skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, a real-life office is like that anyways, at least with open layout.

But I REALLY like their idea of having occasional snapshots of workers not involved in chats, instead of constant video -- first, it's less distracting. But secondly, if they chose the "keyframes" to be ones when you're still, then you can assume they'll never grab you scratching your nose, etc., except for when you're conscious of already being in a chat.
Maybe I don't go to the right videos, but I don't find Youtube comments that bad. They are mostly useless, sometimes a bit too brutally honest, but nothing that offensive. I find comments on mainstream news sites, and on sites using Disqus (for some reason I can't explain) much worse.

I have a lot of problems with their interface, starting from the latest useless homepage, but I've mostly given up. Nowadays, I stay logged out and get updates from my subscriptions by email (which is also uselessly tricky to activate).
Have you tried commenting on Google Play? You need Google+. I have an Android phone but I shouldn't need a Google+ account when I have my regular Google account which actually works on Google Play.

And it wasn't like this when I bought my phone. I can't "opt out" of my phone. I already bought it before they required Google+ for Play's comments.

Have you tried using YouTube? They keep nagging you to open a profile.

etc. etc.
"Zillionears | Sell your $h!t with Social Sales!" - Sorry but as soon as I seen your landing page title, I was put off.
Well, I've had difficulty opting out, and new Google accounts are linked to Google+ by default.

E.g.: I have an Android phone and I would like to rate a scam app so people don't download it.

Oops, it's not possible without a Google+ account.

See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5535556
Often, yes, if you have a good relationship with a well-established firm or have someone who does vouch for you. Most top tech law firms (WSGR, Orrick, Fenwick & West, Gunderson Dettmer, etc.) will defer payment or even waive certain fees for early-stage startups in exchange for a small amount of equity.
So presumably you'd characterise --

"I am claiming that for whatever reasons he is here dressing up, in the trappings of scientific discourse, what is in fact an unsupported assertion meshing well with his favored opinion. McConnell is abusing the mechanism of scientific citation to lend authority to a claim which derives it only from a couple studies which can be at best described as “exploratory” (and at worst, maybe, as “discredited”)."

-- as Bossavit's "analysis and arguments" which you can evaluate for yourself.
Ask HN: Why is Silicon Valley almost broke?
No, not the companies in Silicon Valley but the region itself. I'm reading articles about how CalTrain almost ran out of money, how VTA is underfunded, and articles upon articles about how the region can't build any new public projects anymore.

What's going on over there?
My sense is that non-SF startups can be inclined to ape these "features." Not all of them, of course, but I've certainly seen it in at least a couple of cases. I mean, here we all are reading about them, right? Lots here don't live in SF, but do take their culture cues from whatever information sources they have. "This is the way they do it in the old country."
Old advice... "dress for the job you want, not the job you have." Which may still include hoodies.
Job Description

This role will lead the Operations side of Livenation Labs

If you come from:

* the Datacenter-Unix/Linux-Operations world
* but love the new cloud stuff
* and enjoy the benefits of not having to rack servers

AND you are looking for a company that:

* values quality of life
* cutting edge technology

Then this is your next job!

You will need to have the strict Production mindset that:

* anticipates issues
* ensures high availability
* enjoys writing detailed documentation
* understands systems and cloud architecture best practices

While also being agile enough to:

* support multiple initiatives
* a flexible team and culture
* and an oncall schedule.

This role encompasses many aspects of the:

* DevOps movement
* Agile system administration
* Agile operations

While utilizing public cloud infrastructure.

If you are an experienced Systems Architect OR a Senior Operations Engineer with cloud infrastructure experience, please read on!

What you need for this position:

* Senior Operations engineer experience working on a high-traffic e-commerce website
* 4+ years of experience with Linux/Unix systems
* Lead key automation functions including provisioning, configuration, and CI deployment of platform components
* Experience with high-performance, open source web technologies: with monitoring systems including Nagios, Ganglia
* Experience with open source public cloud platforms (Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud) and their automation tools
* Experience with open source databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch)
* Knowledge of networking protocols, including TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, DNS
* BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent
* Any prior experience with: Operations, Cloud, Virtual Machines, Chef, Ubuntu Linux, Site Reliability

What you'll be doing:

* Manage and Implement a growing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) on the latest Cloud technology for one of the biggest E-commerce sites
* Interact and support a highly-skilled technical Devops team and participate in the 24/7 oncall schedule along with the team

What's in it for you:

* Excellent compensation package commensurate with experience
* Bonus plan commensurate with job performance and contribution to the team
* Medical, dental and vision insurance plus other benefits
Right, bad choice of words. This doesn't show the specifics of natural selection.

