skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This only matters if the different skill distributions would make it likely that a lesser-skilled candidate does not meet the standards needed to produce good code at that level. In my experience this is not the case. When you are hiring for one of the big-5, the candidates that make it through the first-pass screening by the recruiters are usually people who any other company would hire on the spot. When you get down to making a decision among the top few from any crop of candidates it really is a coin flip.

Every engineer at Facebook likes to think that they are there because they are 'the best of the best', but having sat through far more hiring reviews at Facebook than I ever thought I would have to put up, with the simple fact is that for every person you see walking around the campus there were two or three other people who the job offer could have just as easily gone to were it not for a whole host of non-code/non-dev reasons; these reasons can range from gender to the sloppy handwriting on the whiteboard to the fact that when I came in to do your manager interview I happened to be a little annoyed that the cafe had run out of lox for my morning bagel.

In my experience, the least qualified female engineers I encountered were more qualified than the lower quartile of male engineers and they worked a hell of a lot harder to boot.
I think the influence that you and I both have to address either issue is limited to posting comments on threads that get flagged off the front page of a website whose readership is limited to nerds in Silicon Valley.
Sadly there are too few retractions and proper responses when it comes to scientific fraud (as anyone that reads Retraction Watch knows all too well).

Some more reading about this development

Science Mag: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/paper-about-how-micro...

Another article: https://gizmodo.com/widely-reported-study-on-fish-and-microb...

(on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14244017)
Actors are objects, of course. Do you want to ask Hewitt? :)
See other replies vs measurement - and remember all the large software projects that never get deployed, becoming outright failures. Can you really conclude that they were problems nobody on earth could have solved?
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Do you think employees at Taco Bell are payed the same, though?
Not to mention that the case for microplastics seems to me to be non-existent: I don't doubt manufacturers were interested in using them for marketing, but as a consumer, the prospect of putting tiny pieces of plastic in my toothpaste/soap/etc. instead of other more harmless - to me and the environment - abrasives leaves me cold.
FWIW, it's not just ShareLaTeX... I learned LaTeX a few years ago and through the tutorials and resources I used I learned the `$$` syntax. I'm a very infrequent user, but this is the first I've heard that it was depreciated at all, let alone 20 years ago.

I do support OP's thoughts that a 'modern' LaTeX solution like ShareLaTeX should encourage best practices though.
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Interesting. I was able to get Discourse running ... on heroku no less, and I haven't had to futz with it in the months since. It just hums along on its own, but then again I'm a pretty experienced Ruby/rails engineer.
>Right now HIV infections are basically a minor nuisance, provided you're taking the appropriate medication

The cost of treating an HIV+ person in the US is roughly $400K over the course of their expected lifetime. This is more than a nuisance sum. HIV treatment can also significantly affect quality of life.It is not yet time to become blase.
I don't know about the rest of the industry, but it's a big thing at Basecamp, or at least it was when they were still 37signals.
Keyword: dialect. But Erik Naggum, 2002 [0]:

> The "Lisp" Scheme is a dialect of is no longer the current meaning of
"Lisp". It is somewhat like calling English a dialect of German because
of ancient history that has since between invalidated by each of their
separate evolution, Fahrvergnügen, Weltanschauung, Kindergarten, and
Pennsylvania to the contrary notwithstanding. There is also a very
limited value in talking about "Germanic languages" in terms of your
actual ability to use any of the Germanic languags. You do not order the
"vertebrate" in a restaurant, but generally choose between fish or bird
or meat. In other words, there is a time when an abstraction and a
commonality has completely ceased to be valuable.

[0] http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3224964049435643@naggum....
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First question - yes, duh. Except it is unrealistic in the context of free market because some other guy will just copy your drug and sell it to me for the cost of half of my life savings. A silly argument you have made.

