skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how long it'll take before the current crop of bad management gets shown the door and we get some new blood. With the talent, history and resources of MS, they should be dominating anything with an integrated circuit inside of it.

Instead, like an aging football fan trying to relive glory days as the high school quarterback, they're languishing on old glories and screwing up on most new efforts - badly.

They should start a completely new "startup division", similar to the Xbox business unit, roughly autonomous from the rest of the brokenness in the org, and just fund it to the tune of about a billion or two a year. The mandate? Start new "companies" completely autonomous from Mother MS, and they can be anything from new software, to web apps, to heck, even iPhone apps. That's got to give better ROI than the current brain-dead strategy.

How many ground zero startups could have been incubated for the money sunk on just the Kin?
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Yes that is indeed a post under w4m on Craigslist NYC. Lol! Hilarious! Any one who does reply and submits, please share the experience!
<Former Ivy League admission officer>

If you let the professors pick the kids, you'd get very few "leaders" coming out of the elite schools and lots of eggheads and tinkerers. Knowing this, the schools use recent grads and professional bureaucrats whose job is to carry out mandates handed down, not by faculty, but by the trustees, who have a broader, and more worldly perspective on who should be admitted.
Version like Wired magazine on the iPad? Yes, it's a bit of form over function but it was enjoyable, and more importantly, that's what I would gladly pay for. A one year subscription would be ideal.
Exactly.

I was advising a startup recently about what tech stack to use. Their default notion was PHP-centric. I pointed at the advantages of other languages/stacks. I said that while it's generally true you can get the job done in a variety of languages and tech mixes (anything that's Turing complete, eh?) it's still very important to pick the right mix, because it impacts other things. One of the things I mentioned was that it effects not just the quantity of folks you'll find on the market with that skill set, but also the quality and really the kind of person.

For example, if I had to wade through 100 random resumes from strangers for a dev job I had to hire for, I'd get very different kinds of people if it were for say a PHP stack versus if it were a Java stack or a Lisp stack. Very different folks, on average. To be more explicit, I'm confident there would be way more applicants if it were PHP, but way better applicants, on average, if it were Lisp. (I did not literally recommend they go with Lisp (dev scarcity factor still a bit too strong for my tastes right now, though Clojure may change that), but I will say that it was not PHP.)
I scan them however there is still a legal requirement to keep copies for 7 years:

http://www.irs.gov/publications/p552/ar02.html#en_US_publink...
If you like working on the compiler front-end, wait 'til you take a look at what happens in the back-end. Phenomenal.
Accepted for filing, yes. But if you get audited you are required to provide paper records:

http://www.irs.gov/publications/p552/ar02.html#en_US_publink...
"Currently, AmazonTote is available in the 98112 ZIP code."
Here's this little secret how the dentist association controls the number of dentists licensed each year - they raise and lower the difficulty of the licensing exams each year. Guess who wrote the exams? The existing dentists, who have incentive to restrict the number of new dentists. They can raise the difficulty with frivolous questions that don't impact the dental competency but weed out a number of qualified candidates.

Same thing with doctors and lawyers.
largely modeled on Tony Hsieh's.
Ironically, I feel so bad when I order five things in one order (ship when everything is ready, free shipping) and them Amazon sends me five different packages at great expense, that I am almost relieved they are offering this.
In my experience when someone is looking on the top-end of the salary range, they NEVER post that to a job board. It's done through networks and well established recruiters. I've never seen a $150k+ programming job, my only exposure has been through recruiters contacting me working on filling it.
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You know what I'd rather have than a Win Phone 7? Something I'd pay money for. A decent mobile office app for my Android. That's the kind of thing MS should be focusing on now. They've missed the boat with the platform, time to pivot and start building the applications.
What are you talking about? When you roll a new version of a high volume web app if it has bugs that don't get caught in certain scripts then you can literally cost people hundreds of thousands of dollars before it is fixed.

eg. A trading platform, an advertising platform, etc.

This is not that rare.
I'm trying to bring up an automated screening service at http://codeboff.in/ (self-promo alert) because I think we need way more of these, especially being the sort of people who could make them.

Edit: by 'we' I meant 'we as programmers'.
> The consensus is pretty clear. Incentives hurt productivity in creative activities.

