skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Sonicity failed in 2001, I had a track record as a lead developer on a successful, well-reviewed enterprise product, the lead engineering role at an ISP that might still have been among Chicago's most popular, and research publications at least one of which has a cite record that a lot of ACM journal submissions would envy. Not to mention, I had cofounded a company that had raised a significant amount of money. I was living in San Francisco at the time.

I had to move to Ann Arbor to find my next job.

The thing about the daisy cutter that Patrick said is not a myth. If you're one of the people here that believes we're in a bubble, you should take it seriously. They didn't call 2002 "Nuclear Winter" for nothing.
Here's a starting point.

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/my-name-is-cl...
The last paragraph is gem. I mean I wish more people understood this. If you are not a founder and made big money. Any other position where you can learn more than your age level peers is taken as arrogance and not qualification.

I report to 'architects' who haven't done or know 1% of me. By the fact that they've hopped 10 mega corps and with some neat interview skills always ensures they take home big salaries and bonuses.

While technical skills are good. Soft skills, social skills, a strong network is ultimately what really matter in the real world. Focus on that with a occasional focus on tech trends. Once you do that you can relax in positions of authority to make junior devs slog for you.
I'm baffled by the absence of tools for diagram generation from code and things like contextual highlighting in, well, every code editor. Even code folding seems pretty primitive. Bret victor & the LightTable team are proposing some significant innovations, but most IDEs make me feel like I'm trying to explore a room through a keyhole.
Wow, thank you very much for this. I am certainly going to look into these book recommendations.

Yeah, I honestly am still unsure of the name. I was going for something that had to do with "views" or "viewpoints". Thank you for your feedback on it.

I hear you loud and clear on the pricing issue.

Hell, I hear you loud and clear on all of it. This is very informative. Thanks again!
Yeah, we'll put a better example of the profile on the homepage--probably link to a live one.

You can see an example of my profile:
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Well, that's not the same thing, is it?
You should do whatever brings satisfaction to your life.

Are there data to back this up?
Still doesn't mean the poor are "hated", and it's still a vast amount of aid money.
Cryengine-as-a-service is still not released AFAIK.
I'm going to be in a position soon to start hiring people and I've been thinking long and hard about this. I do think that engineers tend to get the short end of the stick when it comes to options, even when the nominal percentages sound good. I can think of friends who were early engineers at "successful" companies that took an awful long time to see any real money, let alone the vast majority who get nothing.

I'm seriously considering a profit sharing / options system where options are only vested in quarters that are unprofitable and profit sharing occurs otherwise. I know that this wouldn't be different at all for many start-ups that have little chance of profitability early on, but for those that do it could be a very interesting way to align interest and not screw the employees.
You're correct; at the moment function signatures have to be written in full.

(This may be relaxed slightly in future, that said, it's very very unlikely to be loosened to full Haskell-style whole-program inference.)
about $72 a month sales tax to the average family
Wow. What kind of revenue does Airbnb make?
This was an error on Google part, only inactive free accounts are getting closed.
>>Fortunately, most people aren't scumbags.

No one is.

But money changes things. Let's there are two best friends, you offer the first person some money to back stab the other. The guy may not agree. However keep raising the offer and at some point of time when the figure hits a $X0/$X00 million I bet the guy's intentions will change.

Every one sells, its just the number that differs.
Thanks (to both of you) for saying so!

Definitely not everything, but there's nothing wrong with a learning curve.
I get the point you are making, but confidence intervals are completely the wrong solution. They do NOT mean what you probably think they mean (where "you" is a generalized "you the reader").

http://www.ejwagenmakers.com/inpress/HoekstraEtAlPBR.pdf

Credible intervals are probably what you want. A lot of the time people misunderstand confidence intervals and treat them like credible intervals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credible_interval
That's not always possible, nor does "further research" always yield the right answer. Perfection isn't going to happen. Correcting mistakes? That we can do.
So you want an extension that lets you select some text and bookmark it as a fragmention? Sounds possible.
Well, people could easily lose interest if they come into the field wanting to be able to make computers do cool stuff, and they're stuck with circuits and binary for a while before even being able to do that. Those are fine coming later after learning at least some amount of higher-level code in which you can explore the potential of what you can make happen with programming. Being able to see some of your code make a simple game work or something; I feel like that's an important step. It's easy for us, already fully immersed, to say that beginners should or would be interested to know all of the logic gate-level mechanisms, but it's going to be off-putting for most.
I once taught a class "Software as a Second Language: Computer Programming for Non-Majors" at UCSB/CCS. The audience very rapidly "why?"'d me down to "I honestly don't know, class dismissed: come back next week". I came back with a box of 12V relays and restarted the class from logic gates up, building a toy architecture with a usable machine language. Of course, I started at magnets (as given magnetism I can explain pretty easily how a relay works), but had to tell people that not only would you have to trust me that magnets worked at all, but that it isn't even clear that anyone knows how they work anyway (but for those curious, the Physics students in the class would likely be happy to talk about it ;P).
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The 4 deaths by natural causes would make POTUS the most danerous job in the US without making reference to asassignation.

