skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I attempted something similar during my last year of college. I made a posting at my closest large city, detailing my ideal job. I also laid out what seemed to be good requirements that I would have satisfied for the position.

I was astounded by the results. I quickly had to remove the ad, too. The messages were heart wrenching to read. One man was unemployed after being discharged from the military. Another man had been doing senior level work for 10 years. Another didn't have an ounce of experience in this field. And finally a couple were recent graduates -- these were the only ones I was interested in. I left mine up for a couple days. I realized the deceitfulness of this experiment. I genuinely felt remorse despite my animalistic nature to size up the competition. Then I reflected on myself and thought about the few times I'd read a job post and quickly turn to my wife "This one sounds perfect! I really hope I get it!" and be grinning from ear to ear for the next half an hour only to be hit with sadness for a day or two. Then I wondered, if it was this easy for me, who is to say others wouldn't be doing the same?

I changed my rules for applying to job posts after that. They had to actually state their recruiting firm in the post. Bonus points for disclosing their client. They also had to post an email or website -- some way to validate the poster. Again, bonus points for phone numbers. I would also search various strings in the post to see if they're listed anywhere else. I became a lot more cautious in my search, which was a good thing as I wasn't slapping my name, email, address and phone number all over to who knows where.

After my experiment I reached a conclusion-- I had broad competition and shouldn't try to gauge myself on others. This made me much calmer in the interviews. I felt reassured knowing it wasn't "what I knew", and instead "who I was." I decided to be more of myself and not give canned answers that I thought they wanted to hear. My skillset was expendable and I needed to realize that. I lost my sense of entitlement. I used to think my $100,000 piece of paper meant something.

Then I realized it did.
yeah, I've done handwriting with a stylus on windows and mac before and had much worse results than I'm getting with my finger on this. Very impressive.
Thank you for your thoughtful comment on a touchy issue.

That is a good point about the comparison with cars. I have been stepping neatly past the trust idea (which applies to computers as well, and I'm a coder). It's a very powerful idea that I haven't thought about enough.

But I think firearms do represent a unique capability: how many bricks per minute can you throw? From how far away could you snipe someone with a pencil? I think it's one of degree: assault weapons, high-powered sniper rifles, semi-autos that can be easily modified for full-auto fire... Those weapons are all over a boundary for me, a boundary that the U.S. is too lax with drawing.
A local client does not suffer from input latency and the client does not validate camera movement (mouselook) to server snapshots . There's also some leeway into other kinds of movement so latency jitter and a few dropped packets do not inadvertently disrupt the player's flow. Furthermore, the server does latency compensation that is crucial for actually hitting anything, especially with hitscan weapons lacking AoE damage. All the above is a very simplified explanation of what happens, more details at following PDF [1].

Games on OnLive lack the above features and you also have input lag, where, for example, a camera movement with the mouse will take the full network RTT plus processing time to reflect on the client's screen.

[1] http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/courses/4513-B03/papers/game...
Why am I being downvoted for this?
And CL refusing in this case is in the user's benefit, how?
To see it formatted nicely, but in line with the rest of the readme, see: https://github.com/viatropos/tower/tree/development
RE: The stock being down ~10% in after-hours.

I think there's a real divide between the people who use Facebook, for whom it is (often) a serious part of their social life and, those who comment on FB in the media and invest in FB on the public market.

Being 19 Facebook is a critical part of finding out what's going on, organising events and, keeping in touch with everyone (whether I see them every day or once a year). I'm not unique in this, it's true for all my friends and pretty much anyone I meet, of my age, around the (western?) world.

Obviously, the market thinks FB is over-valued; I'm not commenting on whether it is or isn't. I'm just interested at what the market might value FB at if the people buying its stock used it as much and in the same way as younger generations. (As far as I see it, it's like a single private company owning the whole "phone system" for young people. What would that be valued at?)
Here is the announcement from Bukkit's side: http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/bukkit-the-next-chapter.624...
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Who will pay people to do that though?
It seems shareholders are not impressed with Facebook's earnings.
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This is almost certainly a strategic move on Twitter's part to slow the spread of Instagram. I doubt it has to do with "developers" as others have surmised. Even if it hurts Twitter's growth in the short term, in the long term it makes more sense to keep API access on for competitor photo-sharing apps and turn it off for Instagram (which is now a direct competitor). If Twitter buys Instagram, this sort of thing doesn't happen.
Big ups to the team! I've always had much respect for ZenCoder in terms of people, technology, and company.
Regular COM calls can fail (when Excel is busy, for example), and you can't just click "run" from within Excel, you have to start python from a shell, etc. VBA, on the other hand, is hard to extend - getting it to pull logs from a remote server would be painful.

