skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps, but I think GP has a good first step:

gave even the most rudimentary of ways to speak with someone (livechat, helpdesk, whatever)

Otherwise, we are just guessing. Some will give them the benefit of the doubt. Some will assume the worst. The truth is simply somewhere in between.

The opposite of the LL Bean anecdote is a company that gave a lifetime warranty and made a name for itself in the nautical outerwear industry. People bought in part because of the warranty. After a few years they started having to make good on the warranty- not because of fraud, but because out wear doesn't last forever.
Ask HN: Best project management practices in 2018?
"Agile" and "scrum" were the hotness a few years back, but now it seems that the hype mostly subsided. It's reasonable to assume that the Agile practices are put in context and incorporated into the mainstream now. Are there any recent works on project management that systematically present modern best practices? What have we been left with few years since the Agile revolution?
2nd Edition was published 10 years ago.
If anything, it bums me out how mad some people are getting over it. It's pretty harmless and hilarious in my opinion. I admit, it's hard to trust him after this stunt, but logically it's kind of clear he's rich and has nothing to lose by having a go.
I understand how taxing reduce money in the economy but I don't understand your reference to the overnight rate.

My understanding is that the overnight rate gives the fed the power of making more expensive for banks to give credits, but only if there is a deficit of money, in the inter-bank market, respect the demand of credits by firms and families.

Are you talking about that?
Compare to a similar post from a couple years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9699102
We account for that during spring planning. We plan on pairing on tasks/stories for general knowledge transfer and mentoring. If this affects velocity, that is actually a good thing (tm). Velocity should decrease when onboarding and mentoring, and then should increase as those team members become more efficient.
They have provided those summaries multiple times over. And Wikipedia has some of them too.
Kodak was never an electronics company, or even a camera company. Nikon and Canon would have eaten their lunch.
What you’re saying doesn’t make sense, because the price of a single asset is not a closed system - it exists in the market, which is full of variable interactions. Concretely: for any asset appreciating in value, you can earn interest on it. This interest comes at the cost of personal liquidity, but not personal value - indeed, interest and asset appreciation are going to be positively correlated.

While the single dimension of buy and sell price for any asset can be negative sum if it depreciates after your purchase, whether or not the complete value of the asset is net positive or net negative is a function of 1) the quantifiable advantages, like (but not necessarily) dividends or risk reduction, and 2) the amount of time spent holding it. This second point is also why the frequency of price changes (and net change in any discrete measure of time) is a very important part of the analysis.
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It's really not that insane. Two garbage egg mcmuffins these days run for $9.50ish which probably costs about 10 cents to make. I'll take the quality of chipotle for $7-10 anyday over the insanely overpriced bullshit the others are pumping out.
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Related to this: know what you're hiring for.

Are you looking for someone who can parachute in with expertise on a specific tech and churn out working code themselves?

Or are you willing to accept more lag time and less initial code productivity in exchange for a deeper bench and sustainable team?

There are times and places for both of these developer types...
I would hope you'd make more than $5k working in software for a summer. I was making that a decade ago wearing a hard hat and pushing a broom in a power plant on my summer breaks...
> I highly recommend reading the specification

I agree. It's amazing how well it works. I've played with FT8 and WSPR and communicated with Australia using 500mw (from the midwest USA).
Increase Internet speed by load-balancing two WAN connections
The Economist usually does pretty well on science and technology. Not sure whether you count them as mainstream.
The double irony is that lots of media outlets will pick this up and interview him and eventually he’ll become the authority on how to “fake it till you make it.”
Disclaimer: I'm part of the ArangoDB team. As written in the post the whole benchmark is open source. The idea is that you can run it on your own. Also, pull requests are welcome. If you think it's marketing spam, take the chance and improve the configuration. We will publish an update of the post.
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My title for my first programming job, circa 1992-3, was Junior Programmer. I was sent for two weeks of Oracle training on my first day. We didn't have a formal mentoring program, but the team was small and everyone was open to helping me anytime I needed it.

My recollection is that "Junior" positions phased out along with training programs as companies demanded pre-trained people. It seems like companies have basically shifted all the cost of training to the individual. This is having an effect on college computer science programs as students and their parents demand programs more catered to industrial needs. (The paradox is that industrial needs change before a student can actually graduate.)

Personally, I would love to work with Juniors and mentor them. In the absence of Juniors, I suggested that I do "lunch and learns" with our Help Desk people so they can be more than just ticket routers: maybe act as analysts before tickets get to senior people like me. As of yet, my manager and the Help Desk manager haven't approved. So, we keep riding the carousel of status quo.
I imagine something very specific like having a lot of inserts into a table and that being your main use case. Depending on your data some databases may be better than others and that should be easy to measure.