I believe the fact they didn't designed the final solution, but instead the rules and mutations, successfully shows mechanisms analogous to the ones involved in natural selection though, even if this is a human-made simulation.
Yes and no.

Because international exchange values are not always completely relevant to real currencies. Exchange rates impact the cost of exports and imports, and a weak exchange rate can actually be a good thing sometimes because it makes export goods more competitively priced. Meanwhile, back home the cost of bread, or housing, or smartphones may not fluctuate at all so the currency is still plenty stable.

With a pseudo-currency like bitcoin that is dominated by speculation the exchange rate is pretty much everything.
Oil cooling in general is more useful in overclocking situations where one uses a TEC. The main problem with TEC cooling is that you can get under 0 degrees, and that leads to condensation on the logic board (not something one would want). Mineral Oil freezes at around -30 degrees C, so you can cool components below zero without having those problems. Though if you're using TECs for cooling, then efficiency isn't something that one would be interested in.

Otherwise, mineral oil needs pumps, and in general could be harder to design cooling components due to the different density of the fluid. High surface area coolers that are used with fans might not let the oil pass through fast enough to limit heat accumulation. You'd need to design laminar flow heat sinks and pumps that keep the oil flowing over the most critical parts. If one pump fails, you risk localized overheating. At least with standard fan/air cooling you can have multiple fans that keep the hot air from staying in the case (or some racks have A/C vents entering from the bottom front and exit from the top rear to keep positive pressure and continuous cooling.

The limiting factor could be logic board design to make sure there's no turbulence between the components and cooling equipment so there aren't any hot spots that could damage components. It's costly engineering and you risk starting to make or use parts in non standard sizes or designs.
Bitcoin is harder to use anonymously than cash. Transactions are between pseudonyms and there is a huge amount of information one can get from that. From some view points, it is worse than credit cards since all of the data is public. Now, that might be fixable, but as of right now it is a problem. see :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5535321
If I hand you 50 cents there is no way to back track it whatsoever. With bitcoins every single transaction is public. So I fail to see any inherent ananimity advantage. Some peole might like the fact that current bitcoin banks are unregulated, but in just about every way that counts to normal people bitcoins are worse than cash.

PS: Want real ananimity online, buy visa gift card with cash.
I bought a 1024 in Dallas yesterday.

* You: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5630 @ 2.13GHz
* Me: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630L 0 @ 2.00GHz

(cat /proc/cpuinfo)
While euro is?
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I think it is highly likely that many words clash that way. Worse, I expect many clashes between words that fit the crossword description. Consider, for example, a description of 'animal'. Now, look up a few animal:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elephant: any of a family (Elephantidae, the elephant family) of...

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rhinoceros: any of a family (Rhinocerotidae) of...

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crocodile: any of several large...

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buffalo: any of several wild bovids...

So, there is some variation, but it isn't hard to find immediate collisions, especially for related words. That makes sense; a dictionary should not attempt to vary the way it describes similar words.
Wouldn't my ISP also be recording this information? Your non https browsing is also being sent through countless routers you have no control over. Hell even Google is already tracking you through GA, the +1 button and Adsense. And if you are using Chrome everything you type in the search bar is being sent to power autocomplete.
How much should they pay?
One of the many reasons why social media is overhyped, and private conversations are as valuable as they always have been :)
It's just Javascript, so you should have all the usual array of built-in functions.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Referenc...
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I wear the same thing a lot. I have found an outfit style that is really comfortable and works really well with the type of work I need to do.

When I found what I liked - I bought several of them. Just about 2 weeks worth, though they are not all the same color. Its about 10 shirts, all the same - but different colors.

I also bought about 4 pairs of the same jeans.

Finally, I like to replace all my socks on an annual basis. About once a year - I go out and buy all new socks and throw out the old ones.
Exactly the situation.
That's exactly my point. With a directive like "don't be evil" there's so very much wiggle room. If google spends the rest of its life hovering at a level above Exxon or even the East India Trading Company it might consider its "don't be evil" goal satisfied, but that's a pretty frightening future to imagine.
Import quotas hurt Thailand the most since they export the most. Its a shame too, because they produce the best rice.

If you are a big rice consumer, you should really at least try Thai rice; it is higher quality than the Chinese/Japanese variety, the grain is a bit longer and so it cooks a bit drier (think fluffier). The second best rice on the market is from Taiwan, but they aren't a big producer.

Hope you enjoy the paper. I wrote it to make just one point; should hopefully be an easy read.
I've seen this many other places. They seem to intentionally choose hard-to-calculate multiples. No one ever sets them at 10 or 100 to the dollar.
I love the honesty and the spot on diagnosis.

