skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll agree. Running on a tight schedule this morning, I wasted a few minutes staring foggy-brained into the closet wondering what would go with what and not unduly duplicate what I wore the day before (and trying to remember what that was). Had to dig thru the dryer to find something suitable. Not a big deal, sure, but it kinda soured the start of the day, derailed whatever I'd rather be thinking of at the moment (was having enough trouble thinking period), and ended up about 15 minutes behind when I wanted to be where.

I've got enough trivial decisions & distractions to deal with. Reducing them is becoming paramount as my schedule, and mind, and life, become ever more crammed with stretches.

I'm seriously thinking of emptying the entire closet and refilling it with matched outfits kept that way. Not going so far as the same thing every day, but there are nice sets which should be in an organized grab-and-go arrangement.
When I see job post titles like these, sometimes I find myself trying to give the company the benefit of the doubt and assume that they're just bragging about themselves instead of asking developers to evaluate themselves ("awesome developer" => "awesome job for a developer").

It's fine to brag, but they can do so much better than a single dimensional word like awesome. All companies think they're awesome. I'd love it if they took the time to express the subtleties of WHY they think they're awesome.

p.s. Thanks for the comment. I read a lot of your writing and appreciate the perspective.
So this person sees no correlation between "its hard to find staff" and "staff are too expensive"?!?!?

If you go out to the market and offer €X for someone to do a thing, and noone takes you up on it, than the market rate (by definition) higher than X, ie you are not paying market rates.
"the formerly painful process of making software has become a mostly drag-and-drop affair"
wat

With all deserved thanks to rails and cloud hosting, this is stretching way too far.
I would be highly entertained if someone actually established a line of clothing catering to Steve Jobs wannabes.
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"Startups are hard. Every little bit helps."

Why talk about and wear a shirt for your startup and not even put a link to it? Nobody knows what your startup is, write for an audience that doesn't know you.
I'm not a fluent pythonist, but wouldn't you achieve the same result by renaming your "request" argument to "self" ?

Before:
> def flash_success(request, body, title=''):
> request.session.flash({'body': body, 'title': title'})

After:
> def flash_success(self, body, title=''):
> self.session.flash({'body': body, 'title': title'})
It is permissible to use commas to indicate a verbal pause.
Only 1.25% of App.net users are posting, some accounts have never posted
"Which brings us full-circle back to my original point."

It still doesn't make your claim correct. Your claim that Bitcoin can't achieve widespread adoption because of the complexity of mining doesn't even make sense.

Not every user has to mine and mining is what this article was about, not the parts of Bitcoin that everyone will use, but the parts that only a few will use but everyone seems curious about.

This article was akin to "How the printing presses the Fed uses works" combined with "How the Visa/MasterCard payment system works" - again, something you don't need to know to use the consumer end of that system, but which quite a lot of us are curious about anyway.
Writing that blog post just removed any time saved from wearing the same shirt every day.
Just playing devils advocate - but who wants to be a utility?
But the cost of fraud is already bourne by the economy. It gets bourne by the taxpayers, the consumers, and the merchants. And yes it is stratospheric, but so is the revenue of the current payment industry.

What I'm suggesting is:

A. It makes the little sense for the personal savings of an entrepreneur to be the underwriter of last resort.

B. If the financial industry wasn't so easily able to push the risk off on others, we might find that they become interested in real security improvements that result in an overall decrease of fraud.

Win-win.
You're correct, they're based on jQuery Mobile with some of our work mixed in. See an example:
http://t.apcanv.as/go/sampleapp
how about >I rep a Grouper t-shirt every, single, day.
In that context, it's funny how upset folks in threads like these get over phrases like "real engineer".
Thanks Justin!!
He's not doing this because he's Steve Jobs, he's doing it because he has a reason for doing it that Steve Jobs had first. Cue joke about "A system and method for dressing a human being."

