skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a post for a Senior Java Engineer:

Life at REDACTED is not for everyone. Many apply, but few are chosen. We are a culture of competitive A Players that love to win. We value courageous exploration, relentlessly pursuing excellence and being personally accountable for our performance and the success of our team. As such, we work interactively to encourage goal setting and excellence in both our personal and professional lives.

For A Players who share our values, REDACTED isn’t just a job; it is a community made up of skilled teammates that you respect and clients that you love, working together to deliver win – win results for the company and our customers… all while having fun and being rewarded for performance.
Without arguing with your specific wording of "completely unambiguous and free of arbitrary cutoffs etc.", I think the implicit point you're making that a group of highly intelligent people couldn't sit down and come up with a significantly better new set of laws "from scratch" is wrong. I think they could, if that were their only aim, vastly improve laws and government with a noticeable improvement on average quality of life in the world. The obvious problems and the reason this won't likely happen soon are politics, power, trust, etc.
"Mossberg, our friend, is no longer writing good things about us."

Haha - Wonder what the consequences for Mossberg are here - of being called a friend by Jobs!
A good point, and I understand. I tried to anticipate this concern: there is a user preference that purges message body info after the message has been sent. The relevant confirmation data remains, but the body is wiped.
>and when it comes to salary negotiation they always give the reason

it is absolutely right check. People tend to say a lot of things until it is time to put money where their mouth is. If they don't pay the best [salary + bonus + RSU/options], then they don't hire the best - that applies to any company that has a real valuation (typically it'd be if company is past round A - i.e. at least some people bought into its valuation with real money)
Welcome to the original Yahoo model. What's old is new again, even for Yahoo:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_to_come_full_circ...
Twitter client in 3 bash lines
Right, because while you and I are able to see absurdity of that, these super intelligent geeks you have in mind wouldn't be able to.
That's all true, and I concur. Delivery confirmation is certainly the weakest link in the whole equation and may never get solved with the current SMTP protocol.

The other pieces, however, retain their merit (I hope) -- a neutral and accessible 3rd-party that can prove you sent something, when you sent it, and to know that it at least got accepted by the recipient's MX.
When it's paginated on an iPhone, it's displayed as 56 "pages".
A trait I've noticed when working with or arguing with the products of elite universities is the incessant ability to respond to most challenges in the form of a blank stare. Harvard grads in particular, but I've noticed it in some military officers as well.

They won't get riled up, they won't back down, they won't...well...do anything in particular.

While being incredibly infuriating, it also makes them nearly impossible to read or assess. Are they smart? Are they dolts? No idea!

This enigma-like quality can get one very far in certain contexts. The ability to operate in elite positions, without becoming ruffled is a tremendously valuable skill.

The downside of course is that if things really do go pear shaped, the normal response is to show some kind of stress reaction and hopefully buckle down and get to work. Not acting like there is anything in particular going on just makes those around you wonder if the ol' gears are actually turning at all. Are they out of touch? Do they care? It can be tremendously demotivating to those around.

A company I worked for early in my carerr had to let two people with this trait go (both top-tier uni graduates) because the management didn't think they were taking a then current crisis seriously enough. We came to find that with both of them, they were effectively doing no work at all as there was almost no extra work that came out of their leaving.

When asked why they were kept around for so many years, promoted etc., management simply responded that they seemed well poised, like they knew what was going on, attended tons of meetings, sent out lots of email...so it looked like they were burning furnaces of activity.

When the crisis struck, they kept plodding along this track, scheduling meetings, refusing to let them run long, sending out dozens of emails a day, long after the rest of the team had changed behavior patterns to deal with the issue. It became such a nuisance, especially the content free, but tightly scheduled meetings, that they were finally put under higher scrutiny.

It's a office-space-esque/dilbert-esque lesson I've kept with me through my career and have run into this trait dozens of times.

I've personally found it so infuriating a trait to work with that I'm loath to hire people from certain majors in certain universities under the assumption there is some kind of communications coursework that teaches people to respond with this blank stare.

I've coined the term "the management stare" for this phenomenon.

On the other hand, the people who I've found to be top performers were consistently the dynamic, emotive people in an organization. They responded rapidly and naturally to changing conditions, showed outward emotions and got really emotionally involved in conversations, meetings and tasks. They brought an energy to the company that drove the rest of their peers along with them.
My guess is that Jobs would have made his killing by selling Pixar to Disney — and would be CEO of that company. The funny thing about NeXT and Pixar is that they re-energized two giant companies. By the way had Disney purchased Pixar they might also have grabbed NeXT and that company (sort of like Sony) could be in the computer biz.

It's also interesting to note that the founders of Google were interested in Steve Jobs as CEO when they first started — so they may have purchased NeXT to do that and poor Eric Schmidt would have been out in the cold these last few years.

