skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This blog, Study Hacks: http://calnewport.com/blog/ has been a great read on this subject, but more specifically on not quitting your job and finding your passion; rather, finding passion in what you're doing and doing the legwork to making yourself great.
This is the most simultaneously brilliant and awful idea I've seen in a long time.

You are going to attract many, many obsessive compulsive types who will be thinking, "Well, Sally's great, but I'd like to see her in a freckly redhead."

I hope this works out for you, good luck!
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Great article! For 15 years I have conducted interviews and been the victim of the interview process. Your article sounds familiar; I have been telling my wife the same thing (out of frustration) for years. On several occasions I have made it through 3 or 4 levels of the interview process and then blocked in the final interview-step by an insecure or egotistical technical person.

I would add the following (problem) points as well.

* Some technical people like to hire clones of themselves, creating conflict and diversity issues.

* Some technical people, conducting the interview, use the interview process to posture and show how smart they (the interviewer) are.

* According to the BLS, the demand for programmers is decreasing while demand for analysts is increasing. Programming has changed a lot with tools like intellisense and included libraries.

* If you can’t answer the question, "why did you ask that question?", you should not ask the question. Each interview question should have a specific targeted purpose.

I hope my additions help.
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I like "Your Memory : How It Works and How to Improve It" by Higbee in addition to the Foer book. It is a little more pragmatic and thorough in description of the techniques discussed in "Moonwalking with Einstein."
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Best advice I can give you is to approach local individuals and organizations who are more likely to support your project (Google has offices in Kitchener, for example, some other local companies are very visible in the open source community; one notable company is Waterloo based PostRank, visible in the Ruby community). Talk to people, and be up front with what you're looking for.

What's the worst that can happen? Someone can say no. If that's your biggest problem, you're golden. There are a lot of people who would be willing to talk to you about this.
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You'll have the opportunity to help drive design decisions as part of our small, driven, entrepreneurial team. Heaps of interesting work lies ahead of us with behavioral targeting, audience segmentation, and graph generation.

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How to maximize happiness? One common constraint in life is money. If you have enough, you are more flexible to do what you want, including working a 9 to 5. If you need only a few material things, you will need less money and thus have to spend a smaller portion of your life earning it.

For the money you do need, the question becomes how to earn it. If you are lucky, doing what you love pays you enough. However, even if you do what you love there will always be times where you have to do stuff which sucks.

I am working as a software developer for a big software company in Germany. The job is quite interesting, colleagues are intelligent and friendly, pay and benefits are good. Of course, some of the time you will be working on stuff which is not so interesting, maybe even 50% of the time. This, and the fact that you spend most of your day in the office, makes me long for being more independent and having more time for myself and family/friends.

I also play poker and on some days I am able to earn more money than I earn in my job in much less time. However, playing poker as a job can quickly become monotone and boring. But it can also be more exiting than coding, plus you are very flexible with regards to working hours.

I'm also interested in startups and have thought about building a product on the side and slowly growing business. This would allow me to get maximum benefit from my skill (producing software and selling it multiple times, which is an unique opportunity for a software dev which makes starting your business so profitable nowadays) However, lack of time prevented me from doing so. If I had a partner I would be more interested in going this route, but as it is now I simply lack the time to do this in a reasonable manner. I will try to do small things like building an app in my spare time.

I guess for me, I will continue at my job and try to mix in the other two things. If I get really successful I can still quit the job. Of course, this makes it less likely that I will be successful. But the worst case outcome will be quite good too - I will have a secure, interesting 9 to 6 job.
There's a funny poll on P=?NP that William Gasarch conducted among computer scientists:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/papers/poll.pdf

Some argue that the question is not as important as it is widely believed to be (see Sariel Har-Peled's opinion in the poll) - many NP hard problems have practical approximations, many P problems are prohibitively costly to solve.
Apparently you can't just run the script with node and point your browser's http proxy to 8080. I suppose transparent proxy and http proxies act differently?
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Or Wolfram|Alpo, the most mathematical-based resource for puppy owners everywhere.
It seemed pretty clear that in addition to the FDA he was attacking the company for behaving like a profit seeking entity (which it, of course, is). He questioned whether it is "ok" for them to charge the particular price they wanted and questioned how many homes the CEO should be able to own while there are still suffering people in the world.

We can argue that this particular bit of regulation is wonderful or evil all we want, but to think that any for-profit organization is going to act in your best interest rather than it's own, or that it's even possible to regulate a company or person into doing so, is just plain naive.
Owww, my eyes!
> Salaries are set by CPS and go up on a schedule based on years of experience. How is that a market?

It's a market because she has a choice.

> But we look at is as a donation to society and to our city.

Fair enough, but that doesn't imply that you're owed more.

If she's unhappy with her "donantion", she's free to not make it.

