skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that is at all a likely scenario. What I would want to see is a policy that they won't sell or share the data they collect. If they have one I haven't been able to find it.

Farm equipment companies and chemical manufacturers have tried to offer this service before and failed. Partially it was way too early, but the main thing was farmers didn't trust them with all their data.

I think FarmLogs has the potential to be another YC unicorn if they stick it out and aren't acquired. Trust me if John Deere or Monsanto were to acquire them all hell would break loose.
What start up did Sam Altman found and how did it go?
Oh come on, that first sentence is uncalled for.

Cromwellian (while awesome, and someone who never fails to impress me with his writing) is not speaking for Google, or even other Googlers. He is speaking for himself. As is his right, I'd hope you'd agree, even if you (like many) would disagree with some of the things he writes.

(Edit: you changed the first sentence. Which reads better, thank you. Though I would actually still make the case it's far less contemptuous regarding privacy than you suggest. Worth reading deeply, since I think what he is saying is nuanced.)
It really depends on the relevant counterfactual; yours makes total sense from the vantage point of lots of developers, but I tend to prioritize privacy and autonomy. When I visit catphotos.wordpress.com, my intention is not to leak information to Google even though they have great fonts. My intention is just to visit the website.

So the counterfactual I would frame the discussion with would be something more like self-hosting fonts by default and prioritizing privacy over performance (different strokes for different folks, and I realize it can be a significant performance hit).

To respond to your "more common the hosting site is" comment, Wordpress is also extremely common, and they probably could have devised alternative solutions by making different trade-offs.

Cache behavior resulting in fewer requests can be a double-edged sword, too: if you cache fonts with clients, you're probably also caching a bunch of other things that may decrease your privacy in other ways. There are many layers of indirection, especially with NSA/GCHQ/Verizon.

I wouldn't argue that this and another services offered by Google don't add value for developers and even users (they absolutely do), but my argument is mainly that there are costs--maybe distant/abstract/indirect costs in terms of privacy/autonomy that are difficult to discuss in concrete terms, but costs worth considering nonetheless.

I wish WordPress had been more thoughtful about the trade-offs they made.
Considering that whenever I google a programming question, the most useful answer is generally on StackOverflow and at the top of the search results, I have a hard time considering it harmful in any way. It might not be perfect, but I don't know anything better.
Yep, that is true. Good point.
Well put.

As much as people bemoan the state of things, the fact is that that's the deal one makes to get ahead. If we treated the sources of intellectual capital better than those who manage them, things might be different.
And yet plenty of people with the knowledge and means to ensure their privacy online and elsewhere get spectacularly vocal about the privacy of those who have neither.
Loopt, the first location sharing mobile app. I think the exit was around 40+ million is I remember correctly.
Creating content people want to watch is much harder than writing software. See, e.g., all the bitching on here about the quality of Netflix's catalog.
This is really to your point, not against it, but Black Books used to be on Netflix.
The video can have another hidden meaning (apart that the constatation that humans are inherently stupid). This ill tiger is acting like a poisoned predator. The fact is that top predators are being systematically erradicated in a lot of places and to blame a virus as main cause is as convenient as naive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYN0z52x4pw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLaLUyH4-vo

9 of each 10 wild lions living in Africa 60 years ago were exterminated in just one human generation. Our generation. We will not save them only with vaccines.
In almost all cases it will be people griping, picking issues and holes in the job ad, running down the company.

There's a reason why few places on the Internet have comments on job ads - it's because recruiting is the business of rejection.

The naive would think comments would be polite positive enquiry and enthusiasm.
Came here to say this. I love the idea, but as someone who runs a consultancy... There is a minimum threshold of dollars a project needs to be for me to consider it. Not because I run a Deloitte, but because:

A) closing a small project is close to the same amount of work as closing a big project.

B) you'd need to be closing, and finishing, $20k projects at a pace of one every two weeks to support OP's hypothetical team. If you can do this, 1) teach me, 2) start closing $50k deals.

Also, there seems like an unbalanced payout. Developer gets $/hours worked. But as management, I'm still working hourly to bring in these $20k projects? If I manage to unlock the secret to closing a deal every two weeks, I'm either working a HUGE.amount (eating up a lot of the money I'm bringing in), or I'm barely working at all (classic problem with hourly billing - I get paid less because I'm good at my job).

Also, watch out for overhead costs. As a two person consultancy, I am constantly amazed at how expensive it is to run a business.
Anything where you can turn a batch job into a constant stream is going to be of major appeal to large scale industrial production. Pretty much a perfect example of a disruptive invention!

