skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of a slide deck allegedly about Netflix's company culture, that I think I first came across on reddit.

https://igormroz.com/documents/netflix_culture.pdf

In particular, this part rubbed many people off negatively:

We’re a team, not a family
We’re like a pro sports team,
not a kid’s recreational team
Coaches’ job at every level of Neflix:
to hire, develop and cut smartly,
so we have stars in every position

The Keeper Test Managers Use:

“Which of my people,
if they told me
they were leaving in two months
for a similar job at a peer company,
would I fight hard to keep at Netflix?

The other people should get a generous severance now,
so we can open a slot to try to find a star for that role
People are usually more ok with predictable risks that can be mitigated by the parties involved. Example taking proper safety precautions against falls vs oops we melted down and gave you cancer 10 years later.
Google Reader. I still think RSS was a better way of aggregating news than many alternatives of today, all wrapped up in a solid and practical interface.
Nuclear is cheap if governments back the loans (all the cost is up front so a 2% or 5% interest rate has a massive impact on final project cost), and if the projects can be delivered consistently on budget (conspicuously not the case for any of the most recent designs with passive safety features).
Non-AMP-link: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/09/chernobyl-hist...
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Article is not correct: not every device on the planet will roll over.

Many GPS chipsets, such as many uBlox devices, program an offset such as the date of device firmware compilation. This means that the rollover will in fact occur decades out from when users are expecting. The way to discover the real rollover date for ublox devices is to interrogate them with the ublox software to find the relevant message and add 20 years on top. For old ublox devices this field can actually be modified by the user to effectively reset the countdown. For other brands it could be a lot more difficult, though manufacturers docs should cover it.

https://portal.u-blox.com/s/question/0D52p00008HKDTlCAP/gps-...
Yes, but why can't they use one that's not Google? Tutanota can: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/open-source-email/
The worst nuclear accidents that could possibly happen have already happened. We couldn't have a worse nuclear power disaster than Lake Karachay even if we tried on purpose. And yet the sum damage they caused is a negligible blip compared to how many people die due to the use of fossil fuels on any given month of any given year.

The environmental impact of nuclear power vs. fossil fuels or even renewables is just a negligible number no matter how you spin it.

I too am confused like the GP poster as to how otherwise intelligent people just break down into baseless fearmongering about imaginary disaster scenarios while ignoring that today's conventional energy industry is literally thousands of times worse.

If every single operational nuclear power plant had a meltdown incident after operating for 20 years, they'd still be orders of magnitude less damaging than what we're doing today. The environmental impact and safety numbers are just that far apart.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...
Because it's much cheaper to build a printing machine for alphabets. Cheap transmission of information caused a grassroot intellectual explosion, i.e. the Enlightenment. While in China only the ruling class could afford a printing machine for tens of thousands of characters.
OMG yes! Possibly the best design of anything of any kind ever.
I bought a Time Round on clearance just after they got bought out - £80. Fantastic little watch.
Most of this is entirely possible on iOS and I would be surprised if the Facebook SDK didn't do the exact same thing.
I read the article as half editorial and half Tom Wolfe -esque fictional narrative - and while I know that may not have been the author’s intention, I quite enjoyed it as such.
The saddest part, I think, is that it's not just Google Reader. It's a loss of the content. Google Reader was just the canary in the coal mine. RSS used to be a first class citizen on the web. Remember how browsers used to show the RSS logo in the address bar if the site you were at offered a feed? Now, if the feeds aren't gone completely, discoverability has at least become a huge problem.
Show HN: Simple web app to share cheat codes
Nokia N9 and its OS: Meego. Imho this was in so many aspects "UX just done right".
I used Wave for handling projects with a remote team and it was fantastic once you got used to it.

We began project specs in ‘instant messaging ‘ type mode, and then back and fleshed out that conversation, editing the original posts to become full fledged documents. It was seamless.

