skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a quote! I would have opted for exterminator — a satisfactorily legitimate profession, and a nice bit of tongue-in-cheek for those who know what is really meant.

As a child, when asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always answered that I wanted to kill bugs. Of course, this was a bit before our meaning of "bug" became common knowledge, so it always got a good laugh. I'm thrilled to have followed my childhood dream to be a part of this wonderful industry of err exterminators. Happy PD everybody!
I should add that 10 minutes later I got rid of that specific segfault I spent nights on! Wish you all the same luck.
That would be life as we know it on earth, there could be life that uses different chemistry. But really the life questions seem unanswerable since all we can detect is the wobble of these distant stars.
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The software engineer intern position offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced tech environment.

> Qualifications

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> Contact info
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Haha, that will teach me to throw in links late at night ;)

Here is a better link:
http://www.john-daly.com/hockey/hockey.htm
How does that old chestnut go? "If you want to build the safest car imaginable, put a huge, sharp spike right on the steering wheel"?
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You should specify Mac OS 9 when you say OS9. As soon as you said OS9, I thought you meant, well, OS9. OS9 definitely had pre-emptive multitasking about a hundred million years ago.
You should absolutely ask for more. 0.5-1% is more typical for early employees. The worst that can happen is they say no.

0.4% is great if it's the next Google. Assuming an early exit, that won't be life changing money.

Instead of making this an argument over how hard you can be expected to work, you could offer some flexibility on the salary ($10k lower than market until major financing is not going to be a big deal) or prove that you can add far more than 1% of value to the company.
I would recommend using a credit card that lets you download your transactions for tracking expenses. Unless you really need the detail of the individual items from your purchases. I tried scanning all my reciepts and found it was a waste of time, now I just scan reciepts for things that were over ~$100 that I might need to return under warranty.

If you get a scanner make sure it has full-duplex (scans both sides of the paper), A document feeder and is network based (beware cheaper models where you still need a driver to make it work).

I have a Brother 8890DW, which has scan to email and (I believe) scan to ftp.

If you are low volume I would definitely look at the camera based scanning options, then you can just use your phone.

As for management I just have a directory full of pdf's which I can search in windows. Simple but effective.
I also question how they would define a single "page," if they really did mean the web. That kind of a metric is so rife with nuances and varieties that I don't see how such research could be carried out meaningfully.
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Still needs some bug fixes though - the site is not showing at all on Chrome for me. May be due to one of my many privacy extensions.
"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

-- Arthur C. Clarke
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So awesome. Used them during our beta testing too and it was seamless.
Thanks for a great API guys, I tried to use it to do some interesting things during the TC hackathon this weekend, but one thing that prevented me from using it further was that there was no way to get a list of all the "tags".
I could have just iterated over ids, but really had no time or desire of doing it.
The use case for me was pretty much similar to what the user would be doing on your site -- Enter a few tags/markets like Automotive, Group Buying, Travel and see which companies are associated with all threes. But in order to do this and be able to autocomplete, id need access to the tags
> Any Russians want to tell us whether this holiday has any meaning to the ordinary Russians?

No.

[UPD]: Disambiguation: this holiday has no meaning to the ordinary Russians.
Just a historical note: common Western belief in a flat earth is a nineteenth-century myth popularized by Washington Irving and Antoine-Jean Letronne. Since Pythagoras, to my knowledge only Lactantius (c. 245–325) and Cosmas Indicopleustes (first half of the sixth century) publicly argued that the earth is flat. Lactantius was considered a heretic for his Manichaean worldview and Cosmas did not intend his model, which was sharply criticized by his contemporary John Philoponus, to be taken literally.
We learned about the ice ages coming in cycles in school, 25 years ago. It is common knowledge - I think the climate researchers have probably heard about it, too. Honestly, I am so tired of hearing this oh so clever counterpoint.
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I always use this query to count how many pages does Google have in the index

http://www.google.nl/search?q=a

It's not the same thing (some studies estimate nonindexed to indexed pages as 500:1) but it says ~27.5B pages.
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That article doesn't say what you seem to think it says. Or at least, the Register, in their usual slip-shod journalistic style, have been very fast and loose about the sources of different pieces of information in the article. NASA notes that their measurements indicate that the Sun is going into a low-activity period. They also note that the last time we saw this, it correlated to the Little Ice Age. They do not make any claim about a causal link between the two, simply noting that it something that is perhaps worth investigating. The Register then go on to wildly speculate that this could mean that we are heading into a Little Ice Age. I hope you don't mind if I don't take the opinion of a journalist at The Register as a serious scientific exposition.

There are major problems with this hypothesis. Firstly, it doesn't fit with our reductionist understanding of how the climate interacts with the Sun. For example, this period of 'low activity' corresponds to a drop of just 0.1% (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_variation) of the Sun's output - a drop that is too small to produce the Little Ice Age all by itself.

