skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peaker,
I brought up Egypt, Israel, Yemen and other dictatorships and I did not intend to start a flame war. I have no argument with "all Jews" or "all Israelis" and I admire that you oppose evicting people and you support at least some solution even if it is a two state solution that gives the non-Jews the remaining 22% of the land that was occupied in 1967, that would be a good start.

"The conflict is two-sided."
The South African conflict was a two-sided conflict and so was the American Civil rights struggle. In case of Israel I don't think any Palestinian military is occupying Israeli civilian population, I don't think Palestinians are denying food to enter Israel, I don't think Palestinians are shooting Israeli fishermen in Israeli waters, or shooting pro-Israelis in International waters, it's Israel that's doing all of that to Palestinians. One side is the occupying power and the other is occupied.

"The whole purpose of Israel was creating a refuge for Jews from around the world, because it became historically clear that Jews need it."

It did not have to be at the cost of Palestinians. In late 1800s the Jewish population of Palestine was less than 3%, even as late as 1914 the Jewish population was only 8%, in 1948 it was 34% and that population kicked out 750,000 of the local population (about 80% of the total Palestinian population) and declared Israel on 78% of the land.

Here's a hardcore Zionist Israel Zangwill in 1905:

"Palestine proper has already its inhabitants. The pashalik of Jerusalem is already twice as thickly populated as the United States, having fifty-two souls to the square mile, and not 25% of them Jews ..... [We] must be prepared either to drive out by the sword the [Arab] tribes in possession as our forefathers did or to grapple with the problem of a large alien population, mostly Mohammedan and accustomed for centuries to despise us." (Righteous Victims, p. 140 & Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 7-10)

"Singling Israel out is not honest and is in fact a form propaganda."

I did not single out Israel, I mentioned about half a dozen names. No one here justified Saudi, Yemeni or Bahraini repression, why are you singling out justifying Israeli repression? I don't like $1.3+ billion of my tax dollars being sent to Egyptian dictators nor $3+ billion of my tax dollars to Israeli occupation and apartheid, nor the weapons to Bahraini apartheid, I'm not singling out Israel. Even if someone is more vocal against Israel, you should know why it is so, Israeli is getting more US taxpayer money and indirect subsidies than all other countries of the world combined (the direct aid alone is more than what we give to entire Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, given the GDP per capita of Israel, we should be outraged at that military aid Israel or Egypt or Bahrain are getting).
It would be kind of odd if the government accused Apple of abusing monopolies it granted Apple in the first place.
“Wanted Java Developer” could you be a little more ambiguous?
Mainly because I bought a Google TV.
Not much at all.

There wasn't a lot to it, just grunt work.

Steve and I submitted under different usernames (no comments back then) but it was entirely manual. Most of the submissions were from "kn0thing" and "spez" but from time to time we'd submit as a different username, to give the appearance of a 'live' site (nothing sadder than an empty reddit).

The first real users after friends and family came after PG linked to us in an essay, fortunately a number of them stuck around and (1% rule) some even started submitting.

I exhausted bloggers pretty equally and back in 2005 there weren't any options beyond that for getting the word out -- just facebook.

What a difference 5 years made. It made launching hipmunk so much easier.
And they're matching the kindle fire's price, too, in case the media presentation and size wasn't clue enough.
There is no way this product will ever ship. Greg, what are you even going to do with 150k or even 250k or 1mm? You already burned up almost a million bucks on this exact same idea when I was working for you and it was a huge waste because of your terrible execution and stubborn reluctance to seek or take any advice from anyone whatsoever.

The market has judged you and found you lacking. Cede your resources to a more efficient actor in the market and go home.
Why thank you! I'll do my best.
I can see that problem for a situation where the outcome turns into a marketable product. But in these automatization cases it looks more to me like when somebody running a horse-drawn carriages business starts suing an employee for working in his free time on developing a car. The skills by the employee applied to solve the problem seem often unrelated/overqualified for the reason they were hired.
I don't know that it's CPAs specifically. But it is essentially an audit/control document.

