skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK— last post on this. If you think it's a CIA conspiracy trying to undermine Wikileaks, this rape charge is part of that story. Obviously that's in question, which is why it's not possible to think of this as obviously inappropriate.
Thanks csense. We had a lot of conversation about the colors. What colors would you use instead of orange for the pricing&sign-up button? Also: do you understand what the product does based on homepage icons?
Yes, the Qaddafi association probably isn't doing them any favours.
I've come to accept that I "start over" because I like to keep learning. I love- no I need - to fight new problems and learn new domains. From physics to teaching to sailing to jiu-jitsu to (web) programming to business (which I thought, arrogantly, was going to be rather simple) it's what my brain craves.

It's a curse in some ways. It seems to me that my ego is under far more attack than it should be at my age, as I am never the deep-knowledge expert about any topic. And I don't bluff very well.

On the other hand, I can't seem to have it any other way. It's probably a form of arrogance: "Of course I can do that, hand me that [chalk | gi | keyboard | main sheet | ...]

I imagine we are a lot alike.
I've enjoyed the recent 5-hour ENERGY ad about how many doctors approve of their product. A whopping 73% of doctors recommend low calorie energy products... when measuring the percent of those who recommend energy products.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCqT3fdAAHQ

While there are abusive uses like push polls and leading questions, there are legitimate uses too.
With ICANN opening up .[anything] to the highest bidders this kind of situation is only going to get worse. Stick with the global TLDs and the major (stable) country codes.
This is where the "learn a language in a different paradigm" advice comes in. And do a non-trivial project in it. It shouldn't be enormous, but it needs to be non-trivial.
hi tinko12, we do Cage and it's really cool. However they focus much more on collaboration. Board is browser extension designed to help you save images in a pinterest-like way but with private boards.
> In some circles, this is called keeping it real. Open source should not require such artifice if we have a meritocracy.

On the other hand, maybe all great luminaries started out as aggressive self-promoters (picture accomplished performers busking on the street in their younger days).

The extent to which people need to self-promote to establish themselves is an indicator of whether or not such circles are subject to Reputation Bubbles.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1514688
I was expecting the first comment to be something like "because you are a jackass" but then I realized that I'm not reading Reddit.
Why is that question interesting? To me, it's like asking why water is wet. "Good people" leave "good jobs" for an unimaginably large array of reasons. I've left good jobs to go back to school, to start a company, to take time off, because I was bored, etc.
Thanks...Are you a designer?
They don't seem to support https, so no.
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I've seen this pattern a lot, particularly in websites for picking reservation dates (airlines, vacation homes, cars, etc...). It's very useful in that case, and I find that it's much easier for me to keep track of what I've entered that way.
It's better than you miss out on a top performer than it
is to hire someone into a senior position who turns out
to be a bozo.

Is it possible that this model stops working when you get to have tens of thousands of employees and you've scoured the planet looking for people that you end up empty-handed, so you have to increase your risk tolerance for bozos if it means you can hire a top performer?

I guess google knows better than I about their hiring practices but it seems like they have probably taken more risks in these later years than they did when they had only 1000 employees.
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No matter what happens .com will always be King.
I don't know that there is one, I just meant "better" from a branding perspective. Interesting question though, I'd love to know if there was TLD-specific bumps.
The old hiring slogan, which they used in the MSFT hiring and hammered even harder in hiring manager training was, "As hire As; Bs hire Cs."
It's called Svbtle. (http://svbtle.com)
It's a long shot, but you could try calling the CEO,
Jon Karlung
Phone: +46 (0)761 110160 (this is a cell phone, so there is a chance he's not away from it even though the time is closing in on 1 AM over here)

Alternatively, same reasoning with the CEO of Bahnhof Unipessoal Lda:
Johnny Aspman
Phone: +46 (0) 76 111 01 02

I hope you will get help sorting this out as soon as possible, but I would add that unless you signed up for 24/7 duty service, I don't think you are being quite fair to the provider; so far you are getting exactly what they declared you would: Phone support 08:00-18:00 CEST, weekdays.

Good luck!
I've actually taken it even further and bumped up to 4x+ to account for zooming as well. Especially for charts.
The suffering caused by many kinds of bozo managers is evil, though there are also the depredations of well-meaning bozos.

Much of life is livelihood, so I don't think morality can be or should be precluded from such discussions.
Oh damn got me too! I don't see a problem with enforcing design consistency rules however, probably why it flew over my head.
Hacker News endless scroll ^(Tamper|Grease)Monkey$ hack
I'm proud to release a basic Tampermonkey and Greasemonkey extension enabling to endless scroll on Hacker News without page refresh. Just install the code, and whenever you visit the Hacker News page, you just scroll down to automatically load the next 30 topics.

