skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The market-based defense makes so little sense in a market like the startup world. If you're evaluated on product and technical performance, maybe (although there are still enough ways for human bias to creep in). But startups are, by definition, not valued for their existing technical / business performance, but on the collective perception of future performance, informed by the knowledge that people (VCs, customers, potential employees, etc.) have of previous startups and how successful they were. If these people are doing their job correctly, there's at least some bias present (e.g. all other things being equal, you should invest in the Harvard dropout with an idea for a NoSQL database but no code, over the Juilliard dropout with an idea for a NoSQL database but no code).

So naturally, if all the examples you have of successful startups involve people with characteristic X, and you have no data about people without characteristic X, the rational thing to do as a VC or potential early employee looking for startups, or a founder or hiring manager looking for employees, is to look for people with characteristic X. Let someone else do the research; it's not up to you to invest your money or time on figuring out if people without characteristic X can also be successful.

And this is stable, regardless of what characteristic X is. Once the market is biased in favor of such people, for whatever reason -- including the "actual" racism or sexism that we think we're past, but is sufficiently within living memory to have affected the market -- as long as the market is generally doing well (as startups are), it is more risk to figure out if characteristic X has any rhyme or reason behind it than to just assume it does. And especially given the high personal investment made by founders and early employees, adding even more unknowns is not super compelling.

The Greenspan anecdote is interesting because he knew -- not empirically, but fundamentally -- that women were capable of doing work as good as men, and he was willing to risk his company on that.
I cant edit this any more, but I meant to say OSX. Doh!
Or just run it yourself. I brought up Rocket on a Zedboard following the instructions. Rocket isn't ideal if your ultimate target is an FPGA, but IIRC it's currently the only that includes the virtual memory support that is needed to boot Linux.
Yes don't be a jerk. I mean why to be one? When we respect our team members they respect us too, from core of their heart. If you're a jerk, chances are your team may pretend that they respect you and your opinion and wait for them to leave your startup and see how bad mouth marketing they gonna do about you.

Great leaders are great humans. We have to be a good human before becoming a good leader.
I think if you browse without JavaScript on, this information is not available to the sites you visit.
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There are two, Berkeley's BOOM and another from Macaque Labs in India (SHAKTI OO core).
And Tcl has had a safe interpreter feature and a sophisticated policy mechanism from early on. It was used in the Tcl browser plugin, which routinely downloaded code from the Web and executed it. The plugin is gone but the safe interpreter and policy interface are still perfectly functional.

Tcl also had several agent extensions back in the 1990's.
When there are 100 houses and 100 buyers in market, demand and supply is met and likelihood that transactions will yield fair prices is high. When investors from China and Wall Street descend on markets, you suddenly have 200 buyers and only 100 houses in market. If you live in a major city in western world, go meet the real estate agent nearest to you. Ask them how many bidding wars happen and how many deals are all cash. Most all-cash deals are almost always investor purchase. This is the reason (along with local laws on new construction) why we have housing inflated by massive 10% a year even though population gain is all but negligible. The result is that typical family now pays huge chunk of their income in highly inflated mortgage payment which is nothing but wealth transfer from them to super rich who hogged up critical resource in the hope to increase their investment return.

As per Piketty's book, read this paper which has analysis on where major capital gains for rich come from: http://www.mit.edu/~mrognlie/piketty_diminishing_returns.pdf.
Question: As Amazon continues to refine and optimize its logistics will the delta in delivery time between prime and non-prime remain valued as it is today?

My thought is that the hyper competitive retail marketplace will demand continued optimization in pick-pack-ship and delivery. Amazon will need to add other value to the $100 Prime subscription for it to remain differentiated.
Rent control is more complicated.

Rent control on existing units makes less of them available on the market. That drives demand for new units (that are not under rent control). That's the opposite of the straw man position the author argues against.

The real problem with rent control is that on the supply side it removes incentives for upgrading or even just maintaining existing property; and on the demand side it discourages an efficient allocation of scarce resources.
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Linux is probably the focus, but there are ports in various stages for NetBSD, FreeBSD, and seL4 (and more I imagine).
If you are in a context where you are concerned about "privileged vs. unprivileged" code, you have to sandbox way more than that, and Lua provides you many mechanisms to control that (more than any other mainstream scripting language). Disabling the "debug" library which I used there for traversing block scopes is the very first thing one does when sandboxing in Lua.
Despite some parts I disagree with: big kudos to the author for looking outside the US to see how other countries are dealing with these problems.

