skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure about this particular paper, but in most theoretical fields the authors are listed alphabetically by last name (the assumption being that each of them made a contribution without which the paper wouldn't exist - so ranking them is not important).
Yeah, but why is it awkward? What you get from this is that they either get the information they need to realise that they are being screwed, or you get the realisation that you are overpaid for whatever reason. It could be that there is a genuine gap and you are worth that much more, or it might be as simple as you having learned earlier than them that 'not being money oriented' is a bad interview tactic if you are experienced and capable...

Whatever it is I don't think it hurts unless you don't really deserve that money and have good reason to feel guilty about it - even then its not your fault, or anything bad about you, its the employer who is 'screwing them over' in that case and you are giving them the information to realise it.

I've had similar happen a few times, its not really a problem, I've actually been surprised when I've encouraged them to go for more money and one guy in particular basically said, "yeah, but you actually are worth that much more to the company than me".
I'm totally down to help you. Let's meet up if you're in SF. I'll buy you coffee and hep you find something that works for you.
I am a big fan of this product, I have backed it already on Indiegogo, really looking forward to getting mine! :-)
For reference, a parser for Newick string/format comes with the Bio::Phylo Perl CPAN module - https://metacpan.org/release/Bio-Phylo
This explains the benefits:

http://blog.cloudfour.com/the-ems-have-it-proportional-media...

Here's some boilerplate code:

https://github.com/johannaruiz/propotional-mqs

Make sure you set the viewport correctly:

http://blog.javierusobiaga.com/stop-using-the-viewport-tag-u...

as an incorrect viewport can cause issues with some mobile browsers:

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2013/11/a_day_in_the...
Are people really that desperate? I don't know how the job market is in the US, but yesterday I saw an article explaining that the US was still the best place for programmers. In Netherland, I don't know any programmer who is unemployed. The job market is very good here. There's no reason to accept a crappy, rotten, underpaid job, unless you suck.

So what is it, US? Is it great over there, or does it suck so badly that PA might actually find someone?
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Ah yes, the semantic web. Remember when that was going to change everything? All it required was for everyone on the web to meticulously format their data into carefully structured databases. I can't imagine why it never gained much traction.

As an interesting side note, part of the reason of the success of google is that through the page rank algorithm they were able to extract highly important implicit data on the relative popularity, authoritativeness, and context of links rather than being forced to rely only on explicit data.

I will make the claim that in the future devices and systems which work on implicit context and metadata are going to be more successful at these sorts of high level pseudo-cognitive capabilities than anything which is dependent on people changing the way they do everything.
That is really bad advice. C style memory management is useless in the presence of exceptions, and a nightmare to get right even in C. Choose a book that teaches RAII from the beginning, and leaves C style memory management to a late, advanced chapter.

Accelerated C++ used to be that book, don't know if there is a newer and better replacement.
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I have a fundamental issue with bitcoins that I have not seen anyone address. Sooner or later a better bitcoin will be invented. One that can perform transactions faster, or is more anonymous or where mining for the coin helps some nice project (SETI@home, math proofs, protein folding, etc), or something completely different. When an alternative better currency catches on, at some point it will become obvious that bitcoins will be obsolete and the value should suddenly be 0 again.

It is the nature of technology that bitcoins will someday become MySpace.

I am open to be convinced otherwise by someone knowledgeable.
You also have to store them, test them and then find them when a customer wants their data. With drives in a pod they're always online and in a RAID so when a drive dies they can be alerted quickly and customers can access data essentially 24/7.
startup blues
I had a plan to do something similar - motorcycle up the pan-american highway. Unfortunately every time I think I have a friend or two sold on the idea they drop out...

Last time it got as far as the planning phase and the Darien Gap came up, and there was a real moment of "WTF? There actually is no road between Central and South America? How can there not be a road?"

It was only a few months after I'd completed a driving circuit of the Australian coastline and I'd assumed if there were roads there then there would be roads everywhere...

I'd still like to go to South America, but the tales of kidnappings in remote areas do still stay my hand.
Like every union ever.

When performance is not measurable, all you have to go on is seniority.
I'm seriously wanting to invest in Bitcoin. I think in 8 years the price of every bitcoin will be around 100k each.
I applied for a job a few years ago, which had two interviews.

The first interview was to determine my technical ability and character.

The second interview was for them to gauge my reaction to all the crap parts of the job. They told me about the level of social life, the tedious tasks I will have to do, and so on.