Second paragraph - get the corrupt politicians out of the picture and the problem solves itself.
Would people give shit if Spotify was 100 Mb?
Dogfooding the Cloud: How VMware Used vCloud Director to Consolidate Internal IT
no need to go abroad for that. there's a mr. pizza in LA's koreatown. =)
That's just one way to run it. I actually run it on heroku without docker with no problems at all ... had to make a few edits here and there, but once I got it up I haven't had to touch it and its been humming along just fine for months now.
Federated protocols works in theory but except email they didnt get a traction and all replaced with propriety protocols. Email survived because it was ancient and it was main identity provider for web.

Ofc i wish a federated protocol can catch up but seems to hopeless with current market situation.
It's a baseline that's changing rapidly (mostly for the better) and that will be so for a while. So it can't be an absolute value or static variable.
The reality is, as far as I can see, there's just not much benefit in using Docker in a crappy (read: small) pool-of-app-servers-on-top-of-a-database webapp. I've had a lot of newer devs pushing to use Docker. I haven't had these newer devs give a solid reason why relatively low-volume, simple web apps need an additional layer of complexity over an easier-to-manage VM setup with automated provisioning.
Capitalist America balances supply and demand. However your experience must be limited. I know of several fish markets, in my area in the US and other places I've lived, with a variety of fish and knowledgeable staff.
I was born in raised in a suburban midwest area, my wife is from WV.

In some ways the area seems so backwards; a guy with the legal name "Stingray", trashy houses and trailers all over. The closest mall is an hour drive. The only local entertainment is heading to walmart or the single screen movie theater.

Yet there's an intangible charm to the area. A beautiful landscape, an absolute kindness and compassion to even unknown strangers.

>I get the same kind of questions about addiction. People don’t understand what would push someone to drugs like methamphetamine or heroin. [...] That’s what every single addict I’ve ever known really wanted: just a second to breathe.

So real.
Most of us won't think twice about dropping $5 on a shitty Starbucks coffee, but won't pay $5 for something super useful like Google search which we use every day multiple times. But on the other hand, most of these services don't even try selling a service instead of monetizing via ads, as they have trained their users to expect everything for free on the internet. So maybe people would pay, if there is a choice?

What if there is a way to pay $5/month each for Facebook, Twitter, Google Search etc in return for no tracking, no ads, so selling of data etc. FB has one billion users, if just 50M of them pay $5 per month, that is $3B in revenue per year. This 50M people can subsidize the rest of the users, who can't/won't afford $5 and are willing to see ads.
The original idea was to reduce the regressive effects of sales tax by making basic necessities tax free. Coffee, ground beef, and potatoes are considered basic, but having someone prepare your food for you is a luxury. This general philosophy based on need has been around for decades (centuries?), and it was not originally motivated by getting to people to "eat less processed foods" or other health reasons. Of course, since then all sorts of changes have been made for a variety of reasons.
So you've got 6 people and want to have 8.

There's a big problem with being on call for one week out of 6 or 8: you lose touch with the procedures. Sure, your four year veterans know everything by heart - but the first few shifts of a newbie are going to be perilous. I recommend making the shifts shorter and more frequent.

Presumably one person is on-call and everyone else can be called in / woken up as necessary. So - split each day into two halves, and ask people to be on-call for a 12 hour period.

Rotate the roster around so that Jane doesn't always have the same Friday-afternoon shift, nobody has 2 shifts in a row, and put it in a shared calendar so you can always see who has the watch.

With 6 people, you'll take 2 and a seventh shifts per week. At 7, it's an even 2 shifts per week.

Benefits:

- much less of a burden that a whole week of readiness

- brains work better when they haven't been pummeled for a week at a time (at least, mine does)

- easily scales fairly when you have more people, or when someone leaves, but keeps everyone in the loop. When you have 14 people in Ops, you only have one shift a week, but you get one every week.

- much more family-friendly

OK, why 2 12 hour periods instead of splitting the day into 8, 6 or 4? Because people lose track too easily. Trying to schedule around your kid's concert or music lessons with smaller chunks is hard to keep in your head - and trying to work that in with a one week shift is nigh-impossible.

