skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great paper.

This has a lot of similar goals to Apache Impala, mainly around improving raw data access to be as efficient as possible.

http://pandis.net/resources/cidr15impala.pdf
But not 500%, I'm quite sure.

I think large urban centers generally have longer working hours. Such as NY and London. Typically the living quarters are smaller, the commute is longer and the culture is more "you shall be here until at least 6pm because you live to work". Not everywhere, but on average.
Relative to the US? Socialism isn't a dirty word in Europe. Not that I linked that to the issue at hand..
I consider myself a functional programmer, and I also have an interest in logic and type theory, and have learned enough Haskell to write some student-level projects in it.

But when I try to dip my toe back into the Haskell community, a wave of despair washes over me. There's just too much. Haskell is changing too fast. There are too many language extensions, and more and more conceptually sophisticated features keep getting added to it. Every project uses a different set of GHC extensions.

I feel that without more standardization or stability, Haskell can never be more than a playground for PL researchers who can afford to spend all their time learning and implementing advanced language features.
Both Apple and third parties will replace your screen for $100ish. Get a case next time. It has nothing to do with it being "poorly built" - glass is breakable. It happens.

The 6S isn't likely to be weaker than a 5 (if anything, they improve the strength with pretty much every iteration). How it lands matters a lot more. Hell, I just broke my toe slipping on one step while some people fall down an entire mountainside and get a few scratches.
Congrats isaiahg on your project and public release!

Shared your story on my website: https://rootgamer.com/download/12170/download-boxbyte-lyte - hope it helps getting word out.

On behalf of Linux gamers; "Thank you for Linux support!!"

cheers,
Having observed my girlfriend's "mental illness" [1], I can say, with confidence, that Psychiatry is the problem with America's approach to mental health. As Dr. McHugh observes [2], conventional Psychiatrists "diagnose" their patients' symptoms, and treat the diagnosis without much concern about the actual causes thereof.

One of my girlfriend's problems is that she has low energy levels - certainly caused by previous stimulant use, and her body's inability to efficiently produce energy (ATP) by burning glucose/fructose. Before she met me, she treated this symptom (low cellular energy levels) by drinking alcohol regularly. Alcohol is an energy-rich molecule, the metabolites of which are easily burned by the insulin-resistant brain cells which have become insulin-resistant. She started drinking a month after starting methadone, a drug which is known to cause sugar cravings.

Deciding to quit methadone was easy once she realized that she hated it. But when she lost access to alcohol, her brain went into a sort of 'survival' mode, which led to her being taken to the hospital [1]...

The causes behind my girlfriend's condition are fairly obvious to me, having observed her for months now. But the hospital staff had no context for why their patient was acting the way she was, so they just treated her symptoms. The doctors at the inpatient facilities she's been at don't care about physiology either, they just reach into the pharmacy and try new drugs with the proper label ("anti-depressant", "anti-psychotic", "mood-stabilizer" - these are marketing terms, imho). She's still exhausted, but at least they're giving her the coconut oil capsules I dropped.

There is another way. My grandfather, a dentist with an interest in hypnosis, didn't remember much of his one class with psychiatrist Milton Erickson, M.D., except that Dr. Erickson was always "bitching" - about having to go to medical school, having to learn anatomy, physiology and pharmacology, etc etc, when all he really wanted to do was hypnosis (this was Dr. Erickson's method of conversational hypnosis, applied to an audience of medical professionals). The Erickson Foundation released a really cool documentary [3] last year...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10639657
[2] https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/how-psychiatry-l...
[3] http://wizardofthedesertfilm.com/
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Congrats isaiahg on your project and public release!

Shared your story on my website [1] hope it helps getting the word out.

On behalf of Linux gaming community; "Thank you for Linux support!!"

cheers, Derk

[1] = https://rootgamer.com/download/12170/download-boxbyte-lyte
It's not median - it's maybe median if you select only for senior-level engineers, most of our industry leans quite young.

The "outlier for top engineers" at the above companies are in the $500k+ range. I'm being entirely serious.
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Is any one else not being able to complete this? Fingerprinting is stuck for me in an endless loop, Chrome 47 custom user agent and Canvas fingerprinting is blocked.
We're on the same page here.

