skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But if either Bob isn't there when he should be, or the manager isn't organized enough to give Bob at least 12hrs notice of a meeting he should be attending, then you've got a management problem."

I agree with you, except for that part. For most jobs, it's incredibly valuable to have impromptu "hallway" discussions that can't be scheduled in advance, isn't it?

Your main point still stands - Bob needs to be available during office hours, even if he's at home.
Yep definitely Tumblr customization can actually be fun once you understand the basic syntax.
This hit us too. The fact that it went down was enough to frustrate me but the fact the portal said everything was ok really pissed me off. We just launched our product the day before!
Yes, this is exactly right. Using a separate service like tumblr or blogger for your business's blog is fine. Hell, it's even smart, because unless you're in a rare situation where an atypical blog is a central feature of your site (like, say, Less Wrong), you should let someone else worry about managing the blogging software.

But you absolutely need to have your web developer integrate it properly with the rest of your site. Pointing the DNS over to the blogging service is a fine little trick for making everything look professional, but it is not half as important as making the blog feel like it's part of your website.
Word clouds considered harmful
http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/10/word-clouds-considered-harmful/
San Quentin Prison Demo Day Gives Entrepreneurs Behind Bars A Second Chance
I'm going to go out on a limb and state a preference for Aaron to have been able to "man up and deal with the consequences of his actions" than to have killed himself.

It's a coarse phrasing[0], but think the sentiment is and was a valid and reasonable one for the HN zeitgeist to have espoused given what we knew and thought we knew. At the time of that request for donations, Aaron himself was writing "a series of pieces on getting better at life" including such advice as "Look at yourself objectively"[1] and "Lean into the pain"[2]. These are not obviously the writings of someone who will shortly commit suicide, and those closest to him have been vocal about how well he seemed to the end.

Maybe there is a lesson that we should be nicer to everyone in general, but I have a really hard time feeling like there should be some kind of communal shame over having drawn imperfect conclusions from incomplete information.

[0] With the benefit of hindsight, I might phrase it as "I wish that he had been emotionally equipped to handle the situation he was in".
[1] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/semmelweis
[2] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dalio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_swap_algorithm
If that's so, it doesn't mean Axelrod is wrong, but that his results depend on the timescale. Which is one of many parameters...
I'm not sure exactly why, but I think you both took this a way other than that I intended. I think it is an amazing accomplishment to get to 1M users, and generally makes a great business, which I've written about countless times, e.g. http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/06/paths-to-5m-for-... and http://ye.gg/fan.

The depressing part has to do with vision. If you have a truly mass-market consumer app and you believe in it and set out to change the world with it, you should not be satisfied with 1M users. After all, the more users you have the more will experience your vision.

It is depressing because what generally got you to 1M, which can happen rather quickly, generally will not work to get you to 10M (http://ye.gg/magnitude). That's why I suggested to double down on engaged users and organic growth because that is the quickest path to realizing the vision.
And beside that, traffic to your blog is valuable too.
Except the Xbox which has been wildly popular and successful right?
See also: Meteors Against Nukes [1] from the FAS Strategic Security Blog

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Impact sites still have to be found but one reportedly was Chebarkul Lake, some 72 kilometers (45 miles) southwest of the city of Chelyabinsk. Another piece impacted near the town of Zlatoust some 80 kilometers (49 miles) to the northwest.

Approximately 88 kilometers (55 miles) northeast of Chebarkul Lake is Chelyabinsk-65 (Mayak), a plutonium production and fissile material storage complex. Another 40 miles to the north is Chelyabinsk-70 (Snezhinsk), a nuclear warhead design and storage complex.

Right in the meteor’s path, approximately 115 kilometers (72 miles) southwest of Chebarkul Lake, is Zlatoust-36, one of the two main warhead assembly and disassembly facilities in Russia. Adjacent to the facility is a national-level nuclear weapons storage site.
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[1] http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2013/02/meteors-against-nukes.ph...
Not my fault -- that was after I was gone. :)
Isn't that just basic market analysis? All he does is applying Porter's good old five forces (Competition, Substitutes, Buyer Power, Supply (Chain), Rivalry) and modifying it to the Oil market.

