skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use OpenRefine fairly often and I find it great when I need to normalise (millions of rows of) raw data. But it's not a data analysis tool and you'll inevitably need another tool to create charts for example.
I am by no means a supporter of Prop 8, but while it did propose removing rights gained through a legal process, it did so through another legal process! Isn't that how democracy should work? You seem to be implying that any rights that have been ever been gained through a legal process should not be removable again, even if that process is legal too.
> I have a sense of humor. Really I do.

The problem is that very few of the jokes that any of these companies pull are even a little humorous.

There have been a few funny/clever ones, but they're the 1%.
Sorry to get off topic here for a moment. OP, it was recently suggested that you start writing a post for open-source projects looking for help. Is this something you'd consider? I can chat with you about it at <sir@cmpwn.com> if you like.
> Over the past forty years, the rise in price for the median car sold in the US has far exceeded inflation.

That's just one of many of potential examples. Are you suggesting that automation drives consumer prices up? Why would any industry automate more if they believed that in the long run, it would drive their costs up?

> ...thus your conclusion that it benefits "society as a whole" can be disregarded.

Perhaps "society as a whole" was the wrong phrase. I mean the group of people that encompasses more than just the specific workers in the industry undergoing automation. For example, the Americans who work as bank tellers compared to the Americans who access ATMs.
Not yet. Give it some time.
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Because in this position, he's a visible public figure and community leader, and in the past he's been actively campaigning for the removal of certain civil rights from members of the organisation he works for.

In my opinion, that requires an apology and public statement that such policies will not be promoted as part of his work with Mozilla. If that isn't forthcoming, it seems perfectly reasonably to perform "civil disobedience" as it were.
I don't know that I agree with this. I do like your analogies, especially the Valentines Day one for people who aren't romantic the rest of the year, but companies do have to act serious most of the time. April fools feels like the day they can "let their hair down" and be a little goofy. I think you can see some of the culture of the company exposed in that moment, and I like that.
Microsoft announces OWA for Android, Coursera's app coming this Friday
Yeah I'm not sure I would try it...but others have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzI-Cd3SYVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3U-mlGa7M8
QA / PM routinely underestimate how much inefficiency having developers blocked while they deal with queries from QA/PM generates.
Well it shows how wealthy you are on a global scale. I expect the average westerner on $32,000 wont realize they are in the top 1% (globally). It's certainly interesting to think about, you then realize just how much money (and power) the super rich have.
> And what if it's something you need to use
> once in while? Why a throwaway email address?

Then I use it once in a while, but I'm prepared to abandon the email address. "Throw away" doesn't mean that I use it once and can't use it again. If I find that the service is useful and trustworthy then I continue to use that address and promote it into full service.

>> "I don't trust Twitter"

> You don't try, or you just leave after finding
> out that the app can follow/post tweets?

I don't understand your question, but I'll try to guess at what you might mean. To put it simply, I don't trust Twitter, nor apps that insist that use Twitter as an authentication method. They end up being able to post as me, or read my tweets, or read my DMs, or whatever. I won't allow that, and I don't have time to chase down what they may or may not do.
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You're reading stuff that clearly wasn't in my comment. I just said I didn't want to spend extra hours on something that is just a one day joke when I have proper bugs to fix.
I'm probably not clear enough in the blog post: The intention is to use Twitter as a news source, i.e. crawl and index top URIs (which can be any type of news, blog and other content). The underlying idea is that URIs on tweets give a good sample of _all_ overall knowledge production per day.

There are also of course some benefits of having all the interaction happen between you and your device that I haven't talked about in the blog post, e.g. increased privacy (no data collection), lower latency (disk seek on a mobile or tablet SSD - 100 microseconds) - is roughly 1000 times lower than the latency of accessing 3G or 4G can be (up to hundreds of milliseconds)
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I assume someone took a huge list of emails and ran them through the Coinbase API as described in https://hackerone.com/reports/5200 and retrieved their full names, and is now scaremongering. I do not think they are enumerating users from the coinbase database, but who knows.

edit: The recent adobe email list comes to mind.
You're me almost a decade ago. A couple semesters into college, I picked up a part time role as a junior developer. Since, like you, I had already been programming for years, I exceeded expectations and became highly valued by my employer. Part time became full time, and I started to make a lot of money for a college kid. At the same time, I was learning so much from my work that school seemed to wane in utility, really only complicating my work schedule where I was being paid well to enrich the exact skill-set I wanted from the beginning. Finally, I decided to quit school.

