skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The latter is the Innovator’s Dilemma.

Every bad decision my competitor made that I can identify ahead of time just narrows the gap.

This is why I favor execution excellence over cheap wins. If you can consistently introduce features quarter after quarter year after year, you can run down a competitor. And your sales guys can position the product with that story.

But it takes money and intestinal fortitude, and both are in short supply.
>Unfortunately I don't have time to try FreeBSD again to see if I can get suspend/resume working. But if I used a desktop I wouldn't think one bit and go with it.

Suspend and Resume mostly work for me with the new drm-next-kmod drivers on an XPS-13 running FreeBSD current, it's just a little slow sometimes[1].

[1]: https://www.freshports.org/graphics/drm-next-kmod
VFIO – How I game on Linux
> Ultimately it exposes the underlying machinery of your own consciousness in a way that you've never experienced before.

Have you "floated"? If so, did the experience compare to the above at all?
Show HN: Summaree – Summarizing Startup Case Studies
Yes exactly, that was the goal. There are many tutorials showing you how to build a react todo list with firebase, etc. There is always so much more that needs to be done to run a real web app in production. I kept the actual app extremely simple to put the focus on everything else. Also, choosing ArangoDB made the initial setup much more complicated as there is no hosted solution yet on the market. But now that all the setup work has been done, anyone can just clone the repo and use it for their own app. :)
Overscripted Digging into JavaScript execution at scale
GPL's runtime isn't GPL, it's got the runtime exception:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-3.1.en.html
Linus used to be much more polite... until some developer attempted suicide after discovering, too late, that their patches were not going to be merged.
Since then he's much more direct, and his SPP (suicide per paragraph) metric is much better.
however you feel about the flamethrowers, you have to give the guy credit: when he started banging the drums of a predominantly electric future for cars he was cast as clueless, now it is all but inevitable
Useless use of cat candidate.
What a great idea for a standard, so the tool will check the NO_COLOR environment variable, to see if it should display color.
> In an ideal world, diversity would be about diversity of thought more than visible diversity. ...

I agree, that would be ideal. Unfortunately, the world in which we live and in which Google operates discriminates based on visible attributes. There's no real genetic basis to the idea of 'black'; consider that a child of a black and white parent considered 'black' because of a visible property, their skin color. Consider that people from a wide range of geographical locations and backgrounds are all lumped together as 'black' with nothing else in common but a visible attribute (and it's a poorly defined attribute, covering a wide range of hues).

If we want a meritocracy and opportunity for all, and if we want to maximize talent in our workplaces, we need to counteract the discrimination that's actually happening and not act as if we are in another world.
I couldn't agree more. That was one of the main goals of this project actually, to raise awareness for ArangoDB.
>The idea that a super bug could get out of control in the general population is not scientifically sound because it would kill all of its hosts..

That is not what a super bug means. It just means that it is resistant to antibiotics. Not that it has a MR of 100. It is possible for people to survive infections without antibiotics. I am surprised that I have to say this aloud. It seems that we are living in a time where people are born convinced that human beings cannot survive without medicines...
Germany and Japan. The USSR and USA both completely dominated them in terms of industrial capacity.

Germany in particular had about a 10-year head start in terms of weapons (strong tanks, jet fighters, assault rifles, drones, ballistic missiles) but simply could not build enough to make a difference.

Japan had a large population and plenty of soldiers to spare at the end of WWII but again couldn’t compete with Allied manufacturing. It was a fact they were aware of before the war.
There is not much in life that can be proven correct, and even less so in ancient past, which explains why humans are naturally this way.
Exactly. The distinction is that leadership is something that people voluntarily choose to give to you because they respect you. A manager is a role/job-title.

Many managers are some of the least respected people in their company, and thus aren't effective leaders.
> In order to be exempt, your hours can’t be fixed.

I don't think this is true. And it's irrelevant to my point that there are legit reasons for 8 hour "core hours" windows. That discussion was already irrelevant to the point @jph was making: that communicating team expectations by writing them down, making them explicit, and communicating them is a good idea.

Anyway, I just looked up exemption status, and here's what some lawyers have to say about it. I'm certain that the studio I was working for was not breaking any laws by having 10 hour work days with core hours. The way they accounted for it was a tad surprising / misleading to me, but it was in no way illegal.