I don't really see there the "new" component, but thankfully he clarifies that is intention is not to be predictive. When talking about Geo Politics I just can not resist recommending "Essence Of Decision"[1], in my opinion one of the most excellent books on that subject.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essence_of_Decision
"the founding study of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and in doing so revolutionized the field of international relations"
>Did you know that the current projection of cohort life expectancy is that a girl born in the developed world since the turn of the century has a better than even chance of living to age 100?

If I don't drop her on her head. That's the "awesome responsibility" part!
Well yes of course, you shouldn't use the same user:pass for different sites. But a lot of people do, and that opens them up to being hacked if the password for one site is revealed.

Spotify are knowingly logging into the OPs Facebook account without OPs permission. Shouldn't this qualify as unauthorised access, as in a Federal offence?
Startups are supposed to be about explosive growth. Your startup is a failure if you don't get huge - then you're just a small business. Most people here aren't interested in building a small business they have to take care of for a few decades!
My point is that having someone work a day for free would be great in any industry, but somehow only we in tech tolerate this, why is it different?
I've worked on a lot of distributed teams. For an actual team (not just subcontractors) every place has had some level of "office hours". Normally a ~4+ hour block every day that you are expected to be "in office" and available for calls/chat. Some places do hardcore 9-5, even for remote workers. When teams have different time zones in play, normally everyone tries to have atleast a 2 hour overlap during a normal work day. It's during the office hours of someone the manager knows they are available for ad-hoc meetings etc.

Perhaps a more important note is that, in my experience, most distributed teams have /way/ less meetings than an in person teams. A lot of things are done informally over IRC/chat. I say informal, but since IRC is usually logged, if someone is not involved in the informal discussion at the time it takes place, they can just read it to catch up on why the decisions were made.
Tabasco is for cajun food and southern soul food, like collard greens. Other forms of hot sauce would not work in this context.
Tell me more: have you tried building and selling your own apps?
I'm not too surprised by the move, I worked 6 years at yahoo and have always been amazed at how naive the company was with WFH. It may seem hilarious, but I strongly believe the company actually thought those employees would a) work and b) be at home!
It was not uncommon to see people getting 2 or 3 days per week at home. I personally rolled with 2 per week for several years and it was great. I'd do a few emails in the morning, and that was about it for the day. I'd generally go play a full round of golf or spend the day biking.
i just got a genius idea. what if Google just declared the entire world as Google!
Thank God companies never hire consultants, use suppliers, open branch offices or collaborate with other people that aren't located IN THIS VERY BUILDING or they would never be able to get anything done.
Sriracha is fine and all, but sambal oelek, now, that's the good stuff.
Obviously, Optical flow sensors are a bit more complicated than mouse sensors, (although similar). Optical flow is very similar to how insects judge their relative location, and it's a critical component in existing advanced drone technology, early in application, but almost a decade old in theory.
Introducing SimpleWebRTC and Conversat.io - Simple, Multi-User WebRTC
Yeah, Grossman's course covers SML, Racket, and Ruby.
Haskell is not even part of the course at all.
Ok. I actually do understand why a company might feel that having lots of talented people concentrated in the same area is better than having them all scattered in different work places. I'm not saying that I necessarily share this point of view, just that I wouldn't reject it as an idea.

Here's the thing - Google and the various other top high tech companies that are known for this go out of their way to make the workplace a mini paradise. Shuttles with wifi from noe valley, free and great food, extensive gyms and sports facilities, haircuts, dry cleaning, sabbaticals, tuition reimbursement, "take all you like" vacation policies... yeah, it's all designed to get you to stay at work 24/7, but at least they're trying to make it so nice that you'll want to.

