skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using an additional byte for the size of the address and the specified number of bytes for the address itself. Then you will only need a few identifiers stored locally to access all the bits.
I have to wonder how many anti-Lyons comments in this thread are HubSpot employees in stealth mode. Doesn't HubSpot do 'Sentiment Analysis' and that sort of stuff?
Where does is the money coming from? I'd like to know what business model the company you work for employs.
Right, but doesn't this explicitly discriminate? Sure, it'd be very convenient, but that doesn't mean it's legal.
I've a very limited working memory and thus at university lectures my choice as I saw it was either (1) trying to understand the content, or (2) taking notes.

Looking back, it never occurred to me that notes written without comprehension were unlikely to be good. Yet without notes the finer, unofficial details of the exam syllabus would not be recorded.
The laws of unintended consequences were never more evident than implicit in global climate change, a result of human activity. We always intended to make the world better, at least that's what we constantly said we were trying to do.

We should be warned based on history. All actions and decisions have numerous and unpredictable outcomes, more than we ever realize at the time. It's a curious thing that we seem not to remember this lesson, endlessly repeating the process on each iteration. Rush headlong into an idea, and then spend decades or centuries repairing the damage.

Despite having evolution's best brain, and the ability to do otherwise, we humans have been on the whole poor long-term planners, we have failed to see the big picture. Or more to the point we don't heed those among us who urge us to consider the implications of our behavior, preferring the expedient until we hit a wall.

The article's conclusion is not a surprise, all the clues are converging toward the revelation that human cleverness will be our undoing, unless we learn to push our problem-solving abilities to their full capability, setting aside our usual short view for the possibility of continued existence.

So what do we surmise are the odds world-wide leadership of that caliber will arise? One guess is as good as any other.
The most amazing is: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/us/politics/obamas-portabl...
Their stuff doesn't look half bad. I'm surprised.

EDIT: It's Canadian-based.
Can anybody explain how moving any direction from the North Pole is anything but south? Or am I confusing magnetic north with rotational north?
I love some zizek, what piece did that come from?
Do you sit through television commercials without talking, getting up, turning down the volume, muting them, or looking away?
It should be noted that he was in a sales role - even outside of tech companies, if you miss your numbers you don't stick around. Could be the culture was the same in engineering but I don't know if ou can compare the two roles.

As an aside: how long until you leave "startup" territory? Five years? Eight years? Ten years? Revenue number? Staff number?
> It is sad that the article positions itself to once again attack "open source" as if it is an abandonment of the free software values. Yes, part of open source was making it an "easier sell", but another part was to remove the linguistic ambiguities that arise from "free software".

"Open source" was created explicitly to avoid talking about the core philosophy behind free software---users' freedoms. Instead, it positioned itself as a development methodology.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h...

If the open source community talked about freedom, then they would be talking about free software.
..true..false
There was a lecture by Marty Lobdell[1] where he talks about a note taking system that separates facts and concepts that I really like. Concepts are easy to get a handle on because it doesn't take much effort to think of a real word example to relate it to. Facts on the other hand are very difficult because they aren't easily related to knowledge you already have so for facts you use a mnemonic device.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlU-zDU6aQ0
Was going to say the same thing. Depressing. Most js devs probably don't realize the irony.
Okay, so he mentions OpenERP, but I think we all know he means Github, right?
Not sure what you are trying to point out by focusing on the word remote... but I changed it to 'slight' for your sake.

Happy day to you too!
I get your meaning, but additional abstraction layers are equally dangerous because they obsfucate underlying constraints and result in incorrect reasoning about a system.

There's a reason RTOSs don't have very tall software stacks with multiple layers and virtual machines between them and the hardware.

When your garbage collector invoking at the wrong millisecond 0.01% of the time means everyone on the craft is incinerated in the atmosphere... that's a different level of reliability requirement.
A famous wunderkind shunned by all because of his "politics" (read: flaming bigotry)? It's pretty much HN catnip.
I guess you mean MariaDB when saying MySQL.
Some pretty good progress has been made, if you're curious:

https://gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/status.html
This is cool! It's worth pointing out that, for SEO reasons, Google now renders Javascript pages [1] without methods like this. The performance benefit is definitely still a plus though.

[1] https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/05/understanding-web-...
> Is this really so hard to differentiate between?

Yes it is. Otherwise why haven't we done it already?

Even if we could clearly distinguish just and unjust laws in a way that everyone agreed, how would that make a system capable of perfect enforcement any less dangerous when it's used to enforce unjust laws regardless?

