skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The explanations given in the article are slightly confusing. Cisco cites a "difficult economic climate", but then the numbers don't show Cisco shrinking or losing money; it's still growing and is quite profitable. So they aren't cutting staff because the business has gotten smaller, or because they have a gaping budget hole that needs to be plugged.

Guesses at possible explanations that seem more likely:

1. Cisco overstaffed in anticipation of larger future growth that didn't materialize, and is now correcting for that.

2. Due to productivity increases and/or automation Cisco simply doesn't need as many employees as they previously did to do the same jobs.

3. Some kind of shift between sectors of Cisco's business, with the growth areas being less labor-intensive.
Does this actually exist? As in, is there a product in the wild?
Having never been a drinker (well, tried a bit as a kid but quickly realized it wasn't my thing) it wasn't until the last couple of years that I started to understand why people drink. Being in the early stages of a new company and wanting/needing to work insane hours is all fine and good but after a while of not being able to easily detach it's easy to find yourself being overly anxious and distant. Like, clinically so.

That being said, some people can use alcohol recreationally and some are more or less destined to use it as a crutch. I'm certainly in the latter category.
>Having a long-term partner and a sex-hookup on the side, what is that if not cheating?

Cheating means "doing something which is not agreed upon". If both partners in a relationship agree to have a possibility of a 'sex-hookup', it's by definition not cheating.
When fanfare is conspicuously missing, it's generally safe to assume it wasn't an accident.
I wish Gravatar themselves would add more options for fallback images. All the ones they have are pretty obtrusive. Ex: nicer looking identicons, someones initials (Trello style), or even just the ability to pass a URL that has a querystring as a fallback image.

They do have a "identicon" already. I wonder why GitHub didn't use it -- probably just didn't like the way they looked.

https://secure.gravatar.com/site/implement/images/#default-i...
John Myles White's Vega.jl package [1] already supports inline D3 plots in IJulia notebooks using Vega [2]. I think it's still a bit beta (we only wrote the IJulia kernel a few weeks ago), but it's already quite capable. This may soon become my favorite way of doing data exploration in Julia (for other things I still love my terminal-based repl).

[1] https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/Vega.jl

[2] https://github.com/trifacta/vega
I'm not sure if this is an appropriate question to ask, but you're the only one in the comments (so far) that say 1% is a reasonable number for the 1st employee. As someone who know nothing about the norm, do you mind explaining why it is so (or simply why 1% is not unreasonable would be great too!)?

I saw an answer to a similar quora question here: http://qr.ae/I9ZWz . What do you think about the answer?

Edit: I was once told that the rate for CEO hires is normally ~ 5%, with that number, it seems to me that employees, even the early one should be in the range of .1-.5% . Of course, it could just mean that even 5% for CEO is just too low?
There have been other apps that try to mimic Grindr (and Scruff, Jack'd, Growlr, ...) for the non-gay/bi crowd, and this won't be the last one. The question with any dating app/website/service (at least in our cultures currently) is, "How will you attract and keep women engaged with the service?" Fortunately for Grindr, that's not a problem.

That said, there is still plenty of room for innovation even with many competitors to Grindr. Grindr seems more and more overrun with spam, bots, and fake profiles. Hopefully they (or competitors) can create ways to deal with these beyond just "reporting" them.
STFU startup douchebag
"Seriously, you got your funding. Stop talking now."
Like I said, regardless of whether it's inherently victim-ful, the sale and support still produces those victims in a consistent and predictable manner.

Law enforcement knows drug consumers will continue to consume drugs and drug cartels will continue to be violent, so if they don't change their behavior, they are responsible for the violence they cause.

From another perspective, drug consumers know drug cartels will continue to be violent, and that drug enforcement agencies will continue to enforce. From their perspective, if drug consumers don't change their consumption patterns, they are at fault for the violence.

If none of the parties change their stance, everything stays the same. Consumers blame the government for drug crackdowns, the government blames consumers for consuming and supporting.

