skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks for the note, just haven't gotten around to it yet, busy with mac app store stuff and updates, but will do. Do checkout the app on the app store though :)
They can source the items from where ever they want, I don't really care that much. But when they advertise that their Flash-based PCI-Express based SSDs are 1.6x faster than the comparable SATA-models they are demonstrably lying. I don't like that.

This was a laptop in the $4k range, which puts it in the really-fucking-expensive line. I expected more, at the very least that they'd be more than willing to change it. But it powers on, so no problems according to Apple.
Thanks! Weird on the App Store link. Any chance you don't mind sharing more details on what platform and browser you are using?
Your comment is on the mark. But in that particular question they were asked something like, show a singly linked insertion on a white board using some box-and-arrow notation. They were not asked to write it in C or whatever. They couldn't visually whiteboard the concept at all.

(The job area was embedded development, involving C and C++, so asking for C code related to linked lists would have been fair game!)
Sorry if its a little OT, but I actually have this question: Is it normal for grad students to get reimbursed by their institution for conference travel?
Many of the concepts that the Lisp ecosystem pioneered/popularized are, over time, migrating into the mainstream. When you stay in the industry long enough, you will indeed see that this is not unique to Lisp: everything old eventually becomes new again. This happens as what used to be constraints in the past morph into different concerns in the present.
The Guardian article is a worthy read because it expands on what actually happened. I went straight to the '93 source.

What is interesting is the text isn't tainted by references to future technology. It's sort of an anthropological view of the state of music around the time of 'Nevermind' (DGC/Geffin Sep, '91).

The record company, DGC Records (Geffin) wielded enormous power. Read through the artists on these labels: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DGC_Records> and <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DGC_Records>. [0]

Contrast the state of affairs of the early 90's Steve describes to now.

[0] Power enough to sue Neil Young in '85 for not producing albums were "unrepresentative" ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young#Experimental_years_...
Yes; you need something that permanently recedes. Hairline? :)
The fanatical bias at play here is really astounding, and is especially interesting and sad when its coupled with ongoing accusations of similar directed towards everyone else.

But I think we both know he isn't being paid. So what is the motive?

This is a testament to the amazing cultural/social (not technical) feat that this company has accomplished this past decade.
> They left other peoples' ID in the car as a false lead.

Incorrect.
Yes yes and yes.
On #2 if a candidate gets to a technical interview they are fairly likely to know if they crashed and burned or not. If they are not right for some other issue (they didn't communicate clearly, were rude, dwelt on negatives about previous employers) then there is not always a professional way to say it other than a straight NO.

A decent candidate will learn from difficult questions and things they tripped up on. If you are acting professionally, asking pertinent questions and responding to the candidates answers then you are providing all the help they should need to nail their next opportunity.
I read Michael Church's blog and from reading that I am convinced that we are our own worst enemy. We spend our spare time writing open source code, which then businesses can profit from without having to pay any of their own staff.

I think companies should allow staff to spend some time on open source. It could even benefit the company by having their name associated with it, making it seem like a cool place to work, and having CV's coming in the 'we're hiring' page begging for an interview instead of expensive agencies. But there you go.
So what? Different parts of the brain, different functions.
History should be more than being "reminded". Few American could name the three largest Native nations today, much less 100 years ago, or what their systems of government, leaders, or social structures were.

I learned a lot in school about the Puritans, and Ancient Europe and even Egypt and Asian history, but little to nothing about the people who lived in California less than 200 years ago.
Well my utility is a distribution company, not generation, so their infrastructure is mostly wires and substations. The equivalent for broadband would be fiber cables and switching offices, which seem like they actually could last for a very long time.

Once fiber is run to every house, I can't imagine why it would ever need to be replaced. I think it's actually physically impossible to have a faster data transport medium.
"... There are different cliches and horror stories, but the bands are much more in control of their destinies and the career is (in a sense) more sustainable. ..."

Q Do the bands you mention maintain control of their masters? I'm seeing the cliche-bands being burnt again with their record companies either not keeping the master recordings or compromising them. A real problem if they want to re-release in high quality digital format.
>regarding things that, in practice, will never happen.

It can and does happen. People sue over hiring decisions all the time.

It's unfortunate, but the way I figure, if you try to make laws that dictate morality (a la anti-discrimination laws), people are less likely to have and follow their own moral code in that area. "Why do I need to decide what's right or reasonable when the law does it for me?"

Also, most people are nice, but the small minority of people who are assholes can cause huge damage, amplified by the legal system. It's those people whom lawyers are (reasonably) worried about.
sorry, I changed the title to reflect this.
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The key detail is economics, especially back in those days when gates were dear. One of the big things that LMI's Lambda improved on over the CADR was adding a TRW 16 bit multiply chip....

