skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At Novell, we had what I called “glue” people. They sit at the boundaries, and help everyone work together.

What does he mean by this? Social people that make a good environment? Or generalist that know a bit of everything?

> You don’t hire generic people — you hire people who have had stress and achievement.

Isn't this bias inducing towards good storytellers?

> Once we decided to review all the tactics, we put in a scoring system. Sergey said, the problem is, these scores are biased.

How does google evaluate performance?
Some tech investors sure seem to be getting defensive lately
> And I don't accept the echo-chamber consensus opinion of mountaineers that it's all worth it in the end.

I'm not sure what mountaineers you've talked to but most I know don't like the current state of Everest and how its become a tourist attraction. Most I know support the restriction Nepal is considering of restricting permits to those who have climbing experience on other significant peaks.

> Honestly, I don't think anyone really has any business up there.

Well, no one has any business being up on any mountain; yet we do it.

> you can find better, more challenging climbs that are still safer.

Yes and no. Though your statement is true I'm not sure you realize how safe Everest is. Everest has about a 4% death to summit ratio. Though its not the lowest rate among the 8000m peaks considering the masses of inexperienced climbers who climb Everest the fact its so low is amazing to me. If Everest was climbed by the same type of people who tackle K2 or Nanga Parbat (26.5% and 20.3% death:summit) I'd imagine the ratio would be significantly lower on Everest. Even so, Everest has a low fatality rate.

However, it is also not technically challenging (the challenge is the altitude not the climbing) so because of that finding something more challenging and safer shouldn't be a problem.

Its also worth mentioning that there is more than one route up Everest, the Southern Col is the most popular and easiest and thus sees the traffic jams up Lhotse face and at Hillary's Step. Other routes don't see the same traffic.
What is stopping a company from hiring a contractor to code the illegal parts to thereby insulate them from responsibility? This happens with oil and gas disasters as discussed on John Oliver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYusNNldesc
I can't speak to Republicans' ideas of crime and punishment, but I will say that the US is a place which encourages and fosters individualism strongly as opposed to collectivism (right term?). In a more collectivist / society focused model as you might find in Europe, it makes sense that the focus of prison would be rehabilitation and programs focused on improving the greater good. In a model emphasizing individualism, it makes sense that the focus of prison would be punishment: The offender made certain choices as an individual and has harmed the victim's ability to operate as an individual. The victim therefore has the right to seek justice.
Very interesting. This could be a good way to preflight your emails automatically before you send them. Thanks.
> The arithmetic operators in x86/x86-64 are certainly polymorphic

I disagree - at least in machine code, the instruction code determines the type of the operands. If they were to be polymorphic, the type of operands would determine the specific instructions that are to be used (and so you could for example reuse the same code for different word lengths). Maybe modern assemblers can do that (and have a generic instruction name for addition, for example), it's been 20 years since I programmed in x86, I only recently used mainframe assembler where it is as I describe.

Polymorphism is all about names. You want the same name (and by extension, the same code) to refer to potentially different operations on data.

> I think the distinction is that #3b-types

I am still not sure how it is different from #3a in your definition. When I say 16-bit signed integer, I can also mean this as an encoding of abstract "integer number". The whole point of declaring type in sense of #3 is to be specific about encoding. In mathematics, you (typically) don't care about that; but you sometimes care about use case #2, which is typically dealt by mapping to more abstract concepts with some morphism.
Actually thought about an app that would do this on a smartwatch. I would definitely buy a smartwatch if I could have this level of accuracy of body movement tracking.
The trouble with licensing a profession like software development is that no-one really knows how to do it very well yet. It's far too young and diverse an industry to have that level of experience and consensus.

Lacking more objective standards, the most likely result of attempting to regulate at this stage seems to be regulators who talk a good talk -- such as the author of this article. Those people will not necessarily be the ones with either the best ideas currently available for building good software or the most useful experience and/or data to advance the state of the art in the future.

