skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geography and climate. The western US is very mountainous with lots of desert areas.[0] The east, in comparison, is very flat with plenty of water and climates more suitable for farming.[1] Population in the west is therefore more clustered around the few areas suitable for human settlement.

If you're talking about the racial population patterns, that's a product of history and geography (again). European settlement of the US started in the north-east, African slaves were brought mainly to the south-east and Hispanic migrants come largely from the south, across the border with Mexico.

[0] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/USA_topo_...

[1] http://www.okatlas.org/okatlas/weather/climate/usa/climate.g...
Great video, I was hoping it would be linked here. Jim's is not only an informative talk but an inspirational ability to teach.
The problem with Google+ isn't that it has a bad mobile experience, it's that it offers no reason for people to leave Facebook. I don't see how hiring the founder of Polar will have any effect on that fundamental problem.
I would still send them a resume. Who acquired them?
An interesting way to advertise.
... and was there a "venue fee" and "convenience fee"?
I really like the post but I don't agree with the conclusion.

> don’t make the mistake to think that those who don’t fit your specific environment are unworthy human beings

> don’t let yourself fall into the trap of thinking you’re better than them

I think from a personal and societal perspective, both of these statements are great. But in business, who cares? People found ambitious startups because they think they are better than the companies/people that reside in that space. Founding a company is inherently an arrogant exercise, the opposite of a humble one. Business loves arrogance and confidence because business is hard. If you spend all your time philosophizing about the humanity of it all, some other competitor who doesn't care is just going to beat you [unless it is a competitive advantage].

So basically, if you are firing somebody, it really doesn't matter whether you are firing them because you think they are a B/C player or because you think they are a great person but they aren't a fit. You are firing them. From a humanity perspective it would be great if you spent a bunch of time helping them find a new job and gave them a great severance package, but as nice as that feels there is no guarantee this is good for your business at all.
The per capita homicide rate in the U.S. more than doubled from 1950 to 1973, in a consistent trend. The peak happened in 1980, but most of the increase happened in the late 1960's. Nixon didn't even coin the term "war on drugs" until 1971, and the real crackdown and jump in incarceration didn't happen until Reagan in the 1980's.

The drug war isn't helping, of course, but its unlikely to be the root cause given the timing of things. More likely the root cause is the ghettoization of the cities due to white flight and wealth flight in the 1950's and 1960's, along with the continued effects of trade liberalization taking away low-skill jobs.
I think this is a really interesting topic where merchants and card users see it quite differently. For example, you usually sign up for an agreement to use a service. No where in there does it say that "you can cancel at anytime by just letting your card expire or having it stolen and replaced" The merchants really don't see any correlation between your need to pay and the current state of your card. And often they want you to actively cancel a service so as to remove any confusion around responsibilities owed.

Then you have some services where you can go either month to month or commit to a year long agreement and get a different price. Lastly, who enjoys losing a card and having to restart auto billing at their 10 favorite/required services?

I agree a lot of people by default think that if their card expires they're off to hook for paying for services and would be surprised that their service provider got an updated card from networks vs you. I'm just not sure it holds up though under closer thought/examination.
were you chained to your desk or something? what do you mean 10 minute breaks?
A fair number of VCs perform back-channel references (references the candidate didn't provide) and the main reason for that is to filter out anyone who's ever suffered from depression or anxiety.

Large firms are in on this discrimination, too. It's illegal to ask about these disorders when hiring, but if you acqui-hire from investors who legally can probe into those questions, it's a nice little loop-hole.

I don't think it really does any good, because all else being equal, I'd want to a person of good character who fought a mental disability and beat it. That's not easy to do. Beating depression or bipolar or panic disorder is way harder (and says more about a person's fortitude) than building Snapchat. The truth is that many people with mental illnesses are far above normal in functionality when not affected.

Still, this is just another thing that is changing in Silicon Valley. The old Silicon Valley (HP, not Snapchat) driven forward by passionate, creative people and many had these illnesses. The new one (Snapchat, Clinkle) is all about image management and favors low-variance, reliable mediocrities.
I have the feeling Google+ is widely used, just not publicly. My family uses it daily, but it is a private circle so you'd never see the traffic.

Additionally Google tends to head-shot products that aren't working (Wave, etc) so I'm inclined to believe they have private metrics that are promising.
Some apps are like that.

There was this analytics tool called get.gaug.es that i really liked looking at for $6/month. In addition to my existing mission critical analytics apps like mixpanel and google analytics.

