skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I have to disagree.

There was a time when this was the hard part, but at this point the "scale it up" search space has been explored quite effectively by a lot of different groups to the point where the only reason anyone below the "system architect" level would need to know the ins and outs of this particular subject is because the company has a deep-seated NIH syndrome.

Scaling a system to the Google, Facebook, or Twitter level is hard, but getting to half of their size using off the shelf components is not. Getting the rest of the way on this journey is not something that mid-level tool and front-end coders should ever have to deal with. If they do need to know this information then you are doing it wrong...
"In my opinion, the performance of the language features you propose could only become competitive after 20 years of further research."

Did this turn out to be true?
$30/hr? I think you're wildly overstating what typical interns make. Interns aren't full-time employees, and they come with zero industry experience.

$60,000/yr is more than the average starting full-time salary for a CS graduate.

Fog Creek --- they of the gold-plated Manhattan offices, the first class airplane tickets, and the fridges stocked with Louis XIII --- offers ~18/hr to interns.
My opinion.
1. Most professional investors are overwhelmed by proposals. Not lack of it.
2. Even on seed level, i'm not sure if i want to invest in a company through social network. I would prefer something more personal if i want to pick a company. And, referral often is the key to that. If you can't connect yourself up to the investors, i would say, you haven't tried hard enough.
3. As an entrepreneur, i don't think i feel comfortable to expose everything that i have in the arsenal to the social network (especially strategy etc). It's one thing to be paranoid, it's another to be totally open-source! But, if you don't do that, how can investors pick you over the other through that massive companies in the social-networks?

It's still a nice try though. Would like to see how it goes.
Good. I'm 28 and this gives me a few more fire-sale years to stock my Roth-IRA
Absolutely! My favourite bit from "A Beautiful Mind" -- the book -- is still that early chapter describing what an astonishing collection of intelligence Princeton had attracted at that point time (1930s): Einstein, Goedel, von Neumann, Church, Fine,...

The pressure was so intense that the average completion time for a PhD was 2 years! (And when he arrived, Nash himself was apparently just bitter about not being offered a scholarship by Harvard).
Are you kidding? Look at any website that gets massive exposure and you'll find that most of the people don't stick around. How could someone with a startup (based around Twitter, thank you mr. unbiased) not know that?

And before you ask for proof let me ask you one question? When you raised a lot of money for your startup notice how your traffic jumped up based on the coverage. Then notice how those people weren't there the next month. So either your startup sucks (which I don't think is true) or your own experience verifies my statement
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I'm obviously joking, but those kinds of "offers" have been given (and presumably accepted) in the writing world. A common scenario is an offer (usually given by scummy, second-rate magazines) where the writer is required to use a pseudonym and forbidden by contract to disclose her relationship to that name. They don't want the writer to develop a reputation and suddenly demand a salary.

For a more serious analysis, here goes: a person who works for deferred or no salary is a founder and should be paid with some equity (a percentage of the whole company, not just a small percentage of what he produces) in the venture. Understandably, you don't want to give equity to interns. So you probably shouldn't have interns until you can pay wages.

In general, if you develop a platform and someone develops an app on it, the application writer gets more than a 50% share of the proceeds. I believe iPhone and Kindle developers get 70%.
It doesn't have anything to do with the relationship to academia -- I've had plenty of time on both sides of that fence, and in my experience there are far more people in industry who are obsessed with tiny, arbitrary measurements of intelligence. Academics tend to be quite practical when it comes to hiring, and there are tons of relatively "dumb" people working in the research trenches.

Age may play a role. These sorts of questions are the geek equivalent having the shiniest back in the forest. But given that tech companies almost universally strive to create a culture of "we're special," it seems inevitable that you're going to get arbitrary rites of initiation into the various geek tribes.
Fog Creek pays $750/week + free housing + free lunch and MetroCard for transportation. You can easily live on $750/week if you don't have to deal with housing in NYC. And even if you had to deal with housing, you can still survive on $3000/month, even in NYC.

Saying "We'll give you some $ and housing and food if you intern for us. Don't live around here? No problem, we'll give you housing!" is hugely different then "Come intern for us. Don't live in SF? Move here anyway! We might not actually pay you, but it will be a good experience."
I don't know of any CS students at my university that are taking minimum wage this summer. All the places I interviewed at had a floor of about $20/hr.

Since the ad stated that they want students from very good universities, I can't imagine their prospects would be worse.

That said, if someone takes this position, they will get far more experience than working most other gigs.

