skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a huge long reply to this comment, but by the time I got to the end I realized you were just making cynical, shitty comments because you're upset with them for whatever reason.

'attention to detail' - If I hire someone I want them to have a good attention to detail and not just do whatever works. It's the little things that make the difference between a good server admin and a great one.

'motivated self-starter' - I don't want someone who's going to run to me to get every decision made. If you are able to identify things that are part of your job, decide how to do them, and do them, that makes my life much easier, and your job more efficient.

'Flexibility to travel' - They run conventions. Obviously they want their IT guy around to help set everything up. The wifi at PAX Prime 2012 was unusable the majority of the time. How do you mitigate that?

'creative and offensive environment' - Well, they can certainly be offensive; sometimes intentionally offending stupid people, sometimes unintentionally offending normal people. I won't get into this (but I've railed against them in the past for shitty comments).

'flexibility with deadlines, schedules, etc…' - This is project management. Anyone who's managing projects (either their own or someone else's) needs to do this. This is entirely normal.

'on-call 24/7' - Again, this is normal. Ideally, you set things up so that they don't break in the middle of the night, or if they do you don't have to deal with it immediately. Shit breaks, that's life.

You seem to assume the absolute worst of every possible thing they say, even though all of this is part of most senior IT jobs.
If she gave me a paycheck every two weeks, I'm sure we could work something out. :)
Bezos's parents invested 300k into Amazon or whatever it was called at first.
I get your point. I don't get anarchists who don't want regulation but want things like the Internet and technology funded almost entirely by governments.

A true anarchist would live in the wild and survive on leaves, branches, sticks and stones. Don't use roads, don't use the internet, don't use any of modern medicine (look up on how much the NSF, DARPA, DoD, NASA have contributed to modern science and technology. It is not as though Google materialized out of thin air.)

None of these companies operate in a vacuum. They stand on society's shoulders and have to operate within acceptable legal boundaries which stem from ethical standards.

Also, from an operational view, if bad companies mess up, taxpayers end up footing the bill.

(Before you delve into more predictable hyperbole: I am not advocating for complete govt. control of everything like in N. Korea.)
Docker already runs fine on 32 bit systems if you compile it yourself and remove the check for 64-bit-ness.
Right or wrong is highly subjective. Big companies use Java. Does that mean you're doing it wrong if you're not using Java?

I think you're misunderstanding what I'm saying.
I'm working on an iOS app that lets you manage and edit Jekyll websites on Github. check it out https://github.com/bringel/staticly
Seattle Restaurant Lost Lake Doesn't Allow Customers to Wear Google Glass,
Instead of being pithy, can you hold an actual conversation?
Wonderful marketing hyperbole.
That nature computes (many, if not all natural processes can be thought of as computational in some respect), and that many computational systems can be thought of as at least analogs of physical or biological processes.

See for example: http://www.uc09.uac.pt/JamesCrutchfield.php
One startup I worked at for about 2 months was very similar. I needed a job at the time and took what I could get.

The wage was fine, the hours were bulky but understandable. Little did I know that the founder wanted/expected probably double that. The nail in the coffin was when he lectured me on how the human body only really needs 4 hours of sleep a night and after 6 months we can re-evaluate my working schedule. Hah!

That for a mediocre wage, no benefits, and zero equity? The last 2 weeks he paid me the salary to find another job, I did zero work for him during that time.
Why does Microsoft own 7-Eleven?
In India any problem is generally assumed to be caused by a "foreign hand". Even if it is no rain for long periods, politicians will claim "foreign hands" are involved.
Certainly less than reinventing the wheel. You have to include development cost, maintenance and so forth that is not needed or significantly reduced on hosted content delivery services. See my post in this thread for details.
Isn't TinyPNG a web GUI around pngquant command line utility?
No, people tend to think they are above average at any task they spend time on. That's a different cognitive bias.
Agreed. Perhaps 47% of employees that work on university ave in Palto Alto :)
Started getting into Assemble (http://assemble.io/) since I’ve been digging deeper in Yeoman + Grunt + Bower lately.
The media can't help themselves in writing another bubble story. They keep looking and looking yet they missed all the signs of the 1999 bubble completely.

Is it a bit frothy? Yes, but the correction that is coming will not be nearly as severe. Those bulked up startups will crash if cut off from future funding.

But a larger majority will just hunker down and bootstrap their way through it. That wasn't an option for most in 1999.
I think the main problem (for me) is that I live in a vacuum. I work in a tech company that engineers products for engineers. I've surrounded myself with so much tech savvy people, and places that I don't have inspiration for problems I am capable of solving. My desire is to create a product for "normal people"... but i don't know what "normal people" have issues with.
God dammit, just once I thought we Canadians won. When I first heard the news - Brazil, Canada, etc. not US? I was happy to hear we'd be getting it first.