As far as interacting with multiple workbooks, that's something we're working on.
> They hold back progress and they are evil. They are the IE6 of classified ads.

That's a good one. I'm going to start using it. (Unless you make copyright objections.)
I guess the question is whether we're talking about B-H the textile company, or whether we're talking about Buffett's holdings in general.

Buffett didn't have anything to do with the textile company when it was Zynga's age (5 years); B-H merged in 1955 and Buffett didn't start buying until 1962. He's actually called buying it his biggest investment mistake, as he chose not to sell the textile company over a perceived slight, but probably could have made a lot more with the money if he'd invested it in better industries.

As for the holding company, Buffett started BPL in 1956, had several partnerships running by 1960, and merged them in 1962; at that point (a similar age to Zynga) the holdings were already quite diverse, just not under the B-H name. It wasn't until the late 1960s that he started using B-H as his general holding company.

So, if we're going to hold up Buffett as an "old-school CEO" who doesn't sell shares of his own company, let's remember that he's called not selling B-H (textiles) his biggest investment mistake, and let's remember that it's different to hold on to stock in a diversified holdings company (whether it was called BPL or B-H at the time) than it is to hold on to stock in a single-purpose company.
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This is really not normal.
This reminded me that in US online poker is illegal now, which I find pretty ridiculous.
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This is reminding me of a college student job as a PC tech:

We had about 20 labs, 3 of them had 1-year old Dell Precision workstations with 22" Dell LCD monitors. During the summer, we noticed the monitors developing a weird wavy waterline-ish streak along the top 2" of the LCD. The LCD still displayed fine, but everything above this waterline was noticeably darker. The wavy waterline was different on each monitor - on some it only extended down a centimeter across one corner.

Eventually half of the monitors in these 3 labs developed this strange mark. We RMA'd in batches; eventually we learned the glue holding the LCD layers together was failing. The older (and newer) Dell LCDs didn't have that issue.

That's the kind of thing I'd worry about here, especially since there's likely no recourse. Will these LCDs have strange issues, like a watermark caused by the failure of cheap glue?
What makes you think her name wasn't on the list?
GRPN is at the moment 68% off its $20 IPO price and 79% off its all-time-high of $31.14.
If Hitler hadn't been born, you would still have Mussolini and Stalin.

If Edison had succeeded, we could never have had anything like a national grid because DC transmission was too inefficient until long after the invention of the transistor.

Einstein was only one of several scientists working on theoretical physics near the turn of the 20th century; he didn't go from cave painting to special relativity all on his own.

The rest of your examples have nothing to do with scientific advancement.

You should read What Technology Wants. The first chapter or two contains a few leaps of logic, but the rest of the book makes a compelling case for emergent behavior leading to most of our scientific results.
Everything Google does is to gather data.
This is a very exciting future indeed. There hasn't been something like this since the home computing revolution. It's the 1970s again, and we're still at the Homebrew Computer Club stage.
Easier rapid prototyping and exploratory programming. Edit all the classes of your small/exploratory project in a single file. If the project expands, it should be an automated refactoring to move classes to their own files.

I do this all the time using static inner classes.
Having used Google customer service as a paying customer I have never had an issue. Customer service on their free offerings is another story all together but what do you expect on that end anyways?
I personally think they got on the arduino a bit late. If they were smart they should stock raspberry pis.

Could be. But Arduino is still pretty popular. Heck, RPi isn't even shipping in mass consumption quantities yet. I definitely would like to see RS carry Raspberry Pi though, no disagreement there!

If they were smart and were to play their cards well, I think they could still become a strong (if smaller) company by getting back to their roots and embracing DIY / hackers / makers. Imagine if you could buy a Makerbot, or a RepRap kit at Radio Shack... or even just all (or most) of the parts needed to build something like that.
"Facebook is a critical part of finding out what's going on"

" I'm just interested at what the market might value FB at if the people buying its stock used it as much and in the same way as younger generations"

A good company doesn't necessarily make a good stock. There's a real possibility that FB will become the next MySpace, especially if another firm figures out how to build a mobile social network and doesn't sell out to FB or Google.
pssht. I've been doing this for years
Twitter attributes today's downtime to data center failures
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Congrats to Jon and the Zencoder team! This is really exciting.
Plain old marketing is simple. You gotta reach your audience. You gotta figure out what they look at, and you gotta get their attention. If your audience is searching Google, you hit them with SEO and Adwords. If they are watching TV, you gotta get on the shows they are watching. Once you get their attention, they know about you, and then it is matter of sales if they buy.

For good branding, it helps to have a good name, logo, etc. Although, in the end it helps if they like your product.

If you're in a crowded space, marketing is going to be harder. Although, I've never really found marketing to be that complicated. If you are in a crowded space, it can be harder to market, because your message gets crowded out.

