skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term "nervous breakdown" is an old-fashioned euphemism for a bout of depression. Treat it so you don't harm yourself. The factual statements you relate may indeed suggest leaving that company, but while your mood is that low, you may miss out on other ways to deal with the same facts--and you just might be misinterpreting or overinterpreting the facts. Talk to a friend to get a reality check on what you are thinking. See a doctor and describe what you have been doing lately. Think again about what to do when you have taken care of yourself. It's good that you are expressing concern for other people--that often helps people dig out of issues like this.
No, really, don't. Might as well throw in a short url when submitting to add to the obfuscation.
But he's very successful. Who's viewpoint are we supposed to champion here - the employee or the employer? Should we not be happy when an employer is successful and can get a lot from his employees with minimal expense? Does the process of building a startup not put us squarely in the side of the employer?
Also, sky is blue. Check http://www.bnet.com/blog/entry-level/jason-calacanis-gen-y-j...

Says Calacanis: "... the majority of Gen Y seem to operating under the bizarre rallying cry of: More money! Less responsibility! Shorter hours! No stress! More freedom! It’s all about me!"

Yeah, shame on the employees for wanting better job conditions and admitting they actually care about own interest.
Just for the record, I believe the transition happen at the very latest in the 1970's for human resources and upper-management. The mentality has been around for a long, long time.

The one compensation is that if you can get past the gate-keepers and talk to your future co-workers, they should care more about your problem solving abilities than your acronyms. But if they don't, they wouldn't be pleasant co-workers anyway.

Personally, I would say that there's been a different transition that's happen more recently. That is a transition toward management being more interested in proving some point than accomplishing a job. When you have that situation, you really can get the problem that even your future co-workers care more about the acronyms or proving their smartness or whatever, than accomplishing the task.

But it's hard to track such subtle sea-changes.
Small nitpick on my part to the original article, but this guy is not a kid, he's an adult. He's a man
Get out of the bath. Go for a run. Apply for the other jobs. Look for a startup opportunity where you have equity.
Ask HN: Hack a Radio Station Contest
I'm wondering if there is any torrent equivalent for making a call in to a radio station contest. There has to be some solution out there to open as many calls as possible to get through the dammed busy signal.

Cell phones don't connect fast enough, and Google Voice gives rings until it goes busy.

If there's no way to do this yet, perhaps someone smarter than me would be interested in building a phone torrent solution to beat busy signals.
very cool! looking forward to trying it out.
BaubleBar Raises $1.1 Million From Accel, Founder Collective, And Lerer Ventures
To be fair, James D. Watson is a bit of a jerk who delights in calling other people stupid. Usually winning a Nobel Prize tends to make people more charitable, since they no longer need to prove themselves to anybody... apparently it didn't work for Watson.

I wouldn't recommend following Watson's advice on the correct attitude to your fellow man.

For further information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Watson and scroll down to "Controversies".
Max...he has made a bunch of money. I wouldn't say he is 'very successful'.

Show me the engineers fighting to go work for him.

I give Mahalo 3 - 5 years before shutting their doors.

Hopefully that will humble him a bit.
(I'll assume that, here, performance means speed of memory access and calculation.)If all that memristors offer is performance, and you propose memristors will lead to AI, you are suggesting that what is currently preventing an artificial intelligence from succeeding is speed of calculation, and further that the particular kind of calculation needed is the same kind potentially improved by memristors.I can't completely demonstrate that to be untrue without referencing every attempt at AI ever made, because you're asking for a negative proof --- that NO current AI research fulfills those two requirements. I haven't read all the AI papers ever, let alone talked to researchers that haven't published. But I've read what I can, and I... I guess I just don't feel like the evidence suggests that current research is hindered solely by speed, NOR that "moving memory and processing power closer together" has much to do with any somewhat-successful attempts machine intelligence.
One of my biggest clients is a financial company whose core trading product is based on a commercial product they bought in the 70's (whose manufacturer subsequently went out of business in the 80's).

It's continued to run for 30 years, and they wouldn't dream of replacing it. I don't think they're an exception (although I suspect this is less true when you get out of the enterprise environment).
That's the truth. I think it's better to replace any arbitrary small monetary value with 'Will Actually Open Wallet'. Once you've got the perceived value of someone willing to open their wallet then other things can start to fall into place.
Why do some corporates hate small business?
Yesterday I lost a few hours trying to figure out how to use my google apps email address as my openid account, because I don't use my gmail.com account. I give up, forget about openid and any website that requires me to use it.

Today I spent an hour and a half on the phone with AT&T Small business, for the 6th time in 2 years attempting to get access to my AT&T small business portal. I gave up and decided to leave AT&T.

