skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For information regarding hourly rate in Germany, Switzerland (German speaking part) and Austria, you can search for "Stundensatz Softwareentwickler" on Google. A good site for this kind of information is gulp.de:

https://www.gulp.de/cgi-gulp/trendneu.exe/MONEYFORMDLL?txtPo...

https://www.gulp.de/knowledge-base/stundensaetze/und-er-stei...

Remember though, the cost of living (and taxes) is also much higher in these "rich" countries and more than often you'll need to learn the lingo. There are some exceptions to this. Munich, Luxembourg and Zurich for example have large multinationals where the lingua-franca inside the company is English. Berlin has loads of startups where lots of foreigners work. I know a few Brits and Ozzies working in Berlin who still can't speak any German after years of living there (I don't think that is a good thing btw).

I have no idea about Scandinavia, but nearly all people have some basic level of English and the younger generations are often fluent.

Where are you moving from, out of interest?
Nice words, growing it 5x is great.

Resigning over office plans sounds like a last straw sort of thing. In the grand scheme of things office locations aren't that big a deal.

But then again, Reddit has had some weird dis-coordinated public communications, maybe more cohesion really was necessary?
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Well, I think what happens in an actual court case is, you check out the chain of custody if you suspect that anything is actually fishy, or if you can make the prosecution's case look weak. If there's nothing there that you can use in your defense, then it never comes up in court.
Coming home (Alexis Ohanian returns to Reddit)
Not true. My sister won a LARGE (over half a million dollars) sexual harassment lawsuit against her employer. In fact, it wasn't an ongoing thing but one incident and the way HR handled this incident. After she left the company, she went back to school and got a job afterwards at a large hospital. She hasn't ever had problems finding employment even though her name is easily Googeable and shows that she won a large settlement against her previous employer.
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Given that kubernetes (the project behind GCE) was open sourced in early June, I hardly think a tweet from a week and a half ago shows it's not a response to Google.
Is it me or AWS is releasing too many services... there is a service for everything. I wounder if they are just throwing stuff out there see what sticks... kinda like landing pages.
Also, the Heritage Foundation is not exactly an unbiased source on this issue.

Here's another take on U.S. taxation: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/tax-reform/news/2011...
Will this affect Reddits offer to sell 10% of their last round to the community?

Presumably Yishan was heavily involved in the logistics of that.
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The main point of the efficient market hypothesis is that the average investor won't consistently beat the market average.

Also note that most of the people beating the efficient market hypothesis aren't doing the kinds of transactions they are being compared to.

Can you really compare moves like bailing out Coca Cola to buying and selling stocks based on market estimates you derive?
I'm not sure what Nathan Marz's "Lambda Architecture" has anything to do with AWS Lambda, though
Here's the announcement on the reddit official blog: http://www.redditblog.com/2014/11/coming-home.html
I guess it is due to the sanboxing issue, which is pretty hard to get right.
Thanks for dropping code ahead of the talk, looking forward to the presentation tomorrow.
I'd really like to see a more a-la-carte option. For example: I have an app that might in the future require a lot of network, a decent but not terribly huge amount of CPU, but very little memory or storage. I'd like to be able to provision an instance with, say, 512MB RAM, 2GB disk, 10 gigabit Ethernet, and CPU optimized for single-threaded performance with only 2-4 cores. Amazon and most other large cloud providers seem to assume that demand for everything increases together, which doesn't apply to every work load.
Why did he write: "It’s interesting to note that during my very brief tenure, reddit added more users than Hacker News has in total."

Was that a dig at Hacker News?
Also check out Twilio (http://www.twilio.com).
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It's something from Marvell, but I've never seen a part number.

http://www.marvell.com/company/news/pressDetail.do?releaseID...
So do reddit employees still have to move to San Francisco in a month?
Heh. I love the conceit that anyone would believe Wong resigned only over "location and amount of money to spend on a lease".

Previously from @sama: "Yishan Wong has a big vision for what reddit can be. I’m excited to watch it play out. " (http://blog.samaltman.com/reddit)
Buffett addressed this criticism in 1984, when he presented the public records of all of the students of Graham and Dodd it was possible to track: <http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/null?&exclusive=filemgr.downloa...

The relevant bit:

"So these are nine records of “coin-flippers” from Graham-and-Doddsville. I haven’t selected them with hindsight from among thousands. It’s not like I am reciting to you the names of a bunch of lottery winners — people I had never heard of before they won the lottery. I selected these men years ago based upon their framework for investment decision-making. I knew what they had been taught and additionally I had some personal knowledge of their intellect, character, and temperament. ... While they differ greatly in style... all exploit the difference between the market price of a business and its intrinsic value."
I think BI and the author were implying (or outright stating) that he refused to be involved in the issue and said "I'm 'sick', and won't be in. I need closure on X, Y, and Z issues", so it was fairly evident to all involved what was meant.
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It may be a mistake to assume evolution 'designed' anything at all. Its a drunkard's walk over the solution space. As soon as a relative optimum point is reached, evolution tends to stick there and not search for further, more-optimum solutions.

