skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I flagged all those stories too and many others each day that are not at all tech or business related.

Just flagged: "Uruguay's president José Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills".

It's not flagging abuse IMO, as these stories are clearly off-topic and shouldn't be on HN.
But so many people nowadays eat too many calories.

That's why I started the Cold Water Weight Loss System.

With a regimen of cold showers and washing your hands with cold water, you'll shiver those pounds away in no time.
yeah I had to read it a couple of times before I could confidently decide none of it made any sense.
The problem older workers face is simpler. They don't fit in to the hierarchical corporate environment, which is yet another reason why that mode of organization is outdated.

If you're old and good, the supposition is that you'll resent being told what to do by someone inexperienced and probably not as skilled. If you're old and bad, then you're not a desirable hire anyway. Catch-22.

The way to fix this is to move to organizational models that don't rely so heavily on subordination and hierarchical rigidity. Conceptual hierarchy is necessary, but a fixed hierarchy of people is not.

Also, I think the VCs are to blame. They pick founders who are very young, because they're easier to take advantage of. Since it's rare that a capable 50-year-old will happily work for a 25-year-old founder, and the "boss should be older" rule traverses the hierarchy, the accepted age band at every rank becomes younger and more narrow.
Man that's a myopic attitude. I guess you've never been unemployed, low on money, and living in a area with few opportunities. Sure your statement is easy in the Bay Area to say, but try the middle of the country. Trying being older where no one is willing to even interview you despite your skill set being up to date. Ever start a company when you have trouble paying the mortgage? Not being surrounded by entrepreneurial friends willing to jump in with you? Can't move because no one is buying your crappy house and your kids are hungry? Put long hours into a job with old technology that went bust and now you really are out of date? There are lots of reason people wind up having trouble finding a job. Saying you wouldn't hire them because of all the challenges they might be facing is like saying poor people suck because they have no money.

Sorry to get all ranty but that is exactly what the author is talking about. I've been there a few times and it wasn't due to a lack of effort in trying to start something and casting a wide net. Good people exist even if they haven't worked in a while, it's not like they suddenly dried up and died.
I'm far more interested in the VALUE of a prospective employee than I am in the COST.

I expect a technical employee (myself included) to bring to the company some multiple of their salary each year. With that in mind, I'm far more interested in the possible upside of a good employee than in reducing a portion of the costs of a possibly cheaper employee. (I'm generally "on the hook" for some amount of constant costs: 401-k match, insurance, building occupancy costs, free food/drinks, management attention/overhead needed, etc, so a 25% lower salary might only net me a 15% lower overall cost.)

Long term unemployed, excessive job hopping without good explanation, long stints of employment without promotion or other evidence of growth are all red flags. They're not fatal in isolation, but believe me, they get scrutiny by hiring managers who are paying attention.

Someone involuntarily out of work in a tech field for 6 months is likely to, at a minimum, interview poorly. (Otherwise, they'd likely land somewhere inside of 2 months.) For your plan to work, one has to be willing to low-ball a candidate who likely just interviewed poorly with you. I don't think the risk-reward works out, which is why I'm probably part of the problem, but willingly so.

Candidates that interview poorly get a polite rejection, not a lowball offer.
There's nothing to indicate that this is a real product. There's no information about availability, and given how everything is just a bunch of slides, I think this is more of a design exercise than a real product.
Sorry, invalid assumption - it's a zip made to be extracted to a FAT32 drive for UEFI install. This is difficult to do on VirtualBox.
Well, it's not as if one can just snap one's fingers and line up a freelancing gig. The reason people don't "immediately start freelancing" is the same as the reason they don't immediately just go out and get a job.
> Now you try and fix those two things.

You mean with care for the mentally ill, etc. like in developed countries?
If you are interested in the evolution of movable type and what Gutenberg might have really invented - Blaise Aguera [of PhotoSynth fame, among many other things] did some fascinating research into the glyphs that appear in the books printed from Gutenberg's printing presses.

For instance - there are a surprisingly large number of variations in any given glyph [say, the "p" glyph.] These are variations in the actual bit of metal used to print the glyph at that location, rather than some sort of printing glitch.

This is odd because Gutenberg is generally credited for inventing the movable type using a matrix[1] and type cast from a matrix would not show such variations. Blaise speculates he might have instead cast each type in sand, individually; which would destroy the mould after each type was cast. He thinks he might have used something like a small wooden stick to re-create the shape in sand for each casting. There's some substructure in many glyphs which give some credibility to this hypothesis.

On the flip side, Gutenberg may not have been given credit for Linotype[2] - where a whole line (or in Gutenberg's case, two lines) were cast all at once, rather than arranging individual glyphs.

