skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is really hard to pin down a predominate factor. I could say the difficulties of the early days of my business were predominantly caused by time-to-market because if we had got our products out soon we could have avoided the problems caused by 9/11, but it really was multifactorial.

I have written up about my experience if you want to know more [1].

1. https://www.tillett.info/2015/06/24/why-i-kept-my-startup-in...
So basically it's a clickbait title.
First, I've read a metric ton of these kind of posts, and Quotations from chairman Powell (http://govleaders.org/powell.htm) pretty much sums up the best bits of all of them. If you nail those I don't think you need anything else.

Second, this is mostly good stuff, other than the first. Some (many) have called me the best manager they've ever had. Which is nice, even though I see myself as a leader rather than a manager. That said, I dislike talking to people. I do only when I have to. What I do really well is to take the heat for my team. Anything (and I mean anything) goes wrong the blame stops with me. I also admit in front of my team and my managers when I'm wrong.

Conversely, one of my peers is a spectacularly good talker. And he lays blame like nobody's business. He also never backs down when he's demonstrably wrong. Talking to people doesn't hurt, and I guess enjoying it is a bonus, but a good manager make it does not.
Ask HN: How much rent do you pay per month and where?
Would like to know how much my salary would be worth in that state. This site http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/ gives absurd values unless its actually true.

I pay $2000 for 2bd 1.5bath apartment in Brookline, Boston MA
Those are actual trades. Nobody is a professional ninja, and rockstars are really just performers and musicians.

The labels are rejected because they are wrong, not because they are labels.
Let's continue your thought:

If minimum wage increases put upward pressure on wages generally, then what happens? Higher wage levels in general means more money in people's pockets, and this can turn into general price inflation (especially since business costs have risen due to the general level of wages going up).

So let's assume you now have inflation. This means everything just got more expensive, so now that new higher wage level buys you less and less. And now the people who are completely out of work and can't command the minimum wage for their skills/labor are even farther behind.
How does this compare performance-wise to a compiler?
Overly small scale perspective. Exaggerated scenario for clarity: your one starving human buying survival kibble from a fully automated megacorporation is better off with the kibble and without the pittance they spent on it, an infinitesimal amount of value was created. But humanity as a whole would be better off overthrowing the business system and directing the machines to make every human's life a paradise.

Systems should be compared as systems, not as piecemeal and mostly-forced decisions.
I'm curious about this. In your ideal above, how would one go about pursuing their dreams without an ability to earn excess capital through labor?

For example, my goal is to have a nice house on 50-100 acres. I also really enjoy jet skiing and boating with my family - especially from a nice lakefront rental with a private dock.

I can't fathom how I would pursue those goals in a 'leisure society'... Or as a prole would I be expected to just accept my assigned housing, only use public transportation, and put my name in an annual lottery for one of the state run vacation compounds?
> I ran thirteen times a week for years

> Take easy days and easy weeks

Something doesn't quite add up here. Also, as impressed as you might be with yourself for running some unspecified distance more often than someone else while you were in your twenties, it doesn't change the fact that most runners go out every other day at most. Every distribution has its outliers, and your "meh" was unnecessarily dismissive.
>A criticism VARs face is that they are atheoretical. They are not built on some economic theory that imposes a theoretical structure to the equations. Every variable is assumed to influence every other variable in the system, which makes direct interpretation of the estimated coefficients very difficult.

This is maybe me needing a refresher, but in what way does this make interpretation of the coefficients difficult?

I'd much rather side with Sims on this:
Sims advocated VAR models as providing a theory-free method to estimate economic relationships, thus being an alternative to the "incredible identification restrictions" in structural models. [1]

I was also expecting a bit more material on Granger causality, as I remember using that as the final nail in testing predictive validity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_autoregression#Applicat...
I've known for at least a decade that talc was dangerous.

I was 100% under the impression it was taken off the market years ago and replaced with corn starch.

Reading this article is the first time I realized it was not taken off the market, and I'm very confused.

How can I know this is dangerous and the company that makes it not know? I thought it was common knowledge.

I'm having a hard time expressing how perplexed and confused I am to hear talc is still on the market.

I mean, it says "not to inhale it" - how can you possibly apply it and not inhale some of it? It's impossible. There is no way to use this safely without a gas mask.
“For Oculus to Succeed, VR Needs to Succeed”
I think what's happened is that you meant "supposed to do" as in "it fills the need that ML was aiming at", and I took as "it has feature parity". The latter is clearly not true - ML is supposed to have a very wide FOV, handle the accomodation reflex, simulate occlusion, do depth of field, etc. - none of which Hololens can do.
Is anyone currently using this service? Would appreciate some anecdata about them.
These all came pretty intuitively to me, although I've slowly come to realise that that may be an indication that I'm a solid 7 when it comes to people management rather than the 3 I'd always assumed I was
> perceived security vulnerabilities of X-windows' architecture.

