skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've come to feel that real self-confidence is the confidence to let other people speak as long as they want, and to quietly listen to what they have to say, before responding. It takes confidence to let the center of attention go elsewhere, and trust that it can come back if it needs to.

I don't understand what about a VC workplace would require such aggressive, combative meetings. What does that accomplish that a more thoughtful meeting could not? Why can't meetings just slow down a bit and make sure everyone has the time and opportunity to say what they think?

And if they don't care what a particular person thinks, why did they invite that person to the meeting in the first place?
"...or even occasionally hear that one of our supplier's process experts has been "disappeared" to move to Cupertino or Shenzhen."

I really despise the coöpting of the word disappeared in this kind of context. It really cheapens the lives of and trivializes the deaths of people who get whisked out if their homes in the middle of the night, get murdered and abandoned in shallow graves, usually by corrupt and imploding governments. Shame on all reporters and bloggers who insist on doing that. See [1]

These people, quite the opposite, are being handsomely rewarded and actually get to live.

Apple are not Stalin or Argentine dictators.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_disappearance
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Well...it was a secret.
You do not know this, but you have made me introspective. There are some things I will be and am improving upon because of you.

Rest well, Paul.
How women entrepreneurs are gaining big from the online retail revolution
The best TL;DR ever, thank you for that.
I guess the people who downvoted this like to ignore the facts hey.
Thai universities not recognised in worldwide ranking of institutes – The Nation
Cutting a buffalo?
Do you need to buy a whole new case when the next version comes out, or will you be able to drop in a new module?
This is actually a genius way to approach fines. If you're rich and you get fined doing well over the specified speed limit but you only have to pay at most a few hundred dollars for potentially putting someone else's life in danger, what is the deterrent?

I would love to see something like this implemented here in Australia. Fines based on your income is a great idea, given the outrage some have over the idea of sliding scale fines, I would argue that it sounds like the system is working. If you knew that you could possibly be fined $100k for speeding, would it deter you? Most definitely.

I have had similar thoughts about drink drivers. If you get caught being over the limit, you should have your licence instantly taken off of you for a set period of time. It does happen, but only in extreme cases where someone is so over the limit it is ridiculous. If you drink and drive no matter how much you're over, you should lose your licence (a sliding scale starting at 3 months and going up to 24 months).

Lets get serious about more than just fines, but people who knowingly break the law in their vehicles without a care in the world.
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>Don't be too scared about their apparent lack of awareness. I don't think it's because he has no idea. It's just corporate-speak like when folks talk about their product changing the world and all that.

I find this really weird, because it's more like a kind of cognitive dissonance than the straight forward kind of dishonesty that I can understand. every business person I have ever talked to or gotten advice from has always said that they don't buy on price, and they don't compete on price, and that doing so is very bad.

However, if you observe their actions? it's actually about price, you know, for a comparable product, just like microeconomics would suggest.

For me? It makes advice from business people seem a lot less useful; either they are straight up lying to me, or they aren't able to keep their own head straight.
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The major drawback is access.

On the west side of Alameda, where I rented a 2BR house for a little under $1500/month, has a ferry terminal and a cramped tunnel. Great if you have a car, want to take the ferry into SF every day, or don't mind the bus.

I worked in downtown Oakland and most of my coworkers lived in west Alameda.

The east side has a few well-maintained, very bike-friendly bridges, but they lead to the East Oakland.
I think it's mainly to show consumers just how much thought they put into making their products and how well made they are.
The email I received made me look at some long lost repositories of mine that I did while learning in school. It's always fun to be able to look back on work you did when you were less experienced.

It's unfortunate how transient the internet can be. How much information is created and lost over such a short period of time.
Mediamatters? Seriously? Well, okay. Let me find an equally credible source:

http://www.aei.org/publication/maybe-patriarchal-labor-union...
Why would they make it easier for someone else to properly index the web? They've got that covered.
These are good questions.

I added a section here, on how this helps everyone.

http://www.strikingly.com/s/pages/391635/edit?s=142622426534...

Foremost, I think that this will create an example. Wronged people will learn that they have another avenue to lean on; crowd funding. Insurance companies will learn that they cannot use the tactic of delaying and denial to exhaust a person's resources, without risking much more public disgust at how they've handled the situation.

Beyond that, what we hope is that this example will inspire a new form of insurance. In previous eras, insurance was managed by a local community. With modern social networking and crowdfunding systems, there is an opportunity for an Insurance 2.0; reliant on genuine social fabric to help people recover after loss. And instead of an experience consistent of abandonment and confrontation, the story will be one of the community rallying together, and everyone getting closer with each other because of it, developing real connections.

