skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue for me as a Comcast subscriber is, "WTF am I paying for then?"

Silly me, I thought that paying Comcast and having them provide me a decent quality service was what their high-speed Internet offering was about; instead, I am just a pawn whose traffic can be shunted off to a deliberately-congested, crappy connection, then held hostage to force other companies to pay up for the access I am already paying for.
My partner and I are both programmers and I was recently tasked to hire our first employee.

We have a certain ideal environment in mind that we would like to create for other programmers. In short, the plan is to hire the right people, trust them with their responsibilities and respect their freedom, time and space. We rely on our own past experience and other niceties straight from Peopleware. Some of the key criteria we want to go for are curiosity and interest in programming (what have you done in the past, what do you like about it, what's your next move, etc), problem solving ability (puzzle, maths, etc), autonomy (do you teach yourself, can you improvise, etc). Language choice and experience give some weight, but are not our primary interest.

We believe it might provide the right ingredients for a well balanced culture within our team.

But that's only one side of the coin. Somethings can't be ignored and during my exercise in finding the ideal hiring process for programmers, I was made aware of some legitimate concerns by HR people from various types of companies:
- training someone involves losing money with the promise of seeing a diamond in a rough blossom into a jewel. Can you afford it?
- programmers, especially Y generation, can be very unstable. You hire someone today and there's no guarantee that he'll be with you 6 months from now. But in your mind, you're grooming him for at least the next 3 or 4 years.
- there are deadlines. sometimes you need somone right here and now that can land with wheels running. That means having to pass over some really nice resumes.
- you have a small team and lots of work. Each needs to pull their own weight, there's no time holding newbies' hands.

In my opinion, the ideal candidate for your company depends of your short and long term goals with him/her. If you're a startup, with only one product with dependencies on a framework and other tools that aren't likely to change much in the next couple of years, it makes much sense to hire someone already up to speed with said tools, even more so if you don't have the budget to train someone. If on the other hand you provide various services likely to span multiple horizons, betting on people that have the general ability to grasp this stuff is more appropriate. If you're google you can get the best from both worlds.
They should take a lesson from Apple. The update they pushed to 3G users prompted many people to buy a new phone.
Nonsense. We have no idea we're reconstructing -- the governing dynamics of cortical, much less subcortical, interactions are still nearly totally unknown to us -- and memristors do nothing to shed light on that. Further, neural codes are digital and memristors are analog elements. There's no property of memristors that makes the job of "building a brain" easier than it would otherwise be. The point that the metaphors are closer because there's no separation between computation and storage is missing the larger issues.
calm down and stick around and get your resume out.
Take it in the ass for a while.

I left a company pissed early twice and each time I left $250k on the table! Its almost like they like people to leave pissed....
Yeah, I found the swaying funny too. Seemed like maybe he needed the loo the entire interview :)
I agree. Until someone runs subjects on a bunch of use scenarios, it's hard to say which is better, and I happen to prefer Bing. Conjecturally speaking, one-pixel outlines come at a cost -- if you don't need them, as when the map colors are low-contrast, you can actually have somewhat bigger text.
But streaming video to a console allows them to not really have to worry abuot the DRM issues. They probably stick with a Silverlight solution on PCs until they can do DRM on HTML5.
It's actually blocking based on the referrer.
What is the track record then?

On the one hand you seem to argue that the US justice system is sane, but on the other hand the US operates a prison that's one of the worst ever in existence (I for one would pick a death penalty over being tortured in said prison), and the justice system has not done anything about it.

Why isn't the UK extraditing the operators of said prison for torturing UK citizens? (or are they?)
This one really surprised me: "Finally, there's not much for deployment. I run my apps in GNU screen and that's about it." Seriously? Is he that lucky, serves that little traffic, or does he run with redundant power, network, server and 24/7 monitoring in an inaccessible bunker?

I haven't been able to run even my toy web apps without something like monit - due to both things under my control and outside of it.
And more importantly, it seems to skip Interface Builder. I hate that thing.
Why would one post something like this publicly? Don't burn your bridges and all that.

I swear, sometimes it seems like HN lives in this weird alternate universe where the rules of normal jobs don't apply....

It's fine if people want more money for less hours and less responsibility - but they'll be competing with those who are willing to work more hours and take on more responsibility for more money. If you were the employer, who would you hire?
Ask HN: Why isn't A/B testing applied to government forms?
Maybe this already happens but I seriously doubt it, but why don't governments A/B test their forms? Surely it would make sense for them to do so. Please discuss.
I never said they were incendiary. I was simply pointing out that I would never want to have anything to do with him.

I wouldn't work for him. I wouldn't want him investing in my company. I would never partner with him.

There is no business relationship, that I can think of, that I would do with him.

