skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a limit to autonomy.

I mean, if you have a project that is big enough that 10 people are working on it, you have to have consensus about version control, build systems, what version of what languages and libraries you have running in so forth. If you don't, life is going to be hell for the ops people. If the organization can't enforce these kind of standards, it is a failing organization.

If some place has 150k lines of Cold Fusion and Microsoft SQL stored procedures and you are hired to maintain that system, you are going to have to deal with that environment, and you can either do what you can with that environment or go someplace else if you don't want to deal with it.

There are many dimensions to performance and one of it is that some people are good starters and other people are good finishers. The starters do the 20% of the work that gets you (seemingly) 80% of the way there, but the finishers have the determination, energy, pride and broad-spectrum knowledge and experience to do the 80% of the work that gets you (seemingly) 20% of the way there.

Superficially the starter seems to be 25x more productive than the finisher, but without the finisher, the starter might not deliver any business value at all.

The huge variation in the numbers, plus all of the emotional and political factors involved make a correct accounting of the situation almost impossible. Depending on how it plays out, the starter could be seen as a C player and the finisher an A player (the product wouldn't have shipped without the finisher or it could be around (people forget that the finisher actually shipped the product, all they remember was that he was always complaining about the build system)
I mean, don't get me wrong. It is an added convenience to have access to the time a bit more quickly. If I'm checking the time, there's a decent chance I'm in a rush for something.

But yeah, almost purely fashion.
I think that conveys "bored" or "unimpressed" more than "puzzled". Funny how two dots and a line mean such subtly different things to different people.
Android has potential to be next Windows, because it's getting commoditized right now. Thanks to cheap devices. Apple doesn't have that, because it doesn't want it.

I think there are few things remaining for Android to replace Windows (in no particular order):

1. UX - what you already said.

2. Cheap and universal docks for even cheapest devices. Alternatively cheap wireless display technology (without lags), something more than ChromeCast - again even for cheapest devices.

What can be used for this? Bluetooth (sound and input) and/or USB-OTG (with charging of device).

3. Android needs to be selfhosting - you can't rely on Windows or traditional desktop linux if you want to replace them. There is toybox and Aborginal Linux project from Rob Landley on http://landley.net/ Recent commits advancing in the goal of building Linux kernel with clang will come in handy too.

I think that all of these will eventually come, but ask myself is this what Google really wants now.

ChromeOS seems more in line with Google business model.

They are using NaCl to bring Android apps to ChromeOS, so probably it could enable Android apps for Windows. But that would undermine Android as replacement of Windows just like Wine for Desktop Linux.
Japan plans robot revolution
The ipod was a complete failure when it was Mac only, and it didn't start picking up steam until iTunes was on windows. When it did start picking up steam, it was ipod and itunes together that sky-rocketed in unison, which seems to lend credence to the idea that it was the itunes ecosystem in conjunction with the ipod hardware that created success for apple in that space.

As far as you "success of the ipod was evident" comment, that seems like solid case of hindsight on your part.
And yet, to be truly compatible with Android, they will have to poke holes in the sandbox to allows access to contacts, social data, etc. So while I have no problem believing that the sandbox will be equally resilient against buffer overflows, this is nevertheless modifying the security model in a very real sense.

Personally, permissions are the one area of Android that I'm not happy with, because permissions being all-or-nothing means that apps can twist my arm to give them access to things I'd rather they not have access to (e.g. contacts). Seeing ChromeOS adopt this security model would make it less appealing to me rather than more appealing, because it encourages apps to demand access to more data than they need.
When they did those things, they already started merging the platforms.
'hope to'? They don't hope to, it exists. 15-20 million FaceTime calls every day: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/02/28/apple-40-billion-imessag...
From my experience, it's almost always both. There are things about the environment and work nature that are not conducive to the said person - thereby not allowing said person to function optimally.

Most times there are some things under the individual's control. Examples: Being more explicit with the manager about the kind of work that one would like to do, coming in an hour earlier (and leaving an hour earlier) to get some solitude in the mornings in an open floor plan, blocking calendars to disallow meetings at one's most productive time, etc..

But having said that, most relationships quickly become toxic when too many things start to fail. One is never sure if it is just oneself or the environment, if a certain action is just the boss having a bad day or part of a larger corporate thought process. At this stage, one is left with no choice to leave.