This crowdfunding campaign is just the first step -- a trial -- but if there is a really good response I think it will meaningfully show that people are fed up with the injustice of the current system and willing to help with their money to fight it. Insurance needs to be reformed, and this could be incite the movement to do it. There is the opportunity for a great startup to be formed -- honest insurance is something that people want.
We stopped using RAID5/6 several years ago because of rebuild time and associated performance drop. Now with these massive disks we don't even use RAID10 any more! Every disk is just paired with one mirror and that's it. (RAID1)

The plan is to move to JBOD soon and just use software to store each file on 3 random disks across 3 separate servers.
Do you happen to have any books on hand that deal with setting boundaries. I never really developed this skill, but it seems really useful and I'm in a situation where I need it. My boundaries are clearly being crossed, but I don't know how consequences should be brought up, or how to actually go through with the consequences (I seem to cave pretty easily.)
Exactly; bypass this entire service layer maintained by thousands of engineers and try to do it in Javascript?! I think that's probably not a good idea.
If your job sucks and makes you depressed, you probably should quit. If you can't quit, you should re-examine your values. If you are willing to give up your happiness for someone else's more power to you, but then you better be willing to live with that decision or else go re-examine your values again.
I ended up rewriting the page without any JS frameworks - now it's a lot more compact. Index.html: http://pastebin.com/EwUDuhYG
Sarcasm? Steko is right.
One problem with this is that this suffers from lack of obscurity, being implemented by a very popular mass mailer. It help against obnoxious, but otherwise honest sites that you have a relationship with, but it won't hamper real spammers, who can easily encode in their spamming software the blanket rule that any e-mail matching the pattern <x>+<y>@gmail.com should always be filtered to <x>@gmail.com.

You could not, for instance, widely publicize your "plus armored" gmail address in ways that make it susceptible to harvesting, and the scheme won't safeguard against situations where that e-mail address, once given legitimately, ends up sold to spammers.

Basically, everyone should have their own mail domain with a different trick. :)

Here is something you can do to bootstrap your own trick: make a "plus armored" gmail address your main one. For instance "bob.smith+rocks@gmail.com", such that "bob.smith@gmail.com" is considered invalid and thrown to the bit bucket. Do not give the "+rocks" version to anyone other than close contacts. Since "rocks" is a personal suffix, a spammer who has the address "bob.smith+junk003@gmail.com" cannot guess that "junk003" must be replaced with "rocks".
At scale everything happens, even very rare events.
As someone who occasionally plays Vintage and pretty regularly plays Legacy (two of the formats which allow use of 'any' cards printed including many of the more expensive cards in mtg's history). I dislike playing against proxies because it warps the metagame.

Some cards are so prohibitively expensive that building decks around them (in a non-proxied tournament) is simply not feesible. Even if the expensive cards are objectively better (which is arguable in legacy's case) they are 'priced out of the market' so you rarely see them in tournamnets this is stuff like (Tabernacle, imperial recruiter, candelabra, grim tutor etc. in legacy's case).

Sure some people will throw down a small cars worth of cash to play with "the best cards" but they are outliers in any tournament once you allow proxies suddenly everyone has access to "the best cards" and suddenly an entire room of people are all playing the same deck. When I go to a tournament half of my enjoyment comes about because of the diversity of opponents you will face playing the same match round after round is not fun and thats what proxing leads to.

A good compromise is to allow for a limited number of proxies typically 5-10 cards maximum this allows you to play with a fewcopies of cards you otherwise wouldn't have access to but stops people going online to find the best deck and proxying 100% of it (decks are typically 60 cards).
You're Not Using This Enough, Part One: Go Interfaces
That'd be akin to thinking WWII prisoner/forced labor/death camp sarcasm is appropriate. Ha-ha, the food was so bad at Apple's cafeteria, we thought we'd end up looking like death camp victims.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7084299
I honestly don't mind it, I'm lucky enough to know how to deal with it, if only to an extent. It's a congenital condition, the tissues in my throat, ears and nose are weak and get infected and damaged more easily.
Let me know if you hit a jackpot! People will pay for crappy commons if they are from Beta/Alpha. :)
Actually, you are right, I was wrong about my assumption that FIFO is the worst case, and that 5n/2 is the space bound.

Let's first establish that to get the worst case it's always optimal to append to the end with the least free space. Anything else and you're using allocations more efficiently.

There's two cases. One where reallocation is needed, and one where it is not. Let's look at both seperately.

No reallocation needed: half of the free space "harvested" (as you call it) is enough. End result after shuffling is same free space on both ends, thus it doesn't matter if you switch sides. This is the FIFO case which I analyzed above.

Reallocation needed: the side that needed more space _always_ has more space than the side that was harvested from, because if the harvesting alone was enough we'd be in the "no reallocation" case. This means that if you want the worst case, you will always switch sides.

