skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it, part of the point of Gittip's policy of openness is that there are no scoops. Scoops occur when only one party has important information (usually that someone else would rather keep hidden), and that's not supposed to happen.

I don't think taking the other party's needs into account when running
a business is necessarily bending your principles.

This sentence is sufficiently vague as to be basically content-free. Of course any given action on the part of gittip isn't "necessarily" bending their principles, until it is. Here, if Techcrunch's "needs" include having a scoop, then accommodating that need would bend their principles. QED.

And hey, the whole thing got them on the front page of HN. It's not the first time. It may be working.
I think the guy was just being honest. 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 know this isn't a popular outlook here), but I bet he's scared and just did a brain dump of his feelings.

I don't know the guy, so I'm not qualified to comment on his personality. From the several paragraphs I have to decipher his personality, he doesn't seem like a bad guy, and he seems to be good at communicating his thoughts. Maybe he's just looking for jobs in all the wrong places?
Reminds me a lot of http://wheretheladies.at/
Four months and 10 interviews does not sound like that much. It is unfortunate that he is looking at strained finances.

I know a certain number of young women (not long out of college) whose fathers are about my age. As far as I can tell, mostly these women think well of their fathers, for all that the fathers mostly have pretty quotidian jobs. Show up, provide a sense of security, provide some discipline for the kid to push back against, and you're probably fine.
Share.js is pretty cool too
I don't see either the PS4 or the Durango doing much better than the Wii U. I think how much better they do growth-wise will be based entirely on how much money they are willing to burn for proper software exclusives and a reasonably priced console. It is the games that will sell the consoles, and I do not see third-parties flocking to more expensive development costs with incredibly low potential consumers. What incentive do third-parties have to develop for new hardware when the old hardware has a much higher install base?

I for one expect all next generation consoles to have growth rates similar to that of the Gamecube. I do not think it matters much when the consoles launch, either.
The Wikipedia article makes no sense to me. Please explain it in simple terms using your own words.
Consumer-facing products are always going to garner the most press, but that doesn't mean more technically interesting things aren't going on as well.

There are tons of core technology startups in Silicon Valley - we just don't talk about them on YCombinator very much. I find the software defined datacenter space really interesting. Check out Nutanix: A startup that aims to redefine enterprise datacenter architecture. Or how about the recent acquisition of Nicira (a software defined networking company) by VMware. Just look at Khosla Ventures product portfolio: http://www.khoslaventures.com/information-technology.html. Food science startups, semiconductor, enterprise hardware/software, AND social media. The whole gamut.
It makes no sense to me. Please explain it in your own words using simplified terms.
The issue is who is affected by changes to the city. It is always the poor and underprivileged who are pushed to the periphery by the privileged. Change should be shaped in ways that don't involuntarily displace people.
Fanta is one kind of coke that I didn't see much growing up.

My brother and I used to argue about whether Orange Fanta counted as a coke. He thought it wasn't, because it was orange soda and not cola. I thought it was, because it was sugary carbonated soda.

My wife refers to them all as soda or pop. The industrial name for them all is "soft drink", which I think means they don't have alcohol in them.

It's a very regional, kind of random thing.
Thats the plan! Simple and clean. Thanks =)
I'm not necessarily challenging what US law says, but what you think about it.
Of course people will value whatever it is they have and someone else doesn't.

And likewise people discount the value of whatever it is they don't have that someone else does. Please don't let that fact keep you from realizing that experience has real value, and this is an advantage that older people consistently have over younger ones.

Obviously it isn't the only important factor. Plenty of 15 year olds have better judgement than most 40 year olds. But very few people have better judgement at 15 than they do at 40. (However many have worse judgement at 80 than at 60. Such is life.)

Don't let the frequency of stupidity among adults cause you to discount the fact that experience has value.

I submit that experience being a child is just as valid in a discussion of parenting as experience being a parent, and is underappreciated.

Having been both a parent and a child, I absolutely know that you're wrong. Before I was a parent, this wouldn't have been obvious to me.

The experience of having been a child is indeed relevant to a discussion of parenting. All competent parents draw on this experience to help inform their decisions. However until you've been on both sides of that relationship you simply don't have a full perspective to judge by.

It is like deciding on who is right in an argument between two friends after having only heard one side. The information that you got is clearly relevant and important, but you simply aren't (yet) in a position to make a fair judgement.

