jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>We also looked for proactive junior staff out of companies like LinkedIn who were ready for the next step, but not afforded the opportunity.

This is the more efficient way of hiring a sales team IMO. I've been in both categories and although I've only been in the game for a few years, I've learned the pitfalls of the "fresh grad" approach.

The author is right in considering sales "Mission Critical" for startups and other small businesses looking to grow and then goes on to explain the various ways in which an open or ineffective sales position will damage the position of the company. Despite that display of wisdom, they advocate a "fresh grad" approach which is just about the fastest way to ensure high turnover and low productivity. Every salesperson has to start somewhere and a fresh graduate with a sales personality and love for the job often be the best kind of salesperson for this kind of role for the reasons stated by the author. The problem is that candidates can't know if they'll like the world of sales until they've lived in it. Even if they have an amazing ability to filter out applicants without "the right stuff", they'll still end up with a high % of new reps that just don't like the responsibilities of their role.

That can manifest itself in a lack of interest for the industry (boy did I hate copiers, talk about a dead-end market), a lack of interest in the product (some people love sales but hate selling intangibles like services), a mismatch in the selling style required by the market (relationship vs. technical), or a preference for stable income (depends on compensation structure but sales can be very feast or famine).

The company I work for now faced this issue and we've had incredible success stemming from the switch to the strategy of hiring young reps with a few years of experience. We're all "fresh" enough to go after new business with enthusiasm but we were also a known quantity in that we had all proven that we would stick it out in sales. Prior to this switch, we had 50% turnover for all the reasons stated above (some reps wanted to sell tangible products, others wanted a relationship sales style, others wanted a guaranteed salary, and other realized marketing or operations was a better fit for their personality) but none of the "new group" has left in the past 12 months and I doubt anyone will for a while.

The post-2008 stagnation has created climate with a lot of talented reps stuck near the bottom of the ladder. Offer them the next rung or an honest path toward advancement and they'll jump over in a heartbeat. Let the churn n' burn companies (ADP, Cintas, office equipment dealers/manufacturers) do the hard work of weeding out the fresh grads that won't cut it or don't want in. You avoid the biggest risks and although you'll have to pay more, you'll be more confident that you're getting value out of that "Mission Critical" sales position.
Is there really a reason why the common functionality should be this difficult to achieve? I don't know about you guys, but apart from the very basics, I always have to refer to a manual to complete yet another awkward command line flag. In my opinion this is like unnecessary paperwork. Don't get me wrong, I like git. It's just that it would be nice to see the core team come closer to the user, by default.
Sure provided you greased the right palms when you were in office and towed the right lines.
I did a very very ugly quick hack in python. Took the example JSON, made the one list entry a string (lazy hack), repeated it 56,000 times. That resulted in a JSON doc that weighed in at 10M. My initial guess at 60,000 times was a pure fluke!

Dumped it in to a very simple sqlite db:

$ du -hs gta.db
5.2M gta.db

Even 10MB is peanuts for most of their target audience. Stick it in an sqlite db punted across and they'd cut out all of the parsing time too.
So what?

It's likely beneficial for doctors to be intrinsically motivated to heal people, but regulatory mechanisms shouldn't be built on the assumption that it is the case.

Or is the idea that motivation is more important than relatively objective measures of effectiveness?
You have made good points and I appreciate your response. I also don't really want this discussion. Your point about not overrunning the main thread is particularly applicable.
What if having an exclusive license statistically saves more lives in the long run?
Not Discordianism though--Eris got snubbed again.
Hi Dmitry, Hi Ryan

I love the fact that this is out! I have been the original author of vmprof and I have been working on profilers for quite some time. I'm also one of the people who worked on PyPy. We never managed to launch a SaaS product out of it, but I'm super happy to answer questions about profiling, just in time compilers and all things like that! Hit me here or in private (email in profile)
In Germany (and other countries) masks must be worn whenever distance can't be kept, so they are widely worn. Doctor's offices, public transport, work (typically not at one's desk), religious gatherings, retirement homes, etc.

Many people are nowadays wearing FFP2 masks, which are available everywhere.
There are many, such as a lot of Paradox games, Aurora 4X, and so on. Few are based on the present state of the world, though. That doesn't make it any less an issue of geopolitics.
Usually the high DevOps salaries like that are for roles that involve high scale, or trying to fuse old tech with new infrastructure.

Those are certainly in range for DevOps people at the higher end of the scale.
That was a helpful link!

Your comment is surprisingly true! And utterly out of context.

As of today, Israel's deaths - both for the 65-and-overs and all-ages - is nearly down to its historical normal range, per your link.

Going back two weeks there was a huge peak at a z-score of 9.7; and going back eight weeks it was at a statistically anomalous low, at a z-score of -2.2.

