skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YMMV, but in my experience resumes with 'top-shelf' names like Google or Microsoft on them almost always get a second look during the hiring process, even at startups. Hiring is an inherently uncertain process - association with success is usually taken as a proxy for quality. Of course, if your resume doesn't make the first cull you're not likely to find out why.

I worked for a couple of startups out of college. I agree that it's the easiest time to work for a startup, but it's also when you're likely to get the least out of the experience. Junior startup employees have no upside, typically below-market compensation, and don't tend to get the business experience required to start their own companies. Also - and perhaps I'm being cynical - but in hindsight I'm a bit leery of any startup that hires completely inexperienced staff. A startup is distinguished from a small company by its ambition to grow quickly. Hiring staff straight out of college means the company is prioritizing cash over growth, which suggests the founders are either short on capital or simply short-sighted. Neither bodes well for the company's prospects.

IMO, the best path for someone interested in startups is to work for a 'prestige' company out of college. Get some experience, build up a bit of capital, and find your co-founders. A successful tech company is the best environment to do that, and association with success will also make raising money easier.
Chrome is my current default @ home, IE8 my current default @work. I keep them both up to date. FF has been my default in the past. It's my business to keep up on our web sites' x-browser compatability, so it's important for me to switch browser from time to time.

I got shot down about this on HN in the past, but I'll say it again. The only thing I don't like about Chrome is forcing me into the Omni Bar, and not giving me the CHOICE to have a secondary search gadget for secondary and tertiary search engines (like FF and IE do). The keyword/tab option does not work well for Wikipedia because it does not propery handle spaces in the search string, and even if it did I just like having the secondary search box.
I used an ikea adjustable desk. However, I really needed to keep your desk clean, because it was a manual adjustment. It became too much of a bother, but I am considering readjusting it as a standup desk again now that I'm working at home again.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60111123
if the competition is between Google Docs and MS Word, I don't think you can really appeal to the appearance of the final document as a deciding factor. They both suck.
These stories always make me think it's fabricated PR. Sit/stand tables existed before the geekdesk, but a story like this is of course good marketing.
When you put it that way I agree with you. But I don't believe art is just in the eye of the beholder. I believe there is a web of definitions for art that all overlap. Great Art is art that mostly agreed by everyone that it is great art. People the world over converge to believe a certain symmetry and proportion makes the most beautiful face. In the same way I believe there is a shared inclination for what is Great Art [1]. But I don't know what it is, and challenge you to define it, because it's a little different for everyone, particularly subject to their perspective.

Let's consider person A and person B. Both A and B see and consider derivative art X' separately. A thinks: there's nothing original here. She's already seen art X. B thinks: wow, how interesting. B has not seen art X and so the uninspired derivation is still interesting.

Similarly, I think the Mona Lisa is a reasonably accurate painting of an unattractive woman. There is nothing beautiful or intrinsically interesting about it. It's due to POV. In fact, each of your examples in the OP is a different perspective. A different reason to consider something art. If you had a stricter definition I don't see how you could change perspective so easily.

I actually reduced all words defined on emotions to being subjective. I don't think this causes a problem. I don't see this as doing art injustice. Saying it is just subjective just gives us a spot to start from.

(Oi, now I don't know if I made sense.)
[1] There was a PBS like program on the BBC one night that discussed some research about this.
Here @ HN the simplicity of Karma allows for the most inciteful and productive community discussions on the net. Would any of these suggestions actually improve the way things work here?

Also, as much as i hate blippy and swipely - if companies know who actually purchased a good - then their feedback becomes hugely valuable.
A guy breaking the law is one thing. Maybe he found it and did what he could then was tempted by money, Maybe he actually stole it from the engineer and then did the very the least he possibly could to try to cover his ass before selling it. Draw your own conclusions about his motives and what outcome is appropriate for him.

But we have an entirely different situation with Gizmodo, and they may face an entirely different outcome.

The possibility that crime will get outsourced because you enforce your laws should be irrelevant. You do what you can to enforce your laws in your jurisdiction. Here in Canada we happily arrest Canadian citizens who travel overseas to abuse under-aged sex workers.
Having actually ported Linux to a new platform...I'd honestly say I can't see live starting from an app actually being easier than booting from a bootloader.

