skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If she was the best sysadmin you ever worked with -- you could honestly say that she was better than you.

Otherwise, you're saying you are the best sysadmin. So unless you consider yourself the best -- you indirectly did say that she was better than you.

And the implication is that even with mediocre technical skills, she managed to leverage her considerable social skill to become the best sysadmin you ever worked with.

Sounds like a person whose work has considerable merit.
This is my PhD research, the website uses publicly available 8 million hospitalizations from Texas. However there is also a local Cornell version on 130 Million visits.

Description : www.computationalhealthcare.com

Some interesting examples:
Chemotherapy followed by Stem cell transplant

http://www.computationalhealthcare.com/N1/TX/Entry/_P9925_P4...

Admission via ED followed by Cardiac Cath.

http://www.computationalhealthcare.com/N1/TX/Entry/_N1_e_P37...

We plan on applying to YC S16.
I got the same result but also have Yelp installed. I'm a facebook user but m.facebook.com is so much better than the native app.
Same. Only male. Correct result.

The only app i have is Facebook.
"You are a married guy older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year"

Not really no, granted I ticked no to all the boxes apart from youtube/maps that comes with android
The only two apps I had in the list were Youtube and Google Maps, both are installed at the factory and it guessed: You are a married guy older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year
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I had trouble with this. The editing pane was on the bottom, not the left, and problems would expect an answer that would have required me to be psychic to answer. E.g. I was supposed to type in foo but foo wasn't mentioned in the problem.
>EDIT: I asked a legitimate question. Down votes don't teach people who want to learn, people.

You demanded answers. There's a big difference.
Amusingly, Betteridge's law of headlines holds true here as well.
You are a single lady younger than 32 who makes less than $52,000/year. Wrong, wrong, wrong and, drumroll, wrong.
The pins are standard and on some types of connector, are crimped first, then pushed into the housing block. All you need to manufacture is the plastic housing block. That's a reasonable part to have made by commercial 3D printing.
That's how Hunch worked and it was pretty good.
What reason did YC give for your rejection (if you don't mind sharing)? And did you heed their advice or ignore it in order to get to where you are now?
Wonder how it compares to aptitude? Used to be (10 years ago), aptitude was better and not orphaning packages on removal. Been using ever since..
They only said they would guess over/under for each of those thresholds, so no, it was correct.
As someone who has been on both sides of that conversation many times, that is a failure of your product. A user should not have to pick up the phone and call you (during normal business hours) to get a password reset.
Ask HN: Book Recommendations for small business entrepreneurs
Do you have any book recommendations for entrepreneurs that talk about actual business strategies that used. Preferably small businesses and not McDonalds or Walmart.

Case studies would also do. I want to read more in my spare time, but I don't like the self-help kinda of books that offer no concrete advice, but only generalized statements.
Anarchy is a wonderful political system, for the roughly 8 seconds until it is replaced by some form of feudalism or something.
I've come to look at it this way:

The unadorned "developer/engineer" role[1] -- that is to say, not CTO or even Lead Engineer -- itself seems to tap out after 8-10 years, in terms of both salary and respect.

That is, in the average case, anyway. There are of course companies which pay upper-tranche (in terms of salary and respect) for very highly talented programmers who aren't in leadership or crossover roles. But these are a comparatively rarified stratum; by and large -- for the great majority of companies out there -- the "Senior Developer / Engineer" role definitely seems to plateau within about that timeframe.

So if you don't find yourself drawn to that category of engineer (and to those kinds of companies -- many truly gifted programmers I've known still pull down decidedly average salaries) -- and you find yourself wanting more salary (or respect / responsibility) -- you better start thinking of something else.

[1] Leaving aside distinctions between "developer" and "engineer", as discussed elsewhere recently, for the sake of simplicity.
As for the market demands on compilers, I hope that this paper influences that in more reasonable directions. In the meantime, I have nothing against having an option (or more) for "optimizations". Enabling new "optimizations" by default however has the effect of miscompiling existing programs and is not such a good idea. At the very least there should be one flag for disabling "optimizations" without disabling optimizations.

Concerning what are optimizations: If the observable behaviour does not change (even when there is undefined behaviour), it's an optimization. Also, register allocation and rearranging stuff in memory is an optimization (because programs that rely on that not changing break on maintenance). Other transformations are, at best, "optimizations". If you have any questions about specific transformations, please ask.
I happen to work for a company that was started by programmers. In the early days, they had to spend a lot of time doing sales and support, so they were dealing with customers every day. But as companies grow, people who specialize in product management and sales get hired, and programmers no longer have much contact with customers.

