skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being in business is inherently risky. If that hypothetical employee leaves five years later, in the middle of a critical unfinished project that she's been holding together with her unique mix of skills and domain knowledge, it will cost the company much more than $20K. Or if the company hires a lesser-qualified candidate because they don't require relocation, that could also easily cost the company much more than $20K in the long term.

Also, an employee with a stable work history isn't likely to leave quickly after finding a new job unless (1) there's something terribly wrong with the company's culture or work environment, or (2) they've been lied to (e.g., told in their offer letter that they'd get fully-paid health insurance and four weeks of vacation, only to have them taken away a few months later by a "policy change").
You are correct because first impressions don't matter.
I agree with "what tastes good" but the problem is if prepackaged tastes better than you can make then just sell me the package and I'll re-heat it at home.

I don't know why but I expect food at a restaurant to be made at the restaurant and generally the same day. If I wanted packaged food I would have gone to the supermarket and bought packaged food.

I guess what I'm saying is just be honest about it. If you think people are fine going to a restaurant for re-heated packaged food then say so on the menu. For whatever reason it feels dishonest to not do so.
I've never used F#, but I found an SO question [0] which provided the following:

- Functors (https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/functors.html)

- OCaml-style objects (https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/objects.html)

- Polymorphic variants (https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/variants.html#polymorp...)

- The camlp4 preprocessor (https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/the-compiler-frontend-...)

- Stronger guarantees from type system. F# allows null values, it seems, while you would need to use an Option type in OCaml.

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/179492/f-changes-to-ocaml
haha yes. of course the bastards would do this and then demand confidentiality. i guess it depends, then, on whether the OP would get greater satisfaction from publishing or from settling.
How so? When I say "private" information is increasingly becoming "public", you assume I'm treating privacy as a binary thing?

Whether one declares information as classified or public isn't an inherit property of the information itself, and as everyone has increasingly similar access (relative asymmetry approaches 0 on a scale from 0 to 100) to information (which seems to be the direction of our collective behaviors, especially if we compare to prior times in human history), trying to classify any information in either state or on a spectrum, seems increasingly like an exercise in futility/irrelevance (to me) in the face of what we are seeing take place and the capabilities on the horizon.
What you need is that functions are values in your language. Lambdas are just a notation for function values. Typed lambda calculus is the internal language of cartesian closed categories and function values are then called internal morphisms. The composition above is then the internal composition of internal morphisms. It would be possible for external composition to be already defined by the language, take the unix shell for example, with its buildin "|" operator. But if you want to be able to define function composition within the language, you need to have something like lambda.
Sounds pretty neat. Similar in theory to hydroponic factories where you plant a seed on one end, and let it slowly float down a moat and get harvested at the end of the line.
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You could create a recording and just loop it. Just an experiment.
> Any major issue found in any core package is usually forwarded "upstream" (which is Debian).

Of 4571 bugs sent to Debian from Ubuntu (and tagged as such), 3905 came with patches [1].

> Very few people in Ubuntu have, apparently, the knowledge to debug issues which go beyond simple repackaging of an updated copy.

The data says otherwise.

If the bug originates upstream, then it's considered just good manners to forward the bug report upstream, rather than maintain the patch just in Ubuntu. Otherwise upstreams scream loudly that Ubuntu doesn't play well with the community. You can't have it both ways. Do you want bug reports for bugs your packages, or don't you? Do you not want free QA from Ubuntu users?

As for supplying fixes, that depends on priorities, and that applies to everyone (regardless of distribution). Better to forward the bug even if it isn't a priority to fix. But where the fix is a priority for Ubuntu users, a patch is generally sent to Debian, as the data shows.

[1]: http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu_usertag.cgi
I ignored the JVM because it really isn't that special at all, and its supposed benefits haven't been proven to exist in reality.

Various types of VMs predated it by decades, including ones that used various forms of GC and JIT compilation. See some of the Pascal and Smalltalk implementations from decades ago as an example of these systems. These did see a fair amount of use, in practice.

The JVM isn't particularly portable. It may support most of the major mainstream OSes used today, but it's not like portable C or C++ code (including other language implementations for Perl, Python, and so forth) that can run on all sorts of obscure and ancient systems.

Its performance isn't particularly remarkable, either, even with all of the effort that some very large companies have put into it. Its been pretty much relegated to server-side use at this point, and even then we're seeing more and more effort made to move away from it. People are realizing that it's often better to go native, as we're seeing with newer languages like Go and Rust.