As these designs moved onto custom silicon, gates were at an extreme premium, and things like supporting the tagged architecture consumed resources that a general purpose chip could use profitably.

Now I don't think that matter much at all, if your CPU is a bit bigger you sacrifice a small fraction of caching. The lowRISC project suggests NRE costs are way down (collaboration helps a lot, as well as FPGAs for prototyping) and getting significant quantities of chips on competitive processes is not insane (don't know about mask fabrication costs, but they're evidently not a showstopper).

Oh, and lowRISC is looking to do two bits of tags per word, primarily for safety kludges for current not so safe languages.
I don't believe there's a comparison to be made between foie farms and traditional farms because they exist for different reasons, one for luxury and the other for utility. The reasons things are done matter: if you shoot somebody for pleasure the punishments are very different than if you shoot them out of some type of fear or necessity.
Yes, but I don't see apple's grip weakening for a long time. Surprisingly, most people seem to be perfectly happy being told exactly what they can and cannot do on the hardware they buy. They are also happy to be told by others what features are worth having. Screen recordings? I mean, consider how effectively so many rationalized away the benefits of 3rd party keyboards and larger screens for so long.
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But there isn't such a thing as a "general CPU", is there? Some are more general than others, but just like VM's, CPU's are designed and optimized for a specific flow. You're expected to adapt your problem to the architecture - tagged memory and different underlying architecture could make FP considerably faster (in an ideal world, not saying it'd be easy at all), but instead we have to find ways of shoehorning one paradigm on top of another.
>there will be an agreement needs to be signed by interviewee, recruiter, company involved, so that, after interview, recruiters can provide reasons for rejections and as long as the reason is with in the laws of the country or appears reasonable, then involved parties will not proceed legally.

Unfortunately, the government puts strict limits on the purview of contract law, so an agreement like this would likely not hold up in court.
An obvious alternative which suggests itself is to make a "latte" with 10% cream, or even whipping cream.
"Foie gras production should be judged not by the worst farms, but by the best, because those are the ones that I'm going to choose to buy my foie from if at all."

This is an interesting assumption which is not novel to foie gras advocates. For instance, if I buy my wife a diamond ring from a responsible diamond trader, I'm still supporting demand for an industry that is seeped in violence and slavery, and for an item that is unabashedly luxurious and unnecessary (my apologies, diamond lovers of HN).

I can see how this line of thinking becomes a slipper slope, e.g., are we all implicit supporting sweat shops when we buy clothes made in America? I think the answer to that is no, and the answer of culpability in general depends on a number of factors ranging from the necessity of the item to the severity of the atrocities occurring in an industry.

In that respect, I don't think an industry should be judged by its outliers, but by its median. The median foie gras industry is not La Belle Farms.
> Most people are very lazy. They don't want to take the time to think through new ideas or look at them in a new light. Once they've made up their minds about something, they don't change them. That's generally why most people don't come up with ideas for new or great things.

See "Theory X": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_Theory_Y

> I think part of the reason that people ask this question as a way of putting founders down is that they assume that startups are zero sum.

This sentiment has just gotten so trite. The idea that economics is not a zero-sum game is one of the first principles of capitalism.
They are aware of their own motives, but they are probably not aware of why they have those motives in the first place. Offensive materials drive a person to violence, but the question you should ask is "what created this type of person, who kills over a cartoon?"

Note that this does not excuse the actions of the murderer. They are still responsible and still must be punished. But you can punish murderers for their crimes, and adjust your policy so that you don't create so many murderers. They are not exclusive goals.
Stem cell therapies can really only fix one part of aging. They do nothing for build up of metabolic waste products, for example, which are direct causes of a range of issues.

There is an assumption in the research community that, yes, stochastic DNA damage and epigenetic drift in tissues has to be important in aging in ways other than cancer, but there isn't any good experiment to demonstrate that this is in fact the case. If anything the available evidence points in the opposite direction, such as mice loaded with a large multiple of the normal level of point mutations that don't appear to suffer any consequences as a result.

