skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working at a national Japanese research agency with several thousand researchers. The administrative overhead is probably close to 50% (as in, half the jobs here are in administration). It's only for a 3 month research project that I'm here, yet I had to fill out somewhere between 15 and 20 forms (no exaggeration) - twice actually, once scanned and sent by e-mail and once again by hand when I came here (because the scanned version wasn't 'original' enough). It's mind boggling to the extreme. I could sit down and make a simple DB application with Word / Excel export to generate all that stuff with unified interface in a day or two, which would save them literally hundreds if not thousands of man hours a year - but I don't think they really care so much about efficiency here. They really want to see the stuff all filled in by hand, there is some kind of inherent value there that I don't seem to understand.

Oh and the rules for business trips, allowances, relocation coverage and all that, don't get me started on them.

It's a good experience though, makes me all the more motivated to have my own startup soon, instead of going nuts in big organisations like these.
I think the simplicity comes from being able to learn each piece in isolation, without any loss of generality. In addition, once each piece is learned, it does not need to be used in isolation, meaning each piece learned multiplies the abilities of the learner, as opposed to merely adding to it.
I believe the point is that most US households still have landlines, in addition to their mobiles. That's as opposed to areas in the developing world where the countryside will just never be hard-wired -- they skipped that stage of technological evolution and went straight to wireless.
This issue has been solved on Apple's Support page.
It sounds like they have a some ideas of what they'd like to do, and some important people have bought into the concept. But it doesn't seem like they have made much progress at all. There is "promise" of having a facility to seriously research this approach to delivering vaccinations, but as it stands, they haven't done anything but planning and networking. They're young and ambitious, which is great for them, but I'm more interested in what they have accomplished so far with this project.
Pretty sure craigslist already figured it out.
Being someone who has a lot of technical skills, and not a lot of networking skills, I like what this guy is saying. Unfortunately, the reality is if you have lots of technical skills, but you don't know anyone, you get nowhere. If you have no technical skills but have lots of connections, you will still have a successful life in this industry. I can't tell you how many people I've worked with over the years who completely had no idea how to build stuff, despite their 15+ year career in the Enterprise.

Personally, if I could trade in all of my technical skills for "hustling" skills, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
That seems to be the only way to handle it. I did try something like that, but I think my approach was a little clunkier. I like the idea of a "Transfers" top level category that can go to zero...
Python's niche is that it's a general purpose language that is also good for scientific programming.
I love d3. I'll be using it and just amaze myself at how easy it is to do things with it sometimes.
Did Vikings wear horned helmets?
The link convention is "Hacker News discussion here" or "discuss this on Hacker News." Either way, there is no call for upvotes.
Some of the points in the article are valid, but some have been valid decade ago and are outdated today. For example taking care of users who don't have javascript enabled. Before I continue, let me make straight that I actually do consider it when developing and I do make sure everything has fallback for those people. BUT. Even though there is a percentage of people who still browse internet without JS, why would we care about them? Those people are mainly people without any interest in modern technology. And old technology does not require JS. I know it sounds harsh, but the technology is evolving and some (many actually) project are running purely on JS these days. Why would we hold these back rather than encourage people to enable JS? Instead of supporting lazy people and publishing articles about caring of NO-JS people, let's push them to actually update themselves to what is new in the world. For that, simple message "This page has important JS components so you cannot fully enjoy it" will do jut fine. This applies for many other web stereotypes.

I am not sure, I might come out strong, but I a feeling all these stereotypes (and fighting them) a bit more than for example author of this article, since I am developer in China, where the situation is... Well you cannot imagine until you try it.

So to sum it up. All developers - keep in mind to support as much as you can as painlessly as you can, but do not publish articles about this, cause you just helping people to stay lazy.
In China, Betting It All on a Child in College
"At the very best, it’s been a painful way for a lot of people to have to live."

And statements like that, and the mindset behind them, are a good part of that pain.

I'd like to see companies contribute $10 Million grants to study cluelessness. That's a painful way to live.

Won't you help?
Intellectual property issues in a technology start-up
Intellectual property issues in a technology start-up
http://www.pinskylaw.ca/Resources/IntellectualPropertyProtection/intellectual_property_issues_technology_startup_1.htm
How To Make Your List to Grow Big, Fast and Viral
For me, the coolest and most impressive JS lib would be http://lodash.com/
Can't agree with you more. Caolan Async is super-useful in the client as well, particularly "until" (for waiting until a condition is met).
This is going to be the most shameless plug I've ever done in my life, but I actually believe my css selector engine ( https://github.com/chjj/zest ) beats every other one into the ground in terms of speed, features, and extensibility. I've probably just been waiting for an opportunity to shout it from the rooftops. Unfortunately, it's kind of hard for a selector engine to gain momentum since people don't really use them standalone unless they're writing a dom library.