Everyone is at fault. The practical way to look at this is how do you effect change with the least amount of effort? Is it easier to create legislation that change the government stance on drugs, or is it easier to do a public opinion campaign to change opinions on drug consumption? Seeing as how drug addicts are rational about their drug use (aside from dopamine=good), it's probably easier to pass legislation.
What resources would you need?
I wonder if you could even sell a "temporary app" with like 100,000 users to someone. Then a new app could buy that temporary app, swap in their app and all the 100,000 users split the proceeds.

Would that be do-able or would Apple kill that idea?
Citation? I mean, you're saying "most people" after all.

I think you may be the most confused person in this thread. Go ahead and re-read this particular branch of it.

You said most people first. I then quoted your use of "most people". So I guess the appropriate thing for me to do at this point is to snarkily ask for your citation?
> All of these services all seem to promote some sexy girl on their home page or ads, or whatever - so of course men will rush to it in droves.

Actually the latest marketing tactic seems to be the extremely classy "Fuck ugly women in your area".
I can't see any sane reason how anyone can possible miss the connection. GPL provides a social contract that say: If you give away software and tell people that they are free to distribute copies, you can't come back a few days later and sue all their friends for patent infringement. You told him that he could give copies freely to his friend, and by suing, you are stabbing him in the back. This is behavior, even if it might infringe on developers "unlimited natural freedoms" of stabbing people in the back.
That's an open relationship.
Well, I suppose that is the danger in going with an idea that is simple to execute and that doesn't have some kind of networking effect.
> some are more or less destined to use it as a crutch. I'm certainly in the latter category.

I don't think that has to be true - you just need to find something else that unwinds you. I think alcohol is easy because, hey, you drink it and it does its thing. With other practices (exercise/meditation/etc) you have to put in some up-front work to see the benefits. But I believe you can do anything in 4 to 6 weeks with consistent effort.
Such a large cell on earth is an 'outlier', not a 'standard'.
Cisco is involved in many different markets. It's entirely possible the division(s) being cut are shrinking and/or losing money, while Cisco as a whole is growing.
> Go really isn't that young either. It's been what at least 4 years now? There's no excuse. It's not like the language is 6 months old.

1.5 if you count from the first stable release. Which IMHO is what matters, before was just a experiment with a lot of uncertainties.
It took ruby 9 years to arrive from 1.0 to Rails. They were other times, sure, but still.

I still consider it very young, or at least I don't know of any other younger language with a better ecosystem.

> Revel seems to be somewhere in between rails and express in terms of opinions which is fine but if it's going to make me less productive then I'm simply not going to use it.

Well, everyone has their preferences, certainly in Go there are not many choices so is not for everyone. But I'd keep an eye on it. Things can change very quickly.
Went from drinking way too much (Think black out) to zero recently. It was actually surprisingly easy - weirdly effortless.

What freaks me out though is how difficult it is to hit the sweet spot. i.e. To drink, but low-moderate amounts and only irregularly. That would be ideal in my view - I don't seem to have sufficient willpower for that yet, so its zero drinks for now.
2 glasses of wine could be 2 glasses, at 250 ml per glass, of a 14.5% ABV wine. This is a considerable, probably dangerous, amount of alcohol.

(In the UK this is described at 3.6 units per glass, or about 7 units per day. Safe limits for men are not more than 3 to 4 units per day, not every day.)

Or it could be 2 glasses, at 150 ml per glass, of a 10% ABV wine. That would be 1.5 units per glass, or 3 units per day.
I agree with the lexical scoping part (explains more or less why I don't use Lush). Its a pity that there aren't any good numerical computing tools in Common Lisp/Scheme. Oh, well.
But it's all about perception - LinkedIn has got perceptibly more slimy, less about connecting, and it has now started taking money for rankings. If the sign on the brothel door says our women will give head for cash but they have to love you to screw, do you think anyone will believe it?

