skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But it is not different.

Except it is. Most people aren't contributing answers on SO about how to use SO. They are contributing answers about how to use JS or C or PHP or how to solve a particular programming problem. SO did not create JS or C or PHP or any other programming language or framework discussed on SO. Google's program is to get people to support products Google created so that Google doesn't have to support its products itself.
The obvious answer to your question is that being a good engineer is not the same as being a good product manager.

They are very different skillsets and it sounds like the last ten years of focusing on technical details have impacted your prioritization and other product management skills. Lucky for you this is a solvable problem, all you have to do is practice.
The Population Bomb?
Google adds free radio to music service as Apple Streaming nears
Yet again, and of course as usual, the government of Australia demonstrating how much they value their citizens by totally ignoring them in favour of big business. Good job Tony.
> he had so much spyware on his computer that it was easier
> to just buy a new one than going through the hassle of
> cleaning up his old one...

I don't understand. Why not just reinstall the operating system from blank media? If you get a new machine, you'll have to reinstall your user-applications and data anyway?
Ask HN: Windows laptops for devs
After recent revelations about Lenovo's superfish and Samsung disabling Windows Update, I am curious as to which brands of Windows laptop are recommended by the HN community.

As a developer I want lots of RAM, decent SSD and minimal crapware out of the box. What's good these days?
Where I work I feel stress/burned out. A lot of it is the under currents of the culture where I work. There is a lot of passive-aggressive behavior. Some senior devs are outright sarcastic and hard to deal with. I try to avoid or minimize the cross over of my work with those people. Sometimes I engineer solutions or try not to involve certain people so I can get things done quicker, in line with expectations of time taken which is always less than you need to do it properly.

I am expected to get up to speed with things in a nano-second, work on spaghetti code and break down months long projects into sub-day chunks and provide deadlines (with justification based on a plan) within a few hours. Then when inevitably the plan slips there are signals of 'disappointment' and 'how can we improve / move faster' next time.

We have a process management system that is in practice worse than any other Scrum / Waterfall I have worked with. Think getting an algorithm to schedule your work, but your boss has other ideas, but you need to keep the algo AND your boss happy.

[Insert 1000 other rants here]. You can imagine.

Anyway solution is simple. I am looking for a new job.
I agree with the overall sentiment expressed that web developers can and should do better as it comes to performance.
There were a few inaccurate or misleading remarks in the article that I'd like to draw attention to:

1) Guess how those Instant Articles are formatted? HTML. Guess how those articles get to the app? HTTP.

This is misleading because it seems to equate pulling in content with loading an article. By loading these articles into the app (as opposed to launching a browser), Facebook gains the ability to do the following:

- Provide the basic styles from app-install time. Most of your css doesn't need to be downloaded.

- Skip app boot time. App's take a while to cold start, meaning I don't have to start safari before I start the web request.

- Prefetch. I don't know if they do or will do this, but facebook could reasonably prefetch articles and their resources before you click

2) Stop buying into the ‘native is better’ myth. (It’s just different.)

Another phrase for "different" is "better at different things". It turns out that the app model provides some amazing guarantees that the web can't match (and vice-versa):

- Preloaded styles and logic. Content changes, but presentation stays the same. Only download content. (no caching is not a valid solution, because exercising new parts of the code would require a download. Though some appmanifest magic may let you get pretty close)

- Cheap library inclusion. If an app is an extra MB or so it's no big deal most of the time. You can use that to load in libraries that vastly speed up developer work and can do "progressive enhancement" by supported new APIs on old OS versions. Libraries are way more costly on the web as the author points out.

- Consistent (with the OS) UX and much cheaper animations

- Lower memory footprint

These things do matter! The web is amazing, yes. No, it's not dying, but there is value in native apps and they're not equivalent. Smart engineers will make the choice based on their needs which is what both facebook and these news sources are doing.
Just stop being autistic here. You're arguing a straw man. Nobody is saying that no PC's will be sold any more, or that all work on PC's can or will be replaced by mobile applications. The fact is (and all numbers prove so, from the sales numbers of phones and PC's, to the surveys and tracking data on use of mobile and desktop software) that many users can do on phones what they used to need a PC for (surfing, email, facebook) and that they have so little use for a PC that they, when facing the choice between phone and PC for cost reasons, choose the phone. I'm not sure how you're even arguing this is not true, a blind man can see it - you're arguing the equivalent of creationism.

