skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All told, it's probably more valuable and actionable information than Facebook will ever have about you. Oh look, you claim to "like" some restaurant that gave you a special deal for mashing the "like" button. Isn't that precious--meanwhile, you actually eat more often at this one just across the street.
Seems to have worked for EDS/Cap Gemini/IBM/Whatever-Anderson-is-called-today so far
That is one of the clearest explanation of this term. Maybe NoACID would have been more representative.
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Ask HN: I need advice for a (maybe?) unique position 
I currently work for a small, five-person online health & fitness startup. We're less a company and more an 'image' (the face of the company is a fitness professional(s) and we don't really have an online product - think DVDs and nutrition advice). Therefore, there's a stranglehold on the company because the company has an 'image' to protect; i.e. not much innovation/risk taking.

Eight months ago, I was brought on to help out with social media and marketing with the possibility of developing into a more web management role (something I was interested in because I find it challenging and had experience with an engineering partner from some side projects a few years ago - FYI, all to no avail). That possibility hasn't come to fruition and doesn't seem like it will, so I'm incredibly uninterested and unchallenged.

Needless to say, I've finally realized the 'image' won't be letting go any time soon. And I can't blame them. I mean, the entire company is their face, their voice, and their personality. So I completely understand where they're coming from.

But.. it's not for me.

I know that much and I know I have to get out. It's even given me the opportunity to reflect. I'm fascinated by people and the opportunity to be right or wrong. I know what I'm good at/enjoy doing: negotiating, analyzing situations/people/numbers, and managing projects. This sucks to admit and I've tried avoiding it my entire adult/work life, but I'm kind of decent at manipulating people too.. ugh.

Anyway, here comes the annoying part:

I may be going on a reality show sometime next year (yes, I know this is lame and dumb - but whatever, it's a reality - pun intended!). I'm guessing it's a 50% chance, maybe more. And I won't find out anything concrete for at least a couple more months.

Do I have to do the show? No. Do I want to? Yeah, I figure, why not - for me it's the experience and fun of it all. How can I apply for jobs when I have this reality show (which might not even happen) looming in the background?

tl;dr - I want to get of a job that isn't challenging and start a new career that plays to my strengths/interests. Although, a reality show that I want to do, is rearing it's ugly head.

Any advice? I'm guessing I can't eat my cake and have it too.
That was a good read. I'm not sure how it fits in with HN but that doesn't really matter to me. Please forgive me if my whiteness has left me ignorant on the topic but one thing that I find interesting is that much of the "conflict" you outlined in those four situations seems to be brought on more by your own "race" (as you put it). You mentioned getting teased by your teammates on your "all black team". You mentioned your family speaking with disdain for people who dated out of their race. You mention the people who say you aren't acting black enough (while you didn't specifically say who was saying this, I can't imagine who else would be so bold as to tell you that "you lost your black card" other than someone still holding their "black card".) Regarding the "Token Black Guy" part, that probably falls equally on everyone.

I don't know if your intent in this piece was to bring those issues into the light in that way but, personally, I think it does a good job of describing the struggle that you have even within your own "race" (I really hate using that word since we are all human... but an alternative is eluding me at the moment). Thanks for taking the time to put it out there. I wish I could say that I know what it is like but there is no possible way for me to compare. While I've had times when I've been subject to intimidation and ridicule for no other reason than being white, I didn't grow up with that as an everyday possibility.
"Do hirers give feedback?"

Generally no. All it does is open up the possibility of lawsuits and invite an argument. If you tell someone they were dropped from consideration for reason X then you invite the applicant to rebut that reasoning. But the truth is that the company has decided not to proceed and there is nothing the applicant can do about it. Thus folks who have been around the block a few times simply say, "We've decided not to proceed" and leave it at that.

That is a sad thing but I don't think it will change.
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Gazrogers, I think I understand your point, perhaps this was never going to generate much discussion. However, I found the meaning of 'Rubbernecker' and the poor performance of $FB to be quite poignant or whimsical. Not everything needs to be controversial or incredibly eye-opening.
Getting this error after authorising with Twitter:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/app/.heroku/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tornado/web.py", line 897, in wrapper
return callback(args, *kwargs)
File "/app/handlers/auth.py", line 26, in _on_auth
raise tornado.web.HTTPError(500, "Twitter Auth Failed")
HTTPError: HTTP 500: Internal Server Error (Twitter Auth Failed)
What if what I spend my money on is private? I don't really want my spending habits to be social.
I might not be understanding you correctly, but wouldn't the independent improvement also help the random bandit choices? If you are using the forgetting factor this shouldn't be a real issue.

My problem with the bandit method is that I want to show the same test choice to the same person every time he sees the page so you can hide that there is a test. If I do this with the bandit algo then it warps the results because different cohorts have different weightings of the choices and differing cohorts behave very differently for lots of reasons.
Ignorance is Strength?
or
Freedom is Slavery?

Look what freedom has brought us? Spyware. Google tracking. Cookies. Shared objects. Worms. Trojans. Viruses. Key loggers. Registry hax. Unauthorized bandwidth usage. Real Time Virus scans. Software that's hard. Having to configure. flaky hardware.

Apple liberates us from freedom and we love them for it.
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"The Economist recently put the fraud loss rate at approximately 0.35% of transactions and up to 1.8% for online payments"

For the ~$2 trillion[1] going through online payments, bringing down the online fraud loss by every 0.1% is equal to $2B, if over time Facebook can reduce that online fraud rate by 0.5% or more there is your $10B.

Using your real identity to make online payments could reduce that to real world levels.

If this is the case then reducing the fraud rate from 1.8% to 0.35% in online payments (a reduction of 1.45%) would calculate to a savings of $29B for this industry.

Thus, if Facebook is able to be a major part of that reduction by using real identities then they will get much of this transaction business. If they are able to pull this off there is no stopping them...

Feel free to rip me apart, but there is some validity to may arguments :)

[1] http://www.edgardunn.com/uploads/100012_english/100385.pdf
I might be reading this wrong, but from the slides it seems like JOINs are only fast when they are on the same machine. Their own ORM library avoids using JOINs all together. Doesn't that defeat the point of using an RDBMS?
But pay-with-facebook is also going to be limited to what you can buy - so thewir risk is greatly reduced

They don't have to worry about stolen cards used in the high street, they don't have to do cash advances, they don't have pin pads skimming people's pins in stores.
Yes because anybody who has been accussed of rape is clearly guilty. And a child molester.
If it doesn't work as a programming/hardware hacking teaching tool, it'll certainly work as a cheap media centre/file server/thing for various cool cheap projects.
The difference is that you're not free to leave in an actual prison.
Exactly. So if we all did it then we get even more benefit.
There is an irony/snark/sarcasm punctuation symbol in English: ⸮

cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation
Thanks for the links. BTW, the trailing ">" you are inserting is getting caught in HN's automatic linking and being inserted into the <A> tag.
+1. I bought a Golf TDI 2 months ago, and couldn't be happier. I'm getting "only" 35mpg overall, but that's just because with a great chassis setup and lots of torque it's hard to keep your right foot out of it. It's that near-impossible combination - an economy car that's actually a blast to drive.

Great highway cruiser too - nice to only be turning ~2200 RPM at 70, and getting 45 mpg while doing it.
Interesting, what kind of family policy would you propose, if not that of eliminating non-eugenic individuals? I mean, is there a way eugenics can work without removing human rights? (serious question, no judgement made) I haven't read Francis Galton's original doctrine so apologies if this is obvious to those who have.
Cool idea, but am I missing something? I couldn't find any details or sources on the maps.

http://sourcemap.com/view/2542#stop-10

OK, Nutella takes a stop in Brazil...for what? Says who?
We do it with livestock, so why not us?

That's my Human Shearing Prison Camp's slogan! We're also big in the soylent green business.
This interface is way too cluttered. They're showing a half-dozen arbitrary numbers per restaurant and that means absolutely nothing to me. The UX needs a lot of work and needs to get beyond this silly made-for-computers rating system.

Do they really expect me to calculate the average "cost per person" too? I know it says optional but that's absurd.
Very little added here, mainly a summary of the EFF blog post at https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/05/apples-crystal-prison-... discussed here previously at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4036596
Yeah, that's what I thought too. I wasn't sure how much the devs could do from a brief look at the PDF, and it felt like they got vague at that point.
> And drugs are entirely different from guns

Not from the supplier's point of view. (There is one difference - guns aren't consumables. Ignoring that, the US could supply a gun per crime with less than 1% of the suspected marijuana smuggling volume.)

FWIW, I've been offered illegal guns in both England and Japan. "You" may not know where to find them (but I suspect that you're lying to yourself about that) but anyone who does can.
You can get "Visa Debit" cards
There are a large number of microprocessor-based devices in my home, on and about my person that I can't program (without a great deal of difficulty). A dishwasher, a microwave, a thermostat, a landline telephone, a router, car computers; the list goes on.

