skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, except for the part about people being incompetent in product design. My take is that it can be generalized to be...

Acquire a company, then do everything you can to ignore them. Integrate them technically, but not socially leaving them completely unaware of the rest of the company.

Demand they launch a product while decisions are made from a distant location filled with people that don't know anything about what they are doing, and don't care because they have enough of their own work to do.

Next Stage -

Technically the company is integrated with many hiccups, the servers are on the correct domain, and the network moves have happened. Still nothing feels different except that they know they have some decision making that feels almost random.

Next Stage - Product Release

Product is released, and doesn't match any of the assumed standards from big corp. Everything is ripped a part for not meeting unknown and unknownable objectives. It is easy to do because the other development teams HAD to follow the objectives, and they didn't, so it can't even be CONSIDERED!

The remote company also can't defend themselves in discussions as most of them happen without them physically there.

- Next Stage

Team starts losing people rapidly. They aren't rehired locally, and are instead backfilled at big corp. Since there are fewer people, they can't do the full thing, and are then integrated with other development teams. The ideas together help build a product that can launch and reach acceptance, because the teams from remote know how to do it.

- Next Stage

The remote teams start going to conferences meeting people, they've had enough meetings with people remote they start to know who to go for. The big corp has just acquired a new even bigger company, so now you start to feel like more a real part of the company than even they are.

Your product was fine, and you start to move through the normal processes, just with everything driven by people who have done it before remotely. Some of the team members even move on to other parts of remote corp because they did particularly well.

Next Step -

Total integration has happened, most of the teams are different people, but there are a few guys that remember the good old days. You're now just another random development unit, you might not even be working on what you initially were acquired for. You're now a remote office, a fully integrated part of remote corp. You're just a development group, and you're more expensive at that. But hey, you still have jobs.

... That sound about right?...
I think the descriptions of endianness are off. Endianness doesn't affect the order of an array of bytes at all, only the rules for converting longer words to/from a byte array. [0xDE, 0xAD, 0xBE, 0xEF] will always be the same array of bytes, but 0xDEAFBEEF will not.
Because Pakistan BGP-hijacking YouTube wasn't enough of a reason?
Encryption Regulations and Controls for Hardware Startups
If there are any other questions- please feel free to ask...
Since when does ASCII text support RTL?

I thought the whole point of Markdown was to define a mixed-mode formatting that looked OK in ASCII and could be prettified in other contexts like HTML.
Polish has 3 plural forms:
1: When the number is 1
2: When the number ends in 2,3,4, but not 12,13,14
3: For all other numbers

It beats me how translators would use "few" for plural form 2 (which includes 22, 33, 44). "Zero" and "other" are actually the same form.
A good translation tool would spare the effort of entering the same information twice.

How would this work for Chinese, where all numbers are treated the same?

I would never present these keywords to translators, but instead show the full explanation like in the plural forms above.
As someone who spent some significant time in a previous life working on a parallel programming framework that involved lock-free data structures, you've really hit the nail on the head here. The whole experience totally changed my views on garbage collection, because without GC problems like this can be so painful to solve.

The only thing I really have to add is that, while we had to do pretty much what you describe here, I didn't think it felt that bad for the end user in the context of a framework built on top of C++11's features. A combination of RAII and lambdas can allow you to solve (1) and (3) pretty elegantly. (As you say, though, it's not very cleanly composable. This is one of many reasons why we were creating a framework in the first place and not a set of independent libraries.)
Neither is likely, some users may obsessively be using the service, so delays in access will instead with other times of access that they would normally use. If you assume half fall obsessive users and half fall into the non-obsessive users for that min, even $11k a min is a very large impact.

If it was an ordering system, I would expect a higher rate of recovery simply because of a service/good that was not purchased. Passive ad display is primarily driven by views and I wouldn't expect views to time shift at a high rate.
What I notice is that you have not only isolated on one very circumscribed part of the article, but you have also chosen to blame the people getting tickets for infractions that have little to do with traffic safety.

You have therefore missed the point of the article.

I frequently observe this kind of "rational" skepticism in analytical people who are studiously avoiding something uncomfortable.
Maine Man, 19, Poses for New Mug Shot Wearing T-Shirt with His Old Mug Shot
[...] in order to ensure that employees do not stay at a company for longer than 4 or 5 years.

Training new people is expensive. Why would any sane company deliberately encourage turnover?
Let me clarify what I meant. Sure, SpaceX is profitable. It has to be. But Elon right now seems to be using the economy to pursue his own goals with Tesla and SpaceX, but those goals are not dictated by what is profitable. He had to amass some capital and then basically force the economy to accept his visions. Tesla Motors pretty much created the market for electric cars that don't suck. SpaceX and Tesla were not economically viable concepts at the beginning.

