skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think part of why I didn't enjoy The Lean Startup was because I read it too late. By the time I read it, MVPs, "fail fast", and "make something users want" had been the motto of startups for years, and the points the book was making just seemed obvious. Maybe that wasn't obvious in 2011. (Although Paul Graham's essays have been saying this since at least 2005 and are a much better read IMO.)

But the other part was that it was just poor science, relying almost entirely on anecdotes for its claims. Which is not to say his claims are necessarily wrong, just that for any claim that isn't obviously true, there's no convincing data to back it up. There's usually just one success story where it seemed to work, and even within the story, it's hard to know if the strategy was actually successful. Like, as I mentioned before, the book passes off learning the users preferred teleporting to walking in IMVU as a success story, but it may have in reality been the inferior choice. We can't know for sure, but we do at least know other more successful virtual worlds have walking. IMVU never even tested walking. It undermines his credibility when he seems oblivious to his own possible failures. It's a lot of, "this is what we did, and I think it worked out well". Despite advocating split testing, he never split tested the techniques he advocated. There's no control - no baseline to compare to.

Or when he prefaces the chapter on small batches with a third-hand story of a father and two daughters who had to address, stuff, and seal a stack of envelopes. The daughters, aged 6 and 9, felt it would be faster to address them all first, then stuff them all, then seal them all. The father thought it would be faster to do them one at a time. So they each took half the envelopes and the father won.

I enjoy stories, but a 3rd hand anecdote about a father stuffing envelopes faster than two children is just... why? That's not going to convince anyone. He then calls back to this example several times when explaining how to apply this at a software startup (release frequent small updates, use continuous deployment). But even if one-at-a-time envelope stuffing is faster, and the startup advice is right, one does not imply the other. Just cite an actual study, or do an analysis of what was successful at other companies.
The game mechanics of Resident Evil 2: Why the game is about opening doors
I view this is interesting research about medicine that has nearly zero usefulness for actually treating diabetes in humans.
Since this is a technical audience, if you're diabetic I can't speak highly enough of the opensource efforts combining a cgms (like a dexcom) with a pump and then software running on android or iphon or raspberry pi to create a "feedback loop" to slowly but usefully bring blood sugar back to desired range.
For more see:
For an overview
https://diyps.org/2017/08/09/what-you-should-know-about-clos...
iPhone version call Loop
https://loopkit.github.io/loopdocs/
raspberry pi
https://openaps.org/
We need to talk about systematic fraud
“Regulation” is what permits the price discrepancy in the first place.
Are you somehow not aware of this?

The PRC became a permanent member of the Security Council (with a veto) only since 1971. Taiwan was the permanent member from 1945-1971.
Read my answer again. I said people are not unhappy about Amazon moving here (after all, they already have offices here), but for the large subsidies Cuomo conceded to them.

The questions on that survey don't mention any thing about subsidies... period.

Change it to: "Do you believe Amazon should be given 3B subsidies to come to NYC?" and the replies will look very different...
Well, if it gets really inconvenient, I'd assume the industry will be invited to help with them, but I don't see how France or Europe position is weaker. You generally don't fight with your customers, and there are good reasons for that.
Realize you are going to die and there is nothing you can do about it.

Helps in all fear based situations.
Lessons learned about running from people who speeding video games
I do not understand. That carriers have my cell location data, that seems ok. But do they get my own phone GPS data along with it? The article seems to imply that such data is sent only when dialing certain emergency numbers... Not always!
I'd urge you to not be too hard on yourself.

As much as people don't enjoy the morals of adtech, you got to experience scale, and apparently highly reliable code whilst early in your career. You can't blame yourself as a self described "young and naive" person for what others did later.
When do you think they can fix the subway? It has been neglected for decades. It handles about 5.5 million people a day. An extra 25,000 people can’t be accommodated?

Everytime I hear someone complain about this I wonder if they consider how many cars will not be needed during rush hour because Amazon chose NYC.

Hey, what do you think about the massive spending plan the Democrats are working on to solve climate change?

Do people even try to connect the dots?

Newark to Long Island City is about 15 miles. Plenty of affordable real estate there. With a little urban planning and better mass transit, NYC could handle 10 Amazons.
I hate standups that are just status updates, that's what the board (Kanban or scrum) is for, if you don't have anything interesting or blockers to raise just say "pass" and save us all
What matters is durability and defensibility, not current market value which is very speculative if you ask me.

