skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find your comment fascinating and, from the perspective of a twice founder, mystifying. Your screen name evokes two vector forces or rivers coming together to form a new, stronger, force in a common direction. Ironically this is the true nature of an employee and employer.

I have worked for fortune 10 companies and for 3 man crews. Yet my own assessment of my value has not changed. If an individual understands their own value then they can not be taken advantage of and an employer would not want to. I have taken payment for my services in stock, units, FRNs, gold, beer, and good will. I did so knowing the value of my work and accepting, in my perception, an equal or greater value in return.

To many the culture fit crap you deride has value. Your statement that companies exist to make managers/founders rich is misguided as can be demonstrated if you speak to zealous founders who obsess over their passion. And no person, Mr. Graham included (whom I believe would agree anyway), will ever convince me employees risk as much as a founder or even an early stage investor. I will not enumerate all that I have lost (more than money to be certain) in the two companies I have started. I don't say this to diminish the employee role or risk but to correct a grave misunderstanding.

The very few founders who do get rich damn well deserved it and I guarantee the money doesn't cover all of their losses.
The Details of a $100 Startup
Failure is the stepping stone to success. Don't give up.
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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. -- Michael jordan

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Just came to say this. I'm glad that there are some people who know the Chinese sugar art.
The video you linked is not very clear. Some suggestions YouTube gives have a better perspective, for example this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQlQQDP6hNY
French here. What I'm mostly concerned here is that the guy is basically saying : "we will produce tires in China for cheap and then sell them to you, because we can".

Europe has very low restrictions on imports, because it tries to implement free market as purely as possible. Many voices in France say we must be more aggressive on importation taxes, and that even US has a more protected market than us. After all, no west country can beat China in production costs.

Problem is, those voices are mostly from nationalist and xenophobic parties. Even current left wing french government would not touch total free market.

Now, there is the insult. Saying french workers work 3 hours a day is totally stupid. Normal work day is 8 hours for private sector, and 7 hours for public sector (but most public sector workers work 8 hours and then take a day off to compensate over worked days). The reason because average hours per day is low (see other comments) is because unemployment is high, so many people accept part time jobs and short term jobs.

Now, combine the cynical stance "we can produce cheap products in China and sell them to you with no penalties" and the insult, and you've got perfect food for nationalist parties. Once again.
How can I show a client that their code sucks?
I make no assumption. It's only because I've been there.

I was you based on how you describe yourself about 2 years ago. It did some serious damage to my life and I don't wish other people to go through it.
I don't mind it, but I also find that (other than task manager), I barely interact with the new features. I turn it on, put my password in, click 'Desktop' and launch my apps.

The extra half second of hovering to bring up the charms menu to shut down does annoy me disproportionately more than it really should.
Two types of engineers: Cowboys & artists
That article says they use dolphins for meat and income. It seems a little easy to sit in an armchair next to a fridge full of supermarket-bought food and complain about what islanders do to eat. Presumably, the money they claim they weren't paid would've been used on other sources of food, and when unpaid, went back to what they were doing before, with a little extra effort to piss off the non payers.
I did copy paste into gedit.

A for effort.
This is a followup to my earlier article - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5243029
"I can't wait for these daily deal business to go away because I don't think it benefits anyone."

If you don't like these deals, then don't use them but don't say that they don't benefit anyone. Customers benefit from these deals all the time. 50% off a meal is a great offer!

I think the biggest problem with these deals (for the wait staff at a restaurant) is that people think they should tip based off the discounted meal, instead of the full price.

It's a deal on the meal, not a deal on the tip.
I'm truly sorry for you.

God has made us to live, enjoy life, and see the beautiful world.
Only have 1 life and might i say that you are not living it...at all.
Startup employees get fraction of a percent of ownership whilst taking relatively similar risk profiles - as in pennies on the dollar and last I checked pennies are pretty worthless. Hence the heuristic. Yes - you need a bunch of equity to make it worth it - my point with that heuristic was that employees don't usually get a meaningful enough amount of stock. Furthermore - due to the various stock class structures - the stock may also be diluted away upon exit or subsequent investment rounds.
Ask HN: Who is offering part time work with market rate salaries and benefits?
Dev or design. Equity is nice too, but not required.
A slightly extended version of my comment on the accepted answer:

I disagree on almost everything. On mobile phones you don't have a >17" screen to place a power button in an often-used menu somewhere, and the power button is like 5cm away. On a desktop this is usually not the case. As you said, you need to power a device on in a physical way because software is not running, but when powering off you can use either software or hardware buttons. You've been using that mouse and keyboard the whole time that you were working with it, why turn back to other hardware to turn it off?

For tablets, and even laptops to an extent, Windows 8 makes a lot of sense. The power button is close, or you can close the lid. For desktop PCs, not so much.

