skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
story was long, bud I did read it.

there is a difference between funded company and self-funded company. Tom is better suited as a employee or partner in a funded company.

being a small company you and Jerry accomodate change because you need to survive, also it can be your USP and the reason why clients came to you in the first place.

it is difficult to share work and profit equally when the work comes in varied formats.

on a longer term overworking would exhaust you.

try ways to give incentives your management team and employees, revenue targets, 0 defects, referrals can all be metrics which can be used to judge the incentives. give it a shot for a month and discuss if situation has improved

splitting is very easy but it might affect your growth, focus and profits, undoing may not be possible later
If minimum wage was not needed today we'd see nobody earning minimum wage, but only people making comfortably above it.

As long as there are plenty of people earning just minimum wage we need minimum wage.

You can't argue that if we removed or lowered the minimum wage that employers would not take advantage of that and would reduce the pay of those that currently earn minimum wage given that evidence.
Could you expand on what "program to an interface" means to you in this context, I'm not getting it. Assume that I know what it means in the usual context, of depending on the services of an interface type not a concrete type.
For this integer program the difference is not due to accuracy, DP, or memory models. The GTX480 has 480 "cores" at 1.4 GHz while the C2050 has 448 "cores" at 1.15 GHz. I can't explain why Nvidia's more expensive card has lower performance other than they can get away with it.
"people consider themselves primarily bargain-hunters rather than experience-seekers"

I suspect changing this attitude, more even than the promotion of local/organic/sustainable food production, could be the biggest social benefit of the foodie movement.
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Which is actual, demonstrable discrimination, so even more reason people might make a fuss.
The same happened when the 200 series came out, also the memory model is subtly different.

I expect we'll see the exact same thing happen as what happened with the 200 series, the first cards will be looked at as the crummy old ones as soon as the next batch hits the streets. You can pretty much expect the following:

a 1.4 GHz part

maybe a 1.8 or 2.0 GHz part

a dual chip card featuring 896 cores at the same power consumption level as the current 480GTX
Outside of a benchmark- that's latency you can hide though, right? Without reference to the specifics of this situation, which I don't claim to know much about, the co-processor can be sorting one dataset in it's local memory while the CPU is transferring data into another local buffer (or even, the co-processor can initiate the transfer itself using DMA).
Students can improve by being more like salespeople
Didn't Altavista have this feature 10 years ago?
"It struck me that I am incredibly lucky to be a student at MIT, where I have never actually encountered blatant sexism. No one has ever groped me."

When you take a look at the author's photo, you realize she's not nearly hot enough to be worth a sexual harassment lawsuit. She's yet another PC narcissist from American academia who's in love with gender wars. Why should we even care?
True enough.

I'm not a foodie snob, by the way. I've never even been to the West Coast. :-) It just gives me serious pause to think about giving a homeless person who eats sporadically and drinks a lot McDonald's. It seems like it would wreak havoc on their digestive system.
While I completely agree with the gist of the article, Dr Davys counter-argument is terrible:

"It is possible that the water displaced sugary drinks in the hydrated group, but this does not explain the weight loss because the calories associated with any fizzy drinks consumed by the other group had to fall within the daily limits."

There is such a thing as good calories and bad calories - obviously getting your calories from healthy fats such as olive oil and avacados is going to be a lot more beneficial to your weight in the long run than getting your calories from sugary fizzy drinks such as coca-cola.

Still, nice article.
Me and the significant other have known this for quite a while. Frankly, I'm REALLY surprised that this wasn't an established scientific result.

The way it works IMHO is not too obscure - water fills you up and gives you the impression of being 'full' earlier, so you tend to reduce your regular food intake. Feeling 'fuller' equates to being satiated for a lot of people (including me), so the tendency to chow out at random times during the day is highly reduced/eliminated.

I used to be 90+ kg in the middle of 2009. Once I decided to drink copious amounts of water during the day, by Jan 2010 I had come to about 60ish kg and lost 4 inches around the waist. My other breakfast/lunch/dinner eating habits remained the same, and the water meant I cut down on snacking between meals.

Seriously, isn't there any research showing water fills you up?
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And the hottest cartoon character title goes to Jessica Rabbit! I love her appeal, what about you?
I'll give that a try ... I had to do screen -e '\`\`'
Excellent, this was much needed. I'll be sure to provide feedback as I play with it.
The grumpy-ness aside which is difficult to judge in an unbiased manner and every one for himself, the question is still relevant, and something that I can relate to tho not being in the affected age segment.

I look around at my last 2 work places and have yet to meet more than the occasional mid-40s professional who is in positions of technical ownership. Most of them have moved into positions of management (paper pushers for the most part), architects (whatever that means) or moved out (to whatever it is they do, hopefully something interesting).

