skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So at a cost of $18k per month you are getting 30M pages served, 140M API calls, 2.2M background jobs and 143TB of bandwidth. That sounds like a lot of bang for your buck.

When deciding on making any changes you have to consider the cost/benefit. Say an engineer costs you $10k for a month (fully loaded cost). For them to spend a month on reducing costs then what kind of reduction makes it worthwhile? For me, I would want it to take a year or less to pay back. So for me, a developer would need to reduce the monthly bill by $1k in order to justify the effort of a month of their time. Maybe they have ideas to easily do that, or maybe not.

Over time, as the bill keeps rising, you eventually reach a point where the savings become greater than the developer cost and so you go ahead and do it. So just work out your numbers (engineer cost, minimum payback period) and the decision becomes easy.
> The speed from the airport down to the depot is pretty shocking, mostly because it takes a whole bunch of ridiculously tight turns.

That's true, though it's only c. 3km of the 14km route. Certainly the 10km/h restriction round those bends makes it seem crazy slow and impedes progress out there. (I originally wrote, though deleted it, a question wondering how big the time saving would be; perhaps a minute?)

The section beyond Murryfield is mostly straight and it does get up to a fair speed between stops, which are mostly about 1km apart. It's the crawl around Murryfield (due to having to take a circular route around the edge of Haymarket (railway) depot) and the curves out by the airport that really kill any feeling of speed, though, no matter how fast it gets up elsewhere.
Truth. The combo of amateur violin and Bartok must be another level of torture.
I completely identify with the parent here - I'm a male, and I avoid even the appearance of close relationships with female colleagues. To be fair, that's not terribly difficult for me anyhow, as I'm not someone who socializes with colleagues of either gender often outside of work.

After much reflection, I agree that this behavior harms my female colleagues. However, I also believe that it harms my career opportunities in exactly the same manner. Just as they do not have the opportunity to build those closer relationships we me, I miss out on the same with them.
I don't understand why Google gets attacked when at least you can install competing services and you can't on iOS. Why does iOS get a pass? If Google built the hardware itself it could lock it down all it wants? That's the reason? You can get Firefox on Android and not on iOS. You can replace almost anything, and on iOS you can't. You can disable many of the default apps on Android, I don't know if you can on iOS.
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Best you're going to get is a Rashomon-style retelling. Anybody early on has retold the story so many times - pitching new hires, onboarding the next wave of employees, and then the next wave, and then the next wave - that they probably don't really remember the real thing very clearly anymore.

Then there's also the pressure to agree to a similar narrative, not necessarily in a bad way, just like any couple has agreed on a how they met story, they've been telling it for so long and had the arguments about "did that happen?" that the story has been set. Who knows what happened.

You'd have to assemble a collage of The Official Story, some of the weirder first interviews the group gave in the press, early non-hires who interviewed and caught a glimpse of a weird snapshot, the inevitable disgruntled folk (who may not inevitably wrong).

Aside from that, I do like http://justinkan.com/three-stories , it's a good series of disasters.
Jaycar took up the mantle of the hobbyist electronics store years ago anyway.
> or I can risk what is often a shitshow no matter how carefully I word it.

I assure you, we feel the same way. This is a topic that I'm extremely uncomfortable speaking about, and usually use a throwaway.
> t's like I'm saying "moderating reddit is easy, I barely see any spammers or trolls there" (as a user).

Except since I have 6 years experience, I truly can get a feel for what their "before" looks like just by looking at the "after". That's what I meant. I can get a pretty good baseline on what their before looks like because at one point, our subreddits were smaller and had a similar baseline. Their comment system is about what reddit's was like circa 2011-2012. Coincidentally, I think reddit was approximately the same size traffic-wise.
Ask HN: How does one optimize oneself for employment at a startup?
I've been listening to the "How to Start a Startup" podcast, mostly out of idle curiosity, and I've just finished the second episode, "Team and Execution".

