skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have it backwards... the poor vendors can't afford a stock of disposable plates. They're the ones who give you something into the hand, or on a tin plate. You have to remember what "poor" means there.
I think whether this is a problem or not for your business depends on the size of the userbase and the distance from the people actually using it. Small software platforms pretty much have to be "feature factories" because they're meeting a niche need that none of the big players are willing to develop for. The product is whatever helps makes its users more productive or happier in this case.

But if you have something with a huge impact, then throwing new features is not good if you don't know how helpful they may be to the end user.

TL;DR, the article makes a good point, but I'd like to see more nuance, I guess.
There is healthy demand for lower risk employees. It's a big ask for an employer to sink $50k into an unknown employee. If we want people to make bets on the inexperienced and untrained, we need to lower the stakes. $40k/year is a big bet.

Telling people to just find another industry is well and good, but what industry will pay a 55 year old underemployed person full salary and benefits just in case they're a tragically misunderstood diamond in the rough.

And this is a real problem. The employment rate is in the basement. There are structural issues that need addressed.
Reading the comments:

- nice brogramming;
- not up to date;
- not refering the spec (sorry this is important when you are in trouble);
- well read @shpx comment he is right

Verdict: more signal less noise policiy says, don't click to the bait.

normally I put a goatse.cx link here or a rickroll
But deciding how many nurses to have at what time, based on the probability of how many and what kind of patients and the likelihood of a good medical outcome is a different problem.
Ir reminds me of all the weird policies regarding programmer pay vs performance that I've seen.

Get a bonus for most bugs fixed? Lots of bugs produced, logged and fixed.

Get a bonus for bug free code? Very little code produced.

I do think for economics a more detailed simulation is needed in which we can try different laws before they passed.
>Anyway, I'd suggest you try to limit octopus merges to ~15 parents or less to make the visualization tools not go crazy. Maybe aim for just 10 or so in most cases.

I'll file this under "problems I'm glad I don't have".
I'm currently working on a product with a team and we did a bit of exploration for an idea for SMB's and had that same issue. We were talking to someone who on the surface would be a perfect fit for the product but then we asked how they handled organizing a job. They reached down into their bag, pulled out a file folder, opened it up and spread a few sheets of paper in front of us and went "will this page is this thing, this one is the other thing, and that one is another thing". An entire jobs worth of documentation and info right there laid out in front of us all at once in 3 seconds flat.

That was the moment we realized the reason our target industry was still using paper and spreadsheets. Because they're not just "good enough". In most cases, they're the best possible option. Maybe with enough iterating and testing we could've come up with a UX that could've put all that information in front of 4 people in one shot that quickly. But the odds are against it and even if we did it would've taken a long time to get there.

A lot of startup founders view "legacy" as a four letter word. But sometimes it's simply the best course. Not everything needs a high tech solution. And accepting that can be really tough sometimes.
Amazon paid a lot for that .AWS TLD ($185,000 ICANN application fee alone plus other expenses). I would imagine that this is one of the first sites of many that they'll launch on their .AWS TLD.
> there were only 361 assistant professor tenure-track job openings in all fields of English literature in 2014-15

You have to wonder how many of those jobs only exist to accomodate the current number of PHD's. The "real" number of job openings could be far lower.
Ah. Happy days!
And Amazon still gets a cut from each sale, cheap chinese counterfeit or not.
Just being able to programmatically provision a server at a moment's notice—even in normal day-to-day (i.e. non-catastrophic) situations—is a critical tool in my toolbelt.

You can take a snapshot of a VM, you can move it to a different host, you can spin up a new instance to test a major upgrade, you can clone a cluster for a few hours of testing, you can scale up and down...
I'm afraid I don't understand your last paragraph, but...

The article also makes the argument that there are only 361 tenure track job openings because universities are temporary workers at beer low pay. That's a strong case for the conclusion of the previous paragraph.
Arguably, if they'd like you to roll the dice on another project, they can always just... invest in your next project.
What kinds of debts are you thinking of? I don't know any workers with long-term debts which aren't inflation adjusted (even if indirectly).

The whole idea of inflation reducing the value of debts seems silly. "We'll trick those bankers with this well known, mostly predictable, small decrease in the value of money! They'll never see it coming!"
You definitely want to have a check-up before doing this, you often don't know what you don't know.

Case in point: I've done IF on and off for awhile and a mate of mine was interested in trying it. He used to say that one thing that put him off was that he'd get cranky and a little shaky if he didn't eat for awhile. Something you could mistakenly arm-chair away as 'most likely just anxiety about being hungry'.

So he did IF for a bit and it was generally fine. He didn't do it really long-term.

