skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Trevor and Jared,

http://weavesilk.com is a side project of mine for many years. I put out a brand new version of the iOS app this month and am thinking about developing it further but find it very hard to decide what direction to go.

The website is popular, and people love Silk, but for different reasons: some find it relaxing and meditative, others like that it closes the gap between their artistic ability and taste.

It's been used as an inspirational sketching tool for artists (http://bit.ly/1Qlm1kA), to make album art, and has been on exhibit at the Children's Creativity Museum. Some teachers use it to teach kids about symmetry.

I've made something compelling but don't know what to do next, or how to figure it out.
I have set up stand-alone static analyzers a couple of times, and it can be a giant hassle to get them working correctly. It is especially bad with complicated build systems for embedded applications.

To parse a C file correctly a tools needs to know the exact set of include path and defines you passed to the compiler. Then it needs to go read the whole tree of header files and preprocess everything. It needs to know where your standard header files are (different from the system header file when cross compiling). It needs to know about your compiler's built-in defines. It may also choke on any C extensions that your code (or any header file) is using.

In this particular case it may be enough to parse the file with some regexes but I wouldn't trust it; people do some crazy things with C macros.
I click on the "Value Now" button under Equity Value Calculator and I go to Heroku Welcome page...

Edit: all three buttons go to same page

https://exivest.herokuapp.com/
You're thinking of Drupal 6. Or maybe 7. Drupal 8 (if you use a released version) gets thousands of requests per second. To be fair, that's because it aggressively caches page components and uses cache tags like a demon. But that's the ootb configuration, no special tools required.
Which is exactly what everyone gets upset about...

No one cares if you get asked relevant questions for the job at hand. If they need a highly skilled algorithm guy (hint: this is extremely exceedingly rare) then by all means.

The vast majority simply ask these questions for their own ego boost (lulz look at that idiot who can't even do basic CS101! good thing we're so smart!), as well as a means for social signaling that you came from the right background.

It's basically a huge waste of time and mental energy for what amounts to mental masturbation from the interviewers.
If you're actually working as a developer, you really shouldn't be a "specialist" in any language. That's like a carpenter who can only work with one kind of drill.
Bear in mind that the X-Gene is on a 35nm node and the A1100 is on 28nm, versus 14nm for Xeon-D. Applied Micro have announced a 16nm X-Gene 3 for this year via TSMC, and Qualcomm have a 14nm server processor in development via GlobalFoundries. We'd expect at least a 30% reduction in power from this change in process node.

I think we could well see ARM server processors close the gap with Intel by the end of this year, which is an exciting prospect.

IMO ARM's trump card is the diversity of their IP ecosystem. This has been integral to their success in the mobile SoC market and could become a genuine game-changer in the server market.
For a long time satellite imaging of things like WalMart parking lots (used a proxy for sales) have been a thing analysts and traders look at.
> The trick is to avoid sweating.

would I would imagine that you might want to avoid any - ice + snow patches as well, don't know if you can get * tires for bikes.
Yes, when you are initially paid very little, your employer rarely re-evaluates your actual value. In other words if you were "cheap" to start with, you will be seen as worth less going forward. You're initial salary negotiation is the most important; after that you will be lucky to get small raises and never to market value.

One the quirks of human nature that if you give the employer/customer/client a "deal" up front, when you switch to charging them market price, they feel ripped off.
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If you go from 10 Windows Administrators to 2 Windows Administrators then the other 8 are redundant. If you go from 10 VAX administrators to 0 VAX administrators they are obsolete.

The difference is if you still need anyone with the skill set or not.
Could Nylas be a substitute of gmail + evernote? Aka mail + notes in the same app.
>I'm also a big fan of IMAP and would love to see everyone keep to it.

Probably because you've never read the spec or tried to implement it.
This is all good advice, but this article falls into the same trap that most other career related advice does: it assumes only one type of job seeker (in this case - ambitious, experienced, and passively job seeking).

The truth is that there are lots of different ways to get a job, each with varying levels of effectiveness that depend A LOT on your situation. An effective job search is one where the techniques are tailored to the situation, and the amount spent on each reflects the expected effectiveness within that situation.

Example: A few years ago I got laid off. I had a few weeks of notice, some severance, and savings, so I decided I would be a job seeker full time until I got a job I really wanted. I followed the advice in this article almost to the letter and specifically avoided lots of the typical job hunting techniques (sending resumes, filling out job applications, talking with recruiters, etc...)

I did a lot of research on companies I wanted to work for, started meeting with people (I didn't know anyone who worked at those companies), sent a lot of unsolicited emails to get an 'in'. And after a few months of doing this I'd made a lot of new connections, but no legitimate opportunities. By this point I was starting to panic, so I broke down and started doing the 'traditional' job hunting stuff. Two weeks later I had an offer from an application I had submitted online.

