skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jokingly, at 19, when referring to a project so much smaller than Facebook that it was really a different thing.

Whatever you think about Facebook's privacy policies, this particular quote doesn't prove much.

This post is an instance of linkbait meets lynchmob. I think we'll let that predictable conversation happen elsewhere.
If I could post our job openings on HN I'd be doing it every week (heyrealquickwe'rehiringinNYC,Chicago,andSFBay!).

But that's a privilege reserved for YC companies in return for PG having to put up with people like me, so I've flaggd your post.
What crap, Tomorrow I will publish a piece saying paul graham called all submitter of YC as dumb fucks.
And will everyone start believing it???

Whats the provenance of this information.
Everyone who are taking this seriously are pure dimwits
To whoever is downmodding this guy: Please stop. His post is neither inflammatory or offensive. If you disagree with what he's said, say so in a comment (with explanation as to why). Don't downvote just because you disagree.
I see two basic truths here that make this comment seem irrelevant to me...

1. Users shouldn't put anything into Facebook that they wouldn't be willing to make public. Because even if Facebook never betrays your trust someone in your circle of friends surely could (Ever have a former lover turn into an enemy after a breakup?)

2. I don't doubt Zuckerberg still feels this way but it doesn't really matter. Because regardless of how he feels the economic future of his company is tied to being trusted by the consumer. So I think he'd share your secrets in a second if it was just about personal integrity but I don't think he'll risk billions of dollars to do so.
I had no idea what it meant either.
The star is now so dim people don't even know what WASP means anymore...
Seems to me like you are assuming a zero-sum game: technology eliminates massive jobs so people have no work.

History is full of technology eliminating massive numbers of jobs. At any one of these moments a person could say the future would hold incredible numbers of unemployed. But it didn't happen.

I don't know if it will happen or not, but if I understand your argument I believe there is nothing unique about our current time in history that makes it any more valid that it was, say, in 1890.
Ikea cable trays under the desk:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50035115

And on the desk I use some plastic tubes that hold several cables together, also from Ikea.
Any state that I'm aware of works that way. The proverb is "If the state does it it is not illegal" for a reason.

In some 'free' countries it is even illegal to talk about the state muzzling you or turning over information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Letter
It sounds rather like folklore to me, and I can't find the quote after a few minutes of googling.
This is even less valuable than the last story based on an online poll (about Facebook, that time). At least the last one had a newspaper article to back it up. Flagged.
Reading (of course), Go, cycling, recreational math.
The annoying thing about stuff is that there is that tool or that nick nack that you might use 5 times a year. You really really need it, and don't want to buy it and dispose of it and waste the time of going to the store to find it, so you just keep it in some box for when you do need it. It's usually not big enough to rent or to deal with the hassle of renting so it can get pretty irritating.
Diving is both expensive and cheap? I plan on getting certified this summer and I know it can be a bit expensive to start up but I'd love to know if this is something that can potentially be a big drain on the wallet.
I play the didgeridoo. I picked up this hobby after my lung collapsed spontaneously, and the surgeon recommended that I learn to play a wind instrument. Since the medical bills came out to over $100,000 dollars (paid with cash money FTW), I didn't much feel like spending money on a really expensive instrument that I might not even like.

I also set aside an hour or two a day to read classic literature, or hard-to-read literature. My favorites are epic poems. Currently on page 53 of Finnegans Wake and I've been hearing rhythmic gibberish in my sleep. I'm reading Finnegans Wake so I can feel good about reading everything by Joyce, and I'm actually finding it really pleasurable.

There's more, but those two things are what I enjoy most.
The variety here is awesome, and I agree that outdoor or physical activities are usually better for you...

...but yeah, I just play video games, watch movies, read books, and code side projects. A former roommate gave me a bunch of his old PS2 games, mostly JRPGs, and they need to get played one of these days.
Thanks for posting, 'grellas. I've always been under the impression that you can't read about the oral arguments and get any clear bead on where the decision is going to go. What's your take on this case?

