skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in 2000 it wasn't just about VCs. Big old companies put a lot of effort and manpower into new tech too. Those long established companies rolled back projects at the same time as the crash, funding was pulled from technology departments, and all technology people suffered due to the bust. I was out of work for 6 months and I was one of the lucky ones (had a cushion, hit the end of it, but found an amazing role).
Well, and Facebook Comments all over for a while now. Those are frequently as bad as Youtube comments, and (at least in my experience) Facebook is more real-name aggro than G+.
Of course, if you aren't replicating your business's production database, you have a whole world of problems.

Not really. In RDBMS you can have offline backups (assuming you aren't building for high availability). I don't know if that exists for MongoDB.

Even pre-auto-vacuuming Postgres (ie, before Postgres v8) would allow you to vacuum the database while online. You had a performance hit, but there was no need to switch to a backup server or anything.
Craft Coin is up 1000% today
I caved too, but I still don't understand what it is exactly I agreed to, and the system still isn't done with me. I keep getting popups forcing me to choose one thing or another. My eyes just glaze over and I randomly click something just so I can watch a video now.
I know, but not on Mt Gox or any of the western exchanges. BTCChina is not really relevant imho, since we can't go there and sell our bitcoins. Plus, their rate is usually completely out of sync with the other exchanges.
Haha, totes.

The mindset behind this job posting is quite similar to that behind unpaid internships.
Great show, but this is a bit of a stretch.
Into Math Oasis ?
Good point, my phrasing was poor.

What I meant to say is that the government rhetoric about freedom and American principles is convincing because it is based on actual enlightened thought which makes it all the easier for evil men and well-meaning busybodies and bureaucrats to utterly subvert these principles until they are nothing more than the empty political slogans and propaganda used by totalitarian regimes everywhere.
>That's why you don't see us caring about some new javascript framework or RoR or Azure, or any other "new" (and usually unproven) technology. We're too busy kicking ass and finding beauty in mature, established languages and frameworks that actually have all the features (and then some) of "newer" technologies.

Comments like these saying 'Oh you are a stupid hipster using node/ror whatever' are basically in the same spirit as 'Oh I'm cooler than you because I use this and that and you are using Java' just the other way round. Thanks for your childish negativity and adding to unneeded stereotypes in the tech community. If you are one of those 'wise' devs that use what is mature and stable and whatnot instead of chasing new trends you should be smart enough to preach that all technologies have their use case and people should use the best tool for the job etc etc… but hating is fun, isn't it.
If that's what they expect, then they should just say that. It's difficult to trust someone to have reasonable expectations when they just throw a bunch of buzz-words; that could mean anything from 'we basically want you to run the technical side of our entire company for us' through to 'we want a person who's not a total pain to work with'; at the wall.
I can't agree more. They're not going to find someone who can do 4 different jobs each as well as if they hired 4 people who were experts in their fields, but what people seem to be missing is the fact that hiring a jack of all trades is probably what they're aiming for.

I've been in positions where I was in charge of developing software, building servers from scratch (which was a ton of fun, since I got to play with tens of thousands of dollars worth of hardware that I wouldn't have otherwise), doing desktop support, creating a build/deploy/test strategy, planning projects, and on and on. I wasn't the best guy to be in charge of building servers, and I'm sure I got some things wrong (looking back, I definitely got some things wrong!), but it got the job done and was a hell of a learning experience. And it all worked. And the company made some decent money off it.

So as a fellow "Jack of All Trades Master of None", I say good luck to PA. :)
> The point is that what he is describing is based on solid current knowledge about psychopathy.

What? There is no "solid current knowledge about psychopathy." This is why the DSM is being abandoned, or have you not been keeping up with current events?

> The behaviour he is describing is congruent with current best scientific knowledge on the topic.

Well, that's certainly true. It's true because there's no science in this field. Prove this wrong -- point to a clear, testable psychological claim (a claim about the workings of the mind) that was falsified using empirical evidence, ever, anywhere.

> His behaviour and brain scan, whether true or just imagined, is not evidence to support anything and he isn't implying it is.

That would explain why he sincerely wondered whether he was a psychopath. You know, it's customary to read an article before offering learned views abut its content.

>> If we accepted modern psychology's basic premise -- that there is a normal behavior toward which we should all aspire [...]

> Just what on earth are you talking about?

Shall I quote from the vast psychological literature that tells us how many of us are sick and need therapy, or will you educate yourself? Shall I tell you the story of Asperger Syndrome, now abandoned for cause, that submitted any number of bright youngsters to pointless therapy before being laughed off the stage of public opinion?

Title: "Determining What Is Normal Behavior and What Is Not"

Link: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fighting-fear/201305/det...

