skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small to medium size companies? If so, I'd say they're probably more interested in experience & knowledge from related projects and technologies than more theoretical concepts (the really big actors tend to hire for an idealized position, and then find you something to work on after they've hired you).

I also assume that you know all the basic interviewing stuff (be yourself, don't try to bullshit them, don't panic, etc).
I'd say a little of both.

It would be hard not to get better at being an entrepreneur through the practice of starting a company and failing. There's no shame in failing at something that's really hard to begin with, so long as you learn a lot and act with integrity.
Comments here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629998
This looks PERFECT for my needs, thanks!

EDIT: New startup idea: a startup that helps people find out about startups. I'm at the point where I assume any 'simple' idea I have probably exists, but finding it can be difficult (I spent about half an hour google-fu'ing and didn't find joesgoals)
I completely agree with this. I'm also reading more, which in and of itself makes it worth having. I recently went on a trip to Europe, and the free 3G was invaluable, since we didn't always have a good source of internet.

It's getting to the point that, were I to have to choose between losing my iPhone and losing the Kindle, I'd rather lose the iPhone, even though it costs 3 times as much to replace. It makes me that irrationally happy.
From the founders comment (in the comment section):

"...Sometimes people are curious about those around them but it's socially unacceptable to just go up and chat. So those meetings never really happen."

I can't think of an instance where it's more socially acceptable to poke at a phone keyboard than to talk with a human being face to face. Maybe in a movie theater? Maybe at 24 I'm already ridiculously too old to understand the greatness of texting/chatting but ... it's pretty rude?

From the homepage:

Concerts and Sporting events :
Shouldn't you be enjoying the event with the people you went with?

School :
Students should be learning not chatting.
It's also rude and disrespectful to the teacher.

Mall:
I guess this is valid for tweens or something.
If I was a virtual-chatty-cathy,
I would be more comfortable at home than with people on the run at the mall.

Airport :
Lot's of time to kill okay this is valid! (though still sad) =(

I am really trying to understand this product but at the moment, as others have stated, this is pretty sad.
Because, If we were to do so, "it turns out" would be immediately followed by a citation of the authority in question?
A polisci professor of mine once said, "the media doesn't have a liberal or conservative bias, it has an entertainment bias."
A good corollary to #4 is that good bosses/managers are also very hard to find. That includes most of the people who will be reading that blog full of self pity about the bad luck they have finding good employees.

Why is it that these management blogs always pander to the readers without ever suggesting that the problem may be you - the manager/boss.
Anecdote is not the singular of data; for every horror story there's a story of how someone finally is rid of their horrible Windows problems and now everything works fine.

Personally I've had less compatibility problems with Ubuntu than with Windows, but I don't expect everyone else to be the same.
Here are more details.

dev 1. very slow, but solid. Need constant guidance to solve problems. However, can dig into boring/weird problems and reliable person.
dev 2. distracted by interned and have problems with focus. Knows a little about many things, do many mistakes, but trying to improve.
dev 3. was weak indeed from the beginning, but doing much better after several months. He is 31 and I don't think he will become great developer eventually.
laszlo bock always says that according to some very quantitative surveys they do, compensation is not the primary reason why googlers leave (impact is).
You can use your own fonts if you want to: http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Font_Hacks

I use their screensaver hack (with covers and images from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and it has been completely stable and reversible.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1633038
There was some news from a few weeks ago that Google is testing out this functionality: http://lifehacker.com/5578666/google-apps-vs-google-accounts...
To call Nepal, skype was 0.39 while google is 0.19. I just checked localphone and it is 0.149. very cool! How is the service of LocalPhone? Would to love to know your experience and looking forward to give it a try.
Is there a special code to unlock the quasi-rhetorical assumption-challenging questions amichail is famous for?
So, he doesn't always get it right when there's a dearth of good polling data on hard-to-predict issues. And an American didn't do a very good job on his first attempt to predict a parliamentary election. Big deal.

He's only been in this business for two years, and in that time he's truly earned himself a good reputation. He's also been more open about his methodology than anybody in the mainstream media, and as he gets experience and constructive criticism he's put it to use improving his models. Regardless of whatever axe you have to grind, acquiring 538 represents a raising of the bar for the NYT's standards.

(The 538 team has been open enough about their methodology that it is very tempting to simply tell you to put up or shut up: Either find and explain some real flaws in his methods, come up with a better evidence-based method to predict something, or don't criticize him.)
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This is a neat idea, but I'd prefer the 2nd pane to show a random selection of comments, or perhaps comments sorted in descending date order.
>Most of the mothers I know dream of the time they can quit their job and just be a mother, instead of having to juggle work and kids.

