skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From this week's "Corner Office" in the NYT, about hiring:

What I’m mainly listening for is: Does this person believe things are happening for them, for a positive reason, regardless of what actually happened? Or do they believe that things are happening to them and against them? Do they hold a grudge against events, or do they believe they were a gift?

I’ll listen for whether they say things like, “I’m so glad that actually happened, because I learned this and this.” Or do they believe that there’s sort of a conspiracy out to harm them? Because if you work for me, you’re either going to think I’m here to help you, regardless of what I do, or you’re going to think I’m here to get you. I really don’t want the latter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/business/shawn-jenkins-of-...
Why do we need this to be a hard line? Putting "having kids kills startups" on one side and "parents are the best founders" on the other seems to be at best an oversimplification and at worst outright detrimental to both groups. I'm pretty sure most everybody here knows somebody who got motivated after having kids (or any other major life event), as well as somebody who became less motivated in their own career after such an event.

I get that putting everybody into cute little boxes with solid walls separating them from the other groups makes things easier on our brains, but we'd probably be a lot better off if we tried to imagine others complexly, because that's the reality.
I look at the loading scenes in GTAV and I wish the game looked like that, rather than the 'uncanny valley' that it is.

Borderlands II is a great example of not trying to do something you cant, instead it has great art that you can lose yourself in.
I don't like being negative about things like this.. but you're not removing a learning curve with something like this, you are delaying it and spreading it out over time with interest payments - the time spent going back and learning fundamentals - along the way.

Setting up your own development environment is an absolute must. It is the computing world's mise en place.
I'm not sure why you felt the need to add "a better light weight", why not just say "Netbeans also got Java 8 support"? This isn't the place to start a flamewar.
There have also been rumors about Amdocs [1] being kind of the Israeli counterpart. They do billing for telcos (i.e. determine who talked to whom for how long). The list of their customers is quite impressive.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdocs
"Illegal" in the same way that saying "No" to congress when the real answer was "Yes" is. Then later explaining that iw was "the least possible untruthful answer".

The NSA have twisted their use of language - to try and claim that "recording phone calls of US citizens" isn't an illegal act until a human being listens to one of those recordings.

I'm 99.999% sure that a "jury of peers" would not interpret the law that way. (Which might be why the need "special courts" without juries…)
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Presumably, by figuring out a way to get paid to do whatever you would do in your side projects. For example, build a component of the company's online service in X, to learn X.
Carl Icahn is scum. He does serve a purpose, and scum cleans out scum every once in a while. But I believe he is a virus and a destructive force dismantling companies for personal gain. Although he is scum, if there were virus's like him, large companies would live on forever and have nothing to fear. Interesting mechanics at work.
Well said. Logging in java is a complete mess. Logging should be easy, yet it can suck days of your time to get all the various loggers, facades, and libraries to play nice together.
Which board are you using? That assumption might be right on many of them, but there are, of course, boards with majority female users and everyone there knows that.

And only a few of them get that angry - there's not much user crossover between every topical board.

The racial epithets only persist as long as a mod isn't looking (global rule #2), but "correcting someone's assumptions" is also against the rules (global rule #6), since it's offtopic! So it shouldn't be the majority of a post.
I personally find Newsweek to be wrong in what they did, regardless of whether they are right or wrong in their conclusion. In the end, I think we should be respecting this person's desire for anonymity instead of trying to expose him.
For your own sanity just set up an email filter on the word "unsubscribe".
Gone in 60 Seconds?
Agreed, maybe I didn't express it right, I don't perceive myself as boring in any way, drinking got replaced by skydiving haha :)
Developer here - this is my first public facing project. I pulled this together after work over the past few months.

I'd love to get any and all feedback. Longboxed is developed using the Flask python framework and is being served up on Heroku.
Round LCD display can already be bought online (for example: http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/round-lcd-display.html)
Some suppliers can provide 5000 items per day.

