skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"So a lot of people like to see what their friends are doing and play games that challenge the average sheep's IQ, but what does facebook do that is world changing"

Basically, you just implied what Facebook has done - redefine how we build and maintain relationships. That's a huge social impact.

Now that every single damn website has "Login with Facebook Account" button, I think it's a big deal.

Now that every phone comes out with "syncing with Facebook" feature, I think it's a big deal.

Now that people actually put their credit card info and buy stuffs on Facebook (although it's small right now), I think it's a big deal.

Now that there is a single entity that keeps track of our life/relationship history, I think it's a big deal.

I mean... these are probably not a big deal for you, but many people in the tech industry think so. That is why the valuation of Facebook is so high. It has a lot of potential. It's not all about just.. attracting people to increase traffic and spamming them with ads. It's more about how the social aspect of everyone's lives have been redefined. There was letters, then phone, then emails, then now.. facebook/twitter/etc.

Plus, Lars cannot give Wave "another try" at Facebook. Google Wave is a Google's property and anything related to Wave technology will make a good reason for Google to sue Facebook -- just to worsen the relationship of the two companies. Facebook probably wanted the leader who excels are putting out great products. That's what Lars is great at.
Generally, the safety of a given substance can be determined through its therapeutic index. The therapeutic index for a substance is calculated by taking the amount of the substance that will induce toxicity in 50% of a population divided the dose that will induce the effect of the drug in 50% of the population. In short, the ratio of how much will be (acutely) toxic to how much will make you high.

Here are some therapeutic indexes for common drugs [0]:

Heroin - 6

Alcohol - 10

Cocaine - 15

MDMA - 16

LSD - ~1000

THC - > 1000

Alcohol has very dangerous acute effects and it's very possible to overdose on alcohol. Compare to THC where a toxic dose is on the level of 15g. Assuming that THC is approximately 5% of the content of the cannabis [1] this would mean smoking 300 grams of cannabis (with 100% absorption by the body). That would make for ~600 joints (with a joint having about half a gram of cannabis) to get to a level of toxicity.

So relatively speaking, Alcohol (at least in the short term) is quite dangerous.

[0] PDF - http://web.cgu.edu/faculty/gabler/toxicity%20Addiction%20off...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_%28drug%29#Potency
I think Wave needed more time in stealth, before the big announcement, beta client, invite-only service, etc. Wave should have gone to different companies (like Facebook) and made itself their new platform, such that, all at once, Google could flip a switch one day and you'd realize that all your activity on Facebook, MSN, Exchange, YouTube, etc, was all really going on in Wavelets all along.
I have experience, and it happened well before the iPad.

I have a Lenovo X61 notebook/tablet w/Pen. Combined with Microsoft OneNote it allowed me to take notes on my computer, even in my engineering classes.

For a while I had experimented with taking all of my notes with a plain laptop since I can type much faster than I can write with the added bonus of not having legibility issues.

For some classes this worked just fine but being an engineering student, it ultimately proved impossible. Try taking physics notes, at speed, with Word and it's equation editor and you'll get it pretty quickly. Trying to keep a notebook of paper diagrams and typed notes on my computer synchronized was also proving to be a pain.

Then my laptop died and I purchased a Lenovo X61 tablet. It changed everything.

Being able to type notes in a lecture then flip the screen over and start copying over diagrams drastically increased my efficiency by reducing everything to one medium. I could now do typed notes, hand written notes, homework assignments completely on my computer and even in one program. The only paper I relied on was printing some assignments as needed.

Conversion tablets have been around for a while and have both a touch screen and a keyboard, allowing for a very wide range of user input. Coupled with programs like OneNote and some diagramming/mind-mapping software I can quickly sketch out just about anything I can think of.
> Now before all you Republicans and Libertarians get all smart-ass, I should add that it happens plenty often in the military-industrial complex too with the contractors who do the majority of the real work.

Funny that you mention Libertarians when they're hardly defenders of the military-industrial complex.
This figure is accurate. I was told at a marketing day in London by a Twitter representative a figure of 70k GBP > 80k GBP.
I tried using a Newton back in the early 90s and...it did not work too well, except at distracting other people in class.