Admittedly like all walled gardens, there is no business model - the value lies in the network and any and all attempts to monetize that are called taxation. We only accept that from one place
Would love to try out the beta! Thanks :) Email sent.
The Elio gets 84mpg and will cost $6,800
Tesla's (Former) CEO Feared Microsoft Would Make His Car Racist And Slow
I think it's more that EA don't want platform-selling titles like BF3 on Steam, not that Steam told them to get lost.
If you're running a recent version of GitHub Enterprise, the avatar base URL can be configured today. It's possible to run an internal, secure server that responds to Gravatar's URL scheme.
Grindr, jackD, etc are in the App Store, this shouldn't be an issue
> The jack-of-all-trades JSF has become the master of none.

I feel like I've read this same article about the Shuttle and one of the Army vehicles, maybe the M2 Bradley.
I think you need to open your eyes to the diverse shapes and forms that human relationships can take. While what they are suggesting may seem to be categorically "cheating" to you, it is not to many others.

I doubt a bunch of puritan talking heads on CNN complaining about this company will do anything but drive popularity among people who are not as disturbed by it as you. "Weathering that storm" should require nothing more than a "If you don't like it, don't use it" attitude. People who like it will use it anyway; they don't need to court the approval of the staunchly traditional.
A relatively long time compared to our day to day lives. Is it possible for other organisms to perceive time differently than we do or is time pretty much fixed?

Also, I'd be willing to bet that our sex drive had a decent role in evolution. Basically be strong, smart, and acquire stuff so we can put our dicks into pretty females.
Same here. I have a rather addictive personality and I'd hate to find out there is a drug stronger than my willpower to get rid of it so I have decided to forego the experience completely.

If my dad was any example to go by then I think this is the right decision for me.
Edit: My original post says 10E-6 atm. I misremembered, it was 10E-9 tor (about 1E-11 atm). 10E-4 atm is about 0.75 tor.
Then you should ping me on twitter / email :) Being non-drinkers is a great excuse to connect
Note to future outlaws: resist the temptation to make yourself famous by giving interviews.

Desire for fame seems to be a common theme in the downfalls of otherwise very successful individuals involved in this sort of undercover operation.
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> This is to EA's strategic benefit whether or not they receive any money via Humble Bundle.

No shit! Why would any business enter voluntarily into an agreement that was to their detriment?

Any individual or organisation distributing on Humble Bundle is going to use it for their benefit one way or another.

Full disclosure: EA pays my rent.
I have the habit of deleting all old content. Do you empathize with his position, though?

I think there are plenty of people that have legitimate difficulties doing things and I think there are plenty of people that use excuses as to why they can't do things. What the population of each group is or where sillysaurus falls in it, I don't know. He was quick to label himself handicapped. Then he said he only said that as a technique to extract information from me and that he's just bad at memorization "as most people are" according to him.

Beyond that, I think he's not a nice person. He used insults and name-calling as a frequent technique. He projected feelings he has for other people onto me. He ninja-edited almost all of his posts before deleting them. He got went from 0 to 60 angry over nothing. The guy has issues.
>a few beers will cause me problems with dehydration

Aside from lots of water, add add a electrolyte powder. The kind from the pharmacy intended for dehydration, not the "electrolyte" marketing crap energy drink companies use.
Like I tried to explain to you earlier, those who use Django and the other Python web frameworks that may not really support Python 3 yet are a very small portion of the entire Python user community.

Many of the rest of us have been happily and very successfully using Python 3 for years now, including for the scripting tasks that you incorrectly claim we don't use Python for.

Your other claims like "Python's glory days came with web frameworks and continue to be the reason for its fame and wide spread adoption." are truly absurd and outright wrong. Python was very popular and widely used well before the mid-2000s, when many of the web frameworks you're referring to were first released.

I think you vastly overestimate the amount of Python used for web applications, as well. This is understandable, as such uses are often more visible than the other behind-the-scenes uses. But there's a staggering amount of Python code that you don't see, and that isn't used for web applications.
This PDF[1] explains the app in more detail. The PDF claims that online dating costs $15, which is clearly false..

