skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The outcome measure was whether the participants felt good. The authors dangle the _association_ of this with actual longevity, which of course means nothing whatsoever in the context of this very weak study in an irrelevant journal.
Did that once. Turned out to be the right move as the company went public and their stock worth basically nothing by the time we could sell.
English NHS advice is very clear: don't give children juice, and if you do you must dilute it 1 part juice to 10 parts water.
There's a lot more here, including responses from the founders: https://twitter.com/Suhail

Seems the founding CEO spent 10 years there and got nothing, but a new CEO of 6 months walked away with $11MM.
Yes. All demos don't send real AJAX requests
Hey, thanks for replying. There was a lot of interpretation of my tweet that wasn't true, I posted a follow up:

https://twitter.com/moonscript/status/1004802016252551173

We don't "intend to police," our moderation policies have never changed.There's a lot of weird stuff on itch.io that will always have a place. We don't want hate speech on the platform.

It's easy to have a gut reaction of supporting free speech without understanding the implications of what that entails. Many of the people clamoring for free speech on gaming platforms still want games to be removed ('asset flips', things they deem low quality, etc.). With my tweet, people conjured up an idea of a morality police force which is secretly making decisions about things people are allowed to say. That image is easy to attack, but it's not even close to how itch.io works, or will ever work.

The reason why I criticized Steam's stance is because they're trying to avoid responsibility. I'm sure you're familiar with how discourse goes on the internet: people with strong negative opinions are going to put in significantly more energy into spreading their message than an average person who just wants to read around. Their amplified message does not represent everyone as a whole though. Sure Steam can ban 'trolling,' but that's too vague. I have a pretty strong feeling that their 'trolling' ban is going to end up policing the morality of message as well. And, their process is probably going to be even more secretive.
In a company which isn't generating a profit such as FanDuel employee equity is pretty much worthless. If you get offered equity in a startup you should value it at nothing unless the financials are very solid and the employees between them have a sizeable stake such that their interests are well represented at the board level.
Grid or flex.
Parent asked specifically about CA not TX ... thus my reply.

I'm not commenting on what you or I feel is safe simply what is written. Debating the "IF's" under that I'm not interested in.
Very little is spent on Alzheimer’s research compared to other diseases:

https://www.aarp.org/health/brain-health/info-2015/alzheimer...

I suppose if we made more of an effort now, we’d make considerable progress in 10-20 years.
That still has the effect of a (probably high) marginal tax and disincentivizes increasing one's income just the same. Why take night classes or work harder at your job if the $100/week raise comes with $80/week less in rent subsidies + taxes? (Example figures; you can change it around but most realistic situations are going to look similar.)
Another detailed article: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/07/isro-pad-abort-test-...
Yeah, I don't see it either.

I've used pjax with Laravel before, and it's trivial. Kinda does the same thing.

There is a Laracasts video explaining it here: https://laracasts.com/lessons/faster-page-loads-with-pjax

Demo page here: https://pjax.herokuapp.com/
I had the same reaction about these both being sophisticated parties with legal representation. Probably the founders were either more optimistic about the likely outcome (so there would have been cash leftover for them) or they were under pressure when the deal was being struck.

I don’t have any inside information about what happened — this is just generic speculation about what might have led to this outcome.
I'm not commenting on what you or I feel is safe simply what is written. Debating the "IF's" under that I'm not interested in.

I would suggest that if the law requires change instead of encouraging people to go around it encourage the actions needed to change it.
I'm not entirely certain what you're trying to suggest, but there is very little in society that it is completely automated. The vast majority of systems today require an immense amount of effort and management just to maintain, let alone expand, themselves. Those that do not, invariably rely extensively on systems that do.

Just look at your desk right now and think about all of the things on it and the path that they took to get from raw materials to finally ending up shaped to what's in front of you. Think about this site, and these messages we're exchanging and how many thousands of different components, products, and pieces that are required to build and then maintain the capacity that just let's us post some text to one another.

Think about all the maintenance you have to do in a year just to keep your house from turning into a dilapidated pigsty. Now imagine that on a global scale with immensely complicated and interdependent infrastructure.
You are absolutely right. If they do ban it, isn't it just going to go the way of pot and be grown in basements, etc.? I don't know if this is harder to grow than pot or not.
I depends on the AI levels of consciousness and suffering, Kurzgesagt has a short video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHyUYg8X31c
> I believe that every programmer is overpaid relative to the difficulty of the work they do

What?? :D

No and no. People get paid for working on things that take an effort. Nobody would pay you if there was no reason for it. Even the "window watchers" (or how they're called) are payed because they didn't change jobs for 40 years, were loyal to their bosses, colleagues and company.