When you look at what kills the most people, cardiovascular disease, it all appears to be fairly directly linked to a combination of degredation of elasticity in blood vessel walls (cross-links in the extracellular matrix, a metabolic waste product issue), damaged lipids in blood vessel walls spawning self-reinforcing damage generators (mitochondrial DNA damage, inflammation), and things of that ilk, which lead to hypertension and runaway bad feedback loops in blood pressure and the body's response to same, and then catastrophic failures or blockages in blood vessels. Stem cells and their declining activity are something of a secondary issue in the background, and don't really figure in the important path through this pathology. If your skin and blood vessel walls are loaded up with cross-links that the body cannot break down and increasingly inelastic as a result then it doesn't matter how youthful your stem cells are, you are still on the path to death.
Jaron Lanier has a great contrarian view of this where he points out that he went on a research project to find musicians that became independently wealthy in the 'internet age' and that he basically couldn't find any. The most he could find were a handful of people that made enough to buy a house - and that was the top of the pyramid. All the stories he found turned out to be fabricated by trust fund kids or claims by musicians that had had their initial career boost in the 'old' system.
There's a clip on Youtube of him talking about it but I can't remember which one it is. Anyway the jist of his view is that in the long term much of it actually isn't sustainable.
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What's really messed up is that companies can lose a case in court, and then still not admit guilt or wrong doing.

At that point, hasn't the court basically overruled them? They lost the court case. End of story (?)
You can't sign away your legal rights like that.
I've interviewed at all/most of the companies you're probably referring to.

None of my interviews were as you described. Sure, some of them were very abstract questions, but it's pretty obvious what the interviewers are getting at.

In fact, I prefer this over "implement a red-black tree" or other excessively technical questions. Those kinds of interviews just test memorization and not skill or reasoning ability. A skilled programmer with good reasoning can learn any of those concrete mechanical concepts very quickly.
> hidden talent; those good at doing a job but bad at getting one

I really like this. If you're bad at getting a (good) job then employers safely assume you would also be bad at the job - it's too risky otherwise. But often that isn't the case, because there's a lot of "hidden talent".

What can we do to give those people a fair chance? We need effective ways to discover hidden talent. The process you described worked for you, but it doesn't seem practical. Too time consuming for both the employer and job seekers, and not rewarding enough for those who don't get a job out of it.
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Very good! I guess I just let my negativity get the best of me in frustration and doesn't make me think in a positive manner.
Totally agree. They should have received a wage, as the learning program wouldn't result in a qualification, and was mostly a part of a hiring process.

If there were a wage involved, potentially more of the original applicants could afford to go through the hiring process.

At least the modern standard is to pay the potential hire as a contractor / consultant to do a few small projects, and then decide if you'd like to hire them on as an employee.
>Belief systems from Christian to Muslim to atheism must be subject to public criticism and mockery in a free society without threat of violence. People who dont feel this way should be free to leave.

Should be made to leave. Accommodating murders, thugs, and people who give them aid and comfort, does not make for good immigration policy.
1-Well if you don't want to use a backend storage what else do you expect?

2-It will flush as soon as you call flush or close your file. It's not necessarily disk and can be any configured backend (right now only swift is supported; however, it's easy to develop other backends as well)

3-Replication is done in the backend storage. Once your data is flushed it's replicated to your desire in Swift, Amazon or whatever backend you are using. What do you mean 'nor works in aralllel'?
They should be using http://expensebot.com/
It's amazing how the brain can totally blank in stressful situations.
Mostly academic curiosity, but being in the government, there's always an non-theoretical risk someone will decide to come after you.
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Lobsters are, once you get inside them, just chunks of very uniform "meat" that has very little trace of where it originated. If we could find two-pound spiders, boil them, and serve their cracked-open legs on a plate, people would probably be just fine with eating those.
It's not like Intel wanted that crude 8080-on-steroids to be the long-term future. They could dream about higher-level hardware too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432
Polices tend to be lab and department specific. Most everyone I know if reimbursed for flights and hotels (though they are typically required to apply for internal travel grants that exist for this purpose). Food reimbursement varies from lab to lab.
1- This is just a preliminary evaluation. I just made the repository public 3 hours ago. I am planning so many experiments including the ones you mentioned.

2- As I said more benchmark including multiple files with iozone, postmark are coming. This is just to give viewer a sense.
P.S I am happy with my supervisor :) thanks for your recommendations though ;)
It surprises me that something else hasn't come along as a more appropriate place for these AMA style sessions. Perhaps its the challenge of getting the audience, but theres many reasons why reddit really isn't ideal for these kinds of discussions. It works, sure - but the signal to noise ratio is really quite low and the politics of it mostly seem to just get in the way (see the Elon Musk AMA earlier this week where some of the highest voted questions were removed).
"... went on a research project to find musicians that became independently wealthy in the 'internet age' and that he basically couldn't find any. ... in the long term much of it actually isn't sustainable. ..."

Is there any reasoning behind this observation?
In fact, it's known that there are organizations which do exactly this.

