skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's two major entry points to management consulting, straight out of college and post-MBA. I did an internship after my junior year, and took the full-time offer. Most firms also hire out of business school. There's certainly exceptions to this rule, especially when firms are seeking industry expertise, but those make up the majority of folks.

My level of enjoyment varies based on the cases I'm on. It's generally interesting, it's certainly fast-paced, and I very rarely count down the hours before I can leave work (there's no face-time policies). But after almost four years here, it can definitely get monotonous. Still, I've learned more than I would at almost any other job, and it's taught me a great work ethic, so I'm grateful for that.
I clicked the 'web' link for google results and then opened the article link in a "private" window with no history or cookies, and that worked for me.
Back doors, black boxes and #IPAct technical capability regulations
A scalable distributed crawler which could bypass anti-scraping mechanism
so, make a Haskell editor which only shows the one line of code where your cursor is on, rest of logic is completely hidden.
In terms of media objectives, I wouldn't compare a CPC campaign on Facebook to TV - where you are paying for a specific action, and, accordind to Nielsen, there's no correlation between Brand Awareness and Ad Recall vs Clicks.

Tv is used usualy for it's powerfull Reach (like you said, it concentrates alot of eyeballs at once), and since it's video is amazing to build awareness.

One spot in the break of BBT may not be enough, because of the Frequency that the message will be displayed to the audience - that one shot spot (Frequency 1) of 250-500k may be good if you have a 100 million budget, else there are more effective ways to reach this audience with a propper TV planning.

But if you want to Reach people on Facebook you can optimize it for Reach and Frequency - but you must have a great creative to gather and retain attention (you'll pay on CPM).

The problem is just what you've said: ROI. Alot of brands don't measure it properly. For some brands online is a gold mine, for others, it's a dump.
I've followed this recipe to make dough a couple of times and it is solid with regards to developing the gluten.
The title clearly says "New York Pizza" so I'm not sure what you're on about. That's a lie, I do know, but I won't humor you.
Your argument glosses over the difference between a last-mile private corporation controlling every byte of content and the government simply preventing the practice of route prioritization.

Just because you are in favor of preventing route prioritization doesnt mean youre in favor of the bizarre absolute opposite of government "controlling content".

nobody (I know of) is advocating government control of content. That is a different discussion entirely from net neutrality.
After you hit the redirect, click the "+ Express" button the right to go to the comment page.
You'd think the organization between what probably is the biggest online source of information would've learned a thing or two from its own content.
John Oliver's "Go FCC yourself" redirect
Net neutrality has nothing to do with privacy, it's about treating everyone's traffic the same.
It depends what you're doing. I haven't looked in a while, but last time I did the idea behind MapD was to produce interactive visualisations over lots of data. That can certainly get pretty computationally expensive.
BackBlaze posted a very gentle intro with lots of pictures to their blog a while back. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/reed-solomon/
I love all sketches, of that performance, especially the best man. But yes, that is a very good one and Atkinson is a genious although most people know him as Mr Bean where he is a less obvious genious.
Life and Combat for Republicans at Berkeley
Given how many coffeepots are in American workplaces and how dangerous a dumb coffeepot can be, I would imagine there was a lot of economic pressure to make coffeepots smarter and safer.
> In markets with 1 or 2 viable ISPs, what is your solution?

I watch about 1 hour of Youtube per month and about 5 hours of Netflix. Why should I subsidize people who watch 5 hours each day?

Let's not pretend bandwidth is not a scarce resource. ISPs have to pay for upstream bandwidth. If they can affordably colocate systems to serve specific content at a fraction of the cost by eliminating upstream costs, why shouldn't they?
Your first job sounds similar to that of the worker in the pin factory in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Later on he describes the "torpor of the mind"[1] that you must have felt doing all that copy/pasting.

Smith's argument at the end of the same passage and throughout the WoN is that government intervention and regulation is necessary to avoid the societal decay that the invisible hand of capitalism can produce. Specifically he suggests government-sponsored education as the best solution to the problem.