Why not a 24 hour shift? Because it's really hard to recover from that. Humans are generally awake for about 15-17 hours a day. Shifting a few hours is generally doable.

I would recommend that for anyone who took an alert call during non-core hours, you automatically expect them to take the next normal day to recover. I know that when I get woken up at 4AM, I'll run out of steam by 2 or 3PM.
Totally agree on all counts.

I think price is good but the quality varies, as everything is coming up from NYC. Typically I buy scallions, onions and peas every month or so if I stop in to pick up a few other things like dumplings or sauces.
This: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14247715 -- But also, there is no need to put a computer with a huge amount of resource in say, a baby bottle that can tell an app what temperature the milk is. In theory you could do a lot more (or at least different) damage with a P5 than a 486. The IoT stuff is usually cobbled together components, so we'll see things like a 500gig HD on a device (such as an environmental sensor for a city intersection) that passes off data and at most needs a couple gigs for OS and cache stuff. It's harder to start installing stuff on devices that are at the minimum specs for what they are designed to do. I'm not sure if that makes sense but I'm pretty sure there is some logic in there somewhere. Correct me if I'm wrong. it was just a thought. :)
Americans avoid flavor because of capitalism, in my view. There is huge money in feeding people bland crap that's been processed as heavily as possible. Frankly, I'm astonished at people's willingness to consume shitty food that is obviously likely to have a detrimental impact on their health.

I would prefer to go hungry or eat the same boring but nutritious meal day after day than consume bad food, and frankly I think I've avoiding a hell of future medical misery by not stuffing my body with crap.
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It probably depends on the person and how much they sweat; I'd imagine I sweat more than the average person and I'd be nervous about staining this.
This company publishes a handbook that puts most corporations to shame in every benefit category. So we are picking them apart for their 401k and their parental leave? Seriously!?! I don't understand HN any more...
This might be the biggest issue with CRISPR right now. The other issue is that we are not close to knowing what effect manipulating a single gene has on other areas. Especially if this gene is a switch for multiple genes.
Blind Trust in Email Could Cost You Your Home
NYPD Refuses to Disclose Information about Its Face Recognition Program
Thanks for the information, it's very helpful.

Yes, I know about the OVH plan and IPv6, but in the hurry and in the middle of all the tasks to accomplish I left behind a few things. I'll keep improving it. Thanks!
The existence of a flawed paper claiming microplastic harm doesn't mean that microplastics are harmless.
FastText.zip: Compressing text classification models
I'm not sure how the tree you are describing helps anything. Reading can always be done concurrently, it isn't the problem - all threads can read from the same memory at the same time. The problem is writes, which means any alterations.

GPUs are useful for the kinds of parallelism that has always been known to be easy - fork join with all threads writing to new memory. There is no mystery to how to do this.

> CAS or mutexing that we need to move away from

compare and swap is the backbone of lock free programming. Mutexes to me seem to rarely be ideal, but there is no getting away from compare and swap as far as I know.
Just out of curiosity, which shop was this? In my opinion what they did is basically fraud, any legitimate "Pro" service should run benchmarks and tests to ensure the hardware is in 100% working condition. Unfortunately, a lot of places prey on students and the budget conscious and do a slap-dash job no matter what kind of build you select (speaking from personal experience).

Storytime: I bought my newest computer a couple weeks ago from Puget Systems. Along with the PC, they shipped a 30-page custom binder that included the results of all the benchmarks and tests they ran, plus thermal images they took during the process to ensure optimal airflow. When I hit the power button for the first time, my desktop appeared within 5 seconds, with all Windows updates and the latest drivers/firmware installed already. The cabling job inside the PC was immaculate, and the PC is whisper quiet even though it's overclocked.