> If we have to look at her decision to be a teacher as a donation -- she is not payed enough!

News flash - almost everyone thinks that s\he is underpaid.

If you don't like the consequences of your choice, make a different one.
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"I think anyone will agree that FDA's intentions are good."

I don't entirely, though I'm not claiming malice either. The purpose of drug testing is to make drugs safe. The FDA has mistaken goals for means, and now they are testing drugs for the purposes of testing drugs.

If an untested drug has been used for decades by millions of people to treat a chronic condition that requires each of them to themselves consume the drug for decades at a time, that by itself puts such a sharp, strong bound on the maximum damage the drug may be doing that it is well in excess of what any study could possibly hope to establish. The improved methodology the study may have is simply swamped by the statistical power of a sample five or six orders of magnitude larger (measured in man-years) we have in the real world. In fact you just don't get any statistically more powerful than a "sample" of 100%.

Even if the study managed to produce some small negative side effect there is no chance in hell that it will exceed the positive value of a drug for gout.

I've actually seen this before. Several children's drugs have been "unrecommended" by the FDA for toddlers, not because they could produce a shred of evidence that they were dangerous but because the studies-for-the-sake-of-studies had not been done. Again, decades of use by millions of people dominates what any study could produce.

(By the way, when I say "dominates what a study would produce" I emphatically do not mean "is perfectly safe". I mean precisely that a study will not be able to find the small damage. Drugs have after all gotten all the way through our stringent approval process and then had to be pulled because it turns out they were still dangerous. If the process couldn't catch the several diet drugs that turn out to give you a heart attack, it isn't going to pick up on something that could escape hundreds of millions of man-years of usage. Studies do not have infinite resolution.)

It's a continuing degradation in the standards of science, as the disease of scientific form replacing scientific substance marches on. That's why I don't claim "malice" in my first paragraph. Malice is not required, merely the raising of form above substance. I do not call "intention to have good form even at the cost of substance" good intentions.
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I don't see YC's 6% as being greedy or predatory at all. It's just different economic theory.

What PG did with YC is LEGENDARY. He was the first and will go down in history as one of the most pivotal figures in the entrepreneurial economy. The best explanation I've heard on YC's value add (or TechStars, etc.), is that it's like bringing on another co-founder, which makes perfect sense - as does your explanation above.

Looking forward to seeing future entrepreneurs continue to benefit from great program's like YC, TechStars, MC, etc.
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37 Signals Gets VC Boost... Again
that's really cool product you guys are developing! very impressed! just curious how you draw 3d? using 3d context in canvas or just plain 2d canvas context?
A nice wee Charlie Stross story that begins with news of someone finding a proof of P=NP (Readability recommended):

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/toast/to...
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Hmm...I can't find a source in print, so all I can tell you is that I'm an astronomer who has observed at some of these observatories (e.g. LBT).
similar effect if you search for helvetica.
NERD multitasking in Cambridge is priceless for Microsoft
Thanks for pointing me to the pg essay. As a confused 25 year old who is trying to find an answer to this very question it was enlightening, particularly the lazy tests- be good at whatever you do currently and keep producing. Most of the advice has been to the effect of 'how I love what I do and you should too' and not about the journey which led to there; there being doing what you love to do.
Look at how the Aboriginees use songs in their memorization techniques. Tribes or families would have songs about locations of food and water, and when two people from different tribes would marry, they would teach each other their songs. Isn't that the best dowry?
New Relic seeks Lisp hacker to build Arc agent for Hacker News
There was some good discussion about a P/NP for dummies article a while back, here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1605415

And by the same author as the story above, a good list of reasons for believing that P probably != NP:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=122
Apple's success contributes to departure of Acer, Nokia, LG CEOs
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Not quite; there are no "under construction" icons to be a complete Geocities ripoff!
Common man! You don't have to be so overly politically correct. It's ok to say "choices like these separate the boys from the men"! The feminine version just doesn't capture the essence!
Or search for helvetica
http://www.google.com/search?q=helvetica
I'm interested in combining the memory palace and peg techniques, specifically for sw dev.

Assuming you understand the fundamentals, I think there is a subset of any programming language, data structures, and algorithms for the programming paradigm you are working with where memorizing some of your "working" tools is a good idea.

From my viewpoint, this might be helpful in a couple of different ways. First, if you are hacking away in a prog language, you need to have some decent set of it "embedded" in your mind. Memorization might help me for those languages I don't get to touch every day, but would like to keep handy in my toolbox. Second, the data structures and algorithms part would be nice to flash against new problems. E.g, here is a prob, can I quickly flash it up against my set of memorized data structures and algorithms to see if something "fits."

I wonder if by the time you come up with an appropriate internal visualization for most data structures and algorithms, you'll probably have enough of a taste for it that memorization isn't useful anymore.

