skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The resason is that we have a priority on what we value and that some of those drives temporarily promote values that conflict with our more stable ones.

By including a list of those types of events in our mental models, we can compensate and maintain a stable priority list that won't cause us regret later.
It's iPhone only for now. Support for Android is in the very near future and BlackBerry right after that. This is explained on the notifo website.
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So what does it actually do? The techcrunch article used the term "push" a half dozen times, but never defined it. The screenshots made it look like it's just a twitter client.

Anybody care to explain why I would want to use this?
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Is there a transcript for this?
Exactly. I got a kindle not for its intrinsic merits, but because of the behavior change. $200 is a very cheap way for me to read more books. Anecdotally, I'm reading about 3x as many books; I've cut down on my random surfing time and instead reach for more substantive stuff.

That's worth a lot more than $200 to me, and if the iPad encourages me to read even better stuff, all the better.
It does take most people a week to ascend with aid. That being said, the less gear you carry, the faster you climb. So the moment you try to ascend something in a day, you get to leave your poop tube, portaledge, sleeping bags, food, satellite hookup to HN, and other baggage behind. This makes you considerably faster.

All that being said, climbing the nose free is astounding. Toomy and his wife at the time Beth Rodden were the third and fourth people to climb it free. Lynn Hill was the first to do it in 1993, and the first to do it in a day in 1994. In the next sixteen years only one other person pulled it off.

Her line "It goes, boys" is one of the all-time greatest statements about the ability of a woman to equal or best a man in athletic competition. Here's some footage, including her entrance into the near-mythical "changing corners" at around 0:50 or so:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KlA77j6xAc

Anyhoo, Tommy doing it twice in one day is ridiculous, once on the nose and once on another route. Sick. And he did it with just nine fingertips! Maybe the guy suing should actually pay Ryobi, it might be that fingers hold you back...
I upvoted you because I appreciate the feedback. Just to let you know, 3 years ago I interviewed with Google, made it through the recruiter phone screen, the second "technical phone screen", and flew to Mountain View to do the in-person interview.

The entire process took about 3 months, and at the end of it all, I was told: "At this point, we're going to be pausing on the recruiting for this position and therefore will not be scheduling any additional candidates for this role. Because the company is in a major push to meet certain software hiring numbers soon, the majority of our operations positions are slowing down at this point. I really appreciate your patience and flexibility with us. I'll be keeping your information here on file and once things begin to move again, AND if you're still interested in us, I'll be in contact."

This was back in 2007, now they contact me in 2010, and I don't even make it past the initial phone screen.

The interview process at Google is probably one of the worst I have been through. I understand you want to put everyone on the spot and make them write code on a white board right in front of you, without any access to a computer, compiler, tab completion, or any of the niceties of a modern IDE, but please:

If you're a software engineer interviewing system engineers, don't expect them to regurgitate code verbatim without errors every time. I can write a quick Perl or shell script when needed but I don't live in an IDE all day long and I don't think of every solution as a software solution. Sometimes a good hardware solution can fix bad software. I do it every day, over-engineering hardware to accommodate bad code.

But seriously, if anything, I'm overqualified for a position there and perhaps that is the problem. Google just comes off as a company that wasted a lot of my time in their hiring process. I'm happy to work in my corporate job and pull in $200K/yr. as a senior systems engineer. Google probably wouldn't pay me that much anyway.
I never said that start-ups weren't hiring high school students. I said that they were less likely to hire than big companies.

Big and medium sized companies have internships for high school students too. They are the ones who can afford to train workers while most start-ups need people who are ready to create a product right away before their funding dries up.
The stigma of a series of short employment stints on a resume allows one's willingness to "commit" to a full-time job to serve as a signaling mechanism. Because the potential hire knows he will incur a cost for leaving the job too soon, he must therefore think his likelihood of departure to be relatively low if he accepts the role. Either that, or he's really desperate and has applied a high discount factor to the longer-term resume hit. "Consulting" is just a bi-directional signal that only short-term commitment is required (and from a legal standpoint, a transfer of risk to the contractor).

