skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As to your first question I don't have a good answer. I cannot think of a way to quantify something that I can only intuit about. You can think of any metric by which to measure the progress of a programmer and you will find an endless debates about its usefulness. It's inherently a qualitative value in my experience.

In general though I am motivated by accomplishment. I feel good about doing a good job. It is its own reward. I feel that I've had a good day's work when I've contributed something worthwhile that has improved the code, the company or my team in some way, even if it's small.

I keep my work days structured around the traditional 9-5. At first it was out of habit but I've since embraced it as a discipline. The difference for me, I believe, is that without a long commute and being stuck in an office far from home there is very little cost associated with following "sporadic" opportunities. I don't leave time out for them because the benefits tend to out-weight the cost of being away from my desk. I can get up and take a walk down to my local café, chat with the barista about local events and pick up some flowers for my wife on the way home. This relieves stress, breaks up monotony and gives me time and space to connect the hunches together in my mind. I may come back from that outing with the solution to my problem or I may not; but at the very least I will be reinvigorated to take on the next set of tasks ahead of me and it cost the team almost nothing and gained quite a bit.

The way I see it my employer was looking for someone who was smart, experienced, creative and responsible. I do everything I can to cultivate that in myself. They're not paying me to trade hours for lines of code. They need someone with my experience, knowledge and intuition to help them solve problems and build a solid product.

If the solution to our problems as programmers could be solved by rote then I'd be out of work and in a different profession.
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This seems objectively neat, but I'm curious what the target use-case is. I would image most web developers want more powerful tools (a real console, their editor of choice, their commandline tools, etc). And it has too much power for non-technical users to break stuff.

Maybe it's a tool for neophyte devs, somewhere between random-free-hosting.biz and using aws?

Who is this aimed at?
Michael Jordan and Lebron James definitely get lucky...
But I'd bet on them hitting that lucky shot more than 99% of other basketball players because they just know how to execute. One of my friends was a top 10 high frequency equity futures (snp minis) trader in the u.s. i used to think damn he gets lucky all the fking time. i mean at best it's like 70/30 ratio. just pure luck. how does he just call the tops and bottom and never read a sec filing or financials of a company?! nope he is really that good at execution, and that's why he's only right 70% of the time whereas others are just coin flipping.

a lot of times. timing is luck. but a lot of people get lucky on timing... it's like if the bubble bursted next year then people would have said there was never an easier market to raise money / take risks / make quick money in mobile,social, etc. but i'm pretty sure there's a ton of smart people with luck on their side that's trying to do that right now; and 100 other variables besides luck will make majority of businesses fail.

how do you define luck? break down the components of luck.
> and the salt is per-user

The only kind of salt...
This seems like a cheap attempt to get people to look at their angellist page.
Fair enough. It takes about 2 - 3 hours to download for me (standard US residential connection). I sometimes let it run overnight.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaratory_judgment:

A declaratory judgment is typically requested when a party
is threatened with a lawsuit but the lawsuit has not yet
been filed...

IANAL, but if Goldieblox are seeking a declaratory judgment that what they're doing is okay, that's less severe than, and not the same thing as, suing Universal or The Beastie Boys for some kind of reward or injunction.

Still, the video clearly invokes the memory of The Beastie Boys' song to promote a product, giving the viewer the impression that Goldieblox is endorsed by The Beastie Boys. If it were my identity being appropriated by another company for advertising, I would not be okay with it either, no matter how progressive the product (and that's why I no longer review things via Google products, for example).
See also: Kiwix

For one thing, it has an Android app, and it's easy to put the whole thing on your external SD card. It also provides an index for full-text search.

http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page
>>It's almost ludicrous to use what is basically a black-swan, lottery ticket winner as some sort of point of comparison for progress.

Entrepreneurship itself is a massive black swan event. With failure being most common outcome, and success a rarity.

The whole idea of a start up revolves around the concept of persistence. Its a long drawn battle, which demands a arduous march towards a point where some thing magical is supposed to happen. If you are not ready to put in efforts which can kill you, only face crippling failure on routine basis, don't start a company.

There is nothing fair/unfair merit or otherwise about it. This is how the game is.

Don't expect to walk into a boxing game and expect to be hit by cotton buds.
For downloadable browser IDE check us out (www.crudzilla.com), plus you can use a bunch of languages and the whole setup is ready to deploy.
With Gyft cash back at 3% and Coinbase fee at 1% it's cheaper to buy stuff on Amazon via USD->BTC->Gyft->Amazon than even a rewards credit card directly on Amazon
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I emailed them about this idea a few weeks ago and they replied with this:
"Thanks for your feedback - that's a great idea! I'll pass this on to the team so we can look into implementing that!"
Ask HN: Receive compensation for initial development effort for my start up?
My start up has three founders - me and two business guys. I will be developing the website and they will provide the business expertise and cover expenses while we are still pre-revenue. We will split the company three ways. The dilemma I'm having is the website I'm developing will become quite complex when it's finished and it seems like I should receive some upfront (or as we go) compensation for the website. Has anyone encountered a scenario like this before and as a developer how were you compensated for the initial development?
> That's the sunk cost fallacy talking.