I'd be tempted to point out the period of the low was the high holidays; the enormous deflection to positive slope started a week after the high holidays, and continued for three weeks. So, you know, "a bunch of people broke all quarantine for the high holidays and new year and did their level best to stay home rather than go to the doctor, and caused a giant spike, which has receded as the cases associated with that spike calmed down."
Please use the full title on HN if it fits (e.g. don't remove the product name and crowdfunding label in this case)
Patents expire after 20 years.
Let me help you - iPad is the ultimate content consumption device. It’s by far my favorite electronic device and by far the most used. I work on my computer, I communicate on my phone, but I relax on my iPad. Internet browsing, shopping, watching shorter videos (or even longer ones when cooking), sometimes playing games, reading books.

Thanks for the recommendation for Remarkable 2, considering buying one for a while now.
There's a link to the repo with our own rating system package. Maybe I should have shown that directly? The intention was to specifically draw attention to this finding.
It's really only in the last couple years that kubernetes has started to get tamed and be more approachable. For the longest time the only way to get a simple dev cluster up on your laptop was to make a VM with like 8-16GB of RAM and four cores dedicated to it--it was pretty outrageous. Nowadays kind, k3s, etc. make it a simple one line install and sip resources. But I agree, there is definitely a misperception that k8s is too complex.
TIL that Abraham Lincoln founded our country on a vision statement.
In Vancouver, it's widely agreed that reporting to VPD is an utter waste of time. You only file a police report if you need one for insurance.
If they could assume it’s water then why take it in the first place?
I wonder what we could do, let's think...maybe...a taxi medalion with a public exam ? :D

They tried to solve the problem from the wrong angle, and it turns out that the high cost of taxis, while suboptimal for sure, might not be entirely for no reason.
I'll add that I don't personally believe in this effect and think its probably due to misusing stats, but I'd like to hear other peoples views.
Click the little cross; that will hide them for your current session.
If we're using it on a daily basis (as I do) we've already seen the banner many times and this post is redundant, no?
Completely disagree. Even in corporate life, I work for a publishing company and our sales and editorial departments are completely seperate from that point of view, in that if a bad review is going up, we won't stop it going up or edit the content just because it's for a product made by a company who currently have an advertising campaign with us.

And even more so in Wikipedia's case. They could even just have an external advertising company deal with all sales, so that even if advertisers complain their feedback doesn't get through to Wikipedia staff.
In what kind of world do charities have to avoid making too much money?

If they were the kind of people who would say "shit we're making loads of money, lets start getting rich" and they also believe that advertising might make that much money, then they would have done it already.
I was looking for a method to essentially inactivate or breakup an email address in the source, so I could display the actual email in text form.

From a bit of searching, my options were either this method or the reCapcha email protection http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/
But capcha creates an unnecessary extra step, So I went with the former.
Re grammar, thank you for an excellent response. People often say that language isn't nailed to the floor with one right way of saying things, but that misses the point. Communication is important, and if a writer doesn't get things right, some of the audience will be lost.

I'm intrigued by the emergence of the "I could care less" expression. Here in the UK people look at it, stunned, and are confused as to what the author meant. It's like "The proof is in the pudding," an expression that clearly derives from something that makes sense in a stand-alone context, but which now can only be understood as an idiomatic, atomic phrase, and which doesn't mean what it actually says.

But that's language, which is weird.

With regards using existing tools, I largely, but not entirely, agree with you. It would be useful if languages had clean containment methods/techniques for wrapping existing tools rather than (re-)implementing facilities, but that's a general discussion.

And I agree that there's more to a developer than just the programs they write. That, however, partly makes my point and not yours. Whether they expend effort writing "Pythonically" is, to my mind, a much smaller point than whether they document well, communicate clearly, design effectively, and have a sense of balance.

But that's a minor issue. I suspect we are, in truth, more in agreement than not.
This is over-the-top political hyperbole that has more to do with keeping point scores than actually analyzing events. My politics are closer to Greenwalds than, say, Glenn Reynolds, but I found this writeup nauseating.

What exactly is Greenwald's point?

That Adrian Lamo isn't a superhero? Ok! Stipulated!

That Kevin Poulsen might have had reasons other than national security and journalistic ethics to run the stories he ran in the fashion he ran them in? Ok! Stipulated!

Lamo bad. Poulsen bad. Ok. But it does not therefore follow that Manning is good. Or that Wikileaks is acting ethically and performing a vital service.

Greenwald has no new facts to add to our understanding, only opinions about whether it's plausible that Manning could have had access to truly damaging information. Greenwald's opinions about how the DoD manages classified information aren't relevant, because Greenwald has never seriously reported the IA practices in the DoD.

