skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For cofounder meetings, or for customer research?

With cofounders, it's very difficult to be remote, because you have to make very complex decisions, often under a lot of pressure. My cofounder was in SF and I was in Silicon Valley and that commute was already killer; if we were in different metro areas I doubt it would've worked. Being able to get together at one of our apartments to hash out some product design or go over notes from customer interviews was critical.

For customer interviews - they can be (and often have to be, if your target customer base is spread out) remote. Most of ours were over the phone, with a few over email/Skype and a few meetings in person whenever they were local. You get more information out of an in-person meeting, though, since you can gauge their body language and emotional state. Indeed, I think we would've learned the problems in our idea faster had we done more in-person interviews: we had the contradictory data where the students we interviewed in person often seemed lukewarm or disinterested while the ones we interviewed remotely were very enthusiastic.
I think this story illustrates the thinking pretty well http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Complicator_0x27_s_Glove...
NVIDIA doesn't actually release precompiled modules, only OS-agnostic blob and Linux-specific source which you are free to build yourself.

However, there are other, valid examples like Linksys routers shipping with binary drivers for Broadcom NICs.
The monopoly is what is illegal, not the price you charge.
The things you're asking to compare aren't particularly clear, but I'm fairly certain they're not the same. The English phrase "due to" describes a causal connection between events, and p-values don't.
Germany is incredibly aggressive when it comes to intellectual "property".
Note that regardless of lawyers vs nerds, the CDDL is quite clear about what happens if a new version of the CDDL is released.

4.1. New Versions.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. is the initial license steward and may publish revised and/or new versions of this License from time to time. Each version will be given a distinguishing version number. Except as provided in Section 4.3, no one other than the license steward has the right to modify this License."

Note that v1.1 of the CDDL replaces Sun Microsystems, Inc. with Oracle. Otherwise, this gives them the right to publish a revised and/or new version of the license.

4.2. Effect of New Versions.

You may always continue to use, distribute or otherwise make the Covered Software available under the terms of the version of the License under which You originally received the Covered Software. If the Initial Developer includes a notice in the Original Software prohibiting it from being distributed or otherwise made available under any subsequent version of the License, You must distribute and make the Covered Software available under the terms of the version of the License under which You originally received the Covered Software. Otherwise, You may also choose to use, distribute or otherwise make the Covered Software available under the terms of any subsequent version of the License published by the license steward.

The second sentence here pins the license at the specific CDDL version, if one was specified in the original software. It's pretty unlikely that almost no one has specified a specific CDDL version. The last sentence gives the license recipient the ability to distribute under "any subsequent version of the license published by the license steward".

Note that these two combined (regardless of lawyer or nerd) give a compelling case that it's plausible that Oracle could take that action. They won't, and I don't think they should, and I find it hard to see that it as remotely reasonable that they should be pressured to. However, if they did, then it's likely that it would be legal since each other CDDL contributor accepted the license, and relicensed their own code with the same possibility.

Obviously some lawyer would make the case that it's not a new version since it has drastically different text, but at that point we're well into moot, counterfactual realms.
Well first you have to start with a prior distribution of beliefs, which that is not. And to reduce confusion I'll switch back to the actual genders (6 boys then a girl).

Suppose our prior distribution of beliefs is 0.5 that the probability is exactly 1/2, versus 0.5 that the probability of a boy is some value P which is equally likely to be any value from 0 to 1.

In the first case, the probability of 6 boys and 1 girl is 0.5^7 = 1/2^7. In the second case the probability of 6 boys and 1 girl is P^6(1-P) = P^6 - P^7. The integral from 0 to 1 of P^6 - P^7 is 1/6-1/7 = 1/42. Each case also has a priori odds of 1/2 of holding true.

After observing 6 boys and 1 girl, the first case now has probability (0.5/2^7)/(0.5/2^7 + 0.5/42) = 1/(1 + 64/21) = 21/129 = 0.162790697674419. The second case now has probability 1 - this, which is 0.837209302325581. Furthermore if the second case is true, P is no longer uniformly distributed. In fact its density is now proportional to P^6-P^7.

So the posterior distribution is now going to be:

With probability 21/129, exactly 0.5. And otherwise any value P from 0 to 1 with a probability density of 108/129*(P^6-P^7)/42.

Given this prior and this set of observations, any other answer is wrong. Given a different prior you would get a different posterior, but as long as the prior gives a constant probability of male/female, the only fact that matters is how many boys and girls there are.