I think they are used in cars as dials and gauges.
If you do a startup while having a family, you are either desperate (can't get a decent job) or truly motivated by your idea (in the way true believers are and don't get a job by choice).
Cool. What we write here has an impact on someone on the other end. 'sama is mostly human too, despite magically colored collared polos.
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Do they bother to inform us how many pages each notebook contains? 10? 100? Seems pretty fundamental to me.
What is complex about the type system?
Did Flash ever compile to JS+HTML?
Not sure if it is not in USA...
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Judges in any of those state, bound by the Supremacy clause, will have to throw out those cases following Lawrence v Texas. If they won't do it, a federal court will be glad to do it on their behalf.
Too bad it's not WebGL 2.0.
Since this is inherently a moving-goalposts conversation, I am not going to argue with you. I will say that, speaking as a graphics programmer who has been writing advanced renderers for more than 20 years, I do think the sense of your comment is wrong. In my working life alone, I have seen the state of the art progress from 4-color pixelated 2D, to the current Frostbite/Unreal level engines. I believe that already crosses most of the gap from nothing, to photorealism. I am also thinking more about rendering than all the other things people are discussing in this thread. I also do not think the incredible and dramatic progress in rendering can be sensibly compared to the ongoing slow progress in AGI. Again, we all know that with graphics, it's all an approximation. Perhaps you, being of a later generation, have much higher standards. You don't say what you don't think is coming in the next decade, and you can set that bar arbitrarily high, so I don't see this discussion becoming productive.
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Hitler used it to great effect... was actually one of his primary tools.
> “I learned this great lesson of my life,“ he said. “The way to get things done is to just be really f*g persistent. … I had this philosophy of going to every door and every window.”

Nothing more true than that.

Really excited to see where Sam takes things; he's super smart and very inspiring.
Don't forget #3: careerism's benefits are vastly overstated in culture because that's what Western society fixates on. Reading LinkedIn's 'influencer' articles makes me want to vomit: yet another treatise on why I'm not working hard enough to get the precious corner office or that promotion. (Who writes this crap?)

As I get older I get wiser, and I'm not so stupidly entertained by the occasional trinkets thrown to me by my career. Everything works better when it's in it's proper place -- balanced. It took several years of imbalance, lots of misplaced ambition, and a severe burnout to realize this. I don't expect that I would have figured it out until I experienced it firsthand.

It's just a job. It doesn't define you, and you don't have to make a difference to be a worthwhile person.
Every Webpage has a purpose. What's yours?
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Being gay, I also found it particularly interesting. Akin to the Female Founders Conference, it's energizing to see successful LGBT founders.
Yeah I think that is a good idea. But to be fair: your example is only 1 line and has no business logic.
I really like how marionette's event aggregators work for passing messages around on a higher level. I use marionette on the server for almost entirely that, and it's module system.

I realized recently while evaluation angular what it is I really like about backbone, and why I consider it a 'foundational' technology.

It's constrained scope and development history means I'm not actively expecting it to get more complex over time. The releases feel like they are more just 'tightening up' the formula.
I like the license, I like the level and style of documentation, I like the lean scope, and I like the timing as I've just started looking into an MVC framework to learn. I was going to choose react over angular but now I'm going to choose this over either.
> Couple that with the fact that he saw C# and .NET for what it was, Java done right

C# has been a step up over Java, while .NET went in the other direction, getting all the things that Java got right backwards. In spite of .NET being heralded as the second coming of Java back in 2003, Java is stronger than ever and the ecosystem is probably much bigger than .NET will ever be.

The problem that Microsoft always had, and I don't fully understand the dynamics at play here, is with the ecosystem they've grown. Whether this was on purpose, or due to platform limitations, or it just happened because they attracted the wrong kind of expectations, or maybe because of cultural issues, is up for debate. But the fact is the ecosystem is extremely weak and filled with snake oil offerings, with .NET developers waiting for Microsoft to throw solutions over the wall for everything, while complaining about Java's fragmentation, when in fact Java's fragmentation is its bigger strength, as it's based on open-source that survives and competes and evolves and is a much healthier situation than the clusterfuck that happens when a paternalistic company is in charge, like with Windows Forms/XAML/Silverlight/HTML5.

Yes, Java as a language sucks, but focusing on that while ignoring the JVM and the whole ecosystem around it is a pretty shallow comparisson. Hats off to Miguel, he saw something that he liked and built his own version. But for devs looking to make choices, without imposed constraints, picking .NET over Java makes no sense whatsoever.

Even the original motto, with .NET being a runtime for multiple languages whereas Java was a language for multiple platforms proved in the end to be false. The JVM is not only multi-platform, but technically speaking it is much better at hosting other languages, with proof being the alternative languages implementations such as Clojure, Scala, JRuby, Jython, Groovy and Rhino, all of them popular and with healthy communities.

Here's what Erik Meijer has to say about Scala, btw: https://twitter.com/headinthebox/status/438355100310831104

Here's what the Java ecosystem routinely does, as open-source: http://www.robovm.com/ ; http://oss.readytalk.com/avian/ ; https://github.com/google/j2objc

And here's the best IDE ever, coming from the same people that are making Visual Studio usable: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/
a subset of a language is not the language itself. asm.js is not javascript.
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Sarah Slocum accused of recording neighbors
The 777 aircraft reports ACARS (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System) every thirty minutes and it is typical of pilots flying overseas to squawk transponder code 2000 immediately after signing off from the regional ATC. If a secondary radar was not listening to the 2000 frequency it would have no record of the plane in that region. So, if the plane did go down in the 30 minute block between the ACARS transmission, AND AFTER the sign off, it would easily explain the radio silence, because the plane wasn't silent, it just wasn't transmitting & was not visible to secondary radar.

