skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Born in the UK, now living in FL, but don't think I want to stay here for the rest of my life.
I agree, physical and verbal violence should not be equated. But not because verbal violence is clearly less damaging than physical violence. It's complicated, and subjective and different for everyone.

I'm totally against _any_ type of violence. But I've met and studied enough people who carry around a lifetime of mental illnesses caused verbal violence (esp. at a young age) to be able to say that one is worse than the other.
Wasn't the "all the wood behind one arrow" motto famous for heralding the decline of Sun Microsystems?
Works for me in chrome as well.
The BlueHat Crypto/Exploit Challenge
Bought one. For $80 and apps built on web technologies, there's got to be SOMETHING I can do with this thing...
Oddly enough in Chrome Stable the front face is not visible. Combined with the browser-crashing calendar demo it's got some way to go.
Few people remember it, but the same thing happened at HP. It used to be that HP engineers were expressly given Friday afternoons and full access to company resources to just play with new ideas. Among other things, this led to HP owning the printer market.

Then "professional" management came in and killed the proverbial goose. They had to focus more on the "bottom line". To do what was easy to measure and track, rather than what was necessary for the next step of the company, and now HP is a mere shadow of its former glory -- directionless and bleeding.

3M and Corning have largely avoided this fate, but it seems that Google won't. This should make a lot of entrepreneurs happy, as there will continue to be a lot of top-down management-driven products that, if history shows, will continue to be market failures. Yet somehow, I'm incredibly sad, as it seems that too many companies go down this road.
> Nonetheless the tradition allowing self-directed research continues at 3M - and this might mean using lab resources, or creating prototypes without getting approval.

And get hours paid for it, even it being extra hours you wouldn't do other way.
It's not as if Google never would have thought to make a web-based mail if someone didn't do it in their 20% time...
Depends on what sort of grip you have on your world. I'd suggest it, but only if you've already crossed the line into Needles anyway: once you have gone there, if you take drugs recreationally at all, you will start doing it with everything.

So, no, not really worth it, unless you're willing to make that choice.
We launched https://starthq.com, not sure if it qualifies as large though as its currently at 2KLOC of JS for the front end code.
It appears that most of these entrepreneurs are documented immigrants, which may be an argument in favor of keeping the current US immigration system. However, it's important to keep a few things in mind:

a) Some of these entrepreneurs were able to stay in the US because they got married to an American citizen (that's my case, BTW).

b) Many would-be-entrepreneurs that tried to migrate to the US end up setting shops somewhere else because they couldn't stay legally.

c) Most entrepreneurs that are undocumented immigrants in the US (I know many that own small businesses) have major issues scaling their businesses and won't ever show up in articles like that one. For example: its extremely difficult for them to get credit lines. Additionally, they won't ever talk to the press because they are afraid, and legitimately so, of becoming a deportation target.

The current immigration system in the US is broken. Ignorance and political-driven xenophobia are not helping. I really wonder how long it will take for most Americans to realize that although it used to be a privilege to migrate to the US, the global dynamics have shifted. It's now a privilege for the US the welcome many immigrants, specially technology and entrepreneurship-oriented ones. Many other countries already figured that out and have adapted their laws.
The parent comment isn't relevant to me
Hope or Hype: Is Responsive Design Important?
If it bridges the gap until you can get the donation stream idea up and running I'll wing you $50 to keep things running this month.

Don't like the idea of something that so many rely on just dropping off the radar like that! I am not a user of the service myself though.
Vote to see the Go Circuit at OpenStack Summit 2013 in Hong Kong
Oracle is what it is, but your initial assertion is a matter of taste.
I'd be more worried about hiring the next great engineer and continuing to grow. I imagine this was a huge draw for potential new recruits who might now look elsewhere. Existing employees usually have a lot of other reasons for inertia and therefore not leaving (comp and all the other perks)
I don't even bother swapping CapsLock and Control; I just make them both Control. This is one of the first things I do on a new computer.

