skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think on a OEM Win8 system with an embedded product key, you are supposed to install Win8 Core first, then enter the Win8 Pro product key after setup. Do you mean that Win8 setup still prompted for a product key? I believe there are utilities to find the embedded ACPI MDSM key if you need to. On the solution you found, your computer comes with only Win8 Core right, so even if you used ei.cfg etc you'd get only Win8.1 Core, not Pro as your MSDNAA subscription allows.
Bill Gates is not a good example of a college dropout. In his own words:

"I didn’t leave college because it wasn’t suited to me. I left college because I thought I had to move quickly on the Microsoft opportunity. I had already finished three years and if I had used my AP credits properly I would have graduated,” recalled Gates, “I am as fake a dropout as you can get.”"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/luisakroll/2013/01/31/bill-gates...
There's good politics and bad politics. Good politics seems to emerge when people really care about the greater mission, but disagree on how to go about it. It's still frustrating, because there are disagreements to be resolved, but usually you can get everything out in the open if there's good management. Bad politics is when people are out for self-advancement and will continue with disruptive behaviors until terminated. Bad politics tends to be personal, as decisions about unrelated matters become referenda on the people the topics are associated with.

If you don't have the good politics or bad, it means that people don't really care. However, the stakes in white-collar America are usually high enough that the bad kind of politics will typically emerge no matter what.

What I think is important is keeping enough transparency that the good kind of political activity doesn't devolve into the bad kind. That's a fairly common scenario. Usually, people get tunnel vision about the specific victories they need (or think they need) and start lashing out at the people they think are blocking them (often, without telling anyone why they're doing it) when it would be better to figure what the actual conflicts are and how to make everyone win, as much as is possible.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but takes a very narrow view when it says ROI on Health Care costs. I think they overlooked the possibility that healthier employees (and employee's family) could help provide an ROI in terms of productivity?
We already have at least one drug that increases sensitivity to insulin. There's room for improvement, though.

Also, artificial pancreases are in the trial stage.
I think the American model of malls may be over. The model where there are crazy numbers of huge malls everywhere, even in relatively small populations. But malls are still hugely popular.

In Canada, where we have a lot less malls, they seem to be growing more popular. With renovations and extensions being built to attract and accommodate more shoppers. But there aren't that many major malls here, and they stick to major population areas. I'm always surprised the size of malls in small towns when I visit the US. Northwood, Ohio has a population of 5,000. That doesn't seem like it could sustain a mall the size described, even if you include the surrounding area and assume there's no other malls in the area.

I think the model will change, but malls will stay around for a long time. You'll have larger malls servicing more population, rather than malls for every town.
Forcing shopping activity and gathering into indoor brutalist buildings is dying, shopping centers are not. Look at union sq, 4th st, walnut creek, and many others in the sf bay. All are stronger than ever by offering very high end retail mixed with high quality independent offerings and unique chef-driven eateries.

Exactly.

Take for example the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan[1]. It's in the city center, it's visually spectacular, it's unique, and it's a fun place to visit, eat lunch, window shop, or spend (too much) money. It's been around for 150 years which indicates that this is a sustainable model for a shopping mall in a dense & vibrant city.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galleria_Vittorio_Emanuele_II
> Some speakers were even advocating dropping out of High School (!?!?) to work on your startup.

Huh, I hadn't heard that one before.

I do think there's a particular subset of the startup sector, mostly focusing on web, MVPs, and business-model innovation, which has a negative view of academic-anything, whether it's formal education, academic research, even CS as a subject. But it's also worth noting that that isn't the whole of the technology business! Plenty of startup founders not only graduated from college, but even went to grad school (graduating from grad school seems less important than spending a few years there). A number of high-profile startups were formed by grad students or professors as spinoffs of their academic research. A few technologies that were either developed in academia, or are direct derivatives of stuff the founders developed in academia, include PageRank, Mathematica, SPARC, PostgreSQL, Matlab, etc.
You finger doesn't have that kind of fidelity
So she and another woman at work develop a bitter feud in which the other woman has the upper hand. Horvath reinterprets it as sexism and takes it to the press to hurt GitHub. If Horvath were a man, there is no way that HN would show this kind of support.
That's not a mall. It's a collection of restaurants (mostly for tourists). Not a single shop there.
It would be interesting to see some numbers: total in-use square footage in out-of-town malls over time and so on. That would give a better idea as to whether there's an overall trend or not. It's hard to imagine that the Web hasn't caused an overall decline, though.
"Sure, Gates/Jobs/Zuckerberg/etc didn't graduate college." I think their paths are so extraordinary that they shouldn't be mentioned in a career conference! it would be very naive to use them as an example for one's own career choices.
Exactly. Some things aren't just about money.
The thing I found most surprising about this article

>Internet sales reached six per cent of total retail spending in the fourth quarter of 2013

I thought that would be a bit higher.
Tools and culture for No-Email company?
GitHub and TreeHouse have talked here about running companies that largely eschew email.

http://zachholman.com/posts/github-communication/
http://ryancarson.com/post/63593803482/how-to-communicate-in-a-nomanager-company

Both of these use internally built tools.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2011/11/tech-company-implements-employee-zero-email-policy/

These guys use a wiki and chat.

