skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is more consistent with variation in subject performance primarily correlating with interest and personality

My hunch and opinion is that this is correct, too. ;) Also, it all kind of reminds me of the Pygmalion effect[1]. Other people tell us what we're good and bad at and then we run with it...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect
Curious what the co-founder does, is he the idea guy, or is he the dude that will start thinking about marketing and sales sometime after the product is done. Is he getting a salary from the primary investor or is your salary the only expense.

If your salary is the only expense, then you are investing $65k a year as well since you are working for half normal salary in order to design and build the entire product that is the basis of the company from scratch. Given this, I'd estimate your contribution as either 50% or 100% of the company value depending on whether or not you are getting this salary from the investor, aka founder man.

Not that you'll get this of course, unless you had previously chosen to go for 100% by simply developing it on your own after asking yourself what the other guys were contributing (not much).

But it's too late for all this, you've signed a contract, so you should follow through, be happy with it, and do a good job. Thinking you were screwed won't do anyone any good, but if a job appears that offers more than $65k, if it was me in your position I wouldn't feel all that bad about taking it.
Correct.

Instead it returns some generally useless results that are likely not at all what the user desired.

Truthfully this seems about what I expect from Microsoft.
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but this is a Mad Men history!
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There are over 10 occasions I can remember using one specifically in a project. I'm sure I've used them several more times.

Then again, I think they're far more common in the embedded world than elsewhere.
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Ask HN: How Can a Company Take the Patent Pledge?
http://thepatentpledge.org/ does not have a submit form. Sure, I could tweet or blog about it, but if everyone takes that approach then we'll have a disorganized amalgam of "pledges" that hold little weight. I'd like to take the pledge for my company, SeatGeek. What's the best way to do that?
"...think that anyone that says they are a programmer is qualified to be a programmer..."

Interestingly, at big company these days, it seems like everyone with a title seems confident to declare themselves competent to lead any arbitrary software development activity. Like software development is easy!

Man, the ball that forms in my stomach every time the guy with the title starts to lead specific software engineering activities, even when the interns on the team would never hire them to be in that role.
I'm a total noob and was able to complete this and really enjoyed it I think you just need to start adding courses so people can actually start using it a lot.
From my experience, it's not "over-abstraction" per se which is causing performance issues. Rather, it's that people who work at the upper levels of abstraction don't understand how layers below work. E.g. web-developer not understanding what SQL their ORM library generates and how database execute that SQL. Abstractions are supposed to hide details at certain level. However, in practice you still need to understand how things work at lower level, as Joel Spolsky's famous Law of Leaky Abstractions states.

I've seen that problem frequently in the world of enterprise software, where you often have many layers developed by different groups of developers. Developers at level N treat level N-1 as black box. This often leads to performance issues.
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What does it mean to be a "reformed hacker" anyway?

Does it mean that he does not black-hat hack anymore? Or that he does not "hack"?

How do we know he does not "hack"? maybe he doesn't do it publicly but he still "hacks" to his OSX/Linux box.
Consensus is the biggest reason...
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Having used state machines a lot for embedded development, I find that they have one huge drawback: the resulting C code is unreadable, which turns maintenance into a nightmare.

SM have a key quality: they are a compact and unambiguous way for specifying a behavior. If your system's behavior is set in stone, it's worth specifying it as a SM and implementing it as one. This SM is also great to include in a spec, standard, RFC etc. But if the system evolves, small changes can require dramatic reshaping of the machine.

Also, they can lead to very efficient implementations, especially if you don't have the benefits of a serious OS with a fancy scheduler underneath.
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I think the point is that you don't need to know all the dry theory and the names for everything.
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Ask HN: Encrypt Elgg config file?
Any ideas of direction for how to encrypt an elgg config file?
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Great writing, but here is a quibble regarding the "...pretty girl, maybe 23 years old. She’s not beautiful... she’ll... be a very good wife for someone."

Ouch. I know he's just day-dreaming there, and his point is that she is a "normal" person. But why define her success in terms of being a "wife for someone"? She could -already- be an incredibly successful, independent person living life on her own terms, making her own rules.

And for all we know, she may be just as alienated from normalcy as the author. Sorry to nitpick but this hit home for me.
Pigeon-holing? Quite the opposite. I'm making the difference between "should" and "could". That's exactly because not everyone is a specialist, neither I am, but at the same time not everyone is a generalist! :)

Exactly like I'm saying in the middle of the article, "you have to know this stuff", but you don't have to know also how this stuff is done, you can, of course. But it's not a must. :)

It's always sad for me to hear people with bad experiences with designers or developers, but really, I don't think that "code" is the answer. I believe that "teamwork" is the answer. Knowing. Discussing. Collaborating. I've never seen a team doing that failing, regardless of the mix of skills :)
Why is too much mocking bad?
Sweet, now someone just has to get into my google account settings and I'm screwed.
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I know, it's wonderful when you can do both, but I think it shouldn't be forced on everyone. Not everyone is a specialist, and not everyone is a generalist. Forcing one, or the other, is harmful. :)
What? I'm not saying 'the market says x so it must be true' - I'm saying 'the market sets the price and it has set at in such a way that one can deduce that it values cash over labor'. In other words, coming by cash is harder than coming by somebody who does whatever it is that the guy in the article would be doing (presumably programming). Which is a statement that is entirely reasonable, objective and morally neutral.
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Thanks good point.
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A mod on irc is not a mere bypasser. It is, to some
extent, someone who maintains the network.