In it, Sam Altman talks about who the right people are and who the wrong people are to be one of a startup's first hires, and as he describes the right people, I realize that I don't currently fall into the category of the right people. My coworkers wouldn't call me the "best in the world at what I do", although what I do is mostly disagree with them on how to get things done.

I am aware of plenty of material out there that explains how to be a good/not terrible startup founder, but what can I do/learn/change to become a better startup employee? I want to work in this space, but I have a very strong new fear of being the "bad employee" who tanks someone else's incredible idea.
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Interestingly though - those now-banned-in-F1 driver aids are all over showroom floors and making regular cars safer. (as are older technologies initially developed in top level racing - disk brakes, fuel injection, radial tires, etc...)

Racing in all it's forms is nearly always conducted under some entirely arbitrary artificial constraints (even when the rules don't enforce it, money ends up taking the same place). Sometimes those constraints are "we'll sell more cars if they all look a little bit like Fords or Chevys", sometimes they're more like "we've got home-team advantage, so we'll make the rules say you've got to sail your America's Cup contender to Newport to compete, even if you come from Europe/New Zealand instead of Rhode Island...". Sometimes the constrains are "these new 4WD supercharged Group B Rally Cars are killing too many people, lets stop racing anything that fast thru the trees - lets race showroom floor shopping trolly hatchbacks instead..."

Keep in mind that "Cycling with motors" isn't motorcycle racing either - in motorcycle racing there's engine capacity limits, number of cylinders, number of gear ratio limits, minimum weights, restrictions on brake materials, even things like limits on the number of motors used for a season and work allowed to be done on motors between races, and MotoGP are now "standardising" the engine management electronics/software as well... WorldSBK have homologation rules, where you need to sell a certain number of your racing motorcycle to the general public as road bikes to be allowed to race (modified) version in the race series. (I'm currently riding round a two stroke 125 Cagiva Mito that's a roadgoing version of the now banned/superseded 125GP bikes... These day's you've got no choice but to compete on a 250cc four stroke in that race series/class. In the past there were 8 cylinder bikes, and bikes with 16 speed gearboxes - all just history/legends now...)

A lot of "the balance" seems to end up being about money - either to stop the guy with the deepest pockets from wining everything (who'd want to go sail boat racing against Larry Ellison without some rules about how much he can spend?), or to make sure the sponsors keep pouring money into "the sport" (how many F1 rules do you suppose there are relating to drivers meeting corporate and sponsor hospitality and media requirements, rather than technical regulations about what you're allowed to race on the track?)
I used sawfish (originally sawmill) for more than a decade. It was great for customizability, and I had actually made key bindings for it do I could easily tile my windows (at the time tiling wms weren't very common).

Its language, rep, apparently started out as being closer to Common Lisp, but gradually changed to be pretty close to Scheme. (...which I liked, as I prefer lisp-1s) I eventually switch to i3, partly because I wanted an actual tiling wm, and partly because sawfish was starting to become pretty outdated (no Unicode or anti-aliased fonts, if I remember right).

I do wish i3 used a real programming language rather than the somewhat adh hoc configuration language it uses, but for the most part it does what I want. (The one thing I really want is a way to add a hook for when the last window on a workspace is closed that would switch to the last workspace that was opened on that head that still has open windows. Being able to dynamically sign workspace numbers to named workspaces would also be nice. Some of these things may be possible with external scripts and i3-msg)
This is a poorly researched article with many inaccuracies.

(1) Utility Scale Solar is already less <$1/W installed in India, and heading for sub $1.5/W in US.

(2) The price of Solar PV panels is already at $0.40/W. US-based $FSLR is has a roadmap to get to $0.25/W by 2019. In addition PV efficiency is increasing by 10% yoy. This is just from purely riding the 'industrial learning curve'. See [1].

(3) "Value deflation" is a policy issue that has a simple policy solution. As a tech that produces an intermittent product, but has high fixed-costs but zero-marginal costs - solar (like wind) should be financed (and paid for) via a fixed tariff (feed-in tariff or FiT). See [2]. This is how Solar is financed in the rest of the world outside the US. If 'value deflation actually became an issue - then my guess is that regulators in the US would step in (but one can never say with US regulators who tend to get captured by various lobby groups).

(4) Solar will account for 30% of all new capacity power additions going forward globally. This is happening - now. There is over 100,000MW installed globally already.

In addition - every time solar or wind comes up for discussion on HN or elsewhere, the same misconceptions and confusions about baseload, intermittency and costs arise.

To summarise the counter-points again:

(1) Renewables does not need to be base-load or compared to 'base-load'. 'Base-load' is spectrum not a point. See [3]

(2) There is a difference between intermittent and 'unplanned'. Planned vs unplanned is the main issue. Even nuclear has unplanned shut-downs - no tech has a 100% 'capacity factory' running 24/7 365 days. see [4]

(3) Renewables can get to 60-80% penetration via:

(a) increasing efficiencies (happening now)

(b) increasing energy storage efficiencies with declining prices (happening now)

(c) geographical grid-integration (happening slowly)

(d) more flexible software-led demand-side and supply-side management (happening). See [5]

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-14/first-sola...

[2] http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/3-ways-renewable...

[3] http://cleantechnica.com/2016/03/02/base-load-power-is-a-myt...

and http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/08/rmi-blows-lid-baseload-p... [short video in article]

[4] http://www.energypost.eu/dispelling-nuclear-baseload-myth-no...

[5] Links on renewable energy penetration potential

- NREL Analysis of how to achieve high-penetration renewables in US http://www.nrel.gov/analysis/re_futures/

- Ramez Naam http://rameznaam.com/2016/01/31/how-far-can-renewables-go-pr...

- California http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/04/04/what-will-california-...
Seems ironic that, as a marketer, it took this much verbiage to make his point. Must have gotten paid by the word. On a serious note, the tech industry in general suffers from non standard language when it comes to describing roles. Consider pm for product manager, project manager, program manager. In some cases these labels refer to overlapping roles and responsibilities, in other cases they don't. Same with marketing, where u have different labels meaning the same thing or partially expressing the same thing. Or take bd, where in some startups it means sales and in others it means, well, bd.
Fortunately, you can do both.

Diversity is, on it's own, something that's been shown to improve decision making proficiency.

You should read the article, it does a very good job of outlining exactly how conclusive this finding is.

"The best person for the job", as you say, is the diverse pick.
You can't install competing services on iOS? https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-maps/id585027354?mt=8

You can't get FireFox on iOS? https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/firefox-web-browser/id989804...
> Shouldn't it have better protections against a $25 internet purchased jammer? Are such protections possible?

I don't think so. GPS is a purely passive system. If someone is broadcasting a signal in your immediately area that overpowers the GPS satellites, there isn't much you can do.
I think it's a case of the outstanding share numbers being much easier to get than how much these companies are actually worth right now. I can see an overworked journalist who out of expediency decides to include these meaningless numbers, because including ANY numbers gives the verisimilitude of hard science.

Even if they've done the equivalent of adding a days temperature in F to its wind speed in km/h to its percentage chance of rainfall.
Ive some of these tube-size assists are 100 watts. That could be as much 30% in sustained riding.
They were designed to provide half the power for commuters.
Robbing someone is a property crime, with a threat of violence.

It's completely irrelevant to this conversation.
Isn't this already possible with normal Minecraft? I mean obviously you have to write your mod with Java, but still.
Frame size is actually quite important for fitting a bike to a person. However, it's certainly something that could be varied within a model, just like a shoe has different sizes, or whatever. Multiple frame sizes are available on everything but the cheapest bikes - I had a choice of frame sizes on a standard Schwinn aluminum-framed bike 15 years ago.