But since your article discusses the relationship between programmers and a "product department", I'm assuming that the company has grown to a point where programmers have relatively little day to day contact with customers, and thus they shouldn't be the ones calling the shots when it comes to figuring out what the customers need.
X-isolation obviously wouldn't be the only isolation mechanism you'd use to run untrusted code. For other things you would use namespaces, seccomp and chroot.

But X is the one thing that can't be done well by those because granting access to the unix socket that's needed by X means leaving the barn door wide-open.
I'm about as skeptical about the singularity these days as Cory is skeptical about Whuffie.

(When you look at the pattern of beliefs around the singularity they structurally resemble the complex of beliefs held by pre-millenarian Christian fundamentalists. They're equally difficult to falsify, too. If you conditionally accept the theory that atheism as understood in the West is a product of the Enlightenment and thus a Protestan heresy, then it looks like a bunch of the avowedly rationalist atheists have come full-circle and accidentally built themselves a tree house that looks uncannily like a church.)
have you considered adding a free tier? Our project has one and we have had success upselling existing free customers a lot, since our free tier is very limited.

Its different from a free trial since if they like your product will use it until they grow enough to upgrade and might eventually start giving you money.

I can think of countless products that I ended up upgrading from free to paid after using their product > a few months on their free tier.
Most Washington Post readers are older. But it would be cheating to use that info.
I didn't say screwed up. I even suggested it may be done unknowingly and presented that I struggle with "would it be helpful to point it out" vs "am I just magnifying the downvote arrow".

My child has pragmatic communication issues, and I've experienced that he (and others, adults and children alike) generally appreciate being told when they're speaking in a manner that suggests superiority even when I know they're not intending to sound that way. On the other hand, people who are just arrogant will become hostile. That's my gamble, and my question would help me to quantify the nature of that gamble.

Many people in certain segments of information technology, for example, are frequently challenged by social cues and pragmatic speech. I don't know if those groups are more concentrated here versus, say, in a community focused on space. And I don't like to piss off the communities that I have enjoyed being a part of. I learn from mistakes and, when I'm not sure, I ask.

Please don't project a hostile intent; I didn't accuse anyone of anything negative and I was sincerely trying to better understand the people in this community because, for better or worse, I identify with it.
"Then your typing pass walking over this segment of AST would generate the following (mostly trivial) equations"

Thanks for the example. That does seem straight-forward.

"It's Turing-complete. You can encode anything you want in it."

The reason I mention it is that many people doing proofs and such specifically avoid first-order logic in favor of HOL or Coq. They sometimes mention FOL is too limited or you have to go out of your way for what they're doing. Not specialist enough to have figured out what they're talking about. There appears, though, to be some cutoff point where one is better off using HOL-style tools for analysis, proof, synthesis, whatever. Wish I had references on-hand if it's not clear already what I'm talking about.
Liquidity seeks returns.

Asset price inflation isn't economic growth.

And a strengthening labour market would see rising wages. They're rather curiously not. For some decades now.
> 1500+ customers

How many of them are paying?
There are plenty of actual fights remaining to be won, those aren't what SJW's look for as they quite fine with simply tilting at windmills as it doesn't requires much (or well any) effort, doesn't involve putting their own skin into the game and still allows them to boast and leave with a feeling of accomplishment.
This is fascinating to watch.

The Bitcoin block chain is an explicit distributed consensus algorithm.

The Bitcoin community is an implicit consensus-based human system.

The two are inextricably linked because humans put hard-earned dollars into the algorithm. A lot of dollars...

We're watching the two systems try to cooperate to evolve, and it looks pretty messy.

When looking at it through this lens, I'm even more confident in my decision to not put money into Bitcoin.

I can't think of any software systems that are successful without granting specific individuals near total authority so they don't have to rule everything by consensus.

The most successful businesses follow the CEO model. Apple is Steve's vision and execution.

The most successful open source software projects follow the benevolent dictator model. Linus runs Linux, Guido runs Python.

Other protocols like HTTP have a pretty broad set of people that make up a standards board. But at the end of the day we have all given Google, Apple, Mozilla and Microsoft executive authority over the protocol through unanimously adopting their clients.

With Bitcoin, the core development team is already starting from a weak position, since anyone else can start up nodes that speak the protocol differently. The miners are granted most of the power and authority by the algorithm, but anyone can participate in mining. Wallet software needs to cooperate. Businesses and end users that operate on Bitcoin have their own wants and needs.

It's a miracle anyone bought into this system in the first place, and will be a miracle if they figure out how to cooperate to evolve.
They're allowed to ask "does anything on this system handle yelp:// URLs?".
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> We didn’t get into YC: Sam Altman told us they did not think we could ever inspire Bitcoin developers to build on top of us.

