skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree; I think the claim that "winning" is what retains people is vaguely on the right track, but the focus on company growth and profits is off-base. A sense that the company is doing interesting things and is where the action is is fairly important, and may or may not be correlated with those things. To take a classic (if admittedly overused) example, nobody at Bell Labs got wealthy from working there; they all made a decent living, but it was emphatically a middle-class living, with no stock-options or six-figure salaries (even when inflation-adjusted). What kept people there was a feeling that this was the best place in the world to work, and at the center of interesting-stuff-happening.
You're very confused about how antitrust cases usually shape up, and how bankruptcy works.

First, assuming a private antitrust lawsuit is brought against Microsoft by a company that then enters bankruptcy proceedings, it is very possible the case would continue long after the company ceases ordinary operations. A lawsuit doesn't become moot just because one party is "dead".

Second, "the litigants" could ultimately end up including the US Department of Justice, various state attorneys general, the European Commission, and possibly other competition authorities around the world. These are entities with vast powers and resources, and the risk to Microsoft is potentially billions of dollars, if not its very existence.
"It's similar to messages that were detected by our spam filters."

How is that helpful to anyone?
To be fair, the earliest form of copyright was a tool of government and church oppression in order to restrict access to information (including bibles).
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Are they ignoring the "long-term externalities" or is it just impossible to actually know what they are? Or maybe they just disagree and are putting their money where their mouth is. To even expect a non-programmer to consider this issue strikes me as pretty crazy.

I bought an iPad and I don't think that it's going to affect distribution of software in any meaningful way, besides making it easier for developers to reach users through the app store. For one, anyone can deploy an app to Heroku for free. You can host plain html, css, and js for free. You can learn how to program an iOS device for free with tons of great guides and materials online. When you want to distribute it, there is a hurdle to clear, but (and this might be a cultural thing), $100 as a 12-15 year old is not such a wild sum. It also makes my experience browsing the app store better.
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The problem isn't backward compatibility with previous standards as defined today. That has, as you suggest, generally been excellent.

The problem is that if you decide your standard is going to be a "living" document that changes rapidly as the industry evolves, backward compatibility ceases to have any meaning because there is nothing stable to be backward compatible with.

What happens when one browser pioneers a new feature, the living HTML5 standard quickly adopts it, developers start writing to that standard, but then two other browsers decide on another way to do the same thing that they think is better and someone changes the living HTML5 standard to reflect the new "standard" instead? One possibility is that the developers' existing code breaks. Another is that browser makers are stuck with supporting both once-standard interpretations for a long time.

Alternatively, but almost as bad, what happens when the living HTML5 standard quickly adopts a new feature that is becoming popular, other browsers find a better way to do the same thing shortly afterwards, and the standard doesn't change to match? Now the standard sucks, because it rushed into formalising something before enough consensus had built.

Formal standards don't mean anything unless they are robust, stable, citable references that everyone concerned can agree on. A living document that rapidly changes in the face of a fast-evolving industry is exactly zero of those things, and its value will be similarly small and round. It's merely a reference non-implementation, and since we're talking about browsers, we already have several candidates for being an actual reference implementation, just as we did in the old IE vs. Netscape days, when we learned for the first time why formal standards matter.

Alas, as George Santayana observed a century ago, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Almost an Onion headline:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-biography-reveals-einst...
I wouldn't consider any privacy expectations to be exaggerated— you can't have too much. I'm also sad to see you used ck2's karma/profile page to discredit their argument.

ck2 could have phrased their post better (it came off somewhat condescending), but the meat of it is solid: Disabling referrer headers should be the first thing a privacy-minded person does.
For those with SEO concerns:

"This change will only affect the subset of SSL search referrers which already didn’t include the query terms. Non-HTTPS referrals will continue to behave as they do today."

Scrape away my friends, scrape away.
I like the colors, especially the buttons, but I would suggest changing the background of the top-section on the landing page, perhaps to a black, to draw my eyes more to that spot.
I'm trying to remember more, he spoke at a class I was in.

His office was his small apartment with a whiteboard. In the morning he would go out for a cup of coffee, and when he came back it was his office. If he didn't do that, it wouldn't feel like an office.

Previously he had worked with Webvan, and one of their costs that was unexpectedly high was product fulfillment. Kiva was built partly as a solution to that problem (though it was after Webvan went bankrupt).

Their initial prototypes (we saw pictures of them) we're extremely scrappy, and I believe too big to realistically be used. I think they raised money with the prototype and computer simulations?

The robots are talked to wirelessly, and apparently wireless represented a major technical challenge (it was before wifi took off I believe).

