skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was not so much a rejection but a point he was making. He was not saying that why is invalid. rather, that without a certain context why is not meaningfully answerable for any thing that is outside your domain of regular experience (remember alien example). He is trying to show how to think and consider, that there is an ever escalating level of depth that must be considered that we take for granted and that learning how to ask the right question and introspect is key. Asking the right question is harder than getting the right answer. For a similar example, it is like asking how to use an array for something when what you really want is a hashtable or why this linear approximation is not working for the non linear data. You cannot answer the person without first explaining why what they are asking is not meaningful and cannot be answered until they first understand concept X.

The answer he gave was beyond amazing, there is an immense amount of knowledge there and I learned more from it than just physics. Just like that he gave a whirlwind tour that covered hundreds of years of physics, covering concepts from gravitation and Newton's Law to quantum field theory and does drop hints as to why magnets repel in multiple ways (electromagnetic forces everywhere - normal force and why you don't fall through floor are related - but effect stronger in magnetized iron since electrons aligned to spin in same direction).

And that is what separates someone like Feynman from most scientist. He is aware. He doesn't just regurgitate some encyclopaedic definition that is true but ultimately unenlightening, nor does he give a broken analogy when a good one cannot be given. Instead he leaves you with just the right questions in mind. He weaves an interesting story with a background and motivation and ties things up neatly in a way that you end up learning much more than what you asked for and leave with a deeper insight about everything in general and wanting more. Beyond physics even. I wish I could have met him but I was born too late. Around someone like him being ignorant would be something to bask in and enjoy.
2-4 status checks a day, and you have not launched? That is dysfunctional. The only time that kind of status checking is warranted is during some sort of production crisis, which by definition you cannot be having.

The right big company job can be fulfilling and good for your career. Like any other career choice, it has to be evaluated on its own merits.
I had been planning to work on Incanter over the summer as part of Google Summer of Code, but things didn't pan out. The organization promoting the project wasn't accepted as a mentoring organization.

Now I have to find another internship.
I'd add 'security' in there, too. The situation is already looking worthy of concern on Android and other open mobile OSs. Do we need one more attack vector? Particularly a platform with a history like Flash?
Why the negativity? Aside from that, why does it matter what exactly is called a startup?

The worst ideas can transform into the biggest of communities and then be monetized.
Not sure what you mean - what does WM7 or iOS have that Android doesn't? Native apps are just as capable on any platform.
I see potential in this. It's almost like walking into a room full of people all watching one TV. There's appeal to that; online video does have the watch-whatever-you-want feature, but a lot of times people just want to turn on a TV channel and watch whatever comes on.

If you really want to make this a startup, you should make it exactly that. Take control over the public rooms, feed them with quality content, and call them channels. Hire moderators to keep the content fresh. Show occasional commercial advertisements. I think the closer you make it to TV, the more willing people will be to sit through advertisements (random idea: sell to advertisers what people say during their advertisements). Voting is an ok feature, but you should limit that to private rooms.

I can see myself going to a "comedy central" channel and just watching whatever it has on, not needing worrying about what to watch next. Knowing that others are watching the same thing is pretty compelling.
Every Christmas and child's birthday, I learn to hate the stuff more. When fighting through the packaging, I wonder when somebody is going to get really hurt trying while opening of these packages, and sue everybody involved in the distribution the offending product. Did I say that I hate the stuff?
Not sure about the cold calling, but you may want to do some SEO on some keywords you think the web dev firms would look up regularly.

That way the clients find your business on their own instead of you "forcing" it to them.
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There could be a ClickToFlash version not loading Flash objects at all until requested couldn't there? Of course it would probably be for all <embed> and <object>, but...
Love these ideas.
Oh, right. But yeah, I wasn't picking up on you or Quora, more Fred's interpretation of a banal reality - I'd hope any company would get their developers this sort of kit! :-)
I really thought I'd miss Flash for certain sites, but it turns out that if it can't be done with html5 then there's usually "an app for that".
Strongly disagree - the fact that GPU ISA is undocumented let GPU vendors to innovate faster, and let them modify ISA not only between models, but also inside the same architecture family.

For NVIDIA only documented PTX, while actual ISA is changed frequently. Same with AMD: CAL is documented, but the actual low-level ISA can change. For example recently they moved from VLIW5 to VLIW4.

I also think, that reliance on hard ISA (x86 or ARM) in modern server-desktop-mobile world is doing more harm, than good.

