skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
because shills.
People see value and opportunity in other's demise. Sad but true.
Reality is , there are enough people in this thread itself that would kill for job of remote worker and joining reddit as employee.
You can be too big to jail, unless you dare encrypt your mail? Fuck Eric Holder.
Some people can do it.

But don't take my words for it. I'd like to quote from a blog post of Nic Sheff:

"Going into it, I figured that most of the stories would be like mine. But in interviewing these different addicts —addicts that have worked with some of the top addiction specialists in the country— I was surprised to find that quite a few of them have now, after an extended period of abstinence, been able to go back to drinking or smoking pot casually without spiraling out of control again.

It was a baffling revelation to me.

[...]

Take the example of the crystal meth addict I mentioned above. His drug use really skyrocketed around the time he was diagnosed with HIV.

[...]

There was a direct connection between his environmental circumstances and his using, a concept that I’d never actually experienced. I used for no reason at all. But he had a reason."

http://www.thefix.com/content/alcoholic-versus-problem-drink...

I don't think there is something like having no reason but he probably knows himself the best. You should check him out if you don't already know him, he wrote 2 books about his teenage meth addiction and his struggle for recovery.
Not easily. Not by your average user.
Man, don't try to justify bullshit.
No offence but If you want to join reddit aas employee and have some hidden agenda then state specifically.
BS helps no-one.
Asking people with families or even single people to move is no joke. There are millions of dependent things that start shaking because of jobs. So STFU.
Wow, what a mean-spirited comment. You should seriously think about why you hate a community as bad as you obviously do.
Agreed.

Also, these types of studies always claim to have corrected for differences in confounding variables, but there are always more confounding variables than have been corrected for, and all they end up doing is a statistical comparison of data with a fewer but still significant number confounding variables, and if the sample size is big enough they will find a significant P value and try to imply some sort of causation/significant correlation.
> And why do we give a damn about tracing?

Because you and others have been hostile toward me, claiming this device doesn't catalyze untraceable weapons.

Now you're moving the goalposts, claiming tracing doesn't actually matter.

You might interpret your own hostility as an attempt to extort confirmation in the face of invalidating evidence. You will feel much better when you admit you were wrong and go back and undo your down votes.

> It very seldom solves crimes

1. So, by your own admission, it does solve crimes, at least sometimes. So that's one reason to give a damn about the production of untraceable machine guns there. Mind you, I'm using your own words to prove my point.

2. It prevents crimes from happening. That's a second reason to give a damn about the production of untraceable machine guns.

So, where do you feel like moving the goalposts to next? Or do you want to just concede you acted to rashly and misspoke? It's a small point really and you'll feel much better if you just admit what your own words have demonstrated - this machine catalyzes the production of untraceable machine guns.
> There is nothing stopping Oracle using the same optimization

There is. Skill, bureaucracy, grit, and the right motive.

The meat here is MemSQL's sophisticated indexing with splay trees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splay_tree
Is it? Even accounting for this, you'd still expect the galaxy to be teeming with life, even with pessimistic values for the various other parameters.
> 5th most popular font at the moment

So, Google Web Fonts now is the benchmark for professional screen typography?

None of the sites that I visit on a regular basis use Google Web Fonts. The only one using any webfont for body text is The Guardian, which uses an excellent custom font designed by Christian Schwartz and Paul Barnes.
"That endless string of meetings is where the team can make sure you're building what actually needs get built. "

Are you suggesting that current reddit employees are wasting their time ?
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This reminds me of my visit to Centralia, PA, where the underground fire has been burning since 1962. Took lots of interesting pictures.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania
The biggest expense of building and running telecom infrastructure is labor and Moore's law doesn't help you with that.
The author equates "not seeking professional help" with "growing out of it", which I don't think is right. However, he gets a lot right, and links to studies. My personal two biggest problems with 12 step: insistence on believing in a godlike thing and it's dogmatic unchanging nature which ignores science.
Also true, and that's when you need to optimize your code, which sometimes means doing away with abstractions that are slowing it down, which can mean replacing elegant functional code with fugly imperative code like the OP discusses. But then after you optimize it to meet the business requirements on speed and size, it still needs to be correct.

