skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contractually, any new employer in the same market is going to want to make sure that you're allowed to work for them, that you won't be in breach of any non-competes, non-disclosure, or confidentiality agreements both with your startup and its customers.

Companies large enough to have an HR department, or small enough that hiring is a low priority, won't be able to turn on a dime and make you an offer right away. It can take weeks to get your resume reviewed internally, weeks to schedule interviews, and weeks to make an offer. You need to start applying right away because you're potentially going to be unemployed for three to six months. Better two of those months be while you still have a paycheck.

In interviews, coming from a startup is going to be a red flag for larger companies. If I were interviewing you, I'd grill you pretty hard about whether you really wanted to be an employee, or whether you were just licking your wounds until your next startup was ready to go, and then you'd bail on us. If I had any sense you were a flight risk, or you might be dissatisfied working on a team instead of in a multiple-hats/leadership position, it doesn't matter if you were perfect for the job, you'd get a "no," because companies want people who will stick around.

All of that said, now's a great time to be looking: everyone's back from vacation, and they all have new budgets to start spending (or are getting things lined up to), because fiscal years often start Jan.1 or Apr.1.
It also cemented their file formats as the industry standard. The network effect is still strong even today.
I think it's a sign of how bad most people are at critical thinking, how willing they are to be led around by bad information wrapped up in an attractive way, and how technology has made it much easier for all involved to spread their opinions far and wide.

I seriously doubt that there's any more mistrust than there ever has been. But now, instead of churning out a few flyers about UFOs and distributing them to those who will take them, the nutcases can instead put up a web site and get a million readers.
I worked as a front end dev for a very large company/codebase. Sounds to me like you are writing pretty shoddy CSS and using things you aren't supposed to be using yet. For example Flexbox.
The complainant even provided the fix (Toroid cores, often seen as those lumps on USB cables) for free, installed and everything. In response the emitting neighbor went and...

"You apparently discarded the toroid devices, tossing them in Mr. (deleted) yard. The devices were simple and non-intrusive, and we can envision no reason whatsoever for you not to continue using them, other than a desire to be uncooperative."

Dabbling in RTL-SDR for a bit quickly brought me up against the interference monster, and since the USB sticks are typically powered by bus if no direct power modifications are done one of those sources of interference was hooked right into the receiver. Toroid cores either clipped on or looped were indeed the answer for quieting the cable. This doesn't help much if the interfering device is emitting really badly off the board itself though so manufactures shielding their devices as a standard is rather welcome.
> Maybe some effort should be put into making it much easier to use external libraries in a C++ IDE then?

If you're coding to a specific IDE, it can be made pretty simple.

> They have NuGet for .NET in Visual Studio, you'd think this could be done for native software.

You're quite correct, it can be done for native software. Apparently, even has:
http://blog.nuget.org/20130426/native-support.html

I won't hold my breath for XCode or KDE to support the same, though.

> It is actually far easier to do this on Linux with package managers, which is sad for Windows imho.

Equally sad, I've found this doesn't apply much beyond "Hello World".
Well if economists agree I guess we should pass laws implementing it and send imperial storm troopers to put down any curs who dare to dissent!
I think it will take time for them to regain their rankings for non-branded keywords.

I just searched for justin Bieber lyrics and they are sitting in middle of page 3 on google.

They are ranking for branded searches, but not money keywords.

Although long term, I see this being a net positive for them due to the thousands of backlinks they got from all the press around this story.

I see it taking them several months to regain rankings...especially if the links they disavowed were artificially propping them up.
If the five eyes already have information sharing agreements, doesn't it mean that based on a tip from an NSA agent, a GCHQ agent (or Canadian, Australian, NZ...) could investigate, and then the contents of that investigation could be seen by the NSA under the sharing agreement? And it's okay because it's not your data they're looking at, but the report on the data? Probably wrong here, but it sounds just weasel-wordy enough to pass muster.
I always use a .onion xmpp server. Moxie has a review of gibberbot somewhere on his blog and all its TLS failings
> This is great for all iPhone users

Except for those with a phone older than the 5S, who now can't use this feature anymore because Apple wants to sell them a new phone.
Yeah, but at least if they're spouting total nonsense it's easier to identify and ignore ;)
Wow that was a great video. Big fan of Kanye's earlier stuff and some of the newer stuff, always appreciated the samples but great to see where they come from. Very varied. Everything from classical to Michael Jackson to Daft Punk.
In this post Snowden era, any time I hear the phrase "I must assume … ", I automatically have to wonder just how well founded that assumption is any more.

You're _probably_ right.

A year ago I would have said you were "probably right" if you told me the NSA wasn't recording metadata for almost every phone call, email, and website visit.
Why I'm Leaving
This happens to me in the morning sometimes; songs seem to be in the wrong key for a bit after I first wake up.
Wow. I can't imagine that happening at your standard public school nowadays. What high school did you go to?
It is a timeless classic which will draw you in if you give it the chance it deserves. If you find parts to be a bit heavy, you can speed up or slow down per your personal preference. I chose to slow down and read all the more carefully. I feel I was truly rewarded for the effort but believe that hurrying through such parts would be a viable alternative -- certainly better than abandoning the book as often seems to happen.

It's my favorite book. I recommend you do try it.
No, the article still poo-poos the long-term impact of this disaster. If they're going to write an article about this topic, they should properly research it. So the TEPCO-mob connection is relevant and it still stands that it's a deceptive piece of propaganda.

Thank you for actually following a provided link. Despite the lack of coverage on this issue from so-called respected news sources, there are other articles.

You're calling me out on not making "proper" backing to my claims when the original article is a snopes propaganda piece? What sort of standard are you holding me to?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2013/04/10/epa-draft...

Happy?
It makes me wonder how much one could shift all my music up without me noticing. I feel like I would be able to tell something was fishy once it got more than a whole step higher.
10-10, shots fired.
I did not flag it because it goes against my political views. I flagged because it is run-of-the-mill political showmanship, not legitimate news.
Does it have a legit IMEI? I've read about phones with IMEI set to all zeroes and/or configurable in a secret menu. What model is the phone?
> On the other hand, I for one would happily throw such brittle, unportable code under the bus in the name of automatically reduce cache line missing.

Spoken like someone who's never been forced to fix such code left behind by previous coders.

> About the only safe usage of structure memory layout that I can think of is offsetof, and even then, I think you could make offsetof's behaviour definable in the ABI to make it deterministic.

Sure, especially considering offsetof is standard defined and allowed to be compiler implemented AFAIK. That said, you bring up a great point: You're talking about breaking decades old ABIs if you were to enable such memory layout reordering by default. Good luck tracking down updated .libs or original source to build .libs from for every single one of your dependencies!
There is an interesting dichotomy here. Google does read your mind, in the sense that it uses available information from both your previous searching history and your existing interests in gmail, G+, and basically any web site with a +1 button. So when you search for something it takes all the things that it knows about, prioritizes by the things it knows you are interested in (this is the mind reading part), and then picks the best result to show you. Voila, great result.

If the last web site you visited was for the Audubon Society and the next thing you search for is Cardinals you will get a page about birds on the first result, but if you had just recently looked for tickets to a ball game on Ticketmaster you will get the baseball team as your first result.

One of the more fascinating things that DDG's "Dontbubbleme" campaign did, was expose just how big a swing in the results your 'meta data' has. People who are running Chrome and are "logged into Google" get very different results than people who make a query with no context following them around.

In the latter case everyone has to resort to giving you the pages that "most" people clicked on from your geographic region [1].

Bing and Google have pretty much exact equivalence if you remove tracking and geo context. (IP blind / cookie blind / search).

[1] For even more fun, set up proxy servers in various data centers around the country and do searches with no cookies or context, and proxied to different geographies. Very enlightening.
One thing that stood out during my reading was Hofstadter's speculation on the reproduction of viruses. We have a much better understanding of that now and it doesn't match his speculation.

Thats the only thing that comes to mind and it's only a minor quibble.
The conflict has nothing to do with the federal government requiring the state government to outlaw marijuana. The conflict is, possessing, selling, or in any other way distributing marijuana is a federal offense. From the Controlled Substances Act [1]

"§ 844. Penalties for simple possession.

"(a) Unlawful acts; penalties
"It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally to possess a controlled substance unless such substance was obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice, or except as otherwise authorized by this subchapter or subchapter II of this chapter. Any person who violates this subsection may be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both, except that if he commits such offense after a prior conviction under this subchapter or subchapter II of this chapter, or a prior conviction for any drug or narcotic offense chargeable under the law of any State, has become final, he shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment for not less than 15 days but not more than 2 years, and shall be fined a minimum of $2,500, except, further, that if he commits such offense after two or more prior convictions under this subchapter or subchapter II of this chapter, or two or more prior convictions for any drug or narcotic offense chargeable under the law of any State, or a combination of two or more such offenses have become final, he shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment for not less than 90 days but not more than 3 years, and shall be fined a minimum of $5,000. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, a person convicted under this subsection for the possession of a mixture or substance which contains cocaine base shall be imprisoned not less than 5 years and not more than 20 years, and fined a minimum of $1,000, if the conviction is a first conviction under this subsection and the amount of the mixture or substance exceeds 5 grams, if the conviction is after a prior conviction for the possession of such a mixture or substance under this subsection becomes final and the amount of the mixture or substance exceeds 3 grams, or if the conviction is after 2 or more prior convictions for the possession of such a mixture or substance under this subsection become final and the amount of the mixture or substance exceeds 1 gram. The imposition or execution of a minimum sentence required to be imposed under this subsection shall not be suspended or deferred. Further, upon conviction, a person who violates this subsection shall be fined the reasonable costs of the investigation and prosecution of the offense, including the costs of prosecution of an offense as defined in sections 1918 and 1920 of title 28, except that this sentence shall not apply and a fine under this section need not be imposed if the court determines under the provision of title 18 that the defendant lacks the ability to pay."

1. http://www.fda.gov/regulatoryinformation/legislation/ucm1487...
Love that blog, thanks for pointing me at it.
Influential.

Mash-up. Fusion. Outside the box.

Not a revolution, but a diversionary mind bender in its day.

A format much imitated since.
I was traveling in Tokyo on 3/11 and still have to fend off questions about my health when I tell people about it.

I did cut my trip short, flew out on 3/15. I wasn't worried about the radiation, I just didn't feel comfortable taking up resources in a country that had just suffered so much damage. In fact, I recently got back from a 3 week trip around Japan to finish my original trip.
Apparently the calcium deposits in the water did a good enough job coating the lead that it ended up not causing much of an issue (from what I recall on History channel). Also, wouldn't the Romans have developed a resistance to lead poisoning after enough generations?
I agree with you on most points. The "even if" was a reference to what others give as reasons for not helping the homeless.
i wouldn't worry about the appetite suppressant effect. Also exercise (and cannabis) will definitely help with appetite.

Can't stress enough the effects of exercise. Makes your body run better, provides confidence, provides a positive routine to orient your life around, makes girls notice, etc. I do 3 sets of pushups ever other day (started doing this when I was 30, now I'm 34), and it has had a massive effect on virtually everything in my life.

Do not take 5-HTP if you are on any other serotonin-related drugs
Mysterious Light Associated with Earthquakes Now Linked to Geologic Rift Zones
7 Alternative Clients for Social apps in Android
That was mean Thomas.
Good post. I also think the last point on healthy eating and exercise is very important. I remember when I was back on diet and in a good shape I could get away with less sleep and my mind was fresher and overall I felt good all the time. Feeling good brings positive thinking and at the end productivity in all aspect of ones life. This together with the extra time you get (sleeping 6 hours instead of 7, not feeling drowsy for 40 minutes after lunch, etc.) makes a huge difference. That's why I am also getting back to diet this year.

And I want to try one more thing that probably falls into the mental health category: meditation.

Tamas
"This is probably just a stockpile replenishment"

That doesn't sound researched .. why did you mention that if you haven't researched it enough to take a position?
For those that don't know C, basically preprocessing (cpp, gcc -E, clang -E) is one of the first steps to occurs before the C compiler is invoked. It's easiest to think of the preprocessor as a templating language that can be used (or abused) to DRY up code and make it easier to maintain and customize. So the only thing that ever really gets compiled is the amalgamated processed .c files altered and configured by .h files and preprocessor options.
What don't you like about Windows? (Prolix comment request)
...and not drive there.
We have been discussing the idea on and off. We even had a proof of concept for one of the earlier ARM-based devices (SheevaPlug) but we have decided to concentrate on the most popular applications/platforms first (for example, we also supported Solaris at one point but stopped). We are a very small team so it is a matter of where to focus :-/
> I wondered why patents are no concern for a competitor of Google (they have various broad and trivial patents on using historical data, user feedback, moderation for better search results).

How exactly are server-side patents enforced? When the hardware on which the infringement is occurring isn't exposed to the public, how can anyone verify its presence? I know that for some (many?) of Google's search patents, there might be an indication on the client side if infringement were occurring, but I imagine that there are also many patents for which this isn't the case.
>For those that do lose their jobs, their effect is extremely negative.

Raising the minimum wage does not lead to higher unemployment.

>For those who do not lose their jobs, the fact that they didn't lose their jobs is indicative of more major problems...they either don't understand the value of their labor, or they don't know how to negotiate with their employers

That's paternalistic bullshit. In reality, they can't afford to have a long term time horizon. They usually need a job quickly and cannot afford to hold out for a better one.
That's the thing, I actually think that's just how people without absolute pitch think it would be like, but everyone with absolute pitch that I've talked to describe different pitches as different "buckets" - categorically, qualitatively distinct.

edit: I suspect this conversation won't lead anywhere because there isn't good language to talk about phenomenology. But I think we both understand the other's hypothesis.
This may be true of front end devs in SF, but not in the agency world. Agencies need really competent HTML coders that can slice up designs into cross browser compatible HTML as quickly as possible. In most cases, elementary knowledge with jQuery suffices, and you'll never need to deal with node, angular, or backbone. When you're making websites for big clients, you have to deal with things like browser compatibility on every version of IE back to 7 (and yes, it is expected that those rounded borders work on IE7 and render the same as in chrome). You need an HTML star to pull that off.

Many of the frontend dev's I know graduated with art degrees and have little interest in backend or architectural coding. Their career path tends to lead more towards design or UX.
I'm guessing you're not a musician.
Simulacra and Simulation was actually his fake book on the bookshelf: http://thelatestreviewer.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/simulac...
What are you expecting it to be?

Pretentious? I don't think it pretends to be anything other that what is is: A book that weaves together similar ideas, basically, self-reference and the resulting paradoxes and mystery that self-reference can generate, from the the worlds of art, music and math in an entertaining way for the layman.

Outdated? It's a classic, and cannot go "out-of-date" as in "invalid". In the same way that Bach's music, Escher's art, or Gödel's proof cannot go out of date, they can only become "dated".

Should you read it? Only you can decide if your time would be more richly spent on something else, but I suspect the answer is yes, reading GEB is probably a good use of your time.
For those who aren't familiar with this saga, Richard Stallman went on to found the Free Software Foundation about 10 years later and, in my opinion, has proven to Gates that you don't need to make software proprietary in order to make money.
Exactly right. there's a biiig difference between shooting a UPS/Fedex/USPS driver and shooting a drone. Kids I knew growing up wouldn't hesitate, not 1 second, throwing rocks, or shooting something, anything, at a drone... that is, if we had such a thing back then...

these drones will need to have anti-projectile and defensive maneuvering systems from day 1.
A little older but similar idea (and fun to watch) - remaking of The Prodigy's "smack my bitch up":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU5Dn-WaElI
And you forgot to add, the lack of API and support on a lot of products even on a fresh start-up. Check out for example, Google Data API 1.0 (GData 1.0) and GData 2.0 the newest. They have Python stuff for GData 1.0 (Google Data Python Library) using Python 2.5 in examples and zero libraries on Python in the GData 2.0 API. But even if they did build a library for Python 3.3, I would have to get DataNitro and a few others I love playing with to work on 3.
I think if you are a front end designer and don't know javascript, you will become irrelevant very quickly.
I have the same habit and I've been trying to break it. Seeing the discourse ahead of time really tends to poison your initial impressions when you finally get around to reading it.
Fun update, a Google executive just emailed me to say how much he liked this post.

So there's that.
With interesting discussion partners, it can make a great book club read, as there are so many possible tangents.
The Noise Cycle
OK, I'll respond to this and harryh's at the same time. First of all, "distortion" is relative to what economic model you're starting with - so it can get a bit tricky, and I'm not very concerned with using the absolute correct technical term. But I'll make my case from the ground up:

Unemployment has a downward effect on wages because there's more competition for every job, just like competition between firms for employees will increase wages. Ideally these things will all even out. Unfortunately in our current economy we have high market concentration (so low competition between firms for employees which decreases wages) and high unemployment (so high competition for each job which also decreases wages). So we see lower wages from what they would be under Perfect Competition (or an ideally functioning free market) where I'm told it's impossible for these things to persist.

Minimum wage laws put a limit on how much firms can wield this market power given to them by market conditions. Without minimum wage/collective bargaining of some sort (and without technological advances, etc.) history and economic theory agree that firms will tend to push wages down to subsistence levels in order to maximize profits. Minimum wage is not the greatest tool, and I don't actually like it - but I do think it should be higher. We have a lack of good options at the moment so we're left picking the best of the bad.

But why do I call it a distortion? Large enough unemployment, coupled with lack of competition between firms for employees causes such a shift that the free market is barely distinguishable from slavery for those at the bottom (subsistence wages are literally only enough to survive and keep working.) So I throw around the word distortion because I'm trying to communicate that unemployment gives such a large amount of market power to employers that the market becomes fundamentally different from what we expect in a Free Market.
On top of that, the dry skin problems I had with liquid soap are gone.

I would point out that soap, by its very nature, removes oil from skin (including sebum) "drying" it out. You may have been using an overly harsh (read: effective) liquid soap, but for many people, all soaps will dry out their skin to the point where they could use something like lanolin to rehydrate it.
I was with you until you implied Linux can't be back-doored. There's nothing about Linux that makes it immune to rootkits or backdoors despite what the hype would have you believe. Remember, Apple used to say the same thing about Macs, but you don't hear a lot of that rhetoric nowadays.