I once worked for a company which, by implying through its actions that life-long employment was possible, was able to convince IT employees to accept new roles such as software maintenance that would have a detrimental medium-term effect on their employability elsewhere. To keep up this system of incentives, inept long-timers were put out to pasture rather than fired -- a signal to those fearing market irrelevance that their own risks were bounded. Offenses entirely under one's own control such as stealing would still result in termination; Because others would not change their own risk assessments as a result and the company had to deter others from such mis-deeds, similar signaling was not required. It was notable that those put out to pasture could end-up fired later if they complained too much about their newfound state of affairs -- a strong signal to shut up and take it. Needless to say, this was not a happy place.
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This is what one of those nerdy, but not actually smart, kids in class went on to do. The others seem to be on HN. If you can't figure out why saying two collections of points "look alike" doesn't mean anything, then it's no surprise you think Outliers makes a compelling argument.
Hulu isn't going behind a paywall. They are providing content that they do not currently offer behind a paywall.
Other than Bazaar. But Mercurial might be the only one to support both styles fully -- each changeset gets a hash and also a revision number for the branch.
Here is one article with some more details of the programs they wrote to specifically make Bernie's frauds possible:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/madoff-programmers/

> Jerome O'Hara and George Perez, former computer programmers for Madoff's Manhattan-based business, were arrested on charges they helped cover up the massive scam for more than 15 years and accepted payoffs to keep quiet after they threatened to stop hiding the conspiracy, prosecutors said.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/brokerage/2009-11-1...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/business/14madoff.html
It seems pretty similar to Howl (http://howlapp.com, mine) or Prowl (which also offers an API). What's new here?
Why not notify people through Twitter? From Twitter I can get alerts to a regular mobile, not to mention to a Twitter client.
First off, I'm very much impressed by your tenaciousness.

> The problem with such a dark background and fighting out of it is that once out, not going back dominates everything you do. This translates to, "Don't risk what you have".

I so agree with that, I feel that exactly like you do, and my background isn't nearly as rough as yours, not by a long shot.

Screwed up childhoods seem to come in all shapes and sizes.

I try to make reasonably small steps in order not to fail too badly. If I was more risk oriented I would have probably made out much better than I have, but whenever something works I become ultra conservative about it.

Investing in other peoples ventures is one of the ways in which I try to cure myself of that, it's been slow going and my 'batting average' so far is not fantastic but it still works for me.

It splits the 'fight to go back' from the 'fight to go forward', I literally write off the investment the moment it's done and from there it can only go 'up', not drag me back.

And it gives someone else a chance to fight their way out of whatever hole they're in.
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It looks like notifo is trying to be a universal notification system. It's not going to be an easy way to do iPhone push notifications; it's going to be a single API to push to any smartphone.

They're starting just with iPhone because it's easier (since push is builtin) and widespread and they wanted to get something out there as fast as possible, but they say Android and Blackberry are coming soon, and I bet WebOS (and Windows?) won't be far behind.
(I have no ebook reader besides my laptop and iPhone.)

It'll be interesting to see whether similar iPad users get a similar boost (Anecdotal-3x™), since [good] web/Twitter/Facebook/email are each a Home button and a tap away on it, unlike Kindle.

I sure hope so, as one of my main hopes for the iPad is that I'll read more "Real Books" once I have one, but my compulsion to check what's happened in the last 5 minutes makes me think twice.

Hey, if I get Anecdotal-2x™, I'll be pretty damn happy and more productive.
Are you saying that because you actually read the laws, or are you just trying to sound clever?

Lawyers are a careful bunch, always having long disclaimers on their websites. I have trouble believing they would bet the future of their million+ funded start-up by depending on the ignorance of authorities. The IRS isn't stupid.
> > I quit Google after hearing Steve Jobs Speak

> Eh? Why?

Reality Distortion Field.
For the large part, such a trust network already exists with Facebook. Yes, it's not perfect, and yes, it probably can be better, but when you want some form of trust it's usually very powerful to use Facebook Connect to allow a user to see another user's FB profile.

I've been recently involved in creating a site for sports meetups (like, say, for a casual game of tennis), and FB Connect came up pretty early on in our discussions as a way of getting people to trust each other.
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They have pretty good lunches - he's in the patio in back.
Oh, the many counter-examples:

Github & Sourceforge

Slashdot & Digg

Facebook & MySpace

Look at Apple. When they started building their products with interesting, cool designs, they started recovering as a company. I own a Nexus One because it's a better phone, but the iPhone outsells it because it's more slick to own one.

Design does matter. Especially if you do it right. A really stellar website markets itself.
Pretty sure they did for some, at least: I specifically remember thinking "wow, they even took down the little 'ads', too". Not sure which, though.
I presume, since your employer didn't try to fire you for insubordination or something silly, that you were able to collect unemployment? They weren't as bad as they could have been!