But that's just my preference :)
Ask HN: Why does Reddit.com always complain about resources: Why not use GAE?
Every week, I see a post or two about Reddit not being able to keep up with the growth due to lack of hardware.

Google AppEngine seems to have all the features they need, is cost effective, and is built for this kind of scaling. So why not use it?
Poddlr: podcast by phone
As tokenadult said, this is probably depression. Have it treated by a psychiatrist and realize it's likely a chemical imbalance.
You're putting a lot of unnecessary pressure on yourself.
You are not responsible for the culture except for how you contribute to it.
You are not responsible for future engineers.
You are not responsible for your friends' decisions.
You need to do what makes you happy. It really is that simple.

Get out of the tub, call a friend, go out and have some fun!
I had been debating on whether or not I should post this, for this very reason.

However, I think it speaks more volumes about me and who I want to work with, if I do.

I might not be as rich as Jason Calacanis just yet, but I do have beliefs.

Why should Jason be able to say anything he wants, and not be publicly criticized for them?

If he doesn't want to do business with me, then that's fine by me.

If someone doesn't want to do business with me because I said I would never work for him, or do business with him, then that tells me more about that person - than it does me.
One approach to this problem is called the Handle System.

http://www.handle.net/

It's like DNS except individual identifiers can be managed independently (imagine if example.com/foo and example.com/bar were managed by two different companies).

One problem that it does not address is human-friendliness. Identifiers all start with a handle prefix that's a number like 10.1109/ or 10000.1/.

Though, the latest release of the software will map DNS names to handle prefixes.

It's interesting technology and quite robust. For $50 a year you can host as many handles as you want.
Jason wonders why people 'job hop' at Mahalo. Are you kidding me right now?
If prettygraph.com is based in India his main advantage would be that there's less chance of him immediately caving to U.S. government censorship like tableau just did.
don't forget writing a book on python
It's probably due to the genres I listen to, but I usually have the opposite convenience issue. There are a few very good forums and mp3-blogs that track those genres, which have well-written posts introducing an artist or album, including some streamable samples, and then linking to a .zip or .rar download.

Very easy to browse and get an idea for what's what, and they explain things like what I might like if I liked a related album. I also get to know the tastes of a few posters, and how they relate to mine. Meanwhile, actually buying the CDs often involves mail-order from other countries, overpaying for out-of-print vinyl on eBay (which doesn't go to the musician anyway), and the official sources are terribly organized/presented: rarely any streaming samples, poor descriptions of what the album actually sounds like, etc. Even when I do buy CDs, I would never have found out they existed if it weren't for the much more convenient mp3-blog/forum scene that actually brought them to my attention, reviewed them, and presented them in an attractive format.

I do try to give money to bands I like in one way or another, but I see it as more like donating to thank them for producing stuff I like, and encouraging them / supporting them to produce more in the future. Sometimes I literally donate, if they have a PayPal or something like that; other times I'll buy a CD, a vinyl record, or a shirt or something.
In 2010? I reworked my Comet-based realtime game-in-a-web-server library, RailsGame.

I fully rewrote, updated and released a webapp called WantMyJob.com.

I wrote a circuit simulator game called Shanna's Pizza to start teaching my two-year-old the basics of programming. I also started doing Snap Circuits with her so she'd have a physical basis to understand the circuit simulator game. Also, had a second kid.

I wrote a Rails 3 tutorial, including an app with logins and nested resources, called RefactorIt!

I finally put together a real programming portfolio, on the web and everything (angelbob.com/portfolio).

I read up on Bayesian Statistics and Data Analysis (thanks, O'Reilly!).

I blogged and blogged and blogged.

I reworked, resurrected and took screen shots of a scary amount of my old work, partly for the portfolio. This sort of blurs with converting my old Rails stuff to Rails 3, but I did some of both.

I continued to work on my day job, of course. And gave a JRuby presentation for Engine Yard based on what we do there.

Did you know you get more done if you write it down somewhere (like a blog and portfolio) and tell people about it? True story.

That's probably part of Zed's trick, too.
Why even Wikileaks' opponents need to defend its ability to exist
Agreed. You've got to address the real problems, or you won't get anywhere.
Bridge Busting - 1990
You clearly aren't knocking him. lol.
How hard could it be to get 1%?