I'm a bloke, but we (my wife and I) share running of our business and care of the children (one toddler, one infant) pretty close to 50-50.

Effectively between us we're SAH parenting.

How?

Those who say they envy us aren't prepared to live in poverty in order to look after their own kids. We four now live on about 40% of what we two lived on - less than a single minimum wage. It's very hard work particularly with no nearby grandparents.
anyone else get an http basic auth popup upon loading the main page? something about dads.digg.com, which I presume has to do with Digg Ads or something.
If he really believes this, why is he blogging about it?
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If you're in a 1st world country you can't just fire people for being average without opening yourself up to a lawsuit. That's why good tech companies develop harrowing interview gauntlets.
No, he works for a company that the last time I checked had a policy of firing ~ 10% of it's "bottom" employees every year. Even if they don't explicitly do that any more, it was in effect long enough to become part of the culture, meaning Intel has exceptional recruiting requirements.

See also this duplicate with a couple of comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1631284

I note how the supply side of the US STEM jobs equation has been thoroughly stuffed starting sometime in the '80s when the NSF decided it was paying too much for bench labor and the like.

The only thing you're not taking into account is that with the advent of the Great Recession, STEM careers, while they suck, might not be so bad in comparison to the alternatives, something I also touched upon.

(Note: farm teams == seed corn for the next generation of "more advanced jobs and technical managers".)
Interestingly, VC's still try to cherry pick

I wonder why they do that. Naively, it seems like they are in the best position for a carpet-bombing/index-type strategy since they can follow-on beyond Series A with as many as work out.
Whilst the meaning/intention of the voice messages may be "mysterious", the general purpose of the signal is not - it's for ionosphere research:

http://elpub.wdcb.ru/journals/rjes/v10/2007ES000227/2.shtml

Scroll down to "Doppler Radio Sounding of the Ionosphere", note the broadcast frequency.

My guess is that the occasional voices are either a) someone else randomly broadcasting on the same frequency, b) some technical hitch at the broadcast station. Whatever the reason, 99.9999% it's going to be totally mundane.
It depends very much in what is being marketed to them - there's a big difference between niche alternative health services and entertainment, branded FMCG or fast food.
I know of franchises enjoying excellent ROI in the latter sector, which was driven by coupons and spur-of-the-moment peer encouragement long before Facebook...
The following comment on the blog cracked me up, mainly because of how true it is.

Bob says:

August 25, 2010 at 6:21 am

one word: “RADIOLAB”
You just quoted Wikileaks own summary of the document, and not the document itself.

I rest my case.
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I may confuse "financial" with "monetary" here. Anyway, the main problem is banks creating money out of thin air, then taking an interest when they lend it. I am oversimplifying, but the observable effects are the same: Banks are basically taking their toll. That should be the privilege of the state.

The internet is the voice of the people, but we are encouraged to be clients, consumers. Not servers, participants, peers. At the root of the problem are some unjustified limitations. Weak upload bandwidth, dynamic IP (when we have a public one) and blocking the outgoing SMTP port are the most glaring. If those limitation were addressed (and we educate people of course), the internet would be more decentralized and more free. More details here: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2010/ISOC-NY-Moglen-20...
Maybe I missed that because that's not what the document says. But of course, the fact that Wikileaks posted it and pasted that summary on it is why we're having this discussion, not because of the document itself.
This is Navin. Pretty sure you are the same Jason who helped with the MIT/Stanford VLab Lifestreaming event couple of yrs ago. Ryan Junee and I were leads for the event. I believe you were doing Publictivity back then
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Having children makes your life rougher if you have to drive them places and arrange for their entertainment or detainment every hour of the day for fear of being arrested for child abuse.

It's a bit different if they're going to be with you on the farm and, within a few years, helping out.
This is based on the very shaky assumption that international callers won't learn to use Skype or Google's own VOIP chat.
Just want to say; I just bought the Git Guide PDF, and its already proved useful as a quick reference. There's definitely room in my Programming PDF folder for guides like this.
Just out of User Interface curiosity how many other people immediately scrolled down to the six bullet points and ignored the rest?
Time Enough for Love. Robert Heinlein. http://www.amazon.com/Time-Enough-Love-Robert-Heinlein/dp/04...
Steps 1-3 and 5-6 are "easy", but how do you step 4?

4. Seek expert feedback, in intermittent doses

It would be great if my company did code reviews on everything a la Google, but that’s not going to happen any time soon. I code in my spare time, but what expert is going to want to check out my spare time projects, project euler solutions, or what have you, and give feedback? So, how do I go about getting expert feedback?
Correct. The top tier accounts are $995/month and one of the nifty features are the custom domain short names which, I suppose, provide some nice branding (e.g. amazon.com becomes amzn.to/2U08Yn). The analytics tools are probably also of some value.
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." ( 1/2 :-)

Seriously, if you don't know how to code you still won't get too much of the critical stuff. You'll still have to find at least one programmer you absolutely and without reservation trust, although if you handle things correctly you'll be more valuable than a not-at-all-technical co-founder.