The JVM did get a lot of hype, and has seen a lot of use, but it's mediocre at best. There's nothing particularly earth-shattering about it.
They registered the account on HN very recently
With all the libraries available for parsing and scraping I suspect this could be recreated very quickly.
The difference between incompetent and malicious is a sliding scale, not two discrete slots. If a recruiter isn't checking resumes properly before sending them out, he's already maliciously decided that quantity sent out is more important than doing quality work. I'd even say his decision to become a recruiter in the first place is malicious, the recruiting industry's very existence being based on hiding information, poaching workers from unfinished jobs, and legal trickery.
Can the mods change the title to ARM Assembly? Case matters, this has nothing to do with a body part.
> I find it amusing that so-called "risk-averse" startup managers discount a 20-year old language with legendary stability in favour of relatively new languages.

While I mostly agree with your post, the four languages mentioned as opposed to OCaml in the grandparent post (Ruby, Python, Javascript, and Java) are all older than OCaml (which is 18 years old) -- Java, JavaScript, and Ruby are all 19 years old, and Python is 23 -- so they aren't "relatively new languages" compared to OCaml.
Dragon Interactive - yep.
I guess he was talking about http://engineering.strava.com/strava-api-update/ which was a while ago.
Yes. It really shines a lot on the fact that those futuristic movie interfaces didn't just spring out of the computer by virtue of it being the future. And I'm not talking about the CGI folks who create those interfaces for the movie (although of course that's a lot of work, too) – I mean in the fictional movie universe, where did those UIs come from? Are we assuming that in the future, computers will be auto-generating all these sweet transitions and design details? It seems to me that it will always come about just like April Zero – through a LOT of effort, trial, and error.
This is a pretty awesome deal when you consider it for a whole family. I go through a couple books a week reading with my daughter (generally in Kindle format on an iPad). We get what we can from the library, but she really likes series, and if we finish book 4 while book 5 is still a two week wait to check out I'll typically just buy it. Throw in my personal reading and my wife's and we're buying an average of 3-4 books each month.
I'm curious as to whether you got a response to your refusal to "comply." Did he get back to you after that?
WebCamMesh
One advantage that gives you, is that you can easily define a monad on top of that and not worry about monad transformers. Jane Streets async library does that in its Deferred module https://ocaml.janestreet.com/ocaml-core/111.17.00/doc/async/...
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This is on-point for most logo designs, if not all. You can only really see the bad ones in retrospect (the London 2012 Olympics logo comes to mind [1]).

That said, I think the motion-picture used as the background to the call to action is going to be very short-lived on basic UI principles. It's distracting, low-contrast, and pulls people away from the text, button, etc. I'm sure A/B testing will resolve the issue pretty quickly, but it's very trendy right now - Paypal is doing it too. [2]

[1] http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/london-2012-olympic-logo-was-i...
[2] https://www.paypal.com/
Can a wristband prevent sexual assault? UW concept brings sensors to the party
> ...even though Debian are the guys Ubuntu calls up when they need support.

Nonsense. Citation needed, please. Many key Ubuntu developers are also Debian developers, so I'm not sure what calling up Debian guys even means.
There are many statements we would agree to be neither true nor false; here are a couple:

1. The sun will rise tomorrow.
2. This statement is false.

I'd agree with you the validity of a statement is not dependent on the palatability of its consequences.
How do you sign an e-book?
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It's possible for publishers/amazon to build a contract that will protect you in that case while still letting authors drop books from the service.
So you can answer the question. Who is Anand Sharma?
Tinder would be able to counter a little this by showing the % that the other person swiped right. Women (and I guess Men) would be able to filter out those who swipe right 80%+ of the time...

(I've not used it - maybe this already show this?)
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Ask HN: Awesome examples of initial startup blog posts
I'm in the midst of writing our startup's first blog post and want to make sure it's awesome.

What are some examples of awesome initial/introduction startup blog posts?
Yes, it's right there. And?

I addressed your stupid jab at me. As for the other stuff, yes I'm aware how US authorities justify their actions. Insightful stuff.

At any rate, rather than 'not posting' perhaps you could try tapering off a bit. Start with single sentences, then a 'heh' or an 'I agree', and then finally work your way up to just not posting in discussions you claim aren't productive.
Even though it's ag-zoned, be sure you can add animals. Crops, sure, but adding animals to a farm surrounded by suburbia when the animals weren't there already may be against that specific zoning.
The concern wasn't about it being better or cheaper, it was that most restaurants were claiming that the food was home made while it was prepackaged. It's not forbidden to serve prepackaged food.
Just use Thunderbird. Even Outlook and Apple Mail are better.
For what its worth, I think its a funny/cool project that you guys were obviously just messing around with. A lot of these top comments are taking this much to seriously. Cool execution guys!
Assembly used to be all the rage. At Uni I couldn't afford a C compiler (and there were no free versions for my platform, RISC OS) so I ended up writing a whole IRC Client, GUI and scripting language all in ARM assembler.

