skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read your link. It just doesn't seem like the same Google that I'm working at. I guess you need to have a certain personality to work at Google; if you don't have it, it won't work for you.

There are a lot of people that I encounter who have never worked anywhere but Google. I feel sorry for them because one day some tiny thing is going to annoy them (oh noes, only two types of M&Ms in the microkitchens!), and then they'll leave. Only then will they realize how fucking miserable the rest of the world is.

Another problem is that people want to work for Google so badly that they accept crap offers, at least people writing to TechCrunch to complain, anyway.

(Also, FWIW, of all the offers I had for jobs in NYC, Google gave me the most money, not to mention benefits, bonus, and stock. And my other offer was an investment bank's on the core software architecture team.)
If we simplify this poll to "Unix vs. non-Unix," then Unix wins by an very strong majority.
Wow...

M-o-C may or may not be posting stuff that people in the know can parse as a lie. But you, my friend, are saying stuff that anyone with the "scroll up" skill can see is a lie.

Saying an unnamed thing failed for the vague "non-technical reason" is enough for one person to, indeed, really, call him a liar and another person to feel strongly enough about situation to blatantly-lie-about-the-liar-calling-situation...

Yeah Wow, he must have really gotten under some group's collective skin...
I can see correlation to
1. connected-ness to existing YC alumni via linkedin and facebook (why else would this be on the applications anyways, except to crawl)
2. site growth (via compete) of company URL
3. keywords: users,traction,growth,
4. age
5. karma score on here
any others?
I just changed the tense, so it's clearer.
in a certain version of FORTRAN (I think 77) you could do interesting things with code that spanned two lines (80 Chars)
My code did this repeatedly - over and over leading to some unexpected results
That's the thing. Not that I don't read plenty of Android blogs (Phandroid and Android Police are my current favorites), but there's no magic here: My primary sources were the Nexus One specifications and the Android 4.0 Platform Highlights. Beyond confirming expectations on storage space, the only detail I really added was knowing that the Nexus One GPU is relatively weak.

More generally, I wouldn't expect any company to do a point-by-point deconstruction of a product (past or present) the way I did. It is unreasonable to expect a company to trash something that plenty of employees worked on and plenty of customers were happy with. But I expect these sorts of issues were the subtext of Google/HTC saying that the Nexus One was "too old" for ICS.
You could try hops and chops
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"No one uses it yet" I meant to apply to the time (spring and summer) when these discussions were occurring. It's not accurate to say that "no one" uses G+ now.
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Ask HN: I no longer believe my startup can succeed. What do I do?
The reason I'm asking here is that my cofounder wants to raise another round and I'm feeling stuck.

More details:

- Approximately six months of runway left

- 5-10 employees, hired from seed funding (no revenue)

- Product has been live for ~ 1 year and has little traction or signs that it could be a successful business
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These valuations can go just as fast as they come though. I know for me, and a lot of people, the concrete value that was determined because someone actually paid it holds a higher weight than the valuations speculative investors have given the lastest hot startups.
Back in 11.04 I absolutely hated unity, but now Stockholm syndrome is setting in. When I go back to 'regular' desktops I find that I have to make a conscious effort to manage my windows. I now get annoyed if I have to move windows around.

Unity appears to have altered my behaviour and I think the change is pretty nice.
It's all fake. Just mind games.
Indeed.
Not only when the higher-ups ask you to pull unethical stuff, even when your close friends do.

Last week a close friend of mine who is out of a job right now, told me he was interviewing at a consulting firm and they had given him an Architectural Case study.

He called me up and explained the problem statement - having worked together he knew that it was complex system with multiple scalability & performance traps- and that I had spent a long time building exactly such systems. He nicely asked me to design a pseudo system for him....

I had to refuse as it was clearly an interview question he was meant to work on alone (the wording implied this).
Felt bad as I know he really wanted the job...and it is going to put a big strain on our friendship.

I am still wondering if throwing him a few pointers might have been the better move...
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I wasn't aware Google had such asinine interview policies. Assuming the questions reflected things people needed to know for the job, having them publicly available would surely only increase the caliber of applicants and make it easier to weed out unprepared candidates.

Being consciously protective of interview questions in order to stuff people into a one-size-fits-all interview process? No wonder search quality is degrading.
Unless you point to a way they can easily fix it, i.e. show the solution, I would give feedback behind the curtain.

Posting feedback on a blog comes across like you want to make your own name over the backs of the hard working entrepreneurs, while you are not taking the risk yourself.
if you haven't tried and lived their lives, be cautious about criticizing the applications the live and breath every day, and is their life.
What if the number of quantity startups has grown though? If last batch they had 66 startups that were judged as good enough to be in the program and this time they see 100 that make that grade, they can take 100 and quality shouldn't drop off.
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There is some value to that, certainly.

Pro: I think selling the whole company for $x is harder than selling 10% for $x/10.

Con: Big companies can also destroy value effectively (doesn't appear to be the case at all with Salesforce/Heroku, but...look at anything Yahoo has bought, and a bunch of things Google, Microsoft, etc. have bought. Skype, etc.

There's also some bias in the press here -- people reading mass-market publications actually might use (or at least understand) dropbox and airbnb; they have no idea what Heroku does. And, in tech/venture press, independent companies are more interesting because they might get bought; it's unlikely anyone will buy Heroku from Salesforce, or buy Salesforce, so it's less interesting to the press.
Currently sitting for the CPA but working on a few ideas. Hope to launch something in the next year.
+1
This is now very serious!!!
Passion or Discipline?
If you like the idea of computers-as-art, Darren Kitchen over at Hak.5 made a pretty cool server inside an IKEA picture frame, and kept it on the back wall of the set all last season. Part one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIeKnB_5u2U&time=18m50s Part two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2lHc_MFIZs&t=15m30s
Interestingly, most of the employers that have been specifically identified as demanding Facebook passwords are government agencies: http://courantblogs.com/investigative-reporting/claim-check-...
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The same people come out of the woodwork anytime michaelochurch says anything about Google, and sometimes even when he doesn't say anything about Google. It is getting a little tiresome.

As someone with no stake in either condemning or defending Google, I'll just say that while I admire Google as a company, and have many friends who work there, this kind of reflexive attacking of anyone who criticizes Google's internal heirarchy, or thinks some of its decisions were wrong etc, and constant defense and glorification of everything it does, is grating. And people talk about Apple fanboys.

It doesn't matter if everything m_o_c says is exactly true or not. It doesn't matter if what went down when he was at Google is entirely his fault. Just give it a rest already.

My 2 cents.
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I can't speak for everyone, but if you have positive feedback for a startup, write a nice blog post and send them a link. If you have negative feedback, send them an email about it. If their response of lack of response is particularly noteworthy (if they are rude, or they fix the issues very quickly) it might warrant a blog post.

Personally, I don't blog, but I enjoy sending emails to startups whose services I use, with my first impressions, what I like, and what could be improved. I realize that this isn't a novel concept, but it's interesting to chat with the founders themselves, and sometimes it seems like they are really lacking in feedback in certain areas.
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It most certainly is and both are not mutually exclusive. He is 16, he can take it and then go to college when he is 18/19. The only reason why I am in college is exactly for that reason.
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I really like the name. Doing Core Audio development on its own can be almost as bad as having dental work done, if you don't know what you're doing. Novocaine makes things better.
Have you ever worked in the finance industry? Those guys will kill their own family if it will get them a $5K raise.

I worked in the california mortgage industry before going to college. These guys would convince families living paycheck to paycheck to buy/refinance REALLY expensive homes. If they were on a 30 year fixed, we get them on an option-arm. If they are on an option-arm, we get them on a 30-year fixed.

This is all typical finance stuff. But here comes the kicker--they would actually outright LIE about interest rates and had a few shady notaries to back them. They would say you have a 1% interest rate (for 30 years) when it was really a 5 year option-arm and screw people. The worst part is, CA has some sort of law that protects mortgage lenders from unhappy customers after 5 years time (exactly when the 1% interest rate would fly to the market rate). Needless to say, several people left the company when we found out. Some folks reported them to the BBB--I don't know what happened to those scumbags though. I really hope people like that stay out of science.
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The scope of articles has increased dramatically lately.
Nobody really advertises, "capable of Google Wallet, but we won't let you have it". That's the problem with letting the carrier own the phone.

