skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though never conscious to me before, Macs are crapware free. I wonder how more often PCs would 'just work' if it only came with the OS and core drivers.
Unfortunately launching Internet Explorer crashed the emulator in both Firefox and Chrome.
So what? If they're too stupid not to fly into a giant blade, then maybe it's ok that they die.
I love the term middle-browing. Both comments weren't about the immediate effects of coffee, though, but about their indirect benefits. At least I didn't want to say anything about the immediate facts at all. The position of the article and its beautiful quotes is kept virginly untouched.
One morning, as I sat down to breakfast with Andreessen, a rival V.C. sent me a long e-mail about a16z’s holdings. The V.C. estimated that because Andreessen’s firm had taken so many growth positions, its average ownership stake was roughly 7.5 per cent (it’s eight per cent), which meant that to get 5x to 10x across its four funds “you would need your aggregate portfolio to be worth $240-$480B!” You would, in other words, need to invest in every Facebook and Uber that came along. When I started to check the math with Andreessen, he made a jerking-off motion and said “Blah-blah-blah. We have all the models—we’re elephant hunting, going after big game!”

Uh, is there a more robust/cogent thought that explains this?
The basic syntax of Go is C-like (this is not intended to be controversial), including that of comments. There is also a C syntax for communicating with the compiler: #pragma. There is no need for yet another syntax here. Just follow the example set by the language that has already heavily influenced the Go syntax.

Note that C compilers already have the attributes people are demanding here: pragma directives are parsed, unknown pragmas generate errors or warnings, they are both visually and syntactically distinct from comments (intended for humans, not the toolchain), etc.

Solved problem. There's no reason to invent new syntax here.
Front end developer in Barcelona, Cronnection
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What we need

- An HTML5 and CSS3, standards, good practices and accessibility expert.

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- An expert in the use of Bootstrap, modularizing development of new sections to increase development speed

- Experience animating on the browser using Animate.css; achieving visual effects, transitions, etc.

We value

- You have worked with AngularJS or Node in the past

- Mastery in JS, performance and optimisation

- An URL to your portfolio, recent projects, experiments, personal projects, github...

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Regarding (1), has any computer manufacturer ever installed anything we might call "crapware" that anyone ever found to actually be useful? Not something that grandma thinks is useful, but something that is actually useful to grandma (not quite the same thing!).

The rest is totally right, though. For any behavior by a company that seems to do more harm than good, you can usually trace it back to some decision-maker who is rewarded for the good parts but is not responsible for the bad parts. If your decisions cause $1 in gain for your department and $2 in loss for another department, many companies aren't smart enough to do anything but reward you and punish the other department.
If you need their input, you tell them to put the phone down and please focus. I've had to do this with my friend. I love him to death, but he can't keep his hands off his phone during a conversation.

A calm, steady "hey, I'd really like your focus right now" works wonders.

A lot of this comes down to value. When someone you're talking to pulls their phone out mid-conversation, they are devaluing you over whatever idiotic notification they got. If it's a one-on-one conversation with them, depending on the situation you can start doing something of value to you and put them on hold until you're ready to talk again. However if this happens at a party or something, you can just leave and talk to another set of people. Don't get too hung up on trying to prove a point or have a passionate talk with someone who just isn't there. Move on and have the conversation (or another one!) with someone else.

There are 7 billion people on Earth. If one of them is being an ass with their phone, move on to the next person. If you are already invested in that person, let them know you want their focus.

And also, please don't be that person. If someone is talking to you and your phone buzzes, ignore it. Life goes on. Trust me. If you're expecting a call you need to take, preface any conversation with "Hey I might need to take a call soon." Common sense manners and politeness go a long way.
Ask HN: Cowboy vs. disciplined coding in startups?
I've found I mainly have been cowboy coding my startups in the initial stages; tests don't get written, warnings often get ignored, and generally things aren't built for maintainability.

My argument for this was simply speed: I needed to confirm the hypotheses about my startup as quickly as possible.

However recently this has started biting my in the ass - the project is quite large now and previous technical debt is forever haunting.

As such, I'd love for any opinions on this matter.
I personally would, and a so probably a lot of other people. In the same way, many others would not.

Neither preference is particularly weird.
Getting kites to work has proved challenging, yes. But the beauty of the design is that they have in principle better scaling properties than a wind turbine. Don't count them out yet.

As for the parent design, could be interesting. I cannot imagine a possible justification for not building it out given the urgency of renewable power to our present needs.
> Am I just desensetized to quality or, do I put up with a lot more issues than I should, or do I not have the same high standards as everyone else?

