skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Altay, I wish you the best of luck here - I hope this model works for you and your team. One thought for others, one for you.

>>First and foremost, our clients are the developers.

No, they're not. Your clients are the people who pay you money. The companies pay you money, then you pay the developers money. The developers are your vendors.

What you're actually saying is that you care about your developers and you want to treat them really well. That's awesome! Great agencies do this _all the time_.

I run an agency - we have a good reputation, and each of our recruiters has dozens of candidates who will answer the phone when they call, because they've built a relationship over the years that nobody's time will be wasted. All good recruiters have engineers who trust them. If you live in a town and haven't found a recruiter who cares about your best interests, keep looking. If you're in Seattle, find me.

Then when the recruiter finds the right role - or, as the article says about 10X, "the company tries to find gigs that match coder skill to client need" - you can make a match. (Note that the article forgot that 10X's "clients" were the developers. That's because they're not.)

>>And finally, as the article mentioned, our cut is only 15%. My understanding is that consulting agencies often take 50%+.

I wish! I wouldn't be typing to you, I'd have my minions do it.

OK, kidding. There are consulting companies that do bill >2x of their employee's wages, but they're not the kinds of companies you're competing with here. Those are companies that have folks on salary, that bench them and pay them in between projects, that provide training/mentorship, have management in place to help support their people, etc. (You can decide how valuable those things are.) Also keep in mind that their folks are employees, so they're paying a burden of 18-22% on top of their wages, which my assumption is you aren't doing.

You're competing with placement agencies (whether you want to or not). Those are the Volt/Greythorns of the world, who are likely taking more like ~15-25%. For example, many hiring companies will negotiate a markup rate of ~50% on top of someone's hourly rate, not including load/benefits - which when you add on load/benefits and calculate cut (i.e. margin) off the top, that's more like 20%. ($150 bill rate -> $100 pay rate + $20 load/benefits -> 20% cut)

If you can make 15% work with the cost of client loss and wasted time, etc., that's great. I hope the press gives you a lift you can sustain to get there.
That and the fact that the US is 1/7th as densely populated as the UK (UK is 260 people per km, the US is 34/km). The US is #179 on the population density list country wise. If someone won't sell you a piece of land, there's a vast supply of other land to look at. The only place you'll run into a problem is in a few high density metros like NYC.
I meant to say that was the per miner cost. A more efficient miner would see a lower production cost for their bitcoins. They'd then be able to either take advantage of their position (sell with a significant margin) or drive the other miners out of business (sell at a small margin that puts bitcoins at an uncompetitively low value). In either case they'd be able to expand their mining operation (or accounting operation once mining itself has low returns) to improve their odds and yield.
Congratulations, always been interesting to follow the VWO progress. Given A/B testing would benefit a massive amount more companies than the numbers of customers quoted here for both companies I am sure there is plenty of room for multiple players in this market.
Yeah, I'm actually the Head of Talent at a smaller startup and have worked here, larger startups, Google, Facebook, etc. I've considered starting an agency like this multiple times, and people as me about it quite a bit. I always just assumed the market was saturated with savvy people providing a better value proposition, but if the founders literally have no idea what the normal fee is (founder above claimed 50% is normal agency fee, even though the article itself correctly points out the normal fee is basically exactly what their fee is) and they seem to provide very little value, it makes me feel like I should get on this.
Something like this could make authentication (and potentially other tasks) with face-computing devices seamless and secure!
Initial impressions:

* The pitch shapes encoded in the notation are fun and probably help learning, but I think they'd be distracting past a certain point. They don't convey any extra information that the staff doesn't, and if they didn't match it's one more thing to trip up on.

* The sharp and flat signs are way too subtle, compared to the traditional accidentals. I'm not going to see those when I'm sight-reading.

* This is also true for the eighth notes and shorter. Those flags are tiny!

* No key signatures?!!

I love that someone's playing with ideas for notation, but this notation is worse for experienced musicians because it makes important information harder to see at a glance. (Yes, sure, I'd get used to new shapes, but the distinguishing marks on the page are smaller?!!)

I can't comment on whether it'd be easier to learn, but this is notation you're going to be using much longer than you're going to be learning it. Optimize for long-term usefulness.
I prefer making the comparison to dodging it.
Monster may or may not be lying. There are at least three things that changed:

1) A new profile might get different responses from an old one.
2) A name will likely be propagated differently than the diversity options.
3) The diversity option.
> The US dollar is backed by US law guaranteeing that it must be accepted as payment for all debts

If you're referring to the 'legal tender for all debts public and private' clause on the notes themselves, that means that it can be used for such purposes, not that it must be accepted. If we agree that I'll do your deck and you'll give me your car, you can't just say 'I want to keep my car, here's some cash instead'.
In the long run, yes, there could be a bright future for BTC.

