skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why Apple doesn't use some kind of MPAA style rating system?

That isn't without it's politics, but at least it gives a flavor how to deal with publication of different categories of material.
I don't that a individual storing web pages has any requirement to obey robots.txt. You should be able to click "Save Page" on anything you have access to. Obviously redistributing that is another can of worms.
Sounds much better than my resume.

Really, go for it. They'll be fighting over who hires you.
I'm guessing he means looking back it was a mistake. I would love to hear more details from the OP though. That phrase definitely piqued my interest as well.
why do i embody the worst of the excesses of the dot-com bubble? I try to help people as much as I can with my posts and ask nothing for it.
If you right click the app then "show package contents" in the Finder then go to Resources > Contents there's a file with keybindings called keys.nu.

You can see

(sidemap setKey:"<c-d>" toAction:"scroll_downward:")

(sidemap setKey:"<c-u>" toAction:"scroll_upwards:")

So apparently they are planned, just not yet implemented. I haven't messed with the file much to see what else you can do with it, but I imagine there's a way to override it in .vimrc style and customize it.
C'mon.

Young people make mistakes. Young suddenly-rich successful people will often make bad decisions.

Hating on Steve Jobs for something he has done previously when he was young and stupid makes as much sense as hating on Mark Zuckerburg as a 19-year-old calling Facebook users "dumb fucks".

But no. You're right. I'm sure the CEOs who have no vision or rigid beliefs are better. I'm sure that those that will change absolutely anything - selling PCs with not enough memory to handle an Operating System or putting Flash onto products that simply can't support them and crash - to simply sell more products are better.

We're not beautifying the man. We're simply giving him his deserved compliments in an industry where he's still a moral rarity.
> On the other claims are you capable of using Google?

> China only has a .02% suicide rate and most are in the rural areas (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-09/11/content_609571...). That's 1 in every 5 million people killing themselves.

While you're suggesting people use Google, you should acquaint yourself with the calculator function. That's 1,000 in every 5 million people killing themselves. http://www.google.com/search?q=0.02%25+*+5000000

10 suicide attempts a week in a company the size of San Jose, California isn't particularly high.
You're entirely correct on both counts. In fact, all 3 of those reasons given on that page are good ones.

However, this was still posted under the title "Which programming language is the fastest?" - so I think it's worth exploring in exactly what ways that is or isn't useful information. Just as their own reason #3 says - "To show how difficult it can be to make meaningful comparisons"

I'd also question exactly how useful reading toy benchmark solution code is to real problems. The code to the benchmark problems is often nicely written, but if I have a problem to solve then wouldn't I be better off looking for samples of readable code that solve problems related to my specific problem domain?
"I needed to make one hundred million dollars pretty fast." http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/how-i-screwed-yasser-ar...
This is a very well written blog, and the links to pdfs providing further detail are excellent.

As pointed out in jane.pdf, and also be Ed Thorp elsewhere, betting with the Kelly criterion requires large amounts of capital. The reason is simple; there is a real chance of going broke if you start out near 0. This can be countered by playing a fractional Kelly strategy, where you bet Kelly, but only on a fraction of your bankroll.
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If you actually think that going to elections is "doing something", then they have you right where they want you.
Most (all?) large systems developed using Erlang make heavy use of C for low-level code, leaving Erlang to manage the parts which tend to be complex in other languages, like controlling systems spread across several machines and implementing complex protocol logic.

I know, when programming in Erlang I have unsurprisingly done exactly this. If I had an On^2 solution in Erlang that I knew I couldn't rewrite in Erlang to be faster, then that's my last resort - I'd write a C port to perform my particular inner loop performance-limited code, and leave the rest in Erlang.

However, I wouldn't either (a) go directly to C without trying to optimise the solution in Erlang first, or (b) look at a list of other languages and wonder which one I could move my entire program to.
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A friend suggested I post here for help after lurking here for awhile.