Lastly, I think of my phone or mobile device as always-on because it needs to be always on. I don't turn my ears off when I'm not using them either. My 500 Watt pc does not always need to be on or sleeping (hibernate at most). Nor does my family's tablet; we always power it off entirely. Conserves a lot of battery power and lifespan.
Today We Hit Peak Hack (Or So I Hope)
Press the power button on your machine. The same one you used to turn it on.
Even in Windows 7 it's kind of a pain if one is using shortcut keys.

shutdown – press the win key, then press the → key once and finally enter. (on xp it was win key + U twice)

restart – press the win key, then press the → key 2 times and finally R. (on xp it was win key + U then R)

However, at least locking is easy (hold win key and press L).

If one is not locking out, easier to just go to the start menu to shut down.

edit: mixed up locking and logout shortcuts. Also press → twice and not 3 times for restart, mea culpa.

reference link: http://productivity.ben61a.com/windows/windows-7-shortcut-ke...
> You seem to be saying to contradictory things:

No, they are not contradictory statements. Equity is one way to see upside in a startup, but that upside can be completely destroyed for employees. For example, common stock or when founders don't negotiate with investors on your behalf. An employee's relationship with equity can be very different from a founder's relationship with equity (and not just quantity). Situations aren't always this bleak, but the OP was asking for a dose of cynicism.
Facebook Influences Your Mood More Than Any Social Network
You should actually check it out; even the title marquees.
I thought it was just windows right enter? Way easier than xp ( I worked in a computer lab)
I find that's true for a few of my interests, but not to the degree that I'm disinterested in talking about those subjects on a more basic level.
I have two machines running Windows 8: a 2-year-old laptop, and a Surface Pro tablet. I've never shut down either of them.

The laptop just gets closed when I'm not using it -- so it goes to sleep. If I leave it like that long enough it'll hibernate itself when the battery gets low.

The tablet I either press the power button on, or if I have the keyboard cover attached, just flip the cover shut which has the same effect. It goes to sleep and shuts itself down after 15?30? minutes of inactivity. Win8 on an SSD cold boots to a working desktop with network connection in 7 seconds flat.

Explicitly navigating to a software shutdown button just isn't part of a normal workflow on modern devices. The only time I think I'd use it would be to fix some kind of bug like a wonky driver. Desktops are going the way of the dodo -- my dinky little tablet can now drive a 2560x1440 monitor and run modern games. Adding one extra click to reach the old software shutdown button to keep the UX simple for what most people will be doing makes sense.

Heck, if you have a keyboard with the new Win8 shortcuts, it's the same amount of clicks as it was in WinVista and Win7. Charm button -> Power button -> Shut Down, versus Start Button -> Arrow next to the power icon -> Shut down.
I remember when I discovered BBSes. Must have been sometime in the mid-eighties. I found a number in magazine, probably Byte.

And I called it, using a TI Silent 700 terminal, which was an acoustic coupler 300-baud modem married to a thermal printer. It was called Silent to differentiate it from noisier (and slower) impact-printer based competitors, such as the IBM 2741, which used the Selectric typewriter bouncing type ball. The 700 could print out text at 30 characters per second on a roll of thermal paper.

When it answered, I was presented by a set of menus leading to all sorts of interesting hacking-related text files. But the most interesting text file wasn't a hacking screed. Rather, it was a directory of other BBSes, their areas of interest, and their phone numbers. Think the internet over PSTN. Touring the BBS network of the time, I went thru quite a few rolls of paper and made a significant contribution to the company's phone bill!
Hm, well, for what it's worth, I don't know if you were, but I'm trying to be very conscious about figuring out what's important to me and focusing on it. I've been through some existential-crisis/depression stuff lately and prioritizing and maximizing life has been critical to me. On one hand, I think I'm addicted to being over-stimulated, but I also am focusing on maximizing the (real) social interactions to keep me grounded in a sense. I'm trying to be conscious of it, we'll see in a few years. (I've always detested texting though. Honestly, right now I'm really struggling because one of my closest friend demands attention and I can't give it hundreds of miles away other than texts or phonecalls which I dread. Hangouts are better, really infinitely so).
If i browse through the mens section of the Warby Parker website, I really hope, Google does not go that route. never in my life would I wear such eye-wear.

I did not find one single item, I would put on, as I really do not wanna look like the social-media-bullshit-talking-consultant, I see everyday in the tube here in Hamburg, Germany.

Sorry, if this sounds rude, but I hope to be not some hipster or follower of some social-pressure-normative-fashion.

But yes, if Google aims for the wide audience, as they have to, this might just be a very fitting partnership. So, I could understand the move, even if this would mean no Glass for me. :)
Annoyingly windows only.