Looking for how industrial manufacture of honey works, I found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctIqmhTo7E4

This method would do away with uncapping 'super' frames and centrifuging them. You could just plumb in the frames, and add control motors to rotate which frame is released.

As others have pointed out, however, there are risks to this method. It does make over-harvest more likely, and could lead to fewer inspections of the bees for parasites and other issues. This is where industrial scale operations actually would cope very well - the entire system turns into chemical engineering, leaving bee keepers to focus on the (productive) welfare of the bees. It could even allow for integrated analysis of the honey, opening up greater control and closer control of harvest levels.
Meta-comment:

I am so over titles of the form "* considered harmful" when it has something to do with someone's opinion and IT/computing.

Please just stop.
I can't tell if you are being serious or not, but I actually completely agree that "filter the investors I'm going to bless with the opportunity to invest in my next home run" is the right way to think about raising capital.
I saw the "design thinkers" dig, and even though I get that it's a jab at folks who put on the ostentatious display of agency fluff, I feel the need to mention that actual design thinking (in the general sense of caring for good UX, etc) should be just a basic cultural attribute of any good team member - dev, PM, designer, etc.
I think it's kind of unfair to accuse me of hating Android because I criticise it. I've been using Android since 1.6, always been a big fan, but as a power user and a developer I'm much more aware of Android's shortcomings than any Apple fanboy could possibly be.
I think without the detail some of this type of general advice can also be viewed as harmful. Because like with any advice it totally depends on specifics and circumstances. Maybe it applies may it doesn't. How would someone starting out know?

For example:

"Don’t waste your time on stuff that doesn’t matter (i.e. things other than building your product, talking to your users, growing, etc.). "

So "stuff that doesn't matter" is everything but "building your product, talking to your users, growing, etc.?" (What is "etc" for that matter?)

By that token, if interpreted literally, it would mean "stop reading hacker news" or it could mean "don't worry about hiring anyone until you need to hire someone". Or "don't bother with backing up or security aspects". And so on. And we know that isn't what he means, right? Or is he assuming everyone can figure out exactly where the boundaries are?

The truth is everything is a matter of degree and nuance and quite frankly if you are starting out you really don't have the experience to to know how to navigate things with general guidelines.

As anyone knows who knows a great deal about a particular subject knows you often end up having people who ask you questions and start by telling you something they read online. (Happens to Physicians as well). And what they tell doesn't typically apply to their specific circumstances because you can't have a conversation with a blog post.
This sounds like a similar problem to Wikipedia: great resource, bad community. I've never been active in the SO community, and am no longer active in the WP community, so my experience with both is as a read-only resource. Both are excellent in that regard.
Absolutely. It's a fine line. We haven't always made the right call for sure.

I think Metalsmith and Khaos are pretty good examples of why we feel the need to build our own.

The crux of it is that the alternatives (Yeoman and Jekyll) aren't designed to be augmented without opinion. They are designed as "solves all your needs tools and gives you the preferred workflow".

Metalsmith doesn't claim to solve all your needs. It actually doesn't solve any of your needs out of the box, unless you need a really complex way to copy files from a directory to another without doing anything else to them. It defines an extremely simple core—an API that extendability can be based around—and then hands over all of the logic to plugins. Which means it's pretty much never going to get in your way.

Similarly with Khaos—which we haven't really perfected yet—we're looking for an extremely simple core API design that people can augment to solve their scaffolding needs. We want it ourselves to scaffold integrations for Segment, to scaffold new Node and Go projects, we're even thinking about scaffolding Segment-branded PDFs.

Yeoman doesn't think that way, evidenced by this paragraph from their landing page:

> Through our official Generators, we promote the "Yeoman workflow". This workflow is a robust and opinionated client-side stack, comprising tools and frameworks that can help developers quickly build beautiful web applications. We take care of providing everything needed to get started without any of the normal headaches associated with a manual setup.

Khaos doesn't prescribe any workflows or client-side stacks, it just lets you scaffold things. What you want to scaffold is up to you, as it should be. You can use it for eBooks for all we care :)

Khaos also happens to be built on Metalsmith. It's just a series of plugins that run before the files are written to an output directory. That wouldn't have been possible with Jekyll, we'd have had to roll our own again inside Khaos or do some incredibly hacky shit to get it to work.

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All that said, some of our projects suffer from NIH. And when they do it's usually clear over time since we get sick of dealing with them and we use something that has more widespread support behind it. But for others, we're super glad we've rolled our own because we get tired of other people's opinionated software :)

There are definitely lots of existing pieces of software that we like to use though. I've been thinking recently it would be cool for companies to have a Chrome Extension that the engineering team could use that specifically marked GitHub repositories as "liked/disliked" in terms of adhering to the companies design ethos. That way we could keep track a lot easier of the stuff we like to default to, so that we don't have to roll our own all the time.
There's a lot of tension over discipline in the US. It stems back 60+ years; I haven't done a great deal of study on the matter, but I say that from the (large) amount of fiction and non-fiction I've read and the social expectations thereof.

