skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's due to the translation but the use of left- and right- justification and left and right side navigation bars is very confusing.

Also, in Figure 1, despite their claim that nothing has changed except the placement of the bar, the justification of the text in the bars has also changed. Not compelling.
>Previously I had

>Subject: About your pricelist request for Klein SDK

>Body: Dear John Doe, I saw that you...

>

>I changed it to

>Subject: Re: Klein SDK pricelist request

>Body: Hey John Doe, I saw taht you...

-

Without the "Re:" the second subject line is still much better than the first.

Without the misspelling, the "Hey" gives a very different tone to the "Dear".
Interesting insight regarding it being 'less suitable' for work. That's something that I don't think about now that I'm not working in a corporate office or cubicle anymore.
Why would I use this over Readernaut: http://readernaut.com/
I tried readernaut but felt it did too much. I just wanted a minimal way to keep up with what I've read, not add reviews (that's what Amazon is for), add friends (we all use Facebook, right?), or create lists.

There's also http://goodreads.com/ and http://www.librarything.com/
The writer seems to be actively trying to find some superiority to right-side navigation menus, even after conducting experiments that show no real difference.
Off topic: What's the panel to the left of your solution explorer in Visual Studio?
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Oh it's just as bad on Windows too. I use Chrome everywhere now.
I read it differently.

To me Steve seems to be saying "if you want to avoid getting replaced, you need to learn to scale your skills for each stage of the company". Managing 20 is a very different problem than managing 300.

Having lived through that transition once as an early employee of a startup that made it, Steve pretty much nails the issues we faced on the head. In the case of that startup the founder didn't scale and needed to be replaced much sooner than it happened.

I would have preferred it if the founder did scale better. Managing around your founder for his own good is some of the most soul draining work ever created.
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An increase in sales from $400 to $900 a month is compelling evidence that these annoying tactics produce good results? Color me unconvinced.

Requesting a price quote is a deal-breaker for me. And if I got that email, I would just assume that he couldn't take the time to spell things correctly in whatever he used to generate the mass emailed "reply" - not that he typed it by hand himself. Why would that make more people want to buy software he had developed?
I don't think that is the Market being discussed though. We sell tools at a similar level (more expensive and specialist though) and putting prices on a site is actually a turn off.

The best hack you can do is put a phone number on there. So long as it is the right Market your conversion rate will shoot up.
Even if a company misspelled a word in an email that I assumed was hand written, I would think less of that company- especially, if it was a product such as software, where precision in spelling counts.

I agree with the idea that another variable changed near the same time. But I am still interested in hearing more stories like this, since it is an interesting concept in what I guess could be called 'sociology of marketing'.
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Hah. I wish. We can barely get even the most pathetically meaningless measures through our governments. Tighter car efficiency standards are almost free. Better transit options are available for a tiny fraction of what we spend on highways. Aluminum recyling more than pays for itself in energy costs, etc... All of these ideas get fought tooth and nail by people who claim to be in the "center" of the debate. It's all a sad joke.
Oops. My secret's out. I also go to the local hardware store and get a piece of aluminum "angle iron" so I can strengthen the legs of the Lack and give me something to screw into besides the flimsy particle board.
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>The court split 5 to 4 over the ruling, with its conservative members in the majority

Can't say I'm surprised.
Did you use Flightcaster or Farecast (now Bing travel)?

I thought FlightCaster was about predicting flight delays, not ticket prices.
As ianferrel and ableal explained, the day Kindle software becomes the obvious way to read e-books on the Newton ][ (I love that name - too bad it won't be), Amazon wins.

Apple will do whatever it takes to prevent Amazon from controlling the ecosystem.
Facebook's U.S. usage boomed in 2009
You should try Firefox's Smart Keywords for searching directly from the location bar: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Smart+keywords

Using these, I type "gs <search terms>" for Google. I also have this set up for Wikipedia, Google Maps, Bing Image search, Amazon, etc. It's better than Chrome because you can bypass Google web search when you know there's a domain specific search that's better.
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The startup time of FireFox 3.0 through 3.5 on my MacBook Pro was horrendous... measured in tens of seconds. I just installed 3.6 and it is much better. It doesn't feel like I'm opening up Photoshop anymore, geez.
"Firefox has become what is was created to fight"

I don't believe Mozilla has become a monopoly abuser ;-)
OP, Usually, I recommend putting the "going for it" part before the "quitting the day job" part. They don't always have to be mutually exclusive. I admire your resolve and wish you great success. Let us know how it goes.
Buoyancy and displacement are irrelevant if the glaciers are not already floating. If the arctic ice sheet melts, nothing happens. If the antarctic or Himalayan glaciers melt, that will cause rising sea levels.