In the short run, there are several big challenges, liquidity being a huge one. When it comes to BTC, the activities of speculators/hoarders, and the activities of free exchange and commerce, have shown themselves to be in direct opposition so far. The "store of value" and the "medium of exchange" are not mutually exclusive, of course, but for the time being, they're functionally mutually exclusive. It's not yet clear whether BTC is a currency, a buy-and-hold investment vehicle, or some schizophrenic combination of the two. It's in the best, long-term interests of BTC to stabilize and become the latter. But BTC is going to be the former for quite awhile, precisely because it's so mysterious in the public eye, there's such information asymmetry about how it works, and because the markets for BTC-based commerce are still fairly niche.

Stabilization is going to come when more businesses start accepting BTC, and accordingly, when BTC becomes more freely convertible for goods, services, and other currencies. Until then, it'll proceed apace slowly and steadily, with the occasional burst of volatility as public interest spikes and wanes, and as speculators jump in and out.

What the currency really needs is exchange volume -- not just from trading, but from commerce.
I don't care, I'll buy them all. I'd be the sole owner of a piece of internet history.
What I really like about this hardware is DYI focus, but at the same time out of the box functionality. As much as it might be fun to try and strap hardware together, when buying a computer like this, I just want to plug-n-play, without having to jump through technology hoops. Perhaps this is the answer.
Just to be clear here : is it that Monster was reporting race to the potential employers or is there something about her name (Yolanda Spivey) that is a give away ?
Lol, MtGox is hardly able to survive with the current DDoS attacks, and now they want to add more complexity? Lololololol
I'm not sure adding £1,000,000 to the price of houses is a rational solution to ground rent.
Interesting, thanks.

I tend to be a little skeptical of attempts to make "pure" forms of communication, because I think there are bound to be trade-offs, as in any engineering endeavour. I'd rather see schemes that are optimized for a particular purpose. What would a language oriented toward scientific and technical communication be like? How would currencies designed for ecommerce work? How would a calendar for global organizations work?
Lincoln's strategy itself was "required* because slave-owners and slave-owning states would not give up their slaves without a fight. Blame them, not Lincoln.

Lincoln himself was well aware of the costs that would be imposed by war, but chose this course of action due to the absurdly perverse nature of slavery.

http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres32.html
The best tabs are printed under a staff that contains the missing rhythm information (along with the actual pitches, etc., of course). Not exactly concise, but very info-rich.
We may have misunderstood each other. I didn't mean to say that there was a strict lower bound on the price of bitcoins. It absolutely could zero out in a worst case scenario (for some people at least). I suppose what I was intending to refer to was a (somewhat) healthy bitcoin economy. Inefficient miners will be driven out of the market as the cost to participate exceeds their returns.
It happens more and more often that a Google search for some problem sends me to a potentially useful Stsckoverflow question that has been closed for a ridiculous reason. At least, sometimes there are already answers or comments there that turn out being useful.
Or follow Alef (http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/rsc/thread/ug.pdf) and use "become". The Alef become statement is a kind of generalized tail-call form because you can use it to drop the current stack frame from anywhere, not just in tail-position.
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Perhaps he sees minimal value in being the only person that has any.
Funny I know plenty of proficient musicians who can't read music at all. I don't disagree with what you are saying per sey but saying the creators can't be good musicians because they want to try a new approach to teach music feels awfully elitist.
A used laptop that would be sufficient for Python programming really isn't going to cost you much.
Google's Content-Agnostic Malware Protection hits 99%
They often stop with their doors locked, roll down the window, and ask where you are going.
You are operating on some very questionable assumptions which you've masked with jargon to lend credibility to your position. Kinda like phrenology. Where is your evidence that these race/gender "signals" correlate with applicant quality in any way?

But you are absolutely correct that employers do factor race into hiring and recruiting decisions. My evidence: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2018047
NASA's Apollo 10 astronauts encountered floating human waste
>In the end, a total of twenty-four employers looked at Bianca’s resume while only ten looked at mines.

"looked at mines."

I'm not sure what subterranean explosives have to do with racism.

She very well may have been discriminated against on monster.com, but she lost any sympathy that I had for her when I read that. If you want people to take you seriously, act like a professional.

