skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never attribute to malice... My mother was a CPS worker for a while so here's a little perspective from the inside. CPS is generally wildly underfunded, underpaid, and understaffed. It's staffed largely by bleeding hearts straight out of college, most of whom will burn/churn out in a year or two. They've never had kids; most are still kids themselves. There are a few lifers and first job in a second career people, but they're the minority. It's one of the more systematically dysfunctional branches of government.
Doing something like giving the users a poll to say "are you excited about the upcoming map feature that does X?" would be enough for them to inform the users of what they're working on and gauge interest at the same time.
Not Python, but you might like http://terralang.org/
And isn't electricity in Paris something like 18 euro cents per kWh? Now your datacenter is eating expensive electricity and requires special expensive cooling systems all year round, because even in the middle of winter there's no easy way to do free-air cooling of an underground bunker.
They are growing into a very dangerous position of acting as a gatekeeper to the Internet. Try accessing any major website through Tor.
>People are only hurting themselves because it takes some fun out of the game

Well it sounds like they were wrong about it.
I agree wholeheartedly with the notion that you should rarely use reduce directly. It is much less useful than map or filter.

Suppose that you have a bunch of things implemented using map or filter. When someone writes parallelized versions of map and filter, all of the existing code gets the benefits.

Now suppose you have a bunch of basic functions implemented using reduce (sum, product, min, max, reverse, ...). Can these be parallelized? Yes - by throwing away the 'reduce' implementation, and starting from scratch.

The problem with reduce, compared to its more useful cousins map and filter, is that it is too powerful. Map and filter are more limited than reduce, but if you can express your computation in terms of maps and filters, you get something valuable in return. If you can express is in terms of reduce, you save a few keystrokes, and that's about it.

For anyone interested in this kind of stuff, I recommend Guy Steele's talk "Organizing Functional Code for Parallel Execution; or, foldl and foldr Considered Slightly Harmful": https://vimeo.com/6624203
Thanks for the very frank response. I agree with you completely. My wife magically became an in-state student when it came time for the University to waive her tuition. funny how that works.
I've been on fellowships where I got a W2 (and taxes withheld), and others where I was paid a stipend and I had to pay estimated taxes myself. My point is - just because a "fellowship" income is not reported via a W2 doesn't mean one doesn't have to pay taxes on it. But, it's all taxable income as far as the IRS is concerned.
>And it marks Sam Altman as living in the past. In terms of "why are comments mean?" we had that debate more than 10 years ago

You seem to conflate "I read some internet discussion about a subject 10 years ago on some random blog all 100 people read" (most DHH fans) with "we've collectively settled that issue, and everybody who keeps wondering about it lives in the past".

Which is surprising, because those are 2 entirely different things. Might as well say: "Socrates had already discussed ethics in the 4th century BC. Everybody who has been discussing them afterwards lives in the past".
The working class should similarly rethink annual pay raises and instead demand annual cuts in working hours.
Is digital cable television using IP? I thought it would be something proprietary.
You removed the modifiers when you were paraphrasing.

Obviously to explain was my exact intention, which is why I provided several arguments to your one.

Honestly, I find your first sentence hard to believe.
Didn't seem too big to me..It is like 32Tb/4TB per day. What is the number of Twitch's daily traffic, I'd say it is comparable.
And it isn't a Nobel price. It is the "Swedish National Bank's Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econ...
What time do you go to sleep and when do you go to bed?
This kind of advice seems coddling and in opposition to the great advice Jessica Livingston gives in: http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/06/03/jessica-livings...

Were any of the founders of the mentioned startups so mentally weak that they gave a shit what anyone else said?

They may have all had haters but they definitely also had lovers.
Depends on the track of course, but cars on Laguna Seca rarely go above 100mph.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la6BZ89Z6bs

Sure, the CTS-V starts at 120mph, but as soon as the turns start up its difficult for the driver to get the speed up. A lot of turns are taken at 40mph or slower, and accelerating back up to ~100mph is something the Tesla is very good at.

I don't think the Tesla's top-speed issues are a problem. Its more about the weight and its poor skid-pad that is keeping it off the track. And of course, that electric-battery heating issue.
> The annual pay raise died a few decades ago.

AFAICT, despite the hype, it really didn't, it just became less significant.

> You can go back and re-read early issues of FastCompany, from the 1990s, where they talk about "you" the worker needs to make themselves essential to the company, because annual raises are dead and only real promotions bring real money any more.

Its true that in private industry, reliable annual increases that are much greater than inflation (and so represent real advancement) are far less common than they used to be. They still happen in some places where people advance within broad pay bands without a change of position or title, so it isn't strictly the case that all real (significant) pay increases come from promotions, but its not a bad approximation.