So, it is the same thing.

Of course, the british monarchy has not had a fatality in office that was <not> old age since 1600.

Which makes it safer or more dangerous, depending on how you look at it.

Either way, the fatality rate is 100%.
It's the most serious question of all. The evidence is extremely mixed. I love David Roodman's Time Magazine quote for its brevity:

"On current evidence, the best estimate of the average impact of microcredit on the poverty of clients is zero"

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2103831,00...

Needless to say the debate rages on. The Zidisha discussion detracts from this central point, but on valid grounds. To some extent the shortfalls of microfinance may be due to the high interest rates charged, the restrictive loan conditions, the profit motivation, the aggressive intermediating MFIs etc., some of which Zidisha addresses. However, if you read the work of Milford Bateman, for example, he raises more fundamental questions about microfinance. In the P2P space profit is not really an option, and in Zidisha's case it is debatable whether one can even break-even. But look at the higher levels, the profits accumulating to Accion in the IPO of Compartamos; the millions made in the IPO of SKS, or at some of the microfinance investment funds - these are the big boys, and at that level yes, there are vast profits to be made. Motivation is a hard thing to prove, but you are right to suggest that profit has come to play an unhealthy role in the debate. The sector is extremely opaque, transparency is rare, there are rampant conflicts of interest and ill-aligned incentives. It is largely unregulated in practice, despite endless window-dressing to the contrary. And when some new start-up promotes microloans for poor people to connect their houses to the drinking water supply, as sensible and this might superficially seem, isn't this a public good that the government should provide?

Reading the standard microfinance mantra one could be forgiven for concluding that all the world's problems can be solved with loans, and that profit maximisation is the best structure to arrange this. We are familiar with the theory, but the evidence is sorely lacking.
No, we haven't made any change that would affect that. The most popular stories get much higher vote totals than they used to. That might explain their inertia.
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It's probably already known by EEVblog subscribers, but I also recommend Mike's Electric Stuff. His FLIR handheld IR camera reverse engineering videos sucked me into hardware hacking.

http://www.youtube.com/user/mikeselectricstuff
>At some point someone sold the idea of sound bite consumable news to customers and convinced them that it was good.

What makes you say this? This seems pretty false in my opinion.

It seems much more likely that sound bite consumables are the outcome of testing/feedback and iteration. It seems entirely possible to me(if not probable) that consumers(for the most part) don't know what they truly 'want' in terms of news.

We live in a world of(largely) instant gratification; the fact that 'news' would have to adapt to fit that lifestyle makes perfect sense to me.

> People will blame consumers for how media is but then say this about technology: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

What point are you trying to make here? I'm having difficulty parsing your meaning. Humans, when they aren't versed in the underlying operations of a system, WILL make broad assumptions(about said operations) and WILL have irrational expectations and 'wants' based on those assumptions.
What would my grandmother(or even mother for that matter) ask me to improve about her spyware-ridden current-gen laptop? "Make it faster." If I asked her how to improve the news on the other hand I guarantee "make it faster" would not enter the conversation.

Soooo, what's your point here? That consumers do want 'faster' news? And why would a consumer's desire for more succinct news imply that they are okay with less accurate news...?

Obviously the issue isn't cut and dry, everyone is a consumer of the news and we all have our own opinions. That said, I have a hard time disagreeing with the parent comment. Have you watched the news recently? 'News' stories are NOT given time based on their importance to the world as a whole; and for good reason. When a media company(whose purpose is to provide fiscal return) is met with positive feedback for stories pertaining to popular culture, or pandering to popular opinion, they will invariably continue to publish in that vertical. The result is a 'news' which consists mainly of stories which are either racially/politically charged or major events(read: actual news) which are strung along for weeks(natural disasters, terrorists actions, etc...)
"You're also probably the type of person who, when served with a PIP despite being one the biggest assets to the company, will go nuclear, create morale-killing spectacles, and be talked about for years afterward"

I think Googler's and Xooglers on HN have by now learned to restrain themselves but I've had enough of this troll. I don't know what the actual psychiatric terminology would be but I know what the symptoms are: Toxic levels of cynicism combined with massive delusions of grandeur ("... despite being one the biggest assets to the company..." Hah.).
Please note that the company he's talking about is Google where he spent a few months (or perhaps a year or so) in 2010/2011 timeframe. His equally delusional rants on internal mailing lists were stuff of (hilarious) legend. It was clear to any engineer with half a brain who read one of his rants that you don't want this guy anywhere near your team.

