skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The easy way in the UK is to refuse...

Have you had non-compete clauses? I've been in UK software roles for the last 15(ish) years but never really had a non-compete... always assumed it wouldn't really fly here.

A quick search on the web says this is a grey area - in the UK non-competes are only ever enforcable if the business can prove loss beyond simply increased competition. A generic non-compete seems worthless.
If I implied that I did not mean to. Effective "alternative" treatments are absorbed in to mainstream medicine and become standard practices. I could see chiropractic being on-par with orthopedic physical therapy if they were to disavow the pseudo-science plaguing the field.
I'll give another way to look at it. Good design is by no means the same as optimal design. A lot of beautiful designs done by talented designers end up being worse than what was before. They might be prettier, but they are very likely worse by many conversion metrics.

Don't think of it in terms of pure design. Think of it in terms of cost. Everything has a cost and sometimes good design's real cost is in user behavior. Pageviews and time on site could go down because people aren't going through so many steps to get to what they want. There are a lot of metrics that aren't that useful without the context of the ultimate conversion numbers for your site/app/product/project.

Facebook and Google are advertising companies. The financial metric they care about is advertising revenue per user and number of users. It's not much different than a SAAS app in that way. Other metrics are important, but that is the metric that pays the bills.

A beautiful design that doesn't improve the core metrics is like a multi million dollar super bowl commercial that flops. Sure, it might be really cool and well produced, but if it doesn't sell your product, you might as well light that money on fire. The net effect is the same.
Seconded. From what I have seen in terms of research and experienced, eating vegetables is pretty much the only thing we know for sure is a safe bet. There are tons of controversial things that can be debated, but I have never seen any credible source say "eat less veggies".
Ask HN: Possible to know everything in a computer system, like in old days?
There was a similar topic on HN about trying to know everything in a modern computer system, like in old days with those simple CPUs and simple devices .. But now even an OS developer can't become expert in every components due to the complexity of modern computer systems. I am wondering is there any effort that tries to help people get there? OS development and source code explanation tutorials are very good examples, but most of them are really really old and focused on basic functionality..
Discover Meteor is great - another recommendation.

Recently rebuilt a client app in Meteor, ran into a few hurdles that I think are just part of the learning curve.

A few times I have come to the github wiki page & found some helpful tips: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki

http://www.meteorpedia.com/ is in pretty active development, lots of links and the guys who run it are active on the Google Group also.
Show me a "Save" icon that doesn't _still_ look like a floppy disk. Until then I'll take my text labels.
Multiple Pinterest Accounts Hacked, Flooded With Butt Pics
Don't tell me about bill or rights or democracy anymore.
New Wearable Antenna For Health Monitoring
Thanks! Changes will be made.
I went to look it up and saw I was missing a part of the story. They first released the game as a flash mini-game called Radical Fishing. The whole strange story is here:

http://www.polygon.com/2012/10/5/3461458/cloning-case-files-...
The underlying assumption being something like "If you're not increasing the amount of money you make, you are of no value"

Facebook says it's values are connecting people and other helpful ideas for a reason. If they created a design that helped people connect more fluidly, it'd still be valuable, even if it didn't increase their revenue. I find your comment a bit cynical and oversimplified.
Sure, but my point is that this doesn't qualify as a "resource heavy game" at all.
Will get stronger but as you can see not strong at the moment :)
HTML layout is not super-fast on low-end phones, and due to marketing stupidity those phones have 4-8 slow cores instead of 1-2 fast cores. I imagine Servo could do well there.

Drastically changing the HTML standard would take even longer than developing Servo.
For sure - there is a wide variety of human experience, and each of us understands our own. By understanding ADHD, I was talking about the causes and the nature, not the experience.

If drugs are the only way someone like you can lead a happy life, then you should be able to use them.
That is a good suggestion for me, but it doesn't fix anything.

I want to read interesting, comprehensive, and nuanced comments. My voting won't change that.

The reason HN moved to blind voting was because there was ugly complaining about high karma users. HN should have hidden the usernames rather than the votes. The Economist works this way.

My new theory is that HN should exploit the Hawthorne effect. Basically change the rules constantly to get the best results.
WOW. This is a lot to work on. I will get to work on the layouts and yes there are some UX issues I need to fix tonight! Datepitcker looks good too.
You're right if you live somewhere without a retail outlet, but if you live in a city with an Apple store it's a wonderful experience.

I took my laptop in at 6:30pm on a Friday night, the day before flying out to China when "service battery" started showing. I had my laptop back, with a new battery installed at 6:50pm same day.
Threes certainly wouldn't no. But the ease of development and small size of the lost market makes it a pretty easy choice for many developers.