Browser performance was a dog, bug I’m sure that could have been worked on.

Loved the ecosystem of apps and bots that was developing
I think it's not good enough to merely prevent it from happening with sandboxing or permissions, that's a very technically-oriented way of solving the problem (and obviously what most of us here on HN would go to first).

But merely preventing it on a technical level creates this race where companies and startups are always finding new ways to violate our privacy, while we stumble after trying to patch the latest evil, hoping that it's even possible to patch this time. Stop ajax calls to third party domains? What if they start piping it though the first party server? etc.

There fundamentally needs to be laws and principles in place that sets clear lines as to what's okay and not, it shouldn't come down to "whatever is technically possible". You may NOT take my personal data, my contact list, my browsing habits, and sell them to a third party, even if it's hidden somewhere deep in your T&S. No human actually wants you to do that, if you offered somebody on the street five bucks for their phone contact list they wouldn't say yes. It's only possible because you are doing these evil things hidden from view.
Agreed. Although the PS2 was fantastic in its own right, the Dreamcast was way ahead of its time (especially with network connectivity) and wasn't given a fair shake.
LiveCode, which contains a superset of Hypercard's functionality, is still going strong, as far as I could tell.
i agree with your sentiment. until i zoom-in on one of those photos.
I find it puzzling that proponents of nuclear technology make various claims without any calculations to back that up.

'a vital tool agains global warming'? What does that mean in numbers? How many nuclear power plants of what types for what amount of effort would be built in what timeframe for to make any sizeable contribution? How would it work?

A single reactor in the west is >10bn $ and takes a decade or more to build, while not being able to be financed on the market (see the UK).
One simple reason: No support for OpenGL ES.
far from it. If nuclear fallout had been reached Tokyo, then we would talk about a much greater problem.
As a person who has to use Slack (and its walled garde) every day at work, I miss the simplicity of IRC. I think it probably lost out due to stagnation when it came to features and ease of use for the technically non-inclined. But at least it was (and is) completely open.
I'd check if I wasn't 300 miles from my Apple TV :( I'm like 80% sure that this is the case, though–but it's possible that this specific feature isn't mentioned.
The fact that you missed her name (it’s Angela, not Andrea) makes me doubt the veracity of the rest of your comment.
1. ideas as spoken words

2. spoken words as symbols

3. symbols as data

4. data as packets
Can you recommend some of these uploaded on linkedin/lynda/udemy?
The term national park is a euphemism, considering that all life forms in this exclusion zone suffer from genetic diseases.
Ask HN: How does an engineer turn into a CEO?
I personally have little interest in running a company, but I’m fascinated by people such as John Carmack, Tim Sweeney, and Chris Lattner who start out as engineers or students and eventually land executive roles. To me, these seem like entirely different professions, so I’m mystified by how natural the progression looks from the outside. I’m a programmer, and I feel that my skills and interests simply would not translate to managing people and organizations. Anyone here gone down this road? Could you describe your shift in mindset over the years?
> Why are containers any more dangerous/vulnerable/prone to leaks than deploying say... a standalone REST API not in a container?

Its not about one service, its about n services running on the same resource partitioned hardware. If one gets compromised how likely is that to affect other services running on other partitions. Containers (High, shared kernel), Unikernels (Lower, different kernel, hardware supported isolation - almost like running n different physical machines).
> Catholics believe that all mankind is made in the image of God. The saints are just the ones who turned out best and we authoritatively know made it to heaven

There's a number of problems with that explanation, the three most obvious of which are Ss. Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel.
Great article on the disconnectedness and short-term-ism:

> She said the main thing is just that Miami was being very forward thinking. She mentioned Amsterdam, and how they were making it work, and how the Dutch were just the poster child for how this worked, and that they were sorting out a way to make this work. “I think the takeaway is just that Miami is doing something about it.”