Afterwards I spent an hour and a half trying to figure out how to get a business account from Verizon. I gave up and looked at Sprint. 30 seconds later I found http://bit.ly/cDQhU6

What's the deal? Is it that companies who sell to both b2b and b2c are inherently too disjointed to provide quality service to both? Or does sprint just care more about business accounts than AT&T or Verizon? It feels like every single time I try to use a vendor who sells to both I run into more friction than I'm comfortable with. 15 minute transactions often turn into hours of wild goose chases.

These sorts of inefficiencies just can't make business sense for anybody involved in the transaction. Every hour I waste on frustrations like these says to me that my vendors don't care if they waste my time or win/keep my business.
So in 2010 Zed has written his own web server which runs his new framework he wrote for the new webapp he wrote.

What did you do this year?
Having said that, it may be that the leak is itself starting to leak. There are reports of cables from unexpected sources - http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/11/30/beltway_b...
But you can still run it, ultimately proving zandorg's point.
Rediscovering integration is wonderful. Managing to get it published in a peer-reviewed medical journal is not.
IanaEE, but I am a CE:

The human brain has 10e15 synapses [1] and 2.5 petabytes of storage[2]. A modern quad core processor has about 7e8[3] transistors.

Now the brains switches and storage probably can't be directly equated to a processor, but presumably it is within a few orders of magnitude. A conservate estimate would require about 10e6 times the density to get the same density as the human brain on a chip. 10e6 ~ 2^20, so that's about 20 years assuming Moore's Law holds.

So in terms of raw performance, we have a ways to go.

Memristors are about 10 times as dense as transistors currently [4]. They also offer non-volatile storage in addition to processing power and the possibility of fitting in a three dimensional structure. I won't guess what this imlies, but I assume it's going to get us much closer to a circuit similar to a human brain.

Am I wrong? Probably somewhere. Does any of this matter? I have no idea. We won't know until we try. Personally, I'm VERY excited about the possibilities behind memristors, and wish I understood them better. I can't think of a development in the past 20 years that has more potential to advance computers.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1920485 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_brain

[2] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-the...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_(microarchitecture)

[4] http://www.physorg.com/news156526733.html
Is the iPad app the same code as the PS3 or a completely different code base?
Ways of Talking / Ways of Being
I get that, but saying that something is a "big lie" just because it is not that important in a specific context doesn't seem quite right in my opinion.
I stopped watching TWiST for a while and almost unsubscribed from his newsletter because the Arrington drama was very Jersey Shore - minus the fake boobs.

Despite his personality flaws, which we all have, the guy gives incredible advice that is actionable. And he does it consistently.

Most popular speakers that we admire give far less valuable advice. The usefulness of "Be passionate, do less" pales in comparison to "Be consistent, plan out segments, publish on the same day at the same time".
Update: the ".com" was probably always parked - Wikileaks is a ".org" (sorry).
You also just wrote a story about Jason Calacanis... The only thing you forgot to do was link to Mahalo.

You might not want to work for him, but you should at least respect his shtick is genius and very effective at getting coverage and links, which works nicely since his company is an SEO play.
True. The black eye and split lip idea was wishful thinking. Perhaps a number of people showing up and glaring at the bully, or at least getting between him and the victim, would suffice.
I said it was the cloest thing to an Ivy League school, not that it was the "next best" thing.

Without debating quality, even if it was 10x better it would still remain "the closest thing to an Ivy League school".
Ask HN:  Can anyone recommend a good way to learn basic electronic circuits?
I have read some interesting links via HN about circuits, etc., and I would very much like to dig into this and learn how to make simple ones that do interesting things.<p>I ordered an Arduino yesterday, but I'd also like to be able to design analog circuits and to understand how basic components interact.<p>Can anyone recommend a software simulator for this? Or a book?
I can't help but post the perfect "villain" picture of Calacanis to accompany this story:

[edit working link]: http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT7wjPbXig0o_I76bh4g...
You are characterizing the relationship between employers and employees as zero-sum. Does that need to be the case? Should that be the case?
The author of the original post here. I think in effect you're both right. As a result of HN picking this up I've received a few more feature requests and votes for route areas today, all of them thoroughly pleasant and supportive. And I noted them all, responded and appreciate them deeply. But it's the comment that sparked the blog post that I keep mentally coming back to, and by association that particular feature request.

Sadly it reminds me of the recent story about the guy selling eyewear online who loved the terrible comments he received on Get Satisfaction because they allegedly gamed his Google rank. I irks me to think that being a dick is an effective strategy in this way.

That said, you're absolutely right in that someone like this is not worth the effort as a customer per se, despite the validity of their request. The app is targeted to a fairly niche community and for the most part it's a pretty awesome community. I know with certainty that person is not representative and thus can be safely ignored.
Your sarcasm detector is off. Sorry.
Science cum Metaphysics
I think the point wasn't so much in how successful both industries are, then he could've taken any two industries. The point was that one is very much needed, and the other is nice to have. It's hard to get people to pay for 'nice to have'.
"I see a lot of potential benefits for people currently being murdered in Iraq and Afghanistan."

