skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, government loans. I wouldn't have been able to go to school if it weren't for the government loans I could get. I was poor, and school was damn expensive no matter where I went. Without the government handing me dirt cheap loans and letting me pay them off practically indefinitely I'd be much worse off.

Now, banks and private loan companies can go to hell.
http://www.apture.com/support/optout/
You misunderstand me - I don't mean that you should be recruiting people who do not work at a company. I mean that standing out the front door of another company (physically or virtually) and trying to poach them is not very effective. You are far better off recruiting from people who are actively looking for a job, and who are applying for jobs through job boards and other mechanisms of applying for work.

Plenty of very talented, passionate and enthusiastic people are being passed over because they did not know fact X or fact Y, or because some employers are mistakenly searching for previous direct experience with a specific technology when really it makes more sense to be looking for smart, enthusiastic, bright people who know how to learn stuff. I will assume you are a software developer - did you ever need to learn anything new? Was there ever a time when you did not know everything that you currently know? The answer is of course, yes. What then propelled you to your current position of knowledge and experience? Probably your passion and energy and curiosity and willingness to learn. These are the most important traits and employers should be willing to trade experience with specific things for these traits.
Hah! It is relevant.
My manager thinks that I am annoyed when I am distracted from my task at hand. And that is true, to an extent. But I'm really annoyed when he bothers me with trivial minutiae that derail (instead of complimenting) my flow.
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> I would imagine that Dropbox pays some sort of bulk price, but I can't find any information.

Storage pricing is right there on the S3 pricing page: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing

Assuming they're at the highest tiers, we're looking at about $0.055/gb storage, $0.050/gb transfer out, $0 transfer in. Transfer out could certainly be less, though, if they're in the >524TB/mo range.
What if the camera falls out of a ripped bag at an airport by a handler and upon hitting concrete, button-first, it takes a picture that would go on to become incredibly popular?

Stakeholders: 1) Owner of bag may claim that it was done on purpose. 2) Owner of camera for the trigger-like aim despite it only happening to camera under severe stress. 3) Baggage handler initiated despite being unaware that the camera took a picture at all until news came out. 4) Baggage company due to contract clause.
A lot of the location data is free text (ie. unstructured). Not easy to parse. Lat/Long more reliable, but for now, we're using AVG Lat/Long to determine country.Country data is a little skewed (for now).
yes but what about users like me. used it for years, then find out they can decrypt all my files. then i learnt they owe my files accordingly to their new tos. that made me spent one weekend to actually move my data out of their box. even if, arguendo, they would change the rules overnight and made some sort of promise of not doing evil anymore, it is still going to be a sick organism (to me) that i wouldnt touch it with my file(s) ever again.
How does performance compare to MySQL running from a RAM disk?

(I can imagine designing for RAM from day one can help... but curious as to how much it helps, once the actual storage layer and investment in RAM is identical.)
how the hell did he get that scrollbar?
I cannot emphasize enough how much I disagree with the idea that potentially inconveniencing other network users for a small gain of your own is not a big deal.
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Lots of people right down their thoughts in a journal, in a text document, on a sheet of paper. Many of those notes/thoughts end up just sitting there. The random thought reminders will hopefully bring those old thoughts back to you and let you act on them or just remind you of something interesting.
Does nobody care about personality and team fit?

You can be great on paper and by reputation, but turns out Zed and I don't jive.

Edit: Interviewing can reveal these things, for both the applicant and the hiring company.
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You're reading too much into the words.
Wrong requirements..

He is searching for a co-founder but not giving the benefits of a co-founder..that is a sale he will never make..ever.
I take it you have not read any of the rest of this thread?... all of the comments about how DHCP in the wild doesn't work that perfectly, or people saying "this happens all the time with my / my wife/friend/boss's Mac"?
Everything is possible. There might for example be a bout of hyper-inflation in the US, making any business more serious than a lemonade stand worth >$100 billion. And that's about it for plausible scenarios. Becoming that valuable in real dollar terms would probably mean being one of the top 25 largest companies in the US.
120+ people wrote a book at the same time
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How random is this sampling? The second highest country on the list is India (kind of understandable). The third highest is Sri Lanka. I'm not sure how it got that high. Also, UK rates below Paraguay and Nepal.
1. Google and the other big boyz talk a big game about doing no evil, but giving out huge salaries and signing bonuses to attract the best talent is just plain evil from my vantage-point.

This is parody, right?
Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?
Obviously "psychic damage" refers to the mental trauma caused by the types of anti-social attacks that were being done to this family.
About the percentage of unique files: I guess if you go by volume, the percentage of unique files is small. And if you go by number, the percentage of unique files is big.

I.e. bigger files are more likely to be stuff that you didn't make yourself.
that's why i run an open wifi. because i have benefited from others doing the same in the past.
Let us inspect the definition of an MBA - nope. nothing there.

How about the sales pitch B-Schools make - nope they don't. $$ is the only promise.

Basically what we see here is that institutions are issuing certificates saying that they are capable of producing an individual who fits into any leadership role in any org without any domain specific knowledge and can keep everything going smoothly.

After that analysis, the usual response I get from people is that MBAs are great at networking and blah blah. So navigating the communication hierarchy of an org takes 2 years of training ? And this is enough to produce "Da Boss" for an org ?

When you sign up for a 4 yr CS degree - you are guaranteed some exposure to a mixture of CS concepts, same for EE. A masters degree / PhD are also reasonably defined. Can anyone produce a similar intuitive definition for an MBA ?
For me a bunch of stuff has disappeared while I was trying to get through a series. I'm now wary of starting any long series for fear it will be gone before I get to the end. I used to get on netflix to see what new stuff was added, now I get on to see what's been taken off.

It really sucks when things just vanish from your queue and you find they're gone from the service for good. Feels like bait and switch.
Project managers manage projects, not engineers. In many cases, project managers are stakeholders in the project. They have conflicted interests. Being able to tell your project manager "no" is important, because it allows engineers to arrest function and scope creep without fearing for their jobs by saying "no" to the wrong person.

.

Where I am right now, we report instead to technical managers, and are allotted to project managers' projects based on scheduling availability, project importance, and a number of other factors.
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It's random in the sense that we let our crawlers just start at an arbitrary profile and stopped until we have about a million. Pretty random, thoughts?
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Facebook connect is broken.
What is most shocking to me is that it took him 2 weeks to crack a WEP password... Was he putting in the characters by hand?!
I believe it's more about chat being more personal, where comment conversation is meant be more professional by convention. In chat, we're not bound by the rating system, and there's not really an official topic.
Thanks for the feedback! Glad you're finding it useful.

Name should be pronounced like "Use Aura" but without a gap. It's a play on the word Aura, combined with User, or Usability, as the heatmap is a bit like an aura.

There are a couple of angles I see for a paid version:

1) Beef up the features by adding more tests types (e.g. a preference test like: "Which do you like more: A or B?" -- like a poll but visual) and more customisation (e.g. ability to chain tests together, easy way to compare test performance for iterations, priority in the public test pool etc.).

2) Hook it up to Amazon's Mechanical Turk and basically get instant outsourced testers. Perhaps you can even do some demographic filtering here, although I don't have any experience with Amazon Turk yet. This option can probably tie in with 1) since the single page tests right now are probably too simple to pay for--you'll want to get more value out of each one, so getting a chain of tests with comments will make more sense.
They still need to work on their pricing. They have an opportunity to convert quite a few of their non-paying customers if they'd simply offer a plan between 2GB and 50GB.

https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/90/better-more-affordable-st...
There were people using real money as wallpaper, because it was the cheapest option. That at a time and place of hyperinflation.
Figure out how much time the original app took to build and multiply that by the going rate for iPhone development. This will give you a ballpark figure of quotes this client might have been given for the app. Then charge a percentage of the estimated cost that you think is fair, keeping in mind that it's a huge win for them: there is little technical and timeframe risk as 99% of the development is already done. Worst case scenario, their campaign doesn't do as well as they would have liked.
No.

The laser removes the static charge in a pattern on a charged rotating drum. The charged drum then picks up the toner particles - essentially styrene and carbon black - the paper is pressed against the drum transferring the toner particles.

Finally, a pair of heated rollers melt toner and fuse it to the paper.

It is correct that laser paper is smooth but that's so the toner not scattered by the rough paper and can be fused fully.
I'm looking at you, OS X Internet sharing.
Order of magnitude faster. We will be publishing benchmarks shortly
In part, this might be that people typically spend many years working their way up the ladder at a law firm. This requires building strong work and personal relationships with coworkers and a lot of trust.

If a very, very good friend was in a similar situation and being accused of some very bad crimes, I like to think that I would give them the benefit of the doubt during the course of the investigation. Given condemning evidence, of course, that would change the nature of such a friendship in a negative manner.
Just for fun I threw up a project I've been working on:

https://github.com/wbhart/Cesium

In backend.c (esp. lines 171 and following) you can find the beginnings of an LLVM backend (it does work, but doesn't do a whole lot atm).

The whole project is in a major rewrite at the moment. I had fully implemented the toy language described here:

http://selmer.warwick.ac.uk/cesium.pdf

with an LLVM backend. But I was relying on closed source code for the parser generation and that began to nag at me, so I'm rewriting the entire thing from scratch to use greg (a fork of leg).

I'm also adding type inference this time around.
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Yes, I think the tone is meant to be lighthearted. Though from the rest of the comments on hacker news, I think the author missed the mark.
Please name one or more DHCP server which will knowingly violate a lease it has granted, via "kill the oldest" or any other means.
Order of magnitude: base 2, base 8, base 10, base 16?

(Sorry, 'order(s) of magnitude' is a pet peeve of mine.)
Yeah, pet peeve. Psychic != psychological. Irregardless, don't make me beg the question.
I think it's apples and oranges to some degree - a macbook pro with a venerable operating system versus a tablet with one that's still heavily in development.

Better to compare galaxy vs ipad tablets, or osx vs other unix vs windows
wow guys, slow down a little bit...
So let me get this straight, the guy hacked into his neighbour's WiFi and used it to mess with their MySpace page, e-mail coworkers, post a picture of 'pubescent girl having sex with two young boys' (I'd have gone for tubgirl, but okay), and threaten Joe Biden. And this gets him eighteen years in prison? In most countries you get eighteen years for murder.

I'm sure the guy is a creepy douche, and what he did is clearly wrong, but these look like trumped up charges by a law firm that knows how to play ball. No-one will come out in defense of this man now that he has been publicly labeled a pedophile, even though I see no evidence of that in the article. If he really were into children, would they not have found a stash of pictures or videos when their confiscated his machine? Instead they found only the one he posted to myspace. I'm not sure how young the girl in the picture really was, but anyone looking to shock can easily get such material from say, 4chan.

So really what we have here is a cracked WEP key, some e-mail harassment, a picture of a young girl having sex, and a death-threat to Joe Biden. Because of this, and probably because he tried to fuck with a lawyer, his life is now essentially over and young children get to spend the rest of their youths without a father. Am I the only one who thinks this is a bit excessive?

Also, you're living in a pretty fucked up society when your neighbours call the cops because they saw you kissing your kid 'on the lips'. I'm pretty sure my entire family is a bunch of pedophiles by those standards.

edit: totally got the wording wrong from the article. The guy kissed their boy, not his own. Mea culpa, must learn to read.
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from the article, it was the hacker kissing the kid on the lips, not the family...
Don't know about setting it up -- didn't do that part, but the admin page has waaayy too many options for my taste.

But when running it is an awesome wiki. We are in the process of adopting it, and using it in combination with gliffy diagramming plugin is a killer feature.

Being able to work on a page and drop a diagram in all without leaving the browser or worry about uploading files means we can actually keep the diagrams up to date with the documentation.
Thanks for the confirm there. On it.
Assume that he really cannot dole out a huge salary ... how much should he be offering in equity?

Assume that I'm a badass software developer who specializes in scalable web-based systems. In that case, you can also assume that a.) plenty of people approach me with their middling ideas all the time, wanting me to work for peanuts/equity, and b.) I already have a job.

What else could he offer that I might find motivating?
Perhaps. But if I'm more interested in checking our Bear Lake, or the summit view from Longs Peak (rather than the view of Longs Peak from 30 miles away), or some of the waterfalls along the Glacier trail, then there isn't anyplace where I can get that. And if a service ever comes along that DOES offer that I will be happy to give them a fist full of money because while I can't afford to work in or near the park, I'd love to be able to take a virtual hike when I'm stressed out.
> Everything sucks; what matters is how you deal with it.

Indeed. There are usually positive actions you can take to improve any situation in a big company or a small one. Joel Spoelsky wrote an article about working as a low-level developer in an established team that might not be doing things optimally. His first piece of advice? Just do it.

Search for "Getting Things Done When You're a Grunt." It should be the first hit.
He hacks your computer and your mind. Due for release spring 2012 in a theatre near you.
DHCP (rfc2131) doesn't really talk about IP exhaustion.

It's undefined behavior, and there's a bunch of people in here saying that server's have every right to violate DHCP leases, otherwise someone can take over a network by continually claiming all of a Class C by continually making DHCP requests.

That argument makes sense, but it goes very strongly against the grain of what I would think a DHCP lease meant, whcih is that it's a contract for a specific amount of time. If it is indeed a contract for a specific amount of time, the client has every right to claim what they're contractually obliged to. This was my initial assumption, and I believe it's Apple's rather valid assumption.

