skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll agree that the article is of very poor quality.

FTA:
"Maybe we need to grant more university degrees. Maybe we need more PhDs. Maybe we need more government workers. Maybe we need more subsidies. Because, you know, 40-hour jobs is what we had so it must be what we will have. But nobody, it seems, can conceive a world where most of us work far less for money than we do now. "

What on earth is he talking about? It's hard to say whether he thinks more people at university is right or wrong - but 'conceiving of a world where most of us work far less for money' - a very naive understanding of what work and money is.

The key to working less is more productivity. But a funny thing happens when productivity increases. Instead of people accepting the same standard of living and working fewer hours, most people will opt for working the same amount of hours and increase their standard of living.

Many blurry-thinkers see this as some type of evil that must be stopped, when in reality it is the concious choice that many people make. It's not right or wrong, it just is.
Isn't this very old?
I think the point was; one can cherry-pick with deviation, as they are not _that_ far apart. The parent contends the overstated-ness, not that they are equal.
We run marketing campaigns and we spoke to others who had similar problems. Most PM/ Task tools are generic. We are betting on the fact that there are certain functions that are specific to marketing teams and people running these kind of features e.g. workflows to run a campaign, editorial calendar, integration with social networks etc...
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You're starting to sound a little astroturfy here. But taking you at face value:

In the context of this site, commenters tend to use the word "people" when referencing a relatively narrow swath of early adopters and influencers. It doesn't usually mean "normals" who really don't know the difference between a browser, a search engine, and "the Internet". The problem is, normals look to influencers to help them decipher the Interweb, and meanwhile Google's been ramming itself down both groups' throats. Consider the Google+ (tech influencers) and YouTube (millennial influencers) real names policies. Neither group is a fan, and sees it as pandering to marketing interests.

And there's your answer. You joined up in the old Doubleclick building, so you know ad revenue powers the ship. When Google seemed to use that revenue to not be evil, to support 20% time and innovate recklessly, spawning tools that subsets of influencers could love and rave about -- even with the beta label and no support, it worked. When it started to come across more cynically, killing "Labs", killing people's pet Google products, taking away "free" and dumping the beta labels without adding a human face of support, it's bound to cause some eye opening to what Google's real business is: not a toy factory, but an ad revenue engine.

It's part of the company growing up, but doesn't have to be. I would argue the company could still easily tweak its image back towards altruism even at the expense of some revenue. Pursue a little more karma than klout to avoid embarrassments like the Google Glass selection.

Sustain information organizing products genuinely, not cynically. Have a soul.
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It is a stock photo :) wish we had this kind of an office. Oh well.
> 30 pages is enough.

By this definition, you could end up filling your life with airport thrillers. War and Peace has barely introduced a character by page 30, let alone got you hooked.
What is the political situation in the Mario universe?
South west London. It didn't even snow here :)
(copying my answer from above) - We run marketing campaigns and we spoke to others who had similar problems. Most PM/ Task tools are generic. We are betting on the fact that there are certain functions that are specific to marketing teams and people running these kind of features e.g. workflows to run a campaign, editorial calendar, integration with social networks etc...we'll see how it goes...:)
Great to see someone else recommending The Real Seed Catalogue! They are a fantastic company, really know their stuff.
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These über-thin electronic “tattoos” have potential applications on the battlefield and anywhere else real-time monitoring and radio communications are required, and they're just one of many innovations in the field of microtechnology, where everything electrical is miniaturized for efficiency and ease of use.
The setup fails for me (in Norway), timeout while downloading assets from CloudFront.

App seems to be using Jersey;

Downloading https://d29x207vrinatv.cloudfront.net/Sync/Windows/Application Files/AmazonCloudDrive_2_0_2013_0841/LocalServiceJars/jetty-servlet-8.1.0.v20120127.jar did not succeed.
I'm in Lincolnshire and manage to grow most stuff. It does take a little more attention (I'm useless during the early months of the year because I always forget to check for frost warnings...).

This year has been dismal so far :S because of the cruddy weather.

In fact, in the UK to a certain extent it's not so much how far North you are, but how far East. I have a friend about "level" with me but on the West of the country and he struggles with his garden. We tend to avoid a lot of the worst weather over here ;D
To be honest I've never had a problem with blight because I rotate religiously (I have several beds) and I water the soil, not the plants. Rain historically hasn't been a major problem living in the south so far :) Pigeon shit is far more hazardous!