I sometimes work on software that really does have to behave properly because significant failures in production really could be very damaging. The idea that some of the careful, successful processes used on some of those projects might be required by regulation/legislation to give way to the kind of junk that a lot of consultants peddle is quite scary.
Because many contractors are too smart to do that kind of dirty work. Contractors are liable for harm they cause. I've refused contracting jobs because of liability.
I have an e-residency card. This is my experience, and thoughts: http://brunozzi.com/2015/08/22/estonia-e-residency/
Author here, ask me anything! Slides are also available at http://www.slideshare.net/_Emw/an-ambitious-wikidata-tutoria....
Thanks for the pointer. I searched a bit at the time (2 years ago) and found a few platforms for rapid app development. I guess I didn't search hard enough, or I simply gave up because there was no obvious choice, like MS Access used to be. The person I developed the prototype for was also very wary of smaller platforms due to lock-in, risk of the company going bust, etc.

But Alpha Anywhere seems to have a long history and some traction, that's good to know.
I am appalled that the combination of Digital + Print costs as much or less than the digital subscription alone.

NYTimes, WSJ all seem to forget the basic principles of economics which dictate a certain amount of price elasticity is essential to bring in more customers. It seems almost punitive that digital customers pay at par with print customers when the incremental costs for the latter are relatively so minor.

If NYTimes is really serious about boosting it's pure digital subscriptions, scaling back the height of the paywall is key - not to a trivial non-zero sum, but to an amount where the pure digital customer doesn't feel ripped off.
Its also law. Do Not Call for instance doesn't apply to companies you have a relationship with. That's why some major banks 'affiliate' with 100's of companies, essentially selling the right to spam their customers.

Its screwed up, sure. But its the state we're in right now.
Hemlock and millipedes
You clearly never made an app that sends opt-in emails (think activity notifications, reminders, whatever). Unless you know the exact right incantations, 3% of these mails will end up in Gmail's spam folder. This directly results in 3% unhappy users. They'll never consider blaming Gmail instead of you.
This is tragically accurate. Using http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm I see that RAM was about £30/Mb in 1996, meaning that the Firefox process I'm typing this in which is using 400Mb of RAM would have cost over ten thousand dollars.

(I remember upgrading my PC to 4Mb so I could play DOOM round about then)
It would be doable, sure.

It just might not be the most efficient solution. ;-)
Exactly this.

I've recently come across a lot of these very highly rated products (with thousands of reviews) and almost immediately you see many of the reviews saying "company gave me the product for free to write an honest and unbiased review."

To me, this completely invalidates the rating and I typically try to find a different product because it's too time consuming to try to find real reviews. On the other hand, 'stupid people' don't tip the scale like that and in some ways their reviews are useful because you can be sure those people were not 'paid'. Also, they may complain about something that isn't really a negative in general, or specifically to you, so you can use that to make your decision.
Under+Mexico+City
Steel – Open-source command-line password manager
Its generally a terrible idea to increase UDP MTU. There's no reliable reassembly in UDP. If you miss a single packet (out of say 1000) then all are simply discarded silently.

In fact, some versions of Linux didn't do UDP reassembly properly until a year ago (was a topic here on HN). Reordered UDP wasn't dealt with properly if I recall.

There are routers that drop UDP for any reason or no reason. And so on. So UDP is the red-headed stepchild of protocols, with little testing going on and lots of issues.

I recommend putting a protocol on top of any UDP transfer you code, and never increasing the MTU.
Haskell is not a perfect language - but I don't really agree on the points raised by the author.

