skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if some make it to med school but then don't succeed, how many of those failure cases ended up not working hard enough?

Once you have a class of medical students, it's not a lottery system on who succeeds. Short of those who, through no fault of their own, run out of money or have some unfortunate circumstance that takes them out of the program - the ones who succeed seem very likely to have made it on merit of some combination of hard work and intelligence.
> All Bitcoin wallets, for example, use servers because it's impossible to do Bitcoin light clients (at least, they haven't found a solution yet).

No, SPV clients exist to avoid running a node: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/4649/what-is-an-...
That's not readily readable on a cellphone, unfortunately - this is:

> This is not guaranteed to work. C guarantees that casting a pointer to a uintptr_t and back results in a pointer which compares equal to the original; but it does not guarantee that (uintptr_t)p + 1 == (uintptr_t)((char * )p + 1), that p1 < p2 is equivalent to (uintptr_t)(p1) < (uintptr_t)(p2), or even that (uintptr_t)(p) == (uintptr_t)(p); an evil but standard-compliant compiler could implement casting from pointer to uintptr_t as "stash the pointer in a table and return the table index" and casting back as "look up the index in the table".
But not as false as you seem to imply; in fact it is somewhere in the middle ground. Some things are finite, others not. So for finite things there literally are cases where one person can have and another can not. Obviously there is a spectrum and some things fall into the middle ground. I think that the GP is antagonistic, but one person's envy politics is another person's inequality; your statement seems to be the flip side to the GP's.

So almost all acknowledge that luck can play a factor, how much can sometimes be up for debate. So if you are lucky do you deserve all that comes your way? or should you play nice and share? And if someone else's luck was even partly the cause of your misfortune how would you feel?

I don't have the answers but I think the subject is worth thinking about; especially as it seems difficult to square the circle.
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because there are fewer stereotypes. Maybe well be a leftover from communism as well, when individualism was strongly discouraged and the only way you could stand out is by doing your job well. Individualism I mean in all aspects of current society - choice and variety of this. I suspect there is a similar trend in China as well.
I still have yet to find a music player that covers all my bases like Winamp did for so many years. Anyone have recommendations for Linux? Short of running Foobar via WINE, every player I've tried seems to be missing one feature or another.
Jerry Mitrovica is a Harvard geophysicist who's at the forefront of variations in sea level rise.

http://nautil.us/issue/33/attraction/why-our-intuition-about...
You can click "reply" under a comment to keep everything in the thread it is supposed to be in.
"Your video will play in ..."

Really? My video?
And with the air mostly removed, you can spin the drum really really fast! I think you're on to something here. :P Maybe not.

I've done hundreds of solvent evaporations under vacuum (rotovap). The problem is you need a trap, or else solvents condense in the pump which causes your efficiency to go down. So now you need a heat pump or similar, now you're talking about a really complicated dryer. But it'd be efficient.
How about you respect the robots.txt until the IP address where it is hosted changes. Once the IP has changed, then any new robots.txt exclusions apply only to the new pages not the archived pages under the old IP, which continue respecting the old archived robots.txt.

The IP address changing is a pretty solid indicator that control of that content has moved to a new organisation. Note this does not always coincide with the domain name owner changing.

A scenario that I can imagine becoming litigious: company owns a domain for promoting some product and they use robots.txt to prevent copies. The product reaches end of life and domain is allowed to expire. Someone else buys the domain and starts hosting content with no robots restriction. Archive.org start to display pages from the old company. Company then sues archive.org for copyright violation.
The point is that e-mail is often considered a replacement for phone calls or direct (in person) visit.

Even worse, sometimes it is used as replacement for instant messaging.

In my view it is not, it is a replacement for mail.

When letters were actually hand written (and - side note - sending them had a cost) the idea was to communicate, you used to sit down at a desk in front of a blank sheet of paper, THINK about what you were wanting to communicate, THEN wrote it in the most correct and concise form possible.

E-mails are very often nowadays yust "Yo"'s, a handy way to either (you choose) annoy someone else for free, or delegating to the recipient the solution of a problem that you could solve yourself if you only take the time to think about it or pestering the recipient with a CC of an otherwise irrelevant mail you just received.

It has a lot of advantages when compared to a phone call (as an example it is he handiest way to send a document or even an address without having to spell over a noisy line) but it is not a SMS (that BTW is good enough to send a telephoine number or an address) but it has also a lot of disadvantages (still as I see it).

When you make a phone call you have some restrictions, the recipient needs to be available, you do know that you are disturbing him/her, possibly interrupting whatever he/she is intent at (and this self-limits - in "normal" people of course - the amount of phone calls made to those actually needed), but it is more personal, you can communicate (tone of voice, etc.) more unwritten nuances, it is interactive, there is less risks of misunderstandings as you or the person you are speaking with can ask for clarifications.