There are ten thousand more where that came from.

> Please, stop the nonsense.

You have two choices: learn this topic, or stop posting your ignorant views in this public forum.
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Define correctly - most consumer routers will respond to a uPNP forwarding request from anywhere - what if that's a Java applet running on a compromised ad network?
General consensus seems to be that Ron&Shamir's publications on this topic are extraordinarily weak given how stellar a record Shamir, in particular, has.

The conclusion seems obvious: It's a misdirection. Adi Shamir is Satoshi Nakamoto.

(Note: No, I do not in fact believe this.)
Seconded. I've never gone to conferences though, but I've always felt I learn more via online sources and/or experience. I've been trying more Twitter recently, but honestly I think I'm giving more than I'm getting from it..
Macabre. Effective.

Perhaps should reset the headline counter each year, with prior-year counters (and all-time since launch) somewhere below for reference.
I seem to have been able to use it correctly. In fact, I ran a cluster for years in production without any issues. I know of several other groups that have used it successfully as well.

As far as I can tell, a lot of people assumed it worked like a SQL database. It doesn't, which disappointed them. I'll even admit that some of the original defaults like the write concerns didn't really make sense as defaults. But that was all in the introductory documentation. Major subsystems like databases deserve at least a skim of the documentation if not a full read; if not up front then at least before putting them into production.
What? The 4 deaths and 63 injuries? Over 6 years? Doesn't seem like it is something worth caring about, especially when participation is entirely optional.
I would just like to make it known that I am also not Satoshi.
Can you expand more on why the distributor has a 22 week delivery to stay in business? (Your third paragraph)
One of the consequences of a public transaction chain is the great potential for witch hunts. Here's one of the first examples, but it surely won't be the last.
I actually told international students here (who are really uninformed about black friday and the kind of mess it can be -- they have only heard about the great deals you can get) that they'd be best advised to just order stuff online because of things like this.
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you really had to post that here?

EDIT: I see the downvotes, but I still believe there are better ways to get the point across without having to create that block of text on HN.
Here is an excerpt from the citation provided for an incident in which 2 of the deaths were reported.

> The violence erupted on Black Friday, the traditional post-Thanksgiving start of the holiday shopping surge, but authorities indicated the shooting wasn't related to a shopping frenzy.

Anyway, 4+63 over a period of 7 years for the entire population, statistically the probability of getting killed/injured is almost 0. Do we even need such analysis?
Seems like best to stay away from Walmart.
Have to agree with that. A very ugly workaround is something like:
r.branch(r.table("users").getAll(email, {index: "email"}).isEmpty(), r.table("users").insert(user), {})
Even if it had LTE, it lacks CDMA voice.
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They didn't have to, Coca-Cola did a quick 180 and stopped making the health claims.
* Awesome plug-in for the greatest editor in our galaxy.

* Works awesomely well with UltiSnipts

but it's very old news... Why is it on the front-page????
He wasn't struggling but he left before getting his bonus so I don't know how much of his own capital he had to invest.
I think optional participation once you've been properly informed of the risks, however small is fine, but uninformed participation should be discouraged.
I am soooo going to plagiarize the crap out of that.

I have my doubts that it was ever the way you described it. But given these discussions are often rhetorical I don't think that detracts all that much from the concept.
> I think it depends on the size and how organized you are.

This is the argument, of course. If four people were hired for the various jobs, as the post advocates, there could be a reasonable rotation of on-call responsibility.

There are three technicians at my organization (2000 users) and we get interrupted on-call only once or twice a year.
AngelList is on path to disrupt LinkedIn in the tech industry and I love it.

(Not that I ever think AngelList will be so broad as to displace LinkedIn in other markets. But in terms of tech, it's clearly headed in that direction.)

I wonder if this is LinkedIn's future: being disrupted one industry at a time by smaller, more curated communities like AngelList.
Wikipedia has a somewhat more detailed summary for those interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)#Violenc...

Although, the site linked here does do a more rhetorically effective job.
It's been tough for me as well. I work for a newspaper and most of my time is spent here duck taping things together. I don't have much free time to work on side project and what little free time I do have I like to spend away from a computer.

I recently had an interview and was asked to show some of my previous work. Like you all I had were small project sites and any real work for me is sitting behind a firewall on server that is only accessed at work.

I had a phone interview then a face to face. Everything went well, but with out any real work to show I feel I was at a disadvantage. Good luck. Let me know what how it goes. Maybe your interview strategy can shed some light.
This sounds like a fairly typical case of an advisor giving a student free reign. Most professors do not invest the time to understand their students' work as much as you might think.
You immediately say 'no' but then admit that it was a state disability payment. So was it Federal SSI or some state program? From what I can tell here are the only states with those programs: California, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Hawaii.
I'm willing to bet that more people die in auto accidents getting to the store than have died at the store.
> Security and freedom are inversely proportional.

