skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet, you had access to money to meet your basic needs.
Scribd (YC '06, "Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 50 people) is hiring talented devs in a variety of flavors to help us build the library of the 21st century.

We've hired TEN full-time people and TONS of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... we do go through all of the applications we receive in response.
There was some feedback about people not hearing back at all. We take candidate experience very seriously and recently hired someone to own our recruiting process and now everyone who applies through our job board (http://grnh.se/gr84t3) will get a response.

We're looking for people who want to work with:

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We care way more about your personality, potential, and general hacking skills than what specific languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience. That being said, there isn’t always an opening that’s a good fit but we do our best to find a match for talented people and there are several people who interviewed 2 or 3 times before the time was right.

To expedite your application, please apply directly to our job board where you’ll find all of our current opening and the job descriptions. We do our best to respond within 24 hours, and you’ll get an answer either way.
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We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a jam room!) in the center of the startup world in San Francisco. Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire, and we love hiring people with entrepreneur and startup ambitions. We are also always looking for international people interested in moving to the US and can help you secure a visa.

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Microsoft have a genuine opportunity through SharePoint and Windows. The sun will set on it soon though if they aren't able to capitalise.
If you feel that kind of boiler-plate would provide better results, feel free to imagine it and extract the results for yourself.

Or provide details about those experiences you think are needed.
I totally agree with everything you said. However:

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things."
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Economy shrinks; Canada faces ‘strangest’ recession
How about "dual-ended JavaScript", sort of like "dual-ended mascara".
It sorta spits at the idea of social mobility ("the american dream") though. The biggest rewards are only really available to those who can take risks like starting a business, and if you restrict that to only those who are already well-off, you remove most chances for the poor to ascend to the higher classes.
I like the "Dots in Motion" language.
Well, I can't speak for LA, but you have to acknowledge the role of having all those drivers on the road in the first place. Distributed better, jitter in driver behavior should tend towards having no effect with the distance between cars.
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4. Apply brakes and enable safety features for impending collision, notify police of crash and location.

Why would it do anything else?
Life isn't fair, especially when it comes to economics. Whenever you think you've found some sector of industry that is more egalitarian, you've probably either stumbled into something where you haven't identified the advantaged and disadvantaged parties (it's easier to miss when you are part of the advantaged group), or the current social context makes it easier to hide. That said, there are lots of very different industries, and one of them probably advantages you in some way if you can find it.
Oh! That's super useful. I stand corrected.

I wonder if grsec's MAC system has grown an equivalent feature in the past four or five years. (If I overlooked the existence of such a thing in grsec, I'm gonna be so embarrassed.)
The End of Global CSS (May 20)
What happens with these driverless cars at four way stop signs? With humans, generally someone waves to the other driver signaling either to take right of way or that they will go first.

I presume the car doesn't understand hand gestures, so does it just start nudging into the intersection and stop if another car goes ahead?
Ask HN: How to pitch to technical folks?
There are tons of great advice on how to pitch to investors but are there any great articles on how to pitch to technical people?
If we're gonna go that route, I still like "middle-end" JS better. :)
Flashlight – do anything with a keystroke (spotligh plugin)
I've never understood that criticism. Business decisions should be data driven. You test new signup flows to see which one onboards users better. You test advertising changes to see which one converts better. Why should a logo design or a title bar color be any different? Without testing each iteration, how do you know which one has the best effect on whatever success metrics you're using? I can understand if you're worried about optimizing to a local maxima, but that's not a criticism of A/B testing, it's a criticism of the diversity of the available inputs.
Every abstraction leaks. That's why they are abstractions and not 'actuals.'

What you do is try it, and when it fails, you manage the failure and modify your system.
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I think there's a lot of truth to what you're saying, but it's more complex than that.

When considering legislation and regulation, we willingly juggle a lot of cognitive dissonance. We seem to divide plan into (at least) its implementation and its intended effect, and consider each of those separately.

So I'm endlessly having conversations with friends of a different political stripe (which is easy, since everyone is of a different political stripe than me) that go something like: (note I'm not trying to trigger the implied political debate, this is for illustration only)

Friend: Financial system bailouts and systemic risks of "too big to fail" are terrible, and so we can't touch the Dodd-Frank legislation.

Me: I know that supporters of Dodd-Frank promised that it would put an end to TBTF. But the bill doesn't actually contain anything that does that. And in fact, since the industry has further consolidated since the bill was passed, it shows that whatever the intent, it isn't able to do its job successfully. If it can't do what you want it to do, why should we keep it?

Friend: But the banks are out of control, and we need to do something to prevent another collapse. We can't remove any regulation on them!

Maybe this is just the normal voter ignorance effect, but it seems that we assume people are making decisions based on actual understanding, but they're really just using oversimplified proxies instead, even when the inaccuracy of their proxy is pointed out to them. So a law that purports to fix X (whether X is healthcare or immigration or whatever) is a necessity, regardless of what the actual evidence, whether empirical or from reading the bill, tells us.

TL;DR: passing a law is intended to make us feel like we're doing the right thing, not necessarily to actually do it.
You can say that about any software project, man.
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CSS vs. SVG: Styling Checkboxes and Radio Buttons
It's a financial service, they're covering their ass from unforeseen tax issues. If some people in Russia decide to use it, and paypal hasn't checked to be sure that this is all completely legit under Russian tax law, there will be huge problems for them.
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Tablets are indeed complex.

At best they have the same SOC as a good phone but they typically have way more pixels to carry around.

NoName Chinese tablets are often a disaster and even high end tablets are hard to get right.