Moral is, if you're going to pay a premium for a pre-built custom PC, do it from a high quality vendor.
A hip solution would be to generate a short random name and then use something like Namecoin to distribute/lookup the matching value.
This is why AI practitioners will never make artificial human intelligence. It will be found to be way too bug ridden before the hard work (expense wrt power, computation, bandwidth) of getting it trained to a human level is completed.
@lorezhs : Thanks.
I was actually surprised that a chain like Costco couldn't beat the Paneer price (was ~50% more) compared the neighborhood Indian grocery stores I go to! I'll have to check on dry fruits though. I've seen many Indians going to India usually buy dry fruits from Costco instead of Indian stores.
I've found the female/nb developers that I've encountered tend to be extremely talented/above average developers, so I don't think this is as much of an issue as you think.

I suspect it has something to do with the people willing to navigate what is generally a field somewhat hostile to women and gender non-conforming people being particularly interested in the field and dedicated to working hard in it.
Sometimes I like reading not just about the facts of the news but also about all the different worlds and ways of living out there. If you've enjoyed a conversation with an interesting stranger, that's kind of how I feel about longform. Most of the substance of the world does not fit neatly into bullet points, but is instead tied up in webs of human values and human stories.

You can imagine news reports containing all the facts about Anne Frank, but none would help you understand her nearly as well as reading her diary. Similarly, longform can be a valuable medium for learning about the life of a cybercriminal[1], an indigenous leader[2], or a stowaway at sea[3]. If the main thing you're missing is a description of what the piece is about, you'll probably like https://longform.org.

[1] https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind

[2] https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2016/july/1467295200/gal...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/world/stowaway-crime-scof...
But also, there is no need to put a computer with a huge amount of resource in say, a baby bottle that can tell an app what temperature the milk is. In theory you could do a lot more (or at least different) damage with a P5 than a 486. The IoT stuff is usually cobbled together components, so we'll see things like a 500gig HD on a device (such as an environmental sensor for a city intersection) that passes off data and at most needs a couple gigs for OS and cache stuff. It's harder to start installing stuff on devices that are at the minimum specs for what they are designed to do. I'm not sure if that makes sense but I'm pretty sure there is some logic in there somewhere, but correct me if I'm wrong.
There are exactly two possible outcomes of advertising.

1. You spend no more money on products that are advertised to you, and advertisers don't consider your view meaningful, and won't pay for it.

2. Advertisers make extra money from you, either by getting you to buy a thing that you would not have otherwise bought, or by getting you to buy a version of a thing that you would not have otherwise bought, and will pay less than that extra expected revenue for your view.

that revenue comes from your pocket. If you are in the latter category, then whether or not advertising is positive depends on whether or not you believe that advertising causes your decision making process to be more or less rational.
$$$$. They are willing to invest time and money to make something of high quality.
I think this is great! Average Joe doesn't need any Win32 applications anymore and this will do nicely.

If you want to upgrade to Win10 Home it's just 50 dollars.
They use the very best equipment, often deployed throughout the area and controlled remotely so it can be hidden in a tree or whatever but controlled by radio from a nearby base.
MIT Lincoln Labs is owned by MIT but operated relatively independently. It is funded, AFAIK from defense spending. Although I'm slightly surprised it wasn't moved to MIT the University.
> If it wasn't for Electron, Collate would be a very different application or non-existant. I think people need to look at Electron as opening the door to more possibilities.

Exactly. If you're building an app yourself you'd never have the resources to make a native app for Mac, Windows and Linux. Nothing is perfect in software development. Electron is a decent tradeoff for certain projects. Regular customers aren't going to even consider disk space or memory usage unlike many vocal commenters in this community.
I have the opposite experience: I have 2 kids (one 2 years old, and another 3 months old) and I work from home and remote 100% of the time. I _still_ get more done at home than I ever did in an office, even with 2 little ones who are taken care of by my wife when I'm working.
That's a great look-and-feel :)

How does memory management work? Do you have self-destructing structures (AKA automatic pointers) on the Lisp side?
At schools that use Chromebooks, they take away the Chromebooks during exams -- unless the exam is being taken on the Chromebook, which is a thing that happens.
No, unfortunately you're spot on.
I heard from a surface book user that he never use the tablet mode in practice, outside sometimes to make it a tablet in a plane.

