skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes yes yes. I could rant forever about this-- it seems like nobody gets why this is bad. It's like everyone forgot what insurance is supposed to be for. You don't get your brakes fixed with car insurance. You don't re-shingle your house with homeowner's insurance. Why would you get vaccines or routine care with health insurance? The fact that health insurance works like this is doubly bad, because not only does it raise the cost of health insurance, it also raises the cost of healthcare itself because consumers are no longer price sensitive at all. If healthcare consumers at large (that actually have money) were exposed to the price of healthcare, hospitals and doctors offices would be forced to compete on price for more routine procedures.

Think about how even complex elective procedures like Lasik or Lipo-suction are comparatively cheap. That's because the providers must compete on price. This could be the case for routine care if healthcare consumers could be exposed to price.
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There's a whole lot of different work schedules for nurses. I never knew until I started rubbing shoulders with a large number of them.
I've got to say, it is definitely refreshing to see a company just quickly give a mea culpa and fix the problem rather than doubling down and arguing about the reasons for the problem to have existed in the first place. I definitely have more respect for them for doing this (even if they should have been doing it all along, at least it's a correct response to the criticism).
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If you don't have the following utterly optimized:

- Nutrition
- Exercise
- Friends (Support Network)

The above will continue to happen. Get healthy, get a tribe. It's not HN, by the way.
I remember we relied a lot on it in the early 2000's, as Wikipedia at that time contained more general information, and susning.nu was useful for more local (to Sweden at least) information.
If that's what you want to call it. I always thought of burnout as not being able or not having the desire to continue keeping up the professional pace that you've been keeping over a long period of time. It doesn't have to include any irrational element, or even explode into a cathartic moment to be burnout as far as I've heard it discussed.

'Succumbing to burnout' I get - 'having a burnout' is not a phrasing that I'm even familiar with.
Cable boxes are nearly 100% remote controlled from the head-end (the management software I'm familiar with is eye-gougingly bad, btw). They can tell a lot about what's going on by looking at the box, and the status and logs it sends up.

You generally can't change the settings on a box because the state is protected from changes (you can break into boxes, but that still won't give you access to the video streams you're not entitled to, since that access is cryptographically protected from the head-end).
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Long hours may contribute to burnout but are not a cause in and of themselves. I tend to work less than 40h a week on my own terms and am still burned out right now.
Because we live in a world that is not homogeneous and are all enriched as a result. Ending up as one's own version of Howard Hughes, locked in a room with a gun and a pile of money, is unappealing to me.
The first thought to cross my mind.
I'm not entirely sure this is an accurate analogy. vendor prefixes solved a need. Why should we be developing to the lowest common denominator?

I think we should also watch out for link-bait SEO headlines such as "Why Webkit is the New IE6 (The Trap of Vendor Prefixes)"...
Nah, I'll back them up--you're wrong.
Umm perhaps. Could you give a use case? Not sure how/why.
This would be a lot more convincing if it explained exactly what is wrong with the designs he dismisses and even more so if it offered a few examples of the kind of design he'd like to see instead.
They're a joke (literally), of course, but the list of vulnerabilities here is pretty interesting.

Predictions:

* Serverside: Heartbleed

* Clientside: Geohot

* Privilege Escalation: evasi0n

* Most innovative: RPW's hardware memory corruption

* Epic fail: ISC2

* Epic ownage: MtGox
PQchat: Another secret chat app
>beautiful

lol
Nope :) Lots of small web resources.
I've had similar frustrations, but I've started to understand it as a matter of visibility bias. There are lots of people out there, doing the good work, doing it well, for the right reasons, in the right ways, without buzzwordy bullshit. But you don't hear about them because... they're working. They aren't promoting themselves. They're just working. It's the asshats who don't know what they are doing, don't have their skills in constant, 100% demand, don't have work to do, that have the time to promote themselves like this.

I've been on a PR bent for the last 6 months. It's a slog. If I don't treat it like a full-time job when I do it, it doesn't go anywhere. And that means my other work suffers. You can't be in two places at one time.

I sometimes rail against the larger market of "DIY" and "Makers" and "Creatives". Most people who would call themselves a "maker" are in-name only. People who actually make things call themselves “postal worker” or "teacher" or "accountant". In other words, we make things as a matter of course and don't use it as a status symbol, as a component of our identity that we need to broadcast to others.

I think it's the same way with Design. There is design in everything we do. "Design" is nothing more than the human condition: impacting upon the environment through your will, through your intention. At least it is to me. If I think of any way that design is different than a monkey throwing shit on the wall, it's intention. Agency. And every man and woman has that. So to call someone a "designer" is a null statement. Designer of what? And how? For whom? And most importantly, by what set of values?