It's not necessarily a bad offer, though the ability to obtain food and shelter are usually factors I consider in my job search. However, I think the comparison to minimum wage or unpaid internships is invalid. We ain't Poli Sci students.
The police department of the city in which these matter occurred. I guess I was too strong to dismiss their effors in my original post: I gave them the phone number, I think they are working on a subpoena for the billing address from the phone company. However, the general feeling that I get from them is that the enthusiasm to do as much as possible is pretty much only on my end.
My recipe for efficient writing:

- Put laptop in backpack

- Go someplace where you can be "lonely in a crowd" (e.g. local coffee shop)

- Log out of your Google home page, so all those applets won't claim your attention all the time

- Don't even think of touching anything in the bookmarks

- Keep the email client turned off

- Turn cell phone off too if you must

- Get a nice large latte (either regular or decaf)

- Fire up the text editor

- Let your mind take off

Voila, instant productivity. I get into the "flow" pretty quickly that way.
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Sorry folks, the blogger doesn't know what he is talking about. Helium production to fill balloons come from reactions large enough to lay waste to laboratories maybe even cities. If there is fusion the by product is low energy neutrons, damned hard to detect, certainly not by Geiger counters.
I am not going to post up the info publically for the very good reason that other people outlined over here: I don't want to start a public witchhunt, and get HN involved in something of the sort. Having said that: my HN handle = my real name, and you can find my e-mail address in my profile.
Those who already use Postgres are not going to switch to MySQL based on this. MySQL users who can see themselves hitting a substantial size (e.g. those who fear they may be herded in the direction of "upgrade to Oracle to get that particular feature you think MySQL lacks") will probably start giving Postgres a hard look. The website-in-a-box users are unlikely to even know that Oracle will own MySQL and are not going to change.

The big question is how big is that middle category. I don't think it is particularly large now, but this is the time for the Postgres community to start getting aggressive in putting together new features, lowering the initial learning curve, and evangelizing their product.
By your calculation it's amazing anyone gets anything done. I mean, somehow Oprah's books sell millions of copies on Amazon. Is amazon easier to use than Twitter? I don't think so.

Let me ask you this. What proof do you have that any of her followers weren't the people who were already on Twitter? Shaq has 700k+, Ashton has a million. Isn't it possible Oprah's 400k came out of those people?

It's possible Twitter didn't gain any users over the weekend (unlikely but possible)
It might be possible to run barefoot on a track, but not on the dirt!
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Oh well, I guess I fail at reading comprehension today. I guess that will teach me for pulling an all nighter.
> However, by going full time on a project you increase its chances of success significantly.

Yes, you do increase the project's chances of "success" significantly. You don't, however, increase your chances of success. Instead, you increase your chances of failure and decrease your chances of significant success.

The reason is because odds are, you've chosen the wrong project. Also, as things inevitably go wrong, if you don't have a cushion you're greatly increasing your chances of failure.

> What you describe is the no-risk route.

There is still risk in putting time and/or money into a project part time. Also, even if your project has traction there will still be a lot of risk in going at it full time.

I think the opposite of what I'm describing is not even the high risk route, it's the gambling route. You get more of a rush but it's not wise to do and generally ends badly.

> I'd argue that it is very hard to determine that an idea (including successive iterations) will not lead to a successful internet company till you go full time on it.

I disagree. I think you should assume odds are very high that the idea will not lead to a successful internet company, UNLESS you have good traction when you go full time on it.
So you're OK with intentionally biasing this internship towards people with rich parents, and possibly ignoring someone who has to actually make money over the summer that might be better off at making whatever application it is that you're interested in having made?
I did as you suggested: the bookmarklet is quite awesome. Moreover, combined with autopost it effectively fixes all the things wrong with the wordpress.org bookmarklet. Sold. Can I import my Tumblr account?
I've looked into it, and PIs are quite expensive; they charge on the same order as lawyers. PIs don't need special training to carry out their work; they are just resourceful, and I think I can invoke the same amount of resourcefulness.
Maybe. That depends on the conditioning of your feet. The other big takeaway from the article is that if you are going to wear shoes, the less padding, the better.
What are the key "customization" aspects the API let's you change? If you could share more about what you've learned form all your reading, more of us could contribute our thoughts ...
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If you have planar fasciitis (many people do), your running shoes are not a lie. Less padding is pure evil in that situation.
This is very nice feature.
Yet, I tried it and it doesn't work for all pictures yet.
Do you dare question the Daily Mail?!
As a kid, my siblings and I would practically forgo shoes when summer vacation arrived. When school started we'd grudgingly force them on over our toughened pads and endure the sting of wearing our natural soles down inside them. I remember that, but now my feet are always in a cushioned palace, gellin' like a felon, and soft as a baby's bottom. It seems as though I haven't cultivated the best support for my body ...
Let's not call it cold fusion. Let's call it an "an experiment which produces excess heat".