Secondly, even if the Sun's output of energy drops, there is the question of whether it's lower output can offset the calculated rise in temperature due to the extra CO2 in the atmosphere. The answer there is a resounding 'no', based on our current understanding of how greenhouse gases work. So once again, you're trying to argue for an unknown deus ex machina to save the hypothesis.

If you haven't noticed, each objection to climate change finishes in that same way - they all rely on some unknown effect changing the results that simulations are currently showing. Not surprisingly, most scientists prefer to wait for some substantial evidence that such an effect exists before throwing out the explanation resulting from all effects known as of today.

Also, if you really want to rely on the Sun's output to save us from global warming, I have to note in passing that a) we can't control the Sun, and b) we can't even predict the Sun very well (no one anticipated the latest minimum, so we have no idea when it's going to change).

You can poke at anomolies all you like, but unless you can upset the basic reductionist science that I outlined in my original post, you aren't doing science, you're doing politics.
I missed the point you are trying to make.
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well, we all are greedy bastards, however - 0.4% sounds too low assuming that for the start-up you will have to put in all your passion even when it is not there. danielharan gave good advice - if you lower their costs at the moment (your salary) they might be interested in increasing your equity part. And yes, you are taking risk. P.s. if they succeed, you will have created much more than 0.4% of the value.
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Skepticism is a good thing. Where would we be without it? The earth would still be flat. Why does he have to have some alternative motive for being skeptical? Skepticism is the basis of real science - trying to prove a hypothesis wrong to make sure that it is bullet proof. If it cannot be proven one way or the other, then it is not a fact, it is just a hypothesis.
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Have you investigated the literature in such a way that you would expect to be aware of "thousands of articles" if they were really there?
Diamond or not, that's a cool discovery. The author though is making a mistake when he says that "The scientific method is universal. If we selectively ignore it in certain disciplines, we do so at our peril."

Science is broader than those disciplines where the hypothetico-deductive method is appropriate ("the natural sciences"). Science is the quest for knowledge, and epistemology, or the "science of knowledge", informs us of another particular method, the axiomatic-deductive, appropriate for "the social sciences".

The first rule of "the scientific method" is there is no scientific methoD. There are scientific methodS. The author has fallen victim to the all-too-common "scientism" that has swept the globe from the 19th century onward.

Should it be enough that there is wide agreement in peer reviewed journals to really make something so? In a similar situation, there's wide agreement from economists on what makes the world tick, yet these folks with little job prospects outside of government or academia manage to repeatedly fail to create models which display predictive power.

In the case of economics, the 'scientific method' chosen, that of mathematical economics, is inappropriate since human action "plays by different rules" than pulsars. Climate scientists similarly have the ability to influence politics.

At least they are using the correct type of method, but to say that X number of peer reviewed journals establishes the anthropocentric warming hypothesis as true is a logical error. Climate scientists need to exhibit predictive power and the fact is they haven't been able to do that. Historical evidence also doesn't lend itself to the idea that small amounts of warming will lead to disaster. It's a great story to put people into a panic and manipulate them but there is just not the necessary proof.

For more details see Howard Hayden's one-letter disproof of global warming claims: http://www.stephankinsella.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Ha...
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You know, I can pretty safely say that fatherhood depletes everything.
I certainly agree with the skepticism in regards to some aspects of string theory, and my impression is that skepticism is widely held. However, I don't think your interpretation of the extra dimensions of string theory is correct when you suggest that it would be possible to insert a God into them. The extra dimensions of string theory are tiny and curled up, not additional time-dimensions.

The other major flaw that I see in your argument is that you don't define God. If you posit that God exists, you need to define what that means, and what that God is. I put it to you that any such definition you could come up with would render the concept of God mundane and not divine, and thus would be irrelevant to any believer. You are of course welcome to disprove me on that point.

My point is not that people need to believe in the conclusions of the theory or even the theory itself, but that people would disagree with your definition of God to such an extent to render any such theory meaningless.

edit: I should also say that it is absolutely true that any theory that cannot be disproven experimentally is not a valid scientific theory but merely a hypothesis. All of the examples you give are hypotheses that, at some point, either an experiment was conceived to test them, or that still remain hypotheses. This doesn't mean that untestable hypotheses are worthless, but they do not qualify as scientific theories (yet).
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Africans aren't so stupid afterall. Who do you think reads studies, anyway?

Fucken retards! Make yerselves useful and do a study to show work increases testosterone.
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If electric cars take off and everyone starts charging them at home, you can be pretty certain we'll see a huge spike in the electricity usage of the average American home.
Even if we accept your claim that only 1 in 1000 inventions help the world, which I think is pessimistic, that's still progress. What would you rather people do? Not invent?

