skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I look a lot like a "pointy haired boss" type.

I used this to my advantage at times in interviews, I allow the candidate to think I don't know much about the topic at hand. It's nice to see how they can articulate something and you can smell the BS quickly.

That said I am looking for Attitude, Aptitude and Fit. It would be hard for me to spend much time with someone who started the call like that, I would have most likely politely bowed out pretty quickly (i.e. you failed Attitude in the first 30 seconds).
You pretty much nailed it Patrick. I'm the principle at a small software consultancy (20 people) based in Toronto. Unlike you Patrick I mostly hang out with people who run/own services businesses. I live in a pretty big city, so my circle of friends who work at services businesses is big enough to have a lot of visibility into how the rest of their agencies work. Most of these guys do very well by any measure. Using money as the metric they do extremely well. Not Zuck-style well, but I don't hear any of them complaining about their lifestyle...

To other commenters:

There is lots about a service business that is difficult. Most posters on HN hit the big ones over and over again, i.e. - getting customers & scalability. As a services business guy, I look at product businesses and think there is quite a bit about them that seems ridiculously difficult too. Something for everyone I guess?
I see where you are coming from, on the other hand it is really cool how much can be done with CSS and I am sure you were pretty well amazed like the rest of us as they get more intricate and add transitions, etc...

That being said, there is also the fact that people can learn a lot about CSS by looking at the source - especially making use of pseduo-elements, etc... So I say bring on your "Vitruvian Man done in pure CSS" posts. You can always downvote them. Lot's of designers on HN want to show off their side-projects just like the developers.

Let the upvote/downvote mechanism do it's magic! If I had the time I'd recreate a scrooge for you sir.
Right, but especially given the OP, it does beg the question of if he is actually building committed relationships with any, or just taking various good looking women home.
Note, however, that this may not be what the good engineer wanted to be doing. (Also, just not putting bad candidates on the good engineer's plate would be more efficient.)
>I want to become the adult I believed I could be. I want video games to become something that helps me change instead of giving me a place to hide

This is a growing and misguided sentiment. Being absorbed in and obsessed with video games is the problem, not the content of the games! If you want to grow up you need to collide with the real world. No game is going to become the driver of adulthood. The answer here is to subtract games from your life and go live in the world. Unfortunately there is an "art game" movement indulging in delusions that the right kind of game can rise above the level of crass entertainment and "nourish" the player. This is garbage. You can imbibe the most clever and interest art in the world, but only living in the real world can teach you about the real world. Even education is dangerously "gamified". The difference there is that the world is rigged with many favors for educated people, so you don't have much choice.
I'm not sure about tautology or whatever (it seems like you're confusing the network for the endpoints), but I'll give you a metaphor.

In the US you are a "free" citizen in an "open" country. You are free to go anywhere you want on open roads. This doesn't give you the right to trespass and go into anyone's private property. If they have a fence up, you have to stay out. If they're having a yard sale, you can come in.

If Alice wants to let Bob on her property and not Eve, that doesn't make the US any less of a "free and open" country.

This is what is meant by "free and open" web. You can attempt to reach any endpoint you want without restriction, but the endpoint itself has private control over whether you are allowed to its contents or not.

Anything less is not actually freedom, because then the endpoints' freedom to determine who can use its private property is being denied.

A web that is not "free and open" is one in which your attempts to reach endpoints are interrupted and allowed or denied by a third, censoring entity. (Usually the government.) It has nothing to do with how those endpoints would respond to you on their own.
This site did and does work fine for me - are you behind a miscalibrated filtering proxy or somesuch?
Obviously online, I have frequently attempted contact, before reaching a stage where I could ask that, but that was the purpose.

In real life, I have usually not got so far as to ask for a date, as I have been rejected out of hand before getting that far. And the friends who I wanted to go out with, I have asked out and been rejected.

I don't think it's that ridiculous, for one we're talking 2 sigma out of the norm, on the short side, so that's 2.5% of the male population, and of course there are endless ways to compromise. So that leads to another point, I do want to have a relationship with somebody I find attractive, even if marginally so (I really am not all that picky), if I was to remove that restriction then I could probably do quantitively better. Perhaps many of my fellow short cohorts do that.

Additionally, there are other factors, I know some short people who have done well too - good looks, a certain kind of confidence and social standing/success principally.

I am very open to considering whether I'm screwing up elsewhere, however my experience, and that of many other people has been similar, and I also have tall friends who don't dress especially well, poor posture, etc. who have had endless relationships. It's a huge, huge factor.
Exactly, and maybe the good ones did get hired and really knocked it out.

That said it sounds like the quality of candidates sent to her were really low and the upstream recruiters should have been working to improver that.
Google has plenty of builders. AI is an insight problem. (I probably should have said "design" rather than "build" in my previous comment.)