Witness the 'thumb' of a panda, which is uses to strip leaves from the eucalyptus branch. It has a thumb (toe on its paw) but no, evolution chose to extend a wrist bone in a kind of protuberance; the panda pulls the branch between that and its arm to strip leaves. Not ideal; kinda weird really. But evolution doesn't give a flip.
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The most natural ways to keep your skin looking young are lifestyle habits such as eating a healthy natural diet, using sunscreen, managing stress, exercising regularly, cleansing your face and drinking plenty of water. When it comes to makeup, using light shadows like pink just below the eyebrows and under the eyes can brighten the eyes. For instant eyelid lifts, apply a darker tone along the crease giving the illusion of depth.

http://myrontanenbaummd.com/blog/5-natural-eyelid-lifts/
Show HN: Forewards – Grow your Shopify Store with customer referrals
No, I think it was just to emphasize how much Reddit is growing.

HN is targeted at a specific audience and is more like a subreddit for a particular topic. It wouldn't make sense to compare them directly.
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To be fair, unlike google they are not cancelling any services. I think Amazon first builds these services for internal use, and then releases them to the public.
You've clearly not had to make a sandwich with bread that isn't sliced. Sliced bread is amazing.
Nice landing page, I really can't wait to test the app !
Great! I have never thought about using optional parameters in lambdas.
A useful new technique for golfing.

I would use all() instead of the "== None" trick and __import__().

http://hastebin.com/nemiyukenu.python
Conde Nast is not a majority shareholder in the site, so this point is moot. It was simply a professional disagreement on where in the bay area the office would be located.
The reason the Disk IO is so slow is due to encryption being the default in Lollipop!

https://plus.google.com/+JeremyCamp1337/posts/iDyPjEuEf51
Please do not editorialize titles.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You can make that assumption for symbols. And that is in fact what the code was doing -- both before and after optimization. The optimization was about something else, weirder, that was still making string comparison (where you can't just check the pointer) faster even though it ought to be slower. Did you read the article?
For all those mentionin the Disk IO being slow, it's due to encryption being the default now!
https://plus.google.com/+JeremyCamp1337/posts/iDyPjEuEf51
But while the company still earns the majority of its revenue from advertising, during his tenure Page has helped to diversify the business. Notably, YouTube is expected to generate nearly $6 billion in revenue this year

Maybe I am being pedantic but aren't revenues from Youtube also based on advertising?

To the broader point though, why aren't more investors also putting money toward these "moonshots?" Is it because they don't have the liquidity to do it? Do they cost too much for the risk? If that were true then the Google's investments would be widely panned rather than held up as "making the right bets" as this article mentions.

It seems like these "singularity" technologies are the types of things that valley investors would be all over.
No, why would he do that?
I think "growing it 5x" is referring to headcount, not traffic. That's certainly been my impression given the site is still just as unreliable and poorly administrated.

Seems like someone is trying to revive "reddit the startup", with the VC cash infusion, dickhead move to the bay and Sam Altman asking Alexis to "finish the job" (what ridiculously embarrassing wording).
Did a little bit of a back of the envelop calculation on the subject, so this maybe completely bogus, be aware.

It would seem like the temperature that the pilot experienced upon ejection at Mach 1 at 15000m (when they broke apart) would be about -13C, which is reasonably survivable[1]. The pressure experienced is probably around 22kPa absolute, which in theory will generate anywhere between 6 - 20g[2]. Not pleasant, but survivable.

Given these, it takes a lot of luck to survive those conditions (1/5th atmosphere, extreme acceleration, low temperature when he falls), but it might be more survivable than we think (this is much better than exploding and ejecting at lower altitudes)

[1]: Calculation via the stagnation temperature at that speed for the standard condition at that altitude (Temperature ~= 217K, P ~= 12kPa)

[2]: Stagnation pressure on him in the front of the body (23kPa), ambient at the back. Average male body surface area is about 2m^2, depending on the geometry you might be able to get down to a quarter of that. Throw in the mass of the pilot (70kg? 90kg?), you should get accelerations in those ranges.

Edit: some more interpretations
Here's an HN thread and blog post about this topic, from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3613095

http://blog.domai.nr/post/17910329952/buy-a-domain-that-some...

(full disclosure: I help run Domainr)

You could also get a brokerage like https://domainagents.com/ to help you with the process.
we are asked to move to the Bay Area still, but timing is flexible per employee. That's been the case since before Yishan stepped down.
It would be nice if a lambda could respond to web requests. Maybe an Elastic Loud Balancer could be an "event-source".
Bloomberg flubbed that bit. The NASA subject felt the boiling, not the pilot. The next section's heading was a paragraph early and confused me, too.
This feels like an awful lot of qualifiers ("effective monopoly" "most consumers") to throw around when we're talking about a word that has a very specific definition.

Don't get me wrong, I have no love for either of these parties, they were fighting a battle over who got the right to screw the consumer. However, Amazon is far from a monopoly, even in the book/e-book market.
This came out of the blue and unannounced on reddit.com. I have a feeling there's more to this than announced.

I will remind you a few weeks back Yishan shit all over an ex-employee on /r/ama.
5x growth is great, but Reddit definitely has a "if it isn't broke don't fix it" mentality (probably a fear of "digging"). I struggle to attribute that growth to one CEO's decisions, when it really seems more like inevitable growth due to the success of the product and community that was defined long before he took the helm. Arguably, by Alexis (community) & Steve (product).
I think the answer to that question will probably explain a lot about these events.
No it doesn't, this is ridiculous. "On the one hand it's free cash; on the other hand we could end up liking the guy giving it to us."
Doesn't ObjC do similar method dispatch? If so, is it considered a slow language also?
I can believe it. Yishan always seemed very dramatic and reactionary. I could see him resigning in anger after not getting his way.
I think it was a humorous factoid rather than a dig; I don't think Sam Altman is attacking HN, nor do I think he thinks, or expects anyone reading his post to think, that HN / reddit scale comparisons are meaningful given their very different intended audiences.
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No, it was just an interesting observation to put some context around just how massive reddit really is.
Thanks for the links. I am currently in New York. I was in SF for 4 years then moved out here. I work for a big tech firm. I am tired the US and quite possibly my firm too. So I want to try something new.
Understandably there's very little details here, but I'm curious to know if Alexis is moving to SF, he's played a big role in the NYC tech start-up world recently.
bzr is a DVCS.

But anyway: bzr has simply become a barrier. Not only to attract new developers but also some long term contributors have ceased contributions because they considered bzr to be too much of a hassle. But it's not only that git has simply become the vcs everybody knows. Bazaar development has stopped and it's in "maintenance mode", which sadly means that some bugs aren't getting fixed. Switching to git therefore made sense from several perspectives.
The app looks nice! Here's anecdotal feedback for my download and account creation experience. I haven't tried reading a book yet and using the annotation feature.

One thing immediately apparent when creating the account is the lack of "search" functionality when asked to select books I already like. Maybe I didn't find it? I tried the "Apple idiom" of pull down to search. The book selection was iffy so I skipped it -- it looks like 10 'recently published' titles instead of stood-the-test-of-time type novels (eg: no Dune, Ender's Game, Neuromancer, Foundation Series for Sci-Fi). Also the "skip" in the top right corner on that page is so super light grey on a white background that I almost didn't see it -- if I am using this app to read the last thing I want to encounter is anything remotely tough to read on my eyes. Especially when goading me into signing up.

Also, when clicking "create account" there wasn't any feedback it was happening (spinners, greying out of the button, etc). My phone is an older generation (4S) with a lifeproof screen protector so it will occasionally hiccup and not register my touches. I kept thumbing thinking it was hiccupping, not realizing it would later create many "Error: Username already taken" dialogs I had to thumb through.

A question I do have is how spoilers are dealt with in annotations. I haven't tried reading a book and using that particular feature yet, but it would be a concern of mine.

I look forward to playing around with it more!
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I read once -- but cannot remember where -- that a market cannot be perfectly efficient if P!=NP. I'm curious if anyone else has ever heard this and where it comes from.
What about dependencies. What if you need a specific environment setup first in order to process. Would you end up paying 1 minute for each request just so that it can start installing bunch of stuff? Is it possible to just setup a VM of some sort and use that environment each time?

If thats possible Lambda would be like PiCloud but without Python, and will stick around (hopefully).
We support exactly this[1].

http://wym.io/

Incidentally I almost had a heart attack when I saw the Lambda announcement. :P

[1]: We also provide the ability to respond to other kinds of events as does Lambda.
Does this mean that Reddit will start evolving again? It's been stagnating for years with few user-facing changes. The UI is a complete mess. From the outside at least, it looks like they've stopped investing in it and are just milking it until it dies.
It's unfortunately, but also expected. Self interest and all that.

CAs' only true marketable asset is trust.

Personally, iff the CA system is something we're going to stick with, there should be substantial legal penalties for failure-to-disclose timely updates on breaches by CAs. Imagine, something that a multi-national trade agreement could actually do that would be beneficial to everyone!
Wong didn't want to move the company to SF. The board did. That's no small thing to disagree on.
Relevant context: https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2iea97/i_am_a_former_r...

