skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked in software for roughly 14 years, and I've worked almost exclusively for startups during this time. I understand the concept of nepotism, so I get your point - I guess my question is not really "how do these people keep their jobs" so much as it is "how do these people even exist?" The notion that a conscious human being could behave in the manner described is unfathomable.
I agree. I work in a team with alumni from many different universities and I think the differences between the schools add to the diversity of the team and increases the number of angles at which we tackle problems. A good fit is important, but preferentially hiring your own university's alumni seems like a good way to prevent building the best team you can.

Yes, you're going to have some culture differences, but so what? Every company I've worked for has made it's own culture.
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I agree- he has a deep understanding of the product and even if he can't express it, he probably understands on some level why it _just wont work_. He could be having personal issues or, and this may sound crazy but depending on how far north of the equator you live he just might not be getting enough sunshine (seasonal affective disorder).
Larry might be following the scientific evidence that having attractive women in the workplace reduces men's intelligence.
@jph Delicious import is ready - I've also provided a way to input your own URL. You only need to make your data available in Delicious POSTS/ALL XML format and off you go :)

Please, read import remarks carefully - Delicious API has a bug and LStack workaround is quite brutal (change all spaces to commas). Be aware.
Ask HN: How OS processes mouse events?
I'm curious about a question that came up in my OS class. I understand that a device interrupt schedules an event in an event loop that is then handled by the application or window server. How does this work for mouse move events? Does an event get fired for every mouse-move event? If so, doesn't moving the mouse continuously prevent other interrupts from being fired or does it all happen so fast that it's not noticeable by the human eye.

I realize this is a very trivial question, but I figured this would be the best community to ask. Thanks for your help!
> In a class that meets every weekday morning, the professor announces that there will be an exam one day the following week, but that students won’t know exactly which day until the exams are handed out.

Reminds me of quantum physics. The two quantumly linked properties are the truthfulness of the professor’s statement and the time remaining until the last possible time for the test. When the professor makes the statement at least 5 days before the Friday, it’s true. By the Friday, the statement has become false. Around the Tuesday, the statement is half-true and half-false, an uncertain state.

> …to date nearly a hundred papers on the paradox have been published, and still no consensus on its correct resolution has been reached.

I’d think far more than a hundred papers have been published on the paradoxes of quantum physics. Can I suggest the surprise test paradox and quantum physics have exactly the same underlying principles behind them.
That's exactly what I'm saying. With Windows, you could follow as close to the cutting edge as you wanted. With Android, your hands are tied unless you want to hack your phone. For the hacker types that have so far pushed Android adoption, this is a big deal.
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I agree it's irritating to see people going for the same silly shock value by declaring this or that dead.

And I really like "the imminent dead" and hope it was not a typo (dead vs death). I may start saying that.
I use Listary (friend's app) for the same thing but it's a paid app. GroceryIQ is a good free app for that.

I think your app adds complexity where it isn't needed. Tag tags? Hard to get. The whole terminology is not clear. If you want to group items, call it Group.

A good feature would be to recognize items as you type them and add to specific aisles (produce, bakery, etc). That way you won't need groups.

I also think the icons are not very clear and the delete function should be a simple swipe sideways.
Unfortunately Canada plans to support this too, and our current Conservative government steamrolls any and all legislation on their agenda right through the house. Our senate is functionally useless, so it's essentially a foregone conclusion.
I really hope this becomes the norm when hiring. I'm graduating soon and going into the work force, and I would love to work in an environment as described here - on a diverse team where team members complement and motivate each other. I don't consider myself a rockstar programmer or 10x developer, yet it seems this is what most high profile companies are looking for.
I don't agree with this. Congress can only know so much, and I would prefer them to understand how health care works, how wars work, and how spending money works way before they understand the internet. In fact, there are dozens of things they should know before the internet.

Actually, if they just outlawed lobbyists that would be a big start.
I've been using jekyll with linode quite successfully. Haven't really had any problems. I did have to make some modifications to the Jekyll source to modify the way it finds posts (I don't like that it only looks for posts that have dates in the filenames). Other than that it's been working quite great!

Here is a full description of how I am using Jekyll:

http://www.akashkgarg.com/uncat/anatomy.html
I wish I could install this on a Kindle.
That's confusing two issues. You're talking about a corporation "blessing" the use of some software on some device. I'm talking about people actually doing the work to make the software work on the device.

