jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"... we can assume that they spent around $100 million to bring on board about 25 top flight engineers. That's approximately $4 million per engineer. "

Well here's an example of 'irrational exuberance' if I've ever seen one. I don't know if there's any truth to these numbers, but this seems crazy. I'm sure they're all very capable guys, but surely there must be many people with similar skills who can be had for cheaper. Or how do these people prove that they're the Michael Jordan's of programming? Is being part of a technical team of a startup enough? Did they publish their research?
There is also a Lua frontend for the LLVM.

Lua code compiled to LLVM bytecode then to Javascript using Emscripten will most probably be faster than code interpreted on the fly in the browser, but I wonder by how much.

http://code.google.com/p/llvm-lua/
it's not only the same sites. It is probable that a lot of included content: javascript libraries are the same very often, header images, backgrounds, stylesheets, facebook/google/yahoo/twitter icons for various connect-like services, same youtube videos get published in many places etc.

There is a lot common across different pages I believe.
I just wanted to post exactly the same. I also get a "forbidden" error here.
I'd look for something on the iPad. In my experience, small children can't resist the iPad.
> By disregarding this notification and not performing the recommended resolution, the customer accepts the risk of incurring future related errors.

This seems incredibly rich. If you have a bunch of this kit, and you don't immediately shut it down to apply firmware updates, then HPE wash their hands of the consequences.
Even if you weighted the F150 up to match the weight of the Cybertruck, the Cybertruck would almost certainly still win. Electric motors have much higher starting torque, and as soon as the F150's wheels start slipping, it would be game over. Dynamic friction is much lower than static friction.

It's silly to say "it's just friction".
Yeah same here, if I'm putting in work and learning while building something that solves a problem... it's like just good enough for now. I only care about talking about tech to solve problems.
I really hope they don't. Western IP laws have become suffocating to innovation (life of author +70 years copyright, software patents), and need to be weakened. Perhaps if China is successful with weaker IP laws it will get some politicians off their ass on the issue.
Oops, dumb mistake on my part. I was referring to the video linked in the top comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdiZa0Y3F3c
Globalism has definitely supported the US tech industry significantly and wealth in cities that have tech giants. The internet was left basically open across borders, and I don't think that American tech's dominance would have been possible if everyone acted like China did by throwing up firewalls to protect local companies.
An Open Letter to the Pragmatic Application Architect

There are two possibilities here:

1. Have you considered that maybe the superstar programmer might really be pretty smart? The other person is obviously acting this way because he feels that you don't recognize his talents. And he might actually be correct.

2. Of course the other possibility is that the other programmer is genuinely an idiot who just wants to look smart. If that's the case, why does he still work for you? You're an architect, so I'd assume you have some pull with management on the subject. If not, have you considered that maybe the "superstar" isn't really the problem?

Here's what I would suggest. First of all, listen to the kid. And I mean listen to him honestly. Don't just let him talk and then smile and nod. The kid can probably tell pretty easily tell when you're doing that. You'd be surprised at what this can accomplish.

Secondly, realize that the kid might actually be trying to help. It isn't an excuse for him to act the way he has been, but it would mean that he might deserve a little bit more patience on your part.

Thirdly, it's obvious that the "superstar" has a different personality than you. Rather than fighting it, why not recognize that these kinds of differences are good? The "superstar" probably thinks differently than you, therefore he probably has strengths you don't. If that's genuinely not the case, why did you spend the time writing this blog post rather than an email to his manager?

It's tempting to react negatively to people that are different than you. I know, I've been there. In fact the "superstar" is probably undergoing the same thing. But it sounds like you are more experienced than him. It's your duty to be the one to help him to rise above these issues, and how can you do that when you're doing the exact same thing as him?
It is de facto vocational school, though, since the demand for jobs generally outstrips the demand for labor and employers decided university credentials were indicative of what they were looking for.
I often see the complaint that you need a tool to restart node after making changes. And here it is as the first one of ten top mistakes which makes me think reading the article might be one of ten mistakes one would make today.

If doing 'Ctrl-C, node file.js' is too debilitating .....
While I'd be the first to agree that Angular does a bunch of things I think are a bit crazy, articles like this don't really move the needle for me. The author doesn't like the design of Angular and feels it isn't efficient enough. OK, that's OK! However, there's not some massive conspiracy here - go ahead, use React/Ember. In my own experience, Angular is performant enough for most web applications, and the convenience the framework offers makes up for a lot of the crazy, weird things it does to achieve that API.

But to each his own.
I think he's making a stand at the wrong time. He says that he's leaving the Mac to protest Apple's gradual move towards walled gardens, away from open platforms.