I think the big value in managing notes with a computer is in the re-writing of paper notes after class/meeting/etc. Not only do you get an editable/searchable/printable/re-orderable version of your notes, re-entering them reinforces the memory and gives you a chance of viewing it from a perspective not rushed by the need to get something down on paper while your prof is whizzing through material.

The iPad + GoodReader, Papers, iThoughts HD, and occasionally Evernote work pretty well for search and presentation, although I wish there were one good memex system.
You are all probably too young to remember when Japanese imports were dismissed as cheap copies.

Rather like Chinese products or Indian software is now.
"Facebook: Internet for Dummies"
Oh, there is cheaper. E.g. thrustvps.com starts at $5.95 for 512MB. Naturally the number of use-cases where it would make sense to give up the stability of amazon/rackspace in exchange for a saved $5/mo is rather limited.
Trying to use word to do anything at speed is a bad idea. (Or frankly, to do anything at all with it – except perhaps exchange documents with other people who use word – is a bad idea.)

With training though it is possible to TeX notes at the same speed as handwritten notes, including commutative diagrams and all kinds of complicated formulae. I know this because there was a guy in my math course 5 years ago who could TeX notes substantially faster than I could write them with a pen, when I was trying to hurry.
Drug experts say alcohol worse than crack, heroin
You don't mention any concrete alternatives in your post (i.e. other job offers or project ideas). Assuming that you don't have anything else lined up then I would take the job - you can always quit if the work pans out to not be what you wanted or if they treat you like an intern. Worst case just use it as a stop-gap to earn some cash and buy some time.

Quitting a job too soon after taking it can look bad on your CV, but not always. In your case you've kind of been employed by them for a while, so I don't think you need to worry about CV damage there.

What looks good on your CV really depends on who is looking at your CV. I don't think corporation vs start up makes much difference. A broad range of experience looks good, loyalty looks good. You can give the appearance of both whichever way you go.

As for asking for a higher salary... decide what you think you're worth, decide how much you want the job, guess what you think they'll pay, then adjust your request accordingly. If you really want the job then be a bit conservative, if you're not that bothered either way, and it sounds like you're not, then aim high.
I think inertia is a problem that all organisations face, eventually. It's really hard work to keep a company flexible, professional and profitable as it grows.

Given time, Facebook will have this issue. Your company will have this issue. Beauracracy grows organically unless you keep paring it back, especially if you hire people who are afraid of taking risks, and many people are.
Could not find a link to the actual report. Curious if they judged these drugs using pharmacuetical grade samples or street crap.

Hard to believe horse does more damage to the body than alcohol if it's not cut to shit.
To be honest, I don’t think they’re very good for “displaying” text information, when that includes anything you want to read closely and interact with, either. I underline and scribble marginal notes all over everything I read seriously, and current electronic devices don’t come close to keeping up.

It’s really tragic, because it seems like with the proper software a device like the iPad (esp. one also supporting pen input, but even just with finger touch) would be really great for reading, and for marking up/hyperlinking/etc.
Try http://prgmr.com/

They have a pretty decent service and the guy running it is also a HNer ( http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lsc )
North Atlanta is the calmest part.

I bet you would feel differently if you moved into the city or south of town.
... I said 'likely.' And the guy is looking for help from hackers, not from a therapist. I have access only to what he said. If as a hacker you think he should see a professional, say so.

I think I am probably right, and if I am not, I am not ashamed at all. I am not a therapist, I am not in a therapists office, I am not pretending ot be a therapist, and I doubt this kid needs a therapist.

I think you overestimate the importance of giving 'accurate' advice as if I, or who i was commenting on, were his therapist. However, we are not, you are not, and the kid is probably just needing to grow a pair, find his voice, and realize he doesn't have to do the things that other people think he should do.
I've worked at places that have tried this trick. It doesn't work - it's always been removed because of real users complaining they've lost access.

Several scenarios can trigger it, and probably more. The internet is a weird place. Consider:

1. Some clients, browser plugins, and proxy servers implement link prefetching. These agents will not care that the link is attached to a 1px gif that the user won't see. This is not really breaking the rules, either, it is quite permissible and in the scope of HTTP implementations - unless you've put your black hole behind a form POST (which bots won't for anyway.)

2. Internet explorer among other tools allows users to download content for offline viewing. The client does not respect robots.txt when such fetching has been initiated by a user.