I'm losing my job as a high school English teacher and am interested in going into the startup world, particularly because I think it's where I can truly be useful and my work habits would be appreciated more. I have no idea where to start though with rebuilding my résumé; I've only been teaching for two years, but teaching and coaching is about the only experience I have beyond the sales positions I had in college years ago.

I was hoping to get some advice about how to reformat my résumé to appeal to startup positions. I'm very limited in CS (some Unix and Ruby/Rails) and would be more useful in a marketing or management position, or so I think. Would appreciate any help. Thanks, HN!
I just accepted a new job last week and my employer sought me out largely because I am mostly self educated (I did a couple years of comp sci, may go back eventually). He feels that it shows a hunger for knowledge and lack of fear to learn new tools or ways to get things done.
Sorry I meant 1,000 there. But my typo doesn't invalidate the point. The total suicide rate includes the elderly, the painfully poor, and so on. Foxconn workers by virtue of having a job at all are in the higher ranks of society. They shouldn't be at a rate that's over 50% of the total suicide rate.

(Also note instead of improving the conditions they put out Suicide nets which is bound to bring their numbers down)
@ryah: "jesus, i go out for a beer and this damn reddit thing is #1 on hacker news?"
> On the other claims are you capable of using Google?

Nope. Is that a new startup? YCS11?
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> They shouldn't be at a rate that's over 50% of the total suicide rate.

Why not?

I'm not familiar with Chinese culture -- can you explain why working at a factory should drop a person's odds of suicide to an arbitrary number less than 50% of the national average?
I agree with the other commenters that having owned a business is an asset, however, the one thing you should be aware of going into interviews is that interviewers may look at you as a "flight risk". Having come up with your own ideas and run your own company, you may not be as tied down to a job as other people, and they may want to question you on that. You can easily come up with good reasons in advance to allay their concerns.
I the iPad as a videogame platform — that means their peers are really Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft with the Xbox. But unlike the later two Apple is really going for the home market, i.e. marketing to a family (just like Disney).

With that in mind Apple is really closer to being Nintendo than anything else — so if you think in those terms they're in fact very open with what they allow into their store. Also I've never known Apple to tout the idea that "we're open" or even that "we do no evil". So I think in that way they're a bit more honest.
Don't let not having traditional credentials get you down.

I don't know if you remember this story from HN a few weeks ago, but you should keep it in the back of your mind as you interview:

"How MIT Accepted a Student with No High School Degree, Thanks to His Brilliant Programming" http://www.geekosystem.com/how-mit-accepted-a-student-with-n...
Moral rarity how. What has he done that has been so moral exactly? Other than banning porn (which isn't inherently moral) I can't think of anything.

Second there is a big difference between calling people "dumb f*cks" and forcing your child and her mother into poverty because you refuse to pay (even though you easily could because you're rich).
Dupe. Discussions here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2504434
It's like there's a spacesuit full of nuclear waste in every single computation!
People frequently do this and it can lead to feature creep. You can easily end up with a product so complicated that the general user is turned off by the interface.

I think it's important to decide whether you want to be a powerhouse that can do everything, or a very simple tool that does 1 job really well... Or exactly where you want to be between those 2 extremes.

I don't have a problem with turning down small customers that want custom changes, but when that customer comes along that is as big as all your other customers combined, you almost have to agree to what they want.
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I think both this article and the the original article miss the aspect of business awareness. Understanding how the code is used and how it will help someone is a key skill to develop.
When I was in construction, we made most of our profit off changes. Every change has a price tag. Part of the price is how much you want to do the change. Ugly changes don't come cheap. Changes we suggested do come cheap. Any salesman who can't attach a price tag to a change request isn't doing his job.
Because having a job at Foxconn is the equivalent of being rich there. You have air conditioning and in door plumbing. Foxconn workers make 2,000 renminbi (after Foxconn doubled their salary to stop the suicides). That's 3 times what a normal person with a job in makes in China.