Who is struggling with marketing? Let me know. I don't really think it is that hard.
I use DejaVu Sans Mono-10 on the 30" and -9 on the 24".
I hate Yelp and the Security there, worst place to organize any meetup events!
Maybe I misunderstand the term in this context, but this doesn't seem like an exit.
Here it is: http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/417-bukkit-officially-joi...

Bukkit made it really far with community extensibility via non-official APIs. Now they get to help define the official API based on real-word experience about what developers want to do with customizing Minecraft. They also recently announced that they are merging single player and multi-player, creating a single mod-able codebase.
http://www.mojang.com/2012/07/minecraft-1-3-info-snapshot-w2...
> Again, why do you (and others) keep comparing today's Linux/Android/OS X OS with a 10-15 year old Windows OS.

You argued that Windows was targeted solely because of its high market share. I'm drawing a comparison to another platform with high market share; there simply wasn't anything comparable ten years ago. And it is not obvious to me that it's not a valid comparison; Microsoft were a huge company who had been developing Windows for fifteen years at that point. Android is a lot younger, so you could just as well expect it to be less mature and therefore less secure.

And yes, I know it is possible to run it without being compromised. You obviously knew what you were doing; millions, even tens of millions of others didn't know and wound up with their computers zombified into botnets. That wasn't all because of their ignorance; there were times when a newly installed XP machine would be compromised less than fifteen minutes after being connected to the internet, which wasn't enough time to install the patches it needed. That can't be considered that user's fault, especially when they've just sat through half an hour of being told how they're installing The Most Secure Version Of Windows Yet!

> Of course they had to do all that. The Windows users back then were generally not very savvy...

Now you are missing my point. Microsoft didn't have to do anything. They could have built an operating system that was harder to use but more secure. I contend that it's even conceivable that they could have built an operating system that was roughly the same for ease of use, but still more secure; maybe they'd have been slower to market or had to compromise elsewhere. The point is that security was not a priority for them for years, they obviously just weren't that concerned. That may ultimately have been the right path for them, because they arguably didn't pay a high price really, but I don't personally consider it the technically best course.

> My point is that what is possible today, was not possible 10, 15, or 20 years ago both from a tech and user point of view... Just because someone can do OS security good today, dosn't mean you can blame someone else for not doing it good decades ago.

I think this is where we fundamentally disagree. I don't see why you think security is only something that can be achieved now and why it couldn't be ten or fifteen years ago. In the Unix world, people have known not to run as root for decades; Microsoft chose to ignore that for a long time and ultimately have been forced to shoehorn it back in for Vista. They could have done that in XP, if not long before; it certainly had the capability for it, they simply cut that out of XP Home and chose bad defaults for XP Pro.
We'll get right on inventing that time machine so everyone can go back in time to the introduction of the -r flag and warn themselves ;).
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be it through an internship, a temp job

Well, those would count as jobs themselves, so you would have to send out resumes anyway. And clearly, this guy is trying to make a name for himself with his blog, to the extent that's possible.

The problem is a lot of people have very general qualifications. A masters in English may mean a lot or nothing. I keep an eye on job postings and you sometimes get used to the same very specific job showing up week after week. Anyone qualified would probably get hired immediately.
haha..being Yelp..probably!
For me, the valuation of FB is closer to a TV channel with an audience of c. 500m people for 30mins every day of the week. And one which shows ads to people based on their own interests. What's that worth? I'm not sure.

The comparison with a phone network isn't quite right because I can't see FB ever being able to charge for service.

But I agree with your point. I think Linkedin is far more likely to be wiped out than Facebook, but the market thinks different.
Wow, thanks again. I'll be in Japan in a couple of weeks, and these will surely be helpful, seeing as my vocabulary is trash.
Python isn't a hard language to learn. It's probably easier to learn Python than to port this to PHP.
It looks like most of the expenses (1.3 billion of 1.93 billion) were from "$1.3 billion of share-based compensation [RSU's] and related payroll tax expenses." If it weren't for that, then it doesn't look that bad. P/E is still in the 60's though.
True.. but as it regarded homebrew, there is "pent up demand" demostrated by the trickled smuggling by the gokudo syndicates. Yet, there isn't a homebrew industry. Instead, the few illegal arms are smuggled in. My point was that homebrew does not seem to spring up once firearms are made illegal, to any significant extent. Americans own approx 300 firearms. I don't think homebrew would manufacture in that quantity.
How much money would you say FB makes off of you? Serious question.
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One's saccade eye movements are very regular in acceleration profile, so it's possible to determine where you're going to look from the start of the saccade movement.

