skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In-house recruiters or hiring managers, except perhaps the most inexperienced or unprofessional, will not press a candidate to explain a decision to decline an offer. If the company really wanted you and is disappointed about your decision, you might be asked if there was anything that could have been handled better during the recruitment process or that would have swayed you, but it is highly unlikely that you'll be asked to provide a detailed rationale for your decision. In the odd case that you are pressured for one, you are under no obligation to bow to that pressure.

As for relationship-building and helping others:

1. You cannot build a relationship with every person you meet. This is not a realistic goal.
2. You cannot help every single person you meet. This is not a realistic goal.
3. People are good at discerning whether an offer to help is empty or legitimate. If you were seeking employment a week ago and haven't even started your new job, you have no business suggesting to the people who interviewed you at a rejected prospective employer that you are now in a position to assist them professionally. Offering such help concurrent with a notification that you have accepted employment elsewhere is, again, an act of extreme hubris and is likely to be seen as such.
How these highly successful founders structure their day
Interview with very successful startup founders about how they go about their day.
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Companies and recruiters searching for outstanding developers might filter their search by users with interesting comments and submitions. In other words high karma.
http://microsoft-news.com/microsoft-is-creating-immersive-te...

https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&#...
This came up at work where we needed to audit our code to check we weren't violating any open source licenses by keeping things closed source and/or using our software for profit. Seemed like a problem other people must have had too.

I've got a big list of improvements forthcoming (in an ideal world anyway). First up, for gems that don't list their licenses in their gemspec (like, ironically, this one...) try searching the repository for a LICENSE file. Then building the info list in a sensible manner, perhaps scraping the FSF's webpage? I'd also like to extend it to work for other languages' equivalent specifications, e.g. composer files for PHP, etc.

Would love to hear your thoughts!
Why is this being posted now? (Thanks for pointing out the date.) Still news to me, but I don't understand why the new interest...
Paper: “Rational integration of noisy evidence and prior semantic expectations
in sentence interpretation” - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

http://web.mit.edu/piantado/www/papers/gibson2012rational.pd...
The logic being that the acceptance should come last to account for any potential alternative outcomes?
Agree. When was first discussed here everyone was up-in-arms. Why is it now bad that the government is holding path accountable?
Shining Stars Burn Out Bright
The probabilities of failure for withdrawal and the condom are similar
Perhaps we have some industry gaps between my professional experience and yours. I have experienced many recruiters and professionals who have wanted to know about specific competing offers and the reason for taking the offer.

I see your argument on relationships and I respect it. I think we differ slightly in personal opinion, which is perfectly ok with me.
Would you consider accepting a hardware based internet-of-things/robotics startup?
How expensive is a MySQL query?
The title is incredibly political and biased.

US keep seeing themselves as the superpower - a superpower that is paying a rival (and developing) country instead of fighting against it. Why can't we move past that and think of win-win scenarios for both countries.

Taking this logic, the media in China should state: China is buying US debt - Yes, US. China is a significant holder in US debt and bought a lot when the economy turned sour in 2008. (Terrible investment since the US would just turn around and force the RMB to appreciate against the dollar). This in turn supported the US economy and the world's economy.

As I read the article, I see this as a win-win scenario. US gets bandwidth and China gets money. Cross border cooperation should be encouraged - not discouraged.
> Why do people get out of their way to use some marginal browser when there better both proprietary and open source options available?

This is simple: None are available (for me). They are (take your pick for your specific browser):

- Slow
- Memory-inefficient (i.e. they either use too much memory when I need it for other tasks or they use not enough when I don't need it and they could use it to provide a better experience, e.g. faster tab switching)
- Instable for my use case (50-100 tabs)
- Have no good mouse gestures (all the plugins for FF suck)
- ...
I didn't know there is a name for that. Good to know.
To quote the page you linked:

> People can (and probably should) rebase their _private_ trees (their own work).
FYI: http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2012/02/02/advertising-reddit-...
This card was my idea back when I worked on Google Now. I'm still proud of it.
On-call work makes you hate phones too. Phones ringing with annoying things for you to do at annoying times.
Our Drone Delusion
I try to avoid rebasing everything all the time because it changes the commit dates which can be confusing when you are tracking some particular changes.
I knew I was a geek when as a kid I would turn straight to the 'listings' pages of my C64 magazines! Happy days
They clearly planned for that, because if they'd preferred to keep it closed-sourced, they'd gone with BSD. Just like Apple did. And it's not like Google is lacking resources for making Glass run on BSD instead of Linux.
Want to work on Wikidata? Several bugs awaiting volunteers
"Directing people to an online support tool" doesn't work super well for people who have problems using your online tool in the first place, or if the product isn't a web site in the first place. Customer bases are different across products too.

