skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Par for the course for IT/Sysadmin type jobs. "We expect you to build the hospital while running the emergency room and operating room." They are just being up front about it. There are a few areas where they glossed over it. I will translate:

"You need to have a crazy-person level of attention to detail" - We will judge you based on anything you've overlooked, rather than what you've done.

"A motivated self-starter who can overcome or workaround issues independently" - Don't bother telling us we are asking for something impossible, that's your problem.

"Flexibility to travel up to 30% of the time." - Not only should you be able to do four jobs, but you should be able to do them from an airplane/car/hotel room with permanent availability.

"Should have no problems working in a creative and potentially offensive environment." - Note this doesn't apply to you, only we will be insulting prima donnas. You will conform.

"Flexibility adapting to deadlines, changing schedules, priorities and unpredictable events in a fast paced environment." You should be able to meet deadlines that are assigned arbitrarily. You'll have no control over your own schedule, but you'll be expected to give highly detailed attention to whatever the project of the day is.

"It’s rarely we call on it, but if something breaks in the middle of the night, you are expected to be on call to address that issue 24/7." - We'll cheap out at every opportunity, buying shitty hardware and cheap services, because it's not us that has to fix it when it's 2am Christmas morning. If you keep shit running, then we were right to be cheap. If it fails, then you're a bad IT person. That you recommended a different option is irrelevant.

"we are not money-motivated group" - We aren't motivated to give you any money.

PA will surely find someone who meets their requirements and accepts their level of compensation. PA will be lucky to hang onto them for more than a year. Anyone who has accumulated all of the skills that this post requires, will also not stay in this position for longer than it takes to put it on their resume.
I have not updated my own docker in a long time, I use CoreOS now, which comes with automatic updating via chaos monkeys. It's always a pleasant surprise when I see my system is about to go down for a reboot, and trying to find what's changed when it comes back up!
Early startups such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter all very much relied on their employees' social and professional networks for their initial growth.
I would say that said applicant is very clearly wrong.

Sure, there are a lot of people out there who exaggerate on their resume, but this has nothing to do with the existence of people who actually do know things.
I think there might be a little bit of confusion/diffusion of the separation here. This page seems to be talking about terminal emulator and shell features:

"There is simple support for aliases. They can by using alias command like alias ls=ls --color $ They are pretty much just doskeys in file /config/aliases. One per line. And make sure to handle arguments by putting arguments variable $* somewhere."*

"Shell

Shift + Up : Traverse up in directory structure (lovely feature!)

End, Home, ctrl : Traversing text with as usual on Windows

Ctrl + r : History search"
So if I think I'm above average, I'm good?
مشاهدة مباراة برشلونة مباشر
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مشاهدة مباراة برشلونة اليوم - http://www.alhqeqa.com/?p=35661
مشاهدة مباراة برشلونة مباشر - http://www.alhqeqa.com/?p=35661
مشاهدة مباراة برشلونة اليوم - http://www.alhqeqa.com/?p=35661
The Arch Linux instructions are still wrong; they say that aufs3 is required but it isn't anymore. http://docs.docker.io/en/master/installation/archlinux/

Is the warning "This is a community contributed installation path. The only ‘official’ installation is using the Ubuntu installation path. This version may be out of date because it depends on some binaries to be updated and published." still true? Fedora also has this warning (and no instructions). The "Look for your favorite distro in our installation docs!" link does not give me up-to-date instructions for any of my favorite Linux distros. I can't even see where in that installation documentation it says how to install from source code on generic Linux. What am I missing? (Of course I can get the source code and build it, but I want the documentation to be great :-D)
I plan to implement this soon. Right now each country is chosen randomly. What I have in mind is to sort the countries by population and choose the first one randomly. Then, choose a second country that is random, but within a certain distance from the first one. i.e. within 10 or 20 spots on the list. Hopefully this will ensure closer match ups.
It is a problem in practice if you have any amount of load. You'll see latency quickly go up with lock times, which go up with concurrency.

Why bother, when you can use another db without this problem, right now?
This is an anecdote, not a great insight, so feel free to skip:

When I was starting a small theater company in NYC with some friends we raised money for our first off-off-broadway ("broadway", "off" & "off-off" are a definition of seating capacity, btw, not geography) show, we turned to friends and family for our funding. This was very much the norm when you were just starting out. Usually these were small amounts, aiming to raise maybe 5-7 thousand dollars total, often even less, all depending on location & run of the show.

Anyway, we raised a few thousand, put on a great show of original one acts from writers and directors in our own company and it was shockingly well received. In the end, we actually managed to turn a few thousand dollars profit, which was less typical. In the meetings we had afterward with what to do with the money, everyone but myself and one other partner were blatantly treating it like a lottery win. A completely unencumbered windfall with which we could just buy beer for a year if we wanted. It was infuriating.

