skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is worth remembering.

Not just for CEOs, but for anyone in a role of management. Delegation is good, but incredibly frustrating when delegating a task that takes one's self 5 hours, but 20 hours for someone else with a worse end result. That's where coaching (and remembering how bad you were yourself at some point) comes in, but when deadlines are tight, few people have the ability to let go.

And as another commenter states, letting go can't be done at the start. Natural born CEOs are not people that don't do anything by themselves.

I am reminded, however, simple advice to always hire someone better than you and learn from them. They may not be better in all respects, but always hire someone that is better in some regard.
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This seems unnecessarily conspiratorial considering we know for a fact that the US's infrastructure is literally crumbling beneath our cars and trucks.
There are approximately x / ln (x) primes below x. That means that there are 2^1024 / (1024 ln 2) - 2^1023 / (1023 ln 2) = 1.3e305 1024-bit primes. There are 2^1024 - 2^1023 = 9.0e307 1024-bit numbers. So, the chance that a randomly-selected 1024-bit number is prime is a little higher one in a thousand, that is, a little higher than 2^-10.

So Bayes' theorem doesn't save you here: it is still statistically unlikely that you will stumble upon a 1024-bit pseudoprime by mistake.
We spent, I'd say, over $1500 for our party at a company of 15.

Yes, I would prefer a $100 bonus. The amount might decrease to the point that it's useless at larger companies due to economies of scale...
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There's a difference between the prospects of an okay school vs elite school for CS. The gap just happens to be much smaller.

In our industry there are many people who do just fine with no CS degree, CS degree from obscure schools, or degree at all. Almost no other industry can say that. However, in general, elite school means better opportunities, better classmates that motivate you, better companies recruiting, etc. The difference exists, it's just "smaller" and evens out with time.

Remember that in our industry you can move to $100k+ after 3-5 years of experience (of course, if you put in work, network and get better, but the demand for "mid/senior" devs is big). I've found that your background rarely matters at that point.
I'd compare Google's ads to consumer electronics as a category as opposed to the iPhone: they're many eggs, not just one. Search ads, DoubleClick, and AdSense are like the iPhone, iPad, and MacBook.

(Disclaimer: I work for Google, on open-source software that doesn't have anything to do with ads.)
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It's a company founded in 1994. A bunch of technologies available today (code management, deployment tools, content management, internal tooling) were not available back in the days, on a bunch of other things (ad serving, support for mobile) the industry has moved forward, but Yahoo! hasn't.

So you're right, a bunch of inefficiencies exist by design, a bunch of them due to the company's age (and to Yahoo!'s credit, their contemporaries like HotBot or Lycos or Excite are gone completely) and need to build certain stuff in-house, and a bunch of it created internally to guarantee job security in some departments.

They've outsourced search and on the Web/media front are doing things that Wordpress.com is doing at much better scale with fewer people, so yeah, there's potential for improvement there.
In addition to this question, it would be nice if there was a "why" section in the readme. It's not clear to me what the intention of this project is.

Was it just for fun? Is it for a school project? Do you want to have some way of running cross platform?

Just curious, I love projects like this, just like to understand what the motivation is.
Data centers are just the modern version of what used to be called plant and machinery, and Google is just an updated industrial corp in the tradition of other former and current household names, but with a slightly more colourful logo.

The business focus matters because the ad market is in trouble, and unless Alphabet has something in the pipeline to replace ads, five to ten years from now the company is going to be where Yahoo is today.

This seems hard to imagine now, but no one expected DEC to fail, or HP to turn into that thing it turned into, or Microsoft to sit on a grenade labelled "Windows", or IBM to drift off to the margins of the web - and so on.
The catch with your logic is that "The odds of any person getting struck by lightning is 1 in 10000" is sloppy phrasing. Of the number of people studied, one ten-thousandth of them got struck by lightning, but lightning does not, as you have observed, choose people at random among those 10,000. Some people are constantly indoors; some are constantly outdoors. Some live in places with frequent thunderstorms; some don't. The only way to get that 1/10000 probability is to pick a person randomly. Picking Roy Sullivan isn't random; neither is picking me.

"The probability of a randomly-selected 1024-bit number passing this primarily test without being prime is 2^-80" is a much more precise statement, because you have selected that number randomly. Obviously, if you have a specific number in mind, the probability of that number being a false positive is either 0 or 1. It either is prime, or it isn't.

Remember that there is no such thing as a random number; there is only a randomized process for selecting numbers.
This thread has hundreds of comments and only two people mentioned Flickr. I guess that tells you how much currency it has.
I had a friend who started his CS degree at the same time I started learning on my own, and he is just about to graduate while I've been in the field for about 2 years now. So it worked out for me to not seek a degree.

He's also a vastly different person than I am, writing code is not a passion of his, while it is of mine. I'd be writing code whether or not it was my job, while he'd rather be doing other things.
For someone who could never figure out how gorillas.bas was able to display anything to the screen (all of my basic code just wrote text to the screen), this is amazing.
Hiring is part of it but it's also about systematically launching products to create your own ecosystem.