Given the choice of 5 high-end bikes and the ability to select a proper size I don't really see a problem.
Why ban steroids? Why ban amphetamines? Whyban surgical modification? Why ban genetic engineering? Why ban motorised exo skeletons and nano technology? (I just read a great short story along these lines called ""Slipping" by Lauren Brookes - from the EFF'S PWNING TOMORROW short fiction anthology...)
> Maybe it's time for a new kind of journalism without journalists or ads, with a focus on primary sources, and empowering interested communities to report and verify for other readers. It's unlikely to emerge from old media though.

I don't know, but it sounds a lot like you're describing reddit.
I'm skeptical that the bribes will be big enough to affect most land owners in San Francisco, but I don't have any numbers handy about the average income of the NIMBY's in that city. Just an intuition that they stand to lose far more in property value than it is practical to pay them.
Side note - Does anyone know of a place to get that kind of information? Maybe it can be triangulated from census data + some other source?
Of course, if it's in beta, and the infrastructure has been built out but not yet heavily loaded, the performance may be unusually good.

(We see this every time the cellular industry rolls out a new band nobody is using yet, and the review sites talk about how great the bandwidth is.)
I loved your Silicon Valley script, and seriously hope they invite you on for a least a guest writer spot. I haven't gotten to read the full "Pricks" script yet, but I just cracked up in my office (with a bunch of strange looks) when I read (and had a beautiful mental picture of) Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, and Dr. Dre at the board meeting.

It's not super sexy anymore, but if you ever want to write/learn anything about the silicon (semiconductor) part of "Silicon" Valley, let me know!
Why not encourage this? F1 racing fueled innovation in this manner before they went crazy with engineering restrictions
It's build on top of pyglet which is built around event-based programming, so it's already got the ability to do low-level callbacks from key/mouse events built in [1]. GUI widgets are a separate matter though and would probably require a separate library to do OpenGL GUI elements on top of this.

[1] https://pyglet.readthedocs.org/en/pyglet-1.2-maintenance/pro...
Here’s what I learned about what a startup is
I think the problem is they don't teach the same units everywhere in the world.

I grew up in Australia with SI units I do a lot of work with Fluid/Thermodynamic calcs. I have a bunch of reference values in my head. I know 1 Atmosphere is ~101.3 kPa, I know speed of sound in dry air is ~330 m/s I know how much energy it takes to raise the temperature of various substances. I know the densities of common materials in my head. All of that helps me sanity check calculations - at a glance I can see things 'this fan is producing too much suction, not possible' or 'There is not enough input energy to see a temperature rise that high' things like that.

I have no idea about any of the non SI units. I couldn't tell you how long a "yard" is or how heavy a "pound" is usually it is fine but occasionally I come across numbers in technical papers or datasheets or similar with stuff in wacky units - PSI, BTU and Fahrenheit are the worst offenders when I have to deal with them it just blue screens my mental models. I see those units so infrequently I have no concept of what a 'reasonable' value expressed in those units looks like. I imagine people who don't work in SI units everyday hit the same difficulties in reverse.
The premise of the article is that choice is good for workers, and urbanity fosters choice. Corporations creating isolated campuses removes choice and reduces quality of life.

Regardless, it's very clear that there's no way to win with these people. No matter what decisions the managers and architects arrive at, there will always be some ankle-biting from noncontributing journalists and academics with political axes to grind.

The point of the shape is to connect as much as possible while creating a secure courtyard. The closest path from one side of the building to another is outside.

Interesting, I didn't know that. My understanding was that the courtyard area would be easily accessible to everyone working there.
Yes. Typical for Amazon. Usually low/mid performers can expect a small increase, but because of stock last year most will get no adjustment this year
June of 2014 there was a massive press roll out for Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes. You couldn't go anywhere, or look at a magazine rack, without seeing her face.

http://fortune.com/2014/06/12/theranos-blood-holmes/
This looks quite nice. But they did fib a bit about no dependencies. It is apparently built on top of GLFW3 which is a nice, small C library that gives you a native window and input handling.
Modelling shows move to 100% renewable energy would save Australia money
Yellow pages and YP.com are dying faster than Yahoo! is. My observation. I just believe Yellow Page phone book advertising and/or directory listing advertising are scams.

