skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yes, I will add it in README.

You just have to run pyhn command in your favorite terminal.
This article misses the point entirely.

CloudFlare doesn't shine on single page loads. CloudFlare shines when your site hits Reddit's front page, you have 1000 people online at the same time, and your servers are already pumping 30 megabits per second of data of content to visitors.

Source: I hit Reddit's front page a couple of times a month. Before I used CloudFlare, my servers would die. Now, they idle leisurely at loads 1.0 to 2.0 when that happens.

Cheers,
Rick
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99% of the time the silly analogies people try to make are more misleading/confusing to the average person than the actual science.

This is one of the 99%
Then what you're saying is touch screens on non-tablet devices is a fad to lure in clueless consumers? We're in complete agreement then.
That's very cool. I think what grinds on most people is the people up stream tend to send lots of low quality leads down the pipe and it burns people out.

> In addition to interviews, I also spend an hour a week in a recruiting meeting trying to improve our recruiting process ...

Exactly.. If it's broke "let's all work to improve it". Not "oh no here comes the recruiter again with some horrible candidate".

I don't know about the team you work with but the recruiting team I'm working with is full of bright excited and passionate people who want to learn. They don't code.. SO WHAT.. They know people well, and they're willing to learn. That's all I ask.. from anyone... I can teach you anything.. I can't teach you to have a good attitude and I've yet to find a way to increase people's IQ.. :)

I might not be able to teach you as a recruiter to code, or "be smarter" but I can help you "work smarter" and help avoid burning people out further down the pipe.

> My feeling about spending 4-6 hours a week on interviewing and recruiting activities is that it is some of the most valuable work I can be doing.

4-6 hours and once in a while you get to add 2,000 hours of new capacity to the team! :-)

If you think about the ROI interviewing and getting the right people on the team can be amazing. Much better then those hours spent refactoring 20 lines of code...
This is nice, good work.

As a testament to the simplicity of HN's design though, it should be noted HN is fully functional and looks good in elinks etc. In fact I'm posting this very comment from my terminal with elinks. With elinks re-writing scripting it wouldn't be hard to massage the pages a little first to get them looking even better.
It's a curious trait amongst what seems to be a lot of gen-Ys. The inability to see the forest for the trees. I remember an online debate with one gen-Yer (I'm an Xer) who I've shared a forum with for years and hence know she's not stupid. The debate was on which gen of the last three had it harder growing up. After I outlined the things the boomers started with and were fundamentally involved in changing (like various forms of civil right movements, the sexual revolution and so forth), the responses I got were things like 'we can't have peanut butter in schools' - intended as an argument as to why it's harder to grow up Y.

She couldn't see beyond the trials she had personally had, couldn't empathise with a world she didn't grow up in. The boomers had become this boogeyman that weren't a generation that figured it out as they go (like all generations), but this vague conspiracy to intentionally screw over later generations. I think my favourite part was "We were promised a light at the end of the tunnel and didn't get it unless we worked hard". Well... no generation before was even promised that. You just got 'work hard, deal with it'. There was never an 'it gets better'.
The work? He didn't bring us any findings. He brought us ambiguous 'load times' with barely any information except that the numbers under the cloudflare section are sometimes slightly larger than the numbers under the non-cloudflare section.

Actually, I just took another look at the post. The lack of detail is because his 'tools' are just free web services like pingdom. There are no more details about his method on the blog because nobody knows how these businesses make their measurements, as they are closed source.

Exactly what is included in the load times? How many values are aggregated in the load times? Are the times averaged or aggregated in some other way? Were the websites consistent in terms of cache in each of the measurements? Etc.

Scientific method, please! Or at least, a bit more effort.
If you understand entropy (which can be thought of as a measure of disorder or randomness), then I think the Wikipedia definition is pretty clear.

Systems with positive temperature increase in entropy as
one adds energy to the system. Systems with negative
temperature decrease in entropy as one adds energy to the
system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy
Just run /usr/local/share/python/pyhn
Random thought: In dating terms, "nice guy" seems to equal "doesn't push for sex" and "bad boy" seems to be "is definitely looking for sex". I am wondering if what is intended by "don't be nice" is along the lines of "be up front about the fact that you are interested in sex".
San Francisco - in 30,000 photos, 750 hours of rendering, 62 timelapse sequences
Note: the Google Chromebook (a netbook by any reasonable definition) is Amazon's top-selling laptop. http://news.yahoo.com/netbooks-crash-burn-amazon-best-sellin...
You could limit who can contact each user based on the requirement of filling out a "dating checklist" this means that women won't get inundated with messages and will actually respond to those who fit her requirements.