Windows already was able to turn apps into desktop shortcuts, osx/linux still has none of that.
An officially licensed Craigslist app for iOS and Android
Sometimes. But I don't understand why they couldn't partition to sidestep those orders of magnitude. Since you have actual knowledge of the system, could you give the 30-second version? It looks from the outside like they just didn't make nonblocking load balancing a priority, rather than that feature being harder than the rest of their work.
QSearch - a Facebook timeline search engine for you
Status Magic 1.7 - Translucent Bars and Custom Carriers - iPhone Developer Blog
Apple Admits Some Macs Were Hacked
My Patient, Killed by the New York Times
> [They] actually don't want users to turn their computers off. My parents always power off their laptop completely, because it feels natural to them to power off an electrical device when not using it. Then they complain about the long boot time.

That made the most sense of the entire thread. Much more than the SE answer also.
Canonical Unveils Ubuntu For Tablets, Developer Preview Available
Shouldn't have used the T-word.
India to launch Mars mission this year: President
Air India Pilot’s Rap Goes Viral
Highlighting some Object functions in underscorejs
it's not cheap if youre making a loss on every deal and the number isn't capped. its a good channel if you manage it properly tho.
> restart – press the win key, then press the → key three times and finally R

You need to press → key twice. (I just accidentally restarted my computer trying this :-))

> However, at least logout is easy (hold win key and press L).

win+L locks the computer. To log off, you need to press the win key, then press the → key twice and finally L.
I don't understand this post. It starts off by insulting rapgenius for wanting working intelligent routing, and concludes by showing a way to hook up intelligent routers at scale and maintain performance.

What, exactly, is rapgenius wrong about then?
The Future of Facebook as a Social Content Farm
A similar one: Gangnam style curve (Psy curve):
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Gangnam+style+curve
IBM announces major initiative into mobile
In the same way that C overtook assembly.
Yes.

But in fact: you add javascript - you have all strictness and structure of XML.
I wrote my own compiler. Doesn't use REGs to pass values to functions.

All pointers, stack or otherwise, are twice as big. If you are not a beginner, you probably use more pointers than nonpointers, so you're retarded!

I have a fixed 128K size stack unless you want more. I keep memory identity-mapped, so the stack cannot grow.

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The two main founding principles are identity-mapping and ring-0-only.
The axes are labeled. You can tell from the horizontal scale that you're right about the regular peaks being weekly. The charts are not using any log scales however.
you can take the view that Good means profitable. thus if your business generate a profit you have done good.

of course this is only true if the market is free.
that last part where you make a coparision with your ears makes it sound like you consider a phone as some sort of extension of your body :] well, it's clearly about personal preference. I for instance have no desire to leave my phone always on, not only because it "Conserves a lot of battery power and lifespan" but also becasue sometimes I like to not being bothered at all.
This what good brands do as well: Chanel No5 sells a fragrance, but people buy feeling and smelling attractive. Nike sells sneakers and sportswear but people buy the hope and tools for better athletic performance. Source: http://www.risingabovethenoise.com/
Tilera unveils 72-core processor chip for data networks and infrastructure
Only someone who hasn't tried to start a company could say that founders and investors don't deserve to have most of the equity. Try to start one and give all employees the same equity you own ...

Some points you make are valid though, it's a shame you are so single-minded.
Mocking Functions in C
I'd say the Russians pulled the same trick a century later. There were other butchers much more recently, but communism is the most recent example of butchery masquerading as enlightenment.
No, Los Gatos at the Netflix Open Source meetup. I'm pretty sure he was a Googler.
The weaker people in positions of authority are, the less you're allowed to laugh in their faces, and the more you should.
I'm not so sure about that. I thought these technologies sounded very intriguing early on, but I don't think they're going to have much impact on the future.

NaCl is weakly supported by Google, completely unsupported by other browsers and is totally architecture-dependent. It's quite possibly less portable than a normal native code app.

PNaCl is basically abandonware as far as I can tell.
The Most Terrifying Drone Video Yet
I've recently used this library to make an ear trainer app (http://www.earbuilder.com). It's pretty easy to use and the creator responds really quickly - the only issue I have at the moment is playing sounds simultaneously within Chrome.
Simplicity, The Emerging UI, and Machine Learning
None needed ... it got your attention didn't it?
1) Win + I

2) Click on shutdown button.

Alternative: Press power button on device.

I don't like the UI formerly known as Metro, but Windows 8 isn't thaaat bad and this bashing quickly got old.
And of course nickb!
> Win8 on an SSD cold boots to a working desktop with network connection in 7 seconds flat.

Oddly enough, it's not booting. Clicking "Shut down" is hibernation in Windows 8.
Secretive Chinese Army Unit Blamed for Costly Cyberattacks
Would it mean anything? Genuine question - where do you see a connection?
>To many the culture fit crap you deride has value.

That argument is circular. Of course it has "value" to those who practice it (presumably why the practice exists in the first place).