Obviously, this means the plane had to go down very quickly (because it had so much altitude) and while being a consolidated mass (blown up or shattered planes scatter debris which are easily identified). It's very possible they suffered from an electrical failure from a fire, but it's much more plausible there was some control surface failure. For example in Alaska Airlines 261's case the horizontal stabilizer jack-screw failed unconstraining the entire horizontal stabilizer causing the plane immediately dive 31,000ft and hit the water in under 5 minutes.
Here's your fucking evidence:

The FBI had access to the Boston bombers phone calls.

* http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/government_programs-july-dec1... (important part at 2:10)

* http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telepho...

I'll quote the slip up of Tim Clemente, a former FBI agent:

> All digital communications are uh uh... There's a way to look at digital communications in the past. And I can't go into detail of how that's done or what's done but I can tell you that no digital communication is secure.
Oh I don't know where we even get that stereotype from. Oh wait, I do, because Albert Einstein was an introvert and preferred to be alone. More recent examples: Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak.
Given what he did with TWA and reselling tickets, its hard to think that served any other shareholder but himself.
There is no evidence of the NSA recording phone calls of US citizens, that is just speculation.
I've been using Nitrous.io to teach an intro to python class for non-programmers (librarians, management, other "Information Professionals").
It's fantastic to be able to get everyone on the same page and same development environment from day 1.

The collaboration feature is still too rough to be useful for a novice level class. Also it gives full access to the collab box with exactly the same permissions as the box owner. If they add some features and some tools for gating access and user privileges it will be useful for my class.
There are three things at play here:

1. Narcissism is no longer frowned upon — even some people's hate for others' narcissism becomes a venue for their own narcissism

2. Social mores have relaxed in much of the world, so the bikini selfie on Instagram won't get you shunned from your community

3. We're having an instinctive response the advance of technology that enables mass surveillance; since we can't hide from the cameras, we're going to ignore their presence there or subvert them for our benefit
It's the power and pleasure of understanding. It makes your mental model of the project a closer approximation of omniscience.

The cycle makes sense. A new programmer finds everything overwhelming, and the simplifications offered by something like Mithril often aren't enough to mitigate that feeling in any meaningful way. It's going to feel like you're drinking from a fire hydrant no matter what.

But as you get a much firmer grasp on the fundamentals, you also gain a much finer perception of bloat and cruft and what's necessary and what's not. So you feel a push to eliminate large all-encompassing libraries, because for the first time you realize that some sort of omniscience is within reach.
Yeah, I stalled with my plain 'ol Javascript games after the Unreal Engine demos, since I assumed it'd just be a matter of time before Unity got a plugin-less web export.
Either way, it's pretty genius in a flappy bird way.
Hitler also ate food.

Children's interests is a very tired and aggravating rhetorical tool, certainly, but putting a reductio ad Hitlerum into everything isn't doing anything but showing your lack of imagination or your ideological stubbornness.
I thought glass walks was going to be another metaphor... Ie about transparency of wages across employees (perhaps in an anonymous fashion).
Would you like a biscuit?
Even if some dudebro can't understand how positive having a kid is for your life, they do understand when I tell them about coming home, looking at your child, and saying to yourself "I can not fail, that is why, and I will do everything in my power not to". Having something to motivate you that way is universal.
What we had four years ago:

http://www.filewin.com/cdn/images/img-filewin--3-GTA-San-And...

What we have today, on eight year old hardware:

http://cdn.redmondpie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/GTA-5-g...
Not the OP, but I relate to the quoted comment. Maybe my experience will give you some insight.

Essentially, engaging in idle chit-chat is very stressful to me. It is far more stressful than anything else I do on a daily basis. In the past, I would feel physical fear when I saw someone I knew in a public place. Oh no, they're going to talk to me.

The reason for this is simple: I'm not good at enjoying conversation with people. I have trouble relating to people, so I have to struggle to be conversant. It becomes a game of "what should I say here", or "what do they mean by that", or whatever. I know that if I just said what I wanted I would seem antisocial, so instead I have to carefully mediate my responses. It's very tiring!

Having said that, this is really an issue with myself, not with the other person. I would never think to call someone a "fool" because they like to chat. The fool is the person who can't relax and enjoy a conversation.
Nice. That'll do it.
So your argument is that the primary difference between geniuses and the rest of schlubs is sheer volume of rote practice? I think you're confusing creativity with tool proficiency.
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Absolutely. My (2) kids definitely require my attention and devotion, but in terms of "getting me focused on the important stuff," they are miracle workers.

Having a supportive spouse is an amazing boon, too, and one that should not be overlooked in this discussion.
Watching the video on the site, they seem to think that all geeks want their stuff digitized. I'm a geek (I even have pasty white skin) and I don't want some of my stuff digitized.
You have to admire the ingenuity and effort that went into not only blustering after the fact, but also creating the public portrait of "Dorian" the immigrant who'd never fully grasped the use of apostrophes, pluralization or indefinite articles whilst simultaneously privately corresponding in immaculate idiomatic English as "Satoshi". By the looks of those Amazon reviews and messages to editors there was some serious astroturfing going on!

Such a shame someone so keen on anonymity couldn't think of a pseudonym that wasn't composed entirely from part of his actual name.
> Nashorn is going to get faster with time. It is not a browser engine so don't try to compare it directly with V8 etc.

v8 is not a browser engine either ,it's a javascript engine,just like Rhino. you are mixing up Webkit with v8.
HTML, css, JS (jquery) have stable APIs, when new developers come they don't have to learn something new.

If your code degrade over time, sorry to tell you, a framework won't solve the problem.

If you have coders that don't care about maintainability of code correction, code organization in whatever technology, they won't care about what you wish.

As usual, they won't take the time to learn the frameworks, will diverge, and you are back to square one with no code that can be salvaged or reused. (at least with vanilla techs you may salvage stuffs)

I think you use frameworks to solve the wrong problems here: you are probably the problem by trying to ditch the lack of real engineering skills in IT (not the letter of engineering. The spirit: making things that are correctly built and are reliable over time... like a plane).
Nitrous used to be Action.io. The editor is still lacking features, but responsiveness has improved. Right now the Nitrous team seems more interested in expanding supported tool chains and languages than in improving the IDE experience.
Well, because right now as it stands the default is to be hostile to people with kids. And frankly, if our business culture needs to exploit childless 20 year olds then we're building a toxic, unsustainable environment.
Ah I see, that's understandable! Thanks for answering!
Now if only we could get rid of the hamburger button...
What is the case for desktop apps these days vs web apps? I would love to mess around with JavaFX but really can't come up with a compelling reason to use it.
So now I have to charge 2 devices instead of 1 every day? This is my biggest issue with smart watches.
A while ago I wrote that perhaps the greatest contribution the Bitcoin experiment will make to humankind is to teach you and me and our neighbors more about the realities of economics. And later I added that the Bitcoin experiment will also contribute to greater understanding of attack surfaces and online crime. Many of the ideas about how to mine Bitcoins, store Bitcoins, and trade with Bitcoins as a medium of exchange illustrate both the strengths and weaknesses of any other medium of exchange in a world full of human beings. Seeing the discussion of Bitcoins here on Hacker News reminds me of early online discussions in the 1990s of online payment systems such as PayPal, and the arguments beforehand that PayPal wouldn't have to invest a lot of time and effort (as it eventually did) building defenses against theft and fraud. If a weakness in a system is attached to a lot of money, the way to bet is to bet that someone will go looking for that weakness, even if you haven't thought of it.
https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx games run on Android, iOS (RoboVM), Desktop (Java), and HTML/WebGL (GWT)
Define "nature".

Afaik several species beyond our own do oral/anal sex.
Yeah seems very harsh.
Couldn't agree more. I've often been asked by other founders whether running a startup w/kids is possible. It's hard, but not for the reasons most people without kids would think.

I moved interstate for 3 months to take part in an accelerator, and had to drag my son and pregnant wife with me. That was hard (mostly on them!)

When I was pitching for investment in the US (we're Aussies) and missed my sons 2nd birthday, it nearly broke me in two.

When I went to the US to participate in 500 Startups, 6 weeks after my wife had given birth to our daughter. That was incredibly hard...for everybody.

12 months ago when I didn't take a paycheck for a month, knowing I was failing my family, that was the hardest.

Right now I'm in Sydney, away from my wife and kids, I will miss my Son's karate grading... and I feel like a terrible father for doing so.

But here's the thing. All these things are hard, and I do them because they have to be done. Not because "it might be fun" or "just to see what happens", but because these things will lead us to success.

The bar for what constitutes a worthwhile activity is raised so much higher when you have a family to support. You learn to be more critical on evaluating opportunities, and you only jump when you need to jump. It doesn't cripple you, it forces you to focus on things that move the dial.
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Academics have lots of 'ivory tower' opportunities. But how about an HR rep? A recruiter? Profiling can actually help those folks get their work done, clear their backlog, get them home to supper on time.
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Is there any endpoint for teams.json or would I need to request each individually? Even if it was just the season stats without the game stats it would be useful.