jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Once worldwide military funding goes down to the level of the rest of budgets everywhere, we can talk about which one deserves more money than the other.

Until then, anything is a joke. A sad joke. And we're the clowns.
A company might be worth more down the track, because it has created more value? If it hasn't it is unlikely to be worth more.
Thanks! It's not a phrase I'd previously encountered, and I love this sort of word wrangling.
techchrunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/20/apple-patents-3d-gesture-co...
Just one thing to point out - there are lots of remote jobs in web and mobile app dev space already. But C++, systems, non-web engineering jobs are rare in REMOTE space.
I'm not sure I agree, especially when you factor in substantial equity. We have interviewed numerous people from banks and large tech companies and our salaries certainly don't seem out of whack.

For reference, $150k is right on target according to AngelList data: https://angel.co/salaries
You don't have to just post a range. The listing just needs to communicate that you're paying well above market, which is a step beyond competitive (and I've never seen "above market" in a job listing). Of course, this is only if your company really is committed to doing so!

I don't have a clever solution for 1. This is definitely a broader cultural issue - non-lawyers at a law firm would completely expect to make less than the lawyers but programmers still don't nearly get that level of respect.

EDIT: I think we're miscommunicating a little. There absolutely are quite a lot of qualified senior developers right now. Most of them are employed. You're just not seeing a lot of qualified senior developers applying to your jobs, which is a different issue entirely. Given that nobody's turned an offer down, there's something that your job postings are missing that people are learning during the interview process. "Not paying enough", in this case, can be effectively synonymous with "not communicating that you're paying enough".
Why not Canada?
Salary is a measure of productivity. Free market rules: to do otherwise is to engage in state planning of the labor market on behalf of employers.
only because that article, I decided I wanted an applied statistics master degree
not sure a massive % but I lost 15 kg out of 94 some years back.
Not very hard if you do it the slow way (i.e. in a few months, with a dietician and exercise) but for some people it's a lot harder.

I also quit smoking a year ago after more than a decade. It was definitely harder, but it's not impossible.
1. Yes, because I like to know where my time goes (hint: now always where it should!)

2. I like very much automated solutions, that simply tracks focused apps. I tried several apps (chrometa, rescuetime and paymoplus) and I found that Paymoplus (not basic paymo!) it really suits my needs: it tracks window titles, which basically means that I can simply search for a project name to see how many hours I had on that in a specific day (however, it has its own downsides; i.e. you can't make advanced stats or see working hours on a more than one day span)
I am very liberal and managed to do it by making modest reductions in military expenditure, capping Medicare, giving a 2015 date for Iraq/Afghanistan withdrawal, and returning most taxes to Clinton levels.
I was under the impression that Netflix DRM relied only on a Silverlight component anyway. Is this not correct? How do they depend on the OS to provide this functionality?

Does the Wii also provide such functionality? Netflix is on a lot of devices these days so it's hard to swallow the idea that lack of OS-level DRM is keeping it off. In fact, if I remember correctly, Netflix is available on TiVO and Boxee, both of which are Linux platforms, and Linux definitely doesn't have a baked-in DRM facility and I would be highly skeptical that there is a private implementation of OS-level DRM on both Boxee and TiVO that hasn't hit the masses. So it's almost definitely just an excuse.
Maybe if you get a great VC he'll play a big role in your success, but it's more likely he won't do all that much.

Raising $5M from a VC is no easy task. You should probably not waste months on that if you can get a check tomorrow from this guy.

The thing that stands out to me is that you mention he is an "aggressive personality type", which I read as "he can be a ruthless asshole". That's the biggest concern I'd have. For someone like that you cannot risk giving him control. You should control the board by a majority and protect that and everything else very well in the legal agreements.
You make a lot of claims that would benefit from being backed up by a reference or two.

Too me, most of your statements seems very much like false dilemmas.
The x86 hardware decoder on Itanium turned out to be slower than a JIT, and was removed from hardware pretty quickly.

Also note that the x86 memory model is a perfectly valid implementation for an ARM chip, as it's a superset of the ARM memory model constraints. And the performance impact isn't that big really.
I was thinking the same thing. Being obsessively interested sounds neat when you watch others spend their entire lives, eg. collecting stamps and coins. According to this wisdom, when they find the rare gem that makes them a fortune they're geniuses. However, who can will themselves into becoming obsessive with something. Wouldn't it be kind of self-defeating if it is to take something out of it (ie. opposite of karma-yoga)?

What you can do:

- stop drinking, using drugs and passively consuming shit

- swim/exercise the body

- study what you're passionate about

- cultivate interest further, by iterating on building stuff, meeting peers who share similar interests, followup on your ideas and dreams

- long walks in nature to think about it deeper, periods where you remove yourself away from people

- balance your interests with sustainable living, because you're not doing it just to score big!