Now: Making it so the bootloader can be installed as an app via an open source project and compiling for the developer program, now that's a worthy goal and intermediary step.
Also Baking Soda + Vinegar, add some red food coloring for lava effect
The purpose of "good writing" is clear communication. Attempts at brevity, done properly, result in removing fluff and unnecessary details, leaving the key points intact and making them the clear focus. Done improperly, they result in incomplete or mangled communication, with key points missing or inadequately explained.

Be brief, but clear.
Giving hackers a dose of their own poison
Actually, I think it was Dr Petr Beckman that originally said that in the early 1970s.
The guys who created the 4chan web board code seem to think that the comment is what should have the reputation, not the user. This is one reason why they have a default-to-anon posting style (With options to force anon only posting).

People then focus on the content of the comment, not the posters aura/name/backing.
They pulled the episode, so no one can (officially) see it unless they saw it last night.

http://eis-blog.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sp_1406_...
Why do you think this would have adverse selection against the top of the pool? I can clearly see how it would act a barrier to application for the bottom candidates (a good thing for the company), and I can see how it would reduce the number of applicants who are applying "everywhere they can think of" (also probably good for the company in terms of getting a more qualified [in the sales-conversion-rate sense] base of applicants).

In my experience, the very top of the applicant pools aren't applying to a particularly large number of places.
No statistician, Canadian or otherwise, has shown that Mann's methods could generate a 'hockey stick' curve from random data.
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Are you suggesting that the Office Web App clients are being built on top of Sharepoint and Outlook web clients?
Work from home using a laptop. Work at a desk when you want to sit, and at a bar counter when you want to stand.
"his point is that there isn't really a consensus, which it demonstrably true"

Not at all. You can search through the peer-reviewed papers in vain for any saying there isn't any anthropogenic climate change; there are no such papers. None. Zero.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686
True. By principle I'd rather see U.S. (SV) tech companies improve and thrive rather then die.

In this particular case - the web was ugly before Flash and it'll be just as ugly after it. And as waxpraxi writes, some good did come out of it (force me and i'll make a list : )

Flash is not a gun, it does not kill, and i don't wish it to die.
I started emulating something I see in the successful people I know, and that's acting as though I'm right. My mind is constantly filled with dozens of points of nuance and a half-dozen objections or "yeah, buts". The people I know that are successful plow forward anyway, separating the important nuance from the unimportant. And that heuristic is INVALUABLE, and I think it contributes way more to the 'reality distortion field'. iPad doesn't have a market? It doesn't solve a need? In a sense, it doesn't matter, because Jobs -KNOWS- it will work, and everything else is just details. (As long as you're right...but it's easier to be right when you're convinced you're right.)

It's not that such people are unaware of the same concerns I have, they just don't see them as important (because they're only important in a context), and they act as if they've already succeeded. I act as if I could 'lose' at any moment: they act as if they've already won.

My initial forays into this behavior were VERY hard for me, and I still feel like I'm completely faking it. But it's starting to grow on me, and I'm already seeing people change the way they bring ideas to me. THEY'RE handling the objections, use concerns, nuance as a response to MY vision, which is...I don't know what it is yet.

Maybe, at the end of the day, all it really is, is taking responsibility for the decisions you make, and that makes people react to you instead of you reacting to them. I don't know, I'm still working through all of this.
Throw some pepper on a bowl of water, and touch it with a soaped finger.
One word: tries.
Facebook’s Instant Personalization Is the Real Privacy Problem
Hooray for competition! This can only spur Google a bit to improve Google Doc's feature set. Why does the author think one service must live and one service must die? There's always room for choice when services offer advantages over each other.
ChromeOS provides an interface consisting entirely of a webkit-based browser. The iPad already ships with an app that duplicates that functionality, called 'Safari'.
Agreed -- good communication is about understanding your audience and circling back into detail as needed. Aka, do a breadth-first sweep, vs. depth-first.
When is this stuff coming to Android? I want it, now! It would be perfect for an Android game idea I had, but it doesn't appear to work. I could just write it in Java I guess...
That only works for Social Plugins, though, not Instant Personalization-approved sites.

The issue isn't that there aren't ways to protect yourself (there were for Buzz, as well). The issue is that you have to be aware this is happening at all (FB doesn't go out of its way to tell you), and then you have to opt-out, rather than opting-in.