Greenwald also chooses to highlight the notion that Manning was leaking information "to the public", instead of "making bank by selling it to China" (wait, I thought it was implausible that he had valuable information?), and that he may be a whistleblower "in the purest sense". But Manning broke an extremely serious set of laws and betrayed his explicit duty to protect that information. If he's right (spoiler alert: he's not), we'll soon know when Wikileaks orchestrates its next media tour around the Manning documents.

All Greenwald is doing here is trying to assign people to roles of "good guy" and "bad guy". He's no more trustworthy than Wired is. And this story isn't about good guys and bad guys.
In practice this would take longer than the 27 million years stated assuming 2 things: that the computer doing the guessing doesn't try passphrases it has tried in the past and that the user changes their password at least 1 time (more likely multiple times) within the 27 million years. This is contingent upon somehow not changing your passphrase to a passphrase much much higher up on the list of what the computer will try to guess. What are the chances of this occurring and what are the chances of the opposite occurring where the user's correct passphrase is somehow next on the list yet at that time the user randomly changes it to the passphrase at the very end of the list? Would this then mean it is better to keep the same passphrase forever or to change it?
no. It's 言论自由, or 言論自由 in traditional Chinese.
It's interesting to see these icons and actually recognize what sites already use them. For example, I believe OKCupid uses several of these icons in their GUI such as the report flag, edit, views, etc.
Very vague on what your service is. If it's possible, I would actually just let them use it for free and use it as a case study to reach out to other larger potential partners. If that doesn't work, an advertising split may make sense, although I would run the numbers a bit on what you think would make sense.
And you can turn your member access into called code when you need it:

class Foo(object):
@property
def bar(self):
print "Running getter"
return self._bar

@bar.setter
def bar(self, value):
print "Running setter"
self._bar = value
When this posting was originally made here on HN, I noted that it really reminded me of a site I loved years ago that basically taught you web security by getting you to hack your way through various levels. The site (quiz.ngsec.com) is now defunct, but for those of you who enjoy this kind of challenge I have found several copycat sites which started around the same time and still exist.

One of the more fun ones which is still around is http://www.try2hack.nl/ so if you enjoyed the job application process you'll probably have fun with this.

There's a bunch of other sites too if you're into this stuff; Here's a starting list http://www.governmentsecurity.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=... and Google will find you plenty more.
It's cheating to create an id just to applaud yourself, only when you're not trying to make humor by injecting a yes man into context of apparent disdain of work bureaucracy.

(sili889q user created one hour ago by notmyname to coincide with his post)
Ah, I wasn't thinking of the Gulf, I was talking about the Middle East and North Africa.

For what it's worth, Arab "foreigners" in the Gulf aren't treated any better.
I'm sorry to inform you, but you in fact do have number-memorizing superpowers (or, alternately, "focusing on task and persevering" superpowers).
Not to be a ML/Haskell weenie, but dynamic languages aren't the only ones that don't require writing out every single damn type. We've had type inference since 1982, thanks to Hindley and Milner, and you get free compiler-enforced testing that your function arguments are of the proper polymorphic type.
Seems to be down.

Text only cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
They used the Klingon alphabet, which is nothing like the latin alphabet
Already submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1907051

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883085
Sorry, that confusion was my fault: I posted the first line of my reply, and then realised I should mention delegation, so I edited it in. He must have loaded the page between the two.
There's folklore.org but that's like 25 years ago.
why did you think it was more related to mdma versus an amphetamine? i remember when i saw limitless the first time, i kept thinking 'is this movie just about adderall and vyvanse?'
For the record, this person makes his living selling a few services in the same space as the original poster, and has been in the exact same position of having launched a product and watched tons of potential users bounce away because the "try it now" button asked for a single username and password.

I also run a service that gets 100% of its business as a result of people converting from free trials to paid users, and the biggest lesson I've learned from that site is that the more people you can put into the top of the funnel, the more come out the bottom. It's not a matter of getting more trial signups at the expense of a worse conversion rate. It's a matter of the conversion rate staying constant and income going up in direct proportion to how much friction you can remove from the signup process.
Weed will much easily make you paranoid in my opinion.
But in fact, too much introspection can go wrong and plant ideas that don't make you go forward.

There is a saying of a guru: "If something goes bad, just drop some more acid" but I am not sure if it is a good advice, only that it doesn't work with weed.
Insane and outrageous.
They left a pretty clear trail, and they didn't actually succeed in killing the target. Sounds amateurish to me.
That’s the same group that ambushed and murdered a federal LEO’s in Oakland near a BLM protest, and wrote ‘BOOGALOO’ with the blood of one.
Jeeze there is a lot of confusion about the 100 mile thing.