A fun excerpt:

Justice Breyer: So that would mean that every businessman --- perhaps not every, but every successful businessman typically has something. His firm wouldn't be successful if he didn't have anything that others didn't have. He thinks of a new way to organize. He thinks of a new thing to say on the telephone. He thinks of something. That's how he made his money.

And your view would be, it's new too, and it's useful, made him a fortune, anything that helps any businessman succeed is patentable because we reduce it to a number of steps, explain it in geenral terms, file our application, granted?

Mr. Jakes: It is potentially patentable, yes.

Justice Breyer: Ok. Well then, if that were so, we go back to the original purpose of the Constitution. Do you think that the Framers would have wanted to require anyone successful in this great, vast, new continent because he thinks of something new to have had to run to Washington and force any possible competitor to do a search and then stop the wheels of progress unless they get permission?

Another one:

Justice Scalia: You know, you mention that there are all these -- these new areas that didn't exist in the past because of modern business and whatnot. But there are also areas that existed in the past that don't exist today. Let's take training horses. Don't you think that --- that some people, horse whisperers or others, had some, you know, some insights into the best way to train horses? And that should have been patentable on your theory.

Mr. Jakes: They might have, yes.

Justice Scalia: Well, why didn't anybody patent those things?

Mr. Jakes: I think our economy was based on industrial process.

Justice Scalia: It was based on horses, for Pete's sake.
I initially started in 2007 and took a 2.5 year break for financial reasons. We'll see how it turns out this time...maybe I'll end up flying ultralights or something :)
What was your 13th bullet point?
I skateboard. The only reason I'm a computer programmer is because I got hurt really bad when I was 18 and had to find something else to do.
I agree on it not meaning much but let's not kid ourselves either. If you even joke about people being stupid for putting their trust in you than you probably aren't trustworthy. I had access to a pretty significant amount of user data when I was 19 too and I would have never joked about revealing it.
Recording and writing music. I just recently upgraded from Garageband to Logic Pro and recently bought Reason. You can listen to my modest efforts at http://www.myspace.com/zendevice.
Huh? Did you read the article? By my reading, this article is concerned that we are not paying attention to the historical record from the Soviet era and suggests that there is a lot to be learned from studying that record.
I enjoy gardening, i just got a my first square foot garden, i enjoy geeking out over automating it's watering, and optimizing conditions. I cannot stop comparing the task to that of building a website...nurture it slowly and it will grow ^_^

Not only is it a relaxing/rewarding hobby it encourages me to eat better and helps save me money on my groceries!
Recording music, reading sf/f and classics, parenting, and Team Fortress 2.
According to the analysis I posted to a Myers-Briggs survey that appeared here this summer, about 75% of Hacker News is introverted according to that test. The INTJ and INTP types alone account for 60% of those surveyed (compared to 6.4% in the general population).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=946249
As somebody that loves learning and doing a lot of stuff, I have found that wherever there is a hobby, it can get very expensive.

Diving is cheap because you can keep gear to a minimum and take cheap diving trips. It's expensive because you can also buy pricey gear, take trips to exotic places, and pay for a lot of instruction and amenities.

One of the things I like about diving is that not only is it fun, depending on where you live it can also be very cheap
The New Browser Wars: Will Ubuntu drop Firefox for Google Chrome?
not to mention, taleo is the worst web app for job applications.
yep, organized Ultimate clubs seem like a popular geek weekend activity amongst bay area hackers
Eurosport online access is just about making not seeing the Giro on big-screen tolerable. It's been epic.
He defends Goldman and says this about JPMorgan:

But the world would be better off if JPMorgan didn't run a gambling casino alongside a legitimate business. I take my hat off to Dimon, but I'd take away his derivative book in a second.

Why is it a casino in JPMorgan's case, but not Goldman's? Is there a difference between the two, other than that the speaker is invested in one and not the other?