When the Mac ceases to be an open platform, and becomes a walled garden; when something he _actually wants to do_ becomes impossible because of Apple's policies, moving away in protest makes sense. But moving away in protest of something that hasn't happened?
I wonder how much money Google is making off the Mahalo domain?
Futurists and predicting stuff always made me twitch. Seriously. Check out any old movies or series and you will see that any technology is either obsolete or so vague that it can't be built.

Using this line of thinking I came to the algorithm necessary to predict the future with a higher chance of success:

First Step: Do it like we always do, predict the future. Spaceships, gadgets and so on.
Second Step: Now get in the shoes of someone from that "time" and do the first step again.

You now have, what I believe, a good prediction. Using this simple algorithm I now think that any spaceship with a single forward view screen (eg: star trek) is plain silly and it would make more sense to have view screens in every face of the bridge (with holographic floating screen or something) to have more freedom.
When opened up and laid flat it's almost the same size as an iPad
I hear that, hosting is all I know and think it may be a good place to at least try.
I'm pretty sure Sprint knew what they were doing when they bought Nextel. At the time:

1) Push-to-talk was iDEN only

2) Nextel was charging $70+/month before that was a normal price for service

3) The US govt was (and still is?) a large customer

I still think you're right though; I don't see them adding a third line of phones anytime soon.
Why this crusade against Mahalo/Calacanis? Why isn't this sort of critique aimed at Google, who is after all indexing and profiting off of sites like (and much worse than) Mahalo.

I find all these posts interesting, but it seems Jason is being portrayed as the most at fault. Isn't he just playing the Google 'game' better than most?

When I see SPAM in Google's index that is ranking high I don't get mad at the spammers but rather at Google for allowing and often times making huge money off of SPAM they index.
Or make it make a sound like you are getting email every 30 seconds or so. Then go from door to door listening for it.
i'm selling my gtalk, Y!m and Skype statuses. $10000/year. Anyone interested?
"which makes him uniquely informed on dealing with the legal issues surrounding the scanner."

Chertoff is not uniquely informed. He's a lawyer but I'd be willing to bet he's not even an expert on government regulation. He does have lots of contacts though.

"First, representatives don't write their own bills. They are written by staffers, and these staffers are usually employed by the committees of the house, not the individual representative."

True, he didn't write the actual words. He was chairman of the committee responsible for the legislation. He was in a position to ensure that it was written into the legislation that Medicare could not negotiate on the price of drugs.

Bills do go through changes but it's not difficult for the chairman of the committee that wrote the bill to ensure that key provisions remained. You know, Congressman sometimes do have power and are more than mere voting machines. Staffers don't run everything.

"Third, it unwise to construct elaborate bribery explanations when there are such easy, simply explanations. (Seniors are basically voting themselves money.)"

It's not an elaborate theory. It's actually a simple one. Corruption does happen and a red flag ought to be raised when the Congressman whose committee wrote the part of the legislation forbidding Medicare from negotiating on the price of the drugs it was being forced to buy gets a $2 million a year consulting job. There is nothing elaborate about this and rational people will look askance at this situation.

Bayesian probability can only be talked about in reference to a probability space and events of that probability space. It's not really relevant to talk about Baye's theorem in this instance since no events or probability space has been defined.

I wasn't using probability theory. I was using the fact that in my mind the best explanation why a Congressman who gets a $2 million a year job from the drug industry after passing horrible legislation that tremendously benefits the drug industry is most likely (used in a colloquial sense) corrupt.
Atlassian is a company that is well known for encouraging employee creativity.

First of all, they have a 20% time similar to Google. 20% of the whole work week can be spent on a personal project, as long as it could be potentially beneficial to Atlassian.

They also have something called a "FedEx" day - the goal is to deliver a software prototype of something in 24 hours (deliver in 24 hours, hence the name "FedEx"). It's a big competition between developers and there's even a trophy for the winner!

Both of these programs have created a lot of awesome features for their software. I think it's something that others should consider emulating...

The obligatory "drive" video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

Disclaimer: I'm going to work for Atlassian soon
I don't mean to be critical, but I am underwhelmed.

From the initial picture, I was expecting a homegrown alternative to Cisco's Telepresence which, is actually quite awesome, if not really really expensive.

What I got instead was an iMac and a monitor.
I, for one, welcome our Robot overlords.
The problem with OpenID is that everyone wants to be a provider, but nobody wants to let me use it to log in. This means everyone has 10 different OpenIDs, but only one place to log into. Very stupid.
There is a smaller font than both of these two: http://typophile.com/node/61920
That's not what your mom or dad would say! ;)

The good news is that lots of people are going to be able to send and receive email messages using email adresses.

Both these messages and adresses are rfc2821 compliant.

By Metcalfe's law, this can only increase the value of the email network.

