skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you need to define 'design'.

If you mean beautiful mockups than will win a contract with a client and that's all, perhaps your 100% photoshop person will be the best suited.

If you mean building an interface acknowledging harmony of the UX, the user and clients needs, the medium, the strengths and weaknesses of the platform it will be built onto, the project budget and the maintenance afterwards, a 50% person will be thousand times more valuable.

> moving a button 3px to the left

I think it's a stereotype of the request the lay man doesn't get but can cause a project to lose hours or days of dev if the request just goes through. If 3px from where your button is is another component, just imagine that component also being bind to specific size and placement rules (or like, it's actually not your component but some other library's one), and moving that button 3px might mean rebuilding the whole screen.
Sure but GGP said he used chewing tobacco.
r/startups was great for one of my launches, gave a lot of interesting feedback and drove some traffic. Wasn't hard to hit the front page.
You can use keepassx and dropbox to sync between employees.

I also sent you an email as I'm the creator of https://elipsis.io (https://github.com/nherment/elipsis) and have been interested in implementing such feature for a while. I'd appreciate your input.
Facebook does this for videos uploaded to its services (Facebook, Instagram) and shared on feeds. It works quite well there.
That was part of the initial motivation for tying insurance to employment, but the main reason it's persisted is that it's a way of solving the adverse-selection problem. If you let individuals choose when to buy insurance, on average people buy it when they need it and risk going without when they don't. But if you insure a company's whole workforce at once, with individual employees not being able to opt out, you have a risk pool not specifically selected for high-risk patients.

This is also a reason group coverage typically has a minimum size for coverage, because small companies still have the adverse-selection problem— founders more worried about their health are more likely to buy their company group insurance than those who think their health is fine. But once a company reaches a certain size, those individual factors get less important since everything's averaged over a large mandatory-coverage pool.
Google's software / systems would work just as well with gasoline cars as electric. Strategically they want the complements to the stuff they sell to be as cheap as possible, which means having a somewhat generic / commoditized ecosystem around them (cf Android). Running their own car company is antithetical to that.
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Yes there is a superior alternative that takes about the same time. Buy a 100 lb weight set and add weight to your 7 minute workout.
There were numerous WP consultants when he did this. They were his target customers.
He interviewed them about their pain points and found that their pain was in line with what he had in mind for WPEngine (easy, fast, secure, no-friction hosting for WP)
He asked them to write him a check at the end of the interview. BAM, customers. (I make this sound easier than it is..)
I think this would work without the bars, by just having the object pop out from the boundary box.
> 1. If you do this cold, you're going to increase your chance of injury.

I know researchers at (among other places) NTNU in Norway did some research into intense anaerobic training, and found that short workouts could be helpful, especially for those that started from poor shape. But as I recall, they had people do something like 5 minutes at max pulse (~250-300 bpm depending on your condition).

I agree that especially if you're already out of shape, going from 0-100 like that, is likely to set you up for injuries. Perhaps especially if you active training.

I'd like to see this measured against having people do 7 minutes of horse stance[1] (most wouldn't be able to start at 7 minutes).

[1] http://martialarts.about.com/od/training/ss/horsestance.htm
It'd also have to be compatible with all browsers (including primitive versions of IE) to cover the other reason people use gifs.
Another related danger of amphetamines: because they make you feel good, they create a dopaminergic illusion of proficiency. Whether or not they are actually improving your proficiency can be difficult to judge.
Mainly because of storage.
I've to regulate it.

But it's now re-open!
How Long Does It Take To Make a Flappy Bird Clone?
I'm a little skeptical about that. I wonder about having two considerations (benefits/drawbacks) apparently boiled down to one number.

I'd hazard a guess that the level of enhancement both bring are about the same for many people... but that the drawbacks of caffeine are more or less something that everybody's used to.

For me, using adrafinil to get by on less sleep was considerably more desirable than using caffeine.

Then again, the drawbacks of caffeine are strong enough for me that I generally don't use it, so I might be an outlier.
I've grown https://www.uncover.com (a simple tool to give employees perks and rewards) in various different ways. A lot of it began with telling my network of friends who run startups. Getting them signed up. Then getting them to tell their friends how much they liked it. Once that source was depleted, I began to do a lot of content marketing. I started writing for a lot of different blogs, websites, etc. That helped get out name out there and brought in about a third of our current customers. I'm now beginning to experiment with buying ads. It's still too early to tell how well that will work out, though.
Be careful with regards to the jaw clenching. I used modafinil extensively several years ago as part of a clinical trial/research study participant. I now have stress fractures in two of my lower teeth from the jaw clenching, and will either need to eventually replace those two teeth with implants or (hopefully) stem-cell derived replacement teeth.

