skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great: "If you’re a manager and care seriously about speed, you’ll need to tell your people you’re wiling to accept the tradeoffs. Reid did this with me. We agreed I was going to make judgment calls on a range of issues on his behalf without checking with him. He told me, “In order to move fast, I expect you’ll make some foot faults. I’m okay with an error rate of 10-20% — times when I would have made a different decision in a given situation – if it means you can move fast.” I felt empowered to make decisions with this ratio in mind—and it was incredibly liberating.""

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> 2. The best way to get a powerful person’s attention: offer to help them.

This is entirely consistent with what Sheryl Sandberg said at HBS's commencement in 2012. [1]

"When I was first at Facebook, a woman named Lori Goler, a 1997 graduate of HBS, was working in marketing at eBay and I knew her kind of socially. And she called me and said, I want to talk with you about coming to work with you at Facebook. So I thought about calling you, she said, and telling you all the things I’m good at and all the things I like to do. But I figured that everyone is doing that. So instead I want to know what’s your biggest problem and how can I solve it. My jaw hit the floor. I’d hired thousands of people up to that point in my career, but no one had ever said anything like that. I had never said anything like that. Job searches are always about the job searcher, but not in Laurie’s case. I said, you’re hired. My biggest problem is recruiting and you can solve it."

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> "At PayPal, one cultural trait was: “Let the best idea win.” No answer or idea at PayPal would be taken at face value. Instead, the idea’s proprietor had to argue vigorously and withstand critiques from colleagues. The upside: analytical rigor tends to produce better ideas than “this is the way it’s always been done” or “the CEO said so.” The downside: a confrontational interpersonal culture can stress relationships at work and undermine possible collaboration. Moreover, this cultural undercurrent was effectively “anti-experience”: it was a harder place for experienced people to operate because they had to re-prove themselves.""

This reminds me of Julie Zhuo's writing about design being intentional and purposeful. [2]

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/sheryl-sandbergs-full-hbs-spe...

[2] https://medium.com/the-year-of-the-looking-glass/build-a-tru...
$/unit-of-time rates are always going to be seen as expensive by many clients. Charge by value. Plumbers are worth what they charge because of the value of stopping the shit overflowing onto the floor.

The other thing to keep in mind is that software developers, especially mobile and web, are making easy money. Naturally this is attracting a lot more people to the field, which by simple supply/demand economics will cause average compensation to decline. Clients will compare your hourly rate to these "averages" and question why you are so expensive. If you bid projects based on an understanding of the value the client perceives in the project, the client will feel more comfortable with what they are paying and also be unable to directly compare it to anything other than competitive bids for that specific project.
It'll be inferior to any closely fresh (brewed within a week of grinding, let alone same day) coffee with normal tap water in a standard issue glass press pot (French press).

These pods still take energy to extract, produce, ship, decompose/recycle this waste of convenience. The coffee inside will be more oxidized, less fresh, brewed at incorrect time and temperature. The point of coffee is the flavor, but all too often it's merely a delivery system for caffeine.
Yeah... That was my first computer.

1k of RAM, up to 768 bytes of used for character display memory (less of you only use the top, left corner of the screen).
About 130 bytes for system variables.

The CPU was responsible for generating the TV signal, so you got it only in the vertical blanks when no signal needed to be generated. Hence you had a "fast" move where you only see noise on the screen.

I loved that thing.
Is there a connection between Relay and Haxl?
Inferior to basically any other method of brewing coffee. Even among pod systems, for instance, it's markedly inferior in quality and environmental impact to, say, Nespresso, which uses all-aluminum pods which are fully recyclable (Nespresso even composts the coffee inside the pods).

Nothing's wrong with the biodegradable pods, although those aren't going to be ideal for quality either, and those are a tiny slice of the market.

The simple fact is that this is an awful product that is doing vast amounts of environmental damage. Read up a bit yourself and you will see what I mean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_K-Cups
I often look up things as I jump between a couple different languages depending on what I'm working on. I'm not really looking how to do things, but more like how something worked, or maybe a more efficient way to do something. Usually if I'm going to copy/paste something it's just to paste into my code as a comment to use as an example. If I had to program without access to the internet, I'd need to have reference books around or I'd get stuck pretty quick.
But the truth is, what Gates craves, and what you might have, is information. A unique perspective. An insight on something that’s happening in your corner of the universe. He can’t buy that off a shelf. If you can connect information you know to something Gates needs—suppose your 10 year-old cousin is obsessed with a new app that may reveal a new trend in computing—he’ll find it valuable, and you’re more likely to be able to build a relationship with him.

This is a very powerful point and I think one that most people, myself included, never really think of.
What's the name of the project that you're working on?

edit: Looks like we'll never know ...
Notice the lack of likes, shares, and other promotional items on Scripting News?