The thought I wanted to express is that our economic system is an optimization process that shapes (and is shaped by, in a feedback loop) the progress of technology. It's the economy that decided we won't be having moon bases or jetpacks anytime soon, even though we could. It's the force that decides that a random photosharing app is worth more than feeding the poor or curing cancer.

Current economy as an optimization process was aligned with human values pretty well so far (though not perfectly; government regulations are one of the tools we use to try and fix that alignment). But as a greedy process (in the CS sense of the word), it often gets stuck in local optimas. That's where Elons, Brins, etc. come in - they have enough cash and vision to force us out of the local optimum and help find a better one.
I've thoroughly enjoyed and learned from every bit of Traction Book thus far, highly recommend to anyone who is considering purchasing.

I originally posted this on the GH AMA but my account was pending moderation and I got skipped... so.. while you're both here:

Do you have any recommendations on using the traction channels to solve the chicken and the egg problem? Or any other specific reading towards solving the C&E problem?

Do you have any methods for tracking conversions in offline channels or is it basically just talking to your customers and asking how they heard about you?
Apache CouchDB 1.6.1 Released
IMO one's better for comparing character changes, the other's better for comparing line changes.
I generally agree with the sentiment that this is going to just add more confusion, but since I've recently been writing a bunch of Markdown docs and exploring different static site generators, I've found that most link back to Markdown.pl as their "source" and despite that, each is using a different middle-man Markdown parser which has different output.

It's one thing to say, for example, that you support Markdown, or MultiMarkdown, or Pagedown style, but another when you just say Markdown and link back to the original, and produce different output. This seems pervasive, and a Standard Markdown that is "one Markdown to rule them all" would be helpful.

Of course, others have pointed out that this spec lacks a formal grammar, and that it also lacks a number of other Markdown elements, so it would need to become a lot more well defined and a lot more mature to be useful.
Secure Remote Log Transmission System (2012)
I never, ever, once have had a problem writing markdown on any website that supports it.

This standard seems totally pointless.
I remember reading something about Amazon where they stated that they didn't actually lose any money when their site went down, customers just came back later to place their purchases. I'm sure something similar would be the case here. They would certainly be impacted in one way or another, but not as significantly as this simple math. It would vary drastically based on the time of day the outage occurs, regions effected, devices effected, and how many users came back once the site is back up.
Health insurance is only tied to employers in the US because of IRS tax rules; I find it very strange that one troublesome government intervention can be used to justify further meddling. Why not simply give all Americans the same tax benefits which are currently given to those with employer-sponsored health benefits?
It's hell in winter to get to Reno via 80 though. The highway can close a lot.

I'm not sure about the rail lines, but I can imagine a lot of delays in infrastructure in winter either way. At least for a Fremont-LA line, you won't hit those snags in winter.
Khusela: Smart fire detectors for townships, slums, and favelas
I see. Did you pay the outsourced coders fairly? I'm sure they would say something but to me that is different from the Winklevii. I do think because FB was able to explode so much and Zuckerberg did mislead them a bit, them receiving what they did, $60M in stock (though now it would be much higher) and some cash seems fair. Obviously they barely did anything for FB and they wouldn't have likely made any big website on their own. But because of Zuckerberg's actions and because FB did become as big as it did, I find what they ended up getting to be fair. Do you not think so?

But hah originally I thought you were including Noah Glass in your assessment and was either going to inquire about why because his story is so incredibly sad to me.
I agree, with such a stupid title as "lead guitar" people would never know how important I am and they might not court me. Which I am dying to do. I hope to have one day a whole wall filled with titles, certificates, and bonafides that I can point to and say "look at all those pieces of paper". Because writing software, well that's just a distraction from my real job - getting important titles..
IQ does a reasonable job of categorizing people. It does a crap job of ranking people.

If you compare say: 0-65, 66-85, 86-115, 116-135, 135+ you find plenty of significant differences. Generally 85 vs 86 is meaningless, but 85 vs 116 is not. Which means any hard cutoff is going to exclude people close to the cutoff on a fairly arbitrary basis.
The buses aren't multi-master. They're often USB, or SDIO. They would use the bus to deliver another exploit directly to CPU driver which is often running in supervisor ring, i.e. kernel privilege.
I agree, that part of the post at least seemed on-topic. I guess it was collateral damage, maybe there's a lesson to be learned. (Note, I didn't up- or down-vote)
when your entire purpose is to transmit a signal