Has anyone here successfully gotten a company to minimize email? Can you talk about the tools and cultural changes and activities that helped you?
Undoubtfully the climate. This leads to Singaporean malls being 100x more interesting, convenient, high-end and better looking than any US mall. Pretty much all large malls have direct or adjacent to public train transport (MRT at Vivo, Ion, 313, nex...), have high-end restaurants, mid-range and fast-food offerings (local and international) and a wider variety of stores. They also have air conditioning, which is pretty much the only reason why all life happens in malls and you can barely walk around on weekends ;)
A woman yelled at you for holding the door for her? Really? What were you wearing? Had you been drinking that day? How long were you dating her?
This was an excellent read. I feel like it's coming from the trenches from someone who's had much experience creating structureless groups....

tldr: the conclusion/action points are:

Principles of Democratic Structuring

1) Delegation of specific authority to specific individuals for specific tasks by democratic procedures.

2) Requiring all those to whom authority has been delegated to be responsible to those who selected them.

3) Distribution of authority among as many people as is reasonably possible.

4) Rotation of tasks among individuals.

5) Allocation of tasks along rational criteria.

6) Diffusion of information to everyone as frequently as possible.

7) Equal access to resources needed by the group.
> I would have no objection if Peter Thiel and others were saying "hey maybe it's not worth all that debt for you to go to a top school." But that's not what they are saying. The message is "college is not worth it at all."

And if that's not a reflection of the SV reality warping bubble I don't know what is. If it's not Tier-1, you may as well not even bother because no-name state school is the same as a G.E.D. in this world view.
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They're not crazy, and it only works if they have more political capital than you do. If I was forced to accept substandard work, and had no other choice but either maintain that bad code, or quit, I'd threaten to quit too.
My autonomous Lego Rover at CeBIT 2014 in pictures
yes, they removed a app of mine that provided skype status information for your account as a widget. Apparently skype did not like that it contained skype in the name of the app (They attached the complaint from skype).

I removed it, it was not worth for me to fight it as it was just my first android app, mostly made as a proof of concept. I sounded like they would have accepted it back if I removed skype from the name.
Using a tiling window manager like Awesome, etc, you can have recent screens show up in the sweet spot and everything else pops back to the periphery over time, etc. And have different behaviors for different virtual screens or pops a window out to floating mode any time.
The 7 Most Powerful Women to Watch in 2014
The amount of unsandboxed code in Chromium is not a whole lot smaller (if at all) than the amount of sandboxed code on a lines-of-code basis. The advantage of sandboxing is that most of the code that directly interacts with content (the rendering engine) is prevented from directly performing malicious actions, assuming the sandbox is secure.
AngularJS isn’t MVC, it’s SDC
15 upvotes disagree with you. It's a denial of life and humanity in the pure interest of the business. It's sick.
Depends; the marital union is unique (in law and practice), and you haven't said whether the other hypotheticals I posited (de facto large equity position, industry expertise, or a tradition of being effectively helpful) may also exist.

Mixing business with family is always fraught with danger. But it works for a lot of startups.

It's often better to formalize roles & titles, to help everyone reach similar knowledge about real power/responsibility – rather than relying on tacit knowledge, which varies with tenure, social skills, and (in the extreme) romantic relationships. But lots of startups have done well with, and even earned praise and fame for, their low-formalities, low-titles, low-hierarchy, environment.
Wyoming rejects science education standards over climate change
I'm white and queer and can assure you that racism and sexism are much more serious problems than homophobia in the US.
Unless you own your own, renting 3D printer time is crazy expensive for building a case for something this big. Laser-cut acrylic is faster, cheaper, stronger, and more precise.
It's the subheading that kills me: : Reality, legislator argues, needs to comport with the state's economic interests.
If US malls want to survive they need to start copying international malls, which are a lot more upscale, better looking (new or significantly renovated) and above all offer a much better mix between entertainment (movie theaters etc) and food (actual restaurants you would WANT to go to instead of chain/fast-food places) as well as stores. The problem with many malls is that they are copy cats of each other. Uninspiring 'practical' architecture, inedible food, the exact same stores at every mall, not much to do besides shopping and having a fast-foody coffee.
To be fair, the drop-out-of-HS talk was from a High Schooler with a "startup", who had dropped out for a well-known (but not YC) incubator. So, he was biased (and unexperienced).
This is interesting. HN tends to sneer at people who formally study business, but comments like these seem to indicate that we actually do desire case study analyses and rigorous academic inquiry into the successes and failures of businesses - the sorts of activities that go into an MBA.
> We keep hearing about how Rust 1.0 is supposedly going to be released sometime later this year. Yet instead of seeing things stabilize, we're still seeing breaking changes like the one mentioned here. It starts to make some people skeptical about when Rust will actually be seriously usable.