I wouldn't really call them perceived, they're really really major. Sharing uncleared video memory across processes can expose a lot.
Thanks for the reference.

Gee, that's a long way ahead of what I got out of reading K&R!

In

> So in C, casting is a language syntax

right. So, cast is just syntax but short on semantics, that is, how the conversion is actually done so that we can know the results, that is, if you will, what the heck happens.

In

6.3.1.5 Real floating types

is

> If the value
being converted is in the range of values that can be represented but cannot be
represented exactly, the result is either the nearest higher or nearest lower representable
value, chosen in an implementation-defined manner. If the value being converted is
outside the range of values that can be represented, the behavior is undefined.

So, yes, this is an example of where I'd be concerned.

On "strong typing", I always thought that the concept was poorly defined and described but never screamed bloody murder about it if only because it didn't directly affect
what my software would do. I used "strong typing" in my post if only because it seems to be what the C community likes to
do, and when in Rome do as Romans do. Or, maybe strong typing is better than weak typing or typeless -- okay by me.
What is in your underwear that allows micro inhalation? The association doesn't appear to be linked to inhalation in any way.
I honestly couldn't figure this one out either...

Although now that I think about it, I wouldn't put it past some politicians to come up with a plan to tax businesses for automation as a way to counter the SS shortfall. Kinda like taxing miles driven now that cars are so efficient the gas taxes don't work anymore.
A tradeoff that few consider is that dynamic linking can lessen the motivation of library developers to reduce code bloat and complex dependency trees.

Architecting an operating system and its packages as a psychological forcing function to improve software development is not a worthwhile tradeoff for the efficiency, security, or reliability of a system.

Who cares about 20 megs here or there if there is only one shared library instance? Who cares about bringing in a tree of 50 dependencies for this console program if the user probably has them installed already? And thus we end up with the modern Linux desktop, where nearly everything depends on a gigabyte or more of dependencies.

I find it amusing that someone is arguing for static linking as a way to make it obvious how bloated programs are, since usually the counter-argument to dynamic linking from many is "who cares about disk space!".

There are plenty of programs that are distributed essentially statically-linked today, that still have 50 dependencies or more -- there is no data that I am aware of to support the idea that dynamic vs. static linking would encourage developers to reduce their dependencies.

Whereas with static linking, you can directly see the effect that any library you use has on the binary size. This encourages library and application devs alike to be more judicious with their dependencies.

This is a dubious argument at best; you can still easily see the size of your program today even if it's dynamically linked simply by looking at top, or by using the appropriate developer tools.

I can empathize with the frustrations that some feel in dealing with some operating systems and applications, but it is not due to a technological issue -- it is due to cultural and process issues present not only in the development of the software they rely on but in the distributions that provide the software themselves.

"papering over" those issues by static linking only makes the problem worse -- not better. This a cultural and process issue that cannot be addressed solely through technological means.

Also, I want to be clear that I am not linking against static linking completely; I'm arguing for dynamic linking (or more generally, shared objects) for those dependencies shared between a sufficient number of components that have sufficiently stable interfaces to share them.

By all means, if there is a component with a sufficiently unstable interface, then by definition, it is not appropriate for sharing between components, and at that point whether you statically or dynamically-link the dependency is moot, since you can have private dynamically-linked dependencies just as easily statically-linking them into binaries.
There is a very long list of greatest scientist ever, but being on the list doesn't take away from others on the list. Just off the cuff, any list much consider

* Aristotle

* Archimedes

* Kepler

* Galileo

* Newton

* Faraday

* Gauss

* Maxwell

* Einstein
>There's no distinction of biological computation and machine computation, there's just computation. What our brain is doing is computation, we may not fully understand how it does what it does yet,

Doesn't the second part cast doubt on the first part?
This is the first time I've ever heard anyone describe the law as being ahead of anything.
To put things into perspective, on the 8087 floating-point multiplication was over 100 cycles (and divisions 200+). We've come a long way since then.
Technically, without a consumer, there would be no industrial pollution.
Boston Qualifier.
Seems like there have been a lot of cool projects like this lately. Have new tools sparked a renaissance in reverse engineering old apps so they can be built on any modern architecture? For example we have had the port of SGI ElectroPaint screensaver[1] and starcraft ported to ARM[2].

