skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brilliant play, I love this. Very good way to announce the Amazon purchase to Woot users, then they'll have it shipped directly from Amazon.com showing the shipping/speed/logistics boost that Woot is going to get from Amazon. And they're selling a device that lets people impulse buy ebooks at high margins to a crowd of loyal impulsive buyers. Love it.

I'm guessing the Kindle device is already a loss-leader (anyone know?) at $189, but the extra $40 off is well worth the price when they're paying millions for Woot. Tactfully bringing attention to the Amazon acquisition, getting some goodwill, and showing off he benefits of the Amazon acquisition... man, I want to meet Jeff Bezos someday, my admiration for the guy keeps growing every time I see him do anything.
Thank Goa. Finally they came up with this.
Tex 6.28
Smartphone Security Startup Lookout Tops One Million Users
Programming, especially high-paid programming, tends to be highly domain-specific. Whether oil pipelines, financial models, or various control algorithms for aeronautics, you can't just hop jobs.

I think most programmers, and even non-programmers, don't really understand how much domain specialization affects their value. To me, this is "localized knowledge" just as much as any mechanic, accountant, or lawyer has.
IPad user survey
So what's this woman's real name? The AP article linked in the blog had all sorts of other info, such as her mother's name.
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I have no illusions about how much 'average' in the USA is, but I also have no illusions about how much 'average' is in Scandinavian counties are, either. Commodity prices are somewhat higher there, which when adjusted against their income actually makes them somewhat poorer than US citizens, kind of like how $50k in New York City won't get you as far as $50k in Seattle.
IPhone vs HTC evo
True, but almost everyone he came into contact with knew about the failure, knew it 'happened sometimes', yet still did not know how to fix it!
Reading this, I almost get the impression that it's an elaborate attempt to fail in the most miserable way possible. Either that or they wanted to create a Kafka experience.
These results are realy impressive. This product is spot on ! Beeing a happy user of the iPad for a month now since its release in France, my experience matches the survey results.

I can now do things on Internet, like browsing or commenting on Hacker News, or checking and responding to mail in situations I couldn't imagine before. I'm for instance currently writing this comment on my iPad lying in my bed just after I woke up.
I was pretty sure the death of the Kin was due to the horrid advertisements they aired.
> "I love your work"

Nothing says "I love your work" more truthfully than a bonus or a raise.
Managers assume that because one good programmer will do the job for $100k that all good programmers will. Many here point out that good programmers will generally find a job that challenges them, and that pays them enough to live. They then conclude that if $100k fills one seat, then $100k is the right price.

This is totally wrong, and the key is "enough to live". I love programming as much as I did when I was 10. My expenses, however, are now somewhat higher than when I was 10. I have a wife, two kids, will not live in a small house, have very expensive car insurance, and I road-race big cars, hard on tires. If you want to hire me, it will cost a lot more than $100k.

Then there is the issue of mobility. Programmers tend to be loyal. They tend to be realists. If I make X here, and I know here to be fun, why would I risk moving for 1.1X, or even 1.5X?

What you have a reversible reaction in equilibrium. You want to bind seats to programmers. Programmers will bind to a seat for a while. But not all programmers will bind for the same price. Sure you can fill a seat for $100k. You might be able to fill a seat for $20k - but you'll have to wait a loooong time. If you want to fill all your seats, you're going to have to appeal to the largest possible pool of good programmers, and some of us need more money.

Even if you ignore the fact that those of us with higher expenses have more experience, the simple math of the equilibrium reaction tells you that if you want to fill more seats, you have to have a bigger pool. Even if we are of no more value than the 20 year old, the question is: Are 5 programmers better than 4 for your business?

Whether or not that makes economic sense for your business is up to you.

So yes RethinkDB, $125k for an Engineer III will get you some hires, but are you going to insist that this is the right price, even if it means that you have empty seats? What is your opportunity cost? It may be the right decision. But it may not.
They have $1.2 million dollars, they can't pay more. $125K is a huge pre series-a salary.
Tex Tau
Ask HN: Best hosted blog for coders?
I really like stackoverflow post editing - it has live preview, it supports code snippets and such really well, and it has wiki-like versioning.

Are there any blogging services that have such a simple posting system?

