skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am so terribly sick of this: The headline is "The End of Facebook", followed immediately by the lede "Perhaps a little premature, this idea that the end of Facebook is nigh, but certainly the end of the beginning," which essentially completely debunks the entire headline right off the bat.

Writers: If you can't write anything compelling enough to not need to be carried by an overly sensationalist headline, please put your pens down and go sell used cars.
I take issue with this article because it would come across to me as a red flag about work-life balance. That an employer would expect you to be doing something programming related in your spare time comes across as a bit self-serving.

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I think you're reading too much into it ... I've been doing this for 7 years (not that long) and without fail all the really good developers I've ever known or met have built something in their spare time ... just for kicks, a webserver, a firefox addon, some game, a ruby gem, PHP script, a macro for their favorite editor, some electronic gizmo ... something.

Not all developers do it, but the very best do ... so its not a disqualifying question, but it sure does allow you zero in on the very best developers rather easily.

As an aside ... you should always be looking at code, when you're hiring developers. If they can't give you any examples, then make them write something ... I'm continually shocked by how many companies make $70+k investments in people they've never seen in action.
Sweet! Just "alias mysql='mysql --i-am-a-dummy'" in /etc/profile and never make mistakes again!
I think the economic argument about the shortage of talented tech workers is well thought out. Salary is a great indication of supply and it's percentage increase is not much higher than inflation. I'm not sure what the author means by repairing the industries credibility though.
Honestly, by analyzing fossil records of CO2 in past times, like the Jurassic period, I believe that somewhere in the ocean there are creatures with genomes adapted or rapidly adaptable to an increased acidic ocean.

The geological average of CO2 in the atmosphere seems to be about 20 times the current amount.

Not necessarily corals are the optimum staple life form of the oceans.

I do not claim to know anything about what would the optimum staple life form in the ocean, I'm simply open to the possibility that an increase in CO2 could lead to a improvement in photosynthesis ability for algae and therefore an increase in ocean life.
Backups have a latency that a recycle bin doesn't. When I made something two hours ago this is the worst time to unlink it.
What about just using the service wordpress offer with out hosting?
This cache-hit data would actually be interesting to look through.
I am actually interested in the eventuality of caffeine (which they did mention) causing adrenal depletion. Those findings would apply even more violently to a more violent stimulant such as amphetamine.

I agree with their idea that one can get a spurt of willpower (and brainpower in general, in my experience) from a stimulant but the crash can be debilitating.
YMMV. I wish they made their other interface (i.e. in-browser editor) more accessible.

Even after 100 times, I found it counter-intuitive and irritating that clicking "New Post" on my site would launch my email client instead of their editor. The latter is buried somewhere in Settings.
The big advantage for SAP now is that they are the "right"choice for an ERP system and directors dont take chances.

But if companies notice that their philoshopy is just take as much money of their current customers instead of getting new ones, they can get in trouble as soon as another brand its "sponsored" by big customers.
There was an earlier post about this here... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2660794 with a different initial reporting source. I put a link to the patent that might be concerned in my comment on that thread.
Facebook's secret iPhone app is not so secret anymore
are there plugins for Posterous? I saw they realsed an api a couple days ago.
That's not good enough. Scrolling through the list, I haven't seen any password that I can say with certainty couldn't be either brute forced, dictionary attacked, or found in a rainbow table.
So we're posting tabloid FUD now?

The California company has plans to build a system ...

and further down the page

It is not clear if Apple intends to develop the concept into a working system, and if so, whether it will be implemented within the company’s devices.

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Btw, this was originally reported on Patently Apple [1], along with some actually useful analysis, including the patent itself [2].

[1] http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/06/apple-wo...

