skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am in a similar situation I guess, although I also have phd not in cs and I am a foreign citizen. I do get interviews, I ask the questions and solve the coding problems and generally do well according to this and similar discussions here. I just don't understand why I can't get
a job and I'm pretty depressed by now. Even after I did Evernote programming challenge that is supposed to get you a phone interview, I've never heard from them. Sometimes I feel like I'm in one of those movies where your friends and family say they don't know who you are and somebody else lives in your apartment.
NTSB scolds Boeing for statements about 787 Dreamliner battery fires
I was using hyperbole. But I do get checked at US customs a lot, it makes think very carefully about what I'm packing (I usually just buy toothpaste in the states, its so much cheaper there anyways). Japanese magazines, for example, are always a big no no.
Sure, but we need the former to be in charge. In the modern NASA they are nowhere to be found. It's just scientists who want to work in their narrow little scientific domains. There is a place for that, but it shouldn't be NASA. Curiosity is cool, but it doesn't inspire the American people nor does it make the Chinese want to shit their pants. Historically, NASA has served both of those functions in addition to its scientific purposes.
Great initiative. It may be wise to steer the kid towards something more educational, like a Snake clone in Python or something. RPG Maker teaches nothing.
Newly Unearthed Videos Show 1984 Steve Wozniak Speaking On Apple’s Early Days
Does that actually work on B2B products that are in the hundreds or thousands dollar range every month? I don't think that cost is really an issue in that world if its delivering value at a large multiple, its more integration/implementation worry. Perhaps I'm wrong though.
New Apple Security Exploit Lets Someone Reset Your Password
I agree with this, fully and unequivocally. I have to wonder if "there are ladies present" might also be construed as sexist. Maybe we just shouldn't use toilet humor in situations where we're not absolutely sure everyone will find it appropriate.

Warning: offensive, but to demonstrate a point...

I once interviewed a guy who decided to wear a t-shirt to the interview that read "Thousands of my potential children died on your daughter's face last night". There were no women there. I was not really even offended (toilet humor is really hard not to giggle at, if for no other reason than I'm still 15 in my head somewhere). I was, however, careful not to let on that I noticed it at all. On the way out, he asked for a tour (he thought he was getting the job). When another coworker commented on his shirt he said "Yeah, I got another one that says 'Swallow it or it goes in your eye'." It was a 5 person company at the time, and none of them were female. Still, he wasn't getting the job; anyone with that much disregard (dare I say arrogance) for other's feelings isn't getting the job.

It's not about having men or ladies or kids present; it's about having a mutual respect for others, and being conservative about what setting they think toilet humor (or any humor) is appropriate.
Same. Democrats talking about how we don't spend enough has become almost pure insanity.
Being the top dog militarily has been working pretty well for the U.S. so far.

Define "U.S.", because you surely aren't talking about the population.
Your "or register with your email" link does not work. (at least in Opera and Firefox)
Nerd-Meta: A DOS game.  About Linux.  Running in a Browser.
You're right! Good catch.
Canonical Is Building A Standardized, Open-Source OS Specific To China
Choice quotes from the blog:

> Since the reaction was based on hearing a forking sexual innuendo joke, a joke was heard whether or not it was intentionally made.

> The man who was terminated chose to post the experience on HackerNews. To me, that is a TOTAL overreaction. To you that might be a normal thing to do. This is definitely not what I would have done, but it is the option he chose. He apologized, which I think was awesome. I just don’t think HackerNews, being a troll Eden, is a place to post personal information about yourself or others.

> This is not the first time a “private” offensive joke has been overheard. (If others can hear you, like when you’re on your cell at Starbucks, it’s not private). The first few times we let such things slide. The next few times we give a “if looks could kills” stare. The next few times, we inform the perpetrator that we’re offended. For the comedically inclined, the next few times we mock the perpetrator. The next few times we ask them to shut up. The next time we tweet.

> So, who is to blame? I don’t think it really matters anymore. All I know is that this week has been horrible.

> Who should have been professionally disciplined? How about the SendGrid sysAdmins who couldn’t handle a DDoS attack? Seriously! SendGrid focused on the wrong staff people when their site went down.
Microsoft Releases Its Own Transparency Report
and bosslinux in India http://bosslinux.in/

In this case, I think they're trying to make an operating system that uses Indian languages, so that its easier for those in rural areas to operate it
The millionaire that compares themselves to the multi-millionaire feels poor. Someone making $90K could feel poor beside the person bringing home $200K a year.

Feeling poor is a mindset. Having a limited income is a reality. I use those numbers as ranges. You are right that you can live on a low income if you manage wants (and being in a low-cost area will definitely help).

The problem with low income is that there is hardly any breathing room. Medical, car or other types of unexpected expenses can make it difficult.

