skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can think of three nobel prize scientists that are sceptical of climate change and it's ill effects. They may be right or wrong, but they certainly don't conform to the stereotype you're putting forth.
interns?
1. There is no proof Alexa data is reliable.

2. Traffic isn't fungible. Reddit is one of the most viewed websites in the world (top 10?) and roughly yet makes as much money in a year as Facebook does in an hour.
Nestlé to mulch only organic, non-GMO babies from 2015

VEVEY, Suisse, Thursday (NTN) — Nestlé will be removing all artificial flavours and colours, like Red 40, Yellow 5 and Screaming Agony 666, from its chocolate candy products by the end of 2015, replacing them with the delicious tears of malnourished infants.

“Nestlé is the world’s leading nutrition, health and — hold on, is this right? — wellness company, or the first world’s at least,” said Doreen Ida, Nestlé USA Confections & Snacks president.

Consumers have long surveyed as wanting food not to contain artificial colours, flavours, genetic modifications, DNA, microwaves, wifi, chemicals or atoms, apparently preferring to eat alchemical workings using only the four humours.

“We have consulted with Food Babe on a new process, using only pure, wholesome, organic and sustainably-farmed pain and suffering, guaranteed to be from poor people in a country that isn’t yours. We know you are fully willing to make sacrifices to improve your lifestyle, as long as those sacrifices are of other people halfway around the world.”

The nourishing tears of children dying in pain are the vital ingredient in the new process, preferably those gathered from tainted formula induced dysentery. “Obviously too foolish and dissolute to use safe Nestlé privatised water!” All babies are certified to have grown up in an environment with minimal quantities of artificial chemicals, electromagnetic radiation or modern allopathic medicines.

“We never compromise on taste. Maintaining the great taste and appearance consumers expect from the chocolate brands they know and love is our number-one priority. It is technically true that a mountain of suffering goes into every bite, but we’d never let that compete with your convenience. Nestlé: Good Food, Good Life. Yours, Anyway.”

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I am surprised to hear someone saying anything positive about Hetzner. My only experience with them was a nightmare with terrible support and very inconsistent network performance.
I definitely wish dtrace and zfs had come to linux earlier, and without the stupid license restrictions of ZFS which Canonical currently flouts. Both of those were far better than the alternatives that Linux came up with.
AS/400 was a multi language VM environment long before Java. It really was/is amazing. I wish there was a way for newer generations to learn about things like this. I'm not sure how that would look. Maybe a History of Systems book or something?
Today is the second day of AWS Re:Invent. So just like when Apple releases products and the site is slammed with Apple news, these two days are Amazon days. Don't worry, tomorrow will be back to normal.
Casillas is expected as a result of land Clasico
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The best solution is to never even use open office layouts.

Realistically, though, interruptions happen when they are unplanned. Need many meetings? Set the time slots and schedules.
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What if you made community contribution a limited resource?

Continuing the reddit example. You could limit contribution by three routes:

1) Limiting the number of posts. For example, 3 posts per week, max.

2) Limiting the visibility of posts. The more you post, the less an upvote counts. Effective Upvote Value = 1 / (posts this week)

3) Limiting the visibility of posts based on post quality. The more you post in a week and the lower your per-post average karma, the less an upvote counts. Effective Upvote Value = (per-post average karma) / (posts this week)

Just a thought.
> the people who have the most time and energy to invest in discussions (which eventually snowball into flame wars) are the people who aren't actually doing the actual work.

Pretty sure we've reached peak-discussion. Future online communities will be based primarily on activity.
My understanding is that the most important attribute of an A round is that it fixes a specific valuation on your company.

Lots of companies take numerous "seed rounds"; some are continuously funding during the seed stage. They're not out of "seed" until they take a VC round that imposes a valuation on them.
> It would be easy to guess that Princeton math has long been stuck in the most pure of math ... but actually history shows that Princeton math has been quite open to new topics

In fact the historical record shows that Princeton has an Applied Math department ( http://www.pacm.princeton.edu ) and does a lot of math-like things in their ORFE department ( https://orfe.princeton.edu )
I also had no idea what Yeezes are. Lol. Great advice though on credit building.
How can I reach you?
I assume you're asking for an explanation of what "summers" or "summering" means.