I would never have cancelled guag.es but since my credit card switched, i just didn't like it enough to be bothered to update it. A phone call is probably the only thing that would have gotten me to update it. Probably not, but it increases the odds from 0% to greater than 0%
Yeah. When did they get so sour? Ever bought blackberrys at the store? Same thing. Thankfully, I can pick those in my backyard.
Why has Google had such a miserable time implementing a usable voice calling service? It's seems relatively straightforward (on the front-end, at least) and yet we have a stream of poorly conceived offerings.

And what a stupid name for a core communications platform.
What do you imagine fairness to mean without subjective components? I'd say that value is a subjective concept and I cant think of a definition of fairness that is not based on value.
Seconded, the site honestly looks like it was made by someone who just took their first web design class. It instantly turned me off to the site when I first saw it.
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I know exactly what you mean. I felt the same way with my first job as a developer out of college. I'd always considered myself a mentally stable person until _that job_. Like you, I had the feeling that my complaints were those of "millennials" but I couldn't keep myself there. I eventually left and I'm glad I did.
Per Lesson 3. Opening a Restaurant. I've spent 4 years in the restaurant business. I did not own a restaurant but I did pretty much everything else. I would highly caution anyone going into the restaurant business. The profit margins are very low and requires a lot of manual labor (even if you are a manager).

If you want to be successful in food I would offer this advice
1) Understand your food niche so that you can market it effectively. There is so much competition. Know what your customers will want.
2) Minimize labor impact. I really like the family-owned model as all your labor is family members. They will have the best interest of the restaurant at heart too.
3) Have a sound business plan. Estimate costs, revenues, and food inventories. Plan for short term and long term. Setup goals and when you don't reach those goals make changes. Always continuously improve your brand.
I've met some like that in certain environments, but I wonder if it isn't a part of an unholy match between their priorities and the employer priorities.

That is, a place I saw this commonly was a government defense contractor. One of the guys there joined because he figured, eh, government, job security. Huge projects, very little accountability. The whole system is set up for failure; the profitable projects are still failures, and any project that overdelivers cost the company money, because that benefit is legally prevented from being used in their favor when bidding on future contracts.

It's in the company's interest to keep a stable of employees who produce at a -predictable- pace, who are complacent and don't excel (so raises can be predictable and there won't be employee initiated turnover). And that was what this person was looking for.

What happens if this person suddenly has to start being competitive? What happens if people start relying on him for more? I don't know. You don't know. These people themselves probably don't know. I can't use those examples to disqualify the OP, even though I too am very familiar with them.
Why couldn't you just have a skip button with a limit (e.g. 4 skips needed until song is skipped) then let anyone click skip or have it be a bit more smarter and everyone gets 1 free skip for each X minutes and then if they want more - they can pay (like piano bar) where that $ could go towards drinks/food. Okay, maybe over thinking, but at least let others choose to skip if 4+ people choose that. Just a though - pretty slick - I wonder what other cool things this concept could work for.
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Shame about the GPL v2. Seems much more restrictive than CC-BY-SA 4.0.
A bit OT: Why is the churn graph so wave-like?
You assume the VCs are good at spotting depression and anxiety. It doesn't seem obvious to me that this is the case.
He specifically said that a remote debugger is the opposite of what he wants.
Good start, but it cannot apply to a case involving two states. That would require a federal law. Then it wouldn't apply to a case involving two countries.

I want to see someone defend their having broken such a contract clause on the ground that it's unconscionable -- meaning the signer wouldn't have agreed to the no-disparagement clause if he had actually understood its meaning.
Not quite an error (the calculation is correct). It just don't make sense for me why Apple come up with this magic 462ppi instead of 489ppi.
I'm very worried about the destruction of our environment. Not one to be into spiritual things like 'Spiritual Ecology' but I think there is some truth to it: we all have some connection to the earth and nature. What we eat is our most profound expression of our connection to the physical world. But it goes further of course, to how we treat nature, wildlife, etc. As the environment becomes more polluted with toxins, light, noise -- as it becomes more scarce - I think many of us will realize the hard way how important it is to our psychological well being.

The following has worked very well for me, I hope others benefit also:

* running 45min-1hour each day high intensity (80% HRM) (on the trails of course, away from concrete and civilization)
* playing in the dirt (1)
* being around animals / Farm Therapy
* make sure you treat your microbiota well
* if depression has neuroinflammation as a cause, consider Tumeric, possibly one that will cross the blood brain barrier (2)
* getting good sleep

(1) http://modernfarmer.com/2014/08/dirt-make-us-happy-getting-h...
(2) http://truttmd.com/curcumin-caveat-emptor-not-all-brands-are...
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Not really seeing where you got this from. So far, what I got out of this is mostly inline with many other start-up/business advise:
- Passion is very important and helps you succeed by not letting you give up too soon.
- Team cohesion is extremely important, doubly so in remote teams.
- If you provide value to customers, customers will pay

None of these are new and groundbreaking, but they are sound insights and sharing ones story about it helps others relate to them.
... or alternately: everyone becomes a "B player" when they don't really care.

