skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow:

Random House, the largest publisher, resisted Apple's call to adopt the agency model in 2010. But the company capitulated a year later in order to get its books on the iPad.

"Apple decided to pressure Random House to join the iBookstore," Cote wrote. "As Cue wrote to Apple CEO Tim Cook, 'When we get Random House, it will be over for everyone.' Apple had its opportunity in the Fall of 2010, when Random House submitted some e-book apps to Apple’s App Store. Cue advised Random House that Apple was only interested in doing 'an overall deal' with Random House. By December, they had begun negotiations, and Random House executed an agency agreement with Apple in mid-January 2011. In an e-mail to [Steve] Jobs, Cue attributed Random House’s capitulation in part to 'the fact that I prevented an app from Random House from going live in the app store this week.'"

For a second I thought I was reading about Bill's Microsoft not Steve's Apple.
Leaked EU Policy Papers Show TAFTA/TTIP's Huge Challenges
Ask HN: Advice After A Year Struggling to Land an Entry-Level Job
Since graduating with my BS in EE, and despite a solid resume with multiple F100 internships, I've had little luck in drawing interest from employers. Hundreds and hundreds of submissions and emails to recruiters, ~10 interviews netted, and no luck landing an offer.

I've targeted (entry-level) and have immense interest in product, marketing, and operational roles at tech companies and startups. I know I have the skill set and passion to be able to contribute and grow in such roles, but again, little luck drawing interest.

After having so much time pass unemployed, I'm not sure how to proceed, since the spray-and-pray thing clearly hasn't been working out so well. Any thoughts or advice would certainly mean a lot to me.
But I'm talking about using Google anonymously, incognito. Sure, they might guess who I am from my IP address or font list or something weirder, so who knows. But assuming they don't know who I am, or at least act like they don't know who I am, Google still works better for certain types of query. I think this has to do with the way the software itself is tuned, or perhaps what their other customers search for.
Again, devil's advocate. The Hollywood Shootout was in 97. Murders might be down, but I don't think it's murder rates alone that drive policy in the area.
No. I am no lover of the police or prison officers' unions (which are very powerful here in CA), but they are only one part of the problem. The other part is that we have private corporations that operate prisons for profit, such as Correctional Corporation of America, who are well-documented as promoting the building of more prisons through forums such as ALEC. The incentives are a) huge and b) perverse.
I see this problem all the time in our marketing department. I think Microsoft Office is the problem, and the solution is to move toward systems which support collaborative document editing like wikis.

One of my pet peeves is emailed Word documents that the author has no intention that the reader will print. I prefer to read most documents in a web browser. I consider Word documents (and PDFs) to be skeuomorphs from a time when the printed page was the only means to share information: http://baus.net/documents-are-skeuomorphic/

Word is convenient for the author, but not the reader. I suspect over time its use will diminish as better collaborative systems become the norm.
This is the sort of problem that if you don't solve it very carefully, you will get a "working" monstrosity that you will wish was never created in the first place.

See: Sharepoint. I honestly prefer emailing around files, but good luck going back to that once you've got sharepoint.
A lot of MUDs still use telnet. Even with MCCP (which has to be negotiated over telnet anyway), it's not uncommon for legacy clients to connect over raw telnet.
It's incredibly rude to just dismiss everyone who disagrees with you like that.
We're starting off where we know people really have the problem - with MS office files stacked away on old network drives. In the long run we want to integrate with any file type - Photoshop, CAD etc. Wherever there's currently v1, v2, v3, v5_tommy_edit2 we think there's room for improvement.
Because I'm not working at the TLS layer, I'm working at the HTTP layer. I'm sure if I had to often write TLS handshakes by hand, s_client wouldn't be my tool of choice, just as curl isn't always my tool of choice.

Making the protocol I'm working in binary doesn't do me any favors.
I'm pretty thrilled that the OP investigated this. This feature was so bizarre to me that I just assumed it was some esoteric JavaScript language feature that was hidden from jQuery-using dilettantes such as myself.
> At the very least, regulations designed to protect the financially unsophisticated from themselves are massively hypocritical.

