jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yev from Backblaze here -> it's an internal debate as to whether we should put dates on everything. It used to be that they were part of the URL (because of the way our blog was designed) but that is no longer the case. We decided to leave them off for a while to see if that made posts more "evergreen", but we definitely see where it can lead to some confusion. We'll keep chatting about it internally, there's likely a good middle-ground.
> As the founder of a company that's gone from just the co-founders working together to a small and growing team, one of the things I miss is that I can't expect the same level of sacrifice and commitment out of early employees as I did out of the founding team.

You should look at this as a feature, not a bug. Employees who will never be as invested as the founding team are like thermometers. Take their temperature on a regular basis and it can reveal important facts about your company that you'd probably be blind to otherwise.

> ...if you're hiring smart, talented people you're probably fighting for them, and they know that if this company fails they'll just go work at Google or Facebook or one of the other places they turned down job offers.

Not all of the smart and talented people out there are Google or Facebook material, which is one of the reasons startups should stop trying to build the New York Yankees. Don't exclude people with potential. With a focus on employee development, you can grow great employees who are going to be far more loyal to you because you gave them an opportunity.
That's what I tried to do with this page http://martyjs.org/guides/flux/index.html. Let me know how I could improve it
and a pingpong table too
15-20 years is an incredibly long time in programming land. The only language I'm fairly certain will be around then is C. It's kind of a b*tch to learn, but once you do, it will certainly help you pick up other languages more quickly (seeing as many are written in C). I think your best investment, long term, would be to learn something very low-level like that; so it can help you interpret and understand the ever-changing world of high-level languages as time goes on.
It depends how much of an advantage a certain diet brought from a procreative standpoint.

If milk drinkers were the only group who could obtain the necessary amount of calories for bearing offspring and sustained existence, then the adaptation would happy much more quickly.

Perhaps even as quick as several generations.
Mostly true for one car households, but with multiple car households you only need to be sure that one of the cars will cover a rare use case.
I don't understand why some people gravitate to absolutes. You shall eat no animal products to you shall eat only animal products.

Are people just uncomfortable not knowing and milquetoast answers like "eat a variety" are boring? Are there militant omnivores?
I can see the argument for multi-line pre-formatted code blocks, but for inline `<code>` it would be nice if double clicking anywhere selected the whole thing.
Big Fake Yoga?!??
Presumably they are including predecessor hominids.
Try changing jobs as a software dev after 10 years. Every 'good' company will put you through 3-4 coding challenges, treating you like your fresh out of college.
Thanks! You're right - the icon does need work. I wanted to avoid using a globe, but maybe clarity > everything.
Edit: I see, the comment itself was [dead]. Not sure what happened there. Dead comment deleted and replicated below.
It will never equate to the number of user accounts because we don't require users to register. You can get in on all that hot Q&A goodness account free.
It's an annual campaign - where were you last year?

All of the information you require is available - some of your questions have actually been directly answered in the comments here.
How many of us coming up with these nuanced concerns because we just don't want to fork over $20?
also, if the reader is a recruiter, accessing the linkedin profile may be more useful.
Love the idea...I think that its important people know its about web browsing...perhaps a tweak to the App icon to indicate this?
Thanks for the suggestions! I've changed the main heading on the page. I'll have to look into making the name more prominent too.
By 'serious operation,' I mean something they were after a specific goal, vs just probing for weaknesses.
I personally know a number of people working at Google who not only didn't maintain that kind of GPA, they didn't graduate at all.

GPA is only useful as a filter for people just out of college. If you've been in the work force for a while, there are better measures available.
If I could point to one thing other states could do to improve their economy, it would be adopt the exact language of California's anti-non-compete and the "you own your own ideas, unless developed as part of your work" law.

Not that this is going to single handedly grow a silicon valley in Montana overnight, but it has so little downside. The reason for the exact language is because if they use the exact language consciously, they effectively import the case law surrounding those laws.
I had a similarly frustrating experience interviewing for an internship there. I'm very happy to be doing what I'm doing right now (CTO of a startup) but the experience with Google still left a bad taste in my mouth, and it makes me reluctant to apply to them rather than e.g. Facebook or MSFT in future.
What is the performance difference (page load, processor load, memory load) after switching?
On individual venue pages there is an "Edit this place" link.

Example: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=2313806217463839235
what is there to get away with?
When my internet is slow, my first inclination is traceroute (mainly so I can complain to comcast is it's their fault which it usually is), which presumably would show what was happening.
It will take 6-8 weeks after large scale vaccination to start seeing the results. Deaths usually occur six weeks after infection, and it takes a week to reach full immunity after vaccination.
I can see how something changes when an employee moves elsewhere but it is far from a simple cost of living factor.

Off the top of my head...

Possible new company costs:

- In theory a company could incur new costs based on where their employees are (e.g. you move to a different state; that changes how they compute taxes from your income, they may need to become aware of several new state laws, may need new licenses, etc.).

- The company may have made a deal with their HQ city, e.g. tax breaks in exchange for $X jobs. If they renege because everyone moved away, they may lose a lot.

- Maintaining widespread remote work is not free; not only IT setup (high availability, etc.) but a need to do so very securely. Probably at the very least new staff or contracts for this alone.

New company SAVINGS:

- Depending on how many people move, they may need MUCH less office space. This saves in rent in high-rent areas, air conditioning, coffee, cleaning or whatever else they have to count.

...Considering all of the above, the idea of a company scaling pay sounds like it should at the very least be negotiable. They clearly have some new costs but arguably also save a ton in the process! So does the employee. And it may be difficult to quantify the value of having a vastly greater talent pool, enabling the business to hire people that otherwise would not have wanted to move to SV.
An update is also available: https://www.galoisrepresentations.com/2021/02/11/ramanujan-m...
This is the case of the cobbler's children having no shoes, I think. If you're focused on your product, updating your website falls to the last priority (except for the marketing team).
By putting the number of arguments onto the stack, we end up making the stack larger for every single function call. We also require every access to any stack variable to do math to figure out where on the stack it's arguments are.

That seems an insane overhead for the common case... If this really does make benchmarks faster overall, it suggests an even better solution might exist out there that does not add overhead for the common case...

Perhaps it might be worth keeping track of how many arguments a function is typically called with, and recompiling code for each case? Then all the checks for argument counts can be entirely removed in the optimized code.
> or else risk that somebody else can execute a 51% attack

No, they aren't motivated by that. They are motivated purely by profit. If more miners start mining, the difficulty goes up, and therefore profit goes down. So they need to keep adding more machines. The price is driving this cycle too. The current hashrate & difficulty are at their ATH levels.

(Edited)
I grew up playing hockey and lacrosse and I now coach competitive youth lacrosse. I find it amusing that someone would write an article complaining about hockey goalies being too large as compared to the net when there is "box lacrosse".

Here is a random picture of a youth hockey goalie:

https://cdn1.sportngin.com/attachments/photo/32ad-117175177/...

here is one of a youth box lacrosse goalie:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0069/5523/7476/collections...
Yea Clubhouse should be called Madhouse because it's a bunch of exclusive pseudo-intellectual narcissists huffing their own farts.
I find it most frustrating when you go to a shop and there's two things roughly equivalent you want to buy, one of them is $2 for 200 mL and the other is $1.80 for 180 g.

There's every other kind of trickery in the shops to prevent you from being able to assess the relative value of two products, to render those price comparisons redundant (like the fact that the two products are listed, one $/100 g and the other listed $/kg).

I've just moved to Germany, and here it's almost impossible to buy the thing you want — they always seem to subpackage it into segments so that you have to use more than you want and therefore come back. I thought the marketplace was hostile in Australia sheesh.

(But, 750 megalitres is significantly more than 750 litres.)
I know yesterday, there was a media guy who tried to do a hit job on some youtuber based on a clubhouse, and the entire chat had to come to his defense on twitter call the guy out as a liar. I imagine this will become increasingly common and will really kill the "authenticity" it offers.
My tl;dr reads differently: "we lacked appropriate congestion control in our EBS recovery algorithms."

The trigger was a bad and unexpected network configuration change, but the error was that the attempted recovery by the stuck volumes was that it was uncontrolled.

I don't think that anyone is knocking the intelligence of the AWS engineers, or saying that anyone else could do it better. Just like NASA engineers and scientists are incredibly intelligent and good at what they do, systems can become complicated enough that unexpected errors creep into the system, and not any particular component.
My problem is more with the CPU than GPU. However, there's an app that lets you switch to using the integrated graphics only (which is fine for most situations, unless you plug in an external display) which is well worth trying.
3: When it comes to greenhouse gases, increased amounts are effective to a certain concentration, at which point they absorb or reflect everything in the wavelengths that correspond to that gas. The wavelengths for water is saturated.
We use philosophers: sartre, camus, plato, aristotle, etc.
This is really really cool. I have ported various c/c++ code based to javascript and have thought about doing this myself. No doubt some really cool demos will come out of this.

One interesting hacks to be build on this would be to optimize the resulting javascript so it can be compressed the best.
Building data centers in Oregon[1] and North Carolina[2] sure won't help. Why would a California based company build their first data center in Oregon?