Auditors are trained in, like, you know, auditing.

Which is rather more than just beancounting, preconceptions notwithstanding.
I agree. this story plays out exactly like every teenage coder's wet dream. It's got everything: persecution, vindication, crap boss who for some reason gets fired for firing the teenager (in the real world, firing someone who refused to turn over company property is not a reason to get fired), teenager saves everyone else's jobs, and even gets a promotion to a much better job.

This kid apparently also has insane negotiation skills, and somehow managed to negotiate his own salary increase and salary increases for everyone else around him.

All this, in a month...

We'll probably see an update in the next day or two that this story was a hoax.

UPDATE: More evidence of a hoax: the kid was making more money in an entry-level data-entry position than a manager-level employee in the company. And that entry-level data-entry position paid substantial bonsuses (which is the alleged reason the kid was making more than his manager.) And on top of all that, the boss was not eligible for bonuses bases on the productivity of his supervisees. Finally, the kid is now apparently the lead programmer in his own frigging department but somehow does not have the authority to change his desk chair. Yeah, that's all completely believable.
You've just described the haute couture fashion industry, which functions in exactly this way because they can't copyright or patent their designs.
> Which means nothing.

It means that the OPs implied assertion that I fit his (probable) stereotype of the ignorant gringo is obviously incorrect.

> the viewpoint of the MAJORITY of population of said countries

Not sure how you get that, or even what it means, really.
Sorry about that; we're fixing this as I write this. We removed resources from the language recently; less is exponentially more.
There is one? I bought it about an hour ago got an option for epub, pdf, or kindle. Read the whole thing on my ipad in about 30-45 minutes.
Thanks, it's a good point, I will update the post later.
You're right, there is value from SQL over event data, however, I feel like it's a missed opportunity to simply apply the same paradigms to a different type of data. I'm not suggesting that SQL be thrown out but a new language needs to be available specifically for event data.
On the other hand, a strength reduction pass might just collapse it to false.
So the Nexus Cube is an ablated sphere? That is an unfortunate name...
Nexus Q, I believe.
* I find out I'm about to get fired, and I decide to give myself the only admin privileges on these servers (that control databases, production code, etc). I'm then fired -- does the whole company go under because I can willfully refuse to give up the passwords for the admin accounts?*

They will sue you and since it's likely you can be shown to have acted with malicious intent courts won't be sympathetic.
So I disagree with this entirely and it's part of the reason I add "suggestions welcome" to most of my shots, because I want that feedback and I wouldn't post otherwise. There are a lot of really great discussions in posts by more "popular" designers that I wish we saw more of in shots for those who are still up-and-coming.

A big reason why I disagree with this sentiment so much is because it has become less a place where you post your progress and methods and more a place to hype your startup, post your better idea of an app or site or just plain steal a style from another designer. There's very little "process" and a lot of sleek, shiny finished concepts. A lot of early-adopters, regardless of their talent, have thousands upon thousands of followers that keep their posts above everyone else's in the Popularity algorithm. A lot of these posts could really use improvements, but instead you see comment upon comment praising the designer.

I think this is a huge flaw because we're giving credit where credit might not necessarily be due. We're stroking egos and supporting bad UI and UX because posting a comment on a popular user's page means more click-throughs to ours. This is a flaw in the community and I strongly believe more emphasis on critique would help bridge the gaps we see in poor design, UX and help people feel more at ease about not only giving criticism but receiving it.

> If Dribbble really cared about fostering a community of critical feedback and conversation..

If Dribbble really cared about a lot of things, the site wouldn't look and work the way that it does. It's still very much in its infancy and no where near as convenient to designers or scouts as it could be. There are a thousand ideas I have for improving the usability and getting people more involved, but by how often they update and by what they're choosing to focus on updating, it seems as if they think they've got a pretty solid product. This is pretty much to say that I'm waiting for another service to come around and blow it out of the water since, as a site dedicated to showcasing designers and designs, I think it does a pretty terrible job at it.
Thanks for the response. I've always been impressed by the way you've busted ass for these sites and didn't let doing so turn you into a goof.