The body is not built for constant stressing, in many ways.
From reading the article it seems like this is intended to be a form of high intensity training (HIT). The idea behind HIT is that intensity is more important for results than duration. There are plenty of studies showing the importance of workout intensity. Probably the most well known (and consequently misused) is the work done by Dr Tabata. His original protocol was very specific but Tabata training has become a shorthand for eight sets of twenty seconds of intense exercise with ten second rests between sets.

People disagree about the tradeoffs between intensity and duration. I'm not an expert on that so my opinion isn't really helpful on that topic. However, I do see some potential problems with the seven minute workout. It's really hard to increase the intensity of several of the exercises. It's really hard to increase the intensity of wall sit, plank and side plank. Once your thighs are parallel to the floor the only way to increase wall sit intensity is to add weight. You can make planks harder by positioning your arms higher up but once again you'll hit a limit pretty fast.

This is probably a decent workout for a beginner but because it doesn't scale well with fitness level I don't see it staying effective. Having said that this is definitely better than nothing and the convenience makes it likely that a beginner will be willing to try it.
Good point, I suppose it would just be a poor man's delegation really.
You left out a crucial part of that sentence.

> implementation that people write on their own
> and then at least, there is an established syntax
> and a way to improve it further.

That was the point.

Being aware of the problem doesn't mean you'll actually find a good solution. At least this way, any lingering problems will eventually be fixed instead of draining more of your own resources. Chances are, the Postgres team will be able to figure out the subtleties much better than you.

The more domain knowledge your system requires, the worse off everybody is. Here's a story.

At my previous company, I implemented something close to 'upsert'. After hours of researching, implementing, and testing in as many environment I could think of, I wondered why I wasted so many hours trying to get it right. Sure, I now understand the subtleties involved. (Well, I think so anyway. I still don't know what I don't know.) But am I better off now? Is the company? Not really. What we have is a tangled hack.

And worse, I no longer work with this company. So the next guy will have to figure out what's going on when there's an issue. To be safe, I spent another day re-organizing the code for clarity and documenting the complicated workaround. A scrappy syntax shipped today and fixed tomorrow would have been ideal. That way, the new guy could search for the symptom and see that that the current implementation of UPSERT is the cause. They can then use a recommended workaround, or simply upgrade Postgres to fix it entirely.
I'm really surprised at the negative comments regarding VR. It just seems so obvious to me that VR is going to impact the world in a huge way.

That seemed really obvious to me in the early 90s, too. I don't mean that to sound dismissive or get-off-my-lawn-ish, just to point out that there's a history of VR overhype which makes skepticism understandable.
I've used modafinil in concert with tDCS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct-current_sti...) and have found it very beneficial except for some slight side effects (as someone else had mentioned in the thread, jaw clenching).
Could you elaborate a little on why is (or might be in the future) the EPR paradox as important as Relativity?
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Plz guys
Ping.

edit: Just created this account to answer this question. Otherwise I'm only on HN to lurk.
While writing ConTeXt code (similar to LaTeX), I will reference the StackExchange network:

% @see http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/128858/2148

Brett Victor asks, "How do you get communication started between uncorrelated sentient beings?" to introduce the concept of automatic service discovery using a common language.[1]

Alan Kay had a similar idea: that objects should refer to other objects not by their memory space inside a single machine but by their URI.[2]

When programmers copy/paste StackOverflow snippets, in a way they are actually closer to realizing Alan Kay's vision of meta-programming than those who subscribe to the "tyranny of a single implementation" -- or "writing" code as some would mock, expressing a narrow view of what they think "programming" a computer must entail.

The StackExchange network provides a feature-rich interface to document source code snippets that perform a specific task. What's missing is a formal, structured description of these snippets and a mechanism to provide semantic interoperability that leads to a universal prototyping language for deep messaging interchange.[3]

How else are we going to go from Minecraft[4] to Holodeck[5]?

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4#t=790

[2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY#t=2940

[3]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY#t=3125

[4]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1h1U5jHh6U

[5]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OCKDEdtWys#t=39
Coding by Consensus
Very good point on "identifying my problem", maybe it's better to be "identifying my specific problem" that nobody else can resolve for me. Thank you.

I'm sort of learning this point from others and trying to apply it to draw people's attention. I showed people that you need to build a private version of the web that stores the only information you are interested in or related to you. And we have a tool to help you create your Private
Web with a few clicks. But I failed. Can you please pinpoint out why? The Kickstarter project is here: http://kck.st/JNqv8z
You've just added a barrier now. Most people don't want to buy or store weights. One of the appeals of the 7MW is that it requires no equipment.
It lets you traverse a lot less of memory. It's great for concurrent garbage collection.
No but it seems paleo diet enthusiasts indicate any heart disease was non-existent due to a paleo diet.