So keep working, and don't let the TEDx asshats get you down.
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So the history of every user agent string ever repeats itself. And they get longer and longer. And we've created a horrible horrible mess.

Ever notice everyone identifies as Mozilla first?

http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
You can't implement a good design by committee...
Hey look at that, Microsoft is doing what it takes to deal with all the crappy mobile developers who don't know how to create web pages.
"There was once a time when design was a vehicle for social change, for political disruption, for speaking up and giving a big “fuck you” to the status quo."

I'm tempted to just say "no there wasn't." There were good designs during times of social change. Feels that this is a general "rising tide lifts all boats" situation, though. Probably more accurate to say survivor bias.

That is, I find it hard to believe that the "designs" truly facilitated these changes, so much as they helped what was already moving. Think of it as the coefficient of friction for moving bodies. The designs and such are enough to overcome the kinetic values, but not static ones.
At least they are accepting it and acting accordingly to where they stand in terms of market share. If you have low single digits of share, this is what you need to do to keep up.
Random things that made me late:

- Being double booked in the first place (clearly)

- Customer has yet to unbox their computer.

- Customer had so much crap installed that simply rebooting took literally 10+ minutes.

- Buildings with slow elevators.

- Having to park 4 blocks away

I blogged another story here: http://blog.preinheimer.com/index.php?/archives/417-My-20-Ti...
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Couple of quick comments on the landing page.

* The content in the video is too small to see what's going on without going full screen and then it's blurry
* The color choices need to be redone

The grey text on grey background in the sidebar and the calendar are nearly impossible for me to read and I don't have an issue with color blindness or anything. There's just not enough contrast and the typeface is very thin/fine.

The red text on the sidebar is glaring and also hard to read. The red chosen is also used in the calendar and makes it difficult to read the date or anything else that might be in the calendar square.

I couldn't get past this to give it a longer look it was just too off putting.
I wonder how well a GoPro would do? They can do 120fps at 720p or 240fps at WVGA.
They may be trying to claim that, but they tried to use the policy to bully a guest into removing his review as recently as 11/21/2013: http://bit.ly/1nkV80v
Just write a sarcastic positive review.
Does Ruby not have a good HTTP library? Why would you ever shell out to curl?
They do blame the reason they didn't do it on the lack of demand from the users.
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I started off following MSP430 but just kind of wanted to make my own thing.
The problem isn't that developers should be developing for the lowest common denominator. It is that the prefixes are not being dropped by websites even after other browsers start implementing the feature, or it's that they continue to use the webkit prefix for new websites.
if the policy is so strict, why not just automate the title extraction?

why give users a title choice and then have mods (who essentially hand-review all submissions) just revert it like robots?
Definitely a side project.
It's exactly the same thing for me in Dutch. There are a lot of articles, sure, but the content is woeful. And there aren't even bots that artificially inflate the numbers there.
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Thanks for this. Design trends really are detached from any sensible reality. They're turning good designs into bad designs whenever a site tries to modernize themselves to match these trends.

Here's my rule for web app design: 90% of the page, by area, should be somehow derived from the app's dynamic content, versus static filler content from the designer, no matter how pretty the filler is.

Second rule: Designers, stop calling your OWN apps sexy or beautiful. Would you walk up to someone that you just met, and tell them that you're beautiful while they're looking directly at you? What the f## are you designers thinking?
There are loads of spelling mistakes - I'd start by fixing "Managment"!
Saying that may make you feel better, but Tony seems to have the better argument. You absolutely can be fired for lawyering up what the founders intended to be a pro-forma restructuring of the shares. You will probably have no recourse when that happens. Assuming you're vesting, like most employees (and founders!) are, getting fired will cost most of your shares.

Talking to a lawyer: good.

Bringing a lawyer into the discussion with the founders: bad.
I wonder if there is an alternative to Wikipedia that doesn't suffer from the same insular type of "Self-Appointed Guardians of the Galaxy"?

I mean one with a more sophisticated system for decision making rather than just bureaucracy, fiefdom, politics, and bribery?
Whenever you get a chance just send a stray pull request :)

I don't - I wasn't really following anything unified. I just pulled together a bunch of crappy web resources :)
Judging from this Yelp review from 2013 I don't think that is the case:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/union-street-guest-house-hudson?hrid...

Seems like they sent harassing emails to people who leave bad reviews letting them know they are going to charge the wedding host
Location: Varies (Currently between Cleveland, OH/Oxford, OH/San Francisco, CA)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Temporarily, but needs to be remote longterm.

Technologies: Ruby. Rails, mostly backend, a bit of frontend. JS. Python. Git, vim + the usual Unix dev environment.

