skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I thought yesterday, the PM is a dick. And I say this as a PM, I'm not biassed against them :-)

In these situations, people don't remember what happened, but they will remember how you reacted. Be super nice and professional, so that everyone is left wondering "Geez, why did we let him go?"
I did this, and I wish I could encourage others to do the same. Honestly.

I started completely at 20 and not even 7 months later I was getting paid above average in Seoul to do the same thing, basically. Except I had expert help whenever I needed it in the form of coworkers.

I'd have to say that the two biggest factors contributing to this is that people like the OP probably don't know about opportunities available to them (though hard to imagine given the outlet used to express himself), and the general "5+ years of experience/ex-Googler" mentality really seem to discourage trying. Hell, I've gotten over a year of professional experience and sometimes I think I should just take an unpaid internship if I wanted to find a new job now...
Fucking bravo. A sane, respectful response. :)
This is an implicit threat.
I am not sure I understand the question. Care to elaborate?
Whats the URL?
Most certainly you want to use a shader, but that doesn't fix all your problems. You have to push a (very large) texture across the bus. The GPU will chew on it and spit out the result, which you then have to pull back across the bus into main memory so that it plays nicely with other UI elements that are CPU-bound and not cached in VRAM.

So you've removed the processing bottleneck in exchange for a bus bandwidth bottleneck :(
The image with the link to uberflip is broken.
>"That's not what he's comparing himself to, he's not comparing himself to people with sick parents, disabilities or a family to take care of. He's comparing himself to young and educated indulging the life of well-earning bachelors buying shit they don't need."

I am not sure about that, he explicitly said that he is not interested in starting a family.

From the article:
"I could have saved a bit less, and developed a taste for expensive shirts or exotic foreign holidays. Or I could have started a family. But I’m not interested in any of those things"
Everyone Needs to Calm the &*# Down About SEO
I've been there. The last time was 3 months ago. I was a year in and still no release. The boss changed his mind on design more times than I can count, which usually meant scrapping the old code and starting over.

I finally quit. It took me a couple of months to recover.
Works very well for me (Chrome, Windows)
Nice! That's a classy move right there.

Edit: further context:

>Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, promised Wednesday that he would block renewal of the pact should Snowden be granted asylum.

>"Our government will not reward countries for bad behavior," he said in a statement, following other lawmakers who have spent years saying that the pact should be allowed to lapse, partly down to the country's links with Iran. [1]

If my tentative understanding of events is correct, this economic act of aggression (which would have hurt innocent civilians - does the US even care about that anymore?) was the main form of likely retaliation the US would have pulled in response to Snowden being granted asylum. Preempting this move by giving up the preferential treatment is, IMO, a very astute move by the Ecuadorian government, and puts America in a position of not having that leg to stand on.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/26/us-usa-security-sn...
Alternative explanation: HN is an echo chamber that does not closely reflect general opinion in America
that is the really amazing thing about wikipedia.. it is still getting better!

(i keep trying to find some way to contribute, but apparently i know less about everything that i know about than someone else.. so i just donate)
Why is Go "distressing"? If you don't like it, you don't have to use it?
I don't know what was ambiguous about "except in the rare case that you have a FISA order." I'm dubious of the metadata thing (a bit less knowing that it is not part of the collection and A&P pipeline), but the fact is that it was approved by the FISA court and an order was issued.
Boldly Going Where No Man Has Ever Gone Before

Eh.. where?
The Obama-Biden Plan - Ehtics Agenda [2007]
Douglas Crockford conventioned 4 spaces for indentation so that's what I do.

http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html
Especially this part:

Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process."
You deserve a hug.
FastMail runs on completely separate infrastructure and there were no indications of a compromise.

However to be on the safe side we've taken a number of precautions including blowing away every machine (fai-project.org FTW!) and updating credentials everywhere.
That doesn't make any sense.

Once you learn a singular framework, it cuts out any additional effort you need to go through to create said prototypes and you end up with a prototype that can be extended to production standard.

Sure you need to spend the time to learn it, but that's a one time deal for the most part.
Show HN: SVN Branching as easy as Git
He's a junior developer. Give the kid a break. You were there at some point.
You should also read about how stars form and evolve over time:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_evolution

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_sequence
Money totally buys full life, wow, you're right.
To make a very, very long story short, I've clawed my way into my second (and current) career from a very dark bout of depression. One thing that has helped me focus is the right combination of medications (after talking to a doctor, of course).
Illegally climbing the Golden Gate bridge at dawn (2011)
And yet if you don't use "I" then some other expert will tell you that this indicates a lack of confidence.

