skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, thanks for the helpful input.

> Here's my suggestion for you: Be a manager. Set aside an amount of time each day to work as your manager. Ask yourself about your goals, figure out what you need to excel at those goals, and make sure that you get what you need. Is your work structured the right way? Is what you're doing now working? If you can't figure out what to do next as a manager, go learn. Read a book or online article about management to get ideas. But, mostly, just make sure you actually do it.

It's easy to find blah-blah blog posts and books written by self-proclaimed life advisors, usually with very low information density (which makes it impossible for me to read carefully). Can you recommend any particular material?
Are you equating semi-legal prostitution with the possession of pornography?
laws are only for the undesired.

here in california I'm a criminal for having a gps on my wind shield. but as long as I'm not a minority/pissing an officer/disturbing the status quo/etc, I'm fine.

"to my friends everything.to my enemies, the law."
Interview of Grant Paul (chpwn)
The kind of app that needs to scale up to 4-8 processors but never higher is pretty rare. For anything bigger than that you need a full-blown distributed architecture. Unless you're sure you can scale forever in one box relying on language-level parallelism is asking for trouble.
Lots of people regret not accomplishing anything. Sometimes accomplishing things requires work. Creating a successful startup is an example. Earning enough in a regular job to be able to fund your own startup is another.
By the time you get it "100% right," it may not matter much | Mini Saga
Friendster dropped the ball technically, at one point they had 10 minute page load times.

Kuro5hin was never as popular as Slashdot.

Slashdot didn't evolve their submission model and was left in the dust.

Digg screwed up their product and pissed off their community.

MySpace sacrificed user experience for in the name of short term profit from pageviews/ads.

HN hasn't replaced Reddit except for a tiny minority of startup/hacker people (many of whom continue to use Reddit).

I think it only appears that users are fad driven, when in reality they're just smart enough to move on to better options.
How to trick myself into building an awesome web project? Remove all software other than a text editor? Wouldn't I need at least a web browser? :-)

I think it's not that easy in all cases. However, I already practice the food use-case you've mentioned (I simply don't buy unhealthy food).
Go's defer feature, combined with named return values, lets you do this:

func someFunction(b bool) (i int) {
defer func() {
log.Printf("I'm returning %d", i)
}()
if b {
return 1
}
return 0
}

For more on defer, see this blog post: http://blog.golang.org/2010/08/defer-panic-and-recover.html
Does this really achieve O(n.k) for small k? I'm not sure I believe sort can be that lazy, without being deficient when used in a non-lazy context.

Some benchmarks might convince me :)
Fair enough. This is the way everybody feels before they try to run a community site.

But the thing is, as soon as you have a big community that you're personally responsible for, you find that there are people who you just really wish would go away. They're making the place worse, possibly without even realizing it. You need to get rid of them, but if you kick them out explicitly they'll just make a new account and come back. The most important thing is to stop them making things worse right now. Anything else is secondary.

It's important to consider that online communities are in no way democratic and do not have the concept of "free speech". That's tough to swallow, having spent your whole life knowing how free speech is the most important thing ever.

"Free Speech" is you being able to write whatever you want on your blog without the government taking it down. It's very different from being able to write whatever you want on HackerNews without the spam filter taking it down.

If you need any explanation as to why, turn "showdead" on for a few days and try to pick out the content from in between the real-estate spam.
The Economist on parallel computing and functional programming languages
The Business Model Canvas
"preeminent patron saint of pre-adolescent sartorial taste"

Now THAT is good writing.
> I know I have all the capability to deliver crazy performance. And hey, I still do from time to time, it's not like we're doomed. We have already proved that we have the mental capability to achieve great things

Yes, sure we are. But isn't it sad how much of our potential is wasted?

> now it's time to utilize it.

