skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's got less users than FB.

It's like a cellphone that you cant call anyone with. No one really cares if it's 1000 times easier to use if you can't call your friends.

They took something benign but useless and made it non-consensual. Google+ is now the equivalent of all the cable channels you didn't want but your cable co made you buy anyway.

I was an early adopter of G+ because I didn't like the heavy handed BS from FB. I still begrudgingly use FB because alot of my friends are on it.
I don't think the author describes Khoo as a villain, just as someone who is very "money-motivated" despite explicitly saying otherwise. Yes, it's subjective to say "the cachet of working at Penny Arcade doesn't outweigh the negatives of this job, and the fact that the posting tells you up front that it's a shit job doesn't change that," but the author certainly makes a good case as to why he believes that. Is it conjecture to say that Khoo wants to pay under market rate for one job that should really be done by more than one person at market rate? Well, if you believe the job listing that Khoo wrote, not really. That's pretty much how he described the job, and that's a perfectly reasonable inference from it.

Also, I don't see an actual ad hominem attack in here. Buecheler is blunt, but it seems to me he's very explicitly attacking Khoo's actions and policies here. He may be arguing that those actions make Khoo kind of a jerk, but that's not ad hominem. (Buecheler clearly argues Khoo is a terrific businessman, in fact; he just argues that he's using his powers for evil.)

You can certainly argue that "You should know it's a shit job, here's how it's a shit job, but hey it's for Penny Arcade! Woo!" is a fine enough job posting because it's up front about its intrinsic shittiness. But I don't think it's unreasonable for someone to respond with, "Yes, but not only is a shit job still a shit job, this particular one is a shit job at a company that certainly has the resources to make it not a shit job and is choosing to make it so because they're a high-profile, loved-by-nerds company and can get away with it." That response appears to be fundamentally correct.
I didn't get that reading at all--it seemed very much a straightforward "folks, don't be starstruck: this job is a set-up."

A story:

I was the technical cofounder (effectively) for a coworking space once upon a time. I did everything from build websites, handle mailing lists, run cable, deploy and design enterprise-class networking infrastructure, take out the garbage, and power-route through a blocked sewer drain.

It was a great job, and a good way of keeping myself in beer money while decompressing from my previous gig.

Except, at the end of the day, I wasn't a cofounder. I had no contractual stake in the company. I had no health insurance. I didn't always get payed on time. To replace me, they suddenly needed: an AV person, a networking person, a Rails developer, and somebody that could hawk their space to other developers (they were biz bros through and through, and the only developers we had at the space were basically due to my networking on their behalf).

I don't regret the time I spent there, and I still help put out fires from time to time, but it was an easy trap to fall into, and could've ended really badly for all parties involved.

In these little businesses, especially when you start taking on the technical risk, you need a stake in the company. Otherwise, you're just some schlub that was recruited to do the work.

And when the web site is updated a little late, or a power outage kills a switch because the owners cheaped out on your spec (and they will, because they think in the small), or some other damn thing, it'll be you swinging in the breeze.

And they'll shitcan you, and find the next person foolish or desperate enough to go in for it.
It is a nebulous concept but I believe it is a combination of smart end user devices and data gathering sensors... obviously in the IT world any new (relatively speaking) concept gets hijack for marketing by vendors.

Cheap low power chips that could be embedded in everything from your clothes to your pills I believe is what Intel is aiming at.
Site is down.

Mirror here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Could someone explain the logistics of Docker in a distributed app development scenario? I feel like I am on the outskirts of understanding.

My goal is having a team of developers use Docker to have their local development environments match the production environment. The production environment should use the same Docker magic to define its environment.

Is the idea that developers define their Docker environment in the Dockerfile, and then on app deployment, the production environment builds its world from the same Dockerfile? How does docker push/pull of images factor into that, if at all?

Or is the idea that developers push a container, which contains the app code, up to production?

What happens when a developer makes changes to his/her environment from the shell rather than scripted in the Dockerfile?

What about dealing with differences in configuration between production and dev? (Eg. developers need a PostgreSQL server to develop, but on production, the Postgres host is separate from the app server - ideally running PG in a Docker container, but the point being multiple apps share a PG server rather than each running their own individual PG instance). Is the idea that in local dev, the app server and PG are in two separate Docker containers, and then in deployment, that separation allows for the segmentation of app server and PG instance?