People who are hiring don't respond well to a lack of confidence. They will assume you suck and show you the door.
That's Makerbot Value in Stratasys Deal
from TFA

A Manhattan jury awarded $14.1 million to a woman who lay
down on New York City subway tracks and was hit by a train
during a failed suicide. Another New York City jury gave
$9.3 million to a man who fell on subway tracks while
inebriated and lost his left arm. Another drunk on the
tracks was awarded $6 million.

I dunno, if you can get $14.1m for lying down on the subway tracks, you can probably get a pot of money if the city turns a blind eye while people go down into unlocked vaults for parties and have an accident.
Free, nationwide, Wi-Fi networks to be set up in the UK (petition)
I think the OP either has a fear of failure or a fear of success. The fear of failure may come from the worry that launching their "perfect" app might fall flat. The fear of success may come from the worry that if the app takes off the pressure will increase due to external expectations from users. After all, it's easier to let yourself down than it is to let thousands of users down. Either way, the OP continues to move the goal-posts so there's a definite fear of launching. They need to get over this, and fast, or they will never grow as a developer or an entrepreneur. Until you release your creation out into the world it's just mental masturbation.
> 99% of your life is a wonderful peaceful anarchy.

Even the time I spend in traffic has already exceeded your timeframe of "wonderful anarchy". Not to mention all the other personal matters that I could theoretically choose to do, if I were a douchebag.

What if I choose not to spend time with my children? Or to say 'Hello' to my wife? Am I sticking it to The Man with my rugged individualism?

> You cannot simply choose another currency

Sure you can. Just make sure to convert enough of it to legal tender when it comes time to pay the taxes that paid for your schooling (and the schooling of those idiots you interact with everyday), the environmental inspectors and regulators, medical researchers, Peace Corps works, USAID, etc.
We produce a scientific journal with associated promotional materials, every issue there is one cover which is produced in Photoshop. The advertising materials are made in InDesign (our designer gives us 2 choices for each item) and each issue is programatically layed out in IDML by my software and touched up by a some kid I found at a coffee shop. I do computer work for this group and I wouldn't call us particularly profitable.
Less documentation is better? That's not something I hear every day.
I think for 80-90% of that you could use BaseCamp etc from 37 Signals. I'd custom build as little as possible.
This looks like it could be a security nightmare. Does anyone know if it is possible to do in a secure way?
> Perfectionists deliver finished working products.

From the psychology definition of perfectionism, there's both the version that lets you accomplish a thing well and the version that hinders you from completing something.

Anecdote: When it comes to me doing anything remotely artistic, I get so bogged down in fixing the details that I ignore the big picture. In reality, trying to perfect the details means I'm focusing on things that are going to jump out at me, but not at other people.

"Perfect is the enemy of good" is a good proverb about this.
Jesus fucking fuck fuck. Fucking what??
Just an example that if you swear, things are never boring. Fuck.
I think "irrelevant" is a poor choice of words here.

It is VERY relevant that there is a workaround. Additionally, it's kind of unfair to point at 1 bug (that has a workaround) and judge an entire system on it.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/composition-division
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/no-true-scotsman
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-texas-sharpshooter
'Lone wolf' stuff is easy to pull off, yes.

NSA is not worried about lone wolves though. If anyone is it would probably be FBI or local law enforcement.
Security Flaw: JDate leaves user images exposed to easy hack
Beta testers needed for Instaviz, iOS diagram sketcher
Well he was talking about a prototype. You don't necessairly need to worry about such things if you're just bashing something out as a showcase, otherwise I'd agree.

That said, they don't allow SQL injections because they don't have a framework, they did it because they're stupid. Using a framework (and following the docs) will help save us from their stupidty, but so would learning about security issues.

Frameworks are largely about speed. They should make you develop quicker because loads of code is pre-written and generally it is of a higher quality than what you'll knock out in a few days because hundreds of man hours go into those libs.
The casual reference to "hypothyroidism in Antarctica" got me curious. Apparently there's a link with working in low temperatures, and research on it, e.g. http://jcem.endojournals.org/content/86/1/110.full

P.S. also bumped into yesterday's jwz post http://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/06/how-to-drink-in-antarctica/
How about solitary confinement, the long term use of which is most clearly torture? This happens very commonly in the US for all manner of "disrespect of authority" in prison, usually over political matters (prison politics, not red v blue for whichever dummy was going to say that after this post).
I agree. I saw that Steve Jobs video that was making the rounds last week on how he saw his legacy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zut2NLMVL_k

I think that idea can apply in all industries and creative endeavors. It's okay to be forgotten, just appreciate that future generations will stand taller on the sediment that you have created merely by existing.