This would be like a cluster of Facebook or Google employees committing suicide in the U.S.
Curious as to what you mean by successful. Are you saying the 22 other startups declared failure/died? Are you talking about attracting investment in Latin America? I'm guessing a lot of those companies came back to the US to search here.
I disagree that those aren't real buyers. Many rich people are so used to getting their way that if you won't bend a little and include those windows treatments, they'll just go find someone who will.

Look at it from the other perspective: If the seller will walk away over 1%, they aren't a real seller.

Seems just as likely, doesn't it?
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I think is too long domain name and uses the word suck (it could be bad for SEO i think).

Also google will be filtering health content farms, so thats not an option.

a blog about fat people the succeded to lose weigth?
Maybe I missed something but I don't understand this criticism. The author states that 'The number of hits for each year was divided by the number of hits for "machine learning".' Wouldn't that control for the inflation of data in exactly the way you are proposing?
I told my kids to stay out of IT. All of them were capable of working in the industry but that last ten years has ruined IT and programming as a profession. This country has ruined it as a profession by letting too many unqualified people into this country as H1Bs. Before you scream racist, there are way too many people with EE degrees are here as programmers without any chops to make a difference. It cheapens the profession.

My oldest is an Athletic Trainer and will never be outsourced. The twins are totally different. One is in textbook editing and the other will end up as a college soccer coach. At least they won't have to worry about this country undercutting what should be a professional wage.
Your facts don't support your assertions.

Population of China (2007): 1,321,851,888 (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004391.html)

Suicide rate determined in 2007: "more than 287,000 people end their own lives every year" (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-09/11/content_609571...)

Suicide rate per 100,000 per year: 21.7

Statistically expected suicides at Foxconn per year: 206

Actual suicides in 2010: 14 (http://topics.scmp.com/news/china-news-watch/article/Struggl...) with at least 30 attempts (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/malcolmmoore/100039883/wha...) (the articles contradict themselves in the number of attempts)

You are assuming the suicide cluster is a continuing trend rather than a short-term incident. Statistics does not work that way, things are not neat and orderly and you can't extrapolate like that. Besides, suicide clusters are a known phenomenon (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7205141.stm).

Also bear in mind that other sources place China's suicide rate much lower by a factor of as much as 4 (but Foxconn's suicide rate would still be lower than the average).

Is it something to be concerned about? Of course. But it's not at the dark-forces-at-work stage. All you are witnessing is how sausages (or cheap Chinese-manufactured goods) are made; witnessing it is uncomfortable but how often does it turn someone vegetarian?
Freelancing is a 'real job'. If you actually are freelancing, you'll have a string of clients to point and say you did work for them, freelancing.

Companies want someone that can do the job. 1 indicator is the resume, and you simply have to fill it out with work you did.

Be sure to frame the college dropout in terms of the opportunity you had, so they know you didn't just quit, but had a better offer. If you treat it like a negative, so will they.
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> worth exploring in exactly what ways that is or isn't useful information

Now consider how you could use the varying performance on different tasks, and the varying performance on the same task of programs written in the same programming language, as examples (as a resource) for exploring (and showing to others) in what ways you think that is or isn't useful information.

If we just consider those "Which programming language is the fastest?" pages, then I think - simply getting someone to look away from a single number ranking (the median) and notice that for some language implementations the performance range is relatively small but for others the range is enormous - is useful.

> I'd also question exactly how useful reading toy benchmark solution code is to real problems.

Someone's told me that n-body pretty much is what they get paid to work on. Someone's told me that k-nucleotide and reverse-complement are pretty much is what they get paid to work on. The question as usual is who's "real" problems?

> wouldn't I be better off looking for samples of readable code that solve problems related to my specific problem domain?