It's not the coolest, but I think it's the coolest selector engine. I'm also totally biased.
What a fool.

He should instead spend a fraction of that amount and get himself some therapy to figure out why he is so obsessed with other peoples' sex lives.
People who take the NYT article as valid might be swayed in opinion once they hear that 7 Tesla S owners successfully completed the drive while live-video streaming the entire event.

I feel that people trust the reporting from private citizens & enthusiasts more than reporters from large publications.
Agreed - top posting is how corporates do it.

Don't try to be the kid who doesn't play the game like everyone else. And noone in corporates will use mutt. Hell why do that, its 2013 for crying out loud
This smells like lots of hours wasted in the near future; I always wanted to get my feet wet with statistics, probabilities, etc. and it seems there's some nice content here.
I'm not sure of the deep anthropological explanation, but ceremony, place, order and formality are all very important in Japanese society. This is a culture that awards black belts not only in martial arts, but also in flower arranging. As the article mentions, paper documents are an important part of ritual -- they can be stamped, folded, stapled, filed, etc.

Couple this with the fact that Japan was rebuilt after WWII in the model of the 1950's US Military, which I have to imagine was centered around forms and paperwork.

One final anecdote -- when doing business in Japan, I have personally known customers who showed up to meetings with a binder containing copies of literally every white paper and presentation I had ever given to them over a 2-3 year period. Even in the pre-Web 2.0 days, this drilled into me the importance of forethought and consistency in business, since you could find yourself confronted at any moment with your own evidence.
(disclosure: shameless plug)

I make GoJS, a HTML canvas-based diagramming library with all sorts of useful features. Node and link concepts (with data binding, templating), layouts, an undo manager, lots of customizable tools, drag and drop/cut and paste.

In other words, a very rich set of diagramming features atop HTML5 canvas.

I think its cool, because it took two years of canvas tomfoolery to get working well, and I think its much faster than similar diagramming libraries for canvas out right now. A lot of technically interesting stuff was encountered while making it, but I haven't had the time to write about my collected intricacies yet.

http://gojs.net/beta/

Or straight to samples:

http://gojs.net/beta/samples/flowchart.html

Firefox warning[1] for that specific sample though. I need to change the default sample this week.

