skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some thoughts.

First, I work with various companies, many of which have remote work options. These options range from a couple days/week remote, to 100% remote. What I'm hearing from employees at the companies which have remote work implemented is they don't want to work for a company which doesn't offer remote work at the same level or better as their current employer. And the more time spent working away from the office, the more adamant the employees are about this.

And these employees aren't only technologists either. I'm hearing the same thing from accounting, marketing, etc department employees who get a taste of remote work, and really don't want to go back to butts-in-seats. And their reasons are similar to the tech side--productivity goes up, no commute, fewer meetings and annoying co-workers.

Second, there are very few technical reasons (I won't say none) that a company can't enable remote workers and save a ton on real estate costs. Skype, Google Hangouts, Facetime and even WebRTC (even in it's current state), show that individual/team-based video collaboration is possible over commonly available 20-50 Mb/s connections. VoIP enables an employee's "desk phone" to follow them anywhere (I was doing this with a headset/laptop/VPN in 2001). Chat is heavily used, even in the "business side" (accounting, etc) for traceability.

The main technical problem is still reliable bandwidth. Even though 20-50 Mb/s suffices, 100 Mb/s or even 1 Gb/s active fiber would be better, to achieve corporate LAN-like speeds at home. Around this region, FTTP-enabled homes are selling like hotcakes.

Finally, with the advent of "The Cloud" or just plain old-fashioned datacenter hosting, there's really no difference between working in a cube or working from home. Everything's already remote. In this sense, many corporate employees--with systems and co-workers located in another building/city/country--have a huge head start on this compared to start-up employees.
Dropbox is funded by Y-combinator, the folks who bring you this Hacker News forum. Perhaps there is a conflict of interest here?
I was thinking of a simple website which just shows compiler output assembly side by side for a bunch of compilers and configurations for a given snippet.
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Where do you have a $1,000 big apartment in Chicago? You can get a nice place sure & it's not nearly as expensive, but I'd be surprised if you're finding anything that's not a studio in most of the desirable neighborhoods for under 1k.
This post is missing a key trade-off that you get with an in-memory row store (tl;dr ability to build lock-free), but also since 6/25/2012 several other innovations in MemSQL that have shipped over the past 2+ years.

The main advantage of having a main-memory row store is the ability to leverage random-access data in memory. This unlocks you to use random access aggressively and build lock-free indexes (atomic instructions are available only for data that's in memory). With these tradeoffs you can build extremely concurrent data structures that simply aren't possible with a system that must manage a buffer cache. See http://blog.memsql.com/the-story-behind-memsqls-skiplist-ind... for more details.

The article also suggests that MemSQL is not durable in the event of a power outage. This is simply not the case - we've had durability since the first ever public release of MemSQL, including both asynchronous and synchronous modes.

MemSQL now also has distributed transactions and MPP, supports intra and inter data-center replication, semi-structured (JSON) data, and even has a column store that works as a hybrid between disk and in-memory.

And BTW, I actually agree with this mentality in the context of column stores. There's no real advantage to having an "in-memory" column store because of the append-only nature of columnar blobs of data. That's why ours is a hybrid.
thanks for sharing, that's super interesting. just one question since you mentioned salmon and cheeses: do you get the bacon flavor/smell ??? that's a favorite aroma for a lot of people.
I think he's just giving credit where credit is due. I read it as "I'm making a generalisation about in-memory databases, but VoltDB, which people would associate as an in-memory database, stands out as having other worthwhile innovations."
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It's mentioned in an earlier message in the thread:
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4FE899CE.60901@optionsh...
It was posted 12 hours ago, there's been numerous posts in between the time posted and now that have several hundred "upvotes" on other threads, and given they're newer I'm doubt it'd have much hold over them.

Nothing to see, keep walkin'.
How about reserved instances? Does GCE offer equivalent of it? To us, reserved instances is giving us significant saving, well, some of eaten by the 10% surcharge from the support plan, unfortunately.
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> these comments are not representative of the entire community, or of even a single medium-profile user.

The community doesn't have to be 100% racist or sexist for there to be a problem. These are all from the same threads as the original article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8342366 [7227 karma, 1269 days old]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8342896 [7401 karma, 2780 days old]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8338055 [32302 karma, 2432 days old]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8392928 [5003 karma, 1249 days old]
That doesn't mean a whole lot. Back in the early '00s, ATI and Nvidia were caught optimizing for certain benchmarks that were commonly used to compare video card performance (IIRC one of them was caught with code that specifically cut corners if it detected being run by the benchmark program).