Hey, there's your startup...video speed dating! lol
At least in our environment the "next step" are loops with multiple people. The goal is to help get more people a chance to see the candidate before they join etc.

It might be interesting to track the number of screens -vs- cut-offs on-site.. :)

Also I am measuring the number of screens that fail as a quality indicator for the recruiting team.

Think of it as a pipeline from the first contact all the way through new-hire and 1yr review. How are we doing at each step and what can we do to improve each step for everyone involved including the candidate.
I've been thinking about building something like you describe for a while.

However I do see that there are problems of agency in making such an arrangement work. Anytime you have a revenue stream that is supposed to be divided on an ongoing basis; you are going to have a fight and everyone involved will feel shortchanged.

The best solution I've come up with so far is a multi-layered rental market where producers rent pieces of functionality and access to content-streams and in turn are responsible for monetising the end-result. But that's not solving the transaction costs of building small sites in a way that's better than elance/odesk/etc.

The fundamental economic problem you're looking at is how to fairly value different peoples contribution to a productive asset. The traditional answer has been to form a company that orders production and manages the assets and the distribution of revenue. This introduces overhead, and generally biases ownership towards those who brought capital to the formation of the company.

I do think a protocol solution is possible where participants agree up front to a set of rules, and automate the revenue distribution and asset allocation by an internal market mechanism designed to maximise overall productivity. However I'm under no illusions that it will be easy or profitable to be the one setting up such a system; at least at first.
That was my first thought when I saw the title. More ever -- if your industrial application is killing you, does it help that it apologizes in a soothing tone of voice?

I suppose it might: It might help prevent panic. I seem to recall there's been a lot of research into alarms and warnings in (fighter) jets when stalling, calling for eject etc -- to prevent the pilot from panicking, yet being promptly informed of the situation (as far as the system can "know" what is happening) and then be able to take correct action.

On another note, I recently went looking for the source code for the Dalvik VM, hoping to play with it under (desktop) linux, and found this very helpful link to the sourcecode on Google code:

https://android.googlesource.com/?p=platform/dalvik.git;a%3Dtree

"410. That’s an error.
The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s
all we know." [Picture of sad, broken robot]

Extremely annoying. I don't know if it would've helped much if it was worded differently. I guess the "that's all we know" is really annoying in this case, as the link is from Googles own Dalvik/Android wiki-page[1], so (somewhat unfairly) associating the Google team behind Android with the Google code logo/team -- it is obvious that that is not "all we know" (we, being Google in this case).

For others interested in Dalvik, I did find a couple of useful links:

http://www.android-x86.org/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1297678/how-do-i-make-isolated-dalvik

[1] http://code.google.com/p/dalvik/
>This price is $125,000. I think that's a steal for what you get... If you were to hire me or anyone else to make Cheddar for you, it would be much more expensive.

Not to be a jerk. I really wish you well. But I'm curious: it would cost over $100k to make a todo list app? I would think that would be one of the simplest apps you could possibly make. Am I missing something?

[hmm... didn't see that your rate was $1000/hour. That answers part of my question.]
> "He's under, look at the readings!". I couldn't help myself, and said, "No I'm not."

"I think I'll go for a walk."

...

Did you feel happyyy?
Great and interesting quote
About some minutes ago I accidently found one very good quote, that I am sure you will agree with.
I'm really disappointed to see someone addicted to video games and unable to prioritize being used as this proselytizing platform in the comments here.
I didn't get the vibe in singular's comment that he was hurt or bitter. He seemed very matter-of-fact about it.
Agreed. Current laptops are simply overpriced. Apple deserves credit for really raising the bar on quality. When I can't get a notebook with a screen in parity resolution to my phone for less than $1000USD, the market is skewed.

From the article:

> Now consumers expect to pay next to nothing for a Windows PC

This is a correction in inflated prices.
Then he's using a strange and novel definition of 'nootropic'. 'Neuroprotective'? Heck, lithium is neuroprotective at some doses, but I don't see many people suggesting its use.
> what matters is the quality of the result

Actually, I think what matters is the right mix of quantity and quality. Too much perfection wastes time for nothing. And sometimes I am too perfectionist unfortunately.
You can't lose net money if you originally planned to publish it for free, though.
This article from HBR [November 2011] really highlights this issue http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/11/the_trouble_with_bright_kids.... Here is the ensuing HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3284169.
I don't think you can consider the stylometric result as yielding such an upper boundary; yes, that's some strong evidence against one possibility and in favor of another, but we could easily find some more evidence which goes the other way - and indeed did.