But are they _really_ designed to protect the financially unsophisticated from themselves? These regulations were enacted in response to the great depression. The motivation was to protect SOCIETY from systemic problems rooted in the actions of unsophisticated investors, not to protect the investors from themselves.

I agree that rules designed to protect the stupid from their own stupidity are to be avoided at all costs, but I don't agree that this is an example of such a policy. And I certainly don't buy the idea that people should be able to do whatever the fuck they want, to hell with everyone else, so long as they are not directly causing physical harm or property loss to another person.
Yeah, that's an extremely exceptional case and related to a centuries-old political conflict between nations. I'm Irish, you can't generalize from Belfast to anywhere else except maybe Israel/Palestine.
Five consecutive quarters of sliding PC sales mark a new industry record
Front-end optimizations you can start doing right now
Right, you definitely shouldn't request all 200GB at the same time, because it'd be expensive and also because you probably can't download all 200GB immediately either.

Arq (a backup app I wrote) takes a transfer rate from you (guesses your max transfer rate as a default) and then requests enough to be downloaded in 4 hours at that rate. 4 hours later, it requests another 4 hours' worth while it downloads the first 4 hours' worth, and so on. This mitigates the peak-transfer fee.
He didn't destroy it, someone found a bug and used it to destroy your site.
Huh? Who searches Google for addresses? I search Google Maps for addresses... I guess my mom, or someone else who thinks that the Google search bar is "the Internet" might do that, and perhaps other savvy people have workflows that I have never picked up, but I just don't see this as a big deal from my perspective.
I was just going to reply to some of these comments when I realised that everyone saying "HTTP 1.1 will still be accepted" is right. After all, the mere fact that you can telnet to so many web servers that will serve gzipped content over SSL at a drop of a hat shows how backwards-compatible the web is. Don't fool yourself into thinking that just because your connection over Telnet works, everyone's using that. That Google example makes me laugh -- since Google already does SPDY! ;-)
Edward Snowden got his start at the NSA as a security guard!
Shake to send feedback? That sounds interesting but what about games I don't think shake is the best option for that do you?
Recruiter here. I'd leave it on, keep things positive when discussing, and own the situation as a learning experience. The risk of leaving it off is much greater to bite you down the road, and your honest explanation should show a level of maturity.

In a few years, you can probably remove it safely from the résumé and LinkedIn.
completely agree, we'd love your help. I'm on zefi@kivo.com
Awesome. The part about the crazy, convoluted workflow Powerpoint users go through to share changes rings so true, at least from a management consultancy perspective (I used to be one). When I was one, we weren't allowed to use Google Docs, etc, so having this directly in Powerpoint would have been the killer feature.
> Today you, tomorrow me.

For context, ambiate is likely referring to http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/elal2/have_you_ev...
Your Tour With Google
This is a sad comment on the state of consumer hardware. Speaking from my viewpoint as a computational chemist, a video card that fails memtestG80 is not merchantable and gets slung back at the manufacturer.

After a while you have learned how fast companies deal with RMAs and you know that factory-overcooked hardware is next-to-useless.
That would be a big win if you can pull it off.

I wonder what is the best way to do it. convincing all owners of web apps to migrate to a new infrastructure strikes me as extremely hard. convincing the millions of 'publishers' of web writings (including all bloggers) to migrate sounds really hard, too.
I couldn't find anything either on your features page or in the screencast - how do you handle conflicts and conflict resolution?
Los Otros Senderos.
Partially responsible, sure, but DotA has a very dedicated fanbase, stretching back to the days of the first DotA map in Warcraft 3. Also, it's a game that offers huge replayability, meaning the current number of people playing the game will likely stay stable, if not increase.
And what if I asked for application/vnd.google.protobuf ? I don't always need 7-bit text over HTTP, after all...
Ask your friends who were able to land jobs to refer you. The fastest and simplest way through the hiring gamut is to network. Networking means approaching friends, colleagues, former employers, and others. It doesn't mean begging or lying, it means asking if they are interested in forwarding your information onward.