Remember, first AOL was an island, then AOL offered an email gateway, and soon enough AOL became irrelevant.

I don't know if the same is going to happen with Facebook, but if it happens, I won't be surprised, for Facebook is like a second wave AOL, a much bigger wave than the first one, because this time it's like "everybody" participates, not just the early adopters.
I think they imply that partly because conflict and drama bring readers. Without the story overlaid, news about the actions of corporations probably wouldn't be very exciting to most.
Yelp's third Hackathon starts tomorrow (or tonight for the teams who want to get a head start) and runs until Friday afternoon, at which point the teams present what they've been working on. The previous Hackathon at Yelp spawned the iPad powered Kegmate.
It is ok to call a piece of text communist if it contains ideas or opinions that are typically communist. That capital markets in general are unnecessary, (very) ineffective at capital allocation (as opposed to the alternatives) and/or immoral is something almost only communists/hardcore socialists believe today. (It was actually once a widely held belief. A belief reflected in the nature of some new deal programs, Mussolini's economic policy or post-colonization economic policy in the third world to mention some examples.)
There's a Japanese guy who campaigns against pervasive noise and inane repetitious instructions. There's an article on him here: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2014/10/10/lifestyle/making...
and somebody has been translating some of his book to English and commenting on it. I believe there's a link at the end of this article.
Linus is one of the few brilliant jerks out there who is truly brilliant. Unfortunately his antics have made it OK for lots of less talented individuals to think they have the right to treat people like dirt in order to write good code.

He's exceptional in my opinion but I often wonder what the OSS community would be like without behavior like his. I recall not wanting to major in CS when I entered school because the only programmers I knew when I was young were from newsgroups, forum, and OSS communities that I perused as kid...and they all seemed like assholes. I'm glad I changed by mind cause I was so interested but thick skin shouldn't be the bar for contributing to tech.

edit: I'm certainly not defending Linus. His talent makes him a net positive but he definitely should not treat people the way he does.
The fact that public outrage is required to get their attention when dealing with such large amounts of money doesn't inspire confidence. Your example is a good example of bad customer service, not something good to credit them with.
I don't know if you're aware, but the community section of Digital Ocean has some informative articles on stuff like this, there was actually one posted today about scaling Ruby on Rails applications.

Either way, it's a good problem to have!

https://www.digitalocean.com/community
The forest is calories, so don't lose that.

However, the trees are macros.

Macros are important for goals. If your goal is simply "lose weight", sure, just care about calories. But if you have a more refined goal (recomp, spare muscle, lose bodyfat, athletic performance, build muscle etc), the macros are vital.

I do think people lose the forest from the trees. However, I find that people lose sight of the path through the trees just as often. Both are important.
>mortality rate is significantly higher for uninsured than for insured.

correlation doesn't mean causation.

>to help make our government work better

i somehow doubt that throwing a team of "rockstars" to clean up the mess is making the government to work better. If anything, it enables the typical government behavior we saw in the case of healthcare.gov.
Great article!

I wonder if the guys are doing code reviews for each PR along with making sure build is green. In our team, we've been doing code reviews for about three years now and can't imagine our workflow without them.
This along with tree nuts will probably be priorities for our alternate versions.
I wish you guys all the best. :)

I've been arguing with a friend of mine the past few days who's convinced all of this is just some kind of CIA operation to get back at Putin for reasons. Or something. Also that people should never be able to protest about their "democratically-elected government".
There will always be outliers.

A code editor with first class prominent Github support is more likely to encourage creating Github accounts - it would just work. Compare to regular code editors which require jumping through various hoops (typically having to find relevant plugins, install them on all machines/users, and then figure out how to use them as they are extensions not core).

A pitch of "if you use this editor then all the team's work is automatically synchronized and available" is a very powerful sell.
Related fun (and sad) fact: In Norway, the tax submission forms are online and so user friendly that you don't need a tax filing program like this. Edit: Here is a link to an explanation for the form, in English, which was revamped in 2020: https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/person/taxes/tax-return/tax-r...

The submission form is essentially a wizard that asks you questions related to your situation and your past year. Depending on your answers, it expands different parts of the form. Other parts, such as tax exempt donations are automatically filled out based on information that the recipients filled out for you.

I visited the UX department of the Norwegian equivalent to the IRS (Skatteetaten), and they had almost every device you could think of (eye-tracking being the most fun). No wonder they made good forms.

I understand that some people object politically to taxes, but as long as it's one of the certainties of life (death being the other), I cannot understand why filling out the submission seems so hard in most countries...
> why this belief is appealing to people

Part of the appeal for them is they are convenient shortcuts for unremarkable people to put themselves above actual experts without actually acquiring any expertise. With their newfound esoteric knowledge, they're now in an exclusive club.
Here in Germany if you go to a local consumer shop, there aren't many classical laptops left to chose from.
Once you have accounts with followings they can support each other, RT each other's posts, get reach that way. I think that's how any in-house influencer marketing companies got started, they built Facebook like pages over the last decade then just used them to make new pages. Moviepilot did this also, apparently spending a year building the pages before they built the website! That is brilliant forward thinking. Regarding Insta/Twitter growth from zero, Austin's advice seems pretty solid?
> Which retail job can I get to bump me up the list on vaccination, but doesn't actually increase my exposure possibility?

Clearly the objective is getting the vaccine and not doing something for the greater good.
What bad behavior and who is the "we" you're referring to? The guy can invest his money however he pleases and regardless of his background, there is no "we" that has to have some shared opinion of him. IMO that kind of thinking is a major source of toxicity today, because there's a pervasive idea that we all need to judge (and agree upon the judgements of) people's backgrounds.
I was thinking of Android software in more general terms.
Monero solves that problem.
only if the patent holder does not create an "improvement" on the old one. then the older (referenced) patent is extended. Bosch have done this specifically so that they can hold on to the original CAN Bus patent.
I bet it’s to reduce server load. If a user only sticks around for one or two sections then if everything was downloaded up front the later sections would be wasted bandwidth
Hah, exactly what I was thinking.
True—I think I just have a problem with the fact that the University is the one in control of it. If, instead, the social network was the core organization and free to join, and the students rented out/purchased the buildings and equipment, and hired the lecturers and administrative staff, I can imagine it costing a might bit less and having a much tighter feedback loop in instructor, student, and course quality. (Plus, matchmaking would be made an explicit goal, rather than assumed.)
Could someone who's watched it summarize what he discusses.
+1 to UT - while I did not get a BSCS there, I did take some courses from the program. They do start you off with Haskell, now a respectable equivalent of MIT's SICP course. You could even work for a while in Austin and become a TX state resident, after that your tuition rates go way down.
Wrote a block-hosts file and a free-hosts file.
Wrote a script to copy the appropriate host file onto /etc/hosts as needed.
I run the script when I want to start work and when I'm finally done work.
Also see: Simutrans, Capitalism, Caesar.
The same type of people that destroyed this industry with p2p and bit torrent technology is trying to figure out how the creators can piece it together. I guess it's out of pity, schadenfreude, whatever, but don't pretend to be some oracle of the industry without acknowledging that hackers took that golden goose and strangled the hell out of it just because they could. That reality cruise sailed long ways back.

So the industry is essentially neutered and we're doing an autopsy. What's so upsetting?
If it were only for the credentials, I would say no. It if were only for the education, I think you can get the same topics (and maybe more in deep) from articles, books, papers and more.

Anyway, I say yes: a CS education in college will provide you with an environment full of people who will pursue the same and think alike, and that's one of the most important things I am getting in college.
>are you sure that thermal expansion imparts enough force against 175 miles of steel in order to push it all the way to the station?

Nope. That's why you may need to push it! :)

Assume the rollers have the Crr of a passenger train wheel (0.0020). If each section weighs 193 tonnes (23 mm thick by 2.23m diameter by 100' by 8 g/cm³), then each roller will provide ~400 N of friction. Over 175 miles (worst case) that works out to 3.56 meganewtons of resistance to motion.

For a thin-walled cylinder, buckling stress is modeled using the large deflection approximation[1] as:

σ_x = 0.238 Et/r

Where σ_x is the bucling pressure, E is the material's Young's modulus, t is the wall thickness, and r is the radius. Plugging in 190 GPa, 20 mm, and 1.125 m yields…

58 meganewtons, or about 16 times as strong as the predicted frictional force

I guess they may not need active control after all!

But what about curves? Won't it result in a lot of sideways force? Needs more calculations…

[1] The weaker of the two. http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a801283.pdf
> So don't think Iran is the only country on the list, they just trumpet that to dig up thoughts of terrorism oh my.

For some reason Americans still overwhelmingly and falsely believe that Iran had something to do with 9/11.
Time for a proportional representation clause.
> What if the idea of work itself is what you dislike?

In one of the economic courses I took, the Professor posed this very question. Apparently Karl Marx had also opined along these lines - how would a society incentivize someone who only likes to build sand castles ? He can't monetize the sandcastle because the waves wash them out, so he just builds another one & another one & so on.

Sometimes I think programming is like that. You write some code in some language & 5 years later write the same thing in some other language & then another 5 years later...I am pretty sure much of the Scala I write these days is simply something I've written in my early teens in QBasic. We're just building sandcastles that time will wash off.
I have seen several news articles using it that way. I think that's going to become an alternate definition soon.