Just be careful: e.g. I had one project die (and mostly lost a friend in the process) when he decided he knew the design process I was teaching him better than I did ... which was pretty unlikely seeing as by then I'd been programming for two decades and had used it from start to finish four years earlier in a technically very successful project. His misapprehension was of a nature that blocked my work on the design, and, well, it all ended in tears.
Could anyone from bit.ly comment on if this is really enough to keep them in the black? I'm not entirely convinced there would be enough demand. I'm not entirely qualified to comment though either so...
Sure. But how the hell do they convince investors to get on board? Any future numbers are so pie-in-the-sky, and revenues so far off, why would anyone touch it?
In my own personal view, quitting your day job is the indication you've embarked on a start up.
I took that as a given, kragen.

Perhaps I should have prefaced my remark with:
"for those women who are interested in the profession...."

[edit] it's interesting though - amongst homosexual men, there's significantly less stigma against prostitution AND significantly less care about the health risks. There's also more men who are doing it and they make less money than the women.
Jesse Schell should get credit for the game cards concept
ttp://artofgamedesign.com/cards/ as well as popularizing a lot of the talk about Game Mechanics.
I've started developing a side project for Android. My experience is very positive so far. (I'll do a Show/Ask HN when the app is done.)

The tools and SDK are pretty good. I mainly use the command line tools and Emacs. That setup works great.

The API and UI framework are fairly well-thought out. I like the Activity/View/Intent constructs, encouraging modularity and failure recovery.

The graphic API are well-designed, with good separation and combination of concepts and functionality. There are a lot of built-in supports for graphics, like bitmap manipulation and transparency support. Support OpenGL.

The emulator is pretty good. The CPU and memory profilers (profiler!) are excellent.

The choice of using Java is excellent. Since Android is kind of an embedded device, I want the compiler to catch most of the silly mistakes before running the app on it.

Things that could be better:

- The audio APIs are kind of weak and buggy.

- The XML layout can be a trail-and-error process. Interface Builder would be nice.

- The build-deploy-run cycle can be long. Should have a mode that doesn't require re-installing the whole package for every build.

- Giving a free Android phone to every developer would definitely help.
Flow:

1. While the page is loading, look at the utm_source crap in the URL and wonder why the submitter couldn't be bothered to clean that up.

2. Read the first sentence and identify this as a writer of the "I should start with a personal anecdote to make people like me" school of writing (a US thing? not sure), and start skimming for the actual content.

3. Slow down when the "Anders Ericsson" anchor appears, and wait for the mandatory "10,000 hours" reference.

4. Skim the six points, and realize that there's nothing new here -- you've read the same article before, only written by someone else.

(yeah, yeah, I'll log off now.)
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Yes they would be founders/associates—not employees. I would really like to know what a reasonable amount of equity would be.
Thanks. So it's just a matter of time then.
Join an open source project? Find someone at work that's willing to do reviews for you if you do them for him? (slow-motion pair programming, kind of). Read code written by your company's best programmers and compare what they did with how you would have done it?
You need to get involved with the right communities, I think, and reach out to mentors.
What do you mean by free will? Was it a meaningful question in the first place?

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Free_will
I've been in the beta for a while now (they sent me an invite). I like it a lot better. I joined Digg when it was just a technology news site, and I used it less and less as it become more about other news than tech news, especially all the images and videos.

With the new Digg, I just friend those news sources I like so My News mostly shows things I'm interested it. The hard part is finding the right people to friend. I find articles that people submitted, but then I have to see if they've submitted a lot of stuff I don't like. If I friend them I may end up seeing a bunch of news I don't care about.

Still, I find Hacker News to be a much better tech news source.
If I had downvoted you it would have been because your reason not to read the essay seemed a poor one.

However this assessment that it was a poor reason would have been itself post hoc, since I have already discovered that it's a fairly good essay. In fact the quote about number of descendants doesn't represent the essay well and I'm not sure why your parent chose it. So it's more that you turn out to have made a bad decision, than that your reasoning was unsound.
Pot calling the kettle black much?
What's exciting to me is that Nate's got a voice in the NY Times. That the NY Times voice is suddenly more open, scientific, and math-centric in their political reporting.

I hope the trend continues in other areas of the NYT.
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how reasonable! letting people keep their private lives private. Imagine if that caught on in North America!
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Are you assuming that assumption-challenging is a bad thing?
One complaint: the reward schedule rules are scattered all throughout, fixed, interval, variable, etc.

