skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am surprised that you would not be well-served by a math degree from a half-decent institution, and very skeptical that your degree has not actually helped you obtain your career, versus not having any baccalaureate degree at all.

I've worked with software engineers senior to myself who had B.A.s or Ph.D.'s in math and no degrees with the letters C and S in them, including a few younger, fairly recent graduates.

I do have the magical letters "CS" in my degree, but I also have a second major in mathematics. While I must confess I hardly use a fraction of the math I studied on a daily basis and have forgotten most of it, it has served me well and there have been numerous times I would have been lost without it.

Pardon, but you seem a little bitter. I suspect you have no idea how good you have it, compared to say, most graduates with a degree in humanities from an expensive liberal arts college.

All that being said, if your intended career path is software engineering, I would tend to agree that studying software engineering is the best education to prepare for it.
The title sums it up. Good ol' Perl text processing, plus awesome new list processing (will be useful for n-grams, etc.). My favorite is slide #85, though. Communication with other processes in Perl 5 is always a huge pain, and I can never get it to not hang; you have to unbuffer STDOUT via $|++, then you have to read from STDIN and maybe STDERR to keep it from blocking. The Java solution is similarly painful, requiring spinning up threads for reading each stream (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14165517/processbuilder-f...).
> The mobile version of Netflix’s site also has no provision for managing plastic.

Has he tried switching to Firefox and use the 'Request Desktop Site' option ?
They don't have rights to stream any decent movies

That seems hyperbolic. Just browsing around (I decided to cap this at 5 minutes):

The Interview

Forrest Gump

Major League

Pirates of Carribean

Hot Fuzz

Armageddon

Kingpin

A League of Their Own

Inglorious Basterds

Scarface

Django Unchained

Legally Blonde

E.T.

Days of Thunder

The Princess Bride

Crocodile Dundee

Clear and Present Danger

V for Vendetta

Galaxy Quest

Running Man

Big Trouble in Little China

Talladega Nights

Kill Bill (1 and 2)

Star Trek Movies (including The Wrath of Kahn)

Tommy Boy

Team America World Police

Lilo & Stitch

Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back

Wayne's World

Clerks

Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure
I believe Lilyhammer was originally produced by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, not Netflix; Netflix just obtained American distribution rights.
what about other ongoing costs, like labor?
Something that to some small degree worries me is that video game preservation is all but impossible for online-only services. WoW and its ilk have played a large role in the evolution of video games, but in ten years we're unlikely to be able to recreate anything like the experience of playing the game at any stage.

I don't think there's a good solution, especially without market leaders such as Blizzard, Sony, or NCSoft taking a pro-preservation stance. Legislation to protect the rights of reverse-engineers seems troublesome, and existing copyright law makes any kind of expiration period ineffective.
I am deeply skeptical at the notion that electronics payloads can withstand 5k to 10k g's of loading. A one gram component would experience 100 newtons of loading. That's over 20 pounds of force exerted on something the mass of a paperclip.

These aren't your nice, typical static loads, either. Dynamic loading tends to not play nicely with brittle materials, so solar panels will fracture. I would be extremely concerned about the integrity of highly chemically reactive batteries when what's normally a small five pound pack weighs as much as a Bradley fighting vehicle.

My questions is, am I getting this wrong? Are you able to cite sources that say this kind of g loading isn't an issue?
Several big US sites are likely to support legal action against adblockers
Apply HN: HR Partner – human resource management for small businesses
Problem - A lot of smaller companies don't have a dedicated HR manager or team, and don't invest in the time or technology to record important employee information, nor keep track of important recurring events such as performance reviews and employee leave quotas.

Solution - HR Partner has been designed for smaller businesses, to get them on the right track with proper human resource practices. We offer a free tier for very small companies to get started.

We also have an employee portal and leave tracking/application out of the box, and are busy integrating our system with various popular payroll systems.