reconnaissance satellites
Well, which minute matters. :) Revenue at noon Pacific is much higher than 2am, because neither humans nor wealth are evenly distributed around the world. In fact, noontime Pacific is kind of a perfect storm: lunch in one populous wealthy timezone, after school in another (east coast), and after dinner in a third (europe). These three fuck-around-on-Facebook peaks combine to form one super-peak every day.
"...search results appeared in a modern format but every search had to be done via the older page." Actually my image search results in Opera 12.16 are delivered in the old format. Joke's on them though, I prefer the older page.
The problem with paying some employees to go to these events is that some go to more than others, and when the people in the office see others leaving 'work' often, and getting paid, they either resent the absentee, or look for ways to skip out on work. In most situations, it's better that people get paid to get work done, and have the flexibility to leave (unpaid) if they want/need to.
As someone else pointed out, there is no one sport that has a monopoly on the term "football". Also, complaining about Americans who refer to American football as "football" often sounds like thinly veiled xenophobia disguised as pedantry, a la "here's one more thing I hate about those stupid Americans..." It's such an odd thing to complain about that it comes across as the tip of a hate iceberg rather than an actual complaint about terminology.
Designed to Annoy: A theoretical look at designing inefficient packaging
Why MindMixer raised $17M
The math is defiantly not that simple as taking the revenue / seconds but a big difference here is also consumer goods vs. advertising money spent.
and for kids it is much easier to go off and watch youtube after getting bored while looking for tutorials. I guess the charm and mysticism of machines are also gone to the children of today.
TL;DR Packrat trades guaranteed linear memory usage for worst-case polynomial time; the worst-case almost never comes up in non-contrived input, so it's a reasonable implementation decision to go with the less memory-hungry naive implementation.

Depends on the algorithm; the naive recursive algorithm takes worst-case exponential time, while the packrat algorithm guarantees linear time.

However, for most sensible[1] inputs, the recursive algorithm runs in linear time and constant space, while packrat takes about the same time, but with linear space usage.

[1] Where "sensible" is defined to be "amount of backtracking is bounded by a fixed small constant, as is grammar nesting depth" - conditions that hold for most human-generated files matching useful grammars (I've been working on a new PEG parsing algorithm; it doesn't work so well, but the results I've been getting in testing about the existing algorithms are quite interesting.)
Yeah but still, if you don't have a smartphone, or you don't have your mobile, or you can't use your mobile (different country, no wifi). You're pretty much kicked out of your own accounts.
Yeti programming language
Apple iCloud security exploit is a concern, experts say
If you're willing/able to chop the work into tiny digestable chunks then Odesk.com or Elance.com might be a good fit. The downside is that sometimes it takes longer to explain what you need done than it would be to just do it yourself.

I've outsourced to a number of agencies, but typically they find you, not the other way around (just check your LinkedIn inbox).

Angellist (angel.co) and Careers.stackoverflow.com are two places worth sifting through. Typically pretty high-caliber devs.

And of course there is the Craigslist gigs section...sigh... which is actually a good place to list a hiring ad if you're looking for outsource teams, because 95% of the responses you receive will be from overseas.
JSX: XML-like syntax extension to ECMAScript – Draft specification
He's not crazy. On my phone, I see the stock wikipedia template - branding and all (including the globe logo top-left). On desktop, I see the same content but with seeed's theme.

So it looks like a straight rip (on mobile), but more likely someone's just skipped a step or two with the branding.
Renovo Coupe: All Electric American Supercar
Traction by Gabiel Weinberg
What is the optimal number of remote controls in your living room?
> Health insurance is only tied to employers in the US because of IRS tax rules

No, that's part of how the employer-centric market got started; its now tied to employers for a number of other reasons, including cultural expectations, and the fact that employers as large purchasers can get better prices per covered individuals than individual purchasers, meaning that even without a tax advantage, an employer can provide greater value to employees by providing them a group plan than providing them money with which they can then by an individual plan.
Show HN: Buzzerati.io Tech content ranked by social engagement
I made this for my own tech news consumption. It discovers and ranks content by the number of social shares across facebook, twitter and linkedin. Design/UI needs work and also adding some clustering features (in the works). Would love to get feedback from HN.

buzzerati.io
I have had problems getting consistent output out of different "Markdown-compatible" document tools. I hope this defragments the Markdown landscape.
I am in AB. Actually it is company specific, generally fab shops do not allow supers to carry cellphones while working on modules.
I don't know if this logic still applies here because Amazon makes it's money primarily off of selling products where Facebook makes it's money from users clicking ads.
This dataset often has typos and other mistakes. If you consider the other salaries for that company, it's likely there's just an extra zero at the end.
Certain US states (the largest ones being Florida and Texas), never underwent this thing called "Medicaid expansion", as a kind of political protest against "Obamacare", and so if you're lucky enough to live in one of these states (very populated states too like Florida and Texas), you're not eligible for Medicaid for merely being in abject poverty. You don't even qualify for healthcare subsidies since the cutoff for those is perversely 133% of the poverty line, or something like that.

SNAP policies (supplemental nutrition assistance ie. food stamps) can vary greatly from state to state too. I've lived in states that provide unconditional benefits to anyone below a certain income level, but my current state (Florida), only provides a few months of benefits at a time, and then after that you have to continually re-qualify, providing proof that you're still looking for work if you're unemployed, things like that. It's incredibly easy to fall through the cracks with these proof requirements though.

Being poor certain places in the US is misery. People do go hungry plenty, and adults and especially children often suffer severe lasting health problems from malnutrition here.

I know this stuff from personal experience.
I don't think titles are important legally. It's hard to believe his lawyer misunderstood that when it was apparently true according to the appeal judges. I know for instance, in copyright law, being an "employee" is important for deciding ownership, but you're not an employee just because you boss gives you that title, you have to be acting like one according to an odd set of rules.
Introducing the JSX Specification
Fascinating points you mention here, it's almost like you watched the news or something.
I'd be very surprised if this policy's effects (bonuses and promotions to managers whose features appear in a shipping product, or whatever the analogue of a shipping product is) aren't in place basically all over the world, even where they're not part of an official document. As such, it seems a little tricky to blame the feature bloat on the policy...
Good incentives are hard, but not actively sabotaging yourself seems like it should be easier.
Alternately, it's like if someone were to write a color management API for Python, but used the British spelling for "color", and a few commenters on some tech forum got up in arms about the spelling. Equally abrasive (the commenters, that is) for similar reasons (a faint whiff of xenophobia and/or a sense of cultural entitlement).
Mnesia Add New Column in Production Environment Without Losing Data
Let's talk about margins
Is there something similar for non-H1B data? I've previously used salary.com, glassdoor.com and search results on indeed.com to try and compare local salaries, and the variation can be as much as $15k on either end (low-|high-)
Caching in Presto
Benefits for the employees don't matter nearly as much as benefits for the business. The business doesn't gain from lower income taxes, unless it pays its employees less, but then there's no benefit to the employees, plus they take a pre-tax wage cut which isn't much of a feel good factor.

Employees will still have Federal income taxes at something around 25% depending on salary.
John Carmack Discusses Samsung Gear VR Which Uses Oculus and Note 4
'yummifajitas is on break today, but he'll tell you that test prep courses DO NOT improve test scores.
Here's Why You Can't Find a Technical Co-Founder
Eh? Any laptop or wifi-only tablet would do, so I don't see why you're implying there's a shortage?

I've been meaning to enumerate the possibilities of things with long battery life that will ideally run normal GNU/Linux with a chorded keyboard for input. If that works out successfully, then a smart watch for notifications would be the logical next step.
BART_ebooks
Looks very promising, but perhaps not complete? The links don't seem to generate for me. And I can't switch "reserve time" to "available time".

Is there nothing like this out there already? I could definitely see myself using something like this.

Nice work!
Can this work inside openresty or snabbswitch?
This is exactly the phenomenon described in the OP.
Fallacious argument. You are equating innovation outcomes to the average total working time of individuals across a society. Yet, you really have not provided any proof of such an assertion. :)
I hadn't read the stuff about Gruber not wanting them to use the same name before I wrote my comment. But I still don't think it's 'fucked up' in the slightest. It actually sounds like Gruber is being irrational and a bit of a dick, from his comments that I've just read. His behaviour seems weirdly lame for someone capable of such good design. If he wanted to, he could have trademarked it, but he chose to give it free to the world and just sort of hoped that it would stay roughly in a shape he would like. Resisting standardisation is a weird thing to do. His notion that ambiguity is a feature is a dumb one. I think this is all relevant to the discussion about whether it's decent/honourable to use a similar name against his wishes. If his wishes are anti-progress, then tough luck, people are going to progress things if they can. He chose not to copyright/trademark anything. He can't have it both ways.
Quasi-dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8265945, though I personally feel that this post is more useful.
one, and most likely it's made by apple or roku, because they appear to be nearly the only companies that can make a remote with fewer than 20 buttons.
So instead of simply removing HTML from markdown, this spec impossibly and incorrectly attempts to include it. How frustrating..
So... if it wouldn't do any harm, why not give all Americans the same tax benefits which are currently enjoyed by those with employer-sponsored health benefits?

Would you not agree that treating all citizens equally, and giving them the freedom to choose how and where they get their healthcare would be an improvement on the current system?
or HTC.
Certainly inside Snabb - I have used it for that in the past.

Openresty it will work, but you really want to be doing blocking operations/polling in Nginx's event loop, so be a bit careful.
What browser/OS are you using? I just checked on Chrome and FF on my Mac, and didn't run into any issues.
And everybody pretends to not understand why apple's customers are as loyal as they are.

Why yes, I did want the shitty antivirus software whose vendor placed the highest bid to be so tightly pseudo-integrated with windows that it gives you free file corruption and nearly requires a re-install to remove! What other things could you shovel into my new laptop?