It's better to get the breaking changes out of the way soon rather than delay them to later. We intentionally front-load all breaking changes precisely because we want stability soon; that is why there are so many of them recently.

You keep posting this same exact comment over and over in every Mozilla-related thread (even ones unrelated to Rust), without any more evidence that Rust is not headed toward stability.
Why do people keep on using Zuckerberg as an example? Facebook was a social network for college students. If he hadn't gone to college, why would he, and how could he make a website for college students?
ROI based on employee productivity is very much about money.

But you're right, a great employer does care about more things than just money-above-all.
Thiel has been pretty open that he has more of a political problem with higher education: he thinks it turns people left-ish, and therefore he sees it as an obstacle to the advancement of libertarian politics in the next generation. I'm not sure whether it does or doesn't help people's careers is really the main question for him.
I see. So a map implemented using an RB Tree is not abstracting away the implementation?
> In essence, everyone simply looks at the winners and then redefines the 'path to success' to be 'the path they took'.

The classic example is Jim Collins' bestselling business book, Good to Great. The book claimed that certain characteristics of successful companies made them Great.

Inconveniently for Collins, after the book came out, these very same companies underperformed and went from Great to Good.

Of course, he did the statistics backwards. He started with the successful companies and looked for common traits. He should've started with the traits and evaluated how companies with-and-without those traits performed.
Well none of these languages have anything like Lisp's `read`, but Haskell's interactive loop is fairly usable and extensible. You can add vi-like keybindings and interact with other programs like hoogle, which lets you look up things based on types.
Good point. Luckily, if you use an exchange, they should have sorted it out for you already.
Ummm, I kinda explicitly pointed to the Irish having a distinct culture that people celebrate.

And where did I say people are responsible for the misdeeds of their ancestors? You definitely aren't responsible, but you do benefit disproportionally from a long history of oppression. You shouldn't feel guilty, but you should be aware of it.

Nor was I saying we should be overly attentive to race, I'm simply saying that acknowledging someone's race isn't racist. And I hate to break it to you, but yes people do have a shared experience based on their skin color. Whether you're black and 8th generation American, or you're from Africa, there is a shared experience in the way you are perceived and treated in a society dominated by "white culture."

You sound like every defensive white dude ever who can't handle the fact that just maybe our society is built around us. You are the one who is erasing culture.

Seriously watch that video I linked (better yet, watch the whole movie).
They do make sense for many users, and they are the closest you can find to a proper graphical representation of languages. When I add a language that I know to be official in several countries, I look at my analytics to see where most users come from and use the flag from their country. I can't remember a time where it did not also match the country with the most speakers.
I think that is a pretty jaded statement.

What if instead of being able to get a CS degree, degrees in engineering were required to be spun around a topic. So that you left college with a degree in "Mid Nineties Adventure Games".

On the surface you might examine this course of study to be completely useless. Very few adventure games exist any more. But to spend 4 years trying to truly understand the topic you would have to learn to code to see how that code interacts with visual and artistic objects to understand the history of the business model and examine ideas of story and context and finally to understand why the industry moved passed it.

No one would expect that you would go out and build your own game, but in that course of study maybe you discovered that there was a piece you were good at , the code and that in understanding it through the vehicle of something you were interested in you found a passion for a profession.

Would you say that people with that degree that went on to work at X big startup were doing it because they had no other options?

No you would say "wow she's a brilliant coder.... and a little weird if you get her talking about adventure games"

Maybe the realities are that we need to make CS, that is basically vocational training, have a little more liberal arts to it.
Structurelessness is a bad idea. It's taking some good concepts (open allocation, self-direction) too far. It means that management is lazy and absent rather than aware, principled, and effective. Open allocation still requires management to keep it open.

Closed allocation is worse and basically terrible, because there's an inherent conflict of interest between people and project management. Advocating for 10 people, and having to make those 10 people deliver on a specific executive mandate, has a person serving two masters. It might be that the best thing for a person is to change projects, but that conflicts with the manager's need to manage up and won't happen.

