skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I'm rather fond of my DSG, and manual was a little bit of a non-starter because my wife wanted a car she could drive, and learning stick in DC is...a terrible idea.
Ours is extremely similar to this though we also have `time-<1hour, time-couplehours, time-halfday, time-day, time-coupledays, time-week, time-weeks` as time estimates on work required
With respect I disagree.

To me a mailing list serve a purpose. Its a middle ground between IRC and not having any discussion medium at all.

IRC is suitable for chat but discussions happen on mailing lists (or here on Hackernews).

In mailing lists conversations are threaded and there's nothing wrong with carefully considering your response before the question flies off the screen as on an IRC chat. Stackoverflow is great for one-off questions, but they are not a support forum for your project.

IMO new or young projects don't yet have a need for real discussion around the project, the project is to small, the Dev team is too small and or is located geographically close together, or the project just doesn't warrant in depth discussion yet.

Edit: my biggest gripe about mailing lists is that many do not meet the one - click - unsubscribe standard, most that I've seen require two clicks. Maybe I'm being pedantic, but it does matter to me.
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That idea went out the door with all the things that Web 2.0 brought. Even news articles, one of the most stable page sources I can think of, periodically receive updates that would render such a concept invalid. The concept of "slicing and dicing" with static links is simply not compatible with an Internet where pages can change content at any time. And I personally think that what we gained is worth a lot more.
They may have blacklisted your name because you're spamming them with applications. "I've left her 15 messages and haven't gotten a single response," sounds just about as crazy...
Kind of surprised Sublime Text 2 / 3 doesn't have a plugin that allows for annotation.
Most people will go out of their away to invent reasons for why a disadvantageous evaluation system is fundamentally broken. For example, people who don't do well on standardized tests (e.g. SATs) typically say "I'm bad at test-taking" or "SATs are stupid" despite overwhelming evidence that SATs are a good predictor of general intelligence.

It's worth considering the possibility that while you may be a great developer, you're not as good as you think you are with respect to the caliber of people that work at Google.

(Note -- I don't work at Google and didn't do spectacularly well on standardized tests; but after working with many algorithms whizzes over the years I've learned that I'm not nearly as good a programmer as I once thought).
Does anyone have hands-on experience with Aurora? Although I signed up for the preview I do not have access yet, I'm eager to try it.

Our experience with RDS hasn't been that smooth: lots of sudden performance issues, table locks and whatnot. DB reboot or even full restore is a once a month thing.
I'm one of the founders of Meld and I'm happy to answer any questions you might have about our product or precision cooking and temperature control in general.

We were as surprised as you that this doesn't exist already. A traditional stove is an amazingly capable and flexible device. By adding some simple smarts to the burner control it's possible to do amazing things.

Induction stoves are good, but you might be surprised to learn that gas is even more precise. With gas you basically have infinitely fine control over the flow of energy to the pan since a gas valve is a linear analog control. Honestly, though, whether you have a gas or electric stove we can generally keep temps to within one degree (F) of a given target.
Good luck going anywhere after you say "No, I don't know where Jack is. Maybe we should head back to the ship without him."
So glad jQuery came along and became what it is. Scary to think of a world where it was just bundled alongside Prototype. For those not versed in Prototype, those were dark days (at least for me).
blades were never more than a marketing trick: the offer nothing that can't be achieved in a standard chassis. there were a few multi-chassis SMP/NUMA machines that had cache coherency over external interfaces, but that was neither commodity nor HPC.
Uninterruptable power supplies, off-grid solar or wind installations, well I can't think of any other, but those two are quite big already.

Such battery must compete well with lead-acid ones so they'll probably be hard to create, but in theory they could be much better.
"An eye for an eye" is a universal principle

No, it's not. It's a common desire, but it is not universal. And plenty of victims of various crimes don't want revenge, but to just put the whole affair behind them.
Exactly! It's easy to rush to judgement and say "sue the employer" when you've only heard one side of the story. My wife's friend recently had a baby, and she exploited the situation to the full. She didn't come to work for almost 7 months using various excuses, and she was openly telling her friends at work about how she was exploiting the situation. I don't know how much management knew about it, but they didn't fire her because they were afraid of getting sued. Management isn't always bad by definition!