This next part was even worse.

>middle aged White man complaining that he was making only $80,000 which was $30,000 less than what he was making before. I thought to myself that in this economy, many would feel they’d hit the jackpot if they made 80K a year.

Losing approximately a quarter of your income sucks, it doesn't matter who you are. Just because a pay reduction is better than unemployment doesn't mean a person doesn't have the right to feel cheated. The way the author worded this doesn't make her sound like a victim, instead it makes her sound as if she has a chip on her shoulder about white people in general.

If she wants her experiment to be taken seriously, she needs to stick to facts.
On Corporate Community Management
Product Pricing: More Art than Science
If organized crime is involved (or similar), then it's a failure of government.
I can't speak for Clojure, but the idiomatic Rust code that I've seen does tend toward C-style iteration (though that iteration is discreetly accomplished via closures and higher-order functions) rather than Lisp-style recursion. So I wouldn't expect recursive memory exhaustion to be a common concern in idiomatic Rust, though that's obviously no consolation if you were hoping to code in a recursive style.

Though perhaps you'll be happy to hear that Rust stacks are growable (Go-style) rather than fixed, so stacks are typically small and running out of stack is (afaict) theoretically less of a concern than in C/C++.
ehm, I would disagree. The key signature tells you what key the piece is in, period.

What the particular notes in that key do (their role, as you put it) is a property of that key.
I also wondered about triplets, quintuplets, etc. Also what if I want a dotted quarter note, how is that notated? Extra pitch information for microtones?
Sadly this isn't anything new. I knew as a kid that if your name "sounded black" you had a 70% chance of getting your resume tossed out.

This is everywhere. EVERYWHERE. All groups do this to some extent.

We've all heard of Italian neighborhoods that will only sell houses to other Italians, white neighborhoods that don't sell homes to blacks, asians, or latinos. Jewish apartment complexes & towns (especially in Bulgaria) that only allow other Jews in. Asian neighborhoods that rent out only to other asians. Some Christians, Muslims, & Jews can have similar policies for job openings and property sales.

Some racism is in response to previous racism which only furthers racism.

I know St. Louis' Mass Trasit Agency's Bus Garage Department is racist against whites and only hires blacks. A woman named Kim Kashone will throw out your resume and send you in circles if she finds out you aren't black. Employees who've worked there for over 10 years can tell you this. Despite whites applying, all the garage workers are black.

Whites even engage is discrimination against each other. If your last name is something very foreign sounding like Budrovich, Dimitrova, Biankanetzka people automatically discount you thinking, "when was the last time I heard of someone famous with a name like that? I'm not investing in this person because others didn't". Which is why most Americans have shortened and Americanized their last names so as to assimilate and be un-noticable. Which is sad in a Country like America which has immigrants from all over the world.

As awful as this is, this is a very normal and natural response for a group of people. A culture or race wants to see its own kind succeed and it's own culture flourish.

You can't take the human out of the human.
It can be a risk, it redefines the kind of exits you can have in future and still be successful. The founders would likely see little now from a $50 mil sale where as that would be a big windfall for a bootstrapped or angel invested only company.
This is bullshit. There's a who's-who of A-list investors who put their money into a 17-year-old's company. The kind of people who didn't get rich by putting their money into the hands of a 17-year-old. They knew something you didn't. And that something is quite probably that somebody at Yahoo! had the authority to invest a large amount of money and make a lot of people wealthier in the process.

By Occam's razor, the most likely explanation is simple corruption.
And, of course, "Debunking the 'Expensive Procedure Call' Myth, or, Procedure Call Implementations Considered Harmful, or, Lambda: The Ultimate GOTO" by Guy Steele. Available here: http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html
Who is Tyler Durden?
But (ordinary) people don't run redis on their home network. 10Gb Ethernet is very common on servers in datacenters today, but it hasn't yet caught on to the consumer market.
Professional fishermen, don't forget. This was their livelihood, so they were very likely good at it and knew the waters.

(I caught the sarcasm and was adding to your actual stance, in case I failed to relay that :) )
I want to rush to MySQL's defense here, but I can't. If we forget for a moment about the history of it or the engineering challenges specific to MySQL and so on, what we have is an infrastructure application that one-way copies data to a remote instance of the same application, with almost no error handling and very little consistency checks, and that halts the data copy in the event of an error, without notifying anybody that there's a problem.

MySQL replication feels like a hack, not the sort of thing that people can use as part of a reliable infrastructure.