Even finding a way to test software on iOS 5 or 6 is a huge pain. Apple makes it very difficult to test on anything other than the latest version unless you happen to have a device with that OS laying around.
If it's unpaid, then he should be getting lots of educational value even to the extent that it interferes with the business of the employer. I'm not making that up, it's one of the requirements of an unpaid internship [1]. If he's not getting education out of it, then he's working for free and he should not be working for free.

So the best strategy is to sit down with the boss and outline a plan that either a) clearly explains the things that your friend is going to learn during this internship (and it is an internship) and a timeline for learning them.

That's a lie, actually; the best strategy is for your friend to find somebody who's willing to pay him money for services rendered. But assuming for some terrible reason he absolutely has to stay with this startup, then he should figure out what he's going to get from it and the timeline for said getting.

[1]: http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm
To me, as an adult, getting a diagnosis on ADHD was a godsend. However, after a couple of years, I see the drug's affects waning. I can also see how damaging this dependency creation can be for children.

Fortunately, when I was a child back in India, ADHD was virtually unknown (probably the case today as well). Most of the time, my parents chalked off my inattention to "lack of discipline" and were happy as long as my grades were good. I found the coursework very easy (despite studying for only 1-1:30 hrs a day) and topped most of my classes.

University here in he U.S wasn't hard either. My problems started once I started working. Couldn't code continuously for more than 15-20 mins at a time. Things got boring very quickly once I got the "aha". I couldn't hold a lot of program state in my head. I was always searching for that "flow" people often talked about.

Adderall really helped me. I use it very sparingly these days (especially on days that I have to code some important pieces) though.

Bottomline, looks like this is purely genetic and fixing the dopamine pathways isn't exactly like curing malaria, you can juice things up but the brain will want more. Parents can choose to give it to their children but they'll suffer some time down the road. I'd rather let the kid enjoy childhood and help him in other ways (exercise, note-taking, engaging activities etc) and put him in a reasonably good path to success. Let them take drugs if necessary once they've wised up as adults.
Nothing really made me not like Jobs previous to this but I feel the same way, this was his doing and it changed my opinion of him. However I never thought he treated Woz right and that should have been a tell on how he saw engineers no longer working with him.

High talent fields do seem to get pretty sport/league like where talent are locked in by agreements/contracts, only here the companies got the sole benefit. Maybe we need a Programmers League with free agency.
What are the biochemical markers for ADHD, and how are they tested for during diagnosis?

To my understanding, they are not, which makes ADHD a psychological condition.
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I always thought collusion was one of those things for which executives could be personally prosecuted and jailed if they were found guilty, but I'd guess it depends on the jurisdiction.
You seemed to be implying that he must have known that there was a link between 1024 and Threes and therefore the term rip off was suitable.
I'd like to read more about the structural brain differences, if you've got links.
Threes is a significantly deeper game than 2048 - see for instance this thread on reverse engineering the gameplay mechanics: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=3133680&postcou...

This is something the developers are known for. Greg's earlier game, Ridiculous Fishing, not only had it's own internal Twitter app ("Byrdr") with it's own ARG mini-game - including a fake website with SQL injection vulnerabilities and a voicemail hacking sidequest.
I am really curious about this as well. I would be surprised if there is no YC alum with the opposite opinion. Even if they are wrong in their conclusion, I would be very interested to see a reasoned negative perspective on the value of YC as well to shape my personal evaluation better. It'd be awesome if a founder in that position volunteered publishing something, even if it's published anonymously.

(If anyone has a link to such a writeup, that I may have missed, please comment!)
"Since the image returned is always going to be a face, they'll always kind of be right"

So, non-falsifiable...?
I really like the idea of introducing some form of randomness to prevent gaming, social stratification, and other unintended consequences.

My immediate thought is to suggest some type of majority voting and maybe even random bagging -- e.g., show the "endorse" link to a few random users (or groups of users) and endorse any comment that gets majority vote.
Flexboxes don't really help. The reason that floats exist is so that elements can flow around them.
Man, I really like this comment.

And I realize that sentence alone is pretty pointless, so I'll expand on it a little:

One of the huge sources of cognitive dissonance I have in HN and startups in general (and this is coming from someone who is explicitly not a startup/SV person, though I find it a great spectator sport and a wonderful font of knowledge) is the clash of lean against polish. I felt like I've spent the majority of my life indoctrinated to believe that polish above all else is valuable: to spend hour after hour poring over iteration after iteration, to settle with nothing except perfection. This manifests in a few ways: Pixar, for example, calls it something along the lines of 'dusting under the cabinets': making sure each aspect of each scene is absolutely pristine.

