skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You charge them for the chasing, for the time spent to nail down the speculative, for the time spent on the changing requirements, and so on. You charge them enough to be worth it, or enough that they go away.
I developed bad RSI starting about 5 months ago. It's manageable now (mostly from stretches and nerve glides my physical therapist taught me, and using an ergo keyboard and foot pedals) but was scary there for a bit. I've read about a third of the way through The Mindbody Presciption (after seeing it mentioned on HN) but I feel like he just keeps repeating himself and hasn't actually told me anything useful yet. I know I need to finish it but I'm curious what your experience was.
Thank you for a more thoughtful response.

My original comment was intended to be a succinct yet expletive-free reflection of the despair engendered by this story.

I disagree with a few of your claims - mostly some assumptions that I do not share.

> .. it's meaningless to compare ... two companies that serve very important but completely different functions.

This is the fundamental one. You think Slack serves a very important function, whereas I do not.

I also have a different stand on 'cultural relativism'. I believe you can, and probably should, compare individuals and organisations doing wildly different things.

> When people say things like "any of which could be dropped into place" or "Slack could be meaningfully replaced at a company with a git repo checkout and some local hardware" [1], we're entitled to ask "so why don't they"?

This assumes two things:

1) That people don't replace Slack with better alternatives. This is clearly not true - there are myriad cases where people eschew it outright, or abandon it after some time, with regular posts on HN describing same.

2) That people not actively replacing Slack is proof positive that it's qualitatively a good thing. It should be obvious why this isn't compelling.

> The reasons are to do with network effects, cost-of-ownership, security, scalability, easy-of-use, and countless other factors ...

Perhaps.

Though Network effect in a communication context makes me think a) vendor lock-in, b) proprietary protocols, c) designed difficulty in integrating with existing messaging systems, and d) middle-management FOMO.

The rest are obviously contentious -- otherwise there'd only be one player in the market.

Fitness in an evolutionary sense may not mean what you think it means. A Cronus related metaphor may be appropriate to locking your customers into a walled garden to discourage potential future competition.
We could always make leave mandatory for both parents.
An AI is playing Pictionary to figure out how the world works
FWIW, I don't think retail is a growth engine for any company in 2019. The Internet happened.
Fermat Primes and Pascal’s Triangle
> Why do you assume the long-term decline is natural and not a consequence of the various policies?

Because the long term decline predates many of the policies, I assume no causality violations.

> Where is proof for that assumption?

You're asking me to prove a negative.

Take a look at the charts here (https://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-1-prevalence/1...), in the time periods covered they've banned smoking in nightclubs, shopping centers, parks, beaches, cafes, the cost of cigarettes has gone up astronomically (creating a huge black market BTW), the legal age went up, advertising was banned, plain packaging was introduced etc. During all those initiatives the decline remains pretty constant, if they were having an effect then I'd expect the decline to plateau before their introduction.
Frank Abagnale has talked recently about how it would be much easier to do his crimes today:

http://money.com/money/4953472/frank-abagnale-catch-me-if-yo...
I mean, yeah. If this were the policy mandated by the state, I certainly wouldn't hire me.
Something you really care about. Don't invest the time because you should, do it because you want to.
I still can't understand how Reddit needs 150-300 million to keep functioning. Is there any information about how much money they spend and for what purposes?
reminds me of the dice man
"The Culture of Critique" - Kevin MacDonald

Very challenging book. Not recommended for the feint of heart, easily offended, or closed-minded.
The Photoshop model. I wonder how that's working out now with Adobe Creative Cloud.
>a higher chance that a young woman will carry a baby than having a young man change for a better paying offer? //

Well surely the woman has all the possibilities the man has (eg changing to a better offer), plus they have the possibility of maternity, logically speaking. I'm considering maternity as a separate issue to child-rearing FWIW.

Quantitatively maternity probably dwarfs the male majority issues (for leaving the work force) such as suicide.

