skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a horrible job once (Hard job, low pay, horrible bosses) where I spent the day basically counting time. "Ok, If I drill this hole it takes 15 seconds, so if I drill ten holes thats 150 seconds, or two minutes and 30 seconds closer to when I get to go home." The days were very very slow but when I got home I swear I merely had to blink and my free time would be up and it was time to go to bed and live in anxiety about having to repeat it the next day.

Now I am in my dream job (not much really, I am a software developer in the aircraft industry) but the day is very different. I feel just as relaxed at work as I am at home. I dont mind being at work and when I come home its very much different from before.

I dont think you stress out from looking at the clock too much. I think you looks at the clock too much because you are stressed and that heightens the stress levels.
In Good to Great, Jim Collins talks about how he was surprised to discover the opposite of the typical, gregarious CEO. He found that CEOs building great companies that last were quiet, modest, and humble and attributed company success to others rather than drawing attention to him/herself.

A model for that for me is Tony Hsieh. He's a quiet, thoughtful guy, and he's always talking about luck and attributing Zappos's success to the company's values, not his own genius.
If I was given the task to integrate cow herds in a computer game, my first instinct would be BOIDS/flocking, adding in weights for wind velocity and sun. It's fast and lends itself to predictable behaviour which is beneficial to the player.

It may not necessarily be realistic but then most players won't be familiar with cow movements.
Modding seems very 'credit-heavy' and it can be difficult to get credit for your work when a bigger, better team can simply fork your code and call it their own. Then again I don't have any experience in this field so I could be completely off-target.
Sellers of preloaded Linux laptops. LinuxCertified, System76, etc.
Take a look at Rypple too, they're a social performance tool Salesforce bought with a lot of ideas that were neat. You might be able to go pretty far with badging and achievements here. I'd think trying to "replace" a report card might work well.
I'm a tad disappointed by the abstracts associated with each submission; in effect, what's called the body is in fact the abstract and what's called the abstract is in fact the body. Still, an amusing project.
This will always be free for schools and students.

College admissions (especially the not top-50 colleges) spend a lot of money convincing students to come to their school. We hope to give them a very targeted avenue to reach out and recruit students. You're right...this is a really important issue.
When I make software on my own, I really care about every detail and I'm focused on making my users happy. I'm thinkng in both low level and the big picture.

When I do software for money I often just want to quickly do what's required from me. My motivation is more "getting it done" and less "making user's happy". I'm thinking "how to implement requirenment A" instead of "how to best solve user's problem A". Another big factor is that I don't have full responsibility. If some parts of the UI can be improved I often don't care - I'm not responsible for that, convincing my manager that the UI sucks just isn't worth it.
I'm curious what the plan is for that $200 million. Obviously Square is printing money at this point, but what other direction do they see to move out from mobile payments?

My guess is maybe they are going to go after other parts of the small biz segment like making e-commerce easier and so on. Ultimately, if Square can get 3% off the top of every transaction a business makes for the vast majority of businesses, there is a lot of money to be made for sure.
Yes, but they add up, and the rest is harder to automate.
Ask HN: where could I find a data dump of HN'S posts for research purposes?
I'd like to research on the way we behave at HN. I don't want to scrap all HN as I think others have done it before and don't want to mess with the servers.
I'm just not sure what sort of position you are looking for, which is why its going to be near impossible to tell you the magic word that will keep your resume out of the trash bin.

I will tell you from personal experience, its a daunting task reviewing resumes.

I believe that most have it right, if you want into a big player your going to have to figure out the inner workings of the company to figure out how your resume gets to the people in charge.

Its really a numbers game, don't get discouraged and send your resume out a hundred times over. Tailor it to each position you are trying to get. If you want a backend dev position, then make sure your resume looks like your a backend dev. Also try to figure out what recruiter companies the business are working with. Every company uses recruiters, figure out who they are using and get in the door with them first. find out how many people they have placed at said company. If they havent placed anyone there then you probably don't have that big of a chance. However, if they have placed someone there before, then try to get some inside info as to what the managers are looking for.

Hiring managers are more likely to give feedback to recruitment managers than directly to the candidate. Candidates tend to get emotional when told they don't have the position. No one wants to deal with that.

Another thing to do is to work with a professional tech resume writer. Your a professional developer, not a professional writer. Have a professional take a look at your resume to make it clear, concise and to the point and seriously nobody reads a 10 page resume!
As per the recent test, I think a lot of latency issues have become less pronounced. Only in 'Dome Deathmatch' did I really see any glaring movement issues.

