skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medium also doesn't have custom domain support, which is a must for me. I consider personal branding very important and medium just doesn't have it
I should check it out sometimes, then. Thanks.
The Meme GIFs are on point!

Reminds that at end of the day, if you just try, you can surprise yourself. I don't think I push myself enough to surprise myself as to what my true capabilities are.

However, it's only when we push ourselves and put ourselves in foreign territory do we have a chance of rapid learning. It's like learning through immersion.
No, you are polling for every IE user. Which is likely a majority of your visitors. You can control your server side stack, you can't control your visitor's browser.

My argument is that since IE does not support EventSource a large portion of your userbase will have to use an alternative implementation. If this implementation polls then you get minimal gain since now the majority of your userbase is polling again.
I've lived and worked in latinamerica for years now and I cannot imagine a scenario where one would hug or side hug a potential business partner. An existing business partner alright sure -- but one you're just meeting? I just can't picture it.

I mention this because latinamerica is much more relaxed socially than the US.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect

We've been studying this in a Sociology class, and this seems like a good example.
There is something called read-disturb, where reading a row of NAND over and over again can disturb adjacent rows. The effect is many orders of magnitude lower than the erase wear effect and data caching within the drive (as well as data caching in the OS) mitigates it significantly. So for all intents and purposes you don't have to worry about it.

The SSD's normal internal scans will detect the bits when they start to get flaky and rewrite the block then. It might do some rough tracking to trigger a scan sooner than it would otherwrise, but it is more a firmware issue and not so much a wearout issue.

-Matt
My pick is Thinkpad. As I am a windows user trying to move to Linux Mint TP is the obvious choice. But the main reason is the keyboard which is just perfect. I also love the red joy-stick like device for some quick use.
Now for the things I hate about TP. The body is cheapish plastic since Lenovo took it over and its not comfortable when you use the laptop for long. The lack of official driver support for Linux is another this that pisses me off.
The general sentiment is that startups pay lower. Yes, startups have the potential for a higher payoff in the long run but I'd like to think that most intelligent people realize the long odds on that one.

"Am I missing something here?"

Not calculating in the factor that money ain't everything. To some folks, the ability to be on the ground floor of a small group and driving the future of a company is a lot more meaningful than being one of a 50,000 member army who will have little impact on the big picture.
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That was Freeman Dyson's take on it 18 years ago, before it was finished.
Well, one platform has a slightly hard to type URL, and the other has https://medium.com/@presidentobama - I think the winner is fairly plain to see.

That said, the fact that the US president has fewer than three thousand followers suggests Medium is quite a few orders of magnitude behind Twitter, Facebook, etc in terms of popularity, suggesting to me either a writing platform is never going to have the same sort of mass appeal or that there's still space for a big winner in that sector.
> Each inbound WebSocket connection runs your program in a dedicated process. Connections are isolated by process.

That sounds bad; it is like “CGI, twenty years later”, as they say. In 2000 at KnowNow, we were able to support over ten thousand concurrent Comet connections using a hacked-up version of thttpd, on a 1GHz CPU with 1GiB of RAM. I’ll be surprised if you can support ten thousand Comet connections using WebSockets and websocketd even on a modern machine, say, with a quad-core 3GHz CPU and 32GiB of RAM.

Why would you want ten thousand concurrent connections? Well, normal non-Comet HTTP is pretty amazingly lightweight on the server side, due to REST. Taking an extreme example, this HN discussion page takes 5 requests to load, which takes about a second, but much of that is network latency — a total of maybe ½s of time on the server side. But it contains 7000 words to read, which takes about 2048 seconds. So a single process or thread on the server can handle about 4096 concurrent HN readers. So a relatively normal machine can handle hundreds of thousands of concurrent users without breaking a sweat.

On the other hand, Linux has gotten a lot better since 2000 at managing large numbers of runnable processes and doing things like fork and exit. httpdito (http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/server.s) can handle tens of thousands of hits on a single machine nowadays, even though each hit forks a new child process (which then exits). http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/httpdito-readme has more performance notes.

On the gripping hand, httpdito’s virtual memory size is up to 16kiB, so Linux may be able to handle httpdito processes better than regular processes.
I think that's typical. Not sure if this is the case, but I think the danger would be if you are able to use a "forgot password" link to enable the token.
Meta question, but why is pitch events located in bars? It is a place associated with dating, mixed with free booze, and apparently used as a place for professionalism and critical business decisions?
Just because the HGP turned out to be worthwhile doesn't mean funding it in the right place was the correct decision. If the expected value of the HGP was below the opportunity cost it should not have been funded. That the actual value turned out to be higher than the opportunity cost is irrelevant.