I think as interested I am in what you did, I'd be just as interested in what you decided not to do.

Also, I wonder if the secret sauce to subreddits is the user 'buy in'. Once you've got a Reddit, you want people to visit it.
I was under the impression the boss had fired him and then asked for the password.
I guess the formula for a mildly viral blog post is just to misinterpret a popular saying so you can disagree with it. I really dislike it though.

"Follow your passion" is not advice given in response to the question "What product should I sell?" Usually it's in response to "What should I do with my life?" It doesn't help people differentiate between selling Star Wars figurines vs. something else. It's meant to help you decide between selling products online at all versus, say, writing novels or being a carpenter, or social work or some other calling.

Yes, if you take the advice outside of the context it's intended, it does become quite terrible.
Different circumstances, but still illegal in California because it restricts the freedom of employment of Meebo's employees.

No-poaching clauses are illegal in California, but poaching clauses can contain "referral fees" under which the poaching company must pay the original employer a substantial amount of money (usually, a year's salary of the employee poached) if they hire one of its employees during or within a year after the end of the contract period.
I'm skeptical. The story seems fishy to me. And who would trust an employee who develops something, keys it to his machine only, password protects it, and goes around boasting about it?

TLDR: Believability low + employee proud of poor ethics
Whether it's significant or not is a value judgement for the reader.
Eclipse also doesn't die indexing large C++ projects, with 2MB auto generated protobuf header files, unlike xcode.
I'd be curious to know if they have plans to release the source for this. It'd be much more useful to use this in a build step, rather than drag-and-drop into a browser window.
Thanks, that's it, it was very hard to tell.
We just had our first baby 7 months ago. Parenthood does throw off your work-life balance, but you will still get free time sometimes, you just need to be focused and patient and organized. Teamwork between you and your partner is key.

Also, nothing will improve your quality of life more than establishing a habit of waking up early and exercising.
I'm tempted to say it's a selling point for the kindle fire. At least outside of apps.
Pre-order the Nexus 7 and Nexus Q now
Nexus Q - The world's first social streaming media player
Nexus 7, Made for Google Play
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean: faster, smoother, more delightful
I love git even for personal single-developer projects.
They may not attack fishermen, but they do kill Israeli families, fire rockets at Israeli civilian cities, and otherwise engage in horrific violence towards Israeli citizens.

How could it not be at anyone's expense? There is no free and open land for the taking. If the Jews wanted to survive, they had only one choice, creating a homeland and that means somebody else will lose his control over that piece of land. It is necessarily at the expense of someone else. That someone happened to be the Palestinians.

When I am talking about singling out, I am referring to the single-sided view of the conflict you are presented, whereby you ignore Palestinian violence towards Israelis, the reason Israel had to be formed and accept Jews from around the world.
Honestly, as a data point... you were wrong. I was just being a smart ass.

If I had any thought in mind besides just to be a contrarian it was, to quote Voltaire, "A witty saying proves nothing.".

I've been around the block a bit too and I know that these articles on HN and the one-line summations of "write more code", "write less code", "write purple code", "Code you don't write doesn't have bugs", etc. don't really mean anything more than my stupid "... but doesn't do anything either. :P".

It's like throwing people random tools out of a toolbox. "When you do carpentry, use a chisel", "For building houses, a hammer is what you need", etc.

If the carpenters you're throwing a chisel to don't know how to properly use a chisel, then just throwing one at them isn't helpful. If they already know how to use a chisel, then you're not helping them either.

Maybe you were just trying to give them a clever-sounding quote with an obvious rejoinder to throw out on HN and thus promote a little discussion? In that case, I guess it worked well enough. :)
Apple gets "nothing" from engineering their upgrades to be backwards compatible. That is, if "nothing" means being incredibly successful. People are actually rather smart about things like this, and they know that the iPhone "just works" and will continue to work, and that is a huge competitive advantage. And long-term competitive advantage is one of the classic components of "maximizing shareholder value". So yes, publicly traded OEMs (which is all of them) are legally required to maximize shareholder value, and they are not doing that.

P.S. I think you are a troll, based on this and prior discussions, and this is the last time I'm responding to you. I'd appreciate it if you'd not respond to my posts either. Thank you.
Ditto. I'd like to see some side-by-side comparisons with PNGOUT, PNGCrush, OptiPNG, and AdvPNG. I use ImageOptim on my Mac to automate my PNG optimization—and it can get some impressive gains.
QA normally uses sampling.
The Nexus Q will bomb. $299 for a very confused offering. From the Guardian:

> So yes, Nexus Q is a "small Android-powered computer that's designed to live in your home", connecting to speakers and the cloud, as well as the Google Play store. It's controlled from a smartphone or tablet, but not to stream content from the device to the Nexus Q.

Nobody cares about how the streaming is achieved technically, and I think the "social" aspect is massively over-sold. If I want to show someone content on my tablet wouldn't we just sit next to each other and look at the tablet?

The Nexus 7 apparently already has HDMI out (I think) so I just can't see anyone forking out $299 for some bizarre social content streaming concept party.
An employee that leaves after a year has decided that they do not want to work for you. This employee is sacrificing a year's worth of work mastering your processes, environment, and code base in order to go start over somewhere else where they need to learn a new code base.

A couple thousand dollars isn't enough to convince most people to start over- something about their current work place made leaving seem attractive. Either the job does not fit them well or have reasonable paths for advancement (both from a development and career perspective), you are underpaying the employee, the work/social environment is bad, or something significant in their personal life has changed (graduating college, spouse got a job somewhere else, ect).

Poaching isn't unfair. You never have any guarentee for how long an employee will work for you, just as your employees have no guarentee they will still have their job tomorrow. The problem in the above situation isn't poaching; the problem is the employee wanted to leave.
Well, those high-speed algoritms aren't investing -they're making money on split second changes... nothing long term, and in no way predicting long-term market changes.
People do that.
Awesome read. Easy enough to pick up and go through in 30-45 minutes and get some solid advice. I'm glad to have my thoughts on promo tshirts confirmed. A few years back I got a "Blue Mountain State" tshirt for free from some promoters. Ive seen a grand total of two episodes of the show, but i wear the shirt all the time because its so comfortable. Low cost promoting for them (people comment on the shirt all the time, especially fans), awesome shirt for me. All other promo tshirts (uncomfortable material) pretty much get the sleeve monster tretment and become workout attire until i throw it out a month or so later.

Some of the hipmunk writing felt a little self promoting, but i guess thats a consequence of writing about your own experiences, which in this case happens to be an active business. But the cute chipmonk logo makes it all okay. If you sent me a comfortable shirt with that little guy on it, I'd wear it all the time.
I do too. I'm just saying the smaller the project the more the benefits tend to lean towards personal preference over empirical evidence.
Depends entirely on whether a brain dump is required.
You're misreading what's going on. The if test is indeed testing for a non-zero value. The "problem" is the negation only flipped the LSB in the register, thus leaving behind a non-zero value that passed the second if test. This is perfectly legitimate, since the value is undefined, and if it wasn't the compiler would have already ensured it only contained 0 or 1.
I thought that they were just playing it to the crowd of people who buy Sonos devices.
Reddit is a success, but not sure how much of Alexis' advice can be extrapolated and used in other startups. Reddit took a long time before the advertising business was vastly profitable, and depended on an acquisition to make the investment worth it.
...or it makes him post the letter on the internet and makes the company look bad. Amicable solutions frequently make more practical sense than confrontational ones.
Upper-level bosses probably never had any intention of firing all the workers just because some script automated a portion of their work. If it's a large-scale, decisions like that probably wouldn't be made without considering MPL abstractly or without considering the costs and bad PR incurred when laying off a significant number of people. That part of the narrative was likely more significant in the kid's mind than reality.