Don't ever let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Which is to say, make your own way in this world.
Success is when one remains true to self & others. If we must use Python, then - Any of these is considered False: None, '', [], (), {} and False itself. So, one is bound to achieve success by being truthful to self and others, always create value and make no empty promises and know when to "raise" an exception. Never giving up but knowing when to abandon a bad venture can also be seen as success.

There must be some +ve energy between a startup & an investor. Timing is also everything. Investors can only invest in so many pet food startups. While a pet food startup is making money and is considered a success, that doesn't mean investors have to invest.

Investors sometimes walk away from a B-team founders of a startup no matter how successful the startup really is. A-team with B-plan is always prefered over B-team with A-plan.

Sometimes, Founders decide not take money from investors, if they believe that the investor may only bring money and without any intellect and/or networking.

With that said, the final transaction is not everything.
Well that's interesting - the only difference between you and I was YouTube, and I'm a married man over 32 making 52,000+. (I have YouTube because Google installed it by default on my phone but I disabled it so I didn't count - also, I'm a 23-year old male who makes a lot less than 52,000/year :D )
Based on the fact that the only app I have from the set is Google Maps, we're in the same group.

Except I'm not married, and not a lady.

Facebook has decided I'm a hispanic teenager based on my user profile.

And then the industry wonders why ad blockers are exploding.
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You are a single lady younger than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year

Wrong, wrong, correct!, wrong.

As I suspected, Etsy throws them :) Remove that and they figure out I'm a guy. I guess they can't tell the difference between a single lady buying herself things on Etsy and a guy buying his girlfriend something on there, so, no they can't.
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That's interesting; I didn't know that any language did that.

I really like your design idea, and it would be fun to think of an application for which it was the best fit.
Gevent 1.1 released with python 3 and PyPy support
It got me correct, but not my income. I use the Yelp website, never their app :) Goes for a few of them in their list, as well.
> There are 16 possible results, based on your gender (male/female), your age (over/under 32), your marital status (married/single) and your income (over/under $52,000).

They weren't testing at that level of granularity.
The under-25 generation seems to be actually terrified to have to ... gasp ... TALK to somebody.

Many of them will sit and wait for 2 days after ordering something online when something is available 5 minutes away at a brick and mortar store.

I don't get it. I guess I'm just old.
This is exactly why it should be the default. Defaulting to parallel builds would stop the epidemy of broken makefiles from growing.

Users of legacy makefiles would have to explicitely use "make -j1", or specify ".NOTPARALLEL:" in the makefile - no big deal.

(As a beneficial side effect, defaulting to parallel builds would create an incentive for fixing sloppy makefiles).
Firstly, the interview process was very good. They asked us some very sharp questions. YC said, the reason for our rejection was that our product would only work for large enterprises having many repeat users (think Amazon etc.). So we went back, thought about it hard, and then rebuilt the solution to make it work for small businesses, startups and even large enterprises. Today our customers spans all three segments.

I even wrote a blog post about our rejection - https://blog.clevertap.com/the-future-looks-bright/
Help me out here: where is my demand?

EDIT FOLLOWS

From your profile:

>Hi, I'm Bucky. I'm sorry if I've come off as a jerk, communication on the internet is really tough.

It sure is, so thanks in advanced for your helpful response.
We didn't even have these proper things at my top engineering university -- just a bunch of Wellers on a bench.
I can't comment on the other points, but the author is right about Firefox. The last time I tried it (several months ago), it really came across as a browser that looks like Chrome but is worse in almost every way. It's lack of performance is what struck out to me the most, despite the fact that I have several extensions running.

This is just anecdotal of course, so take it with a grain of salt.
>Mr Eich is now making the Brave web browser (based on Webkit by the way) which is arguably one of the most promising new browsers right now. Go figure.

Right about here my confidence in the veracity of this guy's claims plummeted. Brave offers nothing existing browsers can't already provide, except of course a diversion of ad revenue directly into Eich's pocket.
Exact same result. I have five screens of apps on my phone yet those two and Uber are the only apps I have from the quiz.
What's the use of mentoring then?
The impact of those changes is rather different. In the case of make, your build would probably break. In the case of gcc, your program's behaviour would silently change.
we don't disclose that publicly, but here a link to our pricing page - https://clevertap.com/pricing/
It's nuanced, but you can use techniques like app URL scheme querying to determine what is installed. [1] People will be replying to you with information from 2011—today, it is generally not possible to query for a large number of installed apps this way. So generally, the answer is no.

Without going into much detail, the state of the art uses Facebook in a peculiar way to determine which _relevant_ apps are installed, relevant meaning high grossing (Clash of Clans, Spotify, Tinder are examples).