(I happen to have lived in both Germany and Singapore, and a few other places.)
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I just don't get it, who thinks that scrolljacking is a good idea?!
Great to see Terry again!
aren't searchable, plaintext copies of ancient documents worthwhile? what about learning materials?
> And of course, rich people can lobby to create more loopholes. Poor people just have to pay their taxes.

Indeed; it's been that way since the dawn of Man, and will likely continue until we're extinct. Every civilization there has ever been was conceived by the wealthy and built on the backs of the poor, with the tax man sitting in the middle pulling the strings.

The last two people on earth will likely die fighting over which one owes the other more.
I'm working on side project to lessen the pain of people who have got parking tickets. Involves Meteor, iOS + android app.
It suggests those firms will be marginally more profitable if they exist; it does not suggest that they must necessarily exist. The author was able to give one example of a firm successfully being more profitable, and that because someone in a hiring role had a deep-seated belief that female marginal product was equal to male marginal product (or at least, not as much lower as female wages from male) and was willing to act immediately on that belief, regardless of industry best practice, regardless of waiting for any actual data on gender-based marginal product differences.

(And startup profitability is so wild and noisy that, given that even generous estimates of the tech wage gap don't indicate orders of magnitude of difference, any individual startup that takes this strategy may have its resulting profit masked by a million other things. If you want to infer anything from the experience of such startups, you need a lot of startups.)

Further, given current rhetoric about pay in the tech industry, it may be unconscionable (or if you wish to be cynical, "it may lead to sufficient bad PR that it will blow away any positive results") to focus recruiting on an undervalued group but also continue to underpay them. So there may not actually be an arbitrage opportunity; any employer that would want to recruit an undervalued group may feel compelled to not act on the arbitrage as far as possible.
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My resume is four pages or more, and I have zero problem getting hired.
They should be, IMO. What if a RAM error bitflip happens exactly on the is_pirated variable? :)

Similarly, someone had a piracy check autopost to users' twitter accounts but it apparently started happening for legit users: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/ios-apps-hijack-t...
Are they mostly Java, C#, or "advanced C++" programmers by any chance? I've noticed such designs seem to be the norm in those cultures. On the other hand, C and Asm programmers tend to be more KISS+YAGNI in their code. Perhaps it correlates with the ability of the language/tools to make it easy to generate huge amounts of code without much thought: if you can create a dozen classes with a dozen methods by a few tens of clicks in the IDE, you're far more likely to do so compared to writing each one of those classes, functions, or even the instructions in them manually.

It's a form of cargo-cult thinking combined with the fact that a lot of beginning programmers are exposed to the "abstraction is good" dogma without ever realising that it can turn into too much of a good thing. Vague statements like "single responsibility principle" (what is a "single responsibility"?) can encourage a ridiculous amount of over-refactoring, driven by the idea that shorter functions are better --- which is true up to a point, but I've seen it taken to extremes where more lines in the file are function declarations and their opening/closing braces than actual, purposeful, code. They almost always argue that a shorter function is better ("after all, isn't it easier to read 1 small line than 10?") but neglect to realise that they've actually increased complexity of the whole by forcing readers to go through deeply nested function call stacks. Meanwhile, names tend to get longer due to the specificity of these tiny pieces, which doesn't help much with readability. In some very extreme cases I've seen, the name ends up being longer than the code it describes.[1]

Instead, I think we should be teaching abstraction as a tool like any other --- use it when it helps reduce complexity by reducing code duplication, and warn against its overuse. Under-abstracted code is tedious and repetitive, but reasonably straightforward to understand, since most people tend to find reading things linearly to be quite easy. Over-abstracted code is highly nonlinear and takes you through an elaborate maze-like path.

[1] http://git.eclipse.org/c/aspectj/org.aspectj.git/tree/org.as...
That was the opposite of my experience in high school.

My math teacher was forced by admin to buy a shipping pallet of shiny new $130 Calculus textbooks which sat in the closet unused all year because the new textbooks covered less material than the ones from the 80s we were already using (the curriculum had since been dumbed down).
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Thank you. I might in the future if there is enough requests.
Submarine for Hilti? No, rather it seems like much more clearly an advertisement for the author's upcoming book, which has recently been mentioned in a disproportionately large amount of HN stories/comments.
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Excite. Oh darn, I guess I had finally forgotten they existed until you said that. Curious, did you ever use metasearch solutions like Turbosearch that showed top results from all those crappy engines?
I did think about adding Markdown support but then decided against it. But I am not totally against it.
Gopro is obsoleted? Just curious why you think so.
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Thanks. I am big time Emacs user myself and my inspiration.
don't ask for anything. let the company make the offer and negotiate from there.