I do sympathize if he's suffering from genuine psychiatric issues and needs medical help. Someone close to him needs to help him get the care he needs.

But please, please young hackers, don't pay any heed to his alleged words of wisdom. The world, and especially silicon valley, may not be all cookies and cream... but it's also not the satanic hellscape that you're reading about in these sickening threads. Lots of young people enter this world every year, do their work, get compensated handsomely and treated royally (way better than almost any other profession that a young graduate could find work in today) and live happy, fulfilled lives. I wish a few more voices here would spread a bit of positive news (and down-vote the ever cynical trolls on a regular basis).
When my employer failed in 2002, I had no trouble getting another job offer. Unfortunately that company failed before my start date. As did the one after that.

I moved to NYC to get a semi-functional job market.

These days the possibility of highly correlated failure is a major component in my career decisions.
Warmists take note.
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> I worry that as we turn the browser into a platform with all these client side capabilities, browsers will become big complicated messes.

They aren't already?
Food Wars Could Rage by 2050
The flaw of anonymous apps.
Maybe (someday) you can build two different UIs to the same return. For example, I can hire a CPA and then share with him/her my return. I can upload the docs and numbers, and the CPA can do the magic using the bare metal UI.

I heard from my CPA that Intuit provides very poor support for their ProSeries / Lacerte software, because they are trying to get everyone to use Turbotax instead. So even CPAs have a pain point that you could solve.
Thank you. Love the "describe the whole idea in under 5 words" advice.
It's pretty easy to known who really knows how to split wood with any kind of axe. You start on the outside working your way in splitting off sections that look like they present the best chance to avoid a knot. Anything other than that is snake oil and bluster.

And no, I'm not buying one of these axes, a traditional splitting axe works very well. I don't see how the featured axe could offer anything beyond the traditional since you aren't constrained to a plumb blow as the marketing would have you to believe.
Stupid question: How do you make money with a "free" tax service?
There's CloudA (https://www.clouda.ca/) that is similar to DigitalOcean.
> he's the one complaining on the plane.

Hmm, "the guy next to me goes 'pfft, this is bullsh*t'".

> it's about our nature as humans

Well, it's about our current generation of Americans (maybe Westerners). This complaining seems like unnecessary stress to me. I understand, because I used to do it.
I made a guide of how the web works with vis.js
Even bigger news should be the fact that Qualcomm == Broadcom in your estimation :)
Errorbars are largely absent from public dialog. Can you imagine a world in which the weather report said:

"Tomorrow's high will be 30±3 degrees, and the low will be 25±2 degrees. We expect light precipitation, but our confidence is low."

That world is coming, I hope.
Valuations are about profits, and sustaining those profits. Tech companies can scale quickly, use fewer employees, all with less liability.
Future of other Cryptocurrencies?
What does the future hold for other crypto currencies like Litecoin,Peercoin,Dogecoin,Mastercoin,Namecoin,Auroracoin,etc. against Bitcoin ?
We'll announce that in the future.
Or rather, there is but it's thoroughly welcome.
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Some not-yet-mentioned I subscribe to:

Indie game dev: https://www.youtube.com/user/WolfireGames

Clojure talks: https://www.youtube.com/user/ClojureTV

Android: https://www.youtube.com/user/androiddevelopers

A filmmaker I enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/user/caseyneistat

[Shameless plug] Computer science paper presentations: https://www.youtube.com/user/PapersWeLove
Nice point here "The concepts of programming, the use of objects, models and data is the art of programming, the "design", the language is the tools and materials, the "wood and hammers""
What is this, a guessing game? If you don't want to answer the question, please let us know instead of giving vague answers.
Depends on the game really; but generally yeah, the GPU will be the bottleneck. Games with a large number of calculations will be CPU bound though; StarCraft 2 is a good example of that.
I would add that having someone fired because they signed the wrong petition is wrong. Making someone resign because they gave a donation to the wrong political party is wrong. Excluding someone from a forum for having the wrong opinion is wrong. I honestly don't agree with most of the stuff I read on this page and I really don't understand where a lot of you are coming from at all.

I could certainly understand expelling someone from a forum for being a nusance, or breaking the rules, but not for being 'wrong'. I certainly wouldn't exclude someone from my social network for having values that contradict my own.

