skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Jori, thanks for writing this!

I especially agree with having a real in-app page for gathering feedback. When we were building Flowdock, one of the best things early on was giving the users the simplest possible tool for giving feedback: a single text field (just like you have). Even though this is a little more work than just having a team@... email link, it does have some great benefits:

- Full control on where the feedback gets sent and who/what gets notified (requires some backend code of course)

- Easy for the user, no extra logins or weird popups

- You can send extra information like the browser's user agent string along with the message to help resolve some issues

PS: The last link in the article ("follow me on Kippt") should link to https://kippt.com/jorilallo :)
From my experience Dave & Busters depends solely on your local spot. I've been in good and bad ones so you just have to try them out. The local one for me these days isn't so bad and I have taken my older kid to it for food and games. But they still have too many cockpit games. At least most of them are race related which does make sense. But they really need to get rid of that eight cockpit Sega Nascar game from like twenty years ago. My phone has better graphics.
Here's Google's policy on cloaking:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
To be honest, my goal with this extension was to raise awareness about Quora obfuscating answers for anonymous visitors ala Experts Exchange.

Most contributors on Quora don't know that their content is being presented this way. (According to Quora's ToS, the submitter's content is their own.)
the variety of anti-immigration lobbies in Washington

The sad part is there's really only one, organized into about 20 different lobbying groups but (mostly) centrally funded from the estate of a dead multi-millionaire.
Yay for FreeBSD support! I didn't like hacking on it to get it to install on FreeBSD... Also yay for LevelDB improvements :)
Not for academic purposes they wouldn't, that doesn't really constitute informed consent. Most people don't read ToS and that is well known.
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I typically just want the answer to my question when I Google something.
Instead of a remote wipe, what they should do is a remote encryption. Generate a pair of public/private keys, use the public one to encrypt the data, and destroy the private one after a month or so. Encrypted data is indistinguishable from random data, but at the same time, the user can get it back.
You can just highlight the blurred text on Quora to read it. No extension required.
Efficiency in Motion
The key message here is "focus". When doing a startup it's the most important skill to have, but the easiest one to forget. Or rather, because it's so easy to lose it, it's important to focus on it.
There is support for packaging programs to run on machines that does not have Racket installed. I haven't tried it for years, so I can't give details. Try it out:

http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/intro.html?q=executable...
This seems like a VERY good idea! Even when i take the time to read the TOS on sites (granted, it is rare), i come away unsure that i really understand it.

This seems like an excellent way to deal with this issue too!

Thanks ToS;DR!
Two other issues that seem to come up in the bay area are "culture fit" (which is sometimes a euphemism for "we want to have fun at work and it doesn't sound very fun to hang out with someone who is old") and "trajectory" (which is a euphemism for "if you were really an A player, you'd have a senior role by now; since you don't, there must be something wrong with you, even if we can't figure out precisely what it is in an interview.") That you've just started out should logically eliminate the second concern, but it doesn't really, since it's a stereotype and people are not rational about stereotypes.

It's probably best to avoid companies that think about hiring in the way that they'd think about selecting frat pledges, in favor of companies that think about hiring in terms of increasing their capacity to get work done. But if you really wanted to get a job at the former kind of company, my advice is (1) try to build a rapport with your interviewers somehow, so that they look up to you and think you're cool, rather than pity you for being old and wanting to be let into their treehouse, (2) contextualize yourself as having gotten really excited about programming all of a sudden, after a few decades of kicking ass in other fields, and then having made a lot of progress in programming very quickly. That's something that anyone can respect.
And I'd put my money on a team of good people that doesn't involve members who are willing to type-cast a person based on his or her degree.
I wonder why more companies don't open development offices in other areas of the country (or even the state!), if they are having such a hard time hiring in the valley.
Use

raco exe

http://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/exe.html
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Startups like Square sponsor 25-school hacker tour
People are rightfully worried about the chicken-egg problem.

Will 3rd parties support it? Well, does it have users? Will it have users? Well, is there third party support?

Either the customers or the 3rd party developpers have to make the first gamble.
Wow, um. I have three use cases for Netflix:

1. Binging through a TV show (my most common case.) In which case I know exactly what I'm looking for.

2. Trying to find something random to watch, in which case the suggested recommendations are usually pretty great. Their system of identifying subsets of movies is infinitely more preferable than a massive funnel.

