skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are typically the places you don't ever want to work at.
Unless I've missed it, nowhere on their shop page does it say that Jobs wore their turtlenecks, merely that he was a "fan" of theirs, and the Wikipedia fact is uncited (now marked as such).
- Suicide? No. Really, no. Seek professional help if thought recurs.
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I put some screenshot in Chrome Web Store:

http://goo.gl/Hq9Rn

The main point is obviously tracking read comments, which can be quite useful in longer threads if you return to them after some time. You can easily go to the first unread comment on current page.

There is also highlighting. If you see some great comment, that you may want to recheck/reread later, you can highlight it and bookmark the page in your browser where it was found (instead of bookmarking one particular comment out of context).
Until dart suddenly appears in Chrome as a native language to give Chrome a performance boost.
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The funny thing about "A players hire A players and B players hire C players" is that every company I have worked at that uses that mantra is full of B & C players from the top down.
I wouldn't have told them to fuck off, but I'd have thought long and hard about the politics of the situation and what sort of edge I have (if my situation was as dire as yours was made to be). It seems like that could have been your moment.

You don't like politics, but it seems like at some point you have to come to terms with the necessity of politics to effect change in a situation, that is to say if it's worth it. You clearly have an opinion on how things should be done. Bottling that sort of stuff up is toxic.

Anyway, glad you are out of that mess.
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That hello world takes 17259 lines isn't really a valid point, dart seems to be aimed at building desktop-like applications experiences that happen to be delivered through a web browser. So the valid question is:

What do these 17259 lines enable the developer to do that are impossible or difficult to do with plain old web technologies of HTML, CSS and JavaScript? What's the use case these 17000 enable?
>...apparently I'm destined to slave away at C++ legacy code all my life. Which is really what depresses me.

Well, there's another difficult lesson there - there's no such thing as 'destiny', however much it may feel that way sometimes. Many people willingly or unwillingly follow the random wind of fate and think of it as destiny but it is just the nature of life that 'things happen'.

The good news is that knowing this frees you up somewhat - your life is yours to control. The trick is working out what you want (and you apparently have some idea now, more than most 20 year-olds) and then what steps you need to take to get there.

Some suggestions:

1) Beware the myth of the overnight success - getting where you want to go in life almost always involves many incremental steps and lots of work, yet we are surrounded by stories of companies and individuals who hit the jackpot and found success instantly. In reality that almost never happens and what we usually don't hear about are the years of trial-and-error and effort that went into building that success.

2) If C++ is your strength, perhaps you could find a way to use that to finance the transition? In the short-term, another coding job could give you the money to pay for art/design training and help you move into the career you really want. The key here is to get the best out of your free time. This is one way to avoid the 'fate' that you fear - use the lemons you have to make the lemonade you want.

3) As some other people have said, tell us what you can do and what you've been working on, and perhaps someone here will be able to offer you some freelance work to help with your cashflow.

Sorry to hear that your Dad and your friends are being so unhelpful. All I can offer there is one of the great 'aha!' moments in my life so far - when people are being persistently unpleasant to you, it almost always reflects insecurities that they hold about themselves, rather than something you've done wrong per se. You've come to a difficult point in your life and throwing blame or sarcasm around does nothing to change that, only appeases their demons for a short while. I don't know if that helps at all but it helped me to realise that I wasn't to blame for other peoples' anger - we all make mistakes and have difficult times but the constructive thing to do is to find a way deal with them and move forward, not wallow in the problems we perceive others have visited upon us (I'm referring still to your father and friends, not to you).

Enough rambling; I hope that helps and wish you the best of luck in the future.
Everybody except a very small number of consistent libertarians are that way - the liberals/socialists and paleo-conservatives and neo-cons (Judeo-Christian Socialists) just disagree on what they want the government to do. So we mostly end up with the government doing more and more and more. Most of which is not wanted by some group.
Scroll wheel won't mark your read comments. Also it won't move you to the first unread comment. It won't allow you to highlight particular comment either.
Very insightful and interesting read, a good way to spend a few minutes during my lunch break!
I've never had to use vacation time for conferences, but then again I only go to one conference a year. Here's hoping my Aussie employer bucks that trend!
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A success by what standard, because it's probably not profit.
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It's called runtime library.
Each language have it, even C. The only exception is assembly.
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I call BS on all of the anti-wave comments that come out. "Problem without a solution" is complete nonsense. It was the solution to a very real problem I have, and I only have 5 friends. We still use wave daily, exclusively really, and find it to be FAR AND AWAY the best platform for group communications. It has a few bugs still, and that's to bad... but it's full of greatness.
Clickable: https://github.com/maxcountryman/irctk

Just a clarification, IrcTK is not itself a bot, it's a framework for writing IRC applications or bots. So this is different from say Supybot or some other bot that was written as a self-contained application in that instead of writing plugins for those bots with IrcTK you import the framework and write your own bot (essentially a set of plugins as either commands or events).
Wow. I know so little about the internal workings of Google and had such a good impression of them until today. The Wave post and now this -- not the post which was constructive and insightful, no company is perfect and it's important to examine flaws -- but for the decision to pull the post. Shameful. Steve is only wrong with one point: Google's reputation for arrogance seems actually well-deserved.
I am just turning 40. You are 20 years younger than me. You have only opportunities - use them. Try things you might like, apply jobs that sound interesting. You'll find your thing again.

But, more importantly... You sound like you have a depression. Not the kind you can just 'shrug off', but the kind that requires medication (dirt cheap nowadays) and counselling (costs more, but is more effective).

This may sound nasty, and coming out of blue. But taking care of your mental health will give you the strength you need to find yourself and your place in the world again. I know this, because I had depression too. 20 years ago.
No reason to feel inadequate. All kids are different, and they are not extensions of our egos. As a first-time parent, I am still trying to convince myself of this, but I am slowly beginning to believe it.

I was a very articulate 3 year old (I spent most of my time with much older children), but I turned out to be somewhat average when I started school (in the case of motor skills far below average), to the surprise of my parents, who thought I was a "genius" because I could parrot off huge amounts of random trivia, and tell engaging stories. My parents even had my IQ tested, and it wasn't particularly high overall. I still retain my trivia talent, but in the era of Google, whatever little value it once had is rapidly becoming worthless.

My 2.5 year old son is fairly quiet (but doesn't have any language issues - he says plenty, he is just cautious). My in-laws have the nasty habit of comparing him to his cousin who is the same age and is a great talker (her father is a used-car salesman, so that's not much of a surprise). I used to get very defensive, and point out the stuff he knows, and can do. Now I just let it wash over me.

A lot also has to do with environment. My son didn't know colors, shapes, alphabets, numbers and puzzles. I got an iPad, and he managed to learn these very quickly. My wife is a bit detached and unmotivated, so this was a stroke of luck. Would waiting a year or two till he started school have made a difference to him learning that stuff? I doubt it.

If your 9 year old can't read, I guess that's a problem. If your 4 year old can't read, who cares?
I said all, not just you.
To some degree it's part of being 20 - people at 20 rarely put as much thought as needed in to any life decision - it's part of the growing process. You'll be sure to put more thought in to future decisions, and you'll be better off for it.

A lot of the "I quit my job!" stories we read on HN are people quitting to move on to something better, usually that's already lined up. You were quitting more to get away from something bad. Both are valid reasons, but your move was riskier without a new destination plan in place already. That's all - you're not a loser because of this decision.

It is painful, but you'll get through this somehow. If you ever feel like talking, shoot me an email at mgkimsal@gmail.com or hit me up at 919.827.4724. I've been in deeper situations than you, looking much more stupid and with far more zeros involved, and it certainly does get better.
I'll echo what a number of others have said here - you are only 20 years old, there is so much opportunity ahead of you in so many ways!

I dropped out of university at 19 in 1997 to start a .com. For a while, I was flying high, unstoppable. Then the bubble burst and I was stranded in the United Kingdom with no job and barely a cent to my name. I struggled to find a job, got huge anxiety (was puking every morning) and my confidence was entirely shattered.

After about 6 months I took a junior project management position at about 1/3rd of what I was earning the year before. And I worked my way right up to the top and then joined an incredibly successful startup and am incredibly well positioned in life.

Having read your original post, I think you made the CORRECT decision to leave that company. You were unhappy, overworked and unfulfilled - that is no way to live life no matter what your parents or friends may think.

One more thing to consider, despite having achieved a decent degree of success, I'm a bit over it all now and I'm strongly considering doing something completely different like moving to the alps and running a small ski chalet business, because I really feel I will love doing that and every morning I can look myself in the mirror and say, today is going to be a great, enjoyable day.

I think you are probably even too young to know what you want, but think strongly about what really makes you happy and then find ways to do it.