I've hired a lot of sys admins and ops people and most undervalue themselves.
Good idea. That balances out.
I would have thought he was referring to something more steps down on the totem pole. To do iOS or Rails development you actually have to know a programming language somewhat well, especially in the case of Objective C. Or so I would have thought; perhaps I'm in unaware of IDEs and tool chains that can cover for a lack of fundamental software engineering expertise.

The variant I'd have in mind is web designers masquerading as backend system developers. That's something Node has made possible. CSS and HTML experts usually know just enough JavaScript to be dangerous--JS is table stakes these days for UI work. Node creates the illusion that they can write backend middleware, APIs and services, too. Some of them surely can, but for every one of those, I've seen ten JS "rock stars" copy-and-pasting Angular and Express code from Stack Overflow, cargo cult style, at six figures.
I had the same thought but after closely working and observing what they do on day to day basis, here I have come up with few reasons:

1. They understand the day to day Operations of the company better.

2. Non-IT people find it easier to deal with them.

3. They're easy going, less demanding in terms of the Company culture and technologies used.

4. They tend to stay for long time in the company - that means Loyalty. Most companies appreciate and reward Loyalty.

5. They aren't Incompetent. They are just good at what they do, for long time, which new comers might dispute as being lazy, not passionate about technology.

Lastly, most of the jobs don't require you to be genius.
Lots have been written about that, but this might be a good starting point: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2014/EECS-2014-14..., but read also the spec (http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2011/EECS-2011-62...) and pay attention to the footnotes.

IMO, compared to OpenSPARC, this is a fresh design that leverages lessons learned from everything that proceeded it. There are many problems with SPARC that makes it hard & expensive to scale up and down.
If you have a dictionary "d" somewhere with the keys that should become keyword arguments then this would work:

f(**{x:x for x in d})
Thanks. Please try again or send me an email to support@saola.in. I did not expect to see on the front page.
Viewport width can be obtained via CSS, e.g. by using a media query for every screen width:

@media (min-width: 400px) {
.thing {
background-image: url(size-400.png);
}
}
@media (min-width: 401px) {
.thing {
background-image: url(size-401.png);
}
}

You could combine this with pixel density for even more specificity.
I have built partial support for sharing. It is definitely on the way.
Unless you have access to some current insider financial data that you're leaking here, you're assuming that they're making "huge profits" in mature markets, and you're further assuming that those mature markets can cover everything else.

What we know from observable evidence is that they're raising tons of money, and funneling it into growth. We also know that there are lots of subsidies, on both sides of the market -- even in San Francisco, the most mature of Uber's markets, I regularly see and hear of driver referral bonuses.

It could well be that without the easy money, the Uber story becomes a lot less compelling. Time will tell.
Thanks for that. I took it in the spirit of the hash bang.
I can't understand how you don't see the value in supporting ancient and dead languages with precise full text search, enabling lossless reproduction and alternative representations through printing, web sites, etc. Why wouldn't we want to try to keep our pre-digital records alive by immortalizing them digitally?
And you don't think any of that happens from the US to other countries?

Politics are dirty, and people will do whatever is necessary to achieve their goals.
Brilliant feedback. Thank you. very helpful
Yeah don't worry about challenging any of my ideas in actual intellectual debate. That'll get you far.
Voters don't care about nuance or facts for that matter.
I'm curious which people on Hacker New are interested in this field?
Why not list pricing?
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A perspective on friendly C
Our 7 startups here at the Govtech Fund (@GovtechFund) have an average sales cycle of 86 days to 12K gov't agencies this past year.
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Do you mean "uploading"? Also as a reader, something being on vixra is an extremely negative signal as to its quality.
Problem with Coursera / Udemy is they just scratch the surface. Almost all courses are introductory and don't go into depth.
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Re: Inequality
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely.

- Hunter S. Thompson
Thanks, I did not expect this response and I'm thinking through it. I suppose Candy Crush Saga being valued at $X quite literally means that (some people believe that) if one were to purchase all of Candy Crush Saga, it would be able to generate about $X in value, either by collecting revenue or by reselling it or whatever. And at that point you could spend the resulting $X on nurses or schoolteachers or whatever.

I think my reservations with that are largely about how that interacts with "created" wealth, and whether created wealth is fungible for nurses and schoolteachers, but I don't think I have a well-formed response here yet.
That might be true for the heart, emoticons and several others, but I'm not sure if that statement applies to the taco.