For a site that resonates with artists, check out Reverb Nation:

http://www.reverbnation.com/

A sample artist page here:

http://www.reverbnation.com/evangibb

Instead of buying their music, the site is focused on you listening to it via the embedded player and then going to see them live. You can even buy them a gift card so that they can buy advertising. They're growing like crazy with a marketing budget close to zero.

Thanks for sharing your hard learned lesson. It reminds us all to get out of the building and talk to users.
Pets.com stock isn't being put forward as an immediate medium of exchange for services and goods, though. And if it was, we might want to have a word describing that commonality with BTC. As long as BTC is nothing more than an investment, I agree.
the problem is that TDD doesn't magically lead you to good software design if you don't know what the hell you're doing :)
Ask HN: Do you hire for a startup? Tell me your pain
I am building an app to help you manage the entire process end-to-end.

Rather than assuming your pains - based on the bloat I have seen from testing existing solutions - I would love to hear from you directly about your pains.

What makes your life a living hell? If you could get a system designed, from scratch, for your company and your needs - give me the 50,000 foot view of what that might look like.

You can give me as many details as possible (either a 1 liner, or a page).

As much feedback as possible would be greatly appreciated.
I have no interest in, and don't think Bitcoin's success depends on, using it as a unit to advertise the purchase price of a good or service.

Even so, Bitcoin can still work as a cheap payment mechanism -- via intermediaries which insulate buyers/sellers from exchange-rate risk, using Bitcoin simply for the fast irreversible software-controlled transfer of value. The cost of such hedging may be less than the cost of traditional fees and chargebacks.

But maybe Bitcoin's not even best understood as a 'currency'. That's just a word, whose broad semantic boundaries were fixed in the early 20th century, before anything like Bitcoin, or even the Internet and general-purpose computers, existed.

So arguing over whether Bitcoin is a good 'traditional currency' is boring. What's interesting is whether Bitcoin is valuable, on its own terms as something new, and whether it will be more valuable in the future.

A bubble this day/week/month/year doesn't tell us much about that question. Volatility only affects some uses -- like your example of publishing prices of other things in Bitcoin. Other potential users are, or could be, indifferent to volatility, as long as the trend is up. Some will even like volatility, if that volatility is usefully uncorrelated with other assets.

And if your pronouncement isn't that it's an overvalued, speculative bubble, but simply that it's going to have upswings and downswings, but is just as likely to be more valuable at any future point as less, then so what? Often ultimately-valuable equity shares in some new project go through wild value swings, because long-term success is so hard to predict and sensitive to so many unknowns.

I'm not a fan of the limited 'payments system' framing of "what Bitcoin is", but maybe you can think of a way to pick a date in the future where we can objectively assess whether Bitcoin is growing as a payment mechanism or not.

At that point we'll know whether the volatility has destroyed Bitcoin's value as a payments system, or whether Bitcoin's use in payments has thrived despite (or maybe even aided in non-intuitive ways by) the headline-grabbing volatility. Offer a testable prediction generated by your insight, and we'll test it!

The test of my insight, that Bitcoin is something valuable whether it's a currency or not, is: is Bitcoin worth more in 2014 than 2013? And further out, are all balances controlled by Bitcoin principals (keys), on the Bitcoin chain or future 'baby Bitcoins', more valuable at future dates than their cost-to-acquire today?
Harsh! I'm not saying the situation you propose is inhumane or immoral... it's just a bummer.
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Understandable, most Christian musicians where not excited about our slogan.
'Real' or not, there's just not enough stuff priced in BTC (regardless of the exchange rate) and not enough volume of trade by market making sized traders yet. The more of that stuff that happens the more 'real' it gets.
I have always been somewhat of a Google fanboy except for a few misgivings about their worrisome breadth of infiltration into people's live and things like the iGoogle shutdown but the Reader situation has been a huge slap in the face that made me lose a lot of faith in them.

There is a huge war between Facebook and Google for global control of the most popular social graph and as much as I like Zuckerberg as a person, I was rooting for G+ for its streamlined interface and perceived lesser level of evil. Now I'm not so sure.

I think there should be a third option in the form of a decentralized social protocol.

I think there is market for a "social rss" where you could choose amongst a number for providers, "Google Readers" for social if you will, that could connect to each other. That way people could choose their frontend and the way they consume their friends social feeds. This would open competition and give people choices of different user interfaces, layouts and themes.

For public posts the implementation could be fairly straightforward. I assume other providers would periodically fetch friends posts, upvotes, downvotes and other social interactions from other networks.