Also, neither Rackspace or 37signals have scaled well at all. I'm a customer of both, and it's been fascinating to watch the quality of their support decline the bigger they get.

As for "factoring it into the price of your product", that's super silly thinking. Not all products have elasticity in their price, nor are all products capable of supporting both a company AND quality support. This is why so many founders end up doing support themselves.
I think it is, and Good Taste is having a good time.
Someone like this guy - http://gpl-violations.org
Tory Burch Flats Outlet
Not exactly - I think you have to respond to the offers in descending order of your interest. If you really want Offer A, but they refuse to negotiate on a sticking point, you tell them that first in hopes that they will loosen up. If they still won't budge, you turn them down, then go on to accept Offer B instead. If there's a third Offer, C, that's not as attractive as B, you notify them after you've accepted B, as you originally suggested.
> wasn't optimistic that it could give good results.

That's what it came down to for me, I'm not optimistic that I'll ever get great results spending $30 a day advertising a $2 app to Redditors.

But yes, the $30 / 1 day data isn't large enough to draw any real conclusions.
They didn't have much choice but to buy US debt. They get zillions of US dollars through the trade imbalance, that props up their economic growth and factories as Americans go into debt to buy things from China that they don't really need.

There's nothing else to do with a literal trillion dollars. You couldn't buy enough gold or oil without sending commodity prices parabolic and shooting yourself in the foot (since commodities are priced in dollars that's one use).

If they just held the dollars, they would do nothing but depreciate, even though the treasuries yield is low it's better than zero.

If they tried to dump the dollars, they'd find a market that couldn't absorb that scale and it would send the dollar plunging, which would in turn hurt the ability of Americans to buy Chinese goods, while boosting American export competitiveness.

And on the plus side, holding a trillion worth of US paper, is an ok leverage point (not great, because the Fed could wipe that out with a swipe of its hand).

There's no good scenario once you are accumulating hundreds of billions of dollars via a trade imbalance. Treasuries are the only market large enough to absorb it all.
> Good luck saving a branch ravaged by a bad rebase.

Git rebase --abort before you've finished screwing up, or if it's too late, use the reflog and reset back to before you started.
> This problem is due to the protection, the sandboxing.

The problem of sandbox violation lines appearing in your Console is caused by sandboxing. It's unlikely that it goes any further than that.

The author has associated some other silent issue with his system to this one sandbox violation just because it happens to be printed all the time.

If you're experiencing some performance problem, run sysdiagnose(1) (or hit the key combo in its man page) and throw it into Apple's bug reporter. Or, if you stare at the output for a very long time, you might even figure out how to read it.
Perhaps the dogs have already been all over the city, and can differentiate stops by the smells of the micro-localities that they recognize from the past.

Smell fresh meat/produce, get off in Chinatown.

Smell the sea, get off by the river, etc..
Regardless of the facts in this case, this screams to me that Opera is fucked, they know it, and will grab anything they can on the way down. What other conclusion could you possibly draw?
You'd be amazed how little space a drying rack needs. Though if you're really cramped for space and clothes don't dry in the course of one day, they can be a bit annoying (I'll assume you're out of your apartment for most of the day).

Setting a fan on the clothes will dry them much faster, and it's still much more efficient than a heated dryer.
I wish I was a SF sewage worker I'd be retired with a nice pension by now ;)

Aloisius you just needed to walk around more in the downtown area - I walk everywhere. Next time you are here take a look around the NW corner of Mission and 8th in the nooks and crannies of the PG&E building. I'm betting you will find something if it has not just rained.

This stuff is just not well documented but this guy has a blog about his street in SOMA (somewhere just of 6th near Mission) that captures some of the flavor of the place:

http://www.olddirtyalley.net/

Why is this stuff just invisible to so many people here?
Mainly oops left in my logs, one or two panics on shutdown. Once a panic when I was doing something silly with my uni research project.

Pity I can't report these really, tainted (AMD) kernel.
Its not about "as evolved" compared to "how" are eyes developed. The way are imaging system and the model in the brain works to "see" red will be quite different to an alien species. It sad, I will never actually really know what 440 Hz sounds like (concert pitch).
He's a lawyer, it's his job to split hairs.
Analyzing and circumventing Internet censorship in the United Arab Emirates
" Burnout is caused when you repeatedly make large amounts of sacrifice and or effort into high-risk problems that fail. It's the result of a negative prediction error in the nucleus accumbens. You effectively condition your brain to associate work with failure."