Don't limit yourself to just one technique. Try a lot of different things to see what works for your situation.
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missed that one, thanks!
Huh! Am I missing something? I didn't think Nylas had any kind of mobile support yet. How does this work?
I founded a small nonprofit (~$250k budget this year for underpaid staff of me+3 art types) that serves an annual audience of 1 million unique visitors for the last few years with hi-res documentation of contemporary art; we are nearly ubiquitous within our field, academics have hailed our project as transformative, but we suck at fundraising and are tiny.

Problem: in the midst of running everything, I do all the coding slowly by myself, and the urgent coding todo list has exploded while some of our sites age. What should I do?

Thank you!
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Do networked games usually encrypt their traffic? Genuinely asking as someone unfamiliar with this sort of thing. Seems like a lot of extra CPU cycles and latency for not much gain. Are people worried about attackers analyzing their strats ;-)?
Are there plans to work on integrating PGP encryption? N1 really looks nice but there are many people, like me, who can't move over until it gets e-mail encryption support.
ASRock C2750D4I? I've got one running my home NAS and love it.
How influential counties are varies greatly from state to state. Where I'm from, there's no unincorporated land, it's all in towns. So the counties are relatively unimportant and town government is correspondingly more important. Elsewhere counties are highly influential.
Yep, a homeowner's association could put a lien on your house if you broke their by-law about hanging a sports team flag on your front porch, for instance.
Much as I'm against non-competes under most circumstances...

>The specific issue with the author of this article is that she did not disclose her prior noncompete to the new employer.

In fact, according to the original WSJ article, "In applying for the job at the Reuters newswire, she checked a box saying she wasn’t subject to any noncompete agreement. Her termination letter from Reuters, which was reviewed by the Journal, said that mistake cost her the job."

I get that she had supposedly forgotten she had signed one but it puts Reuters in a tough situation.
This is helpul or was it guerilla marketing for the book?
The world will never know.
> Being a shrewd negotiator is an absolutely critical skill in life, even if you don't want the best-ever-salary. If you know how to negotiate the best-ever-salary, you can trade it in for things that do matter to you.

Exactly. But then most people will just bend over and wilt at having to deal with a car salesman, as if that's the gold standard of having to negotiate something (it isn't by any stretch). Or they will disparage and throw barbs at the same, as if a great price should just be handed to them on a silver platter.
In theory that works fine, but in practice, I find every tool leaves little bits of cruft laying around:

// comments that get formatted correctly but then
// the
// wrapping
// isn't
// merged
// into
// one
// line

On the other hand

// this could
// be a
// tabular comment

So you'd need everyone to use the same tool and you'd still need to go back and fix things periodically. To be fair, it might still be a net win.
Doubtful. Even if they could claim they were 'pressured' into doing so, there was no real coercion - they made the choice to not go through the process.
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Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Title: Lead Consultant (Mammoth Data) / Founder/CEO (Fogbeam labs)

Years SE Experience: ~20

Next Move: (do X so that I can Y)

Continue building Fogbeam Labs so that I can eventually make that my full-time thing, hire employees, and build a real company. As part of that, we just started working on a new product that I'm really excited about. I don't want to say too much about it just yet, but it's going to be a gnarly Machine Learning / AI project.
Hi Trevor and Jared, we have been building financial predictions on data from marketplace lending platforms. Curious to talk to you about where you see the business models of prediction going, examples other YC companies who are selling prediction and ML as a service, pricing strategies etc.
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> Linux would be hurt more by nVidia's absence than nVidia would be hurt by Linux's absence.

Maybe for the desktop, but not overall: Nvidia is heavily pushing supercomputing/machine learning and it can't afford to ignore Linux in this space (since Linux dominates).

If Nvidia were to abandon Linux, they would be gifting AMD a free come-back opportunity.
What about on a video interview?
Reminds me of the approach of http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/ (if you ignore the 90' web style) is pretty interesting:
find out where you want to wokr
find out the problems they have
show them you can solve the problems profitably
>> The county told NBC4 if Lucas had filled out the permit application, the owner could have learned about the shoot before he filmed there.

Lol. The data on a form filed for a porn shoot at a particular location will not find its way into the hands of someone renting on airbnb. I'd be surprised if they are even digital. With due respect to homeowners, this is what happens if you rent your property. People will be having sex in your house even without the cameras. That's what people do. Owners may be embarrassed if their friends identify their home, but something is very wrong with this porn if people are noticing the architecture.