CapsLock has no reason to exist in this day. It was useful in the 50s, 60s and 70s, but not now.

The Microsoft Natural keyboards used to be pretty good, but every model from the 4000 on have had "mushy" keys which are really hard for me to type on. (MS just released a new model, and . . . I'm not holding my breath). MS keyboards are dead to me. If they made an "ergo" keyboard with decent key feel I'd buy about five of 'em.
Failure is a prerequisite for success, though. As long as those failures were inspected, digested, and understood, then the company gained more in terms of training than they lost in operational costs.
No. Portugal -> Ireland.
I spent about a week downloading perhaps 7 CDs for Woody (I guess it would have been 2002). I'm fairly sure I never actually installed packages from most of the CDs.
Do a pizza startup? :)
There was a recent episode of the podcast Back to Work that mentioned this very thing:

http://5by5.tv/b2w/120

At around 42:00-56:00, (I made a note because I liked it so much), they start talking about safety nets and how we think about events changing our behavior. Merlin made the point that if you're not practicing enjoying your weekends now, having a lot of money can give you a more expensive weekend, but not necessarily a more enjoyable one. A more productive strategy is to rehearse how to be happy with what you have, not what it would be like if you didn't have to worry about anything (because that's probably never going to happen).
No. US -> Paraguay.

I'm still surprised how much happier I am in Paraguay, even though I'm a programmer who loves efficient systems, rules, and well-defined processes - and none of those describe my new home country.
Negative indicator, potential dissident miscreant in NSA ranks. Anyhow, they are more likely to store url history than parse comments.
In all fairness 18 months ago the perception of Google is it was doing a LOT of things but none of them very well. Embarrassing attempts at social networks (wave, err, that other one I'm forgetting) is just one example. So narrowing their focus (still) seems like a good idea. But having great engineers is the most important thing for any success so not sure why you'd take away a mystical founding pillar of your culture.
I love it, thanks for sharing. Where did you get the original data from? (I thought chargemasters were relatively guarded secrets?)
20% time isn't dead -- I have been using it at Google consistently for over 7 years, and it has immensely benefited me. You don't need any permission, at least in engineering.

However, I would agree that it is "as good as dead". What killed 20% time? Stack ranking.

Google's perf management is basically an elaborate game where using 20% time is a losing move. In my time there, this has become markedly more the case. I have done many engineering/coding 20% projects and other non-engineering projects, with probably 20-40% producing "real" results (which over 7 years I think has been more than worth it for the company). But these projects are generally not rewarded. Part of the problem is that you actually need 40% time now at Google -- 20% to do stuff, then 20% to tell everyone what you did (sell it).

I am a bit disappointed that relatively few of my peers will consciously make the tradeoff of accepting a slower promotion rate in return for learning new things. Promotion optimizes for depth and not breadth. Breadth -- connecting disparate ideas -- is almost invariably what's needed for groundbreaking innovation.
I did once in an Atlanta July have the sensation that my visual field was starting to narrow. I stopped running at once, and walked back through as much shade as I could find to my friend's apartment, which was air conditioned to a very cool temperature

Generally I handle heat fairly well, though my face will get bright red when exercising in it. I know plenty of people who don't care for heat, but the symptoms tend to run toward general discomfort, maybe nausea.
Much of Angular's power comes from its declarative syntax. Much of the time, you set down what you want to happen, and not how.

The problem is, it's not always obvious what "the Angular way" is, but on the plus side, I've just thought of a title for a series of blog posts...
Not every film protagonist is there as a positive role model. Especially not in every his aspect. It would be more than boring. Pragmatically, often are the "bad guys" even more attractive for the film that wants to have more viewers. The producers want to push the viewers' emotions.

