skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
God is just.

God says...
mundo_stoked home California insane it's_hopeless glorious
I_have_an_idea drama God bank why_is_it you_shouldn't_have
chill shist place geek rip_off sky whoo_whoo arrogant
biggot hotel just_between_us hobnob vengeance you_don't_say
hollywood ehh_a_wise_guy you_think_I'm_joking couldnt_possibly
what_the_heck envy handyman clever take_your_pick Church
angel I_can't_believe_it can_you_hear_me_now you_don't_like_it
linux I'm_grieved just_lovely how_about_that don't_push_it
Bam the_enquirer what_would_Jesus_do I_don't_care you_are_my_sunshine
experts I_got_your_back big_fish basically tree_hugger
Dean_scream how_about_that Greece are_you_deaf later endeavor
songs vengeful that's_for_me_to_know
I would think for security reasons, they would not do that. It would be really bad if someone hacked your thermostat to run up your power bill or try to make your home temporarily uninhabitable.
Patrick: Good to connect again, though I wish it were happier circumstances. :)

Disclosure: Brian Halligan (the author of the article) is my co-founder and friend at HubSpot.

It's late here in Boston, and it doesn't look like he's going to get a chance to respond tonight, but I wanted to address a couple of the points you've made (and that have been echoed by others in the HN community).

1. This particular tactic of his is usually near the very end of the process. He doesn't start by doing reference checks. He still goes through standard interviews, and in most cases, has them meet several members of the team.

2. Brian is super-sensitive about not putting potential employees in an uncomfortable position by disclosing that they are seeking employment. That would be a jerk move, and he's not a jerk. And it's also bad business.

3. His express purpose is not to solicit negative comments (though it comes off that way in the article). He's trying to get a more complete picture of the truth. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. The focus is on what this persons "super powers" are. Most of the discussion is positive (For someone to have made it that far in the process, in just about all cases, there's going to be more strengths than weaknesses). But, he does deliberately open the door for negative comments.

4. We actually encourage anyone that is looking to join the HubSpot team to do deep due diligence on us. We think it's not only fair, but good for both parties. They can talk to any employee (or ex-employee), any customer, any investor, any partner. We aim to be as transparent as possible in this process and have found that the kinds of people that we like to recruit value that particular aspect of the company culture.

One thing I will say for sure: Brian is one of the most ethical people I know. He's going to be disappointed when he reads this thread that folks though him to be shady.

There is no way for me to prove that Brian's one of the good-guys. But, there's a way for you to do it (turn the tables, if you will). Do some blind reference checks. That would make for an interesting follow-up post.

Thanks for reading. Sorry it was so long -- it's been a long day, and I didn't have a chance to make it shorter.

Regards,
Dharmesh

p.s. I don't usually write HN comments in letter form, but it felt right in this particular case as I think of Patrick as a friend.
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I really did not expect this much resistance on HN to a fairly classical solution to the fermi paradox. Mostly it's spun in a more positive "retreat into virtual reality" type situation but it's the same thing.

We have no idea how humans will react to the ability to sate every desire and wish artifically. It's not just hyper-porn and the xbox 720, this would apply to the desire for exploration, solving hard problems, building well functioning societies, raising successful offspring, etc.

There also has to be something hilariously ironic about all of us on hacker news insisting that people in the future will reject fulfilling technological wastes of time in favour of productive activities that benefit themselves and humanity. At this very moment a large percentage of the brightest minds in the world are working on getting people to click on internet ads and building products that monetize well but are honestly a net loss to humankind.
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Yeah, getting people to use cohort[1] is really hard unfortunately. Which is really sad because, as Shopify[2] pointed out recently, without it you can't really answer basic questions, such as: "is retention going up or down?", or even "is our work having any affect on our retention?".

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/23/kissmetrics-helps-you-hone-...