3. The "Hey, I want to watch this movie, lets see if its on Netflix" method, which I can't imagine getting any simpler; type it in, if its there -- perfect.

I can't really comment on the Linux thing, since I don't use Linux (hell, 95% of the time I'm watching on my iPad or 360, not an actual computer) but the porn thing is pretty ridiculous, IMO. Netflix isn't trying to compete in the porn business.
Great concept and smart execution.

A suggestion - rather than rating "A" through "E" why not change to the more recognizable (for US audience at least) scale of "A through F" (A/B/C/D/F) which we're all mercilessly trained to recognize through years of school grades?

"E" as your worst rating confused me at first glance - could be interpreted as "Excellent"
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Me either. I hope not, though. Lisp is entirely too anti-social.
I ran into this a while ago reading something on my phone which wasn't logged in. I think it is only certain answers though.

It's funny that Stack Overflow was created explicitly to provide an open access QA site, an alternative to Experts Exchange. Now Quora, who clearly owe a lot to SO, are going back to that closed model. I hope they change their stance on this, it's not a healthy way to run a user generated website.
It's drivel, Users are worth whatever money you can extract from them. You can make a million a month from 100 thousand of them or 100 million of them, it's just a question of your monetization strategy. If your product needs someone to change their behavior over time then that's a bad thing. Mitigation strategy's include such things as focusing on when people are most open to change, new job, new home, new baby etc.

PS: You can actually learn a lot from how Banks operate as people move more often than they change banks. Keep the costs hidden, and the barriers to change obvious.
Doesn't work for me in Chrome: http://imgur.com/OAwSY.png

Or Firefox: http://i.imgur.com/wv7JJ.png
Exactly. CTRL-a. Done.
1. Learn to code (You're doing that now)
2. Write down ideas (10 a day) about businesses you can start with software (thank you James Altucher for that tip)
3. Once you have a solid idea (dont do your first one) start writing an MVP. Not sure what an MVP is? Listen to the Lean Startup book on Audible (or buy the real book if you like to read)
4. Build a MVP product and ship it. Get a couple customers.
5. Work hard.
6. Eventually get paid and not work for anyone, other than you and your customers.

You're 37 now, you definitely dont want to be in a cube farm with a bunch of other resentful folks who write code for a fortune 500 company. I'm sure you have some domain knowledge around something else. Perhaps you were a flooring installer prior to code. Maybe you were a plumber, who knows. Take that skill and think about what software could have helped you during those times. Look for competitors, evaluate the market and then once you find that idea in that proper niche market. Go for it.

Another book to listen to: Start Small, Stay Small

Good luck!
Wow, this is quite timely and interesting. For taab, we're faced with a similar problem, and one of our strategies was also to just give away a free tablet.

However, we're targeting the market in a different manner. We'd rather not replace POS systems. Instead, we'd like to integrate with existing systems in larger, more established retailers. Think Starbucks, not your corner coffee shop. Moreover, since we're pushing the use of NFC, in our testing, it turns out that tablets don't really make sense. The only tablet with NFC right now is the Nexus 7 (the BlackBerry PlayBook 4G was just released and is rumoured to have NFC). On the Nexus 7, the NFC antenna is on the back like a smartphone, which doesn't fit with our UX model.

We're not nearly at the same phase as GoPago. We submitted our application to the MintChip Challenge (http://www.mintchipchallenge.com/) last week.

You can check us out at http://taab.co/.
Sure. The whole "hover your mouse over this arrow and we'll scroll the poster art at a rate of about 30px per second" is super frustrating. I actually ended up getting so annoyed that I built a Chrome extension to replace that interaction with horizontal scrollbars.
well, if you would put a contact information in your https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rburgosnavas HN profile (in the about field) i would contact you for a freelance project (if you do freelance).

i recommend to stop seeing age as an obstacle, see it as an asset - what did you work before? see your new programing experience in context of your previous work experience.

note: i'm 35, i love starting over
> First off, remember that it's not legal for a US employer to ask your age.

Just to clarify on the legal distinction: They can ask, and you can answer or not. What's illegal is making an employment decision based on age. Of course, the most foolproof way to prove to a belligerent labor attorney that age did not drive an employment decision is to never possess the age information in the first place. So nobody asks, and any company big enough to have an HR department internally forbids it from asking about age or any other protected factor like national origin and religion. But it's not illegal simply to ask.

Also, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act only protects workers over 40. 37 is actually fair game for discrimination.