I worked for a small company that eliminated telecommuting and pulled out the "google doesn't do this" line, but with none of the perks. Uh...

If yahoo wants to become a developer paradise, maybe they'll pull this off. If they want everyone to show up and work in a depressing cubicle all day, they'll be losing a lot of talent very soon.
A co-worker of mine and his wife adopted a baby from China, he said when he and other western people went there, and occasional trips back there, they were shocked at the heat!

Not the outside temperature but inside he said anywhere they went whether inside a bus or a hotel it was boiling hot all the time, thermostats set at 25C or even 30C!
The NBN still needs to go to where people live, which means stretching the grid out over far more land than in France. The width of the lain cable doesn't change the point that you still need to get someone out to dig a trench in the first place, as it were... France is only about 700km wide - that distance barely gets you out of our most populated state if you start from from its capital and drive for the nearest border.
I don't see how being CISC rather than RISC results in any inherit advantage. "The CISC approach attempts to minimize the number of instructions per program, sacrificing the number of cycles per instruction. RISC does the opposite, reducing the cycles per instruction at the cost of the number of instructions per program."
Cheap iPhone mini …for world domination —Morgan Stanley analyst
Also, suits are making a comeback! See also http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html. On the other hand, we like sriracha more than suits, for the most part.
I can't help but think flickr (pro member here) missed the "social boat". Yahoo acquired them for $35 million. Instagram was $1 billion. If they had jumped onto sharing photos on twitter/facebook at the right time, facebook might not have ever even IPOed.
Why does the attacker need an open resolver, couldn't an authoritative DNS server be used as an attack amplifier too?

Is the next logical step going to be war on "open" authoritative DNS servers?
-20C is a nice day if there isn't any wind, a bit of humidity helps too.

Today it was -3C but very windy and dry it felt like -50C after coming out of a warm office!
I read this story, Manna, a few weeks ago. Disturbing (and thought-provoking, at the end) stuff.

I was reminded of it in this OP when they mentioned armbands tracking worker productivity. It has begun!
First Person Spectate in Natural Selection 2
Marc Andreessen on the future of the tech industry [video]
We hire folks who have either a CompSci background or "skillz". If you can walk the walk a piece of paper is just signaling.

At 2600hz we have folks with Masters Degrees and folks who learned to code the hard way, but it's important to understand that it's easier to start with a foundation and build than it is to start from scratch. That being said, old habits die hard and it can be difficult to unlearn them.

Ultimately, referrals are almost always the best source of candidates. The best way to interview is with a conversation. You can learn just about everything you want to know if you ask the right questions.
Interesting. Are you able to access your content on the go with a mobile device ?
My only fear when I read about these campuses (Apple's 'spaceship' in particular) is the old adage about the 'curse of the new HQ'. See:

http://www.businessinsider.com/poorly-timed-headquarters-200...

I know it's a bit superstitious, but the basic idea is that when a company starts building temples to itself and its employees, that means their focus has shifted and their eye is getting off the ball.

I hope it's not the case with any of these companies, and I know there are plenty of counter-examples, but still, I think about this.
Always preferred Frank's RedHot to Tabasco. Also I never considered Sriracha and Tabasco to be in the same category. I generally divide my hot sauces between south american and asian.
What's the impact of this kind of thinking on intentionally "misconfigured" DNS resolvers like Google Public DNS, OpenDNS, etc? Is CloudFlare pushing for a world where I have no choice but my ISP's DNS servers, which return their advertising server's IP instead of NXDOMAIN?
Great.. I fixed my blog. Why didn't I think of this doing earlier!