I get the impression that the mechanism for that is that anxiety about getting/losing the incentives can starve the creative processing of mental CPU time and maybe lower your risk tolerance below the optimum. A flat salary shouldn't trigger that regardless of how high it is, and conversely a poor environment (antagonistic management, mandatory overtime if you're not meeting some almost-reasonable deadline, ...) ought to be able to trigger it even if money isn't involved at all.
Node.js Channel as a live Wargames map.
All cash is great, but man the MAA market must still be soft if a company like WOOT (which at least seems to have a ton of mindshare) would only fetch $110M. Makes you long for the days when a Photobucket or a Bebo would go for 3-8x that.
You say you've done the 'spray and pray' method, but have you posted on HN for feedback (I didn't see it in your submissions).

What did you spray and pray?
My impression is that most programming jobs don't give a salary range in the job description. If they do include one, the Dunning–Kruger effect[1] could make the more qualified people who are humble think they weren't qualified and they could decide to skip on the job.

If Salary.com tells me that the 75th percentile for my general qualifications in my area is 80k, I'm not going to believe that I'm qualified for a job paying 120k. My mind would resolve that discrepancy in favour of the job requiring something I don't have, not just they employer's willingness to pay well. This may even be true if they say why the salary is so high

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
really, keep your "perks" - it is like giving a gift card. Just give me the cash and I will buy what I want.
The site is down for me. Anybody have a mirror?
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You've just hit on one of the probable reasons for the failure of Kin :-)
I don't see the benefits for someone with Amazon prime. Am I missing something?
Is it?
Or is it something we just believe? Doctors used to think that having paramedics would result in disaster.

I think the vast majority of times one needs to use the services of a doctor could be handled by someone with far less training and certification.
Who Remembers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com :)

note: Don't take the above comment to mean I think Amazon is going to fail with this. 10 years ago an unknown company couldn't make this work. Im sure Amazon will do fine in Seattle with this.
This definitely makes me miss the plastic WebVan crates (I think I accumulated >40 of them).
For high-volume routes the Chinatown busses compete very successfully, but Greyhound's real competition is Southwest, Spirit Air, Amtrak, or just driving yourself. Greyhound has become so bad that their clientele is down to folks who literally have no other option.
It is called ethics. To paraphrase Emmanuel Levinas, the essential ethical experience is the face to face encounter with the Other. It is how one re-acts at that moment of connection, with something wholly unknown to them that is the most basic of ethical moments. One has an essential responsibility to the Other (and of course the Other has a responsibility to the individual). A responsibility born at that moment of tension. To deny and reject the Other is to reject responsibility for one's own actions. Only when a responsibility for Other is shouldered has one shouldered the responsibility for one's actions.

We need leaders who take responsibility for their actions, and for the actions of their organizations. How can they do that if they do not take responsibility for the Other, the other nation, the other company, the criminal, the competitor, the enemy? Only if a leader takes this responsibility can he truly independent.
If you're using the service it looks like you'd get a much easier way to do returns. What I'm wondering is if it works in apartment buildings. If it does, I'm all over this.
Paying more money takes it out of the equation and let you fine tune the other incentives. Companies that can get great creative work out of people pay them such that money is not an issue.
The Thin Red Line
I don't think it's really aimed at Amazon Prime people.

I think it's really to get people to order more from Amazon, even for orders <$25. Tote will probably cost them enough that those orders don't make them anything, but it will build loyalty (and they let you keep the tote bag--keeps Amazon in your mind).
". We will continue to work with Verizon in the U.S. to sell current KIN phones.”

They must indeed have some units left to sell still -- just today I heard an ad for the Kin on the radio.
You get two ToteDays per week instead of one.
see frossie's comment; it prevents guilt :)

I'm not sure their is a benefit for the customer other than hoping Amazon will pass the savings on in the long run. However, this service might some what eat into the revenues of Amazon Prime.
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Engineers, most of them likely PHD's, created a phone where the antenna wraps around the outer edges, and it doesn't occur to a single one of them that hands touching it might affect the signal? Does that sound even remotely plausible to you?
I really hate when people tell me that flying between point A and B take X hours and then try to compare it to a train/car/bus/etc. I leave and arrive in the city on a train/bus/car. Can you buy the JetBlue ticket for $69 hours (or minutes, or ON THE PLANE?) before takeoff?

The most important question though is if I left my [place of residence] when would I arrive at [destination] and what would my total cost be? Is the airport an hour outside the city and a $50 cab ride? How many HOURS do you have to show up to get on the plane? Taking luggage? Add another half hour minimum to your trip. And not to mention the fun security theater of the airports.