If you find this sort of stuff interesting - do watch his presentation[3] - great stuff.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_%28printing%29

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine

[3] https://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/dl.aspx?id=104803
That's the Zen of good tech management!
I am confused by your calculations. What does texture compression have to do with video compression?

A peak 5 mbps h264 video with no B frames would look very good and have no latency.
It's possible to block ads using squid proxy with squidguard. Although less effective than AdBlock, and requiring a little more effort to get started, it does work.

I'm curious whether anyone on HN does this for themselves and, if so, is your squid server at home, on a VPS, or somewhere else?
> The American public are war-mongers and game studios are simply giving the people what they wanted

By that logic GW Bush was simply trying to get reelected when he helped start a false war in Iraq and Obama is simply appealing to his electorate (and perhaps the Nobel peace prize panel) with his assassination programs.
I can't tell if the phenomenon of ageism in tech is under or overrated

It's bad in VC-istan but I don't think it's bad in technology as a whole. There are plenty of 50+ programmers at places like Google who are well-regarded.

The fear that many of us who are in our 20s and 30s is that the culture of age discrimination-- one that we, although young, really don't support, but that is inflicted upon us by the VCs-- will get worse in the next decade or two. Right now, it's not apocalyptic and most good programmers will be fine. The concern is that if VC-istan becomes the new normal in employment, ageism will be more of a problem when we get to 40+. Right now there are still a lot of good jobs for 40+ programmers at the Staff+ SWE level at places like Google and Amazon, but that won't be true if VCs acquire more power.

Everyone admits this is a problem, but HR goes on as if they're oblivious to it. And then you read about how they're dismissing candidates that don't have an adequate social media presence, and you begin to wonder why on earth these goons run hiring.

HR looks for reasons to reject people. They have to, because they get so many junk resumes. They cut for too old or too young or too long at the last job or too short at the last job. You need, whenever possible, to engage with people who are looking for reasons to accept people.
Can't say I've ever found a USB stick to be too large physically. Interesting concept, but I wonder if it's solving a problem that doesn't really exist and adding a required transfer surface along the way.
This is literally the laziest counterargument you could make.
Why can't both companies use it as a launch pad? Something to do with equipment/setup for a particular vehicle being unique?
Judge Approves Interchange Fee Settlement with Visa, MasterCard
Nice. Also learned how and when to really use BCC.
If you're too cheap to host your own information repository, you have to play by the rules of the people who do. What you want to do is publish your work to censorship resistant Internet tools like Freenet, Tor, i2p or Gnutella.
No, they aren't. Taking a look at the first one on the list... the latest version was published in 2011.
> For example, much is made of the fact that real-life Special Forces soldiers aid in the development of these games for the sake of authenticity.

I'm really amused at the idea that there are veterans who have been through hell sat in a room debriefing for a bunch of artists and programmers.

Also in complete disbelief.
Would you use this? Why/Why Not? What three things it definitely must have?
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I like it. How about drag and drop support?

How expensive is it to host a server with high bandwidth image sharing app such as this? I want to create a 'HotOrNot' kind of web app in my country and always wanted to know how much it would cost to run a image server.
> they always say you should eventually be embarrassed of the first version of your product.

Definitely! If you're not embarrassed of your first version, then you waited too long to launch.

You should try listing a product. The flow is actually pretty good, especially given the product indexing, tagging, and categorization that has to happen behind the scene.
Yep, these are all conventions used in hand-written Latin texts of the time. I believe the 9-looking mark is short for "us" at the end of a word. See the top of the right column on that page: "Et vidit de9 qd esset" where "de9" is "deus" and "qd" is "quod" (cf. http://www.latinvulgate.com/verse.aspx?t=0&b=1).
Actually they did, and then had it relisted. It was later renamed because Paramount filed a lawsuit against them.
These are nice examples of scribal abbreviations in Latin. Q.v. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribal_abbreviation
The "m" elision (with the macron) is a standard orthographical device, and only for final "m". "-m" was very soft, even in Classical Latin; it functioned more like a vowel, and could be elided into following vowels. It was likely pronounced as a nasalisation of the preceding vowel sound, as in Portuguese today.
It does look very cool, but the binding isn't original, look at the cover- Bibliotecha Bodleiana.

I also noticed there's no frontispiece, wonder whether it was lost, or taken out.
Call of Duty is bad, not as bad as Harvest Moon though. That game teaches that love is something you buy, turning our children into prostitutes with its underlying message. We must eradicate this filth!

http://gamezfile.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Download-Gam...

And as if the promotion of prostitution were not enough, it is subtle PETA propaganda too! You cannot slaughter your farm animals! You run a vegetarian farm! Instead you have to pet them to make them happy, an act rewarded with better milk etc. Children who grow up playing these games will likely see bestiality as normal!
I wasn't previously aware of it, but apparently non-volatile graphene storage is indeed a topic of research: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl101902k http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn3059136 I would assume it's over a decade out, though.
Oh weird..