The best advice I can give is to take an extended vacation (10+ days) at such a point. Clarity often strikes when the immediacy of the problems are no longer at hand.
Looks like there's a good opportunity for medical tourism in India. Maybe it's a startup idea?
Not that crazy to say "You only use % of your brain!".

So, naive question: Could be correct to think that if half the brain is "enough" to have a full life, then the other half is utilized (in normal brains) but is wasting in doing unnecesary work? ie: Could be the brain is truly under-utilized, under-performing all the time? Like, is lazy?
There are crazy cases of plasticity like that, this is more of "massive nosql caching infrastructure is down, everything else works overdrive to still mostly function correctly".
Nice job!

You got a nice simple idea, created a quick gmail account, built a quick SquareSpace landing page with collection form and now you are on the front page of Hacker News collecting some good data.

This my friends is quick and dirty and it works, if you can hack this idea and get it onto the front page of NH in 30 minutes you will make this happen.
Eh? I've run my rMBP at 1680x1050 for over two years. It's not blurry or (appreciably) slow, though I'll admit I'm using it more for development work more than heavy design work.
Wells Fargo and Apple Pay
I forgot to actually link to the item:

[0] - http://www.subtraction.com/2014/07/09/looks-by-dr-dre/
I like the einstein quote about a fish judged by its ability to clime a tree.

In another front-page story, a woman has been found to lack a cerebellum. She was said to have motor and speech deficiency. Or you can say she's been a genius, compensating with her fine cortex the handicap.

This is because every project is different and has a history.

Different? That's identical to one I happen to know :-)
Innovations in payment technologies and the emergence of digital currencies [pdf]
Guess he was hyper-focused on law at the time? It is still an interesting statement.
Which is? Hemispherectomy is close to taking out half the cores. Missing cerebellum is close to what you described.
Employer sponsored insurance, together with accompanying regulations about individual costs, is tuned to make sure the smoker and the healthy person pay the same price.

That is kind of what insurance is for though - to level out the cost for everyone.

It's a common misconception that smokers cost society.
The truth is, smokers die earlier and cost tax payers less in insurance benefits and health care than non-smokers. [1] We should be encouraging people to smoke if we want to save money. (I'm joking!)

[1] http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...
I just started to work remotely and I agree that the solitude is easily the worst thing about it. You have to make an extra effort to go out and establish relationships, but even then, if you move around a lot, long-term it is going to be tough.

I think having a group or network of similar minded people would greatly help.

I have actually thought about this a lot, what if there is a network of airbnbs/hostels around the world which a group of remote workers agree upon to be more concentrated? I think co-working spaces do much of it right now, but it can always be improved upon.
Seems to me like there's plenty of help around if you're a founder, but not very much if you're just a programmer, especially a relatively new one. I don't have many contacts for career advice and frequently have to kick myself to maintain my drive - it seems to ask for help would be to invite a bunch of people to tell me my skills are shit.
Implication is even a weaker relationship than correlation.

And as a counter-point, the Surface RT has a second generation and may have a third. Does this imply success, or that MS went "all in"?
They made it pretty clear that they aren't paying you for your work, but have some help available for securing remote jobs. So I imagine the pay has everything to do with you and your experience.

Anyways, the page seems like a marketing test anyway, just to see if there is any interest.
Great point. And many of these distinguishing features mentioned in that post are the ones that I used in order to accomplish some very powerful abstractions that I couldn't have done in any other language that I've tried. (Functors operating on types and values).
This reminds me of the case of a friend (who is from India) who went on vacation to India. There, something went wrong and he suffered a herniated disk in his back. He immediately went to the hospital. They took an MRI, and advised surgery. He underwent the surgery, and then had a 1 month stay at home with a nurse in attendance. Total cost came to about 200,000 rupees (about $4000).

He came back to the US and then told the insurance company what had happened. (He didn't know he had to inform the company when it happened). They balked at paying his expenses, and came up with all sorts of excuses. Then he told them the cost: $4000. The person he was talking to told him was shocked, saying just an MRI here would have cost them more. They asked him to get an post-surgery evaluation done by his primary physician, and paid the bill no questions asked.
ehhh...You're probably right. I dunno about CA law.

looking up the conversation, recursive and you seem kind of hung up on this wording "unless it's necessary for the safe operation" which I would interpret as meaning not just speed but actual safety. Of course it's not safe (or possible) to operate a bike at 100 kph. But I personally also don't feel safe clinging to the right most bit of a lane with a dropoff inches away while vehicles whizz around me.