I drive from Boston to Toronto and it is faster door to door than flying and is a much better experience. Chicago from NYC would be longer at 13 hours so flying would be faster. Busses need to compete on other things. Treating you like a human, having wifi and power jacks. perks like ipads on the bus, free books, or gut half the seats and setup poker tables, video games. A bus that is made up of half beds. Themed busses, something, anything to make it more then just a bus trip, something you could charge much more than planes and people would want to use it. Go after a different market then who is currently riding the bus. Charge $500 for a bus ticket and think what you could do provide for that overhead.
eco-consciousness
Part of the problem is most managers are totally clueless as to how to identify a good programmer. Many of the worst programmers have the most impressive looking CVs and the best programmers don't have the time to futz over their CV. Besides, they probably never need to look for work - they get poached.

As for incentives, there are lots of posts on HN about incentives that work, like time out for pet projects, like telecommuting, like 2-3 month holidays, like no drone work, like excellent tools, LCDs, chairs, perks.

And ... the best of them all .... NO PHB's !!!
I got an iPhone 4 today and even in weak signal areas where I have less than 5 bars I can barely get it to drop another bar (it'll bounce up and down in my testing). I thought on day 1 this whole fiasco might have been a manufacturing defect in the first batch phones, and my experience seems to add some support to my theory

To those with a phone that goes from 5 bars to no signal, simply call it defective and exchange it.
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The same thing is (and has been) happening with nursing. They complain endlessly about the "nursing shortage" unable to figure out why people might be unwilling to do a hard job for long hours requiring extra education and incurring outsized liabilities for extremely low pay.

The really bad news is its starting to catch up with many doctors as well.
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It doesn't, that's why you need to have good hiring selection processes in place.

But paying the good programmers you already have a much higher salary and looking after them well will deter them from jumping ship.
Mathias (mape) said he put together in 48 hours. I'm really looking forward to his http://nodeknockout.com entry.
Tricky to fix, actually: http://jira.osqa.net/browse/OSQA-204

I am getting complaints that validation email links don't work (they have the subdir twice, as you mentioned), even though welcome email links work just fine.

This is weird because they both use the exact same link in the template:

forum/skins/default/templates/auth/welcome_email.html: <a style="{{ a_style }}}" href="{% fullurl auth_validate_email user=recipient.id,code=validation_code %}">{% trans "Validate my email address" %}</a>

forum/skins/default/templates/auth/mail_validation.html: <a style="{{ a_style }}}" href="{% fullurl auth_validate_email user=recipient.id,code=validation_code %}">{% trans "Validate my email address" %}</a>
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I don't live in the U.S. and I have five weeks of paid vacation in a year, but I usually take several weeks of unpaid vacation as well to go with it. My employer doesn't really care which type it will be, they're more concerned about schedules etc. In fact, after I've got the time of my vacation approved, I'll just mark some days as paid and some days as unpaid and they don't mind.

With regard to vacation allocations, I play it safe: if I need anything longer than a week off, I'll request the absence in good time. This works well because a) they can project it into the project schedules and b) if I want six weeks off next fall, they really don't have a practical schedule for next fall yet, so I get implied priority.

Oh, and I work part time as well. There was more to that when I started it but basically it boiled down to them saying "we'll rather keep a good guy working less for us than not at all". I get roughly the same amount of work done as before, the shorter days just mean that if I want to take a half a day off and go cycling, that's actually the default mode of operation as nobody expects me to work till 5 or 6pm.
There is a difference between shipping some defective units and shipping a defective design.

Some defective units are expected because it happens. Like the other person who replied to your post, I can't imagine an engineering group putting the antenna on the outside and not testing it.
Computer automatically deciphers ancient language
"Incentives hurt productivity in creative activities."

Unadulterated nonsense. On the one hand, I recall a cartoon-drawing presentation about school contests and the like. On the other hand, there are these centuries and centuries of evidence that PEOPLE RESPOND TO INCENTIVES, PERIOD.

If you think that a company couldn't assemble a team of OUTSTANDING programmers by offering each $200k a year, you're crazy or stupid or both.
Can anyone throw some loops together with really annoying vocals laid on top and call it music? what the hell was that?
Why does Dustin Curtis use Posterous?
Next time you decide to be an asshole you should probably construct a proper English sentence.
Senescence implies decay.
I knew the Kin was doomed when the $70/month plans were announced. All that's surprising is how quickly they pulled the plug.