>Most don't care about babies, //

The proportion of humans who don't have basic biological urges associated with reproduction is approximately zero. A more telling statistic is probably "Of those born in 1971, 18 per cent were childless in 2016, when they turned 45." [1]. In the same article the average number of children a woman has by her 30th year is 1.0 in the UK.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/24/proportion-women...
The vote was not ideological and the British don't regret their decision.

What you see is a significant proportion of the business and political establishment and the media trying to make out that the people who voted for Brexit regret it. They don't.

Quite simply the voters did not vote for a deal. The voted for an exit, and the Prime Minister and her cohorts are trying to get a deal from the EU that the voters did not ask for.

At its heart Brexit was a political choice. The voters just wanted out, and instead of accepting the decision and planning for Article 50, they have spent the last 2 years wrangling for some deal Brexiteers did not ask for, and now that time is up they are at a complete loss as to what to do.
- Jacques Ellul "The Technological Society"
- N.N.Taleb "The Black Swan"
- Danny Kahneman "Thinking Fast & Slow" (also his papers with Amos Tversky)
- Thomas Ligotti "The Conspiracy against the Human Race"
- Peter Wessel Zapffe "On the Tragic" & "The Last Messiah"
- Sokal, Alan D "Intellectual Impostures"
- Simon Herbert "A The Sciences of the Artificial"
- Herbert Marcuse "One-Dimensional Man"
- Schopenhauer "Parerga and Paralipomena"
- Lewis Mumford "The Story of Utopias"
- Michel Foucault "Discipline and Punish"
- Edward S. Herman "Manufacturing Consent - The Political Economy of the Mass Media"
- Franklin Foer "World Without Mind The Existential Threat of Big Tech"
- Ben Goldacre "Bad science"
- Emil Cioran "The Book of Delusions"
- Gracian "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
- Heidegger Martin "The Question Concerning Technology"
- Jacques Ellul "Propaganda The Formation of Mens Attitudes"
- Mumford Lewis "The Culture of Cities"
- Orwell "1984", "Down and Out in Paris and London", "Animal Farm"
- Huxley "Brave New World", "The Doors Of Perception"
- Michael Pollan "How to change your mind"
- Jeff Hawkins "On Intelligence"
- Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man", "Notes from the Underground", "The Brothers Kasamarov", "The Gambler", "The Idiot", "Crime & Punishment"
- Peter Smith "Teach Yourself Logic"
- Thomas More "Utopia"
- Emil Cioran "The Trouble With Being Born"
- Solzhenitsyn "The Gulag Archipelago"
- Nietzsche "Complete works"
- Bulgakov "Master and Margarita"
- Gerald M. Weinberg "The Secrets of Consulting"
I'd imagine the interview was organised by Apple PR, but the decision to fire her was being discussed & made shortly after (because Apple PR wouldn't know of or be involved in a decision that big regardless).
What part of reddit makes it tailor made for racists? The fact that pictures of members of the KKK appear when you sign up, or the fact that when you're writing a comment you're suggested to include as many racial expletives as possible?
I’m sure moving the cursor is not a 3D Touch feature?
“The selfish gene” by Richard Dawkins

Once I came understand that human beings are survival machines built for the single minded task of gene survival, everyone’s behavior become much more predictable.
Voltaire's Bastards - The dictatorship of reason in the West
It'd be nice if they were more explicit about their reason for mentioning it in passing - I'd assume it's to break (or at least make it harder for...) facial recognition software.
It's expensive, and more difficult for me to browse than going to the store. I much prefer to meander my way through a store than track down the listing on the store site.
Voltaire's Bastards and the dictatorship of reason
I already have a Tildes account. It's not really active so I haven't checked it out very often. They are very careful about community growth so I don't see how it will become a competitor to Reddit, as least not in terms of business value.
It’s moving the cursor for me.
The comment around CEO and drugs was gossip pure and simple and should be ignored. I've seen many CEOs buy beer for employees it is part of many offices. Recreational drugs should be treated in the same manner. I will not judge him any differently.