We currently lack the latter because the former is perceived as "expensive" by the companies who need to provide the support. That equation changes rapidly if the product starts out as a blessed version of an active community project.
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Nation? Politicians are elected to represent their constituents, and not the nation. Factionalism is a key component of the American system. They are supposed to fight for their state and not for America as a whole. In that light, having a politician say that another is 'boring' is perfectly natural.
I'm not saying that the military has never done any programming by itself, because that clearly would be wrong, but the Army doesn't even have an MOS(Job Field) for it. I sincerely doubt that there is a mindless legion of Army trained programmers out there.

Also, the Army does get some grads, but not that many. There are a lot of people who join because they did a year or so in College and didn't like it. There are also a lot of people who didn't even graduate from high school. Bottom line, not many people join the Army under ideal circumstances. I personally would consider having just graduated with a CS degree to be ideal. Unfortunately I am one of the ones who didn't graduate from high school.
Creative Thinking Is a Specific Process That Can Be Replicated
The true 10X individual does all of those things.

They are the technical brains and set the standard and can give a mean interview. They will make things happen even if the rules are a little annoying. They absorb data from everywhere. They don't take crap even from the people who can hire and fire, even risking their own job to do it.

They work so hard they break themselves if the rest of the team isn't up to it. And they remember birthdays and bake cookies.

It is possible to find all of these qualities in one individual.

It's just not very common. It's rare, even. But they do exist.
That is modern english... all the words still work
That, and the picture is of Japan. One of the most densely packed countries in the world in terms of humans to space ratio.
Slightly broken things stay slightly broken forever, things that don't work get replaced. Or at least that's what I learned from the "real world" business so far. That unfortunately also means that if you really want something fixed properly, sometimes it's easier to just break it completely than convince loads of people it needs replacing before it breaks...
I don't think he implied anywhere that all or even most women (mis-) communicate that way, but rather that most people who mis-communicate that way are women. That is a fair observation, and similar comments about men largely pass without comment.
The people at Amazon Web Services are REALLY excited.
I do not think Amazon, and Wal-Mart had state of the art infrastructure when they first started.
This is why they have committees.
re: "The site is used for problem solving."

So says YOU. What's so inherently wrong with letting the people decide? Obviously, a few hundred people found that post quite relevant to the website's topic, helpful, and interesting.

What gives Casper the right to destroy hundreds of people's discussion on a topic that they all deem relevant.

The "vote" on that action was approximately 300 to 1. That 1 vote of no confidence by Casper counts more than everybody's for some reason. That is what really gets me.
As with many other things in life, this seems to be an area where the Goldilocks principle applies. In other words you want to avoid extremes (too similar, too diverse) and strike a perfect balance.
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There is actual empirical evidence for what makes a team perform better: http://singularityhub.com/2011/08/26/mit-unravels-the-secret...

Not sure we need to have more hypothetical theories to balance personality archetypes when we have simple things we could do right away.
Who Runs the Internet?
They don't need to understand it, but they need to know that they don't understand it and that they need to listen to people who do.
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Looks like Casper really is a cowardly ghost.
I recently switched my site[1] over to Jekyll, hosted on GitHub Pages, and am very satisfied. The easiest way to get started is to fork Tom Preston-Werner's Jekyll blog[2], modify the layout as you'd like, and then populate your blog posts. This way, you can jump right in and then learn more about the intricacies of Jekyll as you go.

1: http://blog.metamorphium.com

2: http://tom.preston-werner.com/
SOPA works by failing to resolve domain names, it does nothing to stop a user from entering a particular IP address.

Like everyone has been saying, it. does. nothing. good.
I think you should test:
* value creation hypothesis
* growth hypothesis
* value capture hypothesis

Value creation: what is it about this app that the users value? E.g. is it because the users don't have to deal with pen and paper, and that in a messy house sometimes the paper gets lost, or the person forgets, etc. What do they value about it? It's probably not "I like it because it is cool" <-- unlikely someone who isn't your friend will say that.

Growth: How are you going to find other people who will need this? How can you get in front of people who have room mates, who have this problem you're solving. There's no "room mate conference", or "room mate meetup", so you have to be creative. Maybe hit up people on Craigslist posting ads for room mates; odds are they've been living with room mates before and have experienced the pain you're solving.

Value capture: How can you "monetize". Straight up charge for it? Ads? Testing willingness to pay is key. Think about it, some things in life you've come across that you think is, "wow that's cool", but when they asked you if you would pay, did you open up your wallet?

I hope this will help spur some thoughts!