As a side question, I think it might be useful to think in terms of how much code you can write without needing to rely on autocompletion in your IDE or without referring to an outside reference. Just curious if other HNer's have opinions about that kind of prog lang command as a measure of skill . . .
Maybe this is true, but it's actually my hate for Facebook that prevents me from clicking ads?

There are billions of Facebook ads. Isn't the click percentage ultra tiny? People aren't searching when they see Facebook ads. I imagine they're conversion rate is incredibly small.
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[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@+HN@%@.com", @"charles", @"flipboard"]

"%s+HN@%s.com" % ("charles", "flipboard")
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Many Software and Systems Engineering Jobs - Junior thru Sr.
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Request for intellij impl.
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May I ask how welcoming Malaysian companies are to the idea of hiring foreigners?

I currently don't live in Malaysia but spent many years there in university and I do think about going back once in a while but I'm not so sure if it would be easy for a non-local to get a job there.

Any thoughts on the matter as someone living there?
Chrome Lite - Lynx style rendering in chrome :)
If you are going to try a standing desk, make sure to buy an anti-fatigue mat. It makes a big difference in how much foot pain you'll experience, even if you are standing on carpet + padding.
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I can imagine privately owned roads. Toll booths every few miles sound far fetched? Try looking at midevil europe, and that would be the US you would have.

We've already did the private fire departments with medallions. Doesn't exactly work out when the non-medallioned house next door is on fire.

Or, we've read the articles about the for-profit prison systems. And they were even buying a judge to sentence juve offenders to the max.

Yes, private stuff does make sense. So does public.
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New Google Java Annotations Library
EDIT: I hate when people delete a comment, leaving a reply orphaned.
I was replying to a comment that said that these sports
stars got there through hard work.

Not to get too meta, but that's one reason I've taken to including a quote from most comments I reply to.
I like the concept a lot, but I won't sign up because of the frequency.

I don't want to think about female menstruation every day.

Once a week--that I could do. Daily? And I start to get grossed out.
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Again, I'll reference my aforementioned post above:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2388691

I guarantee that the judging has been drastically improved from last year. It's still too bad that you feel the way you do. I wish you continued success in your venture.
For fuck sake. This glorifying of CEO's (and entrepreneurs) is making me sick. Sure, it's hard being a CEO. It's hard being a teacher. It's hard being a parent. Stop believing you're so special.

"Jason was the one who had to live with the consequences." -> the people being fired have to live with the consequences. Jason only has to live with making the decision, which is much easier. Jeez.

Grump.
Start learning to code.
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4 Things Startup Founders Can Learn From Derek Jeter
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‘Peak Bandwidth’ Threatens Global Economy Unless Decisive Action Taken
Google's autocomplete ditches algorithms for humans who read your searches
This Google April Fools Day prank sounds creepily similar to what most of us just assume Google already does
I think reader5000 was being sarcastic...
Not very funny but it is amusing (kind of...)
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'Terminal' gone Canonical,"of no use in modern GUI age"
This isn't the basis for a pattern. It's an instance.

But it's just silly to suggest your one experience of advertising an event (but you used tables to prove your point!) is enough data to suggest Google's multi-billion dollar and multi-billion ad platform is all rapidly down hill from here.

Sheesh.
I don't know anyone who only has a 7-inch height difference between when they're sitting and standing.
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What if the equality (or inequality) of P and NP is unprovable in the general case? Practical considerations aside, it would probably feel like a recursive joke ;-)
I'm doing that..how long does it take to be good enough if I really throw myself into it? Should I try to learn from other coders, or just teach myself?
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Whatever happens, it's not going to be "common sense prevailing". The Republicans have publicly painted themselves into a corner where no matter what Obama presents, they have to demand an absurd number of cuts to domestic discretionary spending. If you figure the current proposed budget is halfway-reasonable, that means that the Republicans have to insist on cutting good, cost-effective programs like this -- playing around at the margins isn't enough.
Report: ‘Peak Bandwidth’ Threatens Global Economy Unless Decisive Action Taken
Ratings come from users of the WOT browser extensions. Users are able to rate sites based on their personal experience with them. Sites with poor reputation yield warnings from the extension upon later visits.

If no one has rated you, your rating will stay positive, or neutral, until someone does.
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Don’t forget to click through to the original report:
http://www.publicknowledge.org/files/docs/peak_bandwidth.pdf
Yeah, I'm a huge fan of desert.
Yes, but it's solving a different problem than the one we're solving.
While repeating the message multiple times raises awareness, it does not help people who are discontent but cannot figure out a way out,yet. Repeating the message without concrete advice can eventually lead to the mentality of 'its not for me' or even worse may seem like a lie eventually forcing them to reconcile with the notion that work is well, boring.
Why A One Console Future Makes Sense