skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I have heard of seedier sites in the past using false profiles to reply to people, perhaps keep those such as myself strung along."

Yes, seedier sites like Match.com and Yahoo Personals:
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-11-18-matchmak...
I was not able to acquire insurance coverage. Could not continue.
Even in a centralized state, the best, most efficient and reliable way to distribute illegal items would be total decentralization. Huge crime rings still exist though: where there is the opportunity to monopolize a resource, people will do it. That will only be exaggerated in your imagined anarcho-capitalist state. Even resources like water, energy, raw materials would be subject to monopolization, and very likely enforced through weaponry, not law. Can you see where that's going?

Suppose I kill someone. Now you'll turn to a private law company to judge/punish me. I then proceed to kill that company's employees. Will you now invoke a third private law provider in their name? Who will pay for it? Even if all the law providers were mutually insured, in this arrangement, as long as I can overpower each private entity, there is no effective law.
That would depend if he was ever offered an exit. By the end of 2000 free-wheeling money for tech was gone. If that didn't kill a business, 9/11/2001 was a second blow. Those who had a chance to exit by Y2K and had a clue about financial bubbles thrived personally. Certainly though, there were smart people who were never offered an acquisition.
The Factory Floor, Part 1 of 4: The Quotation (or, How to Make a BOM)
I wouldn't blame him, though. He might have breathed in a lot of lead as a child.
Rands in Repose may be good reading for you.
Actually, now that you mention it, yes, it probably was per minute. But still, that was on 12MHz 286's and 8MHz 68k's...
Carol Dweck developed the theory called mindset that shows that how children are praised (for effort, or intelligence) can determine how they approach problems, how long they persist at trying to solve problems, and even whether they will tend to choose to solve new, harder problems or choose to re-solve ones they already know. http://mindsetonline.com/
For slow websites, caching helps a lot. Cloudflare does caching. My page generation times are around 15ms so for me there wasn't a measurable difference when using Cloudflare.
You can also use https://github.com/bratta/googlevoiceapi
I would be more than willing to do that, if I believed it was as much of a factor as height/looks/cocky confidence.

I actually experimented with this, lost > 55lb in weight, worked really hard, and it made no difference. None.

As you can imagine, motivation to do these things is not great these days.
My favorite portable device right now is an MBA13 with an iPad (4) in the same bag. Use the iPad for reading long documents or very minor editing, and the MBA13 for everything else.
Hope this doesn't lead to text bombs
No, that's why they have rate limiting: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/pricing

I doubt that the volume of API requests originating from this script would generate even a blip on Google's radar.
Rule number one: no surprises. Your job is to know exactly what's going on with the product and why, and make sure no one else is surprised by communicating the information they need in the form they need it.

Rule number two: get to know the customers well. If you're bogged down in a hundred different internal meetings you might be very productively building exactly the wrong thing.

It can be hard to balance these two things sometimes, but they're both really important.

There's a lot more to it than that, but product management is mostly learnt on the job. If you're just starting out, and have no product management experience, you're probably not the only product manager at your company. Glom on to someone who seems to know what they're doing and get mentored. Ask the people you interact with what they're looking for in a product manager. Be a sponge.

Good luck!
To yourself?
> We can't tell if Jacob is truly a "douche" or not.

He had a girlfriend for five years and didn't marry her, and then had a girlfriend for two years and didn't marry her. That doesn't mean he's a douche, but he's not much of a prize either.

I suppose this attitude is a generation or more out of date. But it sure looks to me like the younger generation is screwing it up bad. Guess I'd better get some signs to post on my lawn.
I think that his problem is that he has always sought external validation. He wanted the world to affirm his greatness. This isn't likely to happen. The occupational world is interested only in treating one as a fungible resource. The world doesn't really care about many individuals, and they probably won't make an effort to validate them unless they do something remarkable.

Instead of trying to asses his merit through artificial criteria or measurements, he should strive for internal validation. He should find what makes him feel good, and pursue it. This is distinct from what brings him pleasure. Pursuing only pleasure had, in his case, turned out poorly. Moreover, I think that strict hedonism isn't congruous with the human condition: everyone needs aspirations and accomplishments.

On the education system: yeah, it's a mess. The chief problem is its inefficiency. I recall statistic stating that 70% of knowledge learned in school is lost throughout one's lifetime, and that only 3% is actively applied in one's day-to-day life or occupation. I'm not sure about the veracity of this, but I think that, regardless of the actual numbers, it's a fairly intuitive conclusion that the education system is a travesty.

This is derived from the increasing specificity as one ascends our various educational institutions. The foundational information: basic arithmetic, introductory english skills, ect. are applicable to almost all careers and lifestyles. Then, as science and history are thrown in and math becomes more complex, the content begins to lose its applicability. Then, at the secondary level, the information becomes so esoteric as to practically useless to everyone. Calculus is used in an incredibly small number of occupations, and could safely be relegated to the collegiate level. And yet, it is arguable the centerpiece of the education system.