From the NYT: "That incident, according to people close to the company, made some of Reddit’s current employees uncomfortable."
I doubt that was the only barrier.
There are two identical rows.

The game should show the identical rows/columns instead of just highlighting every incorrect square... it can take a while to find out what's actually wrong with a solution.
Standard or not, making the sockets equal just add to the confusion. You best plug it into the right socket or your system won't even work.

Using a different socket is best in all cases.
In high school chemistry class, we watched as water under a vacuum boiled and then turned to ice.
I just heard on NPR that Amazon only has 40% of the ebook market. That's a far cry from any monopoly position.
The disagreement was on where the HQ will be located.
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Not 'solely'. I think it's fairly unambiguous even from Kivin's superiors that they knew that the effect of the promotion was unexpected and unintended, and that there were "numerous concerns" from (as far as I could see) Amazon Marketing, Accounting, and Business Development about "what the hell happened, how did this go live with no or near no oversight from these business units - we need to tell the customer /what went wrong/" - their emphasis.
"The optimization was about something else, weirder, that was still making string comparison (where you can't just check the pointer) faster even though it ought to be slower. Did you read the article?"

I'm the author of the article.

The optimization here is that the check for plain-old symbol equality is happening without the need for a full ruby method dispatch. You can't make that assumption in the general case, because it's possible to override equality in Ruby, which then requires more work.

If you look at the full source code for the method in question, you'll see that it does special checks for Fixnums and Floats and Strings, then a check for the default object equality (i.e. does the comparison use rb_obj_equal?), then, finally, it falls back to a full method call.
Just did some rough calculations on a different thread about the conditions he would have experienced here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8603968

But yeah, he's gotta be the luckiest person alive right now, being the only one surviving a space launch related accident while airborne.
Reddit Chief Executive Resigns as Company Shuffles Top Ranks
I remember that Tony Hsieh had a similar experience with Linkexchange.
Odd, onewaystreet claims Yishan didn't want the company moved to SF: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8603996
I originally had this set up actually, but I ended up disabling it. I use Azure Storage to store the files, but I couldn't figure out a way to use a custom domain (like m.anymi.me/media/blah) while keeping SSL enabled. If I want to use SSL, I need to use their domain which I would prefer not to for branding reasons.

Despite this, I do plan on revisiting this in the future.
I have tried to port my IMAP email accounts into the new GMail. As far as I can tell, there's still no support for IDLE and the phone constantly suggests a "sync time" for my accounts. I guess my phone checking for mail every 1/5/15/30 minutes shouldn't bother me with the new job scheduling upgrades etc. but it does feel half baked.

I'm happy to go back to the K-9 Mail derived apps which I've always used...but I was hoping that the new GMail design would be easy on the eyes (since I spend much of my phone time reading e-mail). Then again, now that I think of it there's no real "archive" support for non-GMail accounts in the GMail app either, so maybe it's more of a hack.
Actually, he wrote it!
Wow, didn't expect this. The original founding team of Reddit were awesome.

1) Personally responded to feedback emails.

2) Actually cared about sensible moderation, instead of the terrible moderation practices that have taken over in recent years. Examples of reddit's recent problems: certain subreddit moderators perpetrating massive multi-million dollar scams by banning people who warned about scamming businesses. Moderators spamlisting competing photo sharing websites so that their own sites can get more traffic. All kinds of shady non-transparent moderator actions. I doubt these would have happened under the original founders' watch!

3) Generally seemed like nice guys. Too rare.

Hoping for great things!
No, it's traffic. 35MM to 175MM.
Is there a point-by-point (and detailed) comparison somewhere between FreeBSD jail and LXC (or libcontainer) ... it would be very helpful to see that comparison.
I rarely buy sliced bread. But then again I usually buy real bread and not that "toast"-thing, which seems to be mislabelled as "bread" in the anglosphere.
Fair enough! I was thinking that theres not much of a comparison to draw as the hacker news crowd are quite different to the reddit crowd. I'd come here for an informed discussion and expertise... and assume I'd get mildly humorous trolling, lolcats and memes on reddit!
This had little to do with Yishan, and more to do with having a user base that abhors changes.
We will see. I hope I am wrong but how many of these are production ready? It seems to be that most of them are in preview/beta.
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I could absolutely believe that, and if it's the case that's what should have been said, not some technically-correct-but-obviously-downplayed pablum that insults the intelligence of every reader.
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For me it's all about the team. If I love the people I work with, then it really doesn't matter what I'm working on. And conversely, an 'exciting' job can turn sour quite quickly with the wrong team.

So my advice is: if you're going to be working with folks you'd otherwise never want to hang out with, maybe pass on it. But if the idea of getting to be in the same room with these people all day is super exciting, then go for it!