[2] http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
Not really, it's public. If someone wants your username, they can just look at the magic string in your profile and register it if you haven't.
MBA no longer has a backlit keyboard
I've only been here for almost 2 years (well close enough to 2) however I would say the average HN thread is still more insightful than the average Reddit thread (including filtered sub-Reddits)
I have the same criticism there too. I prefer multi-platform IDE's.
think about how a meta-circular virtual maschine works and the self-hosting compiler gest mutch easier.
Glossy screens.
Big apple logo on screen lid. (Ignore the marketers and stop putting logos on the hardware. Let the hardware design speak for itself.)
Difficult to service internal parts on certain models.
Trash lacks restore.
Poor window management (no tile, maximize height/width).
Numerous issues with OS X and the included Applications.
I had no idea. Thank you for this!

Turns out, it works for the newly expanded submenu also. Still more typing, but a vast improvement.
This is only a patent. This is not a feature of a shipping product. Hopefully it never will be.

Apple patents anything and everything and a ton of them are never really used. Optimistically, perhaps they grabbed this idea solely to prevent anyone else from doing it. By having a patent, they can refuse to license the idea to anyone and go after anyone who tries it anyway. You never know.
It does if one taps the Alt key, IIRC. Same for Firefox 4 (onward).
I don't recall saying anything about fair.

As for objective, what I said was for those people who refute the question objectively on the basis of false negatives, I challenge them to come up with an alternative that has zero false negatives.

This was simply an observation about the difficulty of being objective without excluding qualified applicants. In fact, I expclitly allowed for the possibility of saying that you choose your hires subjectively. Could we be in "violent agreement?"
Good point. I know what exactly what you mean about the Amazon calculator, first time I saw it I said to myself "This is the simple one?"
If you go to college it will give you more options and opportunities over the long run — and frankly the longer you wait the less your chances are of going. Also if you study what you love it will open other doors that can't be opened at a job (unless perhaps you're working with a room full of Phds at Google). Unless you think the dot.com that you're working for now is the next Google -- or unless your parents are very wealthy (in which case opportunities aren't an issue) it would be a very prudent idea to go to college.
I had the same problem when I was experimenting with posterous, To get some pictures in my post was a big mission.

Then when I posted it, it grouped all the pictures together.
The inside story of how Google conquered the smartphone world
Isn't Rackspace Cloud more expensive? Or are you just talking about storage?

I think for many people, RAM and CPU become an issue long before disk space.
That paragraph would never get past most decent editors. It's one thing to cite those influences if you have actual evidence that Barack Obama is somehow suppressing those alarms. In the absence of that, this portion is total tin-hat crap.

They might as well write: "Did you know that every day drunk drivers kill hundreds of Americans? Did you know that the president drinks?"
Unibody Macbooks are bloody sharp, especially the notch below the trackpad. I was constantly getting cut and scraped the first couple of weeks. I understand now why Windows laptops are so round and pudgy. Unfortunately, that's also why Windows laptops are ugly... C'est la vie.

MBPs are also really heavy. I'm using a 15" MBP from work--can't imagine what the 17" is like! When the time comes to buy my own personal laptop, I think I will get an Air.

No USB plug on the right side.

When hooking up to a 27" iMac and running audio through to the iMac speakers, the volume controls are on the iMac and not on the MBP. Switching controls back to the laptop also switches the sound to the laptop speakers. You can't win!

The whole MiniDP/Thunderbolt BS. Adapters are expensive. Apple doesn't even sell a MiniDP-to-MiniDP adapter to support MBP to iMac! I had to buy one from Belkin.

Lack of a docking station. I plug and unplug my MBP a lot and it's so time consuming. I wish I could just dock it and instantly have all my peripherals available to me.
Have a MacBook Pro Circa 2006/7. I could fry an egg on the bottom and have burned myself holding it before. That battery (3rd one) dies after 5 minutes disconnected and says service battery. The machine was fully replaced internally 1 yr ago due to it killing batteries under warranty. Now 1 yr later it is closer than ever to dying. I have treated it well, but the internal hardware seems to fail fast. On the other hand the newer unibody MBP's my friends have don't seem to have these issues. Other ppl with the same version as mine do have these problems though.
Clumpiness of Distant Universe Surprises Astronomers
I just tried it, nope. I thought so too, but that seems to not be the case.
How does it solve that? Walk me through that, my imagination must be lacking.

