skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> (Unobvious-to-younguns true fact about managing: managers often need predictability a lot more than they need speed.)

As a project manager of approaching 20 years experience, I would agree with this. Some things can be fixed with temporary extra effort, but a lot of things can't. If a task I budgeted x days for is going to take 3x days, I'd rather know asap. That way, alternative steps can be taken - scope can be cut, extra people can be assigned, deadlines can be moved or budgets can be changed.

It's better to have these hard conversations as soon as possible.
Can we consider Game of Thrones to be the most popular tv show currently?

From the wiki:
>Filmed in a Belfast studio and on location elsewhere in Northern Ireland, Croatia, Iceland, Morocco, Spain, Malta, Scotland, and the United States,

So it does not come from Hollywood. HBO is owned by Time Werner, but operate independently. So neither the physical production place nor the company that made it screams hollywood.

As for the Netflix only stuff, it is owned by Netflix.
Some companies actually are able to disproportionately hire many of the women available to be hired in the industry.

Company A has a hard time hiring women because Company B had a few more and better female engineers early on. Network effects take over as the company grows affording it the opportunity to hire far more women than other tech companies.

This infographic shows the ratios at a bunch of companies from those with gender ratios below the higher education pipeline ratio to those well above that ratio:
http://do-better.studiometric.co/

Women earn 18% of computer science degrees:
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_349.asp

That table shows the ratio at that sample of companies to be around 19% women. Assuming those companies are representative, that is a 1% different in favor of more women than men based on the pipeline feeding the industry.
I am generally very anti-copyright ( I hold that ten- to twenty years should be enough for the creator/their family) but I really like this exponential tax proposal.
Let the Data Crown Twitter’s Next CEO
I'm highly disappointed by Amazon for recommending CloudFormation, but always neglecting to maintain it. Aurora has been in preview for a while, adding support for it in advance would be a great thing and coordinate the launches. As a person who fell in the trap to use the "best practice", I'm always months if not years behind in my CloudFormation stack as it takes months for CloudFormation engineers to add, let's say, a single attribute.

So, based on my experience, give it a quarter before you see it in CloudFormation! I keep bugging Jeff Barr, but it seems that he doesn't have much control over the process.

The whole development process at Amazon seems broken. Everything is developed in a silo and once GA, then other teams start integrating it, unless the two products cannot operate in isolation.

P.S. I keep checking this URL [0] several times a day and I curse several times a day, because it almost never changes!

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...
Well technically Android runs Linux (the kernel) too. But Ubuntu can be updated. My HTC Android phone only had a single update (almost when I got it) and it's been vulnerable since.

I'm not going to replace my phone each time there's an exploit that the manufacturer doesn't fix. So I don't think an Ubuntu phone would be such a bad idea.
I can support the idea here ("people wanting to have social impact"), but the quiz is probably the worst way to direct people toward that possible.

Just show ~10 ways to have social impact, and what skills/traits/etc. are important to each.

The profiles are good. Lead with those. Give some examples.

You're not going to get people to accurately self assess their skills or risk tolerance. You might get people to see "oh, I want to get involved in party politics", and see what factors are important to success there.

(Also both UK centric and 20-year-old centric.)
I've had both Visa and MasterCard and they both behaved like that - if you didn't pay it off in full every month, it would block.

And everyone I know who isn't American has said the same thing about their credit cards of any kind.
That's pretty much his job and he's very passionate about it.
It'd be very nice if the SEC jumped in.
Yeah, of course it is. That is the point.
In the case of Nestlé, you don't have to assume. They have a long history of evilness, Google it. Their CEO has openly expressed his opinion that having clean drinking water as a basic human right is an "extremist position".
Cross the border from Finland to Karelian Republic in Russia, and "wind clock forward one hour, wind calendar back 50 years". In good and bad.
If you're taking advantage of the law of large numbers, then it's only fair to use it in reverse: There's literally tens of thousands of iphones used by security researchers. One of them would have received a version if this if it was used on such a wide scale..
Thirding the previous comments; the program is useless and do not defrag an SSD.
In all of the comments, I see a lot of excitement about the "features" the company is able to pack for a "low" cost.