'An exempt employee has virtually "no rights at all" under the FLSA overtime rules. About all an exempt employee is entitled to under the FLSA is to receive the full amount of the base salary in any work period during which s/he performs any work (less any permissible deductions). Nothing in the FLSA prohibits an employer from requiring exempt employees to "punch a clock," or work a particular schedule, or "make up" time lost due to absences. Nor does the FLSA limit the amount of work time an employer may require or expect from any employee, on any schedule. ("Mandatory overtime" is not restricted by the FLSA.)'

http://www.flsa.com/coverage.html

https://www.dol.gov/whd/overtime/fs17c_administrative.pdf
I think the original comparison is more valid. If you follow the prescribed maintenance schedules, new cars are designed to run to the edge of their operational envelopes for their warranty period. Note this isn't usually dictated by engine power, but suspenstion and tire speed ratings.

Cars are incredibly over engineered machines.
I'm not really familiar with people referring to Washington State University as Washignton State. WSU is common. Wazzu is common. Washington State not so much.
Also, the plan for a 3.0 release looks a bit underwhelming

They have added a ton of language features and keep adding more with each release, lets hope it doesn't get bloated as scala.
React-fetches is a simple and efficient way to make requests into your REST APIs
"You would think somebody like yourself would be the first person these reporters would reach out and contact to ask for information. Have you ever been contacted?" - Yep.

"Instead, they focus on farm animals." - While the focus on farm animals occasionally irritates me because it lets doctors off the hook by pretending they're not part of the problem, ESBLs - as an example - are relatively common in livestock.

"...hesitant to prescribe basic antibiotics for conditions that could turn serious, where these people later on could end up in your care because of these mistakes." Of the problems we have, the inappropriate non-use of antibiotics pales in comparison to the inappropriate use of antibiotics, either using an overly broad spectrum agent (like penicillin or ampicillin...), the wrong agent, or treating a viral infection with antibiotics. Antibiotic stewardship, in both the inpatient and outpatient settings, is not pretty much the standard of care, and supported by major medical societies like the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

"The idea that a super bug could get out of control in the general population is not scientifically sound because it would kill all of its hosts and therefore, kill itself rendering no vector to transfer between hosts. This is why I think ebola outbreaks always die down."

Relying on the concept of susceptible depletion is a really bad idea. It's one of those "just so" stories that seems to make sense, but doesn't work in practice (Ebola doesn't actually die down due to susceptible depletion either...)

The issue is not "OH MY GOD IT WILL KILL EVERYONE" but that there are activities today that are relatively risk free because if you do get an infection it's treatable. Things like surgery and childbirth. Absent effective treatments, the concern is that the mortality rate from infections will rise. Not to 100%, but it also doesn't need to be 100% to be a major public health problem.
> Citizens United decision

Ah yes, our era's Dred Scott decision.
Was that a dream or a trip? ;)
Red Plenty is an interesting history of the unfollowed possibilities for these ideas in the history of the USSR.
How to establish a high-severity incident management program
> how am I supposed to verify that some quick-footed coworker hasn't made their way in during someone's loud flush

Most places with full-coverage stall doors also have occupancy indicators on the outside - if you go in and lock the door, it changes from green to red.
Ask HN: How to structure casual partnership for side project?
I have a side project I've been working on for about a year with a few thousand sign ups but no revenue. I think it has a lot of potential, but for the sake of my own sanity and wellbeing I can't devote more than 5-10 hours per week on it. I would like to focus more on product and strategy side of things and find a technical partner who is interested in building out new features and owning the technical side.

How should I structure this partnership? Does this warrant a legal contract? Once I find the right person, is there some sort of equity structure that makes sense so this person can have some ownership that vests over time. In a perfect world we would end up at 50/50 but since I've already devoted a year of my free time to this, it seems like a partner should pitch in for at least a year before we split ownership 50/50.

I don't have plans of pursuing funding, but definitely have plans of generating revenue soon. How should I think about profit sharing when we start generating a profit?

I've had some bad experiences in the past working on side projects without any format agreement and everything falling apart...so I'd like to be a bit more formal this time around.

Any insight is appreciated!

PS - Anybody in the Bay Area interested in partnering on a niche nutrition planning app? Email in profile. Rails API + Sidekiq + React/Redux + Heroku + hybrid iOS app. https://getdevour.com
> In this newly created advisory position, Ms. Szczepanik will coordinate efforts across all SEC Divisions and Offices regarding the application of U.S. securities laws to emerging digital asset technologies and innovations, including Initial Coin Offerings and cryptocurrencies.

I wonder which existing U.S. securities laws will be applied to existing cryptocurrencies.
I am not qualified to say.
There are performance limits reached where the brakes will overheat and you'll need to give it a rest before having another go. Even built-for-purpose race cars have these limits and drivers carefully conserve their brakes so they don't go bad before the race is over.

