skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can't find enough A Players to hire/work with because we are limited to our own networks. http://unbouncepages.com/a-players/
Airbnb and Pinterest are major successes both of which weren't like this. It was a long, hard slog to get traction and that wasn't them sitting back. Sure, the product needs to be great, but don't underestimate what you will need to do to get users to adopt.
The RYF guidelines are interesting: http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/criteria .

They require the BIOS / core boot firmware to be open but allow closed peripheral firmware and CPU microcode.

This is a natural allowance as otherwise no modern computer would ever be certifiable, but it's interesting in that it doesn't require the firmware for wired-in peripherals like webcams or wireless chipsets to be open.
Just COMPLETELY ignore it.

I truly believe after spending so much time on Reddit I became a worse person by being exposed to the same regurgitated/top voted opinions on things nobody should be talking about unless qualified (which you can't verify). I realized after a few years after taking an objective look at my life how much I had changed. If you dwell in a medium, you tend to absorb it, and that's the only medium I dwelled in. It's taken me quite awhile to get back to being a normal, nice, human being, sometimes I still slip up in real life. Every topic I've been exposed to ad nauseam on Reddit that I experience in real life, I have to consciously drop all my preconceptions on the topic that I developed online and look at it with a fresh mind, it's slowly helping.

It's a podium for anyone who has an unqualified opinion to suddenly voice it for no real reason. That, combined with the broken upvote system promoting terrible content is a recipe for disaster.

"Reddit: the front page of an on going Dunning-Kruger effect study".

You don't stand to gain anything from Reddit. The comments are largely terrible unless you visit very niche subreddits that are moderated and/or have verified users. You can argue that some smaller subreddits have really good content, but do they REALLY? Maybe you'll find a few cool links, some good comments, and an odd article or two.

The reality is, nobody who has a credible opinion on something is going to bother wasting time having in depth conversations on an anonymous message board, so how good can the content quality possibly get?

I realized how bad Reddit was when I started following comment threads and analysis on other websites on he same articles as Reddit. What was upvoted as total truth (top comment) on certain articles was just scraping the bottom of the barrel. It's basically: hunt for topic -> scrape some shit off the internet (be it wikipedia or whatever site) -> loosely compose it into some shit essay everyone will upvote with a strong ideal behind it -> top comment. This goes for every Reddit thread.

I'm mad and disappointed in myself for wasting so many years on it.

It's a shit flinging contest determined by fake points called "karma" that people, for some odd reason, REALLY REALLY care about, mitigating any hope for a quality discussion.

Great response OP.

edit: toned down the vulgarity of the original post

edit2: My comment is towards the default subreddits, not small niche subreddits that you have to hunt for yourself to find.
We are literally in a thread about one of the biggest names in tech and something they invent to help with their massive PHP codebase.
> Many webcams do have the activity light controlled in hardware, such that it isn't possible to record without a clear indicator.

Yesterday's news show that some implementations can be unsecure [0].

> But if you trust your software stack that little, you have bigger problems.

I generally trust the software that I run on my main CPU but there are other threats like DMA malware [1] for example.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6929974

[1] - http://www.stewin.org/papers/dimvap15-stewin.pdf
I've read dozens of the comments on this page so far. The thing that jumps out to me is the interplay between these factors: (1) internal transparency (2) external transparency (3) internal privacy (4) external privacy (5) human motivation and (6) company culture. There are many combinations here, and I can't help but think Buffer didn't do an effective "search" across the possible "parameter space", even according to their own goals and interests.

For example, Buffer could have easily added a policy saying that each employee's compensation may be adjusted by, say, +/- 20% based on individual factors. That would give some uncertainty, and thus a bit of individual privacy. Peers would still have some confidence that they were, more or less, in a similar range as others with their public performance characteristics.

Let's put ideology aside (i.e. do we want this to work, according to our theories of human nature) and focus on the actual effects. How do you know if you've succeeded? How do you measure this? How do you design the experiment?

Call me skeptical, but I can't help but think that Buffer is doing this, largely, to say "look at us!" and "this makes an interesting blog post!".
> I had a very strong case of ADHD, and I'll tell you what I stuck out like a sore thumb.

Yup

> During my adolescence I found the anarchist cookbook. I used to read through it, fascinated with its ideology, and sometimes building various explosives and weapons.

Yup

> I got in trouble with the law more times than I'd like to admit.

Yup

> I was very angry and paranoid

Still fighting the anger I have from no where. I am not paranoid though the Snowden stuff is making me somewhat.

> I try and go out of my way to say kind words and help others, and I'm a much happier person.

These are things I try to do otherwise I find myself acting ill towards people.

I am not sure which hit me more the article or your comment. Glad to see there are others who acted the way I did in my younger days and are striving to become a better person everyday. This past May I finally graduated from a decent regional college with a degree in Information Systems and now have an awesome job doing what I love.
You can read the paper here: http://www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazine/20_dec...
Two more tips i would love to add:

1)
If your company is not currently newsworthy enough alone try pitching broader topics.
eg the raise of wearable tech. Startup hype in City X. etc

Help the journalist with intro to other (not 100% competitive) founders.

2)
Ask the journalist what kind of article he wants to write and what role our startup will play in this article (or where he sees you).

If you understand roughly what kind of article a journalist is going for you can deliver by far better usable quotes.
You put stuff everywhere: FB, Dropbox, Gapps, Github, Twitter, Linkedin... Impossible to search throughout all services. Until now: www.docido.com
You are aware that SPDY was developed by Google, right?
Visiting an Apple store to have a part replaced is free if your time is worth nothing.
Setting up a pay scheme now to handle thousands of employees would be very premature optimization.
what's reddit? ;)
You as the employee with that skill DETERMINE the market value. If every IOS developer refuses to work for $40k and want $80k the market will start having to pay $80k. Yeah there will be outliers, maybe someone desperate for a chance to prove themselves, or someone who was unemployed will take that $40k but that is not the market value.

It's not some vooodoo a company makes up, you yourself have a direct affect on the market value by turning down and taking positions. If I can't find anybody to hire at $40k I might start offering $60k and more until I get the amount and quality of applicants I desire.
Seriously? You consider yourselves the masters of search and yet you are going to listen to him? Matt is quite known for giving half-truths.
If you are wanting ccTLD's purely for language, then yes you would only need 1 IP address. If you are using them for SEO reasons, then you would need each ccTLD with it's own IP address AND located in the country of the ccTLD.
Bitcoin is inherently libertarian: http://rudd-o.com/archives/bitcoin-without-the-politics

If all the libertarians who are into bitcoin suddenly cut down the rhetoric, you think that this will "make bitcoin legitimate technology"? What does that even mean? You mean that governments are going to suddenly be more friendly to bitcoin users? That seems like an incredibly naive belief, sorry.

In general, it is disappointing that people still hold to backwards and primitive beliefs such as democracy and state worship. Statism is institutionalized violence and injustice writ large. I totally understand how your perspective on this can be different, but please understand that what you are calling garbage I see as a call for justice.
Thanks - this is the best analogy I've heard so far.
The middle classes maintain themselves to an ever increasing extent directly out of revenue, they are a burden weighing heavily on the working base and increase the social security and power of the upper ten thousand.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1863/theories-su...
> readers will see concrete examples of how their JavaScript can get into trouble, followed by tips and honest advice how to extricate their code from those pitfalls

In other words, how to perform the Heimlich Maneuver on their JavaScript code. :)
I feel someone should proly explain "the right way" to do it, which (as far as I know) is something like what the first few results on that list do. Have a settings.example.py or something in the git, then instruct the user to copy it to settings.py and fill in the approiate values.

For example:

https://github.com/dansackett/bucketlist/blob/d5eaf407d931ea...
> first, counting sort takes O(n * R)

O(n + R), actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_sort#Analysis

I agree that he overstates radix sort though. Asymptotically it just changes the runtime from O(n log n) (ala quicksort) to O(n log k) where k is the size of the set of possible numbers, and usually n is smaller than k. Dividing into 256 parts instead of 2 at each step changes the constant, but not the asymptotic big O. You could do the same with quicksort (at each step choose 255 random pivots and use them to define 256 buckets of sublists). That changes the average runtime from n log_2 n to n log_256 n, but the only difference is a constant factor.
Depends on the nature of the work. Begin with the understanding that operational concerns will never be zero hours. The best freelancer in the world will need guidance from the internal staff.

If you've already got something in place and operating at <10 hours a week, I'd keep it in house with whatever dev has more ops experience. Or whichever one drew the short straw after no one admits to having ops experience. You could hand it off to your newer hires to gain an understanding of what you do. The key is to define who responds to what.

Keep an engineer on retainer that you can call in to handle one-off builds and emergencies. Big changes/deployments where you can't afford to gain experience the hard way.
The closest i found to a solution to bitcoin stability is here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=171539.msg1862790#ms...

Although at the beginning it should not be stable , but rising to get people involved with the coin., and at some pre defined point become stable.
> Whichever way you view Telegram, they haven't developed it to make a quick buck on the ignorance of the masses, nor are they in it to deceive people and entice them to use a knowingly broken crypto.

The contest they set up actually makes me think they did. I am willing to see them pay out for it and thus prove me wrong, though.
> people act like genetic engineering means "putting poison in it."

Well, but isn't that pretty much it, in the form of pesticides? Does Monsanto do GMO that is not just roundup-readiness?
This is impossible. The network can never put a limit to its own value. The valuation must come from outside. How should a network possible describe what its worth? The money network should not predict demand. One could in theory have predictors of demand, but that would be an algorithm for pricing a set of cryptocoins.
I do not want to have to remember to mute the macbook every time I want to reboot. I'm going to try the nvram thing.
> it will have severely worse construction and wires hanging here and there

External drives are connected to the Mac Pro using strands of sexy intangible unicorn hair.
I've written text wrapping and responsiveness code for canvas, in javascript - I don't think the complexity is even of the same order of magnitude as React or Angular.
Fine print: The X60 has a Core2 CPU with a variety of errata which require proprietary microcode to fix (typically applied by the Lenovo BIOS).
Yes, I've never heard of any country that makes you get a work permit if you are a citizen.
It seems to me that investors keep pouring money into the business in order to try to keep the option to sell it at (capital contribution) break-even alive. The previous round was a +$40m debt facility, and debt, when you haven't got cash flow, ain't cheap (PIK, warrants @ down round valuation, dilution, etc.). I hope the best for the company, but sometimes I wished SecondMarket, SharesPost, et al allowed one to short startups.
Pretty sure mml meant Lowe's:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/07/71358
Imagine what will happen if they are found guilty and actually get a 10 year sentence.

Every single person will think twice about attending a protest next time, which would be the end of democracy (if it isn't already gone in the USA)
True. But my point, really, was that in most circumstances even tabs mixed with spaces isn't so very bad. I mentioned Make and Python as examples of exceptions.

BTW, do you really use tabs in Python code? I've not ever encountered that.
I think Gandhi's critics understand this. The standard objection to the universal application of these techniques is that people like the Nazis would not have been awed by such a display of bravery and resolution. Had the Jews all committed mass organized suicide (the organization of which would have been almost certainly impossible... but that is a tangential objection...) the Nazis would have been pleased that the job had been done for them.

You might argue that even if Germany had been unswayed, the Americans and British would have been. That may be true, but then you are just pushing the task of using violence to stop Hitler onto another party. You haven't eliminated violence, you've just postponed it and had millions of people senselessly kill themselves instead of making the Nazis struggle with the task.
Poker Face - Lady Gaga (cover) by Dutch Party coverband Mag Het Wat Zachter
it's "kindof" funny how ignorant and hypocritical you are.

the EU is a UNION of INDEPENDENT governments. they passed their own laws that make hosting data for ANY of their citizens on servers that are physically located in the US ILLEGAL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive

PG is a BUTT
This is great news! Hopefully this will get the ball rolling so that more modern hardware can be supported with fully free software.
These kind of comments are what caused me to never comment on the internet about things. I always hated the negative tone people have on the internet and how critical they always are. Its easy to say things when you arent looking at someone in the face.

Recently I have started commenting on various websites and I am enjoying it but still those negative people come out of the woodwork given an opportunity. I too sometimes fall into that behavior but never say anything humiliating.
I watched this story on the news this morning when I woke up was rather ammusing - Breaking news "Kate and William plan to visit Australia in 5 months. And by the way Scientists discover how to reverse ageing."

Glad they have their priorities straight because you know Science is just that thing those geeks do...
This is really admirable of you. To be clear, you have nothing to defend, you only had to point out how shitty other people are.
Didn't work. :(
Extremely difficult to get a Lemote, though. I guess there's somewhere in the Netherlands that has them in stock. Shame the battery only lasts a couple hours.
If Redstone’s tech is real, cheap and ultrafast wireless Internet everywhere
A 360 picture from the inside of my mouth
Using a Ricoh camera. Nice 360 view of the world from my mouth
I strongly believe you vastly underestimate the power that lies in this system. Scripts are in fact one of the most exciting features, although some things have to be figured out yet. How are transactions not "first-class citizens"? That statement makes no sense. In fact the opposite is true. Currently everything is about 1:1 transactions, because higher order protocols have not been build out.
This is like a dream coming true. I don't like Javascript's quirks, nor programming DOM with templates nor functions. I'm looking to build somewhat complex UIs without having to think in JS and manage state. React absolves me from DOM and ClojureScript keeps JS at bay.

Only if starting ClojureScript development wasn't so hard. I'd like to use browser REPL, IDE like LightTable. I am used to LiveReload's speed which makes loading changes instantaneous. But ClojureScript compiling seems to be still slow(ish) and I have already found half a dozen of different cljsbuild configuration examples. Compiling simple cljs files can take anything from sub second to 20 secs, and I don't understand why.

Could you perhaps tell more about your development process, Swannodette? How do you develop ClojureScript apps? I don't see anything beyond base cljsbuild in Om's project.clj. I confess I haven't yet had time to play with Om and see how fast it can be compiled.
>> It would be like me saying 'Wind power is ass backward. Other power sources can achieve just as much electricity without taking up all that land.'

To me it's more like saying "everyone having a turbine and blowing on it themselves is just dumb, why not put a huge one on the common land so we don't all have to spend all day blowing at our little windmills?"

As I say, I like some of the ideas of crypto-currency but I actually consider all the decentralisation and deliberate removal of central authority from the issue a net negative.

>> As if it wasn't a trade--off.

That really depends if you place any value on what's being traded.

>> Anyway, what do these other crypto-currencies give you, if it's not decentralization?

Offline transactions, computational efficiency, various other things. But if your entire worldview is anti-centralisation and anti-government then they give you nothing, just as BTC gives me nothing I care about.
Why would one use The Anarchist Cookbook to defend themselves against heavily armed cops? I think a gun would be more effective than a tennis ball filled with match heads.
Well, Sunil and Colin, seeing that you are criminally underpaid, are you interested in opportunities elsewhere?

I will figuratively eat my underwear if you don't come to regret this strategy (public, non-anonymous open vs. internally open) at some point.
You are using reddit wrong. You don't have to use Reddit in default setting. Unsubscribe from everything and then select those subreddits that are nice. You don't have to look at comments if you don't like their contents.

There are several nice and tightly moderated reddits that are great. For example /r/askhistorians and /r/askscience and several others.
The universe outside your echo chamber.
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>> I hate Reddit so much, it's such an absolute shit hole. Pretend like it doesn't even exist, because it shouldn't. I truly believe after spending so much time on Reddit I became a worse person. I realized after a few years after taking an objective look at my life how much I had changed. If you dwell in a medium, you tend to absorb it, and that's the only medium I dwelled in.

I very strongly agree with this. When Digg did that "update-of-doom", I ended up on Reddit but I couldn't stay for longer than a year. There is way too much hate[1] on that site. And for those who say "Well, just stick with a subreddit you like" that doesn't work. Because of bitcoin, for the first time in like 3 years I went to /r/bitcoin & /r/litecoin. Didn't take me 10 minutes to run into a racist comment. For all the good deeds that happen on Reddit, I still consider it a negative net-value.

1. http://pando.com/2013/02/10/william-shatner-calls-out-reddit...
I own a T400 and it saved my back twice when sliding on ice. After 5 years of taking it everywhere, it looks like it was barely used.
I love it, but damn... a P8600 Core 2 Duo in 2013 is noticeably slow even in browsing.
Here's another great response from someone who was unfairly bullied on Reddit. "Subway Sitter" responds-- http://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/1m3pvq/being_a_workahol...
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>This realization raises interesting questions about the political motivations of Satoshi Nakamoto in presenting their creation as a digital currency when they must have known that they had solved this far more important general problem.

Why oh why must every mention of Nakamoto imbue him/them with certain politics? We're led to believe Nakamoto is a subversive anarcho-capitalist libertarian who wants to overthrow governments.

There are certainly hackers driven by ideals and politics (e.g. rms), but there are plenty more who solve a problem just because they can. The Morris worm wasn't published in order to promote anarchy. Quicksort wasn't invented as a metaphor for classism. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358561

It seems far more likely that Nakamoto saw an existing problem, solved it in a clever fashion, and published the result.
Who are on your list?

Nick Szabo.
Mike Hearn.
Hal Finney.
Wei Dai.
Whups, yes, of course you are right. Thank you!

Note that I made this dumb error in three places (two obvious, one more subtle, I'll leave it to the interested reader to see where).

But my overall critique of his analysis of radix sort is, I believe, unaffected.
Honestly I think reddit has made me a slightly better person. But only because it serves as an aggregation of awful people who I strive to be as dissimilar to as possible.
When demand wanes, the currency is harder to mine and becomes more scarce

If its harder to mine then its harder to transfer. At some point you're stuck with something worthless.
+1 Andreas.

There's lots of great things that you can do to be of help to a journalist even when you're not pitching them. For example, follow reporters you want to cover you on Twitter. They frequently have "hair on fire" requests that maybe you can help them with. I saw a reporter ask the other day, "Have any of my followers managed a Hadoop cluster?"
I have a Thinkpad T430s (previous generation) with no camera or microphone built in.
I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas (cover) by Dutch coverband Mag Het Wat Zachter
What do you want reddit for? Intelligent discourse, or links to entertaining content? I never went to it looking for the former, and I'm sure you'll agree it is consistently successful in the latter. The reddit population is a subset of the world, with an emphasis on pseudonymity and ignorance, much like almost any other public forum on the net. It's one fo the biggest communities, so it attracts the most assholes. They can't make you read, and they can't make you care, but apparently you have volunteered to do both!
same experience on the hiring side with freelancer - basically an awful waste of time.
That's interesting because I can't seem to find the exact CPU that these laptops ship with anywhere on the page. The ThinkWiki page shows that there are Core Duo (not 2!) and Core Solo variants of this laptop that exist as well.