skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just went through this process with my last employer 3 weeks ago. I just finished week one at the new employer and it is great. Here is what I did.

Gave 2 weeks notice, I told my boss this opportunity was too good to pass up. It was something I really wanted to do.

Offered to do whatever was needed over the next two weeks to help with the transition. (Mostly documentation for the new guy and closing outstanding projects.)

Recommended that they expand a current contract they have with a service provider to help fill some of my roles while they look for a new employee.

I kept the exit interview and discussions with other employees professional and did not complain about the problems of the current job. Really no reason at this point to make a big stink on the way out, I don't like to burn brides un-necessarily.

I hope this helps.

Good luck with the new job!
P/E is a good start and theirs looks good next to the others you listed. But I'd be more interested in profit-per-user and profit-per-employee.

I think they had 200 million unique players, that puts profit-per-player at around $2/year. With 1500 employees it's ~$266,000 profit per employee per year. Very respectable, given that Google gets around $120,000/emp/year.
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A Ph.D. student in the field of programming languages, no less. Their grad student directory points to this rather thin homepage: http://monsan.to/

I can't find anything in citeseer, though.
No, of course I know that :( The problem was that the papers mentioned were either 1) not about the subject in question or 2) not cited enough to count. Hopefully your professors also drummed into you that anyone can write a paper and send it to a conference -- the kicker is if it actually makes an impact. Isn't that more-or-less the definition of notability?

None of the articles I nominated for deletion had any reliable sources to back them up. I didn't nominate them for deletion because of hard drive space. I nominated them because there was nothing to say about them barring a superficial overview of syntax.

I honestly didn't think that putting in a few AfDs would cause such a shitstorm, to the point where people are calling me a Nazi/asshole/whatnot on my user page. I also never thought my 15 minutes of fame would be for nominating Nemerle for deletion :) Maybe I should have a Wikipedia article...?

But seriously. Anyone could have commented on the AfD. Anyone could have provided reliable sources. The only thing anyone did was bitch and moan. I didn't delete the articles -- the Wikipedia administrators did. Thumbs down, internet.
I just did this, and performed a very rough A/B test with one earpiece modded, while leaving the foam on the other. The bass (on a bass-heavy song) was very noticeably more muted on the stock earpiece, sounding almost completely dead compared to the one without the foam. Needless to say, I quickly removed the other, and now they sound better than ever. Highly recommended!
I tend to contribute money to certain projects. I won't give to Wikipedia because they treat conference proceedings with less respect than an episode of Gossip Girls.
No way this is Google sanctioned.

It is registered by some "Mark Oakley <d237447q@gmail.com>".
Ask HN: How important is high school really?
I'm a sophomore right now and lately I just feel like school is completely irrelevant to anything I will do in the future, besides the credentials I will have I guess. With all the talk about Khan Academy and education recently I felt the need to post this. Also to clarify I don't want to claim that school isn't important for everyone, but in my case 95% of the material I can confidently say isn't.

So I guess my question is how much should I be allotting my time to personal projects, and should I feel bad if my grades suffer because of it? (By suffering I mean having about a 90% GPA as opposed to a higher one if I really applied myself. I'm not going to do poorly, I'm just not going to be exceptional academically.) I have a really hard time grasping that grades != intelligence, so it does bother me when they are lower.

Anyway, you guys have more life experience than I do, so please convince me to do my homework.
The mysterious types of landing pages are complete turn-offs for me. If I go somewhere and see a place for my e-mail address with no real information on what I could be signing up for, I just leave and forget.

It takes a strong amount of buzz to override that impulse in me.
If this isn't done by Google, I don't think it is fair to use their brand. I wouldn't be surprised if Google sends a take down notice.
I would love to do that! The problem is that for the articles I nominated, no citations exist :(
The one thing that has always blown my mind on Wikipedia is that they have "votes" all the time where people edit in their opinion, but then a decision is made which may or may not take the votes into account. They're actually pretty clear on this: there's a policy that says something to the effect of "yeah, we'll take votes, but the person acting on the vote doesn't have to listen to the votes because Wikipedia isn't a democracy. You're lucky if we read the votes and take them into account!".

Mindblowing.
I love my Koss PortaPros with the same drivers as the KTXPRO1. They're extremely open - they stop no sound getting in (or out) - but the sound quality is amazing for the money.
What is the fair valuation of a company which produces smokeless cigarettes which don't cause cancer, are virtually immune to regulation, and don't even require tobacco farms? Pretty high. Distasteful, but high.
> 2) not cited enough to count

I look forward to your explanation, to other academics, of why their work doesn't "count" because it isn't "cited enough".

I also look forward to you explaining to us why you're qualified to determine whether a paper that you didn't write "counts".