Best
It has become common in the english language to write "she" instead of "he" when the gender is undefined. This is presumably also to break the male stereotype mold.
Thanks! One more thing, right after hitting reply, I realized the numbers you saw sounded too high. So I checked out our pricing page and it turns out we had a regression in the estimator. 50 metrics reported every 60 seconds costs $4.46, not $26.78. For the $26.78 you can push 300 metrics every 60 seconds. Just pushed out a fix and it shows the correct values now, so this exchange was really helpful!
Sections of Austin referenced above (screenshot): http://cl.ly/2j3w0A2C3B0o1M0Q2O1j

These areas are primarily known as Westlake, Westlake Hills, and Lake Travis. These are the upper class areas of the city, where MANY well to do tech entrepreneurs reside (Michael Dell probably being the most prominent).

I'm sure if a large group of said entrepreneurs spoke up, at least some impact would be made.
Oh, I see. I'm sorry. Carry on :)
Good programming exercise :)
I upvoted you. You sound just like the teacher :).
From the article:

"Sprint waited until there were lawsuits to start removing Carrier IQ from their network, where previously they had been defending their use of the mobile intelligence service. This could possibly even be seen as an admission of guilt, as them removing the software in an attempt to make amends for what they have been caught doing."

While I am sure that Hesse is a good person, there is no evidence that "empathy for customers" was behind this decision.
There is more than one congressman. Each congressman has a staff. They can specialize, delegate. The internet is not something people rarely come into contact with, it's something everyone uses every day.
I like that: "Test-first requirements analysis." A bit like shooting a monkey into space in an uninsulated tin can to see if there are any problems with that.
Why not Columbia, indeed? As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, let's not forget where the Manhattan Project - an project that spanned multiple countries - got its name!

Columbia's always been a top-tier research institution - in fact, it has more Nobel laureates than any other university in the world. As far as computer science is concerned, let's not forget that a number of great achievements in tech & computer science (past and present) are the work of people who are or were in some way affiliated with Columbia. I can't find a comprehensive list at the moment - unfortunately the Columbia CS department website doesn't brag about itself enough for that - but it's not too hard to think of examples.

Columbia already has an engineering school (the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences). The school is known for the strength of its graduate and undergraduate programs - its selectivity rate for undergraduate admissions, for what it's worth, is lower than any other school in the country except MIT.

Is there room for improvement? Absolutely - I can think of a number of ways. But the tech scene in New York is young and looking to grow quickly. It makes more sense to me to take advantage of the tremendous resources already here and amp them up, rather than start from scratch.

Unfortunately, for reasons that are more political than they are logical, I'd be surprised if Columbia actually won this contest. But it would be a pleasant surprise, knowing that they made the right decision.
Ok, everyone and his dog hates meetings, am I the only one hating not being part of a meeting?
Having an army of clones won't get you where you want to go. Diversity will bring new, fresh ideas and perspectives to a project. Don't get caught up in extra-curricular activities matching. You'll miss out on people that will teach you so much more.
I'm using Jekyll on my dedicated server and absolutely love it. I customized it fully too. I added in Disqus, Facebook, Twitter, Readability and Instagram, along with a Konami Code easter egg :P. I then tuned it fully so its very fast. Overall, I am very happy that I am using Jekyll.

My site: http://robbie.io

The GitHub repo for my site: http://github.com/robbiet480/robbie.io
It's no god phone.

God says...
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lowest savages. It would, indeed, have been a strange fact, had attention
not been paid to breeding, for the inheritance of good and bad qualities is
so obvious.

UNCONSCIOUS SELECTION.

At the present time, eminent breeders try by methodical selection, with a
distinct object in view, to make a new strain or sub-breed, superior to
anything of the kind in the country. But, for our purpose, a form of
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I've done something similar to this in the past. If you want to use mailchimp (which I would recommend), I pasted some example code for you at https://gist.github.com/1488819 . It uses jquery and the ketchup plugin for validation, found at http://demos.usejquery.com/ketchup-plugin/ . Let me know if you need help with getting it working.
I feel your pain with getting setup with Jekyll. I've been using it for a little over a year for my blog that is hosted with Github Pages.

I am pretty happy with my setup (finally) - I've got blog posts and book reviews, but also talk slides generated with Showoff. I use categories in the Front Matter for grouping the three types of content.

The nice part is that now that I've done the setup work, I've had friends and co-workers just fork my blog, clear out the _posts folder and start writing (and hopefully re-style at some point).

My main pain points are around the required dates in the filenames and the lack of documentation/examples for using the Template Data. It would be nice for RSS feeds to be built-in as well.

https://github.com/swanson/swanson.github.com
and capital Y is equivalent to y$. A capital letter for a verb is "do this verb from current location until end of line"
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I missed the previous link, so I'm glad it came up.

I do a lot of powershell, Zed. Would you be interested in feedback? For example, while "type" still works, "get-content" is the powershell equivalent.

Nice work, one way or the other. Please keep it up.
> If you need an update, you just want an update (hey I noticed Bill's getting a little antsy, here's the status of project 127: "status")

Sounds like every project just needs the equivalent of a Twitter feed. "Status: everything's goin' smooth."

These could then be correlated, perhaps, into a dashboard of some sort. ;)
I've been on Jekyll for a while now for my personal blog, migrated from Blogger. Hosting-wise I'm on S3, which is very simple to setup and very cost effective. I would agree that the easiest way to get started is to essentially copy someone else's setup on Github and then modify what you need.

Blog: http://www.ohscope.com and my S3 push setup: http://www.ohscope.com/2011/02/20/s3-jekyll-deployment/
But what about the scientific evidence that the performance of mixed-gender groups is higher than homogeneous groups of either gender? Funny thing, scientific evidence...
The commands the OP was looking for was c$ and y$. They are equivalent to say cw, where the object is "end of line" instead of "current word"
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Have you tried it? I have a GSM Nexus S but not on T-Mobile. Does that actually make a difference?
Heh. I just checked. "Type" is an alias for "get-content".

I suspect bringing all that up would just confuse the issue, and detract from your goal.
For what it's worth vim has been my main editor now for 2+ years and I still don't use hjkl. I know I should, but I can't seem to get over the hump that I can easily find arrow keys by feel, but not hjkl.

As for remembering them, left and right are on the outside, and 'j' kind of looks like a down arrow (that's how I distinguish j from k)
A typical USB mouse sends 125 events per second and each one probably only takes a few microseconds to process, so there's plenty of time for the computer to do other work.
Oh joy. Sounds like dealing with telco billing. On one side you get excel tariff files which change in random ways every month, on the other you get silly billing data. Can you imagine ITSP getting an itemised bill for a month of calls from upstream provider? I think it was 3 rather large boxes filled with printouts. Still not sure why that happened.
What is the best site to post jobs in SF?
Ask HN: how to save on bandwidth cost for the distribution of a free game?
hello to all,

we are releasing a free game for mac and pc early next year. its file size is around 500MB. it would be available for free. right now we are thinking of hosting it in amazon s3, but after doing the math, the cost of bandwidth might become too high for us. we are now trying to find other ways of distributing the games. kindly share your suggestions?

could you also share to me your experiences in submitting to the mac app store? do they host your file or do you provide a link to your host?
the same with the xbox marketplace, kindly share your experience? xbox marketplace also hosts PC games now.
I use Octopress for my blog http://nimbupani.com which uses Jekyll with a bunch of useful plugins and rake files. My notes on porting from Drupal are here http://nimbupani.com/redesign-notes.html
That's f'ing hilarious. I am an east coast person who has lived in California for 10 years now. One of my first comments about this place 10 years ago was:

"Wow they take being laid back VERY SERIOUSLY."

Your anecdote is a perfect illustration of that!
Ask HN: How can I build a team when I live in Louisiana?
I currently live in Lafayette, LA & just recently left my job to pursue my first startup full time. There's a lot of talent in town, but most people are either dedicated to where they're working, developed a family in their early 20s, or both.

What are some effective & efficient ways to find a couple of people to bring on board when I'm nowhere near a startup hub?
It's usually difficult to have a candid one on one with a congressperson. You may have to votebased on what your gut says.
Yeah, I'm noticing a pattern here ... https://plus.google.com/u/0/115324919838980591640/posts/LaEL...
A bit cliche but "never is a long." Of course it will be supplanted someday. All it takes is path in a different direction.
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From a sufficiently conservative point of view, SOPA outlaws piracy. Of course they're not interested in the pirates explaining technical details of pirating. They know it when they see it.
y$ will yank till the end of line (characterwise). Y is actually the same as yy, unless you n(no)remap Y to be the same as y$, which most people do. This makes make more sense, because C is the same as c$ (change till end of line).
':h change.txt' explains all of this and more a lot better than I could.
"One smart man mistake, another smart man can fix. One idiot's mistake, 20 smart men cannot fix."
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Stop more than SOPA, demand INTERNET FREEDOM bills
It's simple. Demand the complete opposite. Demand SOPA to be replaced with INTERNET FREEDOM related bills.

Stopping SOPA is delaying the inevitable; they'll keep doing it until there's protest fatigue and it'll be easier to make compromises that will still lead to less internet freedom (SOPA Lite)[0]. Especially when they'll keep presenting such bills to less internet freedom.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique