skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An all-day interview gives the potential employee a chance to learn a great deal more about the company, than they would have in a standard length interview. In this case, it's worked perfectly. The potential employee has seen/heard enough to know he won't fit in. There's not always enough time to work that out in a normal interview time frame.
Well we know why. I pissed off one of the cool kids. That's crime enough.
You might want to check out earbits.com (YC funded) and get in contact
with Joey Flores. He's a great person and knows the industry a whole
lot better than the vast majority of the HN crowd.
How to get your first 1000 players
Astro Teller: Getting Started On a Big Idea
Here we go:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2971521
Some day in the distant future perhaps there will actually be a non-photoshop 100% psd compatible editor. I thought I could just tell my designer to do File -> Export Layers as PNG, but that command in Photoshop is intentionally broken, churning for several minutes before producing even the first of many output files. In the meantime, while I like seeing how far Gimp has come, it just isn't an option for me.
People can not even code something trivial. I seen it too many times myself as well.
Right -- so this whole thread is essentially people trying to troll him, which I didn't understand until reading the rest of the context and postings on other 37S articles. (and Groupon early days was fine). I assumed it was brought up because it was relevant to now.
And she has the top media company in the tech industry trying to take her down.

TechCrunch isn't anything close to a "top media company." TC is a shitty blog run by a bunch of amateurs who should be lucky enough to be referred to as "wannabe journalists." TC exists to whore for page impressions and ad clicks, nothing more. The best thing to do is pretend they don't exist... quit reading TC, quit sending them "news", quit responding to their bullshit, etc.
No, they are not "kooks", nor am I, and far from unintentionally making the reference I am pointing it out.

It is a perfectly rational phenomenon that history depends on generational cycles.

No, there is no magic claimed, or involved, and this "all these cycle-meisters (a subset of woo-meisters or just plain frauds) always say that the crisis is near. Always. Their magical cycle theories never predict a distant crisis" is pure, unfounded name-calling.

It is obvious that you have not given even a cursory reading of S & H's writing before concluding "it's crap".

If generations are "arbitrary constructs" then I take it you do not think "boomer" means anything? Welcome to the real world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss-Howe_generational_theo...
Link to abstract: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6097/951.abstract
did it again adding the last step (switching to other app), still there though - Lion 10.7.4
Thanks for that link. FTL: Hacker News is operated by a company, Y Combinator, which has a significant financial incentive to censor or promote the links and discussion posted on the site that relate to Y Combinator-funded startups (or competitors of them).

Haven't seen much discussion about this HN flaw. Interesting...
Why IPv6 specifically?
If you need to be FIPS 140 compliant, you probably don't need a blog post to show you how to password protect files with GPG.

As a technical solution for encrypting data, GPG is peachy.
I forgot to mention, only the Source should be able to send to the multicast address.

Also, the cost of a new multicast address should be negligible (e.g. $0.01). Instead, charge for incoming traffic on that multicast address from the Source.
Suppose you're right, that even with lowered tuition other factors don't go down enough for many people to afford it. This means they don't go to college, this doesn't mean they don't get an education, especially if they're already motivated to learn, and especially in the US where even the homeless can get free access to the internet if they really need it. In your scenario, if the job market continues its insistence on Bachelor's degrees they will find a quickly shortening supply and will have to loosen up that requirement to stay competitive.

As a compromise I'd support giving every US citizen a free netbook and rolling out free public wifi that only routes to a subset of the internet with each site hand-approved (or with a sufficiently clever algorithm from Google or someone else) to be "of public utility for learning" rather than entertainment. No facebook, no porn, no games, and education sites will have to host their own videos instead of using youtube (or an education-only youtube clone can appear), at least if they want the free users to see it. If you want the full internet, pay for it, which we already do. (Very inexpensive all things considered.)
Now we just need invites!
he says he loves the Django ORM. This is typically predictive of a poor response to SQLAlchemy's model :)
what the hell.. this thread is certainly being derailed very quickly.

discredit the facts in the story, not the guy who hired the guy who used to run the site or whatever
Because I need a lot of multicast addresses (hundreds to thousands). IPv4 has a very limited pool and they're hard to get a hold of, which is why I'm looking at IPv6 solutions.

I'd be happy to use IPv4, but I suspect the cost would be prohibitive, assuming it was feasible at all.
From the date in the blog post, it seems you got things backwards;
after getting hellbanned, he created lobsters.

https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...
That's great, except the research he is funding is pointless. String theory is not science, as there is no way to prove it. It is an overly complicate mess of mumbo-jumbo that lacks the elegance of other theories in physics such as relativity and electromagnetism.
I think I see your point but you have to admit you haven't really established a foundation for your argument. You seem to feel (and I may be wrong of course) that one person selecting a fairly secure pass phrase once would be much more secure at any single point in time rather than a hap-hazard, dictionary based pass phrase that in comparison would be likely trivial to compromise at that same point of time. If that is indeed your point you do convey a valid point.