The things I don't like are:

- String vs ByteString vs Text - seriously tired of csing everythin

- Lazy by default is fun - but makes everything harder to optimize. What would happen if Haskell were strict? https://nikita-volkov.github.io/if-haskell-were-strict/

- Records are not namespaced - https://nikita-volkov.github.io/record/
HEVC Video Codecs Comparison
Well, personally, I'd consider any notifications, reminders, etc to be SPAM unless I had explicitly set up a rule to allow those emails from a specific source. By default such mails are just unwanted junk (IMHO) and should be treated as such by default (opt-in/opt-out is pointless since it is almost impossible to avoid opting in to crap these days).
Isn't a letter of marque basically a primitive license?

I think it's funny that both of these replies center on refuting my idea that they might be frightened, but ignore the more important idea that what they would or would not think is not important.
How accurate is that precision estimate, though? Is it built with enough care that you can put lives on the line?
I like the idea, but I think that you'd really be able to convince a customer of the value proposition by including a nice demo of the stuff that's behind the 'sign up' page
Ironically finance has coped just fine with delayed-update replicas for centuries; that's what cheque clearing is. You issue a 'write' on a piece of paper, speculatively commit a transaction locally, but in the event of a write collision at head office it gets 'bounced' and the transaction rolled back.
Fair enough. I think his assertion that using an exploit to compromise Spotify Premium account users (via targeted malware) is kind of the extreme example to justify the term botnet. Unless I'm mistaken, running thousands of clients on the same computer would take a lot of effort to 'distribute' over enough IPs as to cloak the operation? I get that you have some beef with the phrasing used, but I think for the sake of practicality calling "a network of robots posing as humans" a botnet is fine and not click bait at its core. Not to belabor the point but I'm pretty sure I could scold you about some improper music terminology usage when you'd be trying to make a point.
No offence taken, but thanks!
Now think about finding a way to have some machine learning sytem learn out of this... that would be interesting...
Ha! An IRB-based interactive adventure is actually really, really cool and clever. It never fails to amaze me how much Rubyists abuse metaprogramming and langauge quirks.

Somebody now shall goeth forth and implement Zork...
there days it's mostly demos, though.

see f.e. http://media.assembly.org/vod/2011/Seminars/1203_arttech_sem...
really disappointing that the app developer doesn't even condescend to replying to posts on his ShowHN posting
Also, nobody will summit Everest in 2015 (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/150513-everest-cl...)
Man, you know, it's just a packet, not 1.500, but 65.535 bytes. There could be 4.294.967.295 bytes!!! :-)

For basically everything TCP is used. UDP is just used by DNS and they usually weight 100 - 200 bytes.

Look into your wireshark!
This line surprised me: “The dirty secret is that we don’t even understand the nematode C. Elegans, which only has 302 neurons [in contrast with the nearly 100 billion in the human brain]. We don’t have a complete model of this tiny organism.”

It's very interesting that there are creatures that have their entire behavior determined by just a few hundred neurons. Idid not know this.
I'm seeing this Retweet from the US. What's going on?
The opt-out doesn't really do anything: http://www.unrest.ca/google-analytics-opt-out-not-really
OpenBSD's source tree just turned 20 years old
Maybe the problem when I was searching was that actually MS Access is a narrow tool (centered around the database), whereas platforms that replaced it (RAD for mobile/web) offer a wider range of features, so searching for an "MS Access replacement" is searching with the wrong keyword given how these tools have evolved.

Still if I look at your site (Mendix) and my mindset is "I just want a few tables and a few simple forms", my guess is that if I were a non-developer I could be a bit overwhelmed. But as you say Mendix targets large companies.
The UDP packet, and what goes out on the wire, are different things. IP-over-Ethernet for instance does not send out data in units larger than 1500 bytes; often smaller over WiFi. So UDP packets larger than 1500 bytes will be divided up, and reassembled on the receive end.
The worm(6) now grows at a rate proportional to terminal size.

Finally...
I don't see why it wouldn't be possible. If you could get arguments reduced to individual propositions, you could begin to run the resolution algorithm to find new conclusions.
Recently a Chinese copy of twitter, Weibo, decided to implement similar functionality, but their ability in machine learning is very limited, so their lame work has only promoted paid members and threads. In the first week of its introduction, most users has noticed that there's roughly 50% less threads were read by other users.