[1] Super frustrating! The new IonMonkey JavaScript engine crashes under very certain conditions that are met during my link avoidsNodes algorithm. This means that Firefox 18 and 19 (but not 17 and 20) will crash on the Flowchart sample, because the link routing is set to use avoidsNodes. It's unfortunate but even though they're aware of the bug they aren't going to bother fixing it for FF19.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=830063

~~~

By the way, if there are other canvas library authors out there who have had interesting (or downright weird) issues with various canvas implementations, I'd love to hear from you!
I've been having a lot of fun with https://github.com/harthur/brain (neural network implementation in JavaScript) lately. Perhaps it's not something you would use on a real, live site, but it is fun to prototype neural network stuff in the browser with easy access to the DOM, canvas, and WebGL.
PotatoSalad.js is the best.

I bet a bunch of you actually searched for that on google. What's sad is that is probably the name of some obscure testing library. What have we come to...?
Computational Journalism Publishers Workbench
Building an app? Don't ask for feedback
It was a very good example of dogfooding--the document reflected what the guys working on the compiler and toolchain would want from such a compiler.

I believe the emacs that you are talking about is MicroEmacs, written by Dave Conroy while working at MWC. The source has since been made available generally, and the editor is the one that Linus uses. Daniel Lawrence later took over the distribution and here is one location: http://www.aquest.com/emacs.htm

I used it for quite a while, but then fell into Emacs and didn't look back.

Oh--I did get it to run on my HP200lx and used it there for a while.
The idea is not entirely made up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_helmet

I wonder if Doepler was influenced by the discovery of the Waterloo Helmet 8 years before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_Helmet
This seems a little off-topic for HN.
I think the concept of outside the universe or inside of it are not developed in a sufficiently rigorous way to really define what a universe is. However in some theories objects appear were it is actually quite natural to speak of an universe and something else. For example there is a unique way to extend the Schwartzschild space time [1] such that all geodesics either terminate in the singularity or go to infinity. But if you do this, then a region of the spacetime appears, that is 'on the other side' of the black hole. And there is no way to communicate with this region of spacetime, since all geodesics leading to it are space like, that is they would require (local) superluminal travel. It is therefore sometimes called a parallel universe.

It is similar in certain string theories, that patches of spacetime with different physical laws appear, this is then called the landscape. Or the multiverse in some cosmological models, where a far away region may appear, which is vastly different from or 'local' universe, that is in this case everything we can possibly observe.

So I think that it is quite possible that a theory of quantum gravity will have some object which we will call a universe, but until we have such a theory the appearance of anything outside of the universe marks highly speculative physics.

[1] That is the spacetime describing a black hole.
The assumption is that more hyper-intelligent Chinese nationals will mean more world influence for PRC. Whether that's good, bad, or neutral depends on your POV.
Yes, but new releases are worthless if consumers cannot use them.

So we are forced to hack web sites to make it work in the majority of WebKit based browsers out there in the field.
The fact that a year later, performance for their starting use case had not been addressed says that they failed to address the performance issue.

It is still not clear to me that they actually really understood the performance issue, or how big it was going to be.
Winter chills limit range of the Tesla Model S electric car
You miss the point. It isn't what you know, it's what you do with what you know.

Lot's of people knew how to build Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook.

Trying to divide knowledge and hustle is a waste of time, you need both to create value.
How do you do a pull request for "Use the pre-existing shell commands instead"?
>This smells like lots of hours wasted in the near future;

I'm not sure "wasted" is the right term.
That doesn't help the people to get their hands on newer versions though.

On the mobile space users are at mercy whatever WebKit version gets to be integrated into a specific OS release.
Would be nice if it integrated with byobu which displays similar information.
Indeed, Chesterton's Fence fallacy:

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
G. K. Chesterton
English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936)

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/32943.html
Inside China’s Genome Factory
That's a condition of selling on the Amazon platform. Doctorow also makes his most of his books available on his site, for free even, under a Creative Commons license in basically every format imaginable, eg: http://craphound.com/down/download.php
Calculating the height of meteoroid explosion
Excel is, simply, the most successful object oriented programming interface. Certainly a lot easier to work with than C++ or Java. That's also its curse; any idjit can pick it up, start typing and mousing, and end up with a couple meg of executable that runs just fine and generates extremely dubious output.
have no nature

Have you been to Singapore? It wasn't nicknamed "The Garden City" for its skyscrapers.
If by "at the risk of" you mean "I'm just going to go ahead and do it"
Google Could Might Open Its Own Retail Outlets in Key Metros
Mark Gurman, 9to5Mac editor, is only 19 years old
Is that really why it crashed? If so, that's awesome news. I thought it was shot down.
I made a broccoli.js once when I thought I needed a rudimentary canvas image editor, it never really went anywhere but over my head:

https://github.com/kennethrapp/broccoli-js

but it's honestly terrible and even mentioning it in this thread is a terrible thing to do. I'm going to go think about what i've done now, over in the corner, there.
There is something therapeutic about this process, for the individual and the communities they influence. Sharing emotions and wisdom emphatically clearly resonates with the general populace.

Speaking from experience because we've launched an iPhone app called Quipio that lets people create and share such quotes in seconds (possibly this author's worst nightmare).

We've seen it grow pretty dramatically in the first three weeks: 42K quotes have been created, 115K+ shares. 70K+ downloads on the app store. There is no question that people reveal their emotional states through them. Makes for an interesting graph.
Check out http://JSDB.io and http://pineapple.io -- both list a ton of cool JS libraries.
Imagine if we listened to the unruly mob here and elsewhere that were calling for the NYT/Broder's head on a stick.

I recall one very long-winded rant here on HN where a commenter described Broder as having an axe to grind, a shyster, and concluded his comment with "Fuck the NYT. Fuck Broder."

All of this, in the grand scheme of the automotive industry, are small ripples. Tesla will survive this, and electric sales will proceed more or less unimpeded.