To say it another way, I think that playing the lotto with the goal of earning money is a mistake. The fact that some people win it and in fact make money doesn't change the fact that they were wrong to play it in the first place if their goal was net gain of money.

That said I have no idea what the expected value of the HGP was so I have no idea whether it was a good decision. I just want to chime in in support of thinking about the probabilities involved in the right way.
Her coinvestors/partners were portrayed as completely apathetic to her being groped. Some of you wanted the groper named and shamed, which she didn't, but then she turns around and publicly casts a bad light on her _partners_ (who i suppose are known)? I think that's crummy.
Ask HN: At what company size do downtime postmortems wane?
Background: At my day job, have been using Mixpanel for over 16 months. The first 13.5 months were flawless in terms of service, uptime, and support. The last 2.5 months have seen 3 MAJOR outages (my definition of MAJOT being over 1 hour in length).

I haven't seen a single postmortem for any of these outages. Given how large I imagine Mixpanel to be and that I view them as a software company, I expect a postmortem for events like these.

Am I off base? Should I just continue forking money over to them and not ask for such things?
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Ask HN: Is there a team-REST testing/collection service?
Hi,

maybe anyone knows this, after googling around for a bit I couldn't find anything. We are currently using Postman to test our API and to have a collection of our services.

The problem is, it seems you can't share this online with team-members, you need to re-import everytime someone makes a change to a collection - this is very cumbersome.

Are there any services which allow to create REST-service definitions, that can be shared across a team? Ideally, it should also be possible to automate testing of these services..

Thanks in advance!
Wireless mesh networks operated with regular wifi routers are already popular in some cities. 5GHz WiFi can supposedly bridge 50km with the right antenna, which enables low-cost connections between cities and over borders. If the entire infrastructure was decentralized this way it would be near impossible to censor or control.
Except that you're only reducing the complexity of your stack by exactly one syntax. You still will have different semantics for the front and back ends. You still will have a giant wall between the server and the client with the only way of getting stuff over it is throwing it with a really strong arm, i.e. passing it in through HTML or after the fact with AJAX. You still will have to drop down to HTML and CSS, with a template language and perhaps a CSS preprocessor. If you don't think HTML and CSS are both powerful, complex languages in their own right, you haven't made anything truly complex for the web yet. You still have to manage devops, which has its own ecosystem and suite of tools.

Javascript and its prototypical object system is great for client-side scripting code, but a poor fit for server domain concepts. You're going to have to learn multiple tools, languages, paradigms anyway. So just suck it up and use a proper back end framework too. Node's pretty good, but it's not Rails.
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I assume law enforcement will be largely exempt from these rules, the US military certainly will be.
This simply wouldn't happen. These countries would have to deal with such an internal collapse they wouldn't have much of an organised military left. Also, there would be widespread division - the powerful wealthy individuals would be welcome to other nations and the ones left would have no means to invade fuck all.
Should my company grow to the point of requiring office space, I would have private offices for everyone.

My first programming job back in 1974 had fully enclosed private offices with opaque doors and reasonable soundproofing.

In later years, in non-supervisory roles, I was occasionally put in shared offices, or worse - cubicles.

Productivity is highest without distractions and without interruptions. Communication is the responsibility of management - not the side effect of cheap open space.
It might be hard for guys to believe that men would do something like this (except in the movies) but consider this:

Do you believe the stories of how many people fail the "fizzbuzz" test in interviews?
Yes, as wild as the idea is, the phenomena is very real.

Not being an interviewer and not having any incompetent programmer friends it blew my mind that someone could be a developer for years and still not know how to code.

I've don't remember seeing sexism any place I've worked but being married to a female software developer opens your eyes - it's very real.

Just because as guys, we haven't experienced it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
really there are people who complains about the name of the book? it's clearly a joke.
I always figured it would make sense to try something like C. elegans first before jumping right into simulating the human brain. Progress has been slow on that front: http://www.jefftk.com/p/whole-brain-emulation-and-nematodes
That sort of thing really doesn't affect nearly everybody. But those people which it doesn't affect, leave the project, or are pushed out. So it's a self-selecting/reinforcing thing, which is what makes it problematic, I think.
so you're the one that bought a Moto 360. look at the sales numbers for Android Smartwatches and realize your anecdote is utterly meaningless.

those burned out designers have been able to sell more smartphones than ever before, at a HIGHER APR.

reality will not bend just because of your feelings.
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A couple from around here chose an RV instead; they've been traveling for a few years now, with their daughter.