1. Expose internal documents.
2. ????
3. Fewer people being murdered in Iraq.

Going to need to spell out 2 here, because nothing wikileaks has done so far has done anything to stop those deaths, and isn't likely to. Assange's, yours and Winer's stances all assume that the states involved won't change their methods in response to informational insecurity, and will instead continue business as usual. This is a strange assumption.

"Do you think Africa is a country? How is it splitting hairs to be aware that "Eastern Europe" isn't a single place?"

It was you who took my allusion to Litvinenko and turned into it something exclusively exclusively about Russia. My point was, and remains, that tyrannies murder to protect themselves, and high-minded rhetoric about bringing them down comes to naught when you just pick on the soft targets.
Whether you're a "free electron" or not, why do you think it's your personal responsibility to keep this company afloat?

If the job isn't right for you, then leave.
Surely there has been lots of debate about his statements in the past. Rather than spending time on his polarizing way of gaining attention, the best solution is to let him do business his way and channel our energies into more productive directions. The last time I checked, no one is forced to work for Jason.

On a minor side note: Am I the only one to notice that he seems to move quite a lot with his body during the interview?
An even larger list of more in-depth post-mortems: http://foundersblock.com/featured/25-best-startup-failure-po...
Anthony...I have to agree with you that he gives a lot of great actionable advice. Sometimes, he also spouts something of value (e.g. warning startups not to build their company on top of Facebook).

But he goes off on so many topics and said such crap some times, that it fully discounts all the great stuff he has said.

This is one of those things.

Besides, he doesn't just have 'personality' flaws. He seems to be such a genuine dick. Not the good type that produces insane quality stuff (a la Steve Jobs). The type that have gotten lucky, and think they are God's gift to everybody else, and are yet to keep producing. The fiasco surrounding him berating a now ex-exmployee and his falling out with Arrington and TechCrunch do nothing but confirm the prick that I think he is.

Time will tell how he fares.

If I were looking for Angel money, I would never take money from him either.

Can you imagine someone like that having leverage over you in any shape or form? Either a boss or an investor? Hell no!
That link doesn't seem to be working so either this one:

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRw83HRP_QZgcqkBkSLU...

or this one:

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT7wjPbXig0o_I76bh4g...
Birken, he is a lightning rod for sure. But controversy isn't always good.

Just ask Mike Tyson.
Depends on your definition of successful. I don't consider him particularly successful.
A closer look at the high school vs college wage gap
Depends on the scientist sentient barnacle's frame of reference; I'm sure it could posit naturalistic explanations for weather changes and distant things that move across the horizon and flash light at us. I'm not saying it's impossible for us to observe the activity of extraterrestrial lifeforms (that would be absurd), simply that traces of intergalactic activity might not be immediately obvious; surely one of the side-effects of a Dyson sphere, for instance, would be to render the star almost undetectable to our telescopes.
So what DO you think is holding us back? My understanding is the memristor is a much closer model of a synapse. So if the problem isn't raw computing power and it's not the synapse model then what do you think it is? What's holding us back from simulating a brain? Do we just not know enough about the design of a brain? Or do we need to understand something about consciousness itself?

For what it's worth, this project seems to think we are only 10-20 years away from simulating it with conventional computing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project
Applying to Google, Facebook and MS to get a market valuation of your skills sort of implies you'd get an offer in the first place, doesn't it?

You are replaceable, but the result for the company after you're replaced may not be what they or you expect (could go either way - good or bad). I've left some places where I felt things were toxic, and others where I thought I was becoming toxic - too cynical, frustrated, etc.

Don't worry about 'getting your friends out'. They have their own lives. You have yours. You can only help others from a position of strength, not weakness. It doesn't sound like you're in a position of strength. That said, once you get in that position, they may not want helping anyway, but that's way in the future.

Get yourself sorted out. I'd take a long hard look to see if there's a way of staying that will work out for everyone, but likely you should be looking for someplace else. There's tens of thousands of companies out there that are not Google, MS and FB where your skills may be just as valued - probably moreso than at those big 3 you mentioned.

The 'culture' is not going to be changed where you are by your own actions. At best they are tolerated. Unless there's visible efforts of people from all levels actively seeking and enabling the changes you're proposing, it ain't gonna happen, and you're likely being viewed as an eccentric at best, or a troublemaker at worst.

Get out of the bath (as someone else said), and take some time for yourself to do some soul searching about what's best for you - ignore the company, ignore your friends - focus on you - no one else is going to.
A beautiful series of videos - thanks!
What Is a College Degree Worth in China?
"Does the process of building a startup not put us squarely in the side of the employer?"