The first time a friend force-signed me up on facebook I only got ads for High-Frequency Trading and High-End Dedicated Servers.

On A+ I'm getting ads for a Ferrari's, BMW's, a Martin JetPack, Ducati's a $2.5m Pagani Zonda Revolucion and similar stuff, like 24k Gold iPhone Cases …

Hah, either something is really wrong with my browsing habits, or these sites suck at targeting my habits. For those who wonder, the last time I searched for Cars must be 6 or 7 years ago and I don't search for jewelery or jetpacks. I also never search for sports, pop, music or anything popular, really. Dear Ashton, I wish I was rich enough to buy that car, but I feel a little pressed when a site expects me to be rich.

The system probably mistakes me for an investor or a vc like Kutcher himself.

Ok, off to work, let's get rich or die trying.
Why not learn you a Haskell?

http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters
I don't have an opinion. I haven't researched this topic. I'm just pointing out that Blaze seems skeptical about the idea that phones can be monitored when powered off. Blaze clearly has researched the topic.

I don't have a deep-seated hatred of Soylent, but it is clearly not my favorite YC startup. It's aesthetically incompatible with me, but I think there are valid scientific concerns about the approach as well.
I'm surprised the Splinter Cell games didn't get a closer look. Especially when Tom Clancy's death, and anything NSA related being used for headlines.
When the resolution is fixed, probably the one big downside to using the Rift for this kind of thing will be the narrow field of view: compared to a multi-monitor or big-monitor-up-close setup you'll be forced to rely more on head movements instead of eye movements to look around.
The idea behind github is to encourage new ways of thinking and different approaches -- including ones that question conventional thought. Parodying the excesses of feminism via github helps to reveal to women and men alike just what precisely the gender divide is made up from. Leaving the github up serves the useful purpose of inviting and CHALLENGING women to increase their interactions with men working in IT and show that real women are unlike the exaggerated-caricatures that feminism (or at least 'extremist feminism') has caused them to become perceived.
Why Women-Only Transit Options Have Caught On (2012)
At 51, I resigned from a company I had worked for 18 years when evil people bought the company. I was primarily a c++ developer. At the same time my long term relationship ended and my mom died six weeks after a cancer diagnosis.

It took six months for me to get interested in coding again. I started experimenting with Processing then developed an ios opengl based app.

I was out of work for 13 months. Now I develop in Lua, CoffeeScript, javascript, angular, php, Java, Clojure, Actionscript. All self taught while on the job. I'm thankful that someone gave me this opportunity. Otherwise I'd still probably be unemployed.
That Enterprise App
Agile PM would actually put process first and simply measure output because poor processes impact everything else and give you no chance of sustained success. You should be trying to optimise the conditions for optimal outcomes via facilitation. That's the reason you measure, to understand and improve your success as a facilitator for the whole team, not to track individual productivity. You shouldn't reward or penalise anybody on outcomes themselves but on ability and diligence (which should be blindingly obvious to a technical manager given any degree of engagement with the development process).
It's proof that there is a concept.
Bit off topic but the photo in the article looks like a moment from the Iron Man movie :)
Find someone to pay you a professional rate.

You get there by working your but off. I recommend specializing and going deep in one area. Knowing a little about a lot if things with no real world experience is not a competitive position. Having experience with mongoDB and rails landed me a position over developers with significantly more general experience. At the time MongoDB was an up and coming technology with rapidly increasing demand. With out the specialty I had little chance competing against more experienced developers for general positions. Having a specialty I knew very well gave me the ability to compete.
Disappointed that AMD and Intel graphics aren't supported yet. Didn't see that, installed, black screen after booting from Grub. Hopefully they'll release those versions soon.
Kawasaki develops a transforming bike
As you requested:

http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/
I agree. But these cloud services are so new, that people are not aware of the risks they are taking. They don't realize the needs they actually have. Since the customers don't know their needs, neither do the service providers. But if you want to stay ahead of the curve, I think you should as a consumer, request reliable service providers, or self host. As a service provider you should provide reliable services. At least, that is where I think we are heading.
It's dangerous business for him to be saying stuff like this. I mean, are we all going to go out and be lucky enough to have a successful comic strip? No, it's a fluke. It worked for him, great, but shut up and take your success. Don't tell others what they should do.
Been researching this type of system for about two years now. The feedback from business owners has not been very positive. Some do not want their inventory to be readily available to anyone (for whatever reason). Others do not see the value of anything outside of Facebook (the social network has become their own little internet). A couple talked about how expensive software is (they are right). One or two were open to the idea. But were not ready to be used as guinea pigs for research.

One common trait has been the lack of understanding of what online sales are, and what they might mean to them. There is a lot of space to innovate here, but it has to be done in a way that is less take a risk with me, and more this is totally safe and normal to do.
Looks like the contents of the readme is on Pastie[0] since it was flagged on Github.

[0]: http://pastie.org/pastes/8550897
cool! I haven't seen a visitor counter used in a really long time.
I consider it the most harmful book ever written. It's impact on the mood and choices of several generations has been devastating if not catastrophic.

Had he been offed in the war the U.S., at least, would be a much more optimistic and forward thinking place.
Great writeup. I always appreciate somebody else doing a down-to-earth overview of something complicated. This post makes me wonder if some sort of flowchart or UML diagram of the docker system components wouldn't be a useful thing.
It always did seem weird that all the demons were trying to escape from hell but we were trying to get to it...
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It's not cognitive dissonance to admit to insecurity and an interest in violence, dear child. Cognitive dissonance is believing that people are naturally non-violent while having your face punched in.

Telling me I don't exist does not, in fact, make me go away.
If you want to completely lose your place in an HN thread, make a comment. I hate that.
Indeed, the post is about crappy management and little else. This is the real story - we talk about scarcity of engineers but it's as nothing compared to the scarcity of effective technical management, which is an industry scandal IMO.
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Why is his opinion to be muzzled, rather than those who suggest having a career plan? How do we know a career plan is good advice for everyone?
You could use Van Der Waal adhesion, like Gecko feet, we might as well throw it in. Although changing the adhesive will undermine the technology proposal, after all 'The special conductive adhesive that sticks the dataSTICKIES to the ODTS is the medium that transfers the data.'

It's both optical, and conducts data via some plastic adhesive. You can't say they haven't thought things through.
Quick, someone build a tool for viewing emails like this better!
Why post this?
But you are not competing against competitors who might steal them away for -24%. You are competing against Walmart: -75% salary, -100% fringe benefits.
I sure hope you'd be able to ship outside the US soon.

Here in Singapore, the markup on foam mattress is pretty ridiculous as well. I would love to be able to purchase a mattress at the prices that you're offering.
Clearly a case of tl;dr. Adams did a bunch of foolish stuff before becoming successful. Most of it was in pursuit of goals like 'get rich quick' (via a patent). He recommends adopting a system of principles that allow for a more flexible focus.
Don't tell others what they should do. eyeroll
I imagine this is the beginning of the end of credit cards with rewards in the U.S. Unless Congress passes some relevant law (which would not surprise me).
FWIW I developed TurboHDR (https://www.turbohdr.com/) in Go on App Engine.

I've found App Engine a very productive dev environment as it provides a lot of features out of the box (e.g., image processing, background tasks, email etc.) that can be a pain to integrate into frameworks like Django. And developing on App Engine in Go is especially nice as the performance is excellent, and since Go is a statically typed language, I can be more confident about doing sweeping refactoring of my code knowing that the compiler will catch any trivial type errors.
He/she wants attention for turning down someone, albiet a cool turndown.
A lot of this language is identical on their jobs page:

http://news.rapgenius.com/Rap-genius-engineering-team-rap-ge...
This exact scenario happened to me with the second Penny Arcade game.

But I don't care. I'm disappointed, sure. On the other hand it's a generally very rare occurrence, mainly limited to indy titles, and it's very likely most games will get fixed and patched. The deployment of fixes is a major benefit to Steam in general.

If you think there's a retailer on earth who won't give you some edge case runaround in a similar way you're naive.
That's cute. Too bad it's not 2004 anymore.
Maybe I wasn't clear. This doesn't have to be a real company in the sense that it actually generates profit.

All you need to do is file for DBA and start accepting really low-paid gigs off a site like elancer. And yes, you can literally just snap your fingers to get those.

The point is you're not starting the company to actually succeed. You're just starting it to list something besides unemployment on your resume and hence get a real job.
I had a long job search once (long story) and what surprised me was that the rejections weren't the biggest confidence killer. Far worse were the lowball offers and too-junior positions that just felt like D+'s. Those were harder to get over.

I can deal with not being hired for lack of fit, but at my age being offered a junior position is an insult. There are plenty of reasons someone might not hire me and many are neutral (position filled, bad day on my end or theirs) but a crappy offer at least feels like a statement.
Hugely different experience here. I wrote one extension[1] on a Sunday a couple of weeks ago. I had never touched Firefox development or extension development before, so I was a bit overwhelmed when trying to go through the documentation. After I got Jetpack[2] running, though, development was a breeze. Good docs, reasonable develop/reload cycle.

I only requested the preliminary review at AMO so far, and that took about 24h.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/css-live-relo...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/sdk/latest/
Context for Kyle's second reply:

http://valleywag.gawker.com/rap-genius-frontman-blames-brain...

http://valleywag.gawker.com/rap-genius-imma-rape-you-in-your...