And man, I just don't know about the rest of that. If you can't wear what you want to because you're doing a startup...
Harwoodr,
It uses a 9V battery that lasts for about 6 months. It uses 868MHz ISM band and does not interfere with anything in your house. Outside range is about 50 yard/meters, inside a couple of rooms.
Yes, but you then look like a walking ball of snot. Also they may not be complimentary shades of green.
Well known fact, low-skills people tend to be more confident
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Some criminals are after a quick buck. Some criminal organisations (eg Mafia) are a lot of work and go on for years. It's illogical to then assuming "There is lots of activity, ergo they must not be criminals".
Wearing the same outfit over and over to emulate Steve Jobs is like cutting off your ear to emulate Van Gogh.
This is cargo cultism. Aping dress habits isn't going to imbue you with the attributes that led to success for Jobs.

The lesson a would-be successful person should learn from Jobs is to focus on what's essential. If you become so distracted with trying to copy minor habits, you've missed the point. And Steve Jobs was successful far before he started wearing the same thing all the time, anyway.
574 days and it's llambda
> "As if you have some very crucial things to decide on the 15 minutes you spend waking up, dressing, shaving and such..."

I'm a stay-at-home dad. I very often wake up thinking about how to approach my son's disability, and I'm glad that I don't have to deal with interruptions to my thought process for something as pointless as "which shirt should I wear today". I just pull the top shirt off the pile and keep thinking about my son.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some very important playing-with-blocks to do. Humanity WIN.
OP here - you are right and I'm sorry if that line came off as flippant, certainly wasn't meant that way. I was trying to get across just how far the barriers have come down in the past 15 years or so.
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Its become ad-speak, like in car commercials when they always seem to claim "the best X in its class". For the most part, meaningless. Something to fill the space.
Care to elaborate, or are you just baselessly venting against acronyms?
Before 2003, in the entire history of the NFL there had only been seven minority coaches. That year, the league passed the Rooney Rule (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooney_Rule), which required that teams interview at least one minority candidate for coaching positions. Note that it didn't require that teams hire minority candidates — just that they consider them. Today, about a quarter of current coaches are non-white. The Rooney Rule took the league from seven — total, all time — to 25% — right now — in a decade.

In my mind, the Rooney Rule is a good policy to model after. Strict affirmative action is complicated, controversial, and... yeah, I'd feel "weird" just like you implementing hiring quotas. But an interviewing quota (or just a rough goal) seems perfectly legit.

The key is to focus on interviewing more women, not hiring more women. Do your best to get more women into the top of your hiring funnel, and you'll likely see more women come out the bottom. And you'll have a wider pool (because this'll force you to interview more candidates, total), which you'll have a better chance that whoever you hire — man or woman — will be awesome.
This is why I never interrupt. It's never to your advantage unless you're pressed for time.
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The the state of Georgia there is just such a law:

http://www.lawskills.com/code/ga/16/11/38/

Interestingly, this occasionally sparks trouble with the police at geek/nerd conventions where costuming is popular.
The wikipedia edit doesn't cite any sources, but I've heard it from his coworkers at ITA and from https://twitter.com/CommonAngels/status/244137900336361472

Very sad to hear it. I really enjoyed hearing Dan's stories from his early days at MIT and his renewed interest in Common Lisp in the past few years was great.

He had a great Google Tech Talk on YouTube/Google Video a few years ago about ITA, but sadly it was taken down for some reason.
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I wear the same clothes every day because I don't really interface with the public that much and because I've been doing it since I was a little kid. I got made fun of it a lot in school but sooner or later people came to accept it. If you ask me now why I did it back then, I wouldn't know (or at least I didn't think about it enough to think about "why," I just did it).

If you asked me now though, I'd say that aside from appeasing societal norms, there's no point in changing your outer shell incessantly. Clothes don't really get that dirty after a day or two of normal wear, and changing them all the time seems pointless to me. While some people may brand this as unhygienic, I respectfully disagree. I also don't care if other people want to change their clothes every day, I just don't care to do it myself.

