skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dan Pink would suggest that if you're trying to drive performance by tweaking monetary incentives, you're doing it wrong. http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
You could have a PhD grad from Caltech A and a community college grad B such that B is more skilled for the job than A.

That’s where the cover letter comes in, right? If B’s cover letter says “I see from your Web site that your business is involved with X, Y, and Z; here are some examples of projects that I recently worked on that are directly relevant to those needs”, and A’s cover letter is all buzzword buzzword buzzword, I would take B a lot more seriously as a candidate.
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You're not following. If you have a job req you need to fill right now, you're right. But the fact that you're hiring that way suggests you've made some decisions that are making life less pleasant.

To be in a position to blow off resumes, you need to run a company like 37signals does. You need to chill out, do excellent work, collect fans, and be open to interesting people who go out of their way to bug you for jobs.

The very best people in the industry don't give a shit about your job reqs. The minute they actually get on the market, they're snatched up, because their friends track their every motion and are alert to the slightest sign of unhappiness in their current job. You think Mark Dowd, Zed Shaw, or Tom Preston-Werner are going to fill out job reqs and send out resumes? That's naive.

By running extremely lean, rocking out the business, and building stuff people like in an environment that builders like, 37signals can drag in A+ players when they become available, because they aren't clogging up the decks with people they fished out of a pile of resumes. Your friend, maybe not so much?
Suppose in A/B testing A has a higher "conversion rate" than B. Based on the data you collected, you conclude that A is the better option. Sounds good, BUT if you did not take the time to actually do some statistical hypothesis testing, you could be making a mistake.

What are the chances that A and B will have exactly the same conversion rate? For any reasonably large set of data, it is very close to 0. That means that A > B or B > A no matter what A and B actually are. The difference you observed between A and B could be real or it could be noise. Various statistical tests[1] can help you in deciding between the two possibilities.

Flip a coin twice. Lets say you get two heads. If you then conclude that for this coin heads are much more likely than tails, that would be wrong. This is the sort of mistake statistical tests can help you avoid.

[1] I'm being intentionally vague here because what statistical tests you should use depends on what A and B are, what assumptions you are willing to make, sample size, and other factors. A good starting place is probably to use a chi-square test.
The functions take the same idea as a parameter, not the exact same parameter. You still need to specify what formula the function will operate on.
Stem cells reverse blindness caused by burns
Nokia to use Linux for flagship N-series phones
Not sure if you read Rework or subscribe to 37signals' philosophy, but according to them, you never, never want to hire someone under duress. Hiring poorly is far, far worse than not hiring at all (according to their philosophy) so there should never be a case where you need to hire someone so quickly, you have to toss out resumes based on where they went to school.
Wait, which of these points were made by Spolsky a decade ago? I have a near-fannish devotion to both of these people's writing, and I think you're either misremembering or have misread Fried's bit.
Three things:

1. There are a bunch of environmental costs that still make them largely impractical:

- the environmental cost of making the filters (plastic injection molding, etc.)
- the environmental cost of disposing of the filters
- the environmental cost of waste produced by installing new waterless urinals in place of the old watered ones

These costs are surprisingly high for something trying to be "green". You can model these positive externalities as such in a "dollar amount" by taking into account things such as offset taxes toward pollution (from manufacturing,) costs of disposal over the decomposition life of the object, etc.

2. Unfortunately, the environmental cost is almost never the one that wins in any real-world scenario unless the personal utility of the person owning said waterless urinal is greater than the cost of running the watered one — i.e., the person that installed the waterless urinal enjoys the waterless one enough to compensate for the extra costs involved in running it over a watered one. They are more expensive right now, and will be for quite some time if we're talking about replacing the watered ones with waterless ones. Dollars are the bottom line, especially when negative externalities are not offset in the costs of the watered product.

3. I'm a general skeptic of many of these types of green things due to #2 - it's the "Prius syndrome" in effect. Many of these types of things have little real-world environmental impact when the full cost of ownership is taken into account. Once you add up all of the costs involved:

(manufacturing costs of old watered urinal) + (disposal costs of old watered urinal) + (opportunity cost of purchasing waterless urinal and installing waterless urinal) + (cost of new waterless urinal) + (cost of filters) * ((uses / single filter life) * (life of waterless urinal product))

When all is said and done, the overall real cost - even environmentally - of many of these "green" products ends up being far greater than just using the old product. People don't buy many of these types of things for anything other than their own psychological benefit of feeling greener, such as is the case with the Prius - I read somewhere if you actually wanted to maximise for environmental cost, you'd buy a used Toyota Echo.
Both, of course.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1420553

Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1416811
in politics relative merit is what gets things done (Hint: you can get around this by starting your own libertarian paradise on some uninhabited island, may I submit the name "jackassland" for your consideration)
It supports multiple font families (which paradoxically, is what the "Face" attribute in HTML's font tag actually points at).
I have a feeling that you are right, but I can't entirely shake of the feeling that our society really is getting softer and less willing to do a lot of sacrifice to get what we want.