[1]http://www.facebook.com/blog.php?post=262655797130

[2]http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/11/12/1831199/facebook...
The people who argue against naming machines in an automated fashion don't have hundreds or thousands to manage.

We do something simple: class of machine + number . city.

m1.sjc1 == generic machine in san jose
m2.sjc1 == another generic machine in san jose
db1.ams1 == database class machine in amsterdam
ops1.chi1 == ops class machine in chicago

Very scalable and easy to manage. Custom names are annoying. Your machine management system can tell you what function they serve.
At home I use star names (from the sky):

* deneb
* vega
* betelgeuse
* nashira
* procyon

At work, for simple networks, I use the name of the function the server implements:

* mail
* fw (firewall)
* fs (file server)
* intranet
* backup
* virt (eg. ESXi vCenter)

I don't understand people who insist on appending a 001 postfix to every server name. Firstly, you will most likely never have hundreds of servers fulfilling the same function. Secondly, if you do you will 3 digits may not even be sufficient. So just start with mail, mail2, ... mail10, ... You have files named after servers and "ls" don't show them in numerical order? Use "ls -v". Your management tool don't sort them? Big deal. It's much more painful to have to type "001" the hundreds/thousands of time you will need to ping a server or ssh into it.
Star #10, young funded startups. You're among the best positioned sites anywhere to exploit the heck out of that inefficiency.
The hint to that is also in the Orthodox distribution. Why from all the Christian denominations they are the wealthiest?
I think that big part of Jewish and Orthodox populations comes from ex-Soviet republics. Strong emphasis on education back over there and immigrant need to prove themselves will cause such skewed statistics.
You know what more? I think the Jewish stats are brought down by Orthodox Jews that have +10 kids and spend their lives studying Torah and don't worry that much about making money( I understand that some Muslims and Christians are like that but it's less common ).
California can't be saved as long as they have pension obligations that far outstrip any potential new sources of income.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/06/opinion/la-oe-crane6...
edit: before I get people bitching at me http://www.halfsigma.com/2006/06/high_iq_does_no.html

this is a great link since we had this argument here before with about half HNers thinking that income somehow correlates to IQ.

however this link doesn't explain why you think jews (as practitioners of judaism, not as a nationality) have higher IQs?
Indeed, I've had a lot of opportunity to appreciate each and every nuance of the film myself. I thank goodness it's a good movie...
More great news showing the competence level of our elected leadership.
Do you know how much they make off #1? How much are they losing if not for these credits?
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The left wasn't being actively encouraged and incited by the sitting President.
I don't consider this plausible. Although I don't have anyone who would consume celebrity gossip or tabloids among my acquaintances (or at least they pretend no to), I doubt that the kind of people who does consume it will be satisfied with meticulously constructed self-presentation of celebrities when they can have the "raw reality" brought to them by paparazzis. Tabloids are here to stay.
Nothing beats my old HP-48G that I used in college. Unfortunately, HP has all but left that space and my HP 35S (yes, I do own one) is but a shadow of what HP calculators once were.
A "public park" is simply owned by a public entity, it does not mean you get unlimited unrestricted access to it. If the city/county/state/fed decided to wall it off and not allow anyone in it, it would be their prerogative.

If I (a private individual/entity) owned a 60 acre flatland park, and one day decided not to allow people on my land, is that not my right as land owner?

If we allow a person to own the beach, then it is their property to disallow trespassers.

The better question would be why do we allow ownership of a beach.
You might be a good candidate, but the recruiter has scheduled another interview next week with another candidate, and might want to see all candidates before answering.
All treatment modalities have a placebo effect. Including surgery. See: decades of modern research on sham surgeries.
> "has an accessible SD card slot can deal with removable and expandable storage"

And suffers greatly reduced usability as a result.

Let's be honest, average users don't care to decide where everything goes - many won't even know what this means. When one downloads a funny cat picture from the internet, nobody wants to be asked "to internal memory or SD?". Nor do people want to mentally track which files are on what card, nor do they want to break their music library metadata because a song is on a card no longer in the machine.

Yadi yada, the number of ways removable storage (as a primary storage medium, which it is in most smartphones... minimal internal + large removable) harms the user experience is infinite.

What makes WP7 microSD compelling is that it's an upgrade path - which is how people treat removable storage when it comes to smartphones. The fact that the entire experience is unified helps greatly too - your extra capacity is seamless to the user.

If anything, MS is the first smartphone maker to do removable/expandable storage right.

Now, it would be nice to be able to recover a card for normal everyday use after you're done with it, but all in all that's a fairly minor complaint. Like someone else mentioned, you're adding a disk to a RAID, not a gameboy cartridge to ta Game Boy.
Interesting read.