So, it may be an upper bound _ceteris paribus_, but ceteris is not paribus here.
This makes good sense. As I recall, the new results focused on what you said after a successful result. Praising the kid for being smart tended to make them shy away from intellectual challenge, because they didn't want to be seen as not smart enough. Praising them for working hard for their result, on the other hand, resulted in kids not afraid to try hard things.
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But people already have access to these filters - I've already seen them on POF, for instance.

eHarmony is on the other extreme end where their checklist is 250 questions and the process is very tightly controlled!

Speaking of speed dating, I did actually give this a shout a few years ago but couldn't get it off the ground. Important lesson: don't go into business with friends unless you have absolutely complementary skills.
Sorry guys, my free ec2 micro has too little RAM to deal with the load :(. For those who already signed up, it'll be up again tonight.
I second this. That little snarky comment was frankly a bright red flag - not least of which because of the typo.
A more neutral, briefer version might be "Don't say no for them". Bitter or not, he indicates he is giving up and planning to be alone because it is too much trouble for no pay off. I also may well spend the rest of my life alone, for complex reasons which aren't relevant here. But I am clear that I am not closed to a relationship. His various remarks indicate he is fed up and no longer wants to try.

I will add that the man I knew was someone in a male dominated online forum. Men on hn often make the kind of mistake he made of talking like there are no women around, what they say here doesn't count because no woman will ever see it, etc. I am not interested in hanging my crap on singular. But I do see quite a lot of parallels between his posts here and the behavior of the generally nice, educated, intelligent professional man that I ultimately became so fed up with.

I hope that is clearer for you. And have an upvote.
Thats funny. You must not work in the 'apps for government agencies' space. :)
Yes indeed. I work in the image sensor business (writing test software) and it surprises me when I hear that it's often times next to impossible for a sensor design to be reliably produced in another fab.
any particular reason to take them before bed? on my bottle of fish oil caps it says to take them with a meal?
POF doesn't make it a requirement, probably because it would create friction in the signup process. eHarmony on the other hand, that's too many questions and no one is going to fill that damn thing out.
This is something I've experienced first-hand, and an extremely valuable lesson for people thinking about starting a startup. At a low average monthly cost (say less than $30), it's really damn hard to get enough people into your funnel for a reasonable cost of acquisition. And you need to reach a LOT of people for your service to be a significant source of long term income.

If you're about to start a startup, I'd strongly encourage you to come up with some hypothetical figures for these metrics:

* Number of monthly uniques

* Percentage that will convert to trial

* Percentage that will convert to paid

* Average monthly subscription cost

* Churn rate

* Cost of acquisition

You'll be way off, but run the numbers you've made up past as many experienced founders as you can, and you might be able to come up with a model that's semi-realistic. Of course it will evolve over time as you get some real data and more experience, but the main point of the exercise is to then ask yourself questions like: "How can I get X0,000 uniques to my marketing site on a $0 marketing budget?", and "What can I change about my product/positioning/target market so I can triple my average monthly subscription cost?".
The world of every day experience in one equation
> I am not sure the technology is ready for wireless charging (can it be made small enough?)

My Nexus 4 has wireless charging built-in. Any tablet could have the same. The only reason more devices don't have wireless charging is that the inductive chargers cost a whole lot more than a wall plug or USB cable.
There's a good reason many job openings are never posted, and having good connections can lead you to getting a job that doesn't, from the outside, appear to exist. However, not having interviews at all would seem to imply building a very insular company, because you'd need an intimate knowledge of how strong somebody is as an employee. And the only way to get that is either to look at their past work, similar to published papers in academia, or to know that person well. And even in academia, to my knowledge, professor hires still get interviewed, even if they're a nobel prize winner, to make sure they'd be a good cultural fit, and so that they know whether they'd want to work for the interviewer.
My advice is to just be the absolute maximum you. No one else in the universe has your unique blend of qualities. Be confident being who you are, because your good at that, aren't you?
there's no such thing as " failure in a wealthy country." sorry what planet are you on - there are plenty of people who fall though the gaps in the USA and the UK.