I think you might be terribly disappointed if you tried to stress your new car all day long on the edge of its suspension, braking and engine limits.
I'm afraid that's the only answer, in that you would need some piece of piece of information back from Bob that Alice is able to corroborate somehow. But then how do you deal with forgeries, the information would have to be corroborated between the two somehow. Perhaps Bob would "publish" who gave him money and how much and perhaps a secret, and then Alice would know the money got to Bob and the secret would be kept. It requires active participation from Bob to publish though, which is not ideal.
But it might be the same problem GitHub has now, which is why I mention it. Every feature on the backlog has to compete with some other plan to deal with the customers we already have, or employee retention. It’s hard to stay focused on customer facing concerns when you’re bleeding.
Could bolt on actual arrays, but we'd need grab a shovel and take the C standards committee members out behind the barn first.
> When the effective medicines become widespread big pharma has incentive to spend as much money marketing against them as it does to actually develop better stuff...

Can you explain why they would do this?
I think this idea of explicitly stating corporate values is relatively new, but maybe there's a longer history there than I'm giving credit. I definitely hear you that a company can have implicit values, and that's going to happen regardless of if you make them explicit or not, so you might as well make aspirational, explicit values.

I disagree that lacking stated values creates a Wild West environment: if your office building doesn't allow dogs, then it's not a dog friendly environment even if someone brings their dog to work (i.e., bad or improper behavior will be rectified).

The example of a candidate or new hires is a good one. Having aspirational values feels like it could be misleading to the new or potential employee. What happens if they come in to an environment that has stated values of "radical transparency", but finds the realized values are "passive aggressiveness" and "backstabbing"?

I don't mean to come off so cynical, but I think as well intentioned as stated corporate values are, they can very quickly become traps or weapons. This is particularly true in silicon valley, where a growing number of people have figured out that hip values can be used to manipulate employees.
Matt and substack, do you think privately-owned media platforms could be disintermediated by blockchain type solutions, linking producers to consumers without a middleman?
No, I didnt mean that. I meant to create a different application mainly for software developers in discovering very interesting questions for them to learn from and then show them relevant questions for them to answer hoping to get their reputation increased.
Yes, they selected the relevant license for pretty much all reasonable desired uses except for this one. I really appreciate that they list just MIT, Apache 2.0, and GPLv3 on the front page.

The Unlicense sometimes causes issues with software being accepted into larger collections. CC0 is much more thoroughly drafted, and more widely accepted.
Oh well...I hope they keep going. All this means is developers will focus more energy into supporting Linux.
Monte Carlo has been called "integration by darts." This is a play on words of the better-known "integration by parts" method of undergraduate calculus.
Which, for those who like funny Wikipedia words, is a synecdoche.
Absolutely true, but the reason someone licenses their software under an open source license at all is because they want it to be open source. Some developers may erraneously think this is a good open source license, when in fact it might not have the effect they intended.
Facebook confirms four Chinese device makers had broad access to customer data
Great write up! I like that it starts with Culture and People to create a strong foundation. As you say, People are the hardest part. Having a good structure, routine and communication help make it manageable. I think this provides a nice framework to build around. I'm a co-founder of a company makes tools to help manage a lot of those processes you discuss so this resonated with me. We built our platform based on many lessons learned managing previous start-ups, and converged on a very similar approach.

If you're into this sort of management style, here's our platform which aligns well with what's described in the article. It supports flexible one page plans for a concise way to document your strategy, functional accountability charts, priority and metrics tracking as well as a meeting space to set a consistent rhythm - also performance reviews to tie it all together.

https://metronomegrowthsystems.com
have always thought this idea was bloody scary.
The private ownership of the means of production?
It does not appear to be the case that a ton of people are leaving GitHub. Gitlab is mentioned far and away more than all other alternatives combined and their GitHub importing I think is like ~100K repos imported since the Sunday rumors. A lot but nothing compared to the tens of millions of repos GitHub has overall.
From Damore:

> the distribution of ... abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes

The parent:

> No he is not ["saying that women are less qualified biologically"].
The Scientific Argument for Mastering One Thing at a Time
Seattle[0] is the city in the state called Washington[1]. I was under the impression that when just 'Washington' was used, it refereed to the state. But looks like even Washington, D.C (formally District of Colombia [2]) is called just Washington[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_(state)
Looks like they may as well have put a sim card in a Nintendo Switch cartridge and called that a phone.

I can't see it gaining any adoption when all the add ons make it a worse phone, it's too bulky to carry around and probably unsupported by most developers.

I'm pretty confident this will end up on top of the increasingly large pile of failed convergent devices, because convergence is a fundamentally flawed idea.
The only solution is to take the unwritten rules and write them down
Your answer feels like its saying "its only partly random, you use the outcome of your experiments to walk the space of possible solutions more carefully, in the light of experience" which would make it more like GLMM or something markov-y
Not to be confused with Schenectady.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche,_New_York
I miss the days of the Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines and when Apple actually more-or-less conformed to them.
> Just read the source code if you don't trust it.