I try not to ride on roads with poor bike safety without having to consult the law, but it seems like that phrase basically enshrines what I already do. If it's a fast road with no shoulder, I really try hard no find a path that doesn't take me on it. Yeah, sometimes you can't avoid it. But I'm not going to get upset with somebody who would rather not be driving their car in the same lane as me. I don't want to be in the lane with them either!
Absolutely. No designer worth their salt is starting with PS for these app icons.
Marketing guy here. Yes, there are a handful of us here too.

I'd recommend Strategy Hack, if you're here in NYC.
Online, you can read and lear, and interact on Growthhackers.com and Startup-Marketing.com.

And I'm always happy to have a quick chat about product validation, and potentially make some introductions to a few agency people here in NYC.
1. You can't shortcut your way out of not knowing the multiplication table and basic arithmetic. Nobody does this.

2. The "formal way" as you put it is complex and unnecessary. It makes things harder, especially once you hit algebra. If you can't do simple two digit addition in your head by the time you start learning things that involve larger processes like inequalities and quadratic equations you WILL slow down and possibly become frustrated and lose confidence. If you want to get by in these subjects you have to start to depend on the calculator.

But guess what? Now you want to be a computer science major and all of the sudden you have to learn how to graph trig functions and find the instantaneous rate under a curve. Calculators can't help you now. In fact, everything you've just spent 4+ years cheating on must be fully understood at the manual level to even begin to grasp what you need to know now....

What you see in common core is not some magic a genius cabal created out of a Darwinian spite for the rest of mankind. It is an easier process that is used to create a much stronger foundation in mathematics. Nobody is telling kids to not know their multiplication tables, what they are saying is that there is an easier and quicker way to learn math.

That being said, I don't like monopolies and putting one on education is a dismal thing to do. With privatisation (real privatisation down to the accreditation level) you allow different things to be tried rather than one state staying, "This is how things will be done, hopefully we won't all be retarded in 20 years. If not, let's take credit and ignore that thing called the internet. If so, blame the current administration."

If enough people honestly believe "new math" (good song by Tom Lehrer) is the way to go, they can teach it to their kids. If people think what is proven to be better is... well... better, let them do it. When major differences appear in children from the same generation with one group knowing math and another not (like Asia vs. America), there'll be no complaining to do.
Hmmm...maybe you're right. For some reason I feel like I pay less here. I definitely get more service at least.
I figured it might have been the Toronto-based Polar (né Polar Mobile, now focused on Web native ad platforms): http://polar.me/

Too many Polars out there right now.
Marketing departments have always had a tenuous relationship with reality.
I was traveling through India with my sister, and she got terrible food poisoning. I put her in a private hospital, where she was given incredible service and recovered within a four days. The hospital bill was only 8000 rupees, or ~$150. My sister told me of one nurse who gave her exceptional care, so I tried to give that nurse a 5000 rupee ($100) tip. Without a moment of hesitation, she flat-out refused. Her response brought tears to my eyes -

"Sir, this is my duty. There are poor people right outside, your money would really help them."

As I talked to my relatives about what I experienced, I learned that Indian medical staff see their job as their dharma (duty), a belief that stems from their medical training and originally from the Bhagavad Gita, a religious text that is central to Hinduism. If I had to state a particular reason for the quality of Indian medical treatment, that's what it would be - that they consider their jobs a sacred duty. When someone truly believes that their job is a sacred duty, they will do it with a passion that cannot be artificially reproduced by a huge salary or per-patient compensation.
> You have perspective. People who are suffering from clinical depression may not have.

You're using "perspective" in an unclear way here, as though it means optimism or a long view. In fact, studies show that depressed people often have better, more accurate, perceptions of reality than non-depressed people. This state of being even has an associated theory or school of thought:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism

Quote: "Although depressed individuals are thought to have a negative cognitive bias that results in recurrent, negative automatic thoughts, maladaptive behaviors, and dysfunctional world beliefs,[2][3][4] depressive realism argues not only that this negativity may reflect a more accurate appraisal of the world but also that non-depressed individuals’ appraisals are positively biased."

If this idea turns out to have scientific merit (which it doesn't at the moment), I would find that depressing.
> Note that the bicycle safety classes I mention above was not only free, they gave out free lights to boot!