And of course, while we're talking about business requirements, there is always project speed and budget size to account for. When optimizing for program running time and memory cost, you don't want to blow up the project's running time and dollar cost. Productivity is a huge reason why abstractions need to exist.
You can pass a promise into an $http request as a parameter. If you hold on to this promise and resolve it before the request returns, it cancels the request.

https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/service/$http
The requirement to buy spectrum is what has kept the lid on radio network innovation. With appropriate technology, spectrum would not need to be ransomed by the agency that the incumbents own. We've seen rapid progress at 2.4 and 5 ghz, the unlicensed (i.e. free) nature of which may be the single greatest legacy of the microwave oven. If only the FCC would quit dragging its feet on white spaces and similar radio tech possibilities, and do what it promised to do a decade ago, we'd soon see similar progress at frequencies that accommodate longer ranges. This would create serious competitors to the broadband monopolists.
Using CloudFlare instead of CloudFront would have meant, what, $20/month?
My high school science teacher told us that he was given the prize for the photoelectric effect because that was a well understood mechanism by the time of the awarding. It was generally understood that relativity was going to be a bigger deal (concept wise), but since it was still so hotly debated / not yet thoroughly accepted, the commission wanted to ensure that he was given a prize before death (the award is not given post-humorously for some reason) and given for something that wouldn't be later rejected.
> hardly any email at all (async chat ftw)

While I can see the use for chat (with centralized logging, be that IRC, XMPP or whatever) -- hardly any email sounds odd to me. Anything wrong with internal mailing lists? It's what people have been using for remote working since forever (eg: Linux kernel, Debian project etc etc).

How is asynchronous chat any better than asynchronous email?
I think some do, though often don't remove them by the default.
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> How is asynchronous chat any better than asynchronous email?

People tend to be less verbose in chat. Not using three paragraphs to communicate what only needs two lines saves time for both/all parties.
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I think growing out of it is a big part, though. I knew a number of people who shot up in their late teens/early 20s who quit when they got older. The methheads I knew had a harder time, but a lot of them quit too. Of the people I knew who were hardcore drug abusers, very few died, and most grew out of it, which is what the numbers suggest. The ones who and the worst time of it were the ones who bought into NA/CA dogma, and took on addiction as a personality, rather than seeing it as a phase they grew out of. They also had the highest mortality rate, predictably. Tell someone they have no self control, and they'll binge the worst.

Some people who get hooked by drugs die, but addiction isn't nearly as deadly as it would need to be for the numbers to drop like they do, and statistically spontaneous remission is the most common way for people to kick the habit. Normally people grow out of it.
Agree, nice post.

Two of the major challenges displacing PPT with interactive tools, particularly in consulting, market research type of business, where large 100+ slide decks are common, are going to be the (1) need to produce decks on clients' templates and (2) need to email decks.

The direction in which a few emerging CSS/JS based tools (slides, reveal, etc) are going will not solve that problem. D3/WebGL etc. are awesome, of course, for the web. However it's relatively rare when a busy exec will have time to use non PPT based deck.
In-Memory DBMS vs. In-Memory Marketing
Is it possible that papers that get the awards help give the scientists new ways of looking at problems, while the papers that are frequently cited are more likely to follow established viewpoints and back it with hard data I can use to justify later experiments?

What I mean is, if a paper makes me think "wow, I've never though of this that way before, I wonder if I could try something like that with this...." I probably wouldn't cite it, right? Its not directly related. But I would probably give it an award for best paper because it helped me come up with a new approach to my own problem.

disclaimer: I am not a scientist.
I was hoping the blogpost would give at least a pointer or some insights about the actual experiment. Am I missing some context here?
This doesn't acknowledge or discuss the risk of making the wrong choice - i.e., making a choice in the 80% category instead of the 20% category.
new car and maybe some semi-autonomous functions?
Location: Doesn't matter

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes; ideally to the Seattle area.

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, AngularJS, BackboneJS, NodeJS, jQuery. Heroku, AWS, Git/Github, etc.. Postgres, MongoDB, etc..

I love to build products. I've built a lot of good products for a lot of good companies. I have a history of successful exits. I've won (or come close to winning) quite a few Startup Weekends and hackathons in general. 8+ years of experience, 8-ish with JS, 4-ish with Rails. Leadership and mentorship experience.

I'm looking for a change of pace. I've been working long hours for years. I want to regain some work/life balance. In pursuit of this, I'm willing to compromise on a lot of things.