Guess this will take a few floodings, billions dollars write-offs, and giant cultural shift to sink in. We Dutch people have "dry feet tax". Some of the organisations that collects those taxes have been founded in the 13th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_board_(Netherlands)
Which is exactly why the prospect of removing pipelining was so surprising!
You are disappointed there isn't an alien race that can shoot us from space with advanced weapons?
Indeed. You see it here a lot, someone will be sneering at a business with $10 million annual turnover and 20 staff and calling it a "lifestyle business", as if owning a double-digit percentage of such a business is not an excellent outcome by any sane standards.

Venture capital might be the only way to fund a moonshot-style startup but it seems to be the kiss of death for already-established, already-profitable businesses.
Good call, given that it's not enabled in modern browsers, and is unreliably supported in proxies and servers.

It's for the best that it becomes widely treated as a non-feature of HTTP/1.1.
Lombok is a syntactic sugar for bad design decisions: there should not exist operation like setName - either there’s additional semantics deserving a method with a descriptive name, or the class is just a structure with writable state. I also agree with the comment about unnecessary magic.
I was surprised to even spot someone smoking a cigarette!
The hype cycle is still growing. Google trends for:

1. "Aritifical Intelligence" https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

2. "Deep Learning" https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=D...

The hype is just lagging indicator of the underlying factors, like investments. It would be better if the AI fewer would inflate to sustainable level gradually, but it's not likely to happen. Even if AI/ML field is in good shape for long term, its still likely that investors overshoot in short term. Overshooting leads to period of underinvestment that hurts.
Nuclear is a political non-starter. No one wants to live near a nuclear power plant, and people tend to fight tooth and nail to fight the placement of nuclear power anywhere near them. The result of this is that nuclear power plants get foisted onto communities that don't have the political clout to fight them, or get thrown where there isn't anyone to fight. What ends up happening is that power plants get placed by politics instead of by science and engineering.

Further, it appears (at least to me) that proponents of nuclear underestimate the degree to which we (as a species) underpredict the likelihood of catastrophic events. In general, we're pretty bad at assessing the risk of so-called "black swans," but when the downside is so high, I understand why people are skeptical.

I personally am pro-nuclear, for many of the reasons described in the article, though I don't think the case is as clear cut as most nuclear proponents. On a rational level, I can understand that the likelihood of disaster is vanishingly small. I still don't want to live anywhere close to a nuclear power plant.
In Europe, the situation is different (cars and gasoline is a lot more expensive here, and salary in tech is a lot lower), and your argument doesn't make much sense. A new Toyota Corolla is 25k euro, which is more than 28k dollar. That is more than my gross year income and about 8 years of rent (and I work as an IT consultant, which is not a particularly bad job), and I still completely neglected recurring costs (taxes, gasoline).

If you buy a new car, you're paying for the fact that it is new, even if you can't see it. I did a quick search, and found a gorgeous Audi A8 that looks like it's new for 6k. You can buy a crappy old car for about 1k. So anything in between should get you something modest. Most people I know buy used cars, and I rarely have heard anyone having troubles with them (IDK, are American cars less reliable?). If you buy a relatively new used car, you get all of the advantages you list, and none of the disadvantages.
nuclear power is also a local maxima. It won't be enough in the long run and it comes with it's own set of problems that are way too similar to our current fossil fuel problems. Do you want to get stuck at this local maxima? It will be extremely hard to get out of it once it's needed.
That's a good idea. Sort of like the good old css zen garden, but with simple, not ugly, css resets.

Here's my attempt: https://www.cssbed.com/

Feel free to add options at https://github.com/ubershmekel/cssbed
Does the LHC collide protons at twice the speed of light?
Proquints: Identifiers That Are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable (2009)
Why add the sugar and (dry powdered!) garlic?