A few tattered notes of it at: http://xania.org/200711/irbasic but sadly most is lost to time.
Really appreciate the quick response, and good luck on this endeavor.. as someone who's passionate about fitness I can appreciate what you're trying to do.
Yes, where did this guy spring from? This is some great stuff!
They probably wouldn't do this because I'd guess that most men swipe yes at a _very_ high percentage.
I'll confirm his opinion anecdotally. I don't think that there's any science on the subject; despite its importance in adult development, it seems that few people actively study the interactions of teenagers.

When I was going through school, people grouped themselves according to activity. The football players all hung out together; so did the baseball players, D&D players, drama kids, band kids, etc. Kids were affiliated with multiple groups according to interest; a kid could be, for example, a football player, a baseball player, a member of the chess club, and an academic decathlete, and his network of friends reflected that. This was independent of being male or female; girls did the exact same thing with their sports, clubs, and activities.

The difference was how hierarchy was determined. With boys, it was either not really thought about, (who is the leader of an electronics hobby group?) or leadership was determined by a default position (football quarterback, team captains, etc). There was relatively little struggle going on.

In contrast, with girls, there was always infighting because there was no default leader and there was a perceived need for one. With no default leader, girls were constantly jostling each other to get a leg up on the competition. It led to the insane results of, "I'm friends with Sharon, but I fucking hate her" and "Oh, we're best friends now, but if I get the chance to ditch you for another group of better-connected friends, you're gone."

Both mindsets were pretty retarded - the guys' mindset often had bad results because of the fact that a great quarterback might be an idiot,[1] and the hierarchy reflects that because all of the high-ranking people are now his dumbshit friends. But it just seems to me like the girls' mindset could never get good results, whereas the boys' mindset could succeed by accident if the stars aligned and made a nice, smart kid really good at throwing a prolate spheroid.

In both cases, the proper thing to tell kids seems to be Paul Graham's advice of "Look around. The world you guys have created is dumb as hell and fake as a Twinkie. You won't be dealing with this idiocy once you have something real to work on. And if you do, you can do better and find a place where people aren't playing high-school games."

[1]http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/a5/6b/57/a56b57600606...
Yeah, although I guess it depends if you count Caml or not (1987). The intellectual history of the language can easily be traced back to 70s via the various LCF implementations, although the module system evolved significantly since then.

Either way, you're correct that all of these languages bear the proud scars of being tested for decades...
Apart from the reasons already mentioned, there's also the OS dividing line (Mono is still treated like a redheaded stepchild on Unix) and possibly memories of some incessant trolling/spamming a few years ago.

I'm actually more surprised that SML seems to be completely restricted to academia nowadays. Standardized language, several decent compilers available, used in introductory books...
I would also love to pay for this. However I would not want a typical SAAS product. I don't want my data on your servers. Give me something I can install myself really easily. There are products out their which do the SAAS things and ones which I can install locally (if I setup a server, database, configure it all etc.etc.). Give me something really simple and something I can secure myself locally and you have lots of my money. I don't have much, but I will give you lots of it :)
I'm not the author, but if you want to learn how something specific about Bootstrap works, i'd recommend inspecting a page with the browser's dev tools. You can immediately see which styles apply to each element, its paddings and margins, and play with the classes' style values and see how they affect its positioning: http://imgur.com/ZzkF0Jb.png

This approach has helped me a lot in understanding how many of Bootstrap components work, and why they are structured the way they are :)
They should have some system of swipe potency. The more you swipe [per day], the less important each swipe becomes. Like Flattr.
The business is in owning, managing and curating media catalogues, not in distribution anymore. Almost anyone of us here is capable in setting up a torrent server and distributing any number of books to any number of consumers. Same is valid for music and movies.
Fully automated aquaponics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaponics). I've been designing and building aquaponics systems in my kitchen and front yard for the past 3 years. Nothing grows like an well-designed AP system. It's incredible how hands-off and easy they can be once setup. I'd be willing to help design and setup said system.
However, it does show up in Chrome on OS X.