As for Apple without Jobs my guess is that they could either have faded or "just held on" by adopting the Be Inc. operating system (and perhaps Jean-Louis Gassée as well). My guess is that if Apple was in fade mode they would have been merged with Sun or purchased by Oracle.
Enjoy your limited career, then.
A restaurant in China let customers order via ipad
He uploaded the source: https://github.com/udibr/bitcoinApp
IVE GOT A JOB FOR YOU 
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If you haven't seen it, South Park did an Apple episode recently and it was all about the iTunes agreements:

90-sec clip #1 (SFW): http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/382781/business-casual...

60-sec clip #2 (NSFW): http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/382785/im-gonna-clickd...

Full Episode (NSFW): http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e01-humance...

Note that the full episode is down until May 27, 2011 due to "contractual agreements" (e.g. bookmark for later).
Git features the "rebase" command which can be used to change the sequence of check-ins in the repository. Rebase can be used to "clean up" a complex sequence of check-ins to make their intent easier for others to understand. From another point of view, rebase can be used to "rewrite history" - to do what Winston Smith did for a living in Orwell's novel 1984.

This is FUD. Git never erases history; it merely moves mutable refs around. When you rebase a branch called "master", nothing is rewritten: a new immutable commit history is created, and the ref "master" is moved from pointing at the old history to pointing at the new history. The old history still exists in all its glory at "master@{0}". (And when you change that, it goes to master@{1}, and so on.)

If git didn't have the concept of refs, then this would never even worry anyone. Once you have commit ab387df, it's refers to the same sequence of changes for all eternity. What master points to may change out from under you, but the history never goes anywhere.

The only way to "rewrite history" is to delete every copy of the repository ever made, which is exactly how you would rewrite history with Fossil or Subversion or anything.

(And now, if I may, a digression. I've noticed that the "rewriting history" aspect of Git makes for a good personality test. It's strongly polarizing -- the people that think source control is designed to be documentation love it, and the people that think source control is an audit mechanism hate it. Control freaks hate git, and long-haired hippies seem to love it.)
Bitcoin was covered on CNN recently. The days of "don't talk about Bitcoin" are already over.
Only solutions I'm aware of at this point is to A) Inform Google or B) Beat them at their own game
^__^hello:________( http://bloq.in/577 )________

Christan Audigier bikini $23

Ed Hardy Bikini $23

Smful short_t-shirt_woman $15

ed hardy short_tank_woman $16

Sandal $32

christian louboutin $80

Sunglass $15

COACH_Necklace $27

handbag $33

AF tank woman $17

puma slipper woman $30

^__^hello:________( http://bloq.in/577 )________
Rather than reinventing this discussion poorly, I encourage everyone to read the paper first: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1817857
Keeps inflating the exchange rate at least.
Back then Next was doing mostly OO/Web software, and Pixar was just starting. So I guess he could have done some Web/entertainment mashup a la Club Penguin, or maybe the Facebook of that parallel universe.
> he replied that he "does not have time to elaborate"

Cmon Apple, you can do better than that.
The title is misleading, he clearly did a lot more than google "blonde". Turn safe search off, go to second page of results, click "more of these". There was nothing innocent about his actions, he was looking at porn at work. What did he expect?
I wonder if a lawyer can comment on the implications for the interaction between games and First Amendment case law. Specifically, I'm pretty sure I remember (vaguely) some suit coming down to a game publisher saying "this is speech, you can't censor us" and the judge deciding "it's just a program, yes we can."[0] It strikes me that if the NEA is treating games as a form of art and in the same category as (say) a film or a radio show, it's harder to make the claim that it shouldn't have the same legal protections. (But IANAL, which is why I'm hoping someone else will comment. :)

[0] Prompting the Penny Arcade quote, "If games can't communicate ideas, then why does he care who buys them?"
A graders hire A graders, B graders hire C graders.

Apparently nobody hires B graders, so this can't be a problem.
Sure, and if that's so, a good VP is ahead of the problem with that new proposal, well in advance, instead of rationalizing the failure after the train goes off the rails.
"I have often wondered whether free trade of goods has retarded the development of more sophisticated automation & robotics."

I doubt the effect has been that profound. From what I can see of the history of robots and automation, the choke point over the past 50 years has not been cheap labor, but expensive real-time computation. We only recently got CPUs that we could really do anything with. Even 320x200x15fps in black and white, a resolution you'd have a hard time actually "living" in as your only sensory input (and if humans find it hard, computers even moreso), is about a million things a second. When you've got processors running at 33MHz, it's hard to get very far, just as one example.
We really are arguing in circles here, because there could be many reasons for the slowness at Friendster. Didn't have to be bad coding. It could have been insufficient hardware. No matter how good the developers were, if their hardware can only manage X number of concurrent users with max optimizations, when growth brought in X^2, no amount of 'good development' would solve that issue.

