skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many TechCrunch articles can you find where an acquiring company says "the software we're buying doesn't really work, but it sure looks good!"?

I just left a job where the founder (who didn't have any software background) deeply ingrained himself with this philosophy and wound making life a living hell for engineering.

While building a full-stack prototype, we slapped bootstrap 4 on the front end because who has time to roll CSS when the project is months behind schedule?

The founder with no sofware experience decided that bootstrap was terrible and that he'd roll an entirely custom app style. So he went into the codebase on a weekend and ripped out all the views/controllers/assets and replaced them with his own, which massively broke the test suite on Monday morning (which of course he didn't know how to operate or fix.) After a couple of other "executive audibles" like this, I took the next good offer and ran.

It's weird to see 'visual design' as a mainstay of an article titled 'What you should know as a founder of a software company', as if managing a team and building solid engineering fundamentals and culture are either assumed or unimportant.
There is some irony in this happening to one of the most anti-union Econ departments out there. :-)

What will this do? Raise the cost of grad students for schools, so perhaps they take less of them. But didn't the students know this was the situation before applying?
If one cannot exhaustively find a sufficient reply to give in thanks after so much time than I'd say that's logically identical to being unable to reply "in any way". the emphasis of the former is on the search and it's ultimate futility, the emphasis of the latter for the existence lacking in the first place which precludes any successful search.
> without the plugin, it's effectively inaccessible

I wouldn't say that. Plain Vim does have the `:earlier` and `:later` commands, which aren’t too hard to use in the case you described. For example, `:earlier 40sec` takes you to the state of the file as you saw it 40 seconds ago, no matter where in the undo tree you are or were. I agree that undo-tree is usually easier to use, though.
This post title is really click-baity when taken out of context.
A Fine Start – The New Tab Page You'll Actually Use
Fun fact, LDA was actually first described by three geneticists in 2000:

http://www.genetics.org/content/155/2/945
Your experience isn’t a reliable setting to make the call about human nature because a different setting may produce different outcomes.

UBI isn’t utopian. No one lives large for free. People simply get the basic support.
Abolish tenure. Problem solved.
Would that be covered under UX? Loading speed seems like something that would be under the UX heading, at least it is as I understand it.

Also, when we started to model pedestrian traffic, we also began to start on the long road to releasing software so that we could sell the software and the companies could model their own traffic. (Many companies consider such data to be proprietary and it can be difficult working for them because of their protective nature.)

We were able to get consultation through Jacob Nielson. He was still fairly new to the game (early 2000s) and things like eye tracking were just coming into the fray. I wasn't able to attend any of his meetings and didn't have much to do with the specifics.

But, my employees were happy with him and our customers were happy with the results. He's mentioned in the article by NN Group, which is Nielsen Norman Group.

The employees were happy and, as mentioned, so weren't our clients. They were also able to take what they learned and apply it to our internal applications and processes. (UX is much more than UI.) This, in turn, helped us more than what we'd expected. I distinctly recall QA being happy with a number of changes.

But, it points to the value of good UX and the benefit of getting a professional to consult or, perhaps, directly on staff.

Because of my lack of direct involvement, I'm not going to specifically recommend them - I don't feel as though I'm qualified to do so. I will say that the results were very good.

We'd chosen them because one of our employees had been following their site and was very impressed with the work they were doing with regards to web sites. It was that same employee who had recommended we get a UX consultant in, in the first place. Given the results, I am happy to have listened.
I agree. Not the brain stuff, but the slippery-drug-gateslope theory.

It's extremely unlikely that a single dose of MDMA will cause lasting brain damage.

What is problematic, however, is that it's probably much more of a gateway drug than, for example, grass. The path from MDMA to Speed to Meth is shallow enough that some non-neglible percentage of people will probably follow it.

Not everyone, obviously. But if it's 2% or 3%, that may not be worth it.

which leads to the only logical conclusion that you should totally try MDMA if you're the type of person that would never try MDMA :)
Considering RHEL 7 doesn’t even have Python 3 available in the core packages, I bet RHEL 8 will at least have Python 2 available as a package, just not installed by default.

I would be surprised if they didn’t give any overlap between 2 and 3 in RHEL 8.
There are these things called tv dinners... all ready to go into the microwave/oven :)
In fairness, Quebec took a 49.5% stake in return. There's a huge grey area between complete non-intervention and state-owned or state-financed industries (Quebec doesn't control the money supply).

Plus, there are all the tax deals Boeing gets. It would be interesting to compare those with the tax deals Bombardier gets in Canada.
Affirmative action _is_ racism, by definition, assuming you mean by that: basing your decision to hire in part on race.

Re. McVeigh, do you mean http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/reflections-on-mcveigh.html? Because that doesn't seem like a defense of McVeigh to me.

From the article:

> This seems to me like a way to avoid facing the really hard questions. Questions which begin with this one: where and when and how did Timothy McVeigh learn to think of taking the lives of innocent women and children as acceptable "collateral damage"?
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My experience in my CS MS was that there was ~50% discount on tuition, a subsidized health insurance plan, and not quite enough to live on.
"Classical and operant conditioning are psychological concepts that aren't applicable to non-humans."

You're kidding?
You should not be driving if looking at your phone is on par with checking gauges unless you practically never check your gauges.

And they are not "self driving", they are pre-programmed dumb machines.
Haha, yes. They were placeholders that ended up going live. Premier is named after our Grandpa, who calls things he loves "Premier". His friend he was in the Boy Scouts in during the 1940s is the Grandfather of Andy's best friend. Anytime my Grandpa talks about Andy's friend's family he calls them the "Premier Family of Weymouth" :)

We'll probably keep the Premier plan but need to rename the others.
http://www.ycombinator.com/faq/#q42
GitHub Pages with a static site generator and Travis CI is superb.

I have my blog [0] setup so that all I need to do in order to publish a new article is add a markdown file to my GitHub pages source repo. Travis then builds the html and pushes it back to the GitHub pages repo.

You can easily add files and edit markdown on the GitHub web interface so I essentially use GitHub as a CRM. If you're interested, have a look at my GitHub Pages repo [1] and Travis CI build config [2].

[0] http://www.samlewis.me
[1] https://github.com/samvrlewis/samvrlewis.github.io/tree/webs...
[2] https://github.com/samvrlewis/samvrlewis.github.io/blob/webs...
It's not a mainstay, I wrote that you don't need to focus on design instead of functionality and that a $50 template will be ok.

The goal is to develop a sense of good design, so you can pick a good template or hire good designers later and argue about the results of their work.
This science of consciousness you speak of is nowhere to be found.
This is where `Option` or `Optional` types shine. They force you to unwrap the nilable value at compile time, and are zero-cost abstractions. It's not difficult to use option types, either--especially if the language features syntactic sugar to promote their ergonomics.

Rust, Swift, Guava, etc. all get this right. Option types need to become a language feature for all statically-typed languages. C++ should adopt it too.
I was tweaking the font-setup to support full unicode ranges. Maybe a result of it.
I have no idea if this is true or not, but generally you can't get tariffs without pointing to some alleged unfair trading practice.

I'd buy that if this was a WTO ruling but these are tarrifs adjudicated by Americans, supporting an American company.

The US similarly imposed tarrifs on softwood lumber not that long ago, and they were determined to be illegal once it hit the WTO. There's no reason to believe that won't happen again.
Thanks for signing up Matt. Just sent a response to the support ticket you sent. Thanks for taking the time to let us know about that bug.

We have the ability to do matte or glossy already and I just need to get in there an add it as an option. I'll make a note to ping you once that's ready.

The service is live and ready. Your first order will ship in 30 days from now! :)
Thank you for the insight!
Fahrenheit 451: Burn to Read
Honestly for backend projects where nobody cares about design bootstrap is great.