Citation for both of the above: http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/age.html
You should never give legit answers to these security questions. I just paste in the output of pwgen -s 32 1. This may make your account harder to "recover" but it also makes it harder to steal.
I think perks matter if and only if they reinforce an existing positive culture.

For example, I work for a medium-sized software company where employees tend to be fairly athletic. We have groups of runners, surfers, soccer players, tennis players and softball players. We have a licensed yoga instructor come in twice a week for yoga lessons (paid for by the company). We even have a group of people who participate in sailing races every week on the CEO's sail-boat. This aspect of our culture makes it very easy for new hires to quickly make friends and feel like they have become a part of the company. Also, all of these sports are fully sponsored - all sport-related expenses can be reimbursed.

Last year, management approved building showers on the first floor of the building for the sole purpose of making it easier for lunch-time runners to clean up before going back to work. The effect was immediate: many more people started running at lunch time, as they no longer had to worry about being sweaty and stinky after lunch. The showers themselves are a very small perk, but they reinforce the perception that management cares about and supports the active lifestyles of employees.

I somehow doubt having a "Whiskey Fridays" would have the same effect, as we don't have many heavy-drinkers at our company. But one of my friends works for Zappos (based in Las Vegas) and I'm told that everyone there drinks at work. Makes sense, since it's Vegas.
Consider getting a low-level job in a shop which is doing Java/Android work (presuming this is your interest). You might at first do 2nd-level customer support, testing, or other non-programming things. However, especially if you position yourself to employers as someone taking on such a role so you can learn on-the-job, you'll be able to finagle your way into more challenging work. Maybe there's some manual testing which can be automated. Now, you've shown you can write code. Before long, you'll find yourself in a development role, and you'll have been paid while learning. By letting potential employers know of your intentions, you can induce selection bias in your favor -- the employers who want testers who will shut-up and do as told will throw your resume away, but those who want motivated people who can take on greater responsibilities will love your goals.
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The only downers I care about are stack traces in "Java" rather than Clojure and the lack of TCO in the JVM.

I think there's some work going on to address the former. The latter issue isn't really that bad unless you need to use trampoline, which I don't care for because it means the functions have to be written to know they'll be used in this way.

Regardless, Clojure is one of my favorite languages.
Not really - just hire a lawyer. They do everything. It will cost you less than recruiter.
I actually think that having a textarea form instead of email address is better: there's less pressure for the user and they might not expect an answer
This isn't an overfocus or overstudy problem, it is just a fancy way of getting distracted or procrastinating. You can learn at least as much by diving in to make an 80% solution and then polishing it up - as you can by deferring the work for more study. Maybe more, because there are some things you just don't learn until you actually have something and until you actually finish something.
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Are you sure? iOS has 5 years in the market and plenty of apps, Android 4 years and also plenty of apps. Both have matured and you probably know a geek or two who use them and can answer your questions. Windows 8 will be a newcomer with less apps at your disposal and probably no geek nearby to ask questions. Lots of unkowns for me.

Face it, they are really late in the game this time.
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Most people just want a facebook machiene. Linux, classic windows and osx are all going to share the niche called. "desktop os".

I actually think, the whole metro + clasical desktop (why choose) will at least make win8 somewhat relevant in the high end of the market.
Exotic location?

If palm trees and swimming pools is enough you should go to California :)
I wonder if Netflix's neglect to innovate in this area is a result of concentrating all their efforts on content. All the UI features in the world won't mean much if you lose all relevant content feeds.

This also brings up time between search & view. In its DVD days, title search + recommendations may be good enough given the dvd queue dwell. But instant watch desires instant find.

The content also affects this. Maybe with a heavy new release catalog - recommendations work for majority of users. With a deep archival catalog, better search works for majority of users?
We use it over XBL and the biggest problem we face (outside of the search/lack of content issue) is that if someone so much as accidentally knicks the controller, drops it on the ground or accidentally presses a button while moving it, it makes a transition without verification. Most of the time, the button accidentally pressed either starts the movie from the beginning or begins rewinding/forwarding the content. This is pretty terrible UX to begin with, but then on the UI side, there's no marker where that action started taking place or an "undo" function. This happens at least once every time we use the XBOX version, so we've taken to unplugging the controller entirely to avoid it.
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I think it happens if you're coming from a search engine.
They have this inertia (or fear?) against working remotely.. which is ironic for internet based tech companies..
I don't think legacy apps will auto-scale. I think they'll take up the same number of pixels, but the extra screen real estate will have a widget bar, showing things like the weather or stock prices.
It has been way more than a month since Windows Phone 7 has been released and it's still an unknown as far as its app ecosystem is concerned. Who knows what will happen to this W8 tablet, because WP7 which has the same interface, Metro, hasn't been a great success.
First of all my advice is go for it. Don't let pre-conceptions about age hold you back. In my last job the older engineers were far more talented and productive than the younger fresh-out-of-college or college drop-outs.