Not so sure people can will themselves to change that much.

You can enjoy life, cultivate what works and hedge your bets, in that order. By following your core life-theme and ideas, you should become more of what you already are.
What's it about geopolitics that makes it so interesting to you? It has always seemed like politicized BS to me. I think history shows quite well that once individuals and polities alike start on the path of pursuing/promoting some variety of economic freedom and classical liberal values (often including but not limited to what's known as liberal democracy), safety and stable cooperation become enough of a common interest to make most 'geopolitics' considerations quite irrelevant, and often misleading.
"The PW can store up to 13.5kW of electric power..."
No, you store energy, not electric power, and energy is Wh, that's why you have your phone battery with 5V and 8000 mAh as units and not 8A.

"How does the grid feel about me oscilating this and who will die first, the PW or the sub-station?"
Definitely the PW. Sub-stations are made to withstand thousand of households switching all at once their light-bulbs at evening and during storms nature electric discharge (ie, lightning strikes). Your measly PW is fully ignored.

"Do not try any of these Grid Codes (really, please do not):

AU ASS4777.2
DE VDE4105
UK GA59 21A, GA83 16A
IT CEI-021
NZ NZS47772
US: IEEE1547 Split Phase 240V 60Hz
"
I'm a bad boy, I tried them. Nothing happened.
Most animals don't survive past their reproductive years. Humans and some whales do, but that's it.

Some evolutionary biologists suggest that animals that share wisdom or share childbearing duties with their offspring evolved to survive past fertility because doing so increases the competitiveness of their shared genes.
> In a typical deployment of MitM tech (e.g. Bluecoat, Websense, etc.), things like personal banking, health care sites, etc., are exempted from the interception policy to avoid personal privacy issues and HR headaches.

How does it know? Does it have a list of all "personal banking, healthcare sites, etc" from the whole world? How is that list kept up-to-date? What happens if the site the employee is accessing is missing from the list? What happens if the employee knows these sites aren't monitored and finds a way to use them to bypass the monitoring?

> Be aware that the site you're going to may be MitM'ing sessions to meet other compliance regulations (e.g. SOX in the financial sector).

If it's the site itself, is it really a MITM? And even if they technically use a MITM, does it really matter, since the site would have access to the plaintext anyways?
An unfortunate name, given that Self-Organizing Map is the name for a type of Neural Network that is not being used in this application (which uses Hopfield Networks).

Also, there's a big memory leak in the code... beware.
I find a lot of beauty in the pedantry and borderline neurosis of effective organization, but I suppose that is not what you meant by a curation of bureaucracy.

Fulfilling, imaginative, and measurably impactful work is hard. It is nearly impossible for a single person to produce it consistently. It is not guaranteed to be created. There is no formula or set of guidelines, way to live, or belief system that leads to it. Some of the best work comes from necessity, others seemingly from lethargy.

Some bullshit work is more like distributing the tasks that a single person can no longer manage, because everyone is tired. I recall Graeber making a point about the number of hours worked per week, but even then. The expectation to dazzle reliably is a huge undertaking, and I certainly do not know of any way to do it without risking burn out every few years. And that's me speaking as a perfectionist, overachiever - who at the end of every day will still push myself harder than the day before, even when it hurts. I learned an unfortunate lesson that pain and passion doesn't always bear fruit - and in that I found destruction instead.

It's more about having humility towards every person that contributes to a 'bullshit' job, which the macroscopic view and big data tend to heavily ignore. People are not data points, and their lives have immeasurable value even when they have to drag through every day. We don't have a control society for comparison. That said, part of me agrees with you, but I think speculation is mostly useless aside from guiding your own personal direction.
Your assumptions about my motivation are incorrect -- I need what I am making. That is why I make things. If other people also like it, then I turn it into something more. Sometimes.

It has built up into a little site with a few thousands users each month. Which I know is small potatoes to a lot of people, and doesn't hold a candle to my actual job. But it is plenty for me.
Rofl, <3 that. Too true.
"In Chinese, there's no such thing as articles like 'a' 'an' and 'the' to trip you up, much less gender to every noun." The 50+ classifiers can be hard to remember, though admittedly you can just use 个 every time when speaking and it doesn't sound too bad.

"And verb conjugation is pretty much non-existent." When to use each verb modifier (e.g. 了, 过, 正在, 起来, 下去) and how they combine with negators and auxiliaries (e.g. 没, 不, 会, 能) seems more difficult than in English.
I'm voting you up, though I'm not sure I agree with comparing an automated advertising system with a person that is just trying to engage in a conversation.