I don't work at a big company, I work at an established one. The key factor is that they're not still trying to validate their business plan, not the size. I want one that's been around for at least ten years. Less than that and I have to ascertain for myself whether the company's going to be around long enough for me to get what I went in there for.

The goal here is mitigating existential risk to your employment situation. There's outside risk, the chances of your company going under, and internal risk, the chances of getting fired or laid off before you've accomplished your goals.

Working at an established company mitigates external risk, working at a small one helps mitigate internal risk because you can get to know your company very well and keep alive to shifts in politics. For me, the small, established company is ideal. I work at such a company now and will only jump to a similar company for a significantly higher salary. Small bumps aren't worth the switching costs.
i quit reading on topic two. that's just some uninformed musings of someone who probably call themselves "tweeters" (and here you saw some uninformed musings on the same level you'd find there. so meta)
I call bullshit until it gets to at least LRIP - there are stacks of articles on improved batteries and super capacitors, but none of them make it out of the lab.
Isn't that mostly because the US has lower sales tax? Technically you should probably be paying import taxes on stuff you buy in the US and take back to Canada.

Similarly Californians can cross the state border to Oregon (which has no sales tax) and buy cheaper stuff there, but technically they have to pay California a use tax on those items equivalent to Californian sales tax.
Why are you still there?
> Facebook and Google don't really do Work From Home and don't have a lot of remote locations for development depending on where they are. I don't know what they offer datacenter staff, but in many areas, that's all they have for "not CA".

This is just untrue. I haven't looked closely at Facebook recently (beyond watching the [office in Seattle](http://www.geekwire.com/2015/sneak-peek-facebook-plans-epic-...) grow quickly) but traditionally Google has had ~50% eng in MTV and the rest spread out. NY is the second largest office but Seattle and Bangalore are pretty big. Seattle (and Kirkland) are now at ~2000 people (https://twitter.com/juberti/status/675022362438316032).
I am honestly as confused by your interpretation as you are by mine. I don't have any of those degrees, and I don't infer that Supercomputing is dismissing me as "tangentially" involved in tech. They are suggesting that Adria Richards' "Developer Evangelist" role wasn't a real technical role, which I couldn't really comment on. I don't think they are implying that ksenzee's "Senior Software Engineer" role doesn't count as a technical role.
Microsoft Acquires Big Data Startup Metanautix
> No, they weren't particularly few in number -- it was lots of economists (they were few in number compared to the whole population, but the universe at issue was economists, not the whole population.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t.html...

> Paul Krugman

> Few economists saw our current crisis coming, but this predictive failure was the least of the field’s problems. More important was the profession’s blindness to the very possibility of catastrophic failures in a market economy. During the golden years, financial economists came to believe that markets were inherently stable — indeed, that stocks and other assets were always priced just right.

So, I mean, you can argue a Nobel Laureate is so ignorant of his field that you are correct if you want. However, you need to provide a great deal of evidence to convince me of that which so far none of you have.

For instance the quality of evidence I generally see is on par with this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10760402

Yes, one group of folks went out and found something they believed to be true but that doesn't represent the majority view simply by its existence. Signal to noise is a very real problem that requires a very large level of agreement to move the levers of policy for a reason.

> They were ignored because there was substantial financial interests among the powerful interests resting on the perception that things were going to continue going well, and because the top-line economic indicators (which aren't particularly good leading indicators, in any case) that the mainstream media likes to look to were strong, so there was a PR effort that was in line with what the media was naturally inclined to follow; the warnings from various different directions were an inconvenience for the interests of the powerful and the comfortable narrative of the media.

This is a comforting conspiracy theory but the fact economists, as a class of people, failed to capitalize on this for their own financial gain based on knowing that the public perception was in error ... well, that would imply they failed to predict it in sufficient numbers.

> Sure, it proves that it the particular impacts and timing of the impending collapse weren't widely expected by market participants. That's not inconsistent with a significant number -- not very few -- predicting an imminent and significant downturn to be driven by the collapse of the housing bubble.

If many economists predicted a recession on that scale, we would have many rich economists. Specifically, a minimum of doubling the value of their investments due to timing the market. Do we?