I am obviously not saying that everyone exploits maternity. I'm just highlighting that there can be another side to the story. Isn't it possible that the management was already considering letting the Director of Engineering (a role that by definition is not going to have a lot of peers) go? What do they do if she's pregnant at the same time? Wait for 6 months just so they don't get sued?

EDIT: Can't respond in a reply, so I am responding here. "Exploiting a situation" doesn't mean utilizing benefits legally given to you. An example of exploiting the situation will be: My employer is required to give me paid sick leave. So, even if I'm not sick, I'll claim that I am and get paid for taking time off. And usually, it's not the employer who gets hurt by something short-term like this. It's my peers who have to pick up the slack.
Why all this hate specifically towards Pixar? Most of his arguments reflect his pessimistic views about Pixar's internals.

1. Build the initial prototype on your own, apply no criticism. 2. Be realistic and objective, run a checklist over your prototype. 3. Repeat this cycle until your idea is refined. Key is to throw work out.

Does seem like a pretty decent workflow however.
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> So you'd say with a straight face that if everyone in the world suddenly became white, straight and good-looking, that this would be so unbearable to you that you would kill yourself?

No?

I'm saying I'd rather not live in a world where diversity has been eliminated.

> Your post reads like pure fear-mongering to me.

Well, it is a potential future.
Yes, I saw that.

But what if that $2 processor makes a poor decision, rotates that knob on accident and kills your family?
A lot of these 'problems' and 'lessons' seem to come as a byproduct of being a part of a 'scene' to do with startups, particularly uninspiring web and mobile startups. 'Uninspiring', to me, means people doing a startup for the sake of doing a startup, not because they're passionate about the problem, have found a good opportunity/market to exploit, etc.

One of the best pieces of advice I got was to not associated with losers. It's harsh, I know, but if you see people around you not being productive and successful, chances are you're in the wrong peer group. Better to have a smaller and higher quality social circle than to let your time be wasted by 'the scene'.

There's a good heuristic - anytime someone calls something a 'scene', it's time to leave. It means the people are interested more in the idea of what they're doing than the real thing.
Just for the lols i visited the link on my phone... It worked! All the blurs and reflections all of it worked. Hats off to your team. Frame rates though were laggy but i'm still impressed.
Consider: you won. So you may have some biases that make you inclined to keep around the tournament system that you benefited from.

I also "won", in that I have a full-time position in an industry research lab. But I hesitate to conclude that the current system is tenable, just because it worked out for me.
I would like one please!
If it didn't completely fail then you have the benefits of trading history for getting credit terms with suppliers. That's the only reason we kept the company entity when totally changing direction and it was worth it.
Noting that overly harsh and unjust punishments are a waste of taxpayer money is not the same thing at all as opposing punishments that are (believed to be) just but that are expensive. By your reasoning, since sending someone to jail costs more than not sending them to jail, this judge should believe that nobody ever should be sent to jail.
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This is a good article.

I built a tiny cluster in my basement (a prototype) and looked at MPI and decided that it was way to complicated, so I just built something that pushes the essential bits, pretty much without abstraction, to the nodes and was done. The cluster is a very specific solution, so I felt justified in not looking at MPI. And now the decision feels even more justified.
May I get one?
> Your first sentence is a non-sequitur. When did Nature decide that the more well-educated are the fittest?

IQ isn't nature, IQ is a testing system. IQ is essentially a test of whether you have been given a high-quality Western education.

> Your second sentence is wrong. People's intelligence vary widely which is why some people can't even answer a hypothetical question and engage in thought experiments.

People's intelligence does vary, but not as much as you think it does. A lot of it, again, is down to education.

