skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These statements need a whole lot more clarification

->"The amount they were willing to pay beyond salaries and stock to those hired? About 10 cents on the dollar invested."

->" we’d receive less than a recruiting service that merely introduced the same level people in exchange for 30 percent of their first-year salary."

Funding a company's success is very different that just presenting candidates. With so many startups receiving large valuations and focus being on user acquisition, the return on on acquihire is probably going to be lower than expected.

If the startup were burning through their investment / bleeding money through losses why would a company think they need to recoup those losses for an investor?

Then there's the 30% fee calculation. This sounds like the author was simply comparing 10% for the aquihire vs. 30% agency fee. What should be compared is the % of total cash comp the team would receive as the fee. This goes back to the difference of funding a company vs. just presenting candidates.

Given the info of seven engineers:

- if each engineer is paid out 150k (fairly high end of market cash rate, not including stocks).

- then a 30% fee would be based on $1,050,000.

- in this scenario, any investor putting in more than $1,050,000 would receive less than the 30% agency fee. Given how much money can be poured into startups it's easy to see investors hitting the $3 million mark and only receive 10% on this deal.
"Don't put hyphens, that's ugly"

This is highly subjective, and quite frankly makes me think the whole thing is pointless
I don't understand. How can "objects" be persuaded?
They also add complexity. So the implied question is - is it worth it?
I do not think "But I'm so perfect for her, why can't she just seeeee" shows a disregard for the humanity of the admired.

It is essentially the same as "my essay was so good why cant teacher seeeee" or "my art is so good why cant people seee" or "I run so fast why coach can not pick me" or any other situation where person have a hard time to accept rejection.

You do not make any service to women by seeing sexism every time a guy does not reacts perfectly.
Add to that the fact that felony conviction (and many drug crimes and other invented crimes are felonies) significantly reduces one's chance to ever find good well-paying employment, while prison comrades would be dangling the possibility of quick earnings under one's nose without the necessity to prove yourself twice as hard as the next guy on every step - and the picture becomes even more slanted towards recidivism.
Ship a product. More specifically, think something up, write it, ship it. Along the way learn what you don't know to finish it, but the first time you try this don't push yourself too hard. Once your done, post a "ShowHN" and we will probably tell you whats wrong with it.
U.F.O Incident Sparks A wave of Hundreds of Emergency Calls -UFO Phenomenon
This assumes they are employable and thereby able to afford it. And by "employable", I mean able to work, not merely able to pass background checks though the two are interrelated (i.e. there are rational business reasons to consider it a negative factor).

I have worked at a place that did not screen out such (a factory, one of the few places, as I understand it, where you could get employed with a record). We're talking about being unable to show up for work or follow simple directions after a week. I can only imagine how they might've behaved in something customer-facing (i.e. flipping burgers).

Now yes, there is the other side of that. There were also a number of folks struggling to fix up their life. These I commend and I helped where I could along that route.
> "But I'm so perfect for her, why can't she just seeeee"

Unfortunately this attitude is lionized in Hollywood and popular culture ... with the implication that if you dream hard enough, he/she will see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuNIsY6JdUw
HBR: why your employees should be playing with Lego Robots
"For me, TDD is similar, in that the benefits mainly come later, when you have a sizable code base that you can make big changes to without fear."

The ability to refactor without fear comes from having adequate test coverage. Whether you write the tests before you write the code (TDD) or after the code is completed doesn't seem to affect your ability to refactor at a later date.
>Sure I know what a NFA is, but ask me convert it to a DFA and I'm lost.

Do you really think your average HNer knows how to do that? Or even know what that means and how you define it? I really don't think so :)

In my opinion you know plenty about computer science, certainly much more than your average programmer, but I understand how you feel. I think of myself as not knowledgeable enough and below average all the time.

You haven't mentioned your goal. Do you want to eventually work in any of the areas you mentioned? Or rather you want to learn this for your own intellectual curiosity?
make sure you watch the monkey video, I forgot how it even related to the original content but it was priceless.
The belief that companies have a fiduciary responsibility to ignore all ethical issues in search of maximum profit is completely absurd. You don't have to look far to find companies that make ethical decisions that would be difficult to justify from a pure profitability standpoint who aren't getting suited by their shareholders.
The US is a single party state. The party's name is "capitalism."
Shouldn't it say LibreSSL - An OpenSSL fork :)?
Seems cool that we kinda have a choice, and do not need to depend on one OpenSource project to have SSL, on other hand it seems it will be another underfunded project, waiting for another heartbleed to happen. :)
How does Blake2 compare to SHA256 in terms of uniqueness and hashing speed?
Speaking of use by doctors, you call those "hard drugs" as opposed to marijuana. Marijuana is "schedule I" drug, which means no accepted medical use and no possibility of safe usage even under medical supervision. So it's more dangerous than most of the drugs you call "hard", if you believe the government. I'm not sure though even the government believes itself on that - but this is the sorry state of the matters. If we're talking about "high schoolish", you can't really get much worse than that.

