skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You had some money, and you didn't feel "fulfilled", so you took a break for a few months? And all the comments are about how poorly designed the interview process is.. The thing I want everyone to take away is "don't gamble with your fucking income."

You know what's worse than ennui? Being broke and jobless is. Going into debt because of a radical misunderstanding of job markets is worse.

I'm sure you are a perfectly decent dev, OP, and I'm sorry that the system isn't very well built. I wish you weren't in such an unpleasant situation (though this was definitely a solid approach to getting a bunch of conversations started). This rant is not really directed at you - No doubt you have learned the lesson already.

DO NOT QUIT YOUR JOB BECAUSE YOU ARE UNHAPPY. Find another job first. I do not care if you are a Jedi ninja code tycoon, there are no sure things. Your friend does not have the pull he thinks he does. The market is not good. Your savings burns faster than matches.
IE Google Fiber, and all the excitement that's generating.
Entire businesses have been formed from the nuances of government state/local regulations.

I kid you not, http://www.sos.state.tx.us/ucc/forms/UCC1.pdf on that form section 1g and 2g there's an option to check NONE if you do not have an organization id. Well, depending on the state you file (this may have changed) you would either write none, check the box, do both, or do neither. Good times.

What I'm trying to say is, if you need to go into that much detail it sounds like you have an excellent business opportunity to sell your logic SaaS.
Then explain Michael Moritz's success.
What Is Apple's Biggest Problem Right Now?
You make some good points, and I will bear them in mind when dealing with these people.

However, what you say makes the complaints by the protesters about the heavy police presence seem ridiculous: it cannot be the case that this protest is "peaceful" and yet anyone present who appears to be against hem would be in serious danger.
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%3DNP

Try that one.
Google "ELI5 P=NP".
I'm skeptical. I don't know the exact breakpoint, but pushing enough power through the small (and very dense) circuits of a processor can't go beyond a certain level based on our current CPU cooling technology. The heat at that density just becomes too high and too localized.
I think the long term (5 years out) result of this tax is going to be faster distribution from Amazon (local warehouses, delivery infrastructure). I hate taxes, but this makes the short bet on Best Buy more interesting to me.
Yeah I wanted to try out crypto. There are a number of things about this app I want to change. Namely getting your cursor to stay in place when other people edit. No clue how to tackle that one.
businesses are different from people. They are "much" more likely to get caught through auditing or the like. Never mind the fact that companies have budgets allocated for this sort of thing, so there's no real incentive to pirate it unless it's actually a big time-saver.
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How do you currently keep all this up to date?
>I read you have to have your Dwolla linked to your bank account for over a month to use CampBX.

That's a recent development, though not one that's going to go away I'm afraid.

>I want to buy a bitcoin or two for fun. Any ideas?

# Person to person exchange? Or

# MoneyGram -> Bitinstant (fees! ~6% plus a trip to a store).

# CampBX will take a personal check! Also USPS money orders or see: https://campbx.com/faq.php#fund-transfers
I've been using Facebook all night and haven't run into an outage. This may be isolated.
$50p/m, OK I might have considered this, however as a UK citizen the equivalent is $72p/m which irks me greatly, why does the UK get this unfair pricing, do the bits cost more to send?
How will this affect purchase of digital goods?
> I know that FSB speeds are irrelevant now more than ever with multithreading and multi-core architectures

Clock speeds have been irrelevant ever since there has been more than one architecture for the same instruction set. You cannot compare a 3GHz i7 with a 3GHz Pentium 4 of equal core count and say that, just because the clock is ticking at the same speed, Intel isn't doing enough to improve performance. There would be a vast effective difference in just about every kind of workload, just due to architecture improvements.
HTML5: An Essential Weapon for SEOs
Is Verizon FiOS blocking traffic from Windows?
I have a very interesting situation I am facing. I have Verizon FiOS as my ISP at home. I am trying to connect to a server inside my company's firewall. I VPN in, fire up Safari on my MacBookAir and type in the URL. I connect with the server - no issues. Next I boot up a VM running Windows 7 on the same MacBook. I fire up IE and type in the same URL. After waiting for a while, IE times out saying that the server did not respond in time. I try Firefox on the VM - same error. When I try Firefox on the host Mac OSX, I connect with no issues (just to verify its not a browser issue). Any other server inside the firewall, I can get to from the VM - not just this one. I even turned off the firewall on the Windows VM - no luck.