You seem to be imagining a trackpad that doesn’t have to be touched, that can consequently track a much larger area and that can track 3D space. That’s pretty sweet, I guess, if it works reliably and is as precise as current trackpads but it doesn’t seem all that amazing.
I reserved my name.
No, and that was my complaint. The post by pdhborges below enlightened me that one can use letters after pressing Ctrl-F2, but it is still quite awkward and I believe it is disruptive to flow.
Yes, some people it's committing facebookcide but is pretty much irrelevant for you!

Go make a good damn startup yourself and stop procrastinating wasting your attention on overdramatized utterly irrelevant headlines.
Google's "Me on the Web" - a ploy to get you to use Google Profiles
I found all the interesting bits are in the accompanying CD rather than in the book itself, which is far too shallow (IMO). Having to dig out the CD to read the somewhat interesting bits is then a chore.
Done.

http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?username=tptacek&limit=75
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You could ask people what they hope to get out of your app before they quit using it. Maybe after their first return or a few page clicks?
I've been using Linode for about 4 years now for dev and [small] production servers. They're such a joy to use. I agree that I could probably get VPSs cheaper somewhere else, but ... meh. And, though I rarely need support, Linode's support is second to none and it's a real help with something's going wrong. More than anything, I'm happy to pay a bit extra to support quality products and services.

So, joining the chorus: happy birthday!
I was surprised by this as well, my top comments were on the whole, rather forgettable.
Just make sure no one is sadistic enough to follow you around running

touch -- --
I absolutely love Linode. I made the HORRIBLE mistake of using vps.net for over a year (from September 09 to September 10) and it was honestly the worst hosting experience of my life (and I keep an eye on them, still as bad as ever) so when I switched to Linode I was expecting more of the same, in over 8 months I have never had a problem, I've submitted 1 support ticket and that was because I needed help enabling backups (the host machine was disallowing it) and that was resolved in 5 minutes.

Linodes pricing isn't the cheapest but it's well worth it. I have 6 servers with them at the moment.
That last bit reminds me of a Malcolm Gladwell story. I think it was Korea Air that had a terrible safety record and a consultant was brought in to figure it out. Turns out Korean culture strongly discourages questioning your superiors, even in the face of obvious error. Pilots were making mistakes and co-pilots wouldn't correct them.
It's actually not a static banner, it's an HTML document that can take advantage of CSS animation, etc.
Libyan Rebels Making Armed Robots From Power Wheels Toys
It really seems that facebook may have overextended their good will with the public in repeatedly forcing privacy concessions. Only time will tell.

In any case, I'm not sure that this link isn't more than phishing for hits.
I think about it as well, which is why I follow the strategy outlined in the last paragraph: Asking multiple questions and integrating the responses. Such a strategy embraces the candidates who embrace side projects because they have boundless enthusiasm within and outside of their job, candidates who have enthusiasm for their job but are busy BASE jumping in their spare time, and so forth.

I seriously doubt the author or anybody else espouses any single criterion as the only determinant in hiring. This happens to be the author's favorite question, just as my favorite happens to be about Monopoly.

p.s. FWIW, the question along these lines that I like to ask is for the candidate to describe projects that they are most proud of and have learnt the most from (two separate answers are certainly applicable, although sometimes it's the same one). Some candidates describe a work project, some a side project.

What I have discovered in my small, anecdotal experience is that people with side projects always have an answer to this question, while candidates without side projects sometimes have trouble explaining what they're most proud of and why. But the fact that some people without side projects have trouble articulating their pride does not suggest to me that a person who is justifiably proud of a work accomplishment is neccessarily a NO HIRE. I suspect we agree on this.
It's the SHA-1 hash of "usethesource"
From the title, I thought the shareholders had demanded they stop playing pop music...
No it's not. The long-term environmental impact from fukushima is far smaller than that from the BP oil leak last year. The extra radiation being received by people who live a mile from the site is on par with eating two bananas every day.