I continued in that position for a total of four years. Another five years and several positions later, I am doing quite well for myself, especially compared to my peers, graduates and non-graduates alike.

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As former R&H employee, do you find blender to be usable or are there big missing features? Does it's open source nature make it more usable because you can patch whatever you want, or are things like Maya customizable enough? Blender and Maya are both scriptable in Python. Blender uses Python 3. Would you say Python 3 was a good decision?
It lowers the overall productivity, because the people who most need to be left alone are the people who do most of the work. Worse, it's a long-term detriment to each developer's individual capabilities, as it trains them not to use google or read documentation.

You can still interrupt someone without an open plan office, there's just a slightly higher bar that prevents most people from asking the knuckleheaded questions, and keeps constant non-conversational visual and auditory distractions to a minimum.
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Some context: Appie Durán (https://twitter.com/AppieDuran) is the dog of Eloy Durán (https://twitter.com/alloy), the original author of CocoaPods.

Credit goes to Florian R. Hanke (https://twitter.com/hanke) for exploiting this weakness of sans-serif fonts.
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We'll see what comes out this year, but I generally think there is always at least a few smirk/smile inducing pranks every year. Where when you read the headline, there is at least a half-second where your mind believes it...
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Quoting myself[1] from a few days ago:

I think that him wishing to write off a class of people as of lesser standing is a bit disingenuous. Unfortunately, marriage has become a mix of religious, economic, and legal meanings. In my experience, it isn't so much hating another group so much as feeling like something sacred to them is being coopted and horribly distorted. Having something with the same economic and legal standings but not called marriage generally seems fine by them.

The problem, I think, stems from the fact that we have mixed a religious and legal concept into one. I do realize that some people who fight against gay marriage do it with much vitriol and disgust for gay people, but has Mr. Eich done anything more than donated to a political cause he supports? I'm all for gay marriage, but we unfortunately have a complicated issue that cannot simply be painted as "He hates gay people and wants to deny them their rights" - Why? We don't know his true beliefs as he hasn't shared them with us, and he hasn't demonstrated any further malice. Now unless he starts using the bully pulpit of his CEO position to espouse hatred or otherwise attempts to hurt another group through his position, we should really just let it drop.

Besides, he created Javascript. We have more important things to hate him for.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7462670
I think the point of contention is that there isn't really such a thing as a completely language-neutral bytecode, so nobody can agree on whose language-specific-js-replacement vm to ship.
It would be interesting to try to reduce the cost of the cars down to some sort of per mile driven figure.

(Of course it would be messy because of insurance and driving habits and better technology and such, I just figure it would do a better job of taking any difference in delivered value into account)
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That tends to be my experience as well; IM, while more "urgent" than email, is also not as distracting as being physically interrupted - it's a lot easier to ignore an IM or email than someone standing beside you waiting for you to finish whatever you're doing.

Some companies use IRC on their intranet; that's a setup I've used, and I found it useful and not very distracting.
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In my experience they were the lazy ones.

See what I just did there?
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> do you remember the times you interrupted someone else and saved valuable time?

No, because I've never been so at a loss for things to do that I couldn't do something else productive while waiting for an email or IM question/answer response cycle to continue.

Interrupting is rude, full stop. Like other instances of rude behavior, it should not be undertaken lightly.
Hey everyone, hope your April is off to a killer start!

Like in last month's Who is hiring I wanted to share all our numbers for complete transparency. March just came to a close and Buffer stands at 1.4M total users served by a small 21 person team spread across 14 cities and 5 continents. 130,000 of our users are actively using the product each month. We generated $350,000 in March, and we have $580,000 in the bank. The average salary at the company is $98,000 and our total funding to date is $450,000 which we raised in December 2011, for which we gave up 14% of the company. I'm sharing all of this because one of the highest values we have at Buffer is to be fully transparent, and I'd love for you to be part of the incredible journey we've embarked upon.