Dan Carlin talks about it in his latest hardcore history podcast (http://dancarlinhh.libsyn.com/media/dancarlinhh/dchha33_BLIT...), but he doesn't seem to have a good answer to it.

There can't be much doubt however that the variation between individuals are much greater than the variation between generations.

Finally, the reason the author hasn't fixed her problems is properly that she doesn't have to: if her life mostly works anyway, why do more if you aren't forced to?
... until you have kids, at which point it stops being so great.
Yes: https://www.dropbox.com/help/45

"There are currently no hard limits on public bandwidth usage. We do, however, have an automated system for detecting and flagging unusual amounts of bandwidth usage. We will send an email notification whenever an account is flagged. Once flagged, public links will be temporarily disabled and users who use the links will see an error page instead of your file."

So, there's no bandwidth limit, but there's a bandwidth limit. :)
Rat Lungs Renovated in Lab with Stem Cells
Randy Pausch Lecture: Time Management
It's also hard to find evidence for baseless predictions.
Way to cut through the bullshit and get to the root of the issue. Funny as hell, too.

It's amazing to me how thoroughly old guard biz types (especially the kind you find haunting the halls of print media conglomerates, not that that's relevant here) cling to outdated traditions like resumes. At this point I generally don't even bother sending a resume when applying for work unless it's explicitly demanded and can't remember the last time I updated mine. The last two jobs I took where picked up on the strength of my open source contributions (look Ma, real code!) and a small developer blog that I maintain. Resumes? For developers? Seriously?
Gray Powell rents 1st spot in iPhone line
I have friends with kids there. If you have enough money, it's still great. It only sucks if you're financially struggling or sending your kids through the SF public school lottery.

Even if you're not rich, it might not be so bad. I grew up in a state known for it's amazing public school system, and it was still a bunch of bullshit. I would have rather grown up somewhere I could have ridden my bike every day of the year and gotten college credits from one of the best community college systems in the country.
Only in Silicon Valley where you go in a cafe and there's a good chance you'll see other people working on their own startup, preparing to pitch to an investor or actually pitching to an investor.

Also, a lot of people has an active Twitter account that establishes their identity online.

People here just dream big. Some are delusional while some are actually on their way to making it big.
I guess not! :)
A/B Testing Framework Design
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1422681
These kinds of memory errors are more often caused by alpha particles emitted by radioactive elements in the chip package: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error
The Disadvantages of Having Too Many Ideas
One of the most common problems creative people experience is a lack of ideas. An imaginative dry-spell. The internet is awash with articles advising how this state can be overcome, I’ve even written one myself.
The Biz of WordPress Keynote, Act II: ‘It’s Not A Blog, It’s A Website’
That is really impressive. Has anything been actually made yet?

And I really miss a rate system and/or a Best Inventions section. The "Feasible inventions" is not a complete replacement because it's ordered by time, not rate.
In California, ex-employee can be sued under CFAA for deleting company files
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If you're going to make that kind of comparison, the whole west coast is worse than the east coast. But for the west coast, San Francisco is quite good.

Let me be clearer: there's a lot of personal circumstance in these complaints. I know plenty of guys in the city who have no problems finding or meeting single women (and no, they're not rich, or male models, or anything unreasonable).

There are certainly places in the world where sex ratio is a problem, but if you find yourself in San Francisco and constantly surrounded by male nerds, then you're not doing enough to place yourself in a good situation. When you're working in technology, you have to make a conscious effort to get away from the nerd culture when you're not working. There are lots of women here, but you're not going to find them hanging around the guys at work.
> I believe when Wi-Fi is running that GSM data is automatically disabled.

Right; I use SIP, so I want GSM disabled entirely, not just for data. Will take a look.
I think people read in the "linkbait" reasoning much more often. The simple truth is that even when there's some slight ambiguity, constantly printing disclaimers about how this is your opinion, other people think differently, you don't have to believe what I'm saying, etc. — it's annoying and detracts from the actual flow of information, and the benefit is questionable at best in many cases. (Even the people who complain about the "confusing" absolutism seem to understand what Fried actually means, and I suspect most other people understand it correctly as well.)

I haven't read Rework, but in "Getting Real," they had two paragraphs on one page explaining all of the above: "Yes, this is purely based on our experience. Some people do it differently and it works. We're just telling you about our way of doing things." And then the rest of the book was written simply, without cushioning. I think that's a fine compromise.
I had kids in SF.