No, they can’t stop you for no reason.

No, they can’t search you without cause or a warrant.

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
I’m not sure why they’re calling it a “platform” when the article explains it’s basically a central service offered by The Hague to member states’ police - I’d be comfortable with describing it as outsourcing digital evidence collection to a single agency that has the right tools (and industry connections) to get into encrypted iPhones.

...doesn’t the FBI offer something similar to local PDs in the US?
Actually I think the EU recently passed a law that bans not counting data use toward specific domains to allow competition. It makes much sense with your comment.
Time to update your internet boogeymen memes. Fox News and Trump are enemies. He's into Newsmax now.
There are a lot of higher steps, just look at US history. For example, the mob could murder someone. In the bad old days of civil rights resistance, the mob would regularly engage in homicide against targets they thought were upsetting their power.
I've heard that this is SOP for international lawyers. They don't want some border agent sniffing around confidential legal files.
Performance -- even if the CSS is the same size as the image, a single CSS file can return all the icons with a single HTTP request, vs having to make separate requests for each image.

Even with CSS Sprites, there are two requests - one for the CSS, another for the sprite image file.
Even cheaper hack: two logins. I have one account for projects, one for play. On my project account, I run Self Control (http://visitsteve.com/work/selfcontrol/) to block distractions (now experimenting with Concentrate: http://getconcentrating.com/). I find just having two differently configured environments is a good cue which sets me in my work groove.
Generally in the UK a lot of companies specifically hire students straight out of university with the understanding that they'll still be a little green behind the ears.

If you've got a decent academics and a fundamental grasp of programming you shouldn't have too much trouble getting a job. What can be key is that you have something on your CV to make you stand-out, this can be an interesting final year project, open source contributions, an internship, etc.

The biggest mistake I see people make is restricting themselves to only apply to jobs local to them. You might be able to get away with this if you live near a major tech hub, but if you don't then you're majorly restricting yourself.
Creative destruction, as in the Austrian school, should be a major factor.

Think evolution of organizations, economically inefficient ones die. People learn (in the Lamarckian way, too) what works best at the present time.

Also...

To quote an argument from your blog, there are many tens of millions of people needed to keep our civilization working efficiently (some specialized jobs might only have a few dozen practitioners, according to you).

And to keep up with research and new methods, in every decade a large percentage of all those jobs will be totally different.

Centrally planned system just can't touch that -- they can't even avoid traffic jams with a few million cars! (And those cars aren't [yet] genetically and culturally programmed to optimize their behavior individually and in groups.. and change a lot culturally every generation.)

Own petard, etc. :-)

Edit: A bit clearer, hopefully. Non-native language.
Non-techy readers would have no idea what "self-referential" means. Probably best to just leave it alone.
They natively scale to any size.
That's incorrect.

The usual way of using this service is to have backend network configured that connects your services that is not available from outside (ie you have to traverse through services to reach it).

The so called "security" is just a paid feature for companies that want to use ElasticSearch but want to use it in "legacy" way because, presumably, they don't have people to design it correctly.
Didn't anybody get it?
...evaporated..
...ephemeral...
...up in smoke...
...wispy...
And then the punchline:

This is what we get when we have faith in a cloud.
I think it would be reasonable to conjecture that part of the reason he does it is to hurt, or at least humiliate, those he doesn't agree with politically and thus, to indirectly influence elections.
When I lived in Japan I would pass dozens of small shops every day on my way to and from work: in my neighborhood and in the areas around the train stations I passed through. On weekends I went in to the city to buy things I couldn't buy otherwise, or just to browse around. On one hand, I spent a lot of time on trains or buses or walking around looking that I could have spent doing other things. On the other hand, I got a lot of exercise that I don't get now and I spent a lot more time outdoors. I felt like I had more energy and I slept better.
Sounds like an opportunity. Live chats with lawyers for significantly lower prices than in-person consultation might cost. You can represent yourself, but get guidance from a real lawyer. Sounds like something that already exists since it seems obvious in retrospect, but not sure.
I tried to google around, but info was very thin. The bbzero github repo was last updated 4-5 years ago. Is this something that's bolted on top of the current WM, or is it a veritable replacement, in that the vanilla WM is unloaded and doesn't use resources?

The concensus, whether correct or not, is that Windows WM is tightly coupled with the rest of the system.
Google is a large company. Surely the goodwill of keeping it around must mean something? Can’t they take a small loss on one of their “nice-to-have” products?
Well... I do and I choose my printers based on availability for remote printing.

You forget that there are a lot of cases where elderly people can't print shit and need actual paperwork.
Google pays their engineers a lot and they’d need to recruit a lot more of them if they were going to keep running everything they ever killed. That, or stop launching so many new products.