I mean if only ask for $1, and get that dollar from only 1% of China, I'd be a millionaire!
Tron done Mac II style with HTML 5 (very very geek)
Man, I feel you, you are not alone. It seems to me that you are a "builder". An entrepreneur with the foresight and technical capacity to make great things. But both your superiors and peers are standing in your way. Turning the beautiful and fulfilling art of creating technology into a political battle and minefield. Leave, now. It is not your company, they don't own you, and you don't owe them anything. Build your war-chest. Only with your own resources will you be free to innovate.
I'm doing this because I wanted to do something so crazy that it would help raise awareness for this organization. In two hours here's what's happened:

1) We've raised $3,000 (6% of the goal), 2) 10 schools from California to Brazil want to run our program, 3) offers for in-kind help (programming, pr, news, etc), and 4) It's fun! It's spreading the word in an innovative way and I'm loving what we're doing!!
The rules you suggested are already in place in AC 91-57. the operating site should be away from populated areas, must contact the airport if within 3 miles of an airport (effectively, don't fly near the airport), and stay under 400ft.
Yes, I'm 23. And I'm a kid at heart.
in my mind, success is not primarily measured in money. happiness is much more important. it's a broader representation of life's needs, including money. also, success is not a zero-sum game. on the contrary, a lot of the more successful startups treat their employees better than average.
And there are larger men (example: me at 6'5", 275) who can literally wipe the floor with most other _men_. Of course, I have to protect them, because they are weaker and smaller. Can anybody say bullshit?

I'm up for equality, and I mean real equality. We will be equal when a woman hits a man in the face, and the man responds in kind by punching her, and nobody says anything about "hitting a woman".

Lastly, I have a duty to protect all those I care about, male or female. I would just as well die (or kill) for my guy friends as I would my female friends. What you have between the crotch doesn't matter to me.
http://media.ccc.de/
I think it would make sense to find out whether governments had already implemented your suggested improvement before suggesting it.

Incidentally, do you want them to optimise the time taken to fill the forms in, or the accuracy with which they're filled in?
I just found out a few weeks ago that my ISP, Sonic.net, offers an IPsec VPN endpoint to all of its customers, with no additional fees. I highly recommend them if you're in the SF Bay Area.

Note that while their help page suggests that you use the Cisco client software to connect to their VPN endpoint, the service works just fine with Mac OS X's built-in Cisco IPsec client, as well as with the IPsec client in iOS. Dunno about other platforms, but Sonic.net provides the Cisco client for Windows and GNU/Linux, at least.

http://www.sonic.net/features/vpn/
The truth is, I didn't intend to.

But the more I thought about him, and wrote the post and started commenting here...the more difficult it is for me to find something positive to say.
So what's your plan? Should someone like this do as he please, regardless of the consequences for the others? That's exactly the attitude the article attacks!

To follow up on the original subject, let me rephrase what I understood from your one liner: "maybe the female attendees, by daring to show up in non-unattractive clothes, provocked the gropings". Sounds acceptable to you? Not to me.
You can still say "average" (mean) for distributions over cycles (eg. on circles, von Mises distributions are analogous to Gaussians).

von Mises on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Mises_distribution
See http://blog.robrhyne.com/post/659211315/almost-on-the-app-st...
I flagged this post because it provides no information. If you were an ex-employee of Jason, then your viewpoint could be interesting.

As it is, this is an attack based on a video interview. You have never even met the person and have zero first-hand knowledge.
The irony of this post is that Jason would most definitely not want you in his company.

In a startup, which his companies are, there really is no room for people want normal jobs and want to work normal hours. Startup life is a very fast paced constant swim upstream. You're trying to cram years worth of work into months to create enormous value as quickly as possible. ALL startups want "rockstar" employees as they help this process exponentially. What he's stating is not really anything different than any other start up founder would say he/she wants, its just he says it in a very inflammatory way.
The Best Way to Launch a Product/Site is to...
That may be a decent "hack" approach, but more generally you should use distributions meant to operate on circles, eg. von Mises (analagous to Gaussians): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Mises_distribution
On my hobby projects I run stuff in screen, I haven't had a problem and my server uptime is currently above 200 days. Is it being used? Something like 1,000 concurrent users for most of the day, so yes.

I regarded this as cowboy, but as it worked for me I haven't needed to re-visit it.
I can make some introductions, but why do you want to know?
So its a custom webkit build, and I'm guessing the custom part is to either add a DRM'd media player to webkit. Or make use of an underlying PS3 media player which supports DRM.
The key point is "as long as it's open source", unfortunately most hosted services are not open sourced. If they were, we wouldn't need any special platform.
That. Being able to "git init" and check in from there without needing to set anything up is so, so awesome.
This sentence:
"The least humanitarian took root in atheistic thought (whether atheism is a direct cause or merely an enabler is a different debate)."

Also, Christianity is the least problematic of all major religions, and most in line with the agenda of humanist atheists, per its explicit laws about the best way of living. Those who don't follow the laws are hard pressed to claim the title "Christian." So, it is disingenuous and ineffective to target Christians.

Target ideologies that explicitly make anti-humanitarian claims. That is most in line with the atheists' claim that religion is anti-humanitarian.
False dichotomy: either it's working eighty hours a week or working nine to five.

