skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that marketing for medicine is an almost 100% waste for society as a whole. It serves no useful purpose except to move market shares between functionally identical products.

Not true at all: Could you sit in an empty, white-walled room and tell us exactly which new drugs will be needed over the next decade and how they will appeal to doctors and different patient groups? Whether they'll be worth developing at all? How existing patients on inferior (or no) treatments will find out about them without you spending a nickel?

Marketing is not just ads.
> The Mobile Web should just work for everyone

I wonder if Microsoft had said something remotely similar if WP had Windows like market share and sites were coded to IE!

At least WebKit/Blink are OpenSource and Microsoft can dream of being compatible easily.
You forgot France, Lichtenstein and Namibia.
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I'm going to guess this is Apple only? The only giveaway on that is the picture of the Mac on the front page, but it never explicitly states what platform it's for.
Yep! The account is set up to tweet once every three hours. Each conference will be tweeted three times: when it's added, 14 days before closing, and 3 days before closing.
For comparison, can someone post the user agent strings from Safari iOS7 & Android Chrome?
If I remember correctly, Apple had that same exact problem in pre-iPhone and pre-Chrome days. AFAIK this was why they released Safari on Windows- to allow devs to test on Safari without requiring a mac.
None of these people walked into the business. I doubt any of them are planning a wedding reception, if even in the target geographic market.

This is a standard internet lynch mob. They are always vile, reprehensible things, with real humans as victim. But pile on, everyone.
Right, and that is almost exactly survivor bias. It isn't that they were more engaged as a whole. The ones that we talk about were.
>> "Surely not all of them are able to generate any sustainable revenue that is long-term."

This is the same with any real world, brick and mortar business. 9/10 small businesses fail within the first year. The chances your business or product will succeed is very small. Entrepreneurs often go through several failed businesses before they get one that succeeds. How you define success is also important. It's much easier to create a sustainable SAAS service which you can maintain yourself and pays you $50-70k per year that it is to take funding, grow to 1 billion users, and make money.
Or someone with the relevant domain knowledge could look at the ideas and consider whether this guy may be worth talking to or hiring onto the design team for a similar project. Otherwise some guidance would be nice.

The idea isn't to shove people out of the circle when they present something they've been working on.
I'm glad someone else appreciates venetian snares. :)
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Thanks. I'm surprised the web authoring tool didn't catch that.
This misses the point of the article.

The author's premise is that you burnout because you do not spend time on the things that truly fulfill you, whatever those may be. It is very possible, and maybe even probable, that people who do not "work so hard" can still experience burn out because they do not use their free time to do the things that fulfill them.

If you are working so hard that you simply cannot find any time to fit in fulfilling activities, then yes, you should not work so hard.

If you are being taken advantage of and pressured into working too hard without adequate compensation, then you should find a better job.

However, "not work so hard" is not an answer to the problem as outlined by the author and seems more like a response to the headline than to the article itself.
It's a function of time/votes with a strong emphasis on time. Getting 10 votes in under an hour will get you near the top of the front page.

EDIT: Now it fell off, meaning it hit the voting ring detector or was flagged to death.
I agree, I simply replaced "design" with "interface design" and everything makes sense.
It's web based although it does follow an Apple like look and feel.
I didn't read GP to say that it was necessarily a bad thing - only that they were pointing out that the social discrimination cuts both ways. In my experience, they're right, it does.
Or maybe "technology". For instance I'm only interested in speaking at iOS/app conferences. I speak on design, programming, and business. So, a single language isn't as important to me.
They're frequently employed, and on the basis of their skills, not the compatibility of their political/sociocultural views with yours. Claim debunked.
And that's the reason (in my opinion) online reviews are borderline worthless. Everyone has different expectations and preferences. Also - a lot of people are completely unreasonable. Unreasonable people are more likely to leave a negative review than a reasonable random joe to leave a positive review.

I stayed at a hotel where the reviews were almost all negative with comments like "the furniture was outdated and the TV was a CRT."

What to I care about in a hotel? A clean bed to sleep on and a shower. That's it. I stay at hotels just to sleep in and wash up.
I was writing code for this company. Had burnout. Couldn't concentrate. Like something was broken in my head. Tried. Couldn't. Stopped trying. Then tried some more. Then floated in a haze between trying and not-trying. Started having really bad dreams. Would wake up, run down the road freaked out. Hallucinating.