I have seen (in corporate environments) e-mails often used as a form of justification for inactivity, i.e. "I sent xxxx a mail, he disn't respond yet, I cannot do anything till then" (or if you prefer, "It was my problem but I deftly shiftloaded it onto xxxx, now it is his problem"), this is the kind of behaviour that besides slowing down overall the response time in real emergencies, creates a perverse loop, recipient xxxx will be likely to CC the issue to a third person, to have an opinion, etc.

The same (corporate) culture that equates the e-mail to instant messages favours the expectation that the sent e-mail should be replied immediately (and creates a symmetrical sense of guilt to the recipient that feels obliged to reply as soon as possible), and thus the continuous checking of the e-mail boxes, the disrupting of the flow of work by the distractions created, etc.

When someone calls me (at the phone) or enters my office (in person) he/she is disturbing me and interrupting my activities, they perfectly know that, and restrict these interactions to when it is actually needed, otherwise they send me an e-mail and they know that it will be duly processed in due time.
To clarify the nature of the distortion you are referring to, it would be a sampling bias.

In general, the archive spiders the web and ingests information so that there is a certain mean frequency of visits and a certain likelihood of any particular revision of a web page being captured.

There would be instances in which data was entered into the archive more certainly and more frequently, on the basis of the nature of that data, than otherwise would have occurred.

What one means by bias when one says that this biases the contents of the collection needs to be understood with some care. It would be interesting to hear some historians discuss the matter. I do not think that it is a type of bias that is likely to lead them very far astray.

If it mollifies your concerns any, the last time I checked, anyone could manually archive any web page they liked. However, I would recommend writing to The Archive to express your concern.

I have an entirely partisan appreciation of the ability of The Archive to prevent redactions from the historical record of material that might later be disavowed. However, I share your more general view that there is no reason that the online history of any single major U.S. political party should be documented any less carefully than any other other.
>I found most serious people succeed in business.

Business failure = not serious. Got it.

>But I know some billionaires and do not envy them.

So you know multiple billionaires and think your situation is normal?
This was discussed at considerable length when it was first submitted 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039274 (569 comments)

The top comment there recounts a personal experience of something similar.

There is some more discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10792915 (12 comments)

... as well as other, discussion-less submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12094265 (no comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9162051 (no comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9048986 (no comments)
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What are peoples' thoughts on the marketing effectiveness of quality relative to quantity in blogging? We have recently started publishing what we consider to be very high quality material (the majority of them have front-paged on HN if that's any indication). Most of these have been published on [1] so far but we're in the process of transitioning to a more official company blog [2].

A close friend who really knows his way around marketing has been advising us to write more fluff pieces. We're really torn over this because we strongly dislike vapid content as consumers. I would be really curious to hear any anecdotes on the relative merits of the different strategies.

[1] - http://sangaline.com

[2] - https://intoli.com/blog/
"The state has a plan to implement more than 100 restoration and protection projects — like rebuilding marshes and barrier islands..."

Sounds like a terrible plan to me. Treating symptoms instead of the disease won't solve the problem. Just because we humans are "determined" doesn't mean fighting nature like this will be successful. I'm sure the locals will feel better about their politicians for a few years and probably just long enough to 'forget' until the next time this exact problem needs to be solved.

The true options in this case are: 1) prevent rising sea levels, 2) move away from the coast. Wasting money "rebuilding" barrier islands is just folly.
> Cheap rockets will lead to cheaper satellites.

Indeed, however there's a limited capacity for satellites.
Only to the few people who use those extensions. Most user's don't use any extensions at all.
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I don't think one ever has to rely on undefined behavior.

If you think you do, you can usually rewrite your code to avoid it, or rely on implementation defined behavior for specific compilers.

And if that is not low level enough, you should be using assembly.
No, it is not a cure. But until a cure is found, I'll certainly take it as a 2nd choice instead of living with the pain and being stubborn about it.

I did resist pills as the answer to my chronic pain for years. And I still refuse to use opioids as the answer. But we did find a non-opioid med that reduces my pain, so while I wish there was a better answer... pills give me my life back. I'm able to exercise again. To play with my kids. To do my job. It isn't my preferred solution, but I'm not going to get idealistic about it and go back to sitting around all day in pain while waiting for the perfect answer.
It's important to have faith in your team, if you don't believe in them then they won't perform. If the CTO was carrying them then that's a way of showing them he didn't believe in them.

