skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone heard of imposter syndrome? It makes it hard to change jobs. Although my managers have only ever had good things to say about my work, and despite being promoted several times, the last time I tried to update my CV to apply for a job I broke down, feeling useless and incapable. I never think my work is good "enough" and often wonder when everyone else will realise I'm actually terrible at my job.

Interviews for someone suffering from imposter syndrome are awful - how are you supposed to come across well if you already feel like you're not good enough for the job?

I stayed at my last company for at least a year more than I wanted to because I didn't think I was good enough to get a job elsewhere. Although I feel like I've recovered somewhat from the worst of my I.S, this question made me realise I haven't just yet - the thought of interviewing elsewhere inspires just as many "Oh but you haven't learned much lately, you've fallen behind the crowd, they won't want you etc.. etc...".
Sounds like it...

Bad job, but oh so happy.
> The cynical explanation for this is that people write negative comments to
> show off how clever they are or how much they know. But I don’t think
> that’s enough to explain how dedicated many commenters are to posting
> negative feedback. Instead, I think people do it because they believe it’s
> the right thing. Our cultural obsession with critical thinking compels us
> to point out errors when we perceive them; errors are injustices that we
> must right.

That explains why we tend to be so critical online, but I would expand upon the theory as to why we tend to do so so often.

Most of the web falls into three categories: Trying to Get Page Views, Trying to Sell You Something, or Trying to Proselytize. Just looking at the front page of HN, many story titles are intentionally vague, if not inflamatory. Read any thread on reddit, and many comments try to filter or twist facts to support an opinion rather than make an insight. Whether you call it mediaspeak, doublespeak, or bulshytt, it is still an offensive tactic for attention at the cost of truth, and our cognitive capacity is a resource worth defending.

> I think this in part explains why the Hacker School community is so much
> more positive than the world at large: People come here firstly to learn
> new things, not to dispute them. This suggests an interesting question:
> Could you build a site like Hacker News with a community focused on
> learning above all else?

If it is possible, the system would need to go beyond current implementations of moderation that boil down to "up/down, flag/don't flag" and address the difference between disagreement and fact-checking (slashdot tried this by differentiating between "insightful, interesting, and informative"). I also suspect it would take a moderation team that vigilantly replaces link-bait summary articles with original sources and carefully considers the validity of paid content or opinion pieces.

Tangential Postscript: I would pay money for a news site like HN or /. that focused exclusively on news, information, and data. Nothing is worse than the almost-daily links we get from someone who thinks they know how to improve a business, technology, or process, but offers no hard data to back up their ideas or observations. Hypothesis is fine in comments, but I expect a bit more from articles.
Why cant they just learn ADA?
There was a "Modern Marvels" episode that took a look at UPS. One of the things they covered was a huge electronics repair facility that UPS operates near their hub.

UPS has contracts with several electronics manufacturers to handle repairs. For example, they handle Toshiba laptop repairs [1].

This happens transparently to the end user. The electronics company has the customer ship the broken item via UPS, addressed to an address that UPS knows is reserved for items that UPS is supposed to repair, and they get diverted from the hub to the repair facility and fixed. The technicians at the facility are UPS employees, but have received training from the companies whose equipment they work on.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/2004/04/27/cx_ah_0427ups.html
HIAWYPIALTAT people might just abbreviate it.
Michael Levin wants to help people regrow lost limbs (2012)
Astrobotic announces service to send keepsakes to the moon
In other countries the police is even obligated to fire a "warning shot" (in the air) before shooting to disable (and only later can shoot to kill).
Quite a few companies take full time remote devs, check the who's hiring threads each month. Off the top of my head Buffer and Heap (full disclosure I work there) accept full time remotes.
I was just giving an example of a male entrepreneur who is also known for his physical beauty, specifically what gp asked for.
I'm guessing they mean a shooting may not show up in the statistics as "shot dead" if someone dies from complications 6 months later, even if the shooting was responsible for the death.
I hope it will support really big integers as in Haskell and better floating point number calculation, although I cannot foresee the power right now. Because it is concurrent, it may be very useful in scientific computing, whether in small or large scale.
How did you make the transition from tech support to coding to managing devs?
> If DB updates are not atomically visible, then no sync'ing strategy will protect you from corruption during a crash.

Who said anything about them not being atomically visible? Not being ACID doesn't mean "none of the above", and atomicity in an embedded database is practically a footnote in a distributed system anyway, because you're looking for atomicity on a much grander scale. You can impose whatever locking strategy you want around the memory to ensure updates are atomically visible. It's an embedded DB so consistency is in the hands of the application logic. Traditional ACID terms for isolation and durability aren't there, but for say a distributed system you'd do that in the network layer.