They said that, previously, they had talked-up the position to attract someone only for them to leave once they realized the reality wasn't quite so great. So, if I took the job, I would not be shocked once I got to my desk.

In the end I didn't get the job, but this is the only interview I have been in that didn't try to hide the bad bits or to over-hype the good bits.

So, yeah, unrealistic expectations are an issue. But, I mostly blame the hiring company for talking out of their backsides in order to recruit.
This And model makes sense. I don't have an Or model (or any other model) but I've seen the Or models represented as in your essay. In fact I had the feeling for years that I have a lot of introvert/extrovert traits and it did not make sense to put myself on the either side of the line.
Also an economist and a data scraper/consultant here -- depending on the data, some times all you need to figure out is correlation -- frequency of updates, listings being live for X time; clusters of listings around Y days, etc.

In terms of a few real-life examples, on the one hand you have eBay which provides you with sold data (API through Terapeak). On the other hand you have Craigslist, which is kinda opaque, hates scraping, but you can monitor listings and their half-life. (Listings that disappear quickly presumably get sold quick; listings that stick around for weeks relisted over and over have lower liquidity presumably and/or are priced high.)
Is this an opportunity to solve a real problem? In helping founders of failed startups. Would an "insurance model" startupt for startups make sense? I'm European, so not sure how this sounds in the USA.
What makes sense about a probability that can take on negative or complex values and collections of which don't sum to 1? Convention is no excuse for bad terminology or notation, especially for beginners to the subject who may not have the math or physics background to appreciate the connection with the continuity equation. You lose nothing by removing the word "probability" and avert possible confusion. "Amplitude" and either "squared modulus" or "amplitude density" work fine.

I think Feynman's QED is mandatory reading for an intro to quantum thinking (and Feynman in general is fantastic). I also think his several comments on wave v. particle indicate another abuse of conventional terminology. Sometimes he'll insist light is not a wave but a particle, but it's actually a screwy kind of particle and you need to think about arrows and paths. ("Collapse" is another word that'd be better off going away...)

My favorite beginner-level approach to QM nowadays, at least for beginners who are familiar with linear algebra, is actually Scott Aaronson's (edit: who is an expert in the field, and I believe has even commented on some of Eliezer's quantum posts...) (quantum) computer scientist approach: http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html It introduces QM as "What if we tried to make something like probability theory but allowing negative or complex values?" It wouldn't be probability, but it would be like probability. Once you set up the math, the usual "weird" quantum effects of experiments can be shown as a direct consequence of the math.
The "help" button explains it pretty well, I thought - in a sense it's "perpetual" Rock Paper Scissors. Q beats W, W beats E, E beats Q. As you hold down one of those keys, if the other guy is holding down a key that beats you, you start losing (and vice versa).

I really like this concept, quite the fun idea.
Marketing guy here. Word of caution: FB ads are notoriously bad at getting clicks. Usually worse than AdWords. It's always great to test, but don't bet the farm on a FB ad campaign.
Isn't the correct title:

>You should never work for a startup, if...

?
The problem I have with this job posting, is that it screams hypocrisy. That is this is something that Penny Arcade would draw a comic about if it were about game programmers. In fact, I remember seeing some PA comics about crappy wage/job situations before.
Yes and no. Deleting is a hard problem that many databases don't handle well. Explicitly deciding to punt the problem like this is a much better approach than allowing performance to degrade unpredictably.
"Why these posts should Never appear on HN"
Now I understand this too. In time the humanity worked to combat the causes of more crude crimes which now are relatively rare. I guess the next step is to work out the remaining causes of violence, which is exactly what the article mentions - socioeconomic acceptance and being happy with beans.
Otoh they don't use some top secret innovations but decades old techniques accessible to everyone.

And language benchmarks don't tell the whole story. In Java, idiomatic and typical code will be optimized very well whereas in Javascript such code runs easily at least an order of magnitude slower than its potential. Try to run some idiomatic JS through https://github.com/petkaantonov/nodeperf/ and see it explode :)

So even if Javascript can be shown in some benchmark to close on the JVM, the benchmarks are ignoring the fact that you cannot write Javascript carelessly to get anywhere near those speeds unlike with Java.
Hmm. Thanks for this, but I couldn't find package "docker-io" in epel-testing.

Could you post a detailed instruction?