Yahoo's never really built an ecosystem like Google and when you couple that with low performing acquisitions you get job cuts.
I think Docker, along with an orchestration system (such as Kubernetes) warrants a try, I was hesitant at first myself. It is just a different way of attacking deployments. It has some overlap with configuration management, but does not cover that entire domain.

As far as reliably building images, I believe you can use Nix to provision images. I don't see this as NixOS vs Docker, I believe they can be used in conjunction.

As far as the maturity, despite its age there is so much momentum behind docker right now. Also, NixOS is also not that old.

I totally understand the hesitation, but I think it's worth trying out.
my point has nothing to do with whether you believe climate change to be a hoax or not, or whether it is a hoax or not.

The point is that someone exposed a bunch of internal documents in an attempt to whistleblow what they considered to be a conspiracy.

The reason there's no parallel with the Birther thing is that no-one in the Obama camp attempted to whistleblow.

The reason there is a comparison with Snowden-NSA is because Snowden was a whistleblower.

The paper in the article holds up the climate change conspiracy theory as "it can't be a conspiracy because no-one attempted to whistleblow it" while completely ignoring that someone DID try to whistleblow it.

Again, whether or not there was actually any conspiracy doesn't matter. Someone "on the inside" thought there was and attempted to whistleblow. It needs to be included in the list of failed conspiracies regardless of whether it actually was a conspiracy or not.
Page is taking a pretty long time to load for me, but these other sites have the live stats for the democratic and republican caucuses (respectively):

https://www.idpcaucuses.com/#/state

https://www.iagopcaucuses.com/#/state
For this guy, no. He knew nearly nothing at all about linux. His was a windows shop through and through. It was much more powerful to call out a program he knew and used than the nebulous "linux" that he had never seen in action and believed to just be an inferior rip-off of windows 2003 server.
> What you don't get is a "better education".

I attended Caltech. In my later work experience, I clearly received a more thorough education than my peers who went to other colleges, particularly in math. And yes, it did give me a leg up.
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Nice to hear that perspective. I'm self taught and don't recommend it for the same reason - its also actually quite difficult to find professional mentors if you're not already in some sort of professional field with a close link to software or coding. In most ways, having no college requires more connections than college!

Still, the cost of any college is absolutely stifling unless you're willing to take on a lot of debt or have parents willing to support you - unless you have absolutely top grades. Too many very intelligent people I know growing up had social or parental problems - passed all their tests but couldn't do the homework due to trouble at home.
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> That's not in the interest of most companies, so you'll have to start your own if that is what you want.

It's in the interest of companies to have happy employees. Following respectful working hours is one of the ways to do that. Doesn't have to be 9-5, if 10-6, 11-7, etc. is more of your thing.

I don't care about free food, I care about work/life balance. Office parties and free food type perks, which are just intended to keep you at the office longer, worsen my work/life balance.
>>That still has a link to wikipedia
The sidebar wikipedia info used to have all links that went to wikipedia. The one I posted isn't the best example for hat, but it is the best example of one with a directly monetized link.

>>That second box isn't an ad, it's just a called out search result.

It also consumes vertical space, pushing the organics down. The relevance is also quite low, being a link to a discontinued product.

>>You're missing my point because that's exactly it.

Not missing your point. I'm not saying the few examples I gave are everything they've done. I think they've been doing things like, for several years, this to sustain the expected growth. Lacking a dividend, the pressure to sustain growth rates is pretty high.

Edit: It's also likely that for other purposes (testing/deployment/whatever), these things (and similar ones I haven't noticed) have dials for where/when/how often they are exposed, either by geography, search terms, demographic, or some other criteria. A bunch of dials would also allow you to smooth growth if you wanted.
... that ruined it for all the other even numbers :)
You've touched upon an old conflict. http://lesswrong.com/lw/oj/probability_is_in_the_mind/
I have the same experience. On my machine, only Safari is "vanilla" - other browsers have various levels of ad/js blocking. So the only time I see ads is in Safari. I can't believe they're still feeding me Newegg ads for components that I already own and have bought from Newegg. I understand that's not as trivial a problem as it sounds, but I can't help but think companies are overpaying for ads.
The elephant in the room nobody seems to notice is, they have so much data that they can actually look ahead of curve for any industry or tech, and so can have very good tactical advantage, and being open to jump in to any tech, they can steer much easily then the counterparts.
You're right, but it wouldn't have happened but for the idea that you can own ideas about dolls in the first place (i.e. I believe it was related to IP assignment clauses in the contract).
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Yes. It's an involved process that might even require the purchase of the property and setting up your own personal cemetery. If you are inside a city and require rezoning then you better get started long before you expect to die. Low impact, but certainly not low cost. And all sorts of places (parks, crown land etc) where ashes are allowed remain off limits.
My parents are part owners of a funeral home. The hearse is only ceremonial, e.g., for bringing a casket from the funeral ceremony to the cemetery. At least in their locale, most funeral homes do not even own their own hearse, but rent one as needed.