Hard to say. My best guess is that you put up with a lot more issues than you should. The mobile is so utterly broken that we all have to get used to it to stay sane.

But from my personal experience, and I'm not saying that it applies to you personally, I've noticed that many people just don't give a fuck about the looks. Go and look at how majority of people write letters, or even how they write on the Internet. The amount of typos and overall lack of style is so big that 60 years ago a typical reader would get a heart attack.

Looking at the world as it is today, I start to feel that it's me who has insanely high standards because I want things to look and feel nice, not just barely work.

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Oh, and about Lollipop - I've seen so many cases where something utterly broken on my device worked fine on everyone elses and reverse, that I learned to appreciate that things just really don't work the same even on the same brand of hardware. It's entirely possible that you and your friends have a good experience while for some reason, GPs device-software combination is broken. Hell, I personally never had any issues with Windows Vista, and almost no one believes me it's possible.
This is absolutely insane. In the best possible sense of that word. I've always known I will never know C++ properly, as it is such a complex language. (Too complex I think.) I learned a few things from your insane stories. Thank you! Looking forward to being amazed more.
This doc prominently features a very close friend of mine, Jeff Chapman, who also went on to some acclaim as a vocal supporter of the Urban Exploration community as "Ninjalicious".

Sadly he passed away due to cancer a decade ago, but I enjoy re-living the good old days watching him talk about BBSing in this documentary.
I am very curious. How would a typical day look like when you wake up at 4:50? Do you need to commute very early, or do you use that time for yourself? I personally wake up, get ready and leave, while I do all my things late evening / during the night.
Hiding the shoggoth controlling the vehicle.

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm
They are ceremonial. Seems like we forgot how cold war works. Merkel does not want to deliver weapons to Ukraine, because she can not imagine to impress Putin with additional weapons, that he fears to lose the conflict, regardless of how many weapons we deliver.

And concerning Ukraine: I think in their interest (that is to stop the EU and NATO from expanding) they acted pretty smart. They took a part of the country, that the West will not get back. They know, that the EU only accepts countries without questioned borders, by destabilizing Ukraine they prevented that for a very long time. NATO is not keen on including Ukraine either.

Once he is tired of the sanctions, he can stop supporting the rebels or force them to negotiate while keeping the Krim. Meanwhile he can act like a conquerer, protecter and ultimately peacemaker to his own people, which has weakend the rising opposition dramatically.

If the West truly wants to weaken Russia, it needs to tighten bonds with China, Turkey and some other countries. But then again, Russia is already pretty poor economically …
You can just reacquire the installation media from elsewhere and reuse the serial key.
http://bribespot.com/en/ tried/is trying to do something like that: crowdsourcing info on corruption. I saw their pitch and thought it's an awesome idea, but I don't think they got the traction that would be needed.
Wow the number of fake testimonials is unsettling--have you had to resolve inquiries from people you know in real life who found one of your imposter profiles?
I'd be curious to learn more about the architecture you're using, as I have similar needs but in another space. How do I contact you?
I'm sorry, that book has been banned as it depicts sexual acts with minors.

(I was given Snow Crash 10 years ago. It contained a note explaining that it would become an illegal novel if laws against fictional pedophilia were passed as proposed. They were.)
This is true, but do you know why it happens?

The US has a protection against double jeopardy. If you've been sued once for something, you cannot be sued again (and again, and again) for the same thing. In most cases this is a good thing. It means that once the case is done, it is really done.

But companies have learned how to take advantage of it. If they think they are going to have to fight a class action lawsuit that they are likely to lose, THE COMPANY will go to some lawyers, and say, "If you bring this lawsuit against us, we will cooperate fully, cave in quickly, and we'll settle on modest terms."

Said lawyers have every incentive to cooperate. It is easy money, and the more reliable they are about following through, the more of this kind of work they can get.

And companies have every incentive to do this. Because occasionally class action lawsuits happen that the company did not set up like this. That's when you get huge claims like the ones that took down big tobacco, or the hot coffee lawsuit that McDonalds faced a few years back.
cheery-picked

That made me smile. Mental image: cherry-picking after a few pints.
The Decreasing Follow-On Financing Success of Startups
Thanks for taking the time to read. I agree with most of what you've said, but of course I still don't think Python has lost on the web, though that was my concern that sparked writing this post.

What are your thoughts on the future of Python + NumPy vs. MATLAB or R? It seems the numeric and scientific community is embracing Python more, but what I've heard is mostly anecdotal.
Is pygame the best way to get into game programming?