Team Themis was developing a “persona management” system — a program,
developed at the specific request of the United States Air Force, that
allowed one user to control multiple online identities (“sock
puppets”) for commenting in social media spaces, thus giving the
appearance of grass roots support. The contract was eventually
awarded to another private intelligence firm.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/the-real-war...
That's what I kept thinking when I read this. They're trying to replace the whole protein supply chain, but why not trying to supplement it without alienating food culture?
Wow, I've done a few Google searches on the sourcing of articles on Mr Andolfatto that contain pro ripple statements, and I see curious things, a deep rabbit hole I'm not going to enter.

I should say in general though the Ripple did some very innovative things and deserves the success they've had so far, on technical merit alone.
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And their RISC designs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i960 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860

And we shouldn't forget, although many would like to, their first 64 bit processor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium
I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I'll go ahead and throw these out there, too, so everybody can see comparable "masterpieces" in other billiard games...

Ronnie O'Sullivan with a 147-break at snooker...

http://youtu.be/bpeBugHSCnU

Torbjörn Blomdahl with runs of 20, 13 and 9 at 3-Cushion Billiards (a billiards variant not discussed thus far)...

http://youtu.be/FcC5vNMyXg0

I would say that a 147-break at snooker and a 20-run at 3-cushion are roughly comparable achievements to a 150-and-out at straight pool.

But there's probably never been a player who could achieve such high levels at all three variants - they actually require quite different skill-sets. Snooker players rarely use sidespin ("English") on the cueball while 3-cushion players use extreme amounts of top, bottom and sidespin that you'll never see in pool.

I've always wished there was an all-around competition to determine the best at all three games. My guess is that the all-around best would probably be a relative unknown instead of the current World Champion from any one of the three.
From Woodlawn you can take buses to 3 different subway trunk lines, with access to both the East Side and West Side, in addition to an Express Bus to Midtown East and the Metro-North to Grand Central. Those are pretty decent transit options. Unless you're fortunate enough to live in the closer-in areas of Queens or Brooklyn, or Manhattan itself, those also the only options for "most NYers". Aside from 24-hour subway access to the city, living within the city limits, as opposed to Westchester, also gives you the perk of being able to hail a yellow cab and get home for a reasonable rate instead of doing the livery cab thing.

See here for a map showing that ~20% (eyeballed) of Brooklyn by area is likely in the same boat as the people in Woodlawn.

http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/100729370274/found-the-brook...

That being said, I'm not quite sure that I believe that their definition of Woodlawn is completely accurate, nor do I believe that it's the cheapest neighborhood in the Bronx. If the 3D-bars on the map are to be believed, it looks like Woodlawn (the area immediately to the east of the green park (Van Cortlandt) in the north center of the Bronx) and Wakefield (east of Woodlawn) are lumped together. Adding to personal experience, this map [1] suggests a pretty big wealth disparity between Woodlawn and Wakefield, with a difference of ~$20k in median household income. The border between the two is generally taken to be the Bronx River Parkway/Metro-North, and the 3D-map bars in the submission seem to gloss over that border. I would venture to say that Wakefield has a bit lower rent than Woodlawn, and that Wakefield is perhaps the cheapest neighborhood in the Bronx, but not Woodlawn.

[1] http://project.wnyc.org/median-income-nation/?#13/40.8894/-7...
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Cold email outreach equals spam.
Sounds like you've reached burnout? Take some time off? Happiness > money =).
Ask HN: How do you search web content you store?
What are tagging systems that helps indexing more intuitive and efficient in both the tagging stage and retrieval stage? This tagging-retrieval seems like a trade-off.

What tools provides good indexing and re(explore) interface and experience?
The "Farm 432: Function" video is good. What raised my eyebrow is two larvae from the harvest trap are selected for the next generation.

How do you know which gender the larvae will be? Would the inbreeding cause issues?
There is a drift in the soundcloud audio. Audio goes ahead of visual wave. So I missed the last visual beep in both compresses and uncompressed version.
Google's acceptance rate is well above .01%, just using basic reasoning. Google employs tens of thousands of engineers, which means they would have had to reject hundreds of millions of candidates for the role of software engineer.
Well I said in an earlier comment that our HR team tells us who to interview.
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Relevant discussion on the UX Stack Exchange: http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/41682/pros-cons-of-spl... (which also links back to a story on HN about a locksmith.)
I would go so far as to say that the "MIT style" of using Lisp is file rather than image based. Saving and restoring an image is purely for minimizing startup time, and in development would only be done when you're at a point where that makes sense. And you'd start from a fresh band, LOAD all the relevant files, and then save. If you're doing an application, it might not make sense to ever go to the trouble.

Or so I remember as of the early '80s.
I'm wondering when someone will build a python interpreter and allow you to run simple scripts within minecraft.