[1] http://www.pitt.edu/~syd/ASIND.html
I'd suggest updating the link directly to the presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MD-CgzODFWzdpnYXr8bE...
MailChimp Automation Free for Everyone
> Can we say, "people of character and placement are required to drive history"?....

Yes. Thank you

(Although in the past and to this day, the course of history has overwhelmingly been determined by men)
JWT are not encrypted, they include an HMAC signature to prove that the token claims (which are a Base64 encoded JSON object) have not been modified.
I don't understand how parents are allowed to make major, irreversible, cosmetic medical decisions for children on their behalf. I'm not against circumcision, but it should be the choice of someone who is able to consent.
Profession: Software "Engineer"

[06:15] First alarm goes off;

[06:45] Finally wake up, get out of bed, shower, shave, make espresso for me and the wife

[07:15] out the door, 30 minute commute to office

[07:45] breakfast bagel at my work cafe

[08:00] arrive at desk, begin contemplating work -- work on something I procrastinated on the previous day so that I can have a good standup report

[9:00] everyone arrives at office, noise increases 10x, I am physically unable to concentrate anymore. Earplugs and noise-deadening headphones help some, but then having those on distracts me

[10:00 til 05:45 or 6:30 pm] Constant battling distractions, meetings, interruptions, and general work-related chaos, trying to somehow manage to squeeze in any actual developer work. Work proclaims how 'fun it is to work here! awesome! totes cool! We have so much cool stuff! Our culture is the best culture!'

Help me.
>as long as you allow for small actors to freely re-accommodate to their local environment conditions.

In other words as long as you don't try to plan their activity. What you're describing is how more free market oriented economies work: with a central authority that has the power to force everyone to comply with its plans, but that deliberately chooses to mostly not exercise this power, in order to maintain a free market.

Central economic planning is better than the alternative (anarchy) only when addressing externalities that market forces do not address. So for instance providing a system of law, a national defense and basic scientific research. Even with all of the inefficiencies of top down planning, it still remains the only way to optimize resource allocation for the production of public goods.
One way to clarify your thoughts on this is to imagine that the opposite were true -- that is, that we already lived for thousands of years -- and then ask yourself how you'd feel about artificially limiting that to ~70 years.
Startup lawyer Gil Silberman explains the company formation process
It is paramount. This way I can leave 4:30pm (or earlier) minimizing the perception that I might be slacking off (which I am not). Other guys that get here after me stick around way past 6pm, which for me is a no-no. Since no one has any idea what time I came in, it gets harder to judge. I wish this was not necessary but it is my defense against company culture (8 solid hours, no working from home, regardless of your current work load).
It is, but it's easy to see where it comes from. When I was a kid, I'd usually catch 30-60 minutes before school, depending on how early I got up. School finished at 3:15, I'd be back by 3:30 in time to watch kid's programming until 5:30. Then there was a dull gap with Neighbours or The Weakest Link. Then the Simpsons had a slot at 6:00... and so on.

So that's a good 3-3.5 hours most days of the week. On a Saturday it wouldn't be uncommon to watch morning TV for 2-3 hours. I was brought up as a BBC person, so adverts weren't really a problem, but if you watch another channel there are probably folks who watch an hour of ads a day.

While I was writing up my thesis and I was doing mind-numbing stuff like processing data or making figures, I often put Netflix on in the background and could easily fit in 5-6 episodes a day.
Ran them on my machine; Closure is a bit slower, but not hugely so (still within a second of Uglify):

https://gist.github.com/atombender/a10c8ad409abb6c4995a60374...
Yes, that's pretty much what I meant to say as my comment above. I have not watched TV in a decade, but I hear these calls of TV dying all the time. The thing is, TV is not going to die because it is essentially fulfilling the core needs of human urges (that is, to hear and tell stories). The TV may take another shape and form, as it has in the form of Internet videos and video-watching. Who tells and creates stories (the production houses) is also insignificant.