(And I'm seriously not happy with posterous. They are so not it for coders.)
Or maybe what seems normal to us know, did not seem so normal in the days? I am to young to have witnessed the UNIX industry in the '80ies.
> 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

They were probably at different warehouse/shipping facilities and Amazon figured it was better to just fire them off than try to unite them in one place. I find when I order obscure stuff - uncommon books, a Go board, whatever - it's more likely to show up by itself than if I'm ordering mostly bestsellers and popular books.
It seems to me they are trying to cut out logistics here. No longer needing a courier in many cities will lower costs dramatically,.
Have you seriously compared MySQLs documentation to Postgres? It has such mindblowingly retarded gems such as http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/connection-access.htm.... I mean people actually sat around and thought this was the best way to do user auth.
Hmm, I wonder why...?
I tweeted about it from the event but the corresponding news.yc submission got killed.

http://twitter.com/jeyjey

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1476674
this is win
True, but it didn't deserve a downvote either
Did you try SugarCRM?
While it's not entirely hosted, I've been really happy with toto lately. I'm using it to run infovegan.com. It takes all of 10 seconds to set up, and posting is done through markdown and git. Optimized to host on heroku, which can handle you for free up to a point.

Here's a great link to get you started with toto:

http://fadeyev.net/2010/05/10/getting-started-with-toto/
Oh well, there's nothing you can do about the URL in the title. There's nothing we can do about Wikipedia, either.
Knuth played a joke and "announced" iTeX.

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=knuth
This move allegedly set the release of the devices back 18 months

This sure says a lot about the crazy pace of the SmartPhone market. I picked up my iPhone 2G the other day and had the sense of nostalgia typically reserved for things like my Apple 2, NES, Atari ST, etc. 18 months might as well be a decade with the current pace of innovation.
Absolutely; same here. I try to group my shipments even though shipping cost is no longer an issue with Prime. In reality they probably have a deal worked out so that 2-day shipping doesn't cost practically anything, but I still feel that guilt when the expedite that $3.35 item to me. I wonder if guilt's part of the Prime business strategy? I still haven't figured out how it works out in their favor (which it has to, or they wouldn't offer it)
Google News Redesigned
Sketchy like Greyhound? Any company that I have to do a chargeback with permanently gets labeled a sketchy company in my mind. The ones I can remember though are big brand name companies.

I cancelled a subscription to XM and they kept billing me. I called to recancel and get a refund, but neither happened. So I did a chargeback.

That's typical of the experience that would lead me to file a chargeback. If I was billed for a service that I didn't receive and my first attempt to go through customer service fails then I immediately ask my credit card for a chargeback.

That seems fair to me.
18 months ago the kin would have been more well received. Particularly at a lower price point.
You know what would be kickass, is if they offered a small discount to Prime members who opt to have the item delivered in this fashion. 2-day delivery has got to cost them more.
If you do it, you're on your own.

VC's don't invest in ideas that are not defensible (protected by patents). I'm sure there's an exception but you'd have to have a great working product to convince someone to give you cash in the wake of IP violations.
A tau/pi = atapi
Just a bad joke.
Google trends issues hot media: US to cut $4bn in Afghan aid over
statistically irrelevant... how many other people are 2 degrees of separation from a list like that?
More Proof That New Planet and Star Are Moving Together
A planet about eight times the mass of Jupiter has been confirmed to orbit a Sun-like star that's some 300 times farther from its own star than Earth is from its sun.
It seems that the War against Terror has finally been won.
Still doesn't explain why they would bring a shitty product to market and spend millions promoting it. Truly think Ballmer has no shame and doesn't get embarrassed. Its npt like the phones didnt come across his desk. MicroSoft needs a general for a CEO that can bring everything together, know what a great product is, focuses R&D, and ships products people love.
Bonuses, perks, and congrats on jobs well-done.

Maybe... certainly respect is needed but...

What about a sane work environment??

What about a system which is actually aiming to produce good software??

What about not structuring your system for 80 hours weeks from the get-go???

I don't know how many vile, worthless hoops I've had to jump through in previous job searches.

Still, I've also interviewed for places that made a virtue of their good process to the point of expected people to work for less (I think SAS was their model). That won't fly either because it's not really respect either.
They're also offering stock of course, and it actually looks interesting :-) Plus they may not be so time sensitive: 4 programmers for 10 months vs 5 programmers for 8 months (yes I know). But if its $125k vs $150k will that $25k break the bank? Maybe. Maybe not.
I think the fact that a group controls its membership qualifications is not really a problem as long as other groups can compete with them to address the same needs. And without special treatment from the government. A level playing field, not subsidies for one model at the expense of other models.

Realtors control their numbers and qualifications too. But you can still be a real estate agent without being a Realtor. Having and protecting a brand is ok. Getting government to put some group in charge of all people addressing a need will raise prices.
I have nothing against Sen. Leahy personally but given the state of our democracy I assume he means it's time for the lobbying bidding war to start so we can figure out which corporations and interests get to write the new law. He doesn't have any specifics because he hasn't been told what to do yet.
See also:
http://mtc.sri.com/Conficker/
http://mtc.sri.com/Conficker/addendumC/
Opera 10.60 Released: WebM, AppCache, WebWorkers, Geolocation and Speed
How to get attention with your job posting
Sounds like you're looking for something like Gist rather than a blog.
http://gist.github.com/
Anger drives support for wartime presidents
Exactly. Perks are a method of control really, to make the employee dependent on the company for their lifestyle, knowing it will be hard to negotiate their salary up to an equivalent level at another company. Reminds me of one company some friends of mine worked for, fantastic perks (like the entire company being flown to NYC for a movie premiere) but the salaries were awful, none of them could have afforded that trip themselves.