For picking up bodies, like from the hospital or whatever, they've got a regular van.
> Google Apps has 50 million users, iCloud has 125 million

That source is pretty old and cites an even older source (it looks like it may be from Google I/O 2012). Searching for "Google Apps has 50 million users" actually gives articles from last year saying they have 50 million education users alone, so I'd say the number is a pretty extreme lowshot now.

But more importantly, why would you compare Google Apps and iCloud? The closer thing would be Android backup and iCloud, maybe?
That would save characters, but then users wouldn't easily generate their own URL. Also, it's backwards incompatible...
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It's just a proof of concept :)
Am I the only one who was expecting a -404 error?
Hell, I'd settle for just some nice hardware. I'm sure I could rig something to detect a hotword and then recognize things from a restricted set, but a small microphone at the other end of the room won't cut it. I wish there existed an Amazon Echo clone that I could run my own software on.
Challenger, Columbia, and the lies we tell ourselves
Using grep?
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"notable exception of the rare completely unfit parent"

If you think unfit parents are rare you should talk to a social worker, police officer, or nurse, they will be able to bury you with heartbreaking stories of what life is like for a very large number of people who are predominantly poor.
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America's voting system is crazy
I spread my brother's ashes in a National Forest. It's illegal but so are a lot of things. We placed them on a large rock outcropping that meant something to our family, around 10,000 ft of elevation looking out over the fruited plains of this country at the height of summer, on his birthday.

A violent storm came that night as we camped below the outcropping, lashing wind and hail and lightning upon our piteous insignificance until eventually heading to lower climes down the mountain slope. The next dawn was glorious in its vibrance and clarity.
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Looking to connect with someone to see if there are any local conferences/meetups available to attend next week.
There are more detailed results, including regional demographic breakdowns, at the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/primaries/iowa
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I'll highlight the conclusion to this well-written essay on the 'normalization of deviance':

> The biggest lie we tell ourselves is that bigger fish than us automatically make better decisions than we do. Challenger, Columbia, and the hundreds of tragedies large and small that have played out in the intervening thirty years are proof they don’t. All too often, the wrong people end up paying for the failure.
I don't think decimate is the correct term for cutting the lower 10‰ :). A true decimation would be 10% at random to inspire fear in all.
Hmm, where have I seen that name before? Oh, yeah.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/nyregion/what-happened-to-...
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> Would it also be bad to host the project's source code on GitHub.

Some Free Software people certainly think that. It is imho at least problematic. For example, the unicorn web server developer, finds github problematic from the 'UX' side in addition to dependence on proprietary software and infrastructure (which creeps into the commit messages).

"Contributing to unicorn is socially as easy as contributing to git or the Linux kernel. There is no need to signup for anything, no need to ever touch a bloated web browser."[0]

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Basically right (and the others hit aspects as well).

My wife liked parts of her job and hated others (PhD in neurobiology, working in a non-lab part of her field), but overall didn't love it and certainly didn't prefer that over raising our children. I (90+%) love what I do and we're fortunate that it pays enough for us to live on just "my" compensation. In theory, her job could have become part-time; in practice, that would have worked very, very poorly at her company. My job couldn't be done part-time or job-shared in any practical way.

So, I happen to be the stereotypical working dad, but it's not because of gender biases or pre-conceived notions, but rather because of math/finance/satisfaction concerns. We could live OK in Cambridge on just "my" comp but couldn't on just "hers"; I actively like my job and she didn't. We do 100% pool the money and there is no sense of "yours, mine, and ours", only "ours". I actively take pains to ensure that, but the tax brackets[1] and cost of daycare in Cambridge being what they are, the math made it a near even-money proposition.

So, in our case it was a combination of my wife's pay being lower and also the [dis-]satisfaction with spending ~1/4 of her life (and ~1/2 of her awake life) that way made it a near no-brainer.

1 - In essence, when considering forgoing her income, her income is effectively entirely taxed at our highest federal bracket, plus she's still paying Medicare, FICA, and state income tax on top of that. It means that about half of her "headline" pay is going to the government. That's a pretty stiff headwind.
Glad they knew to learn instead of being surprised by shriveled artifacts.
Tubemogul threw a ridiculous party in 2014. My neighbor was the event planner. I wouldn't be surprised if the cost per employee was way higher than Yahoo's.
Over the years when I've opened VLC I've occasionally wondered what the LAN part meant in VideoLAN. I thought it must be something other than Local Area Network. Thanks for sharing.
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Which, even if true, just proves the thread's point. Ads uses a lot more traditional machine-learning/AI techniques than Search does.
It's cliche at this point but...

"The Market Can Remain Irrational Longer Than You Can Remain Solvent"
They have well polished experiences compared to the competition. I don't think anyone would claim they (or anyone else) are perfect.
These results are completely different than what is being reported by CNN right now. Hilary Clinton at 0.1% seems a bit unlikely.
I thought the premise was that there would be less value to extract, not just a tiny bit more effort per value.