It sounds like this did not involve a home, but unit owned for purposes of being rented out. A porn shoot does not want someone's home. They, like any other production, want a film set. That means little furniture, art, or other identifiable things. So I am not surprised to see this porn shoot occurred in a rental unit rather than someone's actual home. But they should certainly have done a better job cleaning up after themselves.
Google is killing yet another rival
I applied a while ago (Jan 14) for their news feed dataset and have not heard back. Does anyone here know the average turn around time? Also does it make a difference if you are a professor/ phd student?

Thank you
Hey @maxsf... great points, thanks! first of all, really glad that you are doing well :). Our data is based on what we are seeing in the market, and fortunately or unfortunately, the market seems to value "fancy degrees, companies and schools". That said, every distribution has outliers and clearly, you are doing well on the far right end of your market distribution! Would love to continue engaging with you for more feedback - I'm at nikhil [at] paysa [dot] com, cofounder/chief product officer. Would love to hear from you.
There are many issues here which have thus far been conducted in a legal or nebulous grey area of the law or flown under the notice of the general public for far too long:

Can the government compel the creation of original tools and IP outside the typical operations of a business? If so should they be required to compensate the business? Does the business then own the IP or the government? What happens when compelling a company to create IP or perform process outside of its typical operations is a net loss regardless of compensation? Should it be required to notify stockholders? Is it legal to make investments based on this PARTICULAR kind of inside government information? What if the entire company's operation may be plausibly undermined by the operation?

I think a more relevant example here would be whether the government could compel a bank or financial company to create or alter its financial reporting tools to falsify data or misreport to the subject of an investigation.
> Bankrate's woes underscore the difficulty of building a meaningful business on the Internet—which is increasingly dominated by a handful of behemoths. Just five internet companies, Amazon, Alphabet, eBay, Facebook and Liberty Interactive control 70% of the Internet industry's revenue.

This is pretty shocking! Anyone know what "Liberty Interactive" does?
See https://www.techempower.com/blog/2016/02/25/framework-benchm... , they needed to get this benchmark in quick, because they need to shift hardware soon. Maintainers weren't able to submit their patches to fix things. If you ask me it would have been better not to run this benchmark.
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> Not laying off engineers is probably more about how hard it is to hire engineers today, and knowing that when they get past these problems, it'll be easier to re-hire reps than re-hire engineers.

I don't think labor hoarding is a good theory for why they're keeping their product team. If they don't have work for them now and are winding down they would be getting rid of them.

Rather, I think they believe they don't have a product they can sell right now, but they believe they can change it to make it viable. You need engineers to change your product.
Hah! Thanks for making me feel somewhat smart. Reminds me of when I was a kid and I said to my mom about cancer "why don't they just cut it out?".
And to be fair, AirBnb is also breaking some laws here and there.
Sorry, what is it you're saying?
Hello Jared and Trevor,

We're developing a publishing network. Individuals and groups can start magazines. Users can read on a timeline and interact like in a social network. What's new? Now anyone can get publishing infrastructure as good as a well funded online magazine. That means lots of unique publications in verticals that well-funded magazines & newspapers cannot do.

What's the best strategy to lure in people to use the service?
How do we make money?
And what if my employer ends up being vindictive and does try to enforce the noncompete?

What you're saying sounds exactly like what I've heard form every purveyor of terrible contract terms. "Oh, that's just a formality." "We don't ever enforce that clause." Well when why do you need me to sign it?!

Assume that every clause of everything you sign is potentially in play. If you don't, you're setting yourself up to be burned hard later on.
The weather patterns here are predominantly with the prevailing winds of west to east. Most of the weather in this area comes over from Michigan. Most of the weather hitting upstate NY is not coming over from Lake Ontario and being moderated by the lake, but comes from the west. Yes, the lake effect snow is a thing more on the south side, but the plant growing zone for example is 1 level higher on the northwest corner of the lake than on the south bank.
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Toronto had the dual advantages of a nice big natural harbour and several handy mill streams in one tidy little location, along with navigable trails and rivers leading to timber and fur resources. It also used to have a lot of prime agricultural land within spitting distance; most of that has since been paved over.
There's a lot more to a company than what it sells. Saying "I want to work here" without knowing the people there, for me, would be a non-starter.

What you're recommending (doing the background research on companies) is useful, but the worst jobs I've had have been the ones where I didn't do a good job interviewing my coworkers, and was just excited about the product, or the theoretical culture.
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I wonder if Apple regrets ever suing Samsung. Surely they must have known that it would be a prolonged battle with Samsung never capitulating? Companies usually use their patents to scare other companies into licensing deals, but when you decide to play your patents in court you're taking a chance that you're going to lose the power you thought they had and this is exactly what's happened in this case.