As team leader, facilitate their growth. It's actually a good learning opportunity for you.
General fitness is cancer-preventative; this is just a specific study with some nice numbers showing that.
We just started a blog a few months ago at our company on a variety of topics such as mobile & BE development, as well as design [1]. Hopefully it's of use to the community :)

I also enjoy the Hacker Noon articles [2]

[1] https://blog.picnic.nl/

[2] https://hackernoon.com/
...so? what is it that you do?
Thanks for the recommendation. I forgot to mention I only run linux, I don't want to be tied into an OS like ChromeOS when I don't have direct control over it. I have considered wiping one and installing linux over the top.
Windows 7 was end of life'd in January of 2015. I don't think this is some kind of evil business decision Microsoft made. Switching to Linux isn't a magical way to ensure your OS version will be supported for the rest of eternity. Linux is great for many things, but give the Microsoft/Windows is evil thing a rest.
> All Bitcoin wallets, for example, use servers because it's impossible to do Bitcoin light clients (at least, they haven't found a solution yet).

This is totally false. So called SPV clients have been available since 2011 I think. Where the hell did you get this information? Just curious.

Examples of lite bitcoin clients include (but not limited to) breadwallet, bitcoin wallet for android (Schildbach), multibit, bittiraha-walletd etc.
Is it for multiple users or just you?

If its just for you it can be done quite cheaply with a account at fastmail or mailbox.org
I think if you had a way to enable warnings about deleted code you would be flooded with warnings from macro expansions, function inlining, template instantiations, and other valid and desirable optimizations.
I think there's a high correlation between the relative salary for a techie compared to other jobs in the same country and the amount of women you see. The US pays a lot better than The Netherlands and has a much higher percentage of female programmers. In countries like India or Russia a developer earns even more compared to other traditionally well paying careers.

Maybe a smart girl is so smart she's not going to get underpaid for her skills?
I had asked a similar question on Quora [1] few years back. Here is the summary:

- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Engineering?sk=notes

- Google: http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/

- Twitter: http://engineering.twitter.com/

- Linkedin: http://engineering.linkedin.com/blog

- Dropbox: https://tech.dropbox.com/

- Instagram: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/

- Netflix: http://techblog.netflix.com/

- Flickr: http://code.flickr.com

- Etsy: http://codeascraft.etsy.com/

- Yelp: http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/

- Heroku: https://blog.heroku.com/

- Airbnb: http://nerds.airbnb.com/

- Bitly: http://word.bitly.com/

- Evernote: https://blog.evernote.com/tech/

- Highscalability: http://highscalability.com/

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-companies-that-have-some-...
Why not both? Half of my country (NL) exists due to smart protection against water and we're doing pretty good. Doesn't mean global warming isn't an important consideration.

If someone has a broken bone, you want to fix that, but you'll also want to give them some painkillers if they're in a lot of pain.
To expand... it's false, because wealth is not a zero sum game. There is WAY more wealth around on earth in 2017 than there was in 1917, 1017, or 117. Most of the wealthiest folks get rich by inventing/creating new wealth, not by stealing from others.

If capitalism was just a competition, we'd still be fighting over castles and wheat and Trojan women. Cars, computers, and indoor plumbing wouldn't exist.
I don't have anything hosted on namecheap.
Not even the sites DNS uses namecheap.

b.t.w. hosting and DNS registration are totally different, legally and technically.
It seems they value developer productivity and innovation over machine performance. I find this enlightening.
Researchers find 'night owl' gene variant
design your site properly then you shouldn't really need a robots.txt

But how? For example, if you don't want a page to be indexed by Google, you add this information to robots.txt. Nofollow doesn't work for every case, because any external website can link to it, and Google will discover it.
I stopped reading this at the point where the author referenced DAO as "Vitalik Buterin's corporation".
Yup. I think further down someone will 'democratize innovation velocity and acceleration'
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It looks like Atom but Im not sure, you can see more of them here: https://github.com/lysyi3m/osx-terminal-themes
I've seen it argued that, paradoxically, the richer and more egalitarian a society is, the more the differences are magnified in the kinds choices individuals of both genders make. So Russia being a poorer nation with less paths to success would lead more women to make career choices based around economics, while in Sweden, a richer welfare state, economic factors may be a lower driver.
Yes, working hard is not an absolute determiner of success. It may not even be a majority determiner, depending upon your personal experiences or philosophy as well as the domain in which you're trying to achieve success. Winning the lottery is an absurdly extreme example of one domain where luck is provably a majority determiner. It's funny as a comic, but that domain doesn't really map onto many other career domains where hard work is a lot more important.

One thing is pretty certain, though. Doing nothing at all leads nothing at all. If you don't get up out of bed, eat, do something - you die rather quickly.