Good general advice though.
Valid. But if the writer doesn't care about the reader to the point of wanting to make the idea stick by page 30, I choose not to continue reading. Of course this isn't a writer's problem per se, but there's just too many books and too little time to read everything. It's my way of having a filtering pattern without losing my mind.
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Quality pre-kindergarten education makes a big difference in the lives of young children and can help level the playing field for all.
Grow your own. Africa is great if you have a water supply that doesn't involve legwork. A friend of mine grows tonnes of the things in jo'berg.
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Oh, I forgot c), which is usually just a raw, unadorned "I'd like to add you to my professional network." from random recruiter scum. Kinda of a b) really, but without the work of having to have a position available...
The Disruption Institute has a mobile development program http://www.disruptioninstitute.com
Awesome! I thought this guy had died.
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Plastics seem to attract the crows and magpies who will vigorously shred any seedlings near bits of it.

Teabags (twinings every day :) tend to not degrade quickly resulting in tea bags blown all over the garden.
It makes sense for me. Btw, I was always wondering how it is possible that there are no books on teaching how to code under 100 pages.
Well I just spent a while on it but there are quite a few filesystem functions missing in either Lua.js or love web player to make it work out of the box. It's probably doable but I gave up for now.
In my opinion nothing can beat the beginning of 20th century. Cars, airplanes, phones, television, radio - all that originated (or have been widely adapted) one hundred years ago. Internet and smartphones are inventions from the last 20 years, before that I can't think about any inventions that drastically changed our every day life.
I'm not sure the attitude you've observed is that prevalent - Google is still an extremely attractive employer. But like everything that's been around a while and has become large - people no longer perceive it as being in vogue.

Personally I have lost some enthusiasm with Google because of some of the bugs I see in their software. My Google Account was created in the UK, but I now live in Switzerland - when I visit Google Maps I get a mixture of English and a different language e.g. "Maletgs". No-one at Google seems contactable to solve this - I have posted to the Google Group (another shambolic piece of software - dejanews minus the spam was better IMO) and nothing happens. I have one Google Apps account with my domain and one other Google account. Yesterday I tried signing into gmail and it told me both accounts were active - there was no sign out button. But when I logged in it just kept reloading the same page without any error. So I was stuck. Eventually I loaded plus.google.com where there was a sign out button.

Some of Google's software is becoming super frustrating IMO - but I guess this happens in many places, when it stops being new software and is (effectively) legacy software that's hard to maintain.
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I think it is. Those are the disciples of PG.

I'm not sure if I find the image a little scary...
I looked a little bit more at the rendr source, and one thing that immediately jumps out at me is the code BaseView#getTemplateData[1] which very tightly couples the model & views together.
You should totally steal highbrow's ViewModel code, which is very sweet. (But you might want to come up with a better name). Rather than passing @model.toJSON() as template data, highbrow creates a ViewModel from the model or collection or out of thin air, and passes that in as template data.

Here's a typical ViewModel definition (in JS):

foo.vm.Resource = highbrow.ViewModel.extend({
lastUpdated: function() {
return moment(this.model.get('modifiedAt')).fromNow();
}
});
foo.vm.Resource.attrs(['name', 'content']);

This shows the main two features of ViewModel's: a whitelist of attrs that the template can access directly, and a set of functions that would otherwise end up polluting your model with view side code.

This decoupling dramatically improves the structure of our applications, without introducing Rails style controllers which are also totally misnamed in my opinion. Rails controllers are essentially two things: routers and MV-shims. Splitting the two makes for much improved program structure.

1: https://github.com/airbnb/rendr/blob/master/shared/base/view...

2: https://github.com/wvl/highbrow/blob/master/src/view-model.c...
Yes, unintentional it was. My apologies, English is not my mother tongue.
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I hope I am not seeing something in the essay that isn't there, but I don't think the 'hook' must be solely intra-textual a la new criticism/close reading. Part of the appeal of War and Peace or Brothers Karamazov is that it's a great book and an adventure to read. A mind prepared this way for an epic should be hooked on the world-building establishment in the early pages. It's still possible to decide it's not the right time to read a classic since the reader might not have the historical context or a large enough vocabulary or few enough distractions to get through dry but rewarding texts. The difference between classics and informational writing is that the classics should be put aside for later since there is no summary or conclusion that provides the useful takeaways, and the material is timeless.
Does anybody know what these new limitations are? The biggest limitation I can see is "Apps limited to *.af.cm domains".

