skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is an additional question here, which is if you can return to a tech career that you started early on but abandoned when you forayed into management. But one day you realize that your hobby of programming is so much more satisfying. I am trying this right now, but it's not easy, especially since people think that you are moving downwards if you're going back into tech.
I'm also from Charleston and spent two summers painting the very tanks that are the source of this mess. The plant previously belonged to Pennzoil and was ancient when I was there as a HS student in the 70s. The place, IMO, was a leak waiting to happen just out of sheer age.
Society is a bunch of people gathering togheter because they are happier that way. If everybody is your brother, you won't be any better living alone in a field.

Yeah, other people always come with some kind of surveilance and disagreement, but that's a consequence, not the goal.
Yes, if only MLK and the civil rights marchers had been quieter and more obedient, I'm sure racism would be less of a problem today.
The "good way", as you put it, is exactly how engineering interviews work at Google. The person assigned to take the candidate to lunch is completely separate from the actual slate of interviewers, and does not submit written (or any other kind of) feedback into the hiring process.

In my team's case, it's generally the person who did the candidate's phone interview who takes them to lunch when they come on-site, but I don't know if that's a common thing.
But it's also the part where it's really hard for me to imagine how a legal opinion against Aereo could be crafted, without abridging the principles of public access to broadcast TV.

I agree, but it makes me think of when people say, "Well, you can't copyright an integer. And if I convert a DVD to a series of bits, and that series of bits expresses a very large integer, then I'm free to share that uncopyrightable number."

It's clever, and arguably true, but it just doesn't fly in real life. The color of bits bites you in the ass, and I sort of expect that to happen with Aereo as well.

Yeah, each part makes sense, but taken as a whole some judge is likely to think, "If it walks like a duck ..."

What's worse is if a judgement comes down against Aereo that, perhaps inadvertently, opens the door for abuse precisely because it ends up abridging the principles of public access to broadcast TV.
Mine will quite happily work from the other side of my house or if I'm outside gardening or something, so 15m or so. Far enough so that I can out my phone in its dock and do stuff pretty much anywhere on my block and still get notifications.
>You're looking too deeply into this, I think.

That's what HN does.

I dunno. Allow me to share some thoughts as a young woman.

I had no problem getting into computer programming when I was young.

I had no problem getting accepted to a high-ranking university and graduating mathematics.

I had no problem completing a master's in computer science.

I had no problem finding resources for programming because they're already there, written by men and women. They just don't have "women's" or "for girls" written on the cover in large, brightly-coloured, friendly script.

So I don't really see what the fuss is about. Couldn't the low number of female computer scientists be due to the fact that not many girls are actually interested in such things? Maybe women can think and perceive what is around them for themselves, and don't need charities to show them the "hidden option" of programming?

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Addendum: before somebody jumps to the conclusion that I'm from a wealthy background, I'm working class, a humble chain-smoking serf. I'm from a bloody poor family and my CV has more bartending credentials than tech. I've never even dreamed of owning a current-gen Macbook, in stark contrast to every student I see these days, all seeming to have thousands of pounds worth of hardware without working a day in their lives. I've been using the same Linux machine for half a decade.

Libraries are free. If you're interested in doing something and you have the aptitude, you don't need to be spoon-fed by liberals.
Along a slightly different track than you were originally running on, there are a number of ways in which an algorithm could promote prejudice. Consider a nice little machine-learning algorithm that analyzes characteristics of successful employees at a given company in order to select new hires that share those characteristics. If, for instance, the company had a couple rabid barbecue-lovers who made sure that all lunches primarily featured delicious pork ribs, and they made fun of the vegetarians, Jews, Muslims, and people with braces who couldn't chew the meat off the ribs, and so being a rabid lover of pork was strongly correlated with success in the company and being a non-pork-lover or hampered by braces was strongly correlated with simply leaving the company at an early stage to get a job with the rival across the street that had vegetarian and shrimp satay lunch options... well, it's just the algorithm at work, my friend! Math is truth! As a mathematician, I guarantee it.

Time for dinner. heh.
And from women. It's the way of the world.
I find this, 'don't complain, fork/fix' mentality ridiculous. Why should he? If his goal is get people off C, communicating/persuading in a developer community comments is probably more effective than him creating a project in some other language that no one would likely ever use.
Between 20 and 256 bytes. The packet received is modified and sent back, so there is no amplification.
Not to mention that the chemicals could flow downstream into a larger water system. In this case the Ohio River. Multi-state hairball.
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PG has an essay that covers a lot of how this works (2005):

http://paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html

This Techcrunch article is about convertible notes but covers some of this stuff and has some good links in it (2012):

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/07/convertible-note-seed-finan...

And a more lawyerly perspective (2010):

http://www.saul.com/media/tool/997_PDF_2534.pdf
I can say that on my June 2012 interview at the GooglePlex, the engineer showed me the paper on his clipboard and it had a feedback section but said "(not required)" next to it.

He joked that "Well, if you punch a hole in the wall I might write something". Other than that we just talked about hacking game consoles & Chromebooks & breaking out of Chrome's sandbox to reach the OS from javascript.
So are we ready for more H1B visas?
Or should we wait for the jobs move more to other countries?
Yes. A fine example is that female bio professors are biased against female bio grad students: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/science/bias-persists-agai...

Sexism is everybody's problem. (Although as a guy who has benefited from it, I think it's my job to use that unearned power to reduce the inequity.)
I would like for someone with knowledge to create an example apache config and keep it up to date.

One would think that someone from the apache project might be well suited for it.
You mean this? https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS#Apache
So helpful. Thanks for all this.

6800 subscribers. 2,665,192.34 in expenses.
50000 users.

$395 per subscriber per year. $35/mo.

Convert 10% more of users.... 5000 and it's still $20/mo.

Was this really $5/mo or $40/yr?

There had to be a story about HR plateauing and subscribers increasing an order of magnitude in 12 mo. - and it's still under water for another 2 years.

Who saw the writing on the wall and when did they start raising the warning flags? What happened from then on? What warning signs (talent leaving, investors glaring) showed up? When? How did they take form?
Dropbox.com is down
I choose to give people the benefit of the doubt regarding their own points of view, so I am forced to consider the idea that "Duck Duck Go is a good search engine" is a true fact to some people. That forces me to consider how this can possibly be true. I find it's not true for me because of all the ways I typically use Google, DDG does almost none of them. DDG doesn't have local results (search "Chinese" on Google and then on DDG). DDG doesn't have recent news (search "Earthquake" on Google and then on DDG). DDG does not have the coverage to answer a narrow technical question like "does a c++ derived class need to define its own destructor" (answer nowhere to be found on DDG; perfectly relevant stack overflow result is #1 on Google). What DDG does have is plain old search results, albeit not with Google's quality and, of course, without any personalized input.

So for those of you who find DDG's generically mediocre retrievals sufficient, I am interested to know what you use for my other cases. When you want to eat Chinese food, do you always use Yelp? What do you use for recent event news?
> They operate in complete secrecy behind the scenes.

That's not an intrinsical property of governments. In fact, it's even possible to prove that a government is transparent (I doubt any current one is), you just need to publish all the money transfers.
Android eyewear offers virtual, augmented reality
Moore’s Law in a Post-Silicon Era
I think there are "industrial design" rights, but not sure whether they apply to car designs. There would be an obvious problem of "how similar is too similar" given that car types (sedan, wagon, coupe etc.) are broadly similar across brands.

In this case the action was based on badges (a trademark violation)
Or they can get elected and introduce more rent control.
I love them as a customer though!

I recently read "The Everything Store" and and my take away was that customer is the only relationship you want with Amazon. Everyone else gets hosed.
I'm in the same position I tried (default search in all browsers for a month) but found that I was using a !g on virtually every query. Eventually I just gave up and went back to Google.
HR as a percentage of expenses will be close to or the majority in many companies, not just software or SV companies.
There is just too many beliefs, we need an app to destroy them all. /cj /s
I thought it was a test of different filesystems performance within the client os. Like fo example btrfs lzo vs ext4.
I didn't said that I want an ad-less app, I said that I don't want to have ad traffic wasting precious megabytes, not everyone lives in a country with cheap internet.
This is exactly what I was thinking. More, you can buy some used servers at well below the cost of new ones, they're perfectly serviceable.
Either way, thank you so much for putting this together and sharing it with us.
I think the best answer, probably, is that modern PHP done right uses some kind of framework, or at least a PSR-0 autoloader, url routing, proper data security and some kind of templating to separate the logic from the view.

It can (and has been) argued that PHP is itself a templating language and that the added abstraction of something like Twig is unnecessary... while that's technically true, scaling that gets you trainwrecks like Wordpress' API, where it's all but impossible to write plugins without mixing html in with the code. You also get nice things like macros, auto-escaping, and caching with a template engine, and you would probably end up having to reimplement a lot of that at some point anyway.

Although what Laravel uses (blade) for templating looks pretty close to bare PHP, so there's plenty of room for minimal abstraction.

But all of it is light-years ahead of the nightmare that is typical legacy PHP.
Well, is blackmail a kind of violence? (honest question)
Only 42% of those who reviewed drafts of this article are men - a pretty clear case of bias. We're going to need an article about how to fix an industry that's dominated by women (and don't get me started about those manicure shops!)

I think those of us who have watched PG over time already knew this, but isn't it easy to target someone successful when you have a cause? And how dare they not change?

P.S. It would be interesting to see whether YC is picking winners among the female founders they select ... their formula (as I understand it) seems pretty gender neutral.
At $500, there are FAR better monitors.

You keep repeating this as if it is some magic mantra. You have not defined any what "better" really means in manner that can be quantified and compared without introducing subjective opinions of a user.

Also, care to link to these "better" monitors, including sellers that sell these for the $500 price, as well as non-subjective reviews?
Jeez, the white-knighting on her user:talk page is atrocious...

I say good riddance. We don't need paid shills in the WMF and we certainly don't need them writing and reviewing articles. There are enough issues, as is, with idiotic editors/reviewers and "policy" that those users have pushed as de jure.
And some alternative to centralized social networks.
Rails Turbolinks adds transition cache to make pages load in zero time
These are very interesting numbers. Obviously the financials are not well suited to the VC-backed startup model, but I wonder if Everpix could have been successful as a small business run by a small handful of people.
Why Americans Stopped Moving to the Richest States
Yes.

And if you don't join it, they'll also go out of their way to spy on you.
The first organization on "The Day We Fight Back" is the EFF. If you want to raise awareness, take part in this thing. And go to EFF meetups this month.
As a long time EFF supporter in spirit and dollars I have to say this is a strange way of coalition building. Since ycombinator previously supported a similar effort it seems like they would be thought of as allies. Whenever I have been involved in a project like this allies and previous supporters were contacted privately. This sort of "open letter" is the kind of thing you do to pressure (read shame) someone into doing something that they have expressed reservations about doing.

I still support the cause but this is not how you treat friends or conduct a political activism campaign.

Addendum:

It is possible that the folks at ycombinator were previously contacted. If that is the case this letter should say so, if only to let current allies know that they do not need to worry about being bullied into continued support.
Just to point out, lactose intolerance exists at low levels in Norway. I wouldn't recommend ensuring that the lactose intolerant drink lots of milk just because it's part of the culture.
I spent about 6 months in management and it was the worst experience in my career. I will never do that again. I'm back to writing code. I don't know why anyone would want to be a manager.
Thanks for this -- looks very nice. Now, has anyone any experience with hg-flow (a mercurial extension that helps following a git-flow like model with mercurial)?

https://bitbucket.org/yujiewu/hgflow/wiki/Home
DDG's policy is to not log personally identifiable data. Google's present business model is based on logging enormous amounts of personally identifiable data. Your search history for at least 18 months. Cross-correlation between Search, YouTube, Gmail, G+, and other services. And on and on. I detail much of this in the blog entry linked.

DDG could be forced to put an upstream intercept which would log searches by specific IPs, but that's outside their normal operational scope. It also applies only to data-on-the-wire, not data-at-rest. In Google's case, your aggregated history is sitting on their servers to be collected at any time.

If you don't trust DDG not to log your searches, going through Tor will give you yet another degree of separation (there are also browser extensions such as DisconnectSearch: https://disconnect.me/search).

As sobering as the disclosures from Snowden, Applebaum, and others have been, the news appears to be that cryptographic methods do work to protect privacy or at the very least greatly increase workload for surveillance.

And another aspect is that by encouraging and promoting alternatives to Google, we're carving out at least a small niche in which privacy-focused entrants to a vastly concentrated search market (Google scores in the neighborhood of 85% of all search according to some metrics I've seen) might be able to thrive.
You can already do that; invest in existing companies that pay a dividend. They're established and they understand that their investors value their continued profits more than risky behavior.
Why do we need the Private Web?
You know, there's a privacy policy (https://duckduckgo.com/privacy) and information page (http://donttrack.us/) on just that.
I got the silent treatment from Intel as well, though in my case it came after I had gone through an initial interview at an event here in Dallas. I got a message from someone down in the Atom V&V group in Austin that they were interested in bringing me down for an additional interview, and that was the end of communications. I never got a response to any of the follow-up emails I sent.

Strangely, I got an email from someone in HR down in Austin about a year later that was very similar to the one I got after the Dallas interview event. Again, no one responded to me after that initial email.
I did the Amazon lunch interview back in school. It was every bit as strange as you describe it. It was presented as non-evaluative, but it involved a fair number of behavioral questions and a case study. I'm guessing those questions weren't just my interviewer's way of making small talk.

I had a great time visiting the company, and I ended up with an offer. (Ultimately I decided to go elsewhere, mainly for family reasons that were pressing at the time.) But the lunch interview was completely draining.

By the end of the lunch I'd eaten about two bites of salad. Needless to say, my blood sugar tanked, and it's amazing I made it through the rest of the day. :)
> Secondly, the Seiki is not a "good" monitor. It isn't even a "good" TV. The only thing Seiki has is pixel density and cheapness, it is awful in every other measurable way, without a doubt one of the worst panels I have ever purchased. I can't fathom how you can justify calling it "good". Excluding resolution -- can you even name a single thing you like about it, that you think is a cut above?

Do you have an ax to grind, or is this just typical HN pedantry?

The reviews on Amazon for this display is a solid 4.0 from 200+ reviews -- hardly the shite quality you seem to be suggesting. Given that the thesis of the article is that this would be great for programmers (i.e. not designers or the color obsessed), the fervor to which you're arguing the point seems misplaced.
I had the same deal, position was in so-cal but wanted to interview in seattle.

My experience wasn't great. I was put in a small window-less cell and quizzed by people who didn't prepare and I ended up answering the same questions about myself and my background for almost every interviewer. I had a real hard time with a manager-type person who kept on asking me the same non-technical question over and over even when I tried to prod for clarification. He didn't explain why my answer wasn't cutting it, he just kept re-asking it. Like he was taunting me as my answers harmlessly bounced off his bureaucratic shield bubble.

I felt I did pretty well given the circumstances but I guess the manager spiked it because I wasn't offered the position.
If you want to display ads in your app, you can display ads promoting your products, or sell ads by yourself, this is what I meant with "do something clever when connected via wifi".

Maybe in the country you live the mobile internet is cheap and unmetered, but the appstore is international, if you don't want to deal with international users, you are free to lock your app by region. It's not your God-given right to use the user's data plan as you wish, even worse, in some countries you are going to waste your user's money in many orders of magnitude to perceive a cent (or less) for a banner.

If you are not going to care about your users, then don't complain about users not caring about your efforts.
This is troll under the guise of charity.

It's provocative, distracting and subverting - Introducing a politically sensitive, racially charged, artificial problem.

This will incite anger through political correctness. The cause is bogus.

Snubbing it is politically incorrect to criticize women and ethnic minorities in the west.

Non sequitur, PC trolls like this can do as much distracting as they please.

Why not bring up english? There are many people who are engineers who would benefit from localized API and developer documentation and understanding english better.

If you want discrimination in engineering - I'm surprised no one brings up english.

Edit to below: Sorry for editing this after your reply. I didn't notice.
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Did you miss the point about getting kicked out and getting forced to leave with nowhere to go ?

That "might" be the violence and degradation they're talking about.

Just saying.
if you set DDG as your default browser, you don't have to enter the URL. Just your search term and <enter>.
The act of improving your product is not marketing, but deciding to improve it and what to improve is marketing. The same applies to reducing friction.
I wonder how much of the resentment to owning hardware comes from the "fail fast" approach - if you're trying to vet a business model quickly or move onto the next thing, having actual physical assets to take care of if the company ends up failing could be an off-putting extra complexity for some people vs just clicking "delete instance" with some virtualized provider.
In a scenario where a company is being shut down and there is still cash in the bank, the remaining funds would be distributed to the investors.
PHP may not be the shit that it used to be, but why use it over anything else? I'd rather use Python or Ruby with their respective MVC frameworks.
In First Day With Bitcoin, Overstock Does $126,000 in Sales
You can reverse an ACH. A wire, a wire is readonly. But an ACH can be reversed.

That said, if they did that it would certainly suppress the number of buyers. As is, I would only buy on a site like that because I know I'm ultimately protected on all returns by American Express. Hell, it's nothing personal, i feel the same way about shopping at a Department store or Amazon.com or whatever. My Amex lets me return anything (up to a $$ amount) for 90 days regardless of whatever anti-consumer BS return policy the store might dream up.
Maybe its poor semantics, but I'm not really sure where this nerd/marketer divide is coming from.

One of them is a type of person/personality and the other is a job description.
I've been hacking since childhood but my formal education took longer than normal (becoming a teen parent meant I had to work full-time and go to school part-time). I had 2 technology jobs before starting my own companies. I've had my own startups/businesses since 2000 and I'm now in my late 30s.

My biggest fear career-wise is that, should my company go under or sell for non-FU money, I am basically un-hireable. I feel like I am a founder until death or retirement now. Most of me is fine with that because I love it, but part of me would like having the other option.

I even wonder if being an older founder makes it hard to hire young talent or raise money. Dave McClure even said on TWiS that they don't even want founders over 40 in their accelerator.

Fortunately, I've got plenty of skills, experience and I look younger than I am (I pluck the gray hairs out of my beard). We shall see ...
thank you! so much thank you. wow.