skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a standard recruiter question. Don't worry too much about it. I am not sure there is a company wide policy to ask these questions or not.

P.S: For future reference, the best thing to do in this case it to mention as part of educational experience maybe the relevant courses you have taken and the amount of time spent at school. (If you need mention it at all).
I've gone through different phases of this as a tool to fight my ADD impulses. My main reason was to avoid that scenario where I would find myself reading and then snap and ask myself "where the hell am I in this paragraph/page/article?" I highlighted sentence by sentence as I read through, but it results in too many iterations. Then I highlighted whole paragraphs, worked better but reading through blue colored background when there's white background all around it made my eyes drift away to the lighter areas. Now I'm highlighting the paragraph prior to the one I'm in, it serves as a bookmark of sorts. It's still a work in progress but its damn better than not doing it!
I didn't when I used default selection color. I remember starting doing it because I really enjoyed OS X yellow selection option.
I am wondering that too. He also gave the example of Ford beating Reagan (in the Republican primary), Carter beating Ford in the general election in 1976, and then Reagan beating Carter in 1980, but this is also not a great example since the Republican primary group is very different than the general electorate.
I feel that is a vary tech-person oriented habit. A gut feeling tells me the poll results will be very different among non techie folks. I remember my parents getting annoyed with my highlighting when helping them read family emails.
Good call. Like how I used to drag highlight boxes on the desktop when I was thinking of what to do next. I never wanted to select anything, I just liked to do it.
When the lines are ridiculously long and/or there isn't enough line spacing. Like on Hacker News.
If you like this stuff, recommend you read Hamming's "You and Your Research" (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html), which is thought-provoking and approachable.

Ha, Sir Michael Atiyah's advice to a young mathematician includes a great anecdote: ""J. E. Littlewood is reported to have set each of his research students to work on a disguised version of the Riemann hypothesis, letting them know what he had done only after six months. He argued that the student would not have the conﬁdence to attack such a famous problem directly, but might make progress if not told of the fame of his opponent! The policy may not have led to a proof of the Riemann hypothesis, but it certainly led to resilient and battle-hardened students"".

What a great story — sounds like it just leapt off the pages of the McSweeny's list "Zen Parable or Just Someone Being Cruel?".
"Me too". I've tried many Python IDEs, settled down with Wing IDE.

The one feature I truly love in that IDE is "debug probe". Once you breakpoint (or hit an unhandled exception), you can walk up and down the call stack and evaluate arbitrary expressions in any frame. SO handy.
My point is that a good review (not necessarily a "positive" review) is a good review whether I know who gave it or not. Is a detailed review from an anonymous user giving something 2 stars somehow worth less than a one-liner review from a "known" user giving it 5 stars?

That aside, as greyboy already points out, what is going to stop a competitor from creating a fake Google+ account to give that negative review? This move doesn't prevent that hypothetical from happening in any way.
I hate this feature - I always select something when reading, hit reply and then find out it quoted something I randomly selected..
Could someone post an example of a group preference configuration in which the group prefers (A over B) and (B over C) but (C over A)?

Sure, that's easy to construct.

Peter's preferences: A, B, C
Paul's: B, C, A
Mary's: C, A, B

The group prefers A over B, by a 2-1 vote. Likewise B over C, and C over A.
its called "stimming". i do it too
Sometimes I highlight from the middle of one line of text to the middle of the next line of text, trying to get the start and end of the highlight to line up exactly.
Do you know about the "Search Google for '%query%'" in the right-click menu?
Sorry, not sure what you are saying? Perhaps there is some undetected sarcasm in your comment?
Well, you could say the same of any forum. I volunteer as a moderator on a rather large forum, it's not quite as large as 4chan but it's among the largest on the internet... It's a lot of work, but we're not the ones running the site itself, we're just volunteers who help out with community moderation. And the work is spread among a lot of volunteers.
"The other cutoff, 38, has a lot more play in it. One reason I put it there is that I don't think many people have the physical stamina much past that age. I used to work till 2:00 or 3:00 AM every night, seven days a week. I don't know if I could do that now.

