skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I read this, I would rephrase your question as "Is it OK for my first venture into the working world to be that of burned bridges and distrust". So, no, I don't think it's OK.

It takes a lot of emotional energy on both sides of the table during the hiring process. If a job isn't grabbing you to the point of wanting to sign right away, than tell them so. Tell them you're exploring your options and you can't sign right now. They'll probably move on, but perhaps something will open up with them again down the road.

It sounds like you're not hurting for offers. I wouldn't start off by pissing people off.
Back in 1995 or 1996, I spent a long week-end doing extreme pair programming with Philip Nelson. We set up in his dining room and took an image from his whiteboard to a 80+% done product in 3 or 4 days. No meetings, no phone calls. With very few interruptions, we were able to maintain focus for hours.

The most notable interruption: while stretching, Phil accidently hit the rocker switch on the power strip with his foot. I'll never forget the look on his face when everything shut down. We only lost a couple minutes worth of edits, 'tho. I am a habitual save guy in emacs, whenever I switch buffers or pause to think.
Actually, they were under seal in ConnectU, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc., and Mark's attorneys fought very hard to keep them that way. They're only freely available now because they were leaked.

Given my personal stake in it all I'd like to know what the rest of the still-unpublished ones say.
Strangely, it's the availability of beasters in Vancouver coupled with the absolute dominance of Vietnamese immigrant grow-ops in PacNW[1] (Portland and Seattle) that have contributed to the downward pricing pressure, not so much the laws (as, TX weed is abundant and cheap but _DO NOT_ get caught with weed in TX).

[1] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1662891...
I've got a Zii Egg .. it so could have been a competitor to the iPad touch a year or two ago, if only the damned thing had been released to the mass market. As a developer, its terribly frustrating to put effort into this product and not see any users out there .. but I guess the problem really is that it takes a lot of effort to tool up the hardware production line.

Rumours have it that there is a "Zii Pad" device in the works, but until this gets released ..
I only ever buy a single gram, but can't put that in. Also what if vendors start putting prices they pay growers, and dispensaries enter prices from vendors, and customers use prices from dispensaries... The same batch of herb will be many different prices, possibly need some way to distinguish a "type" of price that is being entered. That would make the data more valuable also for dispensaries shopping around different vendors, etc. Of course that is sticking to the "legal" weed market.
It depends on your userbase. Completely non technical users have completely blocked out URLs, they might as well not even exist to them. They'll even go to foo.com by typing "foo.com" into Google.

But other users appreciate the nice URLs. Take reddit users refering to subreddits as "/r/subredditname" or 4Chan users going by "/X/". Of course these are more technically inclined users, but in many cases probably only marginally so.
While what you describe is a common enough practice, you definitely have to worry about closing future doors. I'd pick a place and go with it. You can always make a change in a year or so if it's not working out without burning bridges and call it a learning experience.
It's a TV show about real issues. I'm guessing the course focuses on the core issues represented in the show more than the entertainment value. I would compare it to using Greek mythology as a framework for learning about ancient Greek civilization and culture.
I know, right? When that Viper showed up in Baltimore, I was like WTF, that character's supposed to be dead. Not realistic at all.
Nope, we don't support MMS but it is a popular feature request. No timeline on if/when it will be offered though
The Test Machine - The Daily WTF
You should add 'Spoiler' to the start of your post. I've only watched up to Season 2.
That's rather easy to challenge but at the same time very difficult.

All I have is anecdotes directly, but from being on both sides of 4 acquisitions total, it has been true 100% of the time. Not a single founder/c-level leader has remained from the bought company over five years. Often, significant turmoil was present prior to that final departure.

This has been such an observation to me that I would strongly suggest that if you were to be on the buyer's side you should terminate all staff from the acquired company as soon as feasible, thereby making either a customer or "idea" purchase. This is exactly what DHH is saying.

On the other hand, acquiring a company and letting it live "as-is" I suppose is a viable alternative; better accomplished by just investing in the company itself though.

The benefit of acquisition is control, and it is a waste if you aren't going to exercise that control. I have never seen control exercised by the purchaser that is always, 100% completely inline with what the decision making of the acquired.

That means a clash is an inevitable certainty, so DHH's point is accurate.
I don't know about other people, but I have doubts. I'm actually willing to bet Zuckerberg is very far from being a sociopath. Most of the "damning" stories about him are of the same caliber as this story. And this article, IMO, proves nothing.

So he joked around about privacy in IMs 4 years ago. We don't have any context, we don't know almost any of the surrounding circumstances. In fact, since people are publishing these IMs but aren't publishing reports of him leaking actual data, I'm willing to bet these IMs really were just jokes.