However, I do agree with your point that there isn't just one thing that kills a company. That was my original point.

The TC article made it sound as if 'bad coders' killed companies. That is very delusional and it flatters developers too much. They are important, but not THAT important. That's my point.

Please don't flame me, as a developer myself, I am fully aware of where my expertise (and value-add) stops.
somethings you just gotta earn yourself.
Not to mention that gerrit doesn't tend to like merge commits.
Ideas for games that could be considered as for the public good:

• educational games
• for public schools
• to help train government employees at their job
• games set up in kiosks in parks or playgrounds
• works that are part game and part interactive art, to be
put on an otherwise boring street
• such as buttons along the sidewalk that need to be
stepped on in a certain rhythm to move a ball on a
screen across hilly terrain

What else can you think of?
what dose no one have the talent for this job
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Ask Quora.
I use 30+ different passwords for different purposes. I never write the actual passwords down anywhere but instead I write the hint of the username/password for each site. Here's a fake example:

sitename.com: c4 - t/5r
sitemore.com: mrc - pp:9

If someone manually digs around, they can find what the usernames 'c4' and 'mrc' stand for. However, nobody other than me knows what 't/5r' and 'pp:9' expand to and I will never forget what they mean. Sure, it does theoretically make it slightly easier to brute-force my passwords but if 't/5r' = 'tempest/ariel5randa' then brute-force will take forever anyway.

If the browser doesn't auto-fill the password, I just have to look up a single list and takes me seconds to type the password. Whenever I sign up for a new site, I just add the username/password hint and forget about it. I've been using this system for well over a decade and have never had any login problems anywhere.
I think he would've stuck with the web, which NeXT was focusing on, but I wonder if he would have eventually embarked on an iPod or iPhone device outside of Apple.
What matters is that the NEA now officially considers video games worthy of artistic merit, which is pretty damn cool.

Since the first I heard of this (apparent) debate, I wondered why artwork, music, and story were all works of art separately, but the three of them together with a form of interaction by a person was not. The consideration of video games as a form of art doesn't seem like a judgement to me, it seems more like a rationalization.
REDACTED = Vivonet... you're right. Truly cringeworthy. Does anyone else feel like this kind of crap is like corporate masturbation? It drives me bonkers.

http://www.vivonet.com/about-us/careers/live-answer-agent
I can't believe the nytimes gave one of those companies (1800flowers) an extremely valuable anchor in such an article.
He's a product guy. He would have run some kind of company making some kind of consumer-electronics item that would attempt to be the best in its class. Without the talent, resources, brand, and exposure of Apple to work with, he might or might not have been successful.
The argument behind this statement is that "A players" are secure in their ability and want equal peers they can learn from, so they hire people as good as they are, while "B players" are fundamentally insecure and will hire "C players" who aren't really a challenge to them.

There are a million problems with this logic, but first among them is that A and B players know what they are and that their level of security (or insecurity) is equal to their actual ability. It's not really true.
Essentially you are using a private hashing algorithm. You're trading a bit of convenience for a good chunk more security. If it works for you keep doing it. The important thing is you are using good passwords and segregating sites.
Commits aren't dangerous until you push them. You can very easily rebase out a committed patch after you've tested it.
That's one way in which a discussion community like HN is different from an open-source product-user community.
There's more to HTML escaping than &amp;, &lt;, &gt;, and "
Using a "weird" language like Ruby on Rails is going to make it hard for you to hire below the 80th percentile. At the 40th, you're talking about people who learned one language in college and haven't learned a new one since then.
I wonder if we'll look back at this a few years from now and say, "At the time, the iPad was very impressive compared to the other tablets available."
clickable: http://www.commassure.com/

I like the idea and you've found a great domain name for it.
The trouble with that (starting as I am with not experience in either product) is that I'd be needing to learn some of the ins and outs specific to both systems at once (so I could understand the interaction between them), which might not be the most efficient way to get started.

Or are they so similar at the beginner level that I wouldn't notice the differences or interface between them initially?
I wonder if a bitcoin via email protocol/system could be implemented. Perhaps a special mail client could be built directly in the bitcoin client for such a purpose. Then the bitcoin web app would just communicate between individuals bitcoin clients via the email protocol. Just a thought. I really want to see Bitcoin succeed.
http://altjs.org/
There is no doubt that bitcoins will fall under one or another regulations.

One argument would be that bitcoin is an illegal pyramid scheme.

Another would be that bitcoin is means circumvent the tax system (all barter and local currency systems, for example, have to pay taxes).