People that make a good income can afford to be more stupid with their money. Being stupid with money when the income is low is just asking for real trouble.
I Void Warranties Geek T-Shirt
I came to say the same thing. Also, nobody mentioned the "scrolling window" effect on the images behind the headings. One problem is that it doesn't show up with paging (Page keys or scroll wheel), only with smaller scrolling increments.

As as counter-example, I continue to be baffled by expired pages here on HN. The parent comment is "below the fold" so I clicked on more comments, read a dozen comments, clicked on the AirBnB link, and by then--about 5 minutes, the Reply button (after typing in my comment, not the reply link below the parent) was expired. I had to back up to the first page of comments, click on more comments again, and then I was able to submit my reply.
China’s Broadband Penetration Is Increasingly Lagging Behind Developed Nations
I came to say the same thing. Also, nobody mentioned the "scrolling window" effect on the images behind the headings. One problem is that it doesn't show up with paging (Page keys or scroll wheel), only with smaller scrolling increments.
In theory, if you change the URL in the feed to point to the new location and return the XML with a 301 (Moved Permanently) response code, the feed reader will update its record to the new location.

However, Feedburner doesn't appear to allow a user to control that, so I believe all that can be done is to put up a "We're moving" blog post and have readers manually add the new blog. (Yay for vendor lock-in...)
How to Convince People to Join Your Startup
As of the 2010 census [1] there were approx. 100 million households in the US. Let's say that 1% of them decided to be idle, and that we decided to give them each $40,000 a year to do so. This would be just enough for them to live pleasant lower-middle class lives.

This would cost $40B a year, which comes out to roughly $400/year for each remaining household that chooses to carry the burden. To a lot of families, that's a lot of money. Is it moral to forcibly take it from them and give it to someone who is willfully idle? Also, would the idleness rate really be 1% as in this example? I think it would be much, much higher.

[1] http://www.census.gov/2010census/
I surely am. The U.S. had an incredible run of prosperity from post-WWII to around 2000. That prosperity was enabled by American military hegemony. For most of that period, Americans consumed more than pretty much anyone else on earth--you think taking such a disproportionate share of the earth's resources happens without also having a disproportionate share of the earth's weapons?

We also incidentally live in the most peaceful time in history, largely as a result of American military superiority. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Americana.
The Startup Kids Documentary
Must be pretty prestegious
Except many of the things he is talking about don't require lots of money. The company just needs to give a shit and treat people like people.
Is it possible to create a Kickstarter for public sector services?
BB10 And PlayBook Getting Approved By The DoD In April
It's not even overreaction - it seems like proper reaction to flawed intel. It's like if someone falsely pulls a fire alarm, and the firetrucks speed over to check it out.
I actually wish that was a YC application question. More specifically:

How would you respond when people say your idea is an add-on/feature not a product?

I am not going to actually answer here, because I do not want to become defensive in response to someone being so insightful. The most important thing is now I know it is a potential PG and Co. may have the same "feel".
It appears many here are against having a legal discussion, yet you insist upon it. "And that annoys me to no end[.]"

Discussion over
Yes, Cyberattacks Are Perfectly Legal Under the Laws of War
As an alternative to low-end VPS's it's not the worst idea in the world at $5 a month. It'd cost more than that to upgrade your home's cable internet connection to be able to serve traffic decently.
i disagree. he seems to be saying that the industry needs women because of the new and different, "grown-up, nurturing, ..." perspective they can bring to the table. i think the industry needs women because, well, when you arbitrarily exclude half the human race from contributing, you are unquestionably losing something of significant value.

the thing is this: women have already gotten a raw deal by being socialised to find sex uncomfortable, and by living in cultures where sex has been linked to aggression. the problem with the pycon incident was not that anything was intrinsically wrong with dick jokes, but that it was creating a hostile environment in the context of a playing field that was already tilted.

the critically important thing to take away, in my opinion, is not that "women are different" (because that lumps women into one group and men into another, and posits that there is less variance within the groups than across them), it is that women live in a different environment than men do, and that while men are unaffected when they forget this, women are reminded of it every single day. (look up microaggression theory for a lot more about this.)
You might just email info@ycombinator.com but I am glad you asked, because the comments are very motivational. I could care less about the fact it has happened, because personally I have applied 1 time and never been interviewed, but the comments that said yes and backed it up with stories are very inspirational.

For example, reading about a company that interviewed 4 times then was accepted, it just demonstrates the kind of persistence and courage to pursue goals (when others would likely criticize or give up) that we should all strive to emulate.

Finally, to the OP I read your profile and I wish you the greatest success, I hope you land your dream job or start the most successful YC company to date.
I didn't mean to imply it was a bad thing!

Just that on my first post I saw "customers" thinking they may have been more traditional customers.

