skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There is a reason why most startups don't go big"

I think you are absolutely correct.

I am the MD (CEO elsewhere) of an IT consultancy that is 18 years old. We have around 20 staff and t/o ~£1.5M. I like to sleep at night, I do have ambitions but they'll never be cool. Our business model will never set the world on light but we are one of many companies that you will never hear of that keeps the world turning. We are the boring lot that worry about backups and security. We host some customer systems at our place and run a near comprehensive monitoring system that generally warns us pre failure. We also have a few other skills around the place.

There are other reasons why startups don't go big and that is by design. I do not want my firm to go big. If we hit around 50 staff then I will break it up into bits (budding).

Did I mention that we are boring? I like boring.
Maybe every employer I've talked to is unreasonable.

When a job lists a requirement for 2-3 years experience, it means 2-3 years of industry experience.

I don't have 10 years of Python experience because I started coding when I was a teenager.

I learned more about programming in Ruby from 6 months on the job than I learned about Python from 3 years of using it at university.
> cottonseed oil is often used in food products

Cottonseed oil is not food, it is a waste product of the cotton industry that should only be used for biodiesel.
Yep. Occam's razor is just not -that- flexible.
> That's all it means (to any reasonable employer).

There's the rub. Early in my career when I had little working experience this CONSTANTLY bit me. It didn't matter that I did consulting on the side or that I worked with the technology or even that I went to school and used the technology there.

In my experience almost all of non-tech companies and maybe half-ish of the tech companies would require the experience be on the job at a company.

Now I don't know how indicative my experience is. I don't know if this type of information is tracked anywhere.

As an aside I'll never forget the one company I applied for who was looking for a developer with 5+ years experience in using .Net Framework... in 2003.
> Those ads were priced that high for a reason, to keep garbage off the iPhone.

Perhaps so. And only a few companies bought ads, which pissed off their customers (the ones that Apple is "fighting to protect") because of the repetition.

So Apple lowered the barrier. A failure to realize.

Not sure how this is a dispute of what I said, or somehow proves that iAd wasn't a failure, but a planned exit.

> And I don't think a former iAd exec has any reason to be doing PR for Apple when the purpose of that WSJ story and his cooperation with it was to pimp his new job/startup.

If you think that Apple (or any company of that size) doesn't have non-disparagement agreements with any corporate officer or down to SVP level, at the _very minimum_, you're mistaken.

Even those "we screwed up" articles you see are very carefully stage managed. They're (almost exclusively, save some very isolated high profile situations) scripted as a PR effort to manage customer satisfaction.
It's not like you have to pay to submit the application/resume, so you could just try it and see, no??
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>The allegation was that Assange was selectively releasing info on Clinton and the DNC that was obtained by Russian hackers

Exactly. This accusation was intended to be equal parts distraction from the contents and ad hominem.

They also mooted the idea that he was a pedophile for a while, but it didn't really take.

>either for his own or other people's agendas.

But of course. She literally expressed a desire to see him murdered because of him doling out secrets. Who would take kindly to that?
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Those both being 100% natural, yes they are used as pesticides. However, they are not are engineered chemicals which can be a differentiator in the comparisons and conversation.
Good point; it's loose speculation, if even that, and I'm surprised to see it get so much attention.

I'd add that it does make money. Making your customer experience pleasant is an essential money-maker. If people are loudly saying racist things in your restaurant, the financially essential decision is to exercise editorial control before you lose your other customers.
And spending effort to learn something requires some level of enthusiasm
Not at the vast majority of schools in the US.
uBlock Origin has an option to do it[1].

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Prevent-WebRTC-from-l...
It's still spelled "Uh-RAH-nus". Nothing has changed.
This comment sort of sinks back into what we're asking people not to do here.

I know how easy it is to have perceptions like this, and how painful they are. But it's just not true that we only "wait for an anti-american rant to remind the community". Since it isn't true, it isn't necessary to perceive HN this way. Instead, why not help it to have less of the bad sort of comment?

If you or anyone run across a comment breaking the site guidelines and not getting moderated, the likeliest explanation is that we just haven't seen it yet. We can't come close to seeing all the comments, but we do look at all the ones that people tell us about. You can either flag the comment (as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) or email us at hn@ycombinator.com. Emailing is best in egregious cases because then we're guaranteed to see it, and probably a lot sooner.
I hear you, and I understand your point. And you're right too. Exercise is a way to burn calories faster, there's no denying that. I've been coming down extra hard to emphasize my point. ;)