> I honestly didn't think that putting in a few AfDs would cause such a shitstorm, to the point where people are calling me a Nazi/asshole/whatnot on my user page. I also never thought my 15 minutes of fame would be for nominating Nemerle for deletion :) Maybe I should have a Wikipedia article...?

Infamy is not the kind of fame that you want.
Welcome to Canada. We're still celebrating that Amazon.ca actually has them. Their electronics selection is less than inspiring.
The annoying thing is when you buy a good pair of headphones and start to hear the distortion in your old low-bitrate music.
Samsung forks Android. Google refuses to license Google Android software to it. Goodbye Market, Gmail, Nav, etc.

Sorry, just don't see that happening.

Oh, and HTC's phones are so much better quality than the Samsung phones.
mr doob did this originally as a chrome experiment: http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google_sphere/
Khan Academy has poked a hole in my heart that needs to be filled: A computer science curriculum
I think a lot of people over-reacted. When people see the title of this article, he/she would immediately think you are trolling and doing this for no concrete reasoning.

(I am not that your actions are justified, but I am just pointing out that a lot of people are acting before they have considered both sides of the story)
Poll: How much calculation work should be taught in schools?
When mathematics is taught in schools (K-12 and college), a lot of the time is spent learning how to do the nitty-gritty calculation work. My question is: how much time should be spent teaching the calculation work versus the higher orders of thinking needed in mathematics?

Should you let the student do calculations because it gives them an understanding of the bigger concepts?

Or should you let the computers do the calculations and not waste the students' time?

To learn more about what I'm talking about, read the debate going on over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2213258

Also, please watch this video that includes some of my views: http://www.ted.com/talks/conrad_wolfram_teaching_kids_real_math_with_computers.html
A lot less than currently - let computers do almost all of the calculations; let students spend time setting up equations and working on more applied problems
Less than currently - let students learn rudimentary calculations; let computers do the rest of the calculations
A little more than currently - let students learn some calculation work in the beginning; let them use computers later on
Same as now - don't change anything
A little more than currently - don't let students use calculators or computers until later on in education
More than currently - let students calculate almost everything by hand; let them use calculators/computers once they've done it by hand
A lot more than currently - don't let them use computers or calculators at all
I'm a little surprised that nobody has pointed out this is a decompiled version of the code. That means it took machine language and tried to convert it back to C. Given that machine language only has goto in it, anywhere where you might see a loop in this code is from the decompiler looking at a stereotypical usage of the jump instructions and reverse engineering a C loop statement.

At the base level, programs are nothing but gotos strung together. Everything else is added at a higher layer.

Also, critiquing the coding style of decompiled output is particularly missing the point. But at least the brace style is consistent, right? Almost as if it were rigidly generated by a tool from another source of input, rather than by a human, no?
'Only mentioned in conference proceedings' is actually a fairly decent criterion for exclusion from a general encyclopedia - which is the sort of thing all the deletionist/notability teacup storms revolve around.

The importance of conference proceedings in distributing CS research doesn't seem particularly relevant.
I would downvote your downvote
Clickable

Debate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2213258

TED Video: http://www.ted.com/talks/conrad_wolfram_teaching_kids_real_m...
Can't we find $1.5 billion floating around in the military budget to cut instead of the funds that fuels science and innovation? Sure companies do a fine job of innovating but they don't do things like Fermilab, which have long term potential to change our world. Long term being far longer then stock holders in public companies would allow for.
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> Hopefully your professors also drummed into you that anyone can write a paper and send it to a conference -- the kicker is if it actually makes an impact. Isn't that more-or-less the definition of notability?

So now we need two levels of notability. First you must be published and you must have "impact". How is this "impact" thing defined, by the way? Are you agitating for an agreed bibliometric standard for notability?

> I didn't nominate them for deletion because of hard drive space. I nominated them because there was nothing to say about them barring a superficial overview of syntax.

OK, so you thought they sucked.

Did you:

1. Decide to improve them? Nah, not the wikipedia way.

2. Slap on one of the numerous tags saying "this article needs improvement"? Nah, not the wikipedia way.

3. Mark it for deletion because you thought the article was sucky and took no action to improve it? Ding ding ding!

> I didn't delete the articles -- the Wikipedia administrators did.

You action was a necessary cause of their deletion and therefore you are one of the directly culpable persons destroying the long tail of knowledge.

edit: slightly politified per tptacek's request.
It's funny that the comments are about the quality of the writing and not the content of the article.
Great article. Should be required reading for people trying to understand the Valley boys club. I particularly like how just like the original mafia, all the groups she discusses are all male!
If you don't put it to good use. I just graduated college myself and put off any thoughts of going back for a year or two to see what I can make of my free time. 4 months later and I'm almost a CISSP in the security field. Now I feel as though I need to get back in touch with the HN community and maybe start networking better.
That makes a lot of sense - thanks so much for your thoughtful feedback!

