skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To sum up:

-Your boss is emotionally aggressive, unreasonable and difficult to work with

-Basic functions of the company like payroll are not being handled properly

-The company is a few years old and has yet to achieve product market fit

-The company is a few years old and still in a position where one employee leaving will severely damage the standing of the company

One of these things, maybe, is possible to deal with (with the exception of the second one - missed payroll is completely unacceptable). All of them are absolutely not. This isn't even a question: you're wasting your time and it sounds like tolerating a lot of misery for no reason. Companies can't succeed like this.
I'll be honest, once I decided I needed a solution, and that browser extensions weren't an option, I didn't really try that hard to find a bookmark alternative as I figured I could create something to do the job fairly quickly.

The first version of FormFiller was written in about 30 minutes over the course of 2 lunch breaks and it did what I needed it to (though not very elegantly. It send the generated JS bookmark code to a php script which saved it to a file which was then loaded in the created bookmarklet. Caused issues with https though :( )

Also, because I originally made it for use at my day job, there were some special use cases that I hard coded in.

Once I'd got to that point, the thought of looking for existing solutions didn't cross my mind.

Now, to answer your question, having looked at the project you linked, I would say that there are only a few differences (at the moment).

1) While they are both open source, FormFiller is on GitHub and therefore I feel it's a bit easier for people to access the source code and potentially contribute.

2) The FormFiller save bookmarklet loads the code from https://rawgit.com/wearecontrast/FormFiller/master/src/FormF.... What this means is that when I update FormFiller with new features, everyone gets upgraded without having to create a new Save bookmarklet. (This doesn't update the generated bookmarklets though. Anyone wanted to take advantage of a new feature can just use their current bookmarklet to populate the form, then save again using the automatically updated Save bookmarklet. The benefit of this is, if your generated bookmarklet works now, it will always work regardless of any features added/removed in the future)

3) When you click the FormFiller bookmark to save a form, you are presented with a modal window. Currently, the only thing you can do on this window is change the name of the link (and thus the name of your bookmark). The plan going forward is to re-implement some of the functionality I need at work. This means being able to select certain fields to have random values inserted, and also having fields have calculated values inserted. for example, random characters in the name fields, and always inserting the current date (or +3 days) into a date field.

4) The only other difference I could see was that FormFiller does not split up the generated bookmarklets for multiple forms on the page. I'm not sure if this is better or worse though?

Thanks for the comment and I hope that gives a bit of insight into where I'm planning on taking FormFiller. If you end up giving FormFiller a try then feedback is always appreciated :D

Cheers,
Mike
It never pays to generalize about a culture/race/society not ones own. Such effort gains little more than bigotry.
Her mother has also has earned a PhD.
Comment un smartphone et internet contrôlent nos vies en réel et en virtuel
The 50% - 100% is based on top male fighters at the same weight levels. They're going to be far stronger than her.

A strong male athlete can bench press 150%-175%+ his body weight. You think Rousey can do 6 x 240 pounds? Not a chance.
Ask HN: Before I write a single line of code, I
I'm about to start coding a new project, that is a little more sophisticated than my usual tinkering. So, I've been thinking about the primary use case, sequence diagrams of the systems, the data structures and the like, and I still haven't written a line of code.

How do you organize yourself before starting to write code? What works and what doesn't? Why? Or, is it just better to start coding and figure it all out on the fly?
Correct. It's totally false.
This is true, btw, in most sports. A college tennis player would beat Serena.
Similar to how Tiger Woods looked unbeatable, the "Tiger Effect." Where him just showing up to the tournament made every play just slightly worse because most likely you're playing for second place money.
In closed beta at first.

During those years, they let Reader languish, it was treated as a dead project, then finally shut down. So it felt like a continuous series of events.
The number 1 selling point of something written in Go is that it's much easier to package. The result of a compilation is a standalone binary that can be copy-pasted everywhere, as long as the architecture matches what was input at compilation time. This means:

- no more having to deal with dependencies at packaging time, which makes packagers' job simpler because all they have to care is the one and only standard way to retrieve dependencies and build the binary. (Much like the standard way of doing things in C would be ./configure && make && make install, with the added bonus point that the dependencies are also taken into account). This also means that there's a higher chance that the software will be packaged in the distribution of your choice, because the bar is lower

- no more having to deal with dependencies at runtime, because each binary has everything it needs inside of itself. In practice this means "scp as a deploying method". It's an even lower common denominator than packages.

> If it doesn't come with a proper daemon mode (correct forking, PID file support, proper file or syslog logging), sample config file, man page, or an init file, that's even worse.