So around a year after that he starts having visual problems. Well, turns out he's a type-1 diabetic and he'd been pre-diabetic for most of his life without realizing it. Relatively late-onset for the condition, but a lot made sense after that diagnosis.
Ask HN: Laid off. Now what?
The startup I worked for has announced that it is going to shut down in May. Unfortunately, that meant 80% of us would immediately be let go. Myself included. The severance pay was really small and my health insurance will be deactivated by the end of the month. As much as I'm trying to just move on and start job hunting, I can't help but to freak out a little about the outcome since it was very unexpected. For some of you that may have experienced being laid off before, what were some of the first things you decided to do afterward? Do you have any advice or share any lessons learned?
he was scalping concert tickets, not price gouging on food or medicine here. a little perspective would help. this is leisure activities we're talking about.
Clauset Shalizi Newman 2007 has not-nice things to say about the classic physicist's idiot trick of fitting power law distributions by drawing a straight line on a log-log graph: it's got huge bias. https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1062

However, the other difficult thing about power law distributions is that the dataset size requirements for proper determination of the fact that it's a power law distribution are occasionally incredibly difficult. So their critique is very strong, given the comparative lack of data. It is often the case that computer systems, with the overflowing reams of data, are still not enough. Note that the paper I cited up there suggests MLE and then a Kolmogorov-Smirnoff test, so it'll say a lot of things aren't power laws that could well be.

Another way to look at it is from a more geometric point of view. The metric entropy of any generic system of variables is defined as the sum of the positive Lyapunov exponents: and as an "entropy" that quantity does have a lot of commonalities with the other entropies. But to have positive Lyapunov exponents is often to have a chaotic dynamics, so it could just be conjectured that the time series of commits and merge octopus sizes in kernel git history is chaotic, so the evolution of the time series will be fractal in nature.

But it's also really fucking hard to confirm or deny that one, because there are varied and strange definitions of chaos itself and the methods that have been suggested to measure Lyapunov exponent in real systems are arcane and difficult. You could try some synchronization methods, but they remain arcane and crap. Fractal measurement methods are also shitty and full of dark magic.

One neat little trick might be to discretize the series, symbolic dynamics-style (it's already discretized but discretize further, into like percentiles or something) and run it through one of the dynamical machine learning dealies to see if there's patterns. Not too much literature on that but it's a thing that some randoes in like 2004 or something did
This jibes with my own pet theory for longevity. Our bodies evolved in much more demanding conditions than we have now. Wild temperature swings, strenuous work, etc. I think a lot of current diseases are caused by the systems the body developed to deal with these things that now have nothing to do, like an unloaded motor spinning out of control.
Well, ICANN has approved over 600 dot brand TLDs. I suspect we're going to be seeing a lot of them here in the near future.
Interesting. There was a project a while back that offered async through netty but it was trying to do everything async (ie not follow the JDBC spec).

This project appears to follow the JDBC spec and thus is synchronous with the exception of the Listen/Notify (of which you have to work the driver directly as there is no JDBC analog).
Neat. Although the rendered text isn't screen-reader accessible. An aria-label with the text content would solve this, though.
This statement bears no logical relation to mine. Who is arguing that we should adopt beliefs solely on their characterization as "ancient"?
This is awesome. When I was in India ten years ago, everywhere we went in rural India the trees along creeks, rivers and streams were littered with plastic bags from where floods had deposited them. They were like leaves, and the trees were dead. They had already banned plastic bags locally in that province, and it is good to see a global ban on plastic in general.

In Himachal Pradesh, the plastic bag ban had resulted in a cottage industry forming where discarded newspapers were folded/glued into shopping bags. I'd like to see this same thing happen in the US. A friend imported a palette of these bags to Florida, and he was able to sell them to vendors and make a small profit. This tells me they might be viable here commercially.

As they say, reduce > re-use > recycle.
How is your dev pipeline set up such that an 8 minute release build becomes such a problem?
click bait, misleading title.
I'm not sure I would describe the available literature as "enlightening"; for me at least, it's quite confusing. I'm just a computer scientist so it's hard to sort through the often contradictory results and claims.
That doesn't even count the heavy hitters in the space, and even MS's recent entry add ons for o365.

I do find that the exit, open-sourcing their platform, and not burning all the cash before exiting is very classy indeed.
When HN readers; particularly those that can be reasonably assumed to be American, say 'The Times' - do you refer to The Times [0], or to The New York Times?

I'd have assumed the latter, if The Guardian weren't mentioned (or posted) here so frequently. (And I'm not aware of any other Guardians.)