I certainly didn't think of the negative Cold War implications, since I am originally from Ukraine and the Soviet Bloc was not perceived as a negative thing on our side of the world.

I will do some more research with others to see if this is enough of a deal-breaker to require a name change.

Thanks again!
> The importance of conference proceedings in distributing CS research doesn't seem particularly relevant.

So, because computer science does things differently from other fields, it is at fault?
This comment is totally uncalled for. You're participating in a discussion about someone's effort to remove "non-notable" articles from Wikipedia. That someone actually took the time to comment on HN, for the first time, for this one story. Attempting to chase that person off HN by saying "get over yourself" decreases the quality of HN for everyone. Please don't do that.
Wow. Sign me up. I make around 55k-65k and live like I earn about 20k. The biggest bonus I've ever received was about 10% of my yearly income. That happened once. I went 8 months without work last year. I'm living a completely comfortable lifestyle. I'm not needing of anything. I want lots of things, but it takes just a tiny modicum of restraint to avoid monstrous debt snowballs.

The work I've done has only ever been high stress, and very rarely fun. Is it purely a matter of experience to get to the point where you earn greater than 80k and only do fun, low stress work? I haven't seen anything like that around here. Oh, and this city is expensive too. For a base salary of 62k/year, the average home costs 9.5 years of pre-tax income.
I found that some things deleted were just petty though. For example, before Cuil came about I added a page about Anna Patterson co-founder of Cuil and was previously known as creating the biggest index using internet archive.

Cuil becomes big news and then she was removed with the note that she wasn't really of note. Then the details about her were removed from Cuil's page. Quite odd.

http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Anna_Patt...

I was even expanding on the page, and it even had a few other contributions from other people.
I edited it out before you commented, because I agreed upon a reread of my own comment.
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The implication of deletionism as a philosophy is that readers cannot be trusted to make up their own minds about the merits of an article even if it contains positive and negative feedback markers.

The whole deletionism fiasco at Wikipedia is ultimately a software and UI failure. Misguided people who in most cases could never write a good article (or even improve an existing one) themselves are running amok because the system is re-enforcing the belief that their only talent, destroying information, is also a valid form of contribution. It is no statistical accident that rampant wiki deletionism is even more intense in ..."strict" countries such as Germany.

At the same time it is important to note that a lot of articles have serious shortcomings and are in need of improvement. While deleting them is in my opinion unforgivable as long as they contain useful information, I believe Wikipedia could profit from a more modern approach to article rating and validation. If substandard articles were allowed to continue existing albeit with low ratings and missing validation tags, Wikipedia as a process could focus more on improvement as opposed to gleeful pruning. If they concentrated on more constructive measures and included better ways of gathering user feedback for quality control, they could also provide former deletionist users with a UI option that simply prevents them from ever having to see an article that is below a certain quality threshold. Everybody would win.

As it stands today, Wikipedia increasingly fails at its stated mission of being a repository for the world's knowledge. Sadly, I don't believe it is possible to change Wikipedia in any way, ever. Someday, someone will have to come along and fork it.
You'd think they'd stick a proxy in front of the HN server to compress.
Does it seem like I'm hating on casual gaming? It seems pretty apparent that Zynga isn't in the business of making great casual games so much as rabidly pursuing the monetization of casual games.

I feel pretty okay treating that as a little skeezy.
Heck, you don't even need that. Put this in a file named "Hello.hs":

module Hello where

main = print "Hello world!"

and run "ghc -fvia-C -keep-hc-files Hello.hs". Compilation may fail with linker errors, but today we don't care about that. We just want to look at the resulting Hello.hc file, which is the C representation of the Haskell, and generally looks like:

II_(rhG_closure);
II_(si4_closure);
FN_(Hello_main_entry) {
FB_
if ((W_)(((W_)Sp - 0x10UL) < (W_)SpLim)) goto _cip;
Hp=Hp+2;
if ((W_)((W_)Hp > (W_)HpLim)) goto _cip;
Hp[-1] = (W_)&stg_CAF_BLACKHOLE_info;
;EF_(newCAF);
{void (*ghcFunPtr)(void *);

and so on for quite a while longer. Passing this through a compile and decompile step might actually clean it up a bit....
Sorry, you're right. A PhD student isn't an idiot, regardless of how angry they might make me.

edit:

Chris, I apologise. I let my anger get the best of me. I'll keep my ad homs to a minimum wherever possible.
It's not that their work doesn't "count" in the more general sense of the word, it's that their work has not had enough impact at the moment to establish the notability of the topic. I'm sure the researchers in question did fine work, and in the future their work will be widely recognized.