Differentiators from our competition -

(a) we are region agnostic, and we don't supply pro forma policies and forms that are usually specific to a particular locality.
(b) we have designed the system so that external HR consultants can log into multiple companies and help them with their HR workload. This is all part of our philosophy about 'sharing the load' and enabling many people to work on a single company.

Challenges - We basically have a working solution all built and being used by around 120 people (on the free tier) in the 3 months since going live. We are looking for capital and partnerships with experienced marketing professionals who can assist us with obtaining revenue.

Trivia - HR Partner was built by ONE guy and the office cat in a remote city in Australia that is 3000km from the nearest Apple store! This one man team has over 30 years experience as a self employed developer, and is responsible for every single one of the 22132 lines of Ruby code, the back end DevOps, front end interface design, social media marketing, support resolution, blog and documentation creation as well as making the tea.

HR Partner site - http://www.hrpartner.io
We don't have the 4th season of House of Cards on Netflix in Germany (and I also think other European countries), because they sold the rights to Sky. This is why I quit my Netflix subscription.
Why involve employers in the loop at all? If automation is the goal, you could (presumably, not sure if it's actually legally/technically possible) connect someone's bank account to loan repayment.

How much of a pain it is for people to make those payments. Is it manual process now?

What's in it for the employer? Taking a significant headache of managing such system on behalf of the employee. There are probably legal ramifications for this scheme.

Presumably this would have to integrate with payroll systems. Which systems can you already integrate with?

Wouldn't employee be reluctant to disclose his loan repayment status? That doesn't sound like something employer should know.

Did you study potential legal ramifications of being intermediary between a person and loan provider?
Downvoters: What the parent says is true:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/qwest-ceo-nsa-punished...
Similarly, if one invested in 1920s in aviation, one most likely lost the money.
but the thing I think you're missing is that it's usually NOT the manager at fault here. It's the other employees. They encourage this culture, either brainwashed or hoping it will get them ahead

tbh it doesn't really matter to me who gets the blame....the only thing I care about is what I can do to fix the situation.
This guy is missing out on the present waiting for a future where Netflix has all content availaible to stream for 9.99$ a month.

As far as I know, you can stream much more content from say Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Crackle, etc. Just need to be willing to pay. You can also buy plastic discs from a lot of places. And if you don't want to pay, you can torrent the world.

So I don't really understand what's his complaints about? He preferred it when Netflix was a mail rental company? I doubt that's worthy of HN.
Why didn't you use Rust? (I swear I'm not a troll, and I'm genuinely curious.)
Mayor of Jerusalem shouted down and prevented from speaking at SF State
Which is why, for the next decade, I will not vote for any incumbent, or successive seating of a political figure in any office that I vote for... No repeat... no return... I encourage everyone to do the same.. ignore party, and policy... simply don't vote for anyone who's running for re-election for anything, or for that matter looking to seat switch, where term limits are imposed.

After a decade, the shakeout from the real source of many of the problems (follow the money) would be in such disarray, that maybe then we can talk about fixing the system.
On this note, I met an entrepreneur in Maryland making hundreds of millions by buying (or getting for free) used music cassette tapes and scratched cds, and cleaning them up, repackaging them and selling them at gas stations throughout the US.
There is still gold in them circle things and them thar hills.
"Robert Frost and TS Eliot had a similar conversation. Frost wrote eliot saying 'the problem with you is that you speak 13 languages and know nothing about real life'. Eliot responds 'the problem with you is that you're stupid'.

Age old debate, never fails to entertain."

I'm too stupid to understand how this is supposed to be entertaining...
Much like the word "database" itself wasn't a word until 1962.

No word "is a word" until somebody makes it up. Then it spends some time as a word that people use that isn't in the dictionary. Then it's added to a dictionary.

If you're going to be pedantic, at least choose words that aren't in widespread use and/or have a valid alternative.
One container to rule them all
Scratched cassette tapes?
Yes, but at utility level the difference is invest in million increments to 100 million increments for solar(pv) and wind. While gas is in the same range, modern coal really starts at the top end of that range and nuclear is just an order of magnitude higher.