I wonder what Apple would have done if they had a do over? These trials have done more damage to Apple then Samsung.

I also suspect this won't be the last judgement, in favour of Apple, to be overturned.
So working for no pay you need to STRONGLY believe in the company. Do you think in 1-2 years its going to be making millions of dollars?

If so, get more equity. If not, quit.

I think you are worrying too much about equity, when the problem is your position. Equity means nothing if you don't get paid out. The odds of you EVER getting pay to match all the hours work decreases with every day you show up for work.
ZFS will come pre-installed on Ubuntu 16.04, a move that the Software Freedom Co
Yep! https://github.com/nylas/N1/issues/96
It gets even more specific than that, while home owner's associations don't generate laws that lead to criminal penalties when broken, the rules HOA's create are legally binding and have probably a significant impact on many people's quality of life and every day freedom. They are very personal rules and you can get in trouble for stupid things like leaving your garage door open or how you hang your laundry. People living with HOA's have opted for trading in freedoms for slightly higher property values.
It says that they invalidated the slide-to-unlock patent. I don't understand why Samsung would be dealing with that claim - their unlock is Android's unlock.

I really hope they actually invalidated it instead of saying "Samsung didn't infringe". Because that means at some point soon we Android phone users can actually have slide to unlock (instead of swipe in any direction to unlock). Although who knows... at this point that feature might irk me. It was important to me back when I switched away from iPhones.
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Make block time 1s. Allow blocks to hold 1M transactions. Problem solved?

Granted, this doesn't deliver the physical infrastructure to process that many transactions - but that will happen over time. Visa didn't process 56k tps on day one, either.
Just an aside/question; the title was edited to "Drupal Benchmarks" which loses the contextual information. While, yes, the page title corresponds, this is part of a wiki, and the editorialized title adds contextual data that shows why this post is not (barely at all) about "Drupal benchmarks".

Is there an official policy on titles / ninja edits by HN moderators? If so, next time I'll edit the Wiki page instead of leaving it in a hierarchical format, if that's required.
Yep, the script should go:

hearty laugh

I will not sign a non-compete agreement.

Show me the money.
"What's a pay phone?" is a phrase you'll hear from time to time too.
The patent was invalidated. "... the appeals panel said the patent is invalid because of prior art." http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/appeals-court-rev...

> patents are inherently bad

It is a GREAT thing when obviously easy to show prior art shows that it was not an innovation. This also shows the weakness and the loyalties of jury of our peers in cases like this. When I saw the prior art and video it was clear their was prior art.

Our current system hinders innovation and causes a hostile environment for anyone creating anything in technology today.
What bothers me is not really the cardboard. At least cardboard is from a renewable resource, can be recycled and is biodegradeable.

The sheer amount of plastics used unnecessarily is depressing. Tech is especially bad for this and my pet hate of coating boxes with plastic just so they're a little shinier.

It's a PSU, I doubt I'm even going to read the box. It won't influence my purchase. I don't need a plastic wallet for the spare cables either. Try an elastic band, or a cardboard box. A mouse mat doesn't need three layers of plasticised packaging large enough to put an IBM model M inside (hello Corsair).

Sometimes I wonder if the manufacturer is actually wishing for the destruction of the planet. There's no sane reason for a USB stick, cable or mouse mat to come in tamper sealed plastic, with multiple layers and trays inside.

The more we adopt online shopping the more the manufacturers seem to want to supply everything in point of sale displays.

Then Amazon send it to you in a box the size of a small filing cabinet.
The first problem this guy has is that he's using Sling. Sling is a terrible service at the moment, with terrible app UI, terrible stream performance and reliability, and terrible TV integration. Just terrible all around. Great concept, though.
Not necessarily. It probably means they just overhired, which is a problem at a lot of companies.

They could just plan to get more out of a lower staffing level, this was fairly common in the "re-engineering" triggered layoffs of the early 90s.

My bet is we will see more layoffs like this because managers have erred on the side of overhiring. Now teams are overbuilt and there's no way they need as many employees as they have to achieve their goals.

So they lay them off. We'll be seeing more of this. Management will start erring on the side of cutting staff.

The one constant here is that management is always in error, it's just the direction that has implications for employees.
Sure, like if the non-compete isn't that onerous for you (some are as short as 6 months, and some firms pay your salary for the duration of the non-compete), and you get compensated for it (e.g. a large salary boost).

Also, many firms in finance enforce non-competes as well as many other restrictions, e.g. mandatory approval for trading in personal accounts. So if you want to work in this industry, it's not easy to avoid them without compromising something else.
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