The so-called "LOREN CORDAIN, PH.D., THE WORLD’S LEADING EXPERT ON PALEOLITHIC DIETS AND FOUNDER OF THE PALEO MOVEMENT" claims:

Decades of research by Dr. Loren Cordain and his scientific colleagues demonstrate that hunter-gatherers typically were free from the chronic illnesses and diseases that are epidemic in Western populations, including:

Obesity
Cardiovascular disease (heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, atherosclerosis)
Type 2 diabetes
Cancer
Autoimmune diseases (multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, etc.)
Osteoporosis
Acne
Myopia (nearsightedness), macular degeneration, glaucoma
Varicose veins, hemorrhoids, diverticulosis, gastric reflux
Gout
With LiberWriter, I targeted forums where our users actually hang out, and gave useful answers to questions, with the URL at the end of the message as a sort of '.signature'.

HN is far, far away from our target audience, so posts here - even on the top of the front page - have gotten me pretty much 0 conversions. That's fine, though.
But if you noticed that, let's say I have 350ms response time in Asia when it's only 50 in USA and you have some solution for it, I probably will reply you even if I am not going to buy your service right away.

That reminds me of a technique I used when doing freelance Web design. I focused on restaurants with bad websites. I wrote a crawler that searched for restaurants with email addresses on the site, but bad html like font or center tags or flash. I would then email them a sample site with their name and logo inserted programmatically. It got pretty good response.
There is a patch for specialized UPSERT which was being actively developed very recently. I would not be surprised if it makes it into PostgreSQL 9.5. On the other hand there is currently no working being done on MERGE.

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=1201
The MERGE itself is atomic, but it doesn't prevent duplicate insertions without a lock: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9871644/is-merge-an-atomi...
Keats similarly wrote all of his extant poetry between 19 and 25. (He died at 25.)
Why not yellow? It would be cool to see which of the start pokemon was most used.
So why should you move the button? You didn't say that. All I see from you is, "move the button" which is up against the request from the business guy that reads, "add the 4th option to the drop down and the client will pay us $50K more". Want to guess what is going to make the next sprint?
Maybe because "considered harmful" is an unimaginative title component and a lack of thought in the title might be indicative of a lack of thought in general.
Some people are less sensitive to caffeine. Maybe you're one of those.

Personally I'd like to try it, but it's prescription-only where I live...
In theory, something similar can be developed for any operating system IMHO, OpenBSD or otherwise. What varies is the amount of technical difficulty involved.
7 minutes? I guess anything is better than nothing. However:

Reddit motto #1 - lawyer up and hit the gym.

Reddit motto #2 - Squats, bench, and dead lifts.

I always thought it was a running Reddit joke. However, after going to the gym for years and not seeing wow-type results, I gave #2 a try. After 3 months of it, I have to be honest and say that I'm pretty impressed with the results. I've lost a lot of fat and am far stronger and fitter. But 7 minutes? No. My normal sessions are around 2 hours. A podcast or two, and time flies.
Yes, but he is wrong about isolation levels. At serializable you will get a serilization conflict.
What were the success metrics?
I lift weights 3 times a week, and I have the slightly more trendy, modern version of the Unix beard.

Maybe we need a name for it. Are there any modern technological paradigms that involve close-cropped beards rather than the flowing Unix beard?
I'm not sure what you're doing with 20kg.
Those kind of companies nearly always fail. Engineering feels like the engine room on the Titanic, C levels escaping with lucre while the boilers are stoked.
> Now, moving this specific button 3px to the left could be as easy as a `margin-left: -3px` or some other simple line of code, but that is a hack/code smell that will be met with contempt from everyone who looks at it in the future

Yep, that's a compromise. But if it makes the product better overall, it must be done. If the designer says so, I believe them -- and if I say that a designer's request would lead to a significant setback for our production schedule, they believe me. It's not the matter of designer/developer interaction, it's the matter of product value.

I too abhor such things, but when a designer asks for it, I do "position: relative; left: 3px;". This is exactly what relative positioning was made for, and it makes the developer's intent obvious.
Is Portal considered more mainstream than a straight-up shooter? I would think that most run-of-the-mill COD or Battlefield players would stay away from the quirky, puzzle-y nature of Portal.
I'm a programmer and a shitty designer. While I can get 'minified'/simplified designs, I could never (at least not without a lot more practice) get to the point where I'm creating beautiful works of art out of my UI. Sometimes I see designs that are just so fantastic - this has happened so many times in history that those designs become fads to standards and then 'old' (see Flat UI). I think a designer's job is equally hard, and when there is no innovation or problem solving (you're not creating something unique - following the fad?) then it's along the same lines of using pre-existing software and making only small changes to it to make it useable for you (Wordpress plugins and themes).