Oh that's awesome. I would have loved to have had something like that. Do you know if they have local police come in and give safety talks as well? Cops see everything and they have all kinds of stories and advice to give.
How do you find places to stay, for these short periods? Airbnb? I've been thinking of doing a similar thing.
Thanks! That's a really interesting suggestion that I hadn't thought of... Maybe make it have a printable option of something so you can stick it around your house before the party starts.
A lot of simple sites just use an incrementing ID which is encoded in base36 for output:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_36

If you don't care about the lengths of identifiers you can instead use a GUID. Otherwise you're down to compressed strings that slowly expand in length, and uniqueness tests on generation.
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When you say it's not first class, you mean that it can only be inferred?
"An attribution link must be posted on the same web page where emoji is displayed (such as the footer)."

Not going to happen... I mean by-sa is by attribution, a link was IMHO not a must.
What do you think people are misunderstanding about "native advertising"? Seems like a pretty simple concept.
Maryland. The law may have changed or I might be wrong about it. They used to not require helmets either. Growing up we used to get all kinds of community safety advice from the local schools and safe biking was a big push. I don't know that a similar "safe driving around bikers" ever happened though.
nice program!
So, you're looking for the Redis GUI?
http://www.royvanrijn.com/blog/2010/06/creating-shazam-in-ja...

"The Shazam patent holders lawyers are sending me emails"
Very interesting. I wonder what he thinks now.
Empirical evidence isn't material evidence.
How it's different than adding it on imdb?
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There are companies which do this. One hospital I visited has a dedicated office for medical tourists (mostly Arabs). I have no idea how useful the office is, I just went in like an Indian.

For lawsuit-related reasons, I'd avoid doing such a startup myself. The US is lawsuit happy - a purely India-based operation would have a competitive advantage over me.
This is what I have been doing for the past few years and one gets used to it. The internet is useful for keeping connections with family members and friends over long distances.
Native client is more like Wine than a VM. Translates calls from the environment to equivalents in the host OS.
I'll be a contrarian and say that there ARE B players out there and C players and so on. That part is true.

The part about a great organization or team has a structure that fosters excellence is true.

Where this falls down for me is that there IS a synergy between the two where you get the right process with the right team and magic can happen that wouldn't so much come from a bunch of average to terrible people.

For example, look at the New York Yankees vs the Oakland A's. Every so often Billy Beane is able to get a team together that makes an amazing run, but at some point a team with great process and top tier talent wins if only for the fact that they are more skilled AND they have the right organization as a team that allows them to excel.

When you have BOTH great players and a great organization/process, then you reach the top levels.
Jesus, he's exactly like Peter Gregory from HBO's Silicon Valley.
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AirBnB has been useful for me. There are other companies like VRBO that work quite well also.
As others have mentioned, I think this is closer to treating them as redundant CPU cores.

Ripping out code would be like... radiation. Mucking with DNA. And that can be really adverse, just like ripping out/changing code.
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The sentiment that teaching and medical practice are noble professions is widespread in India. Both these professions command a lot of respect in society.
Intriguing.

Question: What did you think when you first met Elon Musk?

Peter: "Very smart, very charismatic, and incredibly driven -- a very rare combination, since most people who have one of these traits learn to coast on the other two. It was kind of scary to be competiting against his startup in Palo Alto in Dec 1999-Mar 2000."
> It has been a few months since I have seen a doctor, but I still receive some new goddamn bill every other day.

I went to a single visit to a hospital once and after the treatment, I got 4 different bills. I was amused why I was getting bills from places I had no idea about. Then I realized each entity had a different billing department - the hospital's bill, the doctor's bill, the tester's bill, etc. all related to the single visit to the same hospital.

I had to call each of the 4 departments and deal with insurance. It was a nightmare!
By attempting to make optimal entertainment choices. For example, watching a classic film that is in the public domain on archive.org instead of going to see the latest Disney production in the theater and paying $10 for a ticket. Borrow a book from the library. Have friends over for a game night instead of going out for drinks. There is no best solution. My hope is that people will at least try and make better choices.

I agree that most of what people spend their money on is the pursuit of happiness and entertainment. My view is that the path to true happiness does not lie in material goods or personal experiences. Rather, helping others in their struggles and seeing their lives improve leads to fulfillment.