I would like to say this in simplest possible way

-- One plus one support model and execution is poorest of all phone makers --

The emphasis and culture in the company is to grow fast without concern towards individuals paying still very high prices for their phones but not getting the worth. The half life of the phone is lower than market and people do face issues when the OS changes are pushed without a good amount of testing.

One plus one forums are inundated with people all over the world having hardware issues and the insufficient support they have been receiving. The founder Carl Pei has made commitments to improve support however the progress has fallen short on promises.

One Plus One ended up being a huge lesson for many customers. One plus two would just end up being another phone without company getting its act together.
Anyone got experience how this changes with a smartwatch? More or less distraction?
I have lumia 735 and battery lasts here for 3-4 days (if 3G internet and WiFi is off)
Dawn of App Development
Jesus. This post exhibits classic hype.
Looks great and solves a real problem with mobile notifications
Why everyone is a designer… but shouldn’t design
Private valuations aren't based on current revenues, they're betting on future revenues. In the case of Uber, they're predicted to grow 6x from last year (on target) and 3x in 2016. Another example, when eBay bought PayPal in 2001 future revenues from as far as 2011 (10 years!) were baked into the 1.6bn price. (Which was a _great_ purchase)
Switching Costs: 6 Ways to Lock Customers into Your Ecosystem
> 3. Capitalize the subject line, 4. Do not end the subject line with a period

To me, it just seems wrong to capitalize but not use a period. It should be either both or neither.
You've got the wrong suspect, chief.

All these things and worse happen under totalitarian governments with planned economies.

It's human nature that is the problem - some people would rather enslave than liberate.
I can see the micro in these examples, just not the aggression.

Thanks for the explanation as it was a term I had no idea existed.
openSPARC was amazing at the time, but now the last published design is almost a decade old, and last I tried a few months ago I couldn't even download everything that was necessary to load it on an FPGA.

Not to mention that the reference software you could run on that FPGA is not available any more.
> non-meritocratic compensation policies

I'm yet to find a company which you couldn't accuse of that. The truth about humans is, no matter what your way of determining rewards are, there will always be someone to complain that they deserve more and is being treated unjustly.
Two things that would improve the plight of these people:

1) fish origin labelling - which has massive benefits of other types. Currently there just isn't enough 'look through' to enable consumers to determine the source of seafood products.

2) a more developed economy in Cambodia and other places, so that nobody turns to people smugglers in desperation.
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One thing that annoys me is the Chinese government's insistence on pursuing people engaged in "Share Dumping". If there is the potential of future returns in the form of dividends, then any shares "dumped" would be quickly picked up by people seeking to get a return from those shares. The market would quickly find a level which reflects the underlying value of those companies.

I"m wondering whether what we are actually seeing is a bubble returning to it's underlying justifiable value?
This is generally preferable since it protects you from vendor lock-in.
EU Privacy Watchdog Backs Strict Fines for Firms Abusing Data
Filmed on location doesn't mean not from Hollywood. Hollywood isn't just the actual physical sets in LA, it's the entire industry.

HoC, GoT, all come from Hollywood. Heck, even GRRM was a screenwriter for Hollywood. The creators of GoT are also from Hollywood (Troy, Kite Runner, the awful X-Men Origins: Wolverine, etc.) and the show is run by Warner-owned HBO.
What if the man was Billy Mays and the woman was Roseanne Barr? What if we change it so the man is Jim Gaffigan and the woman is Ivanka Trump? I think your bias would be upside down. It's probably a true statement that the man's pitch is preferred, but that experiment Does nothing to demonstrate it.
For First Time Robot Displays Self-Awareness in Logic Puzzle
I HAD a windows phone (Lumia 620) for about 6 months before I gave up trying to get used to it and went back to Android.