This is orthogonal to the choice of programming language, though. On top of that, I believe the application shouldn't deal with forking, it's the job of your supervision system to deal with daemons. All an application has to do is log whatever happens on STDERR and let the system handle that.
Believe it or not, you can freeze binaries for python apps too, if you like: https://wiki.python.org/moin/Freeze
Why do we need that? Reasons, please.
I think people want three things: 1) good; 2) different; 3) similar. If your work is good, all that matters is finding the right audience for it. People want things that are different from your past work and the cultural status quo, but they also want similarity, a connection. There are many artists who substantially change their output while remaining popular, but there are many who screw it up too.
Why? The entire point of ports is so you don't have to do this.

Don't get me wrong, it's kinda cool, but it seems like a really bad idea to actually do it.
This shouldn't really be the discussion. It's kind of a side show. She is an extremely accomplished fighter and deserves to be respected as such.
But...
He's absolutely right. She wouldn't stand a chance against any decently trained MMA artist. Men are indeed enormously stronger and strength does matter in MMA.
> No, men are stronger at the exact same weight than women are, by a significant margin.

This is indisputable.

However, strength only in one factor, and there are many that contribute to the success in an MMA fight.

There are also key differences in how you measure strength and how that matters in a fight.

Daniel Cormier has significantly higher stats around olympic lifts, and routinely manhandles his opponents. Against former champion Jon Jones, however, Jones matched him, and was able to out wrestle the former olympian.

Saying it more plainly, just because men are naturally stronger than women, doesn't mean that men are naturally better fighters.
This whole refugee crisis is hard for me to accept.

My whole family ended up in the West in an earlier crisis, and they tell us about how they rented crappy boats, almost died, almost got pirated, etc, trying to get across the water.

They also talk about the generosity they met once they got to their respective countries. There's stories about various strangers who volunteered to put up entire families in their own houses, helped them with the language, getting a job, studying, childcare, and so on.

A few weeks ago I was driving through Calais, and there were so many migrants on the road they spilled onto the opposite lane. There's stories about people getting killed clinging on to the bottoms of trucks, people dying of asphyxiation in containers, people getting run over by the train. People dying in overfilled boats.

-How did attitudes change so much that we can no longer accept that someone would like to change an accident of birth?

-Why do we hide behind refugee status (and there are real refugess from war these days, esp in Turkey) when we know that people did not choose to be born in an economic hellhole?

-Are we really happy to let capital move freely but keep the labor stuck where it is cheapest?

EDIT:

So, before I got attacked for not feeding, housing, and educating thousands of migrants on my own, I was going to add this:

- Why is there such reluctance to spread the burden? The numbers arriving in Italy and Greece are orders of magnitude higher that those living in the shanty in Calais, hoping to come to the UK. It was 140K crossing the Med according to the BBC in 2014. There's 350M people in Europe, and several of the rich states are actually shrinking.
@boomzilla: Go head and try it IRL. It's a huge PITA and there are plenty of gotchas.
BJ Penn is easily one of my favorites. I'm actually upset at the fact that seemingly, the more motivation he found, the more likely he was to engage in a stand-up battle, despite his obvious advantages on the ground.

Quite possibly there are factors that I'm not privy to (like age inhibiting his flexibility or something), but I've never seen anybody as creative on the ground as he was (though there are some modern fighters that are getting there), and definitely not of his time, but yeah, for a long time, he rode the coattails of his raw talent and didn't train as competitively as many of those who ultimately passed him by.

Frank Mir is, in my opinion, his polar opposite (in too many ways to list).
If you're down-voted, it's only because you make an invasive requirement of people without explaining yourself.
Well it just takes being a strong, independent person. Personally I don't really subscribe to the marriage-above-all-else philosophy. You have to accept that you are not the center of the universe, and even if someone truly loves you their agenda might not line up with yours. By the same token the husband should feel free to seek whatever he needs to make do in light of that. It may be cliche, but "if you love someone, set them free." It certainly does take courage and resolve to do that.
check out the Less Wrong Solstice Celebration [0]. It tries to establish a pretty formal ritual with humanist/rational values. I have no personal experience, though.

[0] http://lesswrong.com/lw/8x5/ritual_report_nyc_less_wrong_sol...
OS X's been using CUPS for a long time and, as other OS X users have noted, doesn't have the reliability problems people are reporting here on Linux. So those problems must have to do with things that aren't directly CUPS related, like possibly an application, PPD, Ghostscript, backend, or network or USB problem. Each distro packages this up a bit differently and with different versions so that could also be part of the inconsistency.
That's a nasty thing to say, though flattering to local prejudice.
I have been using taxis for 20 years now - it usually goes like this - I order the car to come to my departure address and take me to my destination. And then I pay. Just like Uber. Taxi services (which uber is) are a century old. So - no innovation.