You are either going to spend a spectacular amount of money to rent a town house in an acceptable part of San Francisco (and put up with an insane public school system), or your kids are going to grow up in a California suburb.

That's a dilemma I'm happy to avoid.
Interesting, but I'm a bit shy about hiring people through channels like this, worried that they really have only worked with Django or only want to work with Django.
What part of "hidden" don't you understand? :)
Men's Wearhouse is missing a major business opportunity (Never throw away data.)
> But after some follow-up questions, I'd soon find out they don't even read TechCrunch ...

And here I thought not reading TechCrunch was a positive attribute.
The "let's hate on MSFT for past browser wrongs" attitude is worrisomely common and accepted 'round these parts. It's a strange form of blindness.

From where I sit, IE9 looks like a genuine attempt by MSFT to get back in the race.
I think fundamentally Jason's advice works for the business of selling web apps. And scott's got it all mixed up with general business practices of large corporations.

Jason is a romantic when it comes to what worked for him and he is preaching it to the world. Scott just can't handle the fact that preaching still works.
He lost me at a combination of that and Enterprise SAS. Last time I checked, the "State School, Java at HP" types are the only ones applying at Enterprise SAS companies.
The Joojoo tablet "is pretty much held together by string and a following wind"
Intrusion detection: doing it wrong
The SF public school lottery is garbage, but many of the suburbs are great.

Would rather grow up (or raise kids) in San Mateo vs. Schaumburg. YMMV.
You forgot to put these across 11 individual comments so your 8pts would have been multiplied to 88!

I do not mind lists, but I cannot stand lists that are seperated to pages for inflated page counts!
You can always Instapaper your own site to check but, no, you most likely won't need it. There will always be edge cases and poorly coded/broken markup on many sites though. That's what this is for.
Uh what? I like how everyone in this thread is complaining about judging an applicant by where their degree came from while simultaneously singling out people who are 'MBA types'. Double standard much?
As well as the high cost of living.
At least one has been made :) : http://www.patrickandrews.com/design/index.php?next=25

But I suspect he has more projects going on.
First, I think that is why it's in quotes.

Second, I am reading Of Mice or Men for the first time this summer. It is new to me!
Artificial selection in the lab
As far as the west coast goes, SF is not bad. But a male in NYC doesn't even have to try, unless you have some sort of bizarre physical deformity. Even if you do have a bizarre physical deformity, there's probably a hipster chick in Williamsburg who would be into that.

But I would like to know where you go in SF where the gender ratio is not a problem. The only place I found that to be true was the marina, which introduces a different set of issues.
I really think this has more to do with the way that insta- 50-person post-A-round enterprise software startups work. They really do start with a small pouch of powder, which, when sprinkled over water, blossoms into a company with a 1/10 shot of getting acquired for 2x investment dollars in a couple years.

It's probably really frustrating that all you have control over is the flavor of that powder. Maybe that's why Olson is so angry. Or maybe something bad happened to him in the Chicago parks. Some of them do get pretty iffy at night.
OP: That is not necessarily good advice; consult with a competent immigration attorney before you do this. Most startup-y work you would do while admitted via the VWP would likely be immigration fraud - in direct violation of the terms under which the alien was admitted in via the VWP. These immigration violations incur bans, and could potentially break your dreams/career, etc.
"confiscating a graduate student's plane ticket back to China" -- Theft. Possibly grand theft, depending on the state and how much the ticket cost. And possibly false imprisonment, if the student had no other reasonable way of leaving the country (e.g., if they were a starving grad student who didn't have the money for a second ticket).
The uncanny resemblance that everything south of South San Francisco and east of Oakland has to Schaumburg definitely informs a lot of my opinions about the area. I lived in Santa Clara, in Soma, and in Noe Valley, for what it's worth.

And, candidly: if you're going to live in a Schaumburg, you should indeed pick Silicon Schaumburg, and not Frozen Schaumburg.
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It wasn't really a problem. When I said no one really cared, I'm not exaggerating, they literally didn't care. I guess it could have been a problem, but I don't think there was a single user who had actually tried to earn a badge.
Yes, the new compression algorithms (BWT and LZ77-based) are slower and require a lot more memory than DEFLATE (*zip) in most cases.

This guy did a not so rigorous analysis but it is mostly OK:
http://changelog.complete.org/archives/931-how-to-think-abou...

A little bird told me there's a better algorithm in speed/compression rate coming soon ;)
It's not a big deal, just something to get used to

Excuse me? Not a big deal that my $1000 phone loses reception when I... hold it in my hand?

I've owned about 20 different phones now; from Nokia, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, HTC (G1) and BenQ. I remember exactly one that had a remotely similar issue like this, it was an older Nokia where the call quality would indeed reduce when you touched the upper back side with your hand (which is where the antenna was).

And let me tell you, even that was an major annoyance. Despite my hand rarely actually reaching up that far, I had quickly developed a habit to be very careful in holding the phone - always afraid to screw a call by holding it just casually.

This iPhone issue looks even more severe than that. In some of the videos it goes down to zero bars just by holding it normally.

That is simply not acceptable for a $1000 Phone. And much less for a $1000 Phone.
I got mine yesterday and noticed the reception issue while holding the phone from it's sides immediately. I hope it's only a software related issue.

EDIT: I was just on a call, holding the phone from it's sides, and I was stationary in a good reception area. The call hung up. So it's not just the bars showing incorrectly, it's actually losing reception. Btw, it takes approximately 30 seconds of holding it from the sides for the bars to completely go down.
The article provides a very good example in support of the argument domain specific languages to help you crank out domain specific code. I like R and use it. But I also code my own methods (in haskell these days, but that's not the main point). Before you go and build your company's code base around R realize the following:

1) The primary use case for R is by academics and students comparing various methods on various data sets accessible through R.

2) The code is not really designed with superb reliability in mind. I have debugged a contributor's fortran code and sent in a patch that never appeared in the R code base. The bug remains. Professors often don't support code all that well. Don't blame them. Support is left as an exercise.

3) There are no assurances about the scalability of any particular routine--even if the algorithm scales in theory.

Do try R. It's good. But don't think SAS and the like will disappear. They cater to the production requirements of big companies. And don't use R as an excuse not to write your own production code.
The specification ( http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-file-format.txt ) reads like this format allows the application of a chain of compression "filters". Perhaps the most interesting, and least portable is the filter that modifies code to make compression easier. (Section 5.2.3) Is this mainly for intel architecures?
No, it's not a double standard. Just like saying 'grellas is more qualified to give legal advice because he graduated from law school is not a validation of the law school pecking order.
Who says? Where's the scientific study?

For example, we can't launch Foursquare both in Silicon Valley and in New York City and see which has the better outcome.
If you're going to live in a Schaumburg, you should indeed pick Silicon Schaumburg, and not Frozen Schaumburg.

That's what I'm sayin'. Citywise, I don't know enough about New Chicago to make an informed opinion. I vowed never to return in 1998, but I've heard it's become a great place.
I never sign in to anything through fb connect. I am worried that it will post stuff on my wall on somehow use me to advertise to my friends without my consent.
It's just a tiresome argument that really doesn't need making. Find your team, build your product, and start marketing it.
Some things are facts backed up by hard evidence. Humans need Oxygen to live, that's not my opinion. It's important to note when you are stating an opinion. Not least because it can help set the right tone for a discussion.

If you state "this is my opinion, what's yours? I'm open to changing it if I hear a good argument or am exposed to new evidence" that sets the tone for a much different conversation than "these are the facts in my universe, for all you know they may be beliefs for which I would rather die than acknowledge they are even the slightest bit imperfect". When you say "I think ..." or "in my opinion ..." you are signaling something closer to the first message, when you don't you may be signaling something closer to the 2nd message.
Could you elaborate on the pilot pricing a bit more? Very curious.
Chicago, Portland, Austin, Seattle, Philly, DC, NYC, Boston, MSP, A2, Atlanta, Miami --- all better places to live than Silicon Schaumburg. Don't mistake this for boosterism. I love this city, but I'm motivated more by hatred of strip malls.
Parcel out those parts of your project that you know someone with experience can bang out in less than 4 hours, but would take you a few days reading docs and advancing by trial and error. Payment integration and similar APIs come to mind. Prepackaged components can have an even better bang/buck ratio.

Another obvious area is web design. Between 99designs and PSD slicers, you can have a great homepage for $500 (or a decent one for a bit less.)
Not even just "consumer-facing web startup", but "VC-funded, rapid-growth, consumer-facing web startup looking for an acquisition or IPO".
I really like Rework and 37signals in general, so I might be biased. Having said that, I'll have to join the feeling that their opinions aren't that radical, just different, and that you can take it with a grain of salt and still get several golden nuggets.

For all I saw, the OP missed the point.
If you are doing high frequency trading, processing a quote isn't that hard either. It can't be, or you'd never respond fast enough. I suppose the best way to do it would be to ignore quotes X distance from the book, and then do your DOS X+0.01 from the book, though this might not be compatible with your regular strategy. Whatever DOS you want to do has to be compatible with your already existing strategy. I'm not saying it's 100% impossible, only that it isn't easy.

Additionally, your broker starts getting annoyed at you when your fill rate drops below 0.5% or so. If you DOSed the market, you wouldn't even be in that ballpark.