skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for not taking offense.

scotch_drinker accurately described my sentiments. Generalizing the points he made, I'll say two (and half) things:

1. Up the level of your writing a bit. It's currently in ripped jeans and an Ed Hardy shirt (have'nt?!). Don't go full black tie, but at least get a blazer and clean pair of jeans on. See here: http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Colloquial-%28Informal%29-Writi...

2. (a) Have one point (your thesis), and make sure (virtually) every sentence is directly related to it. You had far too many distractions. The fact that you were a "negger" and some people benefited from being one is completely irrelevant.

2. (b) Make sure very sentence is strongly related to your thesis. E.g. if you want to show how it's a nice day, don't say you went for a walk, tell me you went to the beach. An example from your post would be the great implementers you mentioned. Mentioned fewer implementers, but when giving one, expound a bit, and show the reader how much it related - or is applicable - to your thesis.
Playstation 3 for the last 6 years, never served me wrong.
SQUEE I've been watching the TED Talks that are available via YouTube on my Xbox 360 lately. I could watch them all day long :)
I recently attended a talk at Cornell by a guy who is due to start working at Google soon. He had not started working there, but presumably he was hired on the basis of the work he described, and he was explicitly interested in applying his framework to the Google social network.

He was working on a scheme to get people to recommend things to their friends in return for discounts on those things. His central focus was on devising a payout scheme in which people's economically optimal strategy is honestly reporting the cost of making the recommendation, and then choosing the optimum set of people with whom to make this deal for a given budget. Optimum in the sense of influencing the most people with the recommendations.
Modified Primigenus' Cleaner Hacker News, Easier to Read
I attempted to improve the readability of the style.
Some people I know are already working remotely (myself included, though I do contract work, rather than full time employment) - they seem to start working on site and slowly transition to remote. One guy I know is working for a startup in Dublin but recently moved to Berlin and he is working remotely from there.

It still seems rare though and I too wonder how difficult it needs to become before this becomes more accepted.
I flew into Salt-Lake city when they decided that all 'foreigners' were going to be subjected to special security. Which meant putting us into a glass booth behind the x-ray machine for an hour while we waited to be `secured`.

The only foreigners on the flight were me and an elderly women clutching an Israeli passport. But America (or at Least Utah) was kept safe from the threat of a very small UK-Israeli invasion.

Although in SLC - even the TSA are nice polite smiling mormons.
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I have thought for a long time that part of the US tax code ought to be devoted to getting people to travel outside the US. A nice tax credit for foreign travel would open the eyes of our citizens to what lies beyond their town borders.

I would see this as an investment in culture and not necessarily a subsidy. Maybe it's something you can use once every few years and not every year.

This would do wonders for both the average US citizen's view of the world as well as the world's view of the US citizens.

My hope is that something like this might just lead to more sensible behavior towards other cultures and peoples. What happens when entering the country is but one small example of the problem.
Probably because the editor demo'd in the talk did as well. (But that still doesn't explain it.) Perhaps it's to make it friendlier and less an "intimidating code editor".

What I don't get is why the output is on the left and the code on the right (again as in Victor's talk). For left-to-right language users, a left-to-right flow of input to output makes more sense. It's not a huge issue, but still puzzling.
I really like what Primigenus did with his styles, but I found it hard to read on smaller screens and didn't like it being centered. I made some style adjustments and wanted to provide an opportunity for other people to use it. Screen shot in the readme in my fork
Marketplaces are hard to launch.

Try to be the leader in your district (post tracts, talk to people, geotargeted ads), then be the leader in the others nearest districts, then you city, then...
Wow, what is up with data center news? I mean seriously.

I joke with folks who think running a datacenter is 'exciting' its like watching grass grow, except its dark and their is no grass. Maybe I should blog about this stuff, but at social events it seems impossible to maintain a conversation about apex cooling vs planar cooling vs directed airflow or conduction, or 208 three phase vs 120 single phase vs DC. Perhaps I go to the wrong types of parties :-)
So how do I do this in the GUI?
I'm sorry, but a cheerleader with a bazooka is most decidedly dangerous.

Not a bit. The bazooka is not dangerous, the _operator_ is.

Thought experiment. We've got a Thunderdome. Make it bigger (for kicks) and with more protection so shrapnel doesn't shred the crowd.

We've got Midvale High's cheerleader team, two US Rangers just back from Afghanistan.

Give the Rangers knives, the cheerleaders bazookas, grenades, shotguns, whatever.

I'll take the Rangers to win anyday. You'll really bet on the cheerleaders to win?
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Not sure, at least they are attempting to get VCs in anyways.
I've noticed this as well in the places I've worked. As a consultant-freelancer I find myself in several agencies per year across several industries. The story is largely the same.