But even so, annual nominal pay increases that are at least near or slightly higher than inflation seem to remain common in private industry.
UK as well, pay raises have fluctuated between 1.5% and 15% during my career. Only one year (2009) did I not receive a raise and that was down to the small agency I was working for at the time having a mortgage lender as a primary client. Not the easiest of years for them.
Basis elevated my blood sugar quite dramatically. Beware, and check your blood sugar when you're on it (against your normal baseline) It did that on day one and day two so I quit taking it and now back to normal levels for blood sugar.
It's not just patents but regulations.

Any Epi-Pen competitor has to be FDA aproved, that takes years of investment.

The government the gets to decided if the product gets to consumers.

It just recently killed a competitor so Epi-Pen can raise prices.
And yet, the first thing I did was read the comments here- to determine if the article was worth tapping.
They are a fixture in the U.S., too, in my experience.
500GB = 4Tb, not 400Tb, so it would be 100,000 people watching for a few hours. Still not much.

However, I think they miscalculated. They also mention 30M hours of video watched at an average bit rate of 2Mbps. By my calculation that would make it (30 hours is around 100k seconds, so 30M hours is about 100G seconds) 200,000Tb. That's "more than 400Tb", yes, but also 500 times as much (check: that brings it up to 50M "watcher events", quite close to the 30M hours.)

Also, if I understand this correctly, this is for Brazil only, not worldwide ("Before starting, I would like to clarify that Globo.com only had rights for streaming the content to Brazil.")

Given that and the fact that large parts of Brazil's population are poor, the 30M hours do not seem obviously wrong to me.
LOL, I did that until I got married (in my 20's) - now my wife won't let me :P
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Glad you like the looks of it. It was built and is maintained by a Skymind engineer. All of us are on this Gitter channel if you have questions: https://gitter.im/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j
I'm the same way.

I have simply made peace with the fact that I just am a slow starter in the morning, and try to take advantage of natural times of production. It takes 30 minutes to 2 hours for me to "wake" properly, so I just do stuff that doesn't take much thought when I can. Instead of overcoming it, I just made peace with it and do things to help it not be such a drag.

The first 20 minutes of a too-early waking might be groggy enough that I can't manage to shower yet (I get 'sleep drunkenness' occasionally). I give myself extra time to get ready. I know certain activities take longer in the morning. If possible, I schedule low-energy activities for the morning.

Sleep maintenance seems to help me physically wake, but not with the slow start. Coffee doesn't seem to do much either way, but I do drink it. Exercise first thing in the morning? Forget it. It feels harder then.

On the other hand, I get this wonderful uptick when some others are starting to tune out, so there is that.
I'm having trouble building an internally consistent response because of things like how "changing a password" is a trivial change, i.e. I'm struggling to take into account the hypothetical in a way consistent with your intent and with what reality would have to work like for the hypothetical, as given, to hold true.

Mind trying again with a different example?
I actually love Selenium for this purpose, for much the same reasons the author mentions here.

It's almost impossible for a website to reliably detect that a client web browser is being automated, and I find I can make Selenium scripts much more adaptable to breaking changes in websites when they occur than I can when hooking up my code directly.

I actually disagree with the contention that Selenium is slower than directly scraping though. The Firefox driver has always been lightning fast for me and the bottleneck is almost always server requests that would have been necessary either way.
Is not the problem misdiagnoses? There are a lot of conditions that mimic ADHD, I think the problem is that a lot of diagnosis are not thorough enough.
The UK has a database law:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/UK_Database_Law#Database_Right

If you scrape, and effectively reconstitute a database, then so long as the database originally had a "substantial investment" in it's "obtaining, verifying or presenting the contents" then yup... you have breached the database right, which is a modified form of copyright.

You may access said database (via the web), but as soon as you start reconstituting the database from scraping... you're in breach.

It's a law, it is illegal in the UK, I'm sure most countries have some equivalent law on their books, all of the EU does. The law looks recent, but UK copyright and patent used to cover it, the 1997 date is just a separate statute to clarify the position.
as others have pointed out, you are making an implicit assumption that it is the man's duty to "correct himself" and then return to being a husband and father.

this is not what zen is about. the man was incapable of being a good husband and father before he met Gudo. he could not accept that life-style and so he turned to drink and gambling to avoid it.

after he met Gudo he became aware of his failings and his destructive behavior. he changed his ways. he did not fulfill what you perceive his duty to be.

does that mean he did the wrong thing? did his family suffer more with him present (and drunk and broke) or absent? if he had returned to his family would he have been able to remain sober and dutiful? can any of us claim to know the likely outcomes of what didn't happen to another person?
> Would you "fix" a movie?

Have you ever heard of The Phantom Edit? Or A Phantom Edit?

Or the Despecialised Edition?
Wake me up when I can charge the battery to 100% in 2.5 seconds anywhere.
So far Cloudflare appears to be acting in a non-destroying way. They take as content-neutral a stance as they can, and have had to defend lawsuits as a result of that stance. They recognize that the internet only functions and they can only be part of the infrastructure of the internet if they take that stance.

The greater concern is this: Companies like Cloudflare should not be necessary. They often are. And, with today's internet architecture, companies like Cloudflare must operate at scale to be a useful service with pricing that people can afford.

In a world where we accept the Cloudflare model, we also risk a set of gatekeepers emerging, and that set is "People who can manage terabits/second of inter-network connectivity at PoPs all over the world". It's potentially a troublingly small small group of entities.
First, search engines are scrapers. No need to make a distinction.

Second, search engines don't always respect robots.txt. They sometimes do. Even Google itself says it may still contact a page that has disallowed it. [0]

Third, robots.txt is just a convention. There's no reason to assume it has any binding authority. Users should be able to access public HTTP resources with any non-disruptive HTTP client, regardless of the end server's opinion.

[0] "You should not use robots.txt as a means to hide your web pages from Google Search results. This is because other pages might point to your page, and your page could get indexed that way, avoiding the robots.txt file." / http://archive.is/A5zh8
Use both - Using Nix inside Docker will make the builds truly reproducible.
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Yes that's another option. We already do that for inline assembly in C programs.
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But you are supposed to catch common pokemon, that's the quickest way to level up.
That's not what the article is about nayuki. The author of the article makes and proves a claim that arrays are faster than linked lists regardless of the insertion point. The metrics presented clearly show this.

The reason for this abnormality is cache locality (there are other reasons, which I will not go into right here).

Balanced trees can be pretty slow in fact. After some operations, a tree structure can become quite fragmented in memory, leading to many cache misses. In my experience, it is often faster to work with arrays instead of trees when processing in memory. However, using external storage, a b-tree often introduces quite some performance gain.
The cynic in me is seeing it as an ass cover - "The product you like is joining us" vs "The product you like has sold out (also we bought data about what you like to read for use in our thing we don't really care about the product itself)"
To paraphrase Bjarne Stroustrup: "There are two kinds of startups: the ones people criticize, and the ones nobody's ever heard of."
>Wow, remind me not to hire you for a job then.

Who told you the parent was interested in working for you and your random company in the first place?

>As an employer I am paying you to put my work ahead of yours.

Nope, employees compensate people for doing specific work for them. Not for "putting their work ahead of their personal life/family/or whatever".

As long as they get their money's worth (and more, since they obviously pay employees less than the value they get out of them, unless the company is merely breaking even), and the job gets done, then they don't get a say in anything else about their employees personal time. Unless they are shitty employees, in which case, let their companies crash and burn.
V8: Firing Up the Ignition Interpreter
Akamai streamed over 250PB of Rio video over 15 days. Doubt if anyone topped that.
They released too early with too few low value features.
And it's not just start-ups. If you contribute to LibreOffice, a lot of what is being said in threads under release announcement can make you feel depresssed.

I stopped reading them and just contribute anyways. Just because everyone can have an opinion doesn't mean you have to read all of them.
So, to be clear, you think the basic mechanic of geography based gaming (there must be a better name for it) is a fad and it's already fading?

I strongly disagree. In my opinion what we just saw was the initial burst of public enjoyment of that game mechanic, and now that the concept has very widespread familiarity, the ground is set for better games to come along and dwarf Pokemon Go.

It actually was a revolutionary moment, but it seems many want to assume the initial burst was the big bang. I think that's very wrong.
The article explains that child related crimes have declined at a rate similar to all crime over several decades. I would expect to see a greater rate if the paranoia was effective.
Why would bonuses, which are 1) Taxed higher than income most of the time, and 2) Not guaranteed to happen, be more of a motivator than salary?
I have learned that I have never met the person, can't see the person then the value I place on their words is very small. And secondarily, I always try to determine if the in-person I am talking to has never met or seen the communicator.

To me, comments are the rare exception just like watching tv news.

So the advice is good. But the successful companies already have a very good "filter" already to not pay attention to unimportant people and words.
Use of the early morning hours as the most focused and effective are nothing new for night owls.

What makes the 4 am wake up really special is when you go to bed at 8-9 PM and get twice as much done in the middle of the night as you would when pulling an all nighter.

Being a life long night owl who has become an early(ier) morning guy... imagine your best all nighter ever, with double or triple the productivity due to having your full force of energy to solve problems with zero interruptions.