If you have multiple replicas, if one node dies you don't try to recover its data (oddly, storage corruption and node failure have a high co-occurrence rate ;-), you just wipe and pull from the other nodes. If you can't get a clean, consistent state from a node that hasn't failed, you've got bigger problems than your embedded database. As I pointed out, pulling from other nodes is often faster and more reliable than pulling from disk anyway.

In general, with a high performance network application, it is often preferable address these issues somewhere other than in your embedded database.

So what is the corruption you are envisioning?
Stop. Please. Obesity and diabetes are not the eighth and ninth deadly sins. Nobody wakes up in the morning as you so assert and chooses to gain weight, become insulin resistant, or have their pancreas fail.

Further, your uninformed opinion excludes people like myself who are thin but diabetic (type 2). It also excludes people who have LADA 1.5.

I guess because anyone who has diabetes is morally bankrupt they shouldn't expect any help. Is that right?
We could adopt the English approach to coroner's inquiries, which are non-adversarial and don't have any custodial sanctions, but operate in public and can be input to a murder trial if that's appropriate. I don't want to put everyone on trial for murder, but I do think that every death needs to have an open investigation. This would obviously require some fundamental changes to the US legal system, but I think that it's already experiencing severe stress under the weight of its own contradictions.
German police will often (successfully!) shoot to disable, not to kill, even when confronted by someone armed with a knife.

Do you have a link or cite that German police shoot to disable? Five minutes of Googling didn't turn up anything relevant for me. Thanks.
Amazon also has some exclusives (or temporary exclusives) that you can't get on the play store.
The "middlebrow dismissal", yes. I don't think negative comments are bad, but I think our mental dials are set to 80% negative. In a way, we end up looking for reasons why something won't work, vs. why it could. That attitude tends to shut down discussion and iteration.
Yep. I'm really seeing a near-term future of using a touchpad or kinect-like device for control, but more importantly paired with the smartwatch for vibration feedback / engaging into a gesture mode. There's no hard rule that a watch has to only connect to a smartphone.

And if you look at the Apple's acquisition of Primesense (kinect-sensor folks) and upcoming introduction of 'Taptics' into the Apple Watch, my guess is that these things will work together.

I've been trying to prototype this as an experimental addon to my touch plugin thimbleup.com (and sure, I'd love to eventually make it work with Senic Flow too). Testers have noted making continuous gestures/controls need a bit of 'stickiness' to it -- something that makes the gesture feel that if you use it enough, you don't have to rely solely on your eyes. A smartwatch takes care of that if it can manage the battery-life of being a low-latency bluetooth mode to get feedback data quickly,
Bam.

You are instantly out of a job due to a fuck up on your employer's part. As a result, your coming paycheck for the previous two week's worth of work isn't going to be able to be issued on time and we're not sure your next one after is coming either.

You and EVERYONE in your company are potentially looking for work in an already crowded industry. You will have the reputation of a rat fleeing a sinking ship if you bail as soon as things get rough.

You're living paycheck to paycheck or damn close to it as most industry professionals actually do. Everyone you know is competition for a different job. Everyone else is reeling from how bad it got at Sony and wanting to lock things down and therefore have no inclination to bring anything into their offices associated with the massive clusterfuck that is Sony.

You think you're going to easily find another job? Times tens of thousands of people?

It's not "poof, bad company gone." it's "oh shit, a lot of people are truly fucked right now if it gets any worse than this."

Have a little fucking empathy, asshole.
Likewise, one reason that there are so many negative comments on (for example) HN is that the article probably already said most of the positive things. There's no need to simply repeat what the article already says, unless it's to explain things that might be unclear.

Again, this isn't an endorsement for pointless or mean-spirited criticism.
Odd. It seems unusual for a press release to include criticism from the EFF.

How would the article have to have been written for you to not think it was a press release?
> Google changed the terms of the Developer Distribution Agreement, I don't believe Amazon was violating Google's terms when they initially put it in the play store.

Whether or not they were depends on what the "primary purpose" of the app was, which is very difficult to objectively determine (since there is no reason that the primary purpose has to be the most prominent function.)

Google changed the terms of the agreement in a way which made them much less ambiguous, which made the Amazon app clearly in violation rather than merely arguably in violation.
I was in a similar position, but left early because even though the work was vapid, it made me miserable. I don't make as much, but haven't even been tempted to look back.

Your life really is a little bit brighter when you wake up in the morning and don't dread going to work.
That's the statistic for federal grand juries.[1] And it has mostly to do with the fact that federal prosecutors only bring slam dunk cases. At the federal level, there is often a lot of consternation about whether what is being prosecuted should be a crime, but it's very rare that a prosecution is brought on shaky evidence.

At the state level it's much higher 3-4%. You can say it's a rubber stamp, but in practice the average is raised by the fact that most criminal cases are slam dunk (that kilo of cocaine found in the accused's car is almost certainly his). And the bar for an indictment is relatively low, just probable cause. It'd be pretty uncomfortable if prosecuto so we're bringing lots of cases where they don't even have enough evidence to convince 3/4 of a grand jury there is probable cause.