In most real-world cases the requirements however are not very clear and often conflicting so it's much harder to get data that shows the performance of one system over the other.
Switching cost for the searcher, not the websites. They have zero recourse.
If I buy exactly 100 bitcoin style coins on a block chain I can't turn around and sell exactly 100 coins because of in network transaction costs. Making it literally negative sum.

More abstractly miners must be paid to do work. Billions of hours worth of compute time has direct material and energy costs.
Have you ever been in a union?

> "...pout over not getting enough money"

You're trying to make striking sound childish but there are plenty of legitimate reasons why unions go on strike.
I don't think weapons sales are a component of the federal deficit. As far as I understand it the sales are vetted/approved by the government but the actual transaction is between the manufacturer and the foreign government (Saudi Arabia in your example).

Not trying to take a stance on selling weapons to anyone or to Saudi Arabia in particular or to bomb Yemen in particular, just trying to point out that weapon sales aren't the source of US federal deficits.
There were plenty of magazines doing those benchmarks back then, you certainly didn't need the Internet to make good buying decisions.
That is "coding fast". Coding fast doesn't mean literally churning out a lot of code and pull requests.
It really is a hobby so rich & vast it can take a whole lifetime to explore. So much fun. 73, de K7FOS
:-) Is it wrong to assume that people who read HN might have some common sense to understand what I mean?
Except that no one is going to sell you anything for such toilet paper money, banks do not offer any credits, and everything is calculated in USD or EUR that become really, really scarce. Basically, all "official" commerce that uses worthless, hyperinflated, currency ceases, and commerce moves to unofficial grey/black market that does business in hard currency. Add to that the problem that the salary at your official job (if you have any) pays in funny money, so you have an additional problem of earning much needed USD/EUR elsewhere.

This is all from experience since I lived through Yugoslavia's 1992-93 hyperinflation (fortunately, as a teenager).
I also recommend:

https://www.youtube.com/user/DrPhysicsA/videos

"This YouTube channel contains a series of Physics videos which are intended to give a basic introduction to the subjects covered. They explain the essence of the subject in as simple as way as possible. They assume basic knowledge of algebra and calculus and some general physics."
CSP is a whitelist-based approach; CSS/JS/etc. will only be permitted from the sources listed in the CSP header.
There are plenty of really good apps on the android app store at least. They'll just feed you the questions and correct your answers. Took about 1 wk of semi serious use to pass technician and another week to get general and extra together (though I work in a related field, YMMV)
Some people have passions.
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Since I don't know about current versions of MongoDB, and am genuinely interested, how does Mongo know how much memory to use as an example?

Typically with PostgreSQL, you have to expand the defaults when running on modern server class hardware, so the engine uses enough RAM. Simply letting it use all RAM available can be problematic, since the DB engine and OS have to fight for cache, etc.

Java based systems like Elastic might still need JVM tuning, especially with a distributed platform like ES, which might be run in a large number of small machines, a smaller number of large machines, or containers.
Oh, I was mostly thinking about bystanding Googlers not working on hangouts.

Your description is reasonable for people working on a project. (But even inside hangouts there was dissent. I don't know too much about the specifics, and probably wouldn't be allowed to tell, if I did..)
But algorithms and big-oh don't matter. All the CS stuff, by and large, doesn't matter. It's like learning biology when you're a Doctor. Might be slightly useful if you have certain jobs, but if you're a GP it's almost entirely useless. The difficulty in programming a web app is almost entirely complexity management.

I just recreated a multi-million pound company's functionality without a single algo or any thought of big-o.

Can you explain what deep algos or big-o knowledge I need to recreate booking.com. uber, airbnb, etsy, flickr, imgur, etc., but without their scale? Or maybe making an internal data input app with a basic rules engine, which virtually every business needs these days? No big o, as if you're only handling 10 million or so hits a year, you can make some pretty big mistakes and still have a nicely performing site. For algos maybe you might need one algo depending on the business, a ranking algo, or perhaps a pathfinding algo, something that will be extensively discussed on SO and laid out entirely for you, or you might just plug a library in. No CS knowledge required.
Why are you bummed that people are mad about being lied to? It seems like a reasonable human reaction.
My personal favorite is: get sh_t done without burning yourself out or making bad decisions along the way.

Of course, it's possible that I have entirely misunderstood your question.
If you want people to spend more money, ask them to leave if they haven't bought anything within the last hour.