The only trade off, like a lot of things is that there is some things you can't do as a result like have late nights too often.
Hmm... while I don't know, it'd be interesting to write something that would automatically fix those things - which I find interesting because I would think that a good OCR service should use some model of word frequency or sentence structure to aid symbol resolving.
As Altman points out, most of them are going to fail. Later stage investors need to figure out which ones after YC has done its series A thing. YC isn't investing that much per startup. YC does well even if the later financing rounds are way overvalued.

The later stage investors don't.
You don't want a complete pushover, though, otherwise nothing ever gets done while your team is busy playing video games all week. What you want is a reasonable boss!
My mother and brother. Seriously. Both morning people. Wake up, have some coffee, and get started with the day. My mother would wake up early, clean house, then shower and get ready for work when she could. My brother prefers to wake up and do things as well. I'm just the opposite - I'm pretty useless the first hour I'm awake. Just getting through the morning routine feels like actual work if I start too soon.
Realistically, CPS is overloaded. I know people who've worked with CPS, and I think if you went and worked with CPS for a few months you would change your tune pretty quickly. They don't have the resources to take children and put them into foster care on a hunch.
The press release does specifically say:

> For you, the Instapaper end user and customer, nothing changes. The Instapaper team will be moving from betaworks in New York City to Pinterest’s headquarters in San Francisco, and we’ll continue to make Instapaper a great place to save and read articles.
Persistent Game Without Endgame Content Loses Users

Film at 11
I would say don't ignore the haters, anticipate them. When we showed off our early work on Eve last year, we prepared for every possible comment and criticism we could think of. What we did is write a series of documents such that whenever anyone brought up an argument against us, we replied and pointed to a well-researched post refuting their point of view. It actually worked to talk people down from "This is the dumbest thing ever" to "oh, I can see why you did that. Good luck".
1) People love to tell other people how wrong they are, especially to people they don't know.

2) People despise being told they are wrong, especially from people they don't know.
There's a good dude to this: you aren't affected as much by negative comments. But growing up seeing this interaction also normalizes it. Which makes it harder to have difficult conversations with others (maybe not for you, but certainly for people in general).
Its not their IP though, is it?

Its the Pokemon Company, and nintendo only gets a small percentage of the licensing...
Not necessarily. You might want to create an algorithm that iterates in a sequential fashion through memory, since your memory controller will see the iteration and prefetch the next block of memory. This is a huge performance win on larger data structures.
A Refrigerator That Works by Stretching Rubber Bands [video]
Performance of arrays in Foundation depends on the size of the array
The FDA has three classifications: food, which must be good for you; drugs, which must be effective; and supplements, which must not poison you.

It is much more profitable in the short-term to make a supplement and sell it to millions without prescriptions than to make a drug and sell to thousands with Rx.

If they spend money on trials and subtantiate their hypotheses, they have to stop selling it as a supplement because now they know it is a drug... but as long as they don't run the trials and don't know it's a drug, they can keep going.
I think reading comments is important just like customer service. Maybe it's a little easier since we can ignore the ones that are offensive or irrelevant, or you can say in another way "developing thick skin". I often find a lot of useful information by reading comments.
Additionally, in BigCo, metrics versus actual performance continues to be often a toss-up, at best, and not infrequently just wrong.

My stomach still clenches at the memory of managers greenlighting all the goals on their own performance reviews.

Basically, if they liked you, you "passed" your review. If they didn't, they'd find something or other to pick at.

The whole process was so weasel-ly, and in HR's pocket, that it was hard to find a place to start challenging it.

Manufacture paperwork to "substantiate" whatever result we've already picked.

P.S. If you start feeling this way about your own workplace, it is a primary sign to GTFO. Even if you are one of the "favored", if you're smart and a straight-shooter, you are not going to enjoy the dis-function around you.
The client's inability to handle the most minor of server disruptions without a hard crash made it unplayable for me.
How can I get ahold of you directly?
Unfortunately this is true in almost all of the developed world. While developing countries may not have specific legal prohibitions, we know that that doesn't stop big companies from having their way. Heck, even a first-world country like Sweden couldn't resist the pressure from Hollywood to prosecute and jail the operators of the Pirate Bay, which had long been recognized as totally legal in Sweden.

Another issue is that on the internet, jurisdiction is a very messy affair. An American judge will likely determine that California and/or the federal government has jurisdiction over such a case because Google is based in California. Most developed countries have treaties with one another that allow them to enforce foreign civil judgments on behalf of the jurisdiction that entered them. Most developed countries also have mutual extradition treaties. The countries that don't can easily be paid off by an interested party.
Article is about negative comments about your startup.
Instagram or Facebook, they thrive on stolen or relinked content and monetize it day in day out.

Being amazed at this kind of bad behaviour where the targets are some of the most despicable companies on the web is a bit ironic. Scrape away, these companies hurt the web, let's hurt them (even though, all the scraping in the world won't have any impact).