Today there are just too many layers/levels, for example in NVIDIA:

CUDA -> LLVM -> PTX -> native ISA
CUDA -> LLVM -> x86 -> Intel Microcode
OpenCL -> CUDA -> LLVM -> PTX -> native ISA
OpenCL -> CUDA -> LLVM -> x86 -> Intel Microcode

or in AMD:

OpenCL -> LLVM -> CAL -> native ISA
OpenCL -> LLVM -> x86 -> AMD Microcode

The C was that kind of universal ISA in the RISC UNIX world.
But C can't express Vectorization and SIMD efficiently and in platform independent way. Enter OpenCL!
The case you're making about Hirelite vs. recruiters is a good one, but a conversation with a recruiter isn't a phone screen either. It's just a conversation with a recruiter. It's like calling the negotiation over a used car an "interview".
Your website is not a project ... and your project is not a startup
If after the transaction you could still go directly to the company and interview with them, it's not a phone screen.
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I find it interesting that it isn't one of the featured reviews. More people find it helpful than the next most popular, by what is approaching an order of magnitude.
I kinda like the flashbanner-free world that is my iPad.
It wrote the post - glad it was amusing. It happened about 2 years ago while I was at a startup in NYC that was tanking. I was thinking of jumping ship before the eventual collapse. The problems I experienced during this particular job search led me to eventually start Hirelite.
>A computer in The Netherlands is defined as a machine that is used for three things: the storage, processing and transmission of data. A router can therefore not be described as a computer because it is only used to transfer or process data and not for storing bits and bytes.

Secure routers, almost by definition, store some kind of authentication data (passwords, network filters, routing data) to perform their job.

Edit:
Unlike say, hubs or unconfigured routers, a secured router's job is to transmit information for those who have been granted access. The line is getting very fine now, but according to the court's statement, the interpretation is that it would be legal to use a secured network if you cracked the wireless password and "piggybacked" off its services (because, by analogy, Internet traffic is routed through arbitrary gateways) but would constitute hacking if you altered the router's configuration settings (e.g. added your MAC address to the router's MAC filter).

My point is the student was acquitted of hacking not because "routers are not computers" (an oversimplification) but because there was no evidence of him gaining unauthorized access to the router itself.
But not necessarily so. It's an inappropriate generalization, what illegal behavior is good, all of it?
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I think the word startup has lost all meaning at this point, but I would like to propose this definition: A startup is something you quit your job to work full time on. Until then, it's a side project.

If the OP is fully committed to working on this site full time for the next 3 years, he can call it a startup.

Otherwise, calling a side project a startup seems intellectually dishonest in view of those that are putting 100% effort into a website/startup.
I'm enjoying this tool, highly recommended.
I think that the big news with Flash 10.2 is that it does have hardware acceleration for video. http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2011/02/flash-player-10-2...
The article suggests that 10.2 is not hardware accelerated.
That's the core functionality of NoScript: don't allow anything more complicated than HTML+CSS until authorized by the user. It blocks objects but by default leaves behind a rectangle you can click to download and run the object.
Seems like the answers to the question "Why?" are laid out like a fractal. It just keeps going...
I think there are five major points of failure for Flash on tablets.

1. Flash integration into system battery management.

2. Software support for hardware acceleration, both for video, 3D, and 2D.

3. Flash objects' use of network hardware.

4. Flash memory caching / swaps.

5. Android allocation of processor usage for Flash VM.

Implementing a Flash VM that doesn't crush your battery requires addressing all these points. This will be especially hard to support the plurality of hardware and OS varieties.
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The law is not a computer program; it is written by humans and interpreted by humans. So while yes, technically routers do store information, their intended purpose is not to store information, but rather route it. The judge understood that and ruled accordingly.
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There are some reasons for doing it this way, in particular, such a structure can make undo operations very simple.
Maybe it's also time to separate what is an interesting resource or tool from what is an interesting business.

150-200 million is a lot for a company that seems to have earned very little if anything. It's one thing for a Groupon to walk away from a deal, but Digg should have cashed out.

I'm hardly ever on Digg anymore, but I am Hacker News a lot. I'm not sure if Hacker News was ever constructed to be a business - seems like it was just designed to be an interesting place for people in the community to get together and share information - and that's just fine. Not every great idea is necessarily a great business.
One other one. Showing page results that don't have all the words listed on that page that were within my keywords.
It's actually the opposite - even a mundane part like the lug bolt you describe will go through several hardening processes, and post-processing for corrosion resistance. If not, you're asking for a huge failure on a critical part. This is an easy example - it's amazing the diversity in processes and materials needed to manufacture products from base materials.

