skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the author, clarifying some misinterpretations:

First, the act of identifying patterns (anti or not) is not equivalent to labeling human beings with the same terms, nor does it imply that one takes action (management or otherwise) against people as a result. Rather, it's a way to extract and summarize similar behaviors in a way that others can interpret and apply in their own situations. The post intros this as a set of negative pathologies (not people) I had encountered as an engineer (not manager) in the previous decade, and closes with observation that we all can suffer from these in some form or another. In the end it proposes that avoiding them at scale is a cultural problem, hard fought by continually embodying, supporting, and rewarding the positive aspects of the culture, not a management problem won by platitudes.

Second, it is speaking from the viewpoint of someone building the foundation of an engineering culture at a startup. These are not observations of our culture at the time, but rather a set of pathologies we sought to avoid as we grew. It is true that many other companies do not eschew these pathologies, and for example, result in the title abuse referenced in many comments.

Finally, with respect to titles in particular, we absolutely do embrace engineering titles at Delphix. Promotions are a visible and meaningful mechanism for recognizing (through titles that persist beyond these walls) and rewarding (through compensation) our best engineers. The point is that promotions reflect actual impact, not the result of political scheming. As a result, people don't listen to you differently, you don't get fed different opportunities, and you don't get to do more impactful things. Maybe that's not how it works elsewhere, or the audience doesn't believe me that it's possible to achieve, but it's very important to me that it work that way here.
I'm tempting to do this, I have a almost-finished app but need help to end and release, however, look like doing this is giving away too much, and I have not see how pull-back from assembly if later in the road I need it.
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It only takes courage for those who live in areas that are indoctrinated with dense religious ideology's who will suffer consequences for their actions. For most in the western world, it is not such a hard thing to identify oneself with.

edit: original response claimed it took courage to doubt the existence of a creator. It has since edited out to claim it simply takes intellectual curiosity. I would argue that the same intellectual curiosity could have the end result of someone having a belief in a singular creator of reality.
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Viktor, do you take all the photos? Does the site pay for your travel? Great idea, it is all free but get someone to pay for convenience.
I have a relative who works for Raytheon as a physicist on rocket systems. Whenever he tells be about a dumb mistake he had to fix, he always uses that expression.. followed by, "Oh wait, I guess it is."
Has a Lenovo part # on it, so I suspect this is the PCIe SSD inside the new ThinkPad X1 released as CES 2015, and there was a nice discussion on HN about it yesterday [1]. In that article, the author mentioned that in the tests "read speeds reached 1350 MB/s", which is pretty freaking awesome for a laptop!

Update: Yeah, the SM951 (shown in this article) is in the X1 [2 - see specifications heading].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8847411

[2] http://www.thinkscopes.com/blog/2015/01/06/lenovo-thinkpad-x...
I wish that something like "organizing tabs" wasn't considered a browser feature. I've always considered this a big misstep in UI; the OSes themselves should allow all windows to be tabbed, regardless of the application, and "manage" them globally. This would not only be more convenient for users but it would save each application team from having to add their own tab code (and their own Exposé copycat and so on).
PCIe on Mac Pro has 4x link, although in AnandTech's benchmark they achieved ~1GB/s read speed on 512GB stick.

So I assume theoretically one would see speed increase.
I doubt there's a fixed entertainment budget. I could see a fixed maximum, but past a certain threshold of being able to obtain things for free, people will spend less.

Even if it was a completely fixed budget, "entertainment" is a diverse category. Movies aren't just competing with other movies, or even just with TV and books and music, but also with things like cake and vodka. Even if the pie is fixed, is it unreasonable for a movie company to try to take some of vodka's pie?

The idea that piracy causes zero lost sales as is ridiculous as the idea that every act of piracy is a lost sale. At best you could make the argument that piracy is a net zero (or gain) because the advertising aspects of piracy match (or outweigh) the losses. But to just declare that piracy does nothing at all is crazy. It may be small, it may be negligible, but it's not zero unless your product is so unpopular that nobody was going to buy it anyway.
Consolidating power tends to cause these sort of issues. It doesn't matter what the label of the system is, Communist, Socialist, Fascist, Capitalist.

While capitalism "won" these battles in the past and is better than authoritarianism, at the present moment, capitalism is destroying us all. Our version of capitalism is the new authoritarian regime evolving toward fascism. Like any authoritarian regime, our capitalism has effective marketing & it's believers.

"She died a famous woman denying her wounds; denying her wounds came from the same source as her power"
-- Power, by Adrienne Rich (About Marie Curie)

So the answer is not as simple as sprinkling some "capitalism" on it. We need more love of self & others, more transparency, more equality, environmental protection, systemic design, awareness of the impact of our actions, awareness of politics, decentralization, less emphasis on money and more emphasis on community, etc.