At 16% month over month revenue growth on average in the last 6 months, we're seeing increasing demand to build out the product further and help our fast-growing customer base with all their social media problems. To achieve this, we'd love your help with some interesting engineering challenges.
Do any of these areas stand out for you? I'd really love to hear from you:

- Reliability Hacker (we're sending 450,000 posts to
social networks every day, our architecture is still
not ideal)
- Android Lead (our Android app has half a million
downloads but currently no full-time developer!)
- iOS Hacker (our favorite people who use Buffer are
all crying out for an iPad app)
- Growth Hacker (our landing page conversion is at 7%,
we'd love your help improving it and many other
metrics)
- Frontend Hacker (last month 130,000 people used
Buffer, we'd love to improve our dashboard interface
and extensions for them)

Some of the tech we work with: PHP, Python, MongoDB, AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, Elasticache, SQS), Backbone.js, Grunt.js, Android, iOS).

- We're completely open about salary and equity, in
fact here is a spreadsheet of all individual salaries:
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It's most likely you'd fall into a range of
$85,000-$150,000 and 0.1%-1%.
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The last one was in Thailand in December, our next
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- We have a big focus on culture, that's the main thing
we think about when someone joins the team. Here is
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I'll read through emails with our CTO Sunil, I hope yours might be part of that. Send him a quick note at thenexthacker@bufferapp.com. If you'd like you can check out more details about all the areas we need help with at http://jobs.bufferapp.com

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Impressive that he managed to say so much without mentioning head-of-line blocking, which is the main TCP problem with realtime apps.

This is not due to congestion control, but because of the ordered byte stream semantics of TCP. You can't deliver a packet until the retransmission dance is done for any previous lost packets.

As an aside, these days it's worth noting that a 3G, WLAN or 4G link layer will try very hard not to drop any packets. So when you're doing UDP, watch out for those 40000 millisecond old packets that will burst to your lap once the rain cloud moves away from the cell tower or your co-worker's cocoa blings in the microwave.
I think it signals diversification for Intel; not necessarily a shift away from Windows. Running Windows on ultra-low-end boards like this makes no sense; the license would cost more than the board itself and the board isn't powerful enough to run anything approximating a modern version of Windows. It's an order of magnitude slower than your cell phone.

Ultimately though, the x86 PC (aka Windows) market is not a significant growth market for Intel. They'll keep pumping money into it as long as they get their 3-5% growth, but if Intel wants to move the needle for the company, they need to find new markets.
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Look's like you really have a tough nut to crack here. This is a really tough area as there is so much competition. Your product doesn't have any "I need this right now." It's also something that you really need to figure out who your ideal client.

It's more like:
- I like the ability to view all my invoices anymore but how does it integrate with my QuickBooks, Simply Accounting, etc.
- How do I keep my information in sync between my internal system and this?
- What else is out there - oh look, here's Freshbooks, seems to be really better product

My recommendation is that you need to get more niche on this. For example, let's say companies are using QuickBooks a lot in your area. Maybe they use your site as another frontend to add and view invoices that get pushed to Quickbooks. You make the process ten times easier.

I'm just throwing out ideas here. The main point is that your problem is that you identified an initial potential need but now you need to go out there and actually figure out what the real value of your solution is for companies. There's maybe that extra 2-3 features that it needs that will make somebody want to use it and buy it. I would highly recommend following Steve Blank's approach. Also, check this out - http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/canvas. The book is also worth reading.

Basically, what it comes down to is that at this point you have a nice MVP that you can show potential customers and say "Hey, what's wrong with this? What else does it need to have for it to be useful to you?"
"... the more open the ʺopenʺ plan office environment, the more conducive it is to overall work effectiveness, when communication and interaction are critical elements of the work process. Few jobs or professions donʹt qualify."

If those are the criteria, then I would agree that a shared office space's primary value is certainly to facilitate easy communication. There's very little point in going in to a shared office building if you are not going to be physically communicating with anyone there.

Put another way, and to address your point: you can do (office) work anywhere. A quiet space at home is just as good as one in a shared space for blocking out distraction and doing "heads-down" work. But the differentiating factor in the cases concerning this study (and many tech companies) is effective communication between team members. The study makes the case that open plans are better suited for that.
Great, except your performance evaluation is done individually. Try to explain to your manager that the QA asks you dumb questions incessantly, interrupting any attempt to remain or even begin to be "in the zone".

Non-programmers generally never know how to read whether it is a good time to interrupt or not, unless it's obvious you're just reading an article or something.
Was the Christopher Walken Rex real? looks like a scam. no proof was ever produced that it was actually built. They posted a picture of wood, on a home depot, inside a hardware store. There was no update between the wood picture and completion of the project. They just said it was done and "sorry for the short notice".
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