The iPhone isn't a 'device', it's an appliance. Apple are happy with it being that way. If you don't like it, buy an Android. I thought we'd all had this discussion already?
The only reason it's technically not Turing-complete is because of its limited memory. The Malbolge Unshackled variant has unlimited memory and is Turing-complete.
if you are wondering what nice stats you can get from the combination of sitemap.xml + google webmaster tools figures.

some time ago i did a little test with a site (500K+ pages) that had indexing issues.

we sliced and diced that sitemap into a very very simple content quality metric (think char count of the main (medium unique) content) (the higher, the less content)

this is what we got https://img.skitch.com/20120123-bm3jpjdtt4xrr2t2mxqnikmu54.p...

then we submitted the same landingpages sliced and diced after URL length (the higher, the longer the URL) https://img.skitch.com/20120123-kqnnb15bj2puy2k276jiupxg12.p...
MS: Xbox 360 = 67M Sold (This Is Why No New Xbox at E3)
Saved and invested are definitely NOT the same thing. They have very, very different impact on life expectancy etc. You can't buy a copying machine with virtual dollars.

Cash is king.
It would be very convenient for someone, somewhere, to establish a widely accepted micropayment system for the Internet.

Google Adsense fills that niche. People who run a website get money from teeny little clicks that their vistors do.
Strong financial incentives for selected individuals to reproduce; penalties for others.
>"bypass the credit card companies"

I have both an American Express and a Visa (because Amex just isn't accepted some places). The customer service has been nothing but amazing, even when dealing fraudulent charges. And the cards are accepted everywhere.

What I'm saying is, I don't feel any need whatsoever to bypass my credit card company to pass my information off to a start up.
It would seem to me that there are many more factors that go into making a decision like this worthwhile versus getting screwed.

-Type of company(do you like the product, is it something you can see yourself wanting to wake up for?)

-Type of founders (like-minded, fun having, professional but not bureaucratic - comes to mind as possible wanted features)

-Equity(literal percentage wise and decision making-wise, are you going to be leading a team in a year? or still grinding away all day?)

-Perks(Gym in workplace? What about sports area? Video game room? Movie theater spot?)

-Location(Where will you get to work, a nice second story office overlooking the bay? a park?)

-etc...

These are just off the top of my head. I'm sure there's more.

Edit: Fixed my line spacing.
there might be an argument in there, but it's hard to find amidst all the neoliberal bashing. I'm not necessarily against such bashing, but boy does ideology show through.
There's no way for someone to know if they're blocked or not, though. It's not like Facebook where if you block someone, you are prohibited from interacting with them in any way. You can still send @messages, but the target won't see them. DMs can't be sent unless you're friends.
But the end result is that they need to get, in pure revenue, $25/user across the entire world. It's an average across the entire user space.
the sheer number of possible answers is overwhelming, but pretty much everything Google does fails, except for search and email. (I can't be the only one who's afraid to find out what their cars are like.) so I'm going to say the reason Google Wallet failed is because it was neither search nor email.

I guess you could say Android is only half a failure, because the constant catch-up game they're playing with Apple isn't going as badly as the constant catch-up game Google Plus (and Wave, and whatever they called the other one) plays with Facebook.

but seriously, business failure can happen for so many reasons, it doesn't really mean anything at all, unless of course you see a string of people failing at the same thing.
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Facebook don't have 1 billion customers. They have 1 billion users. If you don't pay for something (Facebook) you are not a customer, you are the product.
Another example of just what a huge goldmine Russian technical journals can be for researchers, if you can read them.
We also practiced eugenics in the US on a small scale though forced sterilizations.

Unfortunately, the problem with tests is it's vary hard to measure the right things. And vary easy to end up with a Japanese style system where meaningless information becomes important simply by being on the test.

So, in the US we sterilized some people who had genuine genetic issues, but others because they where slightly below average and came from a poor background, or and others for being gay.
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I spent 7 months traveling last year, and think you could definitely pull something like this off. As far as maintaining your budget, the two biggest things you'd need to consider would be how frequently you travel and where you're traveling to.

A lot of people tend to sprint from place to place when traveling, which is both exhausting and expensive. If possible, I prefer to pick one spot and spend between 1 to 4 weeks there to really get a feel for it. This would be much more conducive to freelancing (staying put) and to your budget as transportation eats up funds quickly. It also lets you travel for longer periods of time as you don't tire nearly as quickly.

Secondly, as you already know, your location will determine if your 2K / month budget is realistic. Planning on spending lots of time in Zurich? You "might" be able to swing it at 2K Euro a month, but you'll have to be really, really careful. On the other hand, you can live like a king in South America on that every month. In Ecuador, I spent $10 dollars / day for a beachfront hotel room with two daily meals. It wasn't 5 star, but it was beautiful, authentic and amazingly affordable.

Best of luck! You can definitely make it happen...
Here's an idea: remove all politics from the process completely and do away with performance-oriented bonus systems.

They've taken what was essentially a way to make their work into a game and... made it into a game.

Making work into a game is an idiotic idea. Make work into work. Pay people a fair salary that gets their minds off of their salary. Align the goals of the employee with the goals of the company, not their own selfish instincts to game whatever system you put in place to try to "reward" them. Make the success of the company be their reward, whether that be with equity or simple fair across-the-board raises.

I worked for a company a few years ago that used to be full of politics and internal conflict. One year they did extremely well and decided to simplify and give everyone a straight $10,000 bonus, from the janitor to the CEO. There was no way to game this: everyone knew how much everyone got. Everyone was proud of the company and each other. Instead of secretly discussing how much bonus other people got behind their back, everyone was excited and happy and asking each other "so what are you going to do with your 10 G's?" It was the best day at that company.

You can argue against this all you want, but I experienced a level of alignment there that was unparalleled. The people who get off on doing all they can to advance their own paycheck and get a bigger bonus only ended up hurting the company through their politics and game-playing. They were invariably working in a self-centered direction tangent to the company's goals. When that was removed, the dynamic changed completely and it was remarkable how much improvement the company saw not just in the workplace but across the board. New products were released that year that were better than the last, quality improved, efficiency improved.

These fears that in order to achieve high performance, we must reward the high performers with carrots and hit the slackers with sticks are a bastardized religious fiction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
If you look at the example tables, what they're doing is sharding based on customerID, so sections of those tables with the same customerID "stick" together and are guaranteed to be stored together, on the same machine(s) (plural because of replication). Their workload is such that the workload is dominated by JOINs that do not mix customerIDs, hence the JOIN is run on a single machine, inside the database process, which is fast. They do support JOINs across customerIDs, but it probably involves the client (or a proxy process) fetching rows and merging/sorting them, ie. it happens outside the server process, probably on another machine, and is much slower.

The same trade-off also happens with transactions: if all the WRITEs are for the same customerID, it will be fast with almost no performance hit compared to issuing the same commands without transactions. They also support transactions across customerIDs, which involves an expensive 2-phase commit (2PC) round across the machines (across the Paxos quorums, really), which will be much slower.

Disclaimer: I wrote a distributed database with similar design decisions.
Yeah, the biggest issue with management in general (and performance reviews in particular) is that it's focused on what people are doing poorly at/where they need improvement.

Good managers find out what each employee is awesome at and get them doing it. If you hire someone and what they love to do and are great at isn't what you need at your company, then you've hired the wrong person. But I know lots of people who left a job because they kept asking to be moved to a different role, different team, etc, and nothing happened.

Managers: focus on what each person is great at and loves to do.
That "strong oversight" has been hampered by a refusal to publish details (we have absolutely no clue why there are so many wiretaps, and it's been hard enough to get the authorities to publish the raw numbers), and the oversight fails when it comes to storing and providing access to the collected data.

The latter is particularly worrying, because we already know that in other areas, police access to private data collection is seriously being abused, and very badly organized.

The oversight basically starts and ends with granting the permission to wiretap. Everything else is murky as hell.
Except that it "Can't do cross-shard transactions or joins". It either must have some really intelligent way to distribute the shards, or you would be losing some key database features along the way.
Most of the awesome software running the WWW is running in tightly sealed compartments, hidden away from our sight.

Imagine being able to see Google's search engine source code. That'd be truly something.

Unfortunately market forces are still pretty much in control of much of the world's most interesting software.
Aside from the points the author makes, this would also improve Facebook's advertising model a lot. They would have purchasing information from basically every segment/product/niche/market out there.

You put an ad on Facebook. People click on it an buy with FB-pay. You then get a ton of marketing data to better aim your ads. Tine of purchase, day, credit card type, marital status (confirmed versus Fb status), income information, billing address, etc.

All in one convenient place. How much would businesses pay for that? A lot. Evidence? Call your local mailing list broker and ask for a quote.

Of course, this will set off what I call "the privacy wars". Where the government will step in after some single mother of three is scammed and the story is picked up by some mommy-blogger who then sells the story to the huffington post, who then sells the article to CNN, who then puts it on TV. Then FOX makes a deal out of it, republicans notice, and make some lobbyist-impregnated bill that includes the "single-mommy law for online privacy".

But, we've had this coming for a while.
> 100 MPH on 96 MPG

WUT? Translation for the civilized world, please.
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