My attitude is, look, I have friends, I have a life, I have things I want to do, I don't need the company to fill in these gaps. The only "rewards" I want are cash and time to spend it.
Yes Man.
The problem is, now if he really proves P=NP, nobody will believe him.
Knuth's sense of humor shouldn't be underestimated-- there are a lot of great jokes hidden in the index of TAOCP, among other places.

And, of course, his first publication was in Mad Magazine.
Yes, and they all, without exception, have well paid, highly rewarding jobs. What would make them risk leaving that job?
Am I the only one who's a little disappointed?
Ah...

I think you've hit the nail on the head here... I'd donate points from my parent to this comment if I could...
i have something coming up soon which you may be interested in. it will be announced here once ready.
I wasn't criticizing the Sullivan post, merely adding the link to the original: Sullivan's blog links to a Google Docs copy of the Harvard study - which I found annoying: PDF's are much easier to handle than Google docs (IMO - YMMV)
I've done this with my last startup and also have seen this happen on two addition occasions with new employees putting in 6 figures each.

1. Funding is usually open for employees to participate. Founders love taking money from employees rather than VCs.

2. VC's like this because the team is invested to win. No, they love this.

3. Be like a VC and be diversified. Don't put all your eggs into one basket.

4. putting in new bucks likely won't bump you up close to founder-ish levels of equity.

5. Timing has a lot to do with this. Don't force the issue if any tension arises that can take away from your core responsibility of doing a good job.
Worked on me. I had no idea Amazon bought Woot before this happened.
I think you can hire good programmers for cheap, but the tricky part is retaining them. Programmers can be hired for relatively low-wages, but then they should raises every few months. Turnover can be really expensive, and it often isn't factored in. Further, maintenance work may not help the programmers develop marketable skills, so they strong incentive to quit.
Why is that significant?

EDIT: Oh! It's only available there. That's odd. I signed in and they told me my day was Wednesday, even though all me addresses are in Oregon. Oh well.
To which I say "hooray!" Amazon seems to LOVE my zip code. It's a cozy part of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood centered around a more residential experience than what the Hill is usually known for. I'll be using this. Especially as a Prime member.
When I had Prime I still selected standard shipping all the time for things I just didn't need right away. I just didn't like the thought of all the fuel used to put some toothpaste on a plane instead of a truck.
I used to recruit and hire people and have been working with early stage companies for over a decade. The two companies I've worked with who tried this sort of hiring scheme blew through all their cash within 18 months, and they had a lot more money to burn.
I love the idea of it but at the same time I feel like most items you require on a weekly basis should really be obtained in a more sustainable way. It's wonderful we can (currently) afford this luxury of putting items on an airplane, flying them to a local hub, and driving them right to your house twice a week but there's more to consider than just the cost of the service itself.
Vacation time is a brutal inhumane joke in America, IMHO. There's no minimum, and a number of companies provide no vacation time for employees in their first year. Even when vacation time is provided, sometimes its pretty limited or the company culture makes it hard to take all the time allowed.

Other countries, particularly in Europe, get it, but we don't. I recommend reading "Work to Live" (as opposed to 'live to work') by Joe Robinson http://www.amazon.com/Work-Live-Joe-Robinson/dp/0399528504 for an overview of the US vs. European nations.

I'm all for having a killer work ethic, but I believe you're more efficient when you're refreshed and not burned out. And sometimes your subconscious mind works well on solving problems that you wouldn't be able to tackle if you keep down in the trenches without a break.
We've seen the same, you would have thought with the financial crisis there would be loads of talented developers with investment banking/trading experience on the market. Nope, the good ones stayed put and the accumulated deadwood was purged, the people who were hired in the boom time just to fill put headcount who never should have been in the industry in the first place.

My sympathies are limited tho', those guys were handed a golden opportunity to get the skills and experience after they were hired. But if they'd taken it, they wouldn't be back on the market now...
Kindle 3 forthcoming?

Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer, isn’t relying merely on price
cuts to contend with Apple. In August, Amazon.com plans to introduce a thinner
Kindle with a more responsive screen and a sharper picture, people familiar
with the company’s plans said last month.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-21/amazon-cuts-kindle-...
Ask HN: Review my first OSS project (C# library for easy RSS/Atom parsing)
here's what it looks like for those without web socket browsers: http://img.skitch.com/20100701-1hsg3n1g7akjutqe7h63g4n4e.png
How not to build cars
Dear HN:

I have no experience whatsoever trying to coordinate an open source project - I've participated in a few, but never ran the show. I figured the best way to learn is by trying.