The animations are just too slow and annoying for me to get used to. There needs to be a way to turn them off. The phone wasn't laggy. It's just the animations that got on my nerves.
Dear Patrick, are there any plans to incorporate SEPA payments and/or SEPA Direct Debit into Stripe? Europe is a huge market. Many people here don't even have credit cards. I think you would gain a lot of traction in Europe if you would incorporate this...
CDs mean out of touch old fogeys. Cassettes and Vinyl means consciously and fashionably retro.

Yes - I am an out of touch old fogey.
I find them really hard to follow. Threaded commenting isn't so fun when you can't collapse a single comment's thread. Instead, if I want to know who is being replied to, I need to place my finger on the screen and scroll up, seeing on who's comment it lands. That tells me which comment the current one is replying to.

4chan (well, imagboards in general) have a nice system where you can reply to multiple people at once by referring to the post id. Top-level comments are usually represented by referring to no comment, or by referring to the OP's post id. I find this much, much easier to follow.
This sounds intriguing for a second until you realize it has no basis and some commenter just made it up. Seriously when is the last time you looked at a woman in the office and thought she must be too busy taking care of a man to work?
> Since not everybody can hop jobs easily

That's a reality I forgot about. Your advice is far better than mine is for someone just starting out.
Software engineers need their own Hippocratic Oath.
The Insecure World of Freelancing
Thanks for the references 1 and 2. I had no idea that curcumin was a mitochondrial uncoupler. Incidentally, I was looking at curcumin to help with my mitochondrial myopathy, but for its anti-inflammatory effects - I have a really hard time to recover from my workouts possibly due to a systemic inflammatory response caused by my genetic condition.

I have always thought that low-dose DNP would be a potentially good treatment for mitochondrial myopathies, as they induce mitochondrial biogenesis [1], but DNP can be dangerous and I have been hesitant to try it.

Maybe I just need to add curcumin to my current supplements regime.

[1]
Caldeira da Silva, C. C., Cerqueira, F. M., Barbosa, L. F., Medeiros, M. H., & Kowaltowski, A. J. (2008). Mild mitochondrial uncoupling in mice affects energy metabolism, redox balance and longevity. Aging cell, 7(4), 552-560.
Loop optimizations in Guile
The privacy risk of behavioral profiling
theoldreader

I couldn't stand feedlys interface, and theoldreader is good enough.
By Hollywood, people here mean the big studios/distributors, that is, the companies who provide the cash, not the production companies that film the stuff.
Does it sync cookies and localstorage or does it just exchange url's?
The Register has an article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/28/behavioural_profilin...
No NFC? Guess I'll have to stick with my OnePlus One if I want to continue to use PGP safely on my phone - https://grepular.com/An_NFC_PGP_SmartCard_For_Android
The reason I doubted is because Google are using the "MPAA is targeting us" attack (subjective at best) instead of taking them to the cleaners with stock market manipulation (written law with precedent). This means that I must be missing something and possibly there is a subtle reason why this isn't stock market manipulation.

At least the article makes it sound like the stock manipulation is ancillary to Google's offense.
Go-fuzz: Randomized testing for Go
> Where does the most popular television [and] film content come from?

Elstree.
What a great idea!!!! Thanks! I'll send you a check when I'm rich.
sure. I won't allow any app send notification with sound / vibration, I will read it when I am free.

If you have any urgent issue, please phone me. Asking me by instance messenger do not mean I will response instantly.
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Why would anyone ever want debt?

To help start building a credit history so that if/when you do want to borrow more for some reason you've already established a history of successfully repaying debt.