I ask because Buffett and Munger have a mammoth interest in this subject (I was going to say "conflict of interest", but perhaps there's no conflict) and in the public statements I've seen neither has even mentioned that, let alone credibly addressed it. I find that disappointing. Like a lot of people, I've long looked to them as examples of business leaders who care about good beyond their personal profit and whose statements could therefore be trusted more than usual. But everything they've said (that I've seen) about the financial crisis is easily explained with reference to one principle, without Occam even breaking a sweat.
Climber here too. It's one of the few things I've done where it can grab 100% of my focus and attention. I can't think of anything else I've done that I can do without distraction or my mind wondering.
Recording in a live-electronics duo, gigging out with said duo, cycling, and raising my daughter full-time :)
Rugby, hiking, beer (it's a hobby, right?) and hanging out with good friends.

Some things I want to take up include; boxing, photography and diving. (Even though I can't swim, and all animals in the water freak me out.)
Living in Italy, I get the RAI coverage streamed, just that it didn't work because of whatever network reasons at this place. ARGH.
Freelancer.com - facebook bulk add friend projects
Rock Climbing, Surfing and Traveling (to do the first two) have always had a higher priority for me than programming computers, which would rank as my 4th hobby that also happens to pay my rent.

I think the fact that most people classify those activities as "hobbies" says a lot about the lives we construct for ourselves: Spend 50 weeks per year doing something unpleasant so that you free up a couple weeks to do something you actually enjoy. If you enjoy your hobby as much as you say, why not find a way to devote at least half your time to it?
photography, wargaming and BEER!
Actually my point is that we are in a unique time.

Up until now technology replaced skilled labor positions. So people who would have gone into something like economics instead went into computer science and we just did more with what we had.

Now we're getting to the point where technology can replace unskilled labor and that creates a unique problem because, though it might not be politically correct to say, some people simply don't have the capacity to go into a high tech vocation.

Put it this way. There have always been people whose job was one of pure labor. Lifting boxes, tightening screws and so on. Once robotics gets to the point where it's cheap enough and skilled enough to do those jobs where do the people who have done those jobs in generations past go?
Plus it really takes the edge off my competitive urge which hurts more than helps when I'm programming. It gives me a reason to stay healthy and work out, a large social group both in my city and spread across the whole country, and I found my wife playing ultimate :)

/club ultimate player
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Bowling and writing music.
Real Genius
His saying that Goldman was just playing with the rulebook Congress gave them is disingenuous. Goldman's lobbyists wrote the rulebook. The financial industry -- and Goldman in particular -- have been playing congress like a fiddle for decades now. They had the rules that led to the collapse because they wanted those rules, because that would make them the most short-term money.
Where around NYC do you sail?
If Mark Zuckerberg invented the Web
For the most part all of the traffic blocked by the 'great firewall' of China is collateral damage. And that's exactly the problem.

The human right violations in China notwithstanding the majority of the people there have roughly the same ability to plan their lives and the future ahead of them as a person in the US would.

It's just that instead of relying on laws and judges they rely on corruption to stay out of trouble.

China is slowly improving in this respect, the laws are applied more consistently and corruption is slowly reduced in the eye of the public as the means to a way to deal with authorities.

It will take at least another lifetime, or maybe longer, after all it took a long time to mess it up so it will take a long time to repair it.

But anybody that is seriously comparing the situation in China today with 1989 is really out of touch with what is happening in China.

The Chinese government is caught between a rock and a hard place too, they have serious problems of their own making that they can not repair easily without risking a Soviet style melt down. Their information policies are an exponent of an older faction in their government that wants to go back to the past or at a minimum freeze the situation as it is today. But the seeds of market forces have been planted and there really is no reversing the trend.

Compare with the RIAA in the United States for a good analogy, their 'business model' is mostly dead but they're holding on for dear life and using every trick in the book to make it last as long as they can.