But just to be clear, because I'm not sure I've been completely understood either, and to answer your question "why we should deny the fact that sports also is one of the options"... I never lost weight at the gym in 20 years of going to the gym until I realized that sports is not a weight loss option for me personally. The reason is that our physiology compensates for excess calorie burn by making us hungrier, which is true for almost all humans & animals. If I don't track what I eat, then I will accidentally eat too much after I work out, just like I accidentally eat too much when I don't work out. I know that many, many people have the same problem. Once you see this, you realize that for many people, going the gym actually has nothing to do with the weight loss, even if they think is does. It's either a way to continue to eat 2k+ calories, or a way to get stronger, but only the intake control is what leads to weight loss. Without the intake control, the gym just leads to more intake and no weight for me, and for a lot of people.
Just to be clear: You can run Kubernetes on a single node. It just wont be "production ready", because the minimum qualifications of "production ready" has raised in Kube world. A single node running anything isn't production ready, let alone Kube. A single node running a nginx server isn't "production ready" anymore.

But Kubeadm will still do it. Kops if you're on AWS. GKE if you're on GCP. Just Docker would be easier to set up though, and that's what the OP means.
According to my [limited] reading of MOND, it revolves around an unknown function μ(x). That means it could be adjusted to account for this. Which is a handwavium thesis, but that's what I like about it: how long have we been doing science for? Are we so arrogant that we can claim to know nearly everything? What if we simply started from the beginning? That is the essence that MOND captures.

The fact that galaxies form and light is being bent is not evidence: it is the problem. We don't actually have any classical scientific evidence of the stuff. Dark matter is handwavium. It may be real, but it not being is just as plausible. When the Earth was flat and the universe revolved around it, we solved problems with our theories by adding escape clauses to them: epicycles. An effect was explained with an effect, and dark matter fits that's profile perfectly.

MOND could be incorrect, but it is valuable as an alternative line of thought. There needs to be more like it. Science needs to get into the routine of failure once again, we are making no progress without it.
Everybody feels underpaid. You earn more money, then you spend more money, then you wish you had more money.

I recently doubled my salary, and I still feel underpaid. In reality, I earn above median wage for my age and experience, and live a comfortable life. But we can always do with more cash.
While I use a lot of FB Chat, I feel like the thing I use most like old AIM is Steam's chat. I chat randomly with a lot of people, some of which I don't know in real life.
Thanks for the insight. I was just going off of what I’ve heard, and it sounds like you mostly agree.

I will say that what can become intuitive to us (in your second sense) can certainly change over time, at least after generations. Netwton’s first law must not have been intuitive, mostly because of the ubiquity of friction in everyday life, but I think it is fairly intuitive now for people with a solid basic science education. Maybe more advanced concepts will get more intuitive over the generations, as science concepts get taught at younger ages.
My “data” would be a cluster fuck, technically speaking.
I'm confused -- why does 't' have a single rounded corner at the cross stroke? 'f' doesn't have this feature and it doesn't seem very consistent with the rest of the font.
Yep, the printing service is a third-party api (PrintNode) that routes the request to one of any number of desktop clients.

The reason we did it this way is 1. we have a web app so we can't print directly to their printer without a print dialog, and 2. we want to print to potentially a different device than the user is on.
Then you have people getting others to take the test for them or gaming that in some way.
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I visited Palestine last year and met a few university students. They were so hungry to learn but lacked the resources. Great initiative.
I am not sure if I am the only ignorant person out here. I am well aware, that I am ignoring any statements about that technology being safe, because this isn't about some tech being safe or unsafe (most technologies can be used both ways), its about risk:

The problem I have, is that nobody really knows what happens when you place those products in our ecosystem. We might have some theories and observations but in the end nobody knows enough about the whole system to understand all its processes and sometimes small changes have much larger effects.

And as long as we have only one system and no backup, I don't want to risk changing the ecosystem on this planet in ways we can't predict.
Fun related story: I once stumbled on a minor(ish) UI bug in IBMs PaaS dashboard and reported it via their contact form or whatever, even included an animated gif screen cap.

_five months later_, I got a reply asking to explain further. I couldn't even remember what the bug was.
Like, duh. Classic Marx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of_labour
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That’s perfect! Because then they would start removing me as a friend and the whole process wouldn’t be one-sided :-)
Not sure where the downvotes are coming from. The reasoning that this evidence is moderately unlikely given that MOND is true can be found in the parent post. The authors worked it out to ~1/10 to 1/20.

They don't put a number on how unlikely it would be given dark matter is true, but it sounds pretty extreme:

>Merritt remarks: "There is no theory that predicts these types of galaxies — how you actually go about forming one of these things is completely unknown."
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1806/

>"And NGC 1052-DF2 appears to have none. Or at best, about as much dark matter as normal matter. And that just doesn't make sense."
http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/what-is-this-galaxy-doing-witho...