Let's say there are n elements, the side you're appending to has a free space, and the other side has b free space, and the total memory usage is s. So the model after x reallocations is:

s(x) = 1.5s(x-1)
n(x) = n(x-1) + a(x-1)
a(x) = b(x-1) / 2
b(x) = s(x) - n(x) - a(x)

Forgive me for not being on-point in a quick reply with my exact maths, but entering this model with n(0) = s(0) = 16 using Python and memoization to speed up the recursion reveals that a(x) / n(x) is exactly 1/2. So after n/2 appends n moves are needed, so 2 moves per operation. s(x) / n(x) turns out to be exactly 3, so 3n is the max space bound.

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This means that the memory bound is worse than a ring buffer in the worst case, but the 2 moves per operation isn't even worse than just appending to a regular array, assuming the growth factor is 1.5 for both.
You might find this site useful to cut down on the sorting: http://mtg.dawnglare.com
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Great design and UX comes from a deep understanding and empathy of people (including yourself). If I feel your pain, I can help address it.
His widow was my primary care physician for years. I was sad to lose her (she left Kaiser for Stanford) and I'm now sad to hear that she's lost her husband.

My best to you, Dr. Kalanithi.
I play legacy a lot but I dislike modern because WOTC have been so heavy handed with the banlist everytime an archetype gets popular they nerf it and as a result the format feels really anemic to play and makes a lot of people feel uncertain about investing in the format.

Also the "eggs" deck did a lot to kill the format. I top 8'd a PTQ (playing 5 color zoo - which was essenitally a tribal flames burn deck) this was my best result in a large tournament but was one of the most miserable days of magic due to the shear amount of time it over-ran due to all the eggs players. My friend ended up winning the PTQ (playing affinity) and we didn't get home until the very early hours of the morning it was riddiculous.
This is really quite sad. When you are around that age you don't really think about those things.

Truly though, article and content posting like this are what make HN such a great place. I would have never seen this had I not read this site. Thank you for posting it mikecircle.
> If you're rich and you get fined doing well over the specified speed limit but you only have to pay at most a few hundred dollars for potentially putting someone else's life in danger, what is the deterrent?

Many US states have a system of "points," which are assigned based on the severity of the driving offense. You might hear someone say "He got three points on his license for speeding."

The points expire over time, and points can be subtracted by attending driving school (and possibly other ways, too), but there are some limits on how quickly and how many points can be expired. Accumulating too many points at one time (the limit is usually an integer in the range 5 to 10) will lead to having one's license and driving privileges revoked.

The number of points earned for drunk driving is somewhere close to the maximum (in my state), and there are more restrictions on retiring these points, so being caught driving drunk puts one perilously close to losing one's license.

I'm not sure that either income-proportionate fines or license points are better. Just different approaches to the same problem.

Edit: Actually, after thinking about this a little more, I feel that the proportionate fines are probably better. Not all states have points systems, and points generally do not transfer between states. So someone from another state could come here, be caught speeding, and not face any long-term consequence (because the points would expire before they return).
That model of Bitbucket came up AFTER Github established itself.
Does anyone know if mainline git has any plans to eventually add better support for binary files? There are a number of hacks and bolt-on solutions, but it would be a lot easier to propose git for projects if it would just work as-is.
Just going to join the people asking that you speak to archive.org to get these old projects hosted.

Sure I can move my own old projects, but there is plenty of stuff out there that will be lost.

Part of what makes modern coding efficient is being able to not just look up working libraries but also to find old solutions to similar problems.
Bad wording on my part - I know what it meant, I just thought it was baffling that they don't let websites opt-out of this new feature at all.
You can also use Statistical NLP to rank comments with unique and important words. Biomimic@gmail.com for details.
Dude this comment is killing it.
I never knew UTD had such goings-on, probably because I was just an evening student who attended business classes there :) (FYI: I have been a developer most of my life - just wanted to broaden my horizons re. business.)

I think I also know a Richard Bates from UTD, as a co-worker (but I am not real sure that it is the same person so I won't be too specific as to company and etc.). I found this Richard Bates to be a hard worker who was detail oriented and focused on doing the right thing.
I hope you'll be able to upgrade the module and retain the same case+band, but I haven't seen anything definitive from Apple to say that's likely.
If you can find factual errors in the source I linked, or errors in interpretation of those facts, I would be keen to hear them.
In the US at least, our legal system frowns upon excessive punishments without lots of due process (i.e. giving your trial lots of time and attention).

That's why, for example, the death penalty requires an extreme amount of due process. Your trial is lengthy and ideally involves a massive amount of proof before you're given a death sentence. It's also easy to appeal.

That's actually one of the legal arguments against the death penalty here: you can never be 100% certain someone committed a crime, so you should never give them the 100% punishment of death.