Plus don't forget that the discounting of future cost v money now doesn't just have to be financial. A reliable car and debt repayment now versus saving up whilst running a clunker (with its associated running costs) can have all sorts of related negatives.
Yep, but drawing readable triangles is much easier for a lot of people
Beyond the k-Means – the Right k
Amazon is involved in a lawsuit over CloudFormation and U.S. Patent No. 8,271,974. Perhaps they are hesitant to invest until that is cleared up.
5 Most Amazing Business Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read
This is such garbage science I can't believe it was published in PNAS outside of an old direct submission. Using only one narrator for each sex just tests the narrator and tells us nothing about the role of gender.
Well, if you're in Europe, find some info about VAT and customs duty rates and limits for imported goods and how individual customers pay them.
Here in Slovakia, for example, if I buy anything over 20€ from China, it will be held by the post office until I come and pay 20% VAT on it and if it's more than around 140€ (I don't remember the exact amount), I have to pay duty too.
eating healthy, exercising, taking regular breaks, and sleeping

Once someone's reached a 15 hour workday, that's pretty much impossible. Normalising hours to 8 has absolutely got to be the first step.
As several people pointed out, the arguments made in this article are severely weakened by the fact that we do not know what fraction of this complexity is essential for brain function and what fraction is unnecessary complexity caused by evolutionary history and biological constraints.

In addition, we should also keep in mind that a digital AI can have many 'unfair advantages' compared to human brains. Besides lacking the obvious biological constraints, digital AIs are not necessarily limited to pure neural networks. AIs can be made up of hybrid systems in which neural networks have access to web-scale knowledge bases, extremely fast and prcecise databases for writing and reading arbitrary data and storing them indefinitly, APIs for running computations that would be difficult to implement in neural networks, and so on. The neural network part of the AI could evolve and learn with having zero-latency, high-bandwith access to several such resources and learn how to make optimal use of them.
It was a project idea, with some novel concepts introduced in our Whitepaper ( https://github.com/orisi/wiki/wiki/Orisi-White-Paper ). The bitcoin community changed a bit, but the fundamentals haven't and the concept we introduced is still awaiting a proper implementation.

Why it got submitted - I don't know who did it, it was neither one of us! But it's nice to see that someone's still interested in what you did.

One thing that I really should do is some kind of closure & public after action review...
I had a similar experience of burnout in a stressful startup environment. Recovery took a long time.
Can you tell if the system running Docker is not itself virtualised...?
"easy" was an irony here :) The goal of the project was to allow those things in the first place.

Simplifying deployment would be step #2 after the whole architecture was completed.
If you open most SOHO routers today (mid-to high end ones) the baseband processor and the RF stuff will be on a daughter board, in many cases it will be the same or very similar mini-PCIE cards that you find in most laptops.
Oh I agree. Of course it's based on betting on future revenues which will work for some and not for others but thats not really the point I am trying to make.

What I am saying is that on the current private market you can keep a company with a fundamentally unsound business in suspended animation for a long time and keep enjoying growing valuation as long as you can convince investors that they will be able to raise the next round. I.e. without it actually having proven that's it's a sustainable business.

Most of the unicorns happens to be from the valley and as far as I can see have more or less the same investors behind them indicating at least to me that it's not purely based on being better at betting on the right companies.

This is a very different feedback-loop than the public market where your ability to make a profit at market expectations often is is king and where this ability is measured every quarter.

Maybe I am paranoid but thats what I see. And yes I haven't gotten my head around a proper way to formulate his intuition yet.
What's your experience with Lollipop? Mine had pretty large problems with 3G and Wi-Fi signals after upgrading.
They also lack translate button.
Depends heavily on what you're making.

SaaS sold low-touch with a 30 day free trial followed by a credit card should have 90 day retention past the credit card in the ~90%ish region to account for the high churn rate expected early in the customer lifecycle, after which MTM retention should be about 98%.

The numbers you are quoting sound like they're coming from a free B2C mobile application to me, where user attention wilts extraordinarily quickly. Even with that proviso, they feel low.