Even if you guys have no intenion of ever using the library just giving me some feedback on how I've billed / described the project on CodePlex, how my documentation is structured, and even if you wanted to review my source code I'd be deeply appreciative.

Like I said, I've never done this before, and I'd love to learn how to do it better.
This Youtube video does a great job explaining today's woot acquisition. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnCHCcveteA&feature=playe...
I truly worry about the overzealous killing of yc news stories. I can't be the only one who's noticed a recent uptick in the number of stories killed for no apparent reason.
The New Kindle DX "Graphite"
No, it piqued your interest.
Subjective Validation
When the studios finally put all their shit on NetFlix, you'll likely see a pretty large dip in piracy. Piracy has two things going for it: convenience and cost. However, people are will to PAY for convenience. By making it more convenient to play on the Wii, XBOX or whatever, they're already doing the right thing.
Assuming you get everything else right, you have to offer more money. It has been suggested that this will cause your inbox to fill up too fast.

How about an online test? A web server that runs sandboxed C? Or maybe a character in Lambda MOO that requires you to complete a "quest" in a time frame that would require a programmed response? (telnet://lambda.moo.mug.org:8888)
datapoint: I've been using PostgreSQL (and it's GIS extension PostGIS) with Rails for over a year now. Some minor issues along the way, but never ever going back to MySQL.
In retrospect, if Knuth had an actual "earthshaking announcement" to make, he probably would have pre-announced it a bit more prominently, or not at all.
Woot monkey raps about the  Amazon acquisition
It's interesting that they ask me to confirm my choices of broad subject matter areas (like World, U.S, Sports, Business, Entertainment) but not how fresh I like my news, which is a much more relevant question. If they know that I am on several times a day, it's really probably not necessary to take up space on the page today with an article about the death or Robert Byrd, unless there is some surprising new information to be found there.
Peak on a decent traffic site will be roughly 2x-3x the average. 5x-20x would be a blog that gets 10 visitors a day and after being posted on news.yc gets 100 visitors.
Maybe I'm more broken and depressed than I thought, since the isolation, solitude, dissatisfaction, thoughtfulness, and so forth all remain with me even when I'm not feeling down.
View the Javascript source:

function convertLatLngToPx(lat, lng)
Sometimes it's annoying, but overall, the problems (at least, the one I'm working on) are interesting, and, for some things, they have great tools.
Granted, you did not have this information from my original post, but this was a 1 year project with 13 people, and it was pretty sure that this project would be continued after the 1 year project.

But oh well. more refactoring fun for me, I guess.
PlayClaw - Has FRAPS' Killer Arrived?
pgAdmin3 + SQLEditor (http://www.malcolmhardie.com/sqleditor/)
Actually you'd be throwing away <=998 of 1000 instead of 199 out of 200: we're proposing that the net result would be more hires.

We don't have to show that it would make inept people stop applying. We just have to be able to get better at weeding out the rubbish ones - i.e. in less time, lower cost.
So Web Censorship in Australia IS Real?
Amazon bought woot!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1476029
Off-the-record communication, or, why not to use PGP (2004) [pdf]
How so? They're not scare quotes, they're actual quotes. It's a grammatical convention in English to quote a word if you're talking about the word itself, as the headline does.
The sustainability of Amazon-style shipping is pretty complicated. If you buy items on Amazon, yes, they must be shipped, but you can bet that Amazon will find the cheapest (and likely relatively low-energy) way of shipping it to you.

Meanwhile, you don't have to have as many physical retail stores, which consume tremendous amounts of electricity, and contribute to the suburban sprawl that causes "car culture."
I was hoping for an impressive demo, but what I got was a simple animation and bad electro-singtalk music.
This cat wrote a tutorial for IOLib: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~psilord/blog/data/iolib-tutorial/t...

Kickass! I feel bad I haven't heard of him before.
Top 100 Jobs You Can Elance
Good move, but not enough. Though you're now more informed, you still don't have much control over using an app other than deciding whether use it or not. Its not like you can say "this app shouldn't be needing access to my friends birthdays, let me disable that".
Alternatively, they just get delivered to your local store instead. And most people drive to the store.
Click on the "FULL STATS" link in the page to see the breakdown of customers.
OK, thanks. Do you have a pointer to its specific advantages? I'd like to know a bit more about that.
They're probably getting ready to introduce a new version of the small Kindle (just did introduce a new big one), and want to clear out the old stock.
Mixpanel is hiring a great frontend developer
Except, in Denmark, telephony companies, public transport etc. has traditionally been state-owned companies. Recently that–somewhat–changed, though.