The signal given to other employees will hurt them in the long-term. Nobody will ever let on that they might be thinking about leaving. "Why did Bob, who had just begun to lead the new project, decide to take some other job? Wow, what a jerk!"
The guys on this podcast mapped it out at the SXSW table I was sitting at over lunch. It seemed pretty clear to me there was going to be some spirited arguing when they got down to it.
I believe android and blackberry are coming (according to the techcrunch article).
I personally believe that "you will be given more challenging work" should be the reason to be given for documenting stuff, rather than "I know you will quit one day".

Not wanting to be interrupted, to know how things work, when you are working on your next interesting stuff, is reason enough to make things better maintainable.

I personally held that belief and worked through such challenges for over 8 years, until I got bored switching teams and creating new stuff for my employer. I now do the "creating new stuff" for myself at my startup.

If the talent is trying to make itself irreplaceable - like say, only one person knows how something works and they do not like documenting it or training others. It shows insecurity of the person who does not want to lose the job, which is bad for the organization as well as for the person.

Bad for the organization because, if the person either wants to quit or cannot turn up for work, a crucial piece of work cannot be completed.

Bad for the person because, though the person might think he/she is crucial for something work and cannot be fired, they are making themselves tied up to the work and hence cannot be promoted to better opportunities.

A talent should learn and grow. And then to teach others and make them grow. And keep repeating the process. If there is not much you can learn to grow, then quit and join some place where you can.

This is from my first link to HN (545 days ago)..
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=309262
"To thine own self be true." -- William Shakespeare
I don't think that Stallman's ideals are good (let alone perfect!)
I don't have a smartphone. I would sign up for this service if it would send me email when someone responded to my posts on HN.
> A lot of people donate to charity anonymously

And there may be a teapot in orbit around Mercury. Absence of evidence is evidence of absence. If our priors say psychopaths are less likely to give to charity - and it's a tough row to hoe if you want to say they give as much or more as the average - and we observe even weak evidence that a person doesn't, then our likelihood of the person being a psychopath must go up.

> I don't see why a psychopath wouldn't give money to charity anyway.

You don't? I was reading the blog linked elsewhere about raising a RAD kid, and lack of empathy & altruism & charity is one of the diagnostic criteria for sociopathy. I can see why a psychopath wouldn't...

> This is quite frankly the kind of witchhunt discussion that's worth avoiding at all costs.

Death to all extremists, eh... If we accept the basic statistics in the article, then there's a 1% likelihood of Jobs being a psychopath in general, and the likelihood rises the more evidence we adduce, like all the anecdotes of Jobs cheating people or brazenly lying (the Knuth story I mentioned is a good case). That's enough for it to be worth discussing, and it brings out interesting distinctions between narcissism and psychopathy - like the charity criterion I've used here. And being interesting is the chief and only virtue of discussions like these.
Are you seriously interpreting this as "Bernanke wants banks to be able to infinitely inflate the money supply"?

You do realize that Bernanke's briefing explains alternate mechanisms for accomplishing the same goal without the drawbacks of the current system, right?

And you do realize that one of those drawbacks is that if banks are currently keeping a much higher level of reserves than the minimum, one of the dangers is that they might start opening the lending spouts and spur inflation, right?
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this was really great to see/hear these guys duking it out. props to @pengwynn for holding it down for mongodb against the big boys.
Touching 'create account' doesn't do anything. bug?

I initially had notifications off and turned it on later. for whoever's info.
I've heard of this consequence of that act a few other times and never heard "but you can get around it if ..." So it's just a guess, but not one that's totally unsubstantiated.

And plenty of people break tax laws. I read (on HN, I think) that something like 1/3 of people who work as private contractors under-report their income (which is part of why the IRS is cracking down on "contractors" that really are more like employees). Lots of people work under the table. Until the IRS started asking for the SSNs of people's dependents, lots of people had fictional dependents. (Millions fewer dependents were claimed the first year it was required than the previous year.) The IRS can only audit a tiny percentage of filings.

And if it were a 100% unpaid internship where they didn't even pay for a plane ticket or anything, there might be no trace of it anywhere that an audit would see.
That may be because everybody here would agree that in Patricks position they'd do the same thing, but hardly anybody can see themselves even getting to parity with what you've done.
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I don't think I've ever heard of a big company having a programming internship for high school students. They have internships in other fields, but to my knowledge, programming ones are rare to nonexistent.

