skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it has more to do with forcing content creators to come, than with beefing netrics up.
That's not a fact, that's some rando's guess.
"Those days" never really existed. Software has always been buggy.
Edit: I think parent means that the wrecking is what people are watching for?

There's not a lot of spectators in club racing. This isn't for spectators anyway.
is this a joke?
This normal person who has no strategy at all had better just buy a broad index fund. It's made for them!

If a person's only belief in the market is that they want to beat it, they are out of luck before the opening bell.
Finally...had to go so many comments down to find someone making a logical point. People will complain about anything. As someone who has made a massive app with React, well over 1000 components, people literally complain about a 43kb gripped file size... Most likely none of these people have built a large application with React and use it for stuff that a static site would be good for. Then they complain about loading time and rendering time... Also, on an app people ACTUALLY use and often...the files are cached anyway. The front/web/JS doesn't have a fatigue problem...it has a chronic bitching for no reason problem. Reacts benefits from a declarative api and such far out weigh file size...the people who complain about file size don't understand that and never will...again...probably because they haven't written anything used in production by real users ever. /rant
There are other valid reasons besides not paying the initial shipping cossts.

Typically anything shipped Prime is a no-fee/no-hassle return. Great for when you're buying clothes. After accidentally buying something NOT shipped prime, then getting hit with a bunch of fees from the seller to return it I've gotten much more careful about it.

We also get discounts on our monthly recurring purchases that make it cheaper than going to the store to replenish, not even factoring for saved time.

There's also the Prime video- which has a surprisingly good catalog of shows and movies (in the US at least). I still watch Netflix more, but I use prime video at least once a week.
Interesting renaming choice. ReactPerf.getWasted()

:D
Yes, there have always been (and always will be) software bugs, but it was at least intended to be used as shipped. We didn't release software with the stated intention of "ship it now, we'll patch bugs and finish features later."
Someone I know well used to work at a place that does personality tests, but not for hiring. More as a training thing.

My friend said it was really effective - the person running the test told him a bunch of stuff about his personality and management style based on the test that he hadn't explicitly thought about but was helpful. It can help point out your blind spots and how you should approach people with different personalities and styles.
This is going to sound like paranoia (and some part of it probably is). I've thought about talking to perhaps HR or recruiting to see if I can move to another department. However, I feel as long as this individual is at the company, it will be difficult. This person is unpredictable. One day he is happy. Another day, he is totally on edge and ready to shout. He might decide that my lack of "loyalty" to him as a personal offence. He is close with upper management (CEO, etc.) and he can easily influence them and potentially make my life miserable.

You know its so funny. I love the company itself and the product. They truly have some innovative technology (as cliche as that sounds).Though, I think the lesson I've learned from all this is that I need to look at my manager(s) as MUCH as (or more than) I look at the product or my salary.
Rather bold to publish a letter saying that someone who loves to pioneer and invent may choose to leave Amazon
You can get the chrome client from Github. That enabled one to circumvent the private beta until this announcement. There are no proprietary parts in the app store version.

Thus you should be able to make a native client just as well.
From the 1997 letter that's included at the bottom:

> We established long-term relationships with many important strategic partners, including America Online, Yahoo!, Excite, Netscape, GeoCities, AltaVista, @Home, and Prodigy.

That takes me back.
Given that this is a saga that's been going on for years, I wonder why debian hasn't just put it into stable-backports?
Yeah, I like heka a lot in my limited experience with it. Easy to setup, TOML config is pretty nice and forwarding filesystem logs is fast. Interestingly, parsing the logs can be done with custom defined Lua in addition to static methods like regex.
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Not really new. I've seen many companies creating similar homes - it's been popular for a few years at least. The more interesting ones (in my opinion) are the ones optimized to be highly efficient for living off-the-grid and self-sustainably.

It's scary at the same time. Humans are getting smaller and smaller and more irrelevant and powerless and less individual. In the future we'll probably all live in little pods under some kind of gigantic government that controls our lives. Maybe we'll be happy, but we'll be shadows of the diverse and complex beings we once were.
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You next year: "all my friends are leaving Amazon!" And the cycle repeats.
Except they aren't building dedicated roadways -- they're just dedicating existing lanes. Look at the streetview link below. That lane with the red on it used to be a regular traffic lane. This particular stretch of road becomes a nightmare during commute times, and it literally takes you four or five long traffic light cycles to get through this intersection. The bus used to sit in that, and now it whizzes past without noticing. That red lane is only a couple of blocks long, because this is the one really congested spot. You can't spot-apply rail like this. Not to mention, it's just paint -- they can study the effects of these optimizations and adjust them at relatively little cost.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6621364,-122.3451918,3a,75y,...
IQ tests are useless. I got a printout from one that says I have an IQ of 130, after I was sent a link to do the IQ test at home. Obviously, I called my flatmate and we did it together. We spent most of the time of the test taking the piss, else we'd have hit 200 or so.