A real definition of burnout! Everything else makes it sound so nebulous.
That's kind-of sad to hear. I picked up programming when I was 8 on QBASIC, and absolutely loved it. 8-year old me would stay late nights till 3 a.m. programming.

I have to admit, Microsoft got a lot of stuff right with the QBasic that was bundled with MS-DOS. Hitting F1 would bring up an amazing help system that documented various features of the language with code snippets. I remember discovering the "DRAW" command, and how much fun I had with it. I came across it on the documentation; and the code snippet is what made it really easy to learn how to use it. But the doc was well-written too -- sufficiently simple for an 8-year-old whose native language is not English, to understand.

Now imagine that I had some *nix -- vi/emaccs alone would put me off, erm, any text editing, not to mention programming. Also, just the way Unix is, where things often break silently, and the system assumes you know what you're doing -- just isn't suited to an 8-year old.

I'm kind-of disappointed at the state of programming right now. Many of the popular languages of today -- JS, Java, Obj-C, C++, etc. are no where as simple as the BASIC dialects are. Python though, is actually a good candidate. With a nice Turtle-like library, it would be a perfect beginner's intro language to programming!
Back in the days when "branding" applied only to cattle, the word for what you're referring to as a "personal brand" was "your name".

As in: making a name for yourself, upholding your name, being a name in good standing.

I'll leave branding to cattle, thank you muchly.
For all I've read about the topic, the kind of men who are able and willing to pay $200+/hr tend to be not so disgusting, and the kind of women who gets $200+/hr can afford to be somewhat choosy in their clients.

The direct downsides seem to be more psychical than physical, and not necessarily worse than regularly being verbally abused by irate jerks while having to remain calm and polite yourself.
No. That's why the AGPL was created:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License
there's no such thing as $3.4 million NOK. it's either $ or NOK.

lawsuit is for 20 million NOK which equals roughly $3.4 million.
I don't think it's necessary to bring out the FBI on this one, but it is nice to see the government focus on actual crimes instead of inappropriate downloading of public resources.
The solo competition is actually 48 hours. The Jam (teams) competition is 72 hours. This was a 48 hour entry.
America’s tech talent shortage is a myth
In what way do you think is mercurial's "Right Thing" a different "Right Thing" than what git does (by default)?
That's not a trade secret. A trade secret would be for instance if the Google co-founders did not patent PageRank and kept secret the way the ranked search results in Google.
And specifically it's about shielding the domestic telecom monopoly system. Verizon and AT&T wave their magic wand and Congressmen dance. A Chinese carrier would very likely come in and compete on price. Softbank is likely going to do just that as well, and I'm sure the last thing VZ and AT&T want is another competitor on price.
It's really a wonderful thing. I haven't yet figured out the specific magic combination of things that will guarantee it popping up on the phone though - sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. I really love Now but it needs to be omnipresent.
This is the second day I've seen 'flat-ui' colour scheme postings on HN, but I don't really see the connection between flat-ui and a colour scheme.

Can somebody explain that? Or is it just over-use of the term flat-ui.
My main complaint with PowerShell is that you can't pipe one command to another.
It would be nice to see transitions between the slides rather than just fades. But either way, pretty nice.
Why I Buy Modafinil Online
You can't. I work from home and Now has decided that I work at the vegetable shop nearest to my house (because I visit there often I guess), and it has assigned it the location name "Work". You cannot delete this location. You can rename it, but that won't stop Now from suggesting that you drive there. If there was a bit more control it would be fantastic.
Visage Lab – a Portable Beauty Laboratory for Facial Photos
Visage Lab is designed for both iPhone and iPad. It allows to remove pimples and wrinkles, outline the eyes and whiten the teeth in seconds with all operations made automatically. After installing Visage Lab on your device you will get a portable beauty laboratory, that will help you enhance your portrait photos any place, any time.
I read through a big chunk of the documentation last night. This looks really cool. I've never made a game before but this has inspired me to sit down and make one for my daughter. Hopefully I'll get the time over the next couple of weeks to build it.
You literally can't afford NOT to, because eventually you'll get to the point where you can't function, no matter how hard you try.