> Black people suffer in the US because the US has a ton of laws that harm them,

The legal system does not exist in isolation. It is influenced by US society (which is oppressive towards black people).
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Ask HN: Existing Civil Fee/Fine Payments Need Innovation
Quick Question: How many readers have spent a night in jail, justly or unjustly?

Edit: I've read some comments and you're not reading the question fully.

What were your experiences paying the fines?

If there was any fees/fine involved, was it reasonable and what city?

Was it a simple process?

Were there outside fees associated with paying the fines?

Did you go to a website or pay at the court house?

Thanks.
This comment demonstrates everything that is disappointing about GPG. Went to a Defcon London meetup recently and there was only about 10 people in the room who actively used it (out of over 100)
I totally understand your concern. That's why we NEVER turn on the stove for you. All modern stoves require you to push the knob in to move it from the off position. The Meld Knob is mechanically incapable of defeating this safety interlock.
> it's difficult to go back in time and re-write the employee stock plan.

As well it should be.
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It hashes password.

Encrypting them indicates there's a way to decrypt them. Hashing, by definition, is not possible (not practical, really).
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GPUs have a large advantage in a very narrow niche: regular and very intensive ops on regular and compact data. ML is not completely ideal (because it's not that compute-intensive), but MC simulations often are. Most things are not ideal for GPUs, especially since it's often not obvious how to nicely scale across GPUs. MPI's strongest point is that it lets you take very good advantage of any topology of general-purpose computers: multicore, NUMA, distributed-memory. Models that emphasize data-parallel programming (co-array fortran, etc) suit GPUs much better. But nothing is going to change the fact that GPU registers are much faster than GPU (card) memory, which is faster than any possible interconnect.
> despite overwhelming evidence that SATs are a good predictor of general intelligence

I never heard this before. I thought that SATs and other standardized tests heavily correlate with background / race. Which to me, means it's not a good indicator of intelligence, but rather education.
There are numerous benchmarks implemented in Chapel, some of which are competitive with other implementations (see paper reference in article). There is a growing standard library and literally thousands of test codes that represent a broad set of functionality. That said, Chapel is not yet a product grade language, nor is it promoted as such.

Chapel may not be an appropriate replacement for all MPI programs, but it can be used for some programs today.
Ah, but I think that the comparison doesn't hold. In my opinion, Smalltalk was the right way to do all of what we do, and Java took the enterprise mindset by storm. There was an enormous project at a very large Insurance company near Chicago that was written in Smalltalk, but got abandoned for some obscure reason.

I think that Smalltalk has the right level of abstraction and a lot of very good other things about it.

MPI was, as the article points out, the wrong abstraction for the problem. If MPI dies, I am ok with that.

I am sad that Smalltalk is not more widely used.
If you're looking for clojurists... Note that Carin's looking for new opportunities right now.

She's also the author of http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034292.do

I worked with her in a past life, she's great to work with, I'd recommend her for any team.
If Google primarily worked on developing novel sorting algorithms, I'd agree that this is a great process for them. Heck, maybe it is a great process for them—they just do an astoundingly poor job of explaining who they want to work at Google.

(Also, please recall that literally the only time I personally applied to Google was the freshman year of college. This isn't a case of personal sour grapes.)

By the way, I also don't think their hiring process is fundamentally broken. Just pointing out that this is the reputation it's acquired.

Since you brought up the SAT, it's an absolutely perfect and effective system with zero flaws—which I did spectacularly well on.
It is often inexperienced people or "business" guys without any technical background who think they have the billion dollar idea when in fact there are a thousand people who had the idea before who couldn't or wouldn't execute.

So, that advice goes for them: forget NDAs and get good feedback. On the other hand, if you really know what you're doing, you'll know if the idea has a lot of intrinsic value and/or potential for being easily stolen (infrequent and often unpredictable in those rare cases), and who you can to talk to about it.

