skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say this is a culture thing as well.

As Portuguese I am more than used to this. You never ever get a reply back if you don't make it.

Companies only contact you again if you got the job.

I was astonished when I moved to Switzerland and later Germany, that companies would get back to me to say 'no' and send me back the application documents I had sent.
You're one of the few people here that understands this. Thank you. It's mostly white men trying to be someone elses savoir to free themselves from racial tension induced white guilt.
A person who would post those comments and articles on Facebook and use a false name there... could already be considered as using a fake ID AND be contrary to US interests and therefore, is probably not allowed to enter the US or fly over it.
I'm glad MIT's self-funded electrical generation project finally got what was coming to them!

https://web.archive.org/web/20131101000747/http://cogen.mit....
> It is unusual to people outside SV* to see such a high number (the % was just an additional data point that signals to non-tech people how much salaries constitutes tech startups)

It's not unusual at all for payroll to be the vast majority of a company's expenses. Normal profitable business usually expect payroll to be 30~40% of gross revenue (and that's for companies actually earning money, not during bootstrapping), and 50% exists although it's usually considered dangerous for profitability.

And of course that depends on the domain, a hairdresser and a refinery will have very different payroll rates and structures. Pretty much all of software and saas company activity and value comes from the people working there, in fact I'd expect payroll %-age to be higher (not lower) outside of SV: lower rent and likely lower utilities.
While I agree that the GGGP's "I would think that physical work is less hard than mental work." statement sounds like he is dismissing the challenges required in doing the work, his examples are more focused on it being because it doesn't require specialization.

Many people won't catch that, so I think that your response to that is generally helpful. The point of my previous post was that I don't think it was necessary to say that you disagree about "easier" because the two of you are talking about two different definitions.
That was untoward and uncalled for.
I played it for a little while. Love the Feel!

EDIT: green particles are meant to collide with the player, Sorry!
Seven interviews sounds like a broken process. What did they learn in interview number 6 that they didn't/couldn't know at the end of interview number 5 ?

Also, spending a whole day interviewing in Seattle and not meeting any of the team you would be working with ? WTF ?

Edit: I forgot some other points:

The interview process is supposed to be about building trust and getting a feel for whether you would be a good fit for the company and vice-versa.

This process sounds very asymmetrical: they only cared about whether he satisfied their criteria. This is further proven by finding an NDA to be signed on the morning of the interview. Couldn't they have sent it in advance so he would have time to read it ? What super secret details might have accidentally been revealed by their carefully planned interview process ?
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Wow, works good. I should learn python :) But yeah, you were absolutely right! It was hard for me to figure out because I was trying to find a mathematical reason for this, and I was wrong. I finally figured it out mathematically. The way you posit the problem the probability that the asked parents have another boy is (1/2)-(1/7/2).

This is really counter intuitive, the open vs. closed probability set through me off. Hey, thanks for putting up with my stubbornness!
From the site:

> Zeitgeist II

> Capitalism is the Crisis

> The Pyramid Code

And a bunch of other pseudoscientific conspiracy bullshit

I see this tendency with all documentary collections, subreddits, playlists etc - somehow people love to see made up shit
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Why? What's wrong with the Ada initiative?
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By that reasoning most programming features are useless (demo: C)
There will never be a 50/50 split in programming until there's a 50/50 split in mathematics.

I will be happy to see that happen.
This is obviously a good point. It's also one that is based primarily on personal outlook of the people doing the work. I can see this point segue into a question about education and not the work itself pretty easily. I won't go into that.
>The last thing said to me upon exiting the interview, again, all smiles and handshakes, was, "I'll give you a call tomorrow. But if you don't hear from me, give me a call."

>Fuck that. From the moment I left their building, I never gave them another thought. As expected, I didn't hear a peep from them.

I don't understand, why wouldn't you give them a call? I mean, sure, if it's not the place for you then it's fine, but just putting it off because of that.. I do not understand. At least they had the human decency of letting you know that they might be busy and forget to give you a call, and encouraged you to remind them. Way better than most other companies that just ignore you altogether and pretend you never even existed.
Also the obscuration of everything from the pedestrian. When walking, if you have a car coming upfront it's there for a long while (since it might be fast but you're always slow), and at night your night vision goes away for a very, very long time. Having to stop, close your eyes and turn around every time you hear a car closing in does not make for efficient or fun walking about.
I steered clear of circular references.
This is actually a pretty good selection based on the sampling of videos on it which I've already seen.

The point isn't to watch all 300. But if you do find a topic you're interested in, this list is a good place to start your search.

