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Remote (New York, Seattle preferred - open to anyone though) | Full-time | Full Stack Developer Elearning project Cloud Productions is hiring a full stack developer to help us crea…

Admittedly, I'm more of a lurker and slightly-more-than-occasional visitor, so my experience of HN is probably not representative of the norm. However, I have seen racism and other…

Getting the interview in the first place is a good marker of the privileged upbringing that most tech industry job applicants have. The path to getting a high paying, high quality …

I think that the solution lies in shining a light on, and whenever possible, celebrating differences, not ignoring them. Maybe some far off day we will be 'one people', after a few…

HN is sometimes one of the more progressive wings of the geek community. It's disheartening to see the number of replies expressing dismay at race being an interesting and notable …

The fact that Beeple was impressed with this is enough to get me excited about it. Granted, his reaction may have something to do with the ML team sitting right beside him as he de…

What's this about? Confusing premise. Got any links?

Before my son was born, we tried to persuade our OB to allow us to do this, or at least to look at the research herself. She wouldn't budge. As an aside, my son was born 12 lb 1 oz…

In any case, good luck. It sounds like you put a lot of work in on this, so I hope you keep doing that. Charlie Rose interviews with comedians (specifically the types that you're r…

When things are hard, it's often because either a) it's new, or b) because we're trying the 'wrong' way. When something is hard and you can't manage to get the desired result no ma…

Can you imagine what it's like to be on the other side of you? I don't know you, and I wouldn't presume to know anything about you other than what you've revealed in your comments,…

Oh cool! Another dystopian policy idea! My first thought was, doesn't the person advocating for this realize they are rooting for the bad guys in the film? Then I realized, in scie…

The solution to homelessness is compassion. Frankly, it's outright disturbing how complacent we have become with homelessness in our culture. The problem isn't that these people ab…

Raymond Scott is probably more well known, particularly because of having been sampled by Dilla. Oram and certainly also Delia Derbyshire deserve all their due... I can't imagine h…

"The future is not only going to be about hard-edged people with metal faces. There will be broken hearts in the future." That's a Bowie quote I think of with unusual regularity. I…

I guess you can draw sweeping conclusions from your own narrow social base, but it doesn't seem like a reliable point of view from which to make generalities. By implication the co…

Nightlife is when you are awake but the sun is down and all of the people around you don't mind. There is sometimes lots of alcohol, yes, but also music and conversation and hopefu…

> I can't think of anyone who participates in nightlife successfully who doesn't at least get a little buzzed when out. This is a very strange and unqualified statement. I know a c…

Any books you'd recommend?

I was a musician playing at the Beauty Bar in Austin during SXSW a few years ago. Bill Murray turned up to the party and jumped behind the bar. He asked me what I wanted and I aske…

Just keep going. One page at a time (easier to do if you employ 2 bookmarks in a paper book). It will begin to gel. Just focus on how funny it is, rather than what's going on. It i…

Well, first of all, these kinds of things are really just insider baseball, aren't they? I don't think most readers of magazines are interested in or knowledgeable about the portfo…

I wouldn't worry too much. The most notable aspect of the recent incarnation of Pitchfork's brand is its discernment. It doesn't typically follow the hype, it creates the hype. The…

The cover stories have been really wonderful, as a guy who grew up loving magazine design (not to mention quality writing) in mags like The Face, Dazed, i-D and Raygun. For a good …

I would guess that the sale would make more sense in the context of a place like HN than it would to most fans of the site. They will benefit from the infrastructure and experience…