Good luck, be strong, sometimes life kicks you in the balls a bit, but we're not defined by those failures, we're defined by how we get up and move forward and you have plenty to move forward towards.
Productivity and long hours are inversely proportional, in my book.
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That's the ultimate check on Google: if we start to act too abusive or "evil" we know that people can desert us. So it's in our enlightened self-interest to try to act in our users' long-term interests.

I hear this line thrown about quite a bit. And while it's true with regular users, it's certainly not true for webmasters or advertisers. Google controls around 67% of all US search share. If an advertiser doesn't play by your rules, they forfeit a significant amount of natural search traffic.

All good for most of your policies but there are some real gray areas. I had a site years ago that got hit with a javascript hack on an obscure page. StopBadware found it within a day or two and suddenly we were blacklisted... virtually all organic traffic disappeared overnight. It took weeks to get the warning lifted and that was only as a result of a significant viral PR campaign (such as this).

Maybe this has been addressed, but there are other areas. Affiliate sites are also penalized quite heavily by Google. It's one thing to take a stand due to the supposed quality of many of these sites (which frankly has little correlation with the presence of affiliate links... most sites suck). It's quite another when Google has a large affiliate advertising practice in house and a significant investment in an affiliate link tracking/cloaking company.

I mention this with all due respect and I hope you take it as constructive criticism. I think the organic side of the house does a great job overall. The paid side is another story IMHO. Part of this is organizational stupidity... I struggle with this every day and I have a much smaller organization.
The figures could be still be reliable if this reflects an actual change in distribution of business.

Speculation: Perhaps in 1960 businesses were really distributed according to a power law but have reapportioned a bit over time. Trends like consolidation and dominance of a few large firms might skew things.
Ask HN: Does anyone use affiliate marketing to sell their SaaS apps?
I was wondering if anyone here uses affiliate marketing (specifically an affiliate marketing network) to sell their SaaS apps. Any tips on how to get started, potential pitfalls, ROI, etc.?

Thanks in advance!
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The Daily Mail (the paper in question here) often seems to be on a quest to divide everything in the world into two groups - things that cause cancer and things that cure cancer.
totally agree !
Starting a conversation is a wonderful thing, but how you start a conversation matters. Some questions naturally elicit a defensive response, especially when they make the reviewer's opinion a default and force discussion of that - implicitly rejecting the idea that the reviewee's position even deserved consideration. There's simply no excuse for a "question" that embeds a negative assumption about the work under review.

Similarly, solid relationships are well and good, but they shouldn't be abused. Maybe framing a review question badly is OK between co-founders who've known each other for years, though as a fifteen-year participant in an even closer kind of relationship I'd say it matters even then. What's OK once can wear down any relationship if done a thousand times. Even more importantly, that sort of thing just doesn't scale to the weaker relationships that are inevitable in any company larger than will fit into your bedroom. "Why isn't this clear?" will simply poison the tone not only of that review but of the entire relationship. "How can we make this clearer?" or even "Do we need to make this clearer?" would be far better.

As an example, BTW, how do you think the OP might feel about my critique here? Does it seem overly harsh, like I'm putting my opinion above theirs? Do you suppose that it might take some work for us to establish trust, after such a beginning? Yes, it would. Behavior that's OK here on HN would often be seriously inappropriate in the workplace.
Hey Bret!
Failing is OK as you can see from history:
"Caesar served in 63 BC as a quaestor in Spain, where in Cadiz he is said to have broken down and wept in front of a statue of Alexander the Great, realizing that where Alexander had conquered most of the known world at thirty, Caesar at that age was merely seen as a dandy who had squandered his wife's fortunes as well as his own."

You'll be depressed for a while, but soon you realize that you have gained valuable lesson. Failing is something that everybody does, and it's part of everybody's life. (There is a physical reason for this: entropy* )

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy
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My experience with TPG has generally been very good. I connect at 17-18Mb/1Mb and consistently download at 1.0+ MB/sec. Usually 1.4MB/sec, though I've seen it drop to ~800KB/sec.

Given that your plan is 60% more than mine, I'll gladly pocket the difference and live with the minor problems I've had. As another poster mentioned, I chose to vote with my wallet. Generally small quotas + absurd off-peak times (where the majority of the quota is allocated) make my blood boil and I'll support anyone who helps break up the status quo.
Cant help feeling that all that rather complicates the simple act of reading stuff.
Good idea but white listing seems inflexible for all web sites, now that most innovation takes place on ready sharing on social networks.
My work Blackberry is still down in Uganda. Pretty brutal.
Most FPS's will let you totally remap the keys however you wish. I think I tried HJKL in Quake once, but my fingers never really got the hang of it in that context (plus, WASD puts you in easy reach of the modifier keys, which are better targets for action keys wrt gaming)
This is a fair comment but I believe the issues stem more from the process Google follows.