I guess that depends on your motivation. Being your own boss is one reason to launch a startup.

But, being a boss doesn't give you the right to impose your value system on your employees.
Probably different. The iPad app is basically just a WebView pointing to a touch optimized site that looks basically the same as the desktop site.
Maybe we need a web framework or platform that focuses on creating portable, trivially deployable applications. So that if the original site goes down, as long as it's open source, someone else can rehost it immediately (or you can just run it yourself from the start, if you know you will be depending on it) without having to spend time reconfiguring it. Server-side installs that are as easy as on the desktop.
Detecting overlaps in strings.
I've been toying with something similar in Atomo (running atop mongrel2): http://bitbucket.org/alex/web/src/2a90b9bd6322/example.atomo

In its early stages it was continuation-based, but now it's just regular ol' closures. You can still use continuations rather easily though; some of it is modeled on the PLT stack (send/suspend, etc.).

Earlier progress: https://gist.github.com/717381/433d743dc4a7d91705692ff1dc6ca...

Source code: http://bitbucket.org/alex/web/src
Get out of the tub, grab something good and healthy to eat, take a run. Talk to your significant other or closer friend After that just set an appointment with psychologist.

And yes, life is to short and valuable to spend it doing something that you don't give a damn. So if you don't like it don't do it.
Yes. Things like "Men wanted" should not offend someone when used lightheartedly as a cultural reference, but it did offend a lot of people on HN. That bothers me.

Seems people went to town downvoting me here. I wonder what things would look like if HN had Slashdot's mod/metamod system. Oh, I can dream....
Okay, the engineer in me wants to add a timing track and run this with motors, I get an RSI just watching them crank those things.
Pretty much. Where does the logic here end? Which companies have the prerogative to come up to Comcast and ask for free ports? ISPs? What about ISPs that are acting as agents for individual companies? If that's fine, why not cut out the middleman? Can the next super-popular video site just ask Comcast for ports directly?

I have no opinion about this stuff, I just think it's really interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmWiYx3qL2U&feature=playe... Is when the relevant part starts.

Some of the words he uses like 'lame' and 'weak' kind of is dickish, but I don't think it's that crazy.
Neither would I, but does that mean he has a hiring problem? His advice is not necessarily bad advice for a business. Granted, he'll never create a great product, but neither will most businesses. If he can drive people to turn a profit that way, then he'll be doing better than most entrepreneurs. Wanting people who are willing to work 80 hours a week is probably one of the less ethically questionable things in his business plan.
Yes... That would be pretty sweet.
You don't need to have dd-wrt. I've got a used corporate firewall (which also works as a router) it has built in VPN and built in support for updating to DynDNS... I bought it for 80 dollars, not too far off from vanilla routers - I did have to pair it with an access point, so costs aren't completely comparable.
Maxymiser to Optimizely: A/B testing’s a thing of the past
But does DecorMyEyes agree?
This is more a comment on the video interview than the marcgayle.com post.
I don't think Mr Calacanis' statements are incendiary. He explains eloquently what kind of people and attitude he is looking for, and doesn't seem to have a problem with people that don't match his requirements. I really don't see the problem with that.
Current drones fly under FAA part 91:

http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid...

Here is where they are talking about drones:

http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=62...
I really need to write a filter to keep him off my screen, since just about everything Jason writes or says ends up getting me a bit riled. Just yesterday he sent out an e-mail saying that if you can't drop $10,000 on a premium domain name for your unfunded startup, you're not worth investing in... and proves how easy it is by listing the $133,000 he's spent on domains himself.
I cant see this lasting very long
been there, after tens of experiments like that and using stuff like pandastream I ended up using zencoder.com. reasons?

1) its FAST(are you seriously explect someone will wait 5-40 mins on your site while vid is encoding?).
2) ffmpeg doesnt support some weird non-open source codecs that users keep sending to our site.
3)it just works. always. and takes much less than 100 lines to hook.

So, i didn't get what exactly $600 piece author referring to. i dont know any sw that costs $600 and can be replaced by these 100 lines.
dasil...I agree with you. If he was just a 'regular' entrepreneur...but by his own words he is a "Great CEO", and an "abnormal" worker.

So he thinks he is creating the next Google.

God help us if he is not wrong.
Wait, so why can't I run Netflix on Ubuntu, then? If they're using HTML5, then shouldn't they have solved the problems with DRM preventing support for Linux?
Rational self-interest is a right afforded only to the C-level executives, landlords, and entrepreneurs of the world apparently.
I agree that I wouldn't want him to have leverage over my business - no argument there.

But I wouldn't excuse Jobs, or anyone else, of having that kind of personality because it does trickle down into the business. Apple makes incredible products, but their customer support is miserable. I think it's so bad because the culture has become "We know better". That comes from the top.