Each subreddit is a kingdom to itself but the fact that you can start your own kingdom allows free speech without forcing all speech on everyone.
I think you are being dismissive of a solution that you can't datamine. The privacy violation is real, unless you made an app without any kind of network permissions.

Hint for those watching: HIPPA doesn't apply to self-gathered self-entered data, and there are many (insurance companies, drug companies, diaper services...) who would love to know this data.
No, it does not. The entire visa/entry process is not covered under any due process requirement.

If it was a entry under any kind of asylum it would be covered under a different process, but it's not. Any country basically has the right to deny any visa it wants.
Resolve foreign key constraint conflict using topological sort
I was vegan for about 10 years, and it's kind of a long story how I became vegan, but I'll say that oddly I became much more accepting of this as a process of being vegan. I originally was ovo-lacto vegetarian for cost reasons and also because I just really like vegetables. Having become a ovo-lacto vegetarian (for something like 10 years), I thought why not go the next step and become vegan. Over time I realised that while I really like animal products and that there is no real acceptable substitute, I also really like plant based food. Not eating something you like because you have filled up your plate with something you also like is actually not a bad way to live. I never felt deprived, and always enjoyed my food.

But the odd thing was that during the time I was vegan I thought a lot more about my food. I started thinking, what's the difference between eating a cow and eating a horse (actually, I'll tell you: the horse tastes a lot better if you can believe it!) What's the difference between eating lamb and eating a puppy? I think it's that kind of place where most people try to avoid thinking about it, or swear off eating things. For me, I became more accepting of eating "strange" animals. I became more accepting of the reality of the death of an animal in order to feed yourself. I think before I was vegan, I just saw packages of food in the supermarket and felt vaguely guilty that there might be some suffering involved.

I got married late in life and my wife is not vegetarian at all, so now we eat meat and fish (but not puppies, I'm afraid to say). It doesn't bother me as I've come to terms with the reality of it. I guess in some people's mind I'm all the more a monster for it -- I know what I'm doing. We don't eat much meat or fish -- probably only about 50 grams (2 oz) a day and for a really special meal we might eat up to 150 grams (6 oz) each, but never more than that.

Anyway, it's a kind of rambling post, but if this stuff is bothering you, I actually recommend the route I took. I didn't do it intentionally, but for me it was a pleasant way to sort out my own feelings over a period of decades :-). I think the key for me was getting to the point where I could cook really delicious vegetarian and vegan food so that from there it really was an equal choice. That takes a fair amount of practice and exploration of different ethnic diets (You can't have a satisfying meal by taking a typical western diet and simply omitting meat, IMHO). It will time and effort to really dial in a way of eating that appeals to you. After that, though, it just becomes a matter of choice.
McClatchy upgrades CEO’s housing stipend to $35K a month amid buyouts
I could be wrong but it always (in my recollection, so only going back a few years) excluded nsfw? When I last visited even going to a fully nsfw subreddit all the media was blurred out, so you might have NSFL titles .. but if you're that timid then probably any site with UGC is going to be a struggle.
Well, there is significant cognitive dissonance in my experience as a meat-eater and ostensible utilitarian. Mammals and even fish feel pain.

I don't have a problem with killing necessarily, given that (painless) death isn't objectively a bad thing. At any rate, meat livestock exist for their meat, so in the words of the Life of Brian: "You came from nothing and go back to nothing. What do you lose? Nothing!"

But, most modern meat production is not exactly kind, and the idea of what the cow went through haunts my every bite of deliciously prepared roast. No matter how amazing the roast is, it does not offset the horrible life of the cow that brought the roast into existence.

Hunting serves a valuable ecological purpose in many areas now, due to the elimination of apex predators. Thus, I think that is justified much of the time. It's also vastly less cruel than factory farming. Likewise, I think humane raising and slaughtering of lifestock like you describe is fine. I think it is important to avoid pain or fear as much as possible, however.
Played The Mind today with workmates. It was uncanny how everyone independently arrived at the sleep sort strategy independently and without cooperation.
> The best you can do is to write a program that spends your estate after your death, give it to your lawyer to compile and execute on the legal mainframe, and hope no one can hack it before it accomplishes your intended goal.