I mean, if you have a vast body of evidence you can present that proves this is the case by all means present it. I've never seen such evidence myself.
You're implying that OpenBSD is a toy OS. It's not. There are people using it for real work under real load. Is it the fastest? Nope. If you're spec'ing out a server and cutting edge performance is your major concern then you should pick something else. But that's not the only criterion in real production environments. There are roles where OpenBSD is not only an acceptable choice, but the best choice. As always, it's about the best tool for the job. No tool is the best for every job.
Some of it's status. Some of it's genuine new desires. Sure, I wished it wasn't so hot. But before air conditioning, you wished it was October, when it wouldn't be so hot. Now you really want to have air conditioning.

If you were trying to write a book, you were irritated at how clumsy using a typewriter was, but you didn't know that you really wanted a word processor - until there were word processors.

You didn't want to see the new Star Wars movie until there was a new Star Wars movie. Then you wanted to see it. Why? Maybe partly status ("all my friends will be talking about it, and I don't want to look clueless"), but probably more because you thought the first set (Episodes IV - VI) were really cool.

I could go on and on. But if you think in terms of Maslow's Heirarchy, new desires make perfect sense. As you get to a new level of the heirarchy, you start wanting what's on the level above that.
I wonder if he had Jack Johnson's pockets behind it...? (they're neighbors and long-time boys).

It's obvious enough that the normal wave pool flapper / "pump-and-dump" approach doesn't give you a tube. I always kind of intuitively thought it was wind-related, but reflecting on it that doesn't really make sense. Maybe pushing the water out with some sort of cork-screwing instead of a straight-line push? Who knows... anyway, I feel like they may stumbled onto a goldmine. Awesome indoor winter surfing, anyone?
By the way, it's against the guidelines to talk about being downvoted, that will explain further flagging of your post.
Thanks! I am glad you like it! You can imagine that I had a great time developing it :)

I have experienced occasional disconnects; some ui issues when switching tabs, etc. nothing "unfixable" but annoying.

Thank you very much for your feedback.
Now we just need a "neutral experience as a woman in tech" piece and we'll have discussed the full spectrum of this topic.

I didn't read the article. When someone has a positive experience in tech "as a woman", that is the norm. I don't subscribe to that being noteworthy, regardless of the campaigns insisting otherwise.

maybe some stories about nasty manipulative women in tech should be shared. Or not. Bad vibes and all, who needs bad vibes. I worked with a backstabbing IT exec woman in a previous job. Piece of work she was... Won't go into it of course but sometimes people just suck. Male or female.

The danger is that poor performance can be insulated by the distraction of over sensitivity to the "women in tech" issue that's memed at campaign levels.
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Thanks for taking the time to write all that up. I think (too early to say) that seeing all this expressed in C#/Java(script)/Ruby/Python syntax is key for someone like me.

I learned LINQ/Select(Many) and later all the map/filter/reduce functional goodness by playing with Clojure and never had a problem and never heard the word "monad" and was fine, totally fine.

Later watching a video on Rx (MS's reactive extensions) and hearing Erik Meijer talk about monads and Haskell and how Rx was inspired by that is what led me to try to learn Haskell. I just didn't see the "connection" between the functional and reactive patterns I was applying daily without any kind of mental problem and the Haskell stuff which was supposedly "the same", yet so....abstract?

I need to read your sample code and the links more carefully, but maybe this is the "key" I was lacking. Thanks !!!!
I'm a paying customer of about a dozen SaaS services. I'm also working on my own service. I'd use this before ProductHunt if and only if, it had better products on the homepage.

Basically, if the curation is good, I'll be there looking for improvements to my "stack".
Just been removed from https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming although 20 upvotes
Attempting to get a job at 1 of the Google/Apple/Facebook/Amazon/Microsoft quintet of big companies that pay well, though, is quite doable, in spite of the noisiness of the process. mxcl got a job at Apple (working on Swift's package manager, no less[0]) a short while later.

[0]: https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/graphs/contri...
I hear what you are saying, and functions can certainly get messy with too many arguments, default or otherwise, but if you are disciplined about the number of arguments a function takes then having this feature (default optional arguments) is a huge win for a language.
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If you are naming it "Open Hunt", clearly as a jab at PH, you are giving it more attention than you should, given your mission, IMO.
> encourage honest (harsh) feedback that the product owner can take action on.