Where does it end? Very curious how it's determined when something is worthy of inclusion. At what point is unicode no longer an appropriate place to store graphics?
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Check out : https://github.com/ucb-bar/rocket-chip

Last time I complained here about the verification infrastructure of this project, someone gave that link.

I didn't like much of what I could find there.

What exactly are you trying to do?
> [...] compared to the exorbitant rates [...] $8-10 shipping and handling for standard shipping [...]

So here's the thing: It actually does cost $8-10 to ship most of the types of things you can buy on Amazon. I don't know what Amazon pays for shipping, but I would be surprised if FedEx/UPS/OnTrac will even look at an Amazon box for less than $3-5 (to say nothing of transporting it).

Amazon Prime is predicated on the idea that you'll make Amazon your default retailer after paying for prime.

Being a customer's default retailer is a powerful position for two reasons. First, many customers don't shop around for the lowest price on each item (they shop for lowest basket price), so your margins don't get squeezed quite as much. Second, you don't need to advertise (as much) to these people, so it reduces your marketing spend.

As loyalty programs go, it's a very clever one.
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The OP makes many assumptions about why people are using Tor. Some people are not looking for total protection from all the enemies Tor is meant to protect against.

For instance someone looking to hide from a local tap, say while at work, can safely use tor to login to account they would normally access directly. The enemy isn't the website you are accessing, or some nation state with limitless tapping resources. You just want Tor to hide what you are doing from the boss. (But make sure you aren't sending your login details in the clear.)
It was as Hydraulix said, specifically graduates of coding bootcamps. Many (not all) of those programs are very reminiscent of the "web development is hot - you can make lots of money with few qualifications!" meme that was popular in the dot-com era.

I don't actually think that web developers of today moving down the stack is all that problematic. For one, a number of them can - modern web development is a lot more intricate than it was in 1997, and if you get beyond the Bootstrap stage, it usually requires that you actually understand fundamentals of how your browser works instead of just cargo-culting some code. People who can do that usually do well in any programming language. Beyond that, Node won't really let them - it will break pretty quickly if you don't understand callbacks, async patterns, modularity, etc.

The contemporary JS world has a lot of problems, but IMHO incompetent devs isn't actually one of them. (Going out on a limb, I'd argue that all its problems actually stem from devs that are too competent in one specific area not understanding what's important and what's not in the larger context of the software industry.)
I am a fan of Google Drive. It allows for awesome collaboration, and, like the author of this post says, lets you put your storage to work. Reliable storage on its own isn't that cool; but reliable storage that empowers other applications (Docs, Sheets, etc.) is cool and extremely valuable.

The author says: "But as competitors have built elaborate offerings where you can put all that storage to work, Dropbox has kind of stagnated."

Or maybe I and the author are just gaga for Google and blind to what Dropbox truly offers.
This post is about NOx emissions, not CO2, and the post I was responding to explicitly wasn't about CO2. Again, emissions over the ocean are not a problem.
You're right though, "the cloud" is siphoning up a lot of money that would be going to others.

I do wonder how much damage a cloud-everything approach does in start-ups when it goes wrong.

For one thing, I've seen a few early stage stories where businesses seemed to be spending more per month on the fees for the 20+ online services they use than they were spending on hiring good people. They get locked in and dependent, and then their costs are ongoing and scale up with things like head count. A few years ago you might have bought a handful of servers and hired an IT guy to do the same kind of things, and maybe you'd also build-or-buy a small number of software tools for admin purposes.

The usual arguments against that old school approach seem to be that going to the cloud outsources most of the admin work leading to better security/reliability and that it allows better scalability, but I don't really buy either of those as a blanket statement.

In terms of admin, you still have to both identify the cloud services you want to use, in possibly the most hype-driven market I have ever seen, and spend the time to set them up. Those are not small overheads.

In terms of reliability, as we've seen with things like Amazon outages, even relatively well-established businesses who you'd think would know better still don't actually get their resources set up to be properly resilient under pressure, so the idea that you no longer need smart in-house people to run IT just doesn't hold water.

And in terms of scalability, while you certainly can scale almost in real time with some of these services, how many start-ups really need to scale faster than they could rack up some new servers and networking gear of their own with a standard image installed? The downside of paying much higher long-term costs for basic computing and storage resources seems to kick in relatively low with a lot of cloud pricing today.

Obviously there have been some very successful online startups in recent years, both in B2C and B2B spaces, but I do wonder sometimes whether a lot of these XaaS cloud providers are really providing the clear advantages that so many people keep talking about.
There's some info on the article's author here http://www.usni.org/author/colonel-norvell-b-de-atkine

Seems quite reasonable and very different from Pipes, the website owner.