The denominator of Bayes rule for Pr(MOND|data) is just the sum of all Pr(Theory) x Pr(data|Theory) where the main theory is "dark matter" and second is MOND (everything else is some small value epsilon), while the numerator is Pr(MOND) x Pr(data|MOND).

Where is the mistake?
> "I would be curious to read dang's opinion on this if anyone has it, it's not in the guidelines."

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:dang%20downvote&sort=by...

A couple of the more recent comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16569778#16574021

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16336937
Then there's the VC money Starcraft model, "no rush 20" and infinite resources.
> I imagine has come about from the perceived view that staff don't stick around anyway.

And that's because of the decades of employers destroying the relationship between them and labor. I'm never going to see a pension, and there are almost no more apprenticeships. Why should I as an employee invest in my company if the company treats me as a replaceable cog.

The lack of employee loyalty can be directly linked to the Reagan-esque destruction of the labor movement, IMO. I have to watch out for myself, and therefore if push comes to shove, my needs are more important than the company's.
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Depends on the country I guess.

In New Zealand it's mandatory for Software Engineering (and other engineering), but not for Computer Science, as it's a science degree.
This is a pretty big deal, right? Facebook's data has to be some of the most valuable and personal data ever gathered. It seems like a real win in terms of privacy, one that would have some impact on FB's bottom line assuming they sell the data at a good price.

OTOH, it does nothing to alleviate the overarching concern people have for FB's growing access and power over all of its users, as it continues to collect their everyday personal data. The danger of abuse is not significantly less just because the data is exclusively used by Facebook.
For your big bang theory you have to believe in at least 20 free choose able constants that are perfectly balanced. What about an argument for an exchange ?
> And the media isn't pumping any 'fear' narrative

How can you say that with a straight face? Are you not paying attention at all? It's called RUSSIAGATE and has been compared to PEARL HARBOR.
My personal analogy for this is that video encoding standards are basically like toolkits for building houses, while encoding software is like a robot trained to build those houses using the tools in question. New standards bring new tools to the toolkit, but training the robots to use them effectively is going to take its time and is often even worse than the previous robots in the beginning simply because the older robots have gotten so proficient with their respective toolkits. x264 in particular is basically the top robot in this department and the standard which any new entrants should aim to beat both in quality (not necessarily too hard) and in time efficiency (which is the much bigger challenge).
Most idioms I am fine with shifting, or being nonsensical when broken by time. I couldn't care less if people use "I could care less", as there is no mistaken meaning. My problem with the current use of "exception proves the rule" is that it is factually untrue. Not only that, but unlike other factually untrue phrases such as "You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.", its current meaning promotes bad science. Exceptions are evidence against the rule, unless there is reason to discount the exceptions.

In general, I try to correct it in order to give the benefit of the doubt. Either somebody is misusing a phrase, which is a charitable interpretation, or somebody has a fundamentally flawed idea of how evidence works, which is rather uncharitable.
> It really showed how futile researchers’ attempts at science communication can be.

There is the Cultural Cognition Project (http://www.culturalcognition.net/kahan/), and if I understand the research they did correctly, you really should not expect explanations of science to be effective at changing people's minds like that. In the past, and in psychology experiments, this technique has been shown to be ineffective even though it seems really intuitive that it should work.
What makes you think there are no offline backups? Did you just pull that out of your rear or what?
No they don’t.
> As a consumer, if I ever get suspicious about one specific change made to one specific breed, my only option is to buy non-GMO everything. That doesn't make any sense!

It seems rational to me that the operation is on its head. If I want to grow GMO soy I just buy it, plant it, and spray it. But if I want to certify Organic I must go through a rigorous and expensive authorization process.

I’d like to see it exactly the opposite: If you use proven, centuries-old methods it’s easy, but if you want to spray and use weird stuff it requires a rigorous and expensive authorization process.

Don’t we do that in other industries? Why not with our own food?
Visited Palestine in 2016 - such humble people and sad to see how they are treated. This is an awesome initiative and would be awesome to help out with.
Speaking as someone currently in that position (developer with two years of experience) my personal experiences seem to align quite well with the data they collected.

When companies say 'entry-level', they seem to be referring to around 2-3 years of working experience. Not just college + internships, but actual professional experience. It's an extremely silly market to be in right now if you're a fresh grad.

All this talk about passion or numbers aside, I've had the opportunity to experience things from the other side and see how many senior-level developers with 10+ years of experience couldn't write an if-statement in their choice of language to save their lives, or even elaborate on basic design choices/decisions.
Not really.. I have friends with no interest in computers but who studied CS because they knew it would lead to a well paying job. They work at Amazon and Google now so I guess it worked out for them.