[2] http://www.shopify.com/technology/4018382-defining-churn-rat...
wow, thank you for posting this. i've been sailing since i was a kid and have always had to piece together this kind of information. what a fantastic resource.
Good point, something that I have not contemplated before. It makes sense: If we evolve to the point where we can control reality, why would we be concerned with expanding and travelling the universe?

It is almost like saying: "You can do anything and become what you want to become." What do you choose?
Locally, rich countries are actually quite good at cleaning up. As an example, compare England today with England 150 years ago.
Calendar seems to have a similar featureset to that of Outlook. You can put appointments on other people's calendars and you can schedule rooms, anyway. And, at Google, the conference rooms have motion sensors that allow the room reservation system to "garbage collect" unused rooms. (You also get an LED indication of whether or not you'll be running into someone else's time if your meeting runs late. Gotta love the hardware support!)
But is it likely that there would be enough people (with never a dip large enough to spell disaster) who live on the razor thin edge of rejecting the technology that leads to dead ends hundreds of years later but still push forward the technology necessary for advancement? Is there a stable organization that can do this?

I agree that violent distruction is more likely now, but I think that that is probably an easier problem to solve than this one.
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That same paragraph stuck out for me as well.

I would give the benefit of the doubt for the sentence the GP quoted, but then the author actually tries to justify the fact that evolution couldn't have computed it even if it wanted to:

"Evolution simply could never have anticipated the novel environments, such as modern society, that our social primate would come to inhabit. That would be a computationally intractable problem, even for the new IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer that runs 280 trillion operations per second. Even long-term weather prediction is easy when compared to fitness prediction"

Now that's just begging for people to completely misunderstand how evolution works.
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Heh, that is depressingly likely given the numbers. There must be a german word for the appreciation of a clever/accurate but depressing idea.
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How do the acceptance rates change with repeat applications:

Do they increase with each additional attempt, stay the same, or decrease?
Initially I was a little afraid to share my problem like this here, but now I'm so glad I did. Your replies have really made it easier for me to think this through because just talking about it to someone has helped me a lot.

> Some people don't innately have a built-in drive to do things on their own.
> He may grow out of that trait with time, but until then you can either put up with it or don't.
> For a best friend, I'd put up with it.

This statement really resonated with me a lot. I don't think I'm going to do anything right now and just hope that he does something measurable for our business by the deadline I gave him. I do see him trying harder this time too.

He himself has admitted that he doesn't have that built-in drive to do things on his own, but maybe like you said, he will grow out of it one day, especially if when I just leave him be for sometime.

Your reply was very insightful and I may have some more thinking to do after all. Thanks.
After the quiet, back-room deals where Google licensed the "Android" and
"Droid" trademarks from Lucas Arts, I kind of wondered about the
"Transformer Prime" from ASUS when it was announced. One of the most
important things about trademarks is the "class" (in legal parlance)
descibing the goods or services that the trademark (or servicemark)
covers... --There are tons of trademarks on the term "transformer" (or
the plural "transformers") and each is (or should be) in a specific
class.

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4003%3A...

I could find two "Transformers" trademarks held by Hasbro, but their may
be others that I haven't found.

http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=7...
http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=7...

The class in both of the above do not cover portable electronic devices
of any type. In essence, it seems Hasbro is stuffed.

EDIT: For clarity, it was actually Motorola Mobile which licensed "Droid" if memory serves me correctly, but they were acquired by Google, so it's basically the same.
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"We have already shifted .., from physics to psychology as the value-driver and resource-allocator. "

While not agreeing to the article broadly, i agree to the statement above. Infact, i believe this is a desirable thing and we should see more of this in future. Past 200 years were about discovering the physics of things. The next 200 years would be about the discovering the working of "mind" which makes physics discoveries possible. Basically about neurological sciences , thought process , perception and more. This trend has barely started and we have a long way to go.
6000 active users max (30% of 20,000 users)

6000 active users sharing 5 items a week (I guess it should be a lot more and you get more than one thing done each day)

= 120,000 messages in a month, roughly what the graphic implies
Unfortunately that's mostly accomplished through economic means of displacing the mess to poorer places. Our actual levels of consumption and destruction globally has only increased.
It looks like step 2 is already done, and the user is now doing step 1.
"Easier" is (usually) the enemy of "better".
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All the TSA agent does is compare your ID to your boarding pass. Being a frequent flyer, I can say that I've never seen anything to indicate they have even the capability to compare a name to the no-fly list database, let alone being able to do it for all passengers.