The impact isn't nothing; this is a significant catastrophe. But that article is sensational bullshit.
Page up/down should be mapped to fn-up and fn-down. Spacebar also does page up and page down in both Windows and OSX.
So there was a lot of infant mortality on a location where
(a) a magnitude 9 earthquake occurred
(b) a tsunami passed
(c) all electricity (including that of hospitals) failed for a LONG period (ie. too much to cover with diesel generators)
- and hours later -
(d) radiation levels slightly increased, well within safety tolerances

OMG ! the nuclear plantz ! Their killin` da babies !
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"A good deal of willfulness must be inborn, because it's common to see families where one sibling has much more of it than another. Circumstances can alter it, but at the high end of the scale, nature seems to be more important than nurture. Bad circumstances can break the spirit of a strong-willed person, but I don't think there's much you can do to make a weak-willed person stronger-willed." - http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html
Sorry to be the security weenie, but any chance we can get HTTPS for the login POST?
Did my mother write this article?
"Sleep well, eat your vegetables, and work hard!!!"
This has to be one of the lamest things I have ever read on hacker news. Hacking the system? Its called persistence. Yes, sometimes it can work, other times it can get you shitlisted. Is this the kind of crap they teach Urbana-Champaign? No wonder I rarely hire a recent college graduate.
Maybe a flag for filtering? I think most places that hire remote employees also hire local ones.
> I absolutely hate serif fonts on any text less than 20px in size.

https://www.readability.com/
The article says one of the likealittle people turned $2k into $200k? 10,000% profit?

Is there more of an explanation on this somewhere? That seems incredibly far fetched to me.
Touch for mobile, however, avoids the screen-mess problem, as cleaning the screen is as simple as putting it in your pocket/holster (assuming you have a oleophobic screen or screen-protector) or wiping across your sleeve/pants.
It's only a problem if the bits of memory you want to enforce special protection rights on (ie: no execute, read only, etc.) is also mapped into the GPU's address space.

It's not something that "just happens" normally, it most often requires clear intent to do so, but it can be done.
To be more precise, NT had file locking enforced by the OS unlike DOS.
Our office is too big -- we need some badass hackers to fill it up.
Seriously. We just moved into a 3500 square foot warehouse in Mountain View and we need you.

//About us//

# yc w2011

# just closed $2.5MN in funding from first-tier VCs and top angels

# approached 9 VCs, got 9 ridiculously attractive term sheets

# focus on small/medium business loyalty

# challenging technology problems including data synchronization, remote software deployments and scaling

//Who we need//

# individuals who are incredibly driven and self-motivated

# crappy code pisses you off

# broken code makes you want to fix it

# slight perfectionist (and maybe even a tad OCD)

# want to build something millions of people want and use

//Potential roles//

(Software developer)

...requirements...

# TONS of experience developing software for Windows and Linux or OS X

# ability to write software using wxPython or C#/.NET

...nice to haves...

# can work with/around complex network topologies

# experience developing software for remote software deployment

...we want you..

# developing for legacy versions of Windows and/or Linux is easy for you

# experience with delta encoding/data differencing on large data sets

(Web front-end developer AND designer)

...requirements...

# can write standards compliant HTML/CSS

# has beautiful CSS classing principles and methodology

# good eye for design, and can create it too using Photoshop/Illustrator

# can turn mockups into pages

...nice to haves...

# jQuery ain’t a problem

# some experience integrating with Django

(Back-end developer)

...requirements...

# django/python are second nature to you

# have read every page of the django docs, twice

# you think django has some big weaknesses, but willing to write code that can mediate/improve them

# Postgresql doesn't scare you

# can pump out HTML/CSS/JS when it comes down to it

...nice to haves...

# memcached or <insert some other k-v store> implementation on a large scale

# sysadmin skillz

# nginx/apache tuning experience

...we want you...