When it comes to private content, the providers would probably have to send things only to other trusted providers that promise to show it only to the correct "circles". However, I don't see it as a big deal since privacy in G+ and Facebook is already somewhat of an illusion because it only takes one amongst hundreds of friends to share your stuff outside the network. Maybe your friends would need to authenticate into your network and do email verification at least once. Maybe they could use a Mozilla Persona authentication?

There are companies that could do this without too much effort. Tumblr already publishes rss of their user's feed, they would only need to add the ability to consume rss and push for an upgrade of the rss protocol to support social features.

Digg has shown interest in doing an rss reader, why shouldn't they work on upgrading the protocol to include more social features?

Other web based rss reader companies could do it.

A new team from this community.

Or even better, cooperation of all of the above!
There's a contradiction in terms. The more access I have to "news", the less productive I am. My productivity is positively correlated to the amount of silence I get.
Indeed: Bitcoin isn't, fundamentally, "a currency, but digital"; it's simply "bits on a computer that have a [market-discovered] spot price" (a unique thing among bits-on-computers.) Any conclusions about its usefulness or lack thereof should be made based upon that fact.

Which is to say, it's not a very good currency--and anyone who is taking a long position that Bitcoin will somehow replace or surpass any real currency is a fool who this bubble is going to bankrupt. But, if you just need some bits that hold a (however-ephemeral) value--not a high value, just any defined value--without any central authority needing to back that value, then BTC seems like a good option.

A good example of a use for "bits that have a spot price regardless of any central authority" might be, say, a market for CPU cycles for agents within a distributed computation mesh (somewhat ironically, a dual to Bitcoin's own mining process.) Picture a version of, say, the Erlang VM, where processes could voluntarily surrender some part of each allocated timeslice to other processes who they "owed." Agent processes would need to create highly divisible units of currency to pay other agents on other (untrusted!) systems in exchange for their time.

"Real money" would be very hard to use in this system--if every single agent had a real bank account, transaction fees would quickly overwhelm the system's usefulness. And "fiat play-money" (machine-hour-tokens or something) would only work if everyone could agree, across the whole distributed mesh, that they were worth something, and either there was a "central bank" with which all transactions had to coordinate (turning the distributed system into a hub-and-spoke design), or all systems could be trusted to allocate agents units of of currency only in proportion to productivity.

Bitcoin is something a machine can make, and which will have a price for long enough for it to use to pay another machine for useful work. Also, it cannot be made without doing work proportional to the cost of making it. This combination of factors makes Bitcoin unusual enough to be useful in some limited cases. Just not any of the ones people are hoping for. :)
The Smartest Party Schools in the US 2011-2013
By Jake Levy | Apr 8, 2013 | Buzz Feed, College Atlas

Based on surveys taken from 122,000 students, the Princeton Review has released their 2013 annual rankings of colleges. By far the list that gets the most attention is the ranking of the top party schools in the nation. The ranking is generated based on survey questions relating to student use of alcohol and drugs, hours of study done each day, and the popularity of the Greek system at the school. For 2013 West Virginia University ousted Ohio University for the top spot in Princton's ranking of top party schools, but Ohio University came in at a close third. It's not surprise that West Virginia University is at the top of the list. Most of us know if you're looking for a great time, like to drink and like to party, West Virginia University is where it's happening. A few schools that are new to Princeton Review's list of party schools include Tennessee University, University of Maine, and James Madison University. And topping this years list of "Stone Cold Sober" schools, as usual, is BYU, as well as several other military academies.
It's a nice story, but for every Sex Pistols there are a bajillion other talentless bands who executed their vision with ferocity and never went anywhere.

This is assuming one accepts your definition of talent. Is it true that they had no talent? If they couldn't play their instruments, sing, or write lyrics, why did anyone listen to them? There had to be something there. If anything I might say it requires substantially more talent to overcome an utter lack of skill in order to excel.

Also, all else being equal, additional skill or talent won't hurt.

Bottom line: the stories you hear about people who go from nothing to incredible success are outliers. I think determination is absolutely underestimated relative to raw talent, but that determination should be leveraged in service of developing skill and/or harnessing talent, not in lieu of skill or talent.
It's a little bit more complicated than that. Every smart person I know browses Youtube. Youtube isn't like a TV network; most videos are only a few minutes long, so it's not inherently a timesuck the way that watching an hour long drama is.

The difference is that because Youtube has no moderation in its comments, smart people look at the comments and immediately decide that it's not worth their time. So, the only people who comment are the idiots who just like to see their words on the Internet.
Hey, don't make me into some protectionist, anti-copyright reform strawman.

If there's cool software that doesn't exist because the universe lacks an equitable way to compensate you for its creation, then that sucks.