skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the plus side: I wholeheartedly agree with all those points.

On the contra side: Nothing of this really felt like it helped me. I found interviewing people absolutely horrible and almost never had a good feeling. People who seemed like they may have been a good fit didn't get offers for one reason or another, some people seemed awesome in the interview and then weren't. Overall I've been happy with the decisions I personally made (not all that the team/higher-ups then made) but even with the best of intentions.. it's hard. But it was a small company so maybe it was already a problem of not looking very interesting to some.

It still amazes me that some people seem to be utterly disinterested in what your company does or how they will work in a team, asking basically zero questions besides "how much money?" and "which language?".
The projects/app relationship never 'clicked' with me. I also have a dislike for the awkward 'polls' example in the django tutorial.

That said, I like Django. Of course, I liked Rails better, but maybe that's because it was my 'first' and I never used any of the big php frameworks for a long period of time.

I quit wasting my time with Flask for projects a while ago. It's a really great project and suited for smaller things, but you just end up re-implenting django. I'd rather someone made those decision for me.
I did the same and it was at the top of the screen with the big button to enable DNS. It was not labeled "Warp" or "VPN" (in keeping with the "A VPN for People Who Don’t Know What V.P.N. Stands For" theme I suppose).
Well yes, maybe. Maybe not.

I think this is not about inclusion though, this is about exclusion of people who think like me.
How about we simply agree that people do in fact get "tired" and have limited energy and thus must prioritize what to do.
The US has a place for those students: community college. Universities shouldn't waste resources on remedial courses.
> We work in an incredibly immature industry.

I'd add that it's the the incredibly immature economic system, paired with an even more immature(new) industry that leads to this kind of failure.

I feel like this is a symptom of tech in capitalism. Where the goal is to maximize profits and minimize effort, rather than doing the job correctly. Fitting that this would befall a high freq trading firm.
Yes - this discussion is kind of ridiculous. If San Francisco had announced that they were removing elective CS from the High School curriculum, Hacker News would be saying "How can anyone expect to succeed in a STEM world without High School CS?"

I was one of the advanced math kids and took calculus in 11th grade. Then I went on to Calc 2 in college, and it was a different league entirely. I would have been better off building a stronger foundation throughout High School and then doing Calc 1 in college.

...which is exactly what the new curriculum aims to do. I have a 6th grade daughter in SF, and the strength of the new curriculum is that they spend a lot more time making math more intuitive. Instead of learning one approach to long division, they learn multiple approaches. In theory at least, this pays off in the long run for a lot of kids.

What American schools need isn't more acceleration (Algebra at age 14 instead of 15) - it's a better understanding of what mathematics actually is and why it matters.
The ISP might be doing it knowing you're connecting to Netflix.
But if you do a VPN, they don't know those specific packets are going to Netflix, so they can't shape the packets.
Ohh, right, RSUs. Never been at a pre-IPO company that granted those. So, if I understand correctly, people will be getting the full value of their grant, you're just saying that people won't be getting huge multipliers of their grant. Based on various blog posts from around 2015-2016 I'd guess the average grant for a non-junior engineer was in the $1 million range.
Respectfully (I've been vegetarian off and on throughout my life), "I can think just fine right now" is a fallacy.

The effects of a nutrition deficiency may not manifest for years. The article describes the substance as having a role in brain development. It also mentions psychosis. Now, I don't have any more information than what's in the article. But it's perfectly plausible, for example, that under-supply of this thing will contribute to your having some kind of dementia later.

Or it could ultimately be harmless. But you can't dismiss something like this solely because of (subjective and) short-term effects.
Maybe try version 2.0, if that wasn't version 2.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18855695
"but that's a different debate"

Is it? Seems quite central to the debate to me.
I've never asked, but she kept at least one.
My interpretation is that they were attempting to figure out the owner to disclose to. Is there a legal way to do so that doesn't involve leveraging a vulnerability and indeed "hacking" a system?
I can think of two deeper whys.

1: Dilution of responsibility.

Metrics are defined by committee, which in turn answers to another strategic leadership committee. No single person is responsible for failure. Mediocre managers recite the entrenched KPI mantra because it cannot fail.

2: Differentiability.

If you can't measure how well you're performing, you can't tell if you're improving or regressing with any given change. Total revenue or other coarse metrics are so far divorced from any given decision that they can't provide feedback about it. Just like gradient descent needs the underlying neural network to be differentiable, a business strategy needs the performance to be differentiable. KPIs are an attempt at that.