No, just no. There's a fundamental difference between a channel and a network operator. The former has absolutely zero to do with network maintenance - it's simply someone who happens to have a specific flag (+o) set on a specific channel.

A network operator (often called Opers) is someone who has - as the name implies - administrative privileges over the network or parts thereof.

However, if we now follow the line of argument that a network operator should be held liable for the actions of his or her users, we're in the same boat as the people who claim that ISPs or other service providers should be held liable for the action of their users - which is ridiculous.

she is, technically, supporting anonymous.

In what way is that a crime? Anonymous is simply a decentralized, anarchistic and extremely loose collective of people who have chosen to affiliate themselves with it. You cannot hold people who affiliate themselves with it liable for the actions (legal or not) of others with the same affiliation.

The problem is that no one in organizations like the FBI can even grasp the notion of a collective that does not rely on authority or centralization. It's like quantum physics are to a mere mortal - utterly incomprehensible.
That's up for debate. Zuckerberg did early hacking on his own, but he started the company with Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes.
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>there is the 5th amendment right to keep your mouth shut

The 5th does not work like that: you have a right to refuse to yourself and your spouse, but not anyone else. That is why prosecutors (and Congress) sometimes grants a witness immunity: it removes the witness's right to plead the 5th and thereby compels the witness to testify or go to jail.
Happened to me.

Years of effort . . . startup bought . . . eventually wound up with 17 shares of Oracle.

I'm not bitter. It was a fun ride, I learned a lot, and after an initial pay cut (when I first joined, and funding was tight) I got paid a decent salary.
I would give a lot to work only on projects where there were too many levels of abstraction. It's a very real problem, I agree, but at least it implies that the people working on the project understand the concept of abstraction and trying to build a large code base with some kind of systematic design. The most common alternative seems to be having little deliberate software architecture at all, and that is much worse.
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I think Start-Ups as understood in the USA is also strongly connected to the peoples philosophy and culture. Knowing a little about the German and UK start-up scene, I feel that European entrepreneurs and investors favour a more risk-averse and engineered approach instead of the "let's do it and get rich or die trying" approach I feel is more common in the US. Just applying the US approach to another country where people think and feel totally different about the topic of founding companys can't work. But why should there not be other approaches that also work fine? Of course they might not lead to the same goals, Steve Blank has defined for a Start-Up-Ecosystem, but why should they? Maybe less innovation and less compensation might be okay, if you get also less risk for example.
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Cambiar la apariencia de tu cuerpo haciendo lo mismo.
And yes, building up trust is a very difficult problem which may prove un-solveable.
Likewise. I have Chrome, Chrome Canary, Chrome Incognito, Chrome Canary Incognito open at all times. Just so I can use multi accounts on Google products.

I wish they could make this simple.
You know it's an open source project and you could go ahead and add code yourself to support a more sensible shortcut on German keyboards, right?

The sense of entitlement when it comes to something created and used freely, solely for the purpose of making the world better, sometimes simply astounds me.
Linus, however, is not distributed. If a malicious commit was discreetly slipped into his repository as a seemingly Linus-sourced change, there is enough trust in him that the change would likely propagate.
They must understand that user can (and should be able to) change (just the) font size, if not their designs are often useless.
I think it depends on how much work was actually done before you joined. If the 2 co-founders already completed the main app/product, and you joined, 1% actually sounds fair. If you're gonna be the one creating almost the entire product from scratch, 1% is pitiful.
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The problem here is 'designers' is an ambiguous term and 'code' is a loose term. If the sentence is "Web designers should know at least HTML/CSS." as it should be, then the debate would proceed properly instead of everybody missing each other's point. Framing this whole argument into "designers should code" is not doing any side any favor.
Wait I forgot about this part:

"If markets were even close to accurate, consider that the range of pay for professional software developers would vary by at least a factor of 10 just around the middle of the bell curve."

That's ludicrous, because you're taking a narrow (and objectively wrong) definition of 'market' and 'market value'. The spread in pay is much lower than you suggest it should be because the market discounts for the difficulty in quantifying the marginal added value between programmers that you suggest exists - in other words, it's too hard for employers to find out about this difference, and hence there is less room in willingness to pay (well that's talking from assumptions that are favorable to your argument - I think the much more rational explanation is that the '10 times difference' myth is a programmer circle jerk) (I'm a programmer myself)
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"for Python we will not be supporting concurrent requests until Python 2.7 is live"

Could I be guessing right in that this means no concurrancy at all within a given instance - so an instance chewing CPU time an instance blocked waiting for IO to complete are no different in this model.
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I suppose it's easy to assert that a site is immune to ES when it's in its infancy-- the argument made here is that HN's niche hardcore basis protects it, but the same argument could have been made for reddit 5 years ago, a case which they curiously use as a token example of ES. I think the takeaway here is that only intentional and deliberate measures to protect against homogenization of a community will work -- and these are often less egalitarian by design.
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> The Wizard is a man who escapes simple explanations

Oh man, nearly fell off my chair when I read that one, sounds like my boss! Keep writing please, I'm only on the second post and loving it.