I'm sure many other arguments could be found.
I thought I was viewing a PDF at first, the style is so neat. Does anyone know if it was converted from LaTeX to HTML?
Health advances may negate some of the problem, if a 60 year old in the future is as healthy and as active as a 30 year old now no reason why they can't still be making great contributions to the workforce. In China this may be harder given how much of the work force is engaged in manual labor type positions.
Phono, the jQuery Webphone, is now available as a Google Chrome Extension
Be part of the creation of a new musical instrument.
Why The New Guy Can't Code
Touchscreen walls with collaborative multiplayer (both in the sense that multiple people could be using the touchscreen wall and that it could be networked to other touchscreen walls) drawing programs. Not exactly a game, but it is something I've considered building in the past.
I'm not so sure.

Immediately prior to Apple he was selling Corba, OLE, Web Objects, and other enterprisey middleware, and with the exact same fervor that he would later sell iMacs and iPods.

Here [1] is a rather surreal Jobs' keynote/demo in 1995, showing Interface Builder and "Distributed OLE" on Windows NT 3.51, among other things.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu-jvAWTZ9o
There is a difference a token that is convertible for one, given thing and a token which is convertible into anything and traded with the intention of making transferable into anything.

And, yes, while IANAL, I know a lot of the law turns on the intentions behind a given act rather than the act-in-itself. This seems counter intuitive to geeks but its not likely to change soon.
ah, fair enough then!
It’s unlikely that Apple and the other EULA-providers would bother showing diffs, and they wouldn’t show user comments because of the legal dangers, so this would have to be a third-party service.

It could be a website where you can copy a random portion of the text from an updated EULA and paste it into a text field on the home page, and the site would take you to a page containing the latest version of that EULA, readably formatted. Alongside, it could show diffs and comments.

I wonder, is it legal to copy and display the EULAs themselves elsewhere? If not, is it legal to copy just the diffs?
Smart Phone Privacy and Steps Towards Anonymizing the Nokia N900
Is it just me, or does anybody else feel like we're right on the cusp of some kind of revolution?

I wonder what it would mean if Kinect quality devices were $5 and scattered pretty much everywhere?
This is true to varying degrees under different regimes. Of course you're never going to have perfect and consistent justice, but if you're interested in avoiding a police state it's a good idea to keep the law self-consistent and regularly enforced. Otherwise, everyone's a criminal and the state will take the opportunity to put its enemies in prison.
If remembering attribute names is your concern, you can use an IDE or vim plugin for autocomplete, or just use annotated_models to add/update the schema down at the bottom of your model files on every db:migrate: https://github.com/openteam/annotated_models
Knowing What Levers to Pull
Ivy League students get massive financial aid if they cannot pay out of pocket. No massive debt.
Out of state tuition in The UW system is much more expensive.
Hello,

I came across an old comment of yours here regarding no vesting cliff for co founders.

I'm a young entrepreneur and I have a question about vesting ciffs and would really appreciate a response or a link to some relevant reading.

My team and I consisting of three total co-founders have just received offers from three separate incubators (NYC Seedstart, Alphalabs, and Betaspring).

All three of them require vesting/cliffs for cofounders. I'm just reading up on that now and am appalled that if my co-founders (who are best friends with each other), elevan months from now, wanted to dismiss me and replace me with a good friend of theirs or family member, they would be legally allowed to send me on my way with 0% equity for all my hard work, ideas, and connections. How is this normal practice?

The core of this business model and much of its evolution came from my ideas and although I trust my partners, I can't take the risk of losing everything at their very whim. Is there anything I can do to protect myself going into this, so that I can at least insure some amount of guaranteed equity?

Thanks for any advice you can offer.

Best,

Jason
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That's true (I'm actually working on an ebook generation library that does PDF, ePUB, and MOBI), but most books that most people will read on the Kindle do have that DRM. That's what I meant by DRM restrictions on the Kindle.

If it sounded like I was saying that the device itself forces DRM, that's not what I meant.
They are mutually exclusive you can't beat a black hat at their own game without becoming one yourself.

I'm so torn about this ongoing debate, on the one hand I understand Google's need to stop this kind of stuff, but on the other google game their own rankings with extremely poorly marked adverts (very, very light yellow barely distinguishable from the white of the search with an absurdly small 'Ads' in the top right corner).

No newspaper could get away with that and yet people scream about newspapers using outmoded models. The truth is that it's a lot more complicated, there's a lot of laws governing newspaper behaviours while Google can get away with murder. Google have recently done a lot of very, very underhanded and nasty advertising in recent years in my opinion.

Their monopoly really stick in my craw. It's like having only one high street in the entire world ruled by the Americans. Given the ever more extreme stances american political parties are taking, it's not going to be a good high street we're forced down for very long.

My only consolation it that at least they started from a fairly moral position so their gradual corruption is one from a good position. At least they're not Zynga.