For me, and the other partner (who both left the company due to these and related issues soon after) we felt that while we may not owe that money back to the family that supported us, we at least owed it to them to keep it rolling. Instead, we rented out office space on 42nd street for ~6 months and never did anything more than use it as a storage unit. Most expensive storage unit you could find in the city.

Finally, the time had come to put up our next show, a full-length new work by one of our best writers, and with absolutely 0 compunction 7 of the partners enthusiastically recommended we return to the friends and family well. There was nothing left of our profit and no one cared. After the first show we had enough to mount the second, had we just set it aside for that purpose.

That was my first real experience in small business and unfortunately I was too young and angry to properly learn those lessons at the time. Took me another 8 years to really comprehend what we had done.

Edit: Faulty memory, updated for accuracy.
Not wrong at all. He asked about LXC. Privilege restrictions are not part of LXC.
They don't mention time requirements. While I have independently done all those things mentioned, nobody can do them all at average joe 40 hour a week level combined without having absurd burnout quickly or dying from sleep deprivation.

And even then, you aren't working at average levels, you would be far below it due to overexertion.

You can't have one guy write the website, maintain the servers, support the office IT, act as tech support, and manage all the site databases. Not on something as big as PA, at least. Maybe on a site with 100k views a month, where the server is just an ECS2 instance and your office firewall is a dlink router with iptables.
To be honest, the "Card number" and "Security code" on the form struck me as a little weird.
This statement surprises me. I'll admit to being a little bit unstable perhaps, but when I look at people I know who have succeeded and don't need to work anymore, I struggle a lot with feelings of anger and rage.

The "story" we're told is: work hard and you will succeed. But these successful people aren't working. They're just rich. Isn't that the whole idea? Passive income?

But then I look and see, my labor is supporting their passive income. That makes me angry. Not out of some altruistic desire for equality, but out of jealousy. Why can't I be the one with the passive income?

Class structure has only a little to do with absolutes and a lot to do with relative comparisons. You could tell me that, worldwide, I'm the 1%. I have a place to sleep (heated), food to eat (cooked), and the safety of a policed city. Boom, that's more than most of the world will ever dream. But does that help? No, it doesn't. Because we always compare upwards. It's miserable. I'm miserable every day. I'm angry, I'm rageful, I'm scared. I'm a broken person.

I try to fix these things by focusing on amazingly lucky and well off I actually am in the global scheme, by focusing on how my Maslow needs actually are being met, by focusing on pride in my work and professional accomplishments, and by ignoring both the horrors below me in the world and the lavish luxury above me. But can I understand how someone could lash out, could become violent, at such perceived injustice? Absolutely I understand!
Which is the current fundamental problem with Google.

Wishing your crappy social network wasn't crappy doesn't mean I want to use it with YouTube (or at all). Instead of shoving it down my throat, why not make it usable?
Steel is cheaper, but unfavourable in modern vehicles, generally, due to its weight.
I really agree with you on the point that we are doing all those things. I am a fan of the http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/post-index/ blog.

What am I arguing for - that while we do consume more resources, progress is exponential as well. For example if we seriously begin to run out of fossil fuels, amount of effort that is put into other energy sources would increase by order of magnitude and solution will be found. It might not be right away, it might not be silver bullet, but when push comes to shove and there are no alternatives, human ingenuity is frightening.

In the end progress stacks multiplicatively - you add great battery technology to great energy generation technology and you got more than sum of the parts. So more people there are doing research - faster it goes.

This point is only true from certain point of view. Consider genius starting from nill, how far could he take technology within his lifetime? Electricity, probably. Microprocessors and genetics, probably not. Now consider million of people working, each discovery builds on an earlier one, each tool makes other people researching more efficient or enables them to make new discoveries. Now think about multiple generations of people building discoveries on top of each other while sharing information.
personally I don't think that it was an ex-employee was a problem. But I was at the meetup group in SF on Oct 8 where they demo'd upshot. From what I can gather, the only thing that was developed for the hackathon was making the web app, which already existed, work slightly better in a mobile browser. In the meetup I remember hearing that they had been working on upshot for something like 8 months at that point. So yeah, that's pretty jacked up.
Break your leg, don't claim insurance, and have your car break down, and lose your job.

Tell me about that safety net.
> Yes, but you see, that is a marketing claim, not a physical one. If it were true, Rossi would be sequestered with a team of crack lawyers attempting to secure patent protection for his breakthrough

As for patents on perpetual motion devices, the Patent Office is geared to reject claimed cold fusion patents that don't include a demonstration of a working device (of course, the reason for this is such claims have proven irreproducible, which impinges on the utility test for patentability.)
Strangely enough, while I disapproved of these changes in theory I've found them to be a fairly positive in practice.