A programmer writing a new framework might not directly help cure Neurofibromatosis but they might make it slightly easier for another programmer, which is then inspired to work on his program, which saves a medical researcher a few minutes and gives him the time he needs to have his breakthrough. Or maybe a better search result gave him what he needs. Technology is cumulative. Criticising people because they're not working on your favoured project is pretty lame.
Degrees in computer science and computer engineering are in the top 10 for average earnings. We get to build all kinds of cool stuff used by people around the world. For many of us, programming is fun. And we get paid to do it!

Every day is programmer's day.
As science is done in big teams I'd say it would take a lot to cover someones ass. You usually have a professor, some scientists and a heckload of students of all levels, all interested in finding out the truth (more or less I guess).

I'm in climate research (as a Bachelor candidate, granted) and I wouldn't let anything like that slip, and I know I'm not the only one.
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm wasting my time. Idiots like this will never be entirely eradicated from the industry.

Maybe my next blog post should be a direct attack on recruiters, calling them out on there bullshit attitudes and illegal tactics.
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Of course, I am aware of Memolane. Significantly different product than ours. They are aimed at creating a timeline-based life history by importing all your social media.

We're aimed at allowing people create highly-customisable timelines on any subject for presentations. embedding on websites etc. We 're much more like TimeGlider, Preceden and BeeDoc's Timeline 3D than Memoland.
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To my opinion, the main purpose of teaching mathematics is to teach abstraction and abstract reasoning... It is not to teach how to balance a checkbook!
Some interesting data I pulled together today:

Approximate revenue-per-employee. Data from Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia.

Apple makes $2,000,000 per employee. Facebook makes $1,500,000. Google makes $1,000,000. Microsoft makes $800,000. Sony makes $500,000. Kraft makes $400,000. Walmart makes $200,000. McDonalds makes $60,000.

Now, if only there was a good source of users-per-engineer. I read that Facebook is somewhere around 1,260,000. That's just awesome.

We create so much value, and for so many people.
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> I know of several Russians who...

just out of curiosity: xxxXXxxXXxXx-DEATH-xxxxXXxxx by any chance?
"More than three jacket buttons is never appropriate for anything".

Except perhaps this guy at his wedding:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William_in_uniform.jpg
You sound like a creationist. Those stubborn evolutionists also allegedly take the facts for granted and never question them (never mind that for example usually creationists dwell on completely irrelevant 'facts').
Not wanting to be confrontational but what are you talking about. There is nothing wrong with the punctuation of that text. It might not be Dostoyevskian in its elegance but it is grammatically correct.
And ignoring form causes negative reactions that are best avoided, particularly in cases like this where they are unnecessary.

What's better is a happy medium, wherein one does not go overboard in either direction.
You admitted in anther thread that you don't even know what ClimateGate was about, yet you cite it again. #fail
Demaillien:

I completely agree with you on this:

"If you haven't noticed, each objection to climate change finishes in that same way - they all rely on some unknown effect changing the results that simulations are currently showing. Not unsurprisingly, most scientists prefer to wait for some substantial evidence that such an effect exists before throwing out the explanation resulting from all effects known as of today."

We can create all sorts of models but the harsh truth is that they are all very rough estimates. We know that solar fluxations cause temperature change, we know that CO2 does, etc. The problem lies with the measurements. We cannot accurately measure our future CO2 levels, we don't know exactly how much CO2 is getting transformed by trees and at what rate, and we do not know how much CO2 is coming from under-sea vents and how much methane from cow farts. In fact, our models have already been proven wrong many times over, inside and outside of climate research. In fact, 60 percent of all scientific studies done have been wrong. We have a tendency (as humans) to make invalid assumptions and jump to conclusions about data without accounting for all of the dependent and independent variables. There are a ton of variables, and no accurate way to measure all of them yet.

Arguing for or against climate change is like trying to tell a religious person that God does not exist. You cannot prove or disprove it, so it is kind of fruitless either way.

At the end of the day, there is one take-away: differentiating facts from hypothesis. We have a lot of hypotheses, but very few facts.
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But he did not have that name before he started his scheme, right? Same with all the EVE bank scams... none of them were all that famous and started "from scratch" and at first just baited people with normal operations.

The difference is that Madoff never EVER had any real business to begin with and basically just distributed money around and made sure enough was coming in to cover it.
I wrote 130,000 lines of code in 7 years. My reality is broken--in some kind of prison. Trying to force myself not to waste anymore effort.

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Yeah, I'm like dead or something. It's pretty nice, but this reality has it's own construction. Direct approaches often don't work, not that indirect would work better. :-)

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We spent some solid time (and lawyer fees) getting this right, after inheriting a draconian agreement from our long-ago corporate parent. Now you own anything you do on your own time, so long as isn't directly relevant to our business.

By the way this didn't stand in the way of investment at all, as some commentators here suggest.
I updated, I played the game, I kept my scores and achievements. This is on the secret version of the iOS though, maybe it's just a bug that affects 4.* installs?
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Smoke and mirrors, smoke and mirrors...
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And you are obviously a very calm and objective person, without any preconceived idea over Apple users, I notice.