Any change that reduces privacy should be strictly opt-in. Period. The fact that Facebook, Google, and others are trying to push for an opt-out model because they're afraid of not getting widespread adoption otherwise is pretty disturbing.
Confessions of an Apple Fanboy Wannabe
I have found myself using jQuery SVG more. This link shows what other people think of the two:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/588718/jquery-svg-vs-raphael

The version of Raphael I used at one point had to be in complete control from object 1 and could not import SVGs. So let's say I generate an SVG via graphviz and then want to make some of the nodes interactive (or at least animate). I get a good amount of tweening via the jQuery interface, including the ability to load up the externally created SVG.

Anyway, for comparison, here is the jQuery SVG interface:

http://keith-wood.name/svg.html

Why have I used the SVG? It animates smoother in HTML4 on iPhone's Safari and on my linux distro's Firefox than when I tried canvas manipulations.

More recently, I noticed the HTML5 canvas stuff being smooth for both. Still, the benefit of the SVG is having the ability to treat each object as its own DOM element, where you have to rig all that framework yourself for graphical objects you create on the canvas.
While I really like what they're doing design-wise in ubuntu, the second screenshot makes me kind of sad. I really think they should strive for less administration applications, instead of adding more.
On the same lines, I think us hackers need to understand a pitch for investors / consumers.

I've seen hackers read a pitch and say "bah..what expectations and grandeur." But its not intended for us - its intended for the non-technical folks. Simplifying an idea might make it sound more general. Its really not always grandeur.
The less polite original title: "The Only Thing That Can Stop This Asteroid Is Your Liberal Arts Degree".

Unfair since plenty of those with liberal arts degrees contribute to society in a way we geeks value, but still amusing.
*than
IPad / iPhone Multitasking Hack
> Definitely take note of the fact that jQuery can be used to manipulate the svg nodes.

This makes interaction with sprites pretty neat when you attach events to them.
I detect a note of cynicism there.

Some investors are much better than others at judging the quality of the companies they are looking at, but plenty of them are looking at being the 'second' firm to invest after a 'name' is on board, since that dramatically increases the chances of success of that company. Of course every VC dreams of discovering that unknown nugget, but sadly there are plenty that are not able to separate the wheat from the chaff on their own power, so they look to others as a source of guidance. That's also why you'll see a slew of 'copycat' companies getting investment if a company in a certain league grows big. For instance, when Youtube exploded on to the scene there was a flurry of similar offerings backed by a very wide range of VCs, all of them trying to get a slice of the pie after the concept was proven. Some of those would have turned down youtube if it had been offered to them only a few months earlier.

Take Y combinator as an example. If a startup with a crappy product is invested in by Y combinator versus some unknown angel investing in a fantastic product then when shopping for a second round simply having Y combinator on board will open lots of doors and will probably lead to a quick second round at a fair valuation even if the product was bad and a quick and violent ending for the start up that was funded by an unknown. Having a great product and a great team is unfortunately not enough to always secure funding, having a partner with name recognition on board significantly increases your chances. Even if in that scenario Y combinator would not be 'working the network' on your behalf.

Having your wealthy great uncle as an investor will not do much in this respect.

This is sad but really true. Ideally every company should be investigated and judged on its merits, but the number of deals presented to some groups leads to weird shortcuts like this. And it would be even sadder if that meant they miss out on great opportunities, the fact is though that it even works. It is a self fulfilling prophesy, some 'name' is already in, company gets round 2, maybe scores big in the longer term vs company does not get round 2 and dies.

Looking back the VC that didn't go with the company that died will feel they made the right decision.
> But Flash is much more than just video.

But video is what makes Flash considered 'necessary' for most consumers. The two are almost synonymous so if Google goes through with it, it will be the beginning of the end for Flash.
I think this IKEA desk is more news worthy since it's only $150. I still miss the JERKER model though (it's almost identical to the FREDRIK, but it had more desk depth)
Gizmodo ruined both for me this week.

If the launch of a new consumer electronics product is something that can be "ruined" for you then I would suggest, sans malice, that you perhaps need more stuff going on in your life.
Mobile Phone Dissidents
Does is actually extend the class or simply wrap it with a decorator? I think Groovy takes this approach but I could be wrong.
Snolr Atmosphere: A Layer Oriented UI
Thanks for sharing this. I'm definitely interesting in HN feedback as well.
Right. Because taking pictures of a phone is exactly like raping children.
I think that your messaging is clear and the value of your product is tangible: You help get my information out, with the result (hopefully) that I get more people to come to my site / more generally interact with my brand.