And then there's sort of the 'great is the enemy of good' / 'fail fast' / etc line of thinking: get something out the door, optimize for value over time, focus on efficacy. Which has seemingly become trendier than ever -- partly because it clearly works, and because of the undeniable numbers that people rarely buy goods and services because of, say, the fonts -- but an annoying little part of me cringes when I see a new service that doesn't even bother to customize the default Bootstrap theme.

Most times, Ii's hard for me to reconcile these two seemingly distinct philosophies because they seem at so odds with each other. I'm beginning to suspect that the truth lies somewhere in the middle: that there's a time and a place for prioritizing growth and validation above everything, and that there's a time and a place for prioritizing perfection over everything.

Threes succeeded because of a relentless pursuit of quality -- and because of an addicting core concept that arose from that pursuit.

2048 succeeded because it of its price and accessibility, because it was easily hackable, and because it could spread like wildfire. (But then, it also succeeded because of Threes.)
As a man who is safely out of the closet for quite a while now, has seen the scourge of AIDS amongst my circles of friends, and has spent a great deal of time effort and money educating and promoting safer sex... this is disheartening.

And I realize we're pretty safe from violent gay-bashing here in SF, but this would be a terrifying map to see in less tolerant regions. Even as it is I fear that it'll be immediately passed about amongst religious zealots as the Map of Depravity.

We've got a long way to go. :-/
Wow. That's more than 20 floppies!
The loss of self esteem resulting from how school treats kids is due to a fault with school, not with the kids.
Yes, but as long being a dick is concerned Jobs was class apart.
Planning? No. But have they implemented a system to guarantee compliance with such an order? Doubtful. It's almost assured, through the inefficiency of bureaucracy, with the help from the fallibility of humans, that this name will not be completely expunged for quite some time.
Who said anything about ancestry? The developed western world bias on HN is disturbing.

What you eat depends on what you can get from the land you live in. You can't grow much above 4,000 meters or near the arctic, obviously. Indians are mostly vegetarian because you can grow alot in India, the much of the rest of the world isn't so lucky (I always crave veggies whenever I tour in high country because they are so unavailable).
> intentional and exceptional

How obvious was it that it was a mistake by an FBI agent? Does the DOJ intentional defending a mistake count as exceptional enough?
Surely the conduct should also include the government's egregious behavior during the case?

If in a regular civil suit, one of the parties spent several years lying and making shit up and had absolutely zero case when all was said and done, surely the judge would take whatever opportunity was available to penalize that party and make whole the other party?
technically speaking?

as a fellow dev with feet traditionally in both worlds (indie and startup), i can heartily say "meh" about both the rant and its the whole "ripoff" thing. you are absolutely correct about the indie guys being different from startup guys by wanting:

1) enough money to keep doing what they love.

2) recognition for what they do.

the threes guys? in the ios app store, their app was in the top 100 grossing list for a month and are still top 300. they've ranked #1 in downloads in 28 countries. and they're still crushing it on downloads.

http://www.appannie.com/apps/ios/app/779157948/rank-history/...

the 1024 guys? their downloads suck. their ratings are a full point worse. they're only lifting to the top 100 in countries that traditionally don't monetize worth beans anyway.

http://www.appannie.com/apps/ios/app/823499224/rank-history/...

yeah.

i choose data over ranty "you hurt my feelings" stuff every time. and, based on said hard, objective data, the threes guys are doing just fine.

*edit - i missed that last '0' on their top grossing stat. whoops.
According to this ergonomic workspace planner[1] for my height of 1.75m (5'9") I want a keyboard height of 660mm when sitting, and 1080mm when standing. The StandDesk min/max is 711 to 1143mm, so the upper bound is fine, but a bit high for me when sitting.

In fact, according to [1] a keyboard height of 710mm is only suitable if you are at least 1.88m (6'2") so you have to be pretty tall.

The stroke of the StandDesk is 432mm, and I need 420mm so the range is okay for my height. However if I was 1.85m (6'1") or taller the range would be too small.

Back Designs[2] also have guidelines for adjustable work surfaces and again, the StandDesk ranges are just a bit short.

All in all, it looks like a product with great potential, but perhaps needs the specifications reassessed a bit more in order to be truly suitable to a wider user base.

[1] http://www.computingcomfort.org/create2.asp
or http://www.ergotron.com/tabid/305/language/en-US/default.asp...