Correct me if I was just ignorant to them, though.
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Listening to this, I'm struck by how wimpy and tame all the journalism/media panels were by comparison. We need to raise our game!
This is different though, in the case of McDonalds she was not aware of the risk, whereas this guy obviously was. If people actually wanted this device then it would be for sale. When working with machinery a level of caution is required and a lot of safety devices can cause problems -- what can be cut without tripping the device, or slow work down.
I'm considering adding emails to notifo. It's on the todo list, but not high priorty right now.
I prefer to avoid jQuery for Greasemonkey, because the per-page performance hit of inserting it into the DOM / waiting to load from Google / running through various abstraction layers is IMO not worth reducing a 20-line script to 10 lines.
you might push them away -> This is a testable claim about empirical reality.

My feeling is that you need to get a user to invest a bit of time -> This is also a testable claim about empirical reality. I actually come down totally differently on this one: I think getting a user to "success" quickly trumps all other considerations for retention, even if getting them to "success" quickly causes their first use of your service to be much shorter on average than it would otherwise have been.

But, hey, what is the point about making testable claims about empirical reality if you don't actually test the suckers. So I'm going to dig into my data this weekend and figure out which one of us is right, at least for my app/users, and blog about it. Please mock me mercilessly if I don't have this done by Sunday.
I appreciate your non-snarky reply to my snarky comment.

Isn't this a solution just as bad as the problem, though? It would destroy liquidity, and do little to alleviate risk, since bankers would not be assured of making sufficient income to offset the cost of bad debt. Furthermore, profits from banking would be so low as to fall below the level of transfer earnings, that is to say banks and bankers might well be able to make more money doing something else and would have no incentive to operate, and the economy would go the way of North Korea (unless this system were implemented and enforced globally).

Since people always want money to do stuff, the demand for credit would likely be filled by illegal lenders charging usurious rates (although there's a reason I cut up all my credit cards...), and profiteering would ensue. Such illegal lenders would probably not bank their gains starving the system further of liquidity - a case of bad credit driving out good, so to speak. I imagine the likely result would be that the government would become the biggest guarantor of loans and cronyism and other kinds of corruption would become endemic. Doubtless you don't intend for this outcome, but I can't help feeling your proposal would rapidly result in a soviet-style economy, which I can attest from first-hand experience does not work very well.

Incidentally, not only is it illegal for an individual to lend money that does not exist, it is illegal for them to lend more than a certain sum of their own money at interest, I believe under the same laws that require investor accreditation.
The main point of the original Milgram experiment was that you don't need much to get ordinary people to act unethically if you provide them with the proper context. Saying it's only a small part of the population that acts this way misses the point.
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The building I live in is theoretically capable of "surviving" an F5 tornado, and my apartment is 160ft. off the ground. So OK, bring 'em on. The worst that will happen is a sudden increase in the popularity of my YouTube channel.
But the device is for sale. I agree that power tools are dangerous, but we don't yet know the exact circumstances of the accident. The question is not so much whether the customer was aware of the risk, but whether the manufacturer was aware and chose to do nothing to mitigate it. Ryobi was at the point of signing a contract to license the technology 8 years ago and suddenly pulled out. Saying that 'safety doesn't sell', if verifiable, suggests their misgivings were economic rather than technical. Past similar cases, such as the Ford Pinto, usually go very poorly for the defendants.

This could result in an awfully big class-action lawsuit if the ruling is upheld. From the same link: According to the Journal of Trauma, an estimated 565,670 table-saw-related injuries were treated from 1990 to 2007 in U.S. emergency rooms. The vast majority involved a hand coming in contact with the blade, and about 10 percent ended in amputation.

If we estimate the average cost of an amputation in medical bills and lost future productivity at $100,000, then this would represent a $5.6 billion loss to the economy. This case is going to be fought tooth and nail, perhaps all the way to the Supreme Court.
Thanks for the kind words and thoughts. I love the idea of looking at this from the customer's worldview...I wrote it form the vendor's perspective. And you're right -- customers who merely ask for a quote expecting price are shooting themselves in the foot. The presentation is what they're buying.
If you use Boxcar ... that is an iPhone push notification app that when you receive an email or a comment left on your Facebook a pop up notification appears similar to what you see when you get a text message. This app allows for any 3rd party(publisher) to integrate this into their service so users can choose to get pop up notifications on their device from their favorite services(updates, news, discounts, etc).

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I'm presenting a metamorphic engine at a hacking conference in April (http://thotcon.org/). It'll be completely open source. Initial tests against modern anti-virus look very good. ;)