The under 35 set, though fluent in digital, cannot "read the room" in client presentations or pitches. As a result we have been more careful of letting juniors and interns actively participate.
Why not ask questions about things related to your website on forums, etc, so it seems like you're not advertising when in reality you are?

That was a joke ;-)

First of all, nice site. Not sure what market you're aiming for but I for one would love to see the death of ebay. How did you get those products on there? Are they yours? Friends?

Consider putting your site on here: http://www.betabait.com/

Maybe you could get in touch with a few local charity shops (or any shop really) and ask them if you could photograph their products and put them on your site? That's how Zappos got started :-)
From https://www.dropbox.com/terms:

"You retain full ownership to your stuff. We don’t claim any ownership to any of it."

Or am I missing something?
A proper mortgage with a decent downpayment is effectively identical to ownership. The biggest advantages of a downpayment are protecting against just the sorts of problems we've seen. For one, saving up a downpayment shows that you are a fiscally responsible person with stable employment in the past. For another, it gives you instant equity and protects you against being upside down due to market fluctuations.

You put in your downpayment and a year or two of mortgage payments and even in the market goes down a bit you still have enough equity to avoid being trapped. You can sell or rent and move elsewhere.
The New Law That Will Turn the Start-Up World Upside Down: Crowdfunding
Dublin isnt as expensive as it was!During the tiger it was crazy expensive,but prices have dropped.
New detector weighs in: neutrinos don't exceed light speed
http://crawl.akrasiac.org/

It's a Rogue-like game. The learning curve is rather steep, but worth it imho.
prooflink with a quote? He talked a bunch about Satan and about how corrupt some institutions are (one can easily find it by searching for satana+santorum+academics), but I can't find a quote where he explicitly says Satan has taken over academics.
Coming from the US, seeing guys with machine guns at the airport in Italy was, well, interesting. The only other place I saw that as a kid was when my family travelled to Argentina back in military government times.
Hi nodemaker! I think the problem lies in the fact that you're shooting for sort of casual, young American dialect, but haven't fully grokked all the quirks of it (yet). So it ends up seeming a little like a simulation thereof.

Also, I think punctuation and grammar are ironically even more important in informal writing. With writing that emulates speech, readers are hearing a "voice" read to them in their head, and mistakes are like breaking character (unless they're deliberate, but that requires knowing the rules backwards and forwards to begin with). Compared to formal writing, the voice is not as important as the content, and so mistakes are easily glossed over. Also, commas and ellipses and such are really important (IMO) for emulating the pauses and inflections of normal speech, and so when they're missing, it sort of seems like an uncanny valley that's not quite right.
Excellent points, thank you. Point 6 is quite critical.
If such a thing exists, they wouldn't share it internally either. It seems they are already collecting data across many protocols and encryption schemes, and very few people would get to know reliably which were cracked or how.
pics or it didn't happen :)

on a side note, all distros with gnome3 retardedness prevented their users to use even the most basic features available for gnome2+compiz users, such as editing shortcut keys or selecting a theme. let alone something like this.

gnome3 wise designers give you a extreme high contrast theme option, or nothing. just like windows did. oh, and it do NOT help reading webpages at all! just seeing buttons.
The RAM is on the opposite side of the board. Go figure.
Apple still sacrificing recyclability to make thinner iPads
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The question a country needs to face before deciding to go to war is, "is it worth it?"

The draft, and taxation, help to provide the needed reckoning.

There is no comparison, here, to the provision of social services. Or to debt-financed infrastructure construction.

War is categorically different.
Nothing offensive was intended by the word 'friggin'.

Sorry you got your feelings hurt.

BTW a friend of mine actually bought a Yugo. We made fun of it at the time, but in terms of gas mileage and how much he paid for it, it was a big winner.
Another error:

At this point you’ll have to remember that in C, arrays are represented by pointers to their first value.

No, they aren't. Arrays can _decay_ to a pointer when passed as function parameters, but arrays and pointers are different things. Between these two items, I think the author either a) is talking down to his audience more than is warranted or b) fundamentally misunderstands C.
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Exploit code released for MS12-020, remote pre-auth vuln in RDP
THAT explains a lot!!!
This is really insightful and a little ahead of its time, and a bunch of companies have picked up this kind of tactic recently, and not just in the software industry.

In September recruiting here at Western University, for example, a bunch of firms host their info sessions at a club, where it's open bar. But students are getting smarter here, and almost everyone looks for internships in third year. Thus, the companies have adapted and several have started recruiting second years. But more than that, firms like KPMG have started running summer programs, where they fly promising students down to Hollywood for an all expenses-paid vacation, to introduce them to the firm.

