skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you provide more information? Is the CEO technical? What is your job? How long have you been working at the company? How long have you known the CEO? Are you friends?

"Does not pay properly or on time." Have you spoken to the CFO about this? Are the company's finances opaque? The company has raised?

"There are no processes in place for anything. I manage a lot of things and am overworked with little time for anything else." This is pretty characteristic of startups: (work/workers > 1). Building a startup is like jumping off a cliff and putting a airplane together before you hit the ground, so you have to build the processes as you build the product and the team. Forget difficult, it's nearly impossible which is why most startups fail.

A startup requires that you pour your life into it. If you don't want to be working on it all the time then you shouldn't be working at that startup. If you are seeking work life balance then you shouldn't be working at a startup.
Don't confuse a startup with an early-stage or young company. These can provide you with preexisting processes and work-life balance. Believe it or not there are people who still call facebook a 'startup'. Is coinbase a startup? No, not anymore.
Startups are about love. Could you imagine telling your wife/husband, 'I love you and I'm committed to you, but I need to be able to see other girls/guys on the weekend.' That being said, it's critical to recharge and recreate strategically. Ever have a company field trip or retreat? Consider implementing a startup shabbat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRdMUhBPRjY

Much more data is necessary to provide a good answer.
"my" G+ account is register to agu monkey (not a real name at all), it made the whole thing pretty sad.

> Also made it clear they were not doing this for us.
Most important point in G+ state IMO

Whatever Facebook was, it was something out of a guy's desire (lowly or great). Google+ felt like yet another business attempt at market share grabbing. The original circle idea was cute, but everything else was corporate strategy and forced unification.
This mirrors my experience. When I was in college I was always able to plug some random person's printer in via USB and it "just worked". I'm also able to autodiscover and print to all of the laser printers at work. (this is on Linux)
I think the idea that "this can happen, but can't ever be open" is present some places, but I'm also talking about completely non-sexual activities like the "awkward dude hug" in the United States.
You might be right about #000 on white not causing eye strain any more than grey on white.

The grey font on sarahwener.net is more pleasing (to me) because I associate eye fatigue with overly contrasty page environments. Looking again, it really is the Merriweather font I like most about the text. The lighter grey colour is less to do with it.

White text on black on the other hand as I mentioned, it causes shimmering. It's hard to speed-read. Harsh white text on pure black will challenge your eyes after a few pages. I've been on the receiving end of user complaints about this very thing. We changed it to off white text and brought the black up slightly and everyone agreed it looked better.

As you say, bright white screens are lightbulbs shining in our eyes. Personally, it's the white backgrounds that hurt my eyes both on large monitors and reading web pages at night on my tablet. I even have a greasemonkey script that "fixes" this on some regular sites I visit such as Google. I don't touch my monitor brightness because I need it to be accurate for photoshop etc.
Of course it did -- public transportation, the alternative to mass widespread use of taxis/private cabs most certainly dies in most of the US because of a lack of funding.

And you're right I left that dystopian comment vague -- let me clarify, having a large private monopoly own a necessary piece of transportation infrastructure is my idea of a dystopia, incidentally especially when their business model is built around using ownership of the name and app to exploit people who really need to use it (i.e. surge pricing) and people who work to provide it (i.e. the "technically private contractors but really just employees without benefits").

The point is transportation is something we all require and should be provided by the public (it already is in the form of roads, but that's not good enough): taxis are a crappy but elastic solution that's there to fill in the gaps. I think their awfulness is a good thing: private cars driving people around are a terrible solution to the real problem which is transportation infrastructure. As soon as a terrible solution starts to look and feel okay to a lot of (wealthy or middle-class) people, that's dangerous. Because things like Uber don't look and feel okay to the very poor. That's why I describe it as dystopian.
It's a sense of realism where only those rights have meaning, that you can up hold, with brute force, the same way wealth f.ex. allows threatening and engaging adversaries with lawyers and court fees.
It is both amazing and an innovation to me. Why would you dispute this? Uber is totally disrupting the way people travel within congested cities. Where I live in Panama, it has been amazingly innovative. Taxis here, while cheap, are dirty, unsafe and unreliable. Uber is remaking how people travel here and elsewhere.
Panicky? Funny.
No, it's that inherent non-visual (and maybe visual too) unattractiveness that killed (or is killing) G+, not it being a post-Facebook SNS. Facebook, with all its questionable practises and unquestionably appalling privacy attitude, got one thing right - it gave what users wanted and needed in real at that time. It didn't, unlike G+, went on to tell people "hey, you want this!", "Hey, you want this profile to be everywhere, even in your YouTube comments", "No, you do not want your user-name as `balladeer` - which is btw still available, you want `balladeer132`". Just few examples and simple day-today usability fails at the lowest level.