So, I think it is a VMWare issue and boot up my ThinkPad running Windows 7 natively. Same problem - I cannot connect to that server. I try it from Firefox, Chrome and IE. No luck.

I decide to take it one step further. I fire up the hotspot on my cell phone (coincidently also Verizon) and reconnect the VPN. Wonders - I can connect to the server. From all browsers on all three OS instances - Mac OS, Win 7 in a VM on the Mac and Win 7 native - no issues at all.

What do you think is going on here? Is Verizon FiOS or the router issued by them blocking (some) traffic from Windows 7 machines? Any ideas what may be the issue here and how can I fix it?
I find this amusing because I went through this same ordeal last week. The problem was to code up a small interpreter. The interviewer seemed to be suffering from either a cold or allergy based upon the constant sniffling. Anyway, here I am explaining how I would go about it and there seemed to be a sense of irritability from the interviewer. As I try to figure it out, he somewhat guides me to the solution. In the end, I worked it out with his guidance but the obvious frustration and my three cups of coffee had me a bit uneasy during the process. He ended it with a "thanks...good luck" <click> On reflecting the interview, my thoughts were "after coding for almost 12 years, what is going on?" I want to know the validity in these problems in regards to hiring. I never put any interviewees through this. My goal when interviewing people is to have a conversation to discuss how they think, how passionate they are in their work, get an idea of their personality, and, most of all, do they know enough to do take on the job they will fulfill. This all revolves around the relevant technologies they claim to know. As I am a few years to 40, my worries are getting worse about where I will be in the future. I am slowly accepting the idea that project management will be my next destination.
Who did Instagram spam? Would you rather have been Instagram or Path?
but I also don't know a single professional user who didn't pay for it.

I suppose it depends on your definition of 'professional' but I know a few. Maybe not in the AE realm but among web designers and graphic artists, and especially freelancers and small business owners...
I used to love CF Studio (the CF version of Homesite) and only gave it up 12 months ago. I was using a version that hadn't been updated for perhaps a decade or more. Couldn't get used to anything else I tried.

(Now using Sublime Text with the colour scheme tweaked to mimic CF Studio...)
$350 is a filter not the basis for a "profit center".
The phrase "request an invitation" seems self-aggrandizing and conceited

To me, it's a classic example of using social proof to create the idea that this event is sought after and valuable. See "if the line is busy, call again later" instead of "operators are standing by."
Oh, I understand the issue thoroughly, thanks, given that I pay Illinois use tax every year.

That's between me and Illinois, though. I don't see why some company that's not even in Illinois (and that thus receives no Illinois services of any kind) should have to take the hit to comply with Illinois law.
It really depends on what you're trying to do. I think running gittip as an art project / science experiment is good for them... but does missing a mention in techcrunch positively affect the outcome of their business?

Business / product design / commerce / fashion is all about making compromises to further a larger vision. Art / science is all about a POV / exploring. I think that's where it differs.
I had a similar experience. I was asked to do some coding, got hung up on one of the questions.

Right on the spot I was told I wasn't a perfect match. Not directly saying it but definitely implying it, they said they needed someone who can actually code.

I guess having deployed multiple projects and code to show for it isn't worth anything if you can't code a variation of fizz buzz.