Interestingly, to request sex you need to buy a 24h pass for e.g. $9.99.

Apparently you need to first select attractive profiles before they can send you a sex request.

1. https://www.dropbox.com/s/hd3f814nsxflnbl/Pure-Invest-ENG.pd...
> working to exhaustion in the gym

I don't disagree, but when I've tried this I just find myself doubly exhausted: once (mentally) from the work, and again (physically) from the gym. Still agree that making time for the gym is really important though. But for me, it's not the answer to mental exhaustion but rather just part of a healthy lifestyle generally (personally, proper sleep hygiene is the only solution I've found to mental exhaustion and overwork).
>Drinking to much does have negative effects, you just need a little self control.

I'm guessing you never been close to an alcoholic. It's a disease. Specifically it's an addictive illness. Saying it's just a little self control trivializes that it's an addiction.
Oops...I meant SpaceX is not nearly as impressive as what they achieved in 1995. Thing can go laterally!
Mine is the anonymous/guy fawkes face: https://identicons.github.com/pathikrit.png
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Indeed, why not make 5 different planes for different purposes instead of one that does everything...

I mean, it's not like they're also building an aircraft carrier that can launch ballistic missiles, cruise at 50 knots, go up rivers and also submerge... or are they :-)?
Guaranteed. This is going to end up as a union job due to the height requirements and the vacuum. It will be an honestly dangerous job. That means quotas and cutting corners, because there will be humans and it will be 105 out and I just wanna watch the Giants game, man.

Eventually, it'll all add up.
I was going to mention the same thing. Replace the after work drink with an intense workout and it does wonders.
The Moskit is indeed a very difficult missile to shoot down. However, one is nowhere near enough to sink a carrier. With a 320kg warhead, one hit probably would not even render the ship combat ineffective.

Also, only the four Sovremeny-class destroyers carry that missile.
Manning apologizes, said he ‘hurt the United States’
Oddly LTR dating sites do quite fine despite the fact that the better they are the sooner their users leave.

Men looking for sex drive away women looking for LTRs, that's about it. Women looking for sex having a huge selection just means having their needs met sooner.

You're right in that if you're running a dating site for LTRs NSA men drive away women, but NSA men don't drive away NSA women.
That is sooo cool!
Question is, how do you decide on the top % of men without falling back onto "shallow" factors like classical good looks or income?
This is the third response in a row in which you're speaking like a marketer. Please understand that on HN this sort of communication is less trusted than no communication at all. Actually, a more believable (if still unsatisfying) answer would have been the last sentence by itself. Your first two sentences are fine, but they don't suffice in and of themselves: you should provide some supporting details. What aspects of your architecture support interop? Don't say "innate, interop-supporting qualities". Say "we're N+1 for more capacity and reliability" or "we have a 'carrier' column in some of our SQL tables" or whatever the actual truth is.

Your third sentence contradicts itself, so it makes you seem either uninformed or deceptive.

If these difficulties should be blamed on non-native English use, please say so.
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Good luck, jere! Try reversing it by replacing the habit with exercise. Not only do you cut the alcohol, but you stay hydrated, lose weight, and sleep better!
Scientists chart mutations that account for 97% of 30 most common cancers.
Fair point. I'd say as far as strategies goes its one of the better ones.

30+ days is enough to get at least a semi-objective indication of physical dependence, which is a good start.
F16 has good reputation. F35 does not.
I have designed and deployed production web services built on node, so I am intimately familiar with where it's strengths and weaknesses lie.

And clearly the node devs agree with me that error handling is a problem, because they went and invented Domains to try to solve this problem, and then explicitly documented (http://nodejs.org/api/domain.html) that Domains don't achieve exception safety. Something that almost any other runtime environment can do.

The "there was an exception, anything can happen" argument is a cop out. There's no excuse for leaking references just because the stack was unwound by an exception instead of normal function returns. The real issue is that the language lacks a true asynchronous fate-sharing construct, that works no matter how your dependencies handle their own error conditions. Being asynchronous doesn't make this problem unsolvable. Erlang does it nicely.

If you need to crash and respawn every time somebody hits an exception, you're really easy to DOS, because anybody who can cause you to hit an exception can make you start to behave like a forking web server.
Hey - we send you very small snippets of content everyday through email/app about that Coffee. So as you enjoy your cup everyday - you get a learn a little bit about what made all of it possible.
The pill changed the rational cost/benefit equation for casual sex for women. Now what we need is another pill that changes women's feelings about it, but one that is marketed as something other than a promiscuity pill.

EDIT: The link currently returns Server Error (500):

http://getpure.org/en/

However, if you put in http://getpure.org and let the server redirect you to http://getpure.org/en/, it works. Someone must have misconfigured something.
I agree with all the things you said, but they are all compatible with my claim that it's relatively simple to use alcohol responsibly.
The likelihood of total war between any of the great powers is nil because of nuclear deterrent. So why are we wasting trillions of dollars on conventional weapons against enemies that we will never fight? Oh because they'll be sold to non-nuclear powers where there MIGHT be conflict (i.e. Iran)? What a joke. That's a 9 billion dollar defense budget against 682 billion.

The simple truth is that the military-industrial complex is just a giant leech on our economy that has somehow convinced Americans (and other nations) that it's necessary to buy these multi-billion dollar systems because of all the fear-mongering bullshit that's spewed. Roosevelt's line about the only thing we have to fear is fear itself is apt here.

The amount of waste in our system is disgusting. If we had a smart electorate, our defense budget would be much, much smaller.
After recently reading this thread in /r/AskReddit, I'm skeptical this will work:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1j8jkm/people_who...

A lot of bad experiences on there (at least for straight people) and, after all, this is what Pure is trying to do ("a better casual encounters").
I think the "useless" comment misses that its sweet spot utility is unknown at this point. And I'm not sure "general purpose computer input device" is going to be such a sweet spot.

The precision "problem" can obviously be addressed with software.

That said, I do believe the absence of killer utility is a problem for Leap right now since it came out with a decent bang and now the less than favorable reviews are dripping in. I think they would have done themselves a significant favor by having a killer app ready from the outset. I also think they need to encourage people to look beyond simple human-computer interaction. Apparently these things could map a whole football game or count the number of people at a concert. Things like that. I also think the commercial angles will be better for business.
> The interesting question to me is how Pure will solve that problem.

Maybe by using something like OKCupid data to extrapolate what an attractive man is in general in the context of online hookups/dating.
They have more than just the 'more men want sex with a stranger than women' problem to deal with.

I would think that safety would be a significant concern in using a service like this.
Alcohol does help you wind down quickly, but, at least for me, it doesn't help me stay wound down. Even if I have a couple of drinks and then go to sleep, I don't stay asleep very long - a couple of hours at most. And when I wake up, I'm more "wired" than I would be after a typical 2-hour nap. Having said all that, I still enjoy an occasional drink and the "slow" unwind that comes with that. But nothing beats the "lifestyle change".
So, young man deciding on the Marine Corp or the French Foreign Legion: Just wait 10 years. Those precision welding jobs 50 feet up next to 1 tor vacuum are going to pay out the bank. Union too, and probably never going away if this thing comes to fruition.

On the other side, Mr Musk gains a hell lot of know-how about plugging vacuum leaks quick, reliably and possibly automatically. Where do you think that might come in handy? Hmmm, on trip to Mars maybe?
You're (your mentality is) one of the problems they are going against. Why would you call it cheating if both partners knew about it and agreed to it? You think it's impossible, or just "bad" in some sense?

Many people here say things that are purely their belief about how the relationship they are in should function. It's ok, it just means that your not a target of this service. The problem starts when you stigmatize people who are and who would use it. You can't say that people are cheating on each other if all interested parties consent - but you did it anyway.