Other stories are similarly void of content.

The truth is, I know almost no one who I'd consider a sociopath with zero ethics. The chance against Zuckerberg being one is pretty small. The chance is much higher that the media have chosen to focus on him because he is: a) rich b) powerful and c) made some moves that some people didn't like in regards to privacy.
Maybe programmers nudged out of the process is a feature not a bug. People who self select out of a hard hiring process may meet not Google's criteria for certain attributes they want to see in their candidate.
This is just a few IM's of a kid joking with his college buddy about what was then nothing more than a side project. It's not like he could have known that in a few years it would have become one of the world's biggest web sites. It sounds like he's just having a laugh with a friend.

Honestly if I was in his position at the same time at that same age I would have joked in the same way. I doubt his views on the matter are the same now that he's many years older and his site has a dictionary entry. Give the kid a break.
10 hours code golfing to get the code down to 100 lines ? Seems kind of extreme.
" I'd be fine with showing some scenes from the Wire in a course on urban inequality, but I'd really hate to give students the impression that the Wire is the final authority on what life in Baltimore is like."

Hopefully, students will be smart enough to realize that "The Wire" is a work of fiction (as you and others have pointed out). However, the difficult thing about teaching just from research and theory is that it is extremely difficult to gain a concrete understanding without a concrete presentation.

When I was going through the teacher education program in college, we read a lot of (what I thought were very compelling) scholarly articles explaining how current practices (regarding instruction, assessment, and so on) were flawed and then proposing better practices.

The discussions we had were often of the "Okay, I see what the author is saying" variety, but ended up with very little actionable follow-through. I remember getting in trouble for trying to heed the advice of the research ("I don't care what the research says, we're doing it this way and that's final.")

What I am trying to say is that research and statistics are all fine and dandy, but the students at Harvard are mostly white and mostly from reasonably affluent families who live near other reasonably affluent families. Ideally, we could study those realities directly via fieldwork, but that's simply not a possibility for most. So, in lieu of giving these students a completely abstract understanding without any lived experience (even if it is vicarious and fictional), "The Wire" comes in.
Lessons Learned from MIT StartupBootcamp 2010
100 years ago, the New York Times predicted cars would be abolished today
What do you think, 'grellas? I think I speak for a lot of us when I say we'd be interested in your take.
Comments keep mentioning Blu-ray playback, but it's referring to HDCP. That's the connection between devices I thought?

I don't think this does anything for Blu-ray as it has it's own encryption scheme.

Edit: Oops, I see someone mentioned this already. Missed that comment.
Yes, I was worried it might sound like that. I know marshmallow experiment from previous HN submissions and it's quite interesting. I was just curious if there are any other interesting studies or theories that may have not been that popular but are worth knowing about. I'm certainly not trying to undermine Dr. Mischel's research.
You're wrong.

There are, in fact, published reports of him actually breaking into Crimson reporters' private FAS (Harvard) e-mail accounts with information he gleaned from Facebook. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-in...

You don't know anyone you'd consider a sociopath with zero ethics because the vast majority of people aren't. Just the same, the people who up hugely successful by most people's standards, which is to say "rich," have a much higher probability of having gotten there at someone else's expense.
I don't think they're 'damning'. 22-year-olds say silly things. People use facetious language and braggadoccio in private conversations that shouldn't be taken literally.

And even if his statements are taken literally, if the student info had been volunteered without a promise of strict single-purpose confidentiality, students should have expected their info might be shared for any legal purpose at the discretion of the site proprietor. That's why explicit privacy policies are important; at least in the US, without a promise to the contrary, almost anything goes.
Twice monthly (1st and 15th) is also fairly common. Once monthly is not unheard of but a lot of people can't manage their cash flow that long so they prefer more frequent intervals.
Impressive that they could put together such a detailed timeline so long after the fact.
Never used it. I think spying on my users (with the help of Google) is unethical.

(FWIW, I did do a project for a client once which involved extracting data via the Analytics API. It was very easy to do, and all the metrics were there, so it seems possible to make your own chart without requiring Flash. Hell, there is even an in-browser Javascript Analytics API and many in-browser Javascript charting libraries... so you could probably even do this in the form of a bookmarklet or user script!)
Like most other cron replacements this also looks over-engineered in all the wrong ways.

Keep It Small and Simple.
I'd hate to have people criticize everything I said or did when I was 19 years old. I said and did some pretty immature things, hell I had only been living away from my parents for a year. 19->23 was a time of big change for me and I think it is for most people.