The co-founder with robo-soccer experience was targeted. He said something along the lines of "If you can make a robot play soccer, you can definitely make a robot follow a grid and pick up shelving."

I got the impression that he gave up a lot of equity to get co-founders at seemingly late points in the game, but didn't regret it. I think people normally put a ton of effort into maintaining equity, sometimes at the risk of losing a great team member. It looks things worked out.

The great thing about this company is that it's indisputably the best solution available, although high costs mitigate some customers. He told the story of a stress test they did with one major brand name. To simulate high buying season, they held up regular orders for three days, then pushed them through at once without an issue.

Other cool benefits: despite having to power these robots, the power bills with Kiva end up being less expensive because of savings in lighting, heating and AC. Most fulfillment solutions require the entire warehouse to be lit up and heated so a person can comfortably work, while Kiva keeps the main warehouse dark and temperature doesn't matter much.

At the time, they were the fulfillment solution of some companies that Amazon had acquired, but not Amazon itself. I suspect that's going to change.
Heads up - where is the best place to send feedback for little gotchas like this:

mbar:src shephard$ sudo go get code.google.com/p/go-tour/gotour
Password:
# cd .; hg clone -U https://code.google.com/p/go-tour
/usr/local/go/src/pkg/code.google.com/p/go-tour
package code.google.com/p/go-tour/gotour: exec: "hg":
executable file not found in $PATH
Yes, I think inspiration is the key here.
I was largely lucky in this regard though, I had very liberal parents who let me have a computer that I could mess around with as well as unfiltered internet etc.

Most people in my peer group at the same time were only allowed limited access to their home computers and often were not allowed to install any programs on them etc.

Really though, I think it is in the governments best interest to make sure that kids are inspired to tinker with things if we want to stay competitive with BRIC countries in terms of creating and innovating.

I can only speak as a British person here but I think that from Alan Turing to BBC Computers (and now raspberry pi) etc , the "hacker mentality" is very much a part of our national DNA and it would be a great shame if that was lost.
Thanks for the feedback! We want to keep everything really simple and clean, maybe we will go with a darker shade of grey up top.
There are more tutorials for the latter on the internet, so it would take more work for you to make something that stands out from the large crowd of iOS tutorials. The former may be more niche, because most people these days use Obj-C for iOS development instead of command-line apps, but it may limit your audience as well.
Looks clean, but my eyes aren't drawn to any one place, as hobonumber1 mentioned. I would take a different approach, and place the tagline underneath the logo, so that I actually know what the company that runs this website does.

Once I know that, I'll move on to reading the bullet points - if they adequately outline some interesting features of the product relating to the tagline, I'll watch the video.

Only after the bullet points or video, though, will I be looking for a 'click to join' button.
malloc is not "much faster" than GC; it's often a performance bottleneck. That's why any C/C++ project worried about performance writes custom slab allocators, which a GC doesn't prevent you from doing. In fact, the GC frees you from thinking about memory management in most cases so you can focus your effort on optimizing the pieces that count. GC doesn't prevent stack allocation either; C# has explicit stack allocation and Java does it implicitly with escape analysis. The only advantage of malloc is its predictability. Hopefully Go will eventually get a pauseless collector to mitigate that concern too.
I think tablets will replace "PC's". But I think it won't be as bad as you think, You'll still have you dev environment, you mouse, keyboard, and touchpad all working in harmony. Here's a snippet from another post I made (discussing mobile vs desktop OS's, hope it provides some alternative viewpoint:

"I'm pretty sure this is the direction all OS's we will be using are going to end up in the coming years. Some people will cry and yell and holler that there is no way something can be made for both keyboard, mouse, and touch screen. I see this as simply a failure of vision. That's absolutely the way things are going to be going, and it's coming sooner rather than later. (I actually think the OSX launchpad is pretty close to allowing this implementation) Devices are getting smaller and smaller. I use a Mackbook air. but guess how it gets hooked up at home? That's right, wireless keyboard and mouse, nice big monitor, I never see the actual computer. It's only a matter of time before my laptop gets replaced by a tablet that has comparable hardware specs. The OS allow for my normal desktop interfaces, along with a nice touch screen interface. I'll use it to pick out movies to play on my TV, from my couch. I"ll use the same device to write code at my desk (with big monitor and keyboard). My kids will use it to play video games, both mobile, and on the TV. I'll use it to send email in the backseat of a car moving at 65mph. (As a wireless comms guy, I fully appreciate the technology it takes to perform that last action.)
But the bottom line is, It's going to happen. Sooner rather than later."