My MySQL replication wishlist would be:

1. bidirectional communication protocol so that slaves can ask the master for a fresh copy of some particular data in the event of an error;

2. built-in notifications for anything that might make an alcoholic out of a sober sysadmin;

3. periodic idle-time consistency checking (master: "I have X tables with Z definitions and N rows each"; slave: "something is wrong with my copy of Y, I need rows 1 - 100").

I have a couple of projects in my pipeline right now that are being held up entirely by the feeling that MySQL is not yet reliable enough and I need to build better monitoring and automated error-handling systems first.
Nice article.

> Now we have to wait for an administrator to “su – postgres”. Likely? Eh.

This isn't that unlikely. On Debian/Ubuntu, postgres is the database super user and doesn't have a password set by default so the way to administer PostgreSQL is to su to postgres and then run psql/createdb/etc (it relies on local ident authentication).
You know why black people don't code?
Because they can't.
This thread is full of hackers eager to apply a technological solution - encryption - to a problem which is better solved legally. Encryption has rather obvious usability problems, such as being fundamentally incompatible with webmail (and remote access in general - even if you use a client that decrypts emails, you can't search without downloading your entire inbox); while it's highly valuable for myriad use cases, I shouldn't have to use it for all my random mail. Yes, email seems fundamentally insecure technically, SMTP servers bouncing messages to other SMTP servers in the clear, but older networks such as physical mail and telephone are even worse and harder to secure, yet I still have an expectation of privacy (even if I use a PO box to store my mail remotely...) because it has been established by law. There is zero reason this shouldn't apply to email.
same as the dollar and euro then. They are not backed by anything except the status quo.
see: Fung Wah buses on the East Coast
Google amends .app domain proposal to serve developers on all platforms
I suspect your statement could be templated:

MySQL <X> feels like a hack, not the sort of thing that people can use as part of a reliable infrastructure.
I don't doubt that Lincoln personally resolved his internal ethical dilemmas, but I do doubt that this would be any consolation to me if I were forced to fight in an army.
What paradigm shifts should a Rails developer make when beginning Ember.js?
Just how slow are Django templates?
I've been trying to figure out a way in which bitcoin could be useful for money laundering, and I just don't see it.

Classic money laundering schemes use businesses which typically have large amounts of anonymous customers paying in cash - the dirty money flows in as cash purchases that didn't really happen from customers that didn't exist. The pseudonymous bitcoin doesn't seem to support this use - it will be obvious from an examinination of the block chain where that money came from.

Can anyone describe a workable money laundering scheme using bitcoin?
> very inconvenient to read ... sitting there and doing nothing is not worth my time

For me, you helped illustrate the value of the comic.
The fees at agencies vary greatly. You tell them how much you want to get paid hourly. They charge clients as much as possible and keep the difference.
This is a great postmortem about a truly unique MySQL issue.

However, this post left me wondering how they actually recovered from this issue. I'm thinking the only way is to re-provision the replica infrastructure from the master's presumably master data. Or was there another recovery approach?
Has the Sea of Galilee always been a lake with the same dimensions?
"It" is just a system. It doesn't think anything. It's the people who think it's worth using it for something. So really you hate the people that use it.
Your (or anyone's) conclusions that men are "higher quality" employees simply because they are less likely to go on paternal leave or switch to part-time because of stress are spurious at best. There are many factors that go into determining the quality of an employee and these narrow observations are far from conclusive. For instance, who's to say that men don't simply become far-less productive in response to stress?

And, the link you provided does nothing to support your conclusions that such discrimination is "efficient". It draws no conclusions in either direction and, in fact, merely states that such discrimination exists. I think we know that.

Do you have any citations that show a positive correlation between discrimination and the quality of employees?

Because, otherwise--given the article to which you are responding--you seem to be propagating the idea that such discriminatory "signalling" is superior to credentials, experience, and other achievements when determining the quality of an employee. In fact, you seem to be endorsing what the author experienced as "efficient" and therefore beneficial from an economic perspective.
At first, it sent around 300 a month, but then I dialed it back to less than 50. Then I added the ability to automatically follow up on people who I had contacted before, but did not a close a deal with (did this monthly, to keep leads warm). I never really used subs, but tried it. It was too much hassle and I'm very lazy.

In terms of dialogue, I searched for key terms in replies, and only replied to those that fit. I did miss on good leads, but the follow up email got me back on their mind and they would always reply.
Are you some kind of nigger lover?