[1] http://useyourloaf.com/blog/querying-url-schemes-with-canope...
Is this "introduces" as in "issued press release", or as in "now shipping in volume"? They write "The production of the battery is planned in two phases. First a plant in Yecla, Murcia, will be built accounting for an investment of 30 million euro and whose first production line will be ready by the end of this month." If they're not shipping samples next month, it's bullshit.
A large organization I'm very aware of used such a strategy for their investments.
I don't see a point in these rpi3 benchmarks because everything was compiled for armv6, which doesn't even have a hardware floating point unit. A major feature of the rpi3 is armv8.
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Friends with a handful of founders that have been rejected by YC - their companies are all doing incredibly well today.
This might as well be a joke quiz you share results of on Facebook it's so wildly inaccurate.
A (probably) shittier version of this for OS X: https://github.com/Tyilo/asm_repl

(I'm the author of it)
I honestly wonder to what degree this is just a "perceptions being warped by preconceptions" thing. I use Firefox at home and Chrome at work and the differences in performance are insignificant compared to stuff like Chrome constantly asking me if I want to get tracked.

also, iirc, Firefox did alright in benchmarks at many points in history.
A while ago a hiring manager allegedly from Mozilla Vancouver posted a long rant that he went through 60 interviews yet couldn't find a junior dev which was downvoted to oblivion with angry comments. He shortly deleted all of his comments since then but reading this employees comments on slashdot makes me fit together the puzzle pieces....Mozilla has become a trust fund for incompetent people to earn a cheque every month.

Google Chrome has really done a number on the browser market and surpassed the 25% mark for quite some time while Firefox has been dwindling to irrelevance. Failed to even eat into IE marketshare.

https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...
They need a box for "I've never even heard of this app" that would allow them to better predict I'm an old curmudgeon who is just fine with missing out on the latest trends.

Instead I'm a twenty-something single woman making more than $52k.
True. I skipped that. I'll pay more attention to the text going forward.
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To counter your anecdote with some more anecdote, I just switched from Chrome to Firefox and have felt that the latter has some serious performance advantages over the former.
That's a lot of reasoning but little insight. Very few people have 20k cash to spend, world-wide. Some of them might have true innovation in their pockets.

The problem is, an investor needs these people more than the other way around. There this general pretense that when you're funded you've been blessed by 'angels', but they need the big hit more than you do. And yet, they won't budge. They refuse to see that it's a two-way relationship and so everyone loses.

In other words, we don't have the innovation we all want partly because we are so bad at figuring out how to connect funding to innovation. Currently, we use inane heuristics, ego and bankrupt intuition -- and it's not working.
Was interesting to hear the entire perspective but the "marriage thing?" That wasn't exactly small. Imagine if gave money instead to the KKK... would that have been just "a racial heritage thing?"

Backing something that separates families is divisive and not appropriate for an organization that is about openness and diversity, especially given the current tech climate of monoculture.

Engineers can really be the worst offenders when it comes to hate-like views, I think in part because they're likely smarter than the average person so they've completely convinced themselves that they're the rational ones.

I remember back when I was at Google in 2008. A survey on lgbt issues went around company wide. What came back was so completely shocking and insane, especially out of Russia and India. Burn them, kill them, they don't desire to live, etc. And this was a survey you gave back to your employer!!!

Edit: as many people have missed my point let me clarify. The comparison against the KKK was simply to illustrate that who you donate to and support affects your organization, especially when that cause negatively impacts the personal lives of your employees (and goes against your org core values, and reinforces an existing problem of monoculture). I'm not saying prop 8 == KKK, I'm showing that personal beliefs matter when you're a leader.
So do this thought experiment: Apple is ordered to create fbiOS, and one or more engineers baulks and says: "This order is compelling me to write code, thereby compelling speech from me, and I refuse to write it." And she's sent to jail for contempt of court.

Your argument rests heavily on code that exists. It's much easier to argue that isn't speech just because it's easier to call it an object, an artifact. A gear. A knob. But before code is written, it is in the realm of thoughts.
As does Mailtrap[0] which is apparently used by GitHub and Atlassian among others. (No affiliation, just happened to see their customer list and was somewhat impressed.)

[0] https://mailtrap.io/
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I am happy with firefox performance, using vimperator. When you remove all the UI it is one good browser. Big problem with potential decline is that I don't know of any substitute for ff+vimperator (or pentadactyl) that works half good as they do. I tried just about any browser + vimsomething combo.
It already works fine under Gnome, every major Gnome distro should be switching either late 2016 or early 2017. I cannot imagine Ubuntu Gnome not switching in 16.10.

KDE is a little bit more behind, but I'd postulate well working Wayland somewhere around Plasma 5.8 - we are going to see 5.6 come out in a few months, and 5.8 is the start of next year. KDE themselves have had to propose tons of extensions to Wayland itself to support functionality they use - server side decorations, screenshotting, key grabbing, etc.