I'm not saying MemSQL is doing anything nefarious, but the fact that the benchmark tests are controlled by someone else doesn't carry a lot of weight.
> Rackspace is the only large hosting provider who provides that across the board.

SoftLayer has provided manged service for years, and was bigger than Rackspace even before they were purchased by IBM.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/05/14/whos-... (Ignore the 2009 - the post has been updated as of 2013)
The current Model S only has one motor.
I gotta think that this is because reddit admins don't seem to present a united front to users or mods and they can't figure out how to fix it.

It seems like there is serious dissension among admins regarding fundamental ethical issues and how to handle things like celeb nude leaks and they think getting everyone in a room together will help.
3 months severance after having your job terminated for basically no controllable reason is "adequate," I'd say. Not super generous. Or even generous, by SV standards.

DHH hit it right on the head: "SV companies are hemmoraging money! Stop spending it! BTW relocate everyone back to the most likely city to contain a bubble!"
This is a classy response. Corporate bios, like any pr, can walk a fine line in what they communicate.
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Epic fail like Encarta, monolithic, proprietary and ugly.
Citation are just a game and are thoroughly gamed.
I'd appreciate if you could have a new blogpost with details about the experiment so the community can verify the claims/reproduce it with other DBMS solutions.

Also, while I understand the statement about "lock-free", it seems to suggest the code will be as fast as main memory access, which it most certainly will not (due to cache coherency protocols kicking in while doing cswap, locked-add, etc.) Your comment doesn't say this, but I am noting it here for others.
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The topic of discussion is in-memory databases. The post made a general statement that in-memory databases are very similar to disk-backed databases. Voltdb is called out as an exception.
>Really what Reddit is offering (assuming their COL is typical) is that the employee takes a pay cut, or they're fired. If that's not a shit sandwich I don't know what is.

Absolutely. If a mid-level engineer is making $85k living in Cleveland, OH and has a family of four owning 2,200 square foot house that he paid $125,000 for, I'd LOVE to see the COL adjustment reddit comes up with for a similar-sized house in SF that is commutable to the reddit HQ. If it's not six figures and starting with a 2, it's not even close.
The frame on display in their showroom seems to have two motors in the back, except one of them acts as a generator (for regenerative braking). Maybe they changed the power routing to let it drive as well? Sounds like too small a change for such a fancy rollout.
Reminds me of Prevayler [1], a database that had similar insane claims ("twenty thousand times faster than a regular database") and which carefully omitted to say that it was an in-memory database.

[1] http://prevayler.org/
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Been working on a similar concept for the past 18 months! Shoot me an email if you want to chat (see profile)
> costs you 5 minutes

Yeah, if it happens once. Context-switching is cumulative. 5 minutes for the first disruption, 10 minutes for the second, 30 for the next, and you just quit working after the fourth.
> in the context of Microsoft job titles, "distinguished engineer" means the person is very highly paid and is at top of their field.

How many people (even in tech) know that "Distinguished Engineer" is a specific, special title at Microsoft?
Back when it was searchco.de? I think I might have used it during that time... don't remember. Just know that it would make me extremely happy if you added it back, since I can't find such functionality anywhere on the Internet anymore.
The erlang/go concurrency model is the most overrated paradigm ever.

Sure, the abstraction isn't leaky... Because there is barely an abstraction at all. Synchronizing state between independent processes is a very real, very unfun problem when all you have is the actor model.

For what it's worth, all of Facebook.com fetches its data with async/await (effectively promises+data) which is a nice sweet spot and a lot better to work with than actors.
I think that's true, but the problem is end-users don't have access to that layer, do they?
The admins are a complete joke on the site and empower sub-cults of reddit to flagrantly break the rules (SRS, anyone?) on a regular basis. I doubt putting them all in the same room will fix anything, except to maybe terminate the bad ones.
I'm a huge iced coffee drinker and I'm not a big Blue Bottle New Orleans iced coffee fan, it doesn't taste much like coffee to me.

Similarly, artisanal "cold brew" at most places nowadays seems oddly bitter to me, without any depth. I been drinking iced americanos instead of cold brew for the last couple months and am happy now.
Measuring the wrong indicators is the primary reason companies don't like remote work. They measure showing up, not results.
In terms of business, this is freemium. People try out the free (GPL) version, and like it, want premium features, want support, want you to add features etc.

There's a subtle competitive benefit of free: by providing something valuable for free that meets people's needs, there's less demand for an open-source free competitor. In a way, this is a nice reward for helping people; but if it's too effective, it can stifle innovation (by avoiding the pressure on you from competitors to improve).

Now of course, GPL has other benefits apart from free-as-in-beer: you have the code. You can audit it; add your own features; fix bugs. And if the developer gets hit by a bus, you can carry on without any escrow nonsense, incompleteness, unmaintainable code. It's also a business benefit to the developer, as they can get bug-fixes and features and improvements from the community. But because it's only part of the code that is GPL, they only get part of this benefit.

However, typically, the biggest benefit of GPL is bug-reports --- but you still get them from free users who don't have the code. (They won't be as good, but usually the hard thing about a bug is that it exists). You typically won't get much code you can actually use especially if you want to retain sole copyright (though it can be useful to have as a first draft; and have some good ideas).
Plus... some people might be reluctant to contribute their effort to someone who's making money (even though they got the code for free).

tl;dr: unsurprisingly, free-as-in-beer is far more significant for a business, than free-as-in-freedom.
There is a HUGE difference between sama and VCs saying "We didn't require it" and the reality which is almost CERTAINLY this: "We strongly preferred it."
Over the last couple years, I've become a fan of in-process databases. Being able to use whatever data structures best fit your data, avoiding the network and serialisation (and subsequent GC) overhead tends to make for clean (and very fast) systems. Obviously it has drawbacks.
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Plus $2.50 a month of overhead.
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Yes, in the conclusion I remark that a Sufficiently Smart Compiler can do all of this. I don't know that either Haskell or C++ compilers will inline your maps, but if so, that's very cool.

And yes, specializing for the Array -> Array case and eliminating bounds checks will be necessary to get real performance.
Have you ever tried routing IPSec traffic through a NAT? It sucks. Oh and NATs are everywhere, every home, every office, so that alone might hamper adoption...

Here's a Cisco article that touches on it:

https://supportforums.cisco.com/document/64281/how-does-nat-...

Wikipedia even talks about the problem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT_traversal#IPsec_traversal_a...

Maybe when IPv6 is common and NAT goes away... But frankly NAT is too useful as a "firewall" surrogate.

Plus what does IPSec really bring that SSL doesn't? It hides port numbers? Meh. For the headache that IPSec setup is, I'll live with the NSA seeing I connected to port 80. Even with IPSec they still know the IPs on both sides. For VPNs give me OpenVPN over L2TP/IPSec any day of the week (plus setting up UDP encapsulation on Windows is a huge PITA).
This seems like a 21st century version of phrenology more than something that "brings mental health diagnosis into the 21st century".

Just replace measuring skulls with measuring "RNA molecules".
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slightly OT but it is crazy that so many companies that almost by definition shouldn't be wasting money still insist on setting up shop in SF.

If the SV culture bubble is to be believed, all these people are working on their startups 100 hours a week anyways, so why not do it in a place where you're not relegated to eating cereal all day to make rent.
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I agree, the site is just not readable on my windows machine.
If one is going to use thin fonts, he should use it on titles ,not in the body of the text. I'm really suprised at people telling you to "buy glasses or change computer screen",this is typography 101,and this website (HN) often boast about taking UI/UX seriously.

Designers,dont do fancy stuffs unless you test them on a wide range of browser or devices.This is a design fail.
They might have ~175M page views per month, but for comparison HN can serve ~50M page-views per month from one server.
Places with giant piles of bad code require maintenance coders to sit with the original authors.

Linux Kernel is 100% remote workers.
http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/2hieim/when_t...

http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/2hyyhu/when_t...

From 5 days ago and last night, respectively. alienth disowns the threads after the downtime is complete so there's no solid record I can refer to (these are just posts I happened to be around for).
The problem is certainly the weight in this case.It's just too thin.
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Search funds, like what the Valley's VC ecosystem has become, are just another disgusting way for rich turds to help their undeserving, underqualified progeny jump the corporate queue and look like they earned it.

If someone says he has a search fund, he's basically saying that he's rich and otherwise nonviable, so his Daddy got his friends to invest in his job search (and buy the company, so he becomes CEO). He's admitting that he wouldn't be able to make it in the world except for his father pulling a bunch of connections.

It exists because intelligence is probably 75% maternal and that fact pwns the shit out of alpha-male businessmen who impregnate trophy wives 30 years their junior who they married based on one criterion that isn't intelligence. They have stupid kids that they need to sell off on the world somehow, and search funds are great way to do it. However, if you look at some of the people getting funded, Valley venture capital seems to have eclipsed that avenue, because the sociopaths running the Valley have figured out that nerds want to put their heads down and will follow pretty much anyone who's raised VC.
"Investors who own SF property?"