>The very few founders who do get rich damn well deserved it and I guarantee the money doesn't cover all of their losses.

By that logic, being a founder is always net loss even in the very best case scenario.

I understand you're making reference to the personal cost of a venture, the debating of which is a dead-end of anecdote and opinion.
Or live in Paranoidistan, aka USA.
Colonizing another planet would be a speciating event. Alpha Centurians would become a different species anyway, just like a population of birds that gets stranded on a remote island becomes a different species.
Microsoft warns of console bans after Gears of War
Was going to say the same thing. This seems more like the reason, and it would make sense why they would not claim this was the reason as well, since they don't want the word mentioned again among other passengers.
Lua says "Hi."
Thank you for starting this. Even though it's US based only, if it pulls through it will set a very good precedent that can be replicated towards other countries.

Hope you get it up to 100k. Good luck!
I couldn't find some major non-US sites
Using the wrong word is an even more disgusting reason to throw someone off.
Google must be relieved that they didn't end up 6 billion dollars out of pocket and holding the sinking ship that is Groupon.

The marker is saturated, businesses have had enough of getting little in return and consumers are getting annoyed with their inboxes full of annoying offers.
You don't need to hover in the corner, you can just throw your mouse in the corner and then move it down.

But agreed on not using the new features. I think the only Metro app I use regularly is checking the weather from the Start screen. Otherwise I spend almost all time on the Desktop and there it works just like a slimmer and faster Windows 7.
Not that it's an excuse for what they did but why the hell would you suddenly spout "I am not a terrorist" when no-one has even implied as such. Yeah that's helpful to calming strangers in any situation, just suddenly say that without any reason.
Flying has become such a hassle these days. I often just keep my mouth shut when going through security just for the sake of getting through quicker. I feel like if I asked for a pat down as opposed to just walking through the body scan, I would position myself into a potentially troublesome situation. In a way, I do feel like I am being suppressed these days.
Methopoly: BREAKING BAD and Monopoly Mashed Up into One Hell of a Board Game
Startups, like any love, suffers from the lack of reality checks. One must keep the balance - too much reality checks - and you ruin the magic, too few - and you become disconnected from reality which lead to the pain of cognitive dissonance when eventually you face it.

So, delude yourselves responsibly.)
I did a search on HN and SO and found nothing. Do you have a link to investigate further?
The bigger problem is that you don't have any way to measure the success of a daily deal. Yes, of course you are going to lose money when doing the promotion...that is your "cost". If I want people to see my website and I pay an ad-network for clicks, I will get a bunch of costly low-quality users who did not discover my site organically. But the difference is that I can track people who come to my website and see how much they spent not only on Day 1, but on Day 365. And there exists some customer lifetime value that should in aggregate be more than your acquisition costs. Unfortunately you don't have that data and the best you can do is guess, which doesn't put much faith in the daily deal sites.
It hibernates session 0 and the kernel, indeed. But that's a nitpicker's distinction. To the end user the result is the same, it just boots faster.
A naming scheme for blocks in Tetris, Pentris, Hextris, etc
Yes i mean that: there is no useful information in seeing these weekly spikes, and having points for days rather than weeks makes chart uselessly wide. Just averaging data in weekly intervals will make the chart way smaller and more readable.
Why did they throw him off then put him on another flight? I mean either he was a danger (= should be thrown off original flight, but should not be allowed to endanger other flights either), or he wasn't a danger (= could fly on the original flight).
It's a bit disturbing and amazing to see so many people here taking the airline's side in this.

No wonder things are the way they are - the general public supports it.
Mobile Tech (and Society) on the Verge of Another Giant Leap: Ingress
I couldn't find the menu to power off Windows. So I use my trusty old shortcut that has served me for decades:

winkey+r -> shutdown -s -t 0

(or shutdown -r -t 0 to reboot)
why the hell would you suddenly spout "I am not a terrorist" when no-one has even implied as such.

Because if you can't do that, what's even left for terrorists to destroy? And how is lying, claiming he took more pictures, an appropriate response? How can you possibly rationalize this to be the fault of the OP? As a comment to that story points out, that's a big part of how society got to such a low point.
the last aaa game they published was portal 2. quite a while ago.
Using ctags in Vim
Couldn't agree with this comment more. Far too often, a world class technical talent, upon whose shoulders billion dollar companies are being built, is happy to accept a free lunch, tshirts, beer bashes, and other distractions that might cost their company on the order of $10k per employee (if that).

One of the employees I had the most respect for was one of our core crypto consultants who explicitly said, "As soon as I walk in the door each day the clock starts, and I charge $500/hour. It stops when I walk out the door." In pretty much those words.

There was no bantering of free lunches or beer bashes (or, for that matter, stock options) with him. All business and execution.
Because it boots in 5 minutes.))