I think one of the biggest challenges is identifying you're in a slump in the first place.

My tactic is to always maintain a list of things that I wish I did more of, and as soon as I figure out I'm in a slump, I pick something on the list. This especially works well with things I used to do more.
I think most of them are intoxicated on the power, I mean how much would someone have to pay you to grope people all day? I'd quit in an hour.

Have you seen the photo where this horrifying parody

http://imgur.com/Nu5f8.jpg

is the wallpaper on the computer screen in the TSA office?

http://imgur.com/1xFBp.jpg

I mean think about the mentality - in the very workplace they do it.
It's really easy to Godwin a response to this, but I'll opt out and just ask: How decent are these people if they signed up for jobs to look at naked pictures and grope strangers? I'm all for being respectful as a tactic, but it's not as if they're doing anything to deserve respect.
I wish I could upvote this more than once. It really picked up my day.

I always find a cognitive approach far more effective than trying to internalize some inspirational BS.

Thanks!
Huh, that sounds kindof impossible. But I guess we could get a team of the smartest people in our industry together and build an entirely new suite of tools to make $impossible_thing into $totally_normal_thing...

HBase has been around for a while, and is part of the Apache Hadoop project. You don't need Zuckerberg signing your checks to work on cool projects along with really smart people.
I just tested it because it sounded so beautiful but that does not work in IE6 unfortunately.
He didn't say he/she has a work. Anyway, you can decide to work on your projects on certain days and go out with friends in others (weekend perhaps). There's no way you can do everything in the same day and still sleeping 10 hours.
"You could spend $1300 on a new laptop only to learn the following week that Apple is now selling a significantly better machine for that same price."

And if that happens you can just return it (after only 1 week) and get the new model.
One thing to keep in mind is that probably all the bashing of "A New Kind of Science" has more to do with the perception of Wolfram being arrogant or self-centered than with actual merits (or lack of them) of the book.
Sounds familiar, plus a lamp. I actually use a weather station which works surprisingly well - nice soft alarm, clear display, and tells me how warm I need to dress that day.

Although, on my wife's side, she has a Clocky for those mornings where getting up at a certain time is critical.
I really don't understand glossy screens. I can't work anywhere with a light source behind me.

Why have they overtaken the PC laptop market so much?
While a VPS or a Cloud solution may provide you greater flexibility for the reasons explained by pedoh, in my personal experience dedicated servers are better served in terms of bandwidth and throughput stability. At the current state-of-the-art however, I'd choose VPS over dedicated anytime (as long as it's cheaper).
I have a theory:

I don't think their backgrounds are a response to Bing at all.

Somebody high up at Google (won't name any names) is a sincere, enthusiastic patron of the arts, and wants to share the gift of art with the world.

(I love art, but I think this mission is misguided, and wrong place, wrong time.)

Google has had TONS of novelty background/skin campaigns for iGoogle, Chrome, and other properties. (Often including prominent artists and designers.)

The home page is just the most recent victim.

The problem is not about quality of the art, which is usually great. It's just about it serving the user/tool, which it doesn't.

I do like the holiday/themed Google logos (pacman anybody?). But I consider those a completely different initiative.

Anyway... I repeat: It's not a Bing thing. It's a bring-art-to-the-masses thing. :/
Great advice. Also extends to teams, 'What do we all know well enough to execute?' should trump 'What would be fun?' every time. I've worked in situations where someone saying 'Oh I decided to write this in Clojure, even though I'm the only one here who knows it and we're running out of cash' cost significant time and resources to fix (the fix was rewriting the project in plain ol' Python myself). It just isn't a sensible risk to take.
There is no reason to believe the first AGI will be anthropomorphic (or even... animorphic(?)). Blue Brain is not the only path to AGI, and "raising" or "training" may have no analogues. http://lesswrong.com/lw/rm/the_design_space_of_mindsingenera...
Sure it does. I've also extrapolated to figure out that by the time 10% of the US population is in prison, the other 90% will all be Elvis impersonators.
It absolutely matters.

Remember when Vista was "the fastest selling operating system ever" [1]?

Would it have been wise to read those first months of sales as indicative of interest-in and preference-for Vista and thus safe to extrapolate? Or was it due to other, stronger factors (bundling, brand-recognition) that have very clear analogues in the phone market?

[1] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749132%28WS.10%...
I don't think we understand debugging well enough to start building "friendly A.I.", much less in robot form.
evernote can be addictive; however it mangles code bits

I use a text editor along side with the IDE so I can add notes as I code;the same way as physical notebook but I can paste code bits in there