skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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zappos IP inc. is hiring for several tech related positions: http://about.zappos.com/jobs/jobs-zappos-family/search-open-...

three years ago i decided to come work at zappos after reading tony hseih's book "delivering happiness: a path to profits, passion and purpose" with my wife. we had a couple of job offers at that time and the book convinced me that zappos is where i should go. the focus on customer and employee happiness seemed almost too good to be true and something that was not even approached at any other company i've been with in ~20 years.

i have to admit that for the first year i experienced all the awesomeness that i had read about, but i was also waiting for the other shoe to drop. i really didn't believe it could be as good as i was experiencing.

then i finally realized there was no other shoe. the thing that really drove the point home to me was when i overheard a tech VP and the CTO talking about the valve entertainment employee handbook that was posted online. the handbook explained a corporate structure that was so flat that people had no direct reports and there was no managers telling people what to do.

any other leadership in any other company i had been with would have just scoffed at the idea and dismissed it as internet fluff. these guys were talking about it and asking questions like "how do you think they make something like that work?"

just the fact that they were having a discussion about it made me realize they are different, but i really didn't expect anything to be done about it. it IS a radical idea after all and would likely only work with very specific organizations (or so i thought). now, 1.5 years later we are instituting a new radical management structure focused around self organization and a flat management model.

this tells me that the focus on constant improvement and intrepid company building goes all the way to the top.

and that's just part of the awesome experience here. i could go on and on and on.
regarding "discipline/conscientiousness/work ethic": It will probably always be a big factor (it always has been). Probably bigger than usual for the next few years as we figure out this online self learning stuff. We just have to remember that these things are very very new.

Imagine taking a bunch of smart people and turning them into middle school teachers. None of them has ever taught before. They have access to nothing. No textbooks or curriculum. No experienced teachers to help. They probably won't do a great job, not at first. It'll take time to learn what works.

We have time to figure this stuff out. I like that we are in a rush as individual players. Khan Academy can't let coursera blow them away. That's great. But as a culture, we have time. Maybe generations to figure out how to teach people using these new tools.

I believe solutions will eventually be better for almost everyone. We'll probably need to tailor the tools for people with a naturally low self discipline, but I think that is possible.
I too wish it had split processes (although I haven't had a freeze in months), but other than that it beats Chrome in every single way. I am not affected by your UI problems, and I install extensions every other week so I'm not bothered.

So, yeah, I guess you didn't really try. Perhaps you're just attached to Chrome.
I don't understand the claim that front bumper to front bumper is a bigger problem the faster you go. When you're going fast, the 4 meters of a car are much shorter (in terms of time), because 4 meters at 4 m/s is a much smaller amount of time than 4 meters at 0.2 m/s.
If you RTFA, he compares the results of the model to actual data collected by the Federal Highway Administration. Why use a complex model when a simple one suffices?
At what time do you deploy to production?
aww hell no. I'd be terrified of merging into that lane with no highway divider between me and oncoming traffic. Small two lane highways are bad enough! :P
For those Complaining about Firefox Responsiveness.
There are e10s Reboot ( Process Per Component or tab ) that they are working on. Generational GC, New Graphics Backend etc.
I don't think that's quite right. Imagine if I flip a coin and it comes up heads, so I say "coins always come up heads". You don't flip a coin once to prove me wrong.

I think the right thing to do is to conduct a much bigger study, get a much better estimate of the preference distribution, and then derive the % probability of getting a result at least as favorable as the Bing result by pure chance.

If you can show there's only e.g. a 1% chance that the Bing result arose through random variation, then Bing definitely has some tough questions to answer. (e.g. did they run 100 different studies, and just cherry-picked the best result).
Looking like a naked mole rat is quite the price to pay for cancer immunity. But I guess every species is subject to evolutionary trade-offs. :p
Aren't there better solutions? For functional satellites, of course, you could just de-orbit them (so that they burn while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere), but even for passive objects, maybe you could steer them so that they start falling towards the earth. The Wikipedia article on Kessler Syndrome[1] suggest using lasers, but I guess other ways are possible: if you intend to "blow them up", you might as well redirect the rocket to explode slightly above the orbiting object, so that it is not damaged, but only pushed towards the Earth.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
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In this job, you will work with a core team to develop algorithms for inferring context and user intent from non-ideal MEMS sensor data on smart phones and tablets.