Actually I think theres's big future for this kind of censorship, if performed well, can be hard to detect and hard to test(think about A/B testing). So I disagree with 'subtle', it's just our enemy get smarter.
WatchOS can detect the type of exercise, based on a recent talk I saw. Here's the docs on the types of exercises detected: https://developer.apple.com/library/watchos/documentation/He...
This reminds me of radio advertising on AM/FM - the personalities will frequently discuss how they've used the Service Provider X and you should too! They've received compensation. They're in the business of entertainment, yet are "breaking the fourth wall" to advertise.

I think I need to clarify a bit more though: Sometimes stupid people can be the loudest voice, as in, anti-vaccine folks who cite discredited science and refuse to back down. A more specific instance is when I worked retail - a guy bought his son a Nirvana CD, this one:

http://images.weltrecords.de/img/cover/000/000/827/000000827...

He came in with a head of steam at me, mad because he couldn't returned the opened disc, and said, "This is garbage, it sounds like a bunch of home demos!" But that's exactly what the CD was, a collection of demos being offered to people who were interested in such things. He wanted to give it 1 star, essentially, for it being exactly what it was supposed to be. That's...bullshit. But that's an example of how yeah, people might read the review and not find it helpful, but this is how an erroneous opinion is spread. Should moderating that be the role of the platform like Amazon?

For the record, I told him "Yes, that's what that CD is, and while you can't return it, you can probably sell it to a used CD store in your area and get a few bucks back. Here's the CD you want."

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1FEoCdDUmoE/TQ8Gz27WulI/AAAAAAAAAu...

Note: Edited due to accusations of shilling, now just images for your reference. Tough crowd.
That doesn't do what you think it does. It only excludes your data from being included in Google Analytics reports that website owners "end users" see. All your data still goes to "the borg" as if nothing has really changed.

You need to block the domain completely using a privacy tool plug-in for your browser.
Im more concerned with social censorship and the mob mentality that seems to be determining justice. If you say something that is not politically correct or against the current narrative, you will get fired/bullied/harrassed/silenced/all three.

Without honesty, there will be no progress. I shouldnt be afraid of posting my opinions and expressing my freedom of speech because i might lose my livelihood. But its the sad reality.
Where's yours?
Yeah, that's the stuff that happens when you make dodgy decisions based on how much of a maverick you think you are - and then look to invest in other 'seeming mavericks' like you.

Theranos is only the first, as more and more VC-backed companies come close to the border where private funding and public funding meet (commonly known as 'get ready for an IPO'), you will see a steep and shocking correction in valuations. Not a 'bubble bursting', but more of a 'okay, put the bong down, we gotta drive home now' sorta thing.
Scummy move by Amazon, no surprise. They obviously don't care about the integrity of their core product as can be seen by the horrifically gamed reviews and the misleading third party sales system. Suing a bunch of people on Fiverr won't fix anything.
It's very friendly to large providers. The amount of computation needed to send to a domain is the same regardless of how many emails you send so large providers can amortize it over more emails. And large providers generally operate their own infrastructure, which implies they already have a lot of idle computing capacity during off peak hours, and "off peak" is staggered across regions.