Wind and solar projects often get cancelled and restarted, mostly because the risk profiles allow for that. Committing to gas is dependant on existing infra, if there is a good gas supply infra then unlikely to cancel if planning permission ok. Once committed to nuclear, you either finish it or go bankrupt...

Coal is getting to be very risky from a regulatory perspective which is why power company execs don't like adding new capacity.
I can totally understand the software part and I think thats feasible with our current level of technology.

The hardware seems like the biggest challenge. You would need very precise robotic arms and spray-brushes to actually accomplish application of makeup. Although I'm no makeup expert, it seems precision is important (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcW70-6eQcY).
The TDS reference makes it sound like you are India. Is this right?

My advice is never negotiate on price. Spend your time negotiating other factors, but hold your price if it is public. Cutting special deals for some customers will only bring heartache.
Often it's because they already licensed their original content and gave exclusive rights to a local company before launching Netflix there... And it may differ season by season for the same show!
It's possible Netflix is crippling your experience on purpose, to provide leverage in their negotiations with content owners.
That's a great list if you're 12.

They don't have The Godfather.
I think the title made the point.
Your example of MongoDB brings up the most important issue with this company.

As HN users, we're all curious about and focusing on the technology, but the technology doesn't seem to dictate winners and losers.

Mongo "won" (to the extent that it won) because it had some kind of excellent mixture of luck and marketing. How will Brodlist succeed?

I imagine the marketing talent would have to be absolutely incredible.
Pretending not to be a mobile device is not a solution for a deficient mobile site, it's a workaround.
You're right of course, databases are scary. And they're the foundation of your application so they have to work and always work. We get that.

If you're asking in [2] how it can compete with Postgres on Stability, Community, Documentation, of course it can't yet. Postgres didn't have them when it started either. But the feature set is compelling and if enough people want those features then these signs of maturity will emerge as well.

To answer question [1], I am the technical founder and I presented the core technology as Kayia.org at the Future of Programming Workshop at StrangeLoop a little over a year ago. I wasn't qualified to do this research when I started but after knocking at the right door long enough, it opened. I'm happy to work with HN on TDD.

It's early for Brodlist, yes, and I understand your point about needing certainty but please give us the opportunity to make something you'll both love and know you can rely on.
It'd be so nice to have it automatically swap the DNS records over. Please consider that as you keep building.
Disturbing website visitors with surveys – how is this still a thing?
Not worthy of HN? How? He wants to watch old movies, now. (Not in the future.) He used to be able to but now he can't. Tech "innovation" took that away from him. That is an opinion worthy of HN.

On another note: personally, many don't want to deal with Netflix+Amazon+Hulu+whoever. This attitude that one should have faith in the streaming market is an affront and slap-in-the-face to collectors, people with shitty internet, critics, teachers, historians, archivists, remixers, and anyone else with an interest in private use or working with the bits.

Sure, additional services can be provisioned to fill in those gaps... but those gaps never existed when data sharing was about files and not streaming services. This business model of the cloud looks more and more like windshield-repairmen walking around parking lots with baseball bats at 3 A.M.
Energy Metabolism in the Fasted State – [Cahill’s Research]
How teams using JIRA Software and Bitbucket release 14% faster
The first thing that came to my mind was that this would be a modified form a wage garnishing, but with employer contributions included.

Do you have plans to include lobbying as a budget item? Just searching around, it seems that "Make student-loan repayment pre-taxable" has been brought up in the US before.

I'm curious: Where would you expect to take your cut, and how? Would it be a flat fee per enrolled employee, or maybe a % of $ being contributed?

If something like this did become a reality, I would expect it to eventually be bought by a benefits-handling institution like Fidelity or CREF, something who already does tight interaction with corporate payroll platforms.
> Consumer reviews are preferred by a 3-to-1 margin over press reviews.