Now?

Now it's $200 freaking dollars to get a locked Moto G from Koodo while the Americans get the proper price unlocked.

Why do you hate Canada, Google?
That's pretty standard for a private repo.
Well, I don't know that I would recommend this particular job. But I do know that the time I learned the most, and became a truly good programmer, was just a couple of years after college, when I worked my ass off doing very hard things that were initially beyond my ability. It was a company I started with a friend from college, and ultimately the company failed, but it was a tremendous learning experience.

Programming skill, at least, is like compound interest. The more you program, the better you will be in the future, which means you will learn faster in the future, etc. At a big company or in an undemanding situation, your pace of learning is pretty slow, being limited by the circumstances around you; and like any compound interest, if you get behind, it becomes pretty hard to catch up to where you would have been.

Whereas in a small-company situation or any situation where you are limited only by what you are physically and mentally capable of doing, you are learning as fast as possible. It is very good.

You could say that the Penny Arcade job is not as good as starting your own startup and working that hard, and maybe that is true; but my company shut down and left me $100k in debt (back in 2000 when $100k was real money!) whereas when you get paid, you are not taking the same risk. Maybe this also means it is psychologically difficult to work as hard. I don't know.
Actually, the post is {Khoo, Penny Arcade} are shrewd business folks that are looking for a sucker. Don't be the sucker. With lots of exposition on why this author feels they are looking for a sucker.

Hell, we don't even really know what the compensation is for this position. Could be they are willing to pay upwards of 200k. Am I just missing where they are saying this will pay terribly? I saw they are not "money oriented" which is probably true since they have more of it than they can really reason about. Better, they have front row access to what they dreamed about as kids. They don't need the money anymore.

I think something a lot of folks from companies that aren't 20ish people are missing is that they are effectively auditioning someone to come be part of a very close knit crew. Imagine the postings for a recurring role on {insert popular tv show}.
I was really afraid when I saw this blow up. My first thought was people would just "forgive" GoldieBlox: after all, don't we all dream of a free world devoid and licensing and teaching girls they are just as powerful as boys?

But for once, I'm seeing a different trend. People really do care for Yauch's last will as an artist. And people don't think girl empowerment, though noble, should be used to trample respect and other values we hold dear as human beings.

So for once, more people are speaking with moderated words. We see both sides of the arguments, there's less "line-in-the-sand" declarations,... Maybe we could try again next time we get in a gender-related debate :)
MCServer, a open-source minecraft server:

https://github.com/mc-server/MCServer
I'd venture that the differences these day is that there is no install step and it works on many different systems.
I understand the frustration with the disconnect between the particular complaint and far worse problems.

That said, if a rushed Bill Gates pays you $500 for a Starbucks coffee and you bring him instant coffee instead, it doesn't matter whether he drinks it: you still exploited him. These are all examples of exploitation, just of relative degree.
"Web sites" are just the tip of the iceberg today, there's a lot more to the internet than just that.

For example, if you wanted to add real-time connectivity to your app using something like Socket.IO (http://socket.io/) you're basically out of luck in the PHP world (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6398887/using-php-with-so...), you'll have to do it in a different language.

I think people who invest a lot of time in learning PHP are getting less bang for their buck than they would learning Ruby or Python where their knowledge can be applied to broader disciplines.

Do you need to process audio files? Maybe write a quick script to scaffold some Objective-C or Java code for your mobile app? What about writing a persistent process that watches for files on your network, processes them and uploads them to Dropbox?

All these things are really easy with Ruby, Python, or even NodeJS, you just glue together a few off the shelf modules and you're basically done. PHP is way out of its element in these sorts of situations.
I might have done too much alluding and not enough explaining.

They were gone because I simply stopped pushing myself to talk to strangers and to even go out much.
Yes, it is true that the modern agriculture was enabled through abundance of oil.

But that leads to a big problem as soon as the oil reserves diminish.

How should one not be fatalistic then?
Totally surprised until I heard Steve Ballmer Yell "Where's My Slurpee!!!!!!" to one of his assistants.
I think you're absolutely right. In fact, the TQP lawyer went on the attack, which would be a miscalculation anywhere but Texas:

> TQP lawyer Marc Fenster could have acknowledged Diffie's accomplishments while arguing that his client—an admittedly little guy—still should get his rights, his little piece of "intellectual property."

> That's not what Fenster did. He went on the attack.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/newegg-trial-cryp...
Ask HN: How do I get a job in software?
I have a PhD in Electrical Engineering and I spent 2 more years as a postdoc working on optical imaging and microscopy. I was fairly successful but I was never really engaged which I attributed to being in academy. So I switched to industry and realize that the jobs in this field are not what I want to do. Now looking back to find out what I like doing, I realize that the times I was having fun was when I was writing code, doing computation and solving problems related to that.

Most of my coding is in Matlab which is not used in software industry. I have been doing some side projects on Python and I got fairly good at it. I can also find my way around in Javascript, SQL, noSQL (redis). I used Java as an undergrad.

How can I accelerate the process of getting a job as a software guy aside from doing side projects and showcasing it? I would like to get a job ASAP as I can learn much faster if I do it full time.

PS. I am in SF Bay Area FWIW
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>many different systems.

Sure, for varying values of "works" and "different" and "no install step".

I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that a DOS executable from the 90's will run on more machines in the world than this demo, given "platforms" similarly to what this demo takes as a given.
Didn't know that - I'll try it!

What happens if you put a 64bit executable in a container they try to run the container on a 32bit machine? Or a Rasberry/Arm device?
I'd like to listen to the bottom edge of the simulated region played back as a waveform as the simulation progresses.
As other mentioned already, a free open source alternative would be pngquant.

Here is a free open source app for OS X that uses it.
http://pngmini.com/
IMHO: Code Academy vs. Code School
This job posting kinda reminds me of the mental calculus I did when deciding to work for Spümcø for a while. John Kricfalusi's studio did not pay well, and the work was gruelling - but you were working for John fucking Kricfalusi, the guy responsible for Ren and fucking Stimpy. And yeah, there was definite cachet in that. Even if you burnt out on the animation industry like I did, you were still gonna be able to draw rings around most people after a stint there. Working at Spümcø taught me a lot, and I think ultimately I am glad I made the trade of shitty pay with a demanding boss for a few years. I got paid in a hell of a post-graduate education from a man who changed the face of the animation industry, as well as in money.

But... you know, honestly, I think the closest thing to an industry-changing genius Penny Arcade has is Robert Khoo, and this job ain't gonna have you getting your hands dirty in such a way that lets you learn Khoo's ways.
Funny you mention this, we've written one as we transition from MongoDB to PostgreSQL. It was actually much easier than I expected, because MongoDB doesn't really do anything - all the JOIN logic is in code and it mostly consists of "find" and "findOne" calls with minor filtering that is easily translatable to SQL.

The hardest part is re-training all the devs to stop thinking like Mongo devs (ie. "I must make five queries and join the info in code") and let the DB do the heavy lifting it was designed to do.
I was at a presentation once about this.

Yes it is legal if the agreement is made mutually.

However! If one of them wants to leave and go somewhere else, they still own that part of the company. This dead weight is not good in the eyes of future investors.
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ref counting has a couple of pros and cons:

cons
- can't handle circular references
- sudden churning when something at the root of a large tree can be freed, causing recursive freeing.
- it really doesn't like multithreading

pros
- deterministic in a single threaded environment
- pretty efficient (4 byte overhead on every object)
- easy to implement
Ask HN: How do you store production credentials?
Particularly, if you have fabric scripts that are responsible for running deploys etc, how do you distribute, store, and secure the credentials required to back these scripts and allow them to access servers and run builds?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Disability_Insu...

"a person qualifies for SSDI if:
they have a physical or mental condition that prevents them from engaging in any "substantial gainful activity" ("SGA"), and
the condition is expected to last at least 12 months or result in death, and
they are under the age of 65, and
generally, they have accumulated 20 social security credits in the last 10 years prior to the onset of disability"...

"Applicants may hire a lawyer to help them apply or appeal...
Most SSDI applicants—about 90 percent according to the SSA—have a disability representative for their appeal"

"The Social Security Administration estimates that the initial benefits application will take 90 to 120 days, but in practice filings can take up to eight months to complete. The appeals process for denied filings can likewise take 90 days to well over a year to get a hearing, depending on caseloads."

"In 2013, the average monthly disability payment was $1,132 and highest on record was $2,533"

Is that something you would want to rely on?
> Unless you are completely disabled you aren't going to see a dime from SSI. Anything that is 'short term' you are out of luck. Even cancer is considered 'short term'.

Bullshit.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.

Either way, I would think that having Penny Arcade on a resume would be an interesting story but other than that I can't imagine their infrastructure being anything that would help a career. Penny Arcade is probably only slightly above a real estate office for complexity.
I feel the need to point out that global warming doesn't warm every area and is calculated as a global average increase in temperature. Some areas may actually get colder due to the environment changes, not warmer.

Interestingly enough however, Canada are one of those areas that is getting warmer more than average.
I think this job posting is running up against the difference between an employee and a partner.

This isn't really unique to software, so I'll use the example of the dying American family farm.

I grew up on a small farm, for most of the time it was owned by four men, all related by blood. They each individually took full responsibility for the business, and were never off the clock. If something needed doing -- planting a field, fixing a tractor, feeding livestock -- they got it done. They didn't quit working when the work was done, because the work was never done. They momentarily paused when they were too exhausted to continue. If there was an emergency at three AM -- livestock escaped, water main broken, building on fire -- they got out of bed and dealt with it without delay. They were partners.

Occasionally, mostly during harvest, these farmers employed a few farm hands. These farm hands were contracted to do a specific job, like buck hay. They bucked hay for a certain number hours, and then went home. If something went wrong outside their purview, like a tractor breaking down, they informed one of the four farmers, who dealt with it. If there was a disaster at three AM, they were not summoned. They were employees.

It would have been easy for these farmers to expect the farm hands to act like farmers. After all, the farmers worked all day and some nights, did anything that needed to be done. But the farmers were partners in their business, and the farm hands were employees. Expecting employees to behave like partners just makes you a bad boss.

I think it is important for a small business, when growing, to remember the difference between partners and employees, and if you're hiring employees -- and not adding a partner -- to remember to treat them as employees, and not expect them to act like a partner in a business they have no interest in.
Well, that's a different kind of person altogether. We're talking about people who think the ideal state is one with no government at all (as evidenced by the fact that the guy claimed to be cool with moving to Somalia as long as he was armed). The people who merely think that government expansion beyond the current size might be bad are totally different and considerably more sane.
Now teach programming to your 5 year old kids.
People: The Most Valuable Resource
Can you explain how you believe the process of applying for disability because of a broken leg would go? And if possible, provide some kind of evidence?
One thing that's nice about G+ is you get a separate account for work if your company uses Google Apps. This at least lets you proselytize for your company without annoying your friends, and keeps personal stuff away from work associates if you so desire.

(I'm not sure if it's confusing or not for two people to show up if you search for my name. Hopefully my choice of profile picture guides people in the right direction.)
Only 79/100, but I think the scoring is a bit off---it seems to judge the total divergence, when it really ought to look at each pair of letters separately.
There's an even closer analogy on hand, which is especially poignant with Penny Arcade - video games. Lots of kids enter the game industry and get chewed up and overworked and tolerate it because they love games.
Turbo Boost and the New Mac Pro’s CPUs
They both play the Guitar.
We don't let users abuse flagging. We have software that identifies users who flag excessive numbers of stories, and we take away their ability to flag.
GitHub restores Mozilla-Central repository after temporarily shutting it down
"Labor is not the source of all wealth." -Karl Marx (from your link)

It would appear that Marx rejected the Labor Theory of Value. So do I, for that matter. It does not account for the quality of labor, scarcity, or demand. Labor is a factor in value, but it's not the only factor, or even the primary one in many cases.

Leaving behind the 19th century anarchists who were still wrapping their heads around an economy that didn't even exist yet, modern practitioners of the labor theory of value are classic examples of theorists in denial of reality. If the theory and reality are at odds, then clearly reality must be wrong, correct? But they're also pretty irrelevant outside their little ivory towers. Power is collected by realists.

Personally, I think it's much more interesting to consider where capitalism fails at measuring value - basically, the idea that all value can be measured in terms of fungible currency, and anything that cannot be measured in currency therefore has no value. This problem sticks out like a sore thumb at awareness of externalized costs (or the lack of awareness, in the case of the hordes of neoliberal "conservative" fools who have no idea what a real free market looks like). But so much of value can't be measured in dollars.
There are multiple ways of getting bash on windows, MSYS and Cygwin being two of them. They perform like ass compared to bash on a real unixy operating system, because Windows doesn't have fork. Its process creation is already significantly slower even before having to emulate fork/exec semantics,
which makes things much much worse. (See: http://stackoverflow.com/a/985374/341371 )
Breaking Bad is the Ultimate Startup
It looks not like 1999 at all. In 1999 one can easily find a programming job only knowing html. Today It seems that tons of graduates knowing very well Big O complexities, all kinds of cs fundamental algorithms still need to compete for a job.
And soon to 2026 again we will toast.
Me thinks you have not seen the scope of their audience. This would be akin to having no respect for the Humble Bundle developers because it is just a tiny shop. I mean, only a few games every few weeks. :)
It was just added recently.. pretty sure its bs
Not an economist, but I have been mulling over a project surrounding scraping and pricing.

Without having access to the actual monetary transaction data, how does one know what was sold and for how much? Without this (or a mechanism by which the lister closes or updates the listing), how do you know anything was actually sold?
670 gigabytes is a puny database size. You should be able to press so much power through a system with a disk system like the one you have. I would seriously consider a Postgres setup on a data set of that size. Additionally, I would probably just store the JSON data directly inside postgresql.
Jewelery's value is as a price tag you can wear. It's not about it being "shiny" as cheaper materials can be made to be just as shiny. And gold is only a price tag because it was the best technology for implementing a secure distributed account system. Until bitcoin.