I just ask that if you advertise this method as somehow ideal then please allow for your audience to appreciate it as it is, an "if all else fails it's better than nothing" approach.
The only way I can see this happening is if dotcom bust 2.0 happens (or major changes in tax code, macro economy, etc), employees totally write off the value of equity, and companies switch to profit sharing payouts. Cash salary is more directly relevant, though, with some guarantee of payout -- quitting a safe $100k/yr job for a $20k/mo job at a startup with $20k in the bank, maybe not.

Companies would also pick vendors based on financial stability, for which profit is probably a major factor, although cash in the bank would also be.

Or maybe it would happen if investment rules relaxed and private equity (Private Equity or direct investment like second market in non-public companies) happened, as communicating financials to lots of investors would still be relevant.
Presumably, what you have to do isn't as important nor as time demanding as what the president has to do.
His answer about Internet freedom was not to the point, sounded more like standard blank political talk without essence.
I do this already with my father as a hobby. We build muzzle loaders and flint lock rifles because they look cool and we just put them in a display somewhere. It's not that difficult to make rifles at home.
I think you might be looking for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxk8b9rSKOo
I'm a very staunch gun rights supporter. I've owned about a dozen weapons over the years, fired many more since I was a child, and hold a Tennessee carry permit (good in 38 states). I've taken numerous handgun and rifle classes and donate to the NRA.

With that said, I'm still very frightened by the potential of weapon manufacturing through 3D printing. If and when it becomes effective and economic at producing firearms, nefarious institutions will not hesitate to produce them in mass quantities, no matter what the law says. And I don't like it. I support gun rights for law abiding citizens, not criminals. Obviously some no-brainer laws such as restrictions due to prior felony convictions would become impossible to enforce.

I have spent some time considering how to prevent this eventual situation and am at a real loss. File sharing's history has made it very clear that laws and technology cannot stop economically interested parties from finding and exploiting loopholes and weaknesses.

Does anyone have any ideas how we could prevent this technology from being used to arm would be felons or dangerous individuals?
Realistically the Internet isn't going to support multicast, so it probably makes more sense to reframe this as some kind of CDN overlay.
This can't be true.
This is a dismayingly flippant comment, and I'm particularly disappointed that you of all people should have made it. Would you be more relieved if our executive branch were entirely composed of people who are completely disengaged from the internet at a social level?
There's no good reason to use MySQL over PostGres these days.
Completely agree. Web development is simple, but it's not that simple. Relationships between tables, and the ability to normalize and aggregate data are very useful, even for web development.
pretty funny to read your elitis tirade there considering that a lot of these blogs are also startups with founders, CEO's, employees, investors etc.
Nope, incorrect.

You are muddling up causation correlation and misinformation here.

Firstly in 3 world economies,skilled labor is a minor section of total available work. Most of the work is manual labor, or artisan ship.

There is simple rational actor logic that makes the correct conclusion that more children means more security.

Add in strong family bonds, a focus on ensuring a male child to carry on your legacy and you have the basis for a pop boom.

All developing economies see children as units of labor. The argument that giving aid is somehow an enabling action is, well,,somewhat funny.

Here is the logic : high infant mortality, low comtraception availability, no family planning, lack of access to loans, children as force multipliers, the need for a male son, male children's obligation to take care of their parents in their old age make the calculus pretty simple.

It's been a while since I read the research on it, but it's there on the web. Search for population dynamics and developing/third world economies I guess.
Yes, the testing/deployment cycle for Enterprise is totally different. We usually release a major version with new features every two/three months, and 2 or 3 minor versions with bug fixes in between.

We always keep the version of github synchronized with master for development/testing, although we only release master directly in major releases. For minor releases we avoid to include major features from github to keep it as much stable as possible.
It's kind of sad how quickly people seem to have forgotten this.
I am inspired. I just did the same as an experiment. We'll see how it goes...
I assume you mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay_multicast
The gaming school of romance: How video games view dating, love, and marriage
>On other systems I would waste days after days of my life to set things up 'just the way I want' only to find that it's never gonna be quite that way. Macs just let me accept the things as they are and get back to work.

This. It's almost as if Linux is a collection of parts and tools from which a sufficiently good designer can build a usable desktop whereas OS X is a usable desktop. That's an exaggeration, but for me there is some truth to it.

Note that Linux was my only desktop from 1997 through 2009.
Yesterday's update, 0.8.2, added support for them: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups=#...
Well, it changed sometime between his campaign and his inauguration, so what's unreasonable about hoping it changed again...?
That is a completely fair point. What is the difference?

I see it as 'who is being scammed' and what is the harm done.

Now in the kid's case he did use AOL resources which, had he not, they would have been used on AOL employees (thinking mostly food here, the energy/light/water usage is probably flat rate like it is in my facilities). He did not do monetary damage to AOL, nor reputational damage (he didn't represent his work as being part of AOL or represent himself as an AOL representative to potential partners or investors).

In Shirley's case she allegedly convinced some people she would be able to connect them with potential investors or advisers when in fact she could not. For a startup founder that can make them think there is some additional outreach going on that isn't. If the founder feels like outreach is critical to the startups ability to succeed and they find they have squandered time, their most precious resource, with this person who couldn't deliver then I could see them feel betrayed. If you hire (and pay) a PR firm to get your message out and they say they can get you into the New York Times or Inc or whatever and it turns out they can't and never could, you may be inclined to not pay them (and possibly sue them if you had already paid them).

So one is 'freeloading' (the kids case) and one is fraud (Shirley's case). I see it as the difference between saying you have a million dollars in your checking account when you don't, versus writing a check for a million dollars when you don't have it. Shopping yourself into photos feels more like the latter to me, but unless you're actually paying for her services your not financially harmed.

I think asking the hypocrisy question is completely valid. Where does this behavior cross the line from 'white lie' into 'fraud'?

In my post I really was commenting on people trying suppress conversation that is painful through peer pressure. Conflict avoidance is a huge problem in society, it lets problems grow into bigger problems. I was not particularly passing judgement on Shirley's actions, although in all honestly when I read the TC article I did feel sympathy for the folks who were misled, and I didn't feel nearly as much angst for the AOL folks who didn't realize the guy was living in their office.

The kid's motivations were pretty clear, do you happen to have any insights into Shirleys? I'll admit I accepted the implication that she does this just to prop up her own self image, but recognize that conclusion isn't completely supported by what we know. Motive does play a huge part in how the two stories get positioned.

(This comes back to my comment in that previous thread : When evaluating a series of events involving grey areas its always useful to try to understand the principles that are in play. Different sets of principles would lead you down two different paths.)
"Booom! You've been inspired. You've a big idea. Yeah? Now what?" - Astro Teller shares a few of his mantras that help him to make through challenging times.

A blog entry that provides a summary of the talk: http://www.agilord.com/en/radar/2012/08/astro-teller-getting...
Study: Bing And Yahoo Search Share Largest On Internet Explorer Browser
using legality as an ethical corollary doesn't really cut it for me. you're invoking "the worst argument in the world" as seen here on hn.

(http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_worst_argument_in_the_world/)

now. there is a difference between those two articles.

just ask yourself: who would i invest in? the guy deceiving to work more, or the guy working to deceive more? no contest.
Pretty sure the joke is they're using reddit at work. It's a common reddit joke.
First, we get the Samsung nickel hoax posted, and now this?

Did I miss something? It doesn't say April 1st on my calendar.
The TextEdit behavior might actually be the OS silently closing an unused application that implements the necessary hooks for saving state and indicating when clean-up is required on termination. That behavior was introduced in 10.7, but IIRC, can be disabled by the user.
This comment is needlessly mean and dismissive and doesn't belong on HN.
Adam was a SINGLE, male, white, young, healthy, 25-yr old who worked mostly in construction during a construction boom (iirc).

FYI: I have not read this book, but have read reviews of it.

Anyway, the main point here is that lots of poor people with average willpower remain poor because life is just too tough for them. Nobody is saying that it is impossible for a poor person with above-average willpower to become rich.

There is no prejudice against the middle-class person with average willpower who remains middle-class. Why should we shower contempt on the poor who possess only average willpower?
Don’t be that guy: The noob-hater
Someone sent me an invite – thanks!
So your complaint is the POTUS should've come to the AMA with more time to spend, hunted down "better" questions to answer, and then spent more time thoroughly answering the questions.

Someone else's complaint is going to be, why is the POTUS wasting his time and our tax dollars with reddit?

Someone else's complaint is going to be that reddit's lucky POTUS gave them any of his time and that reddit was not appropriately prepared for the server load.

Etc.. Can't please everyone.
No one who has an ounce of meaning and dignity in their life would take the time out of their day to photoshop their face next to a celebrity.

Pretty much anyone who does that is fucking crazy. Maybe they're not "take your company down" crazy, but they're crazy.
It is part of a holistic effort. So worry not.

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The point of humanity is to control our destiny and not be left to the vagaries of nature.

Do note : it was assumed that people were on the same page about certain things and they need not be discussed.

For example: so far this discussion has never considered the reasons which lead to the poverty in the first place.

Since you are in disagreement, with the soundness of humanitarian goals, the scope of the discussion changes, quite dramatically.

Does india get redressal for the food and raw materials stolen during British rule?

Do we get repatriation for people sold into slavery?

Can we launch counter attacks on countries which benefited from this? Do we have a claim on GDP output from the UK/France and Portugal?

Your theory of least misery is under the utilitarian school of jurisprudence. It's limits are the same. It fails for situations where actions are unjust but create beneficial outcomes for the majority.

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What you are inherently arguing for is using your comparative advantages and somehow letting a portion of people die of starvation, Intentionally.

That is heinous. It is not intellectually sound or risqué,
it is "let them eat cake", just couched in other terms.

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You haven't consider the complexities on the ground and have in general hand waved them away. That's being rhetorically empty. Your last comment was that the problems are intractable.

No the problems are hard. Extremely extremely hard.

But thats what entrepreneurship is about - finding the solution to hard problems.
Failing at Google Interviews
May be its just too personal when you manipulate people ? As I remember, that kid was using his already expired id card to use the premises not lying outright that he is an employee to everyone.
Yup, email is a distracting compulsion. And make no mistake, it is just that.

For my sanity, I have email notifications turned off on my phone, so I only get new messages when I explicitly open the app (which I still find I do much too often). Definitely helps.
Doesn't behave typically on Windows 7 either. Clicking the window close button doesn't close the app, it closes the currently open document. Also, ALT+F4 doesn't close the app either, just the current document. This is in single-window mode where closing the window should close the app.

Fortunately CTRL-Q does what it's supposed to.

Oh, and great job GIMP folks. I love GIMP and recommend it often. I've even tried to convince some folks to stop using illegal Photoshop copies and switch to GIMP instead (so far I have a 0% conversion rate).
Its certainly not "lying many times to many different powerful people" and deserving a big TC article. I once photoshopped a friend of mine next to George Clooney as a joke - where's my TC article?

We have no idea where those photos are from, or what she claimed when she posted them, or even if she was the one who photoshopped them, or a friend did or a stranger. There's no context to them, and no claims in the article that she ever said "I met Justin Timberlake". It's just innuendo even having them there.

It does seem like she does hang out with some famous people, as her Twitpic has pics of Rick Fox, Jack Dorsey, and others sitting around in casual contexts. Couldn't find the photoshopped pics though.
A splash screen that can't be minimized, hidden, or covered up with a useful window is definitely broken behavior. I think it can only be implemented by abusing APIs meant for screensavers and full-screen games.
i thought it was mentioned many startups paid for her contracting services because of her so called connections. as far as I'm concerned thats fraud.
Haha, poor Macro. Look at his comment history: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Macro
Why Can't Someone Do An Airline Startup Like Apple?
Not sure I follow. I don't take time off to "check" my email. When I get an email, I get a notification. I open it up, respond, and get back to what I was doing. Where's the time lost in this?
The similarity is unintended. We are a group of programmers, and so we picked up a theme from themeforest for now. We are working on a better design for the site.
Here's what people like kamaal probably think to that sob story (which is sad, no doubt, but I find myself thinking the same thing): is it really that difficult to make a small volume, where you put important things, waterproof? I grew up in a fairly conservative part of the US, and I was in boyscouts when I was younger (only achieved my First Class), I know it's not that hard and children can do it. Same with making a bridge.

If you've never watched the Vice Guide to Liberia (http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/the-vice-guide-...) you should. One of the things that stood out to me when reflecting on it is the very first few seconds when they're crossing stagnate water likely containing disease and insects carrying disease. There are nevertheless trees around and lots of dirt--why no bridges? In West Point, why no latrines and toilet pits near or on the beach? Why is there so much systematic incompetence?

In the US at least much of the systematic incompetence comes from the fact many homeless people have some form of mental illness. You can excuse these people and by all means help them, some can even become quite "normal" and productive if they have access to medication that helps keep them stable. The rest? It's hard to find much pity for them.

I don't think my attitude here is particularly "conservative" either, but more due to an engineering personality. If there's a problem, fix it. Unfortunately many poor people give in (through culture, religion, or something else) to a sort of defeatism or general acceptance of their suffering, and those that are theoretically capable of imagination and problem solving nevertheless shirk from it. That's what is truly depressing to me.
>It’s like reading a middle school girl’s diary.

Exactly this. There was no point to the story. Sure, I'll buy that the lady is a headcase/creeper or whatever. But that's it? No real crimes detailed or list of people screwed over? It was just a finger-pointing "hate this person right here" piece.

Cyberbullying doesn't just happen to kids.