Likewise, you boast that you are such a heavy PC user, which is exactly what puts you 3 or 4 standard deviations away from the modal user. So your diatribe on your own usage habits is statistically insignificant, and so a worthless sample.
So 500 million unemployed people will suddenly become skilled, technical and professional without education? I don't think so.
Why doesn't a bike save you a lot of money on fuel? Keeping a car on the road is expensive, you can save on insurance too. Also you can take the bus. I know, it's a pain.
Git submodules as single points of failure
7 Excellence Mockup Tools for UI Design
Also, of interest: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/gadgets-on-the-...

In moves surprising nobody, leaders and party figures have already suggested using these new laws as a stepping stone to blocking other objectionable content such as pornography and who knows what else.
I've been look around for ages, for a proper laptop, since my current one needs an update, all I've found is that what I want is a gaming laptop like specs without a dedicated graphics card pretty much, which is impossible to find, especially if you try to it in a 17" ultra-book :S
the world needs more jobs of designing softwares to share photos with a time limit.
Samsung hardware is top-notch.

But they're a hardware company first and foremost. Most hardware companies tend not to be great software companies. The company culture just isn't designed for producing great software. See also: Sony.

I can't think of a single piece of software made by Samsung that gave me anything other than a thoroughly negative experience. Even their phones function best when they are not burdened with a Samsung ROM.
Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power
They were already at Stanford..
Ashok Soota Honored Agile Lifetime Achievement Award 2015
this is why i regard it as a bad thing that no one pays out of picket for software anymore.

last resort from working software was only 9.95 but even so we had unlimited free tech support. that gave us a good reason to keep product quality high.

what we have now are confusing, poorly thought out user interface, code that crashes and no tech support.
Internet Census 2012, Can we have it for 2015 ?
Just stumbled across Internet Census) http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/paper.html pretty cool.

Is it possible to do this again in the year 2015 ? Especially with the increase in mobile devices (maybe telnet is not possible in Android phones)
Just because you (and the rest of the staff) don't want to read it doesn't mean the community doesn't.

Parent comment is very much right, Reddit got disappointingly neutered.
Are you implying that he shouldn't do this even though it's not breaking any laws?
I don't know how calculated it is, it seems it's one of those things that developed and people smart enough to realise what's happening decided it's a-ok with them.

But, yeah, the disconnect is huge. I've seen Americans on the internet brag about not taking advantage of unemployment benefits, completely ignoring that they spent years paying into them for that exact reason. And, to be honest, ever since I've started looking at the government as an entity that I've outsourced a lot of my needs/wants to (roads, physical safety, parks, etc), I've been a lot happier paying taxes.
I been reading your comments. You write well, normally now is when I'd be looking up your twitter.
This is true, but publicly run prisons are subject to greater transparency because of things like the Freedom of Information Act which would not apply to private firms by default, only by contract.
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1 conference room per 20 employees? Really? That ratio is much higher than I've seen at any of the companies I've worked at. 10 seems nearer to the mark.

We have 300 employees in this particular location. We bought an alternative solution for $12k with a licence for up to 75 rooms, for a one-time fee.
The one thing I like about it is that it's anonymous so I can't get annoyed at anyone directly for giving me crap advice. lol
Can isn't the same as should.
The evidence suggests otherwise: http://ip6.nl/#!rsync.net

> rsync.net does not appear to be IPv6 capable at all :-( 0 out of 5 stars.
Just from anime and j-pop I know that Japanese wordplay is off the scale crazy to follow along with, especially when they mix it up with English. When I read Japanese literature in English it is important to read the author's notes or else one can miss huge tracts of plot.

A simple example from pop culture would be the Miku Hatsune concerts "39 Giving Day" where '39' sounds like 'thank you' in English and they play 39 songs. In the credits for the MikuFlick iOS game it says at the end "39 for playing!". It's a simple example of what you mean, but j-pop is rife with this. Visual imagery too, the official video for Morning Misume's An Adolescent Boy is Crying Again on youtube has a fan's explanation of the imagery used, it's honestly a good read. (video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtboKJ4D8zg but can't find the comment among the train-wreck that is YT comments). Posting MM video links on HN, what have I become? cries
Still not sure why Hyperlapse exists ahead of an iPad tailored app.
>FOSS of more often then not superior on its merits alone, why does it need a protectionist anti-competitive law to help it compete?

Because people generally don't choose the superior product?
Yes, it happens also in Spain: companies want college degrees for their software factories, and at the same time complain that colleges do not teach anything useful.

It's not colleges fault, in my opinion.
Code Climate brings static analysis to RubyMotion projects
This guy doesn't seem very credible judging by the WP article about him or the one about his employer (He works for an oil money funded right wing climate-skpetic "think tank").
How do I keep my @gmail.com address while paying for support? For that matter, where is the paid supported version of Google Voice / Hangouts?