Resume: http://neyer.io/resume.pdf

Email: aaron@neyer.io

I'm a student at Case Western currently finishing up my last year. I've done Rails development at MIM Software and causes.com, and was an SRE at Google, developing mainly in Python and Java, with a bit of Ruby as well. At Case, I've helped to run ACM and Hacker Society, putting on conferences and hackathons to get more students actively developing on their own personal projects.

After graduation, I'm planning to travel the world, and am looking for a job with flexibility in where I can work so that I can accomplish that. I'd be especially interested in somewhere where I would get to work with data (Crawling, mining, processing, etc...) or with Quantified Self, which is my current passion (Currently developing a personal website to centralize a lot of my data to better quantify my life).
Sure, I meant it specifically as a guess of how it's applied to sound extraction and how it means you have ROW samples per frame.
this is exactly what I have needed. well done and can't wait to start using
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Transferring existing shares can also create tax liabilities - not much fun if you shares look worth a lot in paper but in reality you have little liquid cash to actually pay tax bills!

[NB UK experience]
Excellent resource! I added you to my Twitter conf-stalking list. I assume you tweet about every single CFP posted on the site?
> I'm not entirely sure this is an accurate analogy. vendor prefixes solved a need.

No. It tried to solve two different needs: proprietary stable APIs and unstable/in-flux specs. And the abuse of the latter forced browsers to drop the use-case entirely and hide features behind flags because developers could not be trusted to act responsibly, so it definitely didn't solve that problem.

> Why should we be developing to the lowest common denominator?

That's not developing to the LCD, that developers deploying half-specified and unstable APIs in production.
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Because I'm lazy, basically. I already had a working curl command, I just wanted to make it sanity check my arguments. Also, in my experience convincing the various Ruby libraries to do multipart form uploads (for the documents themselves) is sort of a pain (but if there's an alternative I would love to hear it!)
CISC would be better than RISC because one should keep in mind that for many operation most of the execution time is VM overhead.

But if you want performance you'd rather tailor your instruction set to the language it will execute (assuming you're not making a general purpose VM). CPU makers like Intel do actually keep a close look on what programs are doing in order to evolve their instruction set.
This is uncomfortably scathing. And true.

The part about the Icebergs acquisition is particularly depressing. We are losing the trust of consumers by constantly shutting down products. It's one thing if those products are failures, but these acquisitions demonstrate they are useful, successful products (perhaps just with a small to medium-sized potential market).

People always talk about this and that policy stifling innovation. This practice of shutting down products after a building a user base is just as bad. Consumers (I know I feel this way) are simply not going to trust products that aren't from the big guys. That hurts the small guys. "Early adopters" don't solve everything.
It would be nice to see some examples more than a mockup on the landing page. Both of the builder and the way to fill out the survey.

Is this strictly for surveys or also quizes and other related form-things? Edit: I see now this is for way smaller surveys than I thought. It's basically just a small widget you get from the service.

Shameless plug, I work for Typeform (http://www.typeform.com) where we have a incredibly UI for both building and filling in surveys/forms. Check it out if you're looking for a survery/form/quiz SaaS that have the biggest focus on UX/UI and for more complex forms.
The government tends not to buy companies because it has an unfair advantage: the government can just print an extra $11B and acquire companies for basically nothing.

But once you start doing buying private companies, you have to actually RUN those companies. The government isn't really very good at that.

But the US government is also very bad at negotiating pharmaceutical pricing. The flip side is that most other developed countries in Europe are good at it. So in order to keep their margins and meet financial targets, pharma companies just raise prices on their US customers to subsidize the thinner margins that European governments pay for drugs. It's hard to reform this because the pharma lobby is quite powerful and makes a lot of money off the status quo.
I'd actually test on Windows Phone if they published images for Mac like they do with Desktop IE (and no, VMs inside VMs don't count).

It's actually possible to run WP8 under Fusion on a Mac, but MS need to add mouse cursor support: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19402478/is-it-possible-t...
I charge $60-80/hr and live in upstate NY, while most of my clients are in TX.
One man's grind is another man's passion.

I'm usually the only one on any team that is willing to sit down with "that tool", written by some guy who left the company years ago (maybe using VBA Excel or Access macros because he wasn't actually a trained programmer), and understand it to the point that I can fix just one piece of it without rewriting the whole thing from scratch.

And then I can recommend ways to wean the company's process away from that sort of fragile dependence on unmaintainable code.

But that kind of work is not for everyone. A lot of the time, people don't even like the smell of the code they wrote themselves only a few months ago, so slogging down in the sewers of the ex-COO's magic Excel spreadsheet would be absolute torture. I see it less like an undercity diver busting up grease clots in the drains, and more like a surgeon carefully and methodically removing colon polyps before they go malignant.