Let's see who's the first to offer to pay for tuition.
Using Google Ngrams to examine "voter fraud"
The definition of terrorist seems to have shifted. It used to refer to someone intent on fomenting terror in a population, but you seem to be using it to talk about soldiers in a combat situation.
you are right. so right that it often goes unnoticed. The perfect impedance matching of our skill and idea and work is both nearly impossible and key to huge success. Rest of the people keep wasting ( including me ) some very good skill over totally unrelated task and never understand why they did not make it.
I happened something similar to request a book on lulu.com. Asked for a book and after a month had not arrived (I had requested by mail). As I said they were going to send me another book. After 3 days the book arrived at my house and inform them by email to cancel the second book. They told me the book and was on his way, so I could donate if I wanted. :)
Sooner or later, I think all of us who are entrepreneurially inclined encounter the paradox of outsized ambition. Big dreams seem necessary to keep yourself motivated, and to overcome the crushing loneliness and uncertainty that comes with striking out on your own. But those same dreams can be convenient ways to avoid, defer, or will away present responsibility.

Know that the world will never reward you for the thousands of great ideas you've come up with in your spare time. Those pipedreams will follow you to the grave, and no one will speak of them when you're no longer around to do so. But the world will reward you for the one idea you managed to bring to life. Maybe you won't strike gold, and maybe you won't become a "rock star" fixture on the scene of your choice. But you'll have created something real. You will have turned your time into great personal meaning, and, hopefully, into value for others. And, if nothing else, you'll have learned that becoming good at the task is more important than what started the task. (To your point, being an entrepreneur isn't about generating brilliant ideas; it's about being brilliant at implementing ideas).

As an aspiring writer, I went through a solid portion of my twenties telling anyone who'd listen -- often women -- that I was a "writer." (I don't think I ever became cheesy enough to call myself an "artist," but that thought couldn't have been far from my mind at any moment). I enjoyed the status that this self-imposed job description bestowed upon me -- or, more accurately, upon my own self perception. But did I write a single work, significant or otherwise, in those ten years? No. Instead, I focused on my "day job," and continued to nurse the daydream.

Maybe something about turning 30 brought things into focus for me. Maybe Steve Jobs's passing, coupled with his quotes about the clarifying force of mortality, lit a fire under my ass. Maybe a few choice words from an ex girlfriend provided a necessary reality check. And maybe the delayed realization that Hank Moody's story on "Californication" is meant to be a cautionary tale, and not an ideal, shocked me into submission to reality. I'm not sure. But now I'm actually writing shit. And it feels good. The world may never care about the product of my effort, but it sure as hell will never care about my idle fantasies and unrealized concepts.
FYI: http://www.nsa.gov/about/faqs/oversight.shtml#oversight5
Airports are the most soul-sucking places to be for anyone. I feel like crap after spending a few hours in one... I can't imagine working there every single day.
I didn't agree with the xkcd, and I don't agree with this post either.

Look, everyone likes epiphanies. If you're reading HN, you probably like them more than most people. I don't think this is a bad thing. Yes, it's important to be producing. Yes, you need feedback on your ideas from reality. But this is only true if we have ideas to begin with. The widely accepted startup methodology---start small and iterate---is just a process for generating epiphanies.

If we're "stumbling from one epiphany to another," we're not acting on them, or we only see part of the picture, or we just haven't gotten the right one yet. Despairing that rather than our methods, it's us that's broken is both unfounded (really? You've had every epiphany ever?) and unhelpful.

The girl in the comic is known to deploy cruelty for her own amusement; I think the author had excellent insight into the newbie pickup artist's mind, and gave his character a response calculated to strike at the core of the would-be Casanova's psyche.

Anyway, thanks for the post, OP.
>He absolutely didn't want to experience anything Canadian, because everything American is obviously superior.

Did he tell you that or are you just talking out of your posterior?

>ICE is a serious problem for America.

No, ICE is a minor problem for rich people with an inflated sense of entitlement.
There is strong demand for developers in the Washington, DC area as well.
A properly designed muzzle brake will reduce the kick by 50%, potentially making the recoil small enough that your quadcopter could handle it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzle_brake
Former CEO Chris Lynch Out at Vertica/HP: What’s Next?
Wait for the new MBPs?
Well, since the code is left-to-right, and the editor is presumably as wide as the longest line, the content will tend to be skewed to the left. By putting the editor pane on the right, you reduce the average distance between the code and the output.
Not sure it would be legal, but I would put a significant amount of devs onto predicting stocks. A blog goes more silent or people start Googling for "what is fraud, exactly?" from IPs known to contain lots of IBM workers (that would be more on the illegal end for sure).