If they were priced right compared to internet ads CPC - maybe. They aren't cheap though - they sell quarter page ads for lawyers in monthly payment installments lol
I don't speak German, but I don't know if it ceases being schadenfreude just because you feel that the bad thing that happens is justified. Indeed, the Wikipedia page on the word freely mixes those kinds of examples in their page.

I'm not trying to be confrontational here, but recently I've been having a fairly negative reaction to the happy feelings that occur when justice is served. Sometimes I think this fuels a search for justice, where punishment is almost a desired goal from the beginning. The OP also discussed the feeling of satisfaction that their world view is justified when someone gets punished. Without trying to ascribe any intent to the OP, I get very bad vibes out of relentless searches for justice where the punishment of those caught fuels a reinforcement that a certain world view is correct.

Of course this is completely blowing these feelings up out of proportion, but from small seeds grow tall trees. I have lately wondered if justice is really something we should not try to pursue.
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The same question applies to all of those. If we allow technological enhancements, why is one enhancement too far? You couldn't run the course as fast as you can cycle it, after all. The same argument applies to all those other things - if we allow them then the playing field needs to stay absolutely level otherwise the person who can afford the strongest drugs, the newest gene-splicing, and the most efficient exoskeleton wins.

It's either about the athletic competition or it's not. If it's about the athletic condition, then the impact of technological factors should be minimized.
> Are you saying that "troll" now means

I think the overall meaning of his comment is basically "Languages evolve." And I agree with him. It's as inevitable as death and taxes.
I am extremely pleased by this outcome. Though Google is a for-profit company, the service they bring the world by making those books available for the world to view is outstanding.
Kerbal Space Program is fantastic, I'll always recommend that. It might be worth checking out Gnomoria too; it's a lot easier to get started with (IMO) than Dwarf Fortress, but still provides a lot of mechanical depth.
TILT sounds like an interesting idea. In San Francisco I suspect our best bet is through California State laws offering density bonuses or provide as-of-right building in some form, that overrides local planning constraints. For example, AB 2501 is currently in the local government committee but is being voted on this Wednesday:
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?...

If you feel compelled like me to support more housing in the bay area, please write or call these Assemblymembers in the local government committee and ask them to support it before Wednesday at 1:30 pm Pacific, even if you're not in their district:

Susan Talamantes Eggman (Chair) - http://asmdc.org/members/a13
Marie Waldron (Vice-Chair) - https://ad75.asmrc.org/
Luis A. Alejo - http://asmdc.org/members/a30/
Susan A. Bonilla - http://asmdc.org/members/a14/
David Chiu - http://asmdc.org/members/a17/
Ken Cooley - http://asmdc.org/members/a08/
Beth Gaines - https://ad06.asmrc.org/
Richard S. Gordon - http://asmdc.org/members/a24/
Eric Linder - https://ad60.asmrc.org/
Batteries have some advantages that can offset the cost a little:

1) You can move them around, as in an electric car. That's useful if you want to do mobile stuff like driving. Or if you just flat-out want to move the facility somewhere it will be more useful.

2) They can be efficiently decentralized, which benefits reliability, and decreases transmission loss.

But anyway, the solution is to use any and all technologies, right? Batteries make sense some places, gravity storage elsewhere.
Yes, you are correct. But normal MC is not open source. :)
Thank you. What is the compensation difference when you're promoted from SDE1 to SDE2. I've heard it's something like 15%, but I've also heard people say that they didn't get raises when they were promoted for budget reasons.
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Reading the docs, thanks!
You d realize that you can read a kindle ebook on a tablet, phone, laptop, or retina iMac?

You're clearly conflating Kindle (the device) with Kindle (the ebook store).
I agree. I'm not saying they're methodical, I'm saying you have to know the rules before you can forget the rules and let your real creativity come out.