I visit there regularly. That author actually produces a lot of things, engages in a variety of places, etc...

Sullivan really isn't the same kind of writer, nor thinker for that matter.
You might want to read about the really nasty bacterial films that grow inside Keurig machines, and which can't be removed.

The office coffee pot can at least be cleaned. And so can all the various hipster drip systems that are en vogue right now.
Sounds like click-bait at first but it's written by a guy with years of SaaS and VC experience.
Fair enough, cover it with a discarded cup+tape?
Based on his posting history, I think he was talking about this: https://www.loggur.com
Sorry. I was hesitant to post the comment to begin with given that I'm 100% sure I'd be downvoted, which it was literally within 1 minute of posting it. You can check my comment history for details on the project.
There are two agents, the one for Linux/BSD/OSX is Python-based open source [1] (I'm one of the authors) with repositories for Debian/Ubuntu/CentOS/etc. It takes the name of the server from hostname or it can be specified via command line during initialization. Logentries supports syslog for agent-less setups if you don't mind that many syslogs have broken SSL/TLS implementation.

If you have suggestions how to improve it let me know, happy to look at it. Cilent-side configuration an metrics will be available in a week or so.

[1] https://github.com/logentries/le/
Post-it bookmarks - lots of em, when I'm coding I just pop through the bookmarks
Start talking about your implementation! It'll be a shame if you have worked on this for so long but no one else ever gets to see it. The world is a big place, chances are there is always someone else doing the exact same thing you are doing :)
I had an older version Keurig and when it failed they sent me the new DRM Keurig. But I definitely agree with your opinion and when this one fails and is out of warranty, I'm definitely going to look into other brands.
Past disasters help us prepare–and make us pay attention
It doesn't seem so strange to me, although it does seem rare at times.
Wow, is this Malmö you talk about? And only last year?
You must be working for the Swedish Pravda State News aka SVT.

Copenhagen banned begging so they all came the to Sweden. I have no opinon on this.

Malmö as a city is supported by other cities. Malmö itself is in deep debt and not self sustainable. It's not going to make if you ask me. This is why I don't invest in OMX now.

Also, major homophobia and anti-semitism, but maybe that falls under "colourful".
I love this! As a hobbyist in a couple of different gear-heavy fields (photography and guitar/recording), I've seen from experience how much gearheads obsess over exactly the wrong things. They'll worry about second or even third-order issues, while ignoring basic, obvious issues.

The internet is full of detailed discussions of camera lenses - barrel and pincushion distortion, lateral fringing, all sorts of issues you can only see when you're photographing test charts on a wall, with plenty of learned comments from other guys who shoot test charts on walls. This stuff panics people who try to buy cameras, thinking their ability to take good photos will be governed by these abstract numbers.

Feh.
Nearly always, a successful corporation
has some expertise in some market. Then,
the corporation can, and sometimes does,
use that expertise to
conceive of projects, evaluate them, and
execute them. And the corporation can
get the financial rewards from a successful
project.

However, in US information
technology, from
all I've been able to see from
looking at the biographies of hundreds
of US VCs, only a few in the whole
country have much expertise in anything
technical, in any market in business, or
anything beyond general management,
marketing, legal, or finance.

So such VCs are not in a position to
evaluate projects except in
terms of 'traction' or accounting
results or just a little of team or
founder personality.

To be more clear, large and crucial
parts of US culture are really good
at evaluating projects just on paper;
such parts include Ph.D. committees,
editorial staffs of leading peer-reviewed
journals of original research in
STEM fields, the NSF, NIH, and DARPA, and
many corporations with their expertise
in their markets -- GM can evaluate
essentially anything having to do
with cars and trucks; Exxon for
oil; Boeing for airplanes; GE for
airplane engines; Intel for microelectronics;
etc.

So, net, in information technology,
generally corporations have much more
expertise to evaluate projects than
do VCs.

For a more general reason, in recent years,
on average
the return on investment (RoI)
of US VCs has been poor, and evidence is in,
say:

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/02/venture-capital-returns.html...

http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/2012/07/institutional-limit...

We have to suspect that, on pursuing new projects,
generally corporations
do better than the record of VCs.
There's no developed society in the world that doesn't have it's share of people who hold some version of those exact views.

That's why the article covered this view point but ultimately concluded that when those Danes were asked which other country they would rather live in, the response was silence.

I live in the US and pay an enormous amount of taxes that do not go towards improving society the way they would in Denmark. Close to 80% of people routinely vote in general elections in Denmark. This means that by and large Danes have the government and the polices they want.
Pretty much this. Applies to Sweden as well.
I'll start posting about it when things are further along. Unfortunately, I'm only one man and lack the resources to fund a team, unlike Facebook. It's just frustrating to see all this hype surrounding React/Relay when I've implemented essentially this exact functionality as part of a much larger project. For the past year (at least), I've considered this functionality to be fairly basic and implicit to modern web apps.

However, millions of people will see it eventually. Epic Games will almost certainly be using it for the community portion of their new Unreal Tournament.

This thread on their forums details some of the functionality on a more abstract level as it exists thus far: https://forums.unrealtournament.com/showthread.php?14859-Web...
Scribus - Desktop Publishing/Layout

Blender - 3D design/animation
Now the Big Game
I pretty much had the opposite experience. To me Malmö seemed like just like a dead suburb of Copenhagen. I never saw beggars in Copenhagen, though I saw some bottle collectors (those are really common in Germany, but the deposit is also higher). In Sweden beggars are really common in front of supermarkets.
> Having discipline and motivation together is easier than alone. It's why I don't think online education can replace institutional education (though I think it can make it much better) as the default mode. It's why even in one-on-one sports like tennis or boxing young athletes are on "teams."

I'm very passionate about this!

I think people completely misunderstand what online education is going to be like. Currently, it tends to be approached from a "Just like school but in the cloud" POV.

That's like saying online music is "a record store but in the cloud"- it's not! There's streaming and remixes and downloads and all sorts of interesting things that are enabled by the new model that simply weren't present before.

Similarly, "online education" isn't about sitting through video lectures and then doing tests. It's about reaching out to real people, building real relationships, working on real projects. It's simply self-directed learning, with the guidance, help and support of peers.

There are a lot of things you can learn to do online, and a huge part of it is getting into the right communities, building relationships with the right people, etc.
Interesting. So you can still get full iOS documentation, and yet access to Android documentation is restricted or cut off? What about Cyanogenmod? I wonder what the pattern is here. Maybe it's worth pointing this out and asking the question to eff.org? I'm a bit surprised at the difference in outcome between two U.S. companies, I'm more surprised that the restriction happens with OSS though. The fact it's OSS suggests to me there wouldn't be U.S. exclusive repositories for this documentation.
I'm not watching a 30 minute video to get an idea of what writing code in this framework will look like. Can you really not give a single code example, even if the API is in a fluid state?
Since the elf file reproduces itself it's its own source code.
So, by your point of view, I should be able to submit the "Moo!" or "Ook!" esoteric languages which are exactly like this one?

I find Groot to be entirely uninteresting. Look up Homespring or Flip :)
Just tried it:

from django.core import serializers
print serializers.serialize("json", StockCount.objects.all()[:2])
>> [{"fields": {"timestamp": "1900-01-02T00:00:00Z", "version": 0, "item_instance": null, "item_model": 408, "stock_level": 999, "location": 2}, "model": "stocklevels.stockcount", "pk": 1}, {"fields": {"timestamp": "1900-01-02T00:00:00Z", "version": 0, "item_instance": null, "item_model": 409, "stock_level": 999, "location": 2}, "model": "stocklevels.stockcount", "pk": 2}]
>and mentioning someone else's trademark in that context always creates some possibility of confusing people //

It's not 'possibility' it's 'likelihood' of confusion that is considered, amongst other factors - eg http://www3.ce9.uscourts.gov/jury-instructions/node/244.

The NFL own the RTM (eg serial number 78688906, 77182909, 76572704) and they use it to sell merchandise, TV broadcasts, and clothing respectively. The problem they face is that bowl is a generic term for a [sports] competition (cf http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bowl), and super is also standard language. You can't use trademarks to prevent a person describing something. Moreover when I say "buy my beer to drink whilst you watch the Super Bowl" I'm not using the trademark, I'm using a description of a sports event. If I said "buy my beer to drink whilst you wear your Super Bowl t-shirt" [assuming the owners have registered the mark for clothing] then I'm using the trademark, but I'm still using it to describe the TM owners goods, quite clearly, and so there's no confusion.

Clearly one could create confusion: "drink our Super Bowl beer" uses the term as if it were a trademark, and moreover as if it were the advertisers trademark.

Isn't "super bowl" just a description of a large sports event ; that would seems to lack the distinctiveness normally required of a trademark for anything that's normally related to sports events. The 2 live marks incorporating "super bowl" would make it appear the the USPTO consider use of the term separate to the NFL's mark as allowable [but I'm not sure they've been properly examined as yet].
The type of abstract syntax trees of this language and brainfuck are isomorphic. There are lots of definitions of what a "Turing Machine" is. If we take the one on Wikipedia as canon it isn't the same as this.

In particular, a Turing Machine is a model while both Brainfuck and Groot are languages. It's easy to see how each of these languages is directly translated into a Turing Machine model (providing them a choice of semantics). Indeed, due to their isomorphism we need only translate one of them to have a faithful translation of the other "for free".

Better yet, Brainfuck and Groot both have a privileged semantic model which is more or less identically a Turing Machine (except Brainfuck merely specifies that the tape is at least 30,000 bytes long and Groot mentions site not at all while Turing Machines are explicitly infinite).

So, they're really closely related to a Turing Machine but honestly separate things more closely related to one another (via isomorphism) than to TMs directly (via semantic mapping).
Look, I don't like JavaScript either but it's nothing to get upset about!
Interesting to think about with respect to Fred Wilson's Dentist Office Software Story: http://avc.com/2014/07/the-dentist-office-software-story/
I feel like lying about legal obligations falls into the "yelling fire in a theater" exception. Especially because it's a commercial broadcast. I'd go so far as to say that it's no different than other contexts in which lying is illegal (insurance fraud, etc).
Depends on the cities... here in the Phoenix area most of the buildings are only 1-2 stories.. and most of the larger parking lots don't get any shade from the buildings... There are several of these covered lots here in Phoenix, and more going up. A lot of places have covered parking anyway, so throwing solar panels on them isn't that much more cost in labor, and payoff in 8-12 years usually, with some profites for 5-15 after (at least from the costs of the past decade as a forcast).
"... Yeah... That was my first computer. ..."

Same here, though upgraded mine from an '80 [0] Occasionally I get the urge to fire it up and type in some code, but it gets hot and starts to smell.

Syntax checking as you type :)

[0] https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/tags/zx81
you can be dismissed without cause at moment's notice

This is the case for most employees also. At least it's always been my experience. Only if you have a contract with a guaranteed term and specific early-termination conditions can you assume that you won't go in to work tomorrow and get fired.
The original blogosphere concept may be fading, but I don't think that bloggers or readers are suffering because of it. In a sense individual bloggers are like AP reporters and aggregators are the new newspapers. Dozens of AP stories are filed every day and local newspapers pick and choose which ones to include in each edition. The major difference between the traditional newspaper model and link aggregators is that we can easily see all stories filed by an individual blogger, whether they get picked up by our "hometown" paper or not[0]. Sharing a link to a blog post on facebook will never replace quality journalism of course, but I think we've come full circle back to this model because it works. Most people don't have the time or inclination to follow a multitude of different blogs or maintain their own. They just want news and opinion selected for them, by trained editors or a community, and the ability to comment on those stories.

An open exchange of long form ideas between a network of people who each run their own blog has an important place in internet culture, but it doesn't scale very well. It was a golden age, for a time, but the aggregation model as the potential to open those ideas up to a much broader range of people.

[0] I'm actually not sure if the AP allows people to easily "follow" all stories filed by specific reporters, but it doesn't seem like it.
Ask HN: Good small mouse?
I want it to be:
- small
- wireless
- tics in the scroll wheel
- easy to press wheel
- 1600dpi or more
- not too expensive

I like the no-names for 10 bucks, but especially the wheel/middle buttons keep failing. (like http://www.amazon.com/Perixx-PERIMICE-710R-Wireless-Mouse-Laptop/dp/B006UIFTTS )
I bought a logitech M325, but the resolution is to low for my preferred mouse speed and I keep scrolling by accident or while pressing the middle button, because there are no tics.
The headline is just idiotic. A single school is not "everybody"
You don't make a career from the blog itself- you get headhunted because of the attention and the awareness gets you, and you get hired or solicited for all sorts of interesting, lucrative projects.
I recently deleted the app and the messaging appendage. When messaging was integrated, I actually had a situation where messages via Facebook were essential, and having the notifications set up to audibly alert me was enough to use up power faster than I could put it back in on a travel day. It seems like the problems of using Facebook are what you'd expect from a lack of engineering maturity.
When the 'Right Thing’ Is the Wrong Approach
the other issue here is nominative use. Using trademarks as nouns can lead to dilution. This plays some into your "descriptive" complaint:

Isn't "super bowl" just a description of a large sports event ; that would seems to lack the distinctiveness normally required of a trademark for anything that's normally related to sports events.

But registration is prima facie evidence of validity. Quoting 15 USC 1507(b):

A certificate of registration of a mark upon the principal register provided by this Act shall be prima facie evidence of the validity of the registered mark and of the registration of the mark, of the registrant's ownership of the mark, and of the registrant's exclusive right to use the registered mark in commerce on or in connection with the goods or services specified in the certificate, subject to any conditions or limitations stated in the certificate.
Does anyone have an opinion on why Denmark has such a high household debt to income ratio [1]? At 300% plus debt to income, they're basically the most indebted households on earth. Debt per adult is 4th highest in the world [2]. The median wealth per adult is similar to the US, but they're carrying twice as much debt [3].

That would seem to be an extreme threat to future happiness. It seems very out of place with the culture.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-01-06/world-s-hi...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_per...

[3] http://angrybearblog.com/2014/10/u-s-median-wealth-up-from-2...
So they're no longer going to block wifi, but they were right to do so and we are wrong to disagree.
13 Questions with Mark Cuban