The real takeaway here is keeping your cool and turning off the "mob outrage" circuit in your brain. The drummed up pitchfork-wielding mob was, in the end, a more sobering spectacle than any electric car issue.

I must sound like a broken record by now. It seems every month some one-sided account will splash onto HN's front page, stir up a hornet's nest of indignation, resulting in long, angry rants and calls for heads to roll. Inevitably a more balanced picture emerges - but the usual suspects will be back the next time someone writes a blog post manipulating their outrage.

Whenever a blog post is so utterly absurd and ridiculous that it demands unfettered and unrestrained anger, there is a strong chance you're being played.
Thanks for the advice but a spell checker wont have picked up on the fact that I spelled Jeff Bezos's name wrong, which after looking at my article again is the only spelling mistake i spotted
I acknowledged your point in my post, a single member LLC Owner is protected from the liabilities/debts of the LLC. Consider the distinction I made that you missed - where the single member LLC lacks protection - the LLC can be liable for the personal debt/judgments of the single member LLC Owner.

In contrast, multi-member LLCs and Corporations (C or S; single shareholder or multiple shareholders) are protected from the personal liabilities/debts of Owners. In practice, if Person A owned Google Stock A's debtors can not go after Google and Google's assets to satisfy the debts; however, if A is also the Owner of a single member LLC those same debtors CAN get a charging Order, Economic Interest, or foreclose (take ownership) of the single member LLC and/or its assets.

See:
Olmstead v. Federal Trade Commission
http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/decisions/2010/sc08-1009.....
>a high portion of freeway driving, which minimizes the opportunity for regenerative braking, are the most adverse conditions for any electric vehicle

That's a pretty nasty meme and it seems to be spreading. No, people: regenerative braking mitigates the effects of braking on fuel efficiency! It doesn't overcome or reverse them. The laws of physics say that driving on the freeway with no braking is, and will always be, much better for fuel efficiency, in any conceivable vehicle.
Yeah, I saw that. I think the option of replying with a handwritten message is important though. Otherwise you're stuck with sending typewritten stuff, which might negatively affect your business if you're selling to elderly Japanese people.
What's with the "regenerative brakes" thing? It seems people think that if you use the brakes more frequently you'll get more range. The only thing regenerative braking does is that you'll lose less energy than if you didn't have it. It's still inefficient to slow down and speed up.
Well, which is more important for you personally?
Do you have more examples of what you have built with Angular?
Because someone more efficient could run you over...
I'm not biased. +1
Barring specific diseases like Marfan Syndrome, we can't yet explain most of height -- "Height is a highly heritable trait, with estimates of heritability as high as 90%. Recent genome-wide association studies of height have discovered over 180 common variants associated with height. These variants have small effect sizes and collectively explain approximately 10% of the heritability." [1]

Growth involves many systems with many types of cells interacting -- digestive, skeletal, endocrine, etc. There's a lot of complexity when you have so many systems involved.

By comparison, there are relatively few distinct types of cells in the brain, so the effects of different alleles should be more apparent. In particular, genes controlling sensitivity to and production of neurotransmitters directly impact brain function.

If they find many specific mutations that cause better performance on specific tasks (working memory, pattern matching, verbal ability, ...) it should be possible to predict high IQs.

I don't expect 100% accurate predictions, but to not find _anything_ would be surprising. Maybe that's your point-- if they only get 10% heritability, it's not really enough for breeding decisions.

[1] http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...
Are slower speeds more efficient overall though, such that driving off the highway could make up for the energy lost to braking? With combustion engines I had always read that speeds around ~55 are at the crossover point where increasing wind resistance wins out over increasing engine efficiency, but I'm wondering if the math works out differently for electric cars?
I can confirm this from my experience in China (~9 years), but would be a little more positive on the outcome for the graduates. It is still relatively easy to find a job and turn-over is high. In the companies where I have worked, in the university I have attended, I have seen some of these employees coming from very poor families: most are hard-working and clever, and usually can make their way into the higher strates of society (up to a level).
I think the examples here are pretty ironic. Facebook hinged on the technical prowess of Mark Zuckerberg? I'm not sure I agree with that; this is not to take anything away of course but I think the ability to build, especially the early version of The Facebook, was fairly minimal and what mattered more was the non-technical side.

Why even bother trying to "debunk" a simple piece of folk wisdom? In fact, it's sort of a myopic debunking. No one that accepts the viewpoint expressed by "it's not what you know, it's who you know" seriously thinks knowledge is completely worthless. I just find this hard to take seriously.

It seems like a very sophomoric analysis of a folk "truism" that actually does make a lot of sense despite the contradictory refutation here.

Now, is it also true that simply building up a lot of connections and not ever doing anything is not going to get you anywhere? Sure, but that is a caricature.

Next, we're going to see a big refutation of "Show me who you're friends are and I'll tell you who you are." I'm on pins and needles. :)
Solve your very own problems.

Maybe you miss some opportunities but I've the highest motivation if I solve a personal problems since I am not thinking about how big is the market, how to target which demographics. No, I just want to build a nice product for myself and I am happy even if it's just me who will use it.

Usually, these products get perfect and extremely well designed because you are the user yourself and care about every detail and at the same time you deploy and use a MVP very early since you don't care about anyone looking at your product. Worked for me and market is success is usually one step away. I couldn't work one second for a product where I won't be the user, I did it few times and it's awful.

It could also be a psychological phenomena since when you do something just for yourself you don't put too much pressure on yourself and the product, you don't force success like becoming the market leader or getting venture capital -- you are relaxed and in the zone which are the best premises to build an awesome product (compare to 'The Inner Game of Tennis').
I did prefer prototype.js in the time of ol'. Never understood why jQuery took over it, sadly.
Curious if there will be accusations that Consumer Reports is the latest to fall to the bribery of the oil and automobile industries, since I was told last time that the NYT was beholden to them because the NYT sells advertising space, or something.