I think this is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

If there's one thing I know about "Show HN", it's that the community doesn't hold back on its criticism.
https://www.openhunt.co/#open=product-hunt
No. I would say goods are either the same or more expensive.

I remember coming to the US and being shocked you could buy a pair of Levi's for $30 when they were closer to $70-80 in Canada.

When the Canadian dollar was at par with the US, there were a ton of Canadians going south to buy cars. Before hitting par, the numbers made sense (convert US price to CAD and you get pretty close). Once it was at par you could save thousands of dollars buying a US car and bringing it across the border.
Non profit doesn't mean they don't make any money... Non profit means that the extra money they make is used to further the goal of the nonprofit (instead of being paid out to the investors/owners). I doubt Eurid is only charging what it costs them to run the registry.
You seem to think "reflecting on its past" is one of the advances that came with Western civilization. Not sure what "modern western ethnomasochism" is, but I imagine it goes along hand-in-glove with "reflecting on its past." Can you really have one without the other? Do you really think reflection is going to reveal only good things? Why reflect at all if you're not trying to identify things in past that can be fixed or improved upon?
The unloaded tabs in my browser after it last crashed and bookmarks for things I want to read again.
Remote work does not clearly work for everyone and everybody. It does not work for me, I need other people's presence and interaction for those 8 hours per day on order to feel like I'm doing meaningful work. Granted, I don't have kids nor pets to keep me company at my one-bedroom apartment.
I get that, but my 5 survived a crash, and this didn't even come close, there was a pretty normal landing I would say, but it just shattered. Totally unexpected for it to do so..
I think this community is frankly out of touch on compensation expectations for the bulk of the population, but you are definitely underpaid and should find another job elsewhere.
Gillette sued Dorco in 2008. I think they settled out of court.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/business/worldbusiness/29i...
The two most famous rails sites, twitter and groupon, currently use scala and node respectively. I guess that last part is quite debatable.

Python, golang, and Java(+jvm languagages such as scala/clojure) all have a TON of users at very large and interesting firms. I was just reading today about the new york times open sourcing their golang microservice framework.
Have you tried OpenBSD for desktop? FreeBSD on the desktop is, well, a pain. Hence PCBSD. But OpenBSD is actually pretty good at being a desktop, as long as you can live without some things like Flash and other things that will never be there.
For me all the extensions and abstractions induce a kind of choice paralysis, and fear that my program isn't abstracted far enough. I don't feel that when working in C, Java or Ruby.
Even if there are certain products we need that can't be produced more efficiently with better tech, Keynes' would still expect overall hours worked by most people to go down as tech made other products cheaper. But in fact, hours worked continues to rise for the most productive people whose wages have increased.
>> Work in a non-software company. A company whose business doesn't take its software seriously invariably treats its software and IT resources as cost centers meant to get maximum cost savings for as little money as possible via opex reduction and will, ironically, likely fail to make bigger expenditures required to keep costs (and really, wasting time) lower.

To expand on this, there are some companies that seem like non-software companies, yet still treat software as a competitive advantage rather than a cost center. I worked for a big bank that did their best to stay six months to a year ahead of other banks on technology. The marketing folks were constantly coming to us and saying, "Give us cool features that we can sell." It was a fun place to work.

I also worked for an insurance company that viewed technology as a necessary evil that should be as cheap as possible. The marketing folks there were constantly complaining about how much time and money the company was wasting on technology. (Curiously, they also complained that the company's technology offerings were hopelessly far behind its competitors.) It was a miserable experience.

If you're looking for a job, ask questions about management support and budget priorities. If they're evasive or they say things like, "we're proud of how far we stretch our investment," it's not a good place to work. You can also ask how the company compares technically to its competitors. If they're evasive or talk about how they're trying to catch up, that's a bad sign, too.
Rust regressions 2015 year end report
Well, there was the "washes the brain" mouse study[1] a couple of years ago, which is at least suggestive.

1: http://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-slee...
>On the Roman side there were zero casualties so it was more a genocide than a battle.

there was definitely a genocide after the battle. Rome legions excelled at both. Caesar had 8 legions, while here there were only 2 legions against about the same size of force Caesar faced:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Watling_Street
Could this data be obtained from any other data sources?
It's now on the main home.
Funny that R isn't mentioned at all...
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