do without using Javascript. And without using Java applets. If there are websites that truly require Javascript (see below) in order to access data, I cannot find them.

1. require

Here, "require" means that the data could not be served to the user via any other e.g. more direct mechanism than through a series of steps that includes Javascript being run by a web browser. Here, "require" does not mean the choice by the website owner to use Javascript in this way or a message displayed to users that suggests "Javascript is required". The meaning here refers to technical capabilities not design choice.
No, we are actually from Russia. Moscow.
Does Trump really seem like the sort of person who can be engaged productively? The needless childish behavior here is coming from the top; routing around the damage appears to be the most productive way of making progress.

Yes, there's room for a deal; that's why California just made one, with China!
Well shit. That's gonna leave a mark...
I see that you have given up on any attempt at a factual argument.
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So its an argument between equal opportunity and equal outcome. It sounds like people want to shame men so as to gain an equal outcome.

Is there a better solution? I'm being serious.

(At the very least, we don't need to accuse men of being sexist if is proven to be a biological tendency—we should call a spade a spade)
It's not that hard to fake what is and is not a bomb in space. Consider their is no air resistance so use an inflatable balloon which may or may not have a bomb inside. For 10,000 kg you could probably send up 100,000+ fake bombs which would all have slightly different vectors making hitting them all very hard. Further, if you use something mechanical vs inflation it's not obvious if something was shot down or not.

Worse, the attacker may feel they can use something like that while shooting down any responses.
Ah; more off-topic than not, but this reminded me of another fairly obscure, yet super interesting mailing list — The Risks Digest, on air since 1985:

https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/
Twitter is filled with bots in general, and they often follow popular accounts. I wouldn't necessarily conclude that this is Trump-specific, although that's also possible.

The general conclusion, since Twitter itself won't explain, is that they don't want to tank user numbers, which would weigh down their stock even further.
Ah, I forgot we're talking about systems designed in the late 50's and 60's!
Off the top of my head I'm not thinking of anything specific but it is related to the intentional fallacy and thinking along the lines of The Death of the Author as well as more anthro/socio stuff by people like Erving Goffman. I'm thinking of his Presentation of Self in Everyday Life where he talks about things in terms of acting and live theater.
Wow...just...wow! Look, I don't want to be mean, I understand you believe what you're saying, but, really, just no. You really do not understand how the things you're talking about work. For your own sake, go learn some more before jumping into comment here.
I'm not sure if this was meant as a reply to me or to any other comment. I wasn't debating that these problems didn't exist, I literally stated the opposite, nor the intention of the moderator.
Vladimir Putin Is Getting Interested in Bitcoin's Biggest Rival
This is no more intellectually interesting than the 1970s game shows where they filled a glass cage with money and let someone with a paper bag in for 30 seconds.

Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Hah, definitely true. Even without the Uber approach, though, many people just use 1099s at inappropriate times because it seems like a way to avoid paperwork.
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"More than 150 people (!!!) contributed commits to this release, bringing the Zulip server to 307 distinct code contributors. In 2017, Zulip has had, by a wide margin, the most active open-source development community of any group chat software."

Zulip is an amazing open source community to work with. The community puts in a lot of effort and thought to welcoming new contributors and keeping it easy, fun, and productive to contribute.
The thing is, unless you're in a blackout room like a theater, there will be other sources of light already reaching the reading surface. In order to overpower the existing light enough that the contrast ratio between text and background is strain-free, you'd often need to crank up the intensity of one or the other to the point that it starts to become as uncomfortable as looking at a traditional display.
That's a fair enough point.

I'll strengthen my position this way instead. Let's assume the definition is garbage and ignore it. Are stereotyping examples things that fall into the category of sexism? I think they absolutely are. And I think most people would agree.

"Women aren't as good as men at [whatever]" - sexist? Yep
"Women often have difficulty interrupting in the way that the men here did" - sexist? Sure sounds like it to me.
Continuous Delivery with Spinnaker and Kubernetes
That's right. It's very hard to hit an incoming object of radius 2m at hypersonic speeds even now. Back then getting within a few hundred meters and going kaboom was a good plan, given the cost of failure.
If you have users in the EU/EEA then you _will_ have to comply, or risk a fine of up to €20,000,000 or 4% of your _global_ turnover (whichever is larger).
Coursera has been sliding steadily into irrelevance over the past couple of years. It started with lofty goals, and then at some point it just became a money grab when they refused to let you take quizzes and assessments without paying. That would still be fine if paying them gave you any semblance of help/support/mentorship.

My wife started the bioinformatics track and was deeply disappointed by the complete lack of any support on the forums. There isn't even a nominal course TA who helps answer questions posted by paying students. For several hundred dollars, you get the privilege of viewing a sequence of videos and going through assessments that can vary substantially in quality, without any prospect of getting any help from a community.

I've taken my share of Coursera courses in the past, but I didn't even bother with the Hinton's Neural Network class after my wife's experience and after checking it out and realizing that all the courses are pretty much zombie courses with no instructor or TA participation.

If you want quality online education, look no further than edX. There are some amazing courses on there (especially a bunch of MIT, Harvard and Caltech courses) and all of them have a pretty good amount of instructor, student and TA participation. It's so good that I've almost always paid for the certification simply to show my support to the universities in the hopes that they continue providing these classes freely to anyone with the interest and determination to learn something new.

Udacity is okay... it started with similar lofty goals and then pivoted hard to being a very for-profit organization. Nothing inherently bad about it, but I look at most of their newer content as going to a trade school where you just learn the essentials to cobble some things together without a deeper understanding of things. Udacity courses will rarely satisfy a deeper intellectual curiosity, though they will likely help you get started with coding. That being said, they do have some great content from when they first started out, including Peter Norvig's outstanding course on Design of Computer Programs.
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I'm not sure that this has to do with her being a woman, everyone else on the panel have wikipedia pages while she doesn't. In such a scenario there will obviously be a power differential irrespective of the genders involved.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_F._R._Ellis

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

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Veronika...
Here's a talk about Iceberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGgzdOLBx9c

And UnifiedFFI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=418eEvCiepU

UnifiedFFI sources:

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/blob/e0ce2d9d78c3c...

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/tree/48e59f7238853...
> Why on earth would you need a nuclear weapon to intercept a ballistic missle? Certainly conventional explosives would have more than enough yield to destroy a single missle. Or is the idea that you don't have to hit the target exactly, you just have to be in the ballpark?

Yep. Re-entering ballistic missiles come down really fast -- if you mistime the detonation of your warhead by a few microseconds, no conventional warhead can hit the target. Back when missiles just couldn't be accurate enough, they were deployed with nuclear warheads to have large enough area of effect.

And those missiles were insane. For example, look at the Sprint missile: It accelerates at 100g to reach mach 10 in 5 seconds, just in time to get close enough to nuke the target. After accelerating, the head of the missile glows brightly white hot from heating.

Modern ABMs are typically hittiles, that is they do away with the warhead completely and just intend to hit the target directly, using the fact that they don't have to carry a warhead to gain a drastically better kinematics.
The percentage of caffeine removed varies widely in "decaf". Some decaf has almost no caffeine remaining, while other varieties basically are already "half-caf".
My guess is that wanted to get evidence to know if this was real or a plot by local taxi companies.

Having heard about business in India, bribes and plots to cause harm to your rivals, are the normal course of business.

This is a terrible way of dealing with it, but I absolutely get it.

Uber just doesn't have any finesse about dealing with local politics and PR. They just seem to brute force everything.

The idea and execution with uber has been great. They seem to be terrible with everything else.