> none of the little annoyances or problems with G+ would have likely mattered

Yes, it would have mattered. It has happened before.

You know Orkut had every reason for not failing. I mean everybody was on Orkut seeing the Internet penetration at that time (at least in my part of the world) and Orkutting was the thing - for us there was no Twitter, no Instagram, no MySpace, traces of Friendster, but just Orkut. But it failed. It was pre-Facebook (by a a few weeks iirc) and had gained momentum long before Facebook did.

What else surprises me? The fact that what every one - I mean every Tom, Dick, Harry - knew was seemingly unknown to the G+/G leaders. Many of their decisions brought universal reactions of a metaphoric "really?" and they would do that all over again as there was a total communication gap with them and the rest of the world.

> Good product; unfortunate timing

Imho it's actually like: good idea (but nothing innovative; in fact many times repeated) badly executed (and more bad repeatedly over the time) is failing as expected.

Wave, Buzz, Orkut, G+

> For all that success, the Internet giant just couldn't seem to figure out social

I think this lines really sums it.

Maybe they banked upon the number they had in all their G-ecosystem and they believed they could just herd the flock.
Amazing work! Thanks for sharing some backgorund info.

ps.
Are you the giant white person laying on the roof? :)
I'm with you. Flying in I was watching a show on the entertainment system called "Delicious Iceland" or something. The skies in the show were always blue and the food fresh and awesome. I didn't experience either of those while there. Everything else was fantastic in the true sense of the word.
Ask to be appointed CTO. If it goes through you'll have a lot more freedom, if not just quit.
This is beautiful and fun to explore. I'm curious, with all the time involved is this a viable business venture (through advertising from retailers, sales of prints, etc.) or primarily a labor of love?
Elon Musk simply knows how to advertise for his companies and how to secure enough funding. Neither SolarCity nor Tesla nor SpaceX nor the hyperloop are based on any technological breakthrough. It's just enough money for engineering, right timing and good business strategy.
> they ate every day at the same table ... and at night their beds did not separate them

That doesn't read to me like a statement that they shared a bed, necessarily (though I acknowledge that, even if they did share a bed, it wouldn't be sexually suggestive). I read it as "they sat up all night and didn't go to bed".

Other gay icons from a slightly creative historical reading: King David and Jonathan from the bible.
Do I really need to see this on HN?
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Quit.

"What matters is not ideas, but the people who have them. Good people can fix bad ideas, but good ideas can't save bad people." --Paul Graham
True, but in the case that a small child or animal was trapped under that panel your priorities would change significantly. That's actually a pretty strong argument for many of the "functional fixedness tests" to be invalid, because they don't account for peoples' priorities.

For example, with the tack box in the candle problem, I think people don't empty the box because they don't want to scatter the tacks all over everything, so it's not really testing functional fixedness but rather peoples' willingness to break something to accomplish their goals.
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the oblique title is appropriate for a magazine, but not a hotlink.

This is Christopher Hirtchens's "book review" (aka, "essay on the same topic as the book", not much of a review of the book) or "Scouting for Boys: The Original 1908 Edition".

It's an essay about the origins of Boy Scouts
Very cool! I've always thought that Github's discovery features were way too limited. My only complaint is that Obj-C/Swift Mac stuff gets thrown under the "Mobile" umbrella, but that's somewhat understandable given the higher number of iOS-oriented projects in those languages.
Agreed. Americans seems (just telling what I've read) friendly in facade but out of touch with deeper emotions, while Russians cold at first are said to be very very friendly once you get actual friends.
You do not owe the "company" pain without gain. I just left a similar position with a CEO who exhibited similar attitudes about people management. I was the 4th hire into that position in as many years - I believed it was a technical and process issue they suffered under and took the position in spite of this knowledge. It's generally not - it's a management and attitude issue, and if the board cannot take the time to determine that, with supposedly far more access to the "big picture" than anyone else, then you should feel no guilt for removing yourself from the situation.
Unless Wikipedia is lying, Google+ launched almost 2 years before the announcement of Google Reader's imminent shutdown.
Governments have expanded in order to better serve private wealthy interests. They have expanded in response to individuals pushing for "what's good for me" and ignoring "what's good for the public/country". Hence individualism.
I think it could be at least something to talk about if you have nothing else to discuss with someone.
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> Does not pay properly or on time.

That means quit. If the CEO is willing to be that damaging to employees' personal lives, it will probably never be a nice place to work.
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This is the obverse of "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." This is "when you have a nail, nothing looks like a hammer."
What we "need" is for people to worship Jesus Christ and get their butts to church.
I hear your argument, we do need to abstract away from race. That said with the black guy I can do a like a cool brother emoji, just need the comb in the hair ... the white man with the moustache can represent my dad from the 70's. ha ha ;-)

Anyway there's that Microsoft grey emoji too, but it looks a bit bland.
Could you tell me in which way it it different than elastic beanstalk? Ease of use?
Reminds me of the library trek in Asimov's Bicentennial Man. Asimov had a great perspective on the various ways humans would react to robots. His robot series is a really enjoyable read (and once you finish those, there's a good chance you'll want to read the Foundation series as well).
Several your examples are examples of specialization and optimization, that increase efficiency in operations.

