skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's in the opinion section where it belongs. You're setting a standard so high for public discourse that it's essential worthless (I'll get you a source for that asap.)
Restaurant wait-staff are often paid minimum wage with the expectation they will make it up with tips. It's a travesty.
The thing is "merit" an be any number of things. You can say the student most in debt merits the job the most, or the person with the most experience, or the person exhibiting most ability, or the person who had to overcome obstacle.

But when people invoke merit they typically mean they're avoiding favoritism, nepotism, and are looking for someone who given what they know or learn about the person would best fit into the job to execute it.
How Target failed in Canada
Agreed. And I meant prototypal, not prototypical :)
I'm still a little confused as to why he assumed that unikernels will run under virtualization in production. The whole point of a unikernel is to get rid of a layer of abstraction, isn't it? So why would it make sense to replace that with another, thicker layer? Any non-toy unikernels are going to have to run on bare metal to actually get those performance gains. Kinda like how you don't run your docker host in a VM - you don't need to, because it replaces VMs. If you assume that a unikernel (or docker host) is going to run in a VM, of course it will look pointless.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearly/iooicodkii...
> As an Indian immigrant ...I lived in a society where everyone was almost the same, similar economic status, similar privilege etc. etc. Life sucked.

That is certainly not a truth universally acknowledged (http://idsn.org/caste-discrimination/ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/varanasi/Dalit-tonsu...)
I think the comparison with dragons is appropriate. Religion and talk about hell and demons was in-vogue at the time so dragons fit in well with that. Why did aliens wait for us to develop advanced technology before manifesting themselves, and why did they stop now that smartphones and google-earth are common-place things?
It's a total guesstimate. The interesting thing to me is that I have no idea how anyone else pins down THEIR estimates to any level of accuracy, but they are apparently confident enough in their estimates to posit things like the "Great Filter", when other (equally likely) estimates such as mine require no such thing.
Never a good sign of someone like this leaving the company, regardless of the reason.

I would probably say he's either burned out or was tasked with something that he feels the company can't deliver on and has decided to just cut bait and move on. I'm sure it will be spun by Apple's PR as a "mutual" parting of the ways and something about "leaving to focus more on his family". A few years from now, we'll get a clearer picture. Even in the article they mentioned unrealistic time lines.

I'm still not sure how I feel about Apple getting into electric cars. It's kind of like your favorite metal band suddenly decides to make pop music.
To all those whining about being poor - nobody owes you anything. Money, women etc. You are not entitled to any of that because you happen to be recognized as a homo sapiens.

If you think you are, then please point to where it says so objectively. Is it written in the fabric of the universe that humans(or any other cluster of regular matter) are entitled to anything? Is the entitlement included somewhere in equations of general theory of relativity? Is it placed somewhere at the subatomic level - kinda like paper in fortune cookies - when you look deeper into protons/quarks, maybe there you will find "All members of homo sapiens are entitled to get free stuff from governments". What is the objective source of any of these human privileges(i.e. rights)?
If nobody pays you, it's a hobby. A person who can pursue hobbies all day without income is otherwise known as retired.
Show HN: ATSketchKit – an open source drawing iOS framework written in Swift
It's frustrating, not a single critique I've seen of PG's essay (including this one) seem to understand what he is actually saying.

This essay supports PG's point, it doesn't contradict it. PG's essay calls out "kids with no chance of reaching their potential" as "very bad" aspect of inequality in the fourth paragraph!

What essay did you read?
The leases were more or less all from the same company so it's most likely they got a deal for taking them all at once:

Fourth paragraph:

"Under Steinhafel, the company paid $1.8 billion for the leases to the entire Zellers chain in 2011"

Also later we read that Walmart were sniffing around the same real estate:

Walmart approached him and offered to buy the Zellers chain from HBC. Baker realized there was more value to Zellers’ real estate than to the operation itself, since Walmart had soundly beaten the brand. An astute deal maker, Baker and his team reached out to Target to stoke the company’s interest.

And they'd planned for a fast entry into the Canadian retail market:

But the company had previously decided it wanted to grow as quickly as possible if it were to enter Canada, rather than pursue a slow, piecemeal expansion. The challenge was in acquiring enough real estate to make that possible. The Zellers sale provided just such an opportunity.

