jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sales people do not bring in investors, they bring in clients. The CEO's job is to make sure there is enough money to pay people and if that includes raising $, that is your job.

Now if you want customers you want someone who fits your culture, is not afraid to call anyone, has contacts and is motivated by $. Most sales people don't give a flying F about stock, options, etc. They care about $. Set clear goals and have a nice commission aspect. We are about 60% salary, 40% commission and seems to be working well. Do not be afraid to fire sales people after a couple of weeks, some people just don't work even though you think they will.
Another approach could perhaps be charging for the number of designs instead.
It's not that you code better or write math equations better... It's a temporary change in the state of your mind which helps you see things from a different perspective. Think of a time when you were stuck on a really hard problem and then went away from it for a while only to have the solution pop in your head... It's kinda like that, but on an entirely different level.
My objection is not to auto-doc systems in general. Note the restrictive clause after the noun.
Be very very careful. The success rate for this kind of hire is around 10%. I personally don't know of a single startup that did this and didn't have to fire the guy after a few months (with lots of time and money wasted.) Seriously, not a single one out of dozens.

The problem stems from the fact that most seasoned sales/business guys have experience in larger companies, running established teams, which is radically different than working in a startup and having to fill every role yourself in addition to building up the team from scratch. The other problem is, quite frankly, that most of these old sales guys are at a stage in their life where working 60-80 hours a week isn't something they want to do, and so they will be very very difficult to fit into a healthy startup culture where hard work and overtime are required.

We hired a former VP sales from a big ($100M+) company in our space. A guy who was a founder at a few successful startups and had a kick ass resume in general. He was even a great salesman. 6 months later and $100k down the drain we had to fire him.

My advice is make sure that if you give this guy equity that it vests over a few years with a 1 year cliff, and that if you give him a salary that it's very modest, mostly commission based.

Odds are you're going to have to fire him, but if you want to take a chance, go for it.
This is neat, is sort of reminds me of a desk I have hade my eye on:

http://www.bluelounge.com/products/studiodesk/

I'd really like to see one that is counter height so that I could sit or stand as desired.
Why do you think experience with programming is relevant to that?
1. Absolutely not.

2. That's hard to answer really: That's a life-changing decision. Living in SF might be liberating for some and very daunting for others. SF has a (considerably) lower pay-check in your case but it might offer you opportunities (startups, job offers, career choices, etc.) that you will probably not have access too in India.

The 714k as a starting salary is out of proportion, you're never going to get that in cash, but to me at first glance seems rather accurate as disparity indicator between making 200k in India and 250k in an expensive US city like SF.
Yes the way you should do it is with shrinwrap to ensure the consistency of your dependencies. As for the actual files if you depend on it you should have your own npm repo caching them that you deploy from and have that mirror the public one.

but for small projects or quick deploys absolutely just go ahead and commit the modules.
This is the same guy that caused a fluster when he made a super dangerous modified H5N1, to the point that the government asked him not to publish. Of course, he did do it eventually.

Pretty much the definition of being a badass, he makes extremely dangerous biological weapons and cures deadly disease.

That's my school! Good time to be a badger... Also a bad time I suppose, it's 5:00am and I'm still up? Homework? What?
Think they might have over simplified it in the demo. There is no way for them to know if the girlfriend has become an ex or if the person is still living at the same location. They would have to confirm it every time.
Just added my email address to my contact information.
I am not religious or anything, but I think some of the religious rules come from their leaders realizing that making them "rules from God" would benefit their people and give a better chance of survival:

- kosher rules are pretty much there to prevent people from preparing food in unsanitary ways or eating potentially dangerous stuff (eating pork will kill you by worms growing in your gut)

- the 10 commandments are basic community rules to ensure they don't end up fighting and killing each other, helping the race to survive.

- fasting on Ramadan was probably created by a religious leader who felt better after doing it himself and though it to be a good idea for everybody else to do it.
I started creating a language by myself a few days ago, this is a great read. Thanks!
For your Crohn's, fasting would be similar to total bowel rest, wouldn't it? i.e. it would help the bowel heal.
I don't think that it's terribly surprising that rich folks should be more likely to shoplift or steal candy than poor folks, for precisely the reason that Lewis identifies: the sums involved seem so much less important. I think it might imply that we are all constantly geting away with what we think we can get away with. That sounds right to me.
"what non-Mormons might call a prophetic / visionary role"

Isn't that the other way round? As a non-mormon I'm not about to call anyone prophetic/visionary.
Author here: This is slightly embarrassing.