And I am burning out here because I have been explicitly ordered to not fix anything without prior permission. Ordinarily, I would be spending some time every day safely refactoring old code and eliminating dead code. But SLoC is a management metric here. Reducing the total lines of code would upset the applecart.
This is a general problem with reviews. If it’s written text it’s often possible to figure out whether a certain criticism is valid for you personally.

Some people are very sensitive to wait times, I’m just not at all. I can always discount all reviews complaining about wait times because there isn’t enough useful signal there. Sure, even I don’t want to wait three hours for my food, but most people seem to complain way before that and that’s just not relevant information to me.

Contrary, when people tell me what a great experience they had with the staff and that the owner came to their table and chatted with them I know I should probably avoid that restaurant because I just can’t stand any staff or owners acting like they are my best friends immediately.

So, sure, for written reviews it’s often possible to see whether a criticism is relevant for your own personal tastes, but all those review places also implement star ratings and those are used to display and filter the places you are shown in the first place. So you might not even see a place you like because it got bad ratings based on (completely valid, by the way, I’m not saying other people have to also be as tolerant of wait times as I am!) factors you personally don’t care about.

This affects other places as well, for example apps in app stores. I’m not sure how to solve this, to be honest, but that seems like a cool problem to tackle. I’m imagining Netflix-like personalised lists of restaurants or hotels you might like, not these dumb global star ratings.

Does this already exist somewhere? I feel like it should. Surely someone must have already tried that …
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The sheer irony of it all.
The page itself isn't yet optimized for mobile. That's coming soon. If you view the video in full screen mode, it's a lot clearer. There'll be an option to select the color scheme in a future release.
As someone with a formal design education and a uhh "technologist", I think this argument is pure crap. You're looking at "designers" in tech and making a very valid critique of the industry at large, but these designers have very little to do with it. Yes, they're pumping out derivative cloying work like every start up does because that's what they get paid to do. I think you might need to step out of the tech bubble before throwing stones at others for sitting in it.

Most of the designers I know aren't in tech (mostly so they can have autonomy and greater impact, slightly less to do with finding it wholly un-interesting and trivial) and your whole critique just doesn't seem to hold water for them.
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How did this make it this high up the front page so quickly with 10 votes?

Also, redundant content.
Straight flow of thought:

Try it for free - cool.
What's happened? I'm at a login screen. This isn't sign up. There is no sign up link here. Let's go back. Back isn't working! Oh, new tab opened (why do that?)

Back to main page, let's look for signup again. Nope. Back to 'Try it for free'. Oh, there is a 'signup', but it's in a really pale font and doesn't look like a link. Make account (sigh)

Learn to use NubiDo - double click me. Double clicking makes a box slide in from the side. Am I supposed to just play around with this?

Maybe I have to double-click on the yellow box at the left hand side? Nope, single clicked, and it is gone. How do I learn how to use nubido now? Click around a bit trying to find 'bring back finished tasks', nothing. I can't find out how to use nubido. I'm leaving. (End of session)

There are quite a lot of pain points there. I genuinely at the end don't know how I'm suppose to learn how to use nubido.. is the assumption I'll just click around and pick it up?

Bonus comment about me using your product:

I know you aren't going to want to hear this, but I suspect too many people have got burnt by task managers disappearing on short notice. You (in my opinion) have to be clear up front about how I'm not going to lose all my data when you pack up.

At the very least you need a way of me getting all my data out.
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Reminds me of Alvin Lucier's "I am sitting in a room" audio experiment.
After a nasty brush with burnout, I've been doing as much as I can to try and steer clear of it and overwork...and also to encourage my team to do the same.

It's a little tricky, because the "work work work" bug in your ear makes you feel like you should be putting in more cycles, but honestly the long-term get-shit-done factor is way better if you calmly plan and execute and take your time.

I just wish there were more people locally to compare notes with.
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This is silly. Of course you can download malicious software using SSL.

It's like saying "Feel secure using SSL? Think again, a burglar can still break into your home!"

The article's point about signed artifacts may be valid, but has nothing to do with the click-baiting, FUD headline.
That was the "before". They've added references to Android, iOS and WebKit.
This is a little off topic, but the detail of updating the reflection when you select radios on the landing page is really slick.
I agree, but I think what he's trying to get at is that designers were more politically engaged on the whole, especially during Modernism. However, it also had its downsides, the major being design hubris (e.g. over-planned cities, complete top-down organizational thinking, treating all people interchangeably, etc).
ug, that's already a bad check, but if they insist, why not just:

/mobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent)