skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone declines being great simply because someone discourages him, maybe people haven't taught their kids enough courage.

Lets assume we'd have our own nice opinion bubble where nobody says anything bad. What kind of place that would be? Would you also take on things that offend some small group? Or would you take on posts that accidentally manage to be offensive?

A large problem to solve. But quite pointless.
> Paid version of "Nathan"

You mean "Ethan": http://www.textethan.com/
is LoL moddable vi Lua?

Oh yeah! I don't know about now though, it sure used to be.
I didn't do anything fancy, just some basic bot automation and a couple miscellaneous chatbox-based addons (mostly for spamming) but it got me learning Lua.

Edit: Looks like LoL is still moddable via Lua[0]

0.http://leaguebot.net/
I want you to enjoy playing it also.
"By now, over a dozen [gifted math and science] schools exist, defying the silly objections of many parents that collecting and nurturing students gifted in math and science is "elitism," something to be avoided. Curiously, we hear no such objections to collecting the best singers for the opera, the best musicians for orchestras, not to mention the best baseball players for the Chicago Cubs!" -- Leon Lederman, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Founder. [1]

[1] http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/junejuly-2005/essay-...

edit: Add source.
> I've always been direct and never had a problem telling it like it is.

I know that type.
The level of ignorance from your comment is so high I don't even.

The biggest online game from 2008 most certainly had both a market for items and a huge number of servers. It's not hard to figure out exactly what game he was referring to by thinking about it for a minute.
> Apparently, flying fighters wasn't nearly as fun as it sounds.

Hm. I figure the glory you get from being a fighter pilot is one of the perks, so they might as well milk that for all it's worth.

My point is that it's interesting to note the professions that seem more glorious than they actually are, and beware those who sell themselves or the job based on that glory: it's an illusion.
Thanks for this comment. It's filled with warmth and insight. "We praise capncrunch and damn this guy" is a great point.

I don't think the responses here are a single "YC crowd" being hypocritical. The thread is more interesting than that. It's at least two different groups having polarized responses to the article.

One group is rule-oriented and binary, quickly seizes on any violation of the (personal or social) code they believe in, and extends that into a personal judgment of the violator. Such people often express their judgments harshly. It's worth remembering that the same harshness inevitably applies to themselves; one doesn't get to handle that acid with gloves.

The other group, of course, identifies with the author's pluck and self-motivation and doesn't hold his dodgy beginnings against him. They don't necessarily support the cheating but admire the ingenuity more, and are generally more indulgent. They probably read the story as what PG called being "relentlessly resourceful".

This dichotomy plays out on HN all the time, though rarely so vividly. Both groups are well-represented both on HN and among programmers in general.
What was the "scam" here, exactly?
one way to look at it ...

the "application" Pigshell (a copy of the javascript downloaded from the "site" pigshell.com and running in your browser is an instance of the "application") requests and say is granted access to your GDrive.

so all permissions/rights are associated with the running instance of the "application" pigshell in your browser - cookies apart, end of story.

other than having served the javascript, the "site" pigshell.com has no further role to play here. so you could just as well have sourced/hosted these javascripts locally.
Pretty cool, good job
He forgot "German Language capitalization Rules" among his interests.
If he has never asked for a raise in all his career, such a thought process would not be out of place. Granted saying this in a women specific forum will not go well, but his later tweet, that we need to close the gap is precisely what needs to be done. Regarding employees in general having to ask for raises, i cannot say much, as in my job career of over 30 years, never had to ask for one. I thought I was fairly compensated - maybe i was too happy in my job :-( but life has not been bad.
Radiooooo: Pick a country, a year and enjoy
well... i can say this much, in the battle of wits between squirrels and my dog, the squirrels always win.

i don't think any dog ever has caught a squirrel without the help of a human and a shotgun.
Yes, but it will improve your presentations in much the same way that screeching car tire and ricocheting bullet sounds improve PowerPoint presentations.
NFL players aren't particularly violent outside of the gridlines:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-rate-of-domestic-viol...
I follow competitive running closely; this just isn't something that would happen. Running a marathon takes a huge toll on the body. Professionals typically only run two a year (although certain East Africans sometimes do one or two more), and they usually take an extended break after each one. Competitive runners never approach race effort in their training, especially at marathon distance — it's counterproductive to do that sort of damage to your body.

There's also a financial incentive to run your fast marathon in a race, especially for the runners from poor East African countries who are the only ones capable of running close to the world record. The prize money is typically several hundred thousand dollars if you include the bonuses for breaking the course record and the world record, finishing faster than certain time thresholds, etc.
The Robots of Resistance
>"After you pay $10, I'll email you to start the conversation. You then share whatever it is you're looking for feedback on, and I'll tell you exactly how I feel about it. Most submissions are handled within a few hours, but some might take up to a few days. All submissions are completely private." //

Assuming he is an honest actor in this process he can't share your submission with anyone as then they wouldn't be private. It is specified that it is he, Jordan, who will email you, he will say how he feels.