The order of births can only start to matter if you start with a prior that gives different probabilities of different genders based on prior events. Even then it is hard to come up with a realistic scenario in which the plans of the parents would make an order of magnitude difference in the posterior distribution.
I second that, we had to run a medium sized application on FusionIO cards because Sybase was just terrible at query optimization
Had an indergrad ecology course to teach me this. The first 4 labs were plug and chug equations sampling a square with computer generated randomly placed dots. All we had to do is get a sample (we could choose the size), and figure out a 95% likelihood that the correct number was within our range. No one could do it for 3 labs, before he told us how. Good samples are REALLY important, even under basically perfect conditions.
One of the few usable products MS has (haven't used it since SQL Server 2000 though).
Any chance that it’ll be open sourced so it can be ported to other browsers? I’d love something like this but I refuse to use Chrome and I’d be willing to put in the time needed to port it.
I would like to know how they thought about maintenance.

Clojure, as great as it might be, is based on a paradigm(fp) that is arguably hard to master.

The number of developers with great fp & clojure knowledge is low compared to Java or javascript developers available in the market.
And with using javascript/Java (or even another non fp language), they could have leveraged experienced developers to take it forward.

In the end, from the limited data in the post, they did not seem to have a good use case for using clojure, where they could have done with javascript (async and parallel).

I'm all for trying out new things when it makes sense, but this looks like a case of 'novelty for novelties sake'
Why should it look the same everywhere?

* website navigation often contains text

* User-Interface controls often contain text

I'm less concerned about trying to have my lines break in the same place or having the perfect kerning, but if giving the browser some good fonts to work with can cut down a whole ton of tricky, ongoing, hard-to-debug, hard-to-test edge cases then it's a no-brainer!

I still give the whole wishlist, so if for some reason there's no access to google it still does the best it can - my argument is that a professional/commercial web design in 2016 can't lack web fonts because it will co$t more not to have them in developer time. I am that guy that gets paid hourly to track down those bugs.

The other bit of CSS that ought to be on every website EVER, is:

*,
*:before,
*:after {
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
font-kerning: auto;
}

That bit of CSS is a little bit of magic that makes fonts look the same everywhere, and better than default. This means `font-weight: 500` looks the same in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, on Windows, on iOS, everywhere. I almost always use `font-weight: 400` as my lightest weight.

I've got a bunch more of my snippets here: https://gist.github.com/tomhodgins/27c29ecb4aceaefe5cdf

> Do you also use a fixed width div holding everything? One no wider than a VGA screen?

Also got a giggle out of this one - I specialize in responsive web layouts, my job is making fixed-width layouts work on phones and tablets, hundreds of devices to make more $$$ :)
Amazon controlled 90% of the market share and was price dumping. It is dubious that they colluded too much, as they were buying from the sellers, which is literally how markets work.

Amazon, and I am not joking, in an article called Amazon: We have 70-80 percent of e-book market[0] through there kindle chief makes that claim.

Also credit suisse released a report prior claiming 90%[1] in the wall street journal.

This article itself also links to 5 publishers in a signed statement within an amicus brief claiming these figures and that dumping was taking place. thus prices set above that of a 90% market concentration single actor, make it reasonable to assume that increasing prices is infact the market rate.

Steve Jobs was a dick, maybe they were anti-competitive. I doubt they made 450million charging more than the market leader...

http://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-we-have-70-80-percent-of-e-b...

[1]http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2010/02/16/analyst-amazon-e-...

Nearly everything here is fact. So i find it difficult to understand what is being objected to...
Just because it's possible doesn't mean it will happen. Office is on Android because it has a huge market share.

Linux desktop still is very low market share so an Office client doesn't make sense there, whereas Linux server is high market share so SQL Server does make sense.
The three best Microsoft products are their natural keyboard, the mice and SQL Server. Now all of them work with my OS.
Oh yeah, I meant legal rights. I don't disagree with you about the human right necessarily, I just haven't thought about it enough.

What I mean is, if you think about extreme situations, drug use will stop people from being able to provide you with legal rights. But forget about drug use, if everybody quit their job - which is totally legal - you wouldn't have any legal rights either.

And outside of the realm of people doing paid work, a child has the legal right to be raised by a non-abusive parent or guardian. If the parent is fucked up all the time, legally and at home, that child is having its rights infringed upon. Whether the government intervenes is another question.
I guess people who wrote a seminal paper on cloud computing, who do research on Xen OS and distributed computing, and generate Amazon savings / product offerings that make them billions, then they should definitely ask for more than a million.

We all know that there are actors who make a million dollar per episode, but most of them don't.

I think that unless you are in the "I wrote the Dremel paper for Google" or "I'm Doug Cutting and I wrote Hadoop" or "I invented MapReduce" or "I created the Xen hypervisor" then don't get your hopes up for a 1 million$ package from Google/Amazon/Microsoft.

In any profession you can find top notch people who are making a million dollar annual salary. But usually it's the very top.

If there are 200 engineers at this level at Amazon, let's say there are 200 like this at Google and 200 more at Microsoft Facebook and LinkedIn, e.g. there are ~1000 engineers who make 1 million dollars salaries.

Let's say there are between 1-3 million software engineers in the US (excluding managers) - sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demograph..., http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/01/IDC-software-developers

so only 0.03 to 0.1% of Software Engineers make a million dollar salary. e.g. the 99.9 percentile or higher.

Now compare it with doctors, lawyers, brokers, and you'll see that this is nothing to be proud of.

There are about 100 actors who make more than a million dollar a year:

https://www.quora.com/How-many-actors-make-more-than-a-milli...

And about 60,000 employed actors in the US

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes272011.htm

So about 0.166% of Actors make more than a million.

More likely to make a million$ a year as an employed actor than as a software engineer? I don't know, but it's not that different.

The main difference is obviously the width and height of the pyramid...

Bottom line, with even $300K total comp, even in SF, I don't think life is too bad.

But don't get your hopes high for much more than $500K unless you are really going to cost the company a lot if you leave to the competitors, or if you move up high into management.

If you really want to make tons of money, and can sell, then move to sales, (or even presales).
Seems quite insular to call it just "SQL Server".
We already have Postgres SQL Server, MySql SQL Server, etc.
They should call it "Microsoft SQL Server".
Tolerance of this kind of situation is what pushes North America closer and closer to Kafkaesque nightmares though.
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I'd probably guess its the most popular enterprise os excluding web hosting.

On average I've seen better windows server setups then Linux setups simply because windows servers tend be used in 'enterprise' solutions.
Michael Bloomberg will not run for president
I understand, but that implies that the underlying OS is suboptimal for the task, doesn't it? I mean, Postgres doesn't do that in Linux, right?
> Destroys spontaneity

It's exactly that. I'm sitting in a waiting room or the departure gate at the airport flipping through Twitter or Instagram and a click on a video. I don't need that 6 second video to play in 4K. That it runs instantly is the most important quality, IMHO.
Do you have a webpage about the event? Does it have something unusual? Do you have some material about a previous edition?
Pretty sure the code has changed enough in 23 years that this wasn't relevant.
... And Apple arranged for all the big publishers to raise prices which is plain and simple price fixing.
The attorneys advising members of the ZoL project and various ZoL users have consistently said that redistributing binaries is alright. The only reason few of us do it is because there are just too many binary kernel builds to reasonably support via published binaries.
How to Attract More Users?
Warp Directory (wd) unix command line tool for any shell written in ruby
I don't know where you are, but in England most pain control clinics are mostly about helping the patient deal with pain, and using appropriate medication to do so.

Here's the English guidance for managing pain in non-specialist settings, so this is what people should be getting from a regular doctor. (For neuropathic pain).

http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg173/chapter/1-recommendati...
>bypass the operating system file caching

Using raw partitions instead of file system files for database storage was common practice with Oracle and other DBs at one time. Not checked lately.
In all fairness, Zappos has about 5x the number of employees as Valve, according to a quick Google. That's the kind of thing that matters a lot.
Doing too much of it and developing chronic RSI. Take breaks!
The author also failed to notice "peaks" from the original spotify blog post about events per second. So 700k requests is not average, it's peak. They don't have that every second.
Yes, that's fair enough.
The agency model has something called "most favored nation" which forces the same retail price on all channels and retailers.
Right, and this fine is somewhat like fining an individual $0.10 for jaywalking. They'll probably decide it was worth the risk and keep doing the illegal thing, like Apple in this case or HSBC with lax anti-money-laundering compliance. The point is that these things won't be deterred until the people responsible are at risk of going to prison, or doing something else they're not going to gladly write-off as a cost of business.
> one great way to test a hypothesis is to test a competing hypothesis.

Isn't it worse than that? A statistical hypothesis test will essentially just let you refute the null hypothesis, it provides no confirmation at all for a specific alternative hypothesis (unless of course it's the only possible alternative hypothesis).

A funny story comes to mind: I studied physics at university but did one semester of psychology. One day in class we did an experiment that was supposed to show that memory is organized into something called schemas, but the experiment seemed severely flawed to me and I couldn't help protest that a much more reasonable interpretation of the outcome was that "people who have actually been told a story will be better at retelling the story, at least when compared to people who have not been told the story." On hearing this criticism my professor became silent for a moment and then said something along the lines of:

"I have a colleague who's son borrows his bike when his own is broken. This colleague sometimes says that his son thinks that his bike will mend itself if left to its own devices. Well, that's one way to interpret the data..."

I thought it was a brilliant way to acknowledge my criticism. But my fellow students unfortunately didn't seem to get it. I guess psychology was never for me. :)
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What in particular do you miss from other SQL languages?
Maybe the application is ignoring the SIGTERM?
https://docs.docker.com/compose/reference/stop/
Not sure why what app being used is relevant. Plain text is all we need to write anything like this. You could use Markdown if you must (and must you?), but whether you use VIM or emacs or sublime slime or something else, two things are clear:

You type in plain text (just like I'm doing here in this comments box) and jot down notes. Save it an ongoing text file (probably called 'ideas.txt' or you could separate them into 'personal_ideas.txt' and 'business_ideas.txt' and 'new_relationship_ideas.txt' (lol) if you need, and place all that 'org' stuff in a folder that auto-syncs to some service somewhere if you need cloud backup (dropbox, iCloud, gdocs, etc).

Standard iOS Notes app is fine if you are all in the Mac/iOS space routinely.

The only thing I do in terms of 'formatting' is to put bigger ideas in all caps and then indent (it's a tab!) for sub-notes and maybe put an asterisk if I'm feeling bulletproof.

So, like this:

from business_ideas.txt

* increase Twitter to 180 characters
* publish corporate drone-like rants on LinkedIn
* command-line movie time tool
* dog walking service combined with GoPro/Vine channel for owners to watch 'best of' clips
* invent a new "to-do" app and try to monetize it since text files haven't worked in 30 years
* See if WordStar is for sale and revamp it for the Mac with lots of shiny glossy new icons
* MOSQUITO FARM
order breeds online
build security fence to hide farm from nosy neighbors
what about a super-mosquito cross-bred with a hornet?
sell to labs who need well-trained mosquitoes for zika testing
* refurbish old consignment shop as an "eBay shop"
* frozen yogurt, but only for pre-teen girls in a "safe" environment (no boys allowed) and only in girl-like colors, but where we teach them coding, laser tag, and play songs from the movie 'Frozen' all day long. Name: Frozen Yog-Her?
* record online python coding tutorial for beginners since there is not much available now
Oh, I'm sure there's nothing secret about that gratefulness. But it's also trivial to dismiss: The Fire Phone flopped badly. While people buying Kindles mostly just expect to be able to read Kindle books, you cannot sell an Android phone today without the Play Store and be successful.

The law is not like programming, if something is 'technically true', it's probably false as far as the law is concerned. The law is much more concerned in this area with what is 'practical'. It is not 'practical' to fork Android, and operate as a business with it.
Most 'blockchain' proposals I've seen, particularly in civic technology, would be satisfied with a public git repository containing a .csv file, and also generally ignore the social issues around data ownership and quality.
Oh wow. This guy changed the font to Arial(!) because "Using WebFonts for "body" text - paragraphs, h3 and lower - seems like a loser's game to me. The visual differences to system fonts are usually not detectable at these small size".

It's not just the font that's grotesque here. Of course a 'normal user' isn't usually noticing the fonts a website uses. In fact, they shouldn't. But fonts still influence how people perceive the website.

Using this guy's insane logic, we could get rid of all craftsmen, because nobody notices the details anyway.

Even more tragic: Rubygems was apparently loading 12 styles&weights of that font and only using two. He could've thrown out the 10 unused variations and gotten almost the same result without resorting to violating someone's design.

Why exactly is Rubygems giving idiots access to it's source code?
Sorry I don't understand - you're not sufficiently white enough to blog?
Using ".component-name <insert child tag>" goes against semantic UI conventions and couples your custom styles to the tags instead of the classes in the component. It quickly becomes brittle when trying to update those styles if the tags change in an updated version, or if the rendered output changes structure, etc.
Note that this is an estimate for just one feature of Spotify, not of their total hosting bill.
libreoffice draw works fine for most of my charting needs. even google drawings is not that bad. draw.io is plain awesome!
To be fair, Germans have never been very "amused" by anything.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”

[LEWIS CARROLL (Charles L. Dodgson), Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 6, p. 205 (1934). First published in 1872.]

If you talk with people in public, is it much better to either use commonly accepted meanings of words, or at least mention your your own definitions before you use them.

> I guess when corporations are people, nations are houses and nationally grown crops may just as well be domestic.

If you want to play the etymology game (for at least as far as a Google query for `<word> etymology' does), `corporations' are some kind of bodies; nations have something to do with being born; and `industrially grown' would mean grown with diligence.

Why stop at domus?