This is way cooler than my gold coffin idea!

Finally, a use for Etherium I can get behind.
Iterator<T> almost implemented
No matter what they intended/wanted to do, they signed a contract not to break it. Ain't nothing much to debate there.
Your point aside, this /r/ falls under: things I didn't know existed but reluctantly clicked on, and clicked on, and clicked on, only to feel a need to DoD 5200.28 wipe it completely from my memory while I stewing in my own vat of nauseating regret.
The Lifetime Conversation Guide by van Fleet is good follow-up to that with more specific tips:

https://www.amazon.com/Lifetime-Conversation-Guide-James-Fle...
I couldn't get past the first three pages. I had no idea what was happening. Am I thick? Or is it a difficult text?
Photos and more info at https://www.peak-view-park.com/.

My impression is most of these houses are small not tiny (not that there's anything wrong with that).
Surely in this situation you have already decided that the women of childbearing age is the best candidate for the job. You are turning that candidate down and selecting someone you don't like as much. That is a compromise as well. Although to be fair you could have two equally good candidates.
Discworld series by Terry Pratchett.

Completely shaped my worldview from 13 to now.
>>> Do you know of another website with Reddit's daily active users and revenue profile, but significantly higher availability?

I'd say stack overflow. They're both a relatively simplistic website showing text messages posted by users. Nothing fancy.

Reddit is a simple message board as there were many 15 years ago. They don't host images or video themselves, which avoid the issue of bandwidth. They don't seem to have the breath of analytics and advertising tools offered by google or facebook.
I've been using the same UPS Store box for my mail since 2011 so moving from a house to my bus didn't change how I deal with it.
That's not even wrong; Theranos wasn't a "women's healthcare brand", it was for any gender and sex.
Fair points. After about 75% you can stop reading Atlas Shrugged. I just found the whole idea of the railroad, and the battle between Mooch, Boyle, and Jim Taggart, versus Dagny, Reardon, and Eddy Willard to be fascinating.
Take to the Virtual Skies with FlightGear – Opensource.com
I agree with you, but it isn't a clear cut issue. Attacking a server right now comes with some legal risk, which is a deterrent to some. It's impossible to tell white hats from black. If it were paired with a law that made it a felony to resell vulns to third parties then it would be much more robust.
>When I get distracted and want to go on HN, most of the time I read a math book instead. That way I either learn math, or realize how much easier my startup is and go back to doing that.

Haha, this is an awesome hack. Thanks!
I wonder how much of this was borderline normal at the time
Truly, most of those who struggle to speak it and write it do not deserve the English language, any more than their great teacher Alanis Morrisette. The situation you describe is not irony. Irony is a property of communication, not of coincidence.
Airflow, a Workflow Orchestrator for Big Data – The New Stack
Just FWIW, Anandtech didn't use "affordable" they used "lower-cost alternative" which is quite true.

But more to the point, the market is going to need some way to internalize business models here. Fundamentally, Apple's only guaranteed source of revenue right now for any given phone is the price of the phone itself. Maybe users get some apps too, maybe they get services, but at this stage in lifecycle of the devices a lot of people are happy with the apps they have and paid updates are infrequent, and it's an important point that the iPhone doesn't depend on subscriptions nor is Apple dependent on selling you. So the sticker price must to some extent encompass most of the life cycle of the phone, including 5-6+ years worth of OS updates (iOS 12 supports the iPhone 5S, released in 2014).