That said, there was a lot more to Steve Jobs than his clothing and habits. I don't suggest anybody change their behavior to emulate him, especially on what I consider a weak argument. If you want to wear the same shirt every day, do it for your own reasons, not because of some conjecture you have on what statement Jobs was trying to make.
I know this is a shot in the dark, as you linked the site, so I don't know how in depth you may have dived into the issue:

> Partially obscure the nose-bridge are: The region where the nose, eyes, and forehead intersect is a key facial feature.

Wouldn't a big pair of aviators, or any sunglasses, pretty much take care of this?
You are missing the point. Condescending dick-waving is there to discourage original poster from making half-assed assertive comments in the future. I understand that you don't like it, but it is the most efficient way to carry the point across.

> Here, let me take a stab at it:

Nope. Wishy-washy, excuse me this, excuse me that, I'm pretty certain to a degree that I might be right if you don't mind me saying. Not discouraging enough.

If you want another justification for the tone, let me tell you that I would've not hesitate to say the exact same thing in person, which is the criteria for wording HN comments as per pg's original guidelines.
Business partner or personal partner?
An invite-only network that you can apply to[1]. Those two things don't make sense together.

[1]: https://svbtle.com/apply
Selection bias. You do not see all the times paypal has successfully frozen an actual criminal organisation (i have no idea the numbers). If paypal's accuracy was 99%, then there would be 1 innocent startup squashed for every 99 successful defections. Do you think paypal need 100% accuracy?
Your answers lead me naturally to my next question :)

Why/how did you choose to build music related apps (given that it's a competitive space and your not a musician)?

Thanks for taking the time to answer. Hoping you'll reach your goals sooner rather than later :)
The front end tends to be a command line. Maybe with a config file in plain text if I'm feeling generous. Not much design in it.
A class should do one thing and do it well. It should be just as long as it needs to be.

A unit is not test for a 500 error, that usually an integration test, testing end-to-end functionality.

A unit can be as small as a single method. In Java, generally only public methods are tested. Units can be bigger, but you should be attempting to test the smallest unit of functionality you can. So start with testing a method and if that's not possible go higher.
The best programmers I know continue to have a healthy paranoia and distrust of their own skills.

They understand how a small mis-understanding or mis-assumption can lead to inflexible situations beyond anyone's wildest imagination.

Most importantly, they are completely comfortable with the following phrases and using them very often:

- I don't know, let me look into it.
- You could be right.
Twitter would be a great acquisition for a media property.
http://artofmanliness.com/category/dress-grooming/
That is sad to hear!

For what it's worth, I had a question I keep on thinking to ask him, but for whatever reason never got around to it. One should settle such questions. Would have loved the memory of his answer.
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Very nice info, thanks for sharing.
All valid points. I appreciate the response.

This is a minor nitpick, but I'll bite. I realize nobody explicitly called anyone a mysogynist, but neither did I. There is a difference between saying someone is mysogynist the adjective and mysogyny the noun. jacobian inferred that because the OP doesn't care about diversity then he doesn't care about fairness. That is tantamount to charging someone with sexual discrimination, also known as mysogyny.

[Edit: I upvoted king_jester because, regardless of whether I agree with him on all points, his reply was concise, helpful and he wasn't being a dick]
>A willingness to publish under one's own name using this silly WP-SVBTLE theme says way more about the author of the blog

The Atlantic theme looks like a fairly generic news website, to be honest.

That said, wow. You are reading a lot of personal bias into choice of website theme.

I was planning on grabbing this for my personal one just because I really, really like how it looks. If it's going to tick off people who over-extrapolate, so much the better ;)
Not sure if Pinterest started this trend, but their signup process is genius.

You need to get an "invite" to join, which always arrives within 48 hours. It makes you want to join because it's a "privelage" to be accepted.