People who advocate for instant death penalty for heinous crimes, like murders or rapes, don't consider that. You can just never be sure that someone is guilty, even if they confess, and our legal system has decided to err on the side of allowing a guilty person to go free rather than punishing an innocent person. At least in theory.

For traffic fines, you get almost zero due process. Most of the time, you just plead guilty on the spot. A judge won't spend much time on your case, and you have to pay the court for using that time (often nearly as much as the fine itself).

So if someone making, say, $100,000 had to pay $1,000 for a speeding ticket, there'd be more due process required. It's not fair to basically assume someone is guilty (as we currently do with speeding tickets) when the fine is that high.

Even if we accommodated the due process required, it would add more load to an already way overburdened court system. It's just not possible.

There's also an argument to be made that $1,000 is a punishment that does not fit the crime of, say, driving 85 mph in a 70 mph zone without causing any harm or damage. Again, there's the concept of guilt, and whether the radar gun malfunctioned or the cop was being malicious or whatever.
They make the videos because Ive prefers to not go onstage and they need some visual porn becuase just a video of his talking head would get boring quick
I think the VC environment cultivates a [D]ominant personality type in the DiSC chart. As a VC you are constantly being pitched, getting hundreds of emails a day, you try to allocate time but it's too much and then after awhile you turn into the guy who says: "Just get to the fucking point" and focus on the transaction rather than the ovararching social interaction (which is difficult in that environment). Maybe men are more prone to adopting that personality. Maybe if Mrs Pao had stuck around be for a few more years she would have adopted that. And maybe an organization would be better off if they just hired high achieving women as they may collectively take a company to higher heights that a bunch of self-promoters looking out for number one. This is an interesting story that touches on deep differences between men and women (whether genetic or environmental) and how do we address those consequences so far down stream.
Does this cause problems in practice?

I've never used Ceph in production, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect the sysadmin to keep clock skew in check.
You'd be surprised. Adding 2 instructions to every array operation would probably kill your engine's relative SunSpider or V8 score. JS performance is extremely competitive.
I experience something similar. Besides having high scores on those online "EQ" quizzes, it's astoundingly easy for me to be liked if I make the effort to "turn it on," to the point where I feel completely undeserving and out of place being welcomed. The downside is that if someone is a skillful manipulator, they'll use my empathy against me(many confidence schemes involve some of this). And if I hurt someone I'll basically remember it forever, so I'm predisposed towards pacifism even at my most hyped up and aggressive.

Given all of that, I have gradually established certain "rules of engagement" that aim for noble uses of these various strengths and weaknesses - whom I am allowed to be involved with, and on what levels, in various situations, and what is a "good" way to be involved with someone. I subscribe heavily to Stoicism. I also think often on how socialization works elsewhere in nature, to realign my perspective on human society.
Some here seems to think that introverts can't be empathic which ironically seems like a very hostile attitude towards fellow people.
Scratch is a real programming language! Programming isn't about how fancy the tools you use are. It's about what you do with the tools you have. I started out in nothing more than QBasic.
Interestingly, venture capital LAW definitely has a self-dealing problem. Many (if not most) major law firms in the valley have both company-side and investor-side clients. And even if they don't, law firms often see a fair amount of company-side clients based on investor referrals. As a result, company-side counsel can often be reluctant to push too hard against investors lest they risk jeopardizing future business.

My first company actually had a situation where the same firm represented both us and the investor during our seed round AT THE SAME TIME. To be fair, this was the investor's idea, not the law firm (and the law firm made sign all sorts of waivers), and we ultimately saved a small amount in transaction fees and I can't say we would've gotten much better terms with independent counsel. But the entire affair makes me cringe a little every time I look back on it.

In case you're wondering, yes, there are rules against all of this. But you can waive a lot of the rules by providing written consent (and many clients don't think twice about this).
I don't know if it's accurate, because I know little about milling, but I found this to be the most interesting bit:

> Apple chooses not to show us the manufacturing of the clasp components, processes that I think would be (in some respects) more interesting than how the watch case is made. Given the complex surfaces of the Modern buckle, this might be the first example of Apple using 3D surface tollbooth in order to machine a component (all Apple products have been created through the very skillful use of relatively simple, precise prismatic 2.5D tool path, with any complex curves being created from stampings).
Funny CSS puns
> partially because it's assumed that those companies understand the far-reaching consequences of their actions

The large companies are made of small clueless people just like every other company on the face of the Earth.
You should learn reasoning, modeling, and (most importantly) people skills at an internship. Don't worry about the language.
Is anyone else finding that the Github importer just stalls at 0%?

I don't really want to have to redo the whole wiki manually :(.
Godwin strike just makes it better. Please go on.