Even putting graphics aside, things like a slow internal memory can also wreak performances.
Getting real human answers is better than getting from search engines?
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Dynamic types in fact provide something which qualifies as a guarantee. If properly implemented, they prevent an incorrectly typed operation from being applied to a value, which would otherwise result in nonportable, unpredictable or fatal consequences, possibly without any diagnostic. Dynamic types, in an of themselves, do this at the last possible moment. Dynamic typing doesn't preclude the application of static checking with type inference and/or optional declarations, however.
5% seems a little steep on top of what Paypal or Stripe take.
(a) It still shows the old logo on Google.de

(b) The new one looks overly simplistic – and too geometric. It ignores the lessons typographs have learnt in centuries. Usually, you want glyphs that look balanced – the new logo does not look balanced.
Learn some empathy for people who, unlike you, were not born on second base. Wages have stagnated for working class people for decades. People are having to work two jobs to make ends meet. Are you honestly suggesting that these people are lazy or "making excuses"?
OK you're gonna save $X / year, how many person-hours is it going to cost you to do the move?
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Google reveals new logo for mobile world
I remember stumbling on this site a while ago and the format [1] was completely different.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20150214165654/http://www.structu...
I thought this was interesting and have done a little bit with custom checkboxes.
I am the last guy to ask about design and UX so I am curious if it's frowned upon or if it sets a site apart.
I really like your Portfolio website (but sadly am not hiring at the moment).
Looks like they solved that, it now disallowed inputting a dash. I wonder if that's just client-side though.
Why We're Taking Pre-Orders for Our New SaaS Product, Again
I agree. His writing was excellent. Along with John Carmack's .plan files, PG essays and Joel Spolsky's blog, he had a huge influence in me really getting into programming.
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..."Now, what did the old logo look like!?!"
That's basically a form of authoritarianism.

Also, this is essentially the underlying premise behind no-tolerance policies and three-strike drug laws with mandatory sentences, which view interpreting the law based on context as an impediment to enforcement, the solution for which is removing the ability of judges to do so. You can't have a just legal framework in which the only role of humans is to be punished or to exact punishment.
Nextbit’s Robin Is Another Pretty Phone–But with Infinite Storage
They think money solves every problem, completely ignoring family stability, risk assessment by family members, advice, a roof over your head, more daylight hours since chores are split up between family members, sanity, etc.
>It's fair to call it that when comparing against any language or runtime targetting general-purpose development

Unless you consider, e.g., C, C++, and Rust as not general-purpose. Even C# has StructLayout where you can control the struct layout. Heck, Go and C# allow you to embed a fixed size array into a struct (this facility is not in the works for Java at the moment).
You don't know what you are talking about. The law is in no way consistent. The legal system is full of bugs and fails often. It ends peoples economic and social lives often enough. The only thing that keeps it in place is the lack of a better alternative and power.
I think the point being made is that being the master of your own destiny is one of the most valued ideas to most of us. Letting a computer decide whether I live or die is certainly a future I don't want
Step 1. Release autonomous cars to market with lower incidence rate than humans.

Step 2. Sit back and watch humans cause accidents; insurance for human drivers goes thru the roof.

Step 3. ???

Step 4. Skynet.
Scaleway slashes IaaS prices by 70%
Reminds me a bit of VIM. I love vim as much as the next guy, but I can't wait for neovim to get stable.
That's fun to go back and re-read now. He correctly describes "Shit's Easy" Syndrome, but maybe there's an opposing fallacy that's heavily status quo biased. Legalizing marijuana is in fact pretty easy, as bureaucratic undertakings go. Lots of his "what ifs" only make sense for something that's illegal in the first place -- What if illegal smugglers just pull up on the beach and start selling coffee? Why would they do that if you can just stop in at Starbucks?
Yeah I like it too. And thanks for the "double story g"... I always referred to it as "those scissor handles g": http://www.ekal.pk/barber-scissors/fancy-scissors-070s.jpg
What Is the One Fact Humanity Needs to Know?
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The Google app engine also still uses the beveled logo with the shadow.
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The Illustrated Introduction to Probability Spaces
> the sources the article used to back up its own claims

You've got it all backwards: The article is ARGUING AGAINST the inc.com thesis of an "entrepreneurship gene", calling it a myth:

> New research out this week [...] found that environmental factors (not genetic) most influenced behavior, pointing to the fact that risk tolerance is conditioned over time (dispelling the myth of an elusive “entrepreneurship gene“).
No, MAC-then-encrypt is very, very hard to get right, because you have to avoid creating side-channels (including timing side-channels) between the decryption operation, the padding check (if you're using a block cipher mode that requires padding), and the MAC check.

More to the point, if you're fielding a new MAC-then-encrypt design, then I don't trust your crypto, because your crypto knowledge is over a decade old. Krawczyk's paper was published in 2001: https://eprint.iacr.org/2001/045
This has actually been studied, and it depends on many factors like time of day + sun location, the weather, pavement conditions, and rigour during driver licensing. Optimal flow on a highway during sunshine is around 80km/h, where the gap between the cars is around a car and a half length. Under that and we would be better off having parking lot queues before onramps.

So why don't we do this? Because usually people want to travel to the city from the suburbs. The only place that has room to build these parking lots are the suburbs, but then the city couldn't take the excess flow (since it all needs to empty out into city streets and parking lots anyway).
The valuation is about 100 of those years of profit, which is a bit high IMO.
Apttus: Unicorn startup that didn't raise any funding in its first 7 years
I totally agree. Even if we successfully build a future where we can have developers/designers jump right into their work without having to understand much about configuration/setup/etc we're still going to need people who do get it. This is great for education but I wonder how often a student will decide they love programming (when it's set-up like this) and then realize they hate it when confronted with all different systems and set-ups you generally have to deal with in the real world.