I guess my point is, mobile and desktop can blend perfectly. Those that don't need a monitor or keyboard won't get one, devs and graphics guys will. Technology will keep the size of processing power shrinking. Could you ever imagine something as small as an MBA being a full on computer.

Last bit, and my only reservation of this whole "movement", is that, I hope they keep it more open, more like OSX, vs overly walled garden a-la IOS. But the signs are there, I think it can be done, and done very well, it's only a matter of time.

edit: It seems you biggest problem address the issue that these devices are built for consumption rather than creation. And I'll agree, that's my biggest reservation about the mobile concept. I guess I could have been more clear about that. I'd like my iPad (not that I actually have one) to be more like OSX, where I can hook up a monitor and keyboard, and go to town on my OS. While being able to switch into the "launch pad" mode while mobile.
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I sent my YC application video to Posterous hours ago, haven't get the url yet. Could some one tell me what could have gone wrong? Thank you.
Either the issue tracker http://code.google.com/p/go/issues or the golang-nuts mailing list http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts

The particular problem you have is you need mercurial installed on your system to use "go get" with mercurial repositories.
There should be something like '600 strikes' policy for copyright holders. If they claim 600 times wrong, GTFO.
Wow, this has got to be the best way to learn about the fourth dimension! There's hardly any resources that are this interactive for such a cause.

Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-dimensional_space
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> you should be ready to commit.

Exactly, I won't be ready to commit until working with them.
The beginning of the end of cash
You get what you paid for applies to everything including salaries.

However each and every thing has its own price vs quality graph. If I am buying apples, a ten dollar apple is not likely to be ten times better than a one dollar apple.
You may also have a goal of learning more about the company, so that you can make the later decision more effectively. The goals must be balanced off one another.

This goal can be more dominant if you already have a pretty good offer (perhaps continuing at your present employer), so you only benefit from passing this interview if this company is better.
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>I think the term "post-pc" causes many geeks to project a vast ethical struggle onto the tablet market. Chillax, game consoles didn't kill off programming, this is no different.

The iOS locked-down norm will likely migrate to the conventional computing world. Mountain Lion's Gatekeeper software establishes default behavior of not being able to run unsigned software. This gives Apple the power to censor software and is the a step towards App Store-only software on the desktop.
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"Between equal rights force decides."
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Anyone know why Google doesn't show the referrer if you're logged in and it's organic result, but they do show it if they click on Adwords?
You can gauge someone's ranking in an organization explicitly and implicitly.

Sometimes implicit beats explicit.

The explicit is performance reviews, which can be cherry-picked. The implicit is the list of projects someone was entrusted to work with. People will more freely give the gamut of projects they've worked on than the gamut of performance reviews they've gotten, and most clever people realize this, so after a few dud projects they look elsewhere.
> Do we need web standards if everyone is using webkit?

Given the increasing trend to browse using tablets, phones, TVs, and other "non-traditional" devices, I suspect we're about to find out.

WebKit is already dominant to the point that no other browser engine matters in the mobile space. It's possible that Microsoft will shake the tree a bit if tablets based on Windows 8 make a rapid impact and IE 10 becomes a serious player. However, for all practical purposes Gecko is already irrelevant on mobile devices.

(For the avoidance of doubt, I am not arguing that such a browser monoculture is necessarily in users' best interests, nor that the trend to lock down many modern consumer devices so use of alternative browsers is less likely is any better. I'm merely commenting on the reality of the market today.)
This looks like a really cool product - put one clear call to action at the top, instead of your three sub-points. Look at http://www.mixpanel.com for some inspiration. They have the best landing page I've ever seen (and the funny thing is that it's probably always changing).
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Summary: scrape by while learning the bare minimum, reinvent the wheel for perpetuity.
The company I work for now is a big, fast growing and very profitable corporation. It also has a problem retaining top talent.

While big and growing and profitable it is noticeably disturbed that the best people keep leaving. It is trying to fix that and failing miserably.

Here is what is making me leave.

1. Severe lack of control over how I work. A new, crappy source control tool is being shoved down our throats over our objections.

2. Because it is not a tech company, but a company which happens to have software development department, IT has washed their hands of us, and is in fact in open warfare with us. Fun!

3. Software is always seen as the problem. Just don't take it personally. This was told to me by a very senior manager who has been here for many, many years.

4. Official corporate policy STRONGLY discourages contact between software and the rest of the company. Contact I might use to try and fix that "software is always the problem" perception. But nope, not allowed to try.

5. The director of engineering tends to undercut us at random instances. For example, while I was the tech lead on a project he decided certain documents must not leave the company because they ware too sensitive. I was not consulted. It made my job 10x more difficult. Other documents which contained the exact same information + more, were sent out like free hot cakes.

