skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When your ability to make money hand over fist starts to get challenged, it is difficult to continue giving people free reign, especially when your competitors focus on cost, cost, cost.

That kind of thinking sounds like it would lead to a "race to the bottom" to me. If everybody is obsessing over - and competing on - a quest to cut costs the most and the fastest, I really don't see how anybody is going to benefit from that in the long run.

Or to put it another way: "You can't cost cut your way to a growing company".

Of course, I'm not saying there's never a time when circumstances change and some cost-cutting might be called for. But cost-cutting is a tactic, IMO, and not a strategy. Innovation, on the other hand, and committing to the activities that lead to more and better innovation, is a strategy.

My feeling: If you want to grow, you have to innovate. So if you reasonably believe that "20% time" is an approach that leads to useful innovations, then cutting it is a short-sighted, and arguably mistake, move.
What does it do? Definitely not going to try it.
This is extremely disheartening to hear, especially because I remember when this story first received some media coverage (and grabbed front-page real estate on HN). I knew, even before clicking on the link, that Jennifer Hepler would be the subject of this story.

Ms. Hepler was a creative force behind some of the strongest writing in the first Dragon Age, a game whose derivative (though thoroughly enjoyable) gameplay was enhanced dramatically by the depth, wit, and personality of its setting and characters.

The sequel, while (IMO) justifiably criticized for its dumbed-down gameplay, nevertheless retained a lot of the brilliant writing and storycraft tha made its predecessor so enjoyable. (AFAIK, Jennifer Hepler had nothing to do with the gameplay changes; she was responsible for the writing).

The relentless stalking and cyberbullying of Ms. Hepler, one of the franchise's true stars, is a damned shame. It was a shame a year ago, simply because of its immaturity. It's a damned shame now, because of its consequences.

If any studios out there are looking for writers, please seek out Jennifer Hepler ASAP.
How to get a Google engineer
go fuck your girlfirend dude.. no one is stopping you. it doesn't matter if you don't keep your skills update.. let us be your boss and fuck you with lube.
thanks for the comment
This is my favorite political essay, ever. I've been a fan of it for ages, and re-read it often. Sure, it's not completely rational, but it raises the bar. If you can't answer the questions Bob Black raises, you really haven't thought through your beliefs well enough.
The time period depends on which state you live in.
So you have to like everything about a person in order to appreciate their art? I never realized this was a prerequisite, thanks for clearing that up.

You do realize that this ignorant, reactionary stance invalidates the work of practically everyone ever, yes?

EDIT: If you're going to downvote someone's comment please have the guts to make an argument.
Ask HN: Why can't I submit a job posting to the August 2013 job threads?
Why can't I submit a job posting to the August 2013 job threads?

Are they too old or just I don't have appropriate karma or permissions?

Threads in question:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6139927
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6139937
Well right now, their assets are definitely at risk, so there must be some fear there.

Peasants, the vast majority, to me, seem far too distracted with the machinations of the corporate state, which allow cover for ghosts to move within the machine…
It's funny, I made a comment on reddit a couple of weeks ago describing myself in almost the exact same way in a discussion about dealing with ADHD as an adult:

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1j0ml8/psychopaths_...
I've always found Qt's docs very usable: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.1/qtwidgets/qmainwindow.html

Also, although not an API, the diagrams in the SQLite docs are extremely helpful in structuring statements: http://www.sqlite.org/lang_createtable.html
surprisingly enough they send to my country (Cyprus) which is not even mainland and they don't send to Estonia which is supposed to be one of Europe's start-up centers
do Americans really say "penny-wise/pound-foolish"?

Absolutely.
I currently use Android version of the same ZTE phone. It definitely can't compare to the Galaxy Nexus that I used to have, but it works well enough.

I'm thinking of switching to the Open, but I wonder how hard it would be to get it to work on Straight Talk's network.
Yes, they can respond with 420. However, my browser does not have a predetermined response for that. Whereas if they respond with 200 or 302 or 404, all browsers know what to do; that's what it means to be a "standard".
Another project but with node/mongo included: https://github.com/angular-app/angular-app
In my personal experience, designers tend to wear more thick plastic "hipster" style glasses than the general public. Therefore, hipster glasses make you a better designer.

I'd submit that it's not about "more to lose", but rather, it's a move of safety. You see a lot of the same businesses operated by the same types of people. Why? Is that group of people in a caste system that requires them to operate that type of business? No. There's safety in numbers, and birds of a feather flock together (and may work to protect the hatchlings as well).