[1] https://github.com/drvink/electroportis

[2] https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/starcraft.73844/
I'm not talking about programming syntax, I'm talking about communication. It doesn't matter that `-x` and `0-x` are equivalent; `-x` is a well-known convention and `/x` is not. (When I read '/x' my brain immediately jumps to trying to interpret that as a malformed expression or a directory or something.)

And you don't need to make a point that every number has a multiplicative inverse. That's already established by simply pointing out that these are the projective reals and that 1/0 = ±∞. All non-zero reals already had multiplicative inverses just as they had additive inverses.
I don't think people write lisp interpreters for performance reasons. It's more a computer science exercise which helps you understand languages better.
Anything that hasn't been shown to cause cancer yet simply hasn't been investigated hard enough.
Would slowly increasing minimum wage act as a slow (not exact) transition to basic income?
Title is misleading, this story is about NHS England which is a totally separate entity from NHS Scotland, NHS Wales and Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland.

There is no such thing as a "UK NHS" or NHS UK. Each NHS entity in the UK is separately funded and operated independently of each other.
If word gets out that a company's insurance is kinda shitty, they're going to find themselves with fewer customers going forward, which is not good for shareholder value. Nickle and diming on a claim isn't where shareholder value comes from, but rather providing a good product that does what it is meant to do.
An approach I've considered is, that the living allocation by default is just comfortable. You'd be able to get allocated a city apartment or a rural house. But this is coupled to a delegation based "liquid" direct world democracy where you can either direct your surplus yourself, or delegate it to someone (or some organization). And recursively they can delegate it too.

So suppose you were Elon Musk and you said, I want to build a colony on Mars, you'd probably be able to draw the interest of large delegating entities who would grant resource priority to the program so it could make rockets, and other entities would have projects that needed launching, and so forth.

Or compare a smaller project, if you were a marine biologist and you wanted to equip a boat and go study penguins, there would be some delegating entity that would care about penguins, and you'd get your boat.

Perhaps even if you just wanted a particularly beautiful house, you'd be able to draw enough aesthetes to your cause.

But if you were just a jerk who wanted a mansion, well, probably not.

[Edit: for clarity, you could conceptualize this system as something like crowdfunding, except global, recursively delegated, and directing resources directly instead of money.]
hmm...Whatsapp groups should implement this, cause I need a socially safe way to eject out of all of them.
Many architectural decisions in the history of computing came from the speed and cost of main memory

RISC is one of those too, and it's not a coincidence that the idea started in the early 80s when CPUs were still slower than memory.
Microprogramming is a level of abstraction in between an assembly language and a hardware description language.
I've never really seen 'separate but equal' career tracks be true. The manager track is always better compensated and has more say in the direction of the business.

IMO - talking with people makes both parties feel better but is overrated for affecting change. A better way to manage and grow talent is to put people in a position to succeed. This involves giving the right tasks to the right people, removing obstacles and distractions, understanding when and how to prioritize production(product stories) vs productivity (i.e tooling, infrastructure, and tech debt). None of this happens in 1:1s. You need to intimately understand your developer lifecycle and how your engineers are getting blocked or where they're wasting their time and how to go about fixing that. Even though they're often mediocre communicators an engineer-manager is better at making those decisions.
The whole situation is a bit confusing to me. A bunch of people have given a disproportionate amount of money to a few companies and those companies now have massive valuations. If the people giving them money shared the regulators concern, it seems simple enough to just, well, stop giving them money. And yet Slack gets $200 mil just a few days ago.

So what is happening exactly? Is there unrealistic optimism happening here or are people being suckered out of their money. Is the government concerned about the eventual pop and so is telling the very people who would benefit the most to quit it? Seems like they should be telling the _investors_ to stop, no?
There are auto-voting scripts that can be installed as plugins in Chrome and Firefox to help with this. I did exactly this last night and woke to find myself in the largest of the groups. It was entirely unfulfilling.
Exactly. Empathy for 30 minutes out of my day then at 17:30 I'm still hammering out a problem when they leave.
Confucianism was chosen by the chinese power-that-be because he encouraged obedience and conformity. It's the reason Chinese society stagnated with a monolithic central authority. With a more libertarian approach, there would be more trade and research and given chinese huge population and food availability, they might have made a lot of technological progress and we would have a colony on Mars by now.

So in that way confucianism was similar to christianity during the dark age in that they were used by the powerful to sedate the masses.
In practice, I haven't see that happening much. If spammers were smart enough, they would actually do something useful.