6. A couple of hyper confrontational, screaming, perfectionist control freaks which are cronies of the director of engineering and I happen to report to one of them. Not actually the worst boss possible. Within that loud control freak perfectionist there is a mostly rational engineer. Who is also very technically competent. He just sucks big time as a manager and dealing with him is incredibly emotionally exhausting.

At one point he become so frustrated with another member of our team he literally gave up on him and dumped managing him in my lap. My management of him consisted of talking to him calmly. This resulted in him over-delivering on all his assigned tasks.

7. Corporate red tape bullshit bureaucracy.

8. My team has a few open positions (go figure!) one of them happens to be damn near identical to mine, the position is advertised for 20K more than I am getting paid. This is after I have asked for a raise. After I took a huge project that was supposed to be a train wreck, saved it, shipped it on time, and made a ton of money for the company.

I have an interview with another smaller company at the end of this week.
I guess lets you know it's Google who threw it in the spam folder not one of your filters.
I never understood the memory usage argument. In my experience, Chrome was always more of a memory drain than Firefox.
My girlfriends computer broke a few months back. She bought a tablet, and has no plans to get a laptop anytime soon. Not saying this is happening in droves. But it's slowly coming to pass.
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I would supplement #4 with take care of your tools. I don't think it is as applicable in the tech world but if you watch master carpenters/painters/etc you will see that they spend a little time at the beginning and end of everyday ensuring the upkeep of their tools.
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FB users get news from family & friends, Twitter users get news from journalists
What does having a blank about section have to do with privacy.

I've got less karma, ~2k or so, and my about section is blank as well. It's not a privacy thing, it's just that I'm not all that interesting.
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I’m going to lose mad karma, but we have done all this before, so:

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I got a backup 2800 mAh micro usb charger for under $12 on Monoprice. Has worked just fine for all the times when it looked like I'd want a bit more charge.

Pretty cheap compromise to me.
Agreed. I run an open source project and would love to make an iPhone app, but it's an out of pocket expense that I can't justify. It's a shame and I'm sure it's a pain other open source projects feel. I really hope they don't go fully down that path for OSX. Maybe an alternative would be a free software key, or something just to help collaboration and improve the social coding aspect. They could even corral the apps in a different way to lower the QA stakes, so our free spirited hacker lifestyle doesn't have to mess with Apple's mojo.
Thanks! Wow their landing page is legit I love it.
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Columbus needed massive funding (got it from Queen of Spain IRRC).He didn't need a reason, he needed to convince some moneybags the risk was worth it. US Politics is incapable of taking any risks.
> This is why I don't believe in computer science degrees.

Computer science degrees aren't about learning a computer language; they're a ramp to learning about and practicing programming.
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Argh, second word of second paragraph is “answer’s”, an attempted pluralization of “answer”?

Argh!

Will continue reading anyway, and will lose karma for this, but shit, does no one even read their shit after publishing anymore?
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Visualized: new iPad burns 10 degrees hotter than its predecessor
What do you do with the answer to this question once you have it? If I were on hiring committee and got this in an interview report I'd be annoyed. I cannot think of any plausible answer that would make me more or less inclined to hire the candidate.

In fact, let's make that a challenge. Can anyone here think of an answer to this question that a candidate might plausibly give which would effect your hiring decision?
and announced plans to ride it solo into the planet’s deepest recess

Why? What can he do in the sub, that he couldn't do remotely? Nothing obviously, he wants to be in the sub, because he wants to be in the sub.
Apple Sold "3 Million New iPads", Since its launch on March 16
Indeed. I often like to think of the difference been The Daily Show and Fox News. The former is often as insightful, accurate and ethically-oriented as good journalism -- but officially presented as comedy and entertainment. The latter is elite-serving propaganda thinly disguised as "for the little guy" journalism and low-brow patriotism.
FTA:

> This is why I don't believe in computer science degrees. What you learned 5 years ago may not be relevant today.

CS degrees aren't about what you learned, but what concepts your mind digested and grew from.
I understand the line of argument that essentially goes "Daisey still highlights a situation that needs to be addressed", but that is fundamentally different from suggesting that factual correctness somehow doesn't matter. Indeed, Daisey is perhaps one of the most obvious examples of why factual correctness does matter, because all of his falsehoods seem to stem from an egotistical desire to paint him as the savior of China's oppressed worker. So while Daisey's overall point is true, it remains that a fundamental part of it- specifically the role of Mike Daisey- is completely false, and, insofar as it really amounts to Daisey attempting to stroke his own ego, it really is tremendously disgusting.