>>> This is just playing coy to pretend that in hard drugs don't exist or something silly.

Highly addictive substances definitely exist. Barbiturates are highly addictive, so is alcohol, so it tobacco. The humanity learned to live with the latter, and we seem to be able to manage the former without going to full-blown war.
I wish more people used RPN calcs. In my EE course in the UK in the 1990s, I was the only person with an HP calc (HP41c and later a 48S). Everyone else was TI and Casio.
I've always thought that women didn't go to extracurricular activities to find dates, and only men do this. I'd like to be told I'm wrong, but my experiences show otherwise. Of course I do live in a west coast city infamous for its gender imbalance and the associated mentalities that go along with that.
The linked SO answer is fairly dated (2011), Twitter is able to handle bursts of up @140K req/s (with Scala) as of last year[1]

Assume Rails has improved hugely since then, 600 req/s over 180 instances is absolutely abysmal performance O_o

I'd expect Rails to clock in well under 300ms per request now, and looking at Basecamp's site[2], that seems to be the case, impressively snappy page loads (if caching the kitchen sink and not hitting live Rails stack then we'd need to look at a different example, but this site has pretty much optimal load time).

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/2013/new-tweets-per-second-record-a...

[2] https://basecamp.com
It does not appear the porn was going to be produced as a result of the donation. Either way the funds shouldn't have been held.

I think the bigger question is - WTF is up with the Doctor?
I have never heard of this. I always thought they remained neutral regardless of beliefs?
I believe most people would agree with that view; the negative side of the "friend zone" is from the "I've put so much effort into this girl, why isn't she having sex with me" opinions you sometimes seem espoused on reddit and other similar haunts of the angsty teenage male.
I seriously don't like this article...

Why should we try and scientificaly explain the only things that keeps us human? Then come out with a pattern and become robots?

Also in the other hand of the article, my attractivness is medium to low, and I don't attract women easily (my looks are ok, but I got that weird mindset that drives them away).
I've had a relationship with a woman that was hot 9/10 very very smart studied in ivy league with scolarship and she was very attractive to the point that we had guys coming after her when we were going out... My life experiences proves that article jibberish ...
You are not brand but a product
If anyone else is interested in real-time collaborative IPython environments, check out https://coderpad.io/.

It's less focused on the data analysis side and more focused on collaborative coding for interview environments. You get a full IPython shell with most of the niceties (syntax highlighting, exception captures, etc).
Have you tried

import turtle

in Python?
I am not sure why integer multiplication is not preferred. It goes up to 64x64->128, if the author wants all the bits of the product.

I'm a little confused by this also, but given the level of detail in the linked paper (http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/134.pdf) it's definitely not just an oversight. The issue may be that he's aiming for fastest possible performance on Sandy Bridge (AVX), and 256-bit integer vector multiplication wasn't added until Haswell (AVX2). And even then, 64-bit integer elements can only be done one at a time. But since he's suggesting instruction set changes, he's clearly not thinking only of backwards compatibility.
ccbill
if you do not have a high mate value, take heart. All you need is for others to have the patience to get to know you

Or increase your mate value. In traits like conscientiousness or intelligence 40-60% of variance is genetic. There is no reason to think that somehow charisma is a weird outlier with which you're stuck. She thinks anyone can act much more charismatically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMu_md_5PQ4 Feels a little newagey but otherwise completely reasonable.

It's the same with meeting people. You probably live in a large city with millions of them. Even with strict selection there are at least a few thousands of potential mates. Why wait until you end up in a small group with one of them?

It also means that you have as many attempts as you want. Blowing out with one person will not haunt you through that social group forever.

This is one of those articles that is supposed to make people feel good about themselves, and maybe it does, but at the cost of bringing counter-productive advice.
I also find it fascinating that if one tries to explicitly express interest beyond being just friends, the 'friend zone' is forever altered as an ulterior motive will likely be questioned when engaging in future events thereafter.

This places the person who would like to be more than just friends in an uneasy predicament: either keep their mouth shut and preserve their 'friend' title, or profess their true feelings and gamble away having that person in their life anymore.
The concept of "friend zone" might resonate with more people if it wasn't always a straight man remonstrating about a woman who won't reciprocate his politeness with sex. This article is more about people who take time to fall in love, well, taking time to fall in love, regardless of their gender.
Are you seriously comparing the privileges given to a white young male working at a tech job in Silicon Valley to those (or lack thereof) of a janitor?
How does a practical program guarantee the initial state of the CPU?
12 helpful hints (and a few scripts) for those new to AWS
First, thank all of you for your comments it mean much for me.
The thing about shark... I know it's a fish, it just sounds well and catch some attention. I wanted to use "predator or prey" metaphor but it's not that good.
It's generally a good idea for all parties in a relationship to have the same expectations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_monkey

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/scratch-monkey.html

[edit. huh - that's been edited to remove the actual story. Here's the story: http://edp.org/monkey.htm]

The jargon file has lots of great stuff in it (also see "Magic/More Magic"). Some versions have had some dubious stuff added, but that's a big old ball of flame waiting to happen, so I'll say read with caution :-)
How do you correctly round, say, 6172293634027511 * 7059478094414279 / 2^53 = 4837593847918366.50000000000000011102 without essentially computing the full 106-bit product?
Does anybody else find this rather disturbing?

Even from the outset, "We live in a new age where globalization & capitalism must harmonize with social good" - bold faced newspeak. Anybody who has ever actually done social work who couldn't help but to see this as a bleak vision of the future.

The page goes even further, listing examples of well-intentioned although ineffective, dubbed "useless", designs in a negative light, and then showing Coca-Cola of all things as as the first example of a positive product, designed for everybody.

Though most of the design sense and advice here is good from a product perspective, to propose that capitalism is the solution to the problems shown here, or rather vaguely hinted at, is to me a disturbing vision. Capitalism is in many cases the primary contributing factor to them, all this mentality proposes is to give with one hand and take away with the other - and then feel accomplished and morally cleansed by the process.

There is much more to building a better world than building consumer products. If this is the best we can do, I am saddened.
The non-blocking JavaScript loader pattern
Chemical supplement extends longevity by about 50%
I don't think you're addressing the meaning of the immigrant example. If an immigrant can successfully experience one culture at school and another at home, it's also possible to experience one culture at work and another culture the rest of your life. Whether or not you group both cultures into a greater "working man" culture is kind if irrelevant to your original point that a company culture would invade the rest of your life.
This is why I no longer follow 'the news'
Common-or-garden Firefox Beta for Android for me, same effect.
Content Spoofing Vulnerability on Constantcontact.com
Evernote CEO: Apps will become obsolete
Somewhat tangential (again thanks for the link, and the comments on "live programming"):

"In the Smalltalk model, for instance, state is persistent and code changes don't affect data. In the Clojure model, code is "mostly functional", with a small amount of carefully-managed state. Either model could be a starting point for a system where continuous code changes can be seen as continuous effects."
-- Bret Victor
http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/
Heh, that's a really good point. Almost anything is doable with enough money.
Players have contributed $4,028,459 to Valve's TI4 Dota Tournament
Far more cost-effective would be cloning ឯកសារ (Aki-Ra).

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/aki-ra.html
Uber, The Next $100 Billion Company
Submitter here: For those who are not familiar with e-sport, Valve is holding The International 4, which is the biggest Dota tournament. The tournament begin with Valve's $1,600,000 base prize pool and Valve sells Compendium for $9.99. Each purchase contributes $2.50 to the prize pool. This thing begins on May. 9 and in 10 days, which is 2 months before the actual tournament, Dota players have contributed $4,028,459 as of now.
12 Different “SaaSy” Pricing Strategies
What's the fastest anyone has deployed a Python / Django app?
Many people/companies built Hypercard applications that talked to backend databases. It wouldn't be difficult to build an email application.
Original Stitch Offers 1 Billion Computerized Design Combinations
I spent my teens and 20s working hard on my uniqueness out of a feeling that I was different. I forced myself to like anything that was out of the ordinary (this manifested itself in attaching myself to any concepts, interests, and preferences that were non-American). I allowed my search to be different to overtake me, making me a bit of a vagabond, more interested in exploration than in work (discovery-oriented rather than goal-oriented).

Liking interesting things can act as a repellent because it becomes so much harder to find others who have worked a lot on their interestingness or who can appreciate your differences, knowledge and tastes.

Now in my 30s, I've let it go (due to a realization that I don't need to try so hard) and it feels as if a lot of it just disappeared. Like a great meal, I loved it while I was eating it but afterwards there's just an empty plate and the memory of the meal.
11 Reasons Your Business Should Have A Blog
not sure what you mean, but I have found nginx, uwsgi, pypy, psycopg2cffi a fast combination :-)
Drugs are illegal in Europe, but Europe does not have war on drugs rhetoric nor such high incarcerations rates nor such high punishments for small amounts of marijuana nor stop and frisk policies nor cops militarized to the same degree.
Many developers in the world don't live in SV and they are not privileged young white males. Care to get out of your bubble once in a while?
Dostların Arasına Gülşen Girdi
It's impossible - until it's done.
Patent it! ;-)
You lost the minute you resorted to the word virtually.

And flagged.
Thanks! To be more clear, I meant approx. times (if possible) and which stack (as you've done) or PaaS was used.
I realize it's not the most credible source, but there was a purported leaker a few months ago on 4chan that claimed Google is getting ready to turn Android into something like this. He even claimed to have a prototype device. I'm taking it with quite a bit of salt, but the supposed leaker seemed at least somewhat believable in conversation.
Fortunately the war on drugs situation is getting better, not worse. That momentum shifted several years ago in fact.

Incarceration rates are falling now. Legalization has gained a massive amount of momentum, obviously including the first two states, and the Feds are increasingly not willing to step in and interrupt that progress (including Holder recently telling the DEA chief to get in line with the new direction).

The rest of the world is going to relatively rapidly legalize many forms of drug use as well, with the US taking its boot of their throat on the issue. That will make it that much harder for the US to ever fall backwards and regain traction with the global war on drugs concept the government had been using.

That said, the militarization of police will likely continue regardless of the war on drugs ending. I view that as the next great issue to begin focusing on after several more states have legalized pot.

Also, mandatory minimum sentencing has completely lost steam. There is a lot of momentum toward rolling that back, and I think that momentum will continue. It's a failed approach, and a wide spectrum of people increasingly recognize that in my opinion. It will probably go out the window with the war on drugs. It'll be a huge victory if so.
> I've always thought that women didn't go to
> extracurricular activities to find dates, and only
> men do this

Even if that were true, so what?

Go do extracurricular activities to find female friends, to get some experience talking to women, and you're more likely one of them will introduce you to a friend who is looking.
As serious as climate science denier Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) being appointed chairman of the subcommittee responsible for climate change issues?

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/03/20/1748771/climate-...

"I’m not as convinced as a lot of people are that man-made climate change is the threat they think it is. I think it is probably not as immediate as some people do. [...] What is the real threat? What are the economic impacts of those threats? And what are the economic impacts of those remedies? Some of the remedies are more expensive to our economy than the threat may turn out to be." -Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT), climate science denier
A well written and comprehensive rebuttal to the cult-like CrossFit. Thanks for the link.
In Germany there is a lot of talk about a "Fachkräftemangel", meaning a lack of specialists, especially for IT jobs. Many IT professionals assume that the reason is that the companies want more IT professionals so they can drive the wages lower.

I find it amusing that the author of the article talks about a secure future, when there are so many "everyone should code" initiatives. It seems pretty obvious that the economy tries to drive the supply of devs high so they can lower the wages.

Also, are developers (or "coders") really so highly paid in the US? In Germany, the wages for devs are relatively low, despite the often summoned "Fachkräftemangel".
> I don't wish to sound rude, but this sounds like a lump made by marketing types :-). Is lunch_app a program? If so, Anon has to learn at least the basics of programming, much like someone who builds a desk has to learn at least the basics of carpentry or someone who wants to learn to play a musical instrument has to learn at least the basics of music.

Isn't this the destiny of most software☨, and another step along the craft to utility curve [0]? Software of this type is needed to do a chore, and honestly if the tools are in place, it could be re-created in an afternoon rather than extended when the time comes.

I would use the analogy of printing; we used to need a typesetter and go to a printer; now we select a font, type and hit 'print' and - if the damned printer on our desk cooperates - we get our work back. Websites are reaching this level of utility; there's no reason simple web apps or desktop software won't too.

[0] This graph http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lrxB3ntRzKQ/U05ClSIXwGI/AAAAAAAAEy... taken from http://blog.gardeviance.org/2012/06/pioneers-settlers-and-to.... The graph matches what I see in the web industry; his blog is a fun read

☨ Because thinking of all software ever written, including scripting for automation, the really complicated and large and needing well-engineered software is far less common than we sometimes think, and not what someone like Anon is considering building with these tools.
Which is more than a little ridiculous. I've written code for Arduino and even that has strlcat and strlcpy - in fact, I had to fill in replacements for them in order to port the code to run on Linux.
> I too was big into that whole PUA/game thing in a former
> life (more theory than practice though)

I spent a few years working in that industry.

If you want to bring more women in your life, the most important thing is: "find and talk to lots of them". Everything else is window dressing, which is why the whole "theory more than practice" thing is such a dead end.

Honestly, I'd recommend one of the big commercial workshops. The attendees skew 90% towards people who want to find a life partner, a coach will be able to point out any weird habits you have that are holding you back, and it'll normalize (through a lot of practice) the idea of starting friendly and normal conversations with women in your day-to-day life. The course material tend towards 40% self-improvement, 40% "how to sell", and 20% how to make small talk. Most of them also offer pretty robust money-back guarantees. Hard to over-estimate the benefit of a workshop over reading some ebook.