You should be comfortable iterating quickly through a development cycle which will include the design and implementation of data collection experiments, algorithm development, integration into both embedded and non-embedded platforms, and verification against live sensor data.
How A Kid With Failing Grades Got Into Harvard
I was watching Motorway Cops - or whatever it's called on BBC - just last night. There was a major crash, with a Mini and a Jaguar.

I didn't know that the direction of the Expressway changes, it's pretty cool, but has kind of put me off driving down it.
Of course the death of the soil does not bankrupt farmers, this is just a nasty side effect of industrial farming.

What bankrupt the farmers is that industrial farming does increase the yield of a given field at the cost of relying in an ever increasing and more advanced industrial inputs. This has the double effect of increasing both the fixed (machinery) and variable (GMO seeds, pesticides, fertilizers) costs, while at the same time increasing the offer and saturating demand. The farmers find themselves in the predicament to ever increase production just to survive on an ever decreasing margins. And when they can no longer afford the fancy inputs, the soil is already dead so they end up the proud owner of a wasteland and go belly up.

It would be hard to come up with sources for all of these assertions, specially in an informal debate, but for starters look at: http://www.joshuabradley.org/green_revolution/index.html
List of U.S. government shutdowns : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdown
Shouldn't you leave less space, to dissuade people from jumping in the gap?
On top of that, tornado has built-in support for multiprocessing, so you can forego gunicorn as well: https://gist.github.com/jholster/2290574
Browser Pivoting (FU2FA)
I'd rather have public misunderstanding of aspects of science than have a deep public mistrust of science, which is the only thing that comments like yours create.

We need more of the public engaged with science and we need a wider appreciation of its value. Misunderstandings can be corrected over time.
> Recruiting the visual areas of the brain to process information is actually not a strong support for the argument that information processing in other regions of the brain is organized similarly

Good point. I guess I was trying to say that non-visual information processing in the brain is more than just organized similarly to visual processing, in some cases the brain actually uses the visual system to process non-visual information.
Thank's for the reply. I'm currently reading 'Bad Science', After someone mentioned it here on HN. Perhaps I'm now in a 'too sceptical' mood. My apolegies to the author ;-)
As new marketplaces change health insurance, tech startups seize opportunity
It's been entirely development and design so far, but I think it makes sense to include work like conversion optimization in the future.

I won't have any leads for you this month, but would love to chat sometime. I'll let you know as we expand!
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Because we're such a small company you'll have plenty of freedom and responsibility. You'll be able to get your hands wet in the entire product-building process. Our development philosophy is to ship quickly and iterate with feedback. We care about our students and always make sure they are happy. We have fun all the time, and meetings only when absolutely necessary. An interest in educational statistics, web applications, and startups will serve you well :)

We're profitable, based in downtown Berkeley (right by UC Berkeley) and perks include company-paid general education classes (ever want to take a pizza-making class for free?), team events, infinite snacks and flexible hours.

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There is a protocol. Even in heavy traffic, if you observe the following distance that the DMV tells everyone to observe when taking a driving test there is always room to merge.
What author is trying to argue against is the idea of "smoothing-the-wave", which he does prove in his overly complicated article.

Yes, there is too much rambling for making a point, yes the tone of title is quite arrogant / link-baity.

But this terrible essay did prove the point: smoothing the wave is not going to make you go faster.
It looks impossible to change the angle of the brush, meaning only the major face of each tooth gets touched by the bristles. This seems more to do with 3D printing, than dentistry.

What is interesting is the change from mass produced to 'mass customization' where things are made with efficiencies of scale, yet each one can be unique (within limits).
Rethinking Agile in an office-less world
You werent kiddint when you said this book would someday be offered free on the javascript jabber podcast. As someone who was waiting for this day, thanks!!!
Maybe you can put it in a cleaning fluid after brushing.
Watching House can help.
My bookmark UI isn't broken: putting tree-style tabs in a sidebar is perfect.
This neatly coincides with my need to purchase my own health insurance: I just accepted an offer with a startup that does not yet have a company plan in place, but they are giving me a a monthly allowance to purchase my own.

May I solicit any recommendations from the other hackers and entrepreneurs out there? Where have you bought insurance from? What private equivalents to the Health Insurance Marketplace are out there?