I'm claiming again: even Jobs' bad sides are very thankful for films! Hey, we're talking about the guy who drove without the license plates and parked at the parking areas for those with disabilities. Absolutely perfect for a movie.
iPod came out in 2001, the iTunes Music Store was opened in 2003, iPad was released in 2010. I would also add iMac (1998) and WebKit (2003) to the list, as they too have had quite an impact on the market overall.
What carriers does it support in the US?
I figured, but three is a just such a nice number for lists :-) .
Yeah, it really gets interesting if you compare his recent press conferences on the matter against what his speeches sounded like in 2007; here's an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix4sy25wF-E
Because most people are obsessed with the popular kids at high school. Which I will wager you didn't understand either, or you wouldn't be commenting on HN :)
It boggles my mind, given the big money involved, why so many people continue to bet huge sums of cash on the proven short-term penny-wise/pound-foolish idiocy of MBA-think.

I mean sure-- if your company is under cash flow pressure you have to pinch pennies. You have no choice. Spreadsheet says so, and spreadsheet's the boss. But if you're not, you should be investing and thinking long term cause the other guys probably aren't.

I've seen a related phenomenon in the startup world. Watched it, front row seat. I did a stint in startup-tech-focused business consulting. If you have a top-ten MBA and connections you can raise millions of dollars, set fire to it like the Joker in Batman Begins, and then raise millions of dollars again, serially.

They were basically cargo cultists, mindlessly imitating the words, phrases, and superficial behaviors of supposedly-successful people and businesses. But there was no higher-order conceptual thinking beneath the surface-- no "there" there. They had no plan and no plan on how to acquire a plan. They got the money and then did a kind of mindless MBA rain dance until the money was gone. Then they'd raise more.

I watched them do shit like destroy products that big customers had money in hand ready to pay for when they were inches away from release. I mean a done product, ready to go, and better than anything else in its market. A product that they owned and had already paid to develop. The rationale was always some kind of MBA newspeak blather. I can't even remember it since my mind filters out sounds that imitate language but lack conceptual content. Otherwise I risk wasting a synapse.

But what do I know? I went to a po-dunk Midwestern state school, so what looks obviously stupid to me is maybe genius. I'm not saying I definitely could have done better, but I do think my probability of failure would have been <= to theirs. But there is no way in hell I could get what they got. Not a chance. I saw people try with better credentials than me and who were probably much smarter, but they lacked whatever special magic blessing the cargo cult guys had.

I'm convinced its pure cronyism and ass-covering. I guess nobody ever got fired for losing their clients' money to a Harvard or MIT Sloan MBA. Nobody with a degree like that could be at fault. It has to be the employees (I've seen really good people get blamed for following stupid orders several times), bad market timing, etc.
Maybe you could make a phone call to someone.
But then what's stopping Google from just turning around and buying their startup if it looks promising?
IIRC most of the x86 packages were on disc 1 and 3. I don't think I've ever touched the rest.
I really like it, however the demo makes me wanna pee a little bit ;)
More like shadowy Western intel group attacks outbrain, blames shadowy Middle Eastern group.
Way to hijack the thread with anti-Google propaganda ...
Leaking is also the future of investigative journalism. Investigative journalism already relies heavily on leaking, but I'm talking about "user-generated" leaking or Leaking 2.0 (as in Web 2.0).

Even if the print media dies, and it's harder to do investigative journalism at the national level, and even more so at the local level, leaking by normal people will take its place.

There's one caveat, though. We also need a system where it's easy to do it anonymously, so you don't face the repercussions from the powerful, and/or we need stronger laws to protect leaking of wrong behavior (whether "legal" or not).
Thanks for this, I just added a rule to block that in my AdBlock on FF.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14314213/no-thanks.jpg

"access your data on all websites"
"access your tabs and browsing activity"

NO THANK YOU!
Clearly I need to restart my browser more often....But it works fine in both 25.0a1 (2013-07-26) and the latest Nightly under OSX 10.8 and 10.9
For Firefox users, made even smoother with: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/bloody-viking...
"Google’s “20% time,” which allows employees to take one day a week to work on side projects, effectively no longer exists. That’s according to former Google employees, one who spoke to Quartz on the condition of anonymity and others who have said it publicly.

What happened to the company’s most famous and most imitated perk? For many employees, it has become too difficult to take time off from their day jobs to work on independent projects.

This is a strategic shift for Google that has implications for how the company stays competitive, yet there has never been an official acknowledgement by Google management that the policy is moribund. Google didn’t respond to a request for comment from Quartz."

What I've heard is more nuanced: the policy is not dead, but it's very hard to both satisfy the core demands of your job and maintain 20% time. So it's not dead, but possibly not an actual priority in the culture the way it used to be..?
I hope other organizations related to free software follow this route. Where is GNU Mobile? Debian Mobile? FreeBSD Mobile? etc, etc.

In six days ends the Ubuntu Edge "fundraising" but I don't think this is the way to go. If few people like Linus Torvalds ignited a revolution why the same is not happening on the mobile space with less than $ 32mm? Even starting without big expectations about the market penetration because probably in a few years we will buy generic mobile phones in the same way that we buy PCs today.

I think the priority is to have a good native UI there. We already have a lot of OSes to choose from.
Defending iOS with cheap iPhones
So THAT’s how the Hyperloop goes so fast
And, for the sake of accuracy, the proper bash syntax would be:

while true; do sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl start; break; done;
Looks like you missed the following line in the article

> Angular.js is built from the ground up with testing in mind. In our opinion this makes Angular different from all other frameworks out there. It is the reason we chose it.
[I saw it back at Sundance.]

The critics are pretty harsh on it, but if you're at all interested in the subject matter, it's definitely worth seeing. I thought it was flawed but interesting.
CEUs required for licensure are not nearly the same as what the OP or GP are talking about. For Texas:

- Medical professionals require 48 hours of continuing education per two years, of which 24 may be informal self study or hospital lectures
- Legal professionals require 15 hours of continuing education per year
- Professional engineers require 17 hours of continuing education per year

CEUs are obtained either through classroom instruction or attendance at recognized conferences or seminars. This is not the same as doing your day job after hours for fun or because you feel you must in order to actually get a new job. It certainly does not keep your skills sharp.

Doctors, lawyers, and PEs also have professional societies and often employers to facilitate obtaining CEUs in the most efficient manner.
They did make a Richard Feynman biopic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_(film)
The government has a very effective methodology for protecting things it deems important.

Congress got a little feisty about these programs, and for a week we started hearing about "chatter" that was threatening US embassies. We closed embassies and said scary things. Then we bombed some Al Queda in the Arabian Peninsula folks in Yemen. The next day, with much less fanfare, it was reported that it wasn't "chatter" (which implies stuff from the NSA monitoring), but a specific warning from an official in the government of Yemen.

These sorts of things are very effective at controlling Congress, especially House members. Nobody wants to be the Congressman who pushed to shutdown programs that thwart terrorists. At the end of the day, what you think doesn't matter. It's what your Congressional representatives think -- and the ability of the administration to manipulate the general public's sense of fear makes it difficult to dismantle these programs.
Debian was my first linux distribution. It took me perhaps a week to download the 7 CDs for Woody (I don't think many of them ever actually got used). I was only 12 and really didn't have a clue what I was doing. My main memories are probably more of frustration than enlightenment... However, as the basis of Knoppix (the first linux distribution that I had much success with) it was a huge pillar in my (and no doubt many others') Linux education. The work put in by the maintainers has had a fantastic knock on effect and provides the basis for so much of the internet infrastructure. It's a brilliant project!
>Its not clear that they have "won", in an endgame sense.

We'll see after the next election. If a whole bunch of incumbent security hawks and war hawks aren't unseated by civil libertarians, then we're probably out of chances.
Show HN: We got annoyed by our cat, so we made a site about it
No. USA -> NL (Netherlands)
Note that these aren't bash things. They're the emacs bindings for readline, so they work with anything that uses readline (like the mysql client).