If you have had 10 interviews and no offer, I think that is a sign that you are unprepared for the interview process. I would spend some time better preparing yourself as well. There are literally hundreds of sites that will help you on this, as well as many books.
Did you really just ask HN to support Doublespeak?
Yes, there are still lots of pools - https://www.btcguild.com/ https://mining.bitcoin.cz/ etc. While CPU mining is basically useless, GPU mining is still popular and still profitable for many (given current bitcoin prices). That said, as more ASICs start coming online, GPU mining will become less and less profitable.
How do you plan to manage changes in binary files?
Straight forward and obvious meaning directly align with the first thing you learned when learning to program.

I like my languages straight forward, that's why I stick to English.
Although Smugmug is awesome, the issue I'd have with them is the lack of control. If my objects are in my AWS account, that feels more permanent long-term. It's just a gut feeling.
"open beta" is a bit of a misnomer - if you didn't get into the selective invite phase you had to buy a beta pass for $30. Later on (I'm not sure if dota 2 was already the most popular valve game at this point) people with accounts were given a large number of invites to give away. Now that it's been released, dota 2 is free.
I spend eight hours a day in the office, then I go home and read some textbooks, follow an online class, read a paper, write a blog post, go to the gym, practice saxophone, or hang out with friends. While I find the stuff I do at work enjoyable, I wouldn't do another 6 hours of it a day at the expense of giving up all that other stuff, because it's the other stuff that gets me through the more tedious weeks at work. Fortunately, my employer understands the necessity of doing those other things.

Yeah, lots of people waste their free time. I don't think that working 60 hours a week is any less of a waste for those people.
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Right. Because the alternative, bloated pages out the wazoo makes so much more sense than having smarter Apache and Nginx servers who will do all this for you. Remember, most of the web will be connected by cell phones, we need better protocols for that.
At the moment we don't do anything automatic. We display all the previous versions on a slide by slide basis within PowerPoint. We don't know yet what the right way to do this is, but we'd love your input - I'm zefi@kivo.com
As an interesting aside, you can nearly double the speed of your Java loop by unrolling it a few times. (at least it did that for me in JDK 7)
Quite a bit higher, in fact. Under full load a fanboy graphics card dissipates 100 - 150 W. A wattmeter is instructive toy.
I was playing around with Slim framework recently and I 'discovered' the option in the PDO driver to fetch into a class. Add a parent class to the data classes (with magic setters and getters, having the getter wrap everything in htmlspecialchars)[1] and you really can, probably, accomplish most of what a lot of templating systems do (and a good chunk of MVC with the serial numbers filed off) with a fraction of the code in most frameworks and, say, Twig.

Even static caching probably, using output buffering.

[1]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8898794/using-pdofetch-cl...
When you are a lone ranger, PvP is 4 times harder. In fleet it is easy to warp out when you start to be the current target, but when you are alone you are the target, if you do a mistake they will catch you and the only solution will be to fight to the death or to know several technics to disengage. You gain a lot of experience and it's a huge advantage to defeat your enemy. You will learn by yourself which ship should be killed first, how to outmaneuver your enemies, how to devise them, etc. Many pilots have an excellent k/d ratio but they can't compete against a lone ranger even with a lone ranger with a "bad ratio".

So he had two Formula 1 but the real key to his success was because he knew each law of the world and he was a master when he fought. It is one of the best point of Eve, you can have a Formula 1 but if you don't have the experience to use it, you will die at the first engagement. And at the same time, when you are excellent you can engage enemies even by being outnumbered by 10, and this is awesome.