I just added a custom domain/CNAME to my github pages so it should be reachable at http://blog.ppelgren.se
Every long-term homeowner I know has done at least that much. Many have done larger home improvement and remodeling projects.
Please do not take HN threads into partisan flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, we've reverted the title now. Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Submitted title was "CDC Guidelines Hid the Coronavirus Epidemic")
Cuomo addressed this in the press conference. I believe it relates to Medicaid. New York modified some Medicaid rules in January and the relief bill won't grant money to states with modified Medicaid rules. He didn't get into specifics, but said that the bill needed to be updated.
they have patented the valve that attaches the mask to the oxygen supply. this prevents someone else patenting it. you still need to buy the masks but these will already be in stock at decathlon stores.
Believe me this won't take 8 month. Especially given that in many areas the live of "old" people and "mid/young" people got sadly somewhat decoupled in the recent 30 or so years.
https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2020/03/loophole-in-fed...

Apparently, it prevents states from making changes to Medicaid this year, but NY already did.
The US can elect the less-qualified candidate almost every time, wage simultaneous, ill-defined, decades-long wars, all while passing some of the worst laws on the planet, yet somehow still enjoys unprecedented levels of domestic peace and prosperity the vast majority of the time. Its margin of error is the biggest on the planet and by a very, very large margin.

No other significant power could do any of those things for terribly long without experiencing consequences, much less all of them simultaneously for extended periods.

While Zeihan's style may tend a little towards the hyperbolic, his counterweight is to the endless number of commentators who talk about China as if it's a cohesive entity, Europe as thought it's one big happy family that hasn't spent nearly all of its history at war with itself, and Saudi Arabia as an actual country with more than one asset, and not as a landed family with a large payroll of disgruntled house help.

In that context, his statements are more instructive than they seem out of context.
Why not? The thesis is that non-conformance is a viable evolutionary strategy (if not usually the dominant one). It doesn't matter what particular species you are talking about. Obviously there are degrees of non-conformamce that would also be evolutionary dead ends or otherwise destructive.
Wouldn't the people putting out emergency website likely be local governments? If so, wouldn't there be hurdles to using cloud providers like Netlify?

How do local governments usually host their websites?
Well it specifically mentions netlify which is already a CDN, but good idea anyway.
Take care of yourself Byuu, I've always had nothing but respect for you and your work. Best of luck!
So far South Korea and Japan aren't showing any second wave and they have probably more travel/biz links with Wuhan than anyone else...so fingers crossed. Keep an eye on them.
The mods emailed me a couple hours ago and said my account was mistakenly flagged as a "spam" account but its been since corrected. Thanks!
Are 'they' still saying that all fish could go extinct fairly soon, too? Or at least all tuna?

Like the bee example, it just seems like something I dismiss because I can't imagine it actually happening.

reference: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/02/health/webmd/main2...
Those are really nice! They remind me of the BP logo, but more snazzy.
It's there:

> This not only makes all of the dates look equally nice, but also, coupled with other quirks of this format, allows the files with the date in the name to be sorted just by the filename.

My issue is with:

> Simplified, the core date format looks like this: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss

Here are the examples at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

2021-02-26T06:22:59+00:00
2021-02-26T06:22:59Z
20210226T062259Z

Note the "T" instead of a space between the date and time? That's what the spec says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Combined_date_and_tim... . "Separating date and time parts with other characters such as space is not allowed in ISO 8601, but allowed in its profile RFC 3339."

Note the optional use of "-" and ":"? That's "basic" vs. "extended" formats.

Plus the optional timezone specifier (if not present, assume it's the same timezone).

There's also optional support for microseconds.
yeah, that makes sense.
Look up the hype cycle.
Maybe I can offer an answer to your question, I have worked at a couple of companies where we ran "small" scale k8s clusters (1-100 nodes as you say).

We have chosen k8s and I would again, because its nice to use. Its not necessarily easier, as you point out, the complexity of managing the cluster is considerable. But if you use a managed cluster like EKS or DO's k8s offering, you don't have to worry too much about the nodes and the unit of worry is the k8s config and then for deployment you can use Docker.

I like Docker, because its nice. Its nice to have the same setup locally as you have remotely.

In my experience the tooling around k8s is nice to manage declaratively, I never liked working with machines directly because even tools like Chef or Ansible feel very flimsy.

The other thing you can do is run on ECS or similar, but there the flexibility is a lot lower. So k8s for me offers the sweet spot of being able to do a lot quickly with a nice declarative interface.

I'd be interested to hear your take on how to best run a small cluster though.
Thanks for trying it out!

I’m sure there are many who think their domains are worth tens or even hundreds of thousands. However most domains sell in the low range and only a few sell for $1k and above.