Poor Zuck.
Interestingly enough, California seems really expensive compared to other places.
Irony is, between the lawsuits, the disclosures, and the movie, now nobody has more embarrassing information about them available to the public than Mark Zuckerberg.
Now, there is some more nuance than even that: if I sell your song, I am obviously depriving you of money people are willing to pay for it. If I give away your song tho, there is no money I am depriving you of -- the people who gave me $0 are not guaranteed to give you the asking price without my giveaway.

This is a new one on me... Bootlegging is bad because it deprives the creator of measurable money. But giving copies away is fine because the recipients might or might not have bought it anyway.

Or, to use a similar argument: Russian roulette is perfectly safe, since it's questionable if there's a bullet in the chamber.

Here's a thought experiment: suppose a bootlegger sells millions of copies of a song at one penny apiece, and he mails all the money to the song's creator. Does the creator have any cause to be upset?
Got halfway through (and it's one of those on my shelf that I do intend to finish).

I found it enjoyable, which is pretty generous given I have low opinion of most business books. Afraid I can't give a more thorough review since (a) It's been a while since I last read a chapter and (b) I haven't finished it yet.

Hope that's useful.
Can you believe that?

The Fact that it is presented as being hard to believe should tell you a lot.
relax everyone, diaspora's developer release is tomorrow!

"Addendum (8/30): To clarify, September 15 will be our open-source developer release. At that time, we will open up our github repository, publish our roadmap, and shift our development style to be more community oriented. We intend on launching a consumer facing alpha in October. Join our mailing list to get an invite." via http://www.joindiaspora.com/2010/08/26/overdue-update.html
i'am sick of hearing google's interview process.a company like google with kickass problem solvers should not hire a person based on his fucked up SAT scores{to me it sounds like sad scores!!} it has to be purely based on talent,his aptitude/attitude and skills.
I'm a Fruit and Nut person myself ^-^
I agree with you. If the shit I say in IM to my friends get published, it would look exactly like this. It doesn't mean I would ever do anything like that. It's just excited bragging. Some guys brag about women, money, physical accomplishments. Nerds like me brag about stupid computer tricks we can do...
In Canada people use ounces, fractions of ounces and grams to measure weight in the weed context.
You still need to file tax returns, even if you are under the limit to prove that you owe no tax.
These are 22 yo words, at the time he was still uncertain of the future as all of us have been at some point in our lives. It will be wrong and kinda unfair to hold these words against him.
Complain, then call my ISP repeatedly :P
Ask HN: What's your favorite hotel in Silicon Valley?
A list of your top three. Would be great.

Thanks guys
We're talking pre-bloodstream, and the mechanism is understood science (everything does this process, it's a widely taught part of biology) It's how everything
(bacteria to humans) digests all non single molecule sugars and starch (i.e. sucrose on up).

Here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside_hydrolase

It is a non-instantaneous process which is limited by the reaction catalyzed by the enzyme. Some diabetic drugs work off this enzyme by inhibiting it's function (as do some antimicrobial drugs/substances).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acarbose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miglitol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voglibose

So I'm going to point at the existence of drugs working off this mechanism instead of finding the research that established them.

As GH works off complex carbohydrates and HFCS is a mixtures of simple carbohydrates, it is not slowed by any inhibition of the GH reaction in the stomach.

As my comment said: While this may be difference between drinking a pint of 100 proof alcohol vs a cup of 200 proof (i.e. not much), it may prove significant.

It appears to effect rats differently at least for instance:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi...
Working at Google or other well funded, yet young technology-at-the-core companies (which includes some startups too) means you spend most of your work hours doing what you enjoy: coding, code reviews, etc... On top of that, evenings and weekends are yours: if you don't get a chance to learn tools, technologies or concepts you're interested in your work hours (and if you chose the right place, you frequently do) you can do this on your own time. You also get to work with plenty of people smarter and/or more experienced, which is a great way to grow professionally.

Starting your own company (or joining a very early stage startup) means you'll be spending only a small proportion of your time coding: if all you do is as a founder is write code, you're essentially guaranteed to fail. Certain kinds of problems (core web search algorithms in post-Google era being the obvious one) are also, traditionally, are much more difficult for small startups to tackle than they are for big companies: certainly if you're passionate about these kinds of problems, than startups are generally off the table (in this case, your opportunity cost is much higher than money).

Obviously, it's still extremely rewarding for many people (it's something I'm still interested in doing at one point or another), but "start my own company" vs. "work at a great technology company" is neither clear cut in favour of the former nor mutually exclusive (witness "Xoogler" startups, Paypal Mafia, etc...)
search by zipcode would be nice!
I read this more as a young kid said something stupid over IM, maybe to be cool, maybe not, but people -- especially young people -- say dumb shit all the time to be cool, even if they don't mean what the say. Yes, he's now the CEO of a hugely influential company, but to apply those comments to his current situation is to take the comments somewhat out of context.