I know that you don't agree. But if you choose to be a parent, after you've had the experience of being shocked by hearing yourself sound like an echo of your own parents, come back and tell me that you didn't just learn something very important about your parents. (Before you wonder, every parent that I've asked about it has had this experience. And every one has at that point understood their parents better.)
True, they have a bigger talent funnel than smaller companies, but don't forget that they also need far more new hires than smaller companies. I wonder which factor dominates.
As a long time Flash and Director user before going Unity, Director was dropped by Adobe the day it was bought. It has been on EOL since the aquisition. They had the lead on 3d on the web then and they let it slip. There have been no real updates to Director since 9 when Macromedia still had a hand in it. The recent releases were just to make people think it was still alive, no big loss except for Adobe and market share.

Freehand was awesome and Fireworks will be missed, it's too bad Macromedia did get bought by Adobe really, things would be so different. It was great for competition and Flash would have gone native and hardware accelerated much earlier.
Does this matter if the Republican-controlled house (generally anti-tax) will not pass it?

It sounds like the Ryan budget that was passed in the House back in '10 and was never going to pass the Senate.

Either it's inefficient politics, grandstanding, kabuki theater or all of the above. It's definitely not newsworthy.
Hey I don't know if you'd be up for it, but I'd love to try out this open interview format on daniellemorrill.com and we can see how it goes. Contact info is in my profile if you're interested
Not all features are installed locally and available as a stand-alone. Downloading the binaries that are installed locally is not zero-cost/zero-time; anyone whose primary access is, say, 3G is going to waste the better part of a month's allotment on installation and upgrades. And >180 days disconnected (or only having hyper-expensive satellite access) is not as far-fetched as you might think; many of the fine-art landscape photographers I know pretty much make their livings on that kind of a schedule. You can almost always find enough electricity to charge/run a laptop (even if that means carting solar panels around); internet access has a few more requirements.
No sympathy here. "I am a bad developer"... so? At least you have recognition of a problem, now time to improve.

Why the rejetions? Has any company told you what exactly were the reasons for rejection? Ask for a reply from the interviewers and the specific questions. Don't get those questions wrong again.

I contribute to a plethora of open source projects in a range of languages such as
C++, Perl, Python, and even various Lisp-like languages.

How about a link to the contributions? Perhaps you can get some better feedback from people looking at those.

Well my bookshelf is stocked...
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I enjoy mathematics. ...
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And for all of this I still blunder my way through...
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I still draw a blank when asked what the magnitude of complexity is for the guests
function I just wrote.

Why the blundering? It's not a memorization exercise, it's an exercise in counting and math:

My input is N, and I loop from 0 to N, hence complexity is O(N).

I loop twice, so complexity is O(2N).

The input is M and N, my function has nested loops, 0 to M, 0 to N,
complexity is O(M * N).

My input is N and I divide and conquer recursively cutting in half...
that's (N/2)/2)/2)/2... lg N!

I think most good interviewers will be ecstatic if you can reason your algorithm out loud, even if you're a little off. It's the reasoning and thinking that matters more.

I'd also recommend studying for interviews seriously. Cracking the code interview, http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-..., it helps quite a bit.
Always confused me too. Alsa worked well, and then I remember Ubuntu introducing PulseAudio too early when it was immature, and it was horrible for a while, but six months later it had all been fixed and I never had any issues with PulseAudio again... What was that, like five or six years ago now?
Precisely. It's about choosing when and how to give up privacy.

The "adamant about privacy" perception mostly comes about because of all the people actively trying to expose our information to various other parties. In response, we fixate on those cases where we don't want that to happen, as an argumentative counterpoint. The times where we want to share things are simply not as interesting, since sharing is easier (technically and politically), so we make less noise about it.
SF needs to do what NYC did in the 90s. Bring in someone like Giuliani who will really crack down on these issues. That's basically impossible though with all the liberals in SF.
If you don't fit into someone else's box, create your own.

It won't fix your short term financial problems, but it might be your long term salvation.
Mapping the Incredible Spread of Mexican Drug Cartels in the U.S.
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> I bet if someone dropped a deuce in front of a New York bodega, there'd be a dozen locals competing to rinse it off.

A dozen locals competing to see who can spray the offender down with a hose, followed by beating them with it, perhaps.
I don't understand how one can draw that conclusion from that dataset. Getting turned down during the hiring process says absolutely nothing about your ability to develop software because job hunting isn't a software development activity.

In fact, reading your post, I get the feeling that you're a better dev than me. You probably have more experience and a better grasp of the high-level concepts as well as the ability to translate that understanding into better, more bug-free code.

Even despite this, were we competing for the same job, assuming I'm qualified for it, I would probably get hired over you because confidence matters and I have no problem conveying confidence in my abilities during an interview. Job hunting has nothing to do with software development.