TL;DR: Good designers who create new or unique works are different from designers who follow the trends and make similar/copy-cat designs. Just as a programmer who uses pre-existing software is different from someone who is building one from scratch.
250-300bpm is an insane heart rate. Maybe a male twenty-three year old track star could pull that, but most of us have a MHR between 150-200.
I'm more surprised these days when there isn't a subreddit for something...
I co-founded my first startup at 19, and several more before I was 25. I've done a couple since. I'm now nearly 39. Not had the big payoff, but I'll try again sometime.

To me, it feels like the biggest thing is the combination of willingness to take risks coupled with outlook on life and experience.

At 19 I had no business experience, no experience at the business I went into (4 of us started an ISP), had never set up a router or a Linux server. We all had to learn everything from scratch. I ran board meetings, did phone sales, configured Cisco routers, took support calls from users using Trumpet Winsock - a program I'd never seen on anything but screenshot - using Windows 3.x, an OS I'd never spent more than 10 minutes consecutively with. I negotiated with suppliers, and creditors at times. I negotiated contracts with partners. And so on.

Five years later, I knew just how unprepared we had been. Had I known what I did then about how tough it was at 19, I would likely not have started the company (but had I known what it led to in terms of contacts and opportunities - I still would have; did not get an exit, but it still paid off). Had I had the knowledge and experience I have now on the other hand, with the willingness to take a risk and life situation I had then, I'd have jumped right into it.

What has changed apart from having had 20 years to learn is partly that I make far more money and have far greater outgoings, and a family. I can't take the same risks, and my potential loss if a company can't pay a good salary is far greater.

I'm also more risk averse simply because my experience makes me far more likely to spot fatal problems with many potential startups I might have jumped at in my youth. But of course there's also the risk that I'll overlook things because of changes in perspective or because I misjudge the risks, or because I would have gotten lucky if I'd taken the risk.

Another major change is simply life outlook. While I was never the totally reckless type, and never all that obsessed with money, today the money just isn't particularly important. I want enough to ensure security, and it'd be nice to have enough to just work on my own projects, but I don't particularly care if I get rich. That changes my assessment of any startups drastically - I'm no longer prepared to jump at an opportunity to get rich if it's not something I'm sufficiently excited by. I don't feel I'm in a hurry to prove anything. I have what I need, and then some. I'm far more secure in myself in every way than I was at 19. I'm not going to pretend like I wouldn't love to get that multi-million exit, but it's not something that matters to me now (I'm sure it'd matter to me if it happened, though).

Instead, what I do think about, are ideas that fascinates me. And some of those ideas have been germinating for 20 years. Maybe none of them, nor any new ideas will ever click. If so, no big deal. But if something "clicks" I am vastly better prepared, and I believe I'd be far more likely to succeed.
If I can't download at least a demo, let alone the source it will take a lot of convincing to get me to use something.
I used truBrain (Piracetam) religiously for a 1 month and felt zero effects whatsoever.
Laundr (drycleaning and delivery app for suits)
Yes, Hitler was well-known for treating people equally.
The Book of Mormon – By Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Oh, thank you both for your quick responses. So he really did a good job to solve the pains of his potential customers. Now the question becomes: how WP got so many consultants in the first place? But that's out of the scope of the parent posting, it still within the scope of the OP though, :)

Based on my experience, it's very hard for people to accept something new in the first place, for example, when WP was introduced. And this is still happening now. Once a group of people accept a new concept, building on top of it to improve the system is a little easier.
If it's such a big deal, just say no. I think the article would, too, argue "why you shouldn't move that button 3px to the left if it makes you rebuild the whole screen".
I wouldn't have put it quite that way, but I predominately agree.
KISS.

Dropbox and a password-protected spread-sheet. You may want to encrypt it further depending on your needs.

Edit: You may not even need drop-box if you have some sort of shared repository you use (which most do).
A while ago there was talk about buying PCs without Windows pre-installed. I walk through the "Office Technology" section these days and all I see is Windows 8 PCs and laptops. There are some Android tablets in the mix.

The only way for me to get a OS-free PC is to build it myself. I don't know many people who just want to do their business accounting who would be happy building their own PC.

If the customer is already using Windows, why not write or port software for their platform? Surely it's better in the long run to keep using the existing hardware as much as possible, rather than switch platforms every few years?
Without context, that has got to be one of the most utterly bizarre headlines in history. Just imagine someone from 1980 trying to decipher what it means. :-)

About the only person who would believe it could be a genuine headline in 2014 would be Isaac Asimov - but his interpretation of what it meant would be... quite different.
Look at the numbers for credit card debt alone if you're unconvinced.
Yes, it is true for all databases which do not take table level locks. In PostgreSQL you can increase the isolation level to serializable and get an error when this happens instead of incorrect query results, not sure about MySQL.
Sorry about that. Your post got me all worked up!
The author certainly implies that those charges are false.