And all because they thought they really could do this:

But Steinhafel may have felt justified in making such a bold move. In the three years since he was appointed CEO, he’d boosted revenue 8.3%—not a huge number, but an impressive one, considering the U.S. was experiencing the worst recession since the Great Depression. Steinhafel had joined Target in 1979, and his entire professional career had been spent with the company. Target experienced steady growth during that time, and Steinhafel had simply become accustomed to succeeding. “The company had never really failed before,” says a former employee who worked in both the U.S. and Canada. There was no reason to think Target wouldn’t be able to pull this off.
It looks like your post contains a secret code using seemingly-random capitalization, but all I can decipher is ACTTTTAT...
OSINT Analysis of Militia Communications, Radio Equipment and Frequencies
Skype to hide IP addresses by default, protecting gamers everywhere
Another big fund has lost faith in Dropbox (YC S07) and cut its valuation by half
This is perfect because I was just feeling that C++ wasn't already obfuscated enough.
Texas sets single-day wind power record
But that's really the whole point of privilege - belonging to the group is enough to grant you the advantages of it. Period. It doesn't mean your life is great, it doesn't mean you don't have problems, but the members of a privileged class absolutely possess those privileges - that's how it works.
Cord drill and Pump drill [video]
A good way to partially mitigate this is to stop with specific code interviews, where you ask someone how do implement X in Y language.

Instead, ask them about problems they've encountered and how they solved them. Doesn't even need to be programming problems. Get an idea for their problem solving process and ability. That's what you should be hiring people for.
There are a lot of us out there with similar backgrounds, yet when you tell people that any day that you aren't being shot at, or blown up or starving is a good day, they look at you like you are crazy.
Props for writing this. Often times I want to tell my (different but similar) story, but never do. I don't know why. It probably has to do with a number of the points you make in the article, so you are a couple steps ahead of me.
How Symantec let bad math lead to a shaky deal
Oh yes, I battle with this all the time. Then once you finally finish coding some part, you'll have learned a lot once again, so instead of working on another part, you feel the need to refactor/rewrite the first part instead to get it closer to perfection.
This is not what I think of as voxels either, but I fear our older definition is becoming obsolete. You could make arguments both for and against whether these textured cubes are technically voxels, but in the end, language changes, and trying to fight these changes is futile.
BI on Hadoop in 2016 – The Elephant in the Room
Hey!

Thanks so much for the feedback. We'll be sure to take it in and I'll personally let you know when the bugs are fixed. We'll also definitely think about your suggestions.

All the best,
Pim
Is Australia's case, they're wanting to use American electronics, with American backdoors.
I'd also be interested in the mappings between this and the universities they came from .

I'm sure there were kids in OP's position that got a 1400 instead of a 1600 and went to SJSU instead, for instance.
I believe this man is confusing lots of things.

I had lived in China for more than 5 years, Boston, Japan or Korea for more than 9 months each.

In my opinion, minimizing conflict has nothing to do with being poor, and a lot with being Chinese educated.

On the contrary, I volunteer helping poor kids like Spanish gypsies or Subsaharan African and they(and their parents) are ultra confident, and spontaneous. Being open is the default thing for them.

I managed Chinese people in China and there was a world of difference between natives and those Chinese educated overseas.

When living on the US, I was shocked to see parents cheering their kids for the most stupid thing, when in Europe as a kid you are forced to do 4x more effort without rewards at all(like learning multiple languages). It is just what it is expected from you.

In Asia, this pressure over kids is even higher than in Europe.

Family is very important for Chinese almost a religion.
This has advantages and disadvantages. For innovation, it is a big disadvantage. Innovation means taking risks, being close to your family means having to convince lots of people those risk are worth it. Most people won't understand you and it is very hard.

In the US, everybody is on their own, basically, nobody gives a dam, which is great for changing the world.
I found it very frustrating that I was legally barred from many jobs while I was under 18. When I worked in baseball concessions, I couldn't be a cashier because they touched cans of beer as they passed them to customers. Fortunately, I could work as a cook, though I wasn't very good at it. Various laws significantly reduced the opportunities I had available to me, often for no good reason.
Oh - where did he say that?
Wow, such contempt for the people of the country you've moved to and the State that has made you such money is truly breathtaking!

Just ignore those down votes and be sure to post your story everywhere you can. Actually, I think you should campaign to be the poster child of Silicon Valley!

BTW, Mississippi has lower taxes than California, you should move there.
Yes. The iPhone was a huge step backwards in my opinion, but at the time the only people who seemed to understand this were PalmOS users.
So if minorities are discriminated against in the hiring process, they should just stop posting their picture on LinkedIn? That's not a solution.