Perhaps - and yet for some people what they see in those tiny tiny programs will be enough for a personal opinion about whether X is "the most human-readable".
By definition, if a large number of students don't want to learn then it is trivially true that we aren't going to get

2. Almost everyone to pass. 3. Almost everyone who passes to know the material.

unless we exclude them from the system. Property 1 was that almost everyone goes to school.
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I don't think it looks like a very good url. What is your point in its use? To help or judge?

Having suck in it means I (just me) would probably never take it seriously.
I'm not sure what you mean. Can you give an example of an expectation that someone would need to broadcast to others?
Is your developer position page at http://smarterer.com/blog/jobs/python-developer/Developer supposed to give a 404?
don't think I can edit it anymore, thanks and good point :)
The bad schools in Minnesota tend to be much better than the bad schools in Mississippi. There will still be variation amongst school districts because there are lots of factors involved (not least of which are cultural factors). But what adequate funding to is to raise the average (and median) but not eliminate the variation. Well, at the very minimum, eliminating the variation would take more money than society is willing to pay.
The Kelly criterion is essentially just optimizing the expected value of the log of your net worth. It was known in some form to Daniel Bernoulli in the late 1700s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox#Expected.... Anyway knowing this will allow you to calculate it for more complex scenarios and even multiple simultaneous bets [1] simply enough with an optimization algorithm .

The problem with Kelly [2] and even fractional Kelly (unless the fraction is very small, then your problem is extremely slow growth) is that it is a long term strategy and it is very sensitive to your estimates. It can be dominated by other strategies in the short term or for those who seek different risk properties (prefer lots of small wins and want less volatility).

[1] page 19 of http://www.pitt.edu/~sorc/trade/files/RiskManagement/kelly.p...

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While one specific benchmark may not sway your decision on which programming language to use for your own projects, it should certainly be a factor when designing a large web application for hundreds of thousands of users. Unless of course you say that benchmarks are irrelevant and do not measure anything that corresponds to real world performance. But that would be like saying it does not matter whether you use a bicycle, a car, or a jet engine to travel from Point A to Point B, since intrinsic speed of your choice mode of transportation is difficult to measure, and is irrelevant.
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Working in a customer-facing position, I have a hard time not wanting to champion every legitimate feature requests that comes in. However, I've learned that if I want to get engineering to work on something when it really counts, I have to be very judicious about what I send their way.

Thankfully, having a product with multiple customization options (API, plugins, javascript and CSS), I can always give the customer the opportunity to write their own feature, and if it's simple enough, I'll just write some code and do it for them.
Definitely there are reasons for having a national union. But you made a statement about not abdicating negotiation power to national unions. I assumed that by this you meant salary since that is the subject of the article about which all these discussions come from. Of course, things do get off topic and so I'm sorry if my assumption was incorrect.
>Do you know of any law that distinguishes contractors based on hourly or salary rules? If not, I don't see your point.

The point is purely practical, not so much legal. When employees are on salary, it's worth doing whatever you can to make it convenient for them to stick around and stay longer. Providing perks such as free food helps with that - it helps get more work hours out of people for a given salary. The perks are in some way a substitute for extra salary, and likely to save the company money in the long run. Especially perks that save employees time, like letting them start work on the bus during their commute or letting them have meals right on campus so they don't lose time driving elsewhere.

Whereas hourly employees get paid for each specific hour they work so there's little benefit to encouraging them to stick around longer than they would otherwise be inclined. In fact, you generally want to discourage hourly workers from doing any overtime, since you'd have to pay them time-and-a-half.
I once used the Kelly Criterion to try to guide my wagering on the Intrade prediction markets: http://www.gwern.net/Prediction%20markets#how-much-to-bet

Holy cow was it tough; the warners aren't kidding that it requires a strong stomach. Even with small edges it asks you to bet what feels like an impossibly large fraction of your portfolio.
> the data center has been moved to an undisclosed location

I fail to see the importance of physically moving the servers. What value is this ? Was the attack an inside job with physical access ?
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