Or is it better to use HTML5 these days? I wonder if someone could write something to compile pygame to HTML5?
The nih's run of good Basic science is over and may never come back. Government has this pesky thing called accountability that it needs to satisfy. There is no way to hold a scientist accountable when the fruits of 'basic science' are not provable for decades or centuries. It's just too easy for a snake oil salesman to extract funding from clueless program managers (the smartest PhD students are not the ones becoming program managers).

As for smart PhDs leaving academia... They are. Getting a faculty position is basically a crap shoot that requires politicking, landing a lucky project, getting a high impact factor publication, or all three. The labor market was so saturated by decades of encouraging more people to be PhDs (it kind of became a dumping ground for students who didn't want to med school or look for a job) that the distinction between a good scientist and a bad failed to be the standard academic metrics. Good scientists who diligently pursued difficult research were more likely than not rewarded with little because such projects might not be doable in a five year PhD or a two year postdoc. The other route out is fraud.

Edit: oh, I see, you're in the MSTP. Please consider Upton Sinclair's quote: "it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it"
7 Daring Engineering Projects of the World
Lenovo doesn't care that your individual security minded person had an issue with it, Lenovo cares that their volume purchasers continue to purchase in volume. They weren't impacted and they don't care.

There are basically no long term downsides to Lenovo for doing what they did.
Fantastic read. I needed that, thanks for sharing.
It's a relevant question whether enough people care. The Sony rootkit scandal was (almost) as bad as this, yet it didn't make a dent in their computer sales and the Playstation sold better than ever.
Why Apple bought 1M acres of Chinese forest
Well to be fair, I thought the article and company blurbs was targeting significant production as much as smaller & off-the-grid use. And these guys are hardly the first to make strong claims before demonstrating at scale.

On the other hand, this sort of unit might be interesting for the use you suggest. Even if the manufacturing cost isn't a big win, if the MTBF is enough of an improvement by design, it might have some application in small remote sites where maintenance is a pain.
Are drivers really such a problem still with windows? The past few laptops I've reinstalled worked out of the box with a fresh install. If not, it automatically got the drivers from windows update.
Actually it would remind me on C. It did not even support a redundant comment token, and of course they did not used a comment to mark directives.

go troll your self. I am always open to argue, but you have no leverage to be snarky.
It is ok-ish, but not great. I think at this point it may actually be worse than LA's, which has improved its system considerably in the past 20 years.

Among various complaints: SF Muni is rarely on time and very slow, especially if you need to go east/west. The two main crosstown routes, the N-Judah streetcar and 38-Geary bus, travel just slightly faster than a brisk walk, and are badly overcrowded. The connections to even nearby areas outside of SF proper are fairly spotty also; BART and Caltrain (and to a lesser extent, ACE and Amtrak) combine to make something halfway between a subway and a commuter-rail network, but not one sufficient for ~8 million people. A lack of integrated tickets between all the systems is an annoyance. On the Valley side of things, the lack of success of the Santa Clara VTA Light Rail hampers overall ability for people to commute to/from SF and the Valley without cars—the VTA built 42 miles of track but much of it on a very odd choice of alignment that makes it not useful to that many people.
The many problems with Seymour Hersh's Osama bin Laden conspiracy theory
> I'm really curious how much it'd cost in comparison to solar.

For a 4kW sized solar system, you'd be looking at ~$6K-8K USD before your 30% federal tax credit (plus state incentives, if available). Your solar system would have significantly less maintenance requirements, consisting of rinsing the panels with a hose 1-2/year.
That is essentially the difference between Criminal law and civil law. Civil suits are typically designed to make you whole. You get what you actually lost.

Sometimes putative damages can be awarded, which can look at the egregiousness of the actions of the plaintiff. I don't know if those are available here.
> there's other established terms for what that means

Please could you expand on this?
Just a passing remark. Wasn't trying to start a political discussion.
английский так классно учить через скайп!!!
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Just because you wrap a tortilla around some ingredients doesn't mean it will nor have to taste like tex-mex.
The Bet with Typesafe That Got Me into Building Akka
Ninja Blocks just became the poster child for cloud based hardware failures.

The product never "needed" to be cloud-based. The dashboard could have lived on the Beaglebone Black inside the main unit and from there it could have allowed us to hook it into IFTTT, Pushbullet, etc. without the need for Ninja Blocks to still be a part of it.

These sort of failures make the larger corporate offerings look even more sweet, and that is a terrifyingly dangerous prospect. The company might not go away, but the data they will collect on you will probably blow your hair back.