(Fortunately for us, the antarctic ice sheet is thickening.)
The pay isn't exactly the most important thing though, in software development I think you can get away with paying market rates and pitching at incentives.

So think I'd rather work at a company that gave a top of the line machine to develop on, used a good development stack, had a good working environment with plenty of space, had talented coworkers and interesting projects to work on.

I'd certainly take a pay cut for that instead of working in a cramped space on an old workstation at a megacorp pushing out some small part of a massive product.
This story reminded me of general situation in some software projects at large companies without any outsourcing. Clueless manager comes in and asks if this can be finished by Friday, developer already knows from previous experience that discussing realistic dates brings no good and just says "sure" and continues to develop at his own slow demotivated pace.

This article describes failure of communication which is not unique for outsourcing and can plagues any software project if contious attempts to avoid it are not made.
> If employers and employees trade vale-for-value, then what is there to hide? Doesn't it make sense to compensate people relative to the relative value of their productive achievements and capabilities? If it does make sense, then why distort the relative scale through secretive compensation practices cloaked behind a veil of low integrity?

Ego and morale. For instance, I overpaid a contractor once to take on a role at my company that was killing me. I overpaid by like 50-70%, but I got him to drop everything he was doing and turn out amazing results for me. If one of my long term staff knew what I was paying, it would've destroyed morale. "You pay him what? I'm here all the time, and you pay him for 10 hours of work half what I make all month?"

So yeah, people with me always got pretty good compensation and a hell of an enjoyable work environment, but I didn't make a habit of posting everyone's salary and expenses publicly. Also, people tend to be uncomfortable with that. I think sometimes people who have never managed people have an idea that could be easily tested or talked about with someone, but they advance their idea before doing so. There's a reason most companies don't talk pay with people - if somebody else makes more, it's going to bruise feelings and ruffle feathers and screw up morale.
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Since it's from TPB, it's probably intentionally offensive.
Whoa, you are correct of course. I tend to get those two mixed up. The original comment was not about Flightcaster at all, so I deleted it. I suppose there is a lesson in here somewhere about brandname uniqueness. Regardless, congrats to Flightcaster!
"Startup time is MUCH improved in Firefox 3.6. Chrome still feels slightly quicker, but we're talking on the order of 100s of milliseconds. For something that I do once a day, at most, the difference is negligible."

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/psychology-we...

Read the "The Effects of Slow Download Times" section. Those miniscule effects add up big over time, and lead to better overall satisfaction of the service. The link specifically refers to various web services, but I would be extremely surprised if there was not a similar effect in relation between satisfaction and general speediness (UI snappiness, JS/HTML/etc rendering speed) of various browsers.

Thats not to say that speed is the only reason to choose a browser, but it likely has more of an effect on how you use your browser (and therefore how you use the internet) than you would be able to consciously discern.
Global Warming (CO2 traps heat, causing the earth to be warmer than otherwise) is the conclusion of simple physics.

Simple physics can not prove that the current warming trend is caused mostly by humans, which is what AGW claims. To do that, you need very complicated physics to prove that CO2 (and nothing else) caused the warming trend.
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I'd be really careful with this. If I can't easily get the price of the product, I assume it's a few million dollars and find another product. The only way I would ever fill out a form to get information is if it was the only game in town.
Ruby Fibonacci Shootout, Part 2 (MacRuby vs LuaJIT)
The problem with that is that the people who need editors are often the ones who don't believe they need them. If it's money out of their pocket, why bother?

I agree that some of the Kindle-only (often of previously self-published books) are painful and embarrassing to read. "You do realize you've used the same distinctive phrase five times so far, and we're only on page 50, right?"
"When government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought," the court said in a decision written by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. "This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves."

Seems like a fairly compelling argument to me.
rotate? That doesn't seem to work for me. An special extension?
AGW is the claim that human emission of CO2 (rather than other causes) has caused most of the warming trend that the earth has seen since the industrial revolution. Please explain how to derive this conclusion from accepted physics.
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> but I don't understand why they believe this could be "blessed" by inclusion into the repository.

Google is, of course, a big company with lots of very smart people, and they rely on Python (and probably want to rely on it more in the future). Given that they employ Guido and also the primary developers of Unladen, the chances are very good that they will continue to vigorously improve upon it until their performance goals are met.