It is obvious that Google cannot communicate exact reasons why a site was penalized as that would help spammers. However, there is nothing that prevents them from adding a step to warn the offending website and give them a heads up before the ban/penalty takes place, along with an explanation of the policy that is/was being violated.

Most of these heads up would go ignored, some would not and yes, it would incur a support cost. However, the number of websites which are significantly penalized isn't onerous... I believe fewer than 1,000 each year?

When a company has become the defacto gateway to the internet, I believe they have a responsibility to webmasters. Google has lost a lot of goodwill over the years because of these seemingly arbitrary penalties... Instituting such a practice would be a worthwhile investment.
> Since their process is completely arbitrary, sometimes they get really great people (god only knows why they stick around-- I think a lot of engineers don't really know their own worth) but they also get a lot of people who randomly rub the right people the right way and get hired. It was completely arbitrary, it seemed to me.

This seems to be true for the vast majority of businesses.
HN is always trying to fire Steve. He's frustrated that such a good company can be so bone-headed. Fair enough. He seems also pretty comfy there. That said...

Steve: if you're reading this, go do something better. Google is feeding your wallet and ego, but life is more important than that. Go. Do your own thing or join something like Khan Academy -- there are a million places you could put your talent that would make the world a better place.
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Having the time to take off, and also the cultural push to take it all, makes a huge difference in productivity from my perspective.
Out of curiosity, is there much of a start-up culture there? If so, do founders (and first employees) adhere to the same guidelines? At least here in the U.S., founding/working at a start-up basically assumes long-ish hours.
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To not complicate you can read whole page as you do usually and after that keep Ctrl+Right until all comments will be marked as read. Then in next visit Ctrl+Right will scroll page to the new comments (if there are any).
I'd suggest this is due to the necessity to "converse" with Siri. I don't want to pretend I'm talking to a human when talking to a phone because if I'm on a train/plane I'd look like an idiot.

Instead, if it could understand something along the lines of: "alarm, 5.30, tomorrow" that'd be much better, quicker and simpler than: "Siri, set my alarm for 5.30am tomorrow morning". I don't want to have a conversation with my phone. Get in, get it done, get out. Speed always wins. But then I hate the new dumbed down Google too so what do I know eh.

Siri will flop, the speed is a non-issue for the majority of iPhone owners and the camera just about brings the phone up to spec with it's competitor cameras. If they went for a an iPhone 5 and iPad3 they would have made an absolute killing this christmas.
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That was the exact opposite reaction of my girlfriend's. She's basically upgrading her iPhone 4 just for Siri.
Context, she's tech savvy but she works as a tax accountant.

I can see using it myself as lot as well, especially for reminders and texting while I'm driving.

@brador
I think that may work with Siri actually. People try the more conversional stuff in demo because, let's face it, it's more "magical."
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Sounds like the "screening day" I went through at a large multinational here in the Netherlands. 5 25 minute interviews, lots of talking, presentations, got an offer, just so they could decide "Oh yeah, we have people with nothing to do, sorry, can't hire you"
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For me it the ability to work on what I'm passionate about on my own terms. As I have worked for some big name companies and organization that effected world change, yet it was still never things I was passionate about or on my terms. Plus as I have for the last year and half been working on my own startup I have come to realize just how rewarding the process is. I mean the struggles and sacrifices and risks you go through to see your own idea and passion come to life is like none other. To be your own boss and see a dream realized in the process. What's better then that?
The good news is, you're 20. You have plenty of time to recover from this experience. You can even go back to college at this point, graduate, and still only be 24.

The bad news is, 4 months of living expenses is not enough to eject from stable income if you dont have replacement income waiting in the wings. This is something that seems to be overlooked in the folklore of "living on ramen". The fact of the matter is that you need money to live, and if you are worried about where you will live or where your next meal will come from, you will not be in a position to be able to concentrate on any major intellectual endeavors.
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I'd guess a forum hack. Most users use the same password and it's mostly kids who couldn't care less about password security.
"If they went for a an iPhone 5 and iPad3 they would have made an absolute killing this christmas."

Yeah, instead they only pre-sold one million of them in 24h.
Well, the google PR people actually didn't do anything to tell him to withdraw the post, so that is his own decision.
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now, that I moved all future projects on nginx, open core makes me afraid. I hope none of the current features get crippled.