There are still plenty of funny movement related issues because of latency, but they don't really affect the game too much.

And it's totally worth it. I sat there laughing for a good long while after someone dumped a jet right into the ground, taking at least 5 people with him.
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"why the show itself gets an equity or royalty stake"

By the way, originally that was not the case it changed at some point. But that's a good thing as it motivates them to a) show follow ups "how are they doing?" (which cause a bump in sales) b) include the company in re-runs (which causes a bump in sales as well (I've correlated it).
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I'm looking for some help developing this front end: http://equationdesigner.appspot.com/
I'm pretty much a n00b when it comes to what web technologies to use, my focus has been the back end.
This is also my first attempt seeking help on HN,
lets hope this GOes well.

I started this project for a group of lake ecologists (GLEON.org), but I think the computer science can be used more broadly.
They may do in the US, but you can't buy it in the UK.
Everything's broken and nobody's doing anything

Surely somebody's doing something! I'm sure if you look around you'll find a lot of people doing a lot of things to fix software quality and improve user experience in software applications.

But, consider what's really broken in the world: food supply, resource depletion, pollution, poverty, crime, violence, war... When I read a title like, "Everything's broken" those are the problems that come into my head. And so, I was disappointed to read your list. It didn't aim high enough for the problems I was considering.

Makes me feel one component what's broken is our priorities and focus. Clearly the priority and focus for the software you're using is not on quality and experience. It seems the software industry has optimized to get-product-out and iterate asap. Ship!

But then, when I consider the larger question of "what's broken?" where I look at the real issues in the world, I come to the same answer: the priority and focus of society is not tilted strongly enough towards fixing those types of big-world problems. Instead, we have so many of our great minds attacking other types of problems.

Generally, when we humans focus and prioritize, we can achieve just about anything we desire.
It's a great book. I bought it when it came out because I love both authors work so much.
S3 wins over iPhone 5 in performance, but there's more to come
So why didn't they just buy Instagram? They had plenty of opportunity to do it. I hope it's not just because they didn't realize its potential against Facebook and its potential to enhance an already very photographer-friendly Google+, because then Google has a problem spotting the high potential businesses.
I'm am complaining not because it sucks, but because I KNOW we can do better.

Yes, I guess that's why we are alone. Most people don't know it can be better. You probably have to be writing software for a a long time to be furious when something is slow or broken in today's hardware.
Google acquires Nik Software; Google+ hits 100million monthly actives
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Unless you have data that suggests otherwise, I wouldn't rely on an additional layer to get to your target demo (the HS students). Adults/teachers/parents have lives, and in HS anything they tell their kids to do isn't "cool".

Somehow you need to emphasize more that a Meriftul account is respected and credible at institutions. Then the kids will be motivated themselves to create these accounts. They need to discover it themselves.

My suggestions on a presentation perspective:

* You should push the "college logos" to the top of the design and immediately emphasize that selling point. Think the mind of a student. They immediately see ivy colleges and will feel inspired it will give them edge. Currently it is just a wall of text and buzz words.

* You should make TWO separate landing pages. One for students and one for mentors. Make the student page 100% student oriented and designed differently -- more fun. Add a button "Are you a mentor? Click Here". The mentor page will be the more professional one.

* That girl can easily pass as a college student/working professional. HS'ers are very groupy and very fun oriented. You should put a group photo up there or something. Example (www.andover.edu). See how much more fun it immediately feels?
Certainly a useful alternative but I can't imagine it will make a dent on the industry. Ultimately there are a huge number of companies that require average developers and can't be bothered to invest their own time into finding them so instead they pay a recruiter a lump sum to do it on their behalf.
This was a relevant post regarding any meeting for a tight-knit team with a focused objective. Which is to say, the one undeniable benefit is uninterrupted, distraction-free communication.

That said, if you're a resource to multiple teams/projects, many meetings just seem to become a sick joke where you talk about everything and do nothing.

P.S. I'm probably just being cynical, but I dislike when I can't tell where the helpfulness stops and the PR starts in these type of posts (company with stake in topic.) No disrespect intended to the OP...
This is all really great advice.
I personally do this, but I do find that, at times, I learn what the time or date is. It does throw me off. I can see benefit, for me, personally, in taking it a step further and removing clocks from my life.
I don't think it's so much technical difficulty as much as it is that you are dealing with metrics that are hard to pin down. For example, how frequently should the UI code be called out to?

I guess that would depend on the speed of the computer it is running on. If it's a very slow computer then stuff is just going to be slow whatever you do , doesn't mean it's crashed.

Otherwise you'd end up with a situation where you have to say "sorry , your computer doesn't meet the minimum requirements to view this webpage".

Also expectations are going to differ depending on the use case. For example if I load up a huge 1GB spreadsheet I can live with the fact that the spreadsheet program is going to be unusable for a minute or two while it loads the data. On the other hand if I click on a link and the page on the other end has a buggy flash applet or whatever then having my browser suddenly lock up is way more frustrating.

I suppose part of this stems from the fact that sometimes a browser is a document reader and sometimes it's an application runtime but there's no way to tell which it should be for a particular page. You could add a header or something but that would just get horribly abused.
This is pretty cool. Instead of creating an individual board game replacement, you've created an enabling technology to open up the whole space and going for a marketplace play.
Got to be said I like the ribbon, going back to LibreOffice on the home Linux box is like heading back to the last century.
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The article doesn't mention http://railsforzombies.org.

Which is a great first tutorial to get some basic with Rails.
Looks like he jumped ship just a bit too early.

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/applications/aggregation/
When I saw this my initial reaction was 'bleh. bloody #firstworldproblems'.

But then it struck me: One man's first world problem is another man's billion dollar company.
You can just buy an OEM copy here. It's cheaper. Just buy a USB stick with it for £1 and you get it for £159 without all the hassle.
Would this have any use for people who are already physically located in the same space?

My players are having trouble keeping up with all their moves and the math for 4e.
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I would have thought Monday was just the day you would want a standup to load everything back into your head from the weekend. Do you have a better way to do that?
At the end of the day, I think A/B testing is utilized more just because it is easier to understand & implement. I would love to utilize something like unbounce for MAB testing, but I haven't seen good MAB frameworks that are ready for the average marketer to use.

It would be nice to have a MAB framework that utilizes MVT so that you could preload 100s of alternates (c2a, headline, copy, images, placement) and see let it go to town.
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> I do dishes as a fitness hack.

What does this even mean? How is this a "hack"? Is vacuuming a "fitness hack"? How about sit-ups? Or walking?
We're actually pretty happy with the name choice. Mvsic should be an easy term to rank for, while also having connotations of "music" to a human reader.

Plus, we think it's simple and elegant, which describes the service. See also: http://svbtle.com and http://svpply.com
Same. Firefox 15, XP.
There are several folks using in in-person via a projector or laptop hooked up to a TV. We're also working on an mobile tablet compatible version.
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It's available for the Kindle or as a hardcover in the German Amazon store if that helps.
What could a job listing do or implement other than listing the job description?

I run a similar website to hackerjobs.co.uk (http://roundabout.io/about) and I'm starting to realise that's not the way forward.
I wonder how much Kindle ownership and home size correlates. I was a strong proponent of owning physical books until about 2 1/2 years ago when I moved into a small Manhattan apartment.

Since then I've bought about 200 e-books and about 5 physical books. I simply don't have the space. I have boxes and boxes of books in storage and I'm now glad that I'm not adding to that.

Playing with some rough numbers into I get about 9 ft^3 for 200 paperback books, it's even worse with hardbacks.

Given the amount of people I see reading on a Kindle in the subway, I wonder how many took the leap just due to size constraints.
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I want to see the candidate's twitter feeds, Facebook pages, LinkedIn profiles, activity on mailing lists and github, etc. and the recruiter has to be happy I'm not going to screw them over with that info.

My Twitter account is anonymous. My Facebook account is for friends and family. You're welcome to look at my LinkedIn and Github profiles, otherwise you can eff off, it's none of your business and I'll walk right out the door if you ask for them.
That strikes me as a fairly low number of requests per second for powerful dedicated hardware. Am I way off here? Is the problem much harder than I think it is?
Yep! We're starting with tabletop RPGs because there is already a large community that is trying to play those online using similar tools, but our eventual goal is to enable anything that can be played via a physical tabletop to be played online. We'd love to eventually partner with publishers so you could be playing (for example) Settlers of Catan with just one click.
Exactly. If you're relying on coroutines not yielding for your synchronization, you're going to get bitten hard. Use per-coroutine data structures and lock when accessing shared structures.

I tend to think about coroutines as threads, never relying on their determinism, as that's not something you can count on, and it's not advertised as one of their features.
Does clicking this link suddenly make me an active user?
I am legitimately curious. What did you do instead?
Are VCs that harsh in reality?
He isn't desperate for a place to work. He already has a job. Like everyone else, he wants to be feel like his work matters. After developing for a long time, I feel like thats what you crave the most. Working with other passionate people, hopefully most can be smarter than you and working on something that is meaningful that you can be passionate about.
"To be honest, the decision to use MongoDb was an ill-thought out one. Lesson learned - thoroughly research any new technology you introduce into your stack, know well the strengths and weaknesses thereof and evaluate honestly whether it fits your needs or not - no matter how much hype there is surrounding said technology."

I think you are not alone in learning this lesson with this particular technology. Fortunately it's one I learned by proxy from working adjacent to a team that decided to introduce Mongo into their stack...but I still wake up and hear the sceams at night of "You have to put the whole dataset on RAM?"...you weren't there, man...we lost a lot of good guys...

You have to draw a clean line between "stuff it is really fun and enlightening to play with" and "stuff you introduce into your stack".
Job listings are the MVP. Take a look at any of the major job boards. They are used by millions daily and turn over a very real profit. Problem the majority of them have is that they primarily cater to recruiters. We're taking a slightly different approach by eliminating recruiter listings, blogging about relevant topics and interviewing people who hire developers on a regular basis to help job seekers get an insight into what does and does not work.
Moving internationally costs beaucoup de monies, and scaling way up (another Starbucks) requires them to probably streamline service for that level of client.

$200 million goes fast when take just those two things into consideration. I could see just the UK costing some millions, and the rest of the EU a few tens of millions.
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With package managers and text-based configuration, setting up my system from scratch takes 5 minutes of manual time (and some more unattended).

I just keep a git repository that contains my dotfiles, /etc and the output of 'dpkg --get-selections'.
I wouldn't trust Good to Great. Almost all the predictions it made turned out to be wrong. Contrast this to The Innovator's Dilemma, where most of the predictions the author made turned out to be correct.

More detail from the Wikipedia Article[1]: "Steven D. Levitt describes how he was inspired to read the book by the "phenomenon" it had become, and noted that many of the companies selected as "great" had since got into serious troubles, such as Circuit City, while only Nucor had "dramatically outperformed the stock market" and "Abbott Labs and Wells Fargo have done okay". Overall, investing in the portfolio of those 11 companies in 2001 would result in actually underperforming the S&P 500[4] Levitt concluded that books like this are "mostly backward-looking" and can't offer a guide for the future.[5]"

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_to_great
"I can go onto LinkedIn myself and harvest profiles (as agency recs have to). I can "touch base" with 100+ developers myself if I need to. If that's all the agency recs are doing, they're not adding value"

Exactly. I still don't understand (after 9 years of being in industry and consulting the last 5) why it is too much for a hiring manager to spend some time himeself to vet a candidate esepcially if they will be critical to the team,project and company's success. As much as I hate to work with thetse agency recruiters, the underlying issue is not them. The issue is the employers who depend on these recruiters even though they rant about how bad the quality is etc.

Employers: it is simple. To hire the best, you need to do a lot more than asking agency/vendors to send u resumes/cvs. Interview your recruiter first. Test them if they know and understand what and who you really need. Just saying "PHP developer" doesn't cut it. Provide more specifics. Any good candidate will be more inclined to talk to you.
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I wonder how far whales can be from one another to still feel like they are socially interacting? Humans need fairly close environments to feel like we're being social. This probably has practical limits on the size of groups and how we live.

Whales on the other hand can communicate and sense group presence for miles and miles. And in the dark of the ocean being able to see each other with visible light probably isn't as important as being able to hear each other. I wonder what implications that has on the geographic distributed size of whale society?
It's like opera - an acquired taste.
Facebook is my primary messaging system.

It's better than e-mail because I don't have to sift through spam in my private message box. I don't even have to sift through messages from companies that I technically have a business relationship with. I only get actual personal contacts.

It's better than various forms of IM software because (1) most of my relatives actually use it and (2) it's in the browser rather than a standalone client.

Of course, YMMV.
I think it would be reasonable to expect that they keep half (~100 million).
I would like to see a breakdown of what people do on g+. For example, using google talk to have a video conversation results in a g+ notification...
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"Twitter and Facebook pages full of photos from barbaric rituals and poems about killing penguins?"

Right, because that's so relevant compared to photos indicating that the candidate is pregnant, black, or of a religion the CTO hates passionately. This sort of thing is either an irrational fear or a cover for excluding the sort of person he's not allowed to say he doesn't want.

It's not that I want to force him to hire penguin murderers; it's that I find myself wondering how likely it is that some crazy will find their way into a technical interview process.
"I can only come to the conclusion that mongodb is a well-funded and elaborate troll."

It's possible the reasoning he used to use mongodb is the same as the one he used to abandon it.
Just wait, kids change everything!