I wonder how this performs. 2GB memory per instance and 8 service instances sounds pretty good for $20.
Haha, that was great, thanks for posting!
The etymology of the word is irrelevant to how it's used conversationally.
Here's a sample app: https://github.com/wvl/twumblook
It's a problem with 21st Century "instant gratification" culture. Like so much of life, many of the most rewarding books require effort to enjoy them, and get anything from them.

By requiring the author to do all the work, you're merely consuming culture. Becoming a culture-producer requires you to invest yourself in it, to think about it and respond to it. You cannot do that based on the first 30 pages alone. If you do, Dan Brown is probably the best author you'll ever read.
> One replied, and was very thankful for the feedback and promised to work on it. He replied a few months later thanking me again. Two didn't reply, which means my hour was not only wasted, but I actually sent feedback that they didn't want or appreciate (which means they now think I'm an asshole).

I completely disagree. You're assuming that lack of reply = ungrateful and now they hate you, which is a completely ridiculous assumption. If someone rejects me and sends me feedback, I appreciate that but I'm not going to bother sending them an email thanking them - because there is really nothing more to discuss. What's next? Should I expect you to thank me for thanking you (does not thanking me for thanking you make me think you're an asshole?)
> This isn't a problem until people start assuming that anyone who wasn't hired is terrible or doesn't deserve to work.

This, indeed, is where things get very dicey. Meritocracy tends to converge on winner-takes-all markets, which result in an extreme inequality of outcomes and all the socioeconomic harms that entails.
>> it's every blogger's dream his / her work will once be self-sustainable. Traffic without active (social media) involvement. I do the writing, Google does its magic, the readers to the rest.

Weird writing/typos aside, I find this concept confusing. What does it mean for writing to be self-sustainable?
The corny music along with the establishing shots of SF really, really reminded me of the opening of cult so-bad-it's-good hit The Room [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_(film)
Try less hard :) - I had a chain of disasters until I stopped trying all the tricks. Plants grew pretty well for years without our intervention.

Apart from oregano and lavender which instantly snuff it the moment I'm involved.
Yeah, I won't use feedly because 1) wtf browser extention and 2) needs a google login? Come on! I'm supposed to believe this service is going to replace google reader and they can't demonstrate it running without google reader's backend yet? Nor without a browser extension? #1 gives the appearance of incompetence and #2 smells like vaporware.
From the title, I was expecting to read a review of ReactOS looking at whether it would be viable as a day-to-day OS. This leaves me a little bit disappointed.
I don't want the first 30 pages to tell me everything. Nor should it be like that, it's just not healthy for the writer's imagination. But by then I should be hooked in any way, no?
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Sarcasm? :)
It's true that the wellspring of cultural creativity seems to have run dry. I spend an inordinate amount of time worrying about this at the moment. The only innovations we see are around the asymptotic optimisation of consumerism. I wonder if these things are related...
What is socially acceptable is decided by society, not by any particular individual. Mind you, that doesn't prevent us from being more careful around people we know to sensitive to certain forms of address, but in a public forum that's not really possible because you don't know who you're talking to.
Which is why I dug my lawn up and planted potatoes :)
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What makes you think it isn't already?
I think this design goal:

* Minimize if (server) {...} else {…}

was unfortunate. A grep of the highbrow source code indicates about 10 instances of that pattern, so I don't think there's a need for a separate base/server/client directory structure like rendr has, I think that creates artificial distinctions. It may be because I'm used to reading the highbrow source (because that's the only documentation :), but I find those if/else blocks to be very illuminating.
1. Modafinil also suppresses appetite.

2. It's easy to argue against the extremes. But nothing about using modafinil precludes sleeping 8 hours a day. The effects usually last anywhere between 12 to 16 hours. So, for example, you can take it with breakfast and go to bed normally in the evening.
Nanoparticles formed using human viruses, to fight human viruses
I always use the first lightbot as an introduction to functions. The best part is when one student figures out the concept I encourage the class to 'cheat' from each other. I have them show each other the concept of functions. Its great fun to explain to the class that not only are they learning core computer science concepts but also that it is OK to build on others ideas and work together. Concepts that the schools to their best to knock out of our children for the sake of independent evaluation.
Don't forget quantum mechanics, relativity and the discovery of the expanding universe, also all around that time. The last one wasn't really an innovation to be fair.
Sounds like making excuses for ADD. Only paying attention to things that seem interesting is an obvious failure mode. You will wind up only paying attention to things that have been optimized for attention grabbing.
Correction: its half-life is actually something around 12 hours.
Army Practices Poor Data Hygiene on Its New Smartphones, Tablets
good luck :) you can't go wrong with gardeners delight tomatoes - awesome variety.