And yes of course, some jobs take a higher amount of "problem crunching" (whatever that means) than others. In fact sometimes this is the reason certain jobs can only be performed by certain programmers. Most programmer jobs cannot be done by none-programmers.

> If software is any more complex to deal with than physical systems, it's only because the architects and implementors let it get that way.

There are not many fields that are purely abstract, namely that's mathematics, logic and theoretical computer science. Those fields are notoriously difficult, every school kid knows this for mathematics and eventually gets that logic is also a hard nut. This completely misses the point that reasoning about completely artificial entities is an effort by itself. It not only gets harder with complexity but also depending how abstract it gets.

In fact their are even weird limitations that you do not experience in the physical world like paradoxes.
WWgitND, or “What Would git Not Do.
This is downvoted, but I half agree with sentiment. I don't like glorification of hacking either and outright hate when lack of respect for boundaries (at mildest hacking is exactly that), willingness to cheat or harm others are treated as proxy for tech aptitude. That is all too common in our culture.

Through, here it is likely to be framed more as game and not real thing. When they shoot water pistols, they are not learning to kill either.
> Just raised a seed on convertible notes, was never asked for any kind of preference

Notes are debt. They're inherently higher than stock on the capital structure. They may convert into shares with no preference. But as long as they're notes, they're higher than even preferences shares.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17485246
discussion on later submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17485246
They are mocking the requests for the demos via mockjax.
> Did you passive-aggressively rewrite a coworker’s poorly implemented function out of cathartic necessity, never intending for him to know? Too bad, he now thinks you’re a dick.

When did it start to be like this? Making code better is a dick move now? Who rewrites stuff passive-aggressively? What does that even mean?
I wouldn't say it's evil, but it has certain dependencies: that people legitimately want to get out of poverty and unemployment, and see that as an end in itself, even if a purely monetary hyper-optimizer would just milk the welfare system as long as they can. If social pressures (or selection for proud people) don't simulate that, then step-functions are going to create the death spiral.

Even continuous functions can create high effective marginal taxes with most of the same (mal)incentive structure.
There's a lot of scientific evidence that medical marijuana can remove beta-amyloid build up in the brain. There is also evidence that unknown spirochete diseases can cause Alheimer like symptoms. There is also cause for concern that bio-pesticides that are GMO based are can infect the brain and cause symptoms like this as well. I would definitely never give up if this happened to me. Antibiotics, antiparasite, diet changes, small microdosages of CBD/THC based marijuana strains, neuroprotective compounds, etc --- all through a process of elimination with a journal. I hope Jo or somebody like Jo reads my comment and tries these things.
> "Ubiquitous" is spelled correctly. Why the "[sic]"?

For what it's worth, '[sic]' doesn't necessarily mean "that was spelled incorrectly", only, literally, "thus": i.e., "that's the way it was in the original; don't blame me." As such, it can be used to indicate misspellings or 'misconceptualisations' ("I know that it's the wrong word, but it's the one that was there"), as nmyk (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17484468) indicates.
The guide on how to invest on stock market
That ask will happen on conversion by the A round investor.
Well done, simple and clean.
Great, another 60KB library (not including dependencies!) that can replaced with a few lines of plain Javascript without any dependencies.
So for application development, I tend to agree. Interviewers should focus less on computer science questions and more on application development questions.

But ... with advances in AI / Machine learning, drone tech, and self-driving vehicles, I think there is a growing niche in software development for more serious science / data analysis. Investor expectations are being set more and more by this niche -- and causing regular application developers to have to push the envelope.
I constantly have this feeling: software development as a job, relative to the amount it pays, just feels ridiculously easy most of the time. Churn out some API that takes data from one place and exposes it in a slightly different form over here, write some unit tests and docs, done.

Then other days I'll spend an hour doing nothing but thinking, staring out the window, trying to figure out the best way to do solve some complex multi-threaded issue, before writing any code, and I feel like a real engineer again.
Peter Norvig's Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp is a good read too.
Thank you for the response. It seems like liquidation preferences really come into play at growth stage when things get 'messier' due to capital needs, and declining them at seed round would send a very negative signal because the valuation must grow for any kind of success beyond the seed round?
Yes, I guess developing/architecting are largely orthogonal to paycheck, it's more about the current market forces than the position in this scale.

However, our lizard brain status system still associates directing and leading things with more status than just requirements implementation and there is no way around that yet. Also, less demand means that this more "abstract thought" type of positions are more prestigious by the virtue of scarcity.
I will always call out discrimination in any context even by well meaning people. I do hope that arguing against racism and sexism is acceptable on this forum.
1. Significant whitespace.