The hiring practice is a little off. If anyone ever asks me for advice on job hunting, I'll definitely tell them to exhaust all networking outlets e.g. programing meets, hackathons, friends of friends, before applying directly.
The upgrade path used to be pretty liberal, until last year you could skip two releases and still catch an upgrade. I think I've spent about $1800 total over 11 years: Macromedia MX Studio (2002) > CS3 Web Premium (2007) > CS6 (2012). That's a just over $13 a month. Not cheap when time comes to upgrade or lose eligibility, yes, but much cheaper than $50 per month in the long run. It really depends on the user's upgrade cycle.
I love it! May I ask how these are generated?
Can you distinguish a Southern (Alabama) accent from a Minnesota accent? To me those sound as far apart as Standard American and British. (I'm American w/ Standard American accent.)
Yup second this. RISD ID graduates tend to end up in Interface Design just as much (if not more than) Graphic Design majors. The ID curriculum actually does a much better job at introducing the students to a lot of the concepts that UX Designers champion. Industrial Design tends to be much more research driven, so it translates well.

Graphic Design tends to be much more about story-telling, metaphor, visual qualities, etc. — which are all important in Interface Design as well, just different. Joe Gebbia's double-major in ID and GD makes a lot of sense for a startup designer.

(Bias: RISD Graphic Design student.)
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Well, it's actually a bit more complicated than that. The bug is definitely something we wanted to know about, and we're thankful for the report. That said, there are some constraints that we put in place for the reward program to protect researchers from harm.

For example, we don't want physical security or the police second-guessing the intent of someone trying to sneak into one of our buildings - so we set a very clear scope for the program, pragmatically focusing on our user-facing applications and excluding things such as attacks on our facilities and corporate infrastructure. It's a broad exclusion, but it's hard to come up with something finer-grained yet clear enough.

In the same vein, we ask researches that they don't go after any systems unless it's perfectly clear that the application is owned and operated by us - for example, because it's in an IP range registered to us. Again, while this may be more limiting than we'd like, it protects the community against overly litigious parties if the system proves to belong to somebody else.

In several unusually serious cases, we have made case-by-case exceptions and have paid external researchers for nominally non-qualifying bugs; but it's a tricky balance, and we use this power very cautiously.

Source: I authored a good chunk of the current rules for Google VRP ;-)
Yes, it makes absolute sense, there are quite a few things in SICP that aren't "legal" in Racket.

Using the Van Dyke plugin is an absolute must for SICP on Racket, IMO.
Tylenol is shown to soothe existential pain and blunt moral judgement
> I've never been in his situation before, as I subscribe to the notion of not leaving an opportunity until you have another sure fire opportunity

I think you really hit on something here.

I think the concept of "scared money" applies here. He's interviewing from a position of weakness (not having a job in hand to fall back on) and that causes him to perform in a way that could be coming of as desperate and dejected to interviewers. Some people are better at hiding that than others, but i'm thinking the author might have an issue with it.
I had to use Gimp professionally once (long story short, a sudden web banner EMERGENCY came up and Gimp was all I had available) and it was terrible. I don't doubt it would've been easier and less painful had I been familiar with the UI but it just seemed so poorly designed. It is the best free graphics software out there, maybe, but it's hardly a worthy replacement for photoshop yet (although it is getting better.)
Moving From MacPorts to Homebrew
Liquid nitrogen or helium. But if someone went to the trouble to use these substances, they'd likely show it in action instead of some computer screen.
For your ~/.gitconfig:

wtc = !git commit -m \"$(curl -s http://whatthecommit.com/index.txt)\"
Some states tax them, some don't, and that will continue to be. If this passes, once each state sets its new sales/use tax code, you'll have to check each one to see if what you're selling is taxable there.
In that case (owners raising prices), who would want this? To renters it has the character of investment: pay more money today, for a possible payout in the future. I don't think typical renters want this. They're renting in part because they opt not to invest in real estate. They choose not to shift costs to the present.
Hah. Not quite. Fixed the unclear wording ;)
Yes, it's F#. I just got it running in Visual Studio. I suspect the speech recognition library is Windows-only.
It is an interesting experiment and kudos to them for having the courage to actually commit to it. I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs tried to do something very similar to this at Next Computer and it failed.

I think the openness of Next, where employees were allowed to know what every person in the organisation was earning, contrasted with the secrecy of Apple, speaks volumes about what Jobs ended up thinking about the value of openness in corporate settings. Unfortunately, as Peter Thiel points out, there are big advantages to having secrets.

That said I'm sure gittip can survive on a small scale with this kind of attitude and it probably helps given the market they're working in, I just don't think it scales long term.
>Why is this? If I had to guess, I'd say it's based on the fact that math involves a lot of critical thinking and critical thinking is very difficult to teach. Those who attempt to do so often do it very poorly, which leads students to the false belief that math is extremely difficult. On the other hand, it's very easy to teach someone to memorize formulas and plug in numbers, so that's what we're most often taught in math class. That's good enough to get us through the standardized test so we can graduate from high school, but memorizing formulas and plugging in numbers is not "doing math"

This got me thinking a bit: What if it's the opposite?

I know I'm really bad at memorizing formula, and I need to really figure out everything for it to stick in my head. You say it's easier to get people to do that, but loads of people have bad experiences with math, so maybe it's because we teach it that way and not in spite of?

Trying to apply memorized formula to a problem is a form of pattern matching, and it might be harder because of all the doubts from the abstraction. This might end up being less efficient than we would originally think (oh I memorised all this, but I have no confisdence in using it...). In the end we have just displaced the difficulty to something a lot less tangible.

Maybe we should try lowering the scope of what is taught, but really try to make sure people can use what they learn, even if it's small.
What astounds me about taxes in the USA is that we continue to print tax tables and booklets, and that the government has yet to create any useful software for filing taxes. Most of the tax filing process could be completely automated if rather than publishing booklets, the government just released software for computing taxes.

Of course, we are talking about the same government that used flat files to manage the entire country's tax data until recently.
The dog's breakfast of audio standards on Linux neatly encapsulates the weaknesses of systems as open and democratic as Linux and illustrates why it thrives on servers where these issues are less pressing and still languishes on the desktop where too much choice is not a virtue.

This legacy hampers Android too, which is a joke when it comes to multimedia APIs compared to the oligarchic iOS.
Airbnb launches Verified Identification to help bring more accountability
It wants to, but there's a vocal lobby against it -- Intuit, H&R Block, and 1.7 million accountants that would like to continue being paid to fill out the forms.
PDX Live Bus: Locations for every Portland bus and train in real time
Thanks, I'd love to! :D

Is the refer.ly address still best?

http://www.daniellemorrill.com/about-me/contact-me/
Oh, there is a variant made with Squirt. That reminds me of my Michigan upbringing, drinking lots of Squirt. (Not with brandy, mind you.)
Generalize what? A made up story? Has something similar happened to two projects in the past?
sorry about this. i think the HN post caught us slightly off guard. we'll have more details real soon now.
Nyah, I love what this guy did and how he's sticking to his principles. It's smart too: his approach itself becomes newsworthy vs. swimming with the rest of the fish.

Classy way to hande the TC reply too. It was clearly a d--k response, but he didn't even comment on it. Just put it out there (in the spirit of openness) to let others draw their own conclusions about the way TC handled it.

TechCrunch's relevance has long been on the decline anyway. Soon enough they'll be begging for stories.
Could Android fail?
Who the hell cares if there are taxes collected.

But it's OBSCENE to exact the costs required to comply with every little tiny jurisdiction. Make a streamlined approach where tax is based on 1-10 plans laid out in federal statues, and able to be looked up via a city/state/zipcode lookup table
Sex-Crazed Cicadas Will Soon Outnumber Humans 600-to-
Even disregarding the personal danger aspect, the police presence is well justified simply by looking at similar protests in the past. A bunch of people rallying around hating another group of people is, following San Francisco patterns, highly likely to result in violence, property destruction, vandalism, or some combination of the above.