If you barely get out of bed to eat, but don't take care of yourself, you limp along through life and probably die early from lack of proper nutrition, exercise, and mental stimulation.

Somewhere along the spectrum from doing absolutely nothing to killing yourself with work is a sweet spot for achieving success. My observation is that the people who succeed spend more time on the side of that spectrum toward working their tails off than on the side of doing nothing.

So yeah, it's a funny comic. It makes a point to remember, but it's definitely not the final word on the value of hard work.
I think the token economy will growth and growth. We can expect good and really bad news because anyone can participate.

My company is receiving many inquiries oriented to managing funds and trading. Also, In the context of YC Startup School we are building an API for multiple cryptocurrencies, tokens, and smart contracts. We are even disassembling smart contracts to gather more metrics about the blockchain usage. If you are interested on using it instead of building your own infrastructure please contact me via my company page.
Which version?
Good for them. Hopefully after we reduce the gender tech gap, we can focus on fixing the far below-replacement-level fertility in Europe, North America, and Russia. Personally I find it to be more pressing, but it gets barely any press...
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Came here to say this, I've seen the same.
> undefined behavior = the compiler has the right to do wathever it wants

It would also be allowed to follow the principle of least surprise. Most instances of UB have a specific expected outcome; for signed overflow, one would probably expect the architecture specific signed overflow handling to happen.

It's a bit paradox that some hard errors for which no such expected outcome exists, such as an address violation, can easily be caught by the programmer (SIGSEGV), but errors (UB) for which a specific, sensible reaction exists are not only silently tolerated, but actively exploited when searching optimization.
I don't know why you think this has anything to do with lack of intelligence.
People didn't invest $150 million in Ethereum. Ethereum and "The DAO DAO" are 2 different entities.
Thanks for your reply. That helps. I'm back to coding in good spirits, so I guess I'll be fine :)
The problem is different, this question is before any interview. This is the main main thing they want to know just before any technical talk. I wouldn't name a short call with some non-technical person where I just read my CV an interview.
thanks for this, i couldn't figure out months ago how could be my Microsoft account compromised despite using 2FA, seem after this hack and resetting all of my security settings they removed ability to sign in with old Skype account since when i went to check it now it was already unchecked

though i still see in recent activity unsuccessful attempts for IMAP synchronization from all over world, not sure if they are trying to use some old app password, which i reset after discovering have
It's exactly the other way around for me. Any text that isn't directly in the email will either get ignored or I won't reply in as much detail as I would have. It's much more difficult to quote selectively from attached files so I don't do it.

And printing is about the most horrible thing ever invented. I only do it under threat of financial loss (return labels, letters to tax authorities). There's nothing as broken as printing. It never works flawlessly and I can't focus on printed text anyway.

Printed text has no search, no copy and paste, no changing font sizes or brightness, no hands free reading, no place to put paper without it getting fatty or full of coffee stains.

So I guess the conclusion has to be that there is no general right or wrong when it comes to the length of text in email. I depends on who you are sending it to. I pity whoever has to correspond with the both of us :-)
Close to macbooks...
You keep spamming this link in multiple places. Are you the author? Stop spamming.
> a system that would immensely benefit whoever came up with that particular currency

In Bitcoin's case, Satoshi created the world's first trustless, global digital payment system and distributed it as open source.

Maybe it's just me, but that seems like a pretty big deal. Especially when the software was not patented, and free for anyone to use and build with.

Could Satoshi hold a bunch of BTC worth over a billion USD? Yup, and I hope he/they do. IMHO the creator(s) deserves all that wealth.

> whoever invested early if it ever took off.

Is that not the nature of anything that is capable of being an investment?
It doesn't mean you should be mad, just rejecting the fluffy business success thinking and think more deeply about how your personal situation is and is not the same as the person giving the optimistic take and making decisions with some thoughts about the likely outcome.

Consider Bill Gates: by all accounts, he was a good programmer and willing to work long hours. Over the years I've heard a lot of people talk about that without also acknowledging things like the starting advantage of coming from a wealthy family and making his first big sale when his mother was on IBM's board, and the luck of starting a business just as the industry was making a huge change which upset a lot of established players.

That doesn't mean you need to hate him or say his success was undeserved – ignoring the later anti-trust actions – but it does say that for most of us the more realistic model would be, say, Gary Kildall. That also says that e.g. many people might reasonably conclude that a career at a large corporation which gives them some interesting technical work and leaves them with time to spend on their family, personal health, open-source projects or other hobbies, etc. is actually a better deal than a stressful attempt at something which might pay somewhat but not game-changingly more but also has a number of likely outcomes which aren't as good.