Perhaps VCs have found that there's a certain profile they like for a company. If I was founding a company and thought having an immigrant co-founder could make the funding process easier, you'd better believe it would affect my choices of co-founders. Are there also tax incentives? I know in Oklahoma, there's a ton of businesses "owned" by Native Americans, even though the company is usually run by someone else. Keep in mind that you only need one immigrant founder to make it an immigrant founded company. (What would the % be like if 100% were the requirement?) Is Barack Obama considered black or white?

If you look at the profiles of these companies, I think you'll find a lot of the good ole business practices in place. (tongue planted in cheek here) Immigrants? yes. American minorities? less so. Women? less so.

I'd love to see a breakdown of bootstrapped companies as well. I suspect it's a different story.
I'd rather say <x-calendar/> than <div><div><div></div></div></div>.
What would make this a more durable statement is if you could say "I don't have to get approval to take 20% time, and I work with a number of people on their 20% projects. And my calibration scores are the not different than when I don't use my 20% time."

There is a reason the article talked to many ex-googlers because they are ones who, perhaps, left when there was a difference of opinion about their contribution to the company. And if that conversation attempted to use some of their 20% projects as a way of contributing to their contribution, and that was the disagreement, well it ends up with them leaving.

I left in 2010, which was the start of the lurch toward more managers, and those managers were being scored on what their team accomplished that was assigned to the manager, not on what their team accomplished on their 20% time. Some managers had taken that to mean that 20% time didn't count at all toward calibration, and if you were working only 80% of the time on their projects it counted against calibration. Hence the disconnect. That is why "120%" sort of works, even in the face of a manager trying to make their own number. Except the benefit sounds different if you say "And on Saturday you can work on any project you want." :-)
I'm about to add it. For this, I had to register for an account, confirmed my email address, but I'm still waiting for the final account creation.
stripe docs
Relevant to your point, Rage Against the Machine had it right a while back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_-QGNUYL5g

"They load the clip in omnicolour
Said they pack the 9, they fire it at prime time"
Isn't that pretty much the M.O. of Angular?

Not that it makes it right or wrong, but this just seems like a different take on the same (or similar) concepts.
Since fractals are a passion with me, I intend to give this a try!
Finished Paypal checkout: "You sent a payment of 79.99 USD to Livinglife9012@yahoo.com"

wtf?
I think the problem is not the callback itself, but the nested inline callback.

In any case, I prefer futures.
I'm a Googler, and comments here from other Googlers are correct: 20% time still exists and requires no manager approval, but only a minority of engineers take advantage of it. For instance, in my team of 14, only 2 work on 20% projects.

I haven't been at Google long enough, but I doubt there was ever a time when a majority of engineers did 20% work. It's hard: you have to take away not only time, but also focus from your main project (which like all software is probably already taking longer to build than you'd like). Most engineers aren't motivated enough.
Interesting. I'm curious as to how and what you use vim for. I find it hard to believe that anyone would seriously do something like d + down arrow with dj available. All of those seconds (it takes me more than a second to go to the arrows then back to home row) add up over time.
Out of curiosity, are you running the latest FxOS build, etc.? I know Engadget has an article somewhere saying the lagginess improved a bit.

I ordered one in order to replace my feature phone. Although the phone doesn't crash nor would I call the UI feedback on pressing a button "laggy", it certainly isn't fast.
Seeing as Lavabit handled encryption and decryption server side, the order could have required them to retain messages after decryption. Or, less insidiously, just required them to retain messages they received prior to encrypting them. In both cases, they wouldn't have forced Lavabit to put in a backdoor, just keep what they had already. (though if they only stored decrypted emails in memory, that distinction is small).

Remember, Lavabit voluntarily complied with other court orders, so they likely have the technical means to comply with what the feds want.
The Step-by-Step Guide to Startup Customer Acquisition
Anyone else do a quick mental check about their own site?
What to do while waiting on my incorporation?
My lawyers are taking a bit long to file all the stuff...they're having issues with my company name and a couple other things. They're some of the best in the country, so I'm not worried. It's just that it's been over a 2 weeks of total inactivity on my end and I need stuff to work on.

Here's what I have at the moment:
1) A functioning MVP
2) A mailing list of <200 people that I've never even used.
3) Some companies I've been in touch with that expressed interest in my software.
FYI, my software can be used by both freelancers and companies in the design field.

I'm being told that I need to figure out what my customers are willing to pay (and if they are).
From talking to many of them, the answer has been positive but I guess until I have yet to see people buying, there's no proof.I'm waiting on getting my bank accounts set up and all the company paperwork so I can start using Stripe and finally getting around to following the advice I got about Twitter/FB ads, and together, trying to understand my market even better.

