skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or adhoc or scheduler jobs (similar to cron jobs). Mine run twice per day but only consume 25.128h per month because the breakdown is per minute.
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Well, it still exists. There's no plans to close it down, as far as I know (but I haven't finished reading the article).

Fab is an online store focused on design goods — furniture, gadgets, a smattering of clothes and shoes and so on. The inventory changes out pretty fast. They have occasional pop up shops in NYC. They just launched their own line of furniture called Hem.

The online store is nice -- one of the nicer store UIs, actually -- but their inventory tends towards the Urban Outfitter/Think Geek kind of flashy, youth/nerd-oriented, ultimately low-quality or ephemeral fashion items that are going out of style soon. When I think of Fab, I mainly think of wall decals and phone cases with skulls.
The main problem on rotating the pager like that is that people just try to survive the problems for a week and no one cares enough about finding and fixing the root causes of the problems.
That's the power of mathematical notation: lots of very complex ideas compressed down into a minimal number of characters. I have a math degree and can follow along, but I would need to pull out a few of my old algebra textbooks to really grok what's happening in an intuitive sense.
This is good advice for a very narrow segment of creative people and not everyone at large. It's terrible advice for people with children, for example.
Ambitious, creative, but also kind of a jerk IMO who occasionally makes authoritarian but sloppy observations about low-level tech. You're not the only one he rubs the wrong way.

Not that this is any way an obstacle as long as he succeeds here. But if he really went all in for this game, well, I wouldn't do it that way (unless my name was Derek Smart that is). I'd pocket $1M of my ill-gotten and play the lottery with the rest, knowing there was a backup plan. I hope he has a backup plan. I can't say I like the guy, but I do like what he's doing.
It seems that there are various interpretations of karma. Dogen, founder of the Soto Zen school, taught that karma can be experienced in this same life. I swear I've read far earlier sources discuss karma in a manner outside of rebirth in samsara, but I can't find those sources at this time.
Not a big fan of the list, as they left out some great companies.

Some of my favorite Chicago startups:

1. TempoDB - Database for IOT and sensor data

2. 640 Labs - Precision agriculutre platform

3. Opternative - Online Eye Exams

4. ShipBob (YC S14) - Easy shipping for businesses and personal (Disclaimer: Currently work here)

5. Basecamp - Project Managment Software
I like IntelliSense and its just-as-good brethren mostly in Java-focused IDEs, but my perspective is that it's a valuable but small bonus, rather than anything like a 15-year leap of progress. It's nice, but it just isn't that important, and it's very annoying when people act like if you don't see it as some sort of Best. Feature. Ever. you're living in the past.

IntelliSense isn't even close to the coolest thing about good type systems. What's cool about them is catching dumb errors and contract violations statically and reducing the number of unit tests that it takes to feel confident in a piece of software.

Kythe is a really great project, though.
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> It ignores the fact that there's an opportunity cost to missed shots.

For the record, Blow has said that he's making the language primarily for his own use. I expect that most of the games he makes in the future will be written in this language.
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90% wasn't related to non-trivial details. I was there, ahduhl. Credit card offers, menu options, etc.

The safety talk was at the beginning of the flight and it was much lower in volume than what I'm talking about.

My guess is that the attendant's mouth was too close to the mic and they were just talking way too loud.
That seems pretty wasteful if emergencies are rare.

We have three people on-call on my team, and we typically have an issue at most once a month - and so far, in 95% of cases, the issue can be resolved by killing an errant ec2 instance and waiting for its replacement to spin up in 5 minutes.

It would be much more disruptive and annoying if I had to work the graveyard shift even once every two months or so; aside from shifting my sleep schedule once every two months, it would be a week where I would probably be fairly unproductive.
The similarities between Fab & Jobster shouldn't be overlooked. And a lot of the lessons from 2007 (http://mashable.com/2007/12/13/jobster-ceo-steps-down/) seem to be forecasted in 2013 (http://www.inc.com/magazine/201303/how-i-got-started/jason-g... / http://thisweekinstartups.com/jason-goldberg-of-fab-twist-31...) and now history has repeat itself again.

Best of luck, Jason, at your next thing!
To those who can access the paper -- how large was the discovered effect?
So... I've been interested in this model for startups. But it doesn't make sense, right? Because startups already give equity to employees as part of their compensation package. But nobody would call Google a "worker coop" -- but I haven't figured out exactly why not. What's the deal?
Interesting how the mainstream media keeps doing circles around these issues.

When you start with flawed assumptions, you will never get an accurate solution. The hypothesis that vicious and systemic oppression of females since birth is keeping them out of Computer Science is hardly sound. While there may be an element of discrimination in all professions that tend to be dominated by one sex, I think it's time to look a little more closely at the situation.

Humans are a sexually dimorphic species. This means that on a genetic and physiological level, our sexes are distinct barring genetic anomalies such as Klinefelter syndrome and other rare conditions. Now as with anything that deals with biology, there is a massive amount of variation within each classification category, i.e. sex. This being said, we can and have done studies measuring the distribution (mean and variation) of tendencies for both sexes to find that they are quite distinct at a physiological level.

This means that when comparing the mean male adult brain to the mean female adult brain, the neural architecture is quite distinctly different. This has natural consequences in our behavior, predispositions, illnesses and life outcomes.

For example, it is found that the mean male does better on visuospatial tasks than the mean female, whereas females tend to do better on verbal tasks. Now all the usual disclaimers apply about cognitive testing biases and sample populations, but there is a slight empirical difference.

This is why in certain Nordic countries which pride themselves on being the most sexually egalitarian, the polarization of traditional careers is at a record high. For example, comparing two equally lucrative professions, on average men tend to study engineering and females tend towards nursing. As these countries have worked tirelessly to eradicate discrimination from their education, social, legal and professional systems, the only variable left to control for is personal preference which tends to gravitate towards sexual averages.

In conclusion, I find it often helps to frame a problem from an empirical point of view before assuming the cause and prescribing a treatment a priori.

Now, are all the developed countries in the world at the level of the Nordic countries in terms of sexual egalitarianism? Most likely not, though I doubt they're exactly Saudi Arabia either, which some of the more radical pundits tend to vociferously imply publicly at every opportunity.

Empirical and rational thought are gifts left to us by our ancestors after thousands of years of toil. I find it disappointing that we constantly fall into these irrational situations simply due to knee-jerk emotional outrage over perceived injustices. I hope one day rationality and empirical thought become the core education platform for mankind.
There's also the aspect that the Turing test isn't just one person and an AI, it's two people and an AI. One person and the AI both chat with the interrogator (the other person). The interrogator tries to guess which one is human. That's quite different from the interrogator vs the AI alone.
> People do not have "natural immunity" to measles.

Yes, we both know that. What he means by "natural immunity" is the immunity that you get by actually contracting the measles and surviving.
The power of internet sometimes still amazes me.

One article. 180keur in donations in a day.
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'innocent until proven guilty' is a legal principle, not a social one. i'll err on the side of a victim any day of the week if there's not a very compelling reason not to
As a guy I find it hard to believe that sexism still exists but then my wife just got back from an interview where someone asked her if "Being a mother will negatively impact her science".

Now that I have a daughter I will work hard at home to let her know that she can be whatever she wants, but I feel bad for the kids that can't get that reinforcement at home.
Intellisense is an amazing friction reducer for good APIs though. Having something pop up, give you the exact spelling, what's available, and the parameter names, massively reduces the learning curve.

I don't see how wanting it is "living in the past" - because we certainly don't have it - not on Linux - in the present.
Sometimes there is no reason. Some manager gets up for a pee in the middle of the night and phones the on-call guy to "check the site is up" or "can you re-run the report for me" (I'm not even kidding). That company saw the engineers refuse to do any on-call 'til we got new contracts stipulating on-call was ONLY for site outages, that said outages had to be verified by a human before calling (so no hair trigger automated alerting) and in some circumstances we would be paid quad-time.

But even so things were pretty pathological there. There were those of us who understood that if the site was down, we weren't making any money, and none of us would get paid. Then there were others, who understood that there were people in the first group, and they could just... not bother. And there was insufficient differentiation between the two come bonus time...

I am coming across as being bitter here, far more so than I actually am, but the OP deserves to know, it can be bad.
Discrimination is most apparent when someone inevitably does something wrong. Does the teacher take a charitable view of what the kid does understand, and give generous partial credit, or does she write the kid off based on bias? The same thing happens with race. The white guy with an open container versus the black guy doing the same thing--who gets more slack from the cops?
This is all purely opt-in and compatible with "your javascript".
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I agree. I like this topic, but I have to say that there are better, more fundamental arguments in favour of 3 space dimensions. For example, two space dimensions only allow planar graphs, which seems pretty limiting for the development of complex structures. On the other hand, as you increase the number of spatial dimensions, the curse of dimensionality becomes more important and space in general becomes "emptier". Also, knots are only interesting in 3 dimensions.

Arguing about time dimensions is harder, because time is tied more strongly to our subjective experience of consciousness, which is something that we really don't understand yet.
> He doesn't understand statistics

I assure you he does understand the statistics. He just doesn't think that have one in a thousand children die of encephalitis is too high a price to pay for the "benefits of naturally acquired immunity".
Back when the U.S. Was accusing China of widespread corporate espionage, I wondered why the U.S. didn't have a major effort to harden common OSs.

Then Snowden came out, and we learned the U.S. government is doing the opposite, trying to keep all systems readily exploitable.

Surely the defense and intelligence departments already have hardened versions of OSs. As taxpayers, we actually own that software. We should all have access. Where's the EFF on this one?
This doesn't seem to affect federal tax returns or anything related to the IRS. (This time.)
ah, that sounds like Ryanair.
> and can be handled by a few staff (not waking up the whole team).

That's what this is though. With every setup I've seen there's a rotation of primary and secondary pagers for each team. When something breaks the primary is paged, if they don't answer within a few minutes the secondary is paged. If they need outside help they can page an individual person by name or just a team. e.g. I need help from a DBA, I page the DBA team and the primary is paged.

If you have 4-5 incidents a month this gives you a team available to handle any overnight issues without having to hire a bunch of people to twiddle their thumbs 90% of the time.
Whoa! How have I not heard of this game? That trailer looks amazing!
The folder analogy is completely broken; tags have shown to be much more useful.

Disclaimer: I'm a maintainer of Sup, which is born on the same idea that tags + good search is much better than folders.
coz it took average of 16 days for customers to get the item from 3rd party designers, so they figured if they held the inventory themselves they could cut that down. They did, but in that process lost the originality of the small boutique items, and became a commodity shop.
Just have to wait for all the patents to expire I guess.
This isn't a very good snapshot of what's going on in Chicago. I don't know what kind of outreach this site does, but it seems to be tied to local investors.
This was their second pivot. Fab was originally a gay social network.

In fact, there is a connection to HN. I recall it was on HN that the founder was commenting on a story on undergoing major pivot and securing funding.
Some of those are on the list...
I only agree with this if the developers also get to choose the deadlines for the app/features they build. All too often, the higher-ups want a feature but don't want to take the development time necessary to build it properly. And shortcuts are taken all over the place to get the feature done in time. The higher-ups don't care about doing things correctly and don't have any pain when things go wrong. Which makes it more likely to push this sort of behavior.

I think developers should build code that fails in predictable ways with useful error messages that a support team can use to solve problems. If the support team cannot fix the problem with the information provided, then a developer should need to get involved. This way, developers only feel pain if the code they write fails in ways support cannot handle.
It sounds like someone has collected personal information and has a script filing fraudulent tax returns through TurboTax.

We know an enormous amount of PI was leaked from various major breaches last year, if that is what happening TurboTax is really just a tool being exploited for profit.
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> He believes that natural immunity is better than "artificial" immunity. That's plain nonsense, absolutely no science there.

No, that's not true. There actually is some evidence that naturally acquired immunity is stronger and lasts longer than vaccine-acquired immunity. It is also arguable (and he does argue) that interfering too much with natural selection can have unforeseen but wide-ranging negative consequences in the future.
The last time this topic came up, buried in the comments somewhere I found this gem: http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm

It's controversial, but it has some ideas not usually tossed around in these debates. It certainly brings at least as much to the table as an article suggesting a small study done in Israel explains America's STEM gender differences.
50?! I would love to see a heatmap of this page. The Chicago start up scene is a total mess right now, and a list of "50 start ups to watch" exemplifies it perfectly. You're right - these are mostly clones (with some exceptions).

The Chicago startup scene has so much potential once people stop "trying to be like SV" OR "trying to be Chicago." There's a fantastic middle ground, just look at Basecamp.
Judging from this comment, I'd guess that you, Adrian, and Kevin probably agree on Chicago's strengths and weaknesses.

(As a Chicago startup founder, I'll just add that I hope we don't become a "tech hub". A diverse business community is one of our biggest strengths.)
I doubt they'll show up in the U.S anytime soon.
If 24/7 uptime is important enough that it requires pager duty and the pager goes off more than once a month, someone should be working during that time. Otherwise it's a tell tale sign of an employer that does not respect their employees. When you think about it, if everyone is already working full time and the pager goes off 5 or 6 times a month and each incident requires about 2-3 hours across 3 people they are essentially wage stealing 20-30 hours a month. A quality employer puts those 30 hours into preventing it from happening in the first place and/or hiring someone to monitor things overnight.

Edit: I should also add one last thing. If you are knowledge industry professional, is working part-time graveyard shift something you spent all that time developing your skills for?
OK, so sue them into oblivion instead. The downside is that we'd have to wait for innocent to get injured or killed before the law will grant standing, but if enough people do this then maybe the anti-vaxxers will decide that their oh-so-fashionable "principles" aren't worth the risk of losing all they own.
I was going to say, this reads more like a list of 50 companies who need to show their seed investors some traction.
They are suggesting adding optional explicit typing to JavaScript. This will not impede your ability to use untyped dynamic JSON. But it allows you to take advantage of explicit typing where it adds value.
Go Green indeed!