But even if some large providers refuse to hash outgoing mail, they can still verify incoming mail. The interesting benefit is that a small email provider can burn some dollars in computation once to avoid having their mail discarded by a large provider's spam filter indefinitely.
My email fails DKIM in half the tests, and succeeds in the other half. Sigh...
Am I seeing a summary of the book? Or is it really only 17 pages long?
A reach. Not clear you can tell how many ended up in spam folder vs how many unhappy users. Could be 30% got called spam, and 27 of those 30 were perfectly happy that happened. Those 3 were just the ones that complained?
Looking at this article IMO the best example of using CAP is Cassandra. The user chooses the tradeoff.
* Unless that conflicts with local law. Which I believe in many places it does.
So you're using Doctorow's point about email spam control as a loose analogy, to say decentralized reputation systems in general are unworkable? There's been quite a bit of academic research that disagrees with you.
> In any case, almost all warranty disclaimers start with "TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW"

Which is an invalid clause in Germany and probably most other European countries. Any clause that goes beyond the extent permitted by the applicable law is automatically void in Germany. This is due to consumer protection laws. Therefore, most of these EULAs are probably void if it ever comes to law suit...
Yes - good resource. All of Google's TOS/Privacy-Polcies are so full of vague and misleading legal speak (on purpose of course), I'm not surprised that OP was tricked.
care to explain where the scum layer is here?
(Distributed) Denial of Service Attacks: Definition and Prevention
Keep in mind that each of those neurons has over 10k genes and hundreds if not thousands are going to be expressed at any given time. Each cell is very complicated.
I believe the opposite. Isn't most mathematical intuition and knowledge based on them? can we really understand any abstraction without some type of graphical representation?
Calling Bull Shit on Startups Latest Buzzword: Cockroach
That's ridiculous. I hope we smarten up as a society soon.
What's the advantage of this over blocking tracking stuff with adblock? Or other extensions like disconnect.me?
You are in essence saying there shouldn't be social consequences for speech.
A systematic review of the organizational complexity of pickup basketball
Fine: nothing is intrinsically a resource. Nutrients weren't a resource before some self replicating process started using it for some purpose, probably fairly directly related to replication.

And iron ore still wasn't a resource until humans came along and invented forging.

The term 'resource' does not describe the natural state of something. It describes a relationship between things: something is a resource for some goal(s), by some entity(ies). The relationship did not exist when the other party was not in that relationship, for instance because the other party did not exist. Thinking new resources cannot come into existence is making a category mistake, thinking whether something is a resource is absolute, intrinsic, independent of context.
My rural UPS guy variously rings the doorbell, leaves the package in the garage or even puts it in the back seat of a car parked in the driveway. I'm grateful for all these attempts; it keeps my packages out of the weather etc and is far better than a note on the door.

A drone can do none of these things. Perhaps if I had a 'drop box' the drone could drop the package in, with a ramp top that slid the package into a weather-resistant interior (like a public post office letter drop box - anybody remember those?) it could work.

So I imagine drone delivery will be initially restricted to registered clients (commercial/industrial) with special installed receiver boxes. Not a small win - many package deliveries are to commercial customers!
The whole worm is not that many more cells (a big fraction are neurons):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenorhabditis_elegans
It is so tiny not to overwhelm novices, and to push them into right direction!
Actually it's more like 13 pages. Chapter 1 starts on page 4. It only costs you a sign up, so it's not a ripoff in any way, though calling it a book is stretching it.
The trouble with licensing a profession like software development is that no-one really knows how to do it very well yet. It's far too young and diverse an industry to have that level of experience and consensus.

Only artificially so. Modern software development is mainly about re-inventing wheels from the 1970s with slightly different syntax and more bugs in. If we had settled on a language - doesn't matter what, Ada, ML, C, Lisp, FORTRAN - they're all Turing-complete after all - and gotten on with y'know actually building things, software engineering would be a mature discipline by now. Instead all the accumulated experience gets chucked out the window everytime fashion changes.
It looks like the only source of entropy is the build time. So in his example he's generating a GUID with way too little entropy, especially if builds are generated at predictable times, which would cause collisions. If you go further and attempt to encrypt anything using this random stream you're gonna have a bad time.
"The requested URL /intl/en/analytics/learn/privacy.html was not found on this server. That’s all we know."

I still hate this 404 message.

Edit: maybe I didn't make it clear enough that that was what I saw after clicking on "Learn more about Google Analytics Privacy »".