Today's smartphone market reminds me of the airline industry prior to deregulation. Since all phones are sold for roughly the same price (on contract) in the US - and you don't get a discount for avoiding a contract - there's really no price competition between handsets. The Kin would have had a shot if it was a choice between a $200 Kin and a $700 iPhone or Android, but at the moment superior quality is the only differentiator between smartphones.
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I believe Rethinkdb did post their salary range and stock option at one point.
This is also important in Australia where the population is mostly clumped in cities along the coasts. Without similar thinking, broadband in "the bush" would simply be unavailable or prohibitively expensive.
Unless management has made the decision to invest in a solid-wall backstop of functional tests, then no amount of great programmers can clean up a codebase. I've known and learned from some of the best coders alive, and none of them would wade into a known-good codebase that they didn't have solid experience with or responsibility for and start refactoring. Code that they were on the hook for? Open season. Code that someone else was going to get the call on at 3 a.m.? Wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole.

Given that, I wouldn't expect '50% of any companies' to be good. "If it ain't broke..." is really good advice about 95% of the time. If you're 50-100% overbooked, you don't screw with other peoples' code just to try to make things better around the office.
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I remember Kozmo. I also remember they had a competitor in NYC, but I can't recall its name. I just remember having them bring me some delicious lobster&steak from Fulton Fish Market or somewhere. Anyone remember their name?
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Branding has value, which is factored into the total compensation.
Density density density. You need to identify a core set of densely connected, ~1,000 people to get your social network started.

MySpace had the LA music scene. Facebook had Harvard. LinkedIn had the Silicon Valley hotentots, thanks to Reid's reputation and network. Quora has a similar group of highly active, densely connected users from Silicon Valley.

So you need to think about the ideal community for your network and find a way to get 100 to 1,000 of them on your site ALL AT ONCE, i.e., within a few days of each other.

The onboarding experience is absolutely crucial, too. There's a paper out there by Facebook's data team and some CMU researchers about what early experiences (on Facebook) are the strongest predictors of long-term engagement.

Not surprisingly most of them involve some sort of interaction with a friend. I don't have a link, but you should find it and read it.
Looks like woot CEO's email has more attraction than its acquisition by amazon
I think the whole point is that some people want to go work for only startups. By creating a site where you know those are the only jobs, you attract that niche. The market for general developer job boards seems very saturated.
Woot's deal today (first after the announcement) is a Kindle for $149.99. That's a nice way to celebrate the deal.
That and python serial love as well: http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Interfacing/Python - imagine doing crazy stuff with django + arduino or web.py even.
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Then problem becomes one of differentiating between the people over-value themselves, the people that under-value themselves, and the people that correctly value themselves...
If you've offered them more money to do a less interesting job, certainly. Also, good programmers are often quite loyal, and don't want to leave their team in the lurch. There are plenty of reasons why you failed to recruit said programmers. Given that I enjoy my job, and I'm paid "enough", why would I even bother looking at your offer? Offering me a shit-ton of money because "this job will require an elite programmer" will get my attention. Not offering me more money tells me that either a) the job is no more challenging than my current one or b) you're the usual manager who doesn't want to pay a programmer what he's worth.
Doesn't work on iPad.
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I have been building one : http://crm.ifreetools.com - Currently in Alpha, but includes core modules.

You can also create a simple tool yourself, to match your requirements using http://creator.ifreetools.com

Applies for both CRM & Creator :
- Free (ad-supported).
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Your comment peaked my interest to read the HBR article you mentioned. Thanks.
http://hbr.org/2010/07/the-big-idea-no-management-is-not-a-p...
Is the code somewhere?

And what are the connections between 2 dots that look like a missile's path?
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Health care is dramatically less expensive in nearby Canada.

High skill labor is dramatically less expensive in nearby Canada. A 99'th percentile individual costs $181k/year in Canada and $384k/year in the US.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/75-001-x/2007109/article/409688...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/business/29tax.html

The 95'th percentiles are more or less the same between the US and canada ($154k in Canada, $165 in the US), but things just diverge dramatically after that point. The average over the top 5% works out to be $296,000 in Canada and $416,000 in the US.

Why would you expect health care costs to behave differently from other high skill jobs?

By the way, the most important paper in health care economics is "The Effect of Coinsurance on the Health of Adults" (http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/2006/R3055.pdf). Everyone ignores it because the conclusion is counterintuitive, but it is bar none the highest quality study ever performed on health care economics.
You've heard of View Source, right?
So you've found all the ones who have low expenses. Well done. I have a family, a mortgage (or high rent), extremely expensive car insurance, and a shit-ton of experience. I love programming no less than I did when I was 10. If you would like to hire me, and people like me, you will need to offer more money. But if your business can handle being understaffed, by all means keep offering the same salary.

$125k to work in Silicon Valley? Will that even cover my rent? I used to work in Palo Alto - shared a 1 bedroom apartment - took turns on the couch. It was fun, when I was straight out of college.
It's not all client-side.