Also, startups are a big risk financially. If you try something that blows up and leaves you broke at 26, big deal; a lot of 26 year olds are broke. By 38 you can't take so many risks-- especially if you have kids."

http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
Approval voting is immune to a particular definition of tactical voting, which is somewhat weaker than the traditional one. Which isn't perfect, but it's better than most other methods can offer.

Most traditional voting methods are preference systems: You take your N candidates and rank them from 1 to N. Every voter is assumed to have a "ground truth" preference of ranking. Tactical voting means that a rational voter may sometimes be encouraged to vote with a ranking other than their true preference.

The weaker criteria that approval voting satisfies is this: A rational voter can always make a rational vote by writing down their true preference ranking in order, drawing a line, and approving everyone above that line. In other words, there is no situation where a rational voter would want to vote A > B when their true preference is B > A. This is a significant bound on the effects of tactical voting.

As you correctly point out, the rationally optimal place to draw that line can be tactical. Nonetheless, there is a strong argument that this is "less tactical" than many other systems allow.
Seriously... even if they feel they need to do top-posting by default to satisfy the drooling masses trained on outlook, maybe they could use this "selected text" feature as an indication the user is more careful about their reply quoting, and position the cursor below the quotation in that case...
Young people are naive and unencumbered, so a few older VCs can use their cheap and highly skilled labor to make a lot of money. Older people aren't such suckers.
> Doesn't shit-talking $company in a public forum kind of reflect poorly on both of you? I'm always weirded out by people who call-out their employer in a public space like that...

He doesn't mention employer publicly. I can't even reasonably assume it's $company (Do you have an axe to grind against either? I've flagged this, as it appears to be the case.)

Furthermore, being critical reflects well on codewright in his capacity as an officer of a company. Being able to accept constructive criticism reflects well on $company (assuming it even is $company).

(Not mentioning $company by name as hoping the comment I am replying to will get killed; codewright made a deliberate choice not to include personal details in his profile, so let's honour it.)
Django is the lagging project, actually. Most smaller projects have already bitten the bullet.

At my last Django meetup, we did a show of hands of who was waiting for Django to move before personally switching over to Python 3, and it was basically everyone.
There are two problems with this: you have to actually hold Enter, and the other thing: it will produce way too many requests to Google Play. It will cause Play to handle requests even worse, you will not benefit from this. Automatic request every 4 seconds is better for Google Play and more convinient :).
Get the 13.3" MacBook Air.
You could already extend the user model with a OneToOne relation plus setting in settings.py that was supported in the official Django distribution. But the way that was handled was a bit hacky so I'm glad they changed it too.
I am actually using a MacBook Air, but I prefer keyboard to two-finger scrolling most of the time.
Because the publishers want their cake and eat it. They want to be found by Google, but Google should pay them for it. Because they're awesome and the protectors of culture and everything good and right.
Are you referring to "A blog network and designing websites"?

Dustin had his rep before Svbtle. In the quest for determining the source of his design rep, I'm not sure Svbtle counts.

As far as 'designing websites' goes, all I know of is his old blog (the AA redesign mockup). I can't find a portfolio or tweet or dribbble or github or... anything really showcasing even one thing he's designed for someone other than himself. Can you?
Why do you need a Smartphone?
As I read each of the options above, I was thinking similar thoughts. It's kind of a text tracking thing and somewhat habitual.

I might highlight one section of text or paragraph and not another. Sometimes I highlight nothing. But, if it is a lengthy bit of text, I often find myself highlighting swaths of text for some reason.

This only applies to when I'm using a mouse.
Your point about key bindings is very prescient.

At my work, our book club is (re)reading The Pragmatic Programmer. There's a section which advocates picking one text editor, mastering its arcane secrets, customizing it until it's perfect, and never using anything else. All my colleagues happily agreed with this, and I couldn't quite express why I didn't.