It removes the helium argument, no? My understanding is cold fusion is the (improper) name given to this phenomena, which nobody can replicate reliably nor explain with certainty. If it is indeed fusion, here's to hoping our world is round.
Interesting article, but why is this being portrayed as some type of unique situation? Entire industries from sporting goods to "organic" foods market themselves as something you need to be healthy, successful or competitive. In reality, of course, they aren't.

Look at golf clubs. You can buy a driver the size of a VW Beetle and made of material that would have made NASA jealous 20 years ago ... but after several decades, the average golf score hasn't gone down.

Lots of things are a lie ...
It's a good article and I'm glad I read it, but please restore the original title (or, better, the subtitle). There's no need to bait it up.
Gotta say, I was a little non-plussed. Then I saw the first comment which put it in a whole new light:

> Sounds like someone’s getting frustrated with all their paper rejections. Don’t lose hope.

Then I understood a little better where this might be coming from and laughed.
At our first month of start up (not that it's been long anw), we used to work like 17 - 18 hours a day. It doesn't take long for us to realize that this whole thing is more of a marathon than sprint. Since then, i have been trying to adjust my life more.

It's still not balance though. I can relate to that constant thinking and working condition. Often, i got a friend ask me, "so, tomorrow is weekend, what are you going to do?" and my typical answer is "work". Because, when you're doing startup, there is no more weekdays or weekend. For me, everyday is just the same. If i don't sleep due to biological needs, then i work.

Having said all that, now i try to balance the equation a little bit with exercise, socialize with family and friends. After all, most of the time, the "quantum leap" in our business concept are discovered during that "downtime".

Beside, why are we working so hard anyway in the first place? I don't want to lose all my family and friends or key moments in my child's life, while my startup make it. I think this fallacy is well described by Marshall Goldsmith in his book "What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful" about goal obsession. I read it years ago and think it's a great book for most of us here in HN, dare to say, A personality.
I've always wanted to try a pair of Vibram Five Fingers (http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/), they are about as close to running barefoot as you can get while still having a little protection.
I am not a DBA, so don't listen to me, but:

Because MySQL is free?

There have been a number of apps (scripts, rather) that I have written at work that require databases to function. Mostly report, some contact management stuff for the marketing dorks, etc. etc.

I would never ever even DREAM of using anything that costs money for this stuff, why would I? For an app that gets used by 10 people, that has MAYBE 100,000 records (that is the largest I could realistically see it growing to), mysql more than meets my needs...

The scripts run on OpenBSD. They're python (with its CGI and MySQLdb modules) running on Apache with MySQL.

All 100% free of cost to us.

That's your problem, Oracle/IIS, you cost money.

edit: Just to clarify...I'm talking about using databases for little in-house projects.
I'm not quite sure which part or to what extent "rogue" applies to, but if the guy is a licensed broker/agent, you can go after him via the state or local licensing people - i.e. in California, you could file complaints with the Department of Consumer Affairs and the Department of Real Estate and the National Association of Realtors (if applicable), et cetera.
Now why'd they have to go and name themselves Cyberdyne? That comes with certain...baggage.

That said, things like this are only going to get more common, assuming technological society continues.
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Now is the part where we start training the AI that we don't know we're training.
I suffered badly from plantar fascitis while playing basketball for roughly a year. I then spent one summer playing any casual game I could barefoot and made a near instant recovery. Since then I do as much warm up shooting barefoot as I can and I haven't had a problem.

My feet feel much stronger than they did before.
Or it could be a different kind of fusion. Maybe protons fuse in a different way in a metal lattice.
Ha it's an internship. It's also the only internship I've ever heard of that will give the interns an actual revenue share. We've spent eighteen months building the software, domain knowledge and business processes that they'll get to leverage while learning, having fun, and making money. You're right, crappy deal.
I run 5 miles barefoot every day. It's seriously so much more enjoyable than running with shoes on ever was. In fact, I didn't run at ALL until I went barefoot. It is also a very tough, rewarding workout on the right surface - for example, I run on soft sand (which, by the way, is the best way to run if you want to save your knees).