The basics of it are those with wealth can afford to spend weeks/months away from the place they call "home". They can also afford to drop their work commitments, or otherwise force those around them to conform to their wishes.

With that in mind, wealthy people from New York are known to "summer" in the Hamptons. Well off retirees will also migrate from Florida to New York / Maine depending on the season, which is akin to "summering". I'm not from the west coast so I'm not sure where people from the bay area go to "summer" -- I would assume Napa Valley.

By asking someone where they "summer" you are asking about their socioeconomic status.
My favorite debugging challenges are the "Pfft, computers simply don't work that way" -> user reproduces symptoms in an inarguable manner -> "Hmm..." -> "Well, apparently when thirteen levels of stacked prisms are arranged in the right way, computers do work that way. Fixed (on Tuesdays)."

Edit: Or, you know, hardware failures that nobody expects anymore.
That's too bad...
I really like its simplicity.
I'm thinking of buying the first laptop on the list, so you can consider me your first conversion.

Are you using Amazon affiliate links? I'd hate for you to miss out on potential revenue, as you're offering a decent service.
Four New Names Officially Added to the Periodic Table of Elements
Unbelievable that so smart people prefer this medium.

At some point in the conversation they are both confused who is answering who and why. Twitter should just add a damn comment box for each Tweet and be done with this archaic sms system.
It sounds like a fun place. Do you have the salary range for the Senior backend developer role?
You need a team to curate and engineers / product folk to build the product. Web app, mobile apps, Chrome extensions, ...
> Funny thing I noticed: when you start a family and have kids, you are forced to get better and better at the _skill_ of context switching quickly.

While basically true it's been 6 years since we had our first kid (we're have two now) and I'm still not very good at context switching.
Likely they pay out enough in cash to make the VCs whole. So assuming 1x participating preferred and 30% of the company owned by VCs, that's $8M + 0.3 * 12M ~= $12M cash returned to VCs, and then the remaining $8M is in Angellist stock distributed to the founders and employees. Assuming 20% employee ownership, it'd be just under $2M to employees collectively and $6+M to Ryan (I think he's a solo founder, right?). If I assume an internal Angellist valuation of $200M (also made up, but you're more generous than I am), PH employees collectively get 1% of AngelList stock, and Ryan gets 3%.

Also seems to fit everyone's incentives nicely. a16z & seed investors get their money back, so they at least don't have to take a loss. Ryan Hoover gets F-U money, assuming AngelList doesn't tank. Employees get enough for the down payment on a house, also assuming AngelList doesn't tank before they can liquidate. AngelList acquires a pre-made team with a proven track record for not much more equity than they would spend on the open market. Pretty typical SV acquihire.
Cool extension. Glad you got the car you wanted!
> not everybody wants to hear

No, but you're reading this thread inaccurately, in my view, if you think the rage and snark side is in the minority, let alone so weak that it needs additional protecting.

I appreciate that you're concerned about the integrity of the discourse—we share that—but you don't seem to consider the costs of what I just called the rage and snark side. Those are considerable, and probably the largest risk to this community.

If people start getting rah-rah and kumbaya about everything, I don't think we'll have trouble adapting how we manage this site. The goal is the same either way—substantive discussion. But we humans deceive ourselves into believing that the merely bilious is substantive, when it's not.
Uber's value will have been generating mindshare for consumers about ridesharing services. Not good for them, but we who are fond of consumer excess thank those investors for burning their dollars up with Uber instead of in a barrel.
Really appreciate the pointed feedback. Making adjustments ATM to improve the experience.
That's not espresso
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That view that it it's "terribly depressing to be broke" and all the despair the poor in America feel because they can create no value could only be thought up by us smug hacker news software creators. I know first hand that much of the poor are content to live off the government, never had any aspirations and ultimately don't need much to survive and be content enough. They don't know what they don't know and therefore they don't suffer from the despair of not being the next Steve jobs. That was never on their list. They are truly ignorant enough to be content with video games. I'm not talking everyone but this probably is the majority. Things work and all you need is to be able to hold a minimum wage job for a few years at a time and when you get fired you can take a few years off while another friend or family member is on deck, meanwhile you're contributing food stamps the whole time, 6 months of an unemployment check, money from a few scams here and there, electricity bill deductions and many other such benefits you can get if you are below the poverty line. These are all meaningful contributions you can contribute well past the 6 months of paid unemployment. You have to understand you also have old people in the household collecting social security at $1k per month. There are not only other people not working, but other non-workers coming up with money and resources. It becomes just as normal for a working-age male to not be working as grandma. After all we aren't talking 1 person or couple cramped into an over priced San Francisco apartment. In short, the family doesn't need as much money and everyone bands together, and can go for a very long time bringing in very little money. And though totally in the hands of the "public" health care system whose bills they will never pay if they get into an accident, they are more than content with tv and stolen movies/shows via apps like "ShowBox" until that happens, and even after. They have near zero ounce of fight in them for anything more, certainly not to be the prolific CEO or CTO of a tech company. That's far out of their field of vision. I am one that believes to not aspire to something is not healthy. So for now ignoring the other psychological issues surrounding the more privileged all feeling disproportionate pressure to be somebody, I'll just say the opposite extreme we are discussing now is worse and it's out of ignorance. An ignorance most here can't understand or have forgotten. A true "ignorance is bliss" syndrome. To us it may look like that as a result they are content to live in squalor. The truth is the squalor of those living standards have risen. It all just feels normal to them. What I call "poverty trap sweet spots" certainly do exist in America.
Are you open to parttime role to start with?
Woah - well done guys!
It looks like you submit jobs to a queue and it spins up capacity to execute them. In that sense it's like EMR. However the jobs are a Docker image or a zip file with shell scripts. In that sense it's not like EMR.

I haven't gotten far enough yet to see if it has any distributed compute support, or if each job runs on a single machine. EMR is designed for master/worker architectures with many workers. It looks like AWS Batch might be designed to run each job on a single machine.
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There's no solution here. Red lights, seriously?
This does nothing about being visible from behind, nor the insane surveillance culture that programmers have to endure these days.

It seems like another case of engineering types addressing the symptom (noise) rather than the underlying problem, which is the low social status that got programmers into open plan cattle pens in the first place.
Most of what I'm paying for is the convenience. I have a machine in my office that I can hit a button on and get a shot out very quickly. I have a similar Jura machine at home that starts with beans and pulls a shot. The Nespresso shots are almost always better.
It really was. IIRC, I remember installing it from a floppy (was there a CD too? My memory is fuzzy) on a Pentium based computer in the late 90s (R4 maybe... I think the floppy is buried in a box in my basement).

I was amazed that back then I could have four (!) windows open playing videos (albeit at low res) at the same time without hiccups -- doing it Windows 95 on the same box would choke it up.
> "counting on the idea that the government has no interest in creating a crisis"

Yeah, that's what they've been doing with the software cheats in VW cars (aka Dieselgate).

It's a total shame for the undeniably brilliant German engineering, and they're handling it - collectively - by pretending it did not happen.

The silence is deafening. I doubt it will profit them in the long range.
If you "worked on a team that did multi-OS TCP/IP optimization", then you should know that there is no one size fits all solution that is quantitatively better for everyone.

Not implementing cubic in FreeBSD when there was a bug in the only implementation of it in the world could have been an advantage in certain situations, including Facebook's.

There seems to be a hubris by many Linux users that Linux is the best solution in the world for everything and it is not. There is always someone who does something better. Maybe not in everything, but the same applies to Linux. No matter how good it becomes, it is not the best in everything. Networking is a broad topic. I don't think Linux is the best in every area of networking. I am not even sure if it is the best in many of them, given that many platforms do things very well and at some point, it is hard to be better.
That is in the USA. Hiring practices differ in other countries, and asking about marital status is not always illegal.
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Several chocolate products in the UK seem already to have done the foam trick (add air), particular ones like Thorntons (individual chocolate box chocolates). You can only do that so much though. They used to be one of my favourites but now they're more like mousse than anything, the mouth feel is very poor and the flavour is greatly reduced - adding air with individual wrapped chocolates works commercially because they don't have a weight marked on them.

Cadbury, trimmed bars using carefully designed shapes (rounding off corners, adding curled edges) that seem as big; also adding cheap filler like popcorn or puffed rice.
If you have issues with the site functionality, you should contact hn@ycombinator.com.
I am in Developer Relations so this is indeed part of my job. I'm glad we can be helpful.
I'm pretty certain someone will make a Docker image for Core CLR apps soon. There's one for Bitbucket Pipelines already.
You can create a poll:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

HN has quite a few not-so-discoverable features:

https://gist.github.com/jakub-g/803ad2c074ad1fbe2af5
AdRoll has done some very cool stuff using containers for data processing. Afaik they were some of the first people to use this approach, and I think it's worked out quite well for them and given them quite an edge over their competitors.

If you're interested in building this type of infrastructure for yourself, I'd recommend taking a look at http://github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm. I'm one of the founders so this is a somewhat shameless plug, but Pachyderm is designed to get people most of the way to what AdRoll has built without having to build as much of the "plumbing" from scratch. AdRoll was some of our earliest inspiration for the design of Pachyderm.
You should start measuring the quality of your sleep using apps like Sleep Cycle. I used to be exactly the same way. Then I realized that the reason I was sleeping for 9-10 hours was because my sleep was "shallow" and kept getting interrupted. It all changed drastically after I optimized my sleeping environment: totally dark, 68 degrees year around, appropriate mattress type for my sleeping position, etc.

Now I can get by comfortably with 6-7 hours of sleep.

Apps can also wake you up at the right time, as opposed to during deep sleep. That makes it easier to wake up as well.
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a) nice project

b) people are really not good at recommending laptops. 10 of the first 10 in the top 10 are really not good laptops to buy.
Well, getting help from the Unity asset store can go a long way.
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you are right, I went too far. but the size of DNA is a good indication of how complex the high-level wiring and topology of neurons likely is, that is, until that neural net has been been trained at all.

it takes years to train a human neural net to even been able to speak (toddlers.) But regarding the architecture, there's good reason to think that the wiring for it is not infinitely complex, taking trillions of terabytes etc - or anywhere close to that.

I think that on some level it is fair to say that the wiring that makes people's brains human is in some sense encoded in DNA.

However, I will grant that this might not be helpful. After all, if we posit or assume as axiomatic that the whole universe is deterministic and here, these 100 megabytes of source code can model it and if you did that with 10^100 bytes and FLOPS, you'd after a few days of running it you'd find humans inside - well, then, sure, in some sense 100 megabytes "describes" the entropy inside human brains, but in another sense that is not useful in any way.

so perhaps DNA is the same and the "knowledge" that 700 MB or so can produce a human if you run it in biological substrate after carrying it out in a womb, and then raise it with human culture for 72 months it will speak just fine, is not necessarily an indication of what kind of information we would need to give a neural net and how much coding it would take to take on the same behavior. So while to me personally it remains an indication, I agree I went too far.
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This tiny Game Boy fits on a keychain
Actually, this is something that academic proponents of Basic Income have thought quite a lot about (and analyzed quite exhaustively). While it may seem counterintuitive at first, t's definitely not some kind of perpetual motion machine, or "something for nothing" scheme
(Not GP but also work on Python on GCP)

What was the specific Python 3 issue? I didn't see anything in your post specifically about Python 3.
I don't think this will change. It's hard enough to set up CI on an actual mac, let alone in a cloud environment.
> Everyone else failed but they figured it out. That's awesome.

Did they? Maybe I don't understand how to use it but after I registered I couldn't comment on _anything_ at all. It seemed I was locked out of anything mildly interesting until I am invited?

I guess Product Hunt just isn't for me but I couldn't figure out how to do anything on that site.