(Another key point on Eve is: each ship have different size with different role. It is like to have catapult to greek titan in World of Warcraft. And even with one of most hardest task in any games, Eve stays balanced and coherent for a 800 vs 800 as well as a 1 vs 1 with different tactics at each size)

There are many many things to know in Eve. For instance, only after 4 years I could say I started to see the whole thing in PvP. If you want to see "Hackers" in Eve at fleet level, you have all the Rooks and Kings videos. [1][2] For lone rangers' videos, you have the Garmonation series, or Eve is Easy's video [3], and Darkness' videos with the Dark Perspective 3 and 4. [4]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwql_Sp0QG8

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrYe_4vHzgE

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcRAx-uwk40

[4] http://dl.eve-files.com/media/0904/Dark_Perspective_4_final....
I didn't see anything about them having their own servers, but they do mention you can use something like BitCasa or Carbonite along side Plug, which run about $5/month for unlimited backups.
> If you look at the way YC demo day works, its a pretty reasonable way for potential investors to find startups which are compatible with their investment goals. I think it addresses the challenge of the general solicitation rule...

Sure, YC demo day addresses this problem, but there are many startups out there who will never attend YC. And because these startups still need validation and a network, this has fueled an accelerator bubble as more and more accelerators throw open their doors.

I don't believe having all these accelerators is a good thing. Many are run by folks who have very little experience, and in some cases they offer little value other than a demo day stage.

So although I'm also unsure whether this rule change is good public policy, I do hope it helps pop the accelerator bubble and forces the remaining accelerators to focus more on building value and less on playing matchmaker.
I see potential in this. The Middle East is hungry. And this type of drive by the company is amazing
Here's another definition -- by continuation -- from Hug's Prelude (http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/AUTRIJUS/Language-Haskell-0.0...) :

newtype IO a = IO ((a -> IOResult) -> IOResult)

data IOResult
= Hugs_ExitWith Int
| Hugs_Catch IOResult (Exception -> IOResult) (Obj -> IOResult)
| Hugs_ForkThread IOResult IOResult
| Hugs_DeadThread
| Hugs_YieldThread IOResult
| Hugs_Return Obj
| Hugs_BlockThread (Obj -> IOResult) ((Obj -> IOResult) -> IOResult)
thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it. The video on the home page should be 2 mins. Are you referring to the text on kivo.com or on the blog post? thanks again
Those dangerous places are most likely over run by gangs making their bread on the black market. The solution is simple, but militarizing the police is easier.
socializing is important. it is vital to your health. obviously as with anything there's such a thing as too much, but as someone who has been missing work-life balance i can tell just how much i miss hanging out with friends, drinking beer and watching tv.
I'd like the re-iterate that "ban encryption" line -- do we really need to be listening in to packets on the wire? Better to capture before the wire at the web server, or after the wire in the browser.
derp. need coffee. didn't realize it was a blog post!
Hmm I think in the prefrecences you can set it up to only charge if billing is same as shipping and all other data matches.

Your as protected as you can be at that point.
I don't really Understand that shake to send thing.
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For those interested in the MOBA genre but looking for a friendlier community and a bit more casual, yet faster, gameplay, I can really recommend the 2d-platform version: Awesomenauts.
It is available for all three major platforms: Windows, OSX and Linux. It was part of a recent Humble Indie Bundle, so you might already have it.

It has been the first online game that I've really become hooked upon since my old days of playing Warcraft 3 custom maps.
So don't support HTTP 2.0 if it doesn't benefit you and your use case. It's that simple. In a world where HTML5 says browsers need to pretend to be Netscape Navigator when asked, you'll never lose HTTP 1.x no matter what happens. Never.
FWIW, that's the original Lean Startup model.

In fact, that's how the Four Hour Work Week or one of those books was written -- ads first, and when the ads converted, the book was then written.
Office already has features to track and merge different copies of documents together. Assuming you haven't disabled it, it also has (hidden) builtin versioning, allowing a git-like three-way merge with all the accuracy improvements that entails.

The larger problem is, of course, discovering that these features exist and training people to use them.
"You should be able to sync changes without worrying about permissions or storage locations."
seems to conflict a little with
"We know how important privacy is, ...so no one except you and your team can ever access your files, not even us."

