skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding to the other excellent points in this thread, is the idea of scale / leverage / multiplication.

A janitor can only clean so many toilets per day or hour, or mop so many floors. And that's that. Most manual labor jobs have this type of heavy limitation.

I can write code once and scale it to infinity. Not literally, but I assume you understand the principle involved.

Mental labor, broadly speaking on average, will always be worth a lot more in an information or technology driven economy, than manual labor.

A CEO, Steve Ballmer let's say, makes decisions that extrapolate to adding or destroying billions in value. Ballmer has been with Microsoft at the highest of levels, involved in the most critical of decisions, and understands most of the company and its history inside/out like few others can or could. What's that worth for a $300 billion company? If the decisions being made are good, then it's worth an extraordinary amount.

How easy is it to find a good CEO to run Microsoft (and not destroy hundreds of billions in wealth)? Very hard. How easy is it to replace a janitor? Extraordinarily easy, and if you screw-up and hire a bad janitor, you can get a new one in about 15 minutes with one phone call at trivial cost.
Have you ever heard of the term "old boys club", how about "glass ceiling"? These terms didn't come out of a vacuum.
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In far too many cases that boundary is simply insurmountable traffic.
Why is your fundraising process 'waterfall' when your startup is 'lean'?
>Right. Because letting the majority population define which terms an aggrieved minority can use to describe its own situation is completely sensible. What a surprise, the discriminated minority has a different view of the majority's behaviors than do those in the majority!

Ha! I've had to respond to this "point" more times than I can count and I really like how you put this. I think I'm going to steal this for next time :)
This is vague and incoherent.

Your comment at the bottom is also vague and incoherent.

If this communication is truly reflective of your thought process and your communication with your partners, then you have some serious misconceptions about how startups work, and serious misconceptions about your partners.
Can somebody explain the 1000 times efficiency gain? I thought that LED is over 10% effective on power so I don't get this.
That's true in a general sense, but of course there are other factors, including:

- Your negotiation skill at the point when you accepted the role

- Your employer's cash flow (including external funding)

- How difficult it is for _you_ to replace your _employer_ (even if you can't easily be replaced, your employer may realise that inertia/market/risk-aversion/whatever)

- Your paper credentials (only for some companies, and only when you're early in your career so cannot be as easily levelled through observed performance).
It's a distributed block chain right? And each fully validating node needs to validate each of the scripts, right? So every full node on the network is replicating every single computation. But only the miners are getting paid.
Quick tip that's cool with DDG: just type in the URL bar something like "ddg.gg/things you are looking for" (providing that as soon as you type "dd" your browser will most likely auto expand it to "ddg.gg/", you need very few keystrokes)
That's kind of a shame. Path was one of the social networks that I didn't hate.
Discrimination based on femins is feminism and discriminations based on socials is socialism and discrimination against babars is barbarism.

People learning English might be interested in my English Stack Exchange question: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/142750/why-is-fem...
In this case, even with the preprocessor and using "indent", the code is non-understandable. It requires a huge effort of deobfuscation (operator precedence mess, re-"macrofy" the code -as after expansion is very redundant, etc.). From the 4KB it goes to 30KB. After re-"macrofying" the code it drops to 15KB of somehow understandable code. It is a beautiful piece of code, no doubt.
But sometimes, it's just meant as emphasis of the word, together with a nod to the fact that the specific word may have been consciously chosen by others, and you're reusing their label without fully endorsing it.

For example:

I don't want the kinds of results Google calls "personalized".

Using the quotes elsewhere alludes to that same sort of sentiment – referring to something that others do literally call "personalized" – but in not so many words.

There may also be a slight implication of a "scare" second-level of meaning – maybe when Google claims the results are "personalized", that's really just cover for "revenue-optimized despite what's best for me". But that sinister reading isn't required by the quotes, just vaguely hinted.
No, the mine pool operator has to, but no more than once to cover every miner in his pool. To draw a comparison to bitcoin, there might only be a dozen or so pool entities which receive nearly all of the subsidy and transaction fees, but thousands of non-mining full nodes.
Ignore her, she's just femsplaining!
That's EXACTLY how SV works and frankly it annoys the hell out of me. You spend countless hours interviewing. Recruiters are overly excited and hyper when talking to you ("You're the perfect candidate. bla bla"). And at the end when they decide to not move forward with an offer they don't even have the decency of sending a quick "Sorry, it didn't end up being a match" email. Your emails inquiring on the status on the other hand are often not responded to anymore.
Addiction by design
Simplest example I'm sure many males have encountered is hold a door open for a women. You intention is mearly being polite and the fact they are a women is not relavant as to why you are holding the door open for somebody just behind you - your just being friendly and polite and civil. Yet I can bet many have done this and a women has labasted you as a sexist or even worse said nothing and now things your a sexist thinking them uncapable of opening a simple door. I've experienced this and as I have said I'm sure many other men have as well, it wears you do and leads to you becomeing a selish person and bitter over time though this and other such situations when you are labeled against intention.

There are then also times when you can laugh and joke about such things, though again to external parties they can be seen badly. I was on the phone many years ago with a girlfriend and a friend was in the background joking and my girlfriend said - that mike (my friend) sounds likea right sexist pig (he ain't) and I replied - well I've never met a wrong one ( was was joking) and we all laughed. Reason we could all laugh is that we all knew non of us were sexist and more still we were joking about it. Now for external parties reading this they can see the worst and fixate upon that, indeed why had my girlffriend felt the need to say and ask if my friend was sexist, well it was how it was said and the prior conversations and that she knew mike well enough to know he was not and therefore was joking herself when saying it.

On the plus side, people who prejudge and do not listern or allow a defence and are easy to prejudge without appeal are the types of people I do not wish to have any dealings with in life, be they man or women as I'm sure many others feel that a closed mindset is bad and wrong. I do wonder though and I'm probably starting kicking a hornets nest by even thinking this but I do wonder how much of this biasing and labeling is historicaly due to religion and does religion as a whole predispose people to a mindset of labeling without appeal or by even asking that question am I myself labeling when it is just a question and that is the only label being applied!
This unfortunately sounds like a pitch to the people of Hacker News: I have a multi-billion dollar guaranteed money making scheme, I just need your money to make it happen.
Getting started with OpenWrt
Measuring bandwidth on a server from Command Line
The GUI is not an abstraction for the command line, it is a totally unrelated implementation, with literally no layered code. They are both interfaces to the kernel API, but the way they are built is very different.
Is there any example in the history of desktop computer of a manufacturer trying to customize an os so much in order to try to replace it later by its own ? I don't think so...

With the complexity of today's app, which become close to yestersay's desktop one, it seems like samsung goal is really unreachable. They've tried it with bada without luck, then tizen, and now they're doing it with android.

Maybe what they're trying to do is not to get rid of android, but rather to create its own fork, just like amazon. That seems like a much more manageable ambition.
Primary:

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Backup (just in case):
http://vpn.sh/ (cheap)
When I interviewed with Amazon a few years ago, almost all of their recruiter emails ended up in Gmail's Spam folder.
Clicking on the "Not Spam" didn't seem to fix this, and I ended whitelisting amazon.com.

At the time I found it quite amusing, but this can be a real problem, since probably most people don't check their spam folder regularly.
What I don't understand is why they have to be quasi-transparent about it. They should have just released her sans-reason and made an announcement sans-details or went fully transparent and named all the parties above. This middling disclosure in the email is confusingly non-specific.
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It is an interesting comparison. I wonder if it's because of the sheer numbers that died in the camps or the power of the jewish lobby post world war II.
LED brake lights definitely seem too bright on some cars.

And there's a new trend... super-bright LED daytime running lights, actually bright enough to be distracting at high noon, and configured so that just one side switches off when the blinker turns on (giving this absurd half-lit or winking effect).

I was behind a car today where the middle "third" brake light would actually blink, so weird and distracting -- hopefully an illegal after-market mod.

Definitely one place I would have thought regulation would have stopped design from impacting safety. Next auto makers will decide brake lights don't even have to be red, because who cares about night vision if you have freakin laser beams in your headlights, right?!
If you do a search we have never done you get bing. If you do a popular search, or the same search 30 seconds later you get better results.
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He cdr got a cadr.
A cadr is a real car.
So far I have never forgotten to call or email a candidate when I personally told them I would do it. I put it in my todo list and then it gets done. This "being busy" is just a lame excuse.
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...I'm guessing reforms will be something along the lines of a new NSA logo, mission statement and revamped website, while the spooks continue to lurk with impunity.
Neither does the Wikipedia community on the whole [0]; the problem is when it's undisclosed. If the editor makes clear their conflict-of-interest, the edits should receive extra scrutiny for neutrality and due weight and the end result should be the same: a "warts and all", unbiased article about a notable topic.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PAY#Paid_editing
Your right about the term P.C. Bullying.

Heck look at the last part of the post and you can see how certain subjects are a complete mindfield with one badly phrased term being pushed thru the descrimination door when not intended. Fact that so many people were asked by PG to check out the draft before posting is testiment to how much overhead is now placed upon those who will at best descriminate individuals to to that individuals actions and then after that individual proving the point many times over and given fair appeal. In short the types of people who only judge the guilty on a person by person basis based upon the actual 100% facts now spend more of there time treading other peoples minefeild that it becomes a overhead and distraction to the tasks at hand. Hell 19 people checked thru that draft (many women as well and no I have not counted how many women compared to men checked the draft as it is irrelevant too me, though some will I bet now). 19 people, that is a lot of people to have for a internet post, I bet even top News Papers have never had that many editors checking a post before (lawyers maybe) and that is all due to people being offended for things that were not intended. It is a mindfeild, it is a overhead and it is a measurable expense many people now have added to the time sinks in there lifes. Innocent non-sexist descriminating people are the ones that suffer, but hey the good `person` always suffers, is that not true :(.

"Thanks to Sam Altman, Alexandra Cavoulacos, Adora Cheung, Tracy Chou, John Collison, Patrick Collison, Danielle Fong, Kevin Hale, Aaron Harris, Elizabeth Iorns, Carolynn Levy, Jessica Livingston, Claire McDonnell, Kat Manalac, Kathryn Minshew, Kirsty Nathoo, Geoff Ralston, Garry Tan, and Olga Vidisheva for reading drafts of this." Would be nice if he added "And no lawyers were harmed in the process of this checking" Just for some sainity of this whole area and would highlight the whole overhead aspect in many other area's of life we see today. Patent Trolls, PC bullying and the like, its a time TAX nobody needs and yet we live it, least the honest good people do.
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Finally, thank you! I totally agree with you. I find that the current crusade against "prejudice" (against different social groups) in programming is largely caused by the fact that programmers have gone from "uncool nerds" to "cool rich kids" during the financial crisis. As a consequence of that, many people wish they were programmers, and they encourage kids to be programmers "because it will earn them a good wage" and not "because it's what you're interested about". That is the same reason many people become lawyers and doctors - not because they genuinely want that, but because of the prestige and money one gets by being a doctor or a lawyer. However, personally I would rather be represented/operated by a lawyer/doctor who is in it because of genuine interest, not because of the money. The "real" hackers who have been programming since young age, since before it was cool, have demonstrated that they are really interested in technology, and not just because it's hip or it will make them rich.
> Next time (which is definitely a 'when' rather than an 'if', I'm afriad) [sic]

Do you really mean to imply vast swathes of the WMF's tiny staff (most of which don't edit, let alone write good articles) are engaged in a paid-editing cabal? Or have I misunderstood?
Yes, but I don't see anyone flashing at me to turn them down...
If only there were some sort of signal other drivers could make to indicate my beams were too high!
One of the most astonishing books I've ever read is Unbroken, which is the true story of an American pilot (and Olympic athlete) who went through a similar experience as a POW of the Japanese. Well worth checking out.
By the same logic, Google's stock is at $1100 meaning anyone with 900 shares of Google is also a millionaire. Now I don't know about you, but I have some software engineer friends at Google and, first hand information from them, they are NOT millionaires. Typically, companies know how much they are worth (or will be worth post IPO) and distribute stock to employees accordingly. Exception is of course if you join the company in the early rounds of funding (when typically the valuation of the company is low so you have to compensate with more stocks).

Twitter almost doubled its headcount in the last year itself - I am not sure if they were paying 10s of thousands shares to newly joined employees especially when their last valuation (before IPO) valued Twitter at $10B or so.
Your method of learnings is flawed.
The specific lesson to be learned here is that they changed their view on the solution for a max-flow problem from a serial probing algorithm to a parallel electrical probing solution and lowered the time-complexity.
The general lesson to be learned here is that they changed their view on the solution for a massive parallel multiple choice problem from a serial probing algorithm to a parallel probing solution and lowered the time-complexity.

The actual implementation is uninteresting and will always vary according to domain and optimization, but the intuition lesson is always a valid tool that we now have.
And in hindsight this was a really obvious solution, carouse one should try all the routes and identify the bottlenecks.

Food for thought, single cpu core vs GPGPU.
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This is the correct answer. When my car starts up, my lights lower and then rise again to adjust, although I didn't know this also happens when driving over a hill.
I'm already having problems in my current career when prospective employers google me and find out I'm building up my GitHub account. They either think I'm going to leave immediately or they think that I'm trying to backdoor my way into a dev position at their company.

Wow. It sounds like those are some crappy companies. Where are you located?

After 30, the quality of jobs that is available becomes higher but the quantity is lower. That has a lot to do with capitalism's pyramidal shape. There just aren't as many good, age-appropriate jobs, as there are bad ones.

Thus, you need to be open to a national search. I'll warn you ahead of time that many startups are absolutely shitty when it comes to relocation: either none or some ridiculously small amount like $2,500 (pre-tax!)-- a full-service move, for a 1BR apartment, will burn up more than that. If you ask for 2 months' spousal unemployment to be included in your relo-- which is just a reasonable request at "a certain age"-- most startups will balk. So you need to save up for that.

After 30, every job search might be national. Sometimes you need to go into a beastly expensive tech hub to get the job you want, and sometimes the best move is to get out of those places. Strategically, the best thing to do (if you can stomach the moves) is often to switch between being a bigger fish in a smaller pond and vice versa-- similar to the dynamic of alternating between tech jobs to bid up your autonomy level and technical achievement and finance jobs to bid up your salary.
Not that it changes your overall point, but note that California no longer has a majority population along racial lines.
I agree, R is more functional than Python. In fact R looks a lot like Lisp, except for the fact that syntactically is not based on parenthesized lists.
My default is now DDG. It works great when I really want to look up Wikipedia or some similar website which is featured by DDG. But as soon as I start to do some real web searching I usually quickly put !g (shortcut for go to Google) in front and use Google again.

Maybe switching back to Google would be the easiest step. But there is more involved in this decision than comfort. It is futile to rely on one service. The customer never benefits in a monopoly or oligopoly scheme. Google is the enemy of anonymity on the web and collects quite a lot of data from anybody. Google is doing a lot of evil these days, such as pushing DRM into HTML5.

So yeah I often go back to Google Search. But I hope this will decrease over time. Meanwhile I help and support one of the few serious contenders to Google.

And it's not that Google Search is perfect. It constantly tries to second guess you and nowadays I end up constantly adding more and more quotes to my search terms to somehow prevent that.
> Yeah, it's "frowned upon" for _anyone_ to do paid editing, clearly. But "frowned upon" is not usually a good reason to fire someone.

At least in at will or semi at will employment situations, it is not necessary for the employee handbook to be as exhaustive as a penal code.

There's nothing written anywhere that says that I am forbidden from telling one of our customers to die in a fire, but doing so is certainly frowned upon and would get me fired. I don't see any need for all such implicit rules to be codified.
It took me a solid week to wean off the worst of my habitual falling back on the GOOG. Then another couple of weeks to double check the results side by side when I didn't find something on DDG that I fully expected Google to find for me (they didn't deliver either).

In the end it's definitely a huge adjustment.
Virgil3D - a virtual 3D GPU for qemu
I love shells because you can't use your mouse. Nice idea, but it doesn't suit me.
There is no relationship between "worker productivity" (real GDP/worker or real GDP/hour of labor) and the value of labor. When capital substitutes for labor, it reduces the denominator in the GDP/worker equation, thereby increasing productivity without increasing the value of labor.

Further, most graphs of the sort you mention compare mean productivity (you can't measure any other kind in aggregate) to median income, which is a statistical fallacy.

If you have data suggesting the poor work more than in the past, please present it.
It seems most of them don't show any kind of remorse and instead insist they had been doing the right thing all along.

For example, Erich Priebke, who died last year, aged 100, always declared he was only "obeying orders" in setting up the massacre of 335 people (including children). Not only that, but his own son has always defended him and his actions.

This kind of attitude doesn't help much with forgiveness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Priebke
There, he was locked in a 5ft cage that soon became full of red ants, mosquitoes and his own filth.

...

A towel was put over his mouth and nose. Then one of the guards picked up a long rubber hose, turned a faucet on full force, and directed the stream onto the towel. The water soaked through, blocking Lomax’s mouth and nose. He gagged and frantically gasped for breath as water filled his throat. His stomach began to swell. He was drowning on dry land. When the towel was finally removed and Lomax had recovered from his delirium, he still refused to confess and name his confederates. The water torture began once more.

Sounds horrible.

The memorandum describes in detail each of the techniques proposed as generally used, including attention grasp, walling, facial hold, insult slap, cramped confinement (large and small and with and without an insect), wall standing, stress positions, sleep deprivation, and waterboarding.

The Bybee Memos, authored by the Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States and signed by Assistant Attorney General[1]. These techniques were used by the US on suspected terrorists.

I hate how the line between the good guys and the bad guys is so blurred I sometimes question if it exists at all.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bybee_Memo
I'd be interested to know what browser is most popular with DDG users. Are people who use it because of privacy concerns with Google still using Chrome? Or other Google products?