However, TV has indeed evolved over the years. It has gone from fictional shows like Lost which made space for semi-fictional reality TV shows era (Lost was a precursor to Survivor), to Cinema-like experience of GoT. TV has also seen itself evolve so fast that fictional shows like House of Cards lost itself to the reality on the ground.

These are human evolution in terms of what we're telling ourselves via our stories. It matters less how we're telling stories (Netflix, Internet, CBS...doesn't matter).
Building this stuff by hand is... yeah.

We open source our Kube bootstrap toolkit (which uses kops). No one should build this by hand. It would be like, I dunno, setting up a MariaDB Galera Cluster by hand when you intend to use RDS (not a perfect example, please no pedantry!). It's a fun learning experience, I guess - if you're into that sorta thing - but is not what you want to use in any production context.

https://www.reactiveops.com/blog/kops-102-an-inside-look-at-...

https://www.reactiveops.com/blog/using-k8s-scripts/

Use the automation to bootup clusters, please!
I don't know where and I don't know when, but I'm going to quote you.
> But it's like discovering US federal government didn't solve a problem with a faulty light on your street...

I was really confused by this comment until I realized you thought I was suggesting Zotero run things because they power Citoid. In fact, as any of the people I eat lunch with can tell you, I have been singing the praises of Zotero for years.

http://blog.jessriedel.com/2014/11/12/zotero-is-great-tex-sh...

The fact that Citoid is very flawed but the part of it that actually works is made by Zotero was merely delicious coincidence.

Your remaining comments then do a better job than I could possibly hope of illustrating exactly the pathological attitude that afflict non-profits. The whole point of my criticism, which is partially shared by the OP and many others in this thread, is that the proper focus of WMF is determined by the people who donate their money and, especially, their time. (That's a normative claim.) That fact that you responded to these points by sayings "No, actually, we at the WMF have expanded well beyond such trifling concerns as the base functionality of Wikipedia" perfectly captures this destructive mindset.

> if we correct from Wikipedia to "Wiki sites to gather and disseminate knowledge", which are more that just Wikipedia

Incorrect. For instance, I use and love Wikivoyage, but I do not pretend that the millions of people who donate to Wikipedia intend to subsidize it! Yes, if Wikivoyage ends up better off through Wikipedia-financed improvements on the general Wikimedia software, all the better. But my friends should not be made to feel like Wikipedia will shutdown if he doesn't donate yearly just so WMF can hold more conferences.

> But opinion on how to improve that value may not only be "improve this one particular feature".

Again, for the second time, the comment on the antiquated citation process was an illustrative example. I have resisted diving into the millions of issues with Wikipedia's software.

>> Yes, that means the people running Wikipedia conferences and local meetups will have less power.

> Than who?

Well, not "less power than other people", but "less power than they did before", i.e., fewer resources and less influence. (WMF can simply get smaller, so that no one gets more power.) But for clarity, I'm happy to suggest that more institutional power within WMF should be given to technical people, to (say) Zotero staff or other people from software non-profits with a better track record, and to anyone who internalizes the idea that the non-profit exists to as a servant to the people who donate time and money.

> There are processes that decide which directions are prioritized and which are not.

Oh thank goodness! There are processes! Just like there are processes for new Wikipedians to dispute the deletion of content they write.

I guess so long as a nation is nominally democratic we don't ever have to worry about it being badly run. And if anyone complains, we can just say they should vote and be satisfied. After, we can't make everyone happy, so if people are unhappy there's no reason to worry about it!
Lots of startups / young companies are run by people that never had a formal business school thing - they don't have the history lessons besides other successful startups and whatnot that explains why 'traditional' management (with multiple layers etc) is the way it is.

Any project with more than one team already has a middle management structure of sorts - you've got the CEO / CTO, then the team leaders (scrum masters, or just whoever's the loudest). There's your middle management layer already.
That's a badass schedule. I've often wondered/daydreamed about running a company with a similar schedule.

E.g. Extremely focused, productive mornings for writing code, meaning no interruptions if possible followed by lunch until whenever, then afternoons are flex time for meetings/planning/whatever the business needs.
I've only glanced at your project as I need to minimize my HN time this morning but it looks fascinating and I hope to circle back around to it soon!
And it would be okay if it was a skinny feminist? Don't see what her weight has to do with her rudeness.
Sounds like a SAAS - verify emails from gmail, hotmail, etc...
A free market solution to net neutrality is a talking point, regardless of how a specific comment is formatted.

You missed this part: "without feigning this absurd obtuseness".

And for the record I'm addressing the dopey false concern, not your stance on net neutrality.

Have an honest day.
European tech lobbies for action against Apple and Google
I know right! My clients would beg to differ !
Religion always seems to get special benefits.
> I think it's perfectly possible that, within my lifetime, significant or indefinite life extension could become possible.

It's weird that everyone believes this stuff will happen within their own lifetime. Like, no-one goes on about how life extension is going to happen 300-ish years from now, it's always conveniently within a timeframe where the speculator could personally become immortal.

Just like every loon in history has insisted that the Apocalypse is definitely, certainly going to happen within their own lifetimes too.
Absolutely. That we tolerate genital mutilation of infants and that many people think it's OK/normal just illustrates how powerful the forces of convention are in swaying our views/beliefs.

Genital mutilation is part of the general trend of subjugating children and depriving them of rights. Just because we've banned child labor in the US does not mean we've gone far enough.
Meatless Burger Startup Impossible Foods Beefs Up Management Team
PyDev of the Week: Agata Grdal
That's the big question I have too.
I think typically it's I/O in one form or another. With GPUs sending data to the GPU seems to be another cost in the path.

However if you consider the GPU part as a way to push down processing power close to data, then you can probably solve more complex problems like graph processing efficiently within the DB..
They exist in large quantities - try every .NET shop for starters.
It definitely was not designed to de-orbit and land on the moon. It has nowhere near enough dV to do that.

Maybe it has been designed to work as a technology platform for deriving a lunar lander. But the Dragon 2 design is just not capable of doing it, not even close.
As IPOs Pick Up, Big Startups Hold Out
From what I hear it's more of a staged rollout of who they are dragging back to the office. So waves of people are being disrupted and often making the obvious choice that seeking other employment is the best option. Or worse people that have a local office but their 'team' is based far enough away that it still counts as relocate or die.
- [05:30-06:00] breakfast

- [06:00-07:30] random.choice([bike riding, work on side projects, hiking, reading/studying])

- [08:00-11:30] solid coding hours

- [12:00-13:00] lunch

- [13:00-17:00] try to get work done, but because people have a tendency to interrupt me every 5 minutes, work never actually gets done during these hours < http://www.freelancing.ph/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Program... >

- [17:00-18:30] squeeze in some more coding time, maybe

- [19:00-20:30] dinner

- [21:00-23:00] random.choice([piano practice, work on side projects, reading/studying, night hiking, house chores/laundry/maintainence, additional work time if necessary])
You don't understand how latency works at all. If latency to a location is bad, fix it -- that's what you are being paid for.

As for bandwidth allocation, that is an entirely other issue that has nothing to do with latency or congestion. You pay for the bandwidth tier you can afford, as an end-user. And business pay proportionate to the amount of bandwidth they require. This need tends to scale directly with customer load, so this arrangement is sustainable and scalable. ISPs can also profitably scale as they get more premium-tier users.

The issue is that business would now have to pay premiums in order to offer premium services. This further enhances existing monopolies and prohibits fair competition. It also reinforces the idea of, "We will treat you better if you have more money" which is a classist approach that has no basis.

Not to mention the fact that most of our leading ISPs are directly tied to many media platforms, and the ones that aren't wish they were. The drawbacks are so plainly obvious that it's hard not to suspect that anyone who doesn't openly admit a nascent understanding of the issue around "net neutrality" is following a playbook given to them by employers.
tl&dr. Innumeracy is the incapability to handle numbers. People should minimally be able to do basic math. However many companies never test for this.
Let's say your idea has merit.

How do you compete against competing services owned by ISPs?

If your alternative is that ISP are prohibited from owning content producers, you're the only one pushing that plan.

The only serious alternative being offered is that the invisible hand will deal with all the problems.
The savings from automation and outsourcing far exceeds what Apple (a common example) could earn from the increased purchasing power from US Apple employees if some of those employees had slightly more money to buy Apple products. The odds of employees taking their increased wages and ONLY buying your goods, is slim, and this logic does not work for companies such as Boeing , that make products that no possible employee could ever afford.
Why Facebook’s First Social VR App Is So Simple
> The upgrade from 2 to 3 took nearly a year on this project and that was with 2 people. The upgrade from 3 to 4 was roughly 6 months.

That is typical in my experience for a non-trivial app.
The key is being able to respond promptly and being committed to the answer one has given which aligns with the point you raise on timeliness. There are two discourtesies:

1) Not providing a committed answer until the last minute; and
2) Reneging on a previous commitment, particularly at the last moment.

Responding promptly is important if only to say, "I cannot commit at the moment but I will let you know for definite by [date]", where date is sufficiently in advance of the event in question.
> The answer is technology. Printing press revolution had exploded.

No. China had movable type printing presses by 1040 AD, yet there's no evidence that it led to a mass uprising against the state religion at that time.

You're trying to undermine the historical singificance of Martin Luther's spirit and vision by saying that he just happened to be in the right place at the right time when the printing press came along. I don't buy it.
> Imagine a world with essentially no children. No generation of young adults growing up and spurring change in the world. I think it would not just take away a crucial part of the human experience, but our entire economic system would collapse. There's just too much of it tied into the constant churn of people.

Basically "Children of Men", but without the cool camera work.
I really liked 12 hour shifts when I was in tech support. Working 3 on and 3 off was amazing.
High-deductible plans exist.
We have one of those guys on our team. He is friends with one of the founders so nothing he says seems to be wrong.
Available on the AWS marketplace already set up: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B071H71L2Y Can test it for as little as $0.90 / hour on a p2.xlarge. I know I absolutely cannot wait to play with it.
100% agree. Your path is based on your teams experience and capabilities, not trends.
It's genital mutilation. There's no medical reason [1]. Yes, having a foreskin means you need to clean it regularly (or your caregiver if you're a baby).

And then there are disgusting things like this [2]:

> In a practice that takes place during a ceremony known as the bris, a circumcision practitioner, or mohel, removes the foreskin from the baby's penis, and with his mouth sucks the blood from the incision to cleanse the wound.

[1] Just like anything, there are exceptions. Some people have their foreskin removed because it has an infection or something similar. That shouldn't be applied to all foreskins, and even so, most of that is preventable with good hygiene.

[2] http://abcnews.go.com/Health/baby-dies-herpes-virus-ritual-c...
Profession: Part-time remote software engineer small company

Workday:

[6:30] Wake up and read stuff on my phone

[7:00] Make coffee eat breakfast

[8:00] Open laptop and work on prioritized list of tasks

[10:30 or 11] Stop Working

[11:00] Lunch

[12:00 to 3:00] Un-fun personal stuff (chores, bookkeeping, laundry, etc..)

[3:00 to 3:30] Nap

[3:30 to 7:30] Exercise - Surf, Mountain Bike, Run, Hike, etc...

[7:30] Dinner

[8:30 to 11] Movies, read more stuff, etc...
Industries that lose jobs due to automation cause job growth in more slowly automating industries:

http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/10/24/13327014/productivit...

This has been the pattern for over 200 years of labour-saving automation:

http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/6717/economics/the-luddite...