I had an idea to create a separate, high end version of the poll for those who genuinely have high value domains, but I’d probably need a lot more traction with the upper echelons of the industry before I could get to that point.
It sounds like OP is fulfilling the conscription requirements of their nation, so by "I'm out", they mean finished their military service.
BSD mail(1) + fdm + lynx for those shitty HTML emails = heaven.

Under OpenBSD you can set stmpd relaying mail to another host pretty easily, but IDK under OSX.
Sure, inventory is unaccounted for but you as an engineer knows it's not accounted for. So you go to IT, and you ask for a new one. IT revokes access of the original key, and gives you a new one.

No one in that transaction cares if it was lost or stolen.
I appreciate the authors argument. On the other hand, isn't the reason there are not more first class data types is that they are so difficult to design general purpose? Even simple data types vary so much from language to language. It seems reasonable that this is why generalizing more abstract data types don't seem to catch on universally very often.

It would be more convincing to see concrete examples, such as a type defined in a language such as Haskell that seems to be more or less universally applicable.
Ooh Latin! Fancy. His central points are eminently refutable, but in my experience trying to have a rational, scientific debate with this crowd leads nowhere. And anyways, Guess what! Personal behavior matters. Somebody whose professional history is full of instances of lying and willfully distorting the truth in order to peddle his agenda (http://mediamatters.org/research/2012/12/27/climate-change-m...) is not a credible witness.
Surely the quality and freshness of the documentation is a function of the momentum and support a certain technology has. Maybe you can find a similar tech that has tutorials that really appeal to you, that feel like they open a door to a wonderful new world?
The only technology related profession recognized under NAFTA for TN status is Computer Systems Analyst. That category requires either a Bachelor's degree, or some other post-secondary diploma/certificate + 3 years experience [1]. Also, the NAFTA definition of a Computer Systems Analyst specifically excludes computer programmers, so your job duties can't consist of primarily programming.

I am Canadian and recently tried to enter the US under TN status as a Librarian (for fellowship as a librarian at a university library). As soon as the CBP officer saw that I had a CS Bachelor's degree, and that I would be working with technology, he began to intensely question what my job duties would be. I was there for about 4 hours, questioned by several officers, and ultimately ended up getting denied entry because my job was going to involve too much programming in their opinion & my TN letter outlining my duties didn't convince them otherwise.

I think that my situation was partly bad luck/partly a bad TN letter, but the thing to keep in mind is that they do closely follow the NAFTA handbook [2] for job descriptions/duties, and anyone working primarily with technology is much more likely to get scrutinized. So make sure if you end up getting a job offer and decide to go the TN route, that the sponsorship letter from the employer follows the guidebook description of the profession you are applying under.

I'm not sure what visa types other computer programmers are usually admitted under, probably H1-B generally, but I'd be interested in finding out.

[1] http://canada.usembassy.gov/visas/doing-business-in-america/...
[2] http://www.tnvisabulletin.com/us-immigration-manuals-governi...
He was not born in the Army, mate.
If you think H-1B is tedium and kafkaesque, wait until you have to apply for permanent residency :)
I'd much rather someone set a probation notice in anything on the list below than in Comic Sans. I'd also rather they set it responsibly, but though you can't fix a sense of style at least you can provide people with better tools.

http://www.fontshop.com/fontlist/alternatives/comic_sans/

(especially MVB Pedestria, obviously, although I don't think most people would consider it in fair running with Comic Sans)
SEO and its opposite, Googlewash [1].
Writing on the Googlewashing episode in the New York Times, Stanford linguist Geoffrey Nunberg warned [2] that:

The rankings give disproportionate weight to opinions of the activists and enthusiasts that may be at odds with the views of the larger public. It's as if the United Nations General Assembly made all its decisions by referring the question to whichever nation cares most about the issue: the Swiss get to rule on watchmaking, the Japanese on whaling.

That seems quite prophetic now. And there are links between gaming the system for political gain then and now. [3]

Oh, and the feedback loop [4].

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/04/03/antiwar_slogan_coine...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/weekinreview/18NUNB.html

[3] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/28/web_politics_how_rea...

[4] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/26/britannica_slaps_goo...
Remember Gattaca, where the women could test their date's saliva for what genes he had? This is one of the genes to track.
This wasn't a bet with long odds. It was 50:50.
As long as it's offensive, we will be okay.
I love how the author uses omitted-</p> as their example, when that's one of the things that was actually already defined in HTML4 and isn't a syntax error.
Funny -- there was just a thread on the Mac Ach at Ars Technica on this subject: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=113190... , and the top post says:

So remember the Duke Nuke'em Forever jokes back in summer 2008!. It's now nearly 2011. Still not even a rumor of a beta. Will this product ever be released?