This is a throwaway because my main account is known by people in my company but my interest in changing jobs isn't. Hit me up and I can provide specifics if any of this sparks anyone's interest. Email address is in profile or respond to this with a way to contact you and I'll reach out.
You might not want to be too strict about it. I know I'll sometimes look at an attachment on the go, but not be able to download it until later when I'm at home.
Yes, I agree this is an important point that author missed out on. There is a wide belief that there is physical addition which will affect anyone who makes a mistake of using too much of a powerfully addictive substance, then separately there is a mental disease of addition, which doesn't require an addictive substance. The main study this is linked to only addresses abstinence of a single drug. Abstinence != recovery is a very widely held belief.
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The thing about ad revenue in the information age is that it's a pittance compared to what newspapers used to pull in. Classified ads were a major revenue source of revenue for newspapers. Craigslist has cannibalized that business. Craiglist has cost the newspaper industry billions of dollars[1] and made millions in return.[2] Here's a 2009 article:[3]

"Many newspaper executives view Craigslist as a nemesis because it doesn't charge for most ads. As Craigslist and scores of other websites have offered free or less expensive alternatives, newspapers' total revenue from the classified advertising in print editions has waned from a peak of nearly $20 billion in 2000 to about $10 billion last year.

Meanwhile, Craigslist has been raking in more revenue from the ad listings that it does charge for in major U.S. markets. Most of the money comes from help-wanted ads — another former cash cow for newspapers that has been drying up.

Craigslist's annual revenue has risen from just $7 million in 2003 to $81 million last year, according to the AIM Group. Based on its count of paid ads appearing on Craigslist in recent months, the company's revenue should be about $100 million this year, the consultants predicted."

Craigslist is that whole "your margin is my opportunity" thing everyone loves to throw around. Craigslist took over the market because they charged less than anyone else, and they could charge less because their margin on classified ads was lower than anybody's. Newspapers couldn't compete with Craigslist on margins because they were using those margins to subsidize the actual news-gathering apparatus, which was a loss leader to get people to buy the paper so they could put ads in it.

1) http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/13/ny-nyu-stern-schoo...
2) http://aimgroup.com/2012/11/07/craigslist-2012-revenues-incr...
3) http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=7804695
Not too many. Almost none directly from the explosions.
or any Tomino fiction, or really any fiction involving space colonization.

if a coup of some sort isn't spilling blood on the colonies, we can rest assured the tremor-like mars aliens will take care of them.
Some are speculating a dual-motor Model S, which would be quite interesting.
Yes, this kind of momentum is certainly a factor.

Another issue is that "best paper" competitions tend to attract younger scientists who don't have the same "star power" to generate citations.

Star power in science is nothing to scoff at either. If Einstein was still about and writing papers you can be sure everyone and their grandmother would cite them, even if the papers were useless. Now, while that is an extreme example, many fields have their own "stars" that are credited with making significant gains in a particular area.
Then again, MemSQL didn't design the benchmark. They beat Oracle at their own benchmark on massively cheaper nodes.
A golden age of nuclear waste? It's not a silver bullet.
I'm currently dealing with SIP messages at work. My manager actually told me not to be so pedantic with the parsing as we got some complaints from other vendors (and privately, I thought: why bother with standards if you aren't going to follow them?) I ended up with logging a warning instead of returning an error. Sigh.
Nuclear power was always pretty safe. See eg http://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_168.shtml
Cool, thanks! I've mostly been looking at the iOS announcement page, which hasn't changed - harder to track down other materials you've used for promotion :/ Not that an old blog post is a great barometer of such things, of course.

Thanks again for looking into it and updating the material - far too many groups just gloss over (glaring) problems with their micro benchmarks, and it just sours all their future claims. Glad you're not one of them :)
This is just untrue. I can say city X is "my city" because I was born there. I can say city Y is "my city" because I grew up there. I can say city Z is "my city" because my family has roots there.

"My city" in no way implies only that you currently live in a city; it implies a connection to, and in this case entitlement to and right to live in, a city. This right does not belong just to the people living there now.

So, the implication that he must "own" a city to call it "my city" and restrict who can come and go is also idiomatically correct.
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Why is anyone letting Holder get away with this kind of nonsense? The Snowden revelations show that the FBI (which does the NSA's USA dirty work for the most part) doesn't follow any plainly-worded rules, and may not follow any rules at all. Also, "pedophiles" and "terrorists" are the new boogey men, since "communists!" lost its inherent scariness. We know that someone made a tidy profit on CIA-led coups in South America in the 1950s (http://www.nber.org/papers/w16952.pdf). Why wouldn't the even less upright members of the Deep State today hesitate to profit from dragnet surveillance now?
Once or twice a year, I go to http://www.charitynavigator.org/ to do my own research and donate to a charity that I think will make good use of the money.