[2] http://www.backdesigns.com/Desk-work-surface-height-W144.asp... towards the end of the page.
I read that the Office branch of Microsoft allows exactly zero libraries and lines of code that they do not control. They use their own C-compiler, everything. That also means that they first need to copy Metro before they are prepared to use it. I can imagine that is quite a big task.
Modern apps don't have a save function. There's no need for it.
Here are my current Dropbox pet peeves:

- You can't share an arbitrary folder with someone, only a top-level one

- You can't share app folders

- App folders are buried in the Apps folder (duh). So, you can't use an arbitrary one with an app

Does this address any of these? I think all three issues could be really elegantly solved like this: do away with the concept of an app folder, and similarly with the top-level sharing restriction. Instead, give me an access control dialog for any folder. This would let me share with both apps and other users.
HTML: name vs. id
Who's the "Johnny" mentioned in a couple of the emails? Another game developer?
I lived in China for a couple of years and found the same, but I don't think our experiences would be representative of those of the average mainland Chinese male.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_R_(Leading_Us_Along)

"The song was written about a friend of the Loeffler brothers, who was misdiagnosed with ADHD, and developed an addiction to Ritalin. As a result, he would often do crazy and odd things, such as drive around aimlessly for hours, determined to hear a specific song on the radio."

:-(
This is tyranny sneaking up on us one "No-XYZ list" at a time.

They can put you on it for any reason (lets say you oppose one of the Govt. policies - Drone Bombings for example), you will be unable to find out why you are on said list or even if you are.

Since you cannot confirm that you are on said list you will not be able to get off it. Your life becomes that much more difficult.

Next you will be put on another "No ABC List" - rinse and repeat until you life is truly miserable with NO recourse (unless you can afford $4 Million) .

If this is not a textbook case for violation of the due process clause then we may as well throw out that whole deal.
What weight did you start at?

200 to 150 would be much more impressive than 300 to 250.
Instead of the GIMP limping along behind PhotoShop, both dragging their decades-old legacy baggage, monolithic architectures, 1990s pricing models, etc., into the foreseeable future, I wish we had something more like Octave, SQLite, or Python: a powerful, faceless dev platform on which to build graphics-processing apps.

Basically, a runtime that holds a GPU-optimal image model (raster layers, vector layers, non-destructive edit management, multi-session undo, etc.), a set of APIs for sending memory-protected commands to the model, and a growing standard library of routines that have proven useful (network comms for offloading some processes or results to "the cloud", input/output codecs, CSS3, whatever). It would have a relatively easy to use scripting language with some built-in data types such as layer, region, vectorPolygon, gradient, font, etc., plus the usual lists, dicts, first-class functions, etc. Scripts that get a lot of use could be reimplemented in C, etc.

Developers could wrap whatever GUIs they wanted around this engine, creating easy consumer apps such as a slideshow or a camera-to-computer file importer with a magnifying glass and a keep/delete shortcut, all the way up to building clones of PhotoShop, Illustrator, resurrecting Fireworks, and so on.

Maybe someone would build a GUI builder for it that let you drag image rectangles and buttons into a window and script the whole thing, so non-programmers could create lens comparison apps, blink comparators for comet hunting....

I'd so much rather have a platform like this, where the hardest part--the image engine--would be done by experts, and the apps themselves, the feature sets, the UIs, could then be built by hordes of amateurs.
Do you normally check the size of games?

I wouldn't even think to check that. At 30mb, Threes isn't that big (Retina assets and all). I would certainly understand your point if it was 300, but that doesn't seem excessive.

I can only think of a single game I've run into on my iPhone that surprised me with it's size. I'm not sure what it was (maybe an old version of Scrabble?), but it was a word game that was hundred of megs and didn't have much in the way of graphics.
I'll bite. Where does the imbalance come from?

It doesn't come from not taking your medications.
A much better treatment of the hunt for Satoshi than the Newsweek piece.
I'm concerned that giving comment-approval power to people with x amount of karma will reinforce many of the existing problematic aspects of HN instead of opening it up to better discussion

Given that endorsement is a mechanism which can only reduce the quantity of discussion on HN, it is difficult to imagine that it is designed to open up a discussion to more viewpoints.

I think your choice of "female work experience in technology fields" is interesting because it is one of the few legitimate topics where there isn't widespread agreement on basic foundations around the topic.

Others topics that fall into that category include "The Economics of Bitcoin", "Is Google Evil", "Startup X was bought by large company Y".

There's also a wide range of political & economic topics which are always controversial, but sometimes I question their legitimacy as a topic for HN.

I wonder if these controversial topics should have special handling so far as endorsement (and maybe even voting) on comments goes?
That will be interesting to see if they actually release Office on Linux distros should the Linux desktop become more popular (and that's kind of expected).
there's also a lot of pressure when you're public