Real chili sauce is just chili, vinegar, salt (hint Tabasco).
Maybe the headline should be edited to "Curl says bye bye to HTTP/1.1 Pipelining" to prevent giving people scanning the HN headlines a heart attack. :-)
I don’t know exactly but when you do become CEO assuming you’re currently an engineer or to anyone who reads this as an engineer with hopes of helming a company one day: please, please don’t think of your fellow engineers who are now your employees as merely inputs to a problem. We are people. We have desires. Hopes. Dreams. Families. So think about that when discussing timelines, deliverables, and goals. Basically just treat them as you would hope your boss would treat you. If you convey the mission and idea of what you’re trying to do and surround yourself with engineers equally as enthused things will work out. Be a working boss in the trenches. Hell, write code with your engineers if you can until the company gets too big like Bill Gates did before Microsoft exploded in growth.
The game itself has tutorials for the orbits, docking, ... built in, do those help?
Starting with Vim
Socialism does not mean government ownership of the means of production: Remember, anarchism (think Proudhon, Bakunin) is also part of the socialist movement...
"Multiple Boeing 787s in China experienced GPS 20 years rollover issue. Some aircrafts have to be grounded waiting for an update." https://twitter.com/ChinaAvReview/status/1114802018919411712
And I am flabbergasted (again) because of the pro nuclear power comments. Why should we create energy from something so complicated and hard to control when we have something simple and easy to grasp like water, solar and windpower? I understand statistically speaking a nuclear power plant is save, but the risk is calculated by multiplying propability of occurance and potential loss. The potential loss in a maximum credible accident of a power plant is much much higher than in any other form of energy generation.

Sure, we can build nuclear power plants, but let's make sure that we have used our potential for wind-, water- and solar power generation first (besides other stuff, like having good insulation on buildings, LEDs, etc).

I also feel like people are pro- or contra nuclear power to show their alliance to their political parties more than for rational reasons. We should stop that.
Nah, we're far too short sighted for that sort of thing.
That's a really good point, thanks for highlighting it.
Not going to argue that point. It's about moving up in the leverage thing and menial labour is very low leverage.
To paraphrase : "We have been looking to find a way to monetise community involvement and we think that moving it to somewhere that we control will let us do that."

I myself am keen on big houses, fun parties and fast cars, so I can see the attraction for the founders, I'm not sure what's in it for anyone else though.
Tremendous quotation. Thanks.
> We couldn't have a worse nuclear power disaster than Lake Karachay even if we tried on purpose.

How can you write such a ridiculous sentence? We have nuclear power plants in the middle of inhabited areas with tens of millions of people who would be immediately affected by an explosion. It's a permanent subject of dispute here in Europe.

> If every single operational nuclear power plant had a meltdown incident after operating for 20 years, they'd still be orders of magnitude less damaging than what we're doing today. The environmental impact and safety numbers are just that far apart

One single accident in Europe would dwarf these inflated WHO numbers.
Ubuntu's Unity desktop.

People really hated it because (IMHO) it had a really rocky launch. Ubuntu replaced a very usable GNOME 2.x desktop with an alpha-quality replacement. And Canonical was riding high from having "won" the Linux for desktop game and was pushing their weight around, giving the impression that they were ignoring the feedback from their users.

Unity wasn't without its missteps. But it matured quite nicely and I now prefer it to other desktop paradigms. Windows especially. It feels a bit stuck, like Microsoft thinks it reached peak desktop design in 1994. ;-)

Now that Ubuntu has ditched Unity, I really don't know what I'm going to do. I've been holding on running Ubuntu 16.04, but it's getting to be a burden. I don't like GNOME 3. I'm still not sure what to do. I might give Pop!_OS a decent kicking of the tires. I know that's still GNOME 3, but their take on it is the closest I've seen it get to tolerable.
> We have nuclear power plants in the middle of inhabited areas with tens of millions of people who would be immediately affected by an explosion.