Lump sum method has two advantages:

1) Easier to keep track of for tax filing.

2) Your employer might have a donation match program. Again it is easier to file a form and tell them to make a matching donation.
What's the best use case for these sort of languages? My guess is rule-based expert systems, but I'd love to hear what the crowd suggests as well.
Slip fees in the Bay Area are about $350/mo if you want to live on the boat, and maybe $180/mo if you only want to sail the boat.

Source: A friend who bought a boat and lives on it.

What are the costs like in Chicago, out of curiousity?
Thanks. I listened to that clip of the author's song and then listened to the entire four-minute-long Gaga song (which I'd never heard before). Maybe it's because I'm not a musician/composer, but to me they sound nothing at all alike.

I guess there is some suspicious circumstantial evidence, if the author's story is reasonably accurate, and I haven't heard the entire original recording — but based on that short clip no ordinary person would ever think that Gaga's song had been inspired by, let alone plagiarized, the earlier song.
Generators are up there with the let keyword in the list of "things I wish I had (native) access to already" because there's just so many use cases for them. This is definitely one combination I haven't thought of before though, so thanks for bringing it up!
I'm sorry it didn't work. I wished you had Asked HN, I suspect a lot of us remote workers could have offered valuable input (if you did that, then I'm sorry for missing it).

At the top of the list, I'd say you were measuring the wrong benchmarks. Consistent work schedules shouldn't be a goal with remote workers: attaining specific, measurable objectives should be.

On the other hand, lack of communication is a problem, as long as you weren't wanting updates 3-4 times a day (once a day at most should be entirely sufficient -- wanting more frequent updates points to trust issues). I'm guessing you either hired people with no remote experience, or you hired lazy people (or both!). However, to be fair to your workers, I should also point out that sufficiently poor management and co-workers can frighten off even the best, most motivated remote workers (and I have no way to tell if your claims of not being a good manager are just false modesty).

For anyone reading who's struggling with remote workers, your top hiring consideration -- right alongside their job expertise -- should be demonstrable experience as a successful remote worker. The more the better. Remote work takes a certain kind of person, and even highly talented people who are primarily motivated by external feedback will struggle at remote work.
I would watch out for . . . prior to or during the term of this Agreement . . . the prior language doesn't sound quite right . . .

I typically work with multiple clients not a single client so I include in my contract that I retain the right use portions of the code provide as a deliverable for previous, current and future clients but will not re-use their code in it's entirety. Typically projects have some portions that are standard and re-used over and over . . . occasionally a client will request I agree not to re-use their business logic specific code and that's fair . . .

I would recommend asking them to change the wording to they only own the code/patents of work developed specifically during working hours for their company and projects and that you hold the rights to any code and IP developed on your own time and all work prior to your agreement. Using a more modern standard agreement would probably be a better starting point . . .and having an attorney review it would be recommended before signing anything.

As far as a rate . . . I would google similar job listings . . . without much knowledge of your position I would expect $100 to $200/hr . . . but I would get the IP agreement worked out at the same time as your salary . . .
Rather than thinking about which one is "better", think about which story will accomplish your goals.

The ycombinator folks are probably just looking for stories to help figure out a) who is smart, b) who is creative, c) who gets things done, d) who is excited about things

The second story accomplishes each of the above better than the first.
> So, Google Web Fonts now is the benchmark for professional screen typography?

It's certainly a better benchmark than "none of the sites that I visit on a regular basis"...

And if hard numbers like 64 billion+ views per year don't convince you then I won't bother.
Assuming the correctness of the algorithm is maintained!
That's a corporate culture issue, and to some extent a tools issue as well. If email is a lot of trouble, then by the time you get around to using it, you write a lot. If a two-sentence email takes you more than a couple of seconds to prepare and send (not counting the time needed to actually think of the two sentences), there's something horribly wrong with your workflow.

So, chat can potentially fix that by forcing people to use a different tool to which their preconceptions don't apply, but in the absence of those preconceptions, you can use email as a terse communication medium.
Location: Philly

Remote: Maybe

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Clojure, ClojureScript

Full stack web apps, ReactJS expert, built two enterprise grade frontends in ReactJS (designed and led implementation - 50 to 100 pages of wireframes), two open source React libraries, multiple conference talks and workshops. However I am no longer interested in working in javascript except on a contracting basis.

https://github.com/dustingetz/react-cursor
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