As far as introducing C++ goes, it's going to stay roped off in LLVM land (see [the PEP](http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/) for details).

As far as community support, LLVM has plenty of that.
As a relatively new artist (about a year), thesixtyone has been an amazing place. I met a lot of new people, generated interest in my music and learned a lot from the other artists there.

With the redesign that's all gone. All of the community and social aspects of the site have disappeared and we are left staring a giant background image. I didn't go to the sixtyone to look at cover art. I went to listen to music and to discuss it with my friends and fans.

The other thing I find baffling is that they were making real money with tip and album system. Fans were actually supporting the artists directly. It was working. That feature has been buried in this design. And, by burying the discussion between artists and fans, they have effectively killed the primary reason to tip an artist.

The worst part about it is that James and Sam don't talk with their absolutely fanatical users. There was no mention that a redesign this drastic was going to happen. There was no beta period for testing. All of those people commenting on the T61 Facebook page are their true fans. James and Sam haven't said a single word.
MIT’s Digital Food Printer Could Create Nutritious Meals
it's just a concept as pointed out below.
This article really, really rings true for my experience with outsourcing. It's also totally ignored by anyone above bottom-manager in Giant Immoral MegaCorps. And by "ignored" I mean "taboo to speak of".

One problem with outsourcing maintenance to folks from societies that, ah, respect authority to a great deal is that doing maintenance on any large code base will mean deciding that whoever did this the first time around Just Wasn't Thinking, and that you have to rip out and replace large hunks of barely-working, or slowly-working, or maybe non-working code. You just can't have any respect for the egos of those fools who came before you and wrote this drek.
You may be right, I'm not so sure. Chinese is difficult, not just because tones (~4 in Mandarin, ~8(?) in Cantonese) are important for meaning, but because you can't easily fake it or guess when you're reading or writing. The written language is character based, so you can't just spell out the sound of a new word, you have to know it. There are structural parts of some characters that can help you guess, but that's it.

So, I think, China is going to have to be almost as powerful in the rest of the world as they are in their own country before people are going to feel it's worth the effort to learn Chinese.
Dude, no. It's exactly this type of humor that makes my wife laugh at me, and not with me. I LOVE it!
The words "stylish" and "home data center" NEVER belong together!
In this interview, Alexis Ohanian does talk about it a little, though specific reasons for the idea being rejected are not mentioned: http://mixergy.com/no-reddit-didnt-copy-digg-heres-how-it-wa...
I'm not so sure about the science.

This quote is taken from the wiki article on Gary Taubes

"Although Taubes has no formal training in nutrition or medicine, his book was praised as "raising interesting and valuable points" by Dr. Andrew Weil, while Dr. Mehmet Oz and trainer Jillian Michaels who appeared on the same program disagreed with Taubes on many questions. [6]"

I think we have to question the science when he states that exercise is an inefficient tool for weight loss.

Taubes is against refined carbs (OK, that does make sense) but is a bit of a nutter on other causes and solutions to obesity.
Microsoft's been quite willing to play hard-ball and jump into areas where they can attempt to aggresively compete and hopefully squash competitors. Look at Zune, Silverlight, Windows Mobile, XBox. The trouble is, they've largely failed in the marketplace, with the XBox as the only success.

Blaming this failure on 'the politicians' is unconvincing, to say the least.
This is my new favorite app - good stuff :)
I have read the README.txt and I am not particularly surprised, nor should it shake anyone's belief in the consensus opinion. I guess if you're relatively uninformed and haven't been keeping up and you think in terms of "one line of evidence" then you might get a net negative opinion.

But the boring truth is that there are numerous lines of evidence. If a few turn up sour or turn out to be poorly supported, the scientific process is to discard them (and this happens all the time in every branch of science, it's why things move slowly in research) and move on with the remaining lines of evidence. This is the model that most types scientific research follow: gather data, extrapolate, gather data and discard data, extrapolate, refine.

Consider this: a bunch of aggressively anti-climate-change folks, like yourself, are constantly digging at the IPCC. To the point of engaging in international data theft to try and dig up dirt. They've been at this for a few years now. At the same time, scientists have been checking and double checking results, throwing out bad data and challenging AGW models at every turn. What do you have so far?

1. An overhyped case of data smoothing and normalizing for a specific set of data. All of the original data is recoverable (claims it was "lost" were misinterpretations, big shock), all the operations are now public and seem relatively benign.

2. Some occasional errors in source validation (which evidence so far has only produced a few isolated cases of). This is not a bad thing, it's a good thing. It means that people _are_ fact checking their sources.

3. A consensus that climate is going to get weirder before it gets warmer. This is the inevitable conclusion for any changing complex system: "It's complicated."

Given the extreme paucity of data for some kind of climate conspiracy, I really don't see how someone can rationally arrive at the conclusion that the IPCC is corrupt in this regard. Who is paying them? The people with all the money are explicitly not happy about their findings. What's their agenda? Do you imagine them in a futuristic control center with C.H.A.O.S. uniforms, with Vega and M.Bison giving orders before they beat up married men and raise their children as assassins?
The fundamental issue isn't that outsourcing doesn't work, it's that outsourcing is seen as a way to get cheap labour. And cheap labour isn't high quality labour.

Software development talent is highly mobile, and thus the best people are expensive everywhere in the world.

If you go to a cheap outsourcing company in India who can't afford talented staff, then why are you surprised when they produce poor quality code ?

Let's look at a market where local outsourcing works well: Web development. A huge amount of web development work in outsourced to small web development shops, both by large companies and small companies, and by and large the companies that outsource are happy. Because companies aren't outsourcing to cut costs, they're outsourcing because they don't have the in-house talent and therefore are willing to pay for expensive outsourcing options.

If they decided to go for a cheap local web development outsourcing option (plenty on gumtree/craigslist), they'd get worse quality and be unhappy about it.

Countries like India and China may well have separate issues due to cultural or language barriers, but they'd matter a lot less if the people being employed were talented in the first place.
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> There's small payoff for an American to study a 2nd language.

Good point - never thought of it like that.

> I'd like to see Spanish mandatory or commonly studied to fluency, given the demographic changes in America.

Really? I'd say going the opposite would have potentially more advantages. Mandarin, Russian, Hindi, Japanese, or Korean - something where you'd be one of the relatively few Americans bilingual in both languages and the country isn't fully bilingual in English speakers seems like it'd be more valuable than something in which quite a few Americans are fluent and bilingual.
I think it's more a lack of opportunity to utilize a second language. If you spend any length of time somewhere where, yes, you can sort of get by with English, but it's not the native language, you really start to want to learn more. In the US, your opportunities are quite limited... Mexico or Quebec are your only major options, and that's a lot of travel for many people. From Padova where I am, on the other hand, I can be in Austria in 4 hours' driving time, Slovenia in 2 hours, Croatia in about 3, or on the other side, France or Switzerland in a bit more than half a day's drive.
Just because it's typical doesn't mean it's efficient or useful.

There's a new generation of people with purchase authority rising up. I'd rather go with a slightly more expensive company with open pricing rather than a closed company where I constantly have to negotiate small discounts off of a "retail price" nobody ever actually pays (except the government, of course).
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I'm sorry, I really, really couldn't resist.
Chrome does have plugins on the mac. I'm surprised, Firefox is mostly irrelevant to me now.
I wonder if that's true on the Mexican border...
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Tangential anecdote - someone in my office went label mad mid last year. I made the observation that anybody who needed a label to know that the only light switch in the meeting room was, indeed, the light switch for the meeting room, was too dumb to benefit from meeting with us anyway.
For reference, stackoverflow.com and reddit.com give a banner on the top of the screen that is sort of a faq for first time visitors.

It seems like a reasonable thing to add to this site - tell people who've never been to your site about it, while not mucking things up for repeat visitors.
He's not saying he's going to try it, he's tried it, for his market it worked for him.
I'd like to see the date the actual cheatsheet was created...not just added to the site. A javascript cheatsheet from 2001 is likely to be much different than one from 2007. Other than that I love the site!
I start up my browsers once or twice a month, so start time is pretty irrelevant. I must not use javascript-heavy sites because I have never noticed a performance difference in Chrome.
What is their "proposed use of Amazon Payments solutions"? I was under the impression that the only money they have coming in right now is from the iphone/blackberry app.
Phonetically, readit could easily be mistaken for the immensely popular reddit. This seems rather important from a branding perspective.

I assume its meant to be "read" sounding like "reed," not "read" sounding like "red".. but it's easy to see how this could cause confusion.
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It may originally come from the Bible, but that line is indelibly linked with MLK. I agree with rauljara - that headline is tone-deaf and tacky, though the article itself is well-written and informative.