skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excerpt:

Why do I ask for a one-page statement instead of a resume? Because I want to mix things up a bit. I want to find out what makes the candidate stand out for the position, and I also want to see genuine interest in the job being advertised. What I don’t want is someone who’s spraying resumes to every available job opening. That guy’s not going to be a good fit for what I’m doing. But someone who’s willing to write up a half-page or one-page explanation of why he’s a good fit for the job, that’s what I’m looking for.

Which is basically a resume by another name. I have sympathy for his position but everything I have ever read indicates that good resumes that get jobs are customized to the position in question, are typically one or two pages, and do not necessarily follow any particular format. Format varies depending on industry, individual, etc.

Yeah, I found job-hunting hard. I don't really expect to ever do that again. Normal jobs seem to be a poor fit for me. That's true for a lot of people. There are plenty of professions where a portfolio is the norm rather than a resume.

Also, the Fortune 500 company I once worked for gave me a battery of tests to see if I could actually do the things my resume claimed I could do, in essence. So his idea of testing candidates is not really new-fangled or something either.

Even after I was a company insider, I could not figure out the job postings the company listed online. I find the whole job hunting process incredibly illegible and loathe it with the burning of a thousand suns. I now do freelance work and have a few personal projects I am trying to develop. I doubt I will ever apply to a normal job again. That really is not all that strange.
I think the problem with game related kickstarters is that a lot of the backers are probably fairly young and have a poor understanding of the amount of resources and risk involved in a project of this size. To an 18 year old $0.5 mil sounds like a lot of money and it would seem like it should be possible to make 3 games with that much but they don't understand how quickly it can get swallowed up because they have limited experience with the business world.
>Automation eliminates jobs

Automation moves jobs around, it doesn't eliminate them.
The escape hatch is either you going bankrupt and/or refunding people, sure. Not much of an escape hatch, really. Also, if you endorse and support something like this and it fails your reputation takes a hit.

I don't think it's a big deal when it comes to luxuries like that. Also, I like kickstarter for supporting people who do cool stuff they can't finance any other way. I really don't care if they fail or not too much since I don't spend much money on it. (Hey, and for me personally it has always worked out so far.)
How far out does the FAA's jurisdiction go?
As you said, the Android phones were developed by Nokia before the acquisition was made. They were initially released by Nokia just before the acquisition went through. Also, I suspect you mean Windows Phone - Windows Mobile stopped being a thing in 2010, if I'm not mistaken.

I have a Nokia X1 and it's what you'd expect from a budget phone - low spec so a fair amount of lag. No Google Play but then the phone is aimed squarely at emerging markets (although there's a way to enable Play on the X1 anyway). The part I like most is that it's dual-SIM.
They're configured to look for missile launch signatures of ICBMs. SAMs are much smaller. Whether they have the sensitivity to detect an SA-11 launch is unknown, but apples and oranges, folks.
I don't know what language and frameworks you are using but it is nowhere near as painful to do DI with Spring in Java.

Spring makes all your objects and you don't need to screw around with factory methods and all the other things that make a lot of people hate DI.
I think it's only the first two. Javascript happened because of Netscape (1).
AOLServer is mostly C, is it not?

When you say it was one of the best systems for doing dynamic websites, would you use it on its own, or was it more popular to use OpenACS on top of it? (Which is what one of the codebases I still work on today does)
Do that and your users will love you
Do Microsoft layoffs mean Windows Phone will be sold off?
You cannot merge 2 huge companies without significant layoffs; there are way too many overlapping job-responsibilities and it's impractical to somehow make that work. Maybe some kind of rare exception is a job that depends on physical location. If I already own a fleet ice-cream trunks in USA and I buy a company in Paris, I'm probably not going to layoff the paris ice-cream truck drivers...
"or I ask for a one-page statement that uses short paragraphs and bullet points about why they’re a good fit for the job and why I should hire them."

Sounds like a cover letter.
Hey, thanks for the info! Where I am in Michigan things are still looking a bit shaky, and I'm tired of waiting!
Verizon's accidental mea culpa
You don't know if Intel's tech is ready. It's classified for the machine manufacturers to disclose if Intel's their customer. I tried really hard to ask this Intel guy at IEDM what they're using for 10nm research and he wouldn't say anything.

E-beam lithography has been the work horse for research in fabrication for decades now. You can't get better resolution than E-beam lithography. The wavelength of an electron at 5kV acceleration is something like 0.017 nm. There are some crazy people who are trying to make E-beam systems for production processes (multiple beams, etc.), but I don't think E-beam will ever see use outside of research.

I am working on a special type of transistor that is similar to this: http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0401162.pdf

Grapehene FET research is for peasants
A few commenters here suggested building the base out of flat plates for strength. But as I understood it, the maximum load was determined by the properties of the plastic. The plastic became fluid, rather than the structure of the pieces failing.

From TFA:

>>The material is just flowing out of the way now and it's not able to take any more. We're getting a plastic failure. It means the brick keeps on deforming, without the load increasing.

So, help out the not-a-real-engineer here. Doesn't that mean that changing the shape of the pieces wouldn't help? ie, even if the base were a solid sheet of Lego plastic it would just flow out of the way at that load?
This is not old. The proposed regulations were released today.
> Yogscast has nothing to do with this endeavour, it's a separate LLC that attempted to make money

As TFA notes, the entire Kickstarter page (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/winterkewlgames/yogvent...) is written from the perspective of Yogscast.

"We feel incredibly lucky to have been given the opportunity to entertain you as we play games made by other people..."

"Countless times we've felt limited by games and come across features we have wished we could change. 'Come On Blizz!' Simon would yell..."

"Since we'll be helping to develop the game we'll be able to ask YOU the players what features you want and actually have them created..."

"We aren't programmers or artists but luckily we have close friends at Winterkewl Games who are..."

"We started concept work and pre-production during our trip to Los Angeles in October 2011..."

"Winterkewl’s artists, modelers, animators and programmers are partnering with us on this project to create the game our community wants..."

"We're truly honored to have the opportunity to bring the Yogscast to life in a game of our own making..."

So it's not hard to see how people could have gotten the impression their involvement in the project would be deeper than "we handed it over to those guys, blame them."
It does have that feature (hover over post date).
Read the link to the NTSB a few posts up.
Even speaking as a US citizen, I can admit that the actions of some rebels did constitute terrorism. Innocent Loyalist civilians were targeted, for the purpose of political change. It doesn't get much closer to the textbook definition of terrorism than that.

But hey, the winners write the history books.
There was a new version based on the Civ 4 engine (http://www.2kgames.com/civ4/colonization/) but it wasn't as good as the original. The main problem was that the game ended too soon. You'd only have three cities or so, and suddenly it would be time to hold your revolution. Realistic, perhaps, but frustrating when you want to build up the whole continent.
I think it might be good to indicate that this refers to the video game rather than human civilization (even though Gamasutra is a good clue)
Are you a graphic design shop by any chance?
Well as the Product Manager for Nokia Z Launcher, I beg to differ ;)
Seems like YC is now more looking to build an ecosystem around them with the startups they invest in.
Not all, but enough that they are willing to sign a up front contract with a publishing company.
I first discovered this about two months ago. It may be old, but it solved a problem we had and nothing else quite fit the job. We're using it to run a flaky test suite and count how many times it succeeds, fails, or times out (yes, times out - yay Android!). Very important when you're trying to determine if potential stability improvements actually make a difference or not, and you need to run the 3 minute suite ten times at least to get something statistically significant.
Building a SHIP – Guest Stars
"Why do they think they're not stepping all over the constitution by imposing burdens on commercial activities that happen to intersect with NY?"