Secondly, what you are suggesting is at complete odds with the realities of our connected online world. You are basically asking someone to stop taking part in a huge part of the social experience in our society.
That's interesting remember the book explaining Jupiter had a specific influence on earth's ability to develop complex life in that its size and position made it essentially prevent a lot of comets and dangerous asteroids from hitting earth by simply getting in their way.
Chrome://flags UI makeover
It's quite possible that he meant that he believes he has a time management problem, but finds it irrelevant and endearing due to his greatness.
It just doesn't make any sense. Resources are limited, sure, but they're not scarce. In fact, they might not be limited even. If something can afford to come to Earth, they can afford to get unlimited resources from anywhere. Unless you're positing it's from one of our nearest stars and then just happen to be coming to Earth as a last ditch effort or something.

I mean, scenarios can be imagined where an alien would want to destroy life on Earth, but they seem far fetched.
I completely agree with this frustration - the bulk of my review of the responses revealed that people reacted to what they felt like PG said (or what others felt like he said), not what he actually said.

My other frustration was that some of what PG actually did saw was indeed flawed, and there's only one response [1] that I could find that spoke to it.

Regardless, writing about political domains riles the most base, tribal instincts in all of us. I expect him to be more careful about how he frames his arguments so that they're not overcome by readers' emotion, but can actually have a positive impact.

[1] https://medium.com/@sethbannon/how-paul-graham-gets-it-wrong...
Drivers usually have multiple phones. A lyft phone and an uber phone for instance.
Erlang is a low-throughput, low-latency language. It makes no apologies for the former and it even says so on the tin. That allows it to do stuff other languages/runtimes can't.
This usually works like this: company doesn't pay tax, HMRC has to spend lots of money to prosecute them, company settles to pay a fraction of the tax. Doesn't seem fair to me but HMRC already spent lots of money and to get them to pay it all up they would have to spend even more so in the end they would get less making them willing to compromise.

Doesn't this crate an incentive for companies not to pay tax? Worst case scenario is you have to pay a fraction of that tax later.
Another excellent resource is the LifeSciVC blog:

https://lifescivc.com/

https://lifescivc.com/category/from-the-trenches/ (the posts here aren't included on the main page)
Yeah, that's kind of my point :-) I was being a tad sarcastic with the hashtag.
>The Fatal Pinch does not apply to me

Except, sometimes it doesn't? If you look at the notes[0] at the bottom of The Fatal Pinch:

>There are a handful of companies that can't reasonably expect to make money for the first year or two, because what they're building takes so long. For these companies substitute "progress" for "revenue growth." You're not one of these companies unless your initial investors agreed in advance that you were. And frankly even these companies wish they weren't, because the illiquidity of "progress" puts them at the mercy of investors.

What do you do if you're one of those companies? There's plenty of business models that could be attractive acquisition targets (read: billions), but otherwise can't monetize to save their souls.

Two pieces of advice often encountered (paraphrasing):

"Treat each funding round as if it's your last."

"VC money is like rocket fuel. It's intended to be burned at a high rate."

I imagine reconciling both is difficult at best.

[0] http://paulgraham.com/pinch.html
Seriously? What caste did your family belong to?

I'm allowed to ask these questions; the Indian side of my family are Brahmins, and boy does it show! Most of us walked straight from the lawyer/doctor/accountant/businessperson class in India into the lawyer/doctor/accountant/businessperson class in the USA and Canada.

Sure things were difficult, but most of us had huge advantages.
Udacity has a couple free linear algebra courses.

One here: https://www.udacity.com/course/linear-algebra-refresher-cour...

And another here: https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-algebra-review--ma004
No, most criminals aren't that smart.
Ah, thanks for the correction. The controversy around unikernels makes a lot more sense now.
This is cool: http://js1k.com/2015-hypetrain/details/2291
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act
MariaDB plans for version 10.2:

- https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/plans-for-10x/
author The other alternative, which is currently used in production to solve the same problem is CRTP ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiously_recurring_template_p... ) ... And the question is, which one is a lesser evil.
These other social networks ("they really exist, trust me") probably don't try to actively spy on the entire world and follow every person across the entire internet. They probably don't try to hoard content into their silo and try to keep the users locked in. Clearly I am describing the big three here.

Now a not ad funded network may not do these things. That removes my largest complaints about them. It is these things which make them so grossly unethical.

As for your project I wish you luck. You will need it.
I felt the same way when I was young. A word of advice. Be prepared to live off income and investments if you get to 55+ or be a successful small business owner.

American employers use you up and spit you out when you no longer taste good.
"Ageism: A Worsening Epidemic" can only be interpreted as an assertion that the incidence of ageism is increasing. Anecdotes can have value, but they have no value in confirming this assertion.
I found myself nodding along the whole article.

First, let me say that I am happy where I ended up. I'm successful, enjoy my work, and when I compare my personal income with our family income when I was growing up, it is an absurd multiple.

We were a very poor family in a poor part of the South. I went to a top-10 small private university on a full ride, felt completely alienated and never quite figured out how to function in that environment. I dropped out and moved to San Francisco at what turned out to be a very good time (early 90's), and once Netscape dropped, discovered nobody else knew what they were doing with this web thing either, and more or less faked it until I made it.

At the same time, I have had and do have ideas that others have executed on, that I know I could have made a go at, if only…

The if only list is long, and most of it comes back to self-imposed limitations that I can trace back to how I grew up. Frequently it relates to economic security, but there are other habits of thought that stop me from even getting to worrying about that.

One big one is that I never learned to think about entrepreneurship. A big lesson hammered into me growing up was the importance of "finding a good job", not figuring out how to make my own.

I did start a company in my mid-30s, and we did OK, until we didn't. And that failure (I think) had nothing to do with the habits of thought of a poor kid. But failing in a similar way in my 20s would have left me in a position to learn from that and try again, something I'm unlikely to make a go at 10 years later. I do little things for side income, but those are hobbies.

So it ends up being this thing that doesn't really bother me at this point, but does leave me to wonder what would have happened if I had picked parents from a very different walk of life.

And I am quietly amused when people tell me how they built everything themselves "after a seed from Dad", or "with a great connection I made through a family friend" or similar. Those are impossible blockers for a lot of people, even if they get over some of the habits of mind better than I did.
> I believe we need to get the strong science into sports medicine.

Professional sports already bring on board the best (applied) science that money can buy. The approach is practical because there are billions of dollars on the line. If that is not good enough for you uppity sense of scientific purity, too bad. When you own a team, you'll be free to do as you please with your own money (just don't complain if your team is beaten by all the others that do not share your scientific sensitivities).

Professional athletes and their coaches will not stop doing what is well known to work just because a bunch of nerds have a quasi-religious taboo against the "placebo effect".
I think Svbtle was created by Dustin Curtis, actually.
Relevant: http://www.nber.org/papers/w17159
It might not be your choice though..
Optimizely now available via Fabric
Why can a super successful company like Google not take open pride in doing a bit of civic duty? The fact that they have to be cajoled into doing what is pretty much standard fare to make society function does NOT enamour me as a customer towards their long term well being in any way whatsoever - quite the opposite: I would happily jump ship if a transparent civilly minded alternative emerged (mostly thinking gmail/google-search here).
I really liked the NN&DL course. Another I've been meaning to check out is this book: http://www.deeplearningbook.org
the perf gains are just as a possible without a unikernel, most high perf net apps at this point are onto userspace net stack to avoid interrupt+switch cost ala intel dpdk, an opensource example would be https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/blob/master/README.md
but tons of others in commercial spaces.

ie. as per what bryan said there's plenty of counter examples on perf
It's not totally unprecedented for them.

They got into music, then they got into phones.

It seems like they get into a new area when that area stops being what it was and starts becoming computers.

I think autonomous cars are probably going to be like that, Apple certainly has the capital to pull it off (and the example of Tesla).
I've definitely heard this before from African immigrants: they feel completely separate from "African-Americans", and frequently don't even like to be associated with them. Jamaica would be no different; you didn't grow up in the neighborhoods and with the same experiences that a black native-born American would have.
Redux can be used in any javascript app. Its a pattern, not something stuck to react.
Does it being said in anger make it any less applicable?
I can't find it where they have those breakdowns by U category (showing scope of who is included), or even which U-category they used.

The U-6 rate (which counts "discouraged workers") is almost five times the U-1 rate (12/2015).
Apple hires leading virtual reality researcher
You have to download the VLC app and open the WebM with it.
Would you say that going to parties outweigh directly networking?

Networking might be a benefit, but I'm sure that people go to parties with a different goal in mind, and that the time cost of partying can be better utilized in other ways.
Old joke: A farmer has a problem with his hens not laying any eggs, and he goes to a physicist for help. "Well", says the physicist, "I can help you if I can assume that the eggs are perfect cubes, and that the egg-laying process happens in a frictionless, airless existence with no gravity".
Cherry-picking examples that match own interests. If you know less about the subject than the author then you can't verify whether they base their arguments on all available information or not.

Or put another way. You have two people presenting arguments for database designs. Both base them on known and cited research papers. Both provide sound arguments for their design. One is an independent researcher and one works for Oracle. What are the chances one of the designs will be very similar to Oracle's database?
Not sure I got this right, but they're saying the rules changed under them and the new rules increased the taxes?!