[1] The distinction is relevant because federal and state prosecutors handle totally different sorts of crimes.
It's obvious that the people on the grand juries are not qualified to asses anything and it's an archaic system not employed by any other country

This is an odd statement. It's well known that prosecutors have much greater latitude in what they can present as evidence AND the hurdle for proceeding with criminal charges is much lower.

The other option is to leave decisions to charge somebody up to the prosecutors themselves. You think that will produce a better outcome? I would imagine you'd see a lot more politically motivated prosecutions.
No, the police do not report any shooting statistics. The numbers we have are based on press reports, but police are not required to report to any central authority (DOJ or FBI) about how or when their officers shoot someone.
Why exactly is selling single cigarettes illegal?
> In my 20 years of education there was very little emphasis on challenging ideas or proving them wrong. I'm almost tempted to say that there was absolutely none.

In your 20 years of education you were never asked to write an essay? Or invited to partake in a class debate about this or that thing in a piece of literature?
Media metadata is one use case:

http://www.mongodb.com/presentations/storing-ebays-media-met...

Here's another deck from 2012: http://www.slideshare.net/mongodb/mongodb-at-ebay
I guess it's this Secret rumour: http://instagram.com/p/wemphKnAsB/

Some discussion (in Russian): https://twitter.com/alexmak/status/543129844909748224
And that's only for cases that even made it to a grand jury. I haven't seen any stats about "officer-involved shootings" that never even got that far.
As far as I know, he was guilty of doing that in the past. He was killed in the process of being arrested for suspicion of doing it again.
1. Firing a shot in the air is reckless -- the bullet/round comes down with the same speed and momentum as when it was first fired, and it's gotta land somewhere -- and I'd be surprised if that was the standard operating procedure of any law enforcement agency in the world (however my surprise doesn't mean it isn't true). Perhaps you meant they fire a warning shot in the ground, but there is a big difference and that you missed the distinction suggests to me you may not have accurate information about what law enforcement agencies are or are not required to do.

2. As for the GP, you should neither shoot to kill nor shoot to maim. You should shot to stop the threat. Whether they live or die is not as important as stopping a lethal threat (and if there is no lethal threat, you should not be shooting). And if your intent is to stop the threat rather than kill or injure, the best chance of stopping the threat is to shoot center of mass until the target goes down. (Which will, in most cases, kill the target, incidentally)
Legal constraints of selling tobacco require a licensed vendor to sell them in licensed packages/quantities. Eric Garner wasn't licensed, and single cigarettes aren't allowed to be sold in the US.

Fairly petty crimes, but crimes.
Extracting what location a news article is about is fascinating work. Unlike geocoding you don't get a fixed query.

The only commercial solution I'm aware of is Yahoo!s PlaceSpotter (middle of the page https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/geo/). Yahoo uses it to better target ads against content, e.g. news articles. I'm sure Google has something similar in-house.
Hi, I like the site and idea. I was wondering if you were thinking of taking it one step further, however, and making it an actual pre-print server?

I would think that if you expect people to take the "credit for reviewing" model seriously, then likewise they should take seriously the notion of "credit for being reviewed" or "credit for being upvoted".

Also, there would have to be a way to verify submitters/reviewers credentials (e.g. connection to a research institution). Obvious arXiv has a model for how this could be done.
By and large, Google (and the Google Play Store) play nice with other content distributors. Amazon don't.

I installed instant Video a week ago, and I was astonished at the lengths it went to to enable the Amazon App store. I can see why Amazon may do this, but from my perspective, it was just too dangerous. Instant Video and the Amazon App were uninstalled 10 hours later.

I've a 30 day eval of Amazon Prime. If I could legitimately install an app that had chromecast abilities, I would probably have stayed with Prime. As it is, I'm back to Netflix and the Google Play store.
Taxes on packs of cigarettes are very high in New York. So people smuggle in packs or cartons from neighboring states and sell them under the table.
Why APIs are big business for brands
Doesn't sound deadend to me. Congrats on a good learning situation.
Maybe have the attorney general be able to put any police force into special measures if they are failing or become over mighty I am sure that Theresa May can provide some guidance
I'm at the highest level of the technical track within the division of the company that I work for. Moving up probably means moving to a different town or spending a lot of time in China, based on who is getting hired or promoted into those positions.

I don't want to move.

The town that I live in is a nearly ideal place to raise kids. Good public schools, educated and tolerant populace, nearby university, things like high caliber music programs, and stuff is close enough together that they don't have to spend 1/2 of their life in a minivan.