My best friend is a varsity track athlete who swears by his running shoes. We always get into a debate about the merits of shoes - perhaps I have finally won!
Well, to be honest, that Obama got elected to the Senate in the first place had a lot to do with the self-destructive behavior of the incument Senator.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ryan_(Senate_candidate)#

And the major newspapers covered up the illegal wiretappings for more than a year. Originally they were going to be released just prior to the 2004 election. I contend that if they had been released, then Kerry would have won overwhelmingly. This cover-up, along with a few others, such as Abu Ghirab, lead me to have no sympathy for the struggling newspapers - they abandoned us when we needed them.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/04/doj-nixed-inves.htm...
http://www.nike.com/nikefree/

barefoot running seems like a great idea, but not in a park where geese and dogs like to leave stuff on the ground
Maybe but to me this seems like an ad hominem argument - just because he did it for money doesn't mean there isn't some value in his argument. As I mentioned in another comment, if we substitute student work for music tracks then this wouldn't even be an argument. This ruling is saying it is within my fair use rights to profit from dealing with copyrighted media abstractly, so long as I don't distribute the media itself.

What I haven't seen mentioned is that when there is a match on plagiarism then the teachers do get access to the plagiarised document - so they are profiting from using and distributing copyrighted material they have no rights to.
Actually if you read through to the sidebar at the end it says that if you grew up running in shoes, you should continue running in shoes or you'll hurt yourself. (duh.)
I have a pair and I really like them. They aren't expensive and they feel good :)

Also check out Terra Plana Vivo Barefoot shoes. They're more expensive ($140-$200) but they look cool. They're the most comfortable shoes I've ever owned. I like them so much I've bought 3 pairs.
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The article mentions them,

"And then comes the grand finale: we cut back to the Kenyans, whose bare feet are now sporting some kind of thin shoe. It's the new Nike Free, a shoe thinner than the old Cortez dreamt up by Bowerman in the Seventies. And its slogan?

'Run Barefoot.'

The price of this return to nature?

A conservative £65. But, unlike the real thing, experts may still advise you to change them every three months."

As someone else said, these may be a better bet anyway: http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/
Do you think this is a cultural difference or an educational difference? Many students may not see what is wrong with representing the thoughts of others until it is explained to them (something that occurs typically at a high school level in Australia).
This is an interesting idea for discussion, but I think the author handles it very poorly.

Yes, it's entirely possible that high-end running shoes aren't helping us as much as we think they are. Yes, it's possible that there's a correlation between high priced running shoes and injuries. On the other hand, the author claims a lot of things that are simply ludicrous:

"Logically, that should be obvious - the impact on your legs from running can be up to 12 times your weight, so it's preposterous to believe a half-inch of rubber is going to make a difference."

If my head was moving at 10mph towards brick wall, a half-inch of dense rubber would probably make a whole lot of difference. I don't see how it's "preposterous" to think that it might be a similar story for feet.

"Despite all their marketing suggestions to the contrary, no manufacturer has ever invented a shoe that is any help at all in injury prevention"

This is the sort of statement the author is especially prone to making. This is such a leaky assertion that it's difficult to address. Ignoring the obvious benefits of shoes in all-terrain situations, there are many medical conditions that are addressed by shoes that are undeniably helpful.

Basically, the author is claiming that with a bit of fairy dust and some marketing skills, the running shoe industry has hoodwinked everyone for thirty years. If the author provided more actual data and less statements like "no matter who you are, no matter how much you run, your odds of getting hurt are the same" with no source (how could it possibly be the same odds for everyone?), I'd be more willing to believe.

I dislike making personal comments, but this author simply seems to be a demagogue.
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That's assuming that what's going on is fusion at all -- which isn't a given. "Cold fusion" was a marketing term, not a scientific one.
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The capabilities became competitive after 15 years of development, but the marketing decisions of the companies trying to sell the language caused it to miss the Open Source revolution.

If the syntax were a little more conventional (As in Dave Simmon's Smallscript) and if perhaps there was a much better Free Software representative than GNU Smalltalk, then perhaps Perl, Python, and Ruby wouldn't exist, at least in their current forms.

Java perhaps wouldn't exist. When Sun approached Parcplace in the 80's for a Virtual Machine for their set-top box project, they weren't treated very nicely, so they went off and created their own VM.
Sorry to hear you have to use IE6. Having to support IE6 with our application causes us endless grief so we decided to join the anti-IE6 movement with our blog. Can you use Firefox, Safari, Opera, or Chrome at work?
Sorry for being nit-picky, but Singapore still vigilantly holds on to certain authoritarian practices (not to say some liberalization didn't happen).

It is important to note that many people in China look to Singapore to be the ideal political economic model.

This would be a very amusing scaling problem...
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Looking at it as a platform is interesting - we could end up paying more, and are in no way adverse to discussing it. We could also use the help and think it's a pretty sweet opportunity for the right folks, and I don't see the "shouldn't have interns" as a or the only logical answer here.
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/members/bshneiderman/nsd/rejectio...
It's necessity, not preference. We just can't pay a normal, livable salary for the summer.