I owned a surface pro myself, and I tend to agree. It's a terrible device as a tablet. Slow to wake up, buggy, low battery life, not really the kind of device you can carry around and check something on it quickly. And if you use it as a laptop, it's better to have a proper laptop with more ports, a true keyboard, a screen which can stay up while sitting on your laps.
Do you really think you can't use a Chromebook in offline mode?
Something about how you can get Fresh food Directly from the warehouse.
I'm glad it mentioned it (though buried/saved at the very bottom): line width! I'd rather have too narrow than too wide, but good design should have a pleasing font size and line width (and all the other factors) on very different device sizes these days. Seems like many sites often get it right on mobile, but then on a desktop browser suddenly things are proportioned all weird or don't work with whatever browser size. And that's to say nothing about a sudden change of layout, ads, ...
With young children this is a non starter.
In reading this, I'm thinking to myself, they probably don't want to pay for this A-grade talent. It shouldn't be too hard to keep employees away from Google/FB/etc if you're place is really that great to work.

It's more likely the OP's employees don't like consulting, and the lifestyle of having to deliver unreasonable amount/quality of work in a short time that was over-sold to clients.

If they can get B-Players into their company, that's doing well in my book. I'm often stuck hiring C and D players because of the corporate pay rates my company offers, and lack of perks that make us not competitive around town.
I'm using bathroom breaks as a way to read my pocket/instapaper saved articles :). A break is just 2 or 3 articles, way too short to get into a book.

My bedroom book is 'Churchill's empire' from Richard Toye.
Pretty interesting
He's pretty lucky that he was able to just focus on product and not really worry about the actual business much. Many builders just build in obscurity and the world never knows what they made. I'm jealous.
Not really in machine language or even BASIC (see below).
Mostly I don't get the different between Windows RT and Windows S. Did they just change the name?
Raising kids is rewarding at a high level, but involves a lot of drudgery. I don't want to knock those who enjoy that stuff, but at the same time I feel like it's important for parents to know that you can love your kids while acknowledging that the day-to-day of parenting is often a mind-numbing low-level chore. The idea that it's intrinsically fulfilling for everyone or even most people is one invented by society to placate women who were historically excluded from the work force. E.g. My mom and my wife's mom both left professional careers to raise kids, and both are quite bitter about it.
It doesn't. I know it's broad, but my definition[0] of an "indie hacker" is anyone who's making money from customers rather than an employer. I've never discriminated based on funding, which is why I've had the "bootstrapped vs raised money" filter[1] on the homepage from the beginning.

Personally, I'm partial to early-stage tech bootstrappers, which is one reason why I've interviewed so many people from that niche. It's just a lot more near and dear to my heart, and those are the people who tend to struggle to get coverage elsewhere.

But it's worth branching out, because other entrepreneurs have valuable experiences to share, too. And to the extent that we can get even well-funded companies to share their revenue numbers and behind-the-scenes strategies, that's a good thing for all of us imo.

[0] https://www.indiehackers.com/about

[1] https://media.giphy.com/media/l4FGycUhVUpsBuoqQ/source.mp4
> I'd actually quite like a relational database with a language that isn't SQL.

They exist, e.g., Dataphor, Rel, etc. But it's hard to displace SQL.
> Except it is unrealistic in the context of free market because some other guy will just copy your drug and sell it to me for the cost of half of my life savings. A silly argument you have made.

What if I have a patent on it? ;)

> get the corrupt politicians out of the picture and the problem solves itself.

Sounds great! Let's do that!
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You take digital exams on computers without internet access? Where and how?