Then I did a bit of pair programming with a few different people. In every case there was a significant learning curve just to follow what the driver was doing in their comfortable editing environment, and in the most customized cases, it was nigh impossible for me to drive at all.

So we relocated to my desk instead. I have a standard qwerty keyboard with vim, emacs, and textmate - all completely un-customized and ready to go. I couldn't care less which editor we use as I've learnt the bare minimum to be proficient in all of them. And importantly, so have my colleagues. Sure they grumble at not having their own autocompleting magic, but we can get our work done at a good enough rate, and either of us can drive.

(My previous work took this one (enterprise management style) step further and forced everyone to use the exact same model laptop, operating system, and editor. As a youngster I hated this required conformity. As a cynical old bastard I can see the logic...)

I definitely sit in the middle of the two camps. Not 'The Best', not 'The Worst'; just 'The Satisficing'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
I think the issues are a lot more complex than portrayed by simple iPad magazine apps are crap sentiments. The platforms around today (disclaimer, I am the co-founder of one of them, Oomph) do allow designers to do silly things, but conversely, they allow designers to do amazing things that would not previously be possible without low level coding. The results are outstanding, and most customers love them, we certainly get a great deal of positive feedback from the readers of the magazines we help publish. Most of these platforms (well ours does) also use HTML, as well as other features (we have one called text objects) that allow rendering on multiple resolutions with smaller download sizes.

I think The Magazine is awesome on a number of levels, but it also comes from a certain viewpoint, one that most traditional publishers cannot embrace without breaking the way they currently do business. Marco has been able to do build himself a new platform with essentially no constraints (aside from his upfront time & money investment obviously), utilising a new business model, a luxury print publishers may not have. He has also been able to build himself the infrastructure required to complete this, this is not expertise most publishing houses have, and he's publishing in HTML, a lot of publishers don't have the tools or expertise to produce HTML content to the quality they're looking for.

The big opportunity here is for publishers to embrace this new medium wholeheartedly, not with their traditional mags/brands, but with new ones built specifically for digital. In my view, publishers & other "traditional" content owners should be funding skunkworks projects that cannibalise their own market before someone else does (something Apple continues to do for example).

A dual pronged approach where they continue to leverage their existing brands, mags, etc. but branch out into newer markets & business models by repurposeing & utilising their existing content is a win-win scenario.
I think this deserves a conversation as opposed to a comment. The comment would have to be very long just qualifying assumptions about your situation given how oblique you have to be to protect your anonymity. Unfortunately I don't have time to write out that response at the moment.

Feel free to hit me up via email (or whatever.) Check my bio for contact information. I understand your reticence to broadcast any specific information due to your situation. Maybe we can take it to email or a phone call to allow you more latitude to talk specifics.
"But to me, “simplify” is about removing clutter"

...

"Partisans of the worst will get 15 sets of cutlery (out of a bucket that’s an overflowing fucking sea of cutlery)"

A massive bucket of cutlery sounds like clutter to me.

I don't think Dustin was arguing you should spend so much money on cutlery that you worry about it getting damaged/stolen, but rather the act of thinking about what you're buying will prevent you from buying low quality and unnecessary things.
Push back against the Silicon Valley "Co-Founder" Fetish
Linode forum discussion on this topic (that I could find): http://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=9544

And maybe I'm just ignorant on the topic, but what exactly does CPU priority do here? I understand basic linux process priority (like the 'nice' command), but how exactly does CPU priority behave on linode. Searching through their docs, I couldn't find anything.

EDIT: to maybe answer my own question, maybe this is the Xen credit schedule? http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Credit_Scheduler
Seems nice and useful for designers.

How do you plan to get users both customers and designers?
GitHub is Doing Great (Wireless) Things With Their Replicator 2
What do they mean by CPU Priority?