If a service you subscribe does this, it is a good clue for you to mark them as spam and delete account after setting garbage values.
Prove that to the shareholders and executives.
Legendary Internet Troll Ken M on What Comment Sections Tell Us About Ourselves
As much as Redis is an incredibly potent tool and the quality of craftsmanship on it is very high, there are some incredibly peculiar design decisions that have been made.

Single-treading is one of those. There are times when having more than one thread to help process things would come in very handy, though I recognize that the cost of adding this can be very high.

It's something that will have to be addressed eventually for a single Redis process to take advantage of newer hardware with very low ceilings on CPU power, but huge numbers of cores.
Business Kryptonite
That makes no sense. With about 40 million residents, the government of California would need to have approximately 1.6 million CPU cores dedicated to Oracle before named-user worked out cheaper than per-core licensing. Either that or there's a special deal unrelated to Oracle's normal licensing price list, in which case who cares what the licensing metric is?
Do you know if there's been any thought on extending this to arbitrary algebras? Seems like you've already got the mechanism to define a partition of the space, and the lookup table describing the behavior of an operation with respect to the subsets of that partition, so this might have utility beyond arithmetic.
Just a few hours into the experiment several Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey userscripts were released that enabled auto-voting, among other features. The ability to mute users was also welcome, given how spammy the big rooms got.
Net vs. Java: Ultimate showdown (2013)
We're using them, to mixed reviews.

They installed a jailbroken ipad (in a holder with a cutout for the front camera) in our break room. Seems like a potential hazard for industrial espionage...

The office does seem to stay clean. They have an annoying tendency to 'organize' individuals' desks, though. I've even had some of my cables re-arranged.
"un-construct it... drag it out behind the shed and shoot it."

Can you "un-construct" this newspeak for us? It sounds like you're advocating that you or some other force besides free and voluntary trade should literally shut down private businesses, possibly beating and robbing their owners in the process (as has been done historically)?

Because there's some formula for determining "social value" which has "number of employees" as a factor?
Even if there is a correlation, there might not be a cause and effect relationship.

For example, it's known that female reproductive cancers are associated with the levels of various female sex hormones. Female sex hormones also affect the vaginal lining and external genitalia (in particular, moisture levels). It might be that women who are prone to ovarian cancer due to hormone levels also have a vaginal/labial situation that makes them more likely to apply powder to keep the area dry. If that were the case, you'd see a correlation with no cause and effect relation whatsoever.

(just an illustration... I'm not claiming this is what's going on, but I'd probably try to argue something like that if I were a lawyer for J&J).

However, if the coverup of the correlation is as described in the article, that would be a bad, bad thing.
It's a joke about how Archlinux works. If you do a "pacman -Syu" without reading the changelogs there is a good chance your system won't boot. You just can't be negligent. They might change the location of libc, they might switch to systemd, they change whatever they need to to be the coolest operating system on the block, and that's why I love them. But if you weren't hip to it, your system won't boot.
It's actually in reference to fairly well-established science:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term=talc+ovarian
I've found it effective when a hard problem comes up in a 1:1 to actually try to solve it on the spot, or at least get the solution launched - look at some code, compose an email together, try something out, do a little research. It's important to give your report your devoted attention, but it's appropriate to also direct attention at your reports problems and work through them collaboratively. It also might help the person solve those problems more confidently on their own in the future.
This is what is meant by refurbished, as opposed to repaired.
I can guarantee you I would hate it. Guarantee.

Unless the manager was also a friend, but that usually isn't the case (nor should it be).
ActiveX.

Don't ever let yourself forget ActiveX.
That's true of any company (that profit is the goal). Yet, amazingly many companies do a great job, because happy customers = profit!
Classic DOS barely took up kilobytes of memory. I think that qualifies as "tiny". Megabytes is downright bloated by comparison.

Considering this is written in assembly, what is all that memory used for?
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Call it what you want. IMO, any society that recognizes the problems with capital punishment and accordingly outlaws it has at least some liberal tendencies.
Resources gathered during a hackathon
Feel free to pull request to add more resources
> corporate priority maximization of shareholder value.

I'm not sure if you're commenting on their observed behavior or their actual obligation. It would be good to put the phrase away since it's usually short-hand for a moral judgement on short-term focus (be sure, I'm not arguing either way here though I do hold an opinion). The fact is there is no legal duty for a corporation to maximize shareholder value, a couple of links:

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/06/26/the-shareholder-v...

https://www.salon.com/2012/04/04/the_shareholder_fallacy/