IoT needs an open source solution, and fast.
английский так классно учить через скайп...
ребят, пробуйте новый ресурс!!!
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I don't think they've ever made the case for large scale snooping software. Though you're correct that some Libertarians still want state military and justice system etc.
I imagine timekeeping isn't a primary concern at the moment :(
This should trigger alarm bells in all would-be startup founders. These sorts of patterns should have founders debating about doing things like Bryce Roberts' indie.vc experiment.

http://bryce.vc/post/116925485725/drafting-a-declaration-of-...

I think given this environment (the barbell shape of current day funding) the next financier who wants to make a big impact should fix this middle part of funding. I'd wager right now companies are dying in the series B land that shouldn't be, which means probable opportunity. (YC seems to have fixed early stage financing, so maybe some vc could be innovative enough to have YC level clout in series A land? Maybe it'd cost too much money to pull it off?)
How to Dress for Work
It's easier for white men* to get funding than white women*.

http://fortune.com/2015/05/06/silicon-valley-asians-report/

A vast majority of men are still discriminated more than white women in Silicon Valley. So you need to specify which group of men, and which group of women.

Since right now, White men > White Women > Hispanic Men > Asian Men > Black Men > Asian Women > Black Women > Hispanic Women

Do you not see that this isn't just a gender problem? This is a racial and cultural problem. White women are one of the least discriminated groups at large in the grand scheme of things.

Sure, discrimination and bias are wrong. But guess what, the world doesn't work in ideals. Learn how the system is run, and do the best you can at the moment given your advantages and disadvantages.

If your a white women, look for other women for mentorship and/or funding. She's gone through it before, she understands the nuances of trying to be successful, and the social prowess needed to get there. You can use your gender to your advantage, or it can be to your detriment.

If your a non-white male, put your face to the grindstone because you have to work that much harder to get to where you want to be. There is no if and or buts, this is how it is. You can try and create social change to the detriment of your career, you can point it out all you want but this is it. This is the environment you are working in at this moment of time. Either embrace the hardship, or become an activist to create change.
this is from a long time ago. why is this up here again?
It would be nice if we could start with a "seed" colour
Tea contains l-theanine, which, when combined with caffeine, has been shown to improve concentration. You can get the same effect by drinking coffee and taking l-theanine pills.
I consider myself both, I wouldn't give you any funny looks :)
Python's list comprehensions always struck me as an odd way to go given Python's tendency to choose clarity and simplicity over complexity and expressiveness. As a Perl user, Python list comprehensions make me go cross-eyed half the time. It's something Perl specifically decided to forego as too complex and prone to causing confusion, which is saying something.
What exactly is hypermedia? Wikipedia is not helping me understand what would not to be changed to make the api use hypermedia?
gotta go along to get along
Very fair point!
Then I guess the followup questions are: why aren't criminal charges being brought, and (if they're actually not) why aren't punitive damages being awarded?
Have you tried the Hadley Universe? Seriously there isn't a data set that Python can do that R can't (Lots of ways to do things as opposed to Python's one correct way). Using dplyr has been a huge change in the way I do any data munging. Panda's has started using some of dplyr with new function assign. Dplyr really handles large data sets well like data.tables (data.table is fast and handles larger sets but I like dplyr's syntax more)

By the way i should have stated that Python is a good choice for doing Data Science it is just that R works better for me.
> And that's really the point: it has the potential to create a community in which half the people are eyes-closed, ears-plugged.

This is a big concern of mine as well, both before/after listening to Guido's keynote on Type Hinting at PyCon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wDvzy6Hgxg).

At first I thought type hinting would only really see adoption in performance-oriented sections of code, but I think we're all curious to see what best practices emerge in general, and in the open source side of things. Really the additional robustness it unlocks for IDEs like JetBrains is what got me really excited about type hints in Python.
The absence of a pull request does not negate the validity of a criticism. Hacker News is one of the most tech-savvy, intelligent and experienced audience you can find on the web. Everyone sucks, myself included. With that kind of attitude, I would never have learned anything.

Shielding yourself from criticism using an arbitrary criteria only perpetuates ignorance.
> The best — maybe the only? — real, direct measure of “innovation” is change in human behaviour.

It just goes to show you - even if it's not a "new" product (group chat existed before) - really understanding an area and making the best product in a vertical is innovation.

Every time I hear "don't compete, make something new", I think about the fact that before Google, there was Alta Vista. Before Facebook, there was Friendster and Myspace.

If a product us enough of an improvement for customers to spend time and money on it, it's successful. That simple.
Exactly saying something isn't CA or CP isn't as good as quantifying what happens. Two letters doesn't cut it--show me the numbers.