Eventually, they will lose, and the trend is irreversible, the people in China will never give up the rights they've gained in the last 20 years.
Gardening. I give my self one computer-free-day each week in which I garden. Working with one's hands instead of one's head provides a much needed relief after a week of programming, designing, and hacking at software. During the winter, cooking and baking fill a similar, but not quite as satisfactory, experience.

The contrast from coding intrinsic to vegetable gardening is especially satisfying - one can sit back and watch the fruits of one's labor manifest themselves. When one codes, one knows that his inactivity results in nothing. Not so with gardening, aside from some maintenance, the initial work constitutes a self-fulfilling promise.
If your internet connection is too slow and skype/ichat screen sharing is laggy, I recommend ssh+screen+vim/emacs
What if Zuck invented the web?
Because people usually put fake names on SEC filings?
The High Price of Facebook
Sorry to hear this. Can't you move out ? Why China - or is there no option.
Can you not split some work with another Asian country - India for example ?
Yes.

I haven't read the Motley Fool post yet, but I read some days back the email I'm sure it's referring to.

Dear WS prick: The rest of the world realizes you have to cooperate in order to get substantive things done, e.g. running a modern society. Who do you think built and supplies your green-tinted ivory tower?

With the attitude expressed in the email, that blowhard wouldn't last a week in the positions he (I'm presuming) describes.
Darwin: Survival of the Fittest among Programs
Has anyone here ever played Darwin?
Where I'm from (Saskatchewan, Canada) everyone plays Kaiser, a variant of Bridge. It's hugely popular here, but I guess it's only played by Ukrainians in Saskatchewan, and is completely unheard of outside the province. It's a little frightening when you play someone and they say, "ok, you have the Ace and I take the next 5 tricks."
I also happen to have a personal blog with adsense, with even very low traffic it pays the hosting and the incredibly abusive Net fee.

Congratulations if you're rich, sadly most of us don't.
Sorkin is a fantastic writer. Some of the best TV shows of the past 12 years (The West Wing, Studio 60, Sports Night) were written by Sorkin. When I first heard about Sorkin doing a Facebook movie I was dismayed. However, now, given all the things that are going on with Facebook, I think it shows he has an insight beyond most (this movie has been in the works for quite some time now).
Nope. I understand you, and my point still holds.

At each step in modernization people wondered what was going to happen. What you are saying has been said dozens of times before. Maybe thousands.

The average unskilled laborer in the U.S. works at a much higher level of abstraction than he did a couple of generations ago. Nothing is simple any more, and computers are everywhere. The day laborer that does the gardening down the street has a pickup, a cell phone, a notebook computer and a bookkeeping system, a GPS, etc. If he is competitive he might do analysis of the soil, use special tools, pick up knowledge at the local college, etc.

And it's going to a long, long way from robots among us to really cheap multi-purpose robots everywhere. Market dynamics will have a lot of say in the meantime.

You may be right. it's just guessing on both of our parts. The future will tell. But I seriously doubt it. Claims of uniqueness need better proof than hand-waving about talking about robots.

EDIT: You also may be right -- but in a thousand-year timeframe. And as Keynes famously said, in the long run, we are all dead.
Hands up if you thought that said syfy.com and you were surprised
china is a f*ing country
Writing, drawing. Used to draw comics too.
> He's also referred to Ruby as "Matz Lisp."

So when does the "enlightenment experience" Eric Raymond promised come ? Or did Matz take it all :-D
Stinky implications: it portrays Zuckerberg as a borderline autistic, entirely ruthless conniver

Those dangerous autistics....bring your children inside!
Neat! Is any of it online ?
It might be an educational experience to have a job where your income is actually based on providing real service to your customers. (And where the matter of who are your customers, is clearly defined.)
people who would have gone into something like economics
instead went into computer science