Thanks a lot!
We had a good laugh when it went live like that, rest assured we've got some some updated screens that won't end up looking like extremely poorly drawn iPads.

They're waiting patiently for the glance of apple:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7199038/UpdateImages.png
You create a kickstarter called "E-Freedom" and "Digital Rights" with a picture of your child. Call it a freedom fund for his college.
Y'know, with all the snooping they've been doing, I wouldn't be surprised if the NSA/GCHQ knew Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity.
Why aren't the health insurance companies pleased? Doesn't early detection save them money?
Paper-Scissors-Stone => Q-W-E

There is a help button top-right.
I can't use the controls at all (Chrome, OS X). Clicking the sliders just moves the whole plane around.
So, there was no "first source of uncertainty", and you had the advantage of real-world observation and photos put together. Neat.

Indeed, given the apparent massive evidence in favour of NEW, you probably didn't need to twist your brain further.

Now, if we're doing A/B testing on a commercial web site, I think we should use every scrap of information available to us, and go into full Bayesian mode if at all possible: if of A and B, one is worse, you don't want to make one too many test before you figure this out. The sooner you positively know which is best, the better.
Good catch. Sadly the "We are sorry" for being careless reminds me of a "BP - we are sorry" incident.

There is no cost for a faceless company to be 'sorry', and only prmotes the further unethical actions by other companies. I would rather see them pay the fine for privacy breach.

Moreover, this all goes down to the apps requiring ALL permissions to run, why is that acceptable? Why is QuizUp allowed to see user's location in first place?

To me, it feels like making stalker's life easier than ever. Make an app displaying cats, set it require full permissions, put on App Store.
Sounds like you need a hard drive futures market. :)
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It's true. None of us (in the "first world" at least) are truly short on money. What we're short on is time (life is short). The wisest advice I ever found on Hacker News was to live each day such that (1) it is enjoyable today, and (2) it also improves your prospects for tomorrow. If you neglect either one of those, you're screwing up and you'll eventually regret it.
If you go back and look at it now, you'll see that this is a non-issue:

@realmyst Will you put up a Pull Request?

It sounds like MongoDB has no future indeed:
http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never-use-mongodb/

realmyst commented 19 minutes ago

@21croissants yes, I will.
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Just curious, because other comments also mention staying as long as you can and then getting a rental : wouldn't the first part mess up your credit record so badly that you couldn't get a rental? Here in South Africa I'm pretty sure almost no landlord will rent you something with a bad credit record like that (having gone through the process of renting a place and seeing all the proof they require that you'll be able to pay). Probably because it's very hard to get rid of tenants once they're in though, so you have to make sure they're ok before they move in. Is it different in the States?

Same thing with employing someone here, you have to be very sure they'll fit, because it's VERY hard to fire someone.
On Asm.js
Yeah, and now Scotland is seeking independence again - but they still expect England (or at least the Bank of England) to be on the hook to bail them out.
how is that supposed to be of any interest or fun to play ?
If they have identified you as a target, and they really want to get you, have time and the resources - probably not much, e.g. they could break into your house, and install a hardware keylogger in your machine - a VPN wouldn't help much!
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Kudos for trying. Good luck with the future. Hope you manage to get back in the ring at some point. Let us know if you need anything specific.
Definitely.

"Lifestyle business" or even "enjoyable job" are not dirty phrases.
Continuing the myth that startups should be dynamic, energetic places where everyone happily works 12 hours a day using unproven, bleeding edge technology to build exciting solutions to do important things.

Nonsense. Some startups are like that, sure, but they don't have to be. You can be successful working 8 hours a day, 3 days a week, using boring old technology to do wholly unimportant things if you've identified a real problem and built a real solution to it. That's what makes a successful business - making something people will pay for. The only thing you need to be in a startup is the willingness to take a risk working in a company that's more likely to fail than one that's already gone through the pain of finding customers and revenue. Every company was a startup once.

Being in a startup isn't about your life, your energy, your focus, where your capital comes from, or your choice of tools - startups are about starting a business to sell something to people. End of story. That's it. The entire 'lifestyle' side of things is a choice. Some people choose to work long hours using unproven tech. Some people don't. Neither option is right for all.