When they produce something like Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google I'll reconsider my position.
I have been mostly working from home for the better part
of 15 years and I an truly beginning to detest it. I am often distracted and lonely. On the other hand, I can avoid the terrible traffic, and I have more time to do side contracts or work on my business. There’s always a tradeoff.
The tech can be amazing, but the business itself can still be essentially, a kind of a ponzi scam. The vast majority of people cannot make money from an Antminer S15 unless they're able to steal electricity or get it super cheap. At current predicted hash rates, power consumption, and BTC prices, these miners are a wash, or net negative. (https://www.asicminervalue.com/miners/bitmain/antminer-s15-2...) That makes them a scam. Even if they were profitable, it would likely be temporary, meaning you'd have to buy a whole new suite of even faster HW as soon as everyone else buys them.

That's why I view this as selling pick-axes to unsuspecting and gullible farmers who sold their worldly possessions for the great gold rushes of the 1800s. The people selling the mining equivalent knew the vast majority of them would never earn anything. The best most amazing technologically advanced pick-axes in the world can still be a disrespectful business model.
If you look more into it, Germany was very close to being able to build a reactor that would have been able to produce plutonium. Their graphite reactor research never went critical because they didn't know that the boron impurities in graphite was absorbing too many neutrons. I'm not saying if they knew that they would've had the resources to make enough plutonium for a bomb, but the German scientists wren't that far away. Having said all that, if you read through all of these documents it seems like they had no idea how the bomb was built and designed.
It works OK, but it's no iMessage.

I miss using Adium as my native Mac chat client for everything, alas AIM is dead and Google killed their Jabber interoperation.
Check out Annie Hall! Very different from match point, and VERY funny
A real entitled jerk not only takes the space of 3 people, but a space those 3 people set up themselves.
What we have today is the result of scientific development, and software development is among the fields at the very forefront of modern growth. In that context, all of it.

AirBnB? Yup. Uber? Definitely. Facebook? Beyond a doubt. Flickr? Twitter? MySpace? How about open source projects like Apache httpd? Kafka? Linux? What about the guidance software used in the Apollo missions? Think about what the MP3 coding format did for digital media.

It's very easy to take these things for granted, boiled frog and all that.
You are right, I'd say that true "big deal" companies don't "surface" in China.

For example, the near monopolist laptop and phone hinge manufacturer RKX did not have a website up until relatively recently.

The same is true for the biggest slip rings manufacturer in China Jinpat - was virtually unheard of even among engineers in China. Everybody only knew them as the no name slip ring maker, but few knew that they control almost all the market for microminiature slip rings, and high performance ones.

The tech big players in China are actual tech companies, not websites.
I would say, of people I've met that voice reluctance over the deal, all of them have been over the issues you mentioned, except the subsidies (i.e. gentrification, housing affordability, oversubscription of public services). I haven't spoken to anyone in person who said anything negative about the subsidies.
> Laughing at someone's name because it sounds weird is the same as laughing at jokes that poke fun at the stereotype that British people are very polite

No if you don't know the person very well I think both things are rude. When you laugh at someone in their face, for their name or some other aspect of their culture, there are two possibilities:

1. They know why you're laughing and the joke is old for them, and not funny.

2. They don't know why you're laughing, and you've just made them very uncomfortable.

Degree of familiarity with the person matters. It's the same as if you're overweight, you wouldn't like strangers commenting on it. But people close to you are a different matter.

> a lot of Japanese people will giggle at subtle things you do that are culturally different to what they are used to

Also rude. It's not something I'd do (I hope) and I'd ask anyone I knew doing it to knock it off. Giggling and mocking isn't helpful either. Depending on how bad it is, how well you know the person, and how long they're staying, you may want to tell them (in private) what they're doing wrong so they can improve.

> it is difference in culture and weirdness that create humor that is perfectly fine and normal.

I don't disagree about that. I've seen comedians do funny bits on cultural quirks and differences. I don't think that type of humor works outside of people you know well, or in the abstract as comedians do. At the 1-on-1 level it just makes people uncomfortable.

> Pronouncing foreign name's is not some easy task. It takes time and research, and practice.

Are we talking about different things? I'm not suggesting someone sit down with baby name books from different cultures and learn all the pronunciations. Here's a sample script:

Person A: Hey, nice meeting you. I'm <foreign name>.

Person B: Hi <foreign name>. I'm <local name>. Did I pronounce your name right?

Person A: Almost. It's <repeats name, slower>.

Person B: <repeats name>. And how do you spell that?

Heck, I think that exchange would not be out of place at a Dale Carnegie training seminar. It'll help you remember the new person's name, and they'll feel nice that you made an effort. If they have a genuinely difficult name, like the apparently fictional "Nagheenanajar", they'll understand that you tried and that's enough.

> Indian's represent a whopping 0.9% of the US population, immigrants when they represent such a small part of a nation should be the ones to lean into their new nation, not the other way around.

Who said it should be the other way around? Knowing how to pronounce an Indian colleague's name and knowing about the origin of Diwali are different things. The first is something you should try to do for any human being. The second is 100% optional and only for people who are interested.
Cherry picking.

Also from the poll:

a majority of New York registered voters also see it as likely that Amazon’s HQ2 will increase the cost of housing in New York City and complicate public transit and transportation, among other issues.

This seems to support the parent’s general claim about the subway etc.

Did the poll ask if New Yorkers were happy with the subsidies?

The poll question: Do you approve or disapprove of Amazon locating one of its new headquarters in Long Island City in Queens? is at least vastly incomplete.

I don’t know the specifics, but it seems fair to me the question should be something more like: do you approve or disapprove of the city spending $x of taxpayers money on a deal to bring Amazon to NYC?
Pretty toxic behavior.
Only Have Two Phases in Your Career
I now use both Fathom and Google analytics.

Most of the time, the only thing I care about is where people come from, and which page gets accessed most often. I feel this should already be enough information for one to understand what is a popular topic.

I'm actually still super surprised that Fathom's javascript code is 1.6kb. Can't it be lighter?
Having more people in NYC is great for climate change, because the urban environment is a lot less carbon intensive. In what other city could Amazon locate where fewer net cars would be added to the roads?
It's so funny, people here seem to think HN is so enlightened and intelligent.
I still like his "Love and Death"
As a CISO it was his responsibility to never end up in that situation in the first place.
I'm confused, how does GPS data get gathered by the telco? Wouldn't that need a backdoor in the OS's GPS software/driver?
Amazon should put their headquarters in Las Vegas. Preferably some distance from the strip in some big generic suburbia office park. That place feels soulless and it will be perfect for techies who live in Internet land and just use meatspace for working out, dating and the bathroom facilities.
> A better system would be some system where people can earn a large chunk of capital that basically sets themselves up with enough to have their own basic income that they control.

There is no reason that UBI isn't compatible with that, and a lot of its proponents would think that UBI will facilitate personal development and entrepreneurship.
Ditto, but only a once a week planning meeting on Monday, then followup with my manager via slack/hangouts as needed.

Also: a great manager who advocates for my product and career and shields me from politics.
If you check the profile page someone else screenshotted below, it says he started as a "founding partner and co-lead of Area 120", which is a an internal startup incubator.

Whatever he worked on while there is anyone's guess, could have been a dozen things, but mostly I'd guess he was probably working on getting the general program off the ground and self sufficient.

Then he worked on Hangouts Chat (replacement for Hangouts) for a REALLY short time (7mo it says) before moving to Geo. I wouldn't read too much into the brevity of his time in chat because the move to the Maps team also moved him to Tokyo. If you really want to live somewhere in particular it's not uncommon to decide what office you want to work in and find a team there to move to. My understanding is is that Poole really likes Japan, so this doesn't seem crazy.

Altogether his career progress looks... normal. Perhaps a bit of trouble finding a niche, but that happens. Just another guy trying to figure out where he fits in, what he wants to do. So, no real story here; nothing of particular note.
I would like to remind readers that Amazon funded this poll. Take from that what you will.
And indeed, the full survey results (linked on the bottom of https://harrisx.com/2019/02/new-poll-shows-overwhelming-supp...) show that once they were asked about subsidies, most respondents (and 74% of those with an opinion on the subject) thought they were too high.

(That's without being prompted with the specific $ amount of the subsidies, as far as I can see. If they had mentioned the $4 billion figure, the response might have been even more overwhelming.)
This looks like german to me, but i haven't ever seen these words used together. I thought it might be some old german and googled it, but searching "bewunderungeifersucht" just yields your comment and "bewunderungseifersucht", which i deemed more likely, yields nothing.

Disclaimer: I'm from germany
Hillary Clinton showed 4chan Pepe memes during her campaign. The Vice President is protected by soldiers who wear a Qanon-patch. Pizzagate and Podesta's hacked emails play a large role in the Russia investigation.
I tend to agree. Take their lyrics feature for example—imagine if Netflix showed subtitles, but then obscured them with “interesting facts” at random times, and that they were missing altogether from most of their selection.
So the companion bill to HR 420 introduced last month, but in the Republican controlled Senate? Not really much newsworthy here.
This is called reciprocal multiplication. You can trade off accuracy for number of bits required, etc. I used this to do meaningful processing of Kinect data on a CPU without an FPU at near full frame rate.

Just curious, did you try making x an 8-bit integer to see if the compiler chose a different multiplier?
The museums, history, architecture is what is calling me there. I will be there for about a week and it will probably be enough for me to last a few years at least.

More than anything, I see the next year or two as time to be nomad and explore as much of the planet as possible.
Memes in the form they took on on 4chan definitely weren't a thing before.

The word meme itself was a sterile almost scientific term.

I'm not sure how old are you, but if you were around at the time this happened (early to mid 00s) and active on imageboards you would surely have noticed just how different the experience was.
I didn't realize that Alex was part of the of the Oregon Trail generation till now. Heh, I feel a kinship with him, though we have never met. Having to let corporate types over rule you that security is a secondary concern to profit. And they may not be wrong in the sense that you need profit to survive. But much like burning oil for fuel, our security pollution is building up and the entire world is starting to pay for it.
Forget all the tips, and find an activity and healthy food that you enjoy. You wouldn't advise someone to power through a career they hate. Being healthy shouldn't be hard either. You should want to do the activity, push yourself as part of the game, and it becomes a lifestyle.

I love martial arts, I love steak, I'm king of the buffet. You can see my abs and my weight stays within the same 10 lbs band since I reached adult size. If I don't work out for a week I can see the fat layer up, but it goes away with just one work out. I can only imagine how I'd look if I were someone who doesn't exercise and eats poorly.

Also lucky me I don't really crave bread or sugars.
It's conceivable that multiplication time might be proportional to the number of 1 bits in the multiplier.
Well, Amazon has nothing to do with the city neglect of subway and other public transportation development. See an examples of Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing (all of them are more populous than NYC), where they build new stations, new roads for public transit, optimize old ones, etc. It is always sad to see the city of planetary importance struggling to maintain itself.
No, but they deny them marriage certificates - medical exam is a prerequisite for one. If you are handicapped, bad luck.
The idea of a "post-scarcity" world is silly. Some resources will always be limited. Land, diamonds, prestige, etc.

What matters is, how scarce are the necessities of a moderately-comfortable life? I would posit that people who live in cities do just fine. If some people want more space, well, you can still work for it. Not all jobs are going to disappear.
I work in an open office environment. This is great for rapidly communicating with co-workers and having people eavesdrop and chime in when necessary. However, this can be a big impediment to productivity for some people.

What has worked for me to facilitate my best work is to reserve a meeting room to myself for one or two hour slots during the week. This allows me to close the door, put my back to the window and get focused. What's great about this is this limits visual distractions, restricts uninvited visitors, and reduces auditory distractions (I will usually wear headphones and listen to non-lyric music).

Often I find that I will get more work done in this period of time than I would if I was sitting at my desk.
matthewrayfield.com is one of my faves. Old-school web with fun tech.
I'm not convinced this is as difficult as you describe.

https://www.adblockradio.com/blog/2018/11/15/designing-audio...
The (now obviously intentional) repeated use of 420 as a bill number is perhaps a new and interesting phenomenon.

As an homage to counterculture in the current political climate, it is quite unusual, right?
No need to infantilize the retirement-age elderly -- the ones that want to work can still work, and they'll do so in a better job market with less power asymmetry between employers and employees.
Alternatively:

- code reviews as part of a pull request system

- knowledge sharing - design sessions for features to make sure nothing was missed and architectural overviews with wiki documentation.

- avoid overengineering - again architectural “previews”.
>If enough people are on free money with no incentive to work, there isn’t enough wealth generated to pay for the people living on free money.

Is not an issue because one of the main reason for basic income in the first place is the increasing prevalence and advancement of AI and automation. Means we are needing less and less people to work.

>Conventional welfare also provides for a person’s “basic needs”, usually with the condition that that person is actively searching for an opportunity to add value.

What often happen is welfare incentives discourage work. Because entering the labor force or working more hours can lead to a loss in benefits.

>Who gets to decide what a basic need is, anyway?

Government. Of course it's based on research to determine the actual dollar amount.

>It really is though. There’s no other way to put it. It’s the consumption of wealth on the back of someone else’s labour.

Sure, but the thing is no once is forcing you to work, if you think its unfair or you think its better for you not to do work then fine don't work then. Other people will.
Additional info could be found at the SoC manufacturer website and their Github ([1], [2]).

As an additional insight: this is an offspring of one of the developers of mining hardware, Canaan. They have released the chip right before their anticipated IPO: https://coingeek.com/crypto-miner-maker-canaan-eyes-going-pu...

1. https://kendryte.com/

2. https://github.com/kendryte
Congrats on that 1997 palette and design. Does anyone know the name of that aesthetic?
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This is still a thing? I backed this with $200 years ago and didn't get any product. I had the impression they simply went bankrupt right at the start