skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>where have all the billions gone?

Hookers and blow, same as always. The good news is that the huge investors who were hoodwinked here will be highly incentivized to avoid the embarrassment of shareholder lawsuits. And unlike Theranos, they at least have some kind of product that does something vaguely related to their claims.

Still, you'd think that at this point the CEO/founder black mock turtleneck should abort any pitch meeting instantly.
I thought the same thing.
Actually I thought "no css", make it the way pages look when only the html loads.
Is this just a new type of monotony though? Look at the sites in these two rows from the Brutalist Websites collection (1 & 2 below).

My favorite of the entire set is the ZK/U site, as it has strong borders and contrast and other elements of this new langauge, but not at the expense of being easy to use and navigate.

[1] http://osscreenshots.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/bruatalist1....
[2] http://osscreenshots.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brutalist2.p...
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Do we still need web apps?

There's notorious sites like reddit who try to push you to visit their web page, so they can serve you ADS.
You are still bounded by just 2x the amount of requests, so no, this cannot take down the system, only slow it down a bit at worst. But not really, since you always need to have enough capacity for more than 2x load.

However, in my experience latencies are not static and depend on how far away the request is sent, the type of the resource requested, the size of the resource, current network load in that direction and other factors. Which gets tricky and complicated. At some point you need to store latest latency history for each request per each size group per each resource type per each node and dynamically calculate 90th percentile latency. But then things like size may not be predictable, so you may need to cap response sizes to a sufficiently small value. And so on.

If your responses are small, it's easier to just always send two requests in parallel to different servers and choose the fastest one.
I would also consider that Instagram additionally falls under the 'Travel' category. #placename is a good way to find photos of interesting things you should see in person.
You're conflating leakers and gossipers as bad. If they're operating under #2 in my list, their motives wouldn't be considered bad, though perhaps misguided.

I think your definition is of a whistleblower is too narrow, and I prefer the fuller definition from wikipedia:

"A whistleblower (also written as whistle-blower or whistle blower)[1] is a person who exposes any kind of information or activity that is deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct within an organization that is either private or public."

"not correct within an organization" clearly applies to the #2 in my list.
“The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters”[1] is a 2007 documentary that documents the twists and turns of this particular record.

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/
Was Heaviside a great engineer? Greatness does exist. I'm really very sick of the recent trend toward denying the basic idea of competence.
The right to be forgotten is censorship. You may believe it's worthwhile censorship, but the fact remains that it's censorship. That's why we're negative about it: it's censorship. Please don't act surprised.

Plus it's pretty much technologically infeasible, and will produce a giant layer of disgusting hacks that don't even effectively protect the people they're supposed to. That might have something to do with why the tech community isn't happy.
Going to have to say that it also depends on the personality as well. The case for my company is that we base hiring on two facets of the interviewee: technical knowledge related to the stack(s) we use and their personality. The question we ask internally is: can they do the job but also fit into our culture? Culture is enormously important to my company. Without getting into the details we had personality conflicts on a fairly small team and this led to unprofessional bouts. He was a great developer, a fantastic developer. But he was constantly negative and unhappy for months which finally led to him seeking other opportunities. Which put a "great" developer on the market.

The TL;DR is, this model of seeking the "great" developers and successfully keeping great developers goes both ways. Sure, it's great to have an awesome developer on your team.... as long as they're not a dickass.
Well, I think what folks hope for on HN is a certain "meritocracy" for news surrounding advanced technology. Magic Leap has arguably been trying to build buzz around their product with slick marketing and has been gaming the tech press to get unfair attention for their project and syphoning investment money away from other companies in this process. I think it's only fair, in turn, to keep the company accountable to at least a tiny sliver of their original claims.
None of your comment makes any sense as a defense of the comments I asked about. They go:

> please be aware that quote comes from a Supreme Court decision basically allowing the government to imprison someone publishing anti-war opinion.

and

> People that use this quote to justify censorship must be in two camps. Those that are ignorant of the provenance of the quote and how it was and could be misused, and those that know it and are looking to censor as long as the idea bring censored is disagreeable to their own.

Nothing about either of those claims would change if Schenck had been written right into the constitution. Schenck would still be a decision allowing the government to imprison someone for sedition, and people using the quote to justify censorship would still tautologously be divisible into those who know the provenance and are looking to justify censorship, and those who don't know the provenance and are looking to justify censorship.