How much is it worth to have a cutting edge device where retail embodies 100% of the required costs, and the manufacturers financial incentives are reasonably well aligned with that of the owner? Can the market actually handle this vs devices where many of the costs are hidden/externalized? It's going to be an interesting question over the next few years. There has been a certain amount of pushback on the XS/XS Max pricing, but at the same time a lot of people at least claim to care about incentive alignment. It's hard to say exactly how that will play out if Apple finds upfront pricing is too hard for many to swallow even if per-month or similar personal info selling would be.
Does advocating for single-payer healthcare, free community college, marriage equality, pro-choice, and higher tax rates for wealthy individuals constitute 'far left'? Serious question. I have in mind what I would think of as far left, but I don't see those folks are particularly well represented in the United States.
Mobile app development requires an HTTPS connection.

Every React Native tutorial out there has a section on setting up user auth with Firebase, and then putting a few REST endpoints up.

It is simple enough that a beginner "never touched mobile or web" development tutorial can go through it in under an hour.

Firebase is incredibly simple to get started with.

Another solution is to use one of the HTTPS port forwarding services that takes a localhost server and gives it a public HTTPS endpoint, but that is more work to explain than

firebase deploy

so the tutorial authors go with Firebase. Auth being super simple is icing on top.
Can you name an example?
I saw some speculation a few years ago that Ahrendts might be groomed to take over as CEO someday. I suppose that’s rather less likely now.
I mean in RL we use n consistently. It's all over the Sutton and Barto book. I'm looking at it now.
It probably was in mine too, for sure it's the one I remembered the most. I also remember trying Shell sort but the only thing I remember about that one is the name. Merge sort is the one I've gotten the most mileage out of.
The last time I had done server side dev, yeah, it was all PHP and FTP drag and drop a file over.

I was a bit shocked at how asinine things had gotten.
The issue is that recording without consent is illegal in many jurisdictions.

Auto-transcribing likely falls in a grey zone, because you could argue that it is being recorded before transcription (which is true).
Sounds like the "Road Not Taken"※ - they think either choice will keep things broken, yet one of them makes all the difference.

※ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18380366
Over 60% of the voting population disagrees with Trump, so by definition that position is not far-anything, it is mainstream.
Startup buys your home, rents it back to you
If you can't see it, touch it, or control it, it's not yours.

(Put another way, if it's not real it doesn't exist.)
* Factfulness and Thinking Fast And Slow. The latter helped me internalise that my thinking, like most humans, is biased. Even being aware of those biases doesn’t always help. We need to go above and beyond to overcome our biases. Factfulness goes into detail about what those biases are and how they lead to a distorted world view. Rather than taking the easy way out by blaming journalists/politicians/rich people, he turns the focus onto us and our biases and speaks about how to look at the world in an objective fact based manner.

* The Dictator’s Handbook. One simple axiom - leaders do what is necessary to stay in power. Using that idea they explain the basis of all political systems, whether autocracy or democracy or somewhere in between. I didn’t really understand politics before I read this. CGPGrey has a video where he summarises the book. [1]

* (Only for Indians) India After Gandhi. You can’t really understand your country if you don’t know it’s history. History stopped in 1947 according to our history books, and most people are blissfully unaware of what came after. They don’t know how close India came to losing democracy or how easily it could happen again. They don’t understand the dangers of promoting one language at the expense of others because they don’t know that it’s been tried before. Every Indian needs to know so we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past over and over.

[1] - https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs
What's the difference, if the result is the same? Do you not think that the employees who write big "use the app!" banners believe they're doing what's best for the user?

As for Clippy, it's not hard to design a straightforward auto-correction feature, which detects what you typed and suggests a useful addition or replacement. Google, Apple, etc., all have their own designs that work perfectly well. I have trouble seeing an animated 3D cartoon as anything other than "trying to willfully get me to do something counter to my own intent". That's a classic way to manipulate people.
I still don’t understand how anyone at Apple senior management expected anything different from Browett.
The only way you're going to reduce the amount of vulnerabilities being sold on black markets is to provide sufficient financial and social incentive. There are enough people with dubious morals who don't care how illegal it is to find and exploit them, who will eagerly take the biggest payday. Combine no guarantee you'll get paid, poor treatment by authorities and employers and the (albeit low) risk of getting your shit kicked in, I'm not surprised people aren't lining up at the door to report vulnerabilities.