Right now I'm running through the application on eHealthInsurance.com and it's looking like I can get some pretty sweet PPO health insurance + dental + vision for about $212 per month.
Today's Internet is the mobile Internet
A browser pivot is a way to inherit a user's identity by forcing their browser to fulfill requests for an attacker. This attack gets cookies, session cookies, HTTP authentication, and even SSL sessions authenticated with a client SSL cert.
I hear that, for sure.

Oakland has a serious problem with burglaries/robberies. The police force is understaffed and, while oakland is finally trying to add more officers, it's going to take years to get back to a level of staffing that is sufficient to fight crime in the city. What is the alternative here?

And my neighborhood is one of the poorest in the bay area. If you look at richblockspoorblocks.com for oakland north of 580 and west of 24. Those are some of the neighborhoods that are looking to hire private security (among others). My census tract (4007) has a median household income of $38,646!!! These aren't "rich" people that want to hire security to protect their gated community (:cough: piedmont :cough:). These are working class neighborhoods fed up with the crime rate and powerless to speed the process of growing the policing power of the city of oakland. The only thing they can do with any speed is hire someone to help out.
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"Omit words."
Great stuff. It would be super useful if a mathematical definition of the easing was provided though (unless I'm missing something on my mobile browser).
I'm not convinced that stepping out of air travel would really have that large an impact on any carbon footprint except yours. The flights are still going out; my assumption is that your not being on them doesn't mean much difference.

How much fuel is spent per person on a flight, and how much CO2 emission does that translate to? That would be helpful data. Without that, I can't really say if it's meaningful or not.

Edit: I already don't fly, by the way. No need to.
I'm wondering what if I'm missing something here:

"If anyone tries to tell you that if only drivers left space in front of them and took turns merging, traffic would flow smoothly, and it’s only because of jerks that there are any traffic jams at all, just ask them what’s going to happen at the next merge. Where is that extra space going to come from? You cannot keep 2 seconds back from the car that has just merged in front of you without, um, slowing down. If the car in front of you is also slowing down for the same reason, you have to slow down even more. This is basically the definition of a traffic jam."

However, if you have two lanes, with one lane blocked, then wouldn't not allowing for another car to safely merge into your lane prevent them from merging? Then you have one lane moving quite fast, but the other lane would be going more slowly...

Like I say, there may be something I'm missing here, I'm happy to be enlightened!
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- Digital Advertising Solutions Manager (inside sales & project management for custom campaigns)

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Did you read the whole article? That's explicitly discussed, even with graphs!

> At low occupancy (cars per mile), drivers can go as fast as they’d like. As occupancy increases, so does flow rate, even though speed decreases somewhat due to everyone trying to maintain following distance. At a certain point, when occupancy becomes high enough, speed dips low enough to where drivers are unable to maintain their minimum following distance, and — catastrophe! — the flow rate decreases dramatically.
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One hidden assumption is the high growth of internet retail implies a high growth of fashion clothing growth. Not sure why that applies. Sounds good, just not backed up by numbers.

Its hard to think of a commodity with more of a conspicuous consumption purpose than expensive fashion clothes, other than perhaps cars. The act of shopping for them, being seen shopping for them, the whole trying them on and looking a mirror, seems to reach or exceed the enjoyment of eventually wearing them in public.

I would imagine sizing is a complicated issue impacting possible 10% annual growth rates and all that. Tee shirt sizes are simple so online tee shirt sellers do well. I have bought my last four pairs of shoes on line because they're identical mfgr, model, size, width. I'm thinking high fashion clothing sizing might be somewhat more complicated. "do these stripes make my butt look fat" is hard to answer if you don't try the clothing on. As if thats ever an easy question to answer.

Finally you can increase annual sales of $300 fashion brand jeans by 10% per year for quite a few years, but eventually you bounce off declining median adjusted incomes, permanent decrease in economic activity, long term demographic decline stuff like that. It is very much like growing the 50+ foot sailing yacht market by 10% per year, you can do that for awhile, but eventually you run out of people capable of paying $300 for a pair of jeans, err, buying 50+ foot sailing yachts... The fashion market may not be big enough to make the subset of internet sales large enough to be viable. Perhaps walmart has more to fear from amazon than the major fashion brands... there's a lot more people buying $25 walmart jeans wanting to save $5 at amazon than people buying $300 jeans hoping to save $200.