Those who did move into management and position involving architecture were not necessarily more technically proficient than those who moved out, with a history of accomplishments that identified them as suitable for those positions. In most cases it was just a case of who one was acquainted with. Put simply the technical field is not a meritocracy beyond a certain watermark.

I have yet to hear a cogent argument on why folks in their late 40s or early 50s are not adequately represented in programming positions start ups or otherwise. What is unique about programming as a practice that make it unsuitable for professional beyond a certain age?

In most professions that have similar age barriers to early exit (sports comes to mind immediately) one case expect to be compensated handsomely for the short while that one has is holding on to the position, this is not the case with programming.

Leaving aside the argument that most programming positions do not require any education because they are no longer "creative" functions just functions of component "assembly" and as such do not require the experience gained from years of practice, what changes does the industry require to undertake to effective use the experience of folks who have worked hard to gain it?

I certainly do not have the answers.
you are so 2009
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It's better to optimize your life around what you value now, not a prediction of what your old, dying self might value differently. Because your prediction is unlikely to be right, and you're probably making better decisions now than while facing death.
Making something -- a web app or free software -- would be a good way to present knowledge, except that people who make things still need some help presenting what they've made.
The problem is that when a user installs an application like Photoshop, he doesn't expect it to change anything outside of the operating system partition that it's being installed on because it has absolutely no right to be anywhere else.

In contrast, a bootloader like GRUB2 inherently works at a much lower level than user applications and is expected to modify certain things on the hard disk that would not belong to any operating system because it can assume (almost always) that it is the only bootloader on the disk.
I get flamed on HN 3 times a day, I don't know why

news.ycombinator.com, the incubator, has this site where people, nerds, talk about stuff

Your tone over the word 'nerds' (and the entire 30 seconds around it) is exactly why you get flamed. Maybe if you chill with the irrelevant bullshit, maintain your objectivity and do your job (in this case, focus on the interview), ppl would respect you.

P.S. Great guest this week.
I do complain about not enough male nurses, where the gender difference is noticeable and is affecting the direction of the field or perceptions of the field itself.

Yes, there should be some room for "gender differences" which is not necessarily distinguishable anyway--however, there are actually compelling reasons for women and men to join fields that they are minorities in.

In this case, it is not that women merely choose not to go into technical fields out of pure disinterest. It is the social barriers and the lack of exposure women have had since childhood. This comic briefly explains: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1883

Women have the possibility of increasing the total popularity of the field and decreasing the social stigma behind technological fields. They increase the total size and productivity of the industry. They increase the diversity of perspectives in the field. They appeal better to and understand female clients. They could make technological fields more presentable and appealing.

This technological feminism helps women as well. There are increasing spaces for Computer Science-related jobs in the industry and there is not an equally strong work force rising to meet it. Making it more appealing and more acceptable for women to take these roles (there would have to be a disproportionate push towards women because of their given backgrounds) would give them a wider range of profitable options in life and would increase the accessibility of the technological culture to all women. I believe that the 'geek' culture surrounding the growth of technology is becoming a more important and significant part of mainstream culture, yet women are not participating in it as widely as men are. The implications for the culture and the women not participating it are not great.

I realize the group here is not as receptive to technological feminism, being primarily male and anti-feminist, so I will stop here. Please feel free to message me if you are interested.
They do not block, just shape. My mobile operator (O2) shapes everything but http, so with ssh tunnelling or ssl-based vpn, things get much slower.
Why Amazon is the 10 pound gorilla and not Google or Facebook
the fun part has got nothing to do with polynomials.i'am finding it funny cause i'am taking ages to learn this basic concept .to put in better sentence a DUMB ASS(that's me) taking advice from a knowledgeable person(that's you)

by the way thanks very much for telling me that 'A' and 'B' represents polynomials.never knew it before.
I am in the same situation as I'm a studying mathematician, but I think she neglects to acknowledge the (extreme) politics of the scientific fields that necessitates a diversity of viewpoints. I know far more people who have issues with that.
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Glad your on here now Joni. Thanks again for the framework!
Although it certainly isn't the same as MyWi, iProxy sets up a SOCKS proxy through which you can send your web traffic:

http://wiki.github.com/tcurdt/iProxy/
A blog on social etiquette and politeness would go a long way, I know I have trouble communication with green engineers.

HOW-TO: Being polite?

HOW-TO: Say no without being an ass
Could you please name those communist countries?

I still have family in mainland China, and we know there is a homelessness problem in China. The government effectively insures that they are out of sight, so they beg where they can out of sight. You can find them in loading docks or behind restaurants. This is not a new problem that has started since economic reforms, it has always been around.

I have talked with my coworker, someone who lived in Soviet Russia until his 20s, and he will confirm that they also had homelessness problem. At that time it was dealt with similarly.

(1)Simple searches give clear depictions and discussions of the homelessness problems in these current and historical examples.

(1)Post edited here to remove an inappropriately rude and confrontation postscript (I accused the parent of lying or being willfully ignorant; which does not cover the gamut of possibilities)
You have to take into account that these perceived fundamental differences are increasingly challenged in studies today, and it's becoming increasingly accepted that most of these differences are social.

As culture becomes more homogenous, the differences are becoming less evident. I'm don't think people are proposing an extreme "plugging ears" situation, but a "hey let's push them a little further and see what they can do" often with astounding success. I think this mostly depends if you view the impacts of women on the technical fields so far as positive or negative. I personally believe they have had a positive impact (look at my other posts) so I am more inclined to push women past their societal boundaries, hopefully not past their 'fundamental female' boundaries.
In the study, they controlled for caloric intake by giving everyone a limit. This would seem to point toward an effect other than the fact that water makes you eat less. It's possible that the group drinking water actually stayed below their caloric limit, but I didn't see that mentioned in the article.
Talk to the potential female CS majors and ask them why they changed their minds.
Very cool, but I seem to be having issues with it on the iPhone. Your site loaded correctly in portrait on the first load, but when I rotated to landscape there was an additional black bar maybe 100px wide on the right side of the page, allowing horizontal scroll. Once you've rotated to landscape, the page does not resize back to portrait until you close the page and open it again.
There is very little risk of bricking in general--you can restore even from DFU mode.
I think if you feel the need to defend your ability by blogging you've already lost the battle.

Just go do it. Then the argument is moot.

Startup entry costs get lower and lower everyday. All of those zillions of barely-useful web apps that everybody is funding provide a nifty base to launch and begin interacting with a market. It's really not the same business environment as it was just ten years ago. That's not meant as an argument for age discrimination, just an acknowledgment that things have changed. The best guy to find is some graybeard who kept the best of the old stuff and is also learning the new stuff.

Unfortunately the temptation in tech is to rest on your laurels and try to coast on using natural intelligence as opposed to continuously learning new things. Sometimes this gets kids right out of college -- take the corporate 9-5 job and the punch-the-clock mentality. Sometimes it takes longer. But once this attitude begins the logical conclusion is blog articles like this.
It's not necessarily that you're dumb - I suspect you aren't. The problem is that you're trying to get a grip on these techniques when you haven't really mastered the absolute basics of algebra.

It's not surprising - you're trying to teach yourself, and it's always going to be that there are gaps. You need properly constructed tutorials and exercises.

Have a look at these:

http://www.google.co.uk/#q=algebra+tutorial+with+exercises

Pick one of the tutorials and work through it completely. Then you can do a google search for partial fraction tutorials and do the same.
Minimum wage just outlaws all jobs that are worth less than $6 per hour. Suppose the unemployment rate is 5%, if minimum wage were raised, unemployment would increase. If it were lowered, unemployment would decrease.

There is a widespread misperception that businesses naively overpay employees for work that is actually worth less than minimum wage. This is not the case, which is why there is litter on sidewalks and beaches (for example) and why there has been a rise in the use of robotics (mechanical car washes, street sweepers, assembly line robots, grain harvesters, etc.)

Maybe in the short term some workers were overpaid, but it is generally very brief and does nothing to equip those overpaid workers for the future since industry is striving to correct the inefficiency and develop a robot, etc.

I think the point you are missing is that it's not just about the wage someone is paid, it's also about the training the job provides. Minimum wage prevents people unable to add $6/hour of value from having a job at all, which makes them helpless wards of the state. Great accomplishment.
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The answer may be related to the early age at which mathematicians seem to peak.

Another factor is the rate of change in technology. Mere experience may be an obstacle there. When you start knowing nothing and pick a technology to learn, you naturally tend to pick the newest one. Whereas for an old person, learning new technologies is something you do out of duty as much as eagerness. An old person learning new technologies is keeping current. A young person learning the same new technology is learning to build stuff, which is much more exciting.
I'd love to see someone compare the performance of generated C/C++ code https://code.google.com/p/emscripten/wiki/GeneratedCodeCompa... versus a (possibly non-trivial) native Javascript implementation in say, V8, Spidermonkey, or Nitro.