3. Not all users browse the web visually, and your 1px gif is discriminating against the visually impaired. When browsed with a screen reader, a linked image is a linked image is a linked image.

Additionally, outright blacklisting by IP address as noted by others on this thread is highly problematic, especially when the behavior that triggers it could accidentally come from real users behind a NAT firewall (at a typical office, library, etc). A single user performing any of the above behaviors would block the entire group from the service.

There are better ways to fight misbehaving robots that do not so easily trigger false positives...
tl;dr: I just bought a $800 pen.
The Data-Enrichment Method (1957)
Wealth is an abstract noun encompassing all of the physical objects that are considered a store of value that one may possess. Of course now that some abstract entities like information or promissory notes also have monetary values attached to them, they too can be considered as wealth.
If you do this, create the robots.txt first, then wait a week or two!

Only then activate the actual blackhole.

The reason is that robots do not download robots.txt each time, they can, and do, cache it for quite a while, especially for sites that don't change much.
Shaquille O'Neill is RICH

Guy signing his checks is WEALTHY

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Funnily enough, in the Finnish culture 'working really hard' was pretty much the only acceptable compliment for men. You were not supposed to be happy, cultured, successful, handsome, or anything like that. Just work really hard.
I would suggest burying the "bad link" several pages deep under the blackhole. (i.e. get a page, with a link, which leads to another page that has another link, etc, etc.)

The spider will crawl all the way down, but real users and prefetch won't. (I'm not sure about offline, but I can't imagine they go down very far.)
Leisure-time exercise 'reduces depression risk'
You have a point. It's the Heisenberg principle at play here. By making the observation, you change what you are observing.
But people know what you mean when you say it. It's a style guide, not a language definition.
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Sleep loss 'worse for extroverts'
Wealth is having the freedom to do whatever you want to do.
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In fact, Facebook if anything encourages you to go out tonight, or to do something interesting with your life rather than just sitting on Facebook, because you see your friends going out and doing interesting things and then posting pictures or talking about it on Facebook. (Assuming, of course, that you have interesting friends.)
Linux Journal: Readers' Choice Awards 2010 - Best Programming Language: Python
Isn't it Emacs that encourages you to use all ten fingers at the same time?
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No idea re: remote working, contact them and find out!
Complex mathematical problem solved by bees (Travelling Salesman)
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I'm an advocate of mean answers, if they're well-placed. I've seen them work at kuro5hin.org; they're 'area effect' weapons against stupid posts (by example), stronger than just a downvote. The truth is, as a site grows, you really only want a subset of the readership posting, and you want the rest to think twice before doing it (that sounds bad, but if you want read-quality and not write-quantity, you've got to do something to make people pay attention). Now kuro5hin.org is pretty much dead, but I don't think that was the cause.
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When is the last time you’ve heard Laos or Oman mentioned in a news story? What makes for good news are exceptional events, not ordinary events.

That's because it's the news, it's designed to inform you of current events, not tell you about places...
Well, the point really was that they've stayed small. One of the worlds most recognized brands is under 1500 employees. and has worldwide reach that even 2 year olds know.
Pepys did write a lot of things down, but mostly not thoughts.

Speaking of Pepys, here is a wonderful plaque that hangs on the "Hung, Drawn and Quartered" pub in London. I was wandering around the neighborhood and happened on it once:

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/38/18/381862_cbced004.jpg

A perfect specimen of the British wit we can never, ever have enough of.
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Emacs is self-documenting, so you only need two things to use Emacs like a pro -- Emacs, and your brain.

The first thing a new Emacs user should do is to peruse the Emacs manual. You won't remember every detail, of course, but you should at least have a basic idea of what sorts of operations are available.

Then, start editing text. When you do something that seems tedious, you're doing it wrong. Try to remember back to the section of the manual that has something to do with what you were doing. Then read that section. Now try to redo the operation, but "the Emacs way" instead of the tedious way you invented yourself.

Do this several times a day.

Now you're an expert.
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Well, if you have been completely out of someones life for long enough, calling them or meeting them at first could be awkward enough to discourage either person to put the effort into setting it up.

With Facebook you open up a very non committal link into each others lives, where you may send each other the odd message, comment on what each other is doing, without getting right back into things straight away.
Deprecation of old APIs doesn't have anything to do with the app store -- but you can't get your app in the store if you use a deprecated API.