You don't need to work on your coding skills. They're fine. You need to work on your social skills.
Homelessness and a government whose attitude towards it is to pretend the passive aggressively opposing them will make them go away.

The city has, over the past decades, slowly taken over all public seating in homeless-prone areas of the city. It's a sunny day outside and you want to have a seat and munch on a sandwich instead of eating at your desk? No can do, there are literally no seats, benches, or anything that might be remotely comfortable to rest on.

Ditto public restrooms, which have been taken away under the same pretenses.

Of course, the response hasn't been a decrease in homelessness - they lean, lie, and sit against buildings just fine, and they piss and shit in the streets just as well too.

San Francisco's stance towards homelessness seems to be "if we make it inconvenient to be homeless, people will stop being homeless", which strikes me as shockingly idiotic for a city famous for its liberalism.
Very true. Providing incentive for people to contribute here is key. We're still brainstorming ideas and are looking for suggestions.

The reason we decided against scraping these other sites is that few people actually check-in. In a full bar, it'd be optimistic for >5 people to check in. This makes ratios very inaccurate. There actually is a site out there based on Foursquare check-ins and they suffer from this problem.
The tone of that exchange struck me as very naïve. Furthermore, the entire thing seems like “transparency theatre”, in that I suspect the only people in the world who give a hoot about what went down during the interview are the participants themselves.

Time to put down the Scoble koolaid and do transparency where it counts.
Ask HN: ZFS for databases (Postgres) - FreeBSD or *Solaris ?
I am finding measurable IO performance improvements in using ZFS compression on Linux for OLAP workloads. Given that the ZFS on Linux project is still moving to a feature complete release, I am considering an OS with a native ZFS implementation.

Although I am not too familiar with BSD or Solaris, I am considering putting the time into learning some admin skills on FreeBSD, or an OpenSolaris descendant like OpenIndiana, SmartOS, or OmniOS.

For systems where application compatibility is not a concern (a box only running the DB engine), does the HN community have any relevant details to share as to which OS's have advantages in this use case?
Women probably do not want to hang with the men these tweets will attract. The incentive for disinformation is large.
I realize that there are reasons, and I'm not necessarily angry at Ubuntu, but I've dealt with these types of issues before and it's frustrating. I had the ALSA source code and was ready to attempt some hardware hacking, but:

1) The chipset was a common one, and the issue specific to this model. I had no idea how to proceed from there.

2) I couldn't make heads or tails out of the structure of the code, and what was happening (or why). I tried to find some sort of "this is happening here" where I could work out the rest from there, but couldn't find it.

3) I volunteered myself on the bug page, but there was never a response to it.

4) I've never hacked on kernel code (beyond compiling it from scratch 'back in the day') or done any hardware hacking, but I was willing to look at resources if people pointed me in the right direction.

The project "as a whole" doesn't do anything with respect to specific bugs (there are exceptions), but the individuals that do take action, take that action on behalf of Ubuntu.
Maybe you could securitize the value of the tenant's rent control, entitling an exiting tenant to a windfall if they are replaced by a higher-rent paying replacement?

Can you clarify how this is different from simply prohibiting rental, forcing residents to own their apartment? A securitized right to property value increases sounds a lot like equity.

edit: Oh I'm stupid. Clearly you mean all of this under price control: the renter gets the benefits of equity, without paying anything for them, and without taking on any risk of ownership (like property values collapsing). A complete soup of misincentives and disaster.
> Commercial property tho doesnt have rent control however.

But they still generally pay far, far less property tax than they should:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(1978...
"Before Clustrix an entirely different kind of datastore, such as MongoDB, would be used. This requires developers to split up their data across multiple servers and use a map reduce algorithm in order to query across all the data."

Uhm, no.

Sharding is orthogonal to map-reduce, and you wouldn't use map-reduce on MongoDB or otherwise for anything OLTP. (MR on Mongo is SLOW)

Something that makes sharding easier/more automagic is nice though. I hate sharding anything that isn't Redis or MongoDB.
I wish this was paired with a provision that required states to simplify their sales tax codes.

I know in Seattle for example food is tax free, unless it's carbonated (which has a surtax), or prepared, or alcoholic, or coffee, or until recently a 'snack' which of course has a lengthy definition on page 3,641 section 4 subpart D...

Even if you make a million dollars in sales, it's hard to imagine keeping up with these regulations.

I'd be especially worried if I was a sharing based company (will Airbnb pay hotel rate taxes, RelayRide car rental rates? Who pays, the owner or the company?)
Thanks for these - much appreciated!
That's exactly what he has done. The thing is that he was a team leader in a large tech company, and could earn something like 6x in compared to the money he earned in security, if he got a full time job. But he told me that with a full time job he can't possibly develop anything for himself.

But that's not always an easy thing to do when you are 35 as he was.
Thanks man, much appreciated :)
There's a not-insignificant chance this will pass. Republican opinion on it is split -- they can get away with saying they're not reneging on no-tax-increase pledges because it's merely enforcement of tax laws already on the books (consumers are supposed to pay use tax on their out-of-state purchases). There's strong pressure on them from brick-and-mortar businesses in every state since it makes them more competitive with online retailers.
First world problems. Amirite? :)
I have been digging the Creative Cloud for a while in terms of availability not price. If you tried to actually buy Creative Suite you would have a hard time the last year or so even finding that on their site. This was inevitable.

What sucks is them killing apps individually, I thought the creative cloud would allow more obscure apps to be tried without the need to have it supported by it's own sales right away, or some overlap. Fireworks losing out in this does suck. It didn't make sense for Adobe with Photoshop but too bad a competitor doesn't have it.

I think the price is still high for CC, the upgrade price for a year is $30/month but the full price is $50/month after that year, definitely premium pricing. They have to come down or I will bail after this year.
Well, you will inevitably get the advice that you should quit.

Barring that, I say create strict barriers for yourself to ease the mental context-switching. Say for example, you will focus 100% on your day job from 10AM to 7PM weeknights, and you will go nuts on your startup at all other times. Even just writing down these rules will help you focus. By working more effectively during the day, and assuming your boss isn't a nazi guarding your time, you can actually finish your work earlier and spend more time on your startup.

Another suggestion, wake up one or two hours earlier to work on your passion project. Since you mention being too tired when you come home at night, this is a way to make sure you are making incremental progress day by day.

Eventually, you really will have to "burn the boats" so to speak and quit. I'm not sure what's keeping you from quitting, but I'm assuming you have good reasons (mortgage, kids, debt). It will be tough to bootstrap all the way until profitability. Is there any way you can work on contract while you continue developing your startup?

Best of luck
I've been trying to work backwards from domains to projects, best I've got here is ra.yd.io
> How do poorer people lack a voice in local government? ... And then they think of themselves as oppressed when the police break it up.

Police breaking up a non-violent protest of only 40 people... yes, that's the definition of oppression. I don't like what you have to say so I'll shut you up is oppression.

Have you ever read your constitution? These people are douchebags, but what they were doing should not have been stopped.
Its a pity they didn't give him the Nobel for Medicine while he was alive. He certainly deserved it. (They can't grant it posthumously)
Where are the start-ups?
This is paired with a provision that states must simplify their sales tax codes before they can collect from out-of-state sellers, though it's not hard to see how they could stay within the requirements of the bill and still have overly complicated rules.

I wrote a summary a few weeks ago:

http://www.dangrossman.info/2013/04/24/what-startups-need-to...
It isn't the technical skills that are lacking, it is confidence and the ability to sell yourself. If you have the experience and code samples, you can still get technical questions wrong, so long as you're able to admit defeat in a confident, intelligent way. You're not asked esoteric CS questions to see if you understand CS, you're asked them to demonstrate your critical thinking skills, ability to communicate, ability to ask smart questions, and, most important of all, ability to ask for help when needed.

Personality goes a long way to getting a job, technical chops go a long way to keeping it. The hiring managers that reject you based on answering technical questions incorrectly are probably not being honest. It's an easy thing for them to fall back on when making such a difficult decision; often just saying "we don't like this guy" is difficult for HR to reconcile, especially if they interview a lot of people.

TL;DR be confident in your abilities, listen more than you talk, and learn how to ask the interviewer the right questions (known in sales as Questions that Sell). Getting any job is an exercise in marketing and sales. Getting through even the most technical interview is an exercise in sales.
The last sentence is very strange--what would you do with as an answer in a high school history test?
You might find this interesting: http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/case-study-the...
Did you miss the part where he says over and over how he uses vim?

Did you read the replies on reddit where this was originally posted to where there are rebuttal to the author's claims?

http://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/1aq1lx/just_use_sublime...

http://vpaste.net/fA7rH

Vim is a text editor and that's it. If you want it do be an IDE you're going to have a bad time. I'd recommend this piece on Unix as IDE

http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/series/unix-as-ide/
i wish it were doomed... javascript should've been replaced with something more sane in the late 90's. unfortunately, that didn't happen and it is here to stay.
Why are tech employees and companies the getting the blame for increased rent? Last I checked it was the property owners and landlords who control that.

How far back do they want to go? Protesting in front of Tim Berners-Lee's house for being an enabling force in the creation of the technology that runs Google and other companies?
Video website in big data era