How do you handle their education? I heard the couple stopped moving so much to allow the daughter to frequent a school with more stability. Are yours homeschooled instead?
Nothing of that contradicts the premise of what I said.

Neither India or Pakistan would jeopardise the very existence of the other nation, because rather than just lie down and die they'd get a farewell message from the other side.
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"Stories submitted per time" seems like one of the five-ish metrics that you should always keep an eye on while making any changes in production, coming back to your desk after a coffee break, or coming in to the office in the morning.

If it is not trivial to look at these metrics (ideally you just glance up to a dashboard monitor), it would probably be a good idea to throw that together.

All of this is to say nothing of proper alerting to go with monitoring, but I mention the above because its by far easier to set up and you get a lot of bang for the buck.

All of _that_ said, thanks to dang any anybody else working on making HN better.
If you're just saying that this specific project is a poor use of resources at the moment, then yeah, agreed. I don't really feel justified in suggesting that any particular level of abstraction will have so little to tell us that it'll never be a good use of resources.

>That [simulating small subsystems of a brain] is what's already happening all over the world right now, in thousands of independently scoped simulations and experiments.

Woah! Links? The searches I can come up with aren't turning up anything besides that simulation of a rat cortical column and the various attempts at nematode uploading.
As an ML practitioner, you certainly know that the ANNs you use have not much in common with biological (real) NNs. First, ANNs tend to be mostly feedforward, while rNNs are highly recurrent. ANNs are therefore not very good in tasks where memory is needed (I know about the developments involving LSTM neurons, but they are not analogous to the implicit memory of recurrent neural networks.) Second, ANNs usually don't have a time dimension, the firing is essentially a floating point value instead of action potential. Third, recurrent neural network structures do not scale: an efficient/reliable/reduntant system of 100B neurons will probably have extremely different structures than another one with 100M neurons -- because of recurrency and other stuff a rNN is a chaotic process (in the sense of sensitivity to parameters) that should be stabilized by the structure.

And there are many-many other differences. Note that our task is not to solve problems but to figure out how the brain works.

Also, recurrent neural network simulation cannot really be scaled right now, we don't have the hardware. It is not parallelizable with our current tools because of the huge number of connections.

(Disclaimer: I was involved in a project trying to model real neural networks. It wasn't a huge success, but we learned a lot.)
I partially complete MOOC courses frequently as they may have a "chapter or two" of content I'm interested in. I watch what I need, then stop.

IMO, there needs to be a better way to measuring value in an online course other than "did the user complete the entire course".
Great articulation.

Additionally, much medical science (and almost all of social/ psych/ econ "science") is in the very low level of confidence realm (a few studies based on survey / interview data, or maybe just a single study hyped by lame media).
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After reading Leonard Shlain's Art & Physics, I agree with you. In the past it was the artists, poets and popular writers who helped the general public consume often difficult to grasp ideas. We do seem to be in a lull where the creatives are either beholden to the mass culture of capitalism or to detached from the world of science to communicate it. Those that do are on the fringe and only noticed by small cliques. Art is blooming everywhere right now, but very little of it is civically minded. This is an era of image over substance.
That's a pretty gymnastic attempt at victim-blaming. 9.4 from the East German judges.
For NYC rates? It wouldn't be un-fathomable to get a 100% pay raise, especially after a few years of experience and some sort of solid track record.

I was in a similar position about two years ago; was hired by BigCo far below market rates and quickly excelled as one of their best devs on a 200+ contract. Long story short, their corporate policies hampered my career progress, I left after a few years and got a 100% pay increase, better benefits and options from a company who saw the value.

Just stay away from many of the other BigCo's as they tend to have a policy of lifetime wage suppression, and was shocked to hear of the relatively common policy of never giving more than ~15% over the new hire's last pay.
I think that's just a question, as a meta-question would be a question about somebody else's question(?)
Huh?

> My two co-founders, who are also women, were standing together. I immediately blurted out: “Some guy just touched my sideboob! For a pretty long time! But he offered us $50,000!” They stared at me dumbstruck. “What the hell?” they said.

> It was a big decision to make, and I couldn’t stop questioning whether I was exaggerating what happened, or being too sensitive. But my cofounders immediately assured me that that wasn’t the case, and that we could not take the money. They said it was ridiculously inappropriate, that our relationship with him would only get worse, that we should hold out for better investors to partner with.