But while both comments would be just as valid in that hypothetical world as they are now, your comment in their defense would be completely wrong. You appear to be defending a point that neither party I responded to was even interested in making. I conclude that those two original comments are worthless, because they have no bearing on anything relevant.
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Accept it. Then rise from the ashes. :/
Lisp has many flavors of "equal":

=
eq
eql
equal
equalp
string=
...

Because equivalence mean many things in both the mathematical and programming world.
I strongly agree. This problem applies both to the interview process and to evaluating the performance of engineers after hiring them.

A lot of companies try to use supposedly "data-oriented" approaches to hiring. They assume that a "successful" interview process hires candidates who get good performance reviews a year later. But those reviews are just as subjective as the hiring process.

If your metric for "success" is whether you still like someone a year from now, you might as well just hire whomever you like today!
Hasn't everyone already learned to keep your personal and work Amazon accounts heavily separated?
And I as the owner of said car am within my rights to use/do whatever I want to maintain it. I wouldn't expect the manufacturer to fix anything, I screwed up, but if I want to pour sand into the gas tank, I can.
Spellcheck had indeed "corrected" the spelling of his last name from "Minow" to "Minnow". Now fixed.
I buy a lot on ebay, and have never struggled to raise and receive refunds. Simply go to 'Purchases', hit the item and then hit 'More options' and then 'this item hasn't arrived'.
Usually refund you in days. If that doesn't work you can also claim via PayPal and then on top of that you can claim via your credit card or debit card - all will happily return your money if the seller can't prove the item was delivered. Even if you didn't pay for recorded mail.

This is one of the reasons I don't sell via ebay/PayPal any more - too high a chance of someone claiming a fake refund.
There are few more examples that come to mind, like statements about intervals (π = 3.14 ± 0.01) and the usual notation for modular arithmetic; 3 * 3 = 1 (mod 4).

Oh, and the wonderful notation for integrals, ∫ 2x dx = x² + C
Wrong.

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

If predictors are linearly dependent you don't get to do regression at all -- your X'X is singular. But then, the extra regressors add no information at all, and classical statistical packages (SPSS, Stata, etc.) drop them automatically.

Even if predictors are highly correlated, the OLS estimator is unbiased. This is the stuff of elementary statistics. You just get lower and lower p-values/wider and wider CIs, specially if your samples are econometrics-sized.

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You people need to watch some Khan Academy or whatever the cool kids are doing now to learn maths.
Interesting that after such an experience you'd still get your step daughter hooked into that same eco system after buying yet another MBP. It looks as if Apple got exactly what it wanted.
Same here. This should not be allowed.
I use cmc all the time, this looks like a tidier, friendlier version of it.
This is exactly it. Note that Apple has yet to go after or sue someone simply for repairing an Apple device. That's never been the case yet. They've only sued people who claim to use genuine parts that don't, people who have used stolen service manuals, or companies that claim to do authorized repairs but don't.
Depending on your philosophy of math, math also describes concrete processes.
My car had a service done previously for about $800, maybe half labor. I got a quote recently from the dealer for about $3K for what I think was the same thing. However, the problem is, I don't trust the independent mechanic to do it right. So for now, I rationalized not doing it at all, much like your approach to your MBP.

I think the thing is, even on a site where people brag about making $300K a year, everybody has way unrealistic ideas of what skilled labor costs. In my world, $55K is a good living for a programmer analyst, but that exact person gets billed out at over $120 an hour. An independent car mechanic might be $100/hr where I am; a dealer rate might be $160-$170. In the context of other types of skilled labor, that seems reasonable to me. Surely an auto technician and an electronics repair person are roughly comparable in skill, so should be in the same ballpark of costs.

But first world labor costs mean fixing things is frequently infeasible compared to replacing them. This is practically a cliche, but it seems like people will not or cannot come to terms with it.

Oh yes, one other thing I wanted to fix on my car was to replace the busted antenna. I bought one online for about $90. However, I was quoted something like $600 to install it. Well, I replaced the antenna on my car once, and I know it's a hassle when you try to thread it through and then it sticks or breaks, but the estimate was stunning.