House of Pies in Houston will straight-up charge you rent if you don't order something.
But the coins stay in the system. They are transferred from one party to another party in exchange for a service.
Can non-violence not also be fierce in it's execution?
What you talk about indicates there is a gap between what industry wants/expects and what you learn either from books or in college.
Noooo thats like half of the good funny content on Instagram!
I see it the other way. What if Kodak hadn't wasted money trying to enter businesses like digital cameras and printers - ie. low-margin products where Kodak had no competitive advantage. Sure, Kodak would have still gone out of business but it wouldn't have wasted so much shareholder capital in the process.
Also literally anything that Travis Goodspeed has done. He's basically the lord and savior of amateur radio.
The image in David Wong-Campos' Quora answer [1] is a bit different than what you've described, but maybe it would have similar educational use. David says the image was made with a long exposure time, but that it's (faintly) visible with the naked eye.

It's from an ion trap in Chris Monroe's lab at the Joint Quantum Institute. I assume that if they had stripped all the electrons off the barium atom, they'd probably call it a "nucleus" instead of just an "ion".

[1] https://www.quora.com/If-an-atom-could-be-enlarged-such-that...
I still get an envelope with QSL cards from all over the world every few months. It's still fun to see the pictures and to appreciate the tangible "foreignness" of the cards.
The Algorithm Design Manual is very 'fluffy'. I never understood why so many people like it.

If you enjoy hand-waving and hate rigour, it's a nice read. But if you don't like computer science in the first place, why don't you pick a good novel or a book about giraffes?

https://www.mccaughan.org.uk/g/books/alg-design.html puts a similar objection in a much more sympathetic tone that I can manage.

I am quite enjoying the lecture notes on http ://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/ recently, but there are for a more advanced course.
It looks like I was wrong. I was going off memory.
This might be a tech company vs. IT cost center in a traditional business thing. What major tech companies don’t have internship and new grad recruiting operations? Netflix is the only one I can think of.
That doesn't sound that hard to start. Something like RealWorld[1] and the Web Framework Benchmarks[2] combined but for DB workloads. Have one dataset that includes data amenable to OLAP and OLTP, but have separate tests each consisting of OLAP queries, OLTP queries, and combined queries. Choose a low-end, mid-range and high-end set of AWS or GCE instances/configs to normalize against. Let people submit pull requests with new technologies or configs.

You'd want to get some funding to run the tests (or maybe solicit Google or Amazon to see if you could get the instance time donated once a month or something.

If you started small, with maybe a portion of these features, and then scaled up over time, you might actually get to the point where you had tests that emulated a power failure, or master/slave and dual master scenarios and how they handle certain common network errors (split-brain). That would be an amazing resource.

Edit: It occurs to me I probably should have read more of the article, since this is sort of what they are doing already...

1: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld

2: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
E-commerce is unique in that it has such a massive impact on revenue generation, but the skills needed to effectively manage it are rarely inline with the core competencies of the business.

Most companies attempt to tackle this problem in house, but without proper expertise, there is massive waste in hiring and poor execution. As a consultant, I’ve seen teams waste _years_ fumbling in this cycle, only for me to ship a product that immediately increases revenue in a fraction of the time. It generally only takes a few basic UI improvements and timing strategic automatic email tiggers.

Find a consultant that will make more from what you already have, and move on to your business problems. You don’t need to pivot into an internet company to be successful.
Certain parts of the government definitely were glad that MLK was promoting non violence, that is until he extended that call for non violence to the war in Vietnam.

Though I think you underestimate the mass effect on millions of americans from watching people peacefully walking down the street get beaten to a pulp by the police and gored by attack dogs while they ate their TV dinners. It was disgusting and iconoclastic to the ethos that the USA stood for freedom.

Dr. King deliberately strived to create such a violent ruckus in the hopes that it would be televised so the rest of the nation could vividly experience the reality of racism and the hypocrisy of the government. It was information warfare.
Yesterday the HN discussion was about the terrible state of messaging and the roles many companies played in getting to where we are now.

Email works pretty well between multiple different providers or even your own server. How do plans that will “accidentally” take email closer to the current state of messaging help the internet work better?
The way I interpreted the parent post: that was intended to note the contrast to businesses who probably have several people who's full-time job is to think about these things.
I have always seen origami as childsplay to learn spatial understanding. It turns our that folding science is applicable in many fields! Proteins, buildings, airplanes and many more objects found in nature and human designs apply origami in surprising ways. The most interesting one I found was flowers; how they fold out when starting to blossom.
A physical object needs to operate in the real world to have a crypto currency. Yes, miners get paid in coins, but that just means the network is paying for that physical hardware.
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I love it for the wonderful, engaging "war stories" and practical approach. It's not as theoretical as CLRS but much more practical, approachable, and readable, making it likely a better choice for most programmers.
/r/rtlsdr is good too
A great story, indeed. I'm scheduled to take my Technician Class exam in a couple of weeks. Looking forward to being able to use my license with stuff like this.
I've been banned because I'm against the mindless m$/Gates bootlicking. Nice. How do you feel as a person? Can you sleep? Don't you think that your shitty rules just create a hivemind? Nevermind, HN is full with retards who think they're geniuses.