That would imply that the relationship is much more linear than reality. Particular measures have individual costs and benefits that are not necessarily closely related and some actions may cost privacy and may even be counterproductive. Sometimes adding freedom may add security e.g. not interning people without trial as that can drive support for terrorists and prevent suspicions being reported.
Good advice in general.
He's just encouraging discussion.
That's a positive thing, because it only grows trust between members of community.
Well that all depends on how long Yellen runs the QE 'infinity' program.

So long as money remains this cheap, the stock market will keep expanding until there's a necessary crash. Money is chasing risk, inflating assets accordingly.

The last few quarters have delivered the first indications, in my opinion, of a repeat of the excesses of the 1990s. The higher this stock market goes without fundamentals directly supporting it, the more frothy parts of the tech sector are likely to get.

Over 90% of the gains in the broad stock market the last two years have been from pure multiple expansion. Another year of this and it will be a full blown bubble across the board, and by that point what will Snapchat (or the next craze) be worth? $8 billion? $20 billion? The only thing left at that point will be a massive implosion on the other side.

Where are stocks like LinkedIn going from here? $50 billion (50 times sales)? Is Twitter worth $40 billion (70 times sales)? Is Tesla worth $30 billion? Is Netflix worth $35 billion? Is Amazon worth more than Walmart? Should Google have a 40 pe ratio, while growing earnings at 10-12%?

I say the party is nearly over, there's no upside left looking out several years that doesn't require a bubble.
> why would I read something that was written by someone who just admitted he knows almost nothing about it?

You are not the target market. Those posts exist for the same reason people create a Github account, but never contribute to open source projects. It shows exposure, and a history of interest, to interviewers who google you five minutes before the meeting. Everyone can argue the merits of different interview techniques and quality indicators, but, without a verifiable history of success, you have to start doing something to publicly show merit.
It's creator probably bought one.
> Please stop confusing psychology and psychiatry.

Please stop confusing psychology and science. A psychiatrist is a psychologist with a medical degree. Which part of this is in any way confusing? The reason for the special category "psychiatrist" in modern times (wasn't always true) is to allow drug prescribing, which is what psychiatrists now do (psychologists do most of the talk therapy).

> DSM isn't perfect, there is a lot to complain about theoretically and practically, but it was at least a working attempt at objectivity.

To aspire to objectivity, the DSM's editors would have had to allow evidence for causes of mental disturbances, not just effects (the DSM only lists symptoms, effects, not one cause is listed). But when given a chance to accept a cause-effect relationship, the editors rejected it, a story told in "Book of Woe" by therapist Gary Greenberg.

Imagine a medical text that only lists symptoms, not causes. Modern medicine would collapse. And modern psychiatry/psychology has collapsed.

According to the director of the NIMH and many others, psychology will be replaced by neuroscience, a field that will tie causes and effects. I hasten to add that neuroscience isn't ready for this burden yet, but it's not tainted in the way that psychology is.
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Teespring (YC W13) is Hiring
Teespring (W13) is hiring Ruby and Javascript developers to join our growing team. We have positions available in San Fran, Providence (Rhode Island) and Thailand.

We're going to try to keep this job listing informal and brief, so please shoot an email with any questions you might have to walker@teespring.com.

All positions come with a solid salary, options package and health insurance

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About us:
We're a rapidly growing, well-funded and profitable startup (shipping well over 150k items per month) working on reinventing ecommerce. We believe people are at their most productive when their work feels like a passion project - when they are excited to come in each morning, and we've built our culture around that core belief.

We have a San Francisco office with 10 (awesome) engineering and growth hacking folks, a Providence office with around 40 employees - primarily operations, customer loyalty, and sales (but we're open to hiring devs for that office), and we're opening an office in Thailand to focus on our Javascript development.

Our stack is Ruby on Rails with MySQL on the back! We also use a ton of JS for our design tool.

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About you:
Our ideal hire is someone who wants to make a large impact as part of a small, fast development team. Someone who is both talented and passionate about they are working on.

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We're currently hiring:

- Ruby Developers: We are looking for talented Ruby developers with at least a year of experience who want to join our awesome Ruby team and start making a big impact on our product. Ideal candidates will have a solid understanding of how to work on a team and maintain quality code that is test driven, sensible, and follows solid design principles. (Locations: Providence, SF)

- JS Developers: We will hire top of the line JS developers who have experience or interest in building complex object oriented JS applications. You will help us build our most advanced piece of technology, the t-shirt design tool. (Locations: SF, Bangkok)

- Systems / Dev Ops: People who know how to solve the hard problems, including issues with scaling, load, and servers. Experience with Ruby is a plus but not required.

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How to get in touch:
Contact our founder and CTO, Evan, at evan@teespring.com with a quick note and any info you want to provide (i.e., resume and github account).
That's actually a lot less than I was expecting.
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I think I like that.

Normally, I compress my pngs with gimp (by indexing them). That works fine, and as I do most of my screenshots as well with it, it is not too cumbersome. But it's not perfect either.

The results of tinypng are a bit better. In my tests the images are almost the same size, text becomes equally blurry, but the gradients are a bit better preserved and the colors less distorted.

With the Api, i can build a small tool which compresses the image for me without having to start gimp.

Like (beware, crappy code):

#!/bin/bash
API_KEY=""
wget -O "${1/.png/_tiny.png}" $(curl --user api:$API_KEY --data-binary @"$1" https://api.tinypng.com/shrink | JSON.sh | egrep '\["output","url"\]' | sed -e 's# [.*\]\t*##' -e 's#"##g')

I won't become a paying customer though, 500 is perfectly fine for me, and I still have gimp. But I can imagine professional CMS-systems (or wordpress setups) including this in their workflow to automatically compress the .pngs inserted by their authors, instead of having to find the best compression method on their own (and rely on the server setup).

PS: If that assumption turns out to be true, it could be worthwhile to build a wordpress plugin using the API to try to push that.
people who very nearly match this description exist. its not really the point though. i agree that this is an unrealistic ask.

its not uncommon to see in the games or entertainment industries in general... everyone wants in and so many are willing to work themselves to death for it.
That may be the only wave in SoCal today. But can I surf it? :)
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It looks really slick, and I'm considering switching over a go-backed JSON API to an Ember app I'm building to use it.

How's the performance? I'm a little afraid of the "reflection" boogeyman, but I don't have any experience to say what kind of impact we're talking about here.

I'm coming from Rails day-to-day, and a very light, compiled Go web backend is a refreshing change of pace. I'm leery of giving up the simplicity of net/http, but if it stays small maybe it's the way to go. Right now I'm popping in gorilla toolkit, though, so if martini is as "light touch" as that, I'd be up for using it.
First, comparing Penny Arcade to Reddit is laughable. Second, Penny Arcade doesn't even host their own forums[1].

[1] http://vanillaforums.com/
I am Satoshi. And also Spartacus
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I personally am not really sure that FB and Twitter will ever find a way to make huge profits and become sustainable large businesses but looking at the market it's clear that investors share this uncertainty.

That's not at all clear to me, could you share your reasoning? There are many large SV companies with very high valuations and negative or very low profits in comparison. Companies like Twitter and FB look to me to have a lot of future profit baked into their current valuation - around 100 years worth in the case of FB, and infinite years in the case of Twitter or many other tech stars like snapchat - that's not very realistic and is pretty frothy. Ordinary people are taking a leap of faith and investing in these companies without solid profits to back it up. I'm not persuaded we're in a very rational market right now, given the doldrums the US economy is experiencing, which is a sharp contrast to the new stock market highs we have recently seen.
Whoa, how about not putting words in my mouth, dude. I didn't say it was the same.
What about them? The GP was wondering about companies using the information to make hiring decisions. In order to do that, a company would need some kind of way of searching the data easily. If the only place it's available is on torrent sites and the like, then that would make it prohibitively difficult for most companies to use.

If someone takes all that data and turns it into a service, then that's something that can be taken down/regulated.
But for that to work you'd need a lot more restriction on signup and posting rules than currently exist, practically a closed, invitation only network. I'm not arguing that it's necessarily bad, I agree with you - the programming and technology content from professionals is why I'm here, it is unique. But there are a lot of people here who aren't startup founders, as an inevitable consequence of the site's popularity and the practically nonexistent bar on entry.
How the Goldieblox ad reinforces gender roles through a gender polarized ad
>My use of "your" idea doesn't exclude your use of that idea

It can and does exclude me from certain uses of that idea. For example, if my intended use of that idea involves profiting from selling a good/service incorporating that idea, but my target customers decide not to buy from me specifically because you are using that idea. Sure, I can still use the idea in many other ways, same as you can use your land for many other things even whilst my sheep are grazing on it, and what was your wood for other things even after if I've burnt it to ash, but your use of my idea has reduced its value to me. All property is monopoly rights over something, and yes, all forms of property rights can be abused; that in itself is not an argument for their elimination.
What do you meaning exactly? What was terrible?
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