All in all, I don't think Apple is as malicious as they seem - the problem is that expectations are set by robotic factories and third world labor costs.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and hypothesize that the local police force doesn't investigate many felonies, regardless of who reports them. Just a theory. :)
I think the issue is that some people think that $2,000,000,000 USD and 8 years should be able to produce a better first product.
Whatever large portion of the military we are not comfortable contracting out is going to continue missing out on the efficiencies induced by marketplace competition.
Countless Bothans have fought and died over literal centuries to free Cyrillic from this godawful and pointless letter. You should both be ashamed of yourselves!
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Well, I'm pretty sure their revenues are up but at the same time is that how you want to make your money?
HR will also filter out candidates without an university (sometimes even specific, expensive ones) and you're not complaining about that. What about fixing HR instead?
For me, I think the answer is very different depending on whether you've got a job with set hours and location (which we should all get away from) or whether you're more flexible and maybe running your own business.

I've run my own businesses since leaving school and although I expect to slow down as I get older, I don't ever want to retire. I just want my role to evolve and spend more of my work time doing the (work related) things I enjoy most. I've always thought that business owners who look forward to retirement need a new business.
> this is little consolation if you're irreplaceable

This is probably the biggest mistake people make when talking about leaving a job.

So few employees are truly irreplaceable that you may as well just say that no employee is irreplaceable. It's good for the ego to believe you are but the truth is that companies make do, get by, and recover.

Honestly the "irreplaceable" people I've seen who do leave have been so egotistic and strong-willed that things end up better in the long run.

Note to anyone reading this: Please don't reply and say "well in my case..."
> That's the purpose of a nation's propaganda organizations. The chinese media does the same thing. Every nation's media does it.

That's simply not true. Chinese media is state-controlled and is required to promulgate their messages. U.S. media (and the media in most other free countries) are private organizations, most of which certainly do not publish what the government likes. Just ask any U.S. President, especially the current one, what they think of the news media.

But let's again have new accounts (and old ones) appear to say that China and the U.S. are the same. It gets more interesting every time I read it.
Fully agreed, though to nitpick:

> Rather than precisely say, f(2) = 7, we say that for x=2, f(x) = 7. So x is simultaneously an indeterminate input and a concrete value

This seems like a perfectly by-the-book piece of second-order logic with two equality predicates.

i.e., the statement asserts that if you look at the space of all possible values for x, then for each value where the predicate "x = 2" holds, the other predicate "f(x) = 7" will also hold. It happens there is only a single value that will satisfy "x = 2", but that's not the equality's problem.

So both = signs really are equality here.
The idea of web pages as Brutalist is ironic. Brutalism was a movement meant to not hide structural concrete or make it look like something else. The concept has no meaningful analogy on the web, where no style that showstopper the raw structure (because there is no visible structure, it’s all equally arbitrary.)
CS already abuses equality all the time with big-O notation. Often you see stuff like f(n) = O(N²), when they mean that f ∈ O(N²). It's fine because everyone knows what's going on, but it's not using it in the sense of equality.
> "Are people canceling Prime accounts?" Multiple people in this thread have said they had

Why are these anecdotes worth so much when other all available evidence (revenues, etc.) is to the contrary.
I believe that. Anecdotally, I know people from past work experience, the ones who rattle to an outsider (either to another department or to the public) are generally the "frustrated asshole" type with a huge sense of entitlement and god syndrome.
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They shipped their first DVD 20 years ago according to the DVD mailer I just received. So they're not that young. (Obviously, video streaming is more recent.)
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I was just trying to point out that the term doesn't really have a well-defined meaning close to what the expression is intending to say.
I'd be surprised if Amazon cancelled your account unless the issue with counterfeits happened with alarming frequency, as maintaining a good relationship (and low processing rates) with banks is far more important to them than providing service to counterfeiters.
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You create a strawman. Nobody denies what you claim. The issue is not at all the existence of "great people" (for anything).

The problem is how do you find them. You have a thousand people in front of you. Now please make a prediction that actually works reliably for big numbers of people.

Your argument suffers from the same problem as any of the others that always come up after something happened, "why didn't they...". You look backwards. You make a "prediction"about something in the past and of course you get 100% accuracy and think "that's easy". Okay, now please make tat prediction for the future. You have people in front of you whom you know zilch about. Now make - en mass - statements about their future work that when looking back from the future will still look good.

About your

> Was Heaviside a great engineer?

Now please make that backward-looking prediction about his greatness for the same person before it turned out that he was good. And not just for one person either, do it for thousands of not-famous people with some degree of consistency.

And then report about all your predictions, not just the few that worked, and don't forget to mention if you did some extreme filtering beforehand in order to ensure you get a lot of "hits", leaving a large part of potential candidates without any chance to begin with. That kind of thing works for some (like so many "recipes for success") but not for society.
well none of those are on the ingredients list, idk what to tell you. i think the 4% milkfat has something to do with the creaminess.
I browsed around a bit and don't fully agree; there appear to be quite a few legit/harmless interest groups. But also a pretty good sprinkling of, as you say, alt-right; for example under "atheism" one group (not the largest by a lot) is the "Anti-SJWs". Under "skepticism" the second-largest appears to be anti-vax excuse me skeptical about vaccinations.

Disappointed that I see no way to read a group's posts without joining the group.
Yes, I plead guilty and am utterly ashamed of myself. My usage above was totally misleading when we consider the way people write nowadays. :)

In Bulgaria, the letter was first briefly removed in a reform between 1921 and 1923 and then removed by the new regime after the end of World War II. It was surrounded by controversy for a long time because in general there is one single way a word can be read in Standard Modern Bulgarian–save for the location of the stress–, which was not the case for this letter. In addition, prior to its official introduction after Bulgaria regained autonomy–and then independence–there were multiple ways to denote the sounds it used to stand for.

But for the sake of etymology I find it quite useful in a lot of places since it pops up in common but generally regular vowel changes across Slavic languages.
I'll chime in with the sister posts expressing vehement disagreement.

I can tell you what "great" means to me, in 2(.5) very clear words.

"You (fucking) Ship."

To me a great dev has a track record of delivering the end result. A greater dev delivers the result faster, with less debt attached.

One can fairly say that this is still subjective, but my criteria are _quite_ meaningful and even somewhat empirical/measurable, although it's admittedly hard to do in a short interview format. I certainly know a "Great dev" when I've met/worked with them, because they ship faster than I do, with less friction or need to revisit post-factum.

Edit:
Since half the responses seem to elide a very key part of my statement, let me echo: _debt matters_. Having someone who ships but burns your team down, not good. Someone who ships but leaves you with years of bugs or un-maintainable code, not good. As I'm sure we all know, you get optimizations against KPIS you measure, and if you don't measure "delivery" holistically, you'll absolutely get people who excel at one component while salting the fields.
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Note that overhead that matters for Google doesn't matter as much for most other companies. Don't overcomplicate things just because Google does it like this.
I wish Dropbox would do something like this as well -- let me specify that files in a certain directory will auto-delete themselves after a set period of time, or immediately after being retrieved.
I think I heard Plemora has a significantly longer character limit. It's not mandated by the protocol.
My wife was shopping for a fan and noticed that Amazon and Costco both had the same one. Costco was about $1.50 more. We buy a ton of stuff from Amazon, but given the chance to get it from someone who is less likely to have a fake and will take it back without an argument - Costco won this time.
Yes and no.

I still think you can have an effective recruiting process which attempts to identify someone's attributes across a range of criteria - I attempted to identify some of those characteristics here: http://www.supercoders.com.au/blog/50characteristicsofagreat...

You would fail entirely in your recruiting effort if you just hired "whomever you like today" - you must make some attempt to measure a persons capabilities.

What I am attempting to dispel is the idea that it is possible to measure someone as a "great developer" because it is a matter of opinion - person A may think someone is a "great developer", person B may not.

I also think that pretty much every recruiting process at every company is "Voodoo Recruiting", or "Recruiting Theatre" - the appearance of rigor and scientific approach, but really just a show that allows the assessor to feel like some scientific, justifiable process has been executed that has resulted in a "correct" hiring "go/no go" decision, but in fact does nothing more than make people feel comfortable with making a subjective decision in the end.

Whether or not someone is a great developer also changes according to time and context. What I mean by this is that some developer X who got amazing results in some job that they had, might be judged as being a shit developer when put into a job where they weren't inspired by the project, were working with unfamiliar technologies, where they are in a life phase dealing with depression, or where their colleagues or boss treated them without respect. Suddenly "great developer" in some previous context is now seen as a shit developer in some other context... again, it is simply not possible to evaluate a given person in a job interview and determine if they are "a great developer".
sorry but you need to make your circle smaller. The people you pay (accountants, lawyers etc) will accept your calls by definition, but if your uncle is bothered by your phone call then you, in essence, have no uncle.

I'm happy to say that my problem is different, I'm not fond of phone calls, but when I call them, they're thrilled.
Oh I guess we don't need maintenance then
The weather in East Coast turned me away. (background: I lived in East Coast for 4.5 years and went through several terrible winters)
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Onions! Hey, this thing will make your eyes water at 10 paces. Let's eat it.

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