It'd be interesting to see how decent performance can get between the LLVM optimizations and the tracing/JIT of the newer JS engines.
What you got by paying full price was a network-unlocked phone but it will still be locked when it comes to the software running inside it. Unlocking so you can run your own kernel will void the warranty.

If all you want is a root shell to the existing software, "Universal Android Root" seems to be the tool to use and won't void your warranty. It's still a hack and not something you get out of the box.

The only phone I know of that actually seems to come unlocked is the Nokia N900 where you can get a root shell out of the box and probably also swap the kernel for your own without voiding the warranty (not sure).
Iiinteresting…. Can I ask which iPhone and version of iOS you’re using?

It’s funny how the most problematic browser these days seems to not be IE6, but Mobile Safari. :|
That's exactly where I stopped watching the video. No matter how much value a person provides, if he is doing it in an unpleasant manner I tend to walk away instead of putting up with his BS. Worked out pretty well for me so far.
Of course the other side needs to have the same bright idea too :) Reminds me of a quote:

"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it"
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1637345

Much discussion there ...
You neglect the way that boys are given toys and video games that facilitate their interests in technical and scientific fields. You neglect the clear precedence and majority of boys who are studying CS. You neglect the clear lack of female role models in the industry. All of these things are strikes against making the hypothetical 17 year old choose this field. These factors alone make the playing field not level, let alone the numerous other social factors that a young girl encounters.
LOL - thank you, you just gave me a great idea ...
Yeah, my wife and I always have to remember to split an entree at US restaurants. Once we split an appetizer, and, not having been that hungry in the first place, were basically good for the evening.

The portions there really are huge.
Why not colonize the ocean floor instead or as well?

I'd be as excited as anyone if we were colonizing space. If humanity survives long enough and manages to avoid too many dark ages, it is an inevitability, but at the present time, doing so would be terribly expensive.

I'm not sure if you could honestly classify spending trillions of dollars on space colonization is the best way to allocate resources for a poverty reduction program.

In some distant future where such things _are_ financial feasible or necessary, I would imagine that economic opportunities would be traded to the earlier pioneers who would suffer under what would surely be difficult and dangerous circumstances.
My Intro Philosophy professor phrased it like this: "If you want to sound smart in front of your friends, make a distinction."

Our judgments of how intelligent people are usually come from how many relevant details they are able to see that we would otherwise have missed. So someone who asserts that Twitter is exactly the same as 'talk' is dumb. Someone who asserts that Twitter is exactly the same as 'talk', except that it's on the web, and it can broadcast to multiple people, and it's limited to 140 characters, and the social norms surrounding its use are different, and it's frequently used to share URLs that are automatically shortened, and that this practice is controversial because it breaks the decentralized nature of the web, sounds slightly more intelligent.
To be fair, the need for slave labor on collective farms did reduce the problem somewhat. But that practice was stopped precisely because it was inefficient to force mentally and physically handicapped people into a physically demanding profession.
I've lived in Poland, spent plenty of time in then Czecho-Slowakia and a lot less in Eastern Germany.

> You are either dramatically incorrect or lying.

Sorry ?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1644264
To be fair, we have now done exactly that. If we have food on us, we'd give it.

Not saying I don't care or rationalizing that it's not my problem. I'm just saying that the way I explain this could be used by many others to explain it as well.
Oh thanks. For pointing out. I searched before posting, but couldn't find that.
Dave Winer is the guy that famously ranted he would never support the new JSON Facebook API: "To Facebook the answer must be no"!

Then he when everyone laughed at him, he silently edited his rant to appear a bit more sane [1].. It's not that he wouldn't support the json api, it is that he couldn't, because the programming environment he wrote doesn't have a json library.

It's 2010. Would you hire a programmer that who can't parse JSON?

Edit: Even better.. would you hire a programmer who, when asked to design a json api, refused to do so and instead yelled at you about the superiority of XML-RPC?

[1] http://www.scripting.com/stories/2010/04/21/tofacebooktheans...
The same is true for nicely dressed people.

I bought my first suit last week and walked around downtown feeling all smug - I wasn't even trying to feel smug and yet when you're the best dressed in the room it goes right to your head.

Lame...
Right, for some reason, after rotating to landscape and then rotating back to portrait, you have to zoom in before you can zoom back out. I assume this is due to the meta viewport properties in use:

initial-scale=1.0, width=device-width, height=device-height

Without height=device-height, rotating to landscape screws up the zooming completely. With it, your bug happens. The only solution for both problems is setting maximum-scale=1, and that’s no solution at all.

Ideas?
Well maybe they are. Why bother with peoples feeling's about x before bothering about x itself.

"Clean people commit less crimes." Not unthinkable.
iPhone 4, iOS 4.0 (8A293)