skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might I point out that if this has happened to other users in the same neighbourhood, the cops will become aware of the emerging pattern. If the thief and his fence start repeating their behaviour, the cops will gather more data and evidence by which they can track down, apprehend and incriminate the culprits.

So the OP ought to report it. This might be the first instance they hear of, or the third, or the eighteenth. But if it fits the pattern, that's one more piece of the puzzle that can bring the day when the thieves get their collars felt by the Law that much closer.
Lately it seems so. I don't go to a lot of these, so my sample error may be high; it seems that most of the speakers at these shows are there primarily to promote their company/product, or their new book. In other words, they are marketing events, and yet attendees are paying for admittance.
These days there are no "junior" devs and you become "senior" with one year's experience.
Ask HN: Your most awesome experience (UI/computation/language...)?
Here are three examples of what I call awesome experiences and while they are a little dated, I still cherish them. They are also very easy recalls as I can say exactly what changed at the moment I first used these models/processes:<p>* Back in the days, I used to write most of my graudate research with Fortran generated results... the process was excruciating. Then one day, I discovered Matlab quite by accident (Matlab was not part of our domain limited culture) and I never looked back, thereby becoming an evangelist on the matter with other grad students. The ah-ah moment came when I could produce in 15 seconds and 3 lines of code a graph that would have taken me much longer in Fortran. The example is simple but for the first time, I also discovered that a language could be an impediment in my thought process and got me interested in listening in on the LL1 and LL2 conferences.<p>* Some other times, the revelation is seamless. The UI for a search engine like Google really puts the search at the center of the user's concern. It's not about ads (well not in the first screen), it's not about building portals and categories (which presumes that you think in terms of category first), it's about a sober interface centered on the user and a capable algorithm. The HN login session also falls in that category.<p>* Another example is the pay-as-you-go payment process with Skype. For the first time, I was not paying for a monthly payment for my phone bill. The pay process, even if more expensive sometimes, is worth a lot to me and I now always evaluate payment models with this one in mind.<p>Do you have any other similar awesome experiences that swiftly became your gold standard for future interactions ?
In my last job search I put my resume on my blog (thereby refusing to send out Word files) and pointed potential employers to that, my OSS projects and my HN identity. Seemed to have worked :).
"Why the hype?"

You are asking this on HN, which is run by a startup funding company and started out as "Startup News" ( http://ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html )
Why assign any meaning to any word then?

C'mon. You're a programmer. You should be used to unambiguous use of language...
> A "renaissance man" now is a dilettante.

I'm a proud dilettante. Heck, I've read all the books Jefferson mentioned :)
This works both ways.

I have looked at other people's code and screamed, "Who wrote this &%*$^#?!?!?"

Unfortunately, half the time it's my own.
Moreover, you have to be careful when uploading new code, when a new idea strikes into your head and you quickly implement a prototype, probably not in a very clean way and without unittests and stuff. This doesn't go well in conjunction with 'release early, release often' rule.
Why not put up a message on the project's site saying that the code is old, unsupported and not really up to your standard anymore. Maybe list your current projects.
Anyone got a link to Larry's keynote?
I've thought about using this approach, my concern is that SMS is not always "instant". I've had messages take up to 30 minutes to get delivered; it probably does not happen often but it wouldn't take too many occurrences of having to wait for a message on my phone before i'd get irritated.
I think if you open source something it's kind of an obligation to clean up and comment your code at least a bit, job search or not.
Right on! Parrot needs to think big now that it's stable.
Thanks, I will keep this one in mind.
Or Instapaper. I can't read on most news sites anymore for all the crap they put on there.
Yes, good.

Eventually we will know everything about human mating behavior and sociology in general and then perhaps things like space exploration will be cool again. We should live in a world where the sexiest man imaginable is wearing an astronaut uniform! :)
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Clearly Grampa Simpson said it best for you:

"Oh, son, don’t overreach! Go for the dented car, the dead-end job, the less attractive girl!"
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Even easier, use a HTTP referrer spoofer (like RefControl in Firefox) and set the referrer to news.google.com or similar, and you never hit the registration wall. Works for FT, WaPo, etc. too.
Would it work out the same again if your parents started today? Also manager in a bank might already be quite well paid?

There might also be more involved than just making money. It's also about work satisfaction.
10 years in development, and it's not a mature platform. I wonder how people working on perl6 / parrot bear with that. I mean, if it's on your CV, it basically reads like "I worked on something for 10 years, and nothing was delivered (nothing usable in real life, at least)". What does the potential employer say -- "Welcome aboard, we hate delivering products anyway"?