I switched my texting/gv to hangouts on my phone, now I can't add someone that texts me to my contact list without trying to call them first. I also can't seem to SMS someone from hangouts in my contact list on my desktop without manually typing in their phone number. Pretty big UI/UX oversights (or not).

There's really no way to actually get in touch with appropriate googlers. There's no real evidence that product owners participate where the people actually are.

What might be better, would be to approach the StackExchange guys, or even just riff their interface for a google branded services site, and have actual google employees participate. I tend to see a lot of the same lacking regarding general Windows / Microsoft support, but SO/SE fill a lot of the void... I don't think I've really seen googlers participate. Maybe they should bring back that 20% time to participate in either these forums on SO, or GH issues.
TL;DR: Samsung's software is meant to install device drivers for your laptop. Because there are also drivers in Windows Update that Samsung considers conflicting, they disabled all of Windows Update to prevent those drivers from being installed.
I still find it frustrating that I was never taught Latin at school, I could be more smart now if I had learned grammer right.
Making a Code Editor to Edit Your Code
Thank you, and I don't really have one. I'm a fan of long form, I think many ideas are complex and high dimensional and suffer from too much summarising. Plus, HN is relatively anonymous. I think I'm relatively easy to doxx, but the people I don't want reading my comments are people who don't read HN, although I think they know to do a Google search by now. Plausible deniability FTW.

Maybe another year or two and I'll have the balls to sign what I write.
Makes me sad that Admins did not mention Aaron Swartz[0]

- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Isn't the Wolfram "Language" more like a cloud computing service? Almost all of the magic they do in the demos I've seen so far seems to be just neatly wrapped APIs to their web services. That's fair enough for those that know the predecessor languages/syntax and know what they are buying into when they use the Wolfram Language, but I wince at the thought of this being used by educational institutions or as someone's first language.
The US Navy's warfare systems command is paying to stay on Windows XP
Pretty long. http://www.solarimpulse.com/
> You Can’t Build One Company Culture for Engineers & Another for Office Cleaners

If the article was intended to explain why you cannot do so, it was too subtle to me. It went right over my head. So far over, in fact, that I could not even recognize where the discussion of that was taking place in the article.
Diogenes sounds like a wise-cracking egotist, drunk on virtue. Is that really so rare?
Even Early Focus Groups Hated Clippy
Great. So where can I do this quiz and these small programming tests? :)
Not really. Hacker News is not a profit center for YC. Last time I checked Google is running gmail in order to make money (nothing wrong with that). But if Google is getting paid it seems a little silly for people to give up their time and skills to Google and getting nothing (useful) in return.
URL changed from http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a16153/navy-paying-..., which points to this. HN prefers original sources.
Seeing how Famous is pretty much yesterday's hype, I'm curious to see whether it can still become relevant.
Same here, and the community noticed as well:

https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/3auk69/happy_10th_bir...

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit
Hey you have the right to downvote but an explanation would be welcome.
It Pays to Be Nice
Except law enforcement in towns and cities cooperate while if a person does something in the US and leaves the victim may have very little recourse.
Your comparison of open borders and and having free movement within a country is weak.
"A large-enough company is always going to have entry-level employees"

I bet they would outsource all such jobs, even more so than they do now. The typical big company doesn't employ cleaners or restaurant staff, they hire companies who do it for them.

I also bet that 'schools' would be created where what used to be new employees get trained for years, partly on the job, and get some compensation for it (a bit like the partner system in legal firms, but one where the not-yet partners technically work for a different corporal entity)

At the companies providing those low-paid services, there would be pressure to automate away the lowest paid jobs not because they can be done cheaper, but because they would allow management a pay rise.

It would be interesting to see what people would come up with, but I'm not sure I would find it an improvement over what we have now.

And that competitive market place may only exist because those in the set of CEOs artificially keep that set small by only shopping within their group.
Have the workers own the robots, not the elite of company executives. Then redistribute the profits made by the robots to their new owners.

The idea of having the workers own the means of production is hardly new, it's just not very popular in the West. Not surprising that the NYTimes missed mentioning that entirely. It would be deliciously ironic if socialist China was the nation that would show the rest of the world how to deal with pervasive automation socially and economically.
For the most part I agree.. I do wish more people would simply do a search before asking some questions though... I see way too many lowball questions, and it's impossible to keep up with the hose/feed even on relatively narrow topics anymore.
Job will still make sense for a while, but as society we need to prepare better for the future.

The world is changing and we're still debating if our youth should get less education and benefits or if we should let in more immigrant so we can compete on labor prices on the global market. That's so short sighted!

That train left long ago, and it was pointless to try to board anyway. If the ruling elite would stop for a second being such assholes toward anyone, treating everybody not up the chain as 'resources', maybe they could focus to be competitive in the world of tomorrow.

Most unskilled/unqualified job will just vanish overnight at some point in the near future, and then what? we're still under-educating our youths. industrial automation, robotics and artificial-x will be the field that will drive innovation in the next 20 years.

if your country is still not pushing for them to be in the curriculum of everyone, prepare to be facing loads unemployment problems down the road. avoidable problems, dare I say.
For that you are subjected to persistent marketing from experience. That turns me off a product right away.

Having a sales rep on your butt every day doesn't make you want to buy stuff.
Private prisons are widely acknowledged as being utter hell holes, and spawn corruption at the highest levels.

A description of a Youth "correctional" facility in Mississippi:

"Federal Judge Carlton Reeves wrote that the youth prison "has allowed a cesspool of unconstitutional and inhuman acts and conditions to germinate, the sum of which places the offenders at substantial ongoing risk."
http://www.npr.org/2012/04/24/151276620/firm-leaves-miss-aft...

Also, there are things like the "Kids for Cash" scandal:
"Two judges, President Judge Mark Ciavarella and Senior Judge Michael Conahan, were accused of accepting money from Robert Mericle, builder of two private, for-profit youth centers for the detention of juveniles, in return for contracting with the facilities and imposing harsh adjudications on juveniles brought before their courts to increase the number of residents in the centers."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

Not to mention the that the private prison industry lobbies for harsher sentences and basically are a bunch of soulless vampires.
Not only that, they should recognize that yes one use pattern of reddit was to get the word out of things you think other people ought to here. This attracts users that have something to say; and that attracts users who want something to read/hear etc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

This too can drive growth. If the community gets the impression that they don't drive the content then reddit loses all the magic.

The truth is, the users haven't driven the content of the front-page since the fall of /r/reddit.com following Occupy Wall Street.
Top web designing mistakes that turn off your users
You seem to have a pretty good head for economics. Let me point you to my other comment in this thread for some more info on this important topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769632
CloudOpen North America 2015
> Highly saturated fats are mostly benign, but many fatty foods also have substantial quantities of unsaturated fats that are clearly linked to health consequences.

I thought it was the saturated fats that are unhealthy, and the unsaturated fats that are benign and even essential up to some amount daily?
I think this statement is not completely accurate.

First, it doesn't factor in the expansion of higher education in the last 20 years. I don't have the statistics at hand, so I will just use my hometown as an example. Exactly 20 years ago, ~120 high school students from my hometown were enrolled into colleges (including both 4- and 3-years colleges). This year, approximately ~1400 will enter colleges this fall semester. That is more than 10 times. Note the total number of people of ~18 years old hasn't been increased. On the contrary, I think it is decreased, as a result of one-child policy.

Second, I think it has become common that countries, including USA, have been struggling to create enough white-collar jobs. I have both current and ex- colleagues who graduated from Ivy Leagues and are/working in customer service, support, marketing associates, etc. What they majored in colleges, like English, Classics, Psychology, etc. really doesn't help them much on looking for their first or second jobs. It is similar in China, but I wouldn't say it is worse or better there.
The OEM is disabling all updates. Security patches and better drivers (that are published through windows updates from the ODM). not just new features.

Would you like winodws xp blaster boxes to return.
>First, why would you expect Microsoft to not lobby against laws that prevent it from effectively competing?

I wouldn't expect Microsoft to not lobby because I don't believe their PR that says that they've "changed" and are now "pro open source".

>It's very clear to me that this has little to do with weather the competition is FOSS

So which part of the Indian policy that (briefly) favored open source was not about favoring open source software?

>FOSS of more often then not superior on its merits alone, why does it need a protectionist anti-competitive law to help it compete?

This should be made policy because this is a long-term strategy to prevent lock in, and because it's much harder to bribe a high level official than it is a low level official.
I have a couple of laptops with I use heavily for dev work. Dell and Acer, and both have really impressed me.

The dell also has a docking station which connects 2x widescreen monitors on my desk, which i find highly useful as trying to code on 1x small laptop screen can be restrictive at times.
Just make the lowest pay workers part time or contractors, then you'll be yielded a higher margin
Europe is destroying Greece’s economy for no reason at all
You could almost see them starting to think 'Oh shit. Someone is getting screwed here, and I'm pretty sure it's not Google.'