Thanks a lot.
It’s More Comfortable to be Unsuccessful
People become obsessed with their scores and their peers' scores. They're wrapped up in internal competition and compete poorly with external players or when assessed honestly with most reality-based metrics.
Well that's just awful.
Allows you to use commonjs instead of amd modules. Then you can manage your dependancies with npm.
Alternatives to the data warehouse
This American Life:5 mths at Chicago school where 29 students were shot last yr
How would it be possible to determine that it wasn't just correlation? It's not like we have 5 yahoos we can run a controlled study on.
The AG should be prosecuting. The trolls...
CPanel servers compromised
I think it's particularly funny when you see people complaining about pipe sizes that have wider throughput than can be generated by the servers from which they get their content. I have three people on the end of a 12Mb down and sure (torrentors and streaming video-watchers), sometimes we saturate it, but not often.

Far more often I'm sitting there going "No-one else is home, and my pipe is barely being used - why is this download so slow?". A server giving you content at 300KB/sec isn't going to go faster because you upgrade from 12Mb to 100Mb.

More speed is always nice, but seriously, the change from 2Mb to 12Mb was far less noticable than the change from dial-up to 2Mb. I guess an increased bandwidth would give more opportunity to stream hi-def video, but that's icing-on-the-cake territory, not basic-civil-right stuff.
Would you be willing to make the results of this survey public?
I probably shouldn't feed a troll, but I'll try to reason.

A CEO's job is just flat out different from an engineers job. The CEO's job is often to be the public face of the company, to go out and make deals, to talk to key investors, to raise money in some cases.

Or put another way, a CEO of a publicly traded company wouldn't be doing their job properly if they were in the office every day.
The Task of Putting Business in a Box
There's always the low tech solution: place a circle of electrical tape over the lens. Disconnecting the microphone and GPSr would be more involved, but without them the functionality is greatly reduced so maybe that's moot.

FWIW, opaque tape over the lens is the method the NSA recommends for securing the cameras on iOS devices and laptops:

http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/applemac/Apple_iOS_5_Guide.p...

http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/factsheets/macosx_hardening_tip...
With my developer hat on, it's not so much my code as it is the poor choices frameworks and similar "everyone does it this way" tilutorials make.

It's too easy to follow the tutorial and have a default of stuffing everything into a cookie, overly complex orm s and oh you know the rest - and that's before I have written my facebookforfish code

I am not sure where that problem fits in - but it feels like the same issue as we urging the OS or securing my postfix. The layer beneath my code is one I want to be secure and be simple. Help with that and I will use your layer choices.

That may or may not be profitable.
AngularJS: Replicating Gmail caching behaviour with 10 lines of code
That would be my requirement to take it as well.
I have a very specialized set of degrees/knowledge/experience (Actual high level software engineering on real projects and also an IP/patent lawyer who specializes in open source lawyering) that can be hard to find.
Also, there was an office at least moderately nearby (within 2 hours).

I eventually became officially part of the DC office, and started a small eng team there.

Note that hiring remotees required very high level approval, even back then, and some areas of Google simply won't do it. 7 years ago, Google was also a little more lenient. :)

Nowadays I would expect that they grandfathered in most of the earlier remotees, and that there are no real remotee hires anymore, they have enough small sales/whatever offices that they just make them part of those offices, or don't hire them.
Yes! Great advice!
Dev churn, probably. Could you expand a bit on the sort of safeguards that were in place? A couple of comments here mentioned trello, build scripts or just plain post-its, it'd be interesting to know how bigcorps do it...
Most hot-sauce (especially the hotter kinds) don't taste good at all. I attribute that to the heavy use of Habanero pepper, which is pretty damn hot, but Habaneros don't actually taste very good.

I've discovered a nice combination, however, that can be both hotter and taste better. Scotch Bonnet peppers[1] are widely used in the Caribbean Islands, and are almost, but not quite, as hot as as Habaneros, but they taste MUCH better. OTOH, Naga Jolokia "Ghost Pepper" peppers[2] are much hotter than Habaneros, and taste, well... not any worse than Habaneros, at worst. So, if you want to jazz something up to nuclear hot levels and keep it tasting good, load it down with Scotch Bonnet and then add just a few drips of Naga Jolokia pepper sauce.

This has become my "go to" combination for making really hot tex-mex type dishes, curries, etc. Yumm....

