skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just forwarded this info out to my fraternity, good luck!
I "took off" for over a year, worked around the clock on my own projects, amassed a huge amount of new skills, and had absolutely no problem finding a new job afterwards.

It was almost eerie - nobody even cared if my projects were successful or how much money I made. They only wanted to know that I did have all the skills that I put on my resume, and (to a lesser degree) my motivation for doing what I did.

Working on your own stuff you learn ten times as fast as in a "regular" job. I highly recommend it.
That's definitely true. I manage my finances with the expectation that the bottom will eventually fall out of the investment driven tech sector, whether because money can't be as cheap as it currently is forever or because too many high profile IPOs will fail to produce results, and that will pull the rug out from under the rest of us too. I'm also never rude to recruiters, as seems to be in fashion these days, for the same reason.

You're right that adaptation is key too. 15 years ago, I was writing desktop VB apps on the client-side and Perl scripts on the server-side. Now I'm writing HTML5 apps on the client-side and JavaScript nearly everywhere. 15 years from now, I wonder if I'll still be using JavaScript at all?
How to program a Gaussian Blur | Swageroo Algorithms
Steven Pinker is a highly influential academic who criticizes positions like "underrepresentation implies discrimination". See for example his best-seller The Blank Slate (2002).
Bookmarked, can we see a jquery plugin on github?
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>Should we feel bad for smart people because society tricks them into financial services rather than less-paid cancer research?

No, we should feel ashamed that we've created a society where the brightest are funneled into financial services. We should feel utterly devastated that we let genius wallow in menial jobs. It is a failing of the system at every level that these people fall through the cracks and end up doing nothing with their gifts.

Raw intelligence is a resource that society should work hard to 'exploit'. Sure doctors and nurses save a lot of lives and that doesn't necessarily require genius. But compared to, say, the guy who discovered the double-helix structure of DNA, their impact on humanity doesn't even come close.
This is legit man, thanks!
it's even more open than the NBA because the judge is the market

Interesting, I have the exact opposite viewpoint - I can see the result of a software project, but I have very little insight into the contributions behind the scenes. In sports, I (and the rest of the world) can see the contributions of the atheltes and judge merit for ourselves.

For example, I know the new iOS maps have problems, but (aside from press leaks) I don't have a lot of insight into who did what. On the other hand, I know from watching Knicks games last season that Jeremy Lin was the real deal. I know the result of the 2012 Super Bowl (Giants beat Patriots) and I also saw the contribution of the team members (for example, Tom Brady throwing a perfect pass to Wes Welker at he end of the game that Welker dropped).

I've always see athletics as the closest ideal to a meritocracy that we have in our society.
Tuesday tends to me no major religion's holy day, and the country was Judeo-Christian at its founding.
Steve Jobs' yacht Venus unveiled
I feel like I am reading the thoughts of someone who left the industry 6-8 years ago.
In a normal office you wouldn't need more than one AED per 50+ employees. That's an insignificant cost.
Is Facebook “broken on purpose” to sell promoted posts?
Another link: http://www.onemorething.nl/2012/10/jacht-steve-jobs-te-water...
These specs seem almost unbelievable for the price but there is one glaring draw back for me which is the lack of removable storage. I understand the inherent risks of storing anything you want to remain private on a smart phone but without a microSD card, it feels like the when I inevitably brick my phone somehow, there's no easy way to get the files I want to keep private off the phone. What would be the options to ensure that either 1) the shop/company that does a warranty repair doesn't just data mine the phone once they fix it or 2) that the memory is properly destroyed if the phone cannot be fixed? It also feels like if there was an issue, like an update of Android going awry somehow, that you would lose all your data if you just needed to do a factory reset. I understand that it's all about the cloud now but even then it seems like there would be some corner cases where it would be invaluable to have a removable piece of storage in there even without considering privacy an issue.
Yeah, this made me smile too. The Amiga computer ran a full-featured multi-task OS on 512kb of RAM in 1984, and my Windows 7 is still struggling with 4gb on RAM on the board as it constantly writes temporary files on the Disk. Technology is amazing but somehow, our OSes are not "so" amazing. And let's not forget Windows XP and its tendency to turn the MBR into crap over time, making it slower and slower as time goes. Linux is a better OS in all these aspects, but there's still room for improvement.

I would say we need a lot of power even for entry-level computers because our software is incredibly bloated in the first place, and not written towards efficiency. That's basically the game Microsoft and other have been playing for a long time: do not care about performance, because the specs will catch up anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
The problem with these arguments is that we waffle on the definition of intelligence. Feynman was admittedly no genius. There's no reason to claim he was obviously highly intelligent (and therefore IQ is meaningless). He had many gifts, a .1% intellect wasn't one of them. This doesn't take away from his accomplishments nor the impact he's had on society. There's no reason to redefine intelligence just to make sure it includes guys like him at the high end of the spectrum. His work stands on its own.
I heard from a guy (not Chinese national but married to one) who lives in China saying that in China, don't help anyone having accident on the street. He said there are many cases where when you help, you end up paying the bills because the person (or his/her family) would tell hospital that you cause the accident. Simply because they don't have money.

EDIT: He added that if you do want to help, make sure you have witnesses that you're trying to help.
I think "racism" is a really toxic word. Just hearing the word, I think of Klan rallies, Bull Connor with firehoses, lynch mobs etc. So when somebody accuses some one else of racism, it seems ridiculous because no sane person alive supports those things. And if you are called a racist, it's natural to get defensive.

The words "prejudice" and "bias," however, are not nearly as emotionally charged, and it's possible to interrogate the situation more rationally.

He gives the example of Arrington not knowing any black entrepreneurs. I highly doubt it's because he's a member of the KKK. However, it's extremely possible that he has unconscious biases that make it less likely he will meet or remember black entrepreneurs.

If you accept that hypothesis for a moment, you can start brainstorming solutions. But if you just say he's a racist, the only solution is to stop hating people of color. What?!
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Thanks, up votes and tweets are appreciated. :)
Real-Time Delivery Architecture at Twitter [video]
Facebook is Fu*#%$
Well, it does not really exist right now. Maybe I can do something later on. Thanks for the idea.
I've thought about this recently. I have a HP Touchpad with personal data on it that's stopped turning on. I'm not interested in fixing it, but I'm also unsure of how to dispose of it and keep my data safe. Drilling a bunch of holes in a device that doesn't have a removable battery isn't something I can do. So for now, the device just sits at the bottom of a drawer.
This, as any would be, is certainly a valid way to respond to a brush with death. But implying that this is somehow a lesson to be learned by everyone, suggesting that others should live their life this way, seems misguided to me in context.

Contemplating your mortality shouldn't necessarily convince you to double down on your current priorities (especially if those priorities are centered around banal platitudes like "doing something remarkable with your life," which are probably masks to keep you from thinking about what really motivates you.) It should cause you to reevaluate them.

The fact that you will die, the fact that everyone you know will die, and the fact that eventually the universe might become a field of equidistant neutrinos means that it really, really doesn't matter what you accomplish. All roads, if you stay on them long enough, lead to the same place. There will be no progress. There will be no one remarking.

I would say that the lesson to be learned from thinking about death is just that there's no reason to adhere to anyone else's values, or to feel pressure to do anything in particular. You should do what you want, what makes you happy, even if it's humble.

Existential steps backward can be a tool to remove yourself from things that aren't really helpful, like for example a hyper-competitive capitalist rat-race justified by language like "fight the status quo" or "great visions of the future" that, instead of contributing to humanity, is mostly really about love, insecurity, and fear of death (like so many human pursuits).

"Fighting" here, the battle between the heroic pursuit of accomplishment on the one hand and the "insidious machine called quo" on the other, is just the author reporting his own conflicts about what he wants to do. Part of him wants to expend massive amounts of energy attempting to out-compete the people he sees as his peers. But another part of him doesn't want to do that, which is why he loses motivation and doesn't always end up behaving the way a hero-CEO might. There is not some kind of evil, inherent inertia at work that all people must fight against. Instead, there is only ambivalence and subconscious motives.

In my opinion, if you really internalize death and it's implications, the notion that you can justify prescribing ways of thinking or behaving just starts to look absurd.
In a similar vein. Here is the trend with the addition of the candidates in the previous 2 elections:

http://www.google.ca/trends/explore#q=obama%2C%20romney%2C%2...

It will be interesting to see if Obama wins. If he does then winning in Google Trends will predict winning in the election.
At a previous startup in Los Angeles, I had one of the co-founders order a bi-weekly office dropoff of organic fruit. It was hassle free and automatic. It wasn't always the fruit they would have picked up in the store (e.g. 2 large cantaloupes) but it did provide a great, healthy alternative to snack foods.

The one we used (which I will recommend) was Farm Fresh To You http://www.farmfreshtoyou.com/ with a small ($25) fruit box delivered. I'm sure in any large city, there is a similar service.
I'm curious why you got down voted.

After reading the article I checked the date, expecting it to be from the early or mid 2000s. He talks a lot about the past and only briefly mentions the future when he says what he'd say to potential employers if he were without a job now.
I have to disagree with you there. Plenty of examples of poor kids getting into the NBA these days, but coding requires your parents to have enough cash to buy you a proper PC with development tools or a Mac. There are HS BB coaches, but very few programming mentors in the poor or rural areas. Heck, teaching programming went the way of vocational programs. It was once different, but that door closed hard.
You might as well ask what is so great about Lua. This kind of thin compiler is what you get when you want the semantics and the ecosystem of Lua but with a richer syntax.
Agreed pretty cool effects. Star Wars shifts the page slightly during the effect on both Chrome and Firefox on Windows. Also no love for IE or my Nook webkit browser but did fine on my Android ICS phone.
Woah. Kasparov vs. Deep blue. I'd forgotten it had been that long ago.
Ask HN: Has anyone noticed a dramatic decrease in Amazon affiliate revenue?
I help my mom run a cooking blog, and most of our revenue comes from linking to products using the Amazon affiliate program. Over the last month, our revenue from Amazon has dropped significantly (almost an order of magnitude). Nothing else about the blog has changed, including our traffic.<p>Has anyone else noticed this? I supposed that it's possible that people don't buy very much this time of year in anticipation of the holidays. If it's happening to other people, then maybe it makes sense to wait until the real shopping season starts before reacting.<p>Any insight is appreciated.
I had a buddy (Native American) who spent a lot of his acting career playing VC. Probably didn't make Asian Americans too happy.
I just changed my license from NC to CA and I was shocked by one of the questions on the test. It basically said "When is it legal to enter the bike lane?" There were three options, two of which were: "Within 200 ft of turning right" and "When there are no bikes present"

I put the answer "when there are no bikes present," which as a bicyclist makes a lot of sense. The correct answer was "within 200 ft of turning right," which is complete and utter bullshit because I got hit by a car less than two weeks prior that entered the bicycle lane to turn right without signaling.

If I could get cars ticketed by taking video of violations I would buy a GoPro camera tomorrow.
Honestly, it takes way too many clicks to find out when the next episode is. Fist I have to drag, then click. It should really be a 1 step thing.
No, here's the point: if you run a cash register, don't scoff at someone who aims higher than what you've achieved, and don't throw your genius status in their face when you do it.

If you want to argue that a person's job is not indicative of ther level of achievement in life, then you absolutely do have to argue inductively. But I personally do not care about that argument. It is a stupid premise, and gnosis is picking an argument when one is not being forwarded. And he is doing it in a completely fallacious manner (overgeneralization, tu quoque), against what I clearly stated was an anecdote and life lesson.

Who does that? A person's own experiences, related as such, are anecdotes, not arguments.
I wouldn't worry about it. I had an AdSense account at 13 and a server with SoftLayer at 16.
Exactly.

But I would say that "thinking inside of the box" is actually an incredibly important skill in practical situations. Probably 99+% of any functioning adult's thinking is "inside-the-box" (I realize that this is sort of a nebulous/meaningless statement, sorry). Things that we don't even think about, like looking both ways before crossing the street or watching our step as we get off the bus are all examples of inside-the-box thinking. But maybe a more interesting example of inside-the-box thinking (in the context of something you might want to actually test) is communicating effectively with other humans of a similar cultural background to your own.

So to get back to the portion of the article I quoted and maybe refine my point a bit, maybe it really isn't fair to say that any answer to questions like the farm animal one is more "natural" than another, but rather only seems more natural due to the biases of our own mental models that our evolution has optimized for survival rather than to achieve any measure of fundamental truth or purity. That's perfectly okay to me, as long as the test makes no claim to measure intelligence in any "fundamental" sense, but rather in a particular sense of intelligence that arises only as a human being living on earth. It's entirely a matter of opinion whether such a sense of intelligence is of any interest or relevance, though. Personally I think it is.
So I guess in that case, given even large software companies release products with dangerous exploits in them, password managers are a bad idea... why give a hacker a single point to access every one of your passwords?
Running a accelerator, one thing we've discovered with feeding our startups is that bringing in food has another beneficial side effect: stress reduction.

We try to cater at least three meals a week for our folks. Because we've seen the benefits: 1) Makes sure that people are actually stopping to eat. 2) Lowers the burn rate for the companies. 3) Lowers stressing about "Where are we going to eat?" 4) And perhaps the most beneficial: It ensures that we're forcing some actual nutrients into their diets.

Of course the other fringe benefit is the peer mentoring and socializing, where people actually stop banging on keyboards and take a moment to talk to one another.
There probably aren't very many quality foods available on Amazon, and why post a link to something if you're not getting referrals?
Sid Roth Radio Archives
Sid Roth archives tv shows that God had a different opinion. You know, because when I got there I looked and I saw many people that I thought would not make it there. And then I looked around and I said but there’s people that I thought would make it here that is not here. And I came to understand a lot of those people that were not there that I thought were there were people that, we would call them pastors, leaders in churches, are in ministries. But they weren’t there. And you know, when I came back I really pondered on that. Why Lord weren’t these men or these women there that you would think that would be there? And here are people that I would have thought on Sid Roth 2010, no they didn’t make it into Heaven, and yet they were there. I came to understand because of what happened to me with one of my own family members. My Aunt Barbara, she was there. Aunt Barbara was a lady that I would have told you even to this day if I didn’t have this experience in my life, she didn’t make it there. She did not go there. She went to Hell. That’s what I would have told you because of the lifestyle that she lived that I saw in front of me. And the last two years of her life I was not around her, and so I didn’t see the last two years of her life. So I was basing it on everything up to that point. - Sid Roth radio archives
The article suggests because Nexus 4 doesn't have LTE, it costs so little. Is that true?
Why does the unlocked Samsung SIII run $800?
I find it interesting that someone got a version of tinycore booting on EC2. Although, he has yet to describe in full what he had to do.
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,14057.0.html
Forbes: Microsoft, Welcome Back, You're Doing Better Than They Think
I just do not see this working out. What I'd rather use is something like Gravatar for my address book details. People could register their address book details with email addresses, Twitter and Facebook and others could request more details through an API which enforces a privacy policy. I'd manage a whitelist of my contacts who are allowed to access my current address book details with specific access for groups. Like co-workers/colleagues could get my work email, work phone # but not my home address and home #. Having to use yet another app is very unappealing. With an API many of the apps I am using already can use the API, just like Gravatar is used by many apps. This is the way I'd solve this problem.
Tech Talk: Nicole Sullivan - OOCSS and Preprocessors
The Iowa Electronic Markets

http://tippie.uiowa.edu/iem/faq.html#who

are legal for United States residents, and offer a pretty good spread at the moment for making some quick money on the election results.
The various zoom and bounce in effects seem to leave the image blurry in Chrome 24.0.1312.2 dev OS X
I wonder when the first adderall, ritalin, or desoxyn will get stocked in a company kitchen.
Try http://voicebunny.com/. They have an API, or listing the jobs on Mechanical Turk to be read by a human.
I clicked through to the Startup Office Snacks link (http://refer.ly/startup_office_snacks/c/984171a826c511e2a4ec...) and immediately felt myself getting fat.

Not to mention the first thing on the list is popcorn. Not sure how everyone else feels, but nothing distracts me more at work than that smell.
Ok. I definitely respect any hardships the author has had to endure - I've had a few of my own. I also appreciate being frugal, calculated and managing risk in one's career.

OTOH, I am hearing echoes of what sounds like a textbook case of victim mentality. It's almost as if his fate wholly lies in the hands of these IT companies he's vying to work for. He mentions failing to hold his own during negotiations. He blames outsourcing. Complaint after complaint about why it's not all "roses, just roses"... like it used to be.

Folks: if you spend the time getting the right skills to pay the bills, this article does NOT apply to you. The crowd that I "run with" generally has NO problem finding lucrative engagements, or employment. Especially in this market. And even in a down market. There's always something brewing.

I hope I'm just gagging on some expensive link bait.
I assume it's better than the existing Reddit mobile site at m.reddit.com, but how so?

I'd change the cursor for the buttons at top-left and top-right (on the website, not the mobile app) to be pointer icons, rather than text editing ones.
This is a really valuable tool, I can vouch for it. The alternative is to make icon fonts in an app like Glyphs, which is only for the Mac. There are Linux font tools out there, but I have been disappointed by their quality. Icomoon can be a bit picky about the svgs it will accept, but with a bit of tweaking, you can get them in there. Just finished using this on a project.
Breaking coding standards with coroutines in C
Facebook is not a free shared resource. We pay for the service with our privacy. It's not money, but it is a tradable good.
Disappointing as this article has an inappropriate title, it contains nothing relevant to a "bank".
cost/benefit? There are plenty of affordable substitute goods for toy magnets.
Get ready for NodeKnockout with some of its past winners.
What is the point of adding gadget reviews to HN? Anyone interested can find them easily.
As for death at 20, I'm with you, but as for the latter example, I'm open to suggestions on ways to prevent the heat death of the universe. I'm not entirely sure there's anything I can do about that.