There are plenty of apps that exist and run right now (Minecraft, for example) that can't go into the app store. So you can think of the app store as sort of a platform "ideal" for Apple even while they leave the old APIs around.
Nicotine demethylates when heated into nornicotine. This reacts with saliva to form the carcinogenic N-nitrosonornicotine -- which is also found in any variety of cured tobacco.

While not itself carcinogenic, it is incredibly hard to separate nicotine from cancer, unfortunately.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Janda#Nornicotine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Nitrosonornicotine
It probably depends on where you work. Big companies can hire a lot of people. Small companies can't. But they're both competing in the same market.
I might eat this words but nothing facebook offers to the masses has had the same impact google search and maps has. Google might have a terrible track record with sideproject but its core ventures still have immense potential.
New York State law requires that one out of every five Thomas Friedman columns make some sense. This one bags his quota for the month.
dropbox (only sf positions, sorry!)

http://www.dropbox.com/jobs
I think in the long run it might be more about places, allowing physical businesses to use Facebook as a much more effective marketing channel.
I don't think that is what the OP is saying.

The problem is not associated with risk taking but its opposite - finishing things after the primary risk has been tackled. I have no idea what happens inside Google, but as a user of their products I am often shocked (given their resources) at the lack of polish, at the seeming unwillingness to tackle that infamous last 20% that takes the 80% of the time. I can only assume this is policy of some sort since it is so pervasive.

In my experience running software projects, getting things done (as in DONE DONE) is a skill that is loosely correlated with sheer smarts if at all. The best project managers/geek herders I know could never survive a technical interview with Google, but they have this ability to focus things so it all clicks together. I have always wondered whether Apple is the kind of company that seeks those kind of skills.

As an example, think of some hyper competent PAs - they might not have higher degrees in mathematics, but they have an uncanny ability to create order out of chaos. Good software project managers are like that - the eye of calm in the storm of smartness.

If you are the kind of person who is bothered on a personal level by unfinshed stuff (what some personality analysts call a "completer finisher"), I can imagine working at a place where the organization is always on the lookout for the next shiny could be very frustrating. That could be plausible reason for these departures, though that is only speculation.
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Even after doing all that success at being the best is not a given. So that makes it even less worthwhile.
It also won Best Scripting Language.
This is essentially Montgomery reduction, widely used in cryptographic implementations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_reduction
I think it's down to designing an interview process that minimizes the chance of bad hires which has been written about before. The qualities you mention and more subjective and thus there is more chance someone hired based on those qualities could be a bad hire.
Numbered list are usually more appealing than normal essays, for a psychological reason. They lure the reader with the promise of content divided in short, skippable items, which are fast to read or even just scroll. That is why every glossy magazine now has the promise of "X ways to approach women", "X ways to lose weight" and the like.
Well, there have been people whose emails would consistently end in a J on a single line. And these aren't people that would end their mails with a single smiley on the last line. Some of them probably don't even know what a smiley is.
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Yes :-)

I love trains, coe's quest and minecraft. Looks like a perfect fit
I once watched an interview of Ang Lee (crouching tiger, brokeback mt. the best director of our time, this is from my twice academy winning professor). Lee told of his early days as a director, when he simply couldn't get any gig for six years. (he stayed home, took care of the kids, and did a lot of cooking.) but he stuck with it, and eventually got some money to make a small budget movie that went on to win some international award, which launched his career. Looking back, he said something to this effect, "of my classmates who studied to be directors, the only ones who ended up being directors are the ones who stuck with directing all the way. Those who found jobs as editors, or critics,.. Those were the lucky ones who found stable jobs. But 20 yes later, they were still editing or crtiquing. None made it to directing their own films. Only the ones who stuck with it."
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2000? Csíkszentmihályi’s book (Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play) which introduced the term flow was published in 1975.

Here’s a TED talk by Csíkszentmihályi (2004): http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.htm...

Also worth reading: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig, 1974), The Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche, 1872)
Ask HN: Facebook Interview Preparation
So, I'm a freshman in college, and I have an interview with Facebook this week. I have been reviewing all kinds of algorithm work, but this will be my first technical interview, and I'm not really sure what (specifically) I should be reading over and familiarizing myself with. I suppose this can be generalized into a "what should I know for a technical interview" question, as well.