It could have been set up differently to allow for scaling but part of the drawn I think is that it's a real, named and identifiable, individual that you are contacting.

Of course "Jordan" could be a made up person and this could be a way to gather information for social manipulation or straight-out blackmail, but you know ...
this is basically what management consulting firms do, except for a million times more money.
This prompted me to take a few minutes to finally try to see what Material Design is all about; my previous glances at posts resulted in little in the way of understanding. Now I understand why.

I watched some of the Google I/O talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isYZXwaP3Q4

To me, the people on stage seemed genuinely uneasy at times and well aware that the concepts they were trying to communicate were difficult to get across.

These explanatory posts (all 3) are very well-crafted, if propagandistic. Same information that Google is providing, in more digestible bits.

My impression is that Google is trying to implement an industry-wide paradigm shift away from dense style guides, to a world where good design is signalled by intuition alone (which is referred to indirectly in the talk more than once). They are planning to do this by offloading design decisions from the developers as much as possible and creating an astonishingly homogeneous look and feel across apps. I predict a limited shelf life for this sort of thing. Novelty goes a long way. Mobile devices aren't desktops.
Nice cat and dog
freemium doesn't mean no margin on the cost. it means no cost to the customer.
> Which perhaps doesn't carry the same implications as the rather florid translation you quoted.

Pretty typical of classical greek translations, though, and sometimes it's necessary–see Sappho.
Click through to the image link, then in the url bar, highlight and hit enter. It's an anti-hotlinking error.
vert.x looks server-side? I'm more interested in running in the browser. (Compile to static files containing JavaScript.)
Kudos, tubelite. This is really cool. I'm not sure I'd ever really use it but it's been fun to play with. Definitely made me think that I'd like to use the web in a more command based fashion.
Easy battle to win - http://shop.wbu.com/p/wbu-fundamentals-squirrel-proof-bird-f...

I have been using this feeder for something like 7 years and barring really weird circumstances, it is 99% effective. And no they cannot chew through it.

Combine this with a baffle - http://shop.wbu.com/p/wbu-aps-squirrel-baffle and you will be as close to 100% effective as possible. Barring squirrels suicide leaping from trees, which I would not put past them.
I have to admit that it is depressing to think that NFL players are really the normal and not the outlier.
Fully expecting flightsims to make a glorious comeback with Oculus' full availability. It is too well suited to games which require you to sit still, and have your hands on controls.

Time to buy shares in joystick manufacturers.
Doesn't seem like they are too me– he called it an inflection point. There can always be another inflection point later on that takes them in the wrong direction. And that single event is pretty powerful event nonetheless. Being YC alum is going to be an advantage in tech/startups for a ways to come.
That's certainly true. I'm not saying that this service doesn't have any value. Just wanted to share my experience with writing similar solution.

It's good to be dev and have spare time for stuff like that. You learn stuff while making such projects, you save money and it just works.

About money, judging by the pricing on imgix page (and if I understand pricing correctly, I'm saving around $300 per month ($50 for cheapest plan + $250 for traffic).
Ask HN: How do you conduct technical interviews if you don't have experience?
Two months ago I started working at a pre-seed stage startup. We've been growing exponentially and this week we actually had to cut back our operations because our 5 person team couldn't handle the workload. So I've been tasked with hiring 1-2 new employees ASAP.

I have never conducted any interviews before. Nor do I have any experience with iOS development, which is one of the two positions I will be hiring for. Are there any techniques you could suggest for being able to judge a candidates level of expertise without actually having any personal experience?
You should try Savage XR. 3rd person dota-like combat, but with strict RTS conventions. It's old, it's free, not many people play it, but boy is it fun!
http://www.savagexr.com/
File Identifier webapp (JavaScript port of the Unix “file” tool)
I would also appreciate this. I was finding the article very interesting but the wall killed it for me.
The great-grandparent suggested:

echo "Testing status update" >> /facebook/me/posts

I think appending content to a file path (with or without the trailing slash) is clearer than the analogy of a truncating write to a directory path (where the trailing slash is required).

The current model seems similar to the REST interpretation of CRUD, where > equates to 'create' and >> to 'update', and creating a resource is done at the collection URL. Nothing wrong with this, but it seems slightly unintuitive to me.

My suggested mapping would be:

>/facebook/me/posts - Unsupported (or delete all posts, and make a new one)

>>/facebook/me/posts - Add a new facebook post

>/facebook/me/posts/long_numeric_id - Update post (truncate)

>>/facebook/me/posts/long_numeric_id - Update post (append)

In this case, both > and >> are context dependent, but more flexible. Would this strategy mesh well with the rest of the implementation?