No, that doesn't really work for Chrome extensions - they can silently auto-update, and will no longer match the published source.

It's just barely possible to run the extension directly from the source code - you either need to put up with popup warnings every single time you open the browser, or, need to install an entirely separate developer version of Chrome.

Certainly most people here aren't doing that.

> change style information on .github.com

It would be an improvement, but it turns out stylesheets can be used for malicious data exfiltration anyway (see parent).
Can you point to where he claimed that this distribution makes women worse tech workers (as opposed to choosing to enter tech at a lower rate)?

Unless Damore claims that this distribution makes women worse tech workers, then the parent comment's claim remains unsubstantiated.
Sometimes, other times no. Referring to the seat of the US government as "Washington" is apparently just too much fun for journalist types, so an unqualified reference to it is often ambiguous in practice.
Our American Pravda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
Last I tried, mbasic.facebook.com would let you look at messages on the mobile web.
...right, but if you don't care about how accurate it is, the value of distinguishing people is questionable.
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with you here (nor have I ever been military in any remote respect), but there are some overlapping truths in that page, e.g. "Employ your command in accordance with its capabilities", under "Develop", points 1, 3, & 4.

I've resigned over unrealistic expectations from leadership about deadlines, and what was to be asked of my team to complete said deadlines. I would do it again. I'm sure I've had many many many failings as a manager, but I will not death-march any team under me with zero chance of success. There are several others in the GP's post. You are correct, they don't all apply and many may be harmful in a corporate environment, but that's why you get paid to separate the wheat from the chaff, right? :)
That isn't true. As with most online services, people use Github over alternatives because of the network effect. It's where everyone goes because it's where everyone is.
Thats a bit unfair; copyright is a fairly unintuitive concept if you haven't been exposed to it.
Decisions on treatment for mental illness should occur with a doctor. Widespread promotion and glorifying of "transitioning" encourages unstable individuals to make life-altering decisions.
Industrial Megaprojects by Edward W. Merrow essentially shows that we're comparing ourselves to a myth of our own invention.
but MAD is a very bad thing - why would we want this thing to work at all - the more that fail the better off we all are
Conway's Law deserves a management corollary.
I was referring to the delivery more than the content. Frankly I don't know much about his side of computing, so I cannot agree or disagree anyways. My message in this thread is to the random guy getting into FOSS: don't make an annoying freaky nerd out of yourself becaue one particular annoying freaky nerd has been very successful. That he is so is not necessarily the cause of his success, and might even be invisibly detrimental to it.
In the USA, it's illegal for me to pay you to kill yourself. The issue isn't as cut and dry as legality anyway. Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's morally justifiable. So yeah, there is a world view where paying people money to risk their lives to advertise your buttcoin is immoral.
That analogy might have worked in the 1950s.
Sure. And that's a terrible reason.

First, he's binding Linux to gcc forever. I've made that mistake and let me tell you, it's a mistake with surprisingly few benefits. A couple of asms and gccisms? Easily replaced.

Second, it is an error to call gcc's behavior "defined in documentation" as if that means it's okay to use. It's just a flag to support obsolete code. Long-term, the assumption that gcc will retain flags to support antique code is optimistic.

Third, "the standard is not workable in reality" is simply wrong. I work on low-level systems. I somehow manage to work with devices and networks on a day-to-day basis without relying on this.

Ultimately it comes down to this: Linus put his faith in something which was explicitly removed from C 30 years ago. The writing has been on the wall for about 10 years now[1]: Good optimizers are going to do away with this mis-feature. Time to start adapting to reality.

[1] http://blog.qt.io/blog/2011/06/10/type-punning-and-strict-al...
It’s pretty common. I think the state of Washington would be the best option here.
I wonder if there's a way to put all this engineering thought into reducing/simplifying standards and optimizing compilers so that individuals don't need a Linus-level knowledge.

In my opinion, the knowledge-cost of a system is a major downside that is often ignored (probably the biggest downside of unix, vi, git).
Only plus point you made for XCode was de compiled sources which is already available in vs. I think people like to rant about ms stuff.
I personally can't remember however when I cared about the amount of USB ports in my Mac.
How about forcing lists of donors to, say, a labor activist being used to create 'no hire' lists?

What about anyone funding a tenancy advocacy organisation being added to a 'do not rent to this person' list?

What about people funding pro-choice organisations being added to 'unchristian lists' so christian employers check if their beliefs coincide.

The potential abuses of forcing disclosure for all donations are considerable.
Would agree with your sentiment, but Whatsapp itself is an example of a messaging service that relied on their 1$/year model and had around 200 million active users before it went free.