I could not find the original reference, but there is some highly technical information here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=27jCNmafYU4C&pg=PA150&#...
Before replying, I just so happen as to be working on a python process to populate an Excel report with COM. Cells and graphs that depend on those update as soon as python executes the COM calls. You probably don't want to use Excel as a GUI for your python app, especially if you need to update frequently, but it is fine for quick reports.
The person banned was on the guest list.
Considering Zynga has $1.2Bn in cash on hand, I'm surprised they haven't already bought a gambling company outright by now
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How did you get the formatting like that?

Edit: please don't downvote, just asking a question
It's about decreasing risk and volatility. If you're an insider in Zynga or Facebook, you might have slightly more information than the stock market...but probably not a lot. You can't expect to out-guess the market considerably.

All else being equal (in other words, unless you have information that the rest of the market does not), your expected return will be the same if you own one stock in a certain industry as if you own a lot of different stocks in the same industry. If you roll one dice, the average number of eyes is the same as if you average over 100 dice rolls...but the probability of ending up at the extreme end of the scale is much higher. This is why investors want to diversify.

What is best, in practical terms, for an average person: getting a guaranteed 2 million dollars or having a 1 percent chance of getting 200 million dollars?
Important edit to the article: My students are adults, which wasn't really the point of the article (and wasn't clear). Their ridiculous exclusion policy is. As smart as kids are these days, I'm not sure a "Pinterest scaling talk" is something I'd take kids to.

A lot of people here are making some assumptions based on the idea that these were children, which is pretty interesting in itself.
I recently started looking for an iOS artist to work with and I posted a job ad on Craiglist and Kijiji, for the first time.

I was overwhelmed with the response - I mean I knew there was alot of people using Craigslist but I had no idea of the scope. And the spam. I even had people submitting me their resumes who had nothing to do with what I was looking for. Needless to say, I was quite surprised by amount of response I've gotten.

It was definitely insightful to sit on the other 'end', even for a day, to try and make sense of all these resumes, to read through the greeting emails / copy+paste jobs. It was only a glimpse but it was an interesting experience.

Now I'm not advocating people to start creating fake job ads to see what it's like…

Edit: Anyone else notice the author using a coffee ring to make his pie chart from? Improvisation – mark of a true warrior!
Android/iOS/Metro -- whichever one has a properly executed answer to OneNote is going to succeed like gangbusters.

(Putting it that way, it speaks to serious dysfunction at Microsoft if it's not them, and indeed, there's a good chance that it may not be them.)
Double-space and then it's ASCII time. And I pasted the results from a wire service.
Using disco here, very happy with it.
Who wants to bet these have HD's (or SSDs) in them and are set up for peer-to-peer content caching on the local city network?

They'd be stupid if they didn't do that.
Now THAT would be amazing. Incredibly smart move. What better way to create your own handwriting recognition program than to have all 4 billion people field testing it for you.
So the extra $5 just gets you a broader choice of file formats?

I'm interested in buying it, and I'm pretty sure my kindle show be able to handle the format. That said, I think I'd rather buy from your website than from Amazon (assuming more of the money ends up in your pocket) - but not at a markup of 50%!
First, there is pretty much no decent scripting language available on Windows

PowerShell?
I agree with you, but I think it would be nice if the convention scaled down to something simpler. I don't think that's impossible. (E.g. src/lang_n, src/res, test/lang_n, test/res; or even src-lang_n/, res/, test/lang_n, test/res.)
I suspected that, but why didn't HN catch it?!
You can send a packet to Europe and have it return faster than your fingers can respond to something your eyes just saw.
You don't need to double space -- you need to prepend each line with 4 spaces

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Edit: downvote? really? What was incorrect about the statement?
Path wasn't malware, it was stupidity.
An interesting preview of what we'll have to face if Cornucopia machines are ever invented.
getting a timeout when I try send myself a sample.
Eating is intuitive. I believe drinking water and defecating could also be considered intuitive.

The meaning of the word intuitive may not come to some folks via intuition, however. Merriam-Webster defines intuitive as: readily learned or understood; and intuition as: immediate apprehension or cognition.
People could --but to what degree of success? A gunsmith, yes, but any yobbo at home? They might fire once, they might explode.
No, that is different. You need three things to get a fire:

- something to burn

- oxygen

- a sufficiently high temperature to ignite stuff.

You only need to take any of the three away to extinguish a fire.

According to the description, this spreads the flame over a larger area and decreases the depth over which burning can occur. So, it works by lowering the temperature.

The "high explosives" method works by taking away the oxygen.
Cool, but do they have a plan that doesn't freely give my data to law enforcement as part of a regular dragnet?
That's an interesting observation - as a musician, functional programming has somehow always felt more intuitive to me than OOP. What characteristics of functional programming do you think are similar to music?