It's true that employees in a startup should be flexible: being willing to work late some days, work from home in an emergency, travel with a laptop (in return, startups are also more flexible: no one cares that you're not in your desk at 0930 or if you're working from home or a cafe).

However, eighty hour weeks usually happen for very specific reasons and are followed by less intense periods: it's not a generally applicable way of doing more with less. If you want to do more with less, hire better people (who frequently have other options available to them and won't work on a team that demands eight hour weeks as a matter of routine).
Not quite a form, but the U.S. govt. has worked on optimizing the typeface for road signs for legibility - see

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/magazine/12fonts-t.html
I got it half or a whole year ago. Back then, you could preview your mock-ups on the iOS devices as actual apps, but the new iOS rules forced them to ditch that feature. (Which sucks when you're a Windows user.)

It's not going to be pulled all of a sudden.
This reminds me of Briefs: https://github.com/capttaco/Briefs
Google Appengine has a lot of limitations and is still sees frequent downtime. GAE is simply not a viable solution for a site with Reddit's traffic at this time.
Indeed writing and interacting about something levels you up. I'm not (yet) a blogger but recently I have started interacting on a few social coding networks (stackoverflow, github, HN) and I feel more productive.

PS. Is RailsGame open source ? It looks interesting!
nvm, found it on your github account https://github.com/noahgibbs/RailsGame
BTW: there are many people waiting for W3C to add DRM to HTML5 video, but:

• <video> supports DRM already in shipping browsers — Safari on Mac plays FairPlay-restricted files.

• DRM by definition is in opposition of being open and interoperable, so it's impossible for HTML spec to do anything about it.
My Roku box runs Netflix and I believe Roku is Linux.
Wow. Okay. I've read people complaining about this Calcanis guy a whole lot and never understood why. To me it was just a name, I never really knew precisely what he had done or what he was doing now, and I'm still not sure what this Mahalo thing does if it's not a shoe company.

Anyway, now I understand. He's a jerk. Not some kind of unique and interesting jerk, fascinating in his jerkiness, but just a regular garden-variety jerk. I know those guys. They exist all over academia.
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How's your latency? An advantage of connecting to an EC2 instance seems to be that you're getting your traffic onto the backbone without eating a "last mile" roundtrip to your house.

EC2 scenario:

coffee shop -> backbone -> EC2 -> backbone -> remote site (probably hosted somewhere close to your EC2 instance, especially if a CDN is in use)

Home scenario:

coffee shop -> backbone -> cable provider -> home -> cable provider -> backbone -> remote server
I don't see how the two are similar at all. When a baseball comes crashing through your window or hits you in the head the person who's responsible is most likely a few dozen feet away. Chances are it's a neighborhood kid who's easily identifiable.

When a model airplane smashes into a car, person, building, etc. the owner could be thousands of feet (or miles as we see in this video) away. It's extremely difficult to trace the plane back to the owner.
My first company I felt irreplaceable. I held on two years too long 'till I was pretty much a bastard to everyone around me. I sold my share to the other partners and they did GREAT-- its still growing today.

Trust me, you're replaceable. If you can't find the motivation, take a vacation/sabbatical. If you still can't, leave out of consideration for the people who DO feel it's worth the battle.

Your friends are as employable as you are-- they can fend for themselves.
I can very well imagine Calacanis in the shores of Africa 400 years ago giving the same speech.
I agree it sounds ridiculous, but now I am having a hard time thinking of an appropriate example of sexual language at a tech conference. These rules set clearly defined boundaries that even the most tactless, socially inept people can understand and abide by.
Code written in the continuation monad (i.e., simple imperative style) can be translated to an Automaton arrow and fit into a Haskell on a Horse application. This approach has the advantage of type-safety and greater composability.
It's already common language in French: internaute. News anchors use it frequently, and there's 7,380,000 results on Google. It sounds a bit cooler in English though.
To Do List Tool needed
Share your experiences, what are the best tools I can get??
http://inventwithpython.com/blog/2010/12/03/i-am-boycotting-... -->
I am Boycotting Amazon for the Holidays

«I’d like to thank Daniel Ellsberg (of the Pentagon Papers fame) for his call to boycott.»
Don't forget "answered a rhetorical question".
Just get out of there - it's not worth it.
Don't undersell yourself.

Do yourself and your friends a favor and get paid what you're worth, whether that means more equity and/or more responsibility. If you're worried about the fallout from your friends, as if your friends would shun you for pursuing your worth, check your premises.

What's this bull about everyone being replaceable? That sounds like something your "money holder" would say to try to keep your equity stake low. I left my last company because I didn't feel that I was being paid fairly in equity. It's an unfair and unfortunate situation to be in, but it's really your responsibility to shape up and demand what you deserve.

Good engineers make themselves replaceable by writing legible code. This sort of 'replaceability' is invaluable, and should lead to higher equity if anything.
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