The code can be downloaded here: http://jsfiddle.net/DqUJt/

It has been tested in Google Chrome only, but I guess it will work in Firefox as well.

A couple of days ago I read two interesting discussions about Hacker News [1, 2]. I'm working now on an extension toolkit for the Hacker News homepage, but I wanted to share this first feature.

I'd love to hear your thoughts! I hope Paul does approve this, because it probably is causing a tiny bandwidth hit...

[1] A Proposal to Improve Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4399108)
[2] Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News.. - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396747
From the article:

All of the great companies I have worked for (Apollo and Sun in various incarnations) or heard about (DEC, PARC, Bell Labs and the like) started around a core of incredible people. These were people who are or were legends in the field.

Since the article talks of success and greatness in moral or intellectual terms, the conversation should not just be a simplistic comparison of money earned... that's not a measure of greatness.
I think this is just thiel putting his money where his mouth is. Anybody who has followed him knows it's no secret that he's spoken out against companies solving small problems and has even implied facebook to be squarely in that camp.
Had no idea this had been submitted, we're working on some interesting things right now and had to put up something temporary on the domain. We'll have lots more to show soon.

Looks like someone got a little eager and prematurely shared this.

christian@paddle.com for any questions.
Oh, you only have one machine in a datacentre?
This article was fantastic! Thanks so much for linking it.

Steve Jobs always said that part of his job was to keep the bozos out and this article explains exactly why.

Every single company I have worked at has been on or past the Bozo Threshold... The author notes that this phenomenon may be limited to technical companies, but I would like to argue that it is not limited to technical companies and may not even be limited to companies at all! This same sort of stupidity can be seen any organization that is around long enough.

A great product is not built by comittee, because committees care too much about FAIRNESS!
I like the design. Minor grammar quibbles. Some of these tag lines read kind of oddly:

>You have 30 days free trial

I'm not sure if this is specific to American English (I notice you're based in Milan), but generally the days are singular when it's modifying a noun (e.g: "A 30 day free trial", not "A 30 days free trial")

>No spam nor general mess with your data. Ever.

"General mess with your data" sounds kind of odd.

Also, kind of funny that you mention you're based in Milan but when I subscribe to your mailing list the address for the company is in London.
> Since the article talks of success and greatness in moral or intellectual terms, the conversation should not simply be a simplistic comparison of money earned... that's not a measure of greatness.

That's an excellent paraphrase of my evidently controversial comment. (And it's arguably better because it avoids use of the emotionally loaded word "evil.")
Perhaps CPA is not the right metric. But a bunch of hype that glosses over the fact that Facebook doesn't really actually make very much money is not the right metric, either.
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Perhaps, which is to say that yes if you don't change you can avoid this fate, but not changing is its own form of death.

One of the amazing things of being at a successful company is that each passing quarter increasing revenue brings a bigger pool to spend on doing things, and there are so many things you want to do. But you can't do everything yourself, and growing means hiring, and hiring means getting larger.

Perhaps if you chose to fork the company at that point, I always wondered what would have happened at Google if they chose to 'slice off' the part that built platforms into its own universe. There are fairly natural dicing and slicing points.

But at Sun there was a huge chasm between the 'systems' folks (aka the SunOS creators) and the 'windows' folks (aka the SunTools guys and gals) and the 'language' folks and of course Sun Labs. Competition between how many DE's came from Systems (old boys club) vs other groups, and such like. I do know that one of the contributors was that Sun had a financial year that went July 1st to June 30th. Budget meetings happened in February for the upcoming fiscal year. Inevitably people would panic in April or May that Sun wasn't going to 'make the year' (meet expectations of Management or the street) and there would be wide adjustments (like hiring freezes). What we noticed was that everytime managers would panic and hire anyone they had interviewed if they could 'fog a mirror' just before the freeze because they knew if they didn't they wouldn't be able to hire for another 4 - 6 months. There were some quality issues with those hires.
I know; I was replying to this comment: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4406302

Orion was intended to be safe for humans, as long as the G-forces of the pulsed detonations were kept in check.
The reddit admin team (edit: the reddit community manager) just posted a blog about this today. I assume that means they have some kind of arrangement.

http://blog.reddit.com/2012/08/university-of-reddit-explore-...
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Dangling kids over things did not go as well for Michael Jackson. This may not be the best idea...
An event horizon means there is no going back, not that you are actually in the black hole. Although Microsoft may have continued to put out innovative products and create shareholder value after 1992, the company is now run by a textbook bozo. It must be depressing for people who actually know a thing or two about computer science.
Ultimately it's a choice between:

* Getting an inferior .com domain/brand

* Getting a better brand with a wacky .com name ("getxyz.com")

* Getting a better brand with an "exotic" extension

* Spending a ton of money

The exotic extension seemed the least sucky option at the time. I'm not sure that "voostapp.com" (or whatnot) is more easily found than "voo.st", it's still a trip to google.