I feel very much that the Black Bloc and anarchist protesters that infest every cause and protest in San Francisco is a huge part of why the city is the way it is. Otherwise legitimate, worthwhile causes can garner no public support because a highly visible minority of their base takes every chance they get to smash shit up. They become politically untenable to support for city politicians lest they look like they are soft on crime - because protesting is synonymous with crime thanks to these people. They also drive away moderates as no one really wants to be caught on the wrong side of a riot (is there a right side to being in a riot?).
Your Household Budget is Nothing Like the Federal Budget
http://www.codecademy.com/ you'll learn a lot in a year.
YouTube to Mp3 Converter
An extension to downnload Youtube video in various formats and extract the audio file.
Perhaps Adobe pays more taxes for software sold in the UK?
My tipping would increase proportionally to the amount of increase of prices in the restaurant.
Why release an API? Just release the tax code itself as software. That is basically what it is, right? Instead of English, publish the tax code in Prolog or some similar declarative language (added bonus: contradictory tax codes will be caught early and automatically).
Facebook Earnings Graphs Shows Shift To Mobile May Be Depressing
We pay an external service provider for the raw zipcode-to-rate mappings. Their company exists solely to manually aggregate all these rates in a mostly-machine-friendly format. We developed all the peripheral logic through skimming documents and talking to customers, and it changes very rarely.

It's not hard to google for the rate provider services, but they don't give you all the information you need to handle all the inane edge cases properly (at least, not the ones I've investigated)
Macromedia never really got (some of) Macromedia tools either. I used to work on Fireworks. I don't mean I was using it; I was building it. It was always a red-headed stepchild, though. It went through as many near-death experiences as Apple, though the outside world never heard about it. It was the only product being built in Texas, a result of MM's strategy of growing by acquisition and spinning off products to avoid antitrust problems, and one day Macromedia closed down the whole office to cut costs and laid off everyone who wouldn't move to Silicon Valley. A few (very few) came up, but since they were now here in Tech Mecca, most no longer wanted to be on the career-limiting Fireworks team anymore. People on other teams doing cosmetic cross-product UI synchronization gave Fireworks the same cosmetic makeover to make it appear to still be alive, so upgrades were sold, and eventually it gathered a few new devs and muddled through.

It always had a passionate user base, which was always very small. It, like a font editor, a sound editor, and several other products that were canceled just didn't belong in a big company, but it always just barely survived the "product layoffs"--but just barely. My guess is that the CTO, Kevin Lynch (now at Apple) was personally fond of it and wouldn't let it die but couldn't afford to feed it or pay any attention to it, either. It should have been given to a small, lifestyle software company that would have loved it, cared for it, and lived well off its meager sales.

The big problem was that the Web devs who paid for software always had Photoshop, and most assumed that anything that Fireworks could do, Photoshop could, too, so why buy and learn another photo editor? Before they acquired Macromedia, Adobe always used to spread this FUD, and after the acquisition, they couldn't afford to say anything different about such a small product.

Oh, well. This is now an opportunity for someone much smaller than Adobe to create Fireworks II for that small, passionate market.
This is being flagged off the front page. Why does that happen to every mention of this bill?
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First Take: Facebook earnings don't address uncertainty
This happened to me in Rhode Island. I'm very used to Boston, New York (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Long Island), and various New Jersey accents, but the Rhode Island accent really had me mystified. I just learned about the Maine accent recently (the stereotypical Steven King accent).
Are you running Android on your Desktop? No. So, no, Android is a great phone OS. It and the whole crappy touch experience have not and will not replace a Desktop.
I can tell you with almost 100% certainty that it has nothing to do with compatibility between Windows and FiOS.

I'm guessing you configured your VPN correctly inside of Windows...right?
Does anyone else ever use "WIP" for work in progress? :)
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