But after being informed they were YC - it made sense they were more likely load-test and POC customers that help participate in the product evolution.
Useless weekend project idea: a tool to automatically fork random repos on github and replace all variable/function/class names with one of the above much superior terms.
I thank God everyday for our outstandingly small IE population
to be sure it wasn't writing code - whiteboarding code/pseudocode. it was a bit of an ego stroke, i think, but given the state of their company at the time, and how they advertised the position, i don't suspect they were getting many sr-level developers applying. i applied mostly cause it was close to home.
Both parties are to blame for the current situation, but every time someone comes out and talks about fiscal restraint I am bothered by the hypocrisy. Why weren't these people talking about fiscal restraint during the bush years?

"And, by the way, the budget deficit in 2007 was, with two wars in full swing and all the Bush tax cuts in effect, a mere $158B."

The budget deficit is where it is now because of the collapse which, to a very large part, was due to deregulation and other effects of the early 2000s. Bush was riding on the effect of the Clinton-era reforms.
A little while ago, Google reached an agreement with MPEG-LA where MPEG-LA would stop claiming that its members had patents that covered VP8, so it seemed that VP8 was patent-clean after all.

However, the IETF is currently trying working on the WebRTC effort for standardizing Skype-style audio and video conferencing via web-browsers. They have already standardised the Opus audio codec for audio-conferencing, and now they're trying to find a suitable video-codec. VP8 was the obvious choice, but now Nokia (who is not a member of the MPEG-LA, and so is not covered by MPEG-LA's agreement with Google) has come forward with a list of patents they hold, which they claim cover VP8.

I don't know much about these patents, I don't know whether they do or don't cover VP8, but it's big list with patent-numbers in it, which is far more concrete evidence than MPEG-LA was ever able to muster.
Thank, I'll remember that for future Reddit links.
I absolutely hate Chinese buffets, they all feel like feeding troughs to me.

Of course, we take all our candidates out for Chinese food these days, but its kind of expected since we are in Beijing. Sometimes its difficult dealing with some foreigner's dietary restrictions (orthodox, vegetarian are hard; halal is quite easy).
> The great irony is that the party that was spending freely a decade ago is now talking about fiscal responsibility.

They control the House, which in turn controls the federal government's purse strings[1]. It's the only thing they have direct control over. Plus, the most vocal and influential wing of the party at present was elected in large part on an austerity platform.

[1] http://budget.house.gov/budgetprocess/
I think that you are missing something very critical: technology given us new tools the past twenty years which make previous ones more obsolete. Its the idea of creative destruction. When the car was invented, the horse-buggy industry died. In our case, the horse-buggy is the music cd industry. Instead of the industry trying to find a new business model with the emerging technology, they are trying to force us to stay with the old model. Fortunately, other companies have innovated in place of the RIAA (and MPAA) and we have services like Spotify, Pandora, and Netflix.

Do not confuse these companies with the industry itself. Especially with the music companies (Spotify and Pandora) the companies are paying ridiculous royalties on the music they play (especially when compared with an actual radio station). I can tell you that Pandora does not use DRM for the music that they play for you (about a year or two ago I sniffed the traffic and found raw mp3s being transferred, they might have changed that but I hope not). Still, I did not see people simply downloading all of Pandoras music. If people wanted to do that, there are much better ways (a la bittorrent).

Therefore, the real issue here is control. The industry wants to control what you can and cannot do; even more so than they used to be able to. For example, adding music to a home video which you post on youtube is something they dont want you to be able to do. You have the legal right to do so, but they still dont want you to. (You have the legal right to do so, so long as it is a creative use not meant for monitization, etc.) As long as the DRM provider allows you to do what you want to do, it can be seamless. But as soon as you want to step outside those bounds (whether within your legal right or not) theres going to be friction. I bet that people who like making videos with popular songs playing in the background have more of a problem with spotify than people who simply like listening to radio.
I've submitted a PR to em-data which should make the REST support a bit more clear. https://github.com/emberjs/data/pull/834
Indian government close to giving up on Aakash ($35 tablet) project
Anybody here willing to prepare video tutorials (or text) on how to code a HN clone on Google app engine for me?I always wonder how HN works. Its design appears pretty simple for a beginner coder like me.
You can do all that with only one application. It is an all-in-one app, email centric app for business. Matches exactly AngelList requirements Check mailquatro.com
Actually, it's even worse. EME does NOT define how a browser interacts with the CDM at the moment. That's precisely why some people are objecting to it in its current state.

EME defines how script in a web page can ask the browser to talk to the CDM. How the browser actually does that is up to the browser and CDM vendor. There is no requirement that any CDMs expose any sort of standardized API that browsers can use to talk to them.

For example, given the current proposal Microsoft can ship a CDM on Windows that only IE can talk to, Google can ship a CDM that only works in Chrome, etc.