What situation is so dire that you can't stop working?
Most execs like patents, Intellectual Ventures study says
Nest partners with energy companies
He copied and pasted from a Wikipedia page, so I spent as much time crafting my response as he did. More importantly, those arguments are so blatantly wrong on their surface that I don't believe they justify more than a one word response.
Indeed! It sounds so simple and obvious now.
Wow, what a waste of time reading that was.
Anarch-art-activism in Russia: Skulls on Parliament Buildings
That's a shame. I've done the opposite recently and moved from a 'corporate' job into co-founding a start-up. Without the fear of making payroll each month, I know now why it's easy to rest on your laurels and become a clock watcher.

My advice would be to start something up again on the side. Remember why you loved the autonomy of the start-up in the first place and transition yourself back towards a self-sustaining lifestyle.

If nothing else, the thought of working on your 'real' venture will get you through the day at work.
not the xbox 720, if the rumour mill is to be believed :

http://www.google.com/search?q=xbox+720+always+on+drm&pr...
Indeed. Another likely link is that income is often interpreted as status/standing in society. So the happiness might just as well be due to respect/esteem.
Nice one!
When I did something similar, I found the clicking sound of the relay more satisfying, than a lightbulb, so I eventually completely removed the lightbulb.

At the time I used MacMini, which was a tiny bit expensive for this very purpose (also not everyone in the office likes a blinking light 24/7) then eventually I came up with the following oneliner:

tail -f "<access_log>" | grep --line-buffered "<whatev>" | sed -ue "s/^.*$/\x07/"

I also needed to set the terminal bell to be a "click" instead of a "bell" for this to sound acceptable during
moderate traffic.
Do you have a citation for that? The legislation doesn't seem to make the distinction[1]. If you can provide evidence for the 2 points you made that would be awesome. Thanks!

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/6501
Restoring the first website
The main communication medium between OVH and its clients is by private mailing list, so hosting@ matches the list hosting@ml.ovh.net
IMO Oles hasn't just been informed of the compromise, it is a common practice for OVH to resolve this kind of problems in private. But as the bad rep is growing he will soon provide explanations to the mailing list.
He might be overrated and he might be an ass sometimes (5by5 saga still bugs me), but his style leaves others in the dust way too often. He credits his sources, and links to sites in such as way that people actually go there. No crappy link hidden in the footnotes. In addition, he acknowledges when he is wrong, both in an update, and back where he made a claim on his site. There is way too little effort given to standards such as these generally, and Gruber sets a high standard.
So it's open now but you're still not allowed to make money with applications? That's a strange definition of open to me.
Old Dirty Alley - Another Side of SF
Since you're OK with poking fun at other people's software, I'll point out that your left margin vanishes at 990px viewport, and readers need the left-right scrollbar to read below 750px viewports. Not a great reading experience (in Safari 6 on Lion). Cheers!
Path broke 10M users yesterday. It's likely someone was reading up on the company and found this...

Sidenote: after the address book debacle people are pretty quick to jump to conclusions about what the fine was really for though.
If you're billing each hour of those 12 hour days and can't make ends meet, then you have a problem managing your finances.

If you're salaried and would lose your job if you didn't pull those hours, then I assure you you can find a more reasonable job.

If you're struggling to get a business off the ground, then I doubt that you're getting as much done in the long run at 12 hours a day as you would at 10.

12 hour day crunches can be effective if you do them for a couple weeks; after a month or two the tortoise that stuck with a 40 hour week is probably going to beat you.

At least that's true if you're writing code - longer days can still be semi productive if you're doing softer work.
I think I remember reading that the phone system has nothing in place to do the equivalent - all the equipment relies on getting its code from the rest of the network, so if the entire phone network ever fell over there's no procedure to start it again. Anyone know one way or the other?
Clear, yes. Also bloody rude. Someday you'll want to change job again and the pool of potential employees will be that much smaller.
Great project. I hope they succeed.
AFAIK v3 and v5 serve different product line so if they were mining bitcoins it was certainly on a dedicated server, so v3 it is !
And I don't think the manager was broken, my bet is the client got his email hacked or his machine keylogged. As OVH is the biggest European hoster if the manager was hacked there would be way more evidences than a few BC theft.
Other submissions on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5626572 : Same story from a different source, with substantial discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5626062 : As above, but with no discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5628921 : Earlier submission of this source
> What other conclusion could you possibly draw?

Without facts? None. But if you want some speculation: Opera's interface is consistently listed as one of the preferred features for its users (if not the preferred feature). And now a guy just gives away for free what would have been their most valuable asset (assuming they were on the right, but again, apparently we don't like facts). They would be pretty incompetent at their job if they didn't sue the guy.
you do know that you can skip that ad after 5 seconds right?
I managed the second paragraph. The constant switching of font really irritates me for some reason. It's like trying to read the bible.