Also, nice work! The project reminds me of Plan 9's /net.
One of the reasons people find DOTA-likes so unlikeable is the incredibly steep learning curve. It is often said that you know nothing about LoL or DOTA until you've played 1000 games. At around 45 minutes a pop, that means you've got to commit way more time than most people have available in order to get good.

The games are more like basketball than Quake. 5 on 5, and if 1 player on a team is bad, that team will probably lose. It's why the communities in MOBAs can be so toxic.
If what you want is a web app then I would look for the first-in-class tutorials for a given framework/language. This assumes you are comfortable with a given language.

For Rails that would probably be https://www.railstutorial.org/.

For Meteor, that would be https://www.discovermeteor.com/.

I can't speak to Django or Flask. Or node based platforms like Sails.

I would recommend the Rails tutorial even if you don't ultimately settle on Rails. There's something magical about that tutorial. I recommend it now even though it is not my platform of choice.
Hmmm, I was kind of hoping for an explanation of how the control system determines how to modify the highly directional antenna's orientation to continue to maximally "illuminate" the target once it's been selected from a general scan.

Can anyone describe the solution to this?

Example idea: Once selected for "lock," the antenna scans in small circles and migrates its central point toward the point on the scanned circle that provides the strongest return, allowing for variation due to noise sources.
It varies wildly. Some professors such as those from top tier universities are basically best selling authors in their own right so therefore they make a ton. Then you have other staff who are a huge risk by the publisher and they barely make anything.

The real reason college textbooks are out of control has nothing to do with professors getting rich, they aren't. They're out of control because publishers are doing professor's grading in exchange for the professor just assigning the book.

Instead of a publisher selling a book for e.g. $70, they sell it for $100 and bundle with it a "one time use code." This code allows students to log into a publisher run website and turn in assignments, complete problems, and so on.

So effectively the professor has outsourced a large chunk of grading to a third party and better still (for them) it is "free." And all they have to do is assign the $100 book instead of the $70 one, then just log into a free portal and collect all of the grades for the semester.

Publishers naturally get very rich off of this. They only have to set up a web-site once and then they can resell it to dozens of different schools, hundreds of classes. Plus they really cut corners with the grading and questions too (often out-sourcing those to the original authors of the book as part of the contract to update the book annually).

The only way to solve this is to put pressure on colleges, departments, and professors. Publishers are doing what they're meant to: trying to make every cent they can. It is professors and colleges which are failing in their duty and effectively outsourcing part of student's education to a third party for a fee (which the student pays).

The only other thing I can see resolving it is states stepping in and essentially making rules which say that the tuition fees must be all inclusive (e.g. you must get given the textbooks on the first day of class, but the cost of those is included into the main fee so there is nothing hidden).

So even if this scheme continued it would all be out in the open, and students could accurately compare the fee structure between two schools, one that is taking part, and one which is not...
I think the tone of this comment is condescending and not constructive. The units displayed are "normal" to the majority-American audience of this American publication which makes most of its money from US advertisers [1].

Granted, they could appeal to a wider audience with this interactive presentation by supporting both SI and "American" (as you call them) units. But is it really an affront to not do that?

[1] http://rw.runnersworld.com/mediakit/international/RunnersWor...
I wondered whether everyone you're racing with has to have started the same path at the same time as you. If so, my inherent sense of fair says it's okay. It's just admitting that it's effectively a team sport.

However, If the people who break the air in front of the record contender get to jump in part way through, I don't like it. Though I'm realizing now that if the track is any kind of loop, you could stretch this rule by intentionally letting the contender lap the pacers so they could reserve energy for every nth lap when they hop back in front of him.
There's a nice one at http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Do-the-Math.aspx : "keeps your vehicle up to 44˚F/7˚C cooler"
It is important to note that the antennae in a phased array (TRMs) cannot be "steered" individually: it is the electronics that creates a beam by timing the transmit and receive signals to a number of antennae. It's similar to the way an array of atoms creates a pattern of beams in x-ray crystallography, if that makes it clearer.
As a former (in reality, and in some ways still internally) farmboy from Montana, I applaud the resourcefulness that 'scobar is displaying.

Google may be a tough choice, as they do seem to favor PhDs.

But you ('scobar) have a lot of talent and initiative and a very marketable skill set.
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Yes, Comanche was awesome back in the day. First 386 protected mode game I had and it pushed my 486DX-50 to the hilt. I also had the Thrustmaster stick and throttle, and 8-bit sound blaster. Ahh, the good old days.
It's not supported. But if you're doing things right, you shouldn't need it.
Yeah, I too got a really weird vibe from this. I can't really put my finger on it, but something's really quite creepy about this. It's not that he doesn't care, it's the way that he cares - almost like banging out a checklist - treating the symbols as the substance.