Furthermore, I'm beginning to doubt the idea that longer hours equate to better chances of success. On paper it makes sense - you can do more if you're working for longer - but the reality is that your productivity falls away after a certain amount of time, to the point where it's actually negatively impacts what you're doing (especially in coding). Having people who can go home at the end of a normal day, switch off, and come in again the following day to carry on ticking things off the to-do list day after day after day getting things done is what gets products out the door. Not long hours or being anti-luddite.
- Are you doing anything to convert the 2,730 free users into paid subscriptions? It's much easier to sell to existing users than to new visitors.

- Are you tracking conversions and conversion rates from different sources? If your time is limited you can spend it on driving more traffic from sources that lead to more conversions (not necessarily more visitors).

- Are you testing different layouts, copywriting, and sign up processes? Use your Analytics data to spot issues like high bounces or low conversion rates to find things that are worth testing. For example, if a lot of people are clicking "Start Now" but leave as soon as the demo loads, maybe the demo is confusing/overwhelming to them (personally I was surprised because I was expecting a sign-up form), so you can test that hypothesis by sending 50% of the clickers straight to a sign-up form and see who converts better. You can use something like Optimizely to do this very easily.
You didn't miss anything. The point (or "the only point") is that he was able to reuse the language's own parser rather than writing any parsing code of his own. For anyone who hasn't seen that technique, it's worth seeing. Whether it's a win depends on taste maybe.
Did you read the article?

>23andMe’s tests, designed to tell people if they're at risk for certain health conditions, could lead to an increase in care--necessary or not--which insurers could end up covering
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At least for awhile,these experiences are emotionally and financially shattering and you will want to get a grip on both before you start attempt anything else or your will burn yourself out.
Take some boring well paid contact for 6 months,then have another fresh look at things.You deserve some downtime dont be shy to give yourself and your family some.
That's what a lot of people fresh out of college (or even before college) think.

Experience teaches you that nothing slows down innovation worse than what you propose here...
What's the tldr? Can't be bothered to watch a video of someone talk when it could as well be written down. My ability to skim or parse a written page is significantly faster.
When I see questions like this, I often wonder if the person asking the question is from Canada (or some other country with a halfways sane health insurance system)

Many people (most?) would not have purchased health insurance when they were young and healthy, and they certainly would never purchase long-term care insurance.

Those people who get Health Insurance typically either get it as part of a Group Insurance Plan from a company (in which case, they insurance company gets a nicely mixed up group of healthy and unhealthy people).

With systems like 23andMe - otherwise healthy people now start loading up on various kinds of insurance, with a greater chance that the Insurance Company will have to pay out on the policy. It's somewhat like someone having advance notice of an arsonist in the neighborhood loading up on fire insurance. No guarantee that you will use it - but a much better chance than average.
I'm not sure whether its timing based or whether you just need to mash buttons like hell? If it is turn based it makes sense, but not much I can do with 300 ms latency as I watch the bar flying by getting redder and redder.

edit: Seems like its just button mashing. Seems hard to keep up the mashing with high latency, as the other person just plain reacts almost half a seconds before you.
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But isn't their method of operation: Collect Everything and see if we've got something on someone later if they're going 'rogue'? (E.g. against the establishment)
Or, you know, they do implement stuff with asm.js in mind, but say that they go after "general optimizations" only to save some face...
Pretty basic, but a good place to start with.

It definitely is for beginners. The things you learn in the first month, in your first programming class, in your freshman year.

It doesn't get going until chapter 19, but it suddenly cuts off.
What about an evaluation mechanism that doesn't depend on patent clerks, but more like peer reviewed science papers in academia?

E.g., a test for novelty and obviousness is that a skilled practitioner of the arts is shown the "result" of the patent (or a description of the result), but not the actual patent (which details how to achieve said result). If the practitioner can infer how the result is achieved, then the patent is not novel enough.
Also, the cost of the script on a TV show or movie is a tiny fraction of the overall cost of the production, but determines a lot of its quality.

Makes sense to hire the best and pay well at that point.
Being a programmer has little to do with anything. You can be a good programmer and believe in race superiority, one doesn't exclude the other.

Even in subjects like social insurance you'll find an abyss among Europeans and US. I believe it has to do with how we grew up.
>And them adding a library to their benchmark doesn't in any way mean that they aim to optimize for it

In what bizarro world?

>only that they want to keep a reference on how their code perform

That's the very definition of optimization (and avoiding regressions).
once the tech is solid I am 100% sure health insurance companies will ask (probably not mandate due to human rights) their customers to do this and give them a financial incentive as such.