Also, how do those projects acquire new developers? Say, you're an open source enthusiast with a set of relevant skills / preferences (VM skills, programming languages, technical writing, FOSS project management, whatever), looking for a project to join. Why would you choose a project with a history of staying in "experimental, unstable and incomplete" state for 10 years, no deadlines mentioned and unusable for anything serious in production? At this rate, it will probably still be in the same state in 3 years; what will you have achieved by then? "I wrote a lot of highly complex code / documentation, but almost nobody really uses it"?
Frankly, I'm surprised that HTML5-based animations are now only 30% slower than Flash. A few years ago it was nowhere near that.
Be who you are
Yeah the clockwork orange is missing, its a shame because it was one of the oldest, but its tiny compared to these ones. I would agree that London is one of the most comprehensive, its probably not as modern feeling (and clean) as some of the rest, but it is one of the best IMHO.
I posted this here because I know that many people here can probably relate to the awkward years of high school, though I suspect most here on HN were the types who stayed true to who they were and paid a price at the hands of shallow people like me :(
Hehe, that's a funny way to reverse an attack.

I don't think that sysadmin would qualify as 'evil' though.

It'd be even more fun if they had gotten to it before you and you ended up wiping your own files like that ;)
That's exactly what I meant. In the case of int you can work around it using int[] but if you need more structure, like with a complex number type, or tuples, pairs, etc, the workarounds get really tedious. Basically what you can do is stuff it all into a large byte[] and deserialise on access. That's slow and kills productivity.
Ever heard of Maslow's hierachy of needs? On the top of the hierarchy, above things such as family, love, wealth and self-esteem, there is self-actualization and self-expression. You have to express yourself somehow. Some people express themselves with music. Others write blogs. For many people, starting up your own business and do things they way you think they should be done is a way of self-expression. It's your thing. You have built it.
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Indeed.

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No, just cpp file.c > out.txt
Indeed; one could say that he himself did not do his homework by reading the entirety of a text.
From my limited experience, I think you can pay to have these types of SMS prioritised.
Anecdotes are not data. I use a Gillette, I just bought a 10 pack of blades for 16 dollars. That is going to last me a year, maybe longer. I shave properly. Hot shower, proper technique never had razor burn ever. As the saying goes the poor craftsmen blames his tools.
Older people are worried they'll be pushed aside for younger, cheaper people with better computer skills. Younger people worry with little experience they'll be pushed aside for older, more knowledgeable people. It's interesting reading both sides of the aisle.

Of course this, "In four years of job hunting, Ms. Reid has discovered that she is no longer technologically proficient." is a true telling of why it's taking so long for some people to find work.
He said he's lived in both SF and DC, if you had bothered to read past the first sentence you'd know this..
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What are your disruptive skills?
On the face of it, it seems like there should be an inverse relationship between the people paying the most taxes and the areas of Seattle most in need of public transit. People with money are more likely to drive a car and therefore less likely to need transit.

Did I misunderstand your comment?
When the 90k .NET developer shares his opinion, and it's interesting, we listen to it. Just like we listen to anyone else.

But oddly enough, it's usually the entrepreneur that shares interesting things. It's the person who goes out and does new and interesting things that finds new things to talk about. Sometimes they're crap, sometimes they're brilliant... But they're almost always new and interesting.

The '90k dev', by definition, is happy simply to get through the workday and pay his debts. If he was reaching for more, he moves into the entrepreneur class. Sure, they sometimes find nuggets and share them, but more often they either find nothing or don't share it.
I'm not sure if it's still done, but businesses used to send groups of management to Disney World or Disney Land to watch the training/cultural-initiation of new Disney employees in order to bring ideas back to HomeCorp.
London Underground trains always stop at every stop[1].

[1] actually not always, but with very rare exception.

{EDIT:

I'm getting downvoted so I think I misunderstood what you were saying.

On rereading again I now think you were saying "unusually due to overcrowding the trains were missing out every other station". Previously, I thought you meant "unusually due to overcrowding the trains stopped as frequently as every other station [whereas usually they visit fewer stations than that]".

I was trying to point out that stopping often is usual Underground behavior, thinking that you were assuming it wasn't.

}
I'm a TA for an OS course that is closely following the Berkeley CS162 course, down to using Java for assignments. We've had much less trouble than with the C++ we used to use.
For me, it's simply about what makes me happy.

I have worked both for startup companies and large corporate entities. While the corporate world does offer some sense of security and reliability (and that is tempting to me sometimes, even now), I have been most unhappy in my career during those times when I was assigned a cubicle and a task list.