Obviously a lawyer would need to review every input, but they have access to machine learning and data so much so that they could rock the exchanges.
The problem is that in the context of startups, you are competing with Silicon Valley, which also has no snowfall, no serious heat waves, and 80% sunny vs. 80% rainy.
>According to this article, only 32.2% of Irish citizens are college educated, compared with over 40%

That's not surprising given Ireland's demographics and history but a lot has changed over the years. If you look at 25-34yr olds, for example, Ireland is higher than the US at 43.9%. It's also had the highest level of graduates in Higher education per population in the European Union a few times in the last decade (2003 for example). Unfortunately a lot of graduates are now leaving the country, mostly for the US, Canada and Australia.
Why not hit up a few SF startups - volunteer your time a little. Earn a bit of cash running errands/task rabbit, couchsurf around for a few weeks, buy the beers & pay back a little - make friends.

Start drawing mockups/wireframes, research competitors. write a business plan, draft copy. Have them ready BEFORE you meet someone who could offer you what you want.

Perhaps coming back in summer would give you more time to make what you want, happen.

At the minute you're saying - I'm not putting any effort in yet, in case I don't meet anyone to code this for me.

You need to get to the point where everything has been done ready to hand to the dev. If you're not even at that point it'll be hard for anyone to believe you're serious.

Good luck!
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Where's WD HDTV Live?

It is one of the best streaming boxes since it plays almost anything without problems. Can't say that about Roku or Apple TV.
I believe they added that somewhat recently after their privacy issue fiasco.

There is also this snippet that was added, which assumes that your key isn't really private as opposed to services like SpiderOak which have no knowledge of your key:

> We may disclose to parties outside Dropbox files stored in your Dropbox and information about you that we collect when we have a good-faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) comply with a law, regulation or compulsory legal request; (b) protect the safety of any person from death or serious bodily injury; (c) prevent fraud or abuse of Dropbox or its users; or (d) protect Dropbox's property rights.
Google is now just an ad company
I'm the CEO of a startup company that creates a different type of bike sharing technology, viaCycle: www.viacycle.com

While you're right that bike sharing doesn't make sense for all commuters, the idea that these systems are inefficient is actually incorrect. Yes, you have a capital outlay to set the program up - just like you do for every subway, bus system, and public road in the U.S. Often, these outlays are taxpayer funded. However, once a bike system is running, it's cheaper than almost any other form of transit. Capital Bikeshare in DC recovered almost all of it's operating expenses last year. B-Cycle Denver pulled a profit. Compare that to the T or almost any bus/metro agency in the country, which usually hover around 30-40% cost recovery.

Hubway or NiceRide might not work for your situation, but it's effective and affordable for a whole lot of people.
I like this, I don't love it, but I definitely like it.
What to demand from an investor
All. Thanks.
Being in the process of moving back from London, I can assure you that Dublin is not nearly as bad as it used to be (I lived there in 2007, and it was ridiculous then).
2 google datacenter articles in as many days, both including quotes from the chief of DC ops? why the big PR push all of a sudden from what's normally a quiet division?

i'm guessing google has a big datacenter PR disaster that they think is going to leak soon, or else Mr Kava is looking for a raise.
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I hurt samfbiddle feelings so he banned me from commenting on Gizmodo
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You need to provide a little more information for anyone to be of any real help to you.

Are you just trying to sell a domain? A blog? ecommerce site? Saas? Does it make money or is it a hobby site that someone could throw together in an afternoon?
First, what is your employee really after? Raise, title bump, or both? If a title bump is included, then the question becomes--is that what the company wants? If he becomes a manager, will one of his team want to be team lead? If a director, a manager?

Second, the line between a Sr. SysAdmin and a manager is a fine one. Often, it's the size and bureaucratic-leanings of the company which determine which side of the line one falls.

In the case of your "employee", much of what he does lines up with the duties/responsibilities of a SAGE Level 4 systems administrator ( http://static.sage.org/pubs/8_jobs/chapter1.pdf ). But, it also lines up with what one would typically think of a manager's responsibilities. Once again, company dependent.

Third, you never told us his current salary or range thereof. Maybe he is in a competitive range already. The last SAGE salary survey is from 2007--a bit dated with all the economy has been through. But in 2007, the national average for a Level 4 sysadmin was around $90K. ( https://www.usenix.org/survey/2007-sage-salary-survey-result... )

Other places you could look for salary ranges are http://www.payscale.com/ and http://www.glassdoor.com/. I plugged some data at random (12 years experience, Columbus, OH, $80K/yr salary, etc) on PayScale. For a Sr. SysAdmin, $80K is at the 62nd percentile; $75K is average. For a Network Ops Manager, $80K is right on the average for that area.

Of course, you could also speak with your HR department to have them pull local salary surveys.

But what it REALLY comes down to is this. He's done some comparison shopping. Based upon what he's found, believes he's not being fairly compensated for what he does. He likes the company, likes his co-workers, etc, and is giving you guys the first shot at "making things right" in his mind. From your standpoint, he's highly competent and a good cultural fit. Those are people you don't want to loose, and are the ones who hit the upper ends of the pay scale.