Motivating words, but I need more than that ;-)
Nice! I also moved to Singapore just 7 months ago. Great country to work in. Loving it here too.
It is legal to have a GPS on your windshield in California.

http://dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc26708.htm section 12
Stackoverflow and sites actually do reduce the advertising in response to your level of karma.
Race: Caucasian

Maybe it's cultural bias, but I was really surprised they'd list something like that on an ID card!
I tend to see using 4-8 cores as having roughly the same use case as compiler optimizations: making code running on one box do so faster, usually by a constant factor. That's a pretty big use case, though. If, for example, a significant part of Matlab's built-in functions could use all 4 of my cores, and got maybe a 2x speedup overall from doing so, that'd be pretty great. (Matlab in particular seems to have already added quite a bit of this.)
I got the feeling that there was probably some pre-arranged agreement that the IPO question was off limits, but that the interviewer went ahead and asked the question anyway. Hence his non-plussed look and the slight shake of his head as if indicating 'you're not supposed to be asking that question'.
I found it odd that the audience was applauding but I guess we're missing some context in this short clip.

Jeremy Paxman probably wouldn't have let him get away with silence.
Interesting blog post about how this could be done in Haskell using a suitable mergesort (or quicksort): http://apfelmus.nfshost.com/articles/quicksearch.html (pointed out in a similar discussion some time ago). Having used Haskell in university only, articles like this really make me want to revisit the language.

(Algorithms aside, the full sort of 10M numbers, apparently using an underlying C implementation, looks stunishingly slow: Given at most 240M comparisons for merge-sorting the array, taking 10s would mean at throughput only 24M items per sec, bad memory access pattern at play maybe?)
I was just in Singapore for 2 weeks. The streets aren't all that clean. Cleaner than San Francisco or NYC yes... but there is litter in the mornings and evenings and this was even in the highly tourist areas downtown by the Marina Bay. (Awesome hotel pool at least, but that's not how I would pick a place to live)
Locations like Hong Kong has very simple tax codes etc. It arguably easier to found a company their than in some EU countries as well.
بث مباشر لمباراة مصر وجنوب افريقيا اون لاين 5/6/2011 تصفيات امم افريقيا
Bitcoin miner overkill: sciengines s3 1000
Oh, I thought it was clear I was simply presenting this as counter-anecdotal evidence (although my anecdotal data set is probably an order of magnitude higher than the ops). I was arguing more for the null hypothesis than "physicians are definitely scientific."
I love this part of the article:
"In 2010, Nordmark paid $25,000 for a patent on a new online digital used music and book website that Veith was pitching, dubbed UsedTunes.com. The site exists but isn't operational."
Yes, it's evocative, with some pleasing poetic imagery. Not being a poet myself I would have tidied up his punctuation and adjusted or questioned some of the plural/singular nouns ('memes ... are a force which flow?', 'surprisingly brief', 'the world's stage', 'undulating patterns', 'confined space?', 'by the gazillion?').

But poets are more interesting to read than copy editors...
Or, it was a joke and an interesting take on the inevitable question.
>>I spell out in no uncertain terms how the comment proves what I'm claiming

Here is another weird Andi comment, which relates to his original claim -- and show you to be wrong.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601341

>>This kind of technical view is religious but is usually not called religion.

So you are wrong -- Andi really meant what he said.

So much for your claim of proof.

(I accept that, given enough strange people to argue with, a reasonable person -- a non-Luddite/-econazi -- might have written what "Andi" wrote. Even if it seems unlikely. But "Andi" is not reasonable...)

>> Andi's other comments don't show anything of the sort, and are irrelevant

See above -- Andi is just plain weird, your guess is very unlikely. Also, you made that claim without touching that I've commented on his weird comments three times, even gave a link.

My troll detector isn't sensitive enough.

>> ignoring the cost of nuclear reactors for nature and future generations

And for nuclear power -- you haven't show that there is a net cost to future generations (not just creation of useful materials for their accelerator reactors).

Note also that the present humanity do research and infrastructure now, which will make future generations' lives better. (Which certainly is a religious view, according to Andi.)

(Also, there are lots of radioactive materials in nature. See my proof-of-principle solution.)
Triple-A 3D games might fall into this category.
These are some really... unlikely predictions. Especially this one:

Xcode for the iPad: This is more of a wet dream, but Apple is building on the iOS as their main operating system for the future, and to get the real hardcore users to move to it, they have to make an IDE available. The main reason I gave up on my iPad and gave it to my mom was the lack of a good IDE (plus she really liked it :-).

This one makes me a little ill. Who would ever choose to develop in a crippled OS on underpowered hardware with no keyboard?! Argh it's like sometimes I feel there are two groups of software developers and I'm in the increasingly shrinking sane one. Fortunately, everything from Apple indicates the exact opposite about OS X and that OS X is more likely to become a developer-only environment than iOS to become any kind of development environment.
Reminds of when Mrs Mevec told us in 8th grade that sound traveled through space. I objected, because sound is just vibration of molecules and space is fairly empty. I was wrong, she told me. And then many of the students mocked me as well.

Just because someone is an adult and you're not doesn't prove a thing. Neither does having every other person disagree. The evidence may still be on your side.
What specifically does this have to do with Bitcoin? The specs say "4000x faster than a PC", but so is your graphics card.

I feel like this is just a karma whoring attempt. Bitcoin == popular, so submit a ton of articles with "bitcoin" in the title?
...with a very low crime rate compared to US.
Nude Photo Hackers Taunt Blake Lively, Release More Shots
Ol’ Mark Pincus Had a Farm
2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak
That's true in theory. The Singaporeans I've known and worked with have pretty much all been bilingual in Mandarin and English, often speaking Taiwanese or Cantonese as well. On the down side, their Mandarin, English and probably other languages are each strange.

Despite having grown up in an English environment and having spent most my adult life in Taiwan, communication isn't necessarily that smooth. It's like they just grab words, grammatical particles, and sentence structures willy-nilly from whatever language they feel like, including Malay. It's not just an issue of "Singlish". Even adjusting to standard Mandarin in China is a bit of work for the Singaporean interns I've met in Beijing. As a casual learner of Cantonese and Taiwanese, it's fun crowd to hang out with, though!
Yes, but protesting isn't illegal in the us.
Thank you, I hate it when the two are used interchangeably.
Well, in principle I agree.

I've never even been to Singapore, but I know some people that used to work there. They loved it so much that they put lots of energy and time into getting back.

I don't know what Singapore do right, but I have never heard anyone be so enthusiastic by some place they didn't grow up(/study).
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Georg Hackenschmidt 20 July 1878 - 19 February 1968
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Hackenschmidt
I thought Moore's law was enabling new processors to include more cores at no extra cost. So there should be processors with more than 8 cores before too long.
I'm Vietnamese, so I get a little curious here. Would you mind sharing what you particuarly like about Vietnam? And which city are you living in?
> Seeing as you have no problem threatening further theft and violence, it seems "a good conscience" is out of reach for you

Not at all. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of standing there holding a blood-covered TV arguing that this is exactly where the violence needs to stop.

And yet you're not actually concerned at all about ongoing thefts that enrich your context, just that which would deprive it.

> I measure ownership through the legal mechanisms under which I reside; "possession" hardly plays into it.

You do not. Those laws make knowing possession of stolen property a crime, regardless of how many steps it's been laundered through.

But yes, the government itself ignores that. You should consider what it says about the illegitimacy of a government that thinks it can bless theft.

> I consider it appropriate to transfer ownership through those mechanisms, and not appropriate to worry about whatever violence may have happened prior to the establishment of those mechanisms generations ago.

Of course not, the law says you don't have to. Don't worry, The laws in A' would say the same things.

> Or you can try to change that legal context through force of arms, and deal with my side shooting back at your band of violent assholes.

If you saw someone carrying a blood-covered obviously stolen TV you'd try to (even if only indirectly by calling the police) violently (if necessary) change his context. Why the hypocritical attitude when it comes to the idea of someone correcting your context?

> Your conscience says that property ownership makes one complicit in all the thefts and violence that came before; mine does not.

No. If that were true you wouldn't justify the theft inherent in your situation with the circular logic of the law of the latest conqueror.
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/10/07/C-dot-next...

(thread on ghcmutterings post)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2457307
Georg Hackenschmidt 20 July 1878 - 19 February 1968
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Hackenschmidt
Are you referring to rights of anarchism?

I'm no trespasser and trouble maker, but I can tell you that anybody is free to do whatever they intend to in Australia, so as long as it doesn't impair other people doing so. In other words, you're as free as you can be without causing damage to others. I'm not sure what you're referring to though.

On my way home I saw dudes roller-blading half naked in the city. I call that freedom. Do you have examples?
Chinese farmer helps roosters make spectacles of themselves
Wasted sounds too dramatic, misallocated I would say.

I would love to be able to achieve a 100% focus at will.
But I think acquiring knowledge in so many different fields has also allowed me to have a pretty unique personality that I'm satisfied with.
Sometimes I look at those people that are completely sucked into one thing and I just think I wouldn't like to be like them.
I would love to have tons and tons of money, but would I want to be Warren Buffet? No way.

For example I spent a year learning Chinese (completed an equivalent of 3 years of study for a 'normal' person + naturally expanded over the next year without effort or loosing too much time). I know it's something pretty much without use unless I want to get a crappy job, but I'm happy I did.
I just like having that extra knowledge.
It's no different than how I want to have a fancy car.
If I was to put a price tag on that knowledge it would definitely be millions.

My point is that although there's no doubt we need to improve let's do it our way.
A good analogy is when you play a game, say soccer and you invent your own way to kick the ball, you know how other, better people kick it, you know your way is 'wrong' but it's so much more fun. And who knows maybe one day it turns out you can still win that way.

Let's not get depressed (you sound a little hopeless there, haha). We can adjust this and that and we'll be fine.
A few years back I was at Singapore's airport and I saw, along many other signs forbidding most human activities one which still haunts me at night.
There was this symbol of a person reading and the text was: no studying.

Then one day while I was walking down Orchard road I saw a long line of people quieing on the street to get in...Sweansens (a chain crappy ice-cream store).
That's when I decided Singapore was lost.

What scares me the is most is that all the rest of South East Asia aspires to become a big Singapore.
Human beings are not supposed to live like that.
0) Controversy makes for good headlines.

1) Indifference and over obsession are both blindness.

2) Effectiveness is mostly perception because reality is too costly to measure.

3) Take a mini sabbatical every now and then: http://➹.ws/sabbatical
Lots of people may want it, for 99% of us it's not an option and we have to work for a living.
I think that the performance of higher end GPUs is more like ~100 times that of CPUs for cryptanalytical algorithms. With bulk FPGAs costing on order of $50 each a device like this could potentially cost less than $10k and offer several times more Mhash/sec than a GPU rig and even more importantly operate with a small fraction of the power consumption (my guess would be less than 10%). There are people on this site who spend money on equipment and power to generate Bitcoins and this is relevant to them. It's also obvious that there is a large number of people tired of hearing about Bitcoins. Personally, I find the title to be appropriate and found the content interesting even though I have no desire to begin mining for Bitcoins.
Ruby is much more than Rails and I think it's a little sad that a large portion of the developer population has no idea that Ruby exists outside of Rails.
Considering that $900m of that went into his personal account, I can well believe it!
I worked for a startup for three years whose small sAPAC headquarters moved from Sydney to Singapore. I was young, enthusiastic and very well performing (I was measured in my job each week by customers).