The same could be said about lab science.

English, on the other hand, is a pivotal educational domain that is pertinent to one's success throughout school, but focuses on the wrong things. The various structures and constructs of english are emphasized, while the application is marginalized. If anything, the former belies the true nature of language: to communicate effectively. And yet, so little actual communication is done throughout schools as to be laughable. I recall never being given more than 1-2 essays per semester throughout middle and early high school. It's illogical to impress the specifics of the english language on students without compelling them to use those specifics. This is why I love my current english course: it focuses almost exclusively on argumentative analysis and writing.

The issue is not that these academic domains are unto themselves valueless or that they should not be taught. On the contrary, I find most of my courses to be incredibly edifying, and that even superfluous information has innate value. However, the function of the education system is not to instill knowledge for knowledge's sake, but to produce capable individuals prepared for the real world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Strauss
Is necessity a prerequisite for humor?
Sorry but to me this hears similarly too "coders do not care about why runtime speed is slow, they just want it fast". You cannot get gut runtime performance without understanding the performance constraints of data structures and algorithms you use, Similarly, when using Scala, you must be aware of the performance cost - in compilation time - of the various features and act accordingly. So yes, what can be fixed should be fixed - but I am happy with having the possibility to trade ocassionally a powerful feature that will make my coding simpler for some unavoidable compilation delay. (Though I would of course prefer the compilation to be instantanous.)
It seems that they took whole blog site down. This was funny and very lame.

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You don't have permission to access /cloudflare-showdown/ on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
I'll admit the demo was impressive but there's still noticeable lag in animations. So far the only web app that I've seen come even close to native is Hacker Web: http://hackerwebapp.com/

I don't know about the rest of HN but I'm become somewhat tired of the HTML5 vs Native chatter. I think we can all agree that native performs better. Nuff said.

Maybe we can revisit this in a year's time.
Codebreaker Challenge from the Science Museum, UK.
You do however build up a tolerance to modafinil, and it has various negative side-effects. But I agree that it's weird to make some sort of hard separation between various types of nootropics, and say that you should never touch some. Everything potentially has its use, and I think that Gwern covers this topic exceedingly well at his site.
> But here I am, feeling normal and useless. I lead a moderate sized club at RPI, but I don't even feel accomplished for it. I haven't seen any of the job offers that I felt were promised to me when I enrolled at the school, I haven't gotten any major internships.

I struggled with this as well. A big turning point for me was dropping entirely the notion of being entitled to anything. In reality, no one owes me anything just because I think I'm smart or because I think I work hard.

On the feeling unaccomplished part, maybe try reading a book like http://www.amazon.com/Mastery-Keys-Success-Long-Term-Fulfill.... It's sort of a "the goal is the journey" book with some practical advice thrown in.

> As a kid I used to hit the video games pretty hard, but at some point I started to realize how fake the achievements felt. I literally can't stomach playing video games anymore. It feels like taking some sort of numbing drug. I have good memories, and I don't even regret most of the weekends I devoted entirely to video games (and the costs associated).

Me too! It sucks sometimes because I want to enjoy playing a game but don't. I've found that I can't play games, like Skyrim, that are just time-based grinds. Instead, I play games for the nostalgia, the story, for creativity elements, or for the competition/skill factor. Sometimes even then I feel uneasy playing games because I feel like I should be doing something more productive.. that's a tough feeling to get over.

> I worked a job last summer teaching kids. I still visit from time to time, and the trend of positive reinforcement and lack of criticism seems to be gaining momentum in our youth. My boss would not let me criticize my own students.

I don't think these things are mutually exclusive. You can certainly criticize and be positive (or at least not negative) about it.
This was probably taken from the work of Carol Dweck[0]. I recently read a book she wrote (Mindset[1]) that was recommended on a thread here. The book title sounds like some corny self-help book, and honestly some of the stories in it seemed a bit sappy to me, but I think the underlying idea is solid and I definitely see it myself a lot in my day to day life (full disclosure: recovering fixed mindset person :)).

The basic premise is there are two types of mindsets, a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. Those with the fixed mindset are those that believe that intelligence, ability, etc.. is basically fixed. You have some certain amount and that's that. The growth mindset believes the general range of these things may be strongly influenced ('fixed') by things like genetics, life circumstances, etc... but improvement within this range is definitely possible and the key to that is hard work and honest assessment of where you are relative to where you want to be.

This relates to the achievement vs. hard work thing because she claims children who are praised for 'being smart' or 'being good at X' tend to gravitate towards the fixed mindset (i.e. 'I get praised because I am smart, I am smart because I can do X well/X comes easily to me, if something doesn't come easily to me it must mean I am not smart/talented'). This causes them to not put in effort when the going gets tough and in fact to avoid challenges because if they fail they view it as a judgement on their core self/competency (not simply an indication of an area for growth).