Quit my job of course. I'm not stupid.
Linkbaity title, disingenuous article conflating bad use of tools with bad tools while shamelessly advocating their own solution as silver bullet. The article has basically nothing to do with SSL.
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You should talk to a lawyer, primarily to find out where you stand. It is very hard for a tiny startup to properly issue options internationally, and you may find that you don't own options in an enforceable way, or have huge tax problems, or any number of other things.

Once you've settled that, have them explain what they're trying to do and have a lawyer interpret it for you. Normally employee option pools (and any kind of dilution) are expanded by issuing more shares. That would dilute everyone equally. To dilute people at different rates, the company would actually need to issue a bunch more shares (diluting everyone even more) and then grant options to the other guys. As far as I know, judges look on that very unfavorably. The startup's lawyers should be advising against that.

Despite what other commenters are saying, this probably isn't a negotiation. It's likely just incompetence on their part. Your first priority should be understanding precisely what position you and the company are in, and then evaluating from there.
I think it's a bit apples to oranges. Programming is for the most part sitting quietly in front of a computer screen for hours each day. At face value it looks easier, but it's actually a lot more brain-numbing. If I'm honest with myself, I think I can do it for 4 hours a day before my brain starts to slowly shutdown. I've been working for only a couple years and I'm seriously concerned about my future in the industry.
Rails Girls is also a great opportunity.
Location, but needn't be too localized. (I think most people travel nationwide)

I'd filter on language, but also include "concepts" (for instance, mobile, or startups). You also should identify conferences which aren't immediately obvious what the language is, or that cover other languages. (for instance, RIACon was traditionally a ColdFusion conference, but in recent years has added a JavaScript track; Ruby conferences usually have some functional talks, etc)
I'd add \b around to avoid matching e.g. `Immobile/1.0`, the slow browser.
So what is responsible for this miraculous change? Simply working fewer hours?

Sorry to hear about your partner, that is horrible. Best of luck.
> They are not worried about the high upfront cost since every citizen is paying taxes for that.

Well, the UK has DEATH PANELS (as some people call them) which is probably the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (they had a name change which makes the acronym a bit weird, but their still called NICE).

So if a medication can't show efficacy and is very expensive it's not going to get NHS funding.

We used to allow people to spend their own money if they wanted to on medication. We still do - IVF has limited provision as one example - but there was a spate of drug companies releasing very expensive and not very efficacious meds. When they got turned down for NHS funding those companies paid money to patient groups to campaign for changes in the decision. (Pretty fucking sleazy - using the desperation of dying people to promote your ineffective medication) The government at the time decided to change the rules around a small number of medications. You would be able to buy those yourself, but you would then have to pay for the rest of your care too. I'm not convinced that was the right decision.
audreyt was also the principal contributor to pugs [1], a Perl 6 implementation written in Haskell (partly).

[1]: https://github.com/perl6/Pugs.hs
You are upvoted even though I think you misread my opinion.

I wrote specifically about the "social network" part of it. Maybe I was a bit unclear but I meant the part where you can sort people into circles and share stuff with them. And I still think adding people to groups and sharing stuff with them are is voluntary?

The implementation of a common identity across Googles properties? That seemed to have been a smart idea mismanaged badly.
Fine print? It's on the page for "Events & Weddings", and will absolutely be the first thing most people considering this venue will read. It looks like they removed it, but any notion that this was fine print or hidden away is just dishonest misrepresentation.
Your asking the question and stating its puzzling is why (I mean this in a civil way, my rant is directed at the general populace).

Technical people typically use a technical approach to solving a problem, which is not always the best approach. Technical people generally make poor historians. Decisions are a-posteriori, through personal experience and personal failure. Knowledge must be internalized so it becomes intuitive. But this very step is an act of specialization. Expecting the non-specialized market to understand, on faith, this masking of technical complexity, is strange. See, e.g., object-oriented design patterns, geek-speak, a hacker-news comments echo chamber, etc.

There is relatively little value placed on documentation vs performance/correctness. Products are rarely user-centric. There are too many black box APIs. Dumb questions are frowned upon. Gross assumptions are made.