Cite please. The tens of millions affected by a feasible powerplant issue. Explosion is not really in the realm of feasible unless we're talking about bombs or uncontained soviet reactors.
The PDP-10 family ran a few operating systems in its life, some of which had better or worse user interfaces, but one of the things the all had in common was a focus on interactive use as opposed to batch operation or even block-mode terminals. Interactive use means each concurrent user represents more system load compared to the alternatives.
I store my bookmarks as a flat file, under revision control. That way I can sync to multiple (desktop) systems.

There's a bit of javascript magic to allow tag-views, filtering, or even showing 20 random bookmarks:

https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public
Opinions divide [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_disas...
CSS Bed – class-less CSS gallery
It is in fact a common business model, known as a CDN (Content Delivery Network). A quick Google search will return many examples.

Most popular libraries (Bootstrap) or fonts are hosted on at least one CDN.
It's a bit too brutalist. A small touch of CSS can go a long way to making a website more pleasant to use.
Not OP. My only issue with the Gmail app is the ads that sneak in.

Using Spark for Android and it seems to be scratching the itch so far
I ended up running kbuntu and was pleasantly surprised with it.
I use mine 90% handheld and it works wonderfully as a portable console. There's nothing hybrid about the portable experience, it's just an extra option that you can safely ignore.

There's also rumors of a Switch Mini coming.
That's just an implimentation detail. You could make a UI around it.
It should also not be applied to consumer electronics. When buying the cheapest no-name device available, you'll pay back what you "saved" in continuous frustration. These devices are as bad as possible; any worse and it'd be fraudulent to sell them.
Isn't it still possible to install and use Unity? I thought it just lost Canonical's support and the spot as the default DE. I wouldn't pick a distro just for the DE it comes with.
They are all about making the transmission and accumulation of information easier.
Oh sorry, I did not meant to imply that it was a common thing, merely that it was an option that happened in some places. Where I live is one (but I'd rather not disclose that), and I'd thing most of the larger cities with many canals do so, as they tend to be more resistant to cars in their centres.
> Only the coal lobby wants to continue burning coal. Everyone else is like "No, that's stupid and self-harming, let's just not."

How I wish that was true.

What they actually do is preferring to not burn coal, but when the choice is between blackouts or burning coal for power even the most environmentalist governments in Europe prefer burning coal.

As an example, when the choice is between being cold in Stockholm (Sweden) or burning coal, the citizen of Stockholm rather burn the coal until the water heating plant has been replaced sometimes 2022 (to be burning other fuels). It is only used in the exceptional cases when the other systems are not enough, and yet it stands for 20% of the total pollution of the city.

> Fifth, if you remove all subsidies and include end-to-end clean-up costs, nuke power is actually uneconomic

If we include the use of burning fossil fuel when renewable energy is not delivering, then the cost of renewable is uneconomic and very polluting.

We have not solved the continuously supply problem for renewable energy. Hydro is not enough, large scale battery technology is not a reality yet, adaptive energy policy has never been attempted at a global scale. People want continuously energy 24/7. They will pay for clean and cheap energy when they can, and burn coal when it is not available. The only current clean alternative is to have nuclear when solar and wind is not producing, but the marginal cost of running the nuclear plant is low enough so it will most likely also run when wind and solar is running. A little more environmental friend strategy is to lift up the rods to save fuel and reduce waste, but that means the whole cost need to be recouped during low production periods.

> Apart from that, it's a great idea.

The great idea is to have a full ban on burning fossil fuels for electricity and heat. A full stop. How people then want to solve the problem of continuous power is road full of issues. It is a bit strange political situation where those in favor of renewable do not want a full ban of burning coal, gas and oil, while those in favor of nuclear do want it.
Quick Math Homework Help
It's a great book, I'm reading it to reinforce those low-level knowledge gaps that appear when you're self-taught. I discovered here: https://teachyourselfcs.com/, I've bought some other books listed there.
Maybe, but I have come to like it and find it very pleasant. When I activate full css for some sites, the web looks a bit phony to me.