(edited to add that if you agree with the assumptions of the article, its a well written and well analyzed article with no obvious mistakes. I just happen to disagree with several core assumptions which has quite an effect on my opinion of the conclusion.)
Amdahl's Law and Parallel Computing
I've spent some time with this. NB This is my experience on the Android app and the website.

In the app, searching is abysmal. There's no way to specify the type of keyword you're searching for, so if it's an author, you'll probably have to wade through a sea of wildly irrelevant results to find that maybe they don't even have anything from that author.

I grabbed two different versions of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, both of which the website proudly stated were included in my subscription. Neither was a truely optimized ebook. More like PDF images, so the text or pages didn't scale.

The reading experience on the app is sub par. No options for font type, size, or color; no background options; or margin options. No "night mode" or similar.

There's also often not an indication that a book is just a preview on the website. I added Cormac McCarthy's Child of God to my library, and the app told me that it wasn't available in my country (US), but I could read it on the website, but I discovered it was a preview only.

Related to that, when searching on the website, it seems to prioritize purchase-only books over subscription books. I understand the why, but it's really frustrating to have to start scrolling to get to what most people will be looking for.

Then there's the trouble with having to wade through the sea of user-uploaded content. It seems like there should either be a separate app for the subscription portion, or at least a way to search ONLY that.

All in all, I really wish this was something I could see myself paying for, but right now, I think it's kind of a mess.
And similarly, a more fluid/watered out paste to ease appliance.
> if every child is in an environment that lets them develop and flourish to their fullest extent, then any remaining differences in their development will be due to hereditary factors!

Well, almost! There's also variation in diet and other aspects that fall in the "nurture" category.
Your first A/B tests: A guide for noobs
My library co-op uses the same system, and while they do have books I want to read, they're often out of stock of the ebook. That irritates me enough to not borrow ebooks from them.
"Due to the Government Shutdown, this site is not being updated."
Non-zero-mass gravitons could be mechanism of dark energy
I'd love to see a blog post that went into detail about those issues: what to measure, what to tune etc.
One thing your analysis leaves out is the human/psychological element. I've never bought into the idea of "erasing" the waves causing an overall throughput increase directly, but rather that it adds buffers so the traffic is a lot more predictable. The more people need to slam on their brakes, the more they deviate from the optimal-flow following distance, effectively wasting throughput. I guarantee you that when humans are involved, you'll get a lot better throughput from a line of nicely synched cars humming along at 25mph with a 2 second gap than the same cars constantly speeding up and slowing down, but maintaining an average speed of 25mph and attempting to maintain a 2 second gap despite wildly varying traffic conditions.
So many on HN treat those that write C# code as a sort of lower class of programmers and I have never understood why. I have been writing HMIs for machinery for over two years now in C# and the .NET framework with intellisense is a great tool for getting the job done. I guess there are some programmers that blunder through their career using only the most mainstream languages but I make sure to work towards learning new languages all the time so maybe I'm just a special case.
Why we use Balanced for payments
There are known choke points where traffic is forced to merge. There is the occasional tourist, but rush hour happens every weekday. People know about these merge points, see traffic backing up in all lanes, and will still jump into the lane about to end trying to rush around a few extra cars.

It's rude, and it demonstrably increases traffic.
Maybe all this is shocking if you're not already familiar with the way CPUs are specified and the way they have dynamically adjusted their speeds and power consumption for many years now.

ARM systems do the same tricks for the same reasons. Here an ARM CPU is throttled back to keep total system consumption below a target TDP, meaning it's impossible to achieve the rated CPU+GPU performance simultaneously. They are "configuring them to throttle back in order to meet the advertised thermal figures."

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6536/arm-vs-x86-the-real-showd...

That just strikes me as good engineering. If the clocks were given simplistic hard upper limits to achieve the same ends (4W TDP limit in a system otherwise capable of consuming 8W), the result would be a less flexible, less powerful system. A waste, really.

There is a real disparity between old-school absolute-maximum-TDP and realistic modern ultra-portable battery-powered use scenarios. Maybe Intel's SDP isn't the right answer, but it doesn't strike me as purely shady marketing malarkey either.
> Fewer words, create a more powerful message.

Fewer commas, create a sentence that makes more sense.
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What happens to all the information we have converted to digital form if a worldwide disaster occurred?

Think like a nuclear war and the resulting EMP wipes out most of the US/EU/Asia electronics.

Think even a massive solar flare that fries the majority of the electronic equipment.