That said, I did nearly including Ben Goertzel in my comment. But I am familiar with Eliezer and Luke's work (and know them personally); I'm much less familiar with Ben, so I didn't feel I could make such a strong statement about him.
Solution: get an iPhone.
It varies by carrier.

More specifically, it varies by carrier legacy system. Finding the correct email-to-SMS address construction (usually some variant of phonenumber@domain.tld) may take some poking around, and it's not uncommon for the domain.tld portion to refer to some prior carrier acquired by the nominal provider (e.g.: your AT&T wireless number might have a cingular.com address, though don't quote me on that).

That said: it typically works and is fairly reliable once you've identified your gateway.
Not even if you postpend 'eh' to the 10 digits?
> Relationships are two-way streets and the man is not the sole arbitrer of tying the knot.

This is true, but from what I've seen in these multiyear LTRs, the woman wants to get married, the man wants to keep his options open (or, "doesn't want to make a mistake"). I've never seen the reverse scenario in an extended relationship.

If Jacob's girlfriends didn't actually care about getting married and settling down, then I agree there's nothing to fault Jacob for particularly. My guess is that a woman who sticks with a guy five years typically wants to get married, but you're right that I don't know, and we may be back to me not understanding the younger generation.

> The people whom you know who got married after 2-5 years...can you, or they, say that who they matched up with and vowed "till death do we part" was conclusively the best person for them in existence?

Of course not, but what kind of wacky standard is that anyway? That's an idea for teenage girls who haven't gotten over their Disney Princess movies, not mature adults.

> Right now, it is strange to me when friends don't have the intent to eventually marry...but I grew up with that being the status quo. The generation entering adulthood now did not and so it seems impossible to think that e-dating had (or will have) no impact on how we perceive and carry out relationships.

Oh, the new generation will muddle through somehow, I'm sure of that. But from what I've seen, I am skeptical that these ever cooler, ever more casual notions of romance and partnership are actually improvements for the people practicing them.
The sexy, talked about jobs are all in web and mobile development. If you want "real programming" jobs, look to the old, staid companies that make B2B software. I interned at Ericsson and the vast majority of development was done in C, C++, and Java. They wrote control software for network devices, and it was really interesting stuff to work on. You might find that in the infrastructure divisions of Google or Amazon, but it's almost all you'll find at companies like Ericsson.
Confidence is everything. I look ok in the face but I'm 260 and 5' 10"... So obese and overweight by any measure. I've never been single before 30, as I had married my high school sweetheart (don't) and I'm surprised how easy it is.

Beside confidence I think I have my shit together, home, car, money, I own my own business.... This goes a long way. I ask every girl I date about some of the gems they meet and you wouldn't believe how many single dudes are a mess.

Don't get me wrong I'm surprised how well this is going. I'm very picky about looks and don't want to settle so I have not been with a girl that was bigger than a 6. I swear I'm not vane but I was married to someone who let themselves go and it just ruined our quality of life (so says the fat guy!).
I like the layout. One main reason I wouldn't use it is that I can't see how many upvotes/downvotes each comment has, and I don't know how you have the comments sorted right now.
If you also look at this metaphor

>Shaw criticizes the Wright Flyer by the criteria of Second World War aviation

it's pretty clear that the OP considers K&R obsolete and unsuitable for today's needs. It's not just that "sometimes you might need more than one book" - you wouldn't want to put the Wright Flyer in the same formation as a Flying Fortress.
TRS-80 Model 16 with Xenix.

You could get upgrades to get them to 768k.

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/catalogs_extra/1984_r...
Live preview of the Play2 documentation hosted on the Play2 Github repository
It's not clear whether you are actually advocating this kind of interpretation of Ayn Rand's position or not.

It seems to me that the principle of government being solely to protect individuals from the initiation of force by others is a great one, and should be the primary one. For bringing this idea into my consciousness, I am grateful to Ayn Rand and those who propagate her work.

However, "sophacles" doesn't seem to be arguing against the principle. He or she seems to be arguing against a simplistic interpretation of its implications.

For example you say: "correctly applying this principle means that if something is always a poison to everyone, it's not a legitimate product. There is no legitimate use. Producing it and selling it is simply initiating force."

Who decides what is a poison to 'everyone'? Well since by the correct application of the principle, it is the government's responsibility to protect individuals from this initiation of force, it must therefore be the responsibility of the government to recognize these situations.

Does that mean that the government needs to set up a science infrastructure to decide what is harmful to 'everyone'?

If so, how is it to staff this infrastructure with scientists, and how is it to decide who is qualified to do the work? Perhaps it needs to establish an education system for this purpose. Given that working as a government scientist by necessity means giving up a lot of time that could otherwise be spent securing shelter and provision for the future, perhaps the government should set up a way to house and provide for its employees in their old age... and so it goes on.

I'm all for the principle, seriously. I just don't see how it helps to offer unrealistically simplified interpretations of how to apply it to people who are interested enough to engage.

Unless you really do think that Ayn Rand had a perfect and complete prescription for the best of all possible societies...
I'm basically replying to this comment so I can find it again.

I think your point about unsafe functions being fine as long as access to them is only possible through controlled access points that verify sane input is one of the most interesting points I've seen in a while.
There actually was an IE for Unix way back in the day. Probably when it was just relabeled Spyglass Mosaic.
I think that is somewhat the point of the OP. If you're average joe and just want to click a few buttons WTC + cloudflare is popular. If on the other hand you don't like bloated problem inducing options, you do it yourself. For example;

Throw in Paul Irish's .htaccess boilerplate: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/.htacc...

Enable APC http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/apc/

Minify using a build script

Use one of the Many CDN plugins for images.

If you're worried about load balancing and DDOS there are plenty of solutions out there that are handled at the host level.
Small correction, not the ration of the energy to the entropy but the derivate of the energy by the entropy - that is, the rate at which the energy increases as the entropy increases.

(Of course, it's slightly more confusing since it's actually the inverse of the temperature that's defined as dS/dE, which is the rate at which the entropy increases as the energy increases, a much more understandable definition. And as the physics professor who taught this to a room of students from various departments said of the transition from

1/T = dS/dE

to

T = dE/dS

"The mathematicians in the crowd will be in an uproar now. But we can do stuff like that in physics")
This sounds like the article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870411150457605...
Praise is not the same as love and affection.

Praise is an expression, and it may or may not express love. Love and affection are emotions.

It is entirely possible to love and feel affection without expressing it through words, or even actions. As an example: simply paying attention and listening, without having your own thoughts, preconceptions block you from actually receiving what that other person is saying.

Love is a state of being, not something you do. So yes, children need love and affection; that may or may not have anything to do with praise.

PS. It is far easier to tackle challenges when you love yourself, and have fun with what you are doing. Failures don't feel like the end of the world, and you can acknowledge and examine them with the same neutrality as you would with successes. At that point, it is no longer a matter of success or failure -- you feel loved anyways.

There's this big fallacy that desire and punishment are necessary, otherwise someone will become lazy, apathetic, and won't have the "drive". This is a big fat lie. The lie comes from the notion of having to trade success for affection.
Mmmh, last check-in was December 2010...
Yes this is what I'm alluding to. No offense meant at the parent comment, whose worldview I respect...I'm just saying that what you disagree with the OP on is not a mistaken assumption, but a different frame of reference...
kjackson2012 your account is dead - you've accidentally triggered a spam filter
More companies hire consultants than don't.
Octopress and this blog
A Windows Phone 8 Run Tracking App in 100 Lines of Code - CodeProject
I thought that was needlessly vindictive. If you don't like the guy that much, just stop the interview.
The music industry is not going to cripple itself -- they still have control over the strongest marketing avenues (and indeed you'll see that usually what's breaking into Singles Chart in US, UK and elsewhere are records being recorded, produced by major labels).

There was news this week about movie industry having its best year this year for some time, I do not think the music industry is much different. It's doing well and it'll continue to do well. It will change and adapt, as it's already doing, but it'll be gradual change. I like your sentiments on 'sharing' and technology in the end winning, but there is no significant evidence to think that is how things will play out.
Java 7 adds java.lang.AutoCloseable (together with try-with-resources) which is essentially the same thing.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/AutoClose...
Great RaspberryPi Quick Start Guide
You might enjoy reading "Cultural Misunderstandings: The French-American Experience" by Raymonde Carroll. She was born French and married an American, which triggered her interest in this topic. And she has a professional eye to these things as both her and her husband are ethnologist ;) But this is not a scholar book. There's a chapter on children education.

And also one on friendship and how it differs on both side --- which if more widely known would have cut down on the hysteria during the second Iraq war (freedom fries and all this hoopla). But then, media like the hysteria.
I use the arrow keys to scroll when reading web pages. This site uses JavaScript to add behaviour to the arrow keys for a reason I cannot fathom. Web developers, please avoid JavaScript at all costs. Unless you know precisely what you are doing, you will only mess up a user’s experience.

As for the actual article, this:

“3D printing will be poised to suck the value out of manufacturing.”

Sounds like a good thing to me. If we make all our own jobs obsolete, then our economic model will have to change so that we don’t starve to death in the ensuing abundance and leisure.