Even in a ballpoint pen, there a good 5-10 dies needed to make the body and cartridge holder, pretty exotic processes to make the tip, a non-trivial pad-printing for color, and many other post-processing needs. Yes, we could reengineer products to not need this, but you're going to see increased costs and decreased performance - I.e. No one will buy it...
IS there room for digg-like-sites that cater to specific verticals? For a while, it was trendy to do digg clones and now they have all disappeared- is voting based news site like digg still a good idea for news and information.
Cold calling isn't just acceptable - it is highly effective. Just make sure you register at https://telemarketing.donotcall.gov/ if you want to do it correctly.
I think this idea comes from when most vehicles had carburetors rather than fuel injectors. If fuel consumption were driven by airflow into the engine rather than electronically controlled, I imagine there would be some benefit to coasting in neutral.
And it looks like the hole has been there for at least a month:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Atumblr.com+m3MpH1C0Koh...
It's also possible to work at a growth-stage startup (Twitter, FB, Zynga, Groupon, etc). They pay market salaries, but there's some upside too.
Thank you, I'm glad you like it (and will be adding groups soon (: )!
Ask HN: Can you develop "work ethic"?
A common trait of all successful business people, athletes, entertainers, etc. is that they all work insanely hard.

Personally, I've never been a very hard worker; I've always preferred to work smart. There are many smart-but-lazy types out there, who could probably achieve much more with a little work ethic.

So my question is: can you develop work ethic? Is it something instilled from an early age? Is it about changing your psychological view of the world?

Will Smith says "I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be outworked, period...if we get on a treadmill together, there's 2 things: you're getting off first, or I'm going to die. It's really that simple."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M88uMRwsj0U&feature=player_detailpage#t=242s

Do we simply make decisions sooner and execute on them rather than think through them?
http://s3.amazonaws.com/opencl_download/opencl_univ_kit_1.0....
The challenge for that strategy is the whole "we are stuck in the X11 model stone age" that most of these OS's are mired in.

Are Gallium3D or even Wayland (in the distant future...) going to make any difference here? Or is it still crap?
10.2 hardware acceleration is actually disabled for mobile.
I think the problem is that things don’t line up when you mix full width and fixed width. It’s not supposed to be an endorsement of either full or fixed width.
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Just wanted to add that unless your partners in a startup (and that includes the youngest employee or the newest employee) does not have an emotional ownership in the goals and objectives of the startup, unless they are incentivized by the belief (beyond monetary incentives) that what they each create will embody their deepest passions and aspirations while enabling them to achieve their best potential.

I didnt write this though. I am borrowing from "What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial" a study that tries to understand the spirit of an entrepreneur. You are well advised to share the study with your CEO.
16 was advised by our counsel (we're US-based) to attempt to keep us out of issues that may arise state to state w/r/t minors and privacy laws

I suggest you get with counsel and if they still feel 16 should be the minimum age to keep you out of court, then wholesale ban all accounts below that age and state that it is to comply with privacy laws regarding minors. In this case, you can apologize and indicate you wish you could keep them. Do not in any way mention that behavior issues were at all a concern. If counsel indicates this is important, than do it as a business move to stay out of court and let everyone know that it sucks, but you have no real choice. Then let folks know you look forward to having them back at age 16.

Alternately, look more closely into state-by-state laws and put out rules that indicate that age of entry varies by state. Enforce by IP address or something else reasonable along those lines. This might allow you to keep more members that you would like to keep and do less damage to the site culture but there is a significantly larger cost involved in terms of determining state exceptions, enforcing the rules, etc. If you can bear the cost, this might be a good option. If you cannot bear the cost, do an across-the-board thing for all states based on what counsel tells you.

Since this question came up due to behavior concerns, revisit that issue separately. It won't magically disappear just because all the underage accounts were removed. Banning should be a last resort. Try hard to find other means to deal with this first. When it does come time to ban someone, I recommend public bannings which state the cause of the banning. This helps create an atmosphere of "rule of law" and helps encourage members who do want to stay to behave properly without being scared to death they will do the wrong thing. Secret bannings are a good way to scare the hell out of your members and cause them to walk on eggshells, which is generally not conducive to creating a healthy site culture. It also does not provide any closure when someone bad is finally removed. Public bannings allow remaining members to breathe a sigh of relief and feel safer once they know the troublemaker is gone.

Good luck with this.
The EPA guidelines for emergencies are very interesting: doses linked with increased cancer risk are allowed during property and life saving.

Aside from this chart, what other resources are around xkcd.com that are not mentioned in the main page?

I feel like I'm losing big information here.
This was posted today on the XKCD blag [sic], which is distinct from the comic feed.

http://blag.xkcd.com/
This really speaks to me.
Well first he said HR, then he said recruiter so I assumed a recruiter working in the HR department directly for that company not as a 3rd party which could be bypassed after the fact without an inside contact.
First of all, great job. I've been using Ubuntu as my sole OS for years now. It's a pleasure. I primarily use it for browsing the web and programming (I like the *nix environment). That's basically it.