I found most of the Singaporean staff I met

a) thought I was slightly crazy

b) either loved me, or hated me

for the same reason: I didn't slavishly adhere to rules, particularly when it came to giving customers what they wanted. If the entire (US founded) company had that idea the company wouldn't exist at all: particularly when you're a small company competing with giants, flexibility is required to win business. Singapore suffers from the India problem: they're technically talented, but the adherence to authority means they don't produce many innovative companies.
When you take a look around Singapore's neigbor countries and their living conditions, you must admit that the Sing' government did a pretty good job so far. And then there is the asian culture of not being to critical to the "superior". You even have that in democratic Japan and SKorea. Talking crap about the gov is more a Western life style (mine too, 'cause I m from Europe too, but have lived in Asia long enough to know that there are different ways of seing things).

And talking about free speech: Have a look at the Internet censorship laws in Australia!
Wouldn't most people have a GPS on their dashboard?
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey is a pretty seminal personal management book. It's my top recommendation in terms of "foundational" material. It's not got much in the way of practical tools, but the ideas are applicable everywhere.

I would recommend Drive by Dan Pink if you're interested in learning more about creative motivation. It's pretty short, and actually very well summarised here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

Peopleware by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister is very good programmer-specific management material. They cite a lot of work benchmarking the productivity of different workplaces, so it's very "x is good, x is bad".

Jim Collins' Good to Great is an examination of businesses that succeed vs fail, and the attributes that get them there, it's essentially an extended summary of a longitudinal study he and his team did of businesses that outperformed the stock market by a high factor over 10 years. It's more leadership than management, but still very useful.

One that I haven't read yet (damn my stupidly big reading list) but recommend on reputation alone is First, Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman. Here's a summary: http://www.slideshare.net/gregcrouch/executive-summary-first...

I share your frustration about blah-blah blog posts. With the exception of First, Break All The Rules (which I haven't read yet) and 7 Habits (which I forgive because it's so damn good), the books I mention are based on actual research which is cited in the book, not just some dude going "I think this because I know stuff". Because they're books for busy people, they have summaries and bolded sections and callout boxes too. :)

Overall, though, I would caution you to not put the cart before the horse. There are a thousand books on management that could teach you something new, but it will all just go on the big pile of irrelevant information unless you actually need it. You won't unless you're actively trying to manage. If you start by spending that time you'll be much better placed to contextualise the knowledge and, therefore, actually benefit from it.
absolutely! A strong component of FP is getting programs right, and forcing the explicit management of state is critical to that. Of course that makes FP a lot harder also, Haskell was not so pretty before the emergence of monads.
Oh my god, you're right. He's one of them! (damn lawyers)
They could try for a visual DSL. Something like Automator, but with more options.
south is the de facto standard for django migrations - is there any other reason besides not being in the django proper for it to not count?
I really like the sleep sync.

Mail is allowed to sync whenever it wants, why shouldn't my RSS reader do that too? One problem is the amount of data, but with wifi only, that shouldn't be a problem.

One solution though would be for Apple to host parsing scripts on their servers so that you could parse XML to a very compact proprietary format, or at least compress it.
If you can find an idea that is different and people want then you should probably go for it. The problem with Blippy was that the idea was the bottleneck. Not enough people liked it.

Facebook might have started as a standard social networking site but it innovated fast and innovated differently. It pushed new designs even with loads of complaints, it ignored music which was one of MySpaces biggest features and it had other sites like Bebo scrambling to catch up on them.
Yes, but Groupon is deliberately excluding certain expenses, such as online marketing, from their CSOI in order to inflate their profitability. Excluding this figure seems quite deceiving since their figures imply they don't rely heavily on online marketing when, in fact, they do. They even contradict themselves in their filing by stating, "We spent $179.9 million on online marketing initiatives relating to subscriber acquisition for the first quarter of 2011 and expect to continue to expend significant amounts to acquire additional subscribers." Well if they are expected to continue to expend "significant" amounts to acquire subscribers, why are they excluding those costs in the CSOI?