The big surprise (to me) is that NICs can fail so spectacularly. I really didn't expect this. It might have changed our decision a year ago... but we're pretty much stuck with it now.
"bazaar" is pretty much an english word by now.
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phk how dare you question autoconf, libtool and package collections. Simplicity? Are you kidding? Nothing is simple. Simlicity is HARD. You are a grumpy old man. Leave us kids alone, we're having fun.

End sarcasm.

I can compile my bloated BSD kernel loaded down with every available driver I'll never need in a fraction of the time it takes me to compile Firefox: that is, measured in _minutes_. On an underpowered computer it can take _days_ to compile Firefox with all its supposed dendencies. I say supposed because no one is really sure. It's too much work to check and really find out.

Anyway, negative coding has been outlawed. It's inconsiderate. Even if you found something that could be removed, you would sacrafice every ounce of your karma if you dared to remove it.

End more sarcasm.

The FreeBSD ports collection, like OpenBSD's or pkgsrc is black box.

Unfortunately, with that last line, I'm dead serious.

My solution to autoconf and libtool is to run make >log 2>log2 and then do some sed transformations on the logs to produce my own "compile script". Sometimes I even change libtool's script to make the "quiet" flag do what the "verbose" flag does, so it can't hide anything it's doing. I then save my "compile script" for the next time I need to compile the program on that type of system.

One of my todo projects is to analyse the sum total of *BSD patches, looking for patterns. One of my pet peeves is having to make patches just to compile a program on the each BSD. Silly little MI differences that totally defeat automation and require silly little patches even for the simplest of programs.

Anyway, you can't say that the youth has completely abandoned "traditions" from ye olde UNIX, no matter how much they seem to hate "old things". They stand by the old relics of autoconf and libtool year after year and even vigorously defend using them.

The reason they can't replace these crusty old things is because they refuse to put in the effort to learn how they work. If you want to build a better mousetrap, first you have to understand how the old ones work, and specifically how and where they could be improved.
> Of course, for some crazy reason consumer hardware often has fiber audio jacks. People are weird.

"Optical" audio connections are more about noise resistance than distance or throughput, especially if you're running cables behind gear with big magnets (speakers) and all that.

(We use optical fibre in electrical substations and switchyards for its resistance to noise and induction; not for the capacity. Most switchroom-switchroom SCADA systems wouldn't saturate 10Mbit Ethernet!)
Fiber audio (TOSLINK) isn't for bandwidth or even distance (both suck on TOSLINK for the record), but for allowing a ground isolated digital audio connection.

Plus the red LED looks cool.
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I wish this had a dedicated team of paid developers working on it. It could go places I don't think Coursera would necessarily go.

Some things I'd like to see added:

- some sort of improved notification system for announcing new lessons and assigments and mass messaging your students. Perhaps something a little more prominent than the current OrangeRed messages? Having a separate alert for new lectures would be cool.

- a well written guide and list of resources for lecturers. Step by step directions on how to do stuff like set up a wordpress blog or a subreddit or even a dropbox would probably be a good idea for non technical folks. The existing "Help" link is broken, so I'm not quite sure what is offered.

- The ability to embed pictures, diagrams, equations and charts into reddit self posts would be cool. Markdown supports it but it doesn't seem like Reddit does. Maybe raise the character limit so that an entire lesson could fit into a self post on Reddit itself instead of forcing a lecturer to link to an external blog? Some sort of collapse and expand system on top of Markdown would be cool too!

I'd love to help with this.
I guess other things being equal, employers would prefer employees who they think will stay with them longer. I mean I would if I were an employer. But other things are not equal, and I am not sure how important this consideration is.
Definitely worth watching -- it has rare footage of test launches with models and interviews with guys who actually worked on the project.
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I think it depends on the candidate's situation. If they had a series of 1-2 year stints at companies that were interrupted by the company going out of business I wouldn't hold that against them because it could just be bad luck.

If they were laid off repeatedly (with the company still surviving) it would make me question why their name always seemed to make it onto the layoff list.

If they changed jobs repeatedly every 1-2 years because they were bored then I'd be leery because I wouldn't be able to trust that I could give them responsibility or factor them into long range plans without them getting bored and leaving.

As a manager I would consider two years to be the minimum commitment for full time employment. If you (the candidate, in general) leave before then without extenuating circumstances I would probably skip over your resume the next time it landed on my desk down the road regardless of how much of a rock star you were.

