skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet the above company does plan on some time in the future; having more "normal" and "market based" salaries; otherwise they could have worked anywhere for below market wages. They have to have a plan for making more money down the road that won't depend on their needs; but value.
>Just like knowing that different types of cheese should actually taste different is a good indicator that you are european.

This is what prolonged exposure to soylent green does to you.

Just kidding, we love Americans.
Excellent, thank you! I'm researching into if those taxes need to be paid now (quarterly) or if I can wait until regular tax day next year. Either way, putting 1/3 aside and knowing not to touch it is important, b/c it will be going to DC either way.
Dude, I don't get it. What's so wrong with using the leftovers?

I don't understand people who find this disgusting, but have no problem with the fact that they're consuming the flesh (and possibly skin and some other bits) of what used to be animals that moved, breathed, defecated, etc.

Look, you're eating stuff that used to have a life of its own. Deal with it. You don't need me to go into details about eggs or sausages, do you?
Use Bing, or DDG. A healthy search market means SEO companies have to target two (or more, go DDG!) set of somewhat unique rules which makes it harder to game. The fact that Google dominates means there's one playbook for most SEO.

Bing (or anyone) could really make some ground if they tackled the low quality content SPAM market as opposed to simply trying to be as close to Google as possible so people will switch.

How about some direct ads showing spammy searches at Google compared with clean results at ....
Don't worry about that, it's not bragging.
You'd be cutting your pay to $45k ($60k annualized), working less, getting an extra couple months of vacation, and great pension benefits.

I also forgot that for teaching 5 years, you've just earned a pension of 6% of your "Final Average Salary" (average of your last 3 years). So for teaching 5 years, you've just earned a pension of $2900/year (inflation adjusted) starting at age 55 (assuming the 5 year pay is $50,000, not sure I understand the table I posted). Assuming you live to be 80, that's worth another $15k per 9 months of work.

So teachers total comp is $60k per 9 months, just starting out (equivalent to $80k/year). That's really not bad for entry level.

http://thebronxislearning.blogspot.com/2008/10/nyc-teacher-p... (You need Readability to view that page.)

In finance, you are working far more hours than the teacher, and you can also be fired whenever you under perform. You also seem to be assuming that GS or JPM will give a job to just any idiot with a math degree.

"How little can we possibly pay to keep a warm body in teh room"

Not what I said at all. I said "fill our open positions" - in general, to fill a position, you must find qualified people. I'm a strong proponent of measuring performance, firing the warm bodies who don't perform, and offering rewards to those who perform well.
Demo at BizTechDay along with Weebly (YC '07), Square, and Wildfire.
Seth's Blog: Marketing to the bottom of the pyramid
I probably should have just linked to this article:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-20015841-76.html?tag=conte...
Congratulations! Offhand, I'd say leave $50k where it is or stick it in a CD, save $5 in your personal account, spend $3k on something nice for you and/or your loved one, and write a check for the other $2k...then look for an accountant you're willing to make it over to.

The news suggests there may be a 100% tax credit for business equipment purchases shortly, so if you have dreamed of doing something on a larger scale this might be the right time to leverage your gain. Bring a wishlist of a few things you'd like to meetings with an accountant, including some sensible and some wild ideas. Likely s/he will point out options neither of us would ever think of on our own.
May take switches on the compiler command line.

Further, packing can depend upon the pragma in force when the header file is included. How to set up that environment?
Uh... am I the only one who caught the ending? The last couple of seconds are him asking, when the nuggets are made and frying and presumably smelling quite nice, "Now, who would still eat this?" and after a moment's hesitation nearly all kids raised hands.

The moral of the story isn't that nuggets are evil or not tasty, but that you're better off knowing what's in your food. Even (or especially) if you decide to still eat it.
I've worked for small businesses and big hulking bureaucracies. I've done a little contracting. I'm always searching for a place or set of circumstances where I can joyfully engage and excel for the long term. One of my biggest character flaws is my tendency to be restless and dissatisfied.

I guess my most happy place would be contracting or consulting. University was also a very happy and stimulating time for me, though I didn't realize it at the time.

I'm having a really difficult time with my career path and work life at the moment. Can you tell?
That is understandable, but you should be proud of what you accomplished. I am sure you worked hard to build your app, so don't be afraid to take credit for it.
AFAIK the Netduino guys are looking at (already are?) supporting MonoDevelop, so in that case you could do all your development on Linux or OS X.

Additionally, this is specifically around the .NET Micro framework, which has been release by MS under the Apache 2.0 license. IANAL, but that certainly makes me think they're not planning on suing anyone who uses it.
1. Calculate how much a paying customer pays you, average.

2. Experiment with a variety of customer acquisition methods, starting with Google ads.

3. Calculate the acquisition cost versus the lifetime value cost, find methods that bring you profitable customers, scale.
Talent management system that is highly customized. Client had very specific spec requirements that were not being fulfilled by other vendors and wanted a replacement.
it is a typical case of ideology (ie. following principles) approach clashing with the analytical reasoning over real facts/measurements/observations. People everywhere, be it science, programming, politics, religion, ... like to hide in the safe haven of dogmas. Whenever expressing of doubt is prohibited or frown upon - you immediately know what it is a case of ideology/dogma.
Of course. That's why I entitled Column 1 "working on my own stuff" instead of "writing my own software".