For a business which is transactional in nature, with plausible repeated transactions, I've heard numbers in the 25 to 40% range quoted for "good performance in encouraging first-time customers to use the service again." i.e. Given 100 orders from distinct new users today we'd like to see 40 distinct customers place additional orders in the next 90 days.

One of the reason Uber is such a great business is that they have extraordinarily high retention numbers, both in terms of "percent of riders who will ride again in X time period" and in "number of rides they'll take on average in X time period."
CleanTalk anti-spam module for IPS Community Suite 4
Both images are very good. IMO the low-res version [1] has slightly better colors, while the high-res version [2] captures the cloudy weather a bit better, but they feel about equally appealing to me. Note that the high-res image is also very stylized for appeal rather than realism, no one would mistake it for a photo.

[1] http://designmadeinjapan.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2015/07...

[2] http://kusakabeworks.net/uploads/10102901.jpg
Warner will win and keep the copyright. Evidence has little bearing on this sort of thing - all that matters is money. The lawyers will want to spin it out for more billable hours, the judge will too, as having that he found in favour of Warner on his cv will help him get more lucrative work from corporations.
I am an ardent supporter of copyright laws but there needs to be some kind of middleground. Copyright lasts way too long.
Here in Canada, maternity leave is a Federally-mandated full year. Before having a baby I thought that seemed excessive, but after having one, I see the value it brings at a critical time in a child's life.

Now the idea that the US only allows for 2 weeks seems cruel and unusual.
I have never heard of the behavior you describe. It's definitely not true of any of the credit cards I have from two separate European countries.
Really fascinating that Visa is a partnere here when they already own Cybersource, which is a key player in the enterprise e-commerce payment space. The $5b valuation is higher than what Visa paid to acquire Cybersource ($2b) in 2010.

Would be great to see the additional features from Cybersource (tax calculation, address verification, fraud management) available with the ease of integration that Stripe provides.
Head of Community is simply the messenger between the King and the community.
I don't see how a ban could work. We already have technology that can identify targets, so the issue is whether a human is involved to approve each kill decision. But what constitutes human approval? Is it enough for a human to sit and watch target details flashing up on a screen, and intervene if they see an incorrect target?

What exactly would be banned?
A market for Product Hunt invites?
Suddenly, Product Hunt invites are becoming a hot commodity around my cycle. Is a market developing soon ? So far, a few founder I know basically send invites to their supporter so that they can vote for her own products. It does not make much sense to me.
Plasma Mobile SDK
> Any study related to people being more likely to hire, or pay more, involving names being switched on a resume, doesn't make sense. Nobody hires a resume, they call you in for an interview.

The study ( http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.full.pdf+html ), asked interviewers to rank how "hireable" the candidate was, and what they would offer the candidate.

Yes, the resume gets you the interview, not the job. But without the interview, you definitly don't get the job. If changing the apparent gender of the resume gets you better odds of getting the interview, then the gender gets your more/better jobs!

This is science. Creationists are invested in believing the earth is 6,000 years old and don't like evidence that contradicts that. Antivaxxers don't like evidence that shows vaccines are safe. Homeopaths don't like evidence that shows that it's just as good as water. And here we have evidence that men get more interviews.

> you only got the job over more qualified applicants to fill a quota

To quote the article: "These biases occur unconsciously and without intention or malice". You (and I) have a bug in our brains. We are not actually able to correctly deduce with 100% accuracy whether someone is more qualified than other.

Yes a female quota might mean that there's a woman who's being hired when you would have given that job to a man, but how do you know the man is definitly more qualified? The function in your brain that calculates "qualified" has a bug and isn't always accurate about "most qualified".
>GNU/Linux distros are free open source software, and don't suffer from these sorts of update problems

Agreed, but I would go further and say that the _PC platform_ doesn't suffer from such problems. You can buy a computer from HP/Lenovo/Toshiba/whatever and later buy an OS upgrade from Microsoft. Ordinary users can do this.