You can set them to the vi ones instead with:

set -o vi

..and they do work with screen ;-) (0 for start, $ for end)
Where Disengagement at Work Is Worse Than Joblessness
The same reason why a VC fund will invest in 10 startups knowing that 9 will have to be closed down as failures. 20% time meant that Google was continually making those bets in various areas, knowing that most will fail but that a few will succeed in a big way.

They now seem to think that their management has obtained good enough crystal balls to be able to determine beforehand which of the potential products will succeed and which will fail. Meaning that they can scrap the 20% time and put all their "wood behind the few arrows" they have determined will succeed (you know, like Google+).
.au -> .uk. Like many Australians, I'm in London for fortune and glory, and have had some excellent opportunities working for American companies that wouldn't have had significant/any presence in Australia but do in the UK.

I do like English culture, but I'll probably move to the US at some point to start my own thing (Australians get magical US visas because our government helped invade Iraq).
None, failures tend to be abandoned early in most cases.

Besides if you care about failure then you don't belong in the tech industry.
I am from Brazil.

Extremely violence ridden, I had guns pointed at me in more than once instance, and I witnessed firefights from my bedroom more than once too, in different cities (one firefight was even in a expensive "safe" neighbourhood, what happened is that a dumb guy tried to steal the car of a celebrity private security)

Also, really bad environment to do business, we frequently get scored very low on "ease to do business" index, there is excessive bureaucracy, rules that change randomly (on average the country enacts 18 new laws per day, most of them related to taxes, subsidies, and so on...), excessive corruption...

Also the average brazillian is usually very, very treacherous, people are always warm up front, but quick to stab you in the back, this particular reason is one that I want to change my citizenship (I don't think the average brazillian deserves my life to defend them in case a war happen)

And there are also a mass of other problems summed (for example, trying to homeschool your children here is a felony, jail and all included, also the Gini coefficient is severely absurd, the top 0.1% get more money than their peers in many other developed countries, while the top 5% get less than US minimum wage, probably thanks to banks charging 70%/yr of interest, and credit card companies charging 250%/yr, making finance be wildly profitable, and anything else not so much)
You couldn't scrolled down a few inches to see:

Support US 3G NETWORK
2G NETWORK:GSM 850/900/1800/1900
3G NETWORK:UMTS 850/1900

Which is any GSM carrier and, depending on your area, 3G from ATT and Tmo or just ATT + all the MVNO's, US Cellular and other smaller regionals that lease from ATT
I'm positively sure that they did. The sad thing is that they still thought that it was worth doing. To me, that says a lot about where Google's priorities are today.
Anywhere I've worked that says they do it ends up being more like 100% bottom line and the extra 20% is expected to happen as extra hours. I work on those "extra" projects during regular hours anyway. If I don't get to practice my creativity, programming turns into a drag and I get less done. Most of the time they happily deploy the extra stuff I make and I've never been reprimanded for it even when the extra work was a miss.
Some time ago the HN hivemind went through a period of blind Node.js love. Now it's going through blind Go love.

Regardless of what you think of either language, "rewrite in X" is not a magic incantation that will spontaneously solve all your architectural issues. Designing a good architecture involves balancing many components, of which your primary implementation language is an important, but not exclusive, element. There are also the organisational issues -- hiring, spending time not adding new features, etc.
Wired can’t find women on the Internet because it’s not looking for them
I'm us -> cn -> us -> ch -> cn myself. Someday I'll do a -> us, but I've been saying that for a few years now.
You're quoting such wordings as "effectively no longer exists" and "as good as dead", not "no longer exists" and "is dead".

The article seems to be pretty nuanced already.
Why is this anti Google propaganda? I can't see a single point that is not reasonable enough on its own merit, and none of them applies to Google alone, but to all search engine providers.
Who, who, and who?
Agreed, that's why we're using fibers and common-node (https://github.com/olegp/common-node) at https://starthq.com
The absolutely relevant Dilbert strip:

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-12-19/