Ultimately, KPIs suck but give a fairly predictable average outcome. Not doing KPIs is a risk that most leadership is unwilling to take. KPIs sit in the same category of concepts as airport theatre security. They're a product of (find something you can measure and try to manipulate that number, no matter how meaningless | something must be done. This solution is something. Something is better then nothing. Therefore let's do this).
Total tangent: I’m actually not convinced that Caligula was as bad as the ancient sources claimed. We have very few first hand sources from his reign, and the historians (all senatorial class in this case iirc) would have ample ability and cause to slander him. Accusations of sexual impropriety are the standard in ancient sources, especially Roman. I wouldn’t go as far as saying he could have been a good ruler, he sure did manage to piss off the senate in the way a better ruler wouldn’t have, but he might not be anywhere as bad as the sources portray.
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The author displays a severe misunderstanding of dopamine. Dopamine is released when working out, playing sports, and any sort of learning activity (which, honestly, is literally everything). Dopamine is a neurotransmitter heavily involved in learning and adapting to different scenarios/information. It isn't some magical chemical that gets released when doing "fun" things.
If you are nitpicking the word "vegetable", you are free to replace it with "plant".
There are folks who have figured out how to do good farming with chickens that mimic natural processes in the same way that folks use mob grazing of grass-fed beef mimicking natural processes as well. In fact what they do is have the chickens follow several days behind the cows so as to get the most bug larvae from the manure.

If you can find eggs from birds that are used this way I think that's a fairly ethical thing. Yes the birds are being used but they're also living pretty close to how they would otherwise.

I first heard of this from Joel Salatin, how exactly I stumbled onto that I have no idea. He's an interesting character for sure, but I can't help but have respect for the way he thinks about farming and what he calls honoring the animals.
The general pattern is that big markets create big players, but also increase the amount of "effective" diversity and competition at the local level. The smaller automakers of the 1950s and 1960s were essentially monopolies in their own countries; whereas with the borders coming down, manufacturers are incented to both compete and diversify in a meaningful way, so that some fraction of them can hold on to their share of the bigger, unified market.
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US startups are not exactly trustworthy by default and VC backing seems to often force them to abuse any power and control they have over users for VCs benefits. And security and privacy these days more often than not is just a cover to do something bad, from simple anti-competitive practices to outright evil causes that help killing people.
What politics do they enforce on me by using their products?
You only need minor differences in women's pain sensitivity resulting in minor changes of rates of second children, to have real evolutionary impact.

The interesting part is why this wouldn't result in changes for both men and women. I think the answer is that pain sensitivity is useful, so the evolutionary pressure for men kept it up.

I should say that this is my private speculation. I'm not aware of any established science supporting this, though it might exist.
Absolutely, and I don't think that's a realistic goal for us. Was just pointing out a single data point to contribute about lower revenue companies investing 1%+ of their revenue into a tool.
North Korea persists because China keeps it alive. If China joined the rest of the world in sanctions and a no trade policy NK would fold in a week.

The USSR largely collapsed due to its economic isolation. It couldn't keep pace with the wests military industrial machine and because the west predominantly sanctioned the USSR they couldn't grow to compete.

Regimes do not last in total economic isolation for long. They require someone to prop them up. Of course, getting the whole world to ban trade with China would be infeasible if for no other reason than China already has enough influence in nations around the world to override the will of Europe and North America. Most of Southeast Asia and Africa would still do business with China even under UN sanctions because they are under the influential heel of the CCP at this point.

You can look at Russia today as an example of sanctions somewhat working - continued sanctions by the west against Putins governments atrocities have not overthrown him yet but they certainly sow seeds of discontent against him. Its why Russia is spending so much effort to meddle in western elections, they can see the writing on the wall that a strong and hostile west will eventually erode Putin and the Russian mafias ability to hold dictatorship over the country.
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The Chinese character for harmony is 和. The Japanese character 和 does represent Japan. The usual Chinese character that would represent Japan is 日; 和 is used in expressions taken from Japanese like 大和民族, the Japanese race.
Be direct. Whether you're shy or not employment is ultimately a business deal (as many have mentioned already). That being said, it does require interpersonal skills.

I disagree that you have to move on to advance in your career. A lateral move _is_ the fastest route, but if you're happy with everything but your compensation you should tell your boss. One way to phrase it might be: "How are raises managed at Foobar Widget Corp?"

Part of a manager's job is to help you navigate your career at your company. If you're confident that retaining you is best for the company (and that salary is really the only downside to your job) you should be able to communicate that. In person would be best, but there's nothing wrong with writing down what you want to say and reading it.
When it comes to pay, it’s an inherit property: you’re looking to max out your pay, and they’re looking to minimize. You negotiate to a middle ground. By antagonistic, I don’t mean that you’re in some kind of never ending battle to the death; but your goals/incentives clearly do not align. Obviously an actively malicious HR is a different story, but ignoring that, it would be naive to pretend you’re aligned, and leave your fate to a person/group who should not be acting in your best interest.

Your employer is not your agent. He doesn’t work for you.
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That’s not a very effective argument for doing it now.

Whatever drove our ancestral evolution is no longer a major part of our environment. We selectively bred plants and animals, wiped out various diseases and created environmental pressure for others to change, and the development of preservatives and refrigeration and cheap long-distance travel means we can combine foods which our ancestors could never find in the same place at the same time.

Plus the whole 33 year life expectancy at birth/54 year life expectancy if you reached 15 in the Paleolithic.
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> How to check if a linked list has a loop? Does one N-dimensional box fit into another N-dimensional box? Can you swap two variables without a third one? How to find the shortest distance between two moving ships? Find all permutations of N elements doing only N-1 swaps?

> Those puzzles are fun to talk about and solutions to them can be very insightful. I used to enjoy lots of them reading Mathematical Recreations and Essays as a kid. Don’t take me wrong, they are fun.

> However, no matter how fun they are, they are merely anecdotes. The property of a puzzle is that you either know the answer to it or you don’t.

I disagree with how the author lumps these questions together. Questions like "Find all permutations of N elements doing only N-1 swaps" are actual brain-teasers and typically require a flash of insight and creativity beyond what most people can do within a 45 minute interview. Questions like "Does one N-dimensional box fit into another N-dimensional box" are algorithmically challenging and can be approached from first principles and solved within an interview. One question does not carry signal, the other does not, and by categorizing them together the author suggests that neither are useful.
because he smoked too many marijuanas last night
Re-read the article.

ALA->DHA reformation has an efficiency of less than 10%. The point that is made here is that you certainly have to ingest a lot of ALA rich food to make that work, and it is not recommended for children at all because of brain development.
Furthermore, DHA levels ARE lower in vegans and vegetarians.

So either you claim the human body actually does not need DHA, or you you claim that the body can do ALA->DHA. In the latter case, the article talks about it.
This article appears to have a clear agenda and does a poor job of hiding it. The conclusions, which might be summarized "animal fats are good and plant fats are bad" also seem pretty feebly supported by the evidence offered. I am not a scientist, but to my eye this shows the marks of industry supported junks science.
Django's documentation is also simply top notch.
That's pretty good advice.

I have, in the past, maintained my own email address but found I often gave up after a while—mainly due to saturation of my existing address.

But with a bit of dedication it does sound like your advice would at least be a helpful stop-gap for the future. Thanks.
You're right. I had no creative skin in the game other than being the poor slob who was basically responsible for turning on a giant light bulb.

Regarding loss of perspective, that's why focus groups/test audiences are so important. From what I understand, they are particularly crucial for comedies where the timing of jokes matters so much and a mishandled edit can ruin the scene.
I'd wager that the Super Secret Plan is geared towards further centralizing the Internet. Preferably on Cloud Flare's infrastructure.

This is one part of a tug-of-war that's going on in recent years between Internet network operators and cloud providers, with the cloud providers slowly but surely winning.

For better or worse, we are moving away from a distributed Internet composed of many autonomous networks into a future in which the only job of the ISPs is to connect homes and offices to the local POPs (Points Of Presence) of the large cloud providers.

Why do you need connectivity to other networks when you can get Google (w/ Youtube & GCE) and Facebook from a local POP? Add to that all the sites and services that reside on Amazon, Azure, Cloud Flare, Akamai, and maybe a few more large clouds/CDNs, and you don't need a public Internet anymore. Imagine the security and performance benefits of that!
Just because a lot of people fail at it doesn't mean that those who might want to take the risk shouldn't be made aware of the benefits. I would personally rather deal with failure for the shot at making more income. It's not for everyone, and they can certainly stay on the beaten path and do just fine. (so long as their debt doesn't spiral out of control) I'm not saying that people should dedicate their lives to home businesses, but they can try different things on the side to see what works with a minimal risk of catastrophic failure.