skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be operating under the assumption that results from all studies will be acted upon by everyone who reads them. This assumption undermines the rest of your points because the chances of someone making a high-profile hiring decision based on potential email response rates is laughably small. Also, I'm looking forward to your "shouldn't be done" condemnation of the original study (http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/marianne.bertrand/research/p...) that prompted this blog post.

What's scary is tacit admission that you'd rather censor scientific research than face some uncomfortable truths about human nature. What other studies about human psychology would you censor?

>How do you deal with this situation?

You don't, at least not in a liberal state like California. If I may be realistic for a moment: here, having a high-ranking employee who's hispanic-female-gay-disabled-atheist is an advantage.

>We've agreed as a society, for good and just reasons, that hiring decisions and compensation decisions should be completely blind to those (and other) factors.

This is either naive or delusional, because a lot of people seem to have missed the memo. As much as we may want to be impartial, personal preference will always play a part because we're humans instead of robots.

Moreover, there's the grey area called "team fit". I may hire Juan (Hispanic male) because he's very friendly and helpful, but has less experience than Jason (Caucasian male) who's very experienced but cold and aloof. If you look at this strictly from a technical qualifications point of view, then I discriminated against Jason. If you consider the big picture, then you see I made the right hiring decision.
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"I don't have a whole lot of experience, but I do have nearly 300 jumps"

300? I take my hat of for you sir! I must of had a bad day. It was very cloudy and the plane we jumped from ended up above the wrong island. We found out in time, corrected, found a hole in the clouds and went for it.
Hah, I thought I was the only one doing the stupid "jk" thing.
Yes, they do, and the admins support lots of freedom and experimentation for the subreddit moderation policies. (Although there are "default" subreddits that are a little weird.)

The sitewide bans, to my recollection, are of only two things (besides that which is illegal): sexualized pictures of children, and doxxing.
The shop I worked with, we had support on the machines, so Dell would send a tech out to replace a part for the servers that had valid support contracts. We still needed someone on the phone to remote-in to test the fix, of course.

For more complicated problems, our main colo was about 45 mins away from almost all the SAs. We used remote hands for colos that were an airplane ride away, and had varying (read: sometimes really shitty) results.
A similar volumetric slitscanning technique can be done using XBOX Kinect using 3D data points, here is a video result from an experimenter:

http://vimeo.com/51383370

"...this technique uses spatial + temporal data stored in a 4D Space-Time Continuum, and 3 dimensional temporal gradients (i.e. not just slitscanning on the depth/rgb images, but surface-scanning on the animated 3D point cloud)."
If people like luriel are consistently being hellbanned for speaking their mind on some non-programming topic, I still want to read what they're saying about programming.

Everyone has some controversial viewpoints on _some_ topic.
But that's not the point. I really don't care what programmers think about politics, religion, sexism or topics not related to computing. This guy had a refined taste for programming. Aesthetics. Plan 9, cat -v, suckless, Go. Not perfection, but sooooo much better than so much else.

The idea of hellbanning people who can actually think outside the box is troubling. Send them to some isolated, limited audience forum ("hell"?) if you wish. Just tell us where it is if we want to read it. Because I certainly do.
This is a frankly idiotic line of reasoning.

Nobody is suggesting that facebook is now allowed to do this. We are suggesting that facebook should not do this.
I wonder if that could be solved with a similar sort of design. Instead of a lock with a master key, how about a "break in case of fire" cover on the elevators? You could still have a lock and building-specific keys for non-emergency uses.
I shed tears for the companies that hire the "graduates" of this "start to finish plan."

I don't care how good of an instructor you are, you cannot make a programmer remotely efficient in HTML5 (primarily the countless APIs involved), CSS3, AND JavaScript in only 12 weeks.

I don't know how that job placement is going to work -- but unless these learners start as interns, I don't know how beneficial this would be for them.

There's "jumping into the deep end" and then there's "jumping into the Atlantic." I get a sense of the latter with this program.
My rack mount case is silent enough to record with a high quality condenser microphone in the same room. But it is 4U with 120mm slow fans.

Its all about how you build them. Obviously a 1U with 40mm fans running fast could make a lot of noise.
The pricing for Google Drive is a lot less lumpy. I would switch to Google Drive fulltime if they only had an official linux client.
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If you live on the East coast, there is usually enough humidity 9 months of the year to not cause static problems.
Yeah, I save lots and it's always the ones that I don't save that I want after the fact, heh :( They have a side bar item that lists the last 5 clicked stories, but it's clientside so it's not helpful either!
Alternatively you can just upvote the stories you want to save and then go to your HN profile.
Most of my friends don't understand what Dropbox is nor why they'd need it. They would rather transfer files by USB drive and email. And these are people that live off Netflix and Pandora and Facebook, so it's not like they're Luddites...
I also used StackOverflow Careers and found the position I just started.

I also tried the Who's Hiring HN thread, but I didn't find it very useful because of the small number of posts in my geographical area.

I tried LinkedIn, but found it very hard to filter down to a decent match for my skill set.
thanks for mentioning these!
A lot of colocation centers offer "unlimited" bandwidth, though I strongly suspect that may depend on whether you're running a porn site / megaupload clone or not. :)

Fortunately bandwidth is one thing that has gotten substantially cheaper over time:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/the-economics-of-ba...
Static does cause damage other than immediate catastrophic failure. It can degrade silicon in subtle ways, resulting in random errors or crashes or even slowness due to retrying transactions. Wearing the wrist strap is cheap insurance against mysterious badness.
This is Hacker News. Most of us are either entrepreneurs or understand the fundamental thinking behind being entrepreneurial. Surely we can do better than upvoting.

If you can't do anything effective as an individual, stop being just an individual. My path has been to develop an idea of what I want government to look like, and then start convincing other people, getting feedback to tweak my vision, and convincing more people. I won't recommend my path, since it's slow and probably will take longer than my lifetime; I have friends who are bootstrapping legislative bodies and know other people who are working on creating better cross-partisan dialogue and so on and so on.

Figure out what you want, figure out what it would take, and start climbing. This is a lot like entrepreneurship. Don't sit in your cube and imagine how much better it'd be to be your own boss; get an idea, get a prototype, get a notion of the market, get going.
> Of course it depends on what you're doing.

This sums up every comment here. Every web app is a unique snowflake and what works for you (EC2/Dedicated, SSD, RAM bandwidth) is just as unique.

Much more important than building your own server, is fully understanding your requirements, and deploying the appropriate solution. But it is still wicked fun to build a server.
You might see a change if one of Zuck's friends adds him to the "I LIKE SMASHING KITTENS" group. And another adds him to the "Fuck you, I'm rich." group.
Hi Detrus,

Interesting point.

I'm 5 ft 10 in, I weigh 12 stones (168 pounds), I can squat 75 kg (165 pounds) dead lift 90 kg and bench 55 kg. So although not amazing, but not awful either.

I'm barefoot or socks in general when standing and it is straight on to carpeted floor which I am beginning to think isn't padded enough.

Suggestions would be useful
Investors with a minor stake don't get to boss you around or gobble up all your time.
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> I have no sympathy for people that get found out because they put the information on Facebook and someone they didn't want to know saw it.

They didn't put the information on facebook. Someone else did and it looked like it came from them.
Maciej is 105% awesome, I'm a huge fan, and I linked several of his articles in the actual text of my post already. Go read them all!
I've never heard of a single person who switched to a standing desk fulltime. It seems as if the key is to have a setup which easily facilitates both standing and sitting with as easy/fast a switch between them as possible.
Magic (!) or investment, doesn't really matter, so long as he gets to focus on product instead of consulting.
Same here. First PC repair skill I learned was grounding myself (wrist to grounded computer case, or other grounded metal). Never zapped a single component and I live somewhere with almost no humidity.
OMG, Canada Newark got 100+ of them and they're all gone! I feel so lucky that I got one!
Thanks Doug :)
When you're over limit, sync stops until you remove some items.

How much cheaper will that space be in 2 years, due to the advancement of storage technologies and proliferation of storage devices?
A second layer of protection for critical features that could cost lives is always a good idea. Have to balance authorized people using them with preventing unauthorized people from causing chaos, maybe a standardized pass code that changed once a month and all rescue workers received. If for instance 3d printers become household items and the key pattern is widely distributed online it could end up being a big problem.
This is going to sound arrogant and troll-y, but I assure you it isn't.

I don't look. When I want a new job, I stop ignoring recruiters and wait to see what comes along. I've never waited more than a few days to have a pile of interesting opportunities. (I also end up with a much bigger pile of bullshit talent-trawls, but that's beside the point)

I wish I could say this was a function of my being awesome, but I think it has more to do with the job market in my area (PDX). There just aren't enough senior developers to go around.
The majority of Civil War troops were volunteer. The Civil War draft, an issue at the end of the war, was never challenged on constitutionality. It should be noted that the Conscription Act of 1863 was considered unconstitutional by the populace and resulted in riots.

It's questionable whether many would support it given the way it worked is you paid a $300 fee in order not to go. Usually a poor recent immigrant to the US would be sent in your place. Do you think this scheme would fly these days and be considered legitimate?
What's it built with?
"Lack of access to VC money hampers the European startup scene"
Well, that could be the "answer" to every situation where someone got victimized. Participating in society of course opens you up to the possibility of being victimized.

How is the answer "don't participate in society" instead of "make society a better place?"
I've had a similar feeling of empowerment, although less structured. With hobby projects where sometimes I realize I was thinking all wrong about a certain solution, I'll just check in what I have and commence the deleting of large blocks. Occasionally I'll go back and find something that maybe was a good idea, but for the most part, having an excuse to part ways with bad ideas has alone been really great.
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Sounds like a fun challenge, but please fix that atrocious UI!
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With referrals, camera upload, and HTC's 25GB for two years free deal, I'm up to 34GB.
> HMAC is fast.

Ah, yes I see. I just found a benchmark that shows HMAC to be up to four times faster than Blowfish. Well, that explains things.
Yeah, but it's also a little bit voodoo. Unless we can point to specific instances of things going wrong, it's kind of imagineering a problem where one does not actually exist.

That said I always advise touching something metal on the exterior case before touching anything in a computer, and that's how I have always done it.
Yeah, $1/Mbps sounds like a steal to me as well, which may be why it's a limited-time special offer.

thatamurgy's Pinboard links lead to this hosting provider: http://prgmr.com/san-jose-co-location.html
The machines in the original post being ~250W, they'd need the $362.50/month plan. But it's only at 10Mbps, which would only work if the application has low network requirements. Maciej appears to have gotten a much better deal, "For $206, I got 10U, 4 amps, and 100 Mbps connectivity", perhaps in exchange for promoting it through his blog. Everything's easier when you're a celebrity!
Good sysadmins, yes. Keep in mind that the ideal sysadmin is someone who knows the guts of BSD or Linux (typically, not both) inside and out; can troubleshoot the strangest of problems very quickly; is constantly measuring and improving performance; and can hack together shell scripts or Python or even C code as needed.

Linux and BSD are hellaciously complex and prone to very strange behavior once you start taking them into high-performance land.

If you're OK settling with, "can read syslog and look stuff up on the web", those guys are cheap.
Happy rackmount home server user here, running ESXi with a load of dev instances, staging servers, OpenIndiana for ZFS running decent amount of storage connected to my editing workstations, databases, plus looks after our family video and photos.

I still use our company servers that are co-located but having things at home on the same network where you are developing is very compelling for me.

Its very quiet and cool (latest i7 processor).

But if you are hosting your own production boxes, I usually buy from HP or Dell and know that I rarely need to worry about those machines. Would hardly ever build a box to put into production unless it was something that was rather more specialized.
Riffing on ipad mini pricing
Go (#golang) and MongoDB using mgo
That's a pretty standard salary in the Bay Area.
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Yes I did! I'm the guy with he black hair. Jumping with the No1 jumper from Holland. http://i.imgur.com/3beyM.jpg Everybody should do it at least once! It is incredibly cool.
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I wonder what they're going to do when the promotion time runs out. If they're going to delete or block access to a random 3 GB of data in someone's dropbox, they're going to be dealing with a lot of upset customers.

(Should these people be aware of the fact that their space is going to run out, and have up-to-date backups of their stuff? Obviously. But the hard fact of life is that people do use dropbox as their only backup, and if something goes wrong there, they're going to be a customer support headache.)
The ability to completely disable being tagged.
Does "You are only as strong as your weakest chain" mean anything here? It seems like the letter of the law here is not expressing the intent of the law. Sure, Part 3 didn't explicitly mention don't store it on a client machine because its such a stupid thing to do there wasn't a point to expressing it. Doing such a thing completely undermines the entire PCI documentation because who cares how it's stored,transmitted, etc at the trusted source if it's written out to significantly less secure sources. Just go steal it from the least significant secure source. I fail to see how this language argument has any real point.
They may not be worried about getting around Amazon's TOS.

Purely hypothetical but a potential strategy could be to ignore Amazon's TOS in the early stage and use their breadth of products to entice new users and build critical mass. Soon they get to be big enough that Amazon take's notice and cuts them off. However by that time they have enough momentum and users that they can keep their users happy by offering all the products available through CJ, LinkShare, Share-a-Sale, and their own in house sourced affiliate partners.
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Yeah I would never advise colocating just one server. Two at minimum. We'll have five when all is said and done (still building the other four here).
Why should I pay $20 when I can have 24GB free forever? You don't have to spam your friends, just put the link on your blog or somewhere like that.
"If I was working with him I'd say "Show me"."

An interview might be a good time to ask this question, too. Remember, a job interview is also your way of figuring out whether you want to work for the company.
I agree with you about the harmful spamming aspects being troublesome.
If it was a medical trial that harmed the test participants, it would be
deemed unethical. On the other hand, using opt-in would have resulted in
a bias in the results. The experiment might be ethically dubious in
regards to harming participants, but the design of the experiment is
still logically sound. Calling it "bad science" is fair if your position
is based purely on the ethical implications, but typically, the phrase
"bad science" is used to describe improper experiment design and
erroneous conclusions.

Eric left out a lot of wanted/needed details and data about his
experiment. Due to the ethics questions involved, it would be best if
his data was release and his experiment was evaluated, rather than lots
of other people repeating the same or similar experiments.

The harm is already done, so let's try to learn from it.

Maybe I'm just being too forgiving?
Dangit, Jeff, you didn't answer my question. Share your secret colocation deals with me! :)

Power is also a big cost as well. To quote the prgmr colo: "Please note; power, generally speaking, is a bigger deal than rack units. I'm more likely to let you slide on an extra rack unit than on extra watts; watts cost me real money."
You are correct only in the sense that atheists and science committees are completely dismissive of non scientific opinions.

But I take great issue with the rest of your post. This is not a case of two parties calling each other dumb, nor is it the case that positions of science and positions of opinion are equal. Science does not deal in opinions. There are very specific requirements that need to be met for an idea to be considered a scientific theory. Religious ideas by and large do not meet these criteria. There is no such thing as "non-pure science." This is by definition of the term and process.

Further, your use of the term "militant atheist" is offensive. You call an atheist "militant" merely because she dares to voice her thoughts? This is what religious individuals due daily in church and other places, yet never are they called militant for it. Worse, religious advertising routinely gets away with suggestions that non-believers will suffer eternally or are otherwise evil or immoral. Such rhetoric is a far cry from a logical discussion of what we actually know that you might find from a typical vocal atheist.

Slurs like "militant atheist" are so common you no longer ever recognize them for what they are: insults and a labels intended to marginalize.
I wonder what happens after the 2 years are over. If they deduct your limited 3GB and you are over your limit, will they just delete random files until you aren't over capacity anymore? Odd.
Design in a post-linen era
"AWS is nice, yes, but it still uses servers"

Of course. That's the whole point. The abstraction layer is moving up. We're choosing from cloud "services" now to scale various pieces of our apps rather than putting them all onto servers, VPS's, AMI's, etc.

There's a long ways to go but you'll see much less (or no) need for unix level commands, software installations, etc.

I for one, can't wait for the day I never need to log into a server.
Actually, the poster used both your civil and rude, which tends to mitigate the rudeness.

BTW, what if he would say it face-to-face too? I've had more than my fair share of like "blunt evaluations" from investors, partners, etc.
Gotta plug one of my weekend projects - http://careers.sh

It links to a bunch of job sites. No referral links or anything.
> There is a case to be made that charging less than $10/month for a service is not good business.

I don't think so. Just last week I signed up for unblockus.com; $5/month. Every domain name registrar on the planet - $12 a year or so. Full automated services should not be subject to a monthly minimum, and they shouldn't need support.

> people who pay low amounts are the most demanding in terms of support

Do you really think this would be a big factor for Dropbox? If so - just say any under-100GB account has the same support as the free account.

> Is $10/month too much for you?

Well no it's not, obviously, since that's what I pay. But I am the only person I know with a pro account, since it's such overkill, and even I kind of resent paying for so much more than I need.

I like Dropbox, I want to use it. Just let me pay an appropriate amount for an appropriate usage!

> you don't need to spam friends, there are regularly things like contests (Dropquest 2011, 2012) where you get free space for completing tasks

I am guessing you are pretty young. You will be amazed at how quickly your tolerance for such things decreases with age. Free space for completing tasks? That does not even make sense, because if you have to complete some task it is obviously not free. How about I just do my job, and buy things I need (like dropbox), and everyone is happy.
The core of this article is that you get more performance for your money by building your own servers and racking them. I think we can all agree there.

The problem with "hardware is cheap and programmers are expensive" is that your hardware will fail when you least expect it and have programmers sitting idle. Hardware is cheap, so have someone else assemble it and rack it.

If you don't need it up all of the time, this is a great way to get a lot of performance -- IO and memory in particular.
1) proxies

2) clever antivirus/firewall software

3) htaccess tricks will often drop headers

4) javascript

5) things like amazon silk

6) people spoofing things to make their browser work

7) anonymizer services

8) proxies