[0] - https://thetimes.co.uk
Check out slides 43-46 here from a talk I previously gave: https://speakerdeck.com/philipithomas/decision-algorithms-in...

In the old days, everything was a hard constraint. However, free trial users don't always put in problems that are solvable. I would get paged at 4AM about infeasible models, only to discover things like "this employee has zero availability but a minimum of 40 hours per week of work".

So, we turned into more of a "scoring" system where all minimums were soft constraints (e.g. minimum hours per week) whose violations caused a large point decrease [1]. Maximums were a hard constraint. The system made it impossible to input an infeasible model, and worked fairly well.

Splitting the scheduling problem into separate steps (forecast->unassigned shifts, then unassigned->assigned shifts) also sped up the algorithms (and allowed for people to create unassigned shift templates).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_M_method
I agree to the extent that is not also hagiography. Unfortunately, cult of Bill / Steve etc. does tend to become dominant.
Good in principle, will cause hardships for many in practice. There are probably millions of street vendors who rely on plastic to pack food to go, as well as many other shops of course.

There are many other priorities to focus on which can have a far bigger impact.
What other DOSs? I know of DR-DOS, but not any others. Also, not sure, but I think MS-DOS was the biggest from pretty soon after it was created. I'm not even sure that DOS was their main product (though it was a big one). I had read the book Le Noveaux Magiciens, about Microsoft, and though I don't remember the chronology now, IIRC, language products were also big for them, like BASICs for various platforms. They even had an MS-C (used it for a product) and MS-Pascal and MS-Lisp. Could be wrong about languages being big earners for them, though.
AmigaOS cross compiler for Linux / MacOS X / Windows
Related thread from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13638172
I had expected the article would mention terra preta:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta
I think the OP is talking about implementing automated security testing in a CI/CD pattern. Basic versions would be implementing automated scanning using something like skipfish. More advanced would actually be security-specific unit and integration tests. Also included would be security-specific static analyzers etc. The companies that I know of doing this are the big tech companies like Google, Mozilla, Facebook although I'm sure there are plenty more.
I think the great shame is that many educators don't know about future career prospects in their profession.
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Thanks for committing to open source your code! Nobody else has highlighted this in the comments yet, but this helps ensure the money spent on your company didn't end up wasted: At the end of it you will be leaving behind a valuable contribution to the open source community.
No it wouldn't be reasonable for the same reason saying no one should have locks on their doors and anyone should be free to go inside any house and use/live isn't reasonable.
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The same argument can be made about taxes. Based on your reasoning, it's a race to the bottom for all countries in order to attract businesses.

Are we supposed to have no regulation and no taxation on businesses because otherwise some other state/country can offer them a better deal? Or do we need to have stronger regulation across country borders/policy that prohibits these loopholes. Maybe we should tax a US company more if they choose to produce products in another country to get around regulations that we have in the US.
Self-generated codes-of-good-practice usually emerge from out of the shadow of a big governmental stick on the horizon.
It's not the whole month. It's during day light for a month. Which basically means eat once a day.
There has to be a happy medium. Selling yourself short to appease a large corporation which may turn around and leave at a moment's notice is a race to the bottom. Having home grown small businesses and entrepreneurs is the best path towards a prosperous society. Regulations need to be practical and enforceable, otherwise you risk choking off the little guys.
'Cellebrite "Pro Series" purchases all appear to include the firm’s Cloud Analyzer tool, which extracts “private-user cloud data” by "utilizing login information extracted from the mobile device.'

Chilling that is can be done without a warrant e.g. arrested protesters or to citizens crossing the US border.
Had this discussion with the investors. I plan on exploring a different idea in a different space with a new founding team. The investors suggested restarting the corporate structure, and some have committed to reinvesting the money into the new company.
TL;DR No. Caring about your customer isn't killing your business. Actions Steps are: 1. Stay Focused 2. use online tools like live chat and a CRM 3. Create an internal and external FAQ thing.

The "Actually" in the title should have been enough of a red of flag to not click. I did anyway. The article is long. 3x longer than needed I think and wasting people's time will drive them away. Article also includes a recommendation to read some Gary Vaynerchuk book. That says all you need I think, but your mileage may actually vary.
Thanks for clarifying! Reading your original comment in the context of this comment, I understand how your first comment probably is not what I thought it was originally.
It is, but saying it's machine learning hides the combinatorial issues and combinatorial search that has to happen. Machine learning model can't replace the necessity for search.

Scheduling problem (the general one) maps easily to the vehicle routing problem. Vehicles are routed and service customers. On-demand requirements and scheduling are probably easier to conceptualize in that framework (think Uber but with ride-sharing bus sized cars, or team picking up and delivering food from restaurants to locations, or repairmen doing stuff at people homes).