Another person said:

I really think it's sill in development. I mailed him few days ago to still encourage him to develop TM2. I had a reply from the support guy, containing “hope we can live up to your expectations"

Of course, my expectations are that Textmate 2 will never come out, so I hope they don't live up to expectations in my case. But those expectations are easy to exceed.
No they'll probably just run an auto-refresher and play Xbox and spam up Halo: Reach with moronic chatter and team kills.
Well, they're getting closer. But:

If you save a document from Powerpoint to Google Docs, and then edit that file using the Google Docs web editor, you will not be able to sync those changes back with the native version of the file.
It has been fun to watch this page: http://twitter.com/#!/search/i%20love%20dropbox
Tell everyone there to keep up the great work! I don't know how I survived before symlinking my entire life to my Dropbox account; it was just a mess of rewritable CDs, USB drives, and rsync commands.

Thanks for the heads-up that you won't publish anything to FB/Twitter without explicit permission as that's exactly what I came to the comments to find out. I doubt that more than a tiny fraction of your users read hackernews though, so it'd be nice if you added a tiny "why are we asking you to link up" and/or "what will happen if I link up" blurbs explaining that you're not going to instantly make us tweet how awesome Dropbox is (which I would do anyway, but I absolutely hate services that auto-post after connecting).

Edit: This would really only be useful for powerusers unless you gave it a nice front-end interface, but would you consider possibly creating something similar to a .gitignore config for your Dropbox? I constantly get random junk files based on OS and editor that end up in my Dropbox folders that I'd love for the central service to just ignore when syncing (like Thumbs, DS_Store, vim swp, random editors throwing backups ending in ~, etc).
IANAEconomist, but I'll try to take a stab at it. Let's assume a growing civilization, and a government that has imposed a condition that a given currency must be accepted for debts.

Deflation is the default, since currency-tokens don't multiply on their own. With deflation, the reward from "overall civilization growth" automatically go to the folks who have either actual tokens in a vault, or who are creditors to somebody who promised to get them an actual token later. (This is usually "wealthy" people.) Conversely, all the people in debt get a bad deal, where even a "zero-interest" loan is harder and harder to pay back as their debt of "one token" means more and more goods/labor.

Conversely, inflation helps the people with debts, because (all else being equal) they become easier to repay as time goes on. Because people with net-debts are usually "the poor", it follows that "inflation is pro-poor."

Arguing over who gets the "new tokens" being minted to combat deflation is actually a separate (albeit intensely related) debate, and that's where you hear people complaining about the Federal Reserve and stuff like that.
Relevant XKCD
http://xkcd.com/1478/
One problem with that is that you tend to penalize students who didn't do well the first time, and you also make it more difficult to grade because it's not an independent measurement of their progress in a particular class.
I've never calculated it, sorry.
The two best-known features of Chuck Moore's style -- extreme simplicity and extreme factoring -- must be how he avoids the dangers you describe. I wonder if these qualities go beyond stylistic choice and are actually necessary if one is to build real systems in Forth. That might explain why programmers who come from other languages tend not to stick with it. Your story is reminiscent of others I've read in the past (most prominently http://www.yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machi...) that talk about being in love with the Forth model and then abandoning it because it got too complicated to make it do what they want.

Makes me wonder if trying to do what you want in that model is a recipe for disaster; instead, maybe you have to let the model tell you what you can do: if it's simple you get to do it and if it's not you don't. Chuck would see that as a great advantage, but most programmers wouldn't.

Edit: the article I linked to talks about that at length. His conclusion is that if you're going to build systems in Forth, you need the freedom to shrink or morph the problem into something that can be solved simply in Forth. If you don't have that freedom (e.g. because people are feeding you inflexible requirements), it probably won't work.
I'm not familiar with GLM, but it seems to be the perfet sweetspot for operator overloading - it works with fixed size, small matrices (up to 3x3), which probably don't require and may not even benefit from more advanced algorithms.

The problems I had read about applied to operations on larger matrices, where the difference between n^3 and n^2.5 or whatever becomes extremely noticeable, and makes it worth to write mulAndAdd(a, b, c) rather than a*b+c.
Cool, thanks. I might take you up on that. I've met Jared a few times actually, we went to the same school. I shall be in touch :-)
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, mediocre minds discuss people."

Eleanor Roosevelt.
That plane is headed straight for PHX, and isn't too far away, meaning it's probably traveling a lot slower than the other.
I think there is a stage between 2 and 3 where people become obsessed with coding standards that say thing like "don't use the ternary operator because it can be confusing".
we've got a place on airbnb, if you're looking for a place in mountain view.

http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/11835

That's a stock photo of the living room though. It's just a couch and a coffee table, but a mighty comfy couch.