That's not them being apathetic, that's them clearly stating that the contact was inappropriate - in response to her saying "well maybe it wasn't a big deal".
US male here. I've been hugged by many women I've just met at multiple events and conferences. I'm no male model, nor would I initiate a hug with someone I'd just met (or generally in a business context unless I knew them extremely well), however there seem to be a large number of women who are "huggers" and hug instead of a handshake.

Just saying this isn't a male-on-female only thing. Women do this on a pretty regular basis in my experience.

EDIT - In NO way defending groping, by any gender.
Many aspects of HGP were overhyped and much of the data remains uninterpretable. There was a strong implication that knowing the genome of humans would immediately lead to trivial improvements in health, but there wasn't actually a clear path to such improvements.

That said, it's an immensely valuable resource that pays back in many ways (it's a map which can be used for discovery science).

It's not entirely clear it drained talent and money from other projects in a way that was a net negative for science and society.
I mean it just depends, I am making more at my current startup job by about 11% than my big corporate IT job I left.

But my startup is also through a few rounds of funding. I also feel like the experience gained here will translate into higher salary later should I transition back into larger organizations.

This is something not too straightforward to compare, and will be different for different individuals/situations.
Professionals can go to an event in a bar (and, yes, even consume a drink in a bar) without sexually harassing people. The problem here isn't the environment. The problem is the culture.
antirez (author of redis) view on the topic

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2873249/is-memcached-a-di...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23601622/if-redis-is-alre...
Agreed, we are witnessing the last decades of "pure" humans and homo sapiens as a species. Someone else will be taking our place real soon and I am really happy about it.

The evolution ventures forth.
Will we soon seek out restaurants where there's not one of these systems to possibly record your every word?
I don't think it is fair to judge people's disbelief of science as a standalone position. Most people (in the United States at least) receive a poor education across all subjects, and the experience of that learning is more akin to imprisonment than exploration. They know many authorities, from police to teachers and bosses, who are flawed people exercising their powers poorly.

In that context how is it possible to convince someone that science is not also as corrupt as every other institution they've encountered. If my entire experience of education is that it is unfair and run by sadists, then the only people who will succeed in it are those who are willing to subject themselves to what they are told. Their perspective is built into their environment.

These skeptics and deniers can't be convinced, but not because they are stupid. The entirety of their lives lead to the subjectively rational conclusion that everything they are told to do will keep them miserable so they believe and do none of it.
"At big companies, you can expect to get ~$400k-$500k of stock"

Where did you get that figure from? That's a bit surprising to me, there's no way you could get that kind of stock grant as an engineer in any of the big companies I've worked at.
Wikipedia is not a good source for controversial topics as it tends to pick one side (the mainstream side) for its readers.
I believe the common and most important reason behind all recent anti-science movements is something that is also behind many other social and political sentiments as well as conspiracy theories - namely, degradation of public's trust in authorities. People don't trust their government, they don't trust corporations, and they don't trust scientist. And I increasingly believe they have perfectly good reasons for that.

You see, governments lie and cheat all the time. Companies at every scale - from startups to mom and pop shops to LLCs to corporations keep abusing the social contract for their own short-term gains. Newspapers report science in ridiculous ways, journalist keep inventing their own lies to spice up the story. It's hard to know who to trust anymore. And so people revert to trusting plausible sounding narratives and charismatic individuals.

This problem is going to hit us hard in the nearby future. I fear this is an existential threat for western civilization. That's also the reason why lying to people is one of the biggest sins in my book. As the quote goes, "Promoting less than maximally accurate beliefs is an act of sabotage. Don't do it to anyone unless you'd also slash their tires." I think it's actually underrepresenting the damage lies cause to society.

People nowdays see the failure of trust and strive to design systems that don't depend on trusting its actors at all. I'm not sure it's a good direction. As we increasingly don't expect trustworthiness from other people, we're digging ourselves deeper into the hole.

So yes, anti-vaxxers, anti-GMOs, anti-nuclear, et al. are wrong. Stupidly wrong. But it's hard for me to blame them. They've been lied to so many times that it's hard for them to trust authorities anymore.

EDIT: to clarify, in the last paragraph I meant that those people simply arrived to wrong (or dangerously wrong) conclusions, not that they themselves are stupid.
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Here are some interactive tutorials on using Node where you work to make various tests pass: http://nodeschool.io/

This is also good: https://github.com/substack/stream-handbook
Some cities are important in every category though, just by virtue of concentrating a lot of the population. For instance the US would be pretty much in complete disarray for decades if the coastal cities of California and the East Coast were just wiped. They concentrate a lot of the power in every single respect, and also the brains.