If I had a dollar for every time a bug was introduced in Python code due to incorrect indentation during code refactoring, I would retire already.
It resonates for a reason. In plumbing everyone understands the difference between what's theoretical (flow rate equations, hydrodynamics, metallurgy) and what's practical (nearly everything else).

Computer science has always had this tension between being an actual "hard" science and an applied engineering discipline. A lot of otherwise intelligent people pretend to understand that distinction when they really don't and it leads to no end of problems.
You're probably just not writing that much javascript, or needing javascript, so it sounds like you're not missing anything!

I don't find using Vue adds complexity for me anymore, and I enjoy a lot of the benefits of it (component libraries, scoped styles). That might not be enough for you when you're working with mostly vanilla CRUD pages, so I totally get it. If your productivity goes down with Vue, then it should take a big reason to add it. For me, it at minimum is not net negative, and I'd say even for trivial pages it's a net positive.
To be blunt I don't believe Mercurial has reason to still exist. It's feature advantage over git is very marginal at best, and it simply lost on popularity. If you ignore the inherent value in popularity (popularity means you spend less time training new hires who aren't new to the industry), then Fossil wipes the floor with Mercurial and Git in terms of features.

In my view, the legitimate choices for FOSS version control these days are git (good enough, and popular) and fossil (featureful and obscure.) Why you would ever pick mercurial instead (marginally better than git, but almost as obscure as fossil) is completely beyond me. It occupies an uncomfortable middle ground of mediocrity.

https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v...

(The one caveat here is that Fossil may not be appropriate for very large scale decentralized projects, but frankly that's a problem git and mercurial are solving that most companies don't have.)

(Incidentally, editor extensions for git have almost eliminated my CLI interaction with git. The UX of vim-fugitive is great, and similar extensions exist for just about any modern text editor. I think CLI UX is becoming less and less relevant when it comes to version control.)
Thomas was so widely respected that nobody questioned his work for decades.

We naturally encourage questioning honorable confidence in the abstract but rarely in concrete actions.

Serious question: Is there a field, or even a social context, in which doing so would actually be rewarded?

And sort of related: Is a system for such questioning a necessity for a meritocracy or can a be meritocratic system still exist at the same time? I guess I just assume that, for example, companies claiming meritocracy were just actively ignoring organic social structures responsible for most of the honor hierarchies in the first place. I always thought social paradigms associated with enlightenment we’re essentially anti-structures to contend with this sort of thing. But doesn’t meritocracy in tech somehow seem to take those efforts for granted? I have never worked at these companies so I am really curious.
README files on higher level (modules, subsystems), comments on the level of individual files.
Seems useful when you've written a traditional server-side rendered app and you just want to "sprinkle" some AJAX onto it.

Back when I used PHP 5-6 years ago, I would use an "AJAX" helper built into the CakePHP MVC framework which would generate JavaScript for really basic AJAX requests. It was great for rapid prototyping and even production for admin panels and such. It's cool to see a similar, client-sided, framework-agnostic library like this with similar functionality.
Thanks for clarifying. The man was such a polymath and has made so many contributions I should have been more clear myself.
Telnet Star Wars
Run telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl in the prompt and sit back to watch the show.

While this has been around for a while, it still pops a smile on my face every single time!
it just means that you produce something that is judged by buyers (employers) to have a higher positive impact on their well-being

My partner is a nurse, she gets payed peanuts while daily ensuring that people don't die. Literally.

What judgment exactly is exercised to have life saving jobs be payed order of magnitude less than "plumbing" jobs? The argument of "higher positive impact on their well-being" is laughably naive.
Brutalism is about avoiding all kinds of front-end frameworks that ruined the web. It’s about writing vanilla JS/HTML/CSS and rendering most of the site server side.
I'm not familiar with the history of police misconduct in post-unification Germany, but of course whenever a judge is sympathetic to the police first it's not good for the accused.

In the US prosecutorial immunity[0][1] is one of the most mind boggling aspects of the legal system there. I'm curious does Germany have a similar rule?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutorial_immunity

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity
In this context a fund for poor founders would be a good start.
Quick math here:

“the aggregate value being paid for FanDuel “is approximately $465m”.”