There is no sunk cost for a cost that hasn't been made yet (buying the domain). If you're referring to the "cost" of buying bitcoin then that isn't a sunk cost either (actually no cost at all since it's an expense for a semi-liquid asset that you still possess). So the parent is right to take opportunity costs into account, especially in case of deflationary currency.
No, it's a Pepé Le Pew thing
This is starting to feel like LoseThos will present fewer pitfalls.
Ah, that does sound like it would be worth hanging on to.

When you said "1972 Dodge" I hoped it was something with a little more oomph than a slant-6 :-)
A lawsuit = massive attention, the kind advertising doesn't buy.
> There are alternatives to hashing proof-of-work

Not really. Peercoin's security comes from the developer of the system signing every block. It attempts to use a "Proof of Stake" system where ownership of coins controls mining, but the problem with PoS is, ironically, that there is nothing at stake.

In PoW when you attempt to mine you must expend energy and so you should only mine on a consensus which is likely to be the surviving one if you want your work to not be wasted. In PoS the same is not true, and an optimally rational PoS miner will attempt to concurrently mine all forks which he does not hate.

Originally the signed blocks in PPC were supposed to be a bootstrap mechanism until most of the mining was PoS based, but then some clever miner started mining many possible histories and finding ones where he magically got lucky and his coins were the selected stake for all the blocks.

Primecoin's work isn't scientifically useful— no one had bothered describing it as interesting before it got pulled out as a PoW, and it's far less clear that its not trapdoored (that someone knows how to mine it much faster) than the one way function based proof of work.

You can convert basically any stochastic search into a PoW, but not necessarily a good one (e.g. it might have trapdoors).

More deeply, if your mining work has independent value that that dilutes your incentive to mine on the one true best consensus, since you'll still gain that value even if you mine on a losing consensus.

And ultimately the energy is _not_ wasted: It provides security for the system which is shared by all it's users. In Bitcoin you don't mint coins (with enormous energy costs) or print notes, you don't need bank vaults, or armored cars. You don't need to incarcerate counterfitters, fly around agents, or suffer counterfeiting losses. All currencies have operating costs, if Bitcoin's costs are comparatively good is a complicated analysis which I don't think anyone's done.
The amount of capital provided by YC is trivial.

Never been accepted to YC, but I gather that the value of access to YC's demo day and a strong network of investors and alumni is far from trivial.
If I'd known it was this easy I would have released a commercial that changes the words to "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" to be about my company, and sued the Rolling Stones.
I remember catching monarch butterfly caterpillars, as a child in New York, and keeping them with milkweed stems until they formed their chrysalis and eventually "hatched" as butterflies. Amazing.

We moved West eventually, and I've rarely seen monarchs since. I figured it was just because of the different habitat (no milkweed), but apparently it's not just that.

All insects are amazing in their own ways, but monarchs just have that extra curbside appeal to humans. Sad to hear they are in decline.

Regardless of the link-bait/fear-mongering at play in any environmental journalism these days... I have genuine concern about growing the impact of humans on the earth. It's hard to remain optimistic sometimes, even as a technology-positive person.
> it's an excellent, beautiful place. Because it has no government, and therefore must be, by libertarian definition.

I'm not sure if you're serious. If you're not, I apologize.

If you are, please show me someone claiming that "no government absolutely implies an excellent, beautiful place." Most of the libertarians I know recognize that a place without a government can still be a hellhole. Like Somalia.
Kiwix's Android app and the full-text search are both great features.

However, I'll point out that Kiwix has not updated English Wikipedia since January 2012. Also, XOWA works directly with the Wikimedia dumps (http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html) so it's (a) always up to date and (b) can work on any wiki (Kiwix needs to release the zim file first)

Also, XOWA can run from an external SD card (including FAT32 formatted ones)
Many universities are utilizing MOOCs and/or online material in order to implement a reverse classroom. In a reverse classroom, students watch lectures and do reading at home and class time is used to extend and reinforce that material usually by answering questions and working through more examples.

Students take to it pretty well when video lectures are available (my experience is that book only reverse classrooms don't work as well). It also generally leads to better retention, since more time is spent on hands-on experience.

Instructors also take it pretty well. Using an existing set of lecture materials reduces the preparation workload, especially in the first year teaching a course.
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Within the US, you can use someone like TriNet to handle employees in all 50 states. Companies like http://balsamiq.com/company/ are all over the world. From what I understand, people often get paid as contractors and have to deal with local tax laws on their own. If you end up hiring people as employees in all the countries, I think it gets a bit tricky. I'd love to know if there are other good ways to do this.
Are you suggesting that there is _nothing_ the time you spent writing that message might better be used for? :)
Talk about niche... I really don't get the desire to (solely) "express their moments alone."
One of the samples is a paywall - it's supposed to block content unless you've jumped through the hoop. It's not trying to 'enhance your experience' or do market research. It doesn't make sense to complain that you can't see the content in this context.
FYI the screen with the longish text and the sunset switches a bit too fast for me to comfortably read the text, which I think might annoy some visitors. Maybe swap text for something a bit shorter? Might help with user mood which might positively nudge downloads a bit :)
That's what I said. And last I checked, (2 years ago, 3 years after getting the quote) the lot was still undeveloped.
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Wish I would have seen this earlier. I run a game on Facebook platform and we oftentimes have bugs that you guys likely consider corner cases because they only affect a very small subset of your users.

These tend to happen to our heaviest users who account for a large portion of our revenue. These power users either use obscure edges of the platform or act in unique ways to other users.

For instance, many of our top players have been completely unable to access their friends list for the past 2 weeks now. Playing with friends is a hugely vital component of our game and this bug makes it completely unusable for these players (many of whom have been active, paying users of our game for several years now).

See Bug 1420634571501183 (recently marked as a duplicate of 681781621832581 which I have no way of verifying since that user didn't post an error message and was using FQL rather than the graph api.. I'm hoping this bug doesn't just get lost now that it's been marked as a duplicate).

This isn't the first time we've had a bug like this happen. Allowing developers to put a bounty out would be a strong signal that it's an important bug to fix. It's not necessarily about the bonus revenue to Facebook, it's about giving developers a way to get truly important bugs prioritized.

Or heck, being able to buy 5 minutes of a real Facebook engineer's time would be valuable as well.

See also:

Bug 1394861264086269 which is a bug marked as Invalid but has to do with the (relatively obscure) "Game Groups" Graph API not matching what's actually shown on the web interface.

Bugs 177435992460351 and 242967435851521 which will probably be closed in 5 months because "We are prioritizing bugs based on impact to the developer community. As this bug report has not received much attention from other developers, we are closing it so as to better focus on the top issues." even though they've been confirmed by FB just like countless other bugs I have reported over the years.
Author here...I hadn't heard of the CLLI codes before, but that's a nice reference, thanks! I do tend to prefer the UN/LOCODE values just because you can almost always get away with using just three letters to define a location, and they work well internationally. I do agree that they're not always the most intuitive though, so that's certainly a trade-off.
Essentially, he's operating as a realtor, or landlord-as-a service. A broker, a middleman, who smooths the process and reassures customers. It doesn't seem very scalable, but if it doesn't take much time then great.
Allegations which are just that. They're unsubstantiated, not even supported by the hashrate visible on the network. People are trying to rationalize out how someone they though was trustworthy would be so overdue in delivering.

People actually went as far as to sneak into Butterfly Labs' facilities and found no evidence of it.
They socialize with entrepreneurs and senior mgmt who have been funded by VCs - which is a common and effect intro path to said investors.
Did Weird Al have to get permission for his song parodies? This is essentially a parody, though I don't know how the law applies differently if it's made for a commercial. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. Anyone know how it legally differs from other "same beat, different lyrics" songs?
I would submit that mind sports are the most meritocratic subculture; performance is statistically ranked and sometimes measured directly.

And........ we find that there are no women at the top.

There is 1 woman in the top 100 at speedcubing [1].

There is 1 woman in the top 100 at chess.

There are only a few women in the top 100 at scrabble [2].

There is only one woman in the top 100 at Go (EGF).

[1] http://rcm-papers.info/gender-and-speedcubing.html

[2] http://rcm-papers.info/gender-and-scrabble.html
Super helpful feedback, thanks!
I did add a quick section under "special cases" on making sure to assign usable A records for mail servers and name servers, but you make a good point about ensuring the reverse matches in those scenarios as well (and to pay attention to your certificates).
"Sorry, we are currently experiencing heavy load. Please check back later."