The Galaxy Nexus is a pretty nice phone, Wallet or not, and I'm not sure if anything else would have been as good anyway. Verizon's 4G network is better than Sprint's, anyway. A reasonable tradeoff for what amounts to a novelty. (I will need to carry my physical wallet until every store on Earth has an NFC reader anyway.)
Anyone has the potential to access this data. It's not too hard to use Facebook's graph..
Economically conservative in the American sense and economically liberal (or at least, neoliberal) in the European sense are the same thing.
I hope he's alerted the websites involved before publicly releasing the vulnerabilities like this. This guy has serious potential, he's obviously very smart, I wouldn't want to see him fall into the "bad" side of internet security.

Kudos for finding them, I hope you reported them.
Isn't this problem also solved by disabling 3rd party cookies? This is a feature already in the browser. I've used it for months and the only thing that I've noticed not working (i.e. the only impact on me as a user) is that integrated disqus forums on some blogs don't work.
>How can a place be viable enough to support multibillionaires, and still have people living in shacks?

That's basically how capitalism works if left to its own devices. The place doesn't have to do anything at all.
No, disabling 3rd party cookies does not stop CSRF.
Is Google Wallet really not going anywhere? Who else lets you make NFC payments in the US today?
First off, I commend you for sticking to your ethical principles. I know a lot of people in your situation who would have folded and done what the company asked them to do.

I'm curious, how will you present this situation to prospective employers in the future? Will you mention that you left because you refused to do something unethical or will you skirt the subject? I'm trying to think what the best course of action would be.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3778158
No way. Email is one of those things I can't stand to admin on my own. I just want it to work, and don't even want to think about the administration piece. That's why I'm willing to pay someone else to take care of that.

Gmail does this beautifully.... but there's this creepy privacy policy thing, you know. :)
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I'm talking about a), of course. In this context, I don't see the point of talking about b) regardless of a). You might as well say that the pre-war German mark "is still around" since some people happen to be holding old German coins, and maybe are trading them on ebay.
I don't know you or your friend, but business dealings with friends often end poorly, even with small transactions like the one you've described here. More importantly, good friends _generally_ will avoid putting you on the spot like that, though I can understand if he's been out of work for a while.
YC asks for your age, too.
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If they can scale, they can create more value (for themselves, for the alumni network, for founders in general). If they successfully can scale it, there'd be minimal dilution (and, as they mention in the article, some additional network benefits to the companies/founders).
Can you explain? My understanding was that cookies will not be sent in these attacks (I validated this only testing some approaches, namely doubleclick and other ad embeds). Without cookies, how would the CSRF attack access my account? Or have I missed something obvious?
This is my case - whether it's a Linux VM or on the cloud, the server OS is Linux.

For my desktop, OSX provides the best combination of spatial window management (you can drag-drop nearly anything - esp. text without wiping the clipboard buffer), terminal friendliness, and MS Office (yes, Excel is still better than alternatives). Lots of hidden gems and a sustainable indie dev market.

I don't play much more than the occasional Nethack, so my need for Windows is pretty limited.
His stories are just so far removed from reality we can't help it. It's like a programming language debate where someone says "Perl has no OO" and complaining that "Perl programmers come out of the woodwork to correct me every time I say that." Well yeah. It's the Internet. That's what we do.

More seriously, this affects my ability to hire people I want to work with. When I have to start by explaining away random falsehoods about Google, that wastes time I could have spent talking about projects or programming or something. You only get one first impression. It's better if the first impression is reality instead of a contrived fantasy world.

Also, I take exception with the statement that I'm "coming out of the woodwork" to post. I am in the top 10 highest reputation users here. I'm already out of the woodwork :)
If you read it, you'd know he reported most of them. I'm betting he reported all of them (as he did before).
I have an original print copy of the Hobbit.
There are indeed many bogus things, but I do like the idea of an opt-in vs opt-out email.

Reference checks, as they exist today, are useless. Doing them as an opt-in email at least gives you a small chance of getting some signal. No, you can't use it to sort them into your A-B-C rock star instant hire buckets.

But it's a signal. Signals are good.
Yep, can't edit it now though :(
Surprised to see it's not idempotent. What if, for whatever reason, the caller fails to receive the response? Some information on changes is then permanently lost.