As the post correctly states, people are not cogs. We are sentient beings with complex, conceptual motivational structures. Companies with a sense of mission and purpose can get A work out of most of their people, but if the mission and purpose isn't real -- if it's a put-on or if it fades or gets distorted with time -- then the effect fades as well. You can't really fake it, at least not for very long.
Facebook provides plenty of reason to leave Facebook. The only problem is getting a critical mass of people somewhere else. Everyone's still on Facebook because all their friends are on Facebook.
Your deadlock was likely caused by the sole regression to get by us in the 0.6.2 release:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/a117a6d66e5cf1e9d4f...

This occurred because it was rare enough that neither us nor the buildbots caught it back in Feburary. George Wilson wrote a fix for it in Illumos rather promptly. However, Illumos and ZoL projects had different formats for the commit titles of regression fixes. In specific, the Illumos developers would reuse the same exact title while the ZoL developers would generally expect a different title, so we missed it when merging work done in Illumos. I caught it in November when I was certain that George had made a mistake and noticed that our code and the Illumos code was different. It is fixed in 0.6.3. The fix was backported to a few distribution repositories, but not to all of them.

The 0.6.3 release was notable for having a very long development cycle. As I described in the blog post, the project will begin doing official bug fix releases when 1.0 is tagged. That should ensure that these fixes become available to all distributions much sooner. In the mean time, future releases are planned to have much shorter development cycles than 0.6.3 had, so fixes like this will become available more quickly.

That being said, I was at the MongoDB office in NYC earlier this year to troubleshoot poor performance on MongoDB. I will refrain from naming the MongoDB developer with whom I worked lest he become flooded with emails, but my general understanding is that 0.6.3 resolved the performance issues that the MongoDB had observed. Future releases should further increase performance.
Of course, the slant of the slash in any given font could alter the meaning too :).
I don't see how that directly applies to what I've said. Racism in general is perpetuated by that kind of social conditioning. People incorporate the biases from their memetic environment and reference them as universal truths when it can benefit them.

We shouldn't corrupt a term by pretending it doesn't apply just to appease the consciences of shallow thinkers.
>> Nowadays nobody barely thinks about their work before they start writing code, for the most part.

I am old enough to remember where this came from...

I used to do C for quite a while, then I made my hobby (Perl and scripting) my day job.

If given a certain size of a problem while working alone, I used to sit down and think for 1/2 a day or so, then develop (coding and also thinking more) for a week or two.

After I went scripting, this didn't work.

Since I could over an afternoon throw together a solution to the same size of problem which took a week in C, it was just not realistic to think first!

The best solution was to throw something together, look at it and then rewrite it if I didn't like it. The sheer development speed felt like I had gotten a sports car.
Oh, come on. I know it's trendy to hate WordPress, but it hits a sweet spot for a very large number of sites.

Not to mention that:

1) Putting "NO!" in big type and then "very likely" in tiny type above it makes it look like you're afraid of fully embracing your own conclusion; and

2) If you want to argue that WordPress isn't a good tool for nearly anyone, make the argument! Don't just throw an opinion into the room like it's a hand grenade and then expect the rest of us to sit around waiting to see if it will go "boom."
If your getting edge cases, why don't you just write your own layoutSubviews method and avoid using constraints except for very basic things? It's relatively simple stuff to write, and is more performant than autolayout, since layoutSubviews is O(1)-ish while autolayout looks like it's O(n^2).

If you don't believe me, look at this blog article that measures it: http://floriankugler.com/blog/2013/4/21/auto-layout-performa...
Exactly. I had a co-worker once, who was a JavaScript programmer — with zero knowledge of JavaScript. Could not tell function call from variable definition, and wasn't willing to learn, because why do that.

The scary part: he worked there for 2-3 years. Doing absolutely nothing. Like that dude from Dilbert, only in real life.
As far as I know, there is no "brainscan for psycopathy." Moreover, I don't think the field of psychology has a very strong record regarding the diagnosis and treatment of prisoners.
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Even for non-technical people iPhone has worse "lock in" because Apple tries as hard as they can to enforce lock in. For example, if you buy content within an app on the iPhone, the developer cannot let you access that content on a non-apple device or Apple will remove their app from the app store. The same is not true of Android.
This is a terrible attitude. In the grand scheme of things making things better for those around you should be the goal of any enterprise, business or otherwise. Lose this and you end up with modern corporations staffed with psychopaths and there is plenty of evidence that this is the case.
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Firefox for Android supports plugins, I guess you can install Firebug for it. For other browsers: Firebug Lite. It's a purely HTML version of Firebug.
I still don't understand how the iphone6 can run existing apps while having the same dpi as the iphone5 but with a larger screen.
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I love Google Drive and Gmail, but hardly ever use Google+. An improved G+ user experience would be great...
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This is what's so annoying about Apple: why no Android client? How can you hope to have a communications platform that is so severely constrained? That's why so few here barely even know about Facetime. You can't invest in it because it's so limited.
> Maybe on some level, yes those attributes matter but personal chemistry between two people matters much more

personal chemistry is required, but not sufficient.

these are things you learn the hard way.
We are actually planning to run a referral campaign which will offer discounts based on number of referrals. I saw one such campaign getting great response recently. But the product was in a different domain and their target audience were developer s who have a bigger online presence. I will definitely try out the email approach. Thanks!
My extended family does a weekly Google+ Hangout and we regularly share photos on G+. Again, it's all private, but it works great.
Huh. For a moment, I thought Google is acquiring Polar:
http://www.polar.com/en

...Which would make some kind of sense in the light of the wearable hype, but certainly wouldn't do anything for Google+.
Having portability to Windows Phone is a concern, and it is something that I am increasingly considering because it looks like an emerging, important platform. I prefer techniques and tools that allow me to cater to a multitude of platforms, because users are my customers, not platforms. I am not beholden to Apple or Google, and I don't serve in their name.

However your point is comically specious in the context -- Android Play Store sales went from $0.9B, to $2.0B, to $5.0B over successive years (these numbers are in Google's yearlies, despite your repeated claims that they're mysteriously shrouded. They're as transparent as Apple's numbers). Android Play Store sales right now are where App Store sales were last year. Where were the people talking about the dire results of the App Store last year? In fact, quite contrary it was held as an incredible, unparamounted success, by people like you. And not only is the Play Store already there, it is seeing extraordinary growth.

I'm not sure why that should be an absurd observation

Your own points are contradictory, holding the dichotomy of the rich Android users (who all apparently were just waiting for a larger iPhone) versus the poor Android user, but then mashing them together into one universally "poorer" Android user.

Android is the platform of all demographics. We know that from the famous city analysis of Android/iOS usage of twitter, where Android was dominant in the poorer areas of town, and similar to iOS in the rich areas of town. That is a great thing about the platform -- it is inclusive and lifts all boats -- and it is utterly reprehensible when some people hold this as a bizarre negative, as if platform association with the less wealthy brings it down.

It seems probable that the people in the richer areas are spending in the store. The people in the poorer areas aren't. That's life of consumable items and varying spending money. There is no great mystery to it. And your contention is that since all of those Android users with money are going to race to iPhone (the same story we've heard with every iOS release for years), there goes the store.

So how does a per capita basis make any sense? Oh because all facts need to be contrived into the message of Ben Evans?

I apologize for resorting to "insults", but it seems that reality has an insult-based bias in the case of analyzing your various creations. You are selling to the converted.
If Indianapolis's incarceration stats are similar to those of Illinois, a plurality of inmates are there for domestic violence.

Later

Nope; significant domestic violence, but mostly property crimes. Lots of drugs, too; Indiana breaks out meth (a scourge in the midwest), and meth seems to be the dominant component of drug incarcerations.
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Admittedly not a biochemist, but I believe sodium and chlorine lose most of their activity when they give up or accept that electron, respectively, to fill their octet. From a biochemistry perspective, they are mostly used as convenient ions to generate voltage differences or activate structural changes in enzymes.The chemical difference between sodium ions and potassium ions are relevant at times, free sodium ions or chloride ions are not nearly as reactive as their neutral complements. It's also very unlikely that sodium ions or chloride ions would spontaneously transform into their neutral complements.
The first part is based on personal experience. I've met a few people in my 25+ year career that do fit the "A" criteria. Very few.

They're exceedingly rare, but they exist. But you can't hire a whole team of them. What you can do is hire "B"s who aspire to be As. And if, as a manager, you're incredibly lucky, you'll see the occasional one reach that level. Consider yourself blessed if that happens.

Saying "there are no B or C players", however, is doing a disservice to your team - because it's your job as a leader to help people grow. And for that, you're better aware what level somebody performs at.