And apparently, the sub-boss was already on thin ice. This may have just been the final excuse needed to get rid of him.
Event data is difficult to denormalize within a relational database. You can group events by actor (e.g. the user performing the events) and stuff it all into a single row. You'll get great performance but you'll have to custom process your data which is in a custom format. SQL functions will become useless.

You can also store every event as a row and pull it out through Hadoop to process (as another commenter mentioned) but you're going to get huge performance bottlenecks just in extracting the data from the database, serializing it, transferring to another server for processing, and then deserializing it. Not to mention that MapReduce is batch-oriented so it's not going to be real-time.
What's your hunch? I'm very curious as I haven't paid attention to any hardware in quite a while.

As for non-disclosure, I'd guess it's just some industry politics. No need to burn bridges. That, and I can see irresponsible bloggers sensationalizing the data. Would there be any possibility of legal action from a CPU Vendor (sensationalist headlines or not) if it was divulged?
Pausing and resuming across devices is awesome. Not sure if it's $300 awesome.
Show HN: epist.ly now has an API for hand-written notes
I think that http://pngquant.org/ does the same technique.

Also see http://pngnq.sourceforge.net/index.html

There are several other image optimization tools incorporated into a OS X tool http://imageoptim.com/
Udacity also has a great course on Crypto: http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs387/CourseRev/apr20...
>*"Why Meditation Doesn't Directly Increase Happiness"

Because there are no magic pills?
An App That Encrypts, Shreds, Hashes and Salts
Google Nexus devices page
Reading Between the Benchmarks: How MemSQL Designs for Speed and Durability
OMG so boring. Google needs to learn how to put on a show.

Also, Hangouts is G+ best feature but sadly it is really hard to get people together on it. Why when I invite someone do they not get an email or IM?? They only get notified within g+ itself and it isn't easy to find the invite. On recent jobs several times I've tried to get meetings together on g+ only to resort back to conference calls (!!? WTF??) every time because people couldn't get on the Hangout. That is a real shame.
Everything You Need to Know About Design on the Web - Piccsy Playground
NPD: 70% Of Consumers Now Watch TV On Non-TV Devices; PCs Reign Supreme
I think you're selling IntelliJ very short. IDEA is a pretty encompassing platform, too. It does PHP better than PDT, for one, and I haven't found better Python support than what you get as part of PyCharm (which is available as part of IDEA--their Ruby support is too, though I don't write Ruby myself). And in the Java world, its first-class support for Maven and Gradle make me a lot happier than wrestling with stuff like m2eclipse.

About the only thing that I thought was better in Eclipse last I used it was C/C++. CDT is great in comparison. But I'd rather use Visual Studio if I need to write C++.
They really could use some mic training. The guy talking about the "porn video game" for a few minutes was also really surreal (I think it's "Corn" or "Torn" or something.)
I just came here to say great headline. Made me want to click and see what you had to say.
I loved how he said something to the effect of, "Now, your friends can play music in your living room." Then, the dramatic pause as he waited for the audience reaction. Honestly, it seemed like the audience felt bad for him and bailed him out by clapping unenthusiastically.
"Sorry! Devices on Google Play is not available in your country yet.
We're working to bring devices to more countries as quickly as possible.
Please check back again soon."

Anyone have a screenshot perhaps?
It's pretty tough to make a defamation or libel claim if the statement is factual. But IANAL, and I would guess the potential for pissing off your partners outweighs the benefits of a unredacted report.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 US sales blocked by the Federal Court
$300? Pass.
At this point I think it's basically just a cheap shot. You can come right out and say what you mean and nothing bad is going to happen to you.

So come right out and say what you mean.