skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It started as a spiral of being overworked and not sleeping enough. As I slept less, my coffee consumption skyrocketed and my diet grew worse and worse. I tried to exercise three times a week, but between being tired, mild stomach problems from too much coffee and unhealthy food, and energy spikes, my intensity in the gym slipped and I eventually started skipping more workouts.

It all spiralled because all of those things made me less effective. So, I not only made more mistakes but those mistakes kept me up later and later at night...
"Of course if you're going to visit a gaming company, you're not just going to find people disproportionately passionate about games, but you'll find people trying to focus on gaming products.
After all if you'd gone to an architectural company and they demo'd a business meeting where they showed the new building design to a client, and you spent 30 minutes after talking about how it'd be so cool to shoot orcs in VR, what do you think they'd say or think? They'd just go right back to talking about their company's use of VR, architecture."

Yeah you've totally missed the point of my post. I'm talking about (and to) the people who are actually working in VR and building things with these systems -- which right now is game devs who know lots of math and can code, and not architects.

Game devs are the ones that, for a variety of reasons, are in the hot seat here and are tasked with building out the first generation of consumer VR, and they belong to a particular demographic. And that demographic is narrow, parochial, and hyper-focused on scratching its own itches. Often those are strengths, but in the case of VR they're a weakness.
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That market was already ceded to NT before Macs became Unix workstations, though.
Because keeping the proles in the dark about how hard they're being screwed benefits the people doing the screwing?
Those variable names... `var varSegmentation=0;`
The discussion of curiosity driven discovery in mathematics, especially applied mathematics, is quite good here. I wonder what that sort of curiosity driven experience would do within a software developer environment. In a lot of ways I develop a lot of code, even production code, using a curiosity and more artistic method to getting to a solution. However, project management doesn't seem to want to allow for that sort of discovery as we're writing software. They want solid estimates and firm commitments. It's unfortunate. A lot of good comes from curiosity.

Also, a fabulous article on a brilliant mathematian. A great read!
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I definitely do not consider myself a "highly productive" person in the sense I believe you are referring to. I am productive though and have found little tricks that have helped me personally.

1. If I am working on a large project I try to keep it split into very small pieces. I only work on a small piece at a time and switch between pieces often. This keeps my mind going. It also helps if you start to get stuck and lose focus by looking things up or just outright losing interest in what you are working on. By breaking it into small pieces you tend to complete more items and it tricks your mind into staying focused (at least for me). As someone else pointed out, a big time suck for developers is having to look things up. If I know that I want to get 20 things done in a day, I will work to get as many as possible done before I get stuck having to look something up. Sometimes I find that doing other things will freshen my mind and I no longer need to look it up.

2. If I find myself getting stuck or losing focus, I get up immediately and do something else non-work related. I may go for a 15-20 minute walk, grab a cup of coffee, or read HN.

3. I try to go to sleep at, or around, the same time every night and try to wake up at, or around, the same time every day. Being in a routine helps.

4. Watch what you eat/drink. I used to drink a couple beers every night, smoke, and drank a lot of soda. I stopped drinking 2 years ago (I still have a beer every now and then at events or with dinner on occasion), I quit smoking (been a year now), and gave up soda entirely (haven't had one in 3 years). Combined with exercising more and watching what I eat I have found this alone the biggest improvement to my staying focused and being productive. I also used to eat late at night, which didn't help my sleep cycle and also is bad for your health in general. I forced myself to get on a more routine diet, or at least eating cycle.
On the other hand, if you can do this and your co-workers can't, you may be tempted to write complex and entangled code, because the implications of each line are perfectly obvious to you.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
A poem by Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

-------------- End ----------

Oh how I love Robert Frost! This deeply existential and powerfully personal poem is exactly what NOT to do when you are in the throes of startup life.

Sleep! I say sleep. Get that rest and damn that horse. :-)

Edit: I took me 4 years to learn HN carriage returns! :-(
Who decides that and is it true or fair? If the CEO earns 25x the average employee salary would it be clear that they add 25x more value to the company than any other employee?
Honestly CEO's getting paid a ton isn't really much of a problem as opposed to the US's absurdly low income tax rates for the wealthy. Not to mention capital gains... estate taxes... etc
The "other bases" issue, which you come to right at the end, fascinated me in middle school: for the reasons you describe, digital root tests for divisibility by a digit d work in any base b if d divides (b-1). For example, in hexadecimal there is a digital root test for divisibility by 1 (trivially), 3, 5, or 15 in hexadecimal.