Btw, you're quite famous for being a shitty moderator. No doubt you're part of HN's problem: you're just a shill who tries to keep the bubble intact.
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In simpler terms, you are saying that there is a huge bounty on guessing what other peoples' guesses are about the future usefulness of a currently useless technology.
Weird how HN is very libertarian and supportive of the idea business owners should be able to set rules in their business... until it interferes with them parking for 5 hours with a 3 dollar Americano.
As a non-expert, I still find this exciting. While eBPF may be more powerful, I find it far less approachable than DTrace. Perhaps this is just a failure to discover the right documentation. I use DTrace now and then on macOS and have resented that I can't really use it on Linux as well.
Cynically, I wonder if this is a plan to:

1. Provide a comparable ad-blocking service as other ad blockers.

2. Squeeze out the market share of existing chrome extension ad blockers.

3. Nuke the API's the extension ad blockers are using to block ads.

4. Slowly degrade the only remaining ad-blocking service ( theirs ) to open us all back up to aggressive ads.
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That works on an IC level for sure. However, a bit more structure is needed on the interface between developers and the rest of a company (especially if the company is not in a software business).
Reminds me of this skit: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/acaxis/key-and-peele-the-heist
> When you bought, someone else was saying the same thing about you :)

This logic is flawless until one day the market collapses and we find out who the "greatest fools" are.
You forgot to include sources.
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What's on 7.2? I rarely listen to HF.
What are you buying every 30-45 minutes?
The prep is for turning a 1250 into a 1400 or so which basically determines if you get into Stanford or not.
I've never seen a cafe a-la 'friends' where people hangout and constantly buy things.

I've had my entire social life based on hanging out like this at one point in my life. (Late 90's, early 2000's) It was in a walkable neighborhood, the kind where a friend might invite you to dinner because she saw you from her apartment balcony. I'd have to say those were some of the best years of my life.
For the most part you can listen to anything. There are exceptions for things like cell phones, but since analog cell phones are dead you are unlikely to stumble on something you can't listen to.

Be careful though, some cheap radios make it easy to accidentally transmit. A tiny burst of static when you turn it on is a transmission for which you need a license - and some radios are almost that easy to transmit.

Best is to get a license, then when your cheap radio sends a message at least you are legal to do that. Or get an expensive radio that doesn't have those quirks.
same here !!!
It's not so easy in some other countries unfortunately. Here in the UK, it'd cost me the equivalent of about $80 and require an effectively mandatory in-person training course that's rather inconvenient too, just for the most basic license. More advanced licenses are even more expensive and annoying to get.
Exactly. I have nothing invested in the story some random guy on Reddit is telling. Why not take it at face value? If I'm going to go tell a bunch of friends about it or take some action myself based on it, then sure, I'm going to want to apply a little skepticism to save myself from making a mistake or looking foolish.
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No, they're really not, for at least a year.

Isn't that the definition of entry-level or junior?

FWIW, the four recent graduates I hired this summer are all capable of completing well-defined programming tasks with minimal assistance. Does that mean I spend more time with my PO ensuring those tasks are well-defined and consumable by the new developers? Yeah (but that's our job). Do the senior team members spend part of their day mentoring? Yeah (but that's their job).

As for some of them not hacking it. Yeah that's true. But, I've also interviewed plenty of "senior devs" who were terrible. I've even hired one or two who didn't work out. I just do my best to avoid hiring them.
Well said. Especially the "Version 2/3" part.

I think the never getting there often happens because management isn't aware of the current quality of their software vs hypothetical quality of a rewrite.

And I get it: I imagine every one of them has been burned by an overly optimistic developer. "It'll be rewritten in 3 months and run 2x as fast" types.

As a discipline, inculcating "respect that the years of person-work in the current version weren't done by idiots solving unimportant niche use cases" would be very healthy.
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> RSS aggregator

Why do you still choose to use them today?
When in Leeds (England) for a weekend late last year I was overjoyed to see a Taco Bell as it's a franchise we've not had here yet and it's somewhere I've wanted to try ever since I watched 'Demolition Man' as a teenager.

It was everything I ever expected it to be ... I will never eat there again!

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It was very bad, everything I would have expected - sort of like 'Old El Paso' ready-made Tex-Mex, as-prepared by a 1980s-era school kitchen.