I did read an article a while back that explained the TSA no-fly check procedures but I can't locate it.
But by having people click on those ads, the companies that are advertising (which could be and are companies actively engaged in "physical" products) are acquiring paying customers and thus have greater ability to fund their products.

SpaceX, Boeing, GM, and Victoria Secret need revenue sources to create their 'non-virtual-reality' products, and marketing/advertising creates a revenue source. If they had a net loss from advertising they simply wouldn't do it.
I'm guessing you didn't meant to come off as bigoted but I have a lot of friends named Mohammad, none of whom have any legal issues, nor are any of them members of terrorist organizations. If the attitude towards me sending money to one of them for any number of legitimate reasons is baseless suspicion, maybe many people like me will wind up looking for alternatives - like bitcoin.

At the expense of karma, allow me to add that in an odious legal atmosphere where prosecutors consider photographing chicken coops as terrorism, it won't just be people with funny terrorist-sounding names winding up using Bitcoin.
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Yes, that's possible. It just goes against the Copernican Principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_principle), and that's why many people are not happy with that explanation.
But they can hack the Nest website/your account for the same result.
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If this were actually true, JavaScript would have TCO by now.
But see the definitions: "Confidential Information" means information disclosed by a party to the other party under this Agreement that is marked as confidential or would normally be considered confidential under the circumstances. Customer Data is Customer's Confidential Information.
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The discussion you're linking to doesn't appear to discuss either general problems with the prototype paradigm or specific problems with adding properties/methods to the Date prototype.

The closest it seems to come is a warning about not trying to modify the prototype of an object through its __proto__ property (or, I suppose, .getPrototypeOf), which isn't the same thing.
"Windows XP SP3 was released in April 2008."

LOL
Who makes these devices?
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As another example: China is now starting to clean up. They won't be able to displace the mess to poorer places, because the country is just so big that there just aren't enough poorer places left to take all the mess. I am confident the Chinese will be able to clean up their country.
Ashton may be right about SOPA but he's wrong about the DMCA, and failure by the tech community to recognize the shortcomings of the DMCA is why media companies continue to take it upon themselves to propose new legislation that overreaches. The first step toward avoiding bills like SOPA is to recognize that the DMCA is not working, and then work together to fix it.

The problem with the DMCA is that not only are you asking artists, authors, independent labels, publishers and others to police the entire internet for their content, but there is no penalty for sites based on widespread infringement across multiple parties. Most of these companies and content creators do not have the means to sue these companies individually, nor would it be equitable. So, you get sites like Grooveshark who respond to takedown requests, then let the content go back up, then take it down, then let it go back up. No individual content creator or independent label has the means or motivation to sue them, and there is no penalty for infringing on a massive scale because there are only civil penalties. Only when the major labels no longer find it funny is there potential recourse, and then only for those labels, even though a massive amount of the value that was taken was from other creators. In the meantime, a massive business was built on the backs of copyrighted material - and they're right here in the US.

The route to addressing the shortcomings of the DMCA is two-fold:

- Centralize the way in which takedown requests are issued, tracked, processed and tallied. Score companies based on their compliance history and penalize them for repeat violations of the same content without requiring the content creator to drag them into court. Leverage government resources to penalize these companies and distribute the monetary penalties to all those who had to issue multiple takedown requests.

- Recognize that there are companies whose sole purpose is to provide access to infringing content, and that protecting the rights of content creators is more important than protecting the rights of these low-value companies. Once you've defined a very high threshold for identifying these parasitic companies, be prepared to shut them down.