Because they regulate plenty of financial activity that happens to intersect with New York already.
JP, author of the post here - let me know if you have any additions / questions! :)
It would "prefer" any airline stupid enough to continue flying over the war zone. One hopes that that is the null set.
Hadn't thought of that, but I wonder if it is just terminology? How can they be a cloud provider without an OS?
I am always amazed how quickly I get things done with Nimrod. It's like writing Python, having the full power of C (see below), and some of the power of Lisp (macros!), and getting the performance of C++. Nimrod actually is what I wanted Python to be.

For instance, I just need to add two lines to import C's printf and fprintf:

proc printf(frmt: CString) {.importc: "printf", nodecl, varargs, tags: [FWriteIO].}

proc fprintf(f: TFile, frmt: CString) {.importc: "fprintf", nodecl, varargs, tags: [FWriteIO].}

Now I can use these C functions seamlessly (even without parentheses):

printf "Hello %s!\n", "world"

fprintf stderr, "Error in line %d\n", $nr
WA is an "at will" state. Businesses may fire "at will." There are no laws regarding dismissal, so businesses are not required to give warnings or follow any particular steps.

Source: http://www.lni.wa.gov/WorkplaceRights/ComplainDiscrim/Termin...
Do you dispute the facts contained in the post?

Or are you just going to shoot the messenger?
I don't know that this is true for Show HN posts (since it's a comparable product). It seems most Show HN's are posted by the creators. And Product Hunt is the other way around because most creators are not allowed to post there.
I believe U.S.-based airplanes fly around in a little bubble of U.S. laws, just like ships at sea under the U.S. flag.
Is grasswire your startup? What does it do?
I had not thought of the legacy support problems. Their clean break with Windows Phone 7 doesn't seem to have taken off.
Haha that was my guess, but then I looked at your website and I didn't see anything about recruiting
I would argue that Google and Motorola never "merged".

Google just bought out the patents of Motorola and dumped the company away to Lenovo afterwards. There was no merging, no redundant employee elimination process, like in other mergers.

Plus, this number is obviously a large outlier. An actual stats person would just go calculate the figures with the outlier removed- Cisco probably made much larger acquisitions, employee count-wise, than Google in that case.
Looks pretty cool from the example videos. Is an Android port planned in the future?
Are there any recommended Android versions of these apps?
That all seems to be a non-sequitur, since industrial action does not require that the event it is in response to is illegal (indeed, industrial action has frequently been directed against employers whose actions are not merely legal but strongly backed by government and supported with government force.)
Here is a Reddit comment breaking down the proposal:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2aycxs/hi_this_is_b...
It's good news for Microsoft if that person was useless and slowing everything down.
us is a truly retarded country.
This is very worrying, an AN-26 does not have the service ceiling of what I would expect the MH flight to be travelling at. A trip seven would be about 2500m higher.
Mini-Microsoft: 18,000 Microsoft Jobs Gone... Eventually?
Disclaimer: I have worked for Cisco, and no longer do so.

Cisco is an engine for buying up small companies, digesting them, and extracting value from their products. It does not really do engineering or create its own product lines. As a result, it has polished the process of buying up companies, and progressively shutting them down while extracting the maximum sales value from the products that company has developed.

The key thing is that this is the core model of Cisco's entire business. It's actually not too rough on the people involved - the profits of the milking machine are shared fairly generously with the people being milked - but it is all about purchasing products with "potential future value" and converting it into cash, not creating new value.
I think Snowden is a hero and totally support what he's doing, but he's being selfish and arrogant when he says stuff like this.

If allows himself to be caught, the US government will have a golden opportunity to make an example of him. He will receive a show trial, go to prison, and future whistleblowers will have no one to champion their cause. He has a responsibility to not let this happen.

It's not about Snowden. It's about a single individual standing up against the most powerful government in the world, kicking it in the shins, and getting away with it. Snowden's capture and "trial" would change the narrative to "some loser IT guy broke the law and justice was served".

Snowden is winning. His work is pretty much done. He needs to shut the fuck up and lay low.
Ever try emailing founders instead? I wonder if you'd get a better and/or faster response.

Perhaps you could require your product submitters to insert the contact email for the products they are submitting. Then, you could auto email the founder as soon as their product is posted on Product Hunt.
The change will be to monitor what is the "very volatile region", and to stay out of it. That will dramatically increase safety against surface to air missiles.
Yes, but I meant, with all the details, and with all the nations involved taking their own responsibilities.
Who knows, maybe in 50 years they will unveil the state secrecy and we'll know it for sure..
Facebook Tests Buy Button For Shopping Without Leaving Facebook
Seems to have been taken down. Here's the link to the cached version (a bit hard to read): https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...
To me, logic says you should call the airline and see specifically how they're rerouting the flight to avoid this kind of danger. If you can't get an answer, don't get a satisfactory answer, or don't know how to tell what answer would satisfy you, book another flight.

In general, flying is safer than either driving or walking in urban areas. But most flights don't happen over not-technically-but-actually-definitely war zones. So ... make sure whatever flight you're on avoids the area entirely.
News reports have it that there were 23 US citizens on board. given the situation in Ukraine and the current increasingly stiff sanctions on Russia, this is a very serious matter; either Putin pulls in his claws and abandons the Russian separatists in Ukraine completely, or the matter could escalate into a much worse international conflict.
Prediction: this major layoff won't be the only one Microsoft has to do in the next 2-3 years. So far I'm not convinced Nadella has what it takes to turn Microsoft around and turn it into a "growth" company. Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't. But the trend isn't favorable to Microsoft now, and if nothing much changes (other than some employee/cost cutting), then this trend will continue, and we'll see even more layoffs - at the top, too.

So far the media has mostly received Nadella in a positive light, but mainly because he's "new" and "different" than Ballmer. But that won't be enough to succeed. He also needs to be better than Ballmer as a CEO and product visionary. Much better.
You can get the Railroad Tycoon collection, including Sid Meier's Railroads! on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/326/

And you should!
Is that an Outlook Ctrl-F or a Find Ctrl-F?
I read the page. There are no facts contained therein, just someone posting a link to a BBC article about the venerable Ukrainian legal scholar Vladimir Putin's opinion on the legality of the events. Additionally, some other people share their opinions.

You might want to double check that link you posted.
Malaysian Airlines Flight May Have Been in Airspace U.S. Restricts
It does a better job than most, though. InstallMonetizer incident involved YC staff contacting the founders and looking into it. They also implemented this: http://blog.ycombinator.com/founder-ethics http://www.ycombinator.com/ethics/
There was a hysterical review of Civ IV: Colonization by Ben Fritz that was so over the top with political correctness it almost had me rolling on the floor laughing. Seems his blog has gone offline, though. Some excerpts here: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/84721-Civilization...
Just installed it. Seems to work pretty well. This would be useful to real estate agents for doing smooth apartment walk-through videos for listings-- might want to try advertising specifically for that use case.
I use "Luma", free.
But I think they were acquired by Instagram and shut down.

How does Steady compare to Luma?
They should release the unfinished game and source code/assets to backers as a sort of liquidation.
I don't think Pavlovian response is the right word. More like deja vu, considering the Russians did this once before (Korean Air 007).
What Will Happen to Rackspace? How About Nothing?
When I paste a link from A (which I control) into B (which I control) , I want to be able to change A and have people who click on the link from B get the new A, not the old A. It's the same reason you ideally want to specify depedencies by branch, not by tag.
Market Research (or Requirements) Document

It's a document that's usually produced by a product management group in a company that outlines (very vague, almost laughably so) the "market requirements" - what users will want/need - for a given feature or set of features.

This is usually handed to developers/designers to come up with a "High Level Design" (HLD) that gives the "how" to the MRD's "what".

It's usually only seen in larger software companies.
> Doesn't OCaml have full memory safety?

I have no idea. Note here that "full memory safety" in Rust includes data shared between multiple threads, and includes protection against data races. Garbage collectors help avoid referencing free'd data, but if OCaml lets you share mutable data between two threads, then I doubt it's fully memory-safe (at the very least that suggests you can get data races).

> Why is a garbage collector problematic, in this context?

What, in the context of server-side software? I don't know if it necessarily is, but it's definitely problematic in other contexts. And I do know that there have been issues with other languages causing unpredictable performance on servers because of garbage collection, e.g. ending up with a big GC pause after some N requests. I hope OCaml doesn't have that problem, but I don't know.

> It boils down to fine-grained control over performance, I guess. But, again, I don't see how that is a plus in this context.

I'm not sure what specifically you're referring to in that second sentence. Just the general ability to have better control over performance? Having that ability typically is a plus even in the context of server-side software because it means you don't need to change languages just to write the performance-critical aspects of your software. Of course, using the same language is only a good idea if the language is also a good choice for the parts of the software that aren't performance-criticial. My claim is that Rust is indeed suitable for the rest of the program too.
While we're aware of some design issues that we're currently working on addressing, we'd still love to hear what you think are famo.us' current design flaws and how you think things should be implemented differently.
That is a fair point, but two wrongs doesn't make a right. :)

Cops carry guns and shoot racial minorities-- do we condone this for everyone? Would allowing minorities to shoot cops for arbitrary reasons solve the problem?

If you're going to protest something, abandoning the moral high ground is a bad idea. I'm not saying don't be humble, I'm saying don't lose sight of what you want to accomplish.
Advice for new tech accelerator for startups
The rebels respond:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/malaysia-airlines...

>“The plane was shot down by the Ukrainian side,” said Serhiy Kavtaradze, a member of the rebels’ security council, according to the Russia’s Interfax news agency. “We simply do not have such air defense systems.” He said rebels’ shoulder-launched antiaircraft missiles “have a firing range of only 3,000 to 4,000 meters” and that passenger jets fly at much higher altitudes.

He denied that the rebels possess the SA-17 Buk air-defense as Kiev alleges."
Satya Nadella's only been CEO for 6 months. You can't effect major changes in a major multinational corporation overnight, especially not until you've had sufficient opportunity to come up with a good direction for that change. If anything, I would consider that a promising and reasoned approach, as opposed to announcing a layoff of 18,000 people within the first month of his appointment.

Steve Jobs did not invent innovation or style and he certainly didn't patent them, so there's no need to claim anyone else with a hint of competence or ambition is just some cheap knock-off. If you raise his pedestal any higher you'll only spend your own life living in the shadow.
No mention of CloudBees?
Where are you seeing example videos?
Frito Lay patents theme songs generated from food flavor profiles
Which news, specifically. US news tends to be sickeningly myopic.
295 people on board plane that 'crashed in Ukraine'
Linus Torvalds, Creator Of Linux, Shows Off His Home Office
That idea might approach something useful if it was combined with memory for how various algorithms have done and the ability to optimize over time by choosing better algorithms. It would be sort of like a meta-algorithm.
> How did Hacker News evolve from the discussion board for YC, to the discussion board where the first comment on any post involving a YC company is reliably someone crapping on it? What an amazing shift.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8024239
It'd be more accurate to say that MRDs are an artifact of waterfall design. Waterfall is out of fashion, and so small companies tend not to use it, but if you're shipping hardware (like Cisco does) it's often more natural than agile.
Or not?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/malaysia-airlines....

>“The plane was shot down by the Ukrainian side,” said Serhiy Kavtaradze, a member of the rebels’ security council, according to the Russia’s Interfax news agency. “We simply do not have such air defense systems.” He said rebels’ shoulder-launched antiaircraft missiles “have a firing range of only 3,000 to 4,000 meters” and that passenger jets fly at much higher altitudes.
...
He denied that the rebels possess the SA-17 Buk air-defense as Kiev alleges."
Neat idea, reminds me of Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble.