skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the exact same, but it reminded me of this one:

http://fadeyev.net/2012/06/19/moral-design/

> Life is the ultimate aim of moral design, which it must protect, advance, ennoble and enrich. Immoral design, which is also bad design, is the opposite. It takes life by stealing time; it impoverishes by pretending to be more than it is; it does not last; it deceives, harms, enrages and degrades. The difference between the two lies at the origin of the work, when the designer first establishes their true goals and decides whether it is to satisfy their destructively selfish aims, or it is to be something higher, something that respects and elevates people’s lives, something that they are not ashamed to put out into this world because they know that their heart lies in the right place; and if they fail to achieve what they set out to do, it will be but an error of affection, not ill work laden with guilt.
What's your area of interest? Mobile? Web App? Front-end? Backend? If you don't mind sharing.
I wonder how they're going to navigate that since companies in China must be 51% Chinese owned. This is why Chinese cars are often joint ventures between foreign and domestic car companies. Chinese car companies would love nothing more than to acquire advanced electric car technology because they're so disruptive. They can in a flash disrupt all the technological advantages foreign car companies have in their technical know-how around gasoline and diesel engines.

If Tesla's IPs and manufacturing capabilities end up in Chinese hands, all foreign car companies would be so screwed in China and possibility else where. The Chinese have shown a lot of boldness in their infrastructure projects. I can imagine them building charging stations throughout the country in just a few years. Once that happens, all gasoline cars would be at such a disadvantage. The relative efficiency of electricity generated from power plants vs. gasoline cars could have a significant effect on China's oil import (their major Achilles Heel) and pollution. China has no qualms about nuclear power. BTW, China also has the world's biggest automobile market.

The Chinese would love to have a Chinese Tesla. If I was the Chinese, I might even consider buying up Tesla.
Or some patents.
Same with CircleCI (https://circleci.com). We were running CI and then CD for ourselves practically from day 1. Everyone who writes CircleCI uses it every day.

It's great to dogfood, but IMO its not enough. Many customers will have different ways of using the product from you and different workflows. I'd recommend doing heavy customer development very early on to understand those differences.
If anyone is planning to write a golang ORM, you should have a look at sequel: http://sequel.jeremyevans.net/

I'm not aware of a better ORM anywhere. The simplicity, and the way it separates the model classes from everything else, is sublime. It does pretty much everything activerecord does and lots more, without all the layers of abstraction.
Dear Google Recruiting...
It would be tragic if dogfood workers were forced to eat dogfood.
Tangle Theory
I use a mix: write the "bullet journal" with OneNote, print it, and continue with a pencil.
Thanks for the feedback.

> - Pricing
There are definitely more testing to do. Our original thought was that even if you know which funnels preform worst, it will still take you hours to try to figure out what went wrong. With Delight, hopefully we could give you better hints to save you time and improve the app.

> - Code vs features vs benefits.
You are absolutely right. I should have added that as lesson learned as well.

> - iOS only.
Android makes it harder to achieve the ease of integration we had for iOS. Besides, we wanted to use the revenue from iOS to fund the Android development.

You can consider other alternatives but none of them has Android version.
How do we know it was 400M?
"Virtually Every"?

He doesn't even compare to someone like Kara DioGuardi let alone "writing virtually every major pop song" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_DioGuardi#Professional_son...
Is ElectricAccelerator written in C/C++? How many kLOC and how long does it take to run the build?

(disclaimer: my company https://circleci.com is a competitor to the direction you guys are taking with Continuous Delivery)
Love sorl-thumbnail, thanks for all the great work!
It works on the REPL as long as you create the pool after the function has been defined:

>>> import multiprocessing
>>> def hello(x):
... return x + 1
...
>>> pool = multiprocessing.Pool(8)
>>> pool.map(hello, range(10))
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]

It looks like the pool takes a peek at the module during instantiation. Maybe could be worked around by having a lazy pool that only inspects when you call map.
There's an argument that the world needs one cryptocurrency but not two. Therefore the first one (Bitcoin) is not a scam, but all others are.
Which of the petrol powered engines scales best (those used in cars)? This is an open question to all. I'll take a swing at it.

I've worked with 2 strokes, 4 strokes (including Miller Cycle versions), and rotaries.

The two strokes hit a wall pretty quickly. They are very rev-happy, but their combustion leaves a lot to be desired. Most lack conventional valves and rely on ports to move the mixture around. You can supercharge them, but I've never been able to do so properly. Once the engine size starts to increase, their main advantage (RPM capabilities) start to diminish. Plus their combustion is not very clean, due to the lubrication being part of the fuel. They are fun when modified, but noisy. Ask my neighbor (who gets to enjoy the glorious sound of the modified 2 stroke in my weed whacker).

The 4 strokes suffer from harmonics, weight, and packaging issues. But they can be supercharged without much problems. You can get at least 100 HP/Liter on a 4 stroke engine without much issue (when you build it properly, of course). Building a 1,000 HP 5 liter engine can be done by buying off the shelf parts. The problem is that when harmonics start dancing to the devils fiddle, your valves start to drop, and your pistons shatter like the dreams of those who bought ENRON stock.

The rotary is my favorite racing engine. It doesn't drop valves (it lacks them). You can scale them by bolting on more rotors (12 rotor beast here: http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/qq83/Adam-Blackshaw/12rot...). They rev like crazy and feature few moving parts. But they are hard to tune properly, and tend to run a bit hot if not maintained correctly. Mazda built, raced, and won Lemans in 1991 with a 4-rotor equipped car called the 787B. Which sort of proves that they are viable engines. The real problem is emissions. The rotary has not received as much R&D as the 4-stroke, and thus it is a bit behind. Further developments by Mazda have improved it, but I don't see it lasting too much with the future CAFE standards looming over the horizon. It is also not very fuel efficient, due to it using ports rather than valves. Though I'm curious as to how a direct injected rotary might improve all of these issues. Not sure if I will ever see it happen.

Before you call me biased towards the rotary, let me tell you that I do not, or have ever owned one. I have worked with them, and got to enjoy it very much. My current favorite engine is the Porsche flat 6, because the damn things will take any boost you send their way.
For a language that prides itself on simplicity, this seems really painful...
Thanks for the tip. We just had that up quickly for an event, I've put a more optimized image on the front page now.
I've worked on native UI application development on mobile. Automation testing with various frameworks.

On the side I've been learning/working on some web development. Most of my experience in that has come from building my website using Jekyll and some node stuff here and there.

I learn fast (fast enough to be useful) so throwing something new at me is a familiar and welcoming experience.
https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash
It's dangerous to go alone! Take this: http://www.reddit.com/r/lfg
It's adorable how you think "nerds" are a legal demographic. Or that they are not privileged because BULLIES??? Or that someone fighting for their right to be respected against a society that has discriminated against them their entire lives is somehow "[reinforcing their] image as weak and unpleasant", rather than a strong, courageous and independent person.

We have been supporting our arguments. That's the whole reason Github got rid of the stupid rug. It's the reason why increasingly many people—men and women and others alike—are vocally calling out stupid bullshit like "bro pages" that reinforce the idea that computer science fields are for men.

Perhaps you should stop ignoring all the stuff we say and start listening for a change. Would do you much good.
You just named two of my favorite magazines growing up. I used to send in those "reply cards" that Byte magazine had, and I'd actually go through and circle all the numbers for ads on the card that I was interested in.

I think ads work in magazines like that because they're for audiences with specialized interests, and because a magazine ad isn't as intrusive, and hopefully doesn't get in the way of reading.

We do a PDF version of the magazine as well, but I'm trying to think about what else we can do to keep it relevant for people that don't read those formats.
>if one of them wins, the other by definition must lose.

No. If you sell shares to pay for living expenses you do not lose. If you dilute your shares to raise capital to make your remaining shares worth more you do not lose.
That's absolutely valid. One might call that assessment subjective though.

Check out the blues available on archive.org sometime. It's pretty amazing, in my opinion.
Why not have them as BigInt and donwconvert to machine sized ints explicitly?

In any case. If you think of it as a nicer C, it works very well. It is a slight disappointment if you think of it as a nicer Python.
make 2>&1 | head (or less) is a common occurrence in my .bash_history :(
This makes me really angry as a happy Uber customer. I wish there were a way to express my displeasure to Uber without having to give up a great car-on-demand service.
Idea: Perhaps they can scan them before making the cushions.
I agree to an extent, but what happens to the smaller tech companies that have few or no patents to cross-license? I fear that if the "patent wars" are ended by cross-licensing agreements between big players, no one influential will be left to push patent reform.
Blocked in Canada as well; I'm confirming from Vancouver BC
Yes, being bullied for being a nerd is TOTALLY WORSE than being shot for having a different skin color, being raped for having a vagina, being murdered for being transgender, being lit on fire for being gay, earning as little as 56 cents to the dollar because you are both black and a woman even though you do the exact same work at the exact same quality as a white male coworker.

Get some fucking perspective about the reality of the world, already. You're being the quintessential bad example of Hacker News, here; the reason why HN has this reputation of sexist, racist idiots who think they know everything but keep spouting COMPLETELY IDIOTIC bullshit like you just did.
Yes I scratched my own itch and apparently the Fortune 500 has the same itch.

Unfortunately tech types like here on HN… not so much
It’s time to engineer some filter failure (2014)
I don't think many here argue that Julia doesn't support it. In fact it would be rather disastrous if it didn't, because it wouldn't make for a very nice scientific language if the biggest int value was 2^64-1.

The question is why aren't large numbers the default, or why doesn't it do automatic up and down conversion and so on.
This law is about giving a choice to the consumer. It doesn't prevent carriers or manufacturers from pre-installing apps. All it says is make the app deletable. Would you also say all the other opt-outs as "unwarranted government intervention"?
A/B Testing With Google Analytics
HSBC faces £70bn capital hole, warn Hong Kong analysts
"Necessities" are irrelevant. If you are worried about, eg, the ability of the poor to afford food, and have a simultaneous goal of promoting domestic industry, the optimal policy is income subsidies + the tariff you would have imposed anyway.

In fact, you can use the tariff to finance the income subsidies, and it will work at some tariff level as long as the right proportion of the market for that good is not receiving the subsidies.

Further, the industry growth prompted by the tariff is likely to disproportionately help those the income subsidy would be targeting. You'll notice the market for unskilled labor in the US is not exactly thriving.

The political economy argument is more compelling, but in practice "free trade" ends up being anything but. International trade agreements usually take the form of market access conditioned on the kinds of regulation friendliest to the most politically influential (~largest) actors. This is how you get, eg, "free trade" agreements that massively strengthen copyright regimes, to the benefit of "original" content producers and the detriment of content remixers and consumers.
This is beyond a First World problem
I understand being annoyed that they ignored your request, but would it really lessen your recruiter spam by an appreciable amount? I get such random requests, eliminating a single company wouldn't make much of a dent.

I've just gotten good at hitting shift-3 or e (depending on my mood) in gmail the second I sniff recruiter in an email.
If it was built already you've be asked to give your credit card number, not your email address.
Technically, Room 641a. But, otherwise, spot-on.
Imagine a world in which Google recruiters have a profile of you on their desk of likes, dislikes, likely life goals, and potential avenues to woo you into joining them. I imagine Facebook has a dataset that could be applied to make such a thing and soon (if not already) so will Google.
> Do you have an example of a language with arbitrary-precision overflow by default and comparable performance?

No, but that also means Julia isn't much special then either right?

Maybe it is just me but Julia positions itself as a better Python not just a better C, in that position, can you really blame people if they misunderstand and expect same "high level" behavior from it?
I rely on flashcards for medical school. A few requirements that I would need to switch from Anki--

1) Copy paste of images. This is key. With my mac I screenshot a slide from an anatomy atlas to the clipboard. Then use the image occlusion editor to hide labels on the slide, and then I use the editor to highlight a certain area on the slide and ask "what is this muscle?" 70% of my cards require copy/paste of images. Without this feature I could never switch.

2) Cloud storage that synchronizes flashcards on my mac and mobile device. I do a lot of flashcard review in the gym, bathroom, waiting in line, etc. Without mobile I could not switch.

3) Searchable index of cards. I make a flashcard for every major piece of information that I need to know for school, and I use search to connect that information. For instance we spent the last 6 weeks learning about metabolic pathways and what factors regulate enzymes within them, but we never focused on specific regulators. With Anki, however, I can search for a certain activation enzyme, say protein kinase A, and then have a deck of flashcards showing me what pathways are affected by said enzyme.

Those are the biggest must have features for me that set Anki apart. There are loads of great minimal and social flashcard applications (eg Study Blue or Quizlet) available for average users, eg, someone learning spanish. You'll have to find a way to stand out from them.
Dear Colin,

You're extremely lucky to have talents that are highly sought-after and well paid. I know many talented architects and designers with experience who just scrape by. Just ignore Google's recruitment advances and move on :)
Dear OP

Yes you have the right to not be contacted by Google if you don't want so.

But may I advise you to not get pissed by the fact that your labour force and intellect is being greatly demanded. Disturbance apart, you should be thankful.
Why does this make them crooks? This whole thing is just a very convoluted form of gambling -- it's a game. If you bluff when playing poker, does that make you a crook?
It's not the emails which bother me; it's the fact that they're ignoring explicit instructions.
No, my SaaS business (sharpplm.com) is quoting and document control for small manufacturers. I like the dogwood idea in general, but when you're in a different industry vertical it doesn't make sense.
Is Google unique in this? Or is this a generic tech company/recruiter problem?
WHERE'S MADDIE McCANN
... because for all of the advances in computer technology, writing on paper is still a superior user interface for a multitude of purposes.
They may have streamlined, or it may be dependent on the type of position you're applying for, but in the case of a few of my friends it involved multiple days in mountain view from NYC, many in-person interviews in NYC, and so on.

I think in two of the cases I can think of it was a ~3 week interview process.
I feel like you've defined the point of the mobility study, so I don't believe it ought to be accounted for.

The person who earns $100,000 in nation A can now comfortably afford a top 10% lifestyle in that country. For example, the very best housing of the country is reserved for them (if they want it: they have first dibs). They now have significantly more economic power than their parents had, at least within their country.

That would seem to be less true in nation B - person B might have observed their objective wealth to have increased similarly to person A, but they have been less able to change their relative status in the world and are less able to move up any ladder-based system (I propose that land ownership/housing is typically one such system) and are more dependent on factors outside of their control.
They seem to cast a wide net as far as their recruiting efforts goes. I kinda wish they put more effort into identifying unexperienced hires as well, as I remember expending quite some effort to try to get hired by Google after I left graduate school, but to no avail. Now I have shown my quick ability to learn (which was already proven by my education) in the world of development and now I get contacted...and I don't know whether I want to work for Google anymore.

I deeply question their talent identifying apparatus. Even worse for them, if they did a correct analysis, they probably would have saved a lot of $. It would probably take over 2x what I am making now to woo me over, and that's not necessarily guaranteed.
Google is the only company I've found which seems to be unable to take no for an answer. I get lots of recruiter spam from hedge funds, but I don't think any of them have ever re-contacted me after I've told them not to.
I was comparing social ostracizing to social ostracizing. Your comment doesn't even contain a strawman, it's just a pile of straw being yelled at.

I am part of three of the minority categories you listed above as experiencing Serious Oppression. I'm also a nerd.

Perhaps it is you who needs some perspective?
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You ask if pop music and the people who are writing it are doing a good thing? I think so. Pop music is abhorrent to me. I actually get nauseous listening to it. My wife on the other hand loves it. Before we got married I asked her why she liked it so much. She works in a Pediatric ER. She said, "Well, in my job and the horrible things we see, I have learned to cope with what I have to by doing four things: debrief with the other nurses, cry if I have to and not hold back, imagine that all my patients survive and go home to kind and loving parents, and listen to Top 40. It does not tax my brain any further after a 12 hour shift and is usually upbeat and tells a love story." So from my single anecdotal perspective, yes, some people need the escapism and bubblegum. Makes sense to me.
I would absolutely love to see a well designed SRS Flashcard app!

I've used both Mnemosyne and Anki and I have to admit, while I love their rich feature sets, I reallllly hate their interface design and usability. Not only is it unintuitive and overly complex, but they both run really slow on my laptop.

I still can't believe there aren't better solutions available. Anki is probably my most used piece of software and it sucks to have to use a crappy interface.
Anyone who thinks that remote developers can have the same interactions as developers in the same room is crazy! Even if you have great chat room software.

Face to face interactions have so much more bandwidth.
HTTP 2.0: GTFO (General Termination of Future Operations)
piqued* my curiosity. Sorry, had to :)
"How dare you disagree with me!"
Why are US corporate profits so high? Because wages are so low
more logs: http://pastebin.com/cFfxW7xh

from the manifesto: "there are always trolls that add absolutely zero value to the community" -- you said it Wolong.
I think the relevant distinction here is that the 'crooks' we're discussing aren't likely to be held legally accountable for their activities.
Maybe someone knows the answer to this. I played D&D when there were three books. The Dungeon Master's Guide had a red demon/devil on it and according to wikipedia it is Advanced Dungeons and Dragons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Master's_Guide#Advanced...

Where can I find a community that offers games with that rule set? Is referring to the rule set as AD&D the proper way?
The real winners in these schemes are the exchanges. Since they profit from every trade that's made, anything that increases volume and volatility is good for their books.
A think a more apt analogy would be comparing it to something like poker. Yes it's risky, but if you know how to navigate markets, it's a controlled risk, in which you can come out ahead more often than not...