Amazingly enough, I programmed on the same CDC 6500 at MSU in the '70s. By the time I got there, the school had lost its EE credentials, and I was torn between a music degree at MSU and EE somewhere else.

Technically, I guess I'm still deciding.

So as not to be too OT, I've taken the AED training course, and it's really simple. Doing it when there's a guy (or gal) on the floor in front of you is probably tougher.
The theme of the article is in part how Real State can royally screw over business...

A sad, really sad thing happened in Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil.

The city center, had multiple very old business, a particular square, that had been a hotspot in imperial times when Rio was the Imperial Capital, had many business opened at those times, and that were still open... Business that survived many depressions, crisis, regime changes, world wars...

Then because of the recent real state price boom (example: in São Paulo prices on average rose 300% in 4 years), they all got outpriced in their rent... There was 250 year old shops that were still only a single location, and still renting their original location, but landowners just bumped the rent prices up by like 100% in a single year, and kicked out all those multi-hundred year shops out.

The end result looked like a sort of historic defacing, lots of shops that were there since the monarchy times, that had lots of history (for example a library where famous writers, poets and musicians used to hang out for about 200 years) were just shut down without mercy.

Some people even tried to ask the government to help... But it didn't work.
I think a worker coop is always explicitly owned equally by all workers, which isn't what Google does.

The model makes it hard to get investment, since there are no "super owners" like investors typically are. The coop could pay the investment back like a high interest loan with flexible terms, but I haven't seen exactly how that would work. I'm interested in that though - see my other comment here.
At your kid's soccer game? A date night? Planning on doing any of those things? Be prepared to get pulled out at any moment to deal with something that could take hours to resolve

Haha true story, I was on-call once and I called a guy in another team because I needed him to do his thing. The call was a little weird.

The next day he told me he was driving at the time, phone on speaker balanced on the dash, with the laptop open on the passenger seat, logged in with a 3G dongle...
Yes, most languages have a type system, but there is a big difference between only checking those types at runtime ("dynamically typed") versus checking them at compile time ("statically typed"). After an years and years of debating back and forth over the trade-offs between dynamic and static, it looks like the most popular dynamically typed languages are all considering adding compile time checks. It may take years for these features to gain widespread usage, but it's hard to see this and not think that static typing camp is winning the debate.

As for functional programming, I mentioned in the post that adding a few functional features does not mean you have a functional programming language. But again, for years there was a debate over whether the imperative and OO styles were better and if the ideas from functional programming were too esoteric for the mainstream. Now, some of the most popular imperative languages are focusing on first-class functions, higher order functions, pure functions, and immutable data. It'll still take years for all of these ideas to gain widespread usage, but again, it's hard to see these changes and not think that functional programming is winning the debate.
I actually sent the developer an email about this with a patch.

I find it quite frustrating when this doesn't work.
Ha, my mistake. Baloney is a word you hear frequently but don't see written very often. I presumed the slang used the spelling of the sausage it was derived from.
Options to buy less than .1% (possibly even a non-voting .1%) of a company which is majority-controlled by just a few founders is a far cry from joint-owning a company. Not only are the equity proportions vastly different but so is the management structure.
I've worked one of these $20k SV internships, so I'd like to give my two cents. I worked for a large startup that hired around ~100 interns - not a Google or Microsoft by any means.

There is a relative meritocracy for these positions. All of my fellow interns were exceptional. But, this was not much of a meritocracy. All of the interns went to Ivy-caliber schools. Many of them went to expensive preparatory schools (and pointed it out). I find it hard to believe that any of these interns had financial constraints.

Does this mean SV isn't a meritocracy? No. But, there is a undeniable bias towards Ivy League schools where the students are predominately wealthy.
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I think reaching "Fuck you" levels of wealth has a very slightly different (3% higher?) definition for people with kids, but otherwise the advise is the same. Once you (or, you and your family, if you have one) are financially safe, don't hoard.
Sure, money is fictitious and meaningless once you've moved into the f-you echelon. By definition. Perhaps for that segment piping it into creative endeavors is fulfilling and worthwhile.

For everyone else for whom money is a meal, rent, or essential good instead of an expletive, who cannot afford to take an ethereally long-term view, this advice is out of touch with reality if not plain dangerous.
There was some discussion relating to this on /r/personalfinance earlier today: http://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/2uzfel/minn...
I think your premise makes sense, but can you give some recent examples?