For instance, D+E+A+D+B+E+E+F=104₁₀ which is not divisible by 5, but that indicates that (DEADBEEF+1) will be divisible by 5, which is correct.

We're also used to the "final digit test" for divisibility in base 10, which works for 1 (trivially), 2, 5, and 10; and indeed it works for a digit d in a base b if d divides b. Ternary has a digital-root test to determine whether a number is even (as in all odd bases, you can't use the final digit alone to answer that question). For example, 1202112₃ is odd because 1+2+0+2+1+1+2 is odd.

(Edit: deleted a spurious claim about hexadecimal divisibility tests.)
I absolutely do apologize for the condescending attitude coming from Western Europe regarding the "oppressed gypsies" who were "totally good people who just never got a chance". It was wrong. They were and are more like parasites on better functioning peoples.

I was myself only briefly one of those Gutmenschen until I got hold of better data (which I actively sought and which were contradictory to everything I was taught in University).

On the other hand, this is pretty plonk-worthy:

> but don't give me this condescending attitude

and, yes, you probably should apologize for letting random Moldavians into the Schengen area.

All of the states in the Holy Roman Empire did pay extra taxes to pay for wars against the Ottomans a few decades later.
No worries. Are you the author? Great work!

I looked at it quickly, will play with it more later. Do you have Dilation and Erosion in there?

Does it do video or image sequences and related motion-relevant algorithms?
There's a lot of suspicion that your presumption isn't accurate. It's a fairly big area of research, though. One alternate hypothesis is a form of "executive capture", that companies nominally owned by shareholders are actually run by more of a clique of executives, who serve on each others' boards and pay each other large salaries. Some mild but inconclusive correlational evidence for that view is that when controlling for other factors (size, industry, etc.), CEOs are paid less at private companies and companies with concentrated ownership, than at companies with diffuse ownership—suggesting that when the owner is in charge and paying attention, they prefer to rein in executive pay.
Morale throughout a startup project lifecycle
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/05/429628037/...

* It is an unimplemented part of a law that was passed 5 years ago. Why the 5 year delay?
* In the past 2 years, there were 280,000 public comments supporting the pay ratio rule.
* Why would the page of the annual report on which this figure appears matter? As far as I can see from AAPL's report, the first page is fluff: http://investor.apple.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1193125-11-...
* Did I mention it is a requirement of a law passed 5 years ago?
Ask HN: Joining pre-IPO startup to make $$$
I'm currently working for a big tech company and thinking of joining a pre-ipo startup such as Dropbox, Square, Stripe, Uber, AirBnb, etc

Does anybody have experience on making lots of cash through an IPO by being a late employee? Did your pre-IPO "shares" multiply by a big factor through the IPO?

Any advice on joining a startup that could make me lots of cash?
That is a very naive presumption..although if the CEO is the founder of the company, then I don't have any qualms about it.
What on earth does this have to do with the SEC's charge of fighting fraud any other illegalities?
The populist (read: uninformed/envious) belief is that high-paid CEOs are simply entitled ladder climbers that don't provide any more value than the mail room clerk, and yet soak up zillions in bonus dollars that should instead go towards paying said mail room clerk.
The American founders did not trust the State, hence the checks and balances and built-in limits to the Sate. There are entire political parties whose aim is to reduce the State to the bare minimum required.

To broadly generalize, liberals seem to trust the State to be able to provide equality to people, so they might appear to "trust the State apparatus." Conservatives tend to be patriotic, so they might also appear to "trust the State apparatus." But both those groups are also trying to limit the State, just in different ways. Conservatives try to limit the social creep of the liberals. Liberals try to limit the defense spending.

I think you overestimate the "broad support" of the NSA, invasions, and uniformed men. If you've been reading the news it should be apparent that there is a huge lack of trust in the police, for example.
I'd say no. Salary is more a function of negotiating ability than value added. Consider this, does your salary fluctuate regularly as your performance waxes and wanes? Or does it stay relatively constant with occasional steps up?
You can skim over all productivity tips and just get one thing fixed to be as productive as them - SHIP! It's no surprise that these people have that habit deeply ingrained in them and joy of shipping encourages them to do more.

A great little poem got posted here which I find highly relevant. [1]

[1]: http://finishonethingtoday.com/
Massive caffeine abuse. I drank truly insane amounts of coffee.
Thank you; I didn't understand it either.
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We are venture-backed from some of the best names in early stage capital. We provide free healthcare, relocation and other benefits.