“2014 and 2015 respectively led $70 million and $275m”
(345 million)

“Mr King is expected to receive a payment of up to $11.3m as a result of the Paddy Power Betfair deal. The firm’s current chief technology officer Robin Spira is due to make up to $3.5m, its legal officer Christian Genetski stands to make up to $6.2m, and it chief financial officer Andy Giancamilli is due to receive up to $5m”
(Those add up to $26 m)

So it looks like the investors got just over 7% return on a venture investment. (Which is not an unusual ask for preferred shares).
Is it me or this library gets posted on here every other month?
How do posts like this even make it upstream? There's a summer effect going on, this site's getting infiltrated by brain dead pop science morons.
Right. Most applications and protocols only need authentication. Non-repudiation is kind of an extreme security property, rarely needed outside of legal/financial transactions.
I can't speak to the quality of their study, but I strongly suspect there is validity to their conclusion.

Inspired by the bathing scene in My Neighbor Totoro (which admittedly seems a bit creepy by American standards), relaxing tub baths have become a regular ritual for my 4 year old daughter and I. The only difference is that we both wear swimsuits, because, well, it's America.

It certainly seems to do wonders for mental well being, if not physical.
This is fine if you build a website or a small app. But I wouldn’t recommend this approach for a more serious/big app. You will end up with unmaintainable soup.
If you want to abolish the marginal tax, then I would start by looking at tax reform. If you think the marginal tax imposed by a given welfare system is too high, you can just tweak the numbers.
It occurs to me that the emacs-averse can still use emacs as a backend (emacsclient/(server-start)) so they can edit org-mode text in their favorite editor and then process it with emacs magic.

Also, I bet this trick would work (maybe) for formatting comments or introducing ASCII wireframes with tools mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651745. (For the ASCII art, maybe an extra hop through emacs isn't necessary.)
Examples of large enough (real world) literate programs?
It's 10KB gzipped (30KB non-gzipped) + jQuery. And that is pretty much everything you need.
Apple's Metal migration is nothing new, stop complaining.
A practical nonparametric statistical tests library for JavaScript
Just in case people don't know, the Illinois Policy Institute is an antitax lobbying group.
> the possibility of hastening death via respiratory suppression shouldn't stop physicians from treating patients with appropriate dosages of these medications

Talk to opportunistic plaintiff's attorneys about how this works. A doctor knowing they might be doing harm by providing opioids that could cause respiratory failure is opening themselves up for a world of hurt
I miss bazaar a bit it felt like a saner git and moving to it from SVN and CVS didn't require huge mindset changes
It's definitely a regional thing. I've seen people carrying their kids on a bike trailer several places in Palo Alto.
I would suggest actually looking into the traffic law - MOST - places explicitly state that bicycles should (with very few very specific exceptions) remain to the right side of the lane.

The Cyclist community disagree's with this in most places I've seen it mentioned but that doesn't change what the laws are. I'm not arguing safety I'm simply stating what is written. Obviously this varies from area to area but again suggest looking up what it actually states rather than your impression of it.

As far as cars passing you - if you are to the right side of the lane as most traffic laws require then cars should be able to easily pass you on the left without incident.

In my opinion a cyclist should not be purposely using an entire lane and backing up traffic for faster moving vehicles (forcing them to pass as they would a slower car which can cause issues during high traffic periods) when simply moving to the right is all that is required. Using the entire lane as a matter of principle increases your danger by provoking aggressive driving / road rage.
> what's shocking is that the living wage isn't high enough given costs

Could you define what a living wage is? I see that a lot but I'm not sure what it means exactly. On this reddit link I see people with several special needs kids. Should the minimum wage be set to sustain a single adult? Or should it be an adult with a kid? Two kids? What if I have 5 kids some of them with special needs? That sets the minimum wage as a "living wage" super high. How could any small business or even big business compete with 6 or $10k minimum wages to sustains these families?
The state of (Anything) on Haiku.
Sonos, IMHO, works great when you have multiple speakers setup. They do well because the technology is almost dummy proof and reliable

Edit: was just going through their s1. Seems like most households have 2.75 speakers on average:

As of March 31, 2018, our customers had registered over 19 million products in approximately 6.9 million households globally. Based on customer data, we estimate that, on average, our customers listen to approximately 70 hours of content per month and to approximately 80% more music after purchasing their first Sonos product. We also estimate that our customers listened to five billion hours of audio content using our products in fiscal 2017, which represents 33% growth from fiscal 2016.
In general, it seems that we easily decry public shaming or mass pile-ons when we have no dog in the fight, but when we feel we have the moral high ground, it's all too easy to fall into mob-thinking. History is full of dangerous mobs who felt morally justified in their actions only to be judged as immoral at a later time, which is perhaps reason enough to avoid mob-thinking. This is clearly one of humanity's blindspots.
Above blind link goes to:

Analysis of USB fan given to journalists at North Korea-Singapore Summit [pdf] (cam.ac.uk)

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