I strongly disagree with this premise. I would suspect real branding, PR, and marketing data would show that press reviews influence branding and sales 10-1 over consumer reviews.

(although consumer reviews can mean lots of things. It can mean a friend recommends, or a consumer does a deep video review online, or it could mean an anonymous person gives random feedback.)

I guess, I have two questions:
1. Can you substantiate that original premise with more than a poll or survey, but actual market research?
2. Do you think incentivized reviews will instantly remove any credibility those reviews may have carried in the first place?
The comment was initally three questions and was edited down to one. It's 100% written in C++. Sorry for the confusion.
It doesn't.

How does Apple's A9X compare to a Xeon E7?

RISC-V is excellent for hobbyist boards, mobile CPUs, high-efficiency low-performance servers, as a base for DSPs, high-efficiency network equipment, etc. Everything from the DSP in your phone to a Rasperry Pi to a Macbook Air.

POWER8 is excellent for high-performance computing, supercomputers, and workstations (Talos[1] when?! :( ). Things like CAPI, Nvlink, etc—stuff that's well outside the scope of RISC-V (though I suppose you could make an ISA targeting HPC based on the RISC-V base integer ISA, but it would only tangentially resemble RISC-V by the time you're done).

Personally I'm looking forward to using both of them in the future!

1. https://raptorengineeringinc.com/TALOS/prerelease.php
Fuck you. I know how to read a README.
I only found 2 decent movies in your list (in fact, I'm not sure if you're trolling, I got a good chuckle when reading your list). We all have different definitions of quality.
Thoughtworks April 2016 Technology Radar Is Out [pdf]
You seem to want to have your cake and eat it too.

Either you'll have popular, copyrighted content for free (fixing "high costs for cable" and "limited distribution on Netflix's"), which will be contributory copyright infringement and will promptly get you sued.

It's not enough to respect DMCA requests. After you're sued, if your service will be considered created mostly for copyright infringement, you'll loose (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_Time, or Mega).

Also, you can't implement DMCA in a "completely decentralized" system. You need a database of blacklisted content, one that clients respect and cannot be changed by just anybody. I.e. you'll have to be the one managing it.

If you don't have popular, copyrighted content for free, then there will be no users and because of that, there will be no creators of original content and no advertisers. Google maybe is not paying much, but they are the only ones that have enough users and advertisers to pay anything at all.

Also, I don't see advertisers signing in if there's even a distant smell of it being used for copyrighted content.
We are the mindless, soulless, mass of consumers and we are the future! New is good, old is bad. Forget the past, forget history - we are forging the future without any of that! An ideal future! Quality is measured in Megapixels, truth is what our prophets tell us, and individuality be damned. Now off to the future we head for the sake of it! Follow us over this cliff - redemption lies at the bottom. Anyone who claims otherwise is a racist troll!

Don't get left behind, old man. You will surely be a miserable person without the latest apps on the latest iGadget. Besides, there is no place in our ideal world for people like you.
Cheers for the suggestion, I think it's good way to keep both parts interested.

My first thought was to delay the payment till it passed the second review (max 5persons).

However I think your suggestion will get more tractions, the only downside is how to keep track on the applicant whether or not he got a job/interview. But who says it will be easy :).
Cognizant of your tone, it seems those twobuckn'fifty words are turning a perfectly clear statement into the written equivalent of caramel toffee. It's not terrible, but sticky to chew through. Ain't a college essay with a 500 word cap, spaces are cheap and plenty.

Ploughing as many 7 syllable words as possible into a sentence makes an author seem...self-conscious about tone. Strunk & White says "Omit Needless Words". I've always taken that as "Omit Needless Ornament". Thrice nested sentences, v̶e̶r̶b̶i̶a̶g̶e̶ ̶o̶b̶s̶c̶u̶r̶a̶ o̶b̶s̶c̶u̶r̶e̶ ̶v̶o̶c̶a̶b̶u̶l̶a̶r̶y̶ big words, flowery language, et cetera.
Solid rubric.
The Dark theme, Bash, are all good, but it's the new emojis that had me from the start; I can't wait to update my emojicode and emojilisp projects ;)
Hacking my Tesla Model S
> For each unit sold, we only ask for a small commission.