Opportunities in our team:

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Frontend - We have a lot of interesting data visualization challenges. Javascript, D3, websockets and familiarity with frameworks such as React or Angular.

We are also interested in strong generalists in software engineering and engineers with a machine learning background.

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I wonder why non voting stock is not more commonly used.
Seems like the most worthless piece of data you could gather about a company.
I thought the same. At first I thought typo. Then I thought they took a shotcut on spelling shortcut. Then I realized it was for video apps.
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It's both - think of having to look something up on the Internet as an L1 cache miss, while having to look something up and then try multiple variations as an L2 cache miss (having the API in muscle memory so you don't have to think about it is a register hit). It may take you 3 seconds to write out an API call from memory, 3 minutes to search for it on the Internet, and 3 hours to diagnose a problem through trial and error. Occasionally even as much as 3 weeks - I've had bugs that lasted that long when it was a bug in the underlying framework, because you never expect that the bug will be in someone else's code.

Obviously avoiding the 3-week bugs will save you more time than the 3-minute lookups, but you can continue to improve significantly by turning many of those 3-minute lookups into 3-second typing bursts.
Because someone told us we should be outraged at income inequality.
Because the level of CEO pay compared to average employee pay is at all time highs. It's gone from 20x the average employee in 1965 to 295x in 2013. Do you think CEOs are 10x more effective than they were in the 60s?

http://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-continues-to-rise/

And yes, you can easily counter saying that private companies are allowed to pay their CEOs whatever they want, which is absolutely true, but at the same time many people are growing concerned about a wealth gap in the US - that the rich are getting subtantially richer, while the middle class haven't seen meaningful gains in a long time. That absolutely has an impact on society as a whole.
Can anyone shed some light on how/why running the same Java apps in a docker container significantly increased the memory footprint?

Is JVM overhead shared when multiple Java apps are being run on the same machine?
Or you end up with something like Git, which is easy to use if you have the exact same background/education/philosophy as the person who wrote it, but has terrible usability for pretty much everybody else.
> If anything, a Japanese bomb program would have sucked up resources from other war efforts.

Yep. That's also why we should be thankful for the V-2.
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This is not always the case (some CEOs don't understand the company they're on-boarding with). However I'm never outraged by it, if a company wants to provide a massive salary, have a massive failure, then send off the CEO with a golden parachute more power to them.

However I may want to re-evaluate my future relationships with a company who is not very careful with their large investments.

As for the rules, it seems to be somewhere between class-warfare and fairness. Not sure we really need to know, but it might be useful information for some investors. It doesn't affect me so I have a hard time forming a strong opinion on this.
What if you are very sure that a stock is overvalued, but totally unsure where it will peak first? Shorting it could leave you in real trouble then, even if you can somehow be totally certain that you're right about where the price will eventually be.
The owners of the company? i.e. Shareholders. It's not anyone else's business. Workers are free to renegotiate their contract, resign, buy shares, or start their own company. Who else other than the owners should decide?
I think this can be answered using analogy of a painter or a writer,

wherein you look at their body of work and think how is this possible

when it takes ages for me to finish a rather mediocre painting/blog.

The more time you spend with your stack the better you will get

as you develop something akin to muscle memory and a deep buffer

as evident with say a pianist or guitarist.
A massive discrepancy between the highest paid and lowest paid individuals in an organization may point to: money laundering, embezzlement, kickbacks, fraud, abuse, negligence, etc.
> US's absurdly low income tax rates for the wealthy

The top 20% of earners pay over 80% of the income taxes. That's low?
gopher.microsoft.com. Excellent.

There's also a readme.html with notes on reconstructing this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/discover/1994/readme.html
I cannot navigate the site at all (unless I use the text menu), I always get:

Your current User-Agent string appears to be from an automated process, if this is incorrect, please click this link:United States English Microsoft Homepage

when I click on the disk. I don't feel like a robot though.
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This is OK for first start.
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The further I get into my startup, the more diligent I get about keeping balance. Perseverance requires actually being at your best day in and day out for years. You can't do that when you're burnt out and unhappy (newsflash: these things take time!).

Also, the whole founder/success mythos is perpetuated by people actually not running startups. These days, I just do what I think is best and work hard, and try to ignore the bullshit.
Something's coming
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Thank you. This at least indicates that my gut feeling isn't too far off. Do you feel comfortable plugging your company? If not, feel free to ping me at the address in my profile.
I think a lot of hackers got tired of messing with drivers just so they could get the sound to work when they watch Netflix. As OP says, Apple's "It just works" level has gone down, but it's still leaps and bounds ahead of Linux. OS X provides a system that "just works" at least as well as Windows, but has a real unix system underneath. Especially in web development (where a lot of developers are building stuff that will end up on a Linux production box), it's quite helpful to have a system that lets me use a lot of nix tools. OS X meets both goals adequately, whereas Windows lacks the nix tools and Linux lacks the "it just works".
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Burnout doesn't really have anything to do with diet or exercise. I suffered from it with a good diet and exercise. It's basically just your brain shutting down your stress system due to excessive long-term stress and/or negative outlook.
For comparison... I did a similar Hello World test around the timeframe of .Net 2.0, and it was around 11mb to load IIRC. The latest iojs on windows seems to be just under 9mb.

Not sure what the golang overhead is, by comparison.
* Root cause the issue, this might be just result of motivation issues.(salary, recognition, stress, office politics, not challenging work and etc.I mean you name it.)
* Try to find this was the case all the time or just started recently.
* Use the scrum(in a micro management way?), let him answer three questions everyday.

Are you his manager or just team member? If you are a team member which means you might also have a problem which appears this way, this guy working hours beside.
It's not the same as China. China is putting police in local (Chinese) companies with Chinese citizens in Chinese companies. That's kind of different than requiring a citizen in the office of a foreign company doing business locally.

I expect that the intent is different, although I don't know US law. The Chinese intent is to (forcibly?) prevent unwanted communication. I doubt that is the intent of the US law.
I am not a fan of any compatibility layer technology as I am a bit of a bare-metal purist, and I believe Linux does this already. The original post waxes lyrical about the Unix philosophy, but part of the Unix philosophy is supreme efficiency and this is violated by the JVM. I know I know - performance is comparable but then coding is a bit like art - you have to love what you are doing.

As for using other languages - I played with Python on Storm but I very quickly found that I had to basically use Java because the entire community and documentation was java-centric (last I checked - a few months ago).

I may be being obtuse here - in fact I know I am - but my point is that there is a large community out there which is not Java friendly (logically or not) and so I lament the fact that all the advancement in this new, very exciting, field, is JVM-based. My dislike for Java was sealed by the Bloomberg terminal API, some of which's basic functionality is 5 to 6 dots deep. Seriously I had 80+ character function calls. This.that.that.this.this.finally()!

Perhaps we'll just have to kick in, leave our biases behind and start running with the JVM.

FWIW my use case is streaming fixed income (bond pricing) data analysis. Python/Numpy is running out of steam fast for me and we're using quite a bit of C. I basically come from the scientific computing set. We're applying advanced statistical analysis to pricing (not HFT - we're operating in the 5 minute thru 1-week horizon - not 5ns).
>I'm approaching 1400 URL's and it's still snappy. I was hoping Go's claimed "efficiency" would keep freely hosted a bit longer than Python.

That is exactly why I picked my Go for my latest side project.

I just hope the framework I'm using isn't the bottleneck, because I really hate writing pure Go servers.
From the WSJ:
CEO Pay vs. Performance
Executive compensation is increasingly geared toward results, but some CEOs still got big paydays even when their investors didn’t do so well.

http://graphics.wsj.com/ceopay-2015/
Where did this error message appears?
Hadley Wickham has done a lot of really cool stuff, but how would you know whether he's exceptionally productive? You're probably thinking "well, what we see in terms of visible artifacts must only be the tip of the iceberg, he's probably killing it at work, at home and academically too." But you don't really know that.

Nothing wrong with role models, but you're not going to help your work-life balance by comparing yourself to only their best and most visible output.
Because that's the only alternative? "False equivalence" isn't a basis for a cogent argument.
Very true what Paul says here.

I have created two companies on my own(backed companied from others). The first one was Hell, nobody believed in us or the idea, everyone believed I was crazy, and after fighting and loosing battles a lot I also(my subconscious mind) started believing it!!(I had trained it in failure)

But then it turns out it was a brilliant idea after all. We were the first surprised to see that in the end it worked even better that what we devised at the start. Everybody loved our product and people that had down played us in the past were telling us how much they "always knew" our idea was going to succeed.

The second time everything was objectively very similar to the first company, but it felt completely different. The experience of success gives you confidence and makes things very easy and even fun.
Skylake was more about mobile/watts from what I understood. Desktop has been stagnating since Sandy Bridge for the most part.