More often than not, "ideas" are pretty simple and valueless and even the best execution can't do much to keep the business afloat. Many successful ideas come from something as simple as merging several different fields (only an expert in both fields is likely to come up with it), or simply from some enabling technologies maturing enough to have everyone and their dog execute the ideas they had but couldn't build successfully before (tablets come to mind, many mobile apps and so on).

Experienced people would know what to do with their ideas. Who to talk to to get advice, what to keep close to their chest or not. Others would benefit greatly from any advice at all they could get and for that they need to run the very small risk of telling their idea to others.
Actually mailman 3 can help fighting spam:

* Since data is now in SQL, it's easier to interact with the DB and have simple tools delete spammers.
* Since there's an exposable API now, it's possible to develop systems that interact with mailman and help with the issue.
His essay on the Watts race riots is pretty great, too.
That depends on whether or not you think intelligence is an inheritable trait.
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On a related note, still no package signing in Cabal (Haskell's package manager).

https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/936
What's with the title edit?

Actual title: "Here’s Google’s Secret to Hiring the Best People"

Current HN title: "How Google Hires"
Nope, sorry. If there's any consolation to be had, you're in fine company:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/...
This is pretty cool...great insights Harsh! It will be interesting to see sentiment analysis post match next time. :)
> How many readers have spent a night in jail, justly or unjustly?

Probably more than you expect.

> What were your experiences paying the fines, if there was any fees/fine involved, was it reasonable and what city?

This almost certainly varies quite a bit from place to place. Contact a lawyer; if you spend just one night behind bars, you can probably afford to at least talk to one about your situation.
Ha! That's great, I think I'll put that up. If you'd like credit, my email is in my profile, happy to include a link to your site/twitter/whatever.
I don't think it was implied that a particular form of hiring funnel discrimination was the only form of discrimination in tech.
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Ive made something similar to this a while ago.

https://www.chromeexperiments.com/experiment/one-million-par...

It does its calculations on the GPU so it can handle a million particles easily. You can also pause it to explore it in 3D.
If I'm an employee above the distribution threshold, doesn't this incentivize me to leave early (ideally right before the distribution event) rather than get my shares redistributed?
HN mods don't kill stories because they're about YC companies. On the contrary, when bad stories about YC startups appear, we either don't penalize them at all, or at least not as much as we otherwise would. It's literally the first thing PG emphasized when showing me how he moderated HN.

People are understandably suspicious about this, and we don't expect suspicion to go away just because we say so. But this way we can answer in good conscience.
point 3 is not factually correct
(at least as far as 'males')
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/men-women-prison-se...
"horrid for interactive" is ironic, since interactive and HPC are pretty much disjoint. (well, viz...) From an HPC perspective, Fortran IO should be performed by HDF5...
Runs at 60fps on latest Chrome for me. I'm on a retina macbook pro 15".
Bitcoin Foundation Divided Over Controversial Restructuring Proposal
1. Having children was until very recently (probably still is) the norm

2. Children are net-benefit for society

3. The government should at least partially subsidise

^ These make me feel that we had a population bubble that popped some time ago. Just compare it to housing: Buying it is the norm, it is net benefit for the economy, and yet it still sometimes pops and then no government subsidies help when people are not ready to buy anymore.

Same thing we have with children, albeit much more inertial.
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http://thekarisgroup.com/

lots and lots of these
Rand's running (obv) and he's accepting Bitcoin
Yeah, exactly. If you have just a couple ideas and you think they're great what are the chances they're actually great? you should have dozens and be pretty sceptical and critical to filter out the really good ones.
Exactly what I was thinking. I'm sure there's some kind of cross-browser, front-end javascript library that you could use to achieve this :)
I've heard from one senior engineer at Google that he likes to ask candidates to sketch out the implementation for a red/black tree on the spot.

I guess I could go dig up my old data structures and algorithms book that I haven't touched in 15 years to refresh my memory, but I don't want to work at Google badly enough to bother with that.
Is this for tax, convenience, or other reasons? I thought one of the powers of Bitcoin was not needing a 3rd party. Then again there's lots of reasons not to roll any part of your own payment process.