And if that is the bar to clear for amazing - this is just an simple app backed by insane amount of money. Well having unlimited resources makes solving the chicken and egg problem easy.
>> "We killed the project because it became clear how sadly broken the music industry has become. They wanted about 50% of our revenue, no matter how we sliced the business model. We are totally miffed at how pandora or spotify survive."

Aren't Spotify running at a huge loss?

I don't see how this means the music industry is broken. They are trying to get as much money for the content they own as possible. If they don't think your service is worth much to them they probably don't want to bother licensing you the content. Seems like simple business strategy. The problem is with your business - you need to find a way to make money. If a business can't make enough money to afford the thing it can't survive without then you have a problem, you can't just blame the problem on someone else. I get where you're coming from (they make it too expensive) but they have no need to license you content. In fact it just fragments the market more making marketing more difficult for them. I think ideally they would want one store where everyone goes for everything.
The US used to have that. You can still see the remnants if you look. Rotary International, Kiwanis International, the Independent Order of Foresters, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry - all those secular fraternal organizations still exist.

The core of these organizations was small business owners, a group which once ran their small towns, and no longer does. Some of those organizations existed to push back against big business, especially railroads, back when railroads had a monopoly on shipments to small towns. That function evaporated as trucks took over.

Rotary has a moral code, the Rotary Four-Way Test:

Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

That's a morality for business people, created by business people. It seems archaic today. It was once taken quite seriously.
Ask HN: Windows phone vs. Android privacy issues?
Hello all, I just bought Windows Phone and am astonished by the lack of privacy I receive. The phone is pretty much useless without live/outlook account and am thinking of returning it.

My biggest issue is that once I imported contacts from my sim card all those contacts/people appeared in the freaking cloud and there is no workaround for this. Now, for the majority of people this might seem like a good idea and a feature.

I do own Android tablet and it seems less intrusive. I am not sure if I should even try Android phone since I suspect that sooner or later these kind of things will come to Android (or are even there at this moment??)?
Source is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/panzhangwang/getAwesomeness
His initial explanation of uncountable infinity isn't exactly correct, and I'm afraid it will give people the wrong idea. He says that the real numbers are uncountable, because even between 0 and 1 on the number line there are an infinite number of real numbers. But that is also true of the rational numbers, which are countable! After all, what is the smallest rational number larger than 0?
Hitchhiking Robot Found Decapited
Maybe the need is not for God but for us?
> it's just another outlet for HN to vent at the injustices of the VC world

Bingo—where the primary "injustice" is that they're giving money to others and not to me.
"The team at the UC Davis School of Medicine investigated PEP005 - one of the ingredients in a treatment to prevent cancer in sun-damaged skin."

PEP005 upside down is "SOOd3d".
There are a number of work and wifi proxies which won't allow out a lot of traffic, based on port. A multiplexer like this can work around such (assumed) well-intentioned but poorly implemented protections.
In the specific case of Jehova, Eph 2:7 addresses this question: "So God can point to us in all future ages as examples of the incredible wealth of his grace and kindness toward us, as shown in all he has done for us who are united with Christ Jesus." -NLT
He does go on to explain diagonalization, which is of course a better way to demonstrate the uncountability of the reals.
Have you tried debugging things when cups doesn't "just work"? printcap was much simpler, which made it easier to understand and diagnose problems.

In general I think there's a positive correlation between the precentage of cases where software "just works" with no manual intervention and the effort required to diagnose the cases where it doesn't.
The topic was immune systems.

> I only made the typical HN/Reddit-like comment so prevalent on anything like this

Please don't make such comments here.
> I may have misunderstood voidz's question but I don't think he's asking for a dumbed-down tldr or something to be spoonfed to him.

Okay, I'll just quote voidz's response to the same post you're responding to:

> Most of all, I wanted to kick off the discussion by asking if we should guess what information the link would give us. From the title alone, I have no idea. It's a play on words ("the hole / whole argument"), but beyond that, i had no clue.

Can you think of a way to get "what information the link would give us" without it being a dumbed-down tldr?
I always respected Frank Mir's raw talent--after his devastating motorcycle accident that he was still able to return and claim the heavyweight title.

As someone who has admiration for the "veterans" of the octagon, I'm really happy to see the resurgence of Andrei Arlovski.
The Biggest Pit Bull Just Became a Dad
> or adults chaperoning young children, obviously

Even that is too frequently associated with romance by a small but vocal population in the US.
Steve Jobs deserves a lot of the credit for this as well:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-steve-jobs-infl...