I haven't found myself hounded by inane comments because I shared a YT video on G+, just a few extra +1 notifications from strangers. I don't notice any extra spam, but I'm watching stuff with thousands not millions of views. The comments I do see bubbling to the top aren't insightful, but they're generally civil.
It is tempting to go with this line of reasoning :-) Although the more salient point is getting a better handle on predicting the return on an investment. I'll admit that I've bought a third party accessory that I was "pretty sure" would work with something, only to find out that it would not, and then being unable to return the accessory. That really was money down the drain. My wife, being much more frugal than I, has pretty much trained me out of that habit. And of course it is especially dangerous in business.
Why the stupid say they're smart
I wonder were on the spectrum of eugenics this foundation belongs: http://www.jewishgeneticdiseases.org/
> otherwise this phone will be limited to 2G speeds on T-Mobile.

I'm not sure what your reading, perhaps it's been changed.

T-Mobile HSPA+ is fully supported on both bands on the US GSM Moto G phone, according to the spec sheet on their website at http://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/moto-g/Moto-G/moto-g-pd...

(It explicitly mentions PCS 1900 support, so AT&T HSPA+ and new T-Mobile HSPA+ works, and it explicitly mentions AWS 1700/(2100) support, so old T-Mobile HSPA+, Wind, Mobilicity, ect will also work)
I thought it was standard at startups to offer company stock in exchange for small salaries for the first set of employees. If so, those employees with stock have at least some upside for the risk.
Thanks for the feedback. I have to plans to make the match ups closer (explained in my other comment to rollo_tommasi), but I like the idea of scaling the difficulty based on the score.
Here's what interviewing will be like: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/04/06
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>t is all about people forgetting that MongoDB is a document database and not a relational one.

It's been a while since I looked into Mongo, but that was a Mongo marketing problem. They used to (still?) advertised themselves as a RDBMS replacement, literally.
Very well formulated.

I might want to add that since PHP is so available (it really is) - it's easy to throw functionality together get it "working" and try selling it - the buyers of course getting disappointed and thus hating PHP.

And that hiring a PHP developer with "experience" doesn't really mean much, so a hiring person/firm that is not entirely specific with requirements will get really angry and disappointed with the results.

This can be avoided quite easily by not being a cheap SOB (There's no such thing as 800$/month Sr dedicated developer), choosing a developer with proper references and actually planning the project before starting to work on it.
The page says it includes clink, which says on clink's project page: "Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe"
One true valuation of anything is only possible in a world populated by precisely identical people. I call that a fantasy, not "objective reality".
There's nothing wrong with that at all. d3 is a visualization library, and if you want common charts, there are many options available. Personally I'm into nvd3 these days for my chart needs.
Are you free to delete the Google apps? No, they're protected by the system. You have to be root to remove them.
Gordon and Freeman Steam Machines Pictured and Specs Revealed
Mongo doesn't really do that in a way you can reliably use in practice either, though. Its sharding offers a subset of operations over an inconsistent view of your dbs.

You can do that with Postgres trivially, and even automatically with postgres_fdw and writeable views.
Fair, I was referring more to sales at startups, which is what I would guess most people here are focused on.
How The Heck Did This Kid Create The Largest YouTube Music Network?
From the Wikipedia link:

"Although test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd."
Being up front about your unethical behavior just makes you more culpable, because not only _should_ you know better, you do in fact know better but will proceed anyhow.
In Silicon Valley, Partying Like It’s 1999 Again
I actually made $500 by buying a domain without a prototype. Back in college I started working on a personal project I decided to call "Silicon Brain". As soon as I had my first 5 lines of JavaScript I bought the domain name "sibrain.com". Fast forward a few months... I've lost interest in the project. Someone contacts me looking to buy the domain, I accept, payment is made within a week, and I am $500 richer.

[EDIT: Thanks joelrunyon for the cached copy.]

I'd like to make a counterargument: that if you think of a domain name that's relatively pronouncable and not extremely limited in scope (e.g. "joes-art-supply.com" would be pretty specific, but "joeworld.com" doesn't limit you as much) nab it. Granted, you don't want to be doing this every day, but remember, "google" was once a nonsense word (okay, it was a misspelling of a number that was rarely used outside of certain contexts).
Moto G Review: Motorola Bridges The Gap Between Cheap And Good In Smartphones
TL;DR: “If an article has more comments than votes, don’t add your comment to it or you may kill it off entirely!”

Rings true to me and, if indeed accurate, it seems like a good practice for HN.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea that there's a world out there where you can just casually hit up Grammaw and Uncle Barry for twenty grand apiece.

It doesn't really favor the notion that the startup world is an egalitarian meritocracy.
Who cares? Is he wrong?
Salesforce to do 'full review' of hackathon after controversy, Benioff says
I'm one of the creators and I can tell you we don't know either. We're a web development agency and this is a side project that got more popular than we imagined. After we launched we got a massive amount of requests for licenses or API subscriptions, so we decided to give it a go and see if we can at least cover the costs.
It's "excellent code," not "self-perceived excellent code" or "good code."
Don't.

Having used it on what is supposed to be its perfect use case, I think it's a terrible product. Use anything else you like the look of.
> Person (previously "Man") of the year has never been a moral judgment. Hitler was "man of the year" in 1936.

Well, originally. But now? No, absolutely not. See recent persons of the year (of the past few decades): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year#Persons...

There's a connotation of greatness in the phrase 'person of the year', that's there whether you like it or not, and Time magazine is certainly not going to get itself in rough waters by nominating a controversial figure and then substantiating a pick by the reason you cite -- that it's a person who had the most impact. If that really were true, Guiliani wouldn't have been picked as the POY, Osama would have, Zuck wouldn't have been picked, Assange would have.

But all of this aside, what I want to say most is that Time magazine is just a terrible tabloid at this point that's only been getting more terrible with each passing year. It's designed to appeal to the LCD audience, it's filled with FUD full up their necks. See this recent cover for example: http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2013/1310/360_cover_1111.j...

I really hope we all start ignoring Time soon.
What Crowdfunders Can Learn From Friendfunding and Change Heroes
There's a cool not-for-profit startup called Change Heroes. It's trying to do crowdfunding in a new way. I talked to them, and we wrote about them here. Feel free to ask me anything or make suggestions on how the post can be better.
The idea of doing a bunch of different kinds of data is a bit spooky. It's really hard to have the best data in the world in just a single vertical.
can you please explain the ways in which G+ is not usable? while it's got less users than FB, it's afaik generally perceived as far more user friendly, well designed, and feature-ful
This is exactly it. When Moot won it was heavily talked about how Time wasn't going to actually choose him over Obama or whoever it was. I think there was enough backlash and fear of pissing off Anonymous that they actually stuck to that one. Here's to hoping they stick to what the people voted for with no hesitation this time. but who knows, maybe they'll be forced under gag order into not using Snowden because it will honor him instead of marking him as the most evil person ever.
I really scoff at the notion that any sort of white collar programming job is exploitative. I know there is some controversy over interns in some industries (not tech), Wal-Mart workers, overseas child slaves, and other real problems in the workforce. But to call out Penny Arcade for what amounts to a very honest job listing, for one of the most high-paying jobs in the country and the world, is just absurd.

So what if the blogpost describes a myth, and they'll settle for someone who does a bit of each? That's not a crime, that's a strategy.
What Every Hardware Startup Should Know About the Electronic Component Landscape
it have been post this morning !
I turned down friends who wanted to join our raise at Goalee for this exact reason. That, and I wasn't convinced that they were fully aware that you only invest in a small start-up what you can afford to lose. They guy was getting a doctorate in piano performance, and I didn't get the sense that they had a lot of extra in their lives (especially considering their three kids).

Best decision I ever made.
"White House Says It Will Respond to 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition" - http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/11/25/white-house-s...
Goldee: A Hue Compatible Smart Light Switch
Hakyll (http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/) ist pretty sweet if you know Haskell.
That smelled like a sales letter.
>they may be demotivated from reaching their potential.

Surely you don't think the potential of these highly productive programmers is to spend their days doing general IT, working on call 24/7, and being compensated with below market salary and benefits?
I guess I was right, it wasn't hyperbole, you actually believe it. At any rate: http://www.ssa.gov/disability/

I'm sure the reply will be that that isn't enough, so at least then we'll just be back to it being righteous hyperbole.
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Because you can see the code does not mean you have the right to distribute it. With your argument you mean it is ok to record music from some music service and post this wherever you like just because it is possible?

Ability to do something does not mean it is ok to do it.
Salesforce also owns Heroku.
Absurd Arguments are Useful
For updating data, the simplest (not most elegant) way to do it would be to just re-render the whole thing on data change

You are right that it is the simplest way to deal with updating data. But one of the nice parts of D3 is the built in transitions. They make for some eye-popping real-time visualizations!
Yes, pngquant is awesome. TinyPNG uses it internally and combines it with other, lossless optimizations. We built TinyPNG for ease of use (no configuration, no settings to mess around with) and to reach a wider audience. Definitely use the tools you're most comfortable with!
Nice idea. But maybe you should do this with webp.
To clarify: My point was that the height of a bubble (like 2001) is not a good baseline for employment statistics. If the number of employees in the tech sector were lower than in, say, 1995, that would be more meaningful.

My comment regarding "html..." was tangential.