There is a good reason that we have more complex tools than the 6 platonic simple machines.
Mitre doesn't allow CVE indexing
On that note, Europe has more than one waiting room these days. Malta and parts of Italy seem to be fulfilling a similar role for illegal migrants coming north from Africa, for example.
so the unicode consortium could either standardise it,
or see the number of proprietary extensions increase
further and less and less people give a flying fuck
about their registry.

I'd say:

so the unicode consortium could either standardise it,
or see the emoji fad disappear as quickly as it appeared.

Admittedly I don't know much about the situation in Japan or in other countries where emoji became popular in the 90s, but I'm curious.

In particular I have no clue how popular they really were (only youth phenomenon?) and how many people somehow depended on them. In English or German you can get along quite well without emoji. Maybe communication in other languages depends more heavily on emoji because emotions can't be expressed concisely? Or is there another reason why they became popular in Japan first.
Actually there is. This stuff caused problems ever since it appeared. There have been known bugs and vulnerabilities caused by combined characters.

More than that, I don't think I can provide any references now, but I remember some vulnerabilities caused by improper implementation of emoji alone in applications supposed to support them.

So both always were somewhat of a problem, except combining characters are obviously more important and hence more justified.

Now we have both combined. What unexpected behavior this will lead to? None of us can know.
Not much. Almost all high-budget games are still developed for consoles first. The hardware inside Xbox One doesn't support DX 12.
If it was downloaded over https they probably didn't see the need. One private key vs a different private key. Of course they could have kept the application signing key offline to prevent this.
Sure, but I surely didn't want to try that G+ afterwards anyway.
Sure, you could go cheaper by doing it yourself. But for financially illiterate -- that is, most people -- it's a good choice. Fees are fair too, nothing outrageous or deceitful (as is often the case in this industry).
Engineering flowchart for fixing machines:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/70/b5/11/70b511ecc...

If you need it to start moving: WD-40

If you need it to stop moving: duct tape
You are thinking of 'col'. 'fmt' reflows paragraphs:

NAME
fmt - simple optimal text formatter

SYNOPSIS
fmt [-WIDTH] [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION
Reformat each paragraph in the FILE(s), writing to
standard output. The option -WIDTH is an abbreviated
form of --width=DIGITS. Mandatory arguments to long
options are mandatory for short options too.

-c, --crown-margin
preserve indentation of first two lines

-p, --prefix=STRING
reformat only lines beginning with STRING,
reattaching the prefix to reformatted lines

-s, --split-only
split long lines, but do not refill

-t, --tagged-paragraph
indentation of first line different from
second

-u, --uniform-spacing
one space between words, two after sentences

-w, --width=WIDTH
maximum line width (default of 75 columns)

-g, --goal=WIDTH
goal width (default of 93% of width)

--help display this help and exit

--version
output version information and exit

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Makes me wonder what the motive was. Was it just a general attack, or were they targeting specific people.
How does this differ from Meld or WinDiff?
yes, I had exactly the same thought! The water pressure should eject any air inside the U-tube and probably make it impossible to breathe through the toilet. But then again, not everything in a movie has to be 100 % accurate all the time ;)
You have to laugh.

No, no, please. Castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful guys.
I'm actually surprised the police didn't destroy it before someone else did. Something that big, obviously wired up with electronics, sitting on the side of the road with an invitation for people to put it in their car?

Call me paranoid, but that sounds a lot more like a bomb than a lot of other things police in the US have destroyed (e.g. blinking LED artwork, pinhole cameras).
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Rousey is also the daughter of an outlier. Her mom was the first female US Judo champion.
> You might have noticed that the higher fluency the higher the originality (if you did "good for you!") This is a contamination problem and can be corrected by using a corrective calculation for originality

that misses the point that in real life, "originality/creative" is often derived from fluency. The best ideas come from people who have the most* ideas (the bad ideas are discarded).
Run, don't walk, out the door.
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Indeed, like it or not, Facebook came out of Zuckerberg's desire to create a neat thing, in which he succeeded.