Also, not in the article but reported in the press at the same time, Jobs told Page that he should be less afraid of ruffling feathers and more willing to command the company to do what he wants. Unfortunately, what worked for Steve Jobs wouldn't necessarily work for Larry Page.
Some data on elite male and female tennis matches:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sexes_(tennis)

Man ranked 203 beats both Williams sisters in informal sets:

http://observer.theguardian.com/osm/story/0,,543962,00.html
Wouldn't a VPN or tunnelling solution be better? You pass all your traffic through a fixed port on one host, then unwrap it and use the web as though the restriction wasn't there.
Not to mention gaming the usage metrics and OKRs to give the impression G+ was far more popular than it really was, then taking the whole team to Hawaii to celebrate the supposed success. I'll never understand what Larry saw in him; he came across to many as a huge culture mismatch from the very start with his smooth-talking used car salesman style.
Have you had any honest conversations about this with the CEO yet?

I see most people saying "quit!", but really that is not fair to the business or the other people who are there. This kind of behavior gives technical people a bad name, and perpetuates the myth that we are social hermits who cannot sell or run companies. You admitted that you effectively avoid the CEO, so how would he know you've got this displeasure?

He or She deserves to know how they are fucking up. If it were me, I would gauge the response to this conversation as my go/no-go decision maker. Could be that they are all over the place and don't realize they have reached this point. You may have a heart to heart and say, "look, I need these things fixed and top of the list is your overt behavior". Any sane CEO is going to consider your contribution, realize their behavior has degraded and quickly adjust. If not, pack your bags, baby!

The pay and such is actually a separate issue, and _no excuses_ should be sorted out - right now.
Oh yes, the wonders of British automotive engineering. You haven't felt the joy of it until an electrical issue appears. Which is often the case. Did you ever enjoy letting out the Lucas magic smoke? Preferably from behind the dash area... :)

Do you still have the car?
Mars One actually accepted applicants who were married? I'd thought I'd already lost all respect for them but somehow found more to lose.
Goldenballs: Not for Nothing Was Jacob Fugger Known as “Jacob the Rich”
Well thanks for assuming ignorance rather than amusement on my part.

I've always found the entire concept of reversing a string amusing enough, now I get to add another example of why the entire problem is ill-defined. What is the reverse of the 'white woman hearts black man' emoji? Is it a 'black man hearts white woman' emoji?

The realistic string handling problem this will at least bring to light is probably more likely to be an issue with strong truncation than with ill-formed interview questions. As you say, if this brings the risk of splitting combining characters to the fore maybe more software will handle it in the future.
It would be interesting to see PBRT re-written with C++ 11/14 idioms, and look at how that affects the execution speed as well.
Awesome information, thank you very much!
I consider uncountability an artefact of a flawed approach to mathematics. I'd recommend looking into constructive mathematics based on intuitionistic logic. All fruitful insights based on other mathematics can be proven by it, from all of it's results we can easily extract methods and it is much less mystic. I think it is much more fun, too.
Rousey won't fight Fox Fallon, a transgender female MMA fight who went through puberty as a man, so Rousey herself recognizes men have a biological advantage in the sport.
Who is "they"? The article does not imply that about every investor.
"and she refuses to fight due to that gap" Err ... if you want to challenge the champion, you go down to her weight, not the other way around.
The problem with saying "men are stronger than women" is that we're not dealing with men and women, we're dealing with a specific woman, and a potential specific man.

This is not about the aggregate, it's about the specific.

I would put Rhonda's ground game up against plenty of bantamweight men. Striking is a different story, of course, but god help any fighter that hesitates and lets her attach on to anything. Watch her spar with Uriah Hall, and how easily she takes down an extremely athletic man with a 50 pound advantage.

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

I don't think this fight would ever happen, but dismissing Rhonda Rouseys potential with biological hand-waving is an insult to everything she's accomplished. And I'm saying this as someone who doesn't even particularly like her.
> Is it ridiculously hard to go to the nearest university and ask a physics professor

How likely is it that no investor asked any physicist about this?
Also we could discuss ordering of these characters. Like why, for instance, white males should be standing before black females after sorting? Seems like inequality! Maybe they should be sorted randomly every time?

Same applies to beards, of course.
HN auto-capitalizes the first letter
You do know Mobile Carrier can actually use your sim card to get all your contacts anyway if they wanted to, also on any phone OS pretty much all apps wants access to your contacts anyway.
Fermat's Little Theorem (2013) [video]
I hadn't considered that. Of course, who could dispute it? It isn't like the real Ewig is going to stand up to defend his honor.