It's a pedestrian- and bike-friendly town. My spouse and I both bike to work. The kids walk, bike, or take public bus to school. I think this is better for their bodies and all of our brains.
I've known salespeople could do well, but I was surprised just how much many reportedly earn:

https://www.wealthfront.com/tools/startup-salary-equity-comp...

If you have the requisite talent and drive to do this, seems like a nice move.
Well, I don't think anyone ever said smartphone cameras were better than point and shoot from any UX aspect, but that hasn't stopped them from winning.
Until this story I didn't realize how expensive cigarettes are now in New York. They're $13-14 for a pack of 20. So people sell them as singles for $1 each. Likely brought in from lower-taxed areas so the profit margin is higher.

I've heard cigs sell for $5 a pack in South Carolina, which doesn't add on taxes at all, so you can see how much the taxes add up.

EDIT- changed price in SC based on googling.
Actually no certainly in the uk if a copper has to fire they are trained fire to kill - of course in serious anti terrorist situations they call in the SAS.
good observation. agree I've seen that correlation. as a prefix for snark.
If law enforcement has sufficient cause to arrest someone, then getting a search warrant after the arrest should be easy.

If it wasn't easy to obtain such warrants then either that aspect of judiciary or policy needed changing, or else it wasn't easy for a good reason!

This decision does not address (or change) whether one can be compelled to reveal a password-locked phone in Canada. At least one Canadian Civil Liberties Association suggests this decision this raises more questions than it answers. https://twitter.com/bccla/status/543124869240471552
> 300m guns in circulation...

what wonder that people get shot.

[Edit: what wonder I get downvoted, kind of expected this]
I've been trying (and failing) to go through Peter Norton's Assembly book to start learning x86 assembler. The plan was to then do some DOS VGA programming and work my way through Turbo Pascal and C. I'd love to take a course that's historically focused as you described.

Sidenote: If anyone knows someone at Penguin, can you help me get permission to put Peter Norton's book on GitHub and update it?
So refined carbs are bad due to high glycemic index, too much fat is bad due to seratonin release, is a generally optimal diet then just lean meat and vegetables? We are running out of things to eat...
> ...the bullet/round comes down with the same speed and momentum as when it was first fired...

This would only be true if air resistance wasn't a thing. Physics is against you on this one.
Alternate proposed requirements:

* an inflated sense of your own value

* competent enough to make other people believe it

Or, as hga proposed:

* be a useful mark to take the fall when it comes
I dont know for sure but i think they typically come from contraband cigarettes (where taxes have not been paid and, as others point out, without required license). It'd be like selling whiskey shots on a street corner.
Any death in custody in the uk gets investigated even more so in the rare case when deadly force is used.
Mixing a progression though programming language/machine/tooling history and nand2tetris, and perhaps a companion tetris2nand [1], would make for an amazing foundation for future programmers. You would just have to make sure the high school students still pass the AP exams, to justify the multiple courses.

[1] Tetris2nand does not exist. The idea would be to build the "ideal programming language" and then work your way down to the hardware, exploring things like GCs, parallelism, and more along the way.
How can one start to criticise such an article without proving it right? :)

>So next time you read something, try this: Instead of looking for the parts you can prove are false, try to find pieces you can learn from.

Who says the two are mutually exclusive? If you seek the truth of something, then as a reader you should do both, and as the writer you should welcome constructive criticism. If I were to write something that had inconsistencies, false assumptions, or driven by an agenda other than seeking the truth, no one would be doing me any favours by not pointing it out.

I suggest that the problem is not criticism, but what drives it, and that there are two different motives for criticism (although both can exist simultaneously in an individual): One is the pure search for truth. What drives this is a strong sense of wonder and curiosity at everything. The other is ego, whose trademark is that it usually ruins everything it touches and turns everything into a fight/competition instead of learning and cooperation.

The blend of ego vs. integrity behind criticism is usually evident in the ratios of information vs. demagoguery that are used.

I'd therefore change the suggestion to "next time you read something, check whether it's you ego or your curiosity speaking before you reply, and if it's more of the former, double check that you really have something to contribute before hitting 'send'".

And of course, I welcome any criticism regarding the above opinion :)
I regularly struggle with an optical mouse on my couch or knee, when I need to poke netflix. It's manageable, but it's also annoying.
I feel like if this is really their thought, the go 1.4 release with support for Android seems more useful.
How is it different from k/q (http://code.kx.com/wiki/Reference) ?
From journalism your in a great position to move to social media & PR, if interested in the marketing world. These areas have quite good growth currently. And once in the marketing world a lot of doors can open in other areas.
This is simply not true (At least not generally). Just recently the German Police shot a Drug Dealer while he was running away from undercover police officers. Shot was in the back of the head and as far as I remember they even said it was justified, since by German law it is allowed to use deadly force against a fleeing criminal... Sounds familiar? (Case in Burghausen)