Would have expected to see something like /delta?since=<timestamp_here> but perhaps that's harder to implement & requires much more data to be logged.
You seem to be taking this rather personally.
CSRF on moneybookers, yfrog and few other sites
well, let's teach develepers.
It looks to me like the 'cursor' parameter does that.
I've wondered if this is a skewed statistic due to the "resubmit" feature. How many of these submissions were resubmissions, versus "first-time" submissions?

It seems more reasonable to do a last minute check, and update the app with any most recent progress (as I did) on the last day.
Ah, you left before it became apparent that Google is a company going into decline. Personally, I stopped even considering working there when I heard about Search-Plus-Your-World, and when I saw a Google+ video advertisement, I knew the company had ceased to be anything of intellectual interest. It had a good run, though.
i'm glad you think novelty search is awesome, i'm doing my dissertation on it! out of curiosity, how did you hear about it?
yeah - it was kind of a pain, because it is such a useful pattern when dealing with dropbox. Super glad this was implemented.
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I suspect what really affects your ability to hire people you want to work with is your posts on HN and what they convey about you (vs michealochurch's posts and what they convey about him).

Right now (and please take this as constructive feed back, because that is the intention) in your posts here you come across as someone who has totally drunk the Google koolaid and can see no wrong in anything Google does, and attacks anyone who says anything negative about Google or any of its products, with a special grudge against michaelochurch.[1]

I am not sure that helps you hire the right kind of people. But hey, you know better.

[1] please note: I am not saying you are a fanatic. just saying you come across as someone who sees Google as some kind of Immaculate Workplace, that can never do wrong. Just feedback. I could be totally wrong.
I don't think there is any shortage of problems to solve / companies to start, so I say, keep scaling.

Higher education is in need of reinvention. YC may be the most successful experiment to date towards that goal. I would really love to see a quantified ranking of top business schools by the total value of companies created per student-month in the last five years.
Ah yes thanks - should have read more carefully.
Ask HN: Which software/service has the best documentation you have ever seen?
This can be anything from a good help center to API documentation. I am trying to derive some inspiration and pick up good patterns.
Disabling third party cookies disables cookies in certain contexts, like when loading images and frames from another domain, but there are other ways to perform a CSRF attack. A link or form that doesn't target a frame would still work.
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Are you suggesting VCs just toss money away on projects they don't expect to have any return? If a product turns a profit it's because the market wanted it, not because someone invested in it. Of course you have to understand when I say crap app that's a matter of perspective.
at the tender age of 5 or 6 (1980-81), i completely understood

a=10
a=a+1
print a
goto 10

i grew up a computer wunderkind, and now have gray hairs in my beard. it's hard to be an old wunderkind, but giving endless shit to the new wunderkinds sort of makes up for it.
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Productive in the short term or the long?

I'm decrepit enough that I remember the bad old days when proprietary OSes had a lock on things. I remember the number of times I ended up fucked because I couldn't look at the source of some crucial component, couldn't change it, and could only plead with a vendor to unbreak their stuff. And the standard response to my pleas was, "How many more units will you buy if we change that?"

I'm way more productive now thanks to the open source movement. My minor problems often turn out to be somebody else's big deal, so they end up fixed as if by magic. And if not, I can dig in myself, or hire someone instead.

No thanks to people like you, of course. But I owe a great deal to people who made the "irrational" choice to adopt an open platform and make it the most productive choice.
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Not to mention capitulating on net neutrality to win over verizon...
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For my compiler? /home/ken/...
How my comment on TechCrunch got me a Facebook Cease and Desist
Extractive vs. Inclusive. They say failed states' institutions are characterized by the former.
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Whoa this look great! I haven't had a chance to dig through, but is it possible to capture the audio that's being played? I'm thinking of recording gameplay audio. Thanks!
Burnout?

It's reasonable to want to be in good shape when you put something out there. If you can't be responsive to users, you'll lose 'em.

My tip: go someplace quiet, warm, and pleasant for a couple of weeks. Read novels. Sleep late. Have a beer on the beach early in the afternoon. Go for long walks and maybe some long runs. Your love for what you do will return after a while.