skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, there's no definite reason other than personally growing and being able to understand more concepts. I don't know if IQ can be "improved", but I do know that people who have battled through difficult problems develop ways of thinking that make it easier for further difficult concepts to be understood. Abstract thinking is very powerful and you can train it.
I disabled all facebook notifications and I don't get wrapped in other notifications. I just check in on stuff from my desktop when I feel like it instead of feeling compelled to do so. If waiting in a lobby then I might do something on my phone or just cross my legs and meditate (yeah I'm odd).
PowerPoint was an acquisition, though Microsoft had considered building a competitor in house like Word and Excel.

I found Robert Gaskin's fascinating book on the history of PowerPoint and its acquisition by Microsoft in an HN comment a few weeks back and it's a fascinating read of that fascinating paradigm shift in productivity apps that happened in the mid-to-late 1980s (that Microsoft was able to play a hot hand in):

http://www.robertgaskins.com/powerpoint-history/sweating-bul...
I really don't understand the hate for facebook, it really is what you make it. For me, it's a glorified messaging app and nothing more. Well...Maybe also a museum of my less than attractive younger years.
Lotus Notes and Domino which later became IMB's were awesome for its time.
How to find out what Google knows about you and limit the data it collects
>And then Jetbrains decides that Android also needs a picture sharing app and hires Kevin Systrom[2] to develop Instagram. That absurd combination from one company is what Microsoft did in the 1980s and in that alternate universe, the Jetbrains owners would be multi-billionaire

That, with the exception that Instagram is more of a "cool idea that caught on with a run-of-the-mill implementation" and had the luck of getting acquired else they'd still be looking for a revenue source, whereas technically what MS did was far more impressive (and with actual paying customers).
The real trick is getting a job where your contract does not try to claim your employer owns things you make in your free time...

Just work in a state where state law doesn't allow the "we own your brain" stuff. Those employment agreements don't trump applicable state law.

Of course there will always be a bit of subjectivity around the whole thing... as well all know, the law is always a bit non-deterministic until it reduces to a particular case, on a particular day, in front of a particular judge and jury, etc. But from a risk management standpoint, you can rely on some general truths most of the time.

For that matter, you could even go with "damn your employment agreement, do it anyway, and just don't tell anybody at $current_employer what you're doing, now or ever". Unless you say or do something to bring attention to yourself, it's probably fairly unlikely that they'll ever pay you any attention at all, especially if you don't "make it big" until after you quit.
3 thumbs up!

As soon as my wife heard about it - voice of joy!

Definitely solution to existing problem + tons of potentials for business (recipes, partnerships with stores, organics, deliveries)..
Tab groups were apparently a huge mess in the backend side of things, which is why they removed it.

And Tree Tabs [1] seems to be doing something functional into the direction of tab groups. Maybe that works for you...

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-tabs/
Yeah running a registry is the better option, although another solution is forking / committing the dependencies in a separate repository, and use branch + shallow clone to keep the download size small.
I'm at 702 hours. Crazy - that's almost a month of silence I've avoided.
>None of the rest of its software suite would have become dominant without being built on top of DOS and later Windows.

Way back in my angrier days when I would have spelled Microsoft as Micro$oft The Evil Empire, I would have totally agreed with you.

I've since revised my opinion. The reason is counterexamples of other wildly software that didn't need operating systems to be successful like Intuit Quicken, Photoshop, Duke Nukem games, etc. If others can sell millions of copies without an os to run on MS-DOS, Microsoft itself can too. Also MS-DOS & Windows dominance doesn't guarantee success because MS Money lost to Intuit's Quicken.

For example, with MS Word, was it successful because of Windows or was it better than WordPerfect? Sure, Windows is a part of it but MS Word was actually easier to use and crashed less often the WordPerfect-for-Windows. Wordperfect-DOS wasn't WYSIWIG. Wordperfect-DOS required memorization of function keys F01 to F12 to bold and italicize. MS Word early versions[1] had obvious buttons for bold and italics.

Now that Microsoft is weakened by iPhone/Android and Amazon AWS, I think I'm able to look back at MS in a more detached perspective. I now think they did amazing work in the 1980s and 1990s which got later overshadowed by the ugly "browser wars" and antitrust lawsuit.

[1] https://tmft.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/krnl386_004.png
> What I'm saying though, is that I literally hear people say they joined Uber _because_ they want to use the company's leverage to help people. This is something I'd never have heard in my previous jobs.

Quite a common reason to go for a civil servant job which pays bad, such as police (at least in my country, YMMV).

> [...] or when your helping of people happens through your job [...]

Uber provides a service, just like the police dept., the hospital, the fire dept., Lyft, and Google search.

Its just that some of these also profile you.

It makes no difference whether Uber is owned by the US government as an official service, or whether it is a private company. Its still a service, regardless.

> At Uber, we have weekly all-hands meetings where literally _anyone_ in the company can ask Dara _any_ questions.

Which suggests this wasn't true with Travis.
"If you take money too early (and give away a lot of equity), it turns off future investors"

That's dependent on who the early investor is. If you sell 1/3 of your company before product launch, to one of the most respected people in the segment in question, you'll lure talent and capital to your shores.

A prominent early investor lends vast, instant credibility to what you're doing. They share their reputation with you.

Doing a genetics or CRISPR start-up? Sell 1/4 of the pre-product company to George Church and Feng Zhang, get them to be involved in any meaningful manner, and see what happens.

Convince Mark Cuban to buy 20% of your pre-product company. Your profile just instantly skyrocketed. Every media outlet in the US will now take your contact and at least listen to your story. Cuban just lent you a tiny piece of his fame and credibility, other major investors will (under most circumstances) immediately take you more seriously. A similar story would play out with a few dozen other big angel investors (with varying degrees of attention & credibility attached, some investors lend more or less of each).
I'm confused by this anecdote. Princeton has one of the strongest financial aid programs in the world.

Why didn't you take the offer?

Students do not have to pay tuition if their parents make less than $140K a year. Students receive a full-ride (including tuition, room & board, and a stipend for misc costs) if their parents make less than $65K

Sources:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/01/pf/college/stanford-financia...

https://www.princeton.edu/admission-aid/affordable-all

Personal anecdote: I recently graduated with zero debt from Princeton (in fact, with a net positive gain in capital) and I come from a upper middle class family.
For using Facebook for social events only, you can minimize your actual interaction with Facebook itself. I have my account set up to email me event invites, so it gets bundled together with other email-checking only. If you need/want to search for events, you can probably bookmark that page directly and visit it every week or something like that.
The terrible charisma of Charles Manson
Fair enough, but even in context it was rather unclear at first read.
571 hours for me
For example Hangouts makes me lose at least half a hour of productity a day but if I uninstalled it and never checked it then I would never talk to all of my friends on Hangouts which is not a trade-off that I am willing to take.

A lot of people say this one (usually about Facebook), but I don't understand it. If you want to talk to those friends, why doesn't it suffice to schedule spending time with them in the same way you would have done it in 2000?
Yes but no one claimed advertising was 'driven by a democratic process'. Marxists keep telling people what they want, and of course lying to them, even as the bodies are piling up. At the centenary of Russian Revolution, with 50 million dead, it's hard to believe one can still see hammer and sickles around the place. Yet one can.
Sure, but every user has to do that initial page load. If all initial page loads are slow and expensive, it affects the user experience and costs money.

Also, if you start getting requests faster than you can do the initial render, each subsequent user has to wait in line longer than the one before. Your server-side framework won't even show you how long people waited for a TCP connection.
> go to work every day to get us to do this one thing, to undermine our willpower

That's ominously sounding bullshit. You decide what to do with your willpower, and if you don't like the consequences, it's your fault, not some nefarious engineers. If you don't like facebook, don't go there. If you don't like particular site, don't go there, of if you absolutely can't control yourself, install one of a thousand programs that let you block specific sites, and block that site. It's completely within your control. It's your responsibility to do it, to control your own actions and to bear the consequences.

You just don't want to bother - you want the Central Committee to take over, so whatever happens if not your responsibility but theirs. It is an extremely infantile approach.

> Nice straw-man that conflates democratic socialism with authoritarian one-party rule.

OK, let it be People's Democratic Central Multi-Party Committee is that makes you feel better. The point is not how the committee is called, the point is that it would decide how resources are allocated, thus eliminating the whole pesky free will issue.

> Don't throw the socialist baby out with the Soviet bathwater.

Somehow socialist babies have been always surrounded by Soviet bathwaters, sooner or later. If one were empirically inclined, one would be tempted to conclude that there is some strong relation between the two. But of course one shouldn't forget that True Socialism (TM) has never been tried.
Am I getting downvoted for stating a fact. Is there someone here who believes Intel's ISA to be superior? Please cite the science behind such a claim
> There is an entire world of alternative possibilities out there for economic and governance systems.

Yeah, and in some way or another, every single one of them seem to end in a bloody dictatorship.

Thanks, but no thanks, please keep your "alternative possibilities" to yourself.
that it works in the browser
Western philosophy is racist
GDPR at Mouseflow
One of the best things about reading these books, IMO, is that I finally have the vocabulary to speak to management. Before I'd say the exact same thing, but I didn't know they had a term for what I wanted (value stream maps, for instance) and we couldn't communicate. Now that I can speak in management terms, they're listening to my inputs because we understand each other.
What I ended up doing at work is to have a docker image of a registry with package zips committed in the repo (with a small script to publish all packages in). That way I can rebuild a running registry in a few moments.
Its the only language that runs in all browsers.
This is why employees of "cost centers" should just go on occasional strikes. Just don't work for 3 days, let the execs understand what the cost is of not having these "cost centers".
Also, I recommend browsing youtube via something like startpage.com or duckduckgo.com. That way you're not distracted by follow up videos, recommendations and comments.
Redwood software RunMyJob: https://www.redwood.com/runmyjobs/
"Microsoft and its 29-year-old chairman, William H. Gates, clearly want to be No. 1 again."

Really amazing what he had done by 29. As someone older than that, I'm really starting to feel like I'm hitting the "older tier" of tech ages.
People use it with Polymer (a lot of people in the community use it with polymer-redux package) and Vue.
React alternatives that you mentioned are also a thing.
History of WWW – beginnings
"Why you should never raise money on bad terms" is really the point of the article.
It makes me wonder if there might be the possibility of a Netflix for news, where an 3rd party curates and allows ratings of lengthier pieces on long-term issues, interviews with important figures, and 20-minute investigative reports (like I remember seeing on 60 minutes)

Isn't this essentially the model that HuffPo and other news aggregators (rewriters) use? Hasn't really panned out in that context, but maybe there needs to be a more quality-focussed site that isn't subject so much to avarice.
So does this updated firmware remove the backdoor or just re-secure it so it can't be removed?
I'm not sure of the split but say it's $X of cash an $1M - $X of non-cash credits. I'll take that over just the $X cash any day of the week. This isn't like out PCs to schools to market to the schools/students down the road, this is a pure charity where they happen to have a good that they can directly offer without long term commitment. It's no different than a sandwich shop sending their excess inventory to a soup kitchen at the end of the day.
A big part of why Office gained ground was that it was offered cheaper than its competitors. A big part of why they could do that was it was subsidized by DOS and Windows licenses. Then there are enterprise customers who got bundling discounts for getting Office software as well as operating system software from Microsoft.

I'm not saying that the Office products were bad, nobody was going to buy software that totally didn't work, and I'm not trying to argue the relative merits of Wordstar or WordPerfect or Lotus 123 or whatever, but if you don't think the "home field advantage" of DOS and Windows is a big part of the success of Office, then I think you're in denial.
I believe the need for constant stimulation reflects today's world, while the desire to focus on productive subjects tends to come with maturity (not age).

Personally, I think we're over-indexing on knowledge acquisition while underemphasizing taking action.
well wasn't that clear? Isn't something like a Template Engine quite CPU intensive? Things were node.js performce poorly?
For some of the poor, just like they don't have access to food, they don't have access to contraceptives (or sex education).
Amazon’s Last Mile
I've been trying it out after all I've heard about it, but I'm just not seeing what all the hype is about. Several sites I use will hang while loading, but will work flawlessly on Chrome. Also, their import from Chrome didn't seem to grab passwords which makes using it kind of a chore.
This seems to require some serious non-hobbyist hardware to generate the data needed to build the models, but the results are more impressive than this demo for sure!
This reminds me to hate AWS Lambda. I am not sure if anything has changed since my last use (around spring of 2017). I wrote my code in Python, and wanted to use psycopg2 to connect to my PG RDS instance. Luck out, yike! I was told to commit some psycopg2 files in my repository. I don't remember whether s3 was a feasible option, I think it wasn't; even then I would hate having a separate place for storing dependencies just because AWS couldn't solve customer problems.

And no, I refuse to believe such requirement is hard to solve at all. I refuse to believe AWS doesn't create some container-like environment behind the scene for launching and running a function.

See https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=791221&t...
This is a college, the audience is teenagers and the lecturers are academics. They don't experience any need for professionalism and I don't think they should.
A 7.5 ton crankshaft exchange on the MS Zaandam cruise ship [video]
Not really. Can you cite any instance of Google suing a company founded by ex-googlers that wasn't founded on the basis of the work those founders did at Google?
I used to listen to x1.2-1.4, I don't do this anymore. I just mark them all read and listen to what I really am interested in. I do have more then... well around 80+...

Anyhow, I wanted to share an anecdote, I am listening to 'Note to Self' and host is sharing her feelings and concerns and fears... And I am thinking, this lady is so nervous and jumpy and her friends too.
So next time when I was opening an app, I am thinking, do I really want to listen to this nervous lady telling me about how to handle social media... then it dawns me that she just sounds nervous because I've been listening on 1.4x and everyone will sound nervous if they talk about their feeling on speed.

So there...
The fatal flaw of neoliberalism: it's bad economics
I’d love to see this integrated with https://fallingfruit.org/
> The issue is that free will cannot be exercised under certain circumstances because for-profit have found a hack to shutdown it.

No they did not. You don't go to Twitter/Facebook because your free will has been "shut down". You do it because you like it. If you don't want to do it, it is very easy to stop. You won't have excruciating pain and debilitating disease if you don't read what she did next, you heart won't stop and your brain won't shut down if you don't learn one weird trick to burn body fat and make all people of your preferred gender to fall in love with you forever. Literally nothing would happen. You decide whether to do it or not. If you decide to do it, it's ok - it is your time, your life, if you want to spend a little bit of it reading about one weird trick or looking at funny cats, who am I to say no? Go for it. But please stop blaming somebody else for your decision to do it. You have free will. Embrace it.
The Wolfenstein 3D tidbit is lovely. That game's a gem for so many different reasons.
I usually listen to audibooks at 2x speeds and lectures on at least 1.5x speed. It was hard to get used to first, but after a couple of months of practice, I think, I have good comprehension at these speeds. I wasn't able to increase speed though.
You can't afford to pay them the amount they make from the ads you see/click.

UPDATE: 2016 revenue is $27B. At 2B MAUs, that's a little more than $1/mo. Hmm. Surely there's something I'm overlooking.
War is hell. This is in one sense a logistical problem, but in the absence of war, this would be so much easier, as well as possibly completely unnecessary.
Are Programmers Headed Toward Another Bursting Bubble?
LSD according to Steve Jobs.
Is this a premium feature? I also can't find it.
How can you distinguish either from a move to funnel money to avoid taxation?
You can't vote out the bureaucracy.
What I do is disable all email and desktop notification on every site I go. It's not worth the mental burden.
They certainly didn't when I was accepted in the fall of 1999. I had enough money in my college fund to pay for 1.5 years of tuition, room, and board at Princeton so getting paid to go to a good state school seemed like a no-brainer. I would mostly attribute it to a middle class mindset of education being a necessary cost to be minimized, rather than a very large investment in your future with outsized returns.
"Microsoft was also hurt by its reputation for bringing products to market behind schedule and full of ''bugs'' or errors. In a letter in the latest issue of Macworld magazine, for instance, a reader gripes about finding ''15 bugs and 7 shortcomings'' in the initial Macintosh version of Microsoft Word. ''Word is typical untested Microsoft software,'' he said."

It sounds like even in 1985, some users had higher expectations for software.

Their expectations were higher than Microsoft's suitable standards for 1985 end users.

This only refers to "bugs" and "shortcomings". In 1985 security issues associated with remote network access were not something any user would think to complain about.

The best was yet to come.
Absolutely - Versions 1 and 2 were brilliant. I remember watching my dad use it with the keyboard shortcuts and wondering how he navigated the menus without the arrows. Those slash commands wound up at the core of a nice little macro langauge in v1 that was heavily elaborated in v2. (I remember commands for custom menus, etc.)

(...and it all worked on a 4.77MHz 8088.)
Architecture license means you can use the ISA (provided by Arm). Micro arch means you can license the core implementations form Arm. Apple is an ISA license, meaning they have full control of the micro arch as long as it passes verification by Arm. That’s the beauty of Arm, you get rid of the problem of creating the whole software ecosystem...it’s already there, and companies like Cavium, Apple, Qualcomm are free to add their secret sauce and benefit from the mature software environment. At least, that’s the hope.
That may be one of the problems is the one price for all features. The virtual assistant may be where $20 of the $29 a month goes but and could be useful to potential customer. However if the potential customer already has a website and a form nda then they look at the service as a whole as useless. Would be worth investigating splitting service categories into 'those who are just starting' tier where you provide an all in one package and a 'make your life easier' tierwhere they can pick what services complement what they already do
Because the marginal cost of the advertising in a large market is so low. A handy rule of thumb is that you spend about the same amount on marketing that you do on product development; the actual production and distribution costs per unit are much lower. Either your product is a flop and you shut down and move on, or it's a hit and you have yourself a nice little income stream.
Technically speaking, that is a security vulnerability. So it wouldn't surprise me.
>A big part of why Office gained ground was that it was offered cheaper than its competitors.

I remember that MS kicked off an office suite price war and that Borland and Lotus matched the low prices with their suites. MS Office still outsold Borland and Lotus when prices were the same. Borland Quattro & Approach and Lotus Ami Pro word processors were not enough of a differentiator.

MS Word and Excel were also the biggest sellers on Apple Mac and obviously, there was no Windows os there.
freedom to do bad things.
Thank you for your kind attention!

Whether I express myself truthfully or joke around, my account's value seems to stay the same. I don't feel motivated to conform to any society which I suspect is systematically less than healthy. However I am glad that one of the popular kids here would take the time to discuss, rather than simply hide what they disagree with from view. Hello. =)

The substance of my comment was a call to questioning veiled as humor. When I wrote it, it was called for. With all the other suspicious replies, it is fine to be drowned out. Tax evasion is a subject I care deeply about.
Mining bitcoin on TMPS sensors
Not to mention K-Factor (carrying cost) and that 200K in stock sat in your yard is 200K you aren't earning interest on/able to re-invest into you business.

It's a double whammy, you pay (in terms of utilities, rent etc) to hold stock that means you can't use the money elsewhere and for a lot of stock you also have depreciation (though I work for a company that makes stone products so at least our raw materials don't expire).