Over the years, what I have learned about myself is that I enjoy creating things and applying myself to new challenges. I know this is not the case for everyone. If you were meant for the quiet world of work life, then I strongly agree with you -- it's a surer path to financial security. If you weren't meant for it, then financial security won't matter very much -- you'll be miserable.
I'm personally hoping that ``The Social Network'' has the same style of storytelling and drama as ``Pirates of Silicon Valley''.
Ya but I think you're missing an important point. Having an active Github can demonstrate a developer with passion instead of one who just sees it as a job.
I would agree with d2viant; the most threatening element of a resume is the conception of longevity we inherited from the 20th century social compact of loyalty between eager beavers and large corporations.

My work history is peppered mostly with companies of less than 20 people, and a good chunk of it at companies under 10. However, the job or two I have had -- and the interactions I've had with comparable consulting clients -- in places structurally describable as "enterprise" left me with an enormous appreciation of how differently a lot of the labour force there operates. Most of the people I worked with were strict 9-to-5ers of average intelligence who, over time, became highly knowledgeable, deeply entrenched maintenance experts in various legacy systems the company had, which in many cases dated back to the late 1980s; ROI is ROI. They were quite valuable to those companies, operationally.

However, they had been there 9, 10, 15, 20 years; they had virtually no transferrable skill sets whatsoever. When that technology does (did) go, so will their jobs, and they will (do) have an extremely difficult time finding another job in a competitive technology market at any place that does not specifically use those systems. Even the folks who played more generally applicable roles like accounts payable analysis, audits, marketing, etc. often became idiosyncratic domain specialists in that very company's very particular business process and very particular product and customer domain in ways that seemed to call into doubt their ability to shift into an analogous role in another place in time and space.

The zeitgeist of 1950-1990 at General Electric or Ford Motor Co. has passed; it's not coming back, I fear. If there's any advice I can give to people today so that they don't end up in this situation when they're 50, it's that you have to embrace this "up or out" approach we talk about so much here. Unless you're willingly headed toward management and significant increases in compensation, preferably short-term and relatively liquid, you need to get out after a few years. When I say management, I really do mean management; one of the pathologies I have seen a lot is to give people of the above specimen doing the same kind of grunt work year-on-year managerial-sounding titles to justify further salary increases, but whose jobs still consist of procedures and processes that suffer from the above-mentioned liabilities.

But anyway, the company will not take care of you. Company does not care. Probably will not be around forever anyway, at least not in the present form that has any relevance to you whatsoever.
Actually, according to the following sources, the content is written to disk _before_ entering sleep. This can be done very quickly because most of the data is already in swap file.

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http://www.macworld.com/article/53460/2006/10/safesleep.html
http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-c...
I can sympathize with the fact that times are difficult but at the same time what does this prototypical worker expect? It sounds like they've been plugging away at an essentially entry level job for 20 years and now they are shocked it's hard to find new work.

I think people's problem is that they are refusing to adjust to the reality of the times. Namely that they need to live more frugally and be more proactive about finding a job instead of just submitting a few resumes online or taking an online computer skills course. As if that is some kind of herculean task.
Yes, obviously. But a startup that can't pay the bills for itself and the people who work there will die even quicker.
Like all hype, you need to take startup variety with a grain of salt. A lot of it is entrepreneurs encouraging others to overcome the fear and inertia that held them back. And for every blog post touting the all-singing-all-dancing power of startups, there is another one saying that it will be ferociously hard work and you may still fail. I'm a happily salaried developer myself, and if I do start a business it won't be a classic "startup". I still get a lot out of HN.
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Ask HN: Review my startup - threddie.com
http://threddie.com

"Threddie lets you brainstorm with people using a post-and-comment system everyone's familiar with. Just start a brainstorm, add a briefing and some topics, then invite people to discuss.

It's better than email, yet much more intuitive and lightweight than the mind mapping and diagram drawing alternatives."

This is aimed at small companies. I've already got a little bit of traction and, based on the feedback I got from that, am working on the next set of features (file attachments, custom subdomains, having multiple users under the same account).

This will be SaaS, with a range of plans priced according to team size and storage space.

What do you guys think?
If this is your site (wasn't clear from the submission), I have one suggestion:

Your slogan "Matching Entrepreneurs and Ideas" is in the page title but not on the page anywhere. I think that line does a good job telling what the site is about without making the reader wade through the front page copy.
Great article, enforced corporate 'fun' is always horrific, couldn't agree more.

Perhaps slightly off-topic, but recently enough where I work, there was an attempt at measuring the happiness of the workforce. Everyone was encouraged to register how happy they were, once per day, by clicking on a survey link. The choices were: 0% happy, 25% happy, 50%, 75% or, yes, 100% happy.