"New" products are quite often not actually new. They are merely evolutionary, not revolutionary. They merely add to the market, or slightly expand it, instead of defining a new one. Just another person internalizing some jargon and slapping a price on it and then proclaiming PEBKAC as if he/she said something insightful. This is not innovation.

The value to creators is to learn a new skill set, merrily hacking away at trees, and chopping down the right tree using brute force luck, a rather naive traveling salesman. For some reason the hard problems are considered easy and the easy problems are considered hard. The difficulty of achieving simplicity is under-appreciated. You solve some technical problem, and stop there, thinking you have won. But this is not the end, this is the beginning. The problem never was minimizing big-o or memory efficiency. The problem was, and is, messaging; the communication of the solution.

Investors recognize market saturation and look at evolutionary innovation as low hanging fruit. "Killer" products are harder to create and higher risk. Demand is more fixed in evolutionary space but demand can be uncovered when entering revolutionary space. The problem is not Wile's proof of Fermat, it is explaining the value to everyone. Explanation is the messaging channel. Properly encapsulating the complexity of a problem is the difficulty. Properly recognizing the problem is the difficulty. Implementing it is the easy part. Much of nerd culture (including myself) has this backwards, through no fault of their own (INTPs are introverted, formal analysis is prized).
I've had the opposite experience. I once was offered an unfair equity package from cofounders of a startup. I (and two others) wrote up a document voicing our unhappiness and the reasoning behind it.

And they ended up agreeing with us. While the offer they first came up with was not fair to us, they honestly hadn't realized it (they had a lot on their minds, it was the first solution that came to them, and they simply proposed it).

We did not poison our relationship. They agreed that our solution was more fair (it involved each of them getting less equity and each of us getting more, by the way). And, in the end, the company had a (modestly) successful exit.

We are all friends to this day.

OP: If it's unfair: write down why it is unfair and what you would propose as a more fair agreement. Only if and when they reject that should you involve an attorney. But there is absolutely a chance that they will realize your solution is better.
A company that threatens to fine me for giving them a negative review is much more likely to actually receive a negative review from me.

And a company that actually fines me would be much more likely to receive a chargeback, formal complaints to any relevant regulators, or even for that kind of money a small claims suit.

I'm not really sure how they expect to win with this policy, particularly since they're presumably about to get more negative publicity than every bad review they ever avoided and searching for them on-line will probably lead to dozens of critical comments forever now.
Thanks! I thought it was a cool little effect, though not supported in any browsers but chrome unfortunately.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/-webkit-box...
Another datapoint of common-sense being bullshit.
Don't banks ask for proof of LLC 'residence' - usually an office lease, or something else that proves there's a real address?
Microsoft invented user agent lying when MSIE 2.0 started advertising itself as Mozilla/1.22 (compatible; MSIE 2.0; Windows 95), so we known exactly where that road goes.
Great advice. Always have acceptable alternatives in mind. For instance, propose that they accelerate vesting on your remaining options 50 cents on the dollar. So if they want you to give up 2% they would instantly vest 1%. The term here is "single trigger". Point being, be creative and try to work out a deal. A 4% starting offer isn't unreasonable.
After reading the site, I'm not really sure what this is.
1. plz remove junk files from the zip file:

inflating: nemex/php/zipProject.php
inflating: __MACOSX/nemex/php/._zipProject.php <---

2. provide a real download link --- I want to copy paste and wget from my server but when I right-click copy link I got http://beta.nemex.io/#download ... I had to manually deduce the correct url is http://beta.nemex.io/php/download.php ...
Yeah, I've heard that's what the spies use, although that does require specific effort. What I find more intriguing about this development is how pre-existing footage could be used. While HD CCTV is certainly not popular, I suspect enough has been said in the presence of existing HD video to incriminate a few people :-)
There is great oversupply of everything in the western world. I think it probably is a significant factor in the major (societal) problems we are facing.
> 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)

Do they really, though? There's no shortage of acquisitions that are driven by motivations other than "these people built something useful." Such as:

"We want to hire these people whose startup is a clear failure, but they won't bite unless we give them a way to save face"

"Our VCs funded these people too, and we want to give them something resembling an exit on their terrible investment in order to keep them happy"

"Our CEO needs to demonstrate to Wall Street that he is a Dynamic Leader, which he does by buying startups more or less at random"
Also "will bill you $500 for a bad review" has a particular sting about it unlike any other I suspect.
It's the "scalar fallacy."