Another thought: younger engineers are sometimes preferred simply because they're teeming with naive energy. When I think of hiring someone who I know will spend majority of their time grinding down a mountain of technical debt who do I look for? A naive 20-something college drop-out who will work themselves to the bone for 80k, beer and foosball? Or a 40 year old pro who's been through a successful acquisition, has enough money to not have to work and will figure out in about 2 days how lame the founders are for letting the technical debt grow into such a monstrosity?
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I don't agree. You should have backups regardless and the odds of your laptop drive just gives up or it falls to the floor or gets stolen should, in any universe, be way more probable (regardless of usage) than a "database-server glitch" on Apple's part.

Yes, you should backup but for way more important reasons than enabling remote wiping.
As a PadMapper user this saddens me, but I can only wonder why they didn't do it sooner. Craigslist posts are so short-lived, I don't know why they would want them indexed.
Oh yeah, that'll be way more convenient. Right up until you need to login when your phone is out of batteries, not in wireless coverage, under water, etc.
Did these people do any fact checking? I just ran another test:

visit http://sfbay.craigslist.org/bia/

spot ad for a kids Giant MTX 250 bike http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/bik/3189980073.html

perform a google search for the same thing
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acraigslist.org+giant+m...

result number two in the set is that posting, with the following summary:

Giant MTX 250 Kid's Mountain Bike
sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/bik/3189980073.html
4 minutes ago ... Giant kid sized hardtail mountain bike for sale. It is a 21 speed, and it has front
suspension. The bike was always taken care of, and is in perfect ...

"4 minutes ago" tells me Google is having no problems hitting craigslist.
Does it work on ARM?
So why is Google still hosting it?
Suggested rename: Because Fuck Quora
I disagree with your arcade death reason by the 2x price. According to [1], arcades had started costing a $.25 USD since 1966. By standard rate of inflation of ~3.4% [2], that means it should cost approximately $1.50 USD today. One argument to this is rather the starting basis of $.25 is the right price. According to the same source, the golden age of arcade is ~1980. So for the sake of finding a lower optimal basis, let's assume that $.25 is the optimal pricing in 1980. Which means arcade games should cost ~$.75 to play today. Now the question becomes rather games should accept coins other than quarters so the pricing isn't such a steep step function, or game creators needed to start making games to justify 2x pricing. I guess they decided on the latter.

So I totally disagree with this assessment. I would say the consoles offering an alternative to arcade games at a reasonable price is the main reason. Yes, I agree with you that it's a totally different experience, but maybe not enough to stop going to the arcades when one can play for "free" at home or friends' house. This is the first step in killing the arcades. The second step is the internet and portable gaming/mobile as an alternate pastime for kids.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_game
[2] http://inflationdata.com/inflation/inflation_rate/long_term_... (not sure the credibility of the site, but I'm sure the average inflation rate in US isn't too much different)
>"What does it provide that the iPad currently does not provide?"

Not having to be tied to the Apple ecosystem. It's the only reason I own slightly inferior Android devices.
The biggest problem that GNU/Linux faces on the desktop is that people think GNU/Linux faces big problems on the desktop.

(It doesn't.)
This is a great idea. The extension can be something like DIIGO does - highlight parts of the agreements that are deemed important or critical to consumer + provide snapshots of the TOS/Privacy policy whenever there are changes.
It's not that surprising to me. My friends and I compared offers out of college and then didn't talk at all about salary for over a decade. A couple years ago, I started asking around when I was considering a job offer. I found out that we were making anywhere from 60k to 115k! We all had the same years of experience (~12 years). We all had different specialties, but that didn't really seem to matter. The guys who stuck with one job at a small-to-medium company seemed to do the worst--five percent raises don't exactly cause your salary to skyrocket. Those of us who worked at big companies did better, probably because the big companies make an effort to do salary surveys and pay competitive wages. Those of us who worked for consulting firms or changed jobs a few times did the best.