FWIW, my favorite brand for both (at least partly because it's available retail locally) is the "Tropical Pepper Co. brand)[3][4].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_bonnet_%28pepper%29

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_Bhut_Jolokia

[3]: http://tropicalpepper.com/product.asp?idProduct=94

[4]: http://tropicalpepper.com/product.asp?idProduct=135
Open plan offices are the absolute worst. The worst.
I recall this being said when Bitcoin was at around a dollar and ever since.
There's a gap in the answers to your "how much $ have you donated" question.
> That's not a lie. The actual meaning of the question question is if you have officially ever been arrested. And the answer is no, that arrest is no longer official.

That's completely incorrect. An "official" arrest (what is its opposite? I wouldn't want to experience an unofficial arrest) doesn't stop being "official," although the record of it might be deleted or sealed. Nobody can make an arrest retroactively not happen, they can just remove the record of it.

But this brings up something important, and it might be the cause of your confusion. An arrest is just an arrest. It can happen to anyone, and importantly, it can happen to a person who is innocent both in reality and in the eyes of the law. Arrest records don't really mean what a lot of people think they mean: it's the courts, not the police, who decide guilt and innocence.

This is why asking people about arrests, or using arrest information for pretty much any purpose except police investigation, is fundamentally flawed.
Feds Used Aaron Swartz's Political Manifesto Against Him
That's one of the points I was alluding to. the .gov already does this in the physical world; why have they allowed a layer of private interests to insert themselves into the process when it is performed electronically?
I've yet to see research that compares a modern distributed workflow with github/trac/unfuddle, IRC/campfire, IM, Skype, etc. compared to on site. Some of the remote developer studies are hilariously out dated.

Maybe there's a generation gap (People who grew up with IM/IRC can naturally use it communicate better?) or my experience is too colored by working only remote my whole career, but between the places I worked without distributed workflows and those I hear about from my friends in the industry, my anecdotal evidence says distributed teams are far far more effective.
First clue: $495? That sounds like a price you would pay in a store. The government, in my experience, either bills you in round numbers ($500) or strangely exact numbers ($493.12)
Some of the best hiring strategy I've came across is indeed "test driving". Take a challenging problem your team has, slim it down and ask candidate to do some quick prototype during a weekend. No interviews, puzzles or whiteboarding :). If you were going to fly down a candidate on-site for a day of interviews instead, it's going to take same time anyway considering logistical effort on candidate's part.

Test-driving, however, is unfortunately neither scalable nor "leak proof". As soon as one candidate gives away your test drive question, the next candidate could easily cheat away inflating their apparent awesomeness compared to other better candidates.

However it would be incorrect to write down all whiteboarding interviews as "evil". Like any other interviewing techniques, it really depends on how you do it. A good whiteboarding question that allows candidate to use CS fundamentals to solve fairly non-trivial problem that you also needed to solve for your current work is a great question. There are 3 major reason why this doesn't work as expected at some large companies:

1. Interviewers can't think of good whiteboarding question and fall back to commonly asked popular puzzles. These interviewers are also often the ones who have one "favorite" question that they would ask everyone. This is absolutely #1 problem why whiteboarding interviews devolves in to secret puzzle marathon. The best questions that interviewer could ask are actually the ones that they needed to solve themselves as part of their work recently. This keeps questions relevant and refreshed regularly. It also allows to compare candidate with themselves and follow the philosophy of hiring people smarter than you. It's however hard because interviewers themselves needs to continue doing something interesting regularly.

2. Interviewers provide feedback to each other during the loop. It's not coincidence that if 1st interviewer gives "hire", all rest tend to do same at companies where there is no clear policy of not communicating feedback before end of the interview.

3. Interviewers don't follow up candidate response by extending question, building on to next level perhaps open ended scenario, asking auxiliary details such as test cases, complexity etc.
Certified mail lends an air of legitimacy. Unfortunately for the scammers, that's because senders of illegitimate mail are punished.