The growth mindset folks (children praised for doing well because they worked hard at it as opposed to some natural talent or 'smarts') tend to seek challenges as they view them as the engine of growth/improvement.

Using these frameworks as a lens on which to view human behavior can be interesting. I have definitely seen both mindsets in action (in myself and others). I definitely , consciously, try to stay in a growth mindset now, but I think our culture heavily pushes a fixed mindset where someone either has 'it' or they don't, they are smart or they are not, they are talented or they are not. We prefer the 'instant success due to massive talent/smarts' story over the 'worked their ass off for years to build amazing talent and then succeeded due to that hard work'.

The book Talent Is Overrated[2] also touches on this and points out most people that we generally consider 'naturals' at things, if you interview them/study them/look at their past, all have something in common, a tremendous amount of effort in learning/training, above and beyond what most people put in. This also veers towards the 10,000 hour theory of Anders Ericsson[3]

EDIT: Fixed a bunch typos/misspelling I saw in re-reading. Originally typed in IE with no spell check. Area for improvement: spelling.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Dweck

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Mindset-The-New-Psychology-Success/dp/...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Talent-Overrated-World-Class-Performer...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Anders_Ericsson
The problem is too many people who think they know what "the problem" is.

But I do agree with you on the second and third paragraphs.

Like when somebody asks you "but what will I do with quadratic equations later in life?". No, you semi-evolved simian, you don't need to solve quadratic equations later in life, you need a brain that has jumped the hurdle of learning quadratic equations later in life.
That being said, a small percentage of guys I know have occasionally bucked the trend.

One guy is crazy fun, short (5'5 - 5'6), Asian, and yet hasn't had trouble attracting women in NYC (arguably one of the harder places to find someone due to the number of good looking and stylish people).

Another guy I know had the exact same traits (except maybe one inch taller) and attracted extremely beautiful taller women. In his case though, he's never attracted to Caucasian women so even though he could've bucked the trend he chose not to.

I believe they had two advantages: one is a extroverted fun personality that makes women comfortable with approaching them, and the second is going out often as to have an incredibly large social circle to choose from.
Where are you looking? I find it hard to believe you can't find any non-web programming positions, they're around. A quick search on monster.com shows thousands of them in America.
I think this is a radical idea, but hear me out: I fully believe the community could be better curated if they took the down-vote button away. (Or, at least, reserved it for the highest echelon of users)

Looking from the island of HackerNews, back to the continent of Reddit where I wasted so many years of productivity, I've seen amazing wonders in the way HN uses its down-vote systems. In essence, it's there to "nudge" the discussion back into the right direction, and overall a great tool for curating a community from those that have been decided by their peers to curate.

To me, a down-vote button puts an undue weight on the negativity of a discussion. There's three states: "I liked this", in which you up-vote, "I didn't like this", in which you ignore it, and "I didn't like this", in which you down-vote. Even reddiquette dictates that it should only be used for anything that doesn't contribute. It's very clear that's not how it's used, and in my opinion that can only be fixed by changing the official meaning of the button or restricting its use altogether. I think the latter has amazing effects on community discussion, as I've seen here on HN.

Stuff I know I didn't discuss above: The effect of a non-focused forum discussion, abuse in voting systems, impacts of large communities.
>> One of the main attractions of K&R C is exactly its lack of verbosity, its extraordinarily high content-to-length ratio. In a very short space you learn to do a lot of sophisticated programming, and most if not all code examples fit on one page or less.

Funny.

The same goes for "Programming Erlang" by Armstrong.

On contrary: "Erlang and OTP in Action" is quite boring (in comparison with book by Armstrong). Definitely it's not a book for "enlightment" but for practice, sometimes dull: "Do it in such way, you don't need understand why, you'll get accustomed to it in future"
This article/site appears to be down. Cannot help but wonder if it wouldn't be if they had used CloudFlare...

Jokes aside, I never really expected that CloudFlare would increase the speed of your average site. I mean there is limited caching going on but in general that isn't the benefit of a CDN.

The benefit of a CDN is: consistent speed across geographical zones (Europe, Americas, Asia, Russia, etc), better handling of load variations (Slashdotted, etc), and also some level of DDOS protection (just due to the virtue of more availability).