I run GNOME with the Courier font in terminal and the black-white system color theme. It looks sleek and has improved since I did my first install.

When Update Manager runs, I see a ton of things to update some times without a clue of what depends on them. The UI could have some sort of small text under the dependency that says something like "used by app1, app2, and N others."

Also, it seems like when I authenticate for an update to occur the prompt to authenticate just sits there. I have to close it manually after clicking the "Authenticate" button to actually watch my updates stream in. That didn't use to happen.

Perhaps the update process could suggest removals. For example, I never have and probably will never use the Gwibber social client. Similarly, I have installed for some unknown reason two photo managers, two desktop mail clients, a video editing program, etc. Over time, my OS should maintain or decrease bloat unlike Winblows.
Love it. :D Especially being able to vote on what we view next. I'm just going to go ahead and say we have a winner here. I can't stop watching the Family Channel.
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Who's to say your cover letter helped at all? Unless of course they mentioned it themselves.
The Dunning-Kruger effect explains why an arrogant boss I once had thought he knew how to program.
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It's a brave new world when thinking/discussing certain topics is illegal.
I barelly can stand the facebook and you force me to login w/ that shit... Please not.
it is unfortunate that they didn't consult you before submitting. :(
Want to write some code? Get away from your computer
Remember the good old days when the OS came with a way to edit your desktop pattern? (And for that matter, easily set it to any solid color?)
In Safari with the ClickToFlash extension, flash objects are not just 'not displayed', they are not loaded at all until the placeholder is clicked. See for yourself: point Safari to http://adobe.com/software/flash/about/ and show the web inspector 'Resources' tab before clicking on a CtF placeholder. Notice that no SWF are loaded, then click on any one of them and see the SWF get fetched, along with the external process being started in your OS process list.
The problem is that it's rarely that easy.

For support issues that would be as easy and simple as "reply 3", you usually put up a FAQ on your website covering those issues.

But more typically you have people who tell you "I can't get feature Y" to work, and the root cause of the issue is something like feature Y clearly says it is a function to manage a window on a second monitor, and the user has a single display (ie: they have no clue WTF they are trying to do).

Email support handling in general is a good process to try to implement. I've done this several times, I have a support/ticketing system that I wrote (in perl) ~8 years ago that I've adapted to 3 different companies now.

My personal findings in dealing with support queue management efficiencies are more about tailoring the support system to the business. The process you follow for creating a ticket, assigning a ticket, and gathering relevant data can be very different among two companies that have a similar SaaS approach, for example. So, I have a base framework that can read and respond to emails that I adapt to the particular use case.

My system has implemented some of the things you mention though. The "reply 3" concept is a knowledge base of common issues that a tech can look up a KB item, enter an email address of the customer, and the system will send a message to that address with an intro along the lines of "Alice thought you might find the following knowledge base article helpful with your issue. If this solves the problem, no response is necessary. If this does not prove helpful just reply to this email and we will reassign the ticket."
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If you know in advance that's the game you're playing...

Do you have J2SE?

Yes. J2SE, J3SE, whatever it takes.

How good are you at programming on a scale from 1 to 10?

11.

You're hired!
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I think the term "lifestyle business" is a misnomer, and part of the problem. If we remove the label, we can make progress.
This is what will determine RIM's fate in a few weeks, if playbook flash is just as bad then they are pretty much done for.
I (also a metafilter member) have been researching how to manage and moderate online communities this week. Lots of interesting stuff to read but not much scientific research, I'm afraid.

Matt, Metafilter's founder, gave a talk on community moderation at this year's SXSWi http://lanyrd.com/2011/sxsw/scrdr/ . To sum it up: good moderation = moderators and powerful troubleshooting/profiling/stats tools.

Unfortunately I haven't found much about community growth and innovation, but I've just started my research. I've been thinking about setting up a blog/wiki on this topic. Anyone interested in this?
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Concept: Very interesting. Nothing more I can add that hasn't already been said by others.

Design: Very poor. Right now it looks unprofessional.

Looking forward to seeing where you go with this!
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What does shutting down of Djangy mean to python developers?
I was recently trying to get my hands wet with Paython and django. Djangy (https://www.djangy.com/) was the first choice as an alternative to Heroku for Rails.

But since djangy is shutting down, does that mean there is less traction for python, django web dev in the market?

I am not trying to start a flame war against Python + django vs Ruby + Rails.

Looking for some advice as a newbie in both the fields, what should I start learning next?
No, the one between `Spring' and `Fall' is called `Construction'.
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