Perfect enforcement is just a synonym for absolute power.
The activities that resulted in climate change also resulted in a vast improvement in the lives of a huge number of people. If I were somehow thrown back in time and given control over the process, I'd do it all over again, albeit with a greater emphasis on efficiency, and on alternatives once they became practical.
Mostly, because we are too small for what we do: https://www.odoo.com/page/all-apps

Our promise is to cover all enterprise needs in a single software, while being super easy to use. It's something nobody succeeded for now on. On the market, you have two types of players: ERP (SAP, Oracle, MS. Dynamics) who deliver a huge business benefit but a poor usability (expensive and inefficient) and one-app vendors (trello, slack, mailchimp) who have a great usability but a low business value. The first category has a huge revenue per customer, and the second category can attract a lot of customers.

We think we can crack that, and offer the best of the two worlds: all business needs, fully integrated, with a top notch usability. We are in a very good position to do it, and be the first to do it. [1] (and every competitors try to do that but they are far from succeeding)

To succeed, we need serious investments in the product and the service offer. We don't need to be very big (e.g. 10.000 people), but 300 is too small for what we do.

tl;dr we want to fix a huge problem and to do it, we need resources.

[1] https://odoocdn.com/openerp_website/static/src/img/2016/home...
So does the author think that everyone is great at their job? What do you do when you have an employee that can't do the work and you are confident that they won't improve?

Pointing out the age difference in the manager and the employee, and their sexes, is just baiting. Unless he wants to make the case that there was sexism or agism from the manager, or that the company engaged in sexism or agism, it is just a red herring. In fact, it's quite cowardly, since it implies something the author isn't willing to actually say.

Finally, the fact that the person who was fired was with the company for 4 years doesn't mean anything at all unless we also get the context. It may be that this person struggled from the beginning, and they hesitated and didn't fire her for four long years. Or it may be that they hired her to do some specific job, and that job went away, and despite repeated attempts she just could not manage to learn anything else.

The thesis that she was 'disposable' is just ludicrous. If she was good at her job, then the manager is just an idiot who is cutting his and the companies own throat, and we can't make a moral argument against stupidity. If she couldn't do the job then there is no reason to be discussing this. If she was borderline, we still can't make a moral case, since borderline situations are at worst slightly wrong.

So once you cut through the left handed implications, I don't think there is any argument left.
My only claim was that OSX uses GNU Bash. I don't use OSX, so I'm not sure what else it includes.
Yes, these are beloved children stories from the 70s here in America. Arnold Lobel was one of the true greats.
Dan Lyons is just another gold rusher mining the gold rushers with papers and pencils.
It varies. Some years back, I interviewed at a San Diego startup that was flying in a dozen people a week, with a $300 reward just for showing up, to go through a five-day interview process, at the end of which perhaps one or two would be offered the chance to work for them...for $50k a year. In San Diego.

Most of their employees lived together, 2-4 to an apartment, because they couldn't afford solo housing.

The CEO gave a speech on the first day where he explained that they paid poorly on purpose, because they wanted people who cared more about striving for excellence (or some such buzzword) than petty concerns like money or stability. And people ate it up.

So, yeah, some startups are totally run like ridiculous cults that prey on starry-eyed young tech grads. I'm sure there's many that are sane and reasonable, too. None of them have paid me to vacation in California, though.
Thank you so much! I'm an avid short distance runner (less than 10k ) and have been looking to do something more fun. Will definitely give it a good look. :)
Once you lose portability, why not just use "real" computer ;) (I mean laptop)
Entering text of smallish screen is only meant for small amount of text (a tiny note etc.)
It's far worse for me -- the scroll is about two lines high, and there's a constant barrage of really bad advertising.
I read that the 520 new bridge was build to accommodate light rail with $200m in additional spending.
I haven't see many places that that only have incompetent managers and no incompetent employees. :)

Or alternatively, what does it say about people who have seen this culture for 4 years and are still there?
Even worse, what could "east along the Greenwich meridian" possibly mean?
Ahh, This I can understand (using Android remotely with "full sized" keyboard/display)
(See my previous comment about entering text of smallish screen)
Those tracks have always been there, and anyone who bought property next to a rail right-of-way would have known it, just like anyone who buys waterfront property has no business complaining about boat traffic. And frankly, I'd much rather have electric trains running nearby than a major road with all the car noise and exhaust.

Why would it cost billions to put tracks on an existing roadbed that is already built for tracks and had trains running on it within the last 15 years?
My thesis writing timeline – analysed using Dropbox and Python
How to Start a Profitable Blog: All You Need to Know Part 1
> I joined the company in 2013 after spending 25 years in journalism and getting laid off from a top position at Newsweek. I thought working at a start-up would be great. The perks! The cool offices!

> It turned out I’d joined a digital sweatshop, where people were packed into huge rooms, side by side, at long tables.

It sounds like this journalist failed to investigate their new job before Day 1...
Depending on how you structure your loops, things can be optimized on how it hits the cache and reads contiguous memory addresses.
Deep Learning to Break Semantic Image CAPTCHAs [pdf]
Did you read that from WSDOT? WSDOT says this:

"How much would it cost to add light rail to the floating bridge?

[...]
Secondly, it would cost between $150 million and $200 million to construct the 30 additional pontoons and to install them on the floating bridge, alongside the 77 pontoons required for the six-lane bridge. There would be other costs associated with the bridge deck expansion and other infrastructure, including rail lines."
Seeing as I grew up in a poor place with poor people and a large segment of my friends had parents who had never gone to college: a lot of them.
Glad it's well received. I was unsure 'cause I've not notice much else here, on HN, of the like.

I got caught up on the same bit when I read it.

Given your remark about the accuracy of some of the info, what reads would you recommend as being more accurate?

Any thoughts on other, related thinkers —past and present— worth checking out for those who find this compelling?
The way I read it he used the age and gender info in his comment to illustrate that it would be harder for the person to get a job. Hence it being extra cruel to use the weird lingo and act like it wouldn't be hard for her.
And, being the top thread, he is doing a good job in getting the PR ship :)
Canada and Mexico are the same and it's the fault of urban planners and real estate developers.
How is this full circle? Traditional server-rendered pages don't support the ability to navigate to new pages and fully interact with the application without refreshing.
This isn't some achievement, this is a company trying to avoid the crazy ~40% protectionist import tariffs.

The subtext here is that Afghanistan is hobbled by tariffs that make necessary economic goods so insanely expensive it's possible to compete with Dell and Samsung and Lenovo in your garage.
Actually, what you are asking for is cumulative correct reporting of individual cases leading to a correct impression of the whole sector. I may just have downvoted you (fat finger error, and no way to reverse a vote on HN) but I agree.
> If she was good at her job, then the manager is just an idiot who is cutting his and the companies own throat, and we can't make a moral argument against stupidity.

We can't? Why not?

Being stupid does not exempt you from responsibility for your actions.
I installed OpenBSD so I could check this out. tl;dr, you were right.

$ cat testpledge.c
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
pledge("proc exec", NULL);
execl("/bin/echo", "echo", "asdf", NULL);
_exit(0);
}
$ cc testpledge.c
$ ./a.out
asdf
Unfortunately I believe the rise of the fourth economic stage, an information based economy, has turned the US into a uncomfortably divided state, just as you described. The red tribe not only doesn't know any blue tribe members, but also only reads red tribe books, and watches red tribe television, and vice versa. Simply because there is a big enough market for it to exist and be profitable, the American people are divided in thought (at least with the information they consume, which eventually does lead to thoughts).
You can force yourself to have any interest. This idea of people as immutable things is completely absurd. My partner worked full time and was homeless and got a degree in CS. You don't need to have any special computer talents to get into CS, a large section of it is just theory.

This idea that programmers have that we must be special or that you have to be smart to be a programmer is ridiculous. I know plenty of dumb people, absurdly illogical dumb people who make it in this industry.
I vote we do this instead:

"Those who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety will deserve neither and lose both." -Unknown

That version of the quote is one Franklin never actually said, so it can't accurately be attributed to him and we can avoid having to care about what he actually meant. Because the thing in the linked post clearly isn't what anybody else means when they use that quote.
A company needs some kind of software that doesn't exist (or which is too expensive when they only need a subset), so we build it for them on top of Odoo. We also offer hosting, training, support, data migration, etc.

Note: while our software is FOSS, we don't publicly publish all of it, though our clients are free to do so.
Yeah there's a balance. Everyone thinks a company has it all figured out until they work there and find out it's just like every other company struggling to figure stuff out.
Likewise,

> Companies sell shares to the public while still losing money. Wealth is generated, but most of the loot goes to a handful of people at the top, the founders and venture capital investors.

Then become a founder if it's such an easy way to generate wealth.
A Low-Tech Trap for Killing Mosquito Eggs
Yes, that's what I'd read, and apparently it would cost more. But it clearly is designed to accommodate the rail expansion, rather than having to build yet another bridge for that.
Yeah it's like those people who have been working with J2EE for 25 years at Big Company X that is now bankrupt, and constantly complain about the lack of GANNT charts, or whatever the hammer and chisel tools they use to make J2EE apps.
I seem to run to Žižek more and more often -- frankly he is the only currently alive philosopher I can name. I really should read something more from him.
I don't know Lyons, but I do know HubSpot, and everything he's saying tracks with what I've heard from other people. And not just people with the temerity to be old, but just with the misfortune to be able to read a social group and make some conclusions about it. The company is a culture mob, there is aggressive practice of neuro-linguistic programming all over the place (never mind that it doesn't work, of course), and the whole thing is notably cultish and terrifying, in a startup world where "cultish and terrifying" is part of the standard playbook in the first place.

I do not much like them, if that is not obvious.

What makes me a little bit sad is when I meet somebody who works there--it's Boston, if you are in tech circles you are going to meet HubSpot people--and they're bought-in hard enough to not see that the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train. They hire a lot of good kids and try to kill them, or at least turn them into Dilbert-esque sodden gray rags, by the end of their second year. They're not the only company to do it, and not the only company to do it here in Boston, but they are a stand-out offender.
I started a couple of years ago teaching people in my social circle about programming. Then doing hands on things with microcontroller boards. I moved to the RPi and have been slowly forming a group of want to be learners (harder than it sounds). Challenges are purely economic. I have a full time job and work long hours. Plus I do side work to pay for everything related to ASIMUV (it's not a startup). Teaching comes naturally and I'm married to a wonderful ESL teacher. Giving the classes is not the hard part. Mostly getting a good place to teach and getting the proper resources is. I recently threw together a website and it's lacking on content. My goal for the next three months is to blog about the experience. You can go to the website and subscribe to the mailing list. It's not commercial and it's aimed at keeping people up to date.

I think the reason don't do it more often is because life gets in the way. It's hard to work long hours and then sit down to do something else. But thankfully I've been blessed with lots of energy! :)
> BlueSonic presents the BluePanel &ndash; the All in One Desktop in one portable panel, easy to carry, light and portable with multi touch screen.

That's not the machine I think of when I see the word "desktop".
It may be karma-bait, but it's very nice looking karma-bait.

OTOH, no inline six, which is the platonic ideal of the ICE.

As such, I can't up vote this.
It's still up: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pywallet/

Looks like someone faked a mirror.
Why would it cost billions to put tracks on an existing roadbed that is already built for tracks and had trains running on it within the last 15 years?

Again, with all due respect, you don't live around here, do you? If so, for how long? (In other words, how familiar are you with what we call the "Seattle Process?")

Exactly what contiguous roadbed(s) between Renton and Bothell are able to accommodate the addition of tracks without either massive eminent-domain fights, which will happen, or reverting the Burke-Gilman Trail to rail service, which will not?
Issues raised in the article aside, I am here to argue semantics.

The article used the word start-up 3 times, plus one more in the title of his book. The company he worked for however, HubSpot is 10 years old and public and thus by definition is not a startup. Other two companies mentioned, Amazon and Netflix are both over a decade old and public and thus are not start-ups by any stretch of the imagination. Startups and tech companies are not synonymous and using them interchangeably is harmful to our discourse. If we can't agree on what words mean, how can we agree on deeper issues?

PS. I also have issue with author's use of the word "tech worker" to describe telemarketers. I maybe wrong, but a "tech worker" to me is not someone who works for a tech company but rather is one who creating the tech.
It's from the 1968 letter "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" by Dijkstra
And that is why its named the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.
> the company culture was never a good fit for him and he shouldn't harm others because of his mistake

How about the company shouldn't try to harm its workers? Because they do. Most startups do (it's practically part of the business plan, underpay your workers and dilute their equity 'til, if you are a mega-success, selling out might make up the delta between your underpaying salary and the one they could have gotten at a normal company), most tech companies do (though in other ways, hello collusion and managerial gaslighting). And shining a light on that is, if not noble, at least necessary.
Path functions and vector machines in new release of Apache MADlib 1.9
The whole point of saying it's way less convenient than cash was to avoid an explanation that it isn't exactly the same.