The results were aggregated (a basic average I believe) and emailed to management, who then supposedly knew how happy >everyone< was.

Putting aside the obvious problems with this approach, it kicked off some funny quasi-philosophical debates each day (e.g. am I 50% or 75% happy?, Do I register how happy I am with work, or in general?). Bizarre stuff, it didn't last very long.
PyongYang has one: {censored}

(I didn't realize any UK cities other than London have one)
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It's not. When sharing code, there is no obligation to do anything. More people will contribute and share if you have well-documented clean code, but if you just want to throw something up there, that's good too.

Too many people don't contribute at all because the Internet is full of people looking gift horses in the mouth and they figure it's safer to not share at all. And that's not good for anyone.
It's because we couldn't imagine ourselves doing anything else. It's certainly not about the money. If I wanted money I'd be doing some tech/marketing consulting or would have continued on the God awful finance track that was so hot when I started undergrad.

It's pure love of the game when you get down to the heart of it. There's a certain love for creating something from nothing.

Sadly, there's too much hype out there from the press/blogging community because that's what gets them pageviews.

Nothing wrong being a salaried 90k .net developer either. This isn't for everyone. It isn't for most to be honest. Now is the best time ever to start something though. The costs to at least see if it will work are close to nothing and if it does work out, the tools to charge are there/raise money to scale are heavily available.
Memory usage will never be moot as long as you have a very large cost difference between fast storage and slow mass storage. Absolute sizes don't tell you anything without comparing them to the amount of data that you want to process and index.

You have chosen an example where streaming is possible. But sequential access is not what you want in databases, search engines, many forms of data analysis.
I already commented on the post. Don't feel bad, I also hang here in HN but were one of those outliers (maybe not as much as you did, because we did not have clubs in our HS, but I gave up playing chess, too...)
I don't know where you live, but here in the UK it's harder and harder for children of the post-Boomer generations to get the kind of "job for life" that gave such returns.

Your parents were lucky to have lived through a time of cheap/free education, steady growth in the economy, and relatively cheap house prices when they were starting out. With good luck they will get a good pension, paid (in your father's case) by earmarked taxpayer largesse.

For the rest of us, we'll start our employment mired in student debt, higher taxes from paying for Boomer retirees, property prices forever beyond our reach, and an economy so bad that young people regard un- or low-paid slavery as a privilege (sorry, "internships").

The government here is cutting back across the board, and banks and other big companies cutting staff. The "job for life" is gone for us, as a generation.

So, what's riskier - starting out on your own, with the chance to make it big, or struggle for years, or decades, on low-paid, short-term employment ?
Awww, that's some broken logic :-P

In practice, company A and company B are not in direct competition, at least not in the position Employee E is in: one of them consumes the technologies developed by the other.

The underlying currency in this love triangle is not the employee himself, but KNOWLEDGE. Knowledge of a certain technology. Company A makes technology which it sells for $. Company B uses that technology to develop products and services to sell for $. Employee E learns to apply the technology and hires his time and expertise for $.

Since both A and B make money from the technology, it's in their best interest to make sure the workforce is well qualified, so who better to certify and bestow titles of MVP at E than A?
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What does he do with the other 16 hours of his day? If I can hire someone who spends 41 hours a week programming, with 1 hour of work that I can actually see, that is going to be a big advantage over someone who claims they are a super-genius architect. Because the first person has documented proof of ability, but the second person just says he's really good.

Don't worry, though. I work with "C++ experts" who don't realize you have to allocate memory before writing to it. Knowing how to program is not a prerequisite to all programming jobs.
I mean dangerous to the article's central thesis.
The ideal candidate will do both. It's fine if you just hack other code, and it's fine if everything you make is 100% your own. But the best programmers do both.
Couldn't agree more.

Everyone where they belong. If you don't feel to be part of the internet startup world, why get involved in it if it won't fulfill your desires?
"Being rich" is being able to buy something you want or need when you want or need it. I make less than $70K a year and consider myself wealthy: there's nothing that my wife and I have wanted or needed that I couldn't immediately pay for. (Single income, no kids).
Entertainment seems like a worthy value to me.
Just one quick UI suggestion:

Rather than have the user typing onto the end of the URL, make the field something like "name your Brainstorm" and just have the user enter their moniker. Display the resulting URL using js below the field.

I was confused for a few seconds, because I thought /b/ was your example brainstorm name (FYI, /b/ is an infamous community of like-minded folks on 4chan) and kept trying to backspace over it to write my own.

Beyond that: I like your site and it seems well-implemented. I don't know if it's something I would use much, though.