I feel bad saying that, but ... I feel like it needs to be called out. Something ain't right.
I definitely agree that there's something in the piece that evokes a gut-feeling I've gotten from being around certain troubled people in real life.

However, I think "narcissist" is probably closer than "sociopath".

While there's a lot of overlap, a narcissist sees people as an audience rather than prey. They are more preoccupied with manipulating people into validating him (or her) as a smart, successful, powerful, rich, etc. individual.

That's really what this blogpost always keeps returning to, IMO. Even the "downer" points are flavored with "but some people believed I had potential" and "the other people were still too blind to notice my potential".

I think the shark-jumping moment is when he sent an impromptu autobiography to a prospective employer... and did it again as an audiobook "in case they didn't have time to read"! While he admits that it was a tactical mistake, he never addresses why it ever seemed like a good idea, and his next sentence basically says "I would have been an amazing employee but their hiring system is broken."
Yes, I understand. What I mean is a whole tutorial that shows a ceylon client in the browser calling a ceylon sever running on vert.x.
And they translated the findings from French to English! The nerve of this American publication--writing for their own audience!
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Running Chromium 37.0.2062.120 on Ubuntu 14.04, Youtube reports that I am compatible with all 6 formats, including Media Source Extensions.
Are you seriously going to defend the proposition that the placebo effect is that large?

Science requires us to be more careful in our thinking than we are naturally inclined towards. It does not require us to pretend we have a lobotomy, nor does it require that we pretend that we must seriously entertain the hypothesis that large doses of steroids have no effect.
...relative to the income level (top 1 percent) and poverty rate (0 percent) of NFL players, the domestic violence arrest rate is downright extraordinary.

You've really misrepresented the article.
I'm confused. Why is that a problem?

If I need to pay and the price is in 'Dollar' I assume the recipient can clearly indicate if it's a USD or a AUD that he wants to receive here. Francs and Swiss Francs shared the same name, but were different things (and had different abbreviations).

The same would be possible for the units you mentioned.
Presumably he'd update that bit of text as part of expanding.
I think you mean "White Hat"
So everyone should use it is what you're saying? I'm a star fade man myself: use it every couple of slides to keep things interesting.
Just tried to learn about your product... I was, and still am, completely confused about what it does and why I need it...
Let's see how Hacker News handles Unicode! :-)

Pindar's 7th Olympian Ode, lines 50-54:

αὐτὰ δέ σφισιν ὤπασε τέχναν
πᾶσαν ἐπιχθονίων Γλαυκῶπις ἀριστοπόνοις χερσὶ κρατεῖν.
ἔργα δὲ ζωοῖσιν ἑρπόντεσσί θ᾽ ὁμοῖα κέλευθοι φέρον:
ἦν δὲ κλέος βαθύ.

Your version is pretty exact!
There is a book on it[1]. But suffice it to say that the radar is computing an "exit vector" when the target it moving away from center and applying a correction to the pointer. I built a similar system with LEDs when building a tracking system for two moving robots. In my case I used a parabolic dish (a solar cigarette lighter) and a line of LEDs (bar graph display) as detectors rather than lights. Since the target robot and the pursuing robot had their beacon and search dish in the same plane I could reduce the problem to a managable bit of 2D geometry. As the signal went off axis you could turn the robot to re-align by applying the opposite rotation.

[1] "Multiple Target Tracking with Radar Applications" - Sam Blackman (http://books.google.com/books?id=Ag9TAAAAMAAJ&q=tracking+mul...)
Not really. /r/amiugly will never tell you you're ugly. 4chan, though, will.
Do you think there is no doping control for elite marathoners (and other runners)?
Preferably someone much older, life experience seems like a pretty good indicator to me.
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I usually just open dev tools and delete the div that contains the modal dialog and gray-out background (its ID is along the lines of "Modal_signup_wrapper"). You still won't be able to read past the first answer, but at least you'll get all of that answer's content.
When I was in middle school, I thought SC's trigger-based map editor was the most amazing thing ever. I even built a four-mission mini campaign that I showed my friends, who promptly told me that it sucked. (It was actually pretty terrible, although fun to make.) That, and collecting UMS maps and putting them on my GeoCities page.
heh. i always pronounced img-url... because that is what i thought the domain was :)

well, not like i would ever typed to reach it on purpose anyway. it is just reddit's image anyway.
Is that officially allowed? Or do you risk a ban by using a tool like that? I'm guessing it's not since it's a paid product?
I used to play Tibia when I was around 12-15 and I started hosting my own server, since I wanted to make some unique quests for the people that used my server I started modifying Lua files then writing some of my own.
To me it always read like plain English (and English isn't my mother language). In fact I'd say I even learnt some English from reserved words (like If).
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