Until these things happen, and also until the tech community stops defending piracy under the misguided banner of "free information", you're going to keep getting SOPA in its various forms year after year. Let's stop waiting for that to happen, and fix the DMCA.

I wrote more about that here: http://blog.earbits.com/online_radio/a-real-alternative-to-s...
Thanks, that's what I was thinking.
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they did, they just built it out of dark matter :p
looks like a cucumber-like testing framework for iOS
Amazon out-innovating the competition again. My money is on this being an implementation of Microsoft Research's VL2, given James Hamilton was a co-author of this (http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/80693/vl2-sigcomm09-final...)
the number of TLAs in that post is a little OTT.
Or, maybe Custora are not doing eating their own dog food :)
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I wish I lived in the dreamworld where the primary problem with the DMCA is that it's too hard on IP owners.
The question is, how elaborate you want it to be. And how far the distance is, between your teammates.

If you are able to meet and you "just" need a way, to track status-updates, perhaps updating the readme on git would be enough (if everyone read it).

Or you could use a small and nice project-management-tool like Splendid Bacon (https://splendidbacon.com/)

You could use Skype (or anything like that) to discuss things (if you are far away from each other), if you can't meet in person.

Or - if you all have an email-adress with the same domain-name - you could use yammer to chat/discuss, make planing documents, and so forth... (http://yammer.com/)
What's more, on the one 9/11 plane that was taken down by it passengers (United 93), the passengers fought back only after hearing about the fates of the planes in New York and D.C., making it clear that an extended vacation in Cuba was not what was about to happen.
> mucking about with command line

I have never understood this phrase, and I see it a lot from Windows users. When I use the command line (and I spend ~12 hrs/day on it), there is no mucking. There's no frustration with it.

I'm honestly asking: what do you mean by mucking about?
You are right, in theory.

But I get this feeling, more and more, that big, world changing companies, don't need ads revenue. The number of visits on the internet is less relevant for them.

You picked some companies randomly, but out of them SpaceX and Boeing are not selling stuff over the internet.

There is this hunch, that what we do, doesn't matter. It's mostly self congratulatory friend/social app. Yes, you might make some money out of it from VC but it doesn't change the world.
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Nice round up piece!
Congratulations to everyone involved...
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You could try with Adobe Fireworks. It gets you a "good" design (at least, up to a certain point) and it's more easy to manage and faster than with Photoshop.
It's too hard on everybody, and equally ineffective. If you don't think it's too hard for IP owners, talk to a couple independent labels.
Finding earth (or another earth-like planet with people) would be like finding a particular particle of sand on a beach.

The universe is mind numbingly big - try to imagine how big and then quadruple that size and you are still wrong.

Just the observable universe is nearly 50 BILLION lightyears in each direction (there could be more and it's expanding).

(remember the deficit/debt demonstrations of "million" vs "billion")

We are trying to observe the equal of the other side of the world with optical and radio telescopes but essentially the best observations we can make out are just at the range of the doorframe to our home.

What if there is other human-like life but it's a million lightyears away - it's all but useless to us to even find out, they are long gone by the time their light and radiowaves ever get to us (and visa-versa). Now realize the nearest other galaxies are SEVERAL million lightyears away.

Try this on for size http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BjHvwSvpOw
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I couldn't agree more. The closer we get to overreaching legislation like SOPA, the angrier I get that the future of the internet I use is in jeopardy because other people can't stop acting with a misguided sense of entitlement.

I pay for what I want. In my world, people who create things of value get value in return. And yet, I have to live in a world where everyone is treated like criminals, while listening to people who contribute to the problem complain about evil "media conglomerates".
It's possible that when the pass is scanned at the gate by the airline employee, the original name might be displayed on their monitor (just guessing--I have no idea if it is), and an astute employee might notice the name change. However I can't remember the last time an airline employee at that stage has paid any attention to anything at all.
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Isn't this a red herring? They stated they were evaluating Email/Calendering solutions.
They've got kwanzaa though:

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