I'm assuming that meant access to part of a processor, but how does that work with 4 CPU and 16x priority? (I'm working on the assumption that 1x priority ~= 1 core.) Of course, my assumption is probably wrong - just curious how this affects the load on a given server and how the VPS interacts with other VPS's on that node.
Um, this is no secret.
Quickly getting off-topic, but you should have used vim's netrw instead of running vim on the remote host. You can use the remote host's file system as if it were local, over ssh.
Being active with my hands helps me pay attention. Doodling while talking on the phone or listening to a lecture are other examples.
A lot of times I'll select some text on a page right before I scroll to help my eye focus and track where I am on large text pages.
I don't do it habitually, but it's invaluable for all those web pages where the author thought blinking yellow text on a magenta background was neat...

[Not just myspace and old geocities sites...I run into this sort of thing all too often, even on "real" (modern, corporate, well-funded, etc) websites. Sometimes it's just that the site designer seemed to be going for some sort of artistic/funky look, but in other cases the site looks fine in ie6 but becomes unreadable in FF or chrome... >< ]
> Look at this comic: http://xkcd.com/1139/ - the playground jerks call the guy a loser because he isn't playing the social game. They are right that he is "losing" the social playground game. He doesn't care, but that's kind of what these startups are looking for.

http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
This is exactly why I do it.
Show HN: Telescope, an open-source social news app built with Meteor
AT&T iPad Hacker's Real Crime: Embarrassing the Wrong People
You can also buy a chinese smartphone for less than 100$ and use only the free wifi near you.

(I am also biased by the fact that in France we have unlimited call, messages and data connection for 20€ ~ 25-30$ per month)
I run some of the hardware startup events / community in SF - let me know who you want to talk with. Just email is my HN s/n + @gmail.com.
Yes. We tried smooth vertex and personally I thought they look better, but well, got into a design discussion and I lost. The color idea I think is a good idea, also maybe arrows? maybe too old school.
The Big Curiosity Rover Discovery Is a Big Misunderstanding
It's late and I'm tired but I think in the following situation -

49% vote Bush, 42% vote Gore, 9% vote Nader.
All Bush voters prefer Nader over Gore (unlikely!). All Nader voters prefer Gore over Bush. Half of Gore voters prefer Bush over Nader.

- If the election was Gore:Bush, Gore would win 51:49
- If the election was Bush:Nader, Bush would win 70:30
- If the election was Gore:Nader, Nader would win 42:58

The group prefers Gore over Bush (A over B) and Bush over Nader (B over C) but Nader over Gore (C over A).

That's my reading anyway.
It's the notion that things "count" or "don't count" that is eliciting the snippy responses from me. We are not here to sit in judgement of Dustin Curtis. No, I don't think I'll build a case against your obviously implied argument that he's done nothing of note.

I find the idea that Curtis is accorded a lot of respect on HN amusing, because most of what he's accorded are comments like yours.
Huh? How is that ageism? I wouldn't say it's a matter of sucking or not sucking. It's a matter of perspective and sometimes inexperience plays to your benefit when doing a startup. Experienced engineers can identify known unknowns. Inexperienced ones have many more unknown unknowns. Ignorance hurts you in most situations in life, but in the case of startups, a little ignorance is often what it takes to try problems that everyone else has ignored because they thought they were "solved."
The IntelliJ family of PyCharm, RubyMine and WebStorm can do this.
Weird they haven't updated their blog with a post about this.
As minimax stated, your awk code won't provide exactly k samples. Here's a bit of awk code that implements reservoir sampling (apologies in advance for any bugs) and prints the current sample to stdout, without needing to first process the entire stream. It simply prints the set of samples to stdout whenever the sample updates, with sets of samples separated by a distinct string. It is called as follows (of course, replace dmesg with any stream of your choosing):

dmesg | gawk -f reservoir-sample.awk k=5 record_separator='==='

#!/usr/bin/gawk -f

### reservoir-sample.awk
###
### Sample k random lines from a stream, without knowing the size of the stream.
###
### (Tomer Altman)

### Parameters: (set from command-line)
##
## k: number of lines to sample
## record_separator: string used to separate iterations of the sample in stdout.

## Define a function for returning a number between 1 and n:
function random_int (n) { return 1 + int(rand() * n) }

## Initialize the PRNG seed:
BEGIN { srand() }

## For the first k lines, initialize the sample array:

NR <= k { sample[NR] = $0 }

## If we've initialized the sample array, and we pick an integer between one and the current record number that is less than or equal to k, update the sample array and print it to stdout:
NR > k && (current_random_int = random_int(NR)) <= k {

sample[current_random_int] = $0

for (i in sample) print sample[i]

print (record_separator != "") ? record_separator : "--"
}
Facebook + Pinterest = Amazon Brand Pages
Yes, and I thought about posting about this a here lot of times to know if people also do this because of how much I hate websites that remap the arrows to "next/previous article", it must stop!
I suspect they are using pandoc at the backend to do something like pandoc -lean.pdf lean.markdown?
At the very least, when you select text it should allow you to "Reply to Selection" as an option in the reply button (perhaps as default). I leave it to the UI experts to determine what's default and wording/icon changes. This meta-mode shouldn't reuse the reply keybinding either, and use a new one.

This would be far more discoverable and only minor changes to documentation over the current approach.
Where be these enemies? Spoonians! Antispoonians!

See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,

That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.
Interesting attempt to capture the low end of the market. As a Replicator owner (and a "Cupcake" user) the things that make for a good 3D extrusion printer are rigidity, flow control on the extruder, a heated build platform, and most importantly moderated air flow. All of the 'open air' printers suffer from print failures when a cool breeze causes the plastic to freeze to quickly, shrink and then warp off the platform.

Bottom line is that you can build your own Reprap for less than $500, get to know it very well, and have a lot of fun. But if you want to buy a 'tool' and start doing 3D prints with it, you probably won't be satisfied with the < $1000 printers out there.
Is Andrew Mason on the Bubble as CEO of Groupon?
Not sure if firing the manager is going to help matters. Here are the main pain points as I see them, purely personal take, feel free to add points or correct me:

a. No transit data. Recommends apps from the App Store instead. There are a few good ones (like Transit, from a Montreal based company), but I personally rely on transit data a lot and any ad hoc solution is not good enough.

b. Missing/Incorrect Data. Specially outside North America.

c. Flyover looks good, but not as useful as StreetView.

d. Search - Yes, better data, transit data etc. are all well and good, but searching that data is the key. Apple's search is quite terrible. This is Google's bread and butter and they do such an amazing job that I don't think Apple can catch up with them. I don't think throwing a ton of money is going to get them out of this hole.

Again, can't see how firing a manager can even begin to tackle those issues. Unless that person was actively trying to thwart Apple's efforts.
New and easy way to document SQL Server DBs - LiveDoco
I am starting to believe that Paul Graham may be the most dangerous man in America.

If you can't get me to read past the first sentence, you should probably change your writing style or your ideas
how will the tax man know you have earned them?

if you sell/exchange them for cash on localbitcoins.com there is no record and no tax to be paid.
1906 Earthquake Blended With Today (2010)
I'm a fan of the telescopic mouseover effect, and the abundance of blue/purple. I was expecting it be an aesthetic clone, but you guys have done a nice job.
Windows 8 Sells 40 Million Licenses in First Month
Microsoft sold over 750K Xbox 360s last week, more than double Wii U sales
Totally agree. I have a TOM and unless I surround it with lamps that produce enough heat to keep the "build chamber" warm, it's unable to print anything other than coins or very small dimensional objects. I'd even go as far to say the Formlabs Form 1 is the only "Real" 3-D printer worth considering. All the extrusion based systems are more expensive geek toy than too.
The Internet as Buttonwood Tree [1996]
OVH are most certainly not popular with the scene!

That said, OVH is extremely popular with those involved in piracy more broadly, and their servers are used extensively as seedboxes.