Anyways, we've done the "review my site" quite a while ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1075533), and got some useful feedback, though most of it was "color of the bike shed" discussion. I think that what the site needs the most now is breaking out of the chicken-and-egg problem.

(Still amazed how people are voting it down like I'm a scammer. I'm putting everything for free, and this is not even a "startup", just a side-project. If people took a look at the site, it would be a win-win. By shutting me off, it's a lose-lose. Go figure.)
Obviously Photoshop collages and not real radiographs...

EDIT: I take that back. They're 3D renderings.
> We continue to sell military equipment to Saudi Arabia despite objections to their actions in Yemen.

But we never declared it a genocide. Isn't a big difference, otherwise why would this even be news worthy.
>> Another thing is that teams with private offices suffer greatly in communication and more importantly in energy and passion.

I really wish people would stop repeating this. It's complete hogwash. It doesn't even stand up to the most basic of scrutiny. If it were true, how the hell did we ever get work done before the open office plan?

Suddenly transporting a failing team of globally located people into the same room together isn't going to magically make them into an effective team. People don't fail to communicate because they aren't sitting next to each other. People fail at communicating because they are terrible communicators. PROTIP: if they actually write "excellent communicator" on their resume, then they are not.

Similarly, suddenly scattering a succeeding team across the planet isn't going to make them fail. People who are good at communicating figure out how to communicate even under the worst conditions. Most of the developers on all of the big FOSS projects have never even heard each other's voices!

But no, let's treat people like cattle and make them hotbunk on workstations. If you have room to put up your own photos of your family at your desk, clearly you're wasting company resources and your desk could be smaller. You exist only at the pleasure of the company.

Office-chair jockeys of the world, UNITE!
"but is it frowned upon if you bring noise-cancelling headphones"

Yes, at (former, thankfully) employer its the border between actionable offense (being written up) and merely being viciously trashed at review time. Management made the explicit decision to enforce collaboration (a 'la the whippings will continue until morale improves) and your actions are direct and intentional insubordination of that explicit formal requirement.

One person will get yelled at in front of everyone else (because its open office, duh) and nobody will dare to wear headphones again.

Its hard to find a more open and shut case description of intentional willful trivially documentable insubordination.
> Fares in London cover 91% of operating expense

Note that capital expenses (fixing tunnels, buying new trains) are not included in operating expenses, so London Underground runs at a significant deficit:

2,542m (Operating expenses) + 1,227m (Capital expenditure) - 2,286m (Fares) = 1,483m

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/annual-report...
Does anybody have any wider context regarding this attack? Is it the first time a massive DDoS like that was mitigated, with just minor disruptions to the victim?
I do love thew focus on profit. This is missing from many conversations.
A lot of us understand pre-Series A startups are cash poor, and for the right company, wouldn't mind working for (reasonably) less cash.

But 0.05% equity? Seriously, that's insulting. Don't these morons want their employees to be motivated? Isn't that the point of equity?
Don't worry about playing hardball in the negotiation. You can preface your negotiation by saying something like this.

"As long as we're on opposite sides of the negotiating table, I am going to do my best to get a fair share of possible upside from your company, and a decent salary. When we conclude this negotiation fairly, we'll be on the same side of the table and working towards the same goals."

"Now, I want half a percent and $110K."

Keep in mind that your BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement) is to say, "No thanks. Good luck." They need to hire somebody: time is money at their stage of business. You don't need to jump into their job.

But don't have this conversation at all unless you think their business idea is worth five years of your life.
if you're that unhappy, why not leave?
It is also from fox'news'...
> People should understand that a fiat currency is better than any commodity based currency. But they don't.

The way that fiat currencies have pretty much displaced commodity currencies suggest that this is actually a fairly widespread realization.
Discovered, not invented.
3800 miles and the next country is ... USA (Hawaii). However, both winds and water currents tend to go north of Hawaii, so it is more like 5200 miles on the great circle to California.
there should be a filter against submissions that are questions but don't include "Ask HN" in the title

I'm tired of all these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
I lived it. Operating systems and tools were simpler. There were reference manuals and tutorial books. Indeed, you better know your language and libraries from cover to cover. And sometimes debug in machine language. It's true that it could take months or years for you to learn about new things. I read about the first C++ compiler (with C as a target language) in a magazine. And I lived in a country that imposed a lot of barriers for importing software...
I don't think the U.S. is a police state.

But I do think that the answer to someone being mistreated at airport security shouldn't be to "take the train". It is true that the train will probably not have as onerous security requirements, but then that isn't really the point either.