Searching for candidates is an expensive, time-consuming process, I don't want to do it when I wasn't expecting to. Especially to fill a position that I recently filled.
No, its not true. Regularly saturating a 1Gbps Ethernet port is quite possible on many systems, and happens often in datacenter installations.

The bottleneck is really the computer buses (memory included) and implementation of protocols.
The problem with most workplaces is that they are so big one or more persons efforts go unnoticed. I worked at a fairly large media conglomerate a while back and there were 4 people in the front-end development team, 3 people in the systems administrators team and 4 people in the backend development team. The issue with the front-end team I was in was that the guy who had been there the longest and had reached a point where he would delegate most of the work to people did nothing but got all of the credit. Occasionally some of us "other" devs would get a collective thank you, but this one developer who wasn't very good and had been there for 4 years prior got the special treatment and it caused the entire team to continuously reshuffle and it continues to do so long after I've been there (so I hear).

There are two things employers need to do to keep good workers: pay them what they're worth, if they're doing a great job and contributing to the business pay them for their dedication and hard-work, make their life easier (especially if they have a mortgage and family to feed). And lastly, make your employees feel trusted and valued. It's not always about money, but it is 50% of the total equation that equals a happy employee.
> 2. They haven't found a way to make advertising work on mobile, an increasing part of their visits.

And herein is the problem: Apple - Apple is so against advertising that they created their own iAd network to keep other companies out of the game (it doesn't have to really be a success - just enough to keep devs off competing ad networks).

As long as Apple is influential in the mobile world, Google and Facebook are going to have a tough time with mobile ads... do consumers actually want ads? Apple is betting no, and as far as they're concerned - screw the devs and advertisers.
Looking at the bigger picture of login/auth, timing might easily tell you the difference between valid and invalid usernames (information that you would not normally expect to leak from login)

A clumsy password implementation may give away information about valid password rules, imagine a system that validates passwords for length/complexity etc. (either before or after hashing) and rejects based on that, without comparing the hash values (or worst case, without even performing the hash) again more information has been leaked in the timing.
I'm curious to know what bad personal experiences you've had in conducting surveys to dismiss them completely. When was the last time you ran a survey and why did it fail to deliver the results you were expecting?

Also, please can you take it easy on the tone? See this discussion - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396747

Edit: Analysing server logs can tell you what people did, not why they did it. At least in my experience, surveying users directly about their motivations and needs has been very enlightening and resulted in a direct increase in sales.
Part of the disconnect may be down to industry norms. For instance, it's probably a little unusual to stick around a tech startup for 7+ years.

That said, I have colleagues who have worked in my current company (startup) for 5+ years. However, they are certainly the exception and not the norm.

IME, it's unusual to see a resume wherein almost the entirety of a senior engineer's experience is from 1 organization. I've even heard it described as a potential weakness.
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In my personal experience being a bozo or not has less to do with the technical/non-technical skill and more to do with motivation.

Motivation is what drives people even dummies to excel. And that's sometimes a coin flip. You will see stars perform poorly because they don't enjoy the environment or the specific task they are given.

When there's no motivation even a "star" will just procrastinate and be unhappy until he either quits or conform. When conformed unmotivated people outnumber the motivated ones that's when you are doomed.
There's going to be a point where it'll be impossible for new businesses to choose a domain name that isn't abstracted so far away from their business name as all the domains are taken. I'm curious as to the what the system will be like in 5 years. Surely .com can't be king forever?
It's not just the graph. Intent is very fleeting. You can't know "instantaneous intent" from someone's history and graph (e.g. what will be my next Google query?)

More about this point on my blog if you're interested:
http://diegobasch.com/facebook-and-twitter-dont-know-what-yo...
And? Same would apply to .com.
> it's pretty clear that the only objective is selling me a new iPad+iPhone every year as this year's iOS always runs like crap on last year's hardware

Nothing against a good conspiracy theory, but if you truly think this is intentionally planned then this thought is a bit … dumb.
There really should be screenshots of the app, especially since there's no free trial.
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if TV is the model facebook should acquire synchtube.
Good for you, OP (site is down so I can't try your app at the moment).

orangethirty: as someone who is learning programming and trying to ship something as well (but running into the difficulties you alluded to), your post is very encouraging.
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Title seems misleading. The actual reasons listed are more like, why people leave bad jobs.
"facts" are not the primary use case for language.
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Yeah I think that is what I am saying.
If it's just for uploading files, I would (if you haven't already) seriously consider your options for just building it into the web app.

Otherwise, I'd vote Qt/C++ as I've seen quite a few solid, fast apps built on this platform, though I'm not a C++ dev.
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