I would be hard-pressed to name a venture investor that also finds themselves in the real estate business to such an extent that they want their investments to relocate? Investors do not own SF property for their companies and even the traditional ones on Sand Hill Road are leasing (expensive) office space like the rest of us.

It is possible that the investment and the board had influence on the decision but that could be for reasons independent of real estate ownership.
The full 10+ hour stream is available on Twitch:
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HN pages are much less featureful than reddit's.
Maybe not near the lake, but easily possible in Logan Square/Avondale, Pilsen, Bridgeport.

Currently paying $1,000 for a large 2BR in a Victorian 2 flat. It's not next door to a train station, but my commute to the Loop is less than 45 minutes.
what about a Hybrid? Diesel and Battery! I would love to see the Model X be a hybrid instead of pure EV, or at least an option for those of us who need to pull trailers and boats on occasion with our SUV.
That message is from 2012.
I did not plan on commas because I entered the comment as a list without thinking that the formatting would be lost.
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Then problem is that the increased effectiveness is usually a myth.
"unless they are all unattached youngsters with no families and no other ties to their locations"

That's the key phrase. Many startups are just that.
I, too, would like to know the real reasons for all the pushback against remote work, currently.

In my experience, the best coworkers I've had have been full-time remote or those who craved their days working from home because they were so much more effective and so less stressed by "noise", both literal and figurative, at the office.

Those who "excelled" onsite and especially who further "embraced" open space? Most of them we were endlessly correcting and making up for. No depth. No insight.

There ARE circumstances where I've felt and experienced the synergy of working together, in meatspace. Those were, in turn, meatspace type activities. Not software and systems development.

I like Reddit as a property I use, although at the same time I can't help harboring a bit of resentment at it and Google-ified Dejanews for marginalizing newsgroups.

But if they're going to go all Management on me -- on us -- well, I won't cry if and when things turn on a dime... If they still can, in our increasingly colonized Internet.
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They have random DB admins "running" the community however they feel at that moment and according to how much bad press they are getting.

If it were me, like game companies hiring economists, I would hire an ethicist and an ombudsman.
But the key here is "most people", most people don't know that distinguished engineer is a title at MS and would just assume that he was a well respected engineer at MS. It isn't fair to compare two dictionary definitions of a word, to what is a fairly little known outside the company title structure at MS. There were three descriptors of the word "engineer" senior, database and distinguished. Turns out Mr. Shamgunov's title was Senior Engineer, I didn't read it as his literal title but more like a description of what he did at MS. Database wasn't in his official title either but it still applies. Seems kinda weird that people are so touchy about titles, seems so unSV.
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Reddit is "early stage"?
These days I'd rather see journalists use stock photos of mining hardware. I assume that didn't exist at the time the photo dates back to.
And think of all the browser intelligence they get by doing that server-side - very smart.
They are frequently granted monopolies and students are required to pay for them whether they want to or not, which means that they aren't subject to any market forces and costs spiral out of control. Frequently there isn't even a line-item you can point to on your bill, it's just swallowed up in general tuition.
I've been using the same ~85dpi Samsung SyncMaster monitor since 2007. I see no problem with the font.
Open source projects have better managers than reddit.
I would give out invites first to people telling the world why they're excited to use my product.

...before they've used it. It's deceptive marketing in that sense. I was surprised and annoyed when Ello wanted me to to promote in exchange for early access, after all that aspirational talk in their manifesto.
Honestly, I'd rather deal with nuclear waste than I would what we're currently doing to our environment.
38/9 Mbps shared between multiple customers. Just like how DOCSIS3.0 today has been shown to operate at 1Gbps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS#Speed_tables).
As someone who knows nothing about database implementations but a lot about memory, this makes no sense:

> atomic instructions are available only for data that's in memory

All CPU instructions are available only for data that's in memory (or registers). No (sane) database on Earth operates solely by issuing disk I/O.

That linked blog post doesn't support your claim, either. It makes some points about "indirections" and "buffer caches", neither of which is relevant to the applicability of lock-free techniques or atomic instructions.

(Quick proof of both of the above: all virtual memory systems abstract both (a) disk access (swap) and (b) pointer indirection (TLBs), without restricting atomic operations.)

What is true, is that atomic operations, and memory barriers for that matter, are not effective across coherency domains. So, if you have two processes concurrently accessing a memory-mapped block device on different computers, then yes, you lose atomic operations and lock-free data structures. But, AFAIK, this is not how most databases operate: most run as one or several processes within the same coherency domain (e.g. the same computer). The operating system ensures that multiple processes mapping the same file maintain a coherent view of it (primarily by mapping each disk block to at most one physical memory location).