Layout and such is easy. UI components, forms, etc, take a lot longer.
It's infuriating that they don't include the pen at these prices.
I've read a fair number of ESRs posts about race, and don't think any of them constitute racism on his part.

I _do_ disagree with his 'casting couch' position, though, and will post there to that effect.
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That was totally my bad. Thanks for the heads up. The f` has been nuked.
I keep seeing arguments that Boeing made a mistake in pushing on the tariffs, or that this deal with Airbus is bad for Boeing.

They're wrong. In Boeing's ideal world, they're the only airplane manufacturer in the world. The next best thing, is to only have Airbus as competition. Boeing's interests are served tremendously by keeping the global market as consolidated as possible down to just Boeing and Airbus. They have one main target to focus on when it comes to competition and politics. Airbus eating Bombardier is the next best thing to Bombardier going out of business. Simply put, Boeing would rather Airbus own / control Bombardier, than have Bombardier exist as a successful independent airplane manufacturer.
> but the only thing you said was that PHP is a "bucket of suck"

I feel like this is turning into a bad Monty Python sketch.

This is precisely what I have repeatedly pointed out: I did not say that I think PHP is a bucket of suck. I said some people hold the view while I was making a particular, different point. I was not making any sort of argument one way or the other about the quality of PHP or its fitness for any purpose, my technical-aesthetic preferences, or anything even vaguely related to your strangely aggressive misunderstandings.

You can read this, in context, by scrolling up a little. If you are incapable of reading and comprehending the plain meaning of my words upthread, I don't know what else to say.
In a way yes. If you told people 20 or 10 years ago that in 2017 Apple would be #1 company in the world and have the browser with the second most users (with the first NOT being IE) people would laugh at you.
It makes sense economically. The less people with the skill the more valuable it is.
Well if you start factoring in things such as drinks (which you don't get with BA either) and tips for eating out you should also be factoring in the time and electric/gas (Stove/Oven, Dishwasher) resources required to prepare, cook, and cleanup a BA meal.
Would you agree that none of those people pay their employer in that case? I certainly agree salespeople pay for leads, but it is usually an outside party supplying them.
The best side benefit so far is probably how it's getting Grandkids to visit their Grandparents more often. My fiance and I visited my future Grandma-in-law on the day her photos were delivered. They made plans to get together for breakfast monthly now. Good vibes!
Boeing is subsidized in many ways, including defense contracts.

Boeing is the largest winner of state and local tax incentives valued in $13 billion. Most of these go to commercial aircraft manufacturing. DoD also awards defense contracts that intend to keep strategic commercial technologies within US (just like all large nations).

Boeing and Airbus have been involved in legal battle over subsidies over a decade. When WTO found that there was only $1 billion in illegal subsidies in 777X development and rest $8 billion were legal subsidies, Boeing was celebrating.
Eric Raymond doesn't believe he's a racist. Eric Raymond also doesn't believe that there are more than about 30 active white supremacists in the country†. One wonders what one would have to do to reach the level of "racist towards black people". Here's something I'm confident doesn't reach that level for Raymond: the belief that the average African American has an IQ so low --- borderline mentally disabled --- that they can't be properly instructed in the handling of a firearm.

† (he knows this because his Kung Fu instructor, who consults with "the Feds" on "counter-terrorism", informed him of this --- this is presumably a different source than the one that reliably informed him that Iran had dispatched a death squad to kill him)
ucla grad student anecdote: we have a union. but a few students are not part of it. they do accept benefits for being quiet about work issues or outright siding with the faculty.

just to set a level of the workers issue I am talking about, recently they cut in half the salary of a category, to double the number of people. from 3 to 6. while each teaches a class in full, to 20+ undergrads each. pay is now tuition plus enough to be 2 grand a year above CA poverty line.
it looks like 9.7" e-ink displays are pretty easy to source, I wonder if a bezel around it would help move toward an e-ink display.
Here's the structural problem I see: there are acres, literally, acres of computer science types in SF and certain other enclaves, slaving away on ads when they would rather be curing cancer. But they don't know the first thing about cancer.

Meanwhile, there are enclaves where biologists are slaving away capturing data and not even realizing it's data. "Bookkeeping data" they might call it.

There should be mixers between the biologists and the computer scientists. Especially non-academic physicians and computer scientists. Look at Kaiser-Permanente, Sutter Health, or Defense Health Agency. Huge orgs, very little research. Data falling off the shelves and they don't know what to do with it.
The lack of a reliable UI is one of the main reasons holding me back from using Ubuntu as my main OS. I wouldn’t mind giving up a native Remote Desktop if it means everything else works better.
Too much content without addressing the real problem with most startups:

They do not solve a customer problem.

Solve their problem, make their life better and you will do well.
That makes sense for debts, but how do you handle people who immediately blow their monthly UBI payment and don't have anything left over for food or rent? At least with food stamps, you kind of have to use it on food.
Yes, killing people in fabricated wars is so dope.
MS is often a different deal that PhD or MS/PhD.
Actually, on many if not most devices you can just 'cast' the entire display to a Chromecast, which is inexpensive enough that it's unlikely anyone's going to bother developing a replacement mechanism. The nearest thing to that is MHL, which is apparently encumbered by licencing issues and requires use of the USB port (which means that an OTG adapter for attaching mouse/keyboard is now out of the question).
Since you're here, I would like to take this opportunity to ask a quick question. My Jekyll site is already running on Netlify, but instead of manually creating files, I used Google Sheets and a simple NodeJS script to sync everything. Would it be possible to run this NodeJS script on Netlify CD and push to git and then let Netlify build my Jekyll site? (The script basically pulls a Google Sheet, creates markdown files and download and resizes some images)
I think the whole “ISP data” issue is a red herring. Google, Facebook, etc already gather everything about you unless you go to extreme measures.

The only reason those tech companies are against ISP tracking is that it hurts their revenue model...significantly.

Don’t by in to the easy explanation - look at their motivations.
When you make all you have Bitcoins
Expertise eats up a lot of time. Not much time left for indulgent self promotion.
If you think that the definition of racism is "basing your decision to hire in part on race", then you don't understand what racism is.

http://www.agjohnson.us/glad/is-affirmative-action-racist/

"But the most important reason to reject the argument that affirmative action is racist is that it ignores what racism actually is. The whole point of any racist practice is to preserve and enforce the privilege – the dominance and unearned advantage – of the dominant group by systematically excluding and oppressing members of the subordinate group. This has never been the purpose of affirmative action, either in theory or in practice. It has been just the opposite – a modest attempt to shift the odds away from being so heavily loaded in favor of whites in an environment that is still overwhelmingly white dominated, identified, and centered."
<Berman says that the Cell Surgical Network has performed 7,000 stem-cell injections into various parts of the body, and the 77-year-old woman’s case is “the only real significant problem we’ve had.”>

I read this as.. "the only real significant problem we have been busted for"
You'd enjoy Heideggerian philosophy.

Heidegger himself is too dense and has alternate interpretations ("Tool-being" by Graham Harman has this whole emphasis on the tool-analysis that reminds me of the vibrations in Buddhist dharma), but Herbert Dreyfus' "Being in the world" emphasizes this side of "Being in time".

After "Being in time" and his brief flirtation with Nazism, Heidegger actually made his project to write a metaphysical history of Being in stages much like those you described. That too is dense and somewhat requires an acute sensibility for German lyrical poetry...

Anyway, "stockpiles of Being" is a good google keyword I venture...
The is a completely meaningless and useless quote and since that's the whole article the whole thing is useless.

First of all I have no idea who this guy is except that he used to work for Google. Congrats to him.

Second "it wouldn't surprise me" are weasel words that make it sound like he's making a prediction, but also hedging his bets.

And finally his prediction is meaningless and unmeasurable. "sun is setting on the golden age of SV". What does that even mean? Does that mean IPOs? funding? employment? Who knows.

This is the kind of absolutely useless statement that professional prognosticators like to make, there's no way to challenge it because it's not a firm statement about anything.

Why this was even posted here confuses me.
A new alternative, 2017, both open source and hosted, scroll down to the bottom here to see how it looks:

https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments

It's called EffectiveDiscussions (for now) & it's an early beta version, I'm developing it. There are new ideas — look here: https://www.effectivediscussions.org/-32/how-hacker-news-can....

Install yourself: https://github.com/debiki/ed-server — or $2/month for hosting: https://new.ed.community/-/create-site/embedded-comments, main website: http://www.ed.community

What tech stack does your blog use? Maybe a link? (What do you write about?)

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More alternatives to Disqus:

- Mozilla's Talk, https://github.com/coralproject/talk (open source, install yourself)

- Discourse, https://www.discourse.org/ (one needs to navigate to a separate page, to post a comment. Not threaded. Min $20/month. Open source.)

- Isso: https://posativ.org/isso/ (open source, install on your own server. No Facebook / Gmail login.)

- HostedComments, https://www.hostedcomments.com/ (min $10/month)

- Remarbox, https://www.remarkbox.com/ (min $6/month)

- Schnack, https://www.vis4.net/blog/2017/10/hello-schnack/ (open source)

- Commento, https://github.com/adtac/commento (lacks moderation and spam-protection)

- And EffectiveDiscussions (https://www.ed.community), open source, or $2 per month.
This is really cool; I'm glad to see this kind of technology reaching younger students. In grad school, we actually built something similar for undergrads to use as part of a robotics course. The idea was to give teams an identical platform, and then race them at the end of the semester to see who did the best job at programming it.

If anyone is interested, we open sourced all of the design files, with instructions on how to build a car of your own for around $900 (at the time, this was several years ago): https://vaderlab.wordpress.com/roscar-robot-stock-car-autono...

Here is a video of the results from the semester. One group was able to max out the speed on the car, which at scale is equivalent to 128 MPH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwRjv3D7lGo
It depends on the use case but loading time is very important. People will engage more with a site where they can move freely and focus on the content rather than a loading page. The longer the loading time the more likely users will click away.
Text resolution is the main issue; on current hardware, it's still not good enough to use for extended periods of time, but I think this is partially because nobody has bothered to optimize 3D text rendering to the extent that a viable 3D Desktop would require it.

Does working in VR sound appealing to you?
"The average IQ of the Haitian population is 67... Haiti is, quite literally, a country full of violent idiots."

Or, from a different post:

"... The minimum level of training required to make someone effective as a self defense shooter is not very high... unfortunately, this doesn't cover the BLM crowd, which would have an average IQ of 85 if it's statistically representative of American blacks as a whole. I've never tried to train anyone that dim and wouldn't want to."

Here, or we can just do this in bulk:

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/780839196231630848

Fun fact: these quotes come from just one ESR comment thread.
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Worse, the lack of awareness in how a phone system works by picking the phone type as opposed to the actual network is a perfect superficial understanding of technology that dovetails into the video way too nicely.
Citation needed, please.

If you're right about that position - about firearms instruction - I'll gladly apologise, and withdraw my support for ESR as a non-racist.
Clearly CA needs another state agency to look for employers breaking this law. Heck... why not go full China?
How do you allocate funding?
How much do they cost and where can I buy them?
Yeah of course I did that, but some drivers just know nothing about cyclists. Give them something they are more familiar with would certainly help.
I had to google Adani. That is some farking madness.
Of course you can't force another country to enact environmental and worker protections against their will. But our country also has its own free will.

>Your argument for this has already been debunked by Lazare.

No, Lazare did the same thing you did which is to play a game of bait and switch by arguing against a point I didn't make. I don't support tariffs, which you falsely accused me of, nor do I believe that putting economic pressure on Mexico to enforce worker and environmental protections would increase US GDP or other silly notions.