One requires motivation, but that motivation does not necessarily have to be interested or passion.
Second this. I make it a point not to look them up on social media. There have been a couple of occasions where I’ve checked their LinkedIn profile if I feel something’s amiss, but that’s quite rare.
Given the compatibility between SD/MMC, one thing I'd like to see on the market, but haven't, is an Android phone which has no "internal storage" to speak of, but instead replaces the soldered-in eMMC with a microSD socket. That would make expanding, brick-recovery, as well as backing up and controlling access to the data very easy; like taking the hard drive out of a computer before giving it to someone else.

It's not difficult at all to do from the hardware perspective, but no one seems to have produced such a thing on the mass market.
My Grandparents were born in Gaza city. They were kicked out in 1929. I am unable by law to return there because I am Jewish.
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>Also, even records of mundane communication people had throughout thousands of years in the past is of great value to archaeologists in learning about how people lived their lives and how different events affected them.

Meanwhile, works by Archimedes, Homer and Shakespeare, as well as innumerable other cultural artifacts, have been lost to time. As well as the original tapes of the moon landings. The ancient Sumerians writing their tax records in cuneiform never intended to leave a record for the ages. We still probably wouldn't know how Egyptian hieroglyphics worked if not for one artifact that happened to have it printed alongside known languages - and we still have no clue about Linear A, and many other languages.

What gets left behind as an artifact of the ages tends to be determined by random chance, and beyond that, the cultivating desires of the wealthy. In other words, it almost certainly won't be you or I who decide the value or longevity of our work.

>Since we live in a time where we have the privilege of rediscovering the past in greater detail than ever, we should have the introspection to be mindful of what we are leaving for our future as well.

The web wasn't meant to provide a lasting store of knowledge. It is ephemeral and stateless by design. If you want people to think long term about the collective data archive of humanity, asking everyone to just never delete anything is not going to cut it.
"V-EZ is being released as closed source. ..."
quote from the site.

So far only Windows libs. Not sure if AMD will be lucky with this strategy. I understand that they usually are much more open then their competition but I am a bit baffled that they chose to open-source more complex things like Radeon-Rays but leave a high-level wrapper around Vulkan closed (which kind of leaves you unable to tweak it depending on your application).

Is this the beginning on closing more efforts? If yes they probably need a new domain ;)

That being said I highly respect AMD for not vendor-locking (many) technologies.
This seems like a game-changer for React components.
I dunno, I'd say solve your customer pain first, then mess around with your profiler. If throwing up a cache solves your immediate problem, by all means throw up a cache.

Just make sure it's your first step, not your last step.
> GMO food saves millions of people from malnutrition in the 3rd world.

Kindly provide evidence for such assertions.
we usually overestimate short term trends and under estimate long term trends.

Who would have thought Apple would be the most valuable company when the iPhone came out. Nokia was the king back then. Kids nowadays don’t even know what Nokia is.
What's wrong with damaging USA? They use military to damage other countries.
Not sure if this is the right level or not, but one place with nice animations is http://background.uchicago.edu/~whu/animbut/anim2.html
Again, I don't see where this information comes from. Who knows so much about their warheads, how they are stored, U.S. programs to finance that (which sound secret, but I don't know that), etc.?
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How safe are GMO plants from a systems perspective?

When we breed plants through selection, the changes are slow and the plants do not acquire capabilities from outside their species.

When we change fast growing species like grasses, and give them capabilities they do not have in nature, do we really understand what those species do when they enter a natural ecosystem? Ecosystems have a delicate balance.

I really wonder how comprehensive GMO testing really is.

Having said that, I have no problems eating GMO crops. I don’t think the risks are to humans directly. I think the issue is environmental.
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They have been growing GMO papaya in Hawaii for 26 years (20 years commercially) now. Nothing happened.

It's all "unknown unknowns" territory here. There are no known threat scenarios. But if you're into being concerned of unknown unknowns, you have thousands of other things to be concerned of, too.
Fundamentally it comes down to style. Two practical reasons are:

- to more easily distinguish 't' from similar characters, such as 'f'. Particularly with monospace fonts, rigid adherence to rules can result in character confusion.

- to balance the foot of the 't' which extends to the right.
We are at the point where vast stretches of land are used to grow food that's turned into fuel because we don't have any other real use for it. People don't see benefit from increased farming efficiency at this point, they just get stuck with the risks.

15.1 billion bushels of corn... wasted.
I didn't believe it would work but it does. It boils down to

sizeof(int) == sizeof(void)

vs

sizeof(int) == sizeof(int)

As a non-standard extension, in gcc (and thus clang and icc for compatibility, it seems) void has a size of 1. In a conforming compiler, it's an error.