Are they relevant? Sure. Are they as relevant as if he said them two weeks ago? Not even close. People blow this stuff way out of proportion. Does anyone REALLY think that he'd leak personal information now the way he talked about in these IMs?

He has had to grow up a lot faster than most people his age, and he has handled it pretty well, as far as I'm concerned. People love to flip out over this stuff. Sometimes it's worth flipping out over. I don't see this as one of those times.
Ah America, where memory is indeed short.

Read the quote carefully. There's an "A" in "STRANGER", not an "O".
Sounds interesting. Are any outbound minutes used after the call is forwarded? I am willing to budget for the inbound connection and tracking, but paying for the entire outbound conversation would be a bit too variable.
Turning Amazon SimpleDB data into a fully-managed, monetizable API - instantly
While "The Wire" is fiction, it's based on the book "The Corner", which is not. It was not really written to entertain, and it really is not that entertaining, if you by entertaining you mean "fun to read".
Sucrose in generally shown to be less harmful than HFCS in many tests, which in the alternative show at best it's only as harmful.

Here is one study: We're talking pre-bloodstream, and the mechanism is understood science (everything does this process, it's a widely taught part of biology) It's how everything
(bacteria to humans) digests all non single molecule sugars and starch (i.e. sucrose on up).

Here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside_hydrolase

It is a non-instantaneous process which is limited by the reaction catalyzed by the enzyme. Some diabetic drugs work off this enzyme by inhibiting it's function (as do some antimicrobial drugs/substances).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acarbose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miglitol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voglibose

So I'm going to point at the existence of drugs working off this mechanism instead of finding the research that established them.

As GH works off complex carbohydrates and HFCS is a mixtures of simple carbohydrates, it is not slowed by any inhibition of the GH reaction in the stomach.

As my comment said: While this may be difference between drinking a pint of 100 proof alcohol vs a cup of 200 proof (i.e. not much), it may prove significant.

It appears to effect rats differently at least for instance:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi...
This is a really weak argument, to say the very least.

For one thing, just because a lot of kids are immature doesn't mean that they have a license to break the law. Joking obviously isn't a violation of the law, but breaking into private e-mail accounts is (18 USC 1030).

For another, Mark had already been formally disciplined by the Administrative Board for Facemash when he wrote these, so he clearly knew better.

Aruging that Facebook has the right to misuse people's content just because they provide it is clearly wrong.

In addition, there are five people including myself who ultimately filed legal action against Mark and/or Facebook, Inc. because of what happened at Harvard.

Lastly, at roughly the same age, I ran the same core product at the same time in the same place with the same name with the same people's information, and I didn't do that. I didn't joke with my friends about it, I didn't make fun of my users, I certainly never intended to abuse people's trust, and I never did. One of those users was Mark and I have his SHA-1 password hash sitting in my database, as well as his cell phone number--but I'm not going to share it with anyone, nor have I ever. Clearly it's possible to run such an operation in a different way than Mark.

"Call a spade a spade" indeed.
I can't speak for the previous poster - but many people I know (including myself) take pride in being weird; after all, what is there to be proud of in simply being the same as everyone else? I doubt "weird" was meant as an insult - I certainly didn't get that tone from the previous poster.

The rudeness comment is in reference to your rather aggressive response to what I perceived as a bit of idle observation. He indicated that preference without rational reason is weird (and to be honest, I'm inclined to agree), and you responded by insinuating that he would blindly eat anything presented to him, which is clearly not the case.
I think you should have read the linked article before criticizing the idea. They make the reasons for teaching The Wire quite clear in the article and provide a good argument.
Identity theft is very much theft: You take away my credibility as a person, and frequently leave me with contractual debt I am forced to pay (without some serious proof fraud, and honestly, most people never recover fully from the effects of it monetarily or emotionally).

[A side note: your juxtaposition of Identity theft and Car theft is very misleading and strawmany, given that the next line was about theft of services, a situation much more akin to ID theft. Please try to make your points slightly less illogically.]

My credit card number is passed around the world all the time as part of transactions. It isn't a problem until someone uses it to take money from me. I would call it privacy violation, I would call it slimy, I would even call it criminal but I wouldn't call it theft.

As for the rest of your argument: you are obviously just a welfare queen. You want the government to enforce your profits via copyright handouts.

At this point I bet you are having a WTF moment about my use of welfare in the above paragraph. Well, here is my reasoning: copyright is as close to theft as copyright enforcement is to welfare. Any attempt to declare that the fuzzy thinking is OK in one and the same fuzzy thinking is not OK in the other is hypocrisy.