19. Fixed Interval Reward Schedules

20. Fixed Ratio Reward Schedule

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23. Interval Reward Schedules

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34. Ratio Reward Schedules

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38. Reward Schedules

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44. Variable Interval Reward Schedules

45. Variable Ratio Reward Schedules

What's with the ordering? It doesn't even go from most general to most specific? Is the list ordering a game mechanic itself (that would be meta)
Of course, not a rule of thumb. I guess loyalty comes in many flavors. Loyal good employees with not so aggressive career ambition is probably one of the good flavors for an employer. It is the loyal bad employees flavor one needs to watch out for.
I had to click past the interstitial first, but besides that, spot on.
Thanks. Bonus points for creating a universal app for iPhone and iPad. I am starting to become annoyed by developers that just scale their iPhone app, put "HD" at the end of the title and then ask the same or higher price again for the iPad. Imho Apple should refuse those apps or at least create very strict guidelines.
Here are the advantages of working at Google (from my perspective.)

- Excellent infrastructure. If you want to run a job on 2000 machines, write 10 lines of boilerplate, press go, and you're done.

- Lots of people smarter/better-educated/more-talented than me. (Though maybe this is common. :)

- Lots of resources. For a batch job, you can spend 10k machine-hours doing something frivolous without getting approval from anyone, since there's usually enough idle capacity somewhere. For instance, rendering the largest nebulabrot that has ever been rendered. http://www.danvk.org/wp/2007-04-06/nebulabrot/
Or finding the highest possible scoring boggle board. http://www.danvk.org/wp/2009-02-19/sky-high-boggle-scores-wi...
This is also great for prototyping something new that requires crunching a lot of data to create. I made a rhyming dictionary that was based entirely on datamining lyrics pages. It's also super convenient that we have a copy of the web on disk to play with.

- Google's brand behind any product you launch. Things might fade into obscurity, but they at least don't start out that way.

Disadvantages of working at Google:

- It's hard to fail fast because everything has to preemptively scale. It's probably easier to scale here than at most other companies, but still much harder than spit+duct-tape on a machine in your apartment.

- Google-wide goals/approvals can eat into the time to focus on product-specific things. There is some big-company overhead, though it's kept to a minimum.

- Established products are somewhat ossified, whether that's due to refinement or over-fitting is up to debate (and debated.) Thankfully though Google is remarkably not risk averse about making major changes to major products if you have the data to back it.
I can't imagine any other way to interpret "If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

Please enlighten me?
Unlikely and no way.

A jury is supposed to rely only on the evidence presented at trial and ruled admissible, no matter how obvious or compelling other evidence might seem. The only exceptions are for fundamental matters of common sense, like the fact that the sun does not shine brightly at night or that gravity usually causes things to fall down rather up or sideways.

Any kind of external research by a juror is right out - that's like bringing in additional testimony after the trial has taken place, and undermines a defendant's right to cross-examine and dispute the evidence. If an attorney's omission of some information seems like a glaring oversight, that's not the jury's problem. Maybe the client has an incompetent attorney (lots of cases involving that) or maybe the two sides agreed to a partial deal before the trial which included staying off that topic...there's no 'right to know' and juror's are not allowed to introduce any new information to others in the jury room. Any personal background knowledge which gives a juror extra insight, he is supposed to keep to himself. Usually that is considered juror misconduct.

Now here you're only looking at putting pieces of evidence into a matrix and scoring them, which seems totally neutral - but unless it's a very simple case and you can fit all the evidentiary arguments on there verbatim, then the losing side would probably claim the presentation of evidence in such simplistic fashion gave rise to bias.

A recent appeal of a murder conviction examined the use of software by a juror in depth. Although the judge concluded it was acceptable, it was only because the juror used the software alone and it simply served a note-taking function, rather than letting him manipulate or explore the paramaters in any novel way: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1103407335837753... Scroll down to section B2 for the software use challenge.

In another case from this year, video playback software was questioned but ultimately authorized: http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/2010/03/jurors-experimentatio...

I think it will be a long time before any kind of data-organizing tool will be allowed. I am a bit skeptical about allowing even the frame-by-frame video playback in the second case, because not all video codecs are created equal and it's possible that artifacts in the display of a video image might distort it enough to sway a person's mind about whether it resembled a defendant (cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia). IANAL, mind.

Usually a judge will err on the side of caution if any technological innovations are proposed, since being reversed for not conducting the rial properly is bad for one's future career. Please note, IANAL and this is an amateur opinion.

I do think there are some judges who would like to use tools like this for their own analysis of a complex case, without a jury. Richard Posner springs to mind, he's very much into Bayesian reasoning and formal methods.