It's very subtle, but smart marketing.
So in other words, they needed $1 Billion dollars in order to have enough money to make money from the $1 Billion dollars?
On a related note, when hiring, I often get candidates describe themselves as very motivated, love learning new things, give out their 100% on every task, etc.. Most of them never bother to finish and reply on a simple coding task I send as an initial screening.

So yeah, filler BS goes both ways.

(PS. Coding tasks in prescreening are contentunous topic. My
POV: if you don't have open source "portfolio" I can look at, and if you can't be bothered to spend an hour to potentially save both of us from a couple hours on an interview day, I don't want to talk to you anyway).
> the significance rests in the idea that the formerly painful process of making software has become a mostly drag-and-drop affair that has created many billion dollar companies along the way.

Dew what? I don't even....

Is there a world I'm unaware of that this is true for? 'Cause I'd sure like to know about it!
I'm glad Tim Berners Lee built a protocol instead of a platform.
> no need to get fancy with words you don't know the meaning of.

If you want to write things that leave no room for you being mistaken, it is a good idea to double check what you are saying.

https://www.google.com/webhp?#hl=en&q=cardinality&tb...
Essentially ...

"Intel says its customers are reducing their inventory, which, in English, means they’re buying fewer chips because they haven’t used up the ones they had already bought in the prior quarters. That’s because they’re not selling as many PCs or servers. Indeed, consumers who are in the market for a new PC will be holding back on their purchases until Windows 8 is released, but that market is already sputtering anyway, in no small part because Apple’s iPad continues to batter notebooks sales."

Up to now in mobile, Intel has been utterly crushed by ARM licensees. Microsoft's bet-the-company approach to Windows 8 unification with mobile and ARM has not been helpful to Intel.

How long will it take for Intel to field design-winning chips for mobile? Will it be 2012 starting with Microsoft Surface & Motorola, or much later if at all?
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I have got an idea from this discussion. What about an app which suggests what to wear on a given day?
You somehow scan all your clothes into it and then it decides based on the weather, what you wore yesterday, your schedule etc. what is the best fit for the day.
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I'm not sure I agree with this. When operating at a very large scale, like Google, eeking out tiny gains in efficiency can yield huge cost savings. A 1% saving of CPU time on a 100K core cluster means 1,000 cores can be eliminated from the system. Figure $50 per core, and you've just saved $50,000 in base cost, plus a ton on cooling + power. Meaning, if it takes less than 3 dev-months, it is absolutely worth the developer time to optimize.
Seconded - it's also the name of an automation framework that uses Puppet (http://theforeman.org/).

I got really excited for a minute upon seeing the headline thinking this was a Mac native interface or somesuch.
I meant in more general terms for Amazon. Their margins are incredibly low, their P/E ratio is way out of whack, and they seem to epitomize the old "we'll make it up on volume" angle that proved so helpful in 2000.

Maybe they just want to be like a grocery chain that ekes out a 1-3% margin. But if that's the case, Wall St. won't be happy. Wall St. expects outsized profits based on their P/E ratio.
Here: https://github.com/thoughtbot/neat#browser-support
Startup "Co-Founder" Equity
I'm considering becoming an equity partner in an existing company. I've worked a year with this company, probably 5-10 hours a week. I really believe in the company and think it can be something cool. I've not taken any payment or salary yet.

This SAAS company is making about $5k per month revenue, $3500 profit... so presumably without much effort we'll be at a similar place next year without too much work, if at all. The original founder started the company, quit his job 2 years ago, put $20k into the company, and has been working 60 hours weeks since then. He has yet to take payment or salary for his efforts. He is 55% equity owner. There are two silent partners at 4% each.

I'm being offered 7.5% equity, out of the remaining 37%. I'm expected to work around 20 hours/week for this level of equity. I'm having a hard time evaluating this number. Is it high, low, or what? Just don't have anything to base it own. Any advice?
I've been thinking about service that injects some lines of javascript for client sites that gives them button "fix this". It would send warning email after few messages about typos but it could also be used to fix these kind of things. Not sure how JS could handle selection and button press simultaneously. Maybe copy+paste part of page with fix. Maybe get some reward for being grammar nazi. Maybe some paid service for auto checking if corrections are accurate and auto-inject corrections to sites.