It's not a case of Apple not following the protocol. It's a case of the real world being more complex than the protocol.
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really cool idea...wish I could pin a couple chat windows open at once...
We also don't know what percentage YC took. They might have taken a bit more or less than 6%. Regardless, this valuation puts their equity in the $100 million - $350 million range.
Yes, and I'm saying that that does not make him a pedophile. I see fathers kissing their young kids on the lips all the time, maybe it's a European thing? Unless he's using tongue I don't see a reason to call the cops.
People trust "pretty" websites
I think the sentencing is completely fair. It's not really about the cracking or emailing threats or any of that. It's about emotional torture. Yes, that's a thing, and it's a serious offense. I can't think of a more traumatic experience for a family than what the victims went through.

Somebody who plans and executes psychological torture on his neighbor for months should spend the rest of his days under some kind of watch. Now, it's debatable whether prison or a mental health institution is the correct choice here… but that's besides the point. Fact is, he had some seriously psychopathic tendencies, and society is much better off with him off its streets.
First, timing/serendipity is a huge factor and there's nothing anybody can do about that other than keep at it.

To answer your question: Offer a real chance of success.

Success is my personal financial success, not just company success and it has to be financial success.

How many POS startups are out there that will never amount to anything?! 50% of 0 is 0.

Prove that you (the hustler) have what it takes to make this opportunity succeed.

Prove that this opportunity WILL succeed.

Give me enough equity that will pay 3-5X my base salary with the low/conservative projections and 20X my base salary with the homerun projections. That's based on a 2-3 year commitment.

Give me the ability to do my thing (hacking) without you (the hustler) meddling in it.

It's pretty easy, if you're a really good hustler who's actually out there making it happen.
To ask this question and start out completely discounting the corporate market is ridiculous.
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So you'd be fine with a complete stranger kissing your child on the lips?
Wow, why didn't I know about that already! Anyone know if they have plans to fund developers?
The advent of bandwidth caps like Comcast's is vile and indefensible.

I'm all for bandwidth providers coming up with new pricing models if it's what it takes for them to remain profitable and compete with other providers. That's fine. AT&T says I get X GB/mo for $Y/mo, and that's fine. It might be a bad price, but if I don't like it, I can try another wireless carrier (until AT&T buys them all), or I can pay more money for a larger cap, and when I hit the cap, I can pay an absolutely retarded amount of money for more bandwidth. But if I want to use the internet, I can.

Comcast pulled an arbitrary number out of their collective asses, didn't talk to any customers, and have now decided that if your usage (measured in a way they won't disclose, over time periods they won't disclose, and the measurement of which they won't disclose to you) exceeds that arbitrary number, they're free to terminate your access to their service. They offer you no way to compensate them for overages, no way to buy a higher cap, and no way to ensure that you remain below the limit.

If I want to terminate my Comcast service because I feel they have wronged me in some arbitrary way, I must pay fees to terminate my contract, but they're free to do this for any reason they come up with.

Ultimately since every Comcast customer signed 500 pages of inscrutable legalese in order to get internet access (even if there are no other internet providers in their area, they're still free to not sign), Comcast is legally in the right by doing this.

But they're still enormous scumbags and I'll say so to the face of anyone who works there. (I'm sure you're wonderful people, personally.)
Interesting work will teach you far more than HN will. It's very easy to overestimate the amount of professional development you get from Internet websites, because at the end of a session, you can point to an article and say "I learned that". However, at the end of a project, you will very rarely be able to point to something and say "I learned that", but you will have unconsciously absorbed so many problem-solving techniques that you're miles ahead of the guys who sat and read a book the whole time.

I say this as someone who sat on the Internet and read websites about programming all through college. Yes, it was useful - but nowhere near as useful as the time I spent actually programming.
Maybe consider hovering over Zed's point about industrial autism? We have dictionaries, we have Wikipedia, we have Google.
Popcap has games that are brandable. Simply look at the success of Plants Vs Zombies and how well Popcap managed to market it, and realise how much a company like EA could mine out of it.

Plus they have Bejeweled and Zuma that are being exploited well already, but Popcap really doesn't have the talents to market a game like Plants Vs Zombies that's seemingly universally acceptable (I hadn't bought a single popcap game until Plants Vs Zombies and I haven't touched another of their games since).

There's big money in intellectual property, especially when they have products that have yet to be even exploited.
He wasn't kissing his own son...
Don't be "that guy".
The sentence was not handed out for a single crime, but for multiple crimes. Some of those crimes -- threat to kill -- are taken very seriously indeed.

Also I imagine the judge will have taken account of the accused's pattern of behaviour and modified the sentence to reflect the fact that he is clearly a menace to society.