Any increase in speed supplied by CloudFlare depends a great deal on how the underlying site delivers content and how well cache-control is done. For example if you move all of your static content onto a static host (e.g. static.example.com) and then set the cache to a week, then CloudFlare is going to do a lot more for you, then if your app supplies most content dynamic with no-cache set.
MVP, it’s not just for users anymore
Pentel RSVP is disposable, but writes like a dream.
That's British vs. American usage. "Quite good" in British english is a much stronger statement than the same in American english.
That's a US functionality since you pay for incoming text messages. Other countries have no way to fund incoming texts as they're free.
Thanks, I will look there. I had been mainly looking on the Who's hiring posts of HN, but the few native development roles there are don't offer H1B visa support. I had seen a role or two on monster, but none of the employers there are willing to bring in a developer who needs a H1B. Thanks for your input though, it is very much appreciated.
Confidence is pretty much the only factor.

If you don't have it, nothing else matters. If you do, everything else is just an icing on the cake. Took me a while to realize this, but that's an ultimate truth :)
This feels like nonsense. Some C/C++ jobs I have seen people get in the last year. Notice that these require some low level internals knowledge and posix experience.
nvidia
google
microsoft
navtec/nokia
cray

Maybe you have too much experience in the other roles, and your pay grade experience level corresponds to glorified web development?

You should apply to
Goldman Sachs who are a Java shop. I think the Chicago CME group also does C++. An enumerable number of hedge funds do C++.
Most systems companies (e.g., networking, storage) do development in C/C++/Java. Have you checked 'em out?
nope, going to take a while before the batteries catch up. 2014 was intels prediction. hopefully it'll be earlier than that.
Censorship has become an issue within some subreddits, too. It's not about getting rid of blatant spammers any more. Far too often we've seen contributing, albeit unorthodox, members of these communities banned for expressing views that may be controversial, but still worth expressing.

This is a good thing. Individual subreddits can and do have particular rules. For example, r/lgbt, r/transgender etc. all have rules banning homophobic or transphobic comments. In a world where trans people are killed for living as themselves (or driven to the edge of society and commit suicide), it's good to have a place where they don't have to continually verbally fight to support their human rights.
I'm curious about your physical stats because I have this theory that guys of a certain race and height have a significantly easier time getting dates than others.
"You eraserhead people are weird."

TrackPoint has been the most efficient way to get cursor around the screen. Touch interfaces are somewhat there but as per professional software development they are not. And so for other areas. Touch interfaces are inefficient, moving hands around is more difficult then fiddling with track point - as what we weirdos do.

Anyway. Its stupid. What you want doesn't matter, what is amazing will come and bite you and you will be surprised. Thats how it works. Period. "Or Revolution will not be televized" etc etc..
I read a very interesting question on Quora that relates to this:

http://www.quora.com/Psychology/Why-are-some-people-more-res...

"People can also learn these self-theories from the kind of praise they receive (Mueller & Dweck, 1998). Ironically, when students are praised for their intelligence, they move toward a ﬁxed theory. Far from raising their self-esteem, this praise makes them challenge-avoidant and vulnerable, such that when they hit obstacles their conﬁdence, enjoyment, and performance decline. When students are praised for their effort or strategies (their process), they instead take on a more malleable theory— they are eager to learn and highly resilient in the face of difﬁculty."
I'm pretty skeptical. Seems like fraudulent self promotion. The whole story conveniently ends with him getting a text message for a gig.
If it means no old movie coming back to theaters as a pseudo 3D movie, then this is the best patent ever.
Very true. However, just going by the Wikipedia article on him, Midgley engaged in clearly unethical actions by helping to convince the government and the public of the safety of TEL even as he himself was suffering from the effects of lead poisoning.
Atlanta, GA (full-time)
Emcien - http://www.emcien.com/
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https://jobs.github.com/positions/ee73350c-5528-11e2-850a-9e...

We make the most interesting software in Atlanta, and have a lot of fun doing it. No facebook-for-cats here.
I think you want two services here; Instapaper for the offline reading part, Pinboard for the archive part. I use Instapaper for the 'read later/offline' stuff, as a) it works on the web, iPad, iPhone, & Kindle and b) it's great at syncing. Pinboard will let you save URLs and tag them, and with a pro account it'll keep a copy of the page for you.
Authors site has this in the <html> tag after javascript has run ...:

style="margin-left: -32767px; "

Not sure why that is there, or what use it has. In Chrome for some reason an empty style tag is applied to the <html> tag, it too flashes to white and then back, so I assume some JavaScript is adding the margin-left and then removing it.

---

Some quick testing ... may not be accurate:

It seems that the *-blink.js stuff that comes down from gstatic.com is the culprit.
Ted Nugent - Free Men and Women Have the Right to Defend Themselves
much appreciated thanks!
> This is a good thing.

No, it's not.

The moderators of r/conservative think that climate change is a hoax. If you write an on-topic, polite comment that even suggests that climate change is real, you will be banned. This is a terrible, terrible way to run a community. The conservatives on reddit live in a bubble where all science is banned. It's not a positive state of affairs.

(Edit: I'm not conservative, but I frequent that subreddit to educate about science, climate, etc, and have been banned many times for these comments.)