There are a few stinkers as well, so caveat youtube-dl'er.
You can add Collapse to that list as well, some hints of truth, but mostly extreme libertarian FUD.
Yet another Intro QuickSort Viz (d3)
I live in an area where google doesn't give very good local results.
My friend just moved to Kansas City and purchased a house for $42k, all cash. It's a good house, ok neighbors, and ok living. Now he sit's at home, hacking away at a startup we are working on. I am moving to Palm Spring soon, for much of the same reason. If you make your money online, why not live cheep, at least while you are starting out.
You would want to do this at any company. If it tanks, you lose both your job and your nest egg. Diversification is the name of the game.
I mostly agree if you're talking about learning something in detail. But I'm never going to be a... marine biologist, for example, however, I enjoy documentaries about life in the sea because it gives me some basic knowledge that means I'm not totally ignorant of the issues, and could have a conversation with a marine biologist about their field, even if it is just me asking better questions rather than being able to hold up a scientific argument.
no our things like documents, database backups, emails, and source code all exist in the cloud. By suggesting my employees all push to remote daily, theres no risk of ever losing anything. All it takes one stolen laptop, one hardware failure to push you back xxx days, from your private branch. I don't know how long you work on a private branch but I have seen people wait close to two weeks during a 2 week sprint.
It is but talking to some of the Dev Advocates at Google, they're pretty open that it could go either way - some of the things the QUIC guys have learnt about speeding up TLS negotiations is going information HTTPS stuff (can't remember the exact details)

Where QUIC may come into it's own is as as a replacement protocol for things like WebRTC.
I wouldn't be so fast to knock Capitalism is the Crisis. Chris Hedges is absolutely worth taking a good listen / read of. My apologies if your particular worldview happens to get shaken.
I've developed this habit as a consequence of using history to understand the context of a piece of code. Big commits make life harder for future maintainers.
"White Knighting" is common enough around the world. Let me save you from those horrible people (who probably aren't that horrible).
what's to stop someone essentially robbing from themselves, ie logging in and stealing bitcoins, sending to an anonymous account, then filing a claim? Also, why not have a wallet that has optional insurance built in. Take 2% of every deposit to cover losses,
Not all documentaries are subject to your sweeping judgement, just as not all books are bullshit. You have to seek out the good stuff, and that means occasionally watching some crap too.
Very true - MLK achieved his victories by misrepresenting and demonizing random white people who agreed with him.
I whipped together something here, before I saw that someone else did it too: http://ideone.com/jyPOhs

It is the most counter-intuitive statistic problem I know (worse than Monty Hall), it trips everyone up at first.

No problem about the stubborness ;)
That's nice for you. And yet, those of us with those ever-so-nice white-collar software jobs would still like to pay less than $1500/month for a one-bedroom apartment. Actually, we'd really prefer to pay less than a single $1000/month for a one-bedroom apartment. Seems to me that a rental real-estate price rise, groundswell or bubble, interferes with that.
In my opinion this is antithetical to Hacker School. One of the things I most appreciated about Hacker School is that while it manages to get 30-45% women in recent batches which is quite refreshing, it does so without distracting students from their actual goals which are not to work on social problems of sexism and racism, but to focus on becoming a dramatically better programmer while making friends and connections with other students who are doing the same.

In fact, one of the rules in Hacker School is that you are not even allowed to discuss sexist, rascist, etc things at all. From the manual [1]:

"Why don't we want public discussions of sexism, racism, etc. at Hacker School? For many people, especially those who may have spent time in unpleasant environments, these conversations can be very distracting. At Hacker School, we want to remove as many distractions as possible so everyone can focus on programming. There are many places in the world to discuss and debate these issues, but there are precious few where people can avoid them. We want Hacker School to be one of those places."

[1]: https://www.hackerschool.com/manual
Obama Readies Revamp of NSA
(I designed and implemented the vibration API in Firefox.)

FWIW I liked this article. But one thing to note is that -- at least in Firefox/Firefox OS -- a page/app can only vibrate the phone if it's "visible". In the browser, a page is visible if it's in the topmost tab, if the browser app is the currently-focused app, and if the screen is not locked/off.

At least, that's how it's supposed to work. :)
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I know exactly what happened there: he didn't get the headcount signed off, hoping that he could say "well I've already made them an offer" to force it through, and HR said nope, you tried to do an end run around us and we're not playing ball. It's happened to me, at a company that is notorious for doing it.
Thanks for the link to scalzi [1] - "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is". It was a really good read.

[1]: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-th...
I love that taking control of a website maybe 100 people would visit in a day for a few hours is still a big deal. You want to hack something, crack a real system.
I don't really see any reason why it couldn't be Turing complete, as long as it was completely deterministic (no "rand()" etc) and the specification included a maximum number of operations (which Bitcoin's Script already does)

What am I missing? Is the idea that without loops the transaction size can be used to estimate the computation required without actually performing it, and thus the appropriately sized transaction fee required?
This is a very cool idea. I think it may have some critical flaws, but even the fact that people are thinking of stuff like this is so cool. Very singularitarian.
Google even tried proposing to build more housing in Mountain View. The town council shot them down.
The demo now passes W3C validator. Thanks!
I was looking a JS library I'd seen mentioned on here, and couldn't find it with Duck Duck Go. Was about to start posting / tweeting asking if anyone knew where it was, but thought I'd try Google first. This library came up first result. I'd have looked like a dick if I hadn't tried Google first - "Google is your Friend" is powerfully socially enforced.

Now I use DDG mostly with the !g...
Gold standard was bad, but Bitcoin standard is even worse
The title originally may have contained a racial epithet, based on one of the trackbacks; although I'm not sure (the trackback author may have changed the title)

The comments are internet cancer.
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> We vote these people into office. We have the power.

That's exactly the way they want you to think. To imagine you can affect "policy" through writing something on a piece of paper and dropping it in a box. See how absurd that idea sounds when put like that?

-But that's exactly how it's supposed to work. You realize that a piece of paper with text on it doesn't actually compel any politician to do anything for you or anyone else. They're still very much free to break all their campaign promises, which they invariably do, and they'll be doing whatever they want until it's time to tell you what you want to hear again.

Elections are a sham. A distraction meant to give us the illusion that we have a say in anything. Again, the real and only solution is to stop believing that anyone has the right to rule over anyone else. In other words, stop believing in "political authority": http://spot.colorado.edu/~huemer/book3.htm
I'd expect 5 lines (trunk + 4 branches). What're the others?
The demo application https://moot.it/riotjs/demo/ uses Riot and jQuery only and it has all the major features of a single page application. What operations are you talking about? What additional benefit the current frameworks offer?
People learn through stories and pictures. The documentary is a powerful teaching tool. Not perfect, and it can mislead, but powerful.

I've spent more hours than I care to admit over the past year going through a range of material from slick and well-prepared documentaries (including several on this list: "Inside Job", "The Four Horsemen", "Capitalism in Crisis", How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth", "The Fog of War", "The Ascent of Money" (well, I read the book). "Collapse" with Michael Ruppert.

And a few which aren't on the list: "The Prize", on the story of petroleum, based on Daniel Yergin's book of the same name. James Burke's "Connections" and "The Day the Universe Changed". And numerous conference presentations, interviews, and various other presentations.

What's particularly useful is watching these not online through a crappy video player, but by downloading the videos, where I can stop and start playback, and by checking up on points (did that really happen? is there documentation of that fact?), and taking notes. Sometimes I'll breeze through a light topic at 140% realtime, in others it may take me most of a week to get through a 90 minute lecture.

Yes, books have their place, but a well-made documentary or series which mixes spoken word, visual imagery, demonstration, and other effects, hits on the keys your mind uses to form memories. I'd watched "Connections" decades ago as a child, but bits stuck with me, and it was interesting to watch myself anticipating Burke reciting "Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall", which I'd last heard some 30 years earlier.

Yes, there's material that tends toward the bogus, but sometimes watching good bogosity is decent training, or you can simply skip over that part of the list. I tackled an instance of this a few weeks back with an RT interview that was posted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6905655 Dissecting the elements of conspiracy (or finding out that the conspiracists were right -- reading up on COINTELPRO and Operation HOODWINK (an attempt to set the Communist Party of the US and La Cosa Nostra against one another) from the FBI's own website a couple of days ago was sobering in context of Snowden and related allegations: http://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro/hoodwink).

Ruppert's a case of one of the shakier videos. His history's pretty solid, his near-term future somewhat bleaker than I suspect is strictly accurate. If you read on background, the director notes that the story is as much about a man unmade by his own pursuit of an idea: "What I hoped to reveal was ... that his obsession with the collapse of industrial civilization has led to the collapse of his life. In the end, it is a character study about his obsession." (Ruppert's since continued to have a pretty hard time).

Still, anyone not planning to be dead within fifteen years had better consider what happens on the energy, resources, population, and sustainability fronts to be the biggest factors in their lifetime.

Dismissing the documentary format out-of-hand as some have done here, is simply uncalled for. Actually, it's pretty much straight out of the old FBI playbook. Perhaps even the current one.
My grandfather was POW at Changi for four years.
He saw many of his friends die; many tragically just after the war when they rashly ate too much of the wrong thing.
During his captivity his family didn't know whether he was dead or alive.
He never knowingly bought a Japanese product.
He never spoke about his experience much.

I'd like to think things would have been a lot better had he had the opportunity to meet some genuinely apologetic Japanese.
Either way, the list is clearly heavily biased. At least put Free To Choose on there as well.
I like jQuery. Which library do you prefer for DOM manipulation?
techienews.co.uk reports the wrong date for the protest, Feb 14, while the real date is Feb 11.

https://thedaywefightback.org
Special as in they exist solely for this purpose.
On the other hand, I don't understand why you would be searching for those results on a general search engine.

If I search for "Chinese", I explicitly don't want restaurant results (I would have specified that).

If I search for "earthquake", I explicitly don't want news results (I would have specified that).

The fact that Google makes assumptions about what I want rarely benefits me.
Fair enough, although their technology can be appreciated separately from the pre-mine. Anyone can fork it and do a purely mined version.
Right, so in a gender-neutral sense, in the PG "Female Founders" thread his supporters are all "white-knighting" you would say?
To me it looked like Everpix expected the kind of growth usually seen with free services from a paid-subscription model.

On the one hand, paid subscriptions "make more sense economically", on the other hand, as long as we are talking about high risk capital anyway, a free service model might have made more sense "financially".
I don't get all this commotion about laser lights and their 1000x efficiency when that's just a concept maybe 5 years in the future. The lightspot technology (looking with IR cameras for people and highlighting them, so that drivers see them 112 feet sooner) seems much more interesting and should safe a lot more lives than lights with different technology that scale better.
At one company, we had a list of standard questions we would ask in a phone screen. Then we got a whole slew of candidates giving the same wrong answers to a few of them, enough to make me suspicious. Turned out the external recruiter had been de-briefing their candidates to reverse engineer our process.
DDG don't have all this because they do have develop it to remove the fact that your search result can be different depending on your location or interestings or sexual orientation or whatever.

It's important, because if you live in random country, you don't especially want to get news from what-the-search-engine-believe-that-people-want-to-read-in-random-country. In other words, tell people what they should read or not using computation and / or economic, politic rules.

When I live in random country, I'm often interested to know what newspapers from another random country can tell about random country. It makes me feel safer when obtaining the same result than you do.

Edit : more => DDG do have a region parameter, see https://duckduckgo.com/settings
Though another spelling of that is "aether" (I think this is more common than "ether").

Ethers are also a group of rather common organical compounds in chemistry. This is the page Wikipedia gives you when searching "Ether", as gateway allures to. Apparently, a specific compound of those (diethyl ether) can be used as a drug. Seems rather unlikely to me that people would connect the name to the drug first.
I do think the liberal arts teach you something. Critical reasoning matters. So even if the actual content of what you learned is irrelevant, the way you learned it is helpful by teaching you to be a good thinker.

For example, a lot of philosophers make great programmers. Not because they specifically learned important things in philosophy, but because they know how to think logically.
Onavo's product worked via a similar method.
As @dredmorbius told, you should seriously read about the !bangs to exploit it in better conditions. That's fun to read.
On big repository, if you want to use zsh -- you will have to use NFS, otherwise my VirtualBox just hangs for 30 seconds until it can show me "git status" in a prompt. So only option for me is NFS (for VirtualBox).
How is he supposed to "fix" sexism at YC when no one is capable of identifying instances of it? Gender distributions isn't proof of sexism _at YC_. As PG has stated, YC is too far removed from the problem to be useful in combating sexism as shown by imbalanced gender distributions. So what do you expect YC to do in this case?
Was your competition a big part in this demise? Pixable does similar things for free....
There are plenty of other isms besides racism. Eye-colorism is a different kind of discrimination than racism, unless eye color is just a proxy for race (which is quite possible). Discriminating based on gender is called sexism, discriminating baed on nationality is called nationalism, etc...
> DDG doesn't have local results (search "Chinese" on Google and then on DDG).

Sorry too much facepalm here.

I's just that you've become accustomed to the way Google works, not vice versa.
You're free to choose to add that to your own list, of course.

Oh, turns out that is on YouTube. I watched bits of that in my econ classes, might be useful to watch it again now that I've concluded much of what I was taught was in fact bunk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3N2sNnGwa4
Sleeping inside and keeping warm might be an issue though?
The people who were quickest to criticize pg after the Valleywag article have been extremely quiet about this post, which is odd because it's about something they are generally extremely passionate about.
The dagger page is cached by google here. Note that this is from 29 Dec and has probably been significantly updated since. But here it is for what it's worth:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0RAOB-M...

I don't see anything regarding compute rewards here. It's all about the mining PoW. If all nodes are validating the Turing-complete scripts, and only the miners are getting paid, how does that work? What am I missing?
I'm likely misunderstanding, but are you suggesting that James Burke's "Connections" series is not intellectually stimulating / worth watching? They may have some pop-sci aspects, but as a whole, they piqued my interest in various scientific discoveries/inventions as well as parts of history I may have otherwise ignored.
We dont seem to be so generous to Nazi torturers and murderers. They are still being hunted down apparently.