You still need people who can protect the good (sheepdogs). Always. I don't care how flat an organization is, there has got to be someone who, if harassment occurs or someone is impeding others' work, says "Not fucking acceptable". The problem is that it's really hard to give someone that power and not have it be abused.
When only one side of the story is presented, it leaves everyone to piece it together and look at what was presented critically. If we just take whatever anyone says at face value when they aren't disclosing everything, we are definitely going to make unfair decisions
One Way to Avoid Singletons
There's some good tongue in cheek commentary about the style in this podcast:

http://kunstlercast.com/shows/kunstlercast_111_brutalism.htm...

"Darth Vader" windows :-)

Of course, the host's main concern is about peak oil, so he would have some other things to say about the gradual decline of malls.

I'm not as extreme, but mail order is definitely more economical than frequent commutes to a far away shopping center. I'm glad I live within easy biking distance from an outdoor shopping center, which has many little restaurants (chain & local) to hit for lunch when working from home, as well as a theatre, Target & a "Whole Foods"-like grocery store. I can carry a fair amount of stuff home on bike rack "pannier" bags, and sometimes only get in the car one or two days a week to make an appearance at work. Only the Target has decent bike racks, though. Otherwise, trees and trash cans get pressed into service :-)
If they aren't mining enough to cover electricity costs then they either live somewhere with really expensive electricity or have no clue what they are doing. I cover my electricity bill in 4 days of the month. The rest is profit.
I don't know of any data indicating that college "has become a lottery."

Life is a lottery; no one is guaranteed health, let alone financial stability or success. College is part of life so it can't guarantee success either.

But in every study I've seen, people who complete college are more likely to achieve financial stability than those who do not. So, if it is a lottery, it's one that is biased toward the student.
Thanks for pointing me to PlainTasks, I don't really like bloated TODO apps so I'm usually just using a text file, that one's perfect for me.
U.S. malls do tend to have movie theaters. But they aren't going to pay high rent to get into a mall if there is open commercial land anywhere nearby.

It's a similar thing with decent restaurants, they don't necessarily gain much from the association.

I saw a thing in a local paper that the bankrupt mall should 'bring in' good stores. Of course this is backwards, the stores mentioned in the comment have no interest in running a store in a run down mall in a small market.
this is a dramatic title for an old policy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_space_rationing
> This is the point that stands out for me. That the wife is not an employee of Github but claims to be able to access private company chat records, and also is able to "work" from within the office and interact with the staff.

Completely ridiculous and unprofessional.

But, not sexist. Just terrible.
Hmmm I use RVM for gemsets. Managing and being able to switch between different sets of potentially conflicting sets of gems is a huge use case for RVM!
I love that this uses the FF6 victory theme
> This is, sadly, the best thing to do because you don't know who is going to take offense.

I know you mean well, but your sadness to me belies some ignorance about what it's like to be a woman working in a male dominated field. You'd like to live in a world where you can casually watch beautiful people doing beautiful things. I don't begrudge you that, and I wouldn't accuse you of sexism.

That said, I have zero interest in watching women hula hoop at work. None. Not because I am incapable of enjoying a show like that, but because I desire so deeply to work in an environment where woman can just kick ass at their jobs without having to deal with sexual politics. We're nowhere near that point as a culture, but that's where I want to be.

So I'm not sad that I can't watch women hula hoop at work. I'm really excited to have positive, professional interactions with women at work about their actual jobs.
And you have every right to be grumpy, you're supposed to fix problems engineers create, this is why we don't get mad at you. I feel like there should be no difference between sre/swe. swe's should be responsible for the problems they create. That's how it worked at my previous jobs.
Westfield is a mall brand/company. There isn't just ONE Westfield mall.
You are right, for this demo the title is a bit misleading. Haven't really thought about it. However, my plan is also to create something similar to you at a later stage. To control one website with the remote, which will control the browser via a extension.

What is your setup?
It seems like this is one big false dichotomy. A venture funded startup doesn't have to be a death slog. Some people just like working harder than others.

Don't slate them because it doesn't suit you. 100 hour weeks aren't for everyone. The best I can do is ±80 hour week while remaining productive. But I like doing that, and I've done that most of my life.

Yes, there are lots of people who get sucked into the image and don't know what they're getting themselves into. The same goes for boring career paths at one of the big accounting firms.

Funded startups can be fun. Working super hard can be fun. Doing something that other people think is cool (glory) can be fun. It's great that you're doing well with a relaxed bootstrap approach. It doesn't mean you have to force that as the only option. Horses for courses.
I use rbenv because projects want different versions of ruby, and being able to switch without thinking is very helpful. It's not like I'm lacking up to date copies of Ruby on Arch either.