Anyway, I don't buy that discipline is inherently harmful to boys. Men have traditionally been involved with military/paramilitary type situations, which demand discipline. It's profoundly gender essentialist to assert that boys have to move around more. Also, dumb (c.f. History). It's profoundly valuable to learn how to sit down, be still, and concentrate on a subject matter you don't like.

The real concern is the authoritarian attitudes and regurgitation for the sake of pleasing the power figures. It can break someone's mind to be turned into a perfectly molded authority-pleaser.
Fonts are a small subset of a site that makes a conscious decision to use a third-party font. There are many other resources being downloaded, which may or may not be duplicated. If the sites are revisited, they will be cached.
Roppongi may have a significant drug trafficking problem, and you can probably find other such areas with similar problems (Shinjuku or Shibuya, perhaps?) but I think that for the most part these areas are the exception rather than the rule. There are many parts of Japan without the same drug problems.

I should have said, "prosecutors move forward with a case" rather than, "police move forward with an investigation." The idea is that Japan has a lower prosecution rate than the US, due to a limited number of prosecutors and limited resources. I suspect that the difference in conviction rate arises from a variety of factors, including both lower prosecution rate and coercion.

[0] http://kelley.iu.edu/riharbau/RePEc/iuk/wpaper/bepp2008-16-r...
I agree with everything you say. I think that we're still very early in developing acceptable norms for privacy -- we'll sadly have to have real collateral damage before people wake up to it.

I don't know how to proceed in developing the terminology, calculus, and as a result, standards and norms for good privacy without going either "screw it all, your reality is now public information" or "pre-paid gsm phone modem to tor/privoxy". It's the middle bit that has the reasonable space in there, but it's hard to track down and there are certainly different reasonable spaces there for different people.

Ugh.
My first sentence does not imply that he's speaking for Google, or other Google employees. cromwellian is an employee of Google, and I would regard his opinion here as being contemptuous of privacy.

Edit: okay, I see the implication now of me referring to all Google employees in that sentence. I had intended for the plural to refer to "more than one", which I think is a safe bet - but it could also be construed as referring to "all" employees. I've qualified the sentence with "some".
Appreciate the fast response. Apparently those down voting me have never had someone sending spam from their Twitter account and learned the hard lesson you can't trust everyone.

I still think you did the right thing to remove it.
Germany's largest importer is Israel. What an interesting world.
What confuses me is this: Why doesn't Netflix allow me to pay a little bit more, as an option, and, in exchange, have every single movie available to watch online? I mean, sure, they can produce their own shows, but only some of them will be good. So why limit content so much? I pretty much stopped using Netflix, instead I go to Amazon Instant Video

I may be missing something, but strategy of producing original content, while limiting the catalog, doesn't make sense. Why not have infinitely large online catalog AND produce original shows?
I doubt anyone would be willing to employ the same strategies. We would first need to blame female teachers for perpetrate a hostile culture, where male teachers can not go to work without feeling they must represent the male gender, or the assumption that they are pedophiles for taking a job in education. Next we would need to add a incentive scheme for male students only, maybe getting money for achieving higher grades. Female students might feel this to be unfair, but if they complain they should be told that they are against gender equality, and for added insult, that they are privileged and they can't comment on the issue since they are female.

If that fails, a prominent male teachers could then declare that all schools are sexists, and then go to start a male only school where no female teachers or student are allowed to enter. A place where men can talk with other men, free from disruption of women. This can then be a keynoted talk on conferences as a success story for gender equality.
Keep in mind the Google CDN is blocked in countries such as China, so your web fonts are not going to render for those visitors, and if you rely on jQuery from the Google CDN, those visitors will experience a broken site. If you have a global reach, this is one reason to self host.
Interesting that Ukraine has higher arms export numbers than Sweden, Netherlands and Spain. I never knew Ukraine was an arms exporter at all.
In England Public School is where the "upper class" send their children for a private education. Chinless wonders is a derogatory term for less than intelligent children from those schools (in-breeding amounget limited aristocratic gene pool lead UK to have royalty with unusually small jaw lines for a while)
And jobs in finance were considered till mid century to be available only to those people who knew each other, went to the same schools and used same networks.