Is there anything else I can do in the meantime? I need something to do...it's killing me.
Admittedly, I've never done this before and pretty much everything I've done so far wasn't figured out properly the first time around. Scold me.
No. It claims these "consequences" are in some way negative, which is what I meant by "moan". In my view, every consequence mentioned is a good thing. It's a good thing people are not loyal to their employers. It's a good thing people want to change jobs regularly.
Simple Groovy script to keep overly used directories cleaned e.g. temp/downloads
A simple Groovy (uses Java 7 APIs) script to keep overly used directories always cleaned. Now, you don't have to clean your temp or downloads directories manually.

The content is moved to a special directory (README.md for more info) and can be searched through Spotlight Search (Mac) when needed.
I'm not sure what's going on here.
Yes. I would think that if this works, there could be other similar uses. If there are natural genes in plants that turn on vitamin production, why not engineer it?

It's a shame that they're destroying experiments. There are rational reasons to be concerned about GMO, but destroying tests doesn't help.
Show HN: Tor Search - A search engine for Tor
Agreed. Succinctly put.
>That is a snide comment that reveals much.

How so? It's not that popular a device.[0] If you work at Microsoft or have a significant interest in them not failing, you might want to divulge your bias here.

>That right there. That is spiteful. It's not Microsoft that they are restricting, it's Google users; the very people that use YouTube.

You're treating YouTube as if it's water. It's a business.

>A good check is to switch the protagonists around and ask yourself how you would react then.

If Microsoft cut off access to Bing from Android Phones (and if, for this example, if Bing was as ubiquitous and useful as Google Search) due to Google flagrantly violating ToS, I'd understand and be mad at Google for selling me a device and then fucking me over by locking me away from a good service through their posturing.

Microsoft is becoming less relevant, but they're still trying to act like the big bully of yesteryear.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system#Market_...
They do have automated filtering by IMEI for smartphone / dumbphone -- every handset line has a specific IMEI sequence and they update the filter when new phones are released fir AT&T. Your guess is as good as mine on how up to date those filters are for not-released-on-ATT phones.
Did that 20% time actually bring anything useful at Google, or it's just a myth?

IIRC, both Gmail and AdSense mentioned in the title didn't come to Google as 20% byproducts, but as acquisitions.

Does anyone know of any popular (by Google standards) product that started that way?
China stocks jump 6% in mystery spike
My first android phone had worse or similar specs, and it worked well enough.
Making a mobile app? Iterate with mobile web first
Okay, I finally found a way that gets us one more iteration. The exact next value is:

168668479408755201

Assuming your approximation "7 Quadrillion" means 7e15 (rather than 7e24 [1]), this is about 24 times as much.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrillion
It makes a function called :, which calls itself. More or less.
I don't know much about the target market, but I would try and get people passionate about promoting their favorite artists/songs to this site.

You could find forums for specific music categories (electronic, hip-hop, rap etc) and try driving traffic from there to leapfm by posting links to top songs from the category. You could also try and get them to upvote music of the specific category.

You can target Facebook fan pages of artists that have songs posted on leapfm. Try and get the fans to Share the link and upvote the artist on the site.
I guess I didn't have my act together enough as a teenager to commit fraud over the Internet while I slept.
As best I know I am, yes- I see relatively frequent "System Update" notifications and apply them whenever I get them.
i'd always hoped gen y were smart enough to not need to be told the obvious via leaks.

i applaud snowden for his courage, but the aftermath is completely the wrong thing to have happened. its a fantastic distraction from the /really/ important issues which otherwise might have gotten some more attention... :/
One link: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/
I really wouldn't call this a huge dealbreaker, given they're a budget MVNO. Now Tmo on the other hand has off-network roaming limits that are ridiculously small (like 35mb small) for the entire billing period...and given the scope of their network (read: nonexistent outside of big cities) you're pretty much boned if you live outside a big city.
I had some stock-watching extended family members flipping out about this one last night. ;)

It went up, it went down, by a huge amount in a matter of minutes. At first authorities apparently said it was natural, but now there's an investigation underway.

Crazy coincidence? Automated trading run amuck? Or hackery?
If you do it right, by the time you hit 40 you understand that programming doesn't actually move that fast. The superficialities are churning rapidly, but there's an underlying truths are quite stable. They are moving, too, but much more slowly.

For instance, take JS frameworks. On the one hand, they're churning so fast that nobody could possibly keep up with them all. On the other hand... they're all just shuffling the same basic primitives around in various combinations, and exploring spaces hardly any different than their desktop brethren 20 years in the past. There have been cases where I've successfully predicted the failure case of the latest JS wonderthingy just by listening to how it works. For instance, five minutes after I heard Node described I knew about Callback Hell, even though the term as such did not enter the lexicon for about another year and half. I could also tell you exactly what the proposed solutions were going to be, what their advantages and disadvantages would be, and almost completely called what order they would be tried in, because it was all just a recapitulation of experiences had in other communities. From the surface it looks like Node has been in wild churn, with more understanding it's merely a turn of the wheel of history.

As an example of the other side, DRY isn't going anywhere, and developing your DRY-vision is the work of a decade. (It goes way deeper than most people seem to realize.)
Nature vs. Nurture: Sales People
/r/all is the internet’s largest right-wing community, on any manner of subjects from race relations in America, to multiculturalism in Europe, to feminism and women’s rights anywhere. Last time I visited was around the Zimmerman verdict, and I couldn’t decide whether the conversation on reddit more closely resembled Free Republic or Stormfront—the major difference being that neither of those other right-wing communities can match redditors in their hatred and fear of women.
I believe they are commenting on the similar locations for all the various product marekting photos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_car
That's prime. Can someone figure out what's actually going on here? Prime numbers with that many digits shouldn't pop up by pure chance...

I'm sure you all caught this, but the first 3 in the sequence are also prime.
Maybe it's a play on words, referencing the internal dialogues he seems to have enjoyed holding.
Yeah, I never really got it either. Seemed "clever", and I usually try to avoid being too "clever" with code. Readability almost always wins.
Hi! I work on Brick. Yes, there are still rough edges on these components, and we're putting them out there in the hopes of getting feedback and bug reports- a traditional beta.
Why can’t email be secure?
I think it's highlighting all the marketing pieces that show people using their products in coffee shops. Like "Coffee shops" are the new trendy location. "Use our product, and be a cool coffee shop person."
I got the pitch forks, who has the torches?
“It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because… All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are." - Mark Cuban
>C# seems to have stagnated

TO me that seems to be a good thing. The language has picked up a lot of great features that make it nice to program in, but it is also making the language huge. How do all these new features interact? What are the emergent properties of the language? Personally I could use a few years to A) get legacy code caught up B) Explore what already exists.
See it in action here: http://youtu.be/MVw8N3hTfCI?t=56s
That's probably too far-stretched. In fact I believe conventional wisdom states the opposite, that those who get high scores in tests will likely be technical geniuses who understand how things work and do the hands-on stuffs, while those who manage are likely those who know how to talk but don't know how to study. MBA is more of a place to socialize, not to "study" things, right?
Show HN: resyted
Unfortunately, HN is a monopoly in its niche, I don't see a good alternative.
The title actually understates the situation; from what I have read so far, Martin committed suicide largely because he wanted to be able to leave this website for posterity.

There are secondary reasons also like not wanting to watch himself decline mentally, but his primary motivation for killing himself seems to be that he wants to leave this extensive and elaborate suicide note.

I think this is more of a commentary on end-of-life issues, the desire for a "legacy," and the mind of an extremely rational/analytical person, as opposed to depression or the things that usually motivate suicide.

"You will rarely get any details for why a person committed suicide, but that won't be the case with me! In fact, this may be the most detailed example of a suicide letter in history - something to be entered into the Guinness Book of Records! My hope is that it is."

EDIT: Sheesh, I even included weakening disclaimers: "from what I have read so far," and "seems." Hardly a "pronouncement." I welcome your contrary opinion but not the chastisement that comes with it. My comment certainly wasn't intending to judge or criticize this man, or call his concerns "illegitimate." I was meaning to say that his concerns are more associated with end-of-life (legacy, decline, etc); he specifically talks about how most of the "normal" reasons for committing suicide don't apply to him.
>It was far from clear that a six-months-pregnant, 37-year-old Google engineer and first-time CEO could remove the air of irony that had attached itself to Yahoo’s purple exclamation point.

I had to stop reading here. If anything, in my little segment of the world, the Yahoo! purchase of Tumblr made them more of a joke. By looking over the acquisition history for Y!, it's quite clear that they're quite skilled at buying hard to monetize, existing services, and reporting a loss.
>That does not make the open GPL versions any less "open source" or "open" in general.

We agree then on that, I think, but it has nothing to do with the API openness so I'm not going to pursue it.