And Google+ came from a Microsoft veteran who started back in 1991, when Microsoft succeeded in supplanting a lot of one trick pony companies. But those had limited network effects and the big ones also manifestly failed at software development, and Facebook continues to run that part of the company well (enough).
Gilbert Gottfried used the joke in 2001 after a 9/11 joke backfired terribly, although the movie was apparently already in progress then, the author of the article says it was a well-known inside joke. http://observer.com/2001/10/observatory-6/
Could it be used as the the CPU emulation component of a compatibility layer? For instance, if someone were to create a WINE-like Classic Mac OS compat layer, could Unicorn serve as the PowerPC emulation portion? Or is the intended use case something entirely different?
Yes, you homophobe.
I've managed to avoid having any of my phones stolen since living in Paris. As a prank a friend of mine nicked it out of my coat pocket and since then I never keep anything valuable in them except winter gloves.

One of the scams pickpockets play is to try and distract you. I don't know a lot of people so I avoid conversation with strangers on the street. though I might engage in the bar.
I think this would be strengthened considerably with the help of global networking. There are a lot of similar organisations worldwide that could be effectively merged with the right kind of social networking.
This is a common problem in psychology research: Researches making grand unfounded conclusions by over-generalizing an observation in a very narrow experiment.

In school my professors pushed me to make ridiculous generalizations from my tiny experiments.
If you're an employee (and not a contractor), there are generally a LOT of legal protections against employers that don't pay their employees on time.
There are some academics who study functional fixedness in literature under the name "Thing Theory". In particular, Raymond Malewitz has a book of examples of "creative misuse" in recent American lit.[1] Some of his examples (Fight Club, No Country for Old Men) are noted for their anti-capitalist or anti-consumerist slant, while others (Apollo 13, McGuyver) have more of a quasi-military aspect to them.

I'm also reminded of British architecture critic Reyner Banham's essay "The Great Gizmo" about examples of American technology that are meant for retrofitting and composition more than entirely new things.[2] The outboard motor, for example, as opposed to designing a new boat.

And also Olia Lialina has an essay "Turing-Complete User" about very similar themes in today's software.[3]

1 http://www.amazon.com/The-Practice-Misuse-Consumerism-Contem...

2 http://mashupstudio.pbworks.com/f/Banham_The%2BGreat%2BGizmo...

3 http://contemporary-home-computing.org/turing-complete-user/
I believe the OS X implementation of CUPS is rather different from the standard open-source version used on Linux. In particular, if I recall correctly it uses PDF as its internal working format rather than Postscript and a completely different set of printer drivers to the Linux version.
> Europeans are better than Americans at it

Oh please, Ok, let's talk about the racism against blacks in US before talking about the alleged European xenophobia.
I'm surprised to hear "likes" associated with extroversion.

I tend towards a mere like when I'm feeling more introverted. To me, commenting and sharing are the extroverted alternatives — and liking is the absolute least one can do that still technically qualifies as "social".

Lowering the friction to increase social participation is precisely catering towards introverts, from my perspective, and that is what Like and +1 do.
"Been a few years, the start-up still is in the product development phase.. Product market fit is yet to be achieved"

Move on!
Google+ came from Google.

The attempts in this thread to retroactively attribute this failure to something other than Google are...interesting.
I don't agree with destroying hitchbot.

However, I can see a strong social justice argument for destroying the property of people who gain profit and/or power from destroying the lives of others. Their behaviors are profitable and there is no legal means to make their behaviors unprofitable, so doing illegal things that cost them money, such as destroying their property, is the only means to dis-incentivize their behavior.

I do think destruction of property can be an ethical action, but I don't think it's a smart thing to do for legal reasons.
There are 3 axis CNC machines out there that use the Windows printer spooler, believe it or not.
>That they can assign a core to a particular user.

How's that hard to believe? You can even assign a single particular process (e.g. nginx) to a core (or a range of cores) yourself in your own linux laptop.

Assigning a virtual CPU to a physical core is no more difficult with modern supervisors.

>So assume the VPS is a 16 core, according to your statement if they have 16 clients, the web host can allot 16 clients only?

No, they can also allot 1,000 clients, which would then be sharing cores.

But IF they pin each of their clients to a single core, then yes, they can only have up to 16 clients (or less) for a 16-core server.

And they can also combine those two options: allot 4 cores to 4 customers (one per core), and the remaining 12 cores to 20-30 other customers...
A great story well written.
A little fuzzy since it's been a couple years, but I absolutely hated their obsession with aggressively putting mayo-based sauces on seemingly everything.
It sounds like the bridges are half-burnt already, and not by you. Moonwalk on out the door and get your local Department of Labor on the phone.
I think you nailed it, at least for me. I am a regular Google+ user, and I never created a Facebook account. When I wanted to share stuff with people I posted it on my website or sent out emails to hand-selected groups with shared interests.

G+ circles were a blessing for me.

I hope I won't have to leave Google+
Thanks.
I'm glad my question made you come out of comment hibernation of 214 days :)
We converted the original PNGs to vector using Illustrator's image trace, then cleaned up some noise and removed some bits of pixelation before scaling them up and resaving them as raster.