I assume that was a joke, but if you want custom glyphs for programming language digraphs and keywords, you might be able to do it with "sym-lock.el" for emacs. (I haven't used it in a very long time, but I remember it could be used to replace TeX backslash sequences with the corresponding symbol.)
YCList is definitely not up to date. There are at least three companies that I know are dead (because I invested in them) that are not listed as dead. And there are almost certainly a lot more because I only looked at my portfolio.
> Happy medium.

An appropriate term to use in a discussion that's literally about different media for books.
I'm saying that claiming different sexes interact with the world differently and have different strengths and weaknesses does not make you a sexist. I also claim that there is strong evidence to support this assertion and that the vast majority of psychologists and biologists (and virtually every respected one) believe there are innate psychological differences between the sexes not explained through environment alone. The entire field of evolutionary psychology is based on this idea.
Reality is boolean. Any "nuance" is a reflection of poor reasoning ability on the part of the humans involved. We only make a caricature of reality when we project our own uncertainty onto it.

I'm 100% on board with this.

We should strive to overcome the limits of language. Mathematics is, in general, neither ill-formed nor inconsistent, and we should try to imitate it in our arguments in other fields.

Uh, maybe not so much. Trying to apply the logic of sets to geology and geography could result in arguing if a particular rock is in North America or South America or if a particular grain of sand is in the Cambrian or afterwards. These are nonsense arguments.

Furthermore, when you're discussing reality with humans, you're always doing it through the lens of an imprecisely constructed social model of reality that's been passed down and modified by everyone over time. Avoiding this model and its distortions entirely is going to be near impossible. You're going to have to buy an island and declare that everyone speaks in Lojban and engage in social engineering that makes The Great Leap Forward look like a meeting icebreaker.

That said, I love the precision of math and programming languages. But trying to get human society to run on it is going to be epically hard.
>The economics of subscription suggest a shift in incentives away from the years-long creation of 300+ page tomes, and toward serialization or shorter forms.

This has already happened. For smarter writers, Amazon's distribution model killed the Big Novel model and pushed them to a cheap installment-of-the-month model.

Dickens used to publish like this (not through Amazon, obviously) so it's not necessarily a bad model.

But writers are notoriously bad at business, which is why mainstream publishing contracts have gotten away with being so larcenous and exploitative for so long, and why it's been so hard to make a living out of fiction unless you top the best-seller lists.

Amazon changed that. A lot of authors were finding they could support themselves from self-published fiction, full-time - which was never possible with trad-pub contracts, because they give mid-list and lower writers a tiny advance, insultingly small royalties, and take up to two years to get a book into the stores after the writing is done.

Those self-pub writers are going to be looking at this nervously to see how it changes the economics again.

Not that they should be surprised. A lot of people predicted this.
Any library in an area with a significant homeless population.
I regularly have four or five books from my library (one or two tech books, a fiction book and two or three comics) at any one time.

Not to mention the, literally dozens, I get for my kids every month.

I use the library to sample books and because if I bought every book I read, despite my healthy income, I'd be broke. I am an information devourer.

I am pretty sure there are a lot of people like me, at least in the Austin area, because I have to wait on some of the books I'd like to read that I don't think very poor people would be interested in.

YMMV because my library is pretty awesome and well stocked, but I think libraries are a shamefully underutilized resource.
As others have stated, the shortage is in the number of quality developers that are willing to work for under market rate. I had several startups in SF offer me 60-80k, and I laughed my way out of each of those interviews. I get that startups have to stay lean and not overspend, but development talent is one place you absolutely don't want to cut corners.

I think that's the real sticking point - quality developers are going where they'll get paid what they're worth, and in most cases that's not startups on shoestring budgets that could go under at any minute. It helps to keep in mind that quality developers are often older, with families, who want to find somewhere they can be well-compensated for putting in a solid day's work before going home in time for dinner. This doesn't seem to jive with what a lot of startups expect of their employees.

By the way, I don't mean to put all startups under this generalization: this purely based on anecdotal evidence from myself and people I know.
I can't believe it lacks streaming support. The download model is far outdated.
I have these which I enjoy because I'm interested in the subject matter, maybe someone else is too....

Chequered Flag Formula 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/cff1
Skydive Radio: http://www.skydiveradio.com/

Then there are a few which I highly recommend to anyone:

Damn Interesting: http://www.damninteresting.com/
Revolutions: http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/
The British History Podcast: http://thebritishhistorypodcast.com/

If you have any interest in Roman history then you definitely need to check out:

The History of Rome: http://www.thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/