To your last sentence, there was also a recent episode of the podcast Back to Work (http://5by5.tv/b2w/120) where they talk about safety nets, in response to their friend Marco Arment and the acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo. I transcribed a few portions of it for my own reflection:

120: @43:30 - [posed as a question to the listener] What if you had enough of whatever you need to do something? What do you not have right now that the safety net would eventually provide?

120: @48:50 - You probably haven't spent your life rehearsing on how to be happy with what you have, you spend your life rehearsing what will happen when you "finally never have to worry about anything again".

120: @55:30 - Having more money will let you have a more expensive weekend, but unless you've practiced enjoying weekends during your life, it's going to be a very hard change.
There's a lot of shit that adds up. Booze is a serious killer. Cigarettes are goddamn expensive. Clothes pile up in cost...
Thanks for this info. That last link includes a section on double-submit cookies with a little further discussion: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery_(...
With free spying on their usage, too. They already set up free cafes in 2009 with the intention to spy on visiting politicians.
PHP Weekly News. 27th June edition
In some ways, it's a great thing we haven't even started coding. There's been no time to build this and the boss wants it done by October. One developer, one designer and a pretty big enough system is to be built in 3 months? I believe they're deluded. (Note: I've told her that it will take longer)
The repetition got to me. It could have been a fairly interesting article at about 1/4 the length. The feature reporter gave the impression that they believed saying the same thing multiple times would make it the truth.

So he's a phony who got lucky and...made no money. It's interesting to see the targeting of someone for success along a different angle than politics, insubstantial celebrity, or 'undeserved' wealth. (Coincidence that RMS is on the front page of HN as well?)

The NYT has increasingly mixed its editorial content with its journalistic content. Quite often, I'll scratch my head at a linked article and then notice that it's blogs.nytimes.com or otherwise NYT-branded blogorrhea.

While they have to struggle to stay relevant, it's unfortunate that they've largely gone the HuffPo route instead of consolidating their strengths. It makes it confusing when reading event-based reporting, trying to discern the agenda.
Here's the source: https://github.com/davidjohnstone/alt
If you have large SVN repositories in production, it's often not easy to switch to git. But you'll get some comfort back with those aliases :-)
I wonder if he signed one of those 19 million dollar NDAs...
At the moment, the attack is not yet practical because it requires access to millions and possibly billions of copies of the same data encrypted using different keys. A browser would have to make that many connections to a server to give the attacker enough data. A possible exploitation path is to somehow instrument the browser to make a large number of connections, while a man in the middle is observing and recording the traffic.

Does it need to be a single browser? If you have recorded a substantial portion of internet traffic (as the NSA has), and thus you have connections from a bunch of different browsers to a popular SSL/https web page, and the server (during a given time period) returns the exact same response (it's static web page) to all of them (or a portion of them and you can figure out which portion)....

?

I can think of a bunch of different reasons this would NOT work, but (or 'and') I'm also not neccesarily an expert and don't entirely understand this stuff, so I'm not sure either way, just wondering.
Stanford economist musters big data to reshape Web
Exactly, in a dynamic language with first-class functions you don't need to create object factories just to pass around static methods between scopes.
looks great but I highly recommend better positioning of the controls - they are too close to the edge of the screen.
A developer who can't ship is a developer nobody needs.
A developer who has shipped 0 things obviously can't ship.
A developer who has shipped n+1 things isn't really different from one who has shipped n things. I mean, one product? That's not real experience.
So, by induction, nobody needs any developers.
I read his "...grow total payments to artists" as saying "We'd really love to cut out these leeching industry licensing incumbent middlemen and pay you directly." In other words, Pandora can indeed reduce their payout and provide more money to artists by changing the size of the pie slices: eliminate the RIAA, ASCAP, BMI, etc slices.
Ask HN: Marketing strategies for a difficult-to-market aggregation of services?
Over the past several years I've been building a site to help me organize disjointed parts of my life. I love to track things, but I hated using different apps and different sites to do it because I felt more disorganized having everything spread out all over the place. So I built a site to track different parts of your life in one place, with small applications called trackers (ie Tasks, Journals, Dreams, Recipes, Cholesterol, etc).

Recently I decided to take a shot and change course from working on this as a hobby to trying to make a side business out of it. I'm immune to worrying about whether it succeeds or fails because I use it extensively for myself, but I think it has value for people who like to track things and stay organized.

Anyway, I offer a subscription service to use the site, and I'm just now getting ready to try to market it. But its inherently difficult to market because the site is essentially an aggregation of smaller applications that may or may not already exist as standalone apps. Because the site contains so many trackers, putting an individual tracker head to head against one built specifically for that purpose (ie my Task Tracker vs Remember The Milk), my tracker will have less features. This was an intentional decision to keep things simple, but again it makes it difficult to market individual trackers (unless they dont exist).

I'm looking for some advice on how I might go about marketing this. I'm going to consider simple ads on either forums, google adwords, etc to start. I also implemented a referral system to hopefully persuade users to do some of the marketing themselves, although that will take time to be effective.

If you are curious, the site is called https://www.tracktacular.com
Cambridge loses lawsuit to keep Uber off the roads
It might just have been intended as a neutral statement about the situation. There's no need to jump to conclusions.
You want condescending? 'cause his blog post wasn't. Look, like if you're fucking happy right now, great! But if you have a reaction to his post that makes you feel attacked, belittled, then there very well might be a good reason for that. And boy, it ain't nothin' on the author.
Solid advice. Split the problem into many smaller problems and start working.

One thing to keep in mind though, TODO lists can give an illusion of progress and accomplishment[1]. That is assuming you split up the problem and create a TODO list out of it which seems like a reasonable thing to do.

I remember a discussion on HN about procrastination quite some time ago and there was a comment which made me think a lot. The commenter basically said that he procrastinates by writing code, because that is what he loves to do.

If you are procrastinating writing code by doing something else, perhaps you simply do not enjoy writing code and need to explore the world for whatever it is that you love doing?

I am still not sure myself, I enjoy writing code but there are other jobs which I think I would enjoy more.

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/todont.html
I agree. These absurd claims are increasingly disturbing.

Seems like a lot of Go fans have lost touch with reality.
And anarcho-libertarian types will claim that a government can never be relied on to do that, which is just as well as saying again that the government could not be allowed to keep secrets.
Also, the first part of the document is English with Spanish translation but the labels below are Spanish with English translation.

I'm not saying it is fake, but I think it could only look less authentic if it was written in Comic Sans.
"You can move out — to another state just like yours or worse."

That's a bit pessimistic. You can move to a state is like yours, or worse, or better.

Let's keep aiming for better
Go take speed.
Wouldn't depend on the browser. Any top level network would have access to everything they need.
FTA: "One can’t help but infer that the US Department of Justice has become just another security contractor, working [...] on behalf of corporate bidders, with no sense at all for the justness of their actions; they are working to protect corporations and private security contractors and give them license to engage in disinformation campaigns against ordinary citizens and their advocacy groups."

It's happening all over the country. For example: the guy who faces 13 years in prison for drawing in chalk outside a Bank of America branch: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/jun/26/activist-prosecut...
An Angel in New York: David S. Rose
...you lost me, I was expecting to read something like "as all the interesting stuff happens on the client side anyway" after the first part with using vanilla PHP, but you didn't, so you would either end up with a "thin-client + thin-backend" (which is close to... no site/app at all), or you end up with spaghetti. Care to share a github link of such a website or web-app to see for ourselves how easy it is to "pick up and implement changes within hours"? I bet it's more like diving headfirst into a pool of spaghetti once the project grows past a point...
"...they want to make massively more revenue overall." Well every company wants more revenue. But I don't believe that's the goal here.

I believe they avoid saying that they'd love to cut out the middlemen between Pandora and the artist. How much of those royalty payments are sucked up by licensing agencies? Remove that amount from the equation and now artists can get a bigger paycheck and Pandora can pay less overall.
OMG! this is horrible. privacy is totally dead. how can we be sure that when we take our name and profile from a website, it will delete the information?
Great looking != useful.

There are many websites with questionable style than are by far very usable. I would invest more on UX than cosmetics.
I like his attitude, and I think he learned something most don't ever learn. I'd hire him.
Thank you. I wish more of the commentary on this subject was like yours. It's a refreshing to see someone who can disagree with a position but accept that it is still legal if the courts have upheld it.
I can’t do anything about them. If a client needs help I have to wait until I am back at a computer

Sounds like a problem with your phone.
Bitcoin sale is tax-exempt in Germany after holding 1 year
If you do not appear in control of the situation, she will lose attraction to you very quickly.

Patrick's response is the correct response: shit happened, deal with it. Some men will respond with emotion and helplessness. And surely when things are out of your control, you should. But the woman in your life who depends on you does not want to hear that her rock is going to be broken.
I think that's a hard thing for someone to do.. ego or no.