Thanks, but I prefer my IDE to be available anytime I want it. Even if this IDE-in-a-browser isn't tied to their website, it doesn't inspire confidence that they can't handle a surge in web traffic.
Unless 23andme start selling the surgery as well, doctors will be involved before any surgery happens.
There is some scale level where you've captured all the manufacturing efficiencies (e.g. the asicminer boards in those pictures are only 10GH/s per board), and once you've crossed that it's generally more efficient to distribute the hardware because you can make better use of low level waste heat as home heating (or at least not having to actively cool it).
Not sure this belongs on HN, but if it stays the link should probably be changed to point to the original interview here http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=149...

If you enjoy asoiaf then it's wel worth a read. You may also enjoy http://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf and http://www.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones
You can't judge the platform by one framework. Node.js also shines in concurrency and networking, which are valuable things for an API, and allows you to offer streaming endpoints with ease.
I'm not talking about the speed of the array, rather a battery backed controller. With one of those, as long as you're under the sequential write bandwidth of the underlying array, it pretty much doesn't matter how much you fsync the log, so that bottleneck (commit frequency) goes away.

If you're planning to write data faster than disk bandwidth, then you have no hope of being durable and we're talking about problems too different to be worth comparing, and in that case I retract my comment.

I don't understand what distinction you're trying to make between the "array itself" and the "log file has a limit to how many blocks can be appended". Can you clarify what limit you're talking about?
I believe patio11's point is that the opportunity cost of a domain name is the same regardless of which currency you use to buy it. If you use Bitcoins, you have less Bitcoins. If you use dollars, you have less dollars to convert into Bitcoins if you think they will appreciate. Your net position in Bitcoins need not be affected by your choice of currency for this particular transaction.
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That's part of it, yeah, lots of courses out there but they tend to be things like survey courses, etc. Some of this is that the video content turns out to be the equivalent of only a 1 or 2 credit course.
More interesting than double-blind test is if each of the yc partners play fantasy startup.

a) each pick his/her top 5 yc companies per batch that they think will be most successful (and main drivers why)
b) each pick his/her bottom 5 that they think will be least successful (and main drivers why)
c) each assign the value of each of the 5 most successful companies 5 years from now.
(and build a bridge as to how that value will be achieved).

and then run some fun numbers on your predictive capabilities.

when i ran "c" for my private equity firm on all investments made over 20 years in various vintages and industries, i found my answer as to why my job of building complex financial models was pretty much worthless number painting. very low predictive ability in value drivers and financial projections being met (these are later stage businesses, too). also, i realized that i should get out when every newer vintage had a larger % of the driver of value stemming from leverage (i.e. financial engineering) than ebitda outperformance.
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With regard to the possibility of error, we (humans) just need to learn to set our expectations accordingly. If a given source of information has a small possibility of error, a possibility of negative results due to negative information, and the potential to avert the negative results by acquiring the information, we need to tell ourselves that we will not be affected by whatever negative information we gain. We need to assume for emotional purposes that it is likely erroneous, until verified by other means.

With regard to privacy concerns, I agree, and I hope that existing or future regulations like HIPAA protect this information enough that the knowledge gained outweighs the risk of privacy lost.
Hey there, OP here. One of the people who works remote with our team is our (former) summer intern. He spent the summer with us in the office, but is now on the other side of the country. He works a full week from there. He's junior in terms of work experience. But, we know he can learn new things on his own and takes a lot of pride in the work he does. Nobody is a genius hacker when they start. It's the deliberate practice and dedication that make you one.
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You're romanticizing the past, we're not on a downward decline, things are improving constantly. Poverty, war, oppression, these things aren't new, and they weren't somehow better in the past unless you were white and the loss of that white privilege somehow feels like things got worse.
Since Wikipedia doesn't have ads (and I'm guessing gets no real benefit from number of clicks), maybe this could be a nice way of lightening their server load and reducing some of their costs.
I think you're talking about an insert buffer, not a transaction log, and in that case, no matter how big your insert buffer is, it will eventually saturate and you'll end up hitting the performance cliff of the B-tree. You really need better data structures (like fractal trees or LSM trees) to get past it.
> DVR

Which DVRs? Mine had better not be doing that.
Does he have to? Most people say no.

But he doesn't publish a parody without permission. He makes sure he has permission before he does any of them.
Suggest HN : A black-list of apps that breach our trust?
I installed Venmo Android app recently. Though I clicked "skip" when they asked me if I wanted to invite friends, they emailed my whole contact list anyway. I guess their rationale is that this email they sent out is a notification that I signed up, not an invitation from me.

My contact list includes my professional contacts. This is quite embarrassing.

I try to avoid mobile apps as much as possible for this reason, except when it is clear from the permissions dialog that they can't make me look like a fool. I still slipped up :-(

It would be great to have a blacklist of apps, especially the "popular" ones, that breach our trust.

Thoughts?
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