I shudder to think where I would be if everyone excluded me years ago because I wasn't yet who I am now.
I'm not sure that failure is necessarily the form in which such a problem would manifest itself - I've been around enough businesses to know that they can muddle through personnel changes. But it tends to impede short term progress and create stress for those remaining after a key employee leaves - the sorts of problems the alleged no-poach agreements allegedly sought to mitigate.

Now there may be something else that motivated Altman's essay, but it is almost certainly related to YC and the idea of improving employee equity appears to have been seen as a potential solution to some trend in their data. I think that YC came to believe turnover was impacting rates of return, and YC has had to think about ways to mitigate it. They're at the point now where they would have that data and some companies in their portfolio are mature enough where brain drain has a significant impact. For example, they could be running regressions around on former employees of portfolio companies applying to YC against the return rates of investments in the former employers.

There's the pursuit of better returns in there somewhere, and I reserve the right to pull another theory out of my ass at a later date.
The flaw of 9 pages of blank content area on Safari. Edit: ...and the full content is back. The first couple times I tried all I got was the header with its GG bridge image and the footer with its Statue of Liberty image.
Speed reading has recently been a thing here on HN, and I think these passages beautifully illustrate the shortcomings of those techniques. I've always been a very fast reader, and it was quite difficult for me to figure out how to appreciate this kind of literature.

I can easily absorb information from man pages, and get a lot of enjoyment out of more intellectual fiction like what Charlie Stross or Alastair Reynolds write, but it's a whole different skill-set to read and enjoy writing like this. Marquez' style really requires you to turn off large parts of your information-processing brain, and just listen to the narration like it was someone else reading a story to you.
Although keep in mind that excessive pedantry is frowned upon.
Wow, I had no idea this was such a breakthrough. I'm not in the industry and I barely know anything about this, but can you explain what it is about recovering the booster that is such a huge breakthrough? Haven't we had recoverable space equipment for ages (e.g. space shuttle?) Forgive what is surely an ignorant question.
They are coming because the bubble that exists around our politicians and the fawning rich upper class and idiot lower class (democrat or republican) is to put it simply, bursting.

People are getting fed up with the ideologue denigrating wealth and success and hard work, then he goes to the rich elite of the elite in silicon valley with his hand out like a common beggar.

Hypocrites.
I agree sometimes PHP may cost more time or risk for a secific task.But still will other languages help?
Example : A complex task in PHP takes 4 hours and it can be done in Node.js in 20 min.But do I really need to spend 20 or 30 Hours learning Node.js and then complete that task?
I agree no one can master one language.
I should have mentioned this in my original comment. I am left-handed and this axe, unlike the vast majority of hand and power tools, works just fine for me and doesn't emit those all too familiar lethal vibes.
It isn't a concern.
I'm stuck on Windows at work, and landed on ConEmu as my terminal emulator (running bash, though - I've never made the jump to zsh):

https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/

I haven't tried Console2, so I can't provide a comparison, but here's Scott Hanselman deciding to switch: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ConEmuTheWindowsTerminalConsol...
They are also used to not hearing about things that become huge overnight. It will play much better in the press for him to have gone to 'some place where they make start ups' than a more faceless corporate behemoth. It's simply a better media opportunity.
Nike fires majority of FuelBand team
Sorry to be vague, but honestly it's not a riddle. It's just not something we want to announce yet.
A note on Cryptography design vs Cryptography engineering
I love that they even mentioned the simple interstitial API call! I wonder if they want to grow more revenue that way in the immediate future.
Is there a particular problem with the software used by tax professionals? Clearly they're not using consumer-focused software since their needs would be different.

It seems like a domain a developer typically wouldn't have much insight into without a tax professional talking about it openly, or having worked on a product previously.
Completely agree to this! One very rarely comes across a completely self contained piece of code such as sorting or searching. The code you are reading or exploring is usually a piece of a larger scheme of things; held together by scaffolding so to say. And unless one actually runs the system (not just that specific code) end to end it's really difficult to understand.

I've also found it very useful to slightly modify the code and compare my expectation with the actual result of a test run.
I have a principle to explain this, and much more : The universe sides with stupid.

There, there, take a look at Wild Poppies, near Argenteuil : http://i.imgur.com/1bSp0TJ.jpg
Easy, fast and neat way to build kernel on Debian and Debian based systems
There are solar systems much older than the Earth. Evolution is definitely not linear. See punctuated equilibrium and mass extinction events. And there are millions of species on the planet. Evolution has branched many times. If that was true every branch should evolve in a similar direction at the same rate, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all.
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