Stream of thoughts - no order:

* EggZack? Ok. First thing that popped into my head was 'Ballsack' .. maybe that's just the way my mind works :)

* The logo / graphic design feels a little bit lightweight / children's TV - might cause an issue if a prospective client has to run it by their boss first: 'Why am I looking at a cartoon about eggs?'

* Am not entirely sure HOW the process works - I want the end result.. what are the steps that lead to it? Do I just press a button and whoosh?

* I have a slightly irrational fear that this sails close to spamming - I assume it doesn't, but you might need to assuage that fear in others

* I looked at the FAQs to narrow down some answers, but was bombarded with implementation 'stuff' that confused me further: sub-types, outlets, file-resources, building a website?

* Is your product essentially a custom-hosted CMS for a website that has all these broadcasting/publishing/pinging/api-integration features built in (not to belittle it - that's great)? If so - it's not obvious from the main pages/video that this is the case. I want your end-result, but, I already have a website that I have invested a lot into - what can you do for me? (Hypothetically)

* In your FAQ you have a link to your 'custom website development process page' that doesn't work.. so I couldn't find the answer to the above.

That's about it I think - good messaging, good sounding end-result.. how do I get there?

Best of luck!
False negative = Type I error

False positive = Type II error
This was my reaction too, at first.

But Ebert is a hugely influential cultural figure, spreading ill-informed opinions to a public who would rather listen to what he says than think for themselves. Willful ignorance is a metavirus.
The same joke over and over.
That's not even remotely what I said. What I said is that trafficking in stolen goods is wrong unless it's justified by a greater good.
It isn't just the politicians either, where do you think the major environmental organizations get their money? Since the major cleanup during the 1970s, they have invented "crisis" after "crisis" to keep the money coming in. The "ozone hole" and "acid rain" crises were as overblown, running toward outright fraudulent, as the AGW crap.
Yes it is a pyramid scheme. Yes we can stop it and yes that would cause people to die (earlier) and/or suffer. Personally i'm not willing to make that choice.

I apologise that you've taken this personally, I just wished to point out that the tax burden does appear to fall on the younger generation. Especially if the older ones are shipping out due to "tax reasons".

Please appreciate that i'm from the UK so my perspective in regards to the welfare state is a favourable one since it was built on the wishes of those that took part in WW2, a brighter tomorrow if you will....

I also find it unfortunate that you decide to debate this around those who are wasteful. There are many people who have had crap, unfortunate lives that require our help.
A balanced discussion of any welfare state requires us to acknowledge all of these types of people, both the wasteful and the needy. Would you rather ignore the needy at the benefit of giving the wasteful what they deserve (nothing)?
I agree - I tried Raphael but actually found it a bit limiting. I can live without IE support (I can use Flex for that) so jQuery SVG looked like the better choice.

The only criticism I could make of jQuery SVG is that the docs often assume that you know a lot about SVG, but that is pretty minor.
If Adobe wanted to advance the Flash 'standard', they should put the specs and standard in the public space. They do not have to open source their implementation, but the bytecodes and file formats should be submitted to a standards body.
I'm curious, why does it matters so much to you, as you received no "damage" in this story?
What it would gain you to acquire all the followers in the world?

If I literally had billions of followers, I would have a ton of free traffic that I could direct anywhere I wanted, whenever I wanted. That would be worth a lot.
Because of Earth Day: Michael Crichton's thoughts on Science and Global Warming
The API seems quite simple and intuitive at first glance.
I don't doubt it. Any tool that aggregates functionality and is as popular as the iphone will be tops in all catagories, phone, camera, video, browser.
OpenLike - open protocol for sharing between web applications
'South Park' Muhammad episode airs despite uproar
I am more concerned about the media's sudden punditry.
* A Flash app is trying to be an app so sometimes persistent URLs are useless. That said there are time you want one and Flash can do that, it's up to the programmer, don't blame the technology, the feature is there.

* Adobe have a whole section on how to make your application accessible http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/

* Flash the format is an open standard, In June 2009, Adobe launched the Open Screen Project, which made the SWF specification available without restrictions. What is closed is their player. That said they have released open source actionscript libraries.

* As for emphasizing visuals, that is due to the designer driving the project. Flash and Flex offer a rich programming environment so it's really up to each project to choose what they want.

* Yes there are sucky flash apps, but there are also sucky webpages. There is sucky everything. There are also good flash apps and good websites.
The primary quality of prose style is clarity while brevity in an exposition ideally has these three qualities:

* Context
* Relevance
* Cogency
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