If we put restrictions on a mode of transportation those restrictions should in general be in keeping with some legit governmental goal. "Airport security" does meet this, but I don't think we can say the same for all of the treatment OP actually received.
Are you saying that VB6 as a platform is superior to the web in its current state, all things considered? The comparison is silly, there is no competition in terms of distribution, portability, flexibility. Can you not see how it is remarkable that web development tools can rival desktop GUI environments, given that by design, everything on the web is running in a very limited sandbox, one based largely on the work of slow-moving standards bodies?
I could simply be budgeting room for the USB core itself to wake.
Wait, so Ballmer talked over the insight of his highest software engineer? Is that really what happened?
I'd say they're highly correlated. How else do you obtain skill?
Here's my personal experience. In my opinion internships are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity because you get to try out companies and they get to try out you before committing to either full-time. I went to University of Waterloo which has a strong internship program (with 6 4-month internship terms before graduation).

In my case, I was offered a full-time position at my last internship (Amazon) which I accepted. I started the job 6 months after graduation. During that time I traveled cheaply (in Asia and Central America) on student loans which I knew I could pay off because of my job. I did some of that solo and some with a friend.

I always knew I wanted to take a big trip again before I was 30. I left my job and did just that from 2008 - 2010. I had saved a lot of money while working just by living below my means. During this time I also worked on coding projects that have been fulfilling.

It's just my experience. It seems like you know what you want. As long as you prioritize these goals you'll see the world.
you forgot the question mark in your headline. the source has it.
Something I didn't see mentioned in the piece that I see as THE major hurdle to that noble, if utopian, idea is that more and more ISPs in the US are capping bandwidth (Comcast, AT&T U-Verse to name the biggest ones).
I guess you could have a setting at the router level that could be used to limit the amount of data going through the open part of the WiFi but I still don't think most people would agree to that kind of selfless generosity.
In any case, no such idea can be implemented while the capping issue is left out of the equation.
I appreciate and empathize with the perspective presented in this post, but I can't help but feel that an inherently negative stereotype is being created merely through language with the use of "business guys."

If the author means very specifically "graduates of MBA programs who primarily focus on business development, partnerships and sales," that's one thing. But, I suspect, instead, there's an inherent tribalism, an "us vs. them" attitude, that anyone who doesn't write code is grouped into this negative "other."

In a technology startup ecosystem, there are marketers, business development folks, product people, operations specialists, and experts, both technical and non-technical of every stripe. Many of those are as wary of one another or more so depending on their backgrounds and experience as software engineers are portrayed as being to anyone who doesn't share their specific job function.

This doesn't strike me as a productive way to have a conversation about biases/fears between different roles. That said, it's not an easy topic to tackle. Rather than criticizing, I should probably contribute something of my own on the topic, as I've been neglecting my blog horribly.
I think this is marvelous but overthought. Here's my Python code (2.7 and 3.2-compatible):

twss = lambda sentence: True
It's a big deal because:

(a) It's a proxy for traction. Greplin indexes data that can't be crawled; users have to authorize it to index their data. So aside from how hard of an engineering feat it is, the fact that they've indexed this much data probably means that they have a sizable number of users.

(b) While you're right that the technical challenge of indexing that many documents is easier now than in 2001 thanks to things like AWS (and numerous open source projects), to do it with a team of six is still impressive.
yphp has a different function to get the remote address as the normal methods don't work since it is behind a load balancer and using ytunnel (modified stunnel for yahoo).

Guess they forgot to use the proper function :)
Terrorism is pretty much about murdering people. If you're talking about the motive for terrorism though, I didn't mention it, so I don't know why you would try to contradict me on something I never mentioned.

Also, what are people like me? And what is a proper reaction to an organized attempt to kill civilians in your country? I do not suggest that the US took the proper course of action, btw.
Different kids are different. You followed the rules, that's great.

I didn't. I was an incredibly difficult child. I was pretty much born with a complete contempt for authority in any form; it's been around for as long as anyone can remember.

That doesn't mean my parents did a worse job than any other parents. Believe me, there was plenty of reinforcement. In my case, however, the reinforcement simply led to further rebellion and deviousness.

So, howzabout we decide we don't know enough about their situation and quit judging them, OK?
Indeed. It's a rung on the ladder to times when what fills a rack or a server room today will fit into a 1U tomorrow. There will come a time in the not too distant future when the ability to host a site in which quite literally a majority of the world's population accesses multiple times per day is simply a matter of setting up a relatively run-of-the-mill inexpensive VPS. The implications such technology will have on business, society, culture, etc. are left as an exercise for the reader.
It is so wrong on many levels I don't even know where to start. He is scaling a blog engine (!) with a "scalability daemon" instead of generating html pages and storing them in cache. He could then serve ten thousands of pages with one server instead of 823 request of seconds and the complex setup.