Have you gotten any companies to agree to a royalty like this or is this just the initial monetization idea. I can see them paying 5 figures for a final report, but not a royalty on their bottom line sales.
I am happy to see copyright raising its ugly head in circumstances that might concern the general public as well, not only hackers and hippies in the bit-sharing underground. Maybe in a few decades people will realise it doesn't make any sense. The only thing that remains is that we'll have to stretch this further until it becomes universally absurd.
I couldn't remember the write speed but it's about 80% of the read speed. The writes are persisted. The qps rates are for individual look-ups and do not include any HTTP latency, of course.
scratched cds. They buff out the scratches, repackage it and sell it for a few bucks at truck stops and gas stations through America.
I think robotics will solve this issue.

Today, automated cooking makes food that is unhealthy. Industrially processed food equals bad food. I think this is a large part of the reason for obesity. There is so little healthy food that is cheap and requires no manual effort to cook.

With sufficiently advanced robotics, the equation changes. All food that humans can cook well today becomes available with no cooking-cost. The availability of tasty and healthy food, at low cost, with no effort involved in preparing it, should be a game changer in more ways than one - and obesity ought to go down.

(Side-note: that the cost of cooking today is not in money, but in effort and time, doesn't make it less deterring but rather more so.)
You're assuming that Yelp made a mistake by spending money to hire (and eventually fire) this person. I disagree. I think that was the plan all along. I used to work for Backcountry.com in Park City, UT in the mid-2000s. Back in those days, BC used its ski town locale and perks like "powder days" to attract gen-Y'ers fresh out of college at rock-bottom wages. Smart young people out of good schools showed up, did some okay work for a year or two, accumulated some experience, and then left for greener pastures in the big city. BC understood this and was happy with it. These hires weren't experienced but they were scrappy and bright and they'd work for almost nothing just to be able to strap on snowshoes after work or go mountain biking on their lunch break. When they left, there was a resume stack full of new ones to take their places.
A friend works in TV and film and deals with the licensing for this kind of thing. It seems like a colossal disaster at best. It's complicated, convoluted and greedy. We've discussed it many times before, but it doesn't look like the TV/film industries will ever get themselves to a Spotify-esque point.

Which is a shame, because it'll be to their own detriment (as it will be for the music industry again, if 'stars' persist in exclusivity for streaming rights) when people revert back to torrents (as one comment here has already stated). The fact is, most people are prepared to pay for a VOD and/or music service. We just don't want to pay for 3 of them. Money aside, it just isn't convenient. "Can we listen to The Beatles? Yes, I'm not sure whether it's on cassette, CD or vinyl, so search through all three collections, then make sure the appropriate player is plugged in. If it's not there, we'll need to look at buying the minidisk. Or shoplifting it."

Anyway, I appreciate the point of the article wasn't purely a rant about VOD/DVDs, and it was a point well made.
Sounds like the typical success anxiety everyone suffers from today. You could have been everything, successful, rich, famous, but you chose what you wanted and that's ok, it's for the best, that's true success, don't run after the carrot.

Every programmer I meet dream of being CEO, having their own company, making more money. Yet over 90% of them don't enjoy any of their current profit.

Literally, with my programmer's salary, I can do everything I want in the world. There's nothing Bill Gates can do I can't, sure, maybe some of the things when he does them they're bigger, or fancier, but they're the same things. There's no better film for him to see, there's no better waterfront for him to sit, there's no better food, etc. I can afford the best of all.

I think we need to stop with the regrets, the illusions, etc. If you ain't driven to be tech leader, don't force it, just accept you're not and enjoy life.