Of course, just because manufacturing and, say, agriculture can be done by automatons doesn’t mean they should be. Even if some can’t fathom it, a lot of people genuinely enjoy getting their hands dirty. Will they be allowed to farm for pleasure when the robots do all the necessary farming?
I don't really understand Cloudflare's problems with latency. When using FULL CDN+Optimizations the entire site's HTML and assets should be cached and served super fast via cloudflare. That is the best case scenario for them to speed up load times.

But based on my testing, Cloudflare adds more latency to response times even in a best case scenario of full caching. However, when I do the same exact type of optimizations with Google PageSpeed service I see great results.

The most interesting part about cloudflare's problems is that they weren't there 2 years ago when I first started using it. I blogged about how great it was.

Here are the articles I've written about cloudflare in the past 2 years: http://www.x-pose.org/category/cloudflare/
OK, I'll bite. What do you consider "useless things"?
I looked a lot better, but there was definitely still flab.

You exclude the possibility that other factors outweighed (no pun intended) the weight issue? We're talking > 55lb, so it obviously had a major visual impact. I don't believe it should have had no impact. Maybe minor, but for it to make no difference says something about other factors I think. when I was young I wasn't overweight at all, and had exactly the same experience.

I agree that the profile is like that. You have very little time to catch somebody's attention.
I think the problem was really that the author was doing two a week when others were doing one a quarter -- for something that was supposed to be a shared responsibility. I agree that your people are your product, but it is bad management to overburden someone with a task they dislike (though they excel at it.)
I don't buy the notion that people willingly pay 700 € for an ipad (plenty of people going for a higher model), but would reject a 700 € price tag for a touch-enabled laptop.

The basic problem in my opinion is that if you spend 400 € you're ok with plasticky rubbish, but if you spend 700 € you want to have a quality product. The 700 € laptops feel just as bulky and plasticky as the 400 € laptops, so nobody buys them, especially since most of them don't even have touchscreens. The solution is not for prices to go down, it's for build quality in the sub-1000 segment to go up.

If a 499€ retina ipad can feel great in your hands, then there is no excuse for the fact that the cheapest windows 8 touch laptops that feel nice in your hands have 4 digit price tags.
Company pays everyone comparable amounts of money. Company demands a basket of different deliverables that are (a) not comparably pleasurable to generate and (b) not comparably important to the company when seen through the lens of employee rewards. Company starts with the premise that all employees will share the load on the whole basket, but later looks at performance on deliverables to allocate specific employees for specific deliverables.

Result: all rational incentive is to do a terrible job on those deliverables that are least pleasant and/or least rewarded.

It's a simple point. I'm surprised you missed it.
Glad you built a way for me to be more productive at being less productive.
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Just because something is physically addictive doesn't mean it has negative health consequences. Many studies have shown that long term, low to moderate caffeine consumption (especially coffee) has a positive impact on overall health.

Caffeine, amphetamines, and modafinil are not neurotoxic. I believe the others aren't either but I haven't read up on them. Methamphetamine is neurotoxic but non-methylated amphetamines are not.
Also Tachyon is a full JS engine built in JS. It's incomplete but has the ability self-host itself and JIT compile machine code (all written in JS), so it gets bonus points to offset the fact that its implementation is incomplete https://github.com/Tachyon-Team/Tachyon
This is not minimalist in my honest opinion. I can see people liking it though!
There's no money in 3D printing, and also, no money in everything since everything can be made by this Universal Making Machine.
This article's argument is nonsense. If the Universal Making Machine is made, not there's no money but money can be abandoned. One can use this machine to get anything he want, so why we need money anyway?
by ending was great, I meant that the last sentence was a great editorial ending to the story. The fact that he lost 10k is not great, but overall a great piece on his startup.
Mobile Information Diet
There is no evidence for the existence of God(s), nor any evidence for the continuation of consciousness beyond death.

There is a large body of testable evidence of organisms that are unsafe for human consumption. We cannot prove whether or not any changes introduced by humans via genetic engineering, whether intended or not (such as random mutations) will result in an unsafe product. The worst case being that we create a strain of organism that is superior to those we currently have, displacing all others in the environment and being unsafe for human or animal consumption, and if it is a staple crop one that leads to more starvation not less.

As far as feeding an increasing population, the simple answer is not to have the increase. Even then our current agriculture system is heavily based on fossil fuels. Increasing cost of production and distribution if not outright decline in fossil fuel output is much more likely to lead to starvation.
May I ask how tall you are? I am not trying to be facetious, just curious.

I agree that it's a numbers game, assuming you are at least vaguely viable.
This wasn't a start-up. It was a get rich quick scheme. Those aren't the same thing (though they're VERY similar these days).

Start-ups usually have something to do with innovation. You merely paid for the shipment of 50,000 condom keychains into the United States, and sold them at a markup. That's not innovation. That's what the distribution companies for gumball machines are doing.