It seems to me that they've replaced the step of 'save it in the right location' (skydrive, sharepoint, dropbox) with 'open it with the right program'. I don't see that as a benefit at all. You even lose the normal workflow of just opening a file by double clicking it.
Why I quit my job to become a developer
If you're not working at the TLS layer, then why make the request over HTTP 2.0? You can just ask for 1.1 instead. If it works for Google.com, it should work for you too, right?
Yea, the answer reminds me to the security issue with the Zamfoo cpanel plugin, when the developer promised to fix it in the next update but for some other reasons he couldn't release the update for weeks:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1275572 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5888036
Wait, what's your workflow here, that you find searching GM more fluent than searching all-of-Google? (I'm genuinely curious, hoping to improve my workflow).

Here's my approach: I type the address I want into Firefox's "awesomebar" (i.e. the URL bar). It loads Google, with a search result, with the top result being the address I want. I move my hand to the mouse, click for GM, it loads my search, and I continue using the mouse to navigate GM.

The alternative (afaik) is loading GM somehow (bookmark? type URL and hit enter? other?), waiting a surprisingly long time for GM to load, then typing the address, then hitting enter, THEN I can move my hand to the mouse and start the mouse-oriented navigation.. It seems to me it has inferior flow. AND it requires me to either allocate screen space to a GM bookmark, or else type "maps.g" every time. So that's extra work.

So although I don't think Google is "the internet"... I'm having trouble figuring out what workflow you're referring to that improves on my do-the-dumbest-thing approach.
10 DVDS hold 47GB. How much does that cost on Box?

And can you download 47GB faster than your mom can mail you a DVD?
A cool marketplace is Uber in a way.

A lot of service industries could be used in a marketplace scenario similar to Uber.
Sorry, we're probably not clear. You can still open your documents just by double clicking on them. If you and I were working on a deck and I stored the flie on dropbox and you on your desktop - we could both double click on the pptx files and they would open. Let me know if I've misunderstood you.
I think the reason I like telnet is because I control what is being sent down the line. It's not like telnet has any contextual knowledge of what I'm sending, so it can't do any translations on it; I get to choose exactly how the bytes get sent to the server. This means that telnet can be used for every text-based protocol out there (so long as it accepts \r\n line breaks), whereas your proposed http2net tool would be specifically for turning commands into bytes to be sent to HTTP 2.0 servers, and that response.
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They don't carry guns, but they still are wrapped up in shank-proof vests and bristling with a Batman belt of cuffs and batons and gadgets. And if there are such scary things as students protesting university fees, they'll happily get up in full riot gear, stomp people, and then kettle them. Don't mistake British police for nonviolent.
We're trying to make performing these actions simpler than they currently are. Would love any feedback or ideas.
Is it safe to unblock adverts on DDG as long as I block third party cookies?
ping me on zefi@kivo
1. Can you try temp and/or freelance work? That might at least start to build up your resume and get you into the work force.

2. Most people get jobs through personal connections, have you reached out to your personal network of friends and family?

3. It sounds to me like you're doing something wrong: Maybe it's not a bad investment to talk to a career counselor?
1. Try to focus on personal contacts.

2. Be willing to work in positions that are not obviously in the technical areas and paths you prefer. They could either lead to what you prefer, or they could change what you prefer.

Optional: consider doing something completely different than whatever you've been trying to do with a BS/EE. This to make some money, clear your head, and get you out of a possible rut.

Disclaimer: I did not use personal contacts on my first entry level job out of school, but most of my subsequent jobs have involved personal contacts.
Please email me. I would really like to talk to you about the burden you bear. tom at blendah.com

What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? Math 16:26
My car was stolen from the DC metro and was recovered by the PG county police. Trying to get my car back from them gave me the impression that the average PG county police department employee is barely literate and totally incompetent.
I disagree on HN not being work though...

More than once now I had a problem to solve and found the solution on HN's front page.