# have experience scaling some really big stuff

# extensive knowledge of query optimization, indexing, and replication

//What you get//

# competitive salary, equity, blah blah blah

# to be an extremely early employee on an extremely small core dev team

# make core product decisions every day

# deploy code

# work on something that is physically live at a ton of smb's

# a fun crew of great guys. we're the outdoors-ey type!

# obligatory mention of beer

email hckrjobs@gmail.com with a brief introduction of yourself and your background, a couple sentences about why you're fit for the role(s), and maybe a resume if you're not feeling too confident
Real Secret to Startup Success
You can use OpenNI.

http://c4c.posterous.com/installing-openni-kinect-drivers-an...
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The "warmists"?

There are numerous studies establishing that the globe is warming with > 95% confidence.

The greenhouse effect as a phenomenon is also not debated, nor is the amount of CO2 we've put into the atmosphere.

None of these thing above are contested, they're all established facts.

It's possible that some other mysterious force is causing the warming, but if that's not the case, then greenhouse gasses are the most reasonable conclusion. I'd posit that advocates of a mysterious other force behind warming have the burden of explaining what it is.
As someone who has to endure the results of NIH, I want to say that such thinking is a poison to the industry.

I wish that, if someone is overcome by the vapors of the NIH disease, such a person would confine their reinvention of the wheel to their personal time and not introduce such silliness to the workplace.

Of course, I wish for lots of things.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks like you've had 170k unique visitors on your website, not 170k users -- quite different things, no?

The advice is good, though.
Yelp is hiring a Back End Software Engineer
http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=ovLbVfw6&s=Hacker_News
Congrats to Linode, 8 years that's a long time. Which makes me wonder, was Linode the earliest or one of the earliest VPS hosting provider? I'm guessing in 2002 it wasn't that mature a market or was there already a few big players hovering about by the time Linode stepped in?
Storage is expensive at Linode ($1/gb/month as compared to $0.10/gb/month on AWS EBS), but you'll note that data transfer prices are comparable. Linode may be pricing storage to discourage you from using Linode as a storage service. If I were running a VPS-only shop with no real storage "product" and no desire to get outside the niche-in-which-I'm-crushing-it, I might do the same.
Actually, your comment sounds more like r/programming than anything I've seen on HN lately.

Github comments are usually on-point, because nobody comments on github-hosted projects unless they're actually working on the project.

The exception is when somebody does a funny commit, and it gets circulated through...you guess it, HN, reddit, etc.
Core idea:

The idea that a successful startup most often fails before it succeeds
is becoming quite popular. But the concept has been alive in the DNA of
Silicon Valley for quite awhile. Silicon Valley is really one of the
only environments in the world where failure is actually treated like a
good thing--but only if you learn from it and keep going.

The real secret is to build on what you learned in the last failure.
Product Manager - Mobile needed at Yelp
http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=ovLbVfw6&s=Hacker_News
The other problem I've encountered on mobile devices (and even occasionally on a PC with a mouse) is that the voting arrows are small and quite close together, making it rather easy to hit the wrong one.

One possible solution would be to have only the arrow you click disappear, so you could always hit the other one and at least cancel out your own vote if you made a mistake.
Cash flow and the posture of your business
>Now we're hearing how modern reactors couldn't possibly have a meltdown like any of three so far.

No responsible nuclear engineer would make a claim like that.
Don't want to publish information without unattributable sources, but -- the deal is in Washington that Obama gave his appointees until August 30th to decide whether or not they wanted to stay on through the remainder of his present term. Basically, while they're on their honor, the administration doesn't want appointees to drop out during election season. This is customary for administrations seeking reelection to do.

Vivek likely won't be the first.
Oh gosh, I have a problem with too many spare time projects. My GitHub account has over 60 public repos full with spare time projects. And I have to force myself to get away from the computer for at least a few hours.

I guess this extreme isn't too good either but there's always something to be done :)