I see the puzzle pieces but I am not quite fitting them together into a cohesive understanding. Or possibly I am misunderstanding entirely.
It's gotten to the point where any time I see someone citing a logical fallacy on the Internet, I can be 99% assured that they don't actually understand it.
No, the point of the new system was to force people to use G+ on youtube.
Unlike a factory, patent trolls don't need you to work for them. If it's just a lawyer in an office, what's your bargaining power?
If you weren't money motivated, surely you'd be happy to consider something unpaid instead?

I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry at the long and diverse list of qualities you need to get a chance to spend three unpaid months growing the revenues of this "well funded" startup. "MBA a plus"

They won't spend the money you earn them on you, but they do "know how to have a laugh":
http://workinstartups.com/job-board/job/4640/business-develo...
There are (at least) a few ISPs that route users' web traffic through a proxy which replaces, for example, Amazon referral codes with their own.
> If you dislike this form of property, then you must articulate an alternative way to divest power from those who hold other forms of property

I don't follow. Why do my arguments against intellectual property depend on some your unstated arguments against owning any property at all?

I'm left to assume you support the decision in this court case, because it's perfectly consistent with the reasoning behind copyright and patents.
Cool! Been waiting for this report to come out.
I liked the comment system on YouTube provided I wasn't looking at random viral videos with 1M+ hits. On a lot of the channels I subscribed to, the discussions were respectful and interesting.

Since the G+ fiasco, I have absolutely no idea what's going on. I get asked who I am by this popup that shows me 6 different choices, mostly duplicates, over and over. The thing is just never done with me - always demanding I jump through some new hoop.
I like Cactus (https://github.com/koenbok/Cactus) and PieCrust (http://bolt80.com/piecrust/). They are both super flexible and have met my static generator needs nicely.

Haven't tried Hyde or Jekyll.
This is pretty annoying..
It uses client-side JavaScript, of which the experts seem to agree is insecure and open to manipulation.
"I think the problem here is that PG wants folks to participate, but only to a certain extent."

Short answer is HN is basically deal flow for YC. To that goal it obviously works very well.

PG and YC need "everybody" but yet they need "nobody".

As a business HN works to achieve the greater goals of YC. I don't think it is about anything else and I haven't been around long enough to know if things were ever different. They may have been back at the start because I guess if you were to arbitrary you would never build up an audience or fan base.

On a personal level I've always thought that people who get up to the karma level you are at actually deserve some special treatment because to me the top commenters are some of the glue that makes a place like HN special. In any business I have ever run you always give special treatment to the better customers.
Yev from Backblaze here -> It really depends on the type of drive. One of the reasons we don't currently buy in chunks of 10,000 is that we like to forecast how many drives we'll need and not keep a bunch of inventory (if you look at the graphs, you'll see that prices used to drop a little bit each month, so keeping excess inventory was like leaving money on the table).
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Potentially, yeah.
More like a FCR joke.
If you can't make interesting conversation without talking about sex, politics, or religion, that sounds like a problem with you.
True, but it's generally something like 0.25% equity (almost always <1%). So you're working roughly the same hours for a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the overall equity.
What's the WBC?
Thanks for the reply. That makes sense. I don't see why saying "anything that's contributed is MIT licensed" wouldn't cut it but I'm no lawyer... :)
I'm always confused when "portable" and "for $OS" appear together in a title.
Computer algebra system that yields the steps it takes to produce a result. Mainly intended as an educational tool to help teach math. This is actually my first side project since I (re)learned to program a few months ago—everything I'm using to build this I learned at work.
I want to upvote this a hundred times.
I'm confused by people who both hold the position that these case are "patent trolls" while simultaneously supporting patents and copyright? This verdict is perfectly consistent with the reasoning and intention behind copyright and patent law.
If you're young and not in an area where people are used to paying market rates for development work (read: the midwest), doing contracting work is not a silver bullet.
Unproductive comments have never been accepted on HN either way.
Yeah, that could be a problem.
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I didn't catch a whiff of that.

I have no idea what business he's in, after reading the article.
The fact of the matter is that this sort of "cool but shitty" job is quite common in other industries (music, movies, advertising, politics, sports). At least in tech, these sorts of jobs don't involve giving sexual favors, so be thankful for that much.
In a word. Yes. I've been asked a lot to like some video or share a LinkedIn post.

If it doesn't fit into the confines of something I would reasonably share, I don't share it. I've never gotten blowback for it.
Do you have a link for this? I can't find any information on it.
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Yeah when my company got a new IT Communications Director and asked we like them on Twitter and Facebook, I was nauseated that many people did so. I refused, and I considered writing a stern email about how disgusting such a practice was to me.

My social networks are not part of the job, sorry. If you want them, you can pay me extra, since marketing firms pay for that data in bulk too I want to be paid for shilling just like others.
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His numbers seem a bit off & inflated to make the point.

For example - why does he have to buy 3 domains per idea he thinks up? Getting the .com alone would be sufficient until he actually does have a prototype. Similarly, why is he bound to hold on to them for 3 years a piece?

A good alternative would be the "1 year rule" or buy a domain & commit to not renewing if you don't have a prototype finished by the first year.

All of a sudden - instead of risking $40k, you've got that by a factor of 10 (and that's if you're actually buying a domain every single day). At that point - the domain buying either needs to be a part-time job or is a really bad exercise in procrastination & distraction.

Alternative Numbers

> 1 Year - 365 Ideas

> Domain - $10.50

> 1 Year = $3,650
I'm proud seeing my law in action :*)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6564689
How I accidentally lost my social skills
i saved 15% or more by switching to geiko
Where do you see that?

When I click that link, I see this for frequency band support:

US GSM Model: GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
UMTS/HSPA+ up to 21 Mbps (850, 1700 (AWS), 1900 MHz)

Doesn't mention the 2100 band at all, either PCS or AWS. 2100 is only listed for the international model, which lacks the 1700 AWS band.

Is there a link to a more detailed spec sheet?

The Motorola Razr i I am using now works with PCS on T-Mobile, but also explicitly lists the 2100 band, which I believe is required for T-Mobile HSPA+: http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_razr_i_xt890-4998.php
I may be splitting hairs at this point, but I think we're both partly right; according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preemption_%28computing%29), Windows 95, 98 and ME had preemptive multitasking for 32 bit programs, but not 16 bit (which would have been the majority at the time of release of Win95). My confusion may come from remembering running multiple DOS and Windows programs at the same time in OS/2 with nary a hiccup and being able to tweak settings (such as RAM allotments).
Had a look. Still think JS is fine.
The guy who bought the domain from you could have saved himself $500 had he not bought the domain before prototype (the site is dead).
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It doesn't have to be formal and academic enough to be published. Just something that explains how performance is going to be achieved - any sort of analysis.
"every article I wrote that was any good had at least one person commenting that I was a moron or some equivalent statement."

Presenting a polarizing opinion (non circumspect) is a great way to get people involved and commenting.

For example, which would get more activity:

"No programmer should use perl!"

"Why I personally don't use perl"

"Perl and CGI routines"
I like the concept. That we both feel the need to put quotes around "union" suggests the term might be too loaded to use for programmers, but fixing that's as simple as hanging a label on it like "Independent Programmers For Innovation".

Of course, you give it a title like that, you almost have to turn it into a PAC at some point...
Read the letter from the FDA. That's not what they're doing at all. They're requiring a company that sells a direct-to-consumer medical test to certify the safety and validity of that test. I don't think anyone is concerned that they're cross-contaminating their samples or working in a filthy lab over at 23andMe -- they're concerned that the whole design of the test is broken.

Again, most of this stuff is sketchy science. You can do the microarray experiments in a proper (e.g. "CLIA certified") lab, and still have a useless, dangerously misleading test.
I get a personal penalty, because someone with moderation powers (possibly PG, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt) is a wolfbagging pissant.

Apparently being brutally honest about VC means that everything I say is of low value.

For more, go here: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/heres-why-pau...
Yeah. Of course, what they're actually achieving is - predictably - rather less low power than existing embedded ARM solutions. If you want a good laugh take a look at the spec page for Quark sometime.
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and now its just a parked 'for sale' godaddy domain. The early web pioneers thought domains would help produce more websites. Instead they're abused as investment vehicles while we keep stripping away vowels to find one that isn't taken.
On the flip side I've seen close family and friends angered at not being given the opportunity to invest in a successful startup, the opportunity instead handed over to "strangers."
I think the closest you'll get right now is something like THREE.js that builds shaders for you out of a high level graphics API.
You say that like the Penny Arcade job listing is somehow rare. It actually sounds like an accurate description of a lot of startup jobs out there. The only thing unique here is that they're actually being upfront about expectations, instead of letting the new hire find out over time about the true expectations of their role.
Nice work!

We write the logs to disk and then use rsyslogs imfile feature to read from there. Your approach has the advantage of not requiring disk writes.

BTW, we're not in Toronto, but we're hiring and happy to accept remote workers from that timezone :)

http://www.bashton.com/jobs/
Ugh.... 17 percent of our anonymous respondents so far told us they are required to use their personal social media accounts

No selection bias there, I'm sure. venturebeat is read by a wide cross section of the employee demographic, right?
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It's like a zoo but with tesla owners instead of chimps.

Very droll :)
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My Moto X routinely gets well in excess of 24 hours battery life with LTE on.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rsykvxftze1izdm/2013-11-21%2014.30...

On a day with a bit more screen time:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/428tbqi5jkspbkj/2013-11-25%2001.18...

Coming to this from a Galaxy Nexus where I literally had to carry two spare 2100mAh batteries to get through a full day has been a game changer for me.

Motorola did an amazing job optimizing power usage on this thing.
The usual pattern is to use a type that requires the thing you pass in to have methods that you use for the data structure, like sort.Interface[1]. It's faster, safer, and better than using interface{}.

As for shorthand, behold!

type any interface{}

[1]: http://golang.org/pkg/sort/#Interface
I have to admit this one is a bit of a head scratcher, but I get why it works at least for now. You've essentially built a SaaS bug fix for a shrink wrap product, which.. yeah.
Answers the previously unanswered question about where they get their data :-) So yes, they crawl Craigslist and other sites. Now is it more 80legs or something else? Hard to say.
There are many comments here launching off into discussions of objective reality, what ad-hominem is and various other topics, trying to discern why people are taking so much offense to this ad, but I think that it boils down to two simple things, greed and hypocrisy, which are things that we are pretty hard-wired to take offense to. I don't think it is much more complicated than that.

In terms of greed, the blog post above correctly points out that Penny Arcade is at this point a large outfit that is making a ton of money. The founders are at this point millionaires and will, baring extravagant spending, never have to worry about money again. So when they come out with a job posting such as this one people look at it as they would seeing a wealthy investor hiring an unpaid intern as an assistant, or something similar. This person has more than enough money to satisfy almost every desire, and yet rather than pay competitive wages, or work to spread some of that wealth out to the people who help them obtain their success they have deliberately chosen to keep as much of it as possible even to the point of paying people far less than they are worth, instead talking up nebulous terms like "access", "experience", or "work environment". This strikes most people as the definition of greed (taking more than you could possibly need even if it means exploiting other people) and we generally react negatively.

In terms of hypocrisy, there is right up front the spectacle of a businessman and salesperson telling you with a straight face that they are "not money-oriented" despite the fact that this is a complete description of their job. But more than that, you have an organization that has spent years taking potshots at the "big guys" ostensibly standing up for the "gamer", aka the little guy, the consumer, etc, etc. Hell they even run a comic about QA work in the game industry, ostensibly a satire about the terrible conditions, accompanied by writeups from people doing QA talking about the terrible exploitation they have faced. But apparently, when push comes to shove (or paying market wages), Penny Arcade is just as comfortable taking advantage of naive young people, willing to grind themselves down for their "heroes" as their heroes gaze on and pocket millions.

Given those two things, I think the only surprising thing is that apparently the powers that be at Penny Arcade are too sheltered to not immediately understand that this would be the reaction they would receive.
Good point. I'm probably only justifying my "habit" here...
To understand that how much this is a violation and inappropriate, it's helpful to imagine the same scenario happening but the other party is someone you are dating. Someone you are dating is more appropriate to have access with one's personal social networking accounts than an employer, so if it seems a problem with the friend, it should be considered even more a problem with the employer.

Consider the person you are dating saying to you, "We're going to go on your social network accounts so you can post to everyone how much you love me and how much you want all your friends to like me." What would be the reaction to such a demand? Does the demand seem normal and reasonable?

Consider the person you are dating saying to you, "I need you to promise me that, no matter what happens in the future, you will never say anything bad about me to any of your friends or family on social media. I also need you to sign this contract agreeing to damages if you ever say anything bad about me." What would be the reaction to such a demand? Does the demand seem normal and reasonable?

I suggest that should these scenarios take place with a trusted friend, it would not only damage the trust, it has a significant likelihood of being an inappropriate enough red flag to be a deal-breaker that ends the relationship, and casts the other party as crazy, desperate, abusive and/or unhinged.
We can add weev to the list of people I'd much rather not have to defend.
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It would be a more interesting article if he managed to say HOW he lost his social skills, rather than simply observing that he had done so.