The company who gave me the test offered me the job after a very brief interview, in which they said the test was not important. It was very clear from their behaviour that they thought it really, really was (important) and they were about to hire some sort of genius. I ran. I'm still running.

In my current position, at Big Financial Corp, I had to take an "aptitude test". There were three parts of it: literacy, numeracy, logic in that order. I suck at arithmetic so after the literacy bit I wanted to get straight to the cool and fun logic puzzles at the end, but the time we were given was like a third of the time the test was meant to take (allegedly, they wanted to see how well we perform under pressure) and I wouldn't have the time to do all three parts equally well. So I thought, screw it, I'll approximate. I clicked through the numeracy test mostly at random (I concentrated clicks on the first three options), hoping to get a 50/50 score and dove right into the logic test at the end. I had great fun and I got hired after all so it can't have been that bad. They haven't told me how well I did because they don't like to um, foster antagonism. Or something.

Point being: IQ tests are stupid. You don't need to have a high enough IQ to pass them. You just need to be smart enough to beat the test. So, useless.
I didn't run from google because I didn't need to!

Their hiring process is so full of shit that between the interviewer and the recruiter, they somehow managed to forget two phone interviews which I left work early for both times. When they finally and successfully initiated a third interview (again, left early), it was with someone who sounded like they wanted to jam a pen in their eyes from debilitating boredom. You could hear the eye rolls from over a thousand miles away as if I was some sort of nuisance who shouldn't be listened to. Why would I want to work for a place that drains the life out of someone that much, then uses them as an introduction to the company?! "Hello welcome to I Hate My Life, can I make you hate yours, too?"

I never received a call back, nor did I get an apology.

There aren't enough middle fingers or taboo words in this world to express how pissed off I was at them for the way that they behaved. It was just plain unprofessional, dammit.
Maybe we'll be happy, but we'll be shadows of the
diverse and complex beings we once were

These "diverse and complex beings" you refer to. When did we fit the model you're thinking of, exactly?
And my university (UAlberta) is having trouble with people graduating in CS, because within an hour all of higher level courses were booked so people can't take the courses they need to graduate, some people are forced to take a year off among other things.
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Don't burn the bridge; Polish your CV and start applying for a job;
Personally I think the market price for housing tends to reflect carrying costs. Which is take what a home buy can afford subtract taxes and insurance and that's the mortgage payment. The price is how big of a loan that will buy. So the yin and the yang, lower property taxes and the housing prices rise to compensate. The only difference is property taxes tend to pay for stuff that makes your home intrinsically more valuable. Where your mortgage payment doesn't. (Probably used to before we had national/international banking, but not today)
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Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. Dealing with rejections takes time, you get distracted, you get sad, it kills time which can be put in much better use.

You can deal with rejections, but that doesn't mean you have to deal with rejections.

You can use the time to make your product better. Someone famously said "Be so good, they can't ignore you", being mediocre and spending time in those activities is not very fruitful.
I posted all the code online:
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Thank you HN: 180.000+ views, 15.000+ downloads, 8.000+ stars, 7 days
After several months of hard work on a new open source real-time performance monitoring solution for Linux (https://github.com/firehol/netdata), we were unsuccessfully trying to build a community (hardly had 100 users).

Then, a week ago, @cujanovic posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11388196 on Hacker News.

And within hours, everything went crazy!

The same day, netdata entered Github’s Trending pages. The next day it was among the top in Daily, Weekly and Monthly! Posts and blogs were written (https://github.com/firehol/netdata/issues/148) all over the world!

And we still run with 1.000+ downloads per day!

You started this!

Thank you HN!
I pretty much always took 12-15 credits. My school was on semesters and I just went year round whereas most people took summer offer. Summer credits were cheaper and you could cram in a bunch of general ed stuff that didn't need a ton of study.

My engineering classes all preached 4 hours of study for every hour of class- I don't think I averaged two for most classes and graduated above a 3.2 GPA. Except EE courses and physics. I had to buckle down for those.
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Potemkin Demo: https://demo.casepad.io

Problem: lawyers, judges, and clerks who work in high volume case environments (public defense, small claims, family, housing, prosecution) at the state and local level need databases to:
(1) Get access to basic information about their cases
(2) Fulfill their sometimes onerous compliance requirements
(3) Run basic analytics on their caseloads
(4) Schedule their work around court appearances, client availability, etc.

Existing tools don't deliver on these four points because: no mobile or web access, onerous amounts of time to generate simple compliance reports, a lack any sort of extensibility, no integration with basic office productivity tools, bad search/indexing, and no automation of the onerous data intake process.

Casepad: is an attempt to solve these issues. We have partnered with one of NYC's institutional defense providers to build a modern database service geared towards these needs. They've provided us with full access to their staff, introductions to other professionals, and some "seed" money to build an mvp.

About us: we're brothers. I'm a '14 college graduate who worked in NYC as a data analyst. My brother is studying CS in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where we both grew up.

Why We're Applying: two main reasons. First, we could use the money. It would be great if my brother could afford to move to NY with me and we could both tackle this full time. Second, I think we would benefit from the mentorship that YC and its network have to provide. It would be great to learn more from folks who have built great tech businesses.

Prior Work: we've been writing code and interviewing users for Casepad for about 3mo now. Over 60 attorneys, judges, and clerks were interviewed while we validated some of our assumptions about the broader legal market.

If you have any questions, comments, feedback, or interest in the project reach out. We'd love to hear from you!
HN user tokenadult has a canned comment about this that they reposted for YEARS on this site.
Yeah! Absolutely. In healthcare we call it "patient compliance," but it's really just usability.

My guess is that by the time we get to the Apple Watch or Android Wear 3 or 4, it'll include a built-in ECG sensor. There are some devices out there already (like Nymi) that have built ECG into a wristband -- if the user touches a wristband worn on one hand with a finger on the other hand, that completes a circuit through the heart and gives you a 1-lead ECG.

I think the downstream implication is that, just like smart phones replaced dedicated GPSes and music players, many medical use cases will become "apps" that run on general purpose wristbands. The big advantage is that since they'll be always-on and non-intrusive, we'll be able to catch conditions much earlier.
http://tuxdiary.com/2016/01/28/dsdownload/ is also good
Original post of @cujanovic:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11388196

Netdata home:
https://github.com/firehol/netdata

Netdata demo:
http://netdata.firehol.org/

Posts about netdata:
https://github.com/firehol/netdata/issues/148
That's a good way to put it. Wonder then if most fund managers fundamentally don't believe that they can beat the market.

The wall street journal interviews fund managers every year or so, and asks them, if someone gave you all their money in return for a fixed, guaranteed annual interest rate, how much would you promise them?

Generally the answers are in the 1-2% range
I know a ton of people like this. 70% of the people I know didn't stay at Amazon past 4 years.
Nothing makes sense for me in GIMP. Don't call me grumpy too fast, I used almost every computer graphics related programs and none gave me this level of frustration. Be it 80s dos painting programs, x11 image viewers, windows node based compositing, 3d animation packages, even illustrator (which has some odd ui abstractions sometimes).

I thought blender changed dramatically in term of UI / ergonomy. I used to say that blender is the GIMP of 3D. But I came with a strong Maya/Houdini superiority complex.
Please let me ask some noob questions.

> Erlang matters today because it demonstrates how these semantics can be elegantly packaged in one language, execution model, and virtual machine.

Why is it so important to demonstrate that these semantics can be packaged into such a homogeneous environment ? Is it even a good idea ? Is this way of doing things superior to having micro-services that talk to each, all managed by a supervisor system ? Wouldn't that allow us to take advantage of the unique upsides of multiple programming languages, virtual machines and execution models ?
Thank you! It's refreshing to hear that from anyone with a cognitive science background, as you put it.

I had an MBTI test pretty much forced on me a while ago (senior engineer would be unhappy if I didn't take it). I argued very forcefully against it, saying it was like astrology, that it made me feel like the company was asking me to participate in some religious ritual when I was an atheist and so on. I'm not in that company anymore and one major reason I ran was that they allowed pop psychology like that to dictate decisions.
If you're aiming for a really snappy app, and you've made sure everything is fully cached, in a ServiceWorker even for totally instant loading, then JS parse/evaluation time becomes significant.
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It just seems that all the effort going into Erlang would be better spent on making the OTP stuff as a library for a popular, cross-language platform. Like the JVM (or maybe .NET.)
Saying Amazon is absorbing a loss on shipping costs to get market share implies that that they're engaged in predatory pricing (i.e. they're selling below cost to get market share with the intent to raise prices once competition has been destroyed).

There might be some truth to that, but the better explanation for why Amazon isn't profitable is that it's simply plowing all of its profits back into the business. This link is older, but it does a pretty good job of going through the numbers and Jeff Bezo's thinking: http://a16z.com/2014/09/05/why-amazon-has-no-profits-and-why...
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Thank you for two very relevant questions! We will develop an algorithm that will compare "debate topics" by analyzing their "initiators", text content, and "evidences". This algorithm will assign a correlation factor to all possible one-to-one comparisons from domain of "debate topics". Any two "debate topics" with factor exceeding a threshold may be integrated together.

Required minimum word counts for all responses, post flagging system at user-end, and algorithms searching for abusive language will all be used to prevent all-out brawls from breaking out.

These are among important parameters that will be under observation starting in the development stage. We will learn from our experience and improve our algorithms.
It's not just parsing, it's evaluating all the code statement by statement, and the result of that is hard to cache.
I've never heard that it lets ads through for money, nor have I ever noticed that happening.

Also, I don't really have a choice, unless I want to switch to a completely different product. uBlock Origin made the decision to not support Safari despite the original uBlock it was forked from supporting it.
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You may underestimate the difficulty of writing a bullet-proof and feature-rich "supervisor system". That has pretty high complexity and lots of nasty edge-cases.

Erlang happens to nail that part with OTP.
The average Computer Engineering degree from my university was completed (at that time) in 5 years. I graduated in 5 years and worked, so it didn't take me any longer than average, and I switched majors from CS to CpE- costing me two terms.

So I didn't give up any potential salary earnings I didn't already give up by going in the first place.

My point is that college can still be a good option for lots of people, they just need to focus on the cost/ROI. The horrors stories that we hear about are typically from a dumb kid who went to an out of state or private school, got a a 'general' degree and had no job qualifications. Then they were shocked people were t just handing them money.

I've yet to hear a story about a kid that did two years at a community college, finished up their BS in engineering, and then had life crippling problems with their debt.
Also, the iPhone is never going to fly.
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We at trivago had a similar problem. For this we created Gollum:
- http://tech.trivago.com/2015/06/22/gollum/
- https://github.com/trivago/gollum

We use it heavily to stream any Kind of Data into Kafka: Access and errorlogs, Application Logs, etc.
Did you consider it as well?
I made a the choice to go into leadership. (note I still avoiding the word "manager" as that makes me feel like a PHB ..but I'm getting over it).

The epiphany:

A VP I respect a lot was is still a crazy tinkerer with a strong technical background. He once made an automated dog watering bowl - it was stupid and brilliant and gained him a special kind of respect among engineers (myself included). I felt especially good because he asked me for advice on how to code bits of it[0].

This was the example I needed to realize I can still be a developer and a leader who writes code - achem - tinkers - for fun, bragging rights etc. I love telling my engineers that I hacked together some stupid thing (twillio api irc bot haha) while being careful not to pretend its the kind of pro-work they do day in and day out.

[0] I'm not sure if he realized it - but that was an act of motivational leadership. The vp asking his 2-level-down report for some pretty detailed advice - then coming back to show the results. It may seem obvious to some, but this was a major epiphany for me, and I've since seen this quality in all of my favorite bosses & mentors.
Thanks for the response! What I meant by "hard-coded" penalty, is there is a list of domains somewhere and "reddit.com" is on it. I was wondering if that was the case, or if these domains were discovered automatically somehow. Based on your description, it sounds like it's the former and then occasionally the penalty is negated automatically?
I feel like "ultimate" in the title is misleading.
not available in India (:
Taxing international transactions like international commerce and small things like travel? I don't think that would be good. We've been spending the better part of the last seven decades eliminating barriers to international transactions because of the problems tariffs caused... This would be a step backwards in that direction.
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1 vs 2 is a bad, non-mnemonic naming convention to use, for either of those cases. Sadly, it also appears in "type I vs type II" errors. Even "false positive vs false negative" isn't helpful, since the decision of what counts as "positive" is arbitrary. Better to refer to the category directly: eg, "false ham vs false spam", "false acceptance vs false rejection".

While we're on the topic Amazon and bad naming, what's with AWS EC2 instances? They have "spot" vs "on demand" instances, which have very different properties, ideal for different use cases ... and yet, in the context of economics and markets, the terms are basically synonyms!
New Zealand seems good.
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The reason I'm thinking 1-3 is that allows people to have a full time job and still get the UBI if they want or need to. But yeah that's another thing I've thought about - having a guaranteed job and pay.
Looking at it that way, it's kind of impressive that Yahoo! is still around.