Even if that is so (why then?) I do not see how it is related to "technology replac[ing] skilled labor positions". Could you please elaborate?
Cartesian Closed Comics: Zhuangzi, butterfly and referential transparency
I play bridge too. http://bridgebaseonline.com is my online bridge resource. For those who want to get started this is a basic bidding overview - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hde/bidding.htm
I didn't say that was the only cause, but I'm pretty sure it's one of the main factors in those sites' success.
I can back this up as being a true statement. He regularly plays bridge (and ping pong)on the Sunday following the Shareholders meeting. He does it out in public for people to watch. He is also a pretty strong advocate of the game.
Math on the Fly: Parabolic vs Catenary Curves
Newton told us that apples fall towards Earth with an acceleration that depends on the Earth’s mass, the apple’s mass, and its distance from the centre of the Earth,

Fail.
"However, I'd point out that many native Coloradoans I encountered lamented the influx of Californians (like me) and felt that we were ruining the vibe, which is quite possible."

People have been saying this about Seattle for decades. In fact, if you do a find/replace for Boulder/Seattle, the entire article basically still stands.

I think the more interesting thing is the meta-story that these kinds of articles imply: a lot of people are leaving CA for Portland, Seattle, Boulder, or Austin, for some combination of lower living costs, lower taxes, and, often, better schools. As this table shows: http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/ttw/trends_map_data_tabl... , CA has had a very large net out migration rate for years. It only goes up to 2006, but it's hard to believe that the rate hasn't increased since.
Holy shit, this Facebook situation is turning into a full-on witch hunt.

Mostly the intense criticism is warranted, but I feel as though a lot of levelheadedness is starting to go out the window.
The.Monad.Reader Issue 16: Automata, Iteratees and Priority Queues
Django 1.2 final out on Monday
Is rock climbing something you can do alone? (Indoors rock climbing or something similar, at least? I guess outdoors climbing by yourself would be pretty dangerous =P.) It's something I've wanted to get into, but I prefer solo activities.
(Also, the movie "Charlie Wilson's War" is definitely worth watching if you have not seen it.)
It did, but towards the end.

In "The Protestant Establishment," Mr. Baltzell pointed to the prejudice and insularity of the elite as the eventual causes of its decline. "A crisis has developed in modern America largely because of the White-Anglo-Saxon Protestant establishment's unwillingness, or inability, to share and improve its upper-class traditions by continuously absorbing talented and distinguished members of minority groups into its privileged ranks."
From Finland. Non-native English speaker as one can guess. Thanks for correcting me. We have crazy grammar rules in Finland, such as starting sentences with capitals.
Monitoring Keywords = Sales
I'm really into metal casting. Got into a few years ago by bastardizing a kiln I found on craigslist. Have since moved on to building my own propane furnaces and rigging old microwaves to melt copper. I don't know that I'm actually any "good" at it, but I do enjoy it a lot. I like working with a material that you have to respect highly or it will burn a hole straight through you. And I have been able to cast some rudimentary parts(housings, pulllies) that have been used on other hackeresque projects.
Because people have different capacities. People with the capacity for what we consider "skilled" positions can be directed towards technology based positions. But there are people out there who, no matter how hard they try, lack the mental capacity to do what we consider skilled labor.

I don't say this as an insult. I went to school with a guy who is still one of my best friends and he's just one of these people. He worked as hard as he could, studied for hours, and he still only got Cs in school. He doesn't have the capacity for that kind of thought.

So when robotics gets to the point where it can do his job as a laborer on the docks he won't be able to be repositioned in the same way people with the capacity to take IT positions have been in the past
Playing tennis/paddle, writing, reading. I've a growing interest for astronomy so it's the next thing to incorporate
in my life.
Ditto on Pirates
That's the point: "Pray tell" is still common enough in contemporary English, while "pray" hasn't meant that for a long time. Archaisms survive in idioms.
Yeah, that or wait for a "Who's hiring?" thread (or start one if it's been awhile, which I think it has) and post there.
I've done Lindy Hop for about 4 to 5 years now. I love it. It'll be no time when you'll be able to swing out to Shiny Stockings and Jumpin at the Woodside.

And if #1 helps #3 I can assume you're a Django Reinhardt fan.