What the heck, how can I take MS Word online?
Are you saying that it was more religion-friendly in the "old days"?

I don't think I've ever seen a single religion-related comment on HN, so I'm not sure where you see a "heavy anti-faith undercurrent". Isn't it more likely that religious discussion is just off-topic here, so we don't see much of it?
At least from my point of view his comments weren't meant as a criticism of twitter so much as a neutral observation. He also didn't seem to be disparaging the monetization of twitter, but simply making a prediction for its evolutionary path he sees it following.
Always Jobs? Einstein often wore the same thing, even rumored to have several copies of the same outfit. Cornel West has been regularly doing this for 40 years. Jobs was hardly unique, and certainly not first. The only thing Jobs seemed to add is what he always did, elevate it to an obsessive compulsion.
This kind of reply is the shit people are lamenting about as a decline in the HN comments. If you cherry-pick sentences out of context, then of course you can make a valid point and invalidate mine.

To show context, my entire sentence was: Projects can maintain fairness without specifically targeting a demographic, they need only be open to everyone and never turn someone down simply because of an attribute they cannot change [gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, height, etc].

So by "only" being open to everyone, I assert that projects can maintain fairness. How is this incorrect? I never said the project would be successful, you falsely added that using your metaphor. Is there some other magic bullet for making a project fair? Do we need to inject some discrimination and close-mindedness into it?
That was an interesting link, thanks. I liked other parts of the site too, for instance

http://speleotrove.com/decimal/

Any idea what decimal floating point is used for?

(I have little to no idea about CAD or financial software.

I can see that fixed-point decimal with two decimal places is useful for things where you want to be able to reason about rounding of cents.

I can also see that you'd want more than two decimal places for a lot of calculations, for instance computing interest.

But decimal floating point...what's specified in such a way that you need to use decimal floating point?

I checked the wikipedia decimal floating point page. Didn't see any concrete examples there either.)
Ask HN: Why did Apple change from 35 pass erases to just 7?
In Disk Utility, OS X was always fairly security conscious by allowing up to a 35 pass erase of attached disks to prevent their recovery. However, in Mountain Lion, this built-in option has been dropped to a limit of 7.

Of course, 35 passes was always overkill, but 7 by comparison seems scant. What is the truth to overwriting disks and their ability to be recovered by a malicious third-party?
Wow that is very insightful. I 'm surprised that even here people are willingly conformists to gain acceptance.
>> It's not so much "saving 10 seconds" as it is "avoiding cognitive context switching".

Why don't we just say what it really is - "I can't be bothered to spend time picking out what to wear".

And there's really nothing wrong with that either. Fashion is a priority for some, and for others, not at all.

What I don't get is why this choice needs to be characterized as a life hack or optimization.
> [...] I've never seen anything that discourages women.

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents
Twitter’s web performance during the political conventions
From geek to soldier to programmer
And, perhaps, use uncurry $ \case ...
If the coding task wouldn't take longer than a preliminary interview, I can't see what's controversial about it? If you want to make sure, that no poor slob is putting in days, just make it a timed task. I.e. hand in whatever you have an hour after you've got the problem.

I can see that being asked to code for days is a no-no for prescreening.
I did the same thing with a text message instead of a call a few years back: http://datebreaker.heroku.com/

It's almost ridiculous how easy twilio (and heroku) make setting up a project like this.

Edit: That said, I really like your design, and a call is probably a stronger social cue than a text message.
This is one of the few things that 4chan has right - by removing names, you take ego entirely out of the question.

Then, to avoid turning into 4chan, you can have posts be anonymous on the front end, but accountable to a user id on the back end only visible to the user themselves and the site staff.

It would be an interesting experiment.