All needs combinatorial search and machine learning is only one little piece of the puzzle.
I don't quite get what you mean. Surely a temporary contract is ideal for a grad student intern, who doesn't have time to enter full-time employment?
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SoYouStart (OVH's lower tier brand) has 4c/4t 32 GB 3x120 GB SSD) for $49/mo. Or same price, same ram, 2x2TB and 8t with a slightly slower clock.
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$1M in cash, and you decided to return the money instead of pivot and try something different?

Why? I might be totally wrong, but I guess those investors invested in you, more than your original idea.

Good for you for not burning the money in something you know eventually won't work, but why not try a different idea?

Man, I wish I had just a portion of that capital to at least validate my own startup.
You can prioritize whatever you want. What you can't do is impose your priorities on everyone else. Remember that country/culture is not a moral agent which has goals/priorities separate from individuals.
Thanks, most of the code for V1 and V2 should be online by the end of the week. Two of the repos use applied math libraries that cannot be open-sourced. For one, I think I can drop in an open-source alternative. The other I may not be able to open source.

I'll also be publishing our YCF application and our pitch decks in the coming days.
Is it really? The biggest bandwidth user is cloud apps and if you care about privacy you wouldn't be using them anyway.
And you can help the Postal Service out in keeping prices low even further: Open that bulk mail, grab the "business reply" envelope... AND MAIL IT BACK! Costs you nothing but a few moments of your time, irritates the spammer slightly, and costs them a little money, which goes to support the Postal Service! Win, win, win.
Undefined Behavior != Unsafe Programming
Littering just pisses me off... I think that and vandalizing publicly accessible restrooms are the two things most likely to inspire a violent response in my mind. It's a complete lack of morality and respect for other's property, and community in general.
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Don't worry too much about making your customer happy - worry about keeping their customer happy. Your customers have customers - it's customers all the way down. Why is your customer doing business with you - what product or service are they reselling to their customer?

* Maybe they leverage your SMS app to send update notifications, telling their customers about a hot sale.

* Maybe they use your IaaS to host their real-estate website platform, letting their customers track who's looking at their agents' houses.

* Maybe they use your hand-picked tomatoes in their restaurant's home-made tomato sauce.

However they rework your product, they're depending on you to deliver consistent quality on-time, so they can continuously deliver this to their customer. If they can't provide this to their customer, the customer will find some other source. (Or else that customer's customer will find a new source.) Your customer won't be a customer for long, if they lose their customers. Especially not if your poor product (or poor delivery/uptime, or poor presentation/reseller experience) drove their customers away.

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This blog article was troublesome to read. It was very slow to load, slow enough that I found the Google Cache before it loaded:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Gmcavd...

Secondly, after about a paragrah, a large splash popped up and blocked the article. Adblocking this element left the page without scrolling capabilities, but disabling all scripts from ninjodo.com loaded a completely usable page that loaded quickly.

Finally, the writing felt rambling, and the story (also found on the wall of a Jimmy John's near you) didn't seem much related to the thesis.
1. I would immediately file for unemployment in your area, if applicable.

2. Take one day and just relax. Have the most fun you can possibly have that doesn't damage your health or take anything more than a trivial amount of money.

3. Calculate your burn rate and cut expenses.

4. Accept that you have a new job. Your new job is finding a new job.

5. Dedicate 20 hours a week to finding and applying to jobs. You can just submit your form everywhere. Spend 5 hours a week identifying companies that you like in particular. Spend 15 hours a week attempting to make actionable progress improving your interviewing ability. This might mean studying things like Cracking the Coding Interview, or doing small projects to show that you can work with technologies that some of your prospective employers want to see.

Throttle the looking for a job part from 25 to 40 hours, keeping everything the same. Do not spend more than 60 hours total doing job hunting related activities. You'll burn out and become unmotivated.

Good luck!
Logging in to the Guest account on OSX accomplishes what you want, no?
Oxford University (and, I think, Cambridge, but not the rest of the UK) really do have the senior faculty holding the formal power. There was a debate in Congregation (the University's 'parliament') last year on the question of whether to force the University administration to demolish some new (and expensive) accommodation blocks on the grounds that they spoiled the view from part of an ancient common. It was taken very seriously precisely because they did have the power to do it.

What's interesting is that this ultimate power is used exceedingly seldom, and very rarely indeed for non-symbolic purposes. There's an active Congregation process involving the compulsory retirement age, but for more-or-less everything else Congregation simply defers to the administration.

So I'm not sure that we can point to the power structures as the reason top-down management is such a thing. It happens because we're happy to let it.