In a nutshell, the scalar fallacy is the false but pervasive assumption that real-world things (hotels, sandwiches, people, mutual funds, chemo drugs, whatever) have some single-dimension ordering of "goodness".

When you project a multi-dimensional space down to one dimension, you are involving a lot of context and preferences in the act of projecting. Just sayin'.
Perhaps this is really mean or unfair, but to use your words, "We're surprised you didn't catch that."

Some opinions on the app:

1) Signup is annoying, but at least you let me use it right away without clicking on some verification link that is now in my inbox

2) Something about the login/signup form design says this app is not very good or perfectly sculpted. Maybe it's the padding between the text fields or how little space you use of the giant browser window there is. Take a look at Google's or the modal form on AirBnb. There's space, sensible padding and layout.

3) When I first log into the app and see "Double Click Me" and I double click it, the right-slide-in modal is fine, but it blocks out rest of the UI. What I would prefer to do (and would expect it to do) is just slide in without dimming rest of the interface. That right-pane should remain in place when I click on another item. It should repopulate with that item's details. Dimming and drawing attention to the right-pane is fine for the "Learn to use NubiDo" but for everything else, it feels pedantic

4) Is there a better name than NubiDo? This comment feels shallow, but I am not sure anyone would take an app with the name "NubiDo" seriously. Sounds like (and maybe it is) "Newbie Do" which doesn't sit right in the mouth and just sounds funny. There's gotta be a better noun or a verb you can use. Even Any.do, Evernote, OmniFocus, or Wunderlist is better. Even better are simple and grounded names like Things. Yes, a good domain is probably hard to find these days, but I think you need a better name than NubiDo. You can get creative with .ly or .io domain extensions and pre/suffix like "get" or "app" in your domain names...

Not a bad effort by any stretch. Just not up to snuff to be converting users from their faithful and already-established gtd tools.
Ehhh, yeah, sort of.

There were far less people who could call themselves designers at the time. It was a slower craft and took more training.

It's like in music. Yeah, there were other bands other than the Beatles and Rolling Stones, but it was harder to produce and distribute music back then. Thus, the industry was more monolithic than it is now. The ones we talk about now are more representative of the state of the industry back then than Lady Gaga (or whatever) is of now.
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The Stellar object model
I feel bad for the unlucky bride and groom racking up all these $500 charges today.
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Unfortunately, very few people acknowledge what it really takes to keep the "trees" healthy, even if they think they do. A great deal of "progressive" companies assume that a break room with an Xbox 360 and a soda fountain should automatically translate into astronomical employee morale, despite regular overworking and underpaying.

How often does a company see its employees as equals? How often does a company try to ensure that the employee's demands and the company's demands are equitable? Most of them mask their blatant anti-employee bias in moralistic language to try to shame people out of asking questions: as one example, if you leave for another opportunity whilst involved in a project, you're considered "disloyal" or "unstable" and guilted, even though a company would shave off a unit in a heartbeat if it meant a major change in their financial prospects.

Even companies that claim they understand career progression, work-life balance, etc. often have these problems lurking underneath the glitzy exterior. I say this and people will think, "Yeah, that sucks, but not my workplace!" The reality is yes, your workplace probably has this same issue too. Just think about it for a while.

We need to start thinking of employment as a mutually beneficial exchange between equals with equally applicable moral rules. Why should the company keep 90%+ of the revenue an employee generates? Would that fly if it were a partnership deal between corporations? Surely the services of an employer are worth something, but are they really worth that much? The only reason employers can take that much is because employees don't believe they can claim any portion of that revenue without an employer, and they have to take the paltry 2% or they won't be able to get anything, which is usually false if the employee has a marketable skill.
I strongly disagree that we are enriched as a result. In fact if the world didn't have these conservatives in it we would have been much ahead.

And just because there are some people you don't want to associate with doesn't mean you don't want to associate with people - just that after compulsory schooling I don't want to talk with/spend time with about 80% of the world. That leaves a bit over a billion, so it doesn't matter.