So in its present state the setup can be trivially used to lock out third-party (and especially open-source) browsers: just don't let them talk to any CDMs.
UMF watch it live
A good illustration. If you try to impose 'DevOps' from the top down you can't. DevOps comes from shared trust and shared best practices. It requires the development and operations teams to become the engineering team. You can't truly get that by management dictum. If you try to do that, you haven't really tried DevOps.
obviously it was not gorgeous enough...
Innovate my present than future
It provides a way for script to talk to a DRM service. Assuming the browser has a way to talk to one already. It doesn't do anything towards providing a way for _browsers_ to talk to DRM services; that's up to the browser manufacturers to license or whatnot.
I saw this in Amsterdam and a lot of it was more of the same that you already read about here, but it was still really helpful, especially my less technical friends and hopefully future cofounders.
http://www.richardwiseman.com/research/psychologyluck.html
Database Is Shut Down by NASA for a Review
Google has already shipped this on ARM ChromeBooks, for what it's worth. See https://plus.google.com/113127438179392830442/posts/VASv1hCt...

So that's one implementation, in WebKit.
This would be much better satisfied with a checkbox.
PlayHaven on fired sex-joke developer: It wasn’t just one issue
Sorry I left you wondering! A resume wall is a third-party service that sits between applicants and an employer. In order to apply for a job with some companies you have to submit your resume through their service. http://www.jobscore.com/ is an example.
"presiding over the general decline of the US in the 1970s-1990s"

Over half of the current Congress are baby boomers.
Clickbait, generated by ~40 lines of code
Jane Goodall Apologizes for Plagiarizing Wikipedia
Chrome certainly counts as an implementation. You just can't count Chrome and Safari as two separate implementations if the actual code is in shared WebKit (but you _can_ count them if the implementation is unshared code, for what it's worth).

As for Mozilla, no official statement yet, though there have been some public comments from Robert O'Callahan on the EME spec.
I would not think of 37signals as a startup because they're not focused on growth, in search of a business model, in search of funding, or going through other startup-specific issues.
Sorry I was not talking about physical discomfort but all negative aspects of a job. Men have a greater incentive to seek high pay & status at the price of longer commute / longer hours.

Women do not in my experience value pay as highly and consider the (non-monetary) costs more carefully than men.
EA up for Consumerist’s Worst Company in America (again
Actually, given the program manager's comments and the Navy's sudden interest in F-18 improvements, the F-35 program looks like it will have large cuts.
Senate shows support for Internet sales taxes
Yep, for a significant period of American History, a good bit of long-distance travel was over privately constructed and managed turnpikes. Their financing was very much in the Kickstarter model:

"American turnpikes were stock-financed corporations seemingly organized to pay dividends, though acting within narrow limits determined by the charter. [F]or the American turnpikes the hope of dividends was merely a faint hope, and never a legal obligation. Odd as it sounds, the stock-financed "business" corporation was better suited to operating the project as a civic enterprise, paying out returns in use and esteem rather than cash."

http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/Klein.Majewski.Turnpikes
Full disclosure: I'm a girl with three older brothers and have been around a ton of guy-humor.

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Hey everyone, I do feel really bad for "mr-hank." I personally would not have been offended by his comments ... I probably would have found them funny. I go to a lot of tech conferences (and I have 3 older brothers), but girls joke about things, too. I'm just not one to freak out about the word "dongle" or "fork." The implications seem fairly innocent to me.

But listen, it was Playhaven who sparked this controversy. The funny part ... is that Anonymous touts freedom of the internet ... their founding principle was to be against internet censorship. They attacked the Westboro Baptist Church for taking down a YouTube video of Tom Cruise. So, I'm really surprised they went after SendGrid over a freedom of speech case on Twitter. There's no doubt that Richards has the right to report on something that happens in real-time. That's a basic right for citizen journalism. I come from a journalist and analyst background, so am pretty passionate about the freedom to report.

Long story short, I think there's a lot of attention on the gender gap in technology right now and it's feeling very forced and uncomfortable ... i.e. lots of press and publicity.

I think empowering, rather than squabbling, is really important right now. This gender gap change has to come from the top (as Cisco pointed out recently in their awesome statement about not being very supportive and dedicating to doing better).

http://dthin.gs/Z1yKQC

It's the long-standing corporate powers who need to be symbolically "fired" (or otherwise reprimanded) - not mr-hank.

And it was Playhaven who started this unjust controversy - not citizen journalism by Adria Richards.
How do you "transition existing subscribers off of FeedBurner"? I'd definitely think about doing this, but I don't know how.
Perhaps something like Cloudflare might serve as reasonable insurance against DDoS?
Nokia CEO Calls the iPhone 'Embarrassing' and Then Tosses It
I wonder the legality of this. Given most pirated softwares come with a patch that has to manually applied before/after installing. Wouldn't you remain in the grey area until you apply that patch?