I'm as qualified as any other PL researcher (or Wikipedian) to determine the validity of a source. I didn't delete the articles based on my own opinion :( The purpose of the AfD process is to get the opinions of others so that a consensus can be established! I'm sorry -- I really am -- that the Alice ML and Nemerle communities were offended by my AfD. My nomination of a language for deletion does not speak for my opinion of the language itself. I figured if I was doing the wrong thing, that the AfD would result in a keep, and at the very least, sources that I had not found would be found by others to improve the article. One of the basic tenets of Wikipedia is "assume good faith", and very few have done so so far. I am completely open to civil discussion about any aspect of my work, and I would love to develop more concrete/relevant criteria for assessing notability of a programming language.
High School is completely irrelevant in life if your goals will not correlate with the years of geography, history, and literature you have to put up with. However, in your situation you will want to do good but get out as soon as humanly possible. If you can somehow take extra classes over the summer or self study and skip grades that would be idea. Go to college, network your ass off, but don't depend on college to make you any more satisfied then highschool has. With that being said, finish college as soon as possible as well, again, the key here is to network and meet as many people in your desired career field/goal as possible and then take huge risks. Use your high school and college degrees as fall backs in case you ever fail in life and are too burned out to continue.
It's not just Sennheiser, all quality headphones seem to have a high markup in Canada. In addition, many companies refuse to ship them across the border (I suspect because the don't want to deal with customers who refuse to pay import tax).
Sounds like me.

http://railstutorial.org/ to start with.
How about a cure for cancer? Vaccines against HIV, influenza, etc? Tissue bioreactors that grow organs? Postpone aging?

Sure, there is a lot of esoteric stuff being done. Catfish genomics, characterizing motor proteins of archaea, etc. I can't speak for every research team or every goal. Yes, we could better coordinate and collectively strive for greater human societal objectives. But then a lot of feet would get stepped on. Who knows if some "pointless" research project may wind up saving us?
TL;DR: Finish HS and college ASAP, take huge risks, don't think about the consequences. If you fail, fall back on your college degree for a stable job
It reduces the overall usefulness and quality of Wikipedia to delete leaves that are referenced from other Wikipedia pages. Nemerle is an example: there are several references to it from other PL pages, that before your "improvement" could be resolved w/in Wikipedia, but now require going outside of Wikipedia to determine that "Nemerle is a high-level statically-typed programming language for the .NET platform."

This kind of "cleaning-up" seems detrimental to wikipedia and, frankly, a waste of your time.
One thing I've found useful to do is to offer to help them find a replacement. This might means asking your friends, but also helping them with interviews (up to a point anyway...)
So what was it for you, job stress? And how did you manage to overcome it?
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Governments fund cures and vaccines for disease. Private companies don't work on cures, which is why the last things we've cured is polio, which was developed by an NIH-funded university researcher; and widespread famine through much of the developing world, by crop breeding and fertilizer research led by Norman Borlaug and the US and Mexican government.
That statement is false.

Take Factor for example. It has been hosted at several conferences, has an active community of users, and has an academic paper published in ACM.

http://factorcode.org/littledan/dls.pdf

Perhaps what you meant to say is that no citations exist that meet your own apparently arbitrary standards of approval?

Edit:

It appears that it was another individual who recommended wiki/Factor for deletion. I apologize for my inaccurate accusation, but in my opinion that still does not excuse recommending the removal of Nemerle.
Not an ad hominem. An ad hominem argument attacks the character of the speaker independent of the argument and is a specific subset of non sequitur.

Whether an organisation is racist or not is highly relevant to whether we should trust their findings on matters of race, in the same way that someone being a salesman is relevant to whether we should trust their opinion on products they are selling.

If the accusation was that they were homophobic or sexist or a bunch of drunkards, that would be ad hominem. As it is, pointing out that they are racist is a very relevant and useful contribution. Although we cannot assess the objective validity of their findings based on that fact, our assessment of the probabilities change greatly.
Awesome. I've actually never heard of this despite being a Toronto resident (or ex-resident)
This is just opposite of what I am thinking. I am doing too much of EE. I think about some application or the other in my spare time, draw mechanisms for robotics while I am doodling and while in class I follow my own curriculum as the one taught at my university it too slow. I am actually looking for a hobby which would take me away from the abstractions of EE and put me to a much concrete ground. Just cannot find any. Suggestions?
I suspect that the intersection of headphone purchasers and blog readers is low enough that there will be negligible impact on their sales.
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