Chillis are a pain. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

salad crops are good starters and you can just throw them in a tray on a sunny window sill as well.

Wouldn't bother with onions as its cheaper to buy. Try leeks if you have some space instead (let some flower as well as they look pretty cool).

Enjoy and don't get discouraged by disasters. I've been doing it for 20 years and still manage to ruin something every year!
The letters are hanging in the air, i think a good demonstration would show the baseline of the letters to coincide with the line pattern!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Typograph...
Those seem like fairly cookie-cutter side effects for quite a large class of pharmaceuticals.
Code reviews are about finding (1) the proper way to do things (2) edge cases, bugs, and the right architecture. Code reviews are not academic at all. They do require someone with a lot of experience.
Why is this being downvoted? This is not reddit, if you disagree with his post, please give us an idea why.

As far as it goes, the only contentious part of his comment is the last line - India win, Novartis lose.

Otherwise his description of how Indians tend to deal with drug costs is a succinct portrayal of the current reality.
Yes. Please do that, dear hirers. That's such a deception to know that "It would be OK, if only you were an US citizen".

That hurts.
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what he said. that link is the original source with absolutely expansive depth into the topic. everyone else seems to be grabbing parts and republishing.
Unit tests are merely approximations of what challenges you can imagine your application will need to face. An analogy can be drawn to the body of precedent in case law.
before or after taxes?
I hope this gets clarified by someone with more experience, but I believe one issue is planes are frequently diverted to more southerly routes during solar eruptions and times when the northern lights are particularly strong/vivid due to the increased levels of radiation exposure for those at high altitude. So you don't lose all observations but the best ones probably get missed.
Umm.. why is it not useful? Emacs will allow multiple buffers to update at once, and you can work in a third while watching them... That's kind of the idea.
Now I need to Google why that is, it drives me nuts when they make you shut your window at night... It's dark!
I will not exclude the first sentence as a justification. Being as honest as I can get here. :)

But can you give me an example of the opposite? Say, an article or book which did not grab you at first but you found quite interesting. (being the keyword "interesting", a subjective concept to each and everyone of us, of course - myself included)
More important than the JS-disabled case is the speed of the first page.

Given my experience with the very similar highbrow, I expect that rendr can return a fully functional page in 10-20 ms. In a typical client-side JS framework, the first page takes 300-3000 ms to render. Subsequent pages are lightning quick, but in many cases it's the first page that's the important one.
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Actually, the flight path can vary depending on weather conditions between a lower-latitude route[1] and a more direct great-circle one[2].

1. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFR83/history/20130401/22...

2. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFR83/history/20130331/22...
It's not a hirers' market or a hirer's market :P
To use your analogy of falling in love, the first 30 pages are like the first date. They can be beautiful, funny, and interesting, but after a while it can turn out that it was just a combination of good lighting, alcohol, and some overheard jokes. If you get on, then it's mostly lust at this stage anyway. It takes a lot more time together to know whether you're actually in love.

And if you don't click, maybe there's no point in meeting up again. But you have to question whether it's you or them. What are you looking for in a partner? Someone deep and meaningful with whom you can spend a lifetime, or a superficial one-night stand that you forget after a few days.
But how to decide whether a given datum is ‘bad’ or ‘good’ information before consuming said datum and linking it up with the rest of your memory? Maybe it looks utterly senseless at the time you first read it, but it might well be missing piece linking two large and so far separate areas together.

That applies to any decision; you rarely or never have complete information. The solution is to apply heuristics to make a preliminary judgment. For example, by coming to HN instead of any other source of articles you're implicitly deciding that being linked from here means there's a greater probability of the article being good (for any definition of good you prefer).
I completely disagree.

1. The effect is extremely noticeable, as noticeable as a headache is (whatever the opposite of a headache would be).

2. I did read a study which found evidence that a particular genotype affects whether someone finds modafinil effective. I happen to have that genotype correlated with modafinil effectiveness.
Sickle-cell anemia has very little to do with race and everything to do with protection against malaria - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110428123931.ht.... That people with darker skin live in areas where malaria is present is just a coincidence.
Thanks for the advice! For the moment they're getting grown in the kitchen and then they'll be planted out in our back garden, I've left it a little late in the year for a few but given the UK weather I don't think I'll suffer too much from it.