"If you name me, you negate me. By giving me a name, a label, you negate all of the other things I could possibly be." -- Søren Kierkegaard.

The answer is not a label. The answer is our actions. That is who we are.
With a compatibilty layer, a library which connects the post and the after
"Your minecrafters were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."

P.S. Really, I'm just wowed beyond belief. This is amazing.
I understand why this keeps recurring, but the part I can't get my head around is how it started. Who was the first person who posted all that fake legalese? As hoaxes go, it doesn't seem funny enough to have been done for the lulz, so somebody actually wrote all that thinking it would work.
Nifty. This effect reminds me of the old-school color cycling animations that 8bit games from the 90s used to have.

Someone actually made a canvas viewer to show off how it works: http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Old_S...
What are most customers revolting about? Problems with the Yosemite? They want it on another platform, like web or iOS?

It's a real elegant looking app, better visual design than your competitor in my opinion (although I'm sure lots of work has gone into that app, as well).
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I just recently launched my first mac app to the Mac App Store (http://https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mackernews-hacker-news-client/id946730699?mt
no, there's a theorem that states you cannot use quantum entanglement for communication: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
You seem to be saying that there are two groups of equal size (people who complete suicide by gun and people who complete suicide by other methods)

I think you might be misreading me. The reason it's important that gun-suicide and non-gun-suicide are about the same size is that about equal number of households have guns and don't have guns.

If about 10% of households had access to a gun, and about 10% of suicides were done via gun, I'd say the same thing: access to guns isn't the significant driver of suicide completion.

> But certainly not all that group

Sure, certainly not all. I agree some people would stop. My guess is that around 10% or so.

The problem I have with the thesis that "most people won't switch to another method" is that it leads to a world where the United States is supposed to have an amazingly low suicide rate compared to most other first-world countries. And the thing that is stopping the US is a hot-button political issue, especially because most of the people who are inclined to try and get rid of the guns would disagree that the United States has an especially good mental health system compared to Canada, the UK, Germany, Denmark, Iceland, France, and Finland.

You can point to a bunch of small effects, but you want to apply them to the big picture. Well, why isn't the big picture a lot different? If the US had twice the suicide rate of most other countries, I think you'd be right.
Your explanation makes it sound like its a 50/50 chance.
I was just pushing a specific technological solution for the last mile that is a little cheaper. Yes, a wired connection to every location would be great, but 80% of my neighbors don't need that.

In Seattle we just rolled out an LED streetlight replacement project, it would have been an excellent time to have installed the hardware for city wide mesh network. Power, placement and line-of-site are there at the top of a street light.
I have made it to 31 min in, and I genuinely think he made this talk too complicated.
I think you are describing the difference between 'should' and 'are'.
> They have a strong first-mover advantage,” – that’s Silicon Valley speak for planting your flag first

Glad that we have articles like this to explain that obscure Silicon Valley jargon to us.
Just use flash as RAM then.
The retention spring are still on the plug, they are just internal now.

USB Type-C Spec v1.0 Section 3.2.1 / Page 32
http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/
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What about letting someone take over the project but you get to keep a share of the profits for guidance and advice (30% or so).

It benefits both parties, you know what features the project needs to implement and what direction it needs to take to make more money, while the new owner/developer gets ramped up. You guys can even agree to a one year period of help and then separate, but at least the project keeps running and making money.

Not sure if this is usually done, but it seems like everyone wins :)
The best thing I can suggest is get involved with one of the existing community products first. See how the community helps each other and determine if there is value for your product. This is the path that founders have done in the past before eventually migrating their side products to the Assembly community. You can always email us if you have specific questions about the process.
would love to update my 128gb SSD on mid 2011 macbook air :(. Should’ve upgraded to 256 at least …damn you hindsight :)
Texas Hold’em Mastered in Months by Computer with No Wrong Moves
Misleading headline.

This is a complete -solution- for a limited poker version. Really strong, but stochastic, Hold'em algorithms have existed for a long time.
This sounds like more evidence the new and growing phenomenon of "bullshit jobs" http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ .
Let's say I stand in front of your doodad store (imagining you only sell it in a store, for whatever reason) with a megaphone, repeatedly giving an extremely convincing speech about why people shouldn't buy your doodads. Can you claim that I've hurt you then?

Many of the people I talk to would never buy a doodad anyway. Those result in zero harm. Some of them were going to buy a doodad, were non convinced, and bought anyway. Those also result in zero harm. But some were going to buy a doodad and then decided not to. That's harm.

Piracy is the same. Many pirates were never going to buy the thing anyway. Many people purchase anyway. But some non-zero number of people would have purchased but now don't.
translation: "I'm Charlie"
That's a really great offer. I'm no longer in the bay area, but make it back a few times a year. I'll be sure to reach out when I'm around.
This is one of the primary use cases for Ada, so asking this question on /r/ada or the like would be a good start.

Also check out Real-Time Java: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_time_Java
Well, we made it complicated because one must complicate pure things to make them real. I guess things would be better if our code ran on some hypothetically better CPU than what Intel makes. But "actually existing in the world" is a valuable property too.

Plato was pretty cool, though, I agree.
It's not really that simple - try to remember how cable companies started. The basic idea is that if you lived in a remote area and the TV signal was blocked by mountains, you and a bunch of your neighbors would build a tower up on a ridge with an antenna and some signal boosting equipment. Then along came satellite TV (think 6m dishes, not DirecTV), so instead of a terrestrial antenna, the coax cables hooked up to a satellite dish.

This is pretty much how cable worked until the mid-90s: cable wasn't much more than a way to broadcast satellite video content using hardware that was tunable by consumer TVs. Cities had been granting exclusive licenses for years and nobody thought much of it. Regulation was unnecessary because the market was so heavily fragmented, and even the huge players didn't serve more than a few hundred thousand homes. Since satellite dishes were relatively cheap and needed to be placed in every market, there was no benefit from economies of scale, and thus no market pressure to consolidate.

Enter DOCSIS. Cable companies figured out they could sell bidirectional 10mbps Internet connections with very few modifications to their infrastructure by utilizing unused frequency bands along with signal compression and encryption. This was in the days before ADSL, and most customers were on 56k dialup, so it was a big leap. ADSL was already obsolete by the time it was widely available, and cost the telcos significantly more to deploy than DOCSIS did for the cable companies. DOCSIS adoption happened very fast - and it was a lot cheaper to deploy DOCSIS if you had already done it before.

Internet access DOES benefit from economies of scale since terrestrial connections are far faster than satellite ones, and can be aggregated to take advantage of time sharing effects. Therefore it made sense to start connecting the various cable systems across the country, and massive consolidation happened faster than the regulators were able to react. Add in a dash of the deregulatory fever that started in the late 90s under Clinton and continued under Bush, and you have a recipe for hands-off regulation of an industry that didn't need regulation only a few years prior. Nevermind the FCC was so preoccupied with sorting out the ILEC/CLEC mess that they totally missed cable sneaking in the back door of their outdated regulatory framework.

Anyway, regardless of how you feel about the issue now, it's pretty easy to see how we got where we are today. All of the decisions made sense at the time, because we couldn't foresee how things would play out when we were in the moment.

TLDR: Cable used to be harmless and fragmented until DOCSIS came around in the mid 90s. The government wasn't used to things happening at Internet speed, so by the time it became apparent that cable companies were competing with traditional telcos, it was too late.
And the slogan of solidarity to the victims of the tragedy, for the unaware.
These are good points, especially the comparison with the other marketplaces, along with more informed breakdown of what you guys offer.

I think the idea is novel (at least it is to me, I haven't seen another effort like it yet other than the open collective idea I mentioned earlier), and I think it's really interesting.

Maybe I can try and describe the nagging feeling better:

tldr - It feels like Assembly makes it easier for startups to be a machine with people-shaped cogs. I might also be completely wrong, and that is actually the better way to go (or the path that people will be happy to travel once they discover assembly)

It feels like assembly is deconstructing the startup model (which is probably good and bad, maybe mostly good):

- (+/- technical) founder => person with idea

- initial dev team => contributors

- VC => Assembly (w/ revenue share instead of equity)

But I think that something gets lost in that deconstruction. The founders become "just" people with ideas, and not people who grew, nurtured and fostered a company/entity. I realize they are the core team, but learning all the accounting, finances, legal, and operating costs bits are kind of valuable to a budding founder. I may even go as far as to say that a person with an idea != a founder specifically because of the transformation that happens from having to deal with all that administration (otherwise known as running a company).

Similarly for the dev team, they're invested... but I don't think they're as invested as they could be, or as part of the living breathing entity (figuratively) that is the company -- it's almost like being a freelancer/contract worker (more the disenfranchisement that might occur, I think, less the health benefits/other usual problems)

And while the marketplace itself (Assembly) takes on quite a fair bit of risk in hosting the sites and providing all those services for free... I can't help but feel like the profit they may make comes at the cost of stunting the growth of a founder and her/his development team.

If I could put it in a sentence, I might say that this system makes it easier to treat people as cogs.

On the flip side, this could be a completely inane over-reaction, I may be on the wrong side of a trend that is about to be huge, and streamline startup culture in a big way.
I know it would be inflammatory, but I can think of an extremely provocative Google doodle "cartoon" that would put the cat amongst the pigions and make a statement about Google's position on free speech in this particular matter.
I thought the point of the modern Monty Hall problem is to introduce students to probability and thus it's important for them to list the various probabilities. They're learning how to do it. Other people need to check the working to see if the student understands what to do.

Here's a nice example of this teaching: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
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Bravo. In the face of continued pressure to make free speech a little less free here in the U.S. and around the world, it's on the U.S. and its citizens to protect free speech and/or show their support for those who have been silenced around the world.

If Google does that by donating some money, the message is still very clear and, at least from me, quite appreciated.

Freedom is never free, and human life, sadly, seems like the ongoing and unending price.
Nous sommes tous Charlie
Notable: these are all just low-power ultrabook range CPUs.

If you want high-power Broadwell CPUs that go into regular faster notebooks (e.g. Macbook Pro, workstation Thinkpads, all gaming notebooks like MSI, Gigabyte, Asus, Clevo, Alienware, etc), you will need to wait at least till mid 2015.

Basically if you do anything non-trivial with CPU (gaming, rendering, compiling), Broadwell CPUs launched so far are not interesting for you, you will need to resort to old Haswell CPUs.

Intel's marketing managed to downplay this pretty well, most of news didn't really notice this.

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Source: Intel Broadwell presentation slides

http://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/Notebooks/Sonstiges/P...
Wonderful.

What a tragedy. While there are many tragedies happening recently, it's great to see how the world reacted to this, but still underscores how poorly the world reacts to other incidents like the recent slaughter of 2,000 people in Africa by Boko Haram.
> Even so, the simplest biology dwarfs the largest IT systems in complexity.

And also mercifully in continuous real-world testing over time with no Big Rewrite to be seen. While an individual organism might have unsolvable problems, nature doesn't have the same tolerance for utterly intractable systems that we sometimes see in the software community.
The whole sentence reads You're Jet Insider No. 100,000 (or whatever your number is). The number probably loads from a separate service, there is a noticeable delay before it renders.
There was a recent Washington Post article which showed the exponential distribution of drinking the US now - ie. the vast majority of drinks of a very small sliver of the population. I wonder if that was true then as well, or more uniform as it was a standard liquid of choice.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/25/t...
Wow, this is a great take on the classic infoproduct genre :)
Power comes across 8 pins (4 Vbus, 4 Ground)

From the spec:
"3.7.7.4 Contact Current Rating (EIA 364-70, Method 2)
A current of 5.0 A shall be applied collectively to VBUS pins (i.e., pins A4, A9, B4, and B9) and 1.25 A applied to the VCONN pin (i.e., B5 of the plug connector) with the return path through the corresponding GND pins (i.e., pins A1, A12, B1, and B12). A minimum current of 0.25 A shall also be applied individually to all the other contacts. When the currents are applied to the contacts, the temperature rise shall not exceed 30 °C at any point on the USB Type-C mated plug and receptacle under test, when measured at an ambient temperature of 25 °C."

http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/
Smalltalk is not the Grand Old Man of programming languages, but the future of software development created 40 years in the past.

Yup. And that future was realized in systems less monolithic than Smalltalk. The WIMP interface made it to most major platforms by 1990. Objective-C and later Ruby swiped Smalltalk's message passing semantics and basic object model and freed it from its all-or-nothing execution environment. And tons of languages (not least of which is C++) have taken Smalltalk's cue on object oriented design.

What more is there left for Smalltalk to accomplish? That's not bad, for a language which basically never made it out of PARC for two decades!
Sonic.net is, for my money (and they get my money, rather than Comcast or someone else who would sell me a fatter, but less capable or otherwise somehow restricted, pipe for less money), a perfect example of a "good ISP".

What makes them good? They act like a dumb pipe. They don't block things. They don't log things. They don't throttle things. They don't care what I use my service for. They fix things when things break. They stay out of my way.

And, somehow, they manage to bring in enough money that they're deploying FTTP trials in multiple cities.
> Where would you look for a Mac freelancer?

Odesk and Elance. Only hire people who've worked on multiple projects and have high ratings. There are plenty of talented people out there.

> For the record the Yosemite issues are the most glaring ones.

I commiserate. Apple's arbitrary decisions on what APIs are deprecated in newer versions must be really frustrating for developers. One of many reasons I shy away from creating desktop applications.
Everything was microbrew back then, plus there were no TV's. I bet taverns back then were just perfect.
In terms of OO it is kinda awesome, with its class hierarchy and that everything is an object, even classes.

But the whole IDE-entanglement was awful.

I have the feeling, that this is a big problem, we have in many places today. You can't always have syntax A in system B and programm with IDE C. Often you have to use what is available...
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