In short - an industry run by in-bred, unintelligent, privately educated with a small and elite job network.
I don't think people consume music in the same way as movies or TV. My wife and I have accounts for Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and we'll get HBO Go. When you're going to sit down for 30-60 minutes, it's not a big deal to search a couple of places. And throw in some central search like what Roku does, it's really no big deal.
I can't say this wasn't unexpected. I've read so many useful questions on there that were seemingly derailed by the mods and people complaining to the mods in the comments section. I understand their point of view about the strict QA format. That's their business model and it's how they became who they are, but not listening to your core audience begging you to reform your policies is a clear sign of stagnation and complacency.

Leaves them wide open to be dominated by a newcomer.
But how will you get clicks if you don't resort to ever-more-Buzzfeed-esque titles?
> the maintainer instead makes some sort of emotional appeal about clutter and simplicity to explain why there is no line number support

Clutter and simplicity is not an emotional argument. It becomes verifiably more difficult to maintain a code base with each new line. And since he's the one doing the maintaining, his position seems quite reasonable.

Secondly, he seems to have a strong aesthetic aversion to line numbers, and I can totally respect that. Frankly, among popular open source projects, those whose developers have the strongest sense of style and design and usually (not always) the best.
Why wouldn't I want that?

If I am copying and pasting code from a website, it usually goes to my editor and I don't want to have to delete the line numbers from it.
I had this problem with forums before. As I requested my content to be removed from a site, my account was suspended and they actually reposted some stuff I had deleted, and blocked my account. I lost the right to my content, even though my name was still there. It was just a small dev forum, so it wasn't a big deal.

But it's funny because when you join those sites, they make it clear that any content you may find in their website is not their responsibility, as they are just a place for people to express their opinions, and any texts you find are owned by it's authors. But once you don't want your opinions there anymore, suddenly your texts become their texts and you're a dick for preventing them from making money of your content.
If sites are reliably hitting a major CDN (like Google) for jQuery, then you get that advantage through caching anyway. The problem is that they don't, and if they're hosting their own jquery.js, there's no way to know before you download it that the script can safely be replaced with the known jQuery. I can imagine a scheme where the browser sends a hash of what it thinks the file is and the server only sends new content if it's different, but that would be a massive change, probably at the protocol level, to standardize, and doesn't do you any good if the bottleneck is a server that's slow to respond.
Luck is random, but not uncontrollable. Successful people manufacture their own luck: live in the place where things happen, go to places where right people hang out, make yourself known and useful to well-connected people, attack the market where chances are tilted in your favor, be approachable, partner with people different from you so as to maximize your "luck surface area", the list goes on and on.

Chance favors the prepared mind.
There are lots of ways to do work that "matters." For example, I work for a 50 year old company that makes medical devices. Those devices save lives. I'm only a small cog, but I'm working on something that, if it didn't exist, would probably mean some number of people would die or suffer. I'm very grateful to be working on something like that, and it's not a sexy new startup, it's a smallish BigCo.

Look around, find something that interests or matters to you, and consciously move in that direction. Start now.
I don't mind the "software eats things" meme, but I think they probably should have rethought this title........
(shrug)
FYI, page doesn't show content without third-party JS
Your comments seem to underscore how Google controls the debate by defining the terms on privacy issues. You seem to be saying "Concerned about privacy? You could check up on Google by acting like one of its advertising customers.." which sort of highlights the parties Google is most interested in being transparent with (for completely understandable business reasons).

But of course in order to do that, you also have to have a login, cookie, etc. for a panel that Google controls, and that exposes only a tiny subset of the information it could most obviously and trivially correlate about user activities.

These just aren't really things people trying to visit wordpress sites should have to consider..
If they're not being loaded from the same url (e.g. from Google), then they're not the same fonts as far as the browser can tell.
Violent murder is not an appropriate response to this, but certainly somebody (probably multiple people in the upper echelons of Lenovo) should be fired. The damage to Lenovo's reputation from this is enormous.

Even if 'average people' have no idea what a certificate is or why it's important, those who do have an outsized influence on PC purchasing, and are likely to remember this for years.
Not to get too off topic, but I think the Flow Hive would be more properly categorized as a sustaining innovation, than a disruption. That isn't to underplay its importance - this could be massive in the Honey Industry - it's just not really "Disruptive" in the academic/Clayton Christensen sense.
img srcset + a polyfill?
Warped kinda logic you got there.
Woe woe. How is this a "boys" thing? The author has some valuable opinions worth considering but the positing of them is absurd. Re-read that article with this question in mind ("wait, this is a boy issue?") and I think you might also find the authors oblivion equally disturbing.

There is reason to consider the gender gap in education but this article, with "Little House on the Prairie" as its sole reference, fails to bring anything of value for that argument. There is also reason to question why some education systems devalue labor... but attaching this to a "boys" thing? <face_palm>