Unless you think the homeless guy I see sleeping behind the pret a manger in holbourn is some kind of success story
The positives about C:

It's high-level assembly language. Thus, it allows you to write code with a very small barrier between you and the machine instructions, but with enough of a barrier that you can reuse and organize your code logically. At the same time, it gives you most of the speed and raw bit manipulation of machine code.

The negatives about C:

You're almost as likely to introduce completely silent catastrophic memory corruption with every operation than you are to actually accomplish the task you're trying to do. Most of the things which would normally be bugs are also now major security breaches. C's structure also makes it extremely difficult to do static analysis, making it difficult to find bugs, security vulnerabilities, and make performance optimizations.

How ATS helps:

ATS addresses a lot of these issues by emitting efficient C code. However, at a higher level ATS combines C with an extremely strong type system (dependent typing) which allows you to do things like verify statically that there are no out-of-bound memory accesses through typing. It can do even stronger things like prove your code correct.
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Counter-example: The mods of r/lgbt think there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. If you write an on-topic, polite comment that even suggests that there is something wrong with homosexuality, you will be banned.

The mods of r/transgender think think there is nothing wrong with trans gender identities. If you write an on-topic, polite comment that even suggests that trans women are "men in skirts", you will be banned.

I am fine with this. You can't have it all.
As the builder of the system you'd probably take percentage of all managed project, say 10%. The collaborators will set rules up front as you mentioned with a voting options to ban members that aren't contributing. It's nice to see someone who thought of this.
Here are some of the biggest challenges HTML5 faces:

- Security e.g. users shouldn't trust a client based HTML5 with any serious data collection.

- Local Data - Storage is limited & it can be manipulated

- Syncing offline apps - Determining which is the latest version etc

- If the browser vendors won't implement something, it won't get implemented. This has also lead to

- Format Incompatibilities e.g. try audio/video tags across the major browsers
There is a demand for software.

It'd be nice if it could import from a variety of weird formats, and export to those same formats.

It'd be nice if the user could select a bunch of components to include, and then send those to a supplier for quoting.

Imagine a subcontract manufacturer - they might get some ICs from one supplier, the passives from another supplier, etc. Having easy to split off groups of components to send off to get quotes for is good.

Add some minor spreadsheeting to total the money and tinker with the qtys. (Eg, cost for a one off; a five off; a ten off. Or costs for 10,000 over the next six months at monthly drops of 1,500 with a big end drop.)

But be aware that there's a bunch of really unpleasant almost-niche software already out there. It's often a kludgy bolt on to accounting / pay software.

Good Luck to anyone wanting to do it though.
But what if the goal is ideological uniformity? r/lgbt or r/transgender is about LGBT or trans issues. They want to make a Safe Space where people don't have to justify trans 101?
I don't mind him charging that price to

- Lawyers

- Dentists

- Doctors

- Notarys

But charging $1000/h for making trivial things is making the rest of us look bad. Especially when people do projects with 10000000 times the difficulty... for free.
It sounds nice but hacker news is way too distracting as it is, a sneaky look at hacker news really slow down work.
Win2k was a pretty nice OS for it's time. Microsoft was still hitting on all cylinders despite flops like ME.

Figures, it's when BillG handed the reins over.
Sam - how's the $1000/hr consulting going? In your original post you mentioned that it was intended to supplement your income while working on Cheddar. Are you going to continue consulting now that you're selling Cheddar?
I am not blaming the lack of the review, but an explanation why he did not include any android devices would have been more fair.

I just found not mentioning android even a single time a little bit strange.
Just for curiosity's sake, do you mind clearing up a few things for me? Why weren't you already intubated when you woke up the first time, if they'd already opened you up? Were you not supposed to be under general anesthesia by that point? And what on Earth were they doing with the paddles? You can't have been in cardiac fibrillation if you were awake.
Is the entry level problem one of supply or demand?
As a Canadian here in sydney, I have a few LinkedIn contacts who are connected to cochlear. I suspect you won't have any problems getting a direct connection, but if by chance you don't get one, drop me an email (in my profile) and I'll try to hook you up.

Best of luck
Ubuntu netbook was pretty decent compared to the shit that came with them.
I think it functions less as a "nerd" alert but more as a "recognizes I may not be as profound as I like to imagine myself" alert.

I mean, he's right.. but he's not being profound. You may as well tell me that I should be careful about losing precision while using floats. Yes... no shit?