Good: writing someone else's software
Better: working on my own business (not writing software)
Best: writing my own software

A start-up includes "Better" and "Best". Both fall into Column 1.
Forget about it ! You are unlikely to get any traction as you are not even able to explain to this roomful of hackers what you do.
All SoC design comes from a fabricator's toolkit. When you do VLSI Design or Verilog layout, you always feed the compiler a "technology file" which describes -- gasp -- building blocks of what is possible to synthesize from the builder's fab.

So yeah, apple didn't start out by implementing digital circuits with vacuum tubes. Thank you for that insightful comment.
No offense but most "average users" I encounter have a terrible time with USB drives.
Mostly, but it does convert into something you can drive on the roads.
Google Just Killed The "I'm Feeling Lucky Button"
Yeah I did see some reference to that as well, which certainly makes sense. Karma inflation, it was called.
This was also the question which came to my mind. Whats the difference between Google Instants Search results and the normal? Shouldnt be the same?
It's SO true. I always laugh the hardest at recursive jokes.
I think the damage to long tail searches was already dealt long ago when Google started auto-complete on the home page and before that when people started using a Firefox search bar. Auto-results only makes things faster.

This strikes me as very AOLish where people are encouraged to search for what everyone else is (aka AOL Keyword) as opposed to having access to the entire web, unfiltered.
Experienced in dealing with ambiguity
Just got this from a recruiter.

The candidate must be experienced in dealing with ambiguity:

---

Hello,

My name is ----- and I'm a recruiter at -----

----- has an urgent contract for one of our direct clients:

Job Title: Analyst Programmer - Java/Web

Location: -----, --

Duration:

Job Description:

High Level Job Description

These enhancements are considered a major version release for the application and will require a Developer to work on the team and develop and execute the Design.

• Applicants must be well experienced in Java, Web and Oracle.

Objectives of role

• To work on a team of developers dedicated to the project.

• Develop code as laid out in the Design Specification and deliver

Knowledge & Experience Required

•

Training and Education years

•

Interpersonal Skills/Capabilities:

• Effective written and oral communications skills.

• Teamwork – Interacts effectively across boundaries with other functions using influencing and relationship building skills

• Innovation and entrepreneurship - Track record of developing, evaluating and implementing innovative solutions to IT problems

• Leadership - Ability to communicate vision and direction

• Agility - Avoids bureaucracy and facilitates rapid, flexible, innovative working and decision making within a complex organization

• Systematic, disciplined and analytical approach to problem solving

• Experienced in dealing with pressure and ambiguity

• Ability to adapt quickly to changes in procedures and processes.

• Work independently with minimum direction/supervision efficiently and effectively.

• Ability to build relationships, influence and gain the support of others.

• Must be customer focused and ensure that project delivers the highest level of business benefit and minimizes disruption.

• Ability to craft and present concise communications regarding project status to a wide variety of audiences including technical, business customers, and management.

• Avoid bureaucracy and facilitates rapid, flexible, innovative working and decision making within a complex organization

If you are qualified, available, interested, planning to make a change, or know of a friend who might have the required qualifications and interest, please call me ASAP at (---) --------, even if we have spoken recently about a different position. If you do respond via e-mail please include a daytime phone number so I can reach you. In considering candidates, time is of the essence, so please respond ASAP.

----- is a global IT Consulting company with over 30 Fortune 500 customers. You may visit our website at www.-----.com to learn more about us.

Thank you.

Sincerely yours,

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I think the advantage here may not be IDE (although VS is a pretty nice IDE) but language. If you're much more comfortable writing C#, then Netduino could be much more productive for you.

Obviously if it were a serious hobby, you'd probably invest the time to become better at C++, I would imagine. Still, a little variety never hurt anyone.
I haven't worked full time on my owns startup before. But I have worked at 3 different startups in the period of 3 years as an employee before landing a cushy job in a big corporation.

Working at the startup before having my first child: not too bad, sometimes stressful, but I could handle it well. The work was always engaging, and it was hard to separate work from life.

Working at startup post-child: stressful, because now having a kid means I can't put in long hours at work as my family needs me at home. I would much rather forget about work and focus on the needs of my family when 5 PM rolls by. I was more susceptible to burn out once I started my family + working at a startup.

Big Corp: lack of stress, nice compensation + benefits = happiest workplace. The slower pace does not drive me crazy, and instead it gives me a chance to indulge in my technical curiosities.

For now, I'm enjoying my big corp employment. It's only been 3 months so far, and I realize that may change if I have to deal with more corporate BS, but it's the most enjoyable workplace I've been at so far.

The catch here is that my team here is top notch, and the section I'm in is very engineering/hacker oriented.
Similar here: A mysterious pastry from the vending machine, though I actually drank water with it.
it's not really BS because it's your BS. I think the issue is motivation.
My first instinct (after taxes) would be to take a year off and build something worth 10x that. Then do it again.
The problem with this video is that the real problem with McNuggets have nothing to do with the gross-looking bits of the chicken; the real problems are factory farming and the unhealthfulness of constantly consuming your proteins iin breaded, deep-fried form.
What is the product?
Yes, but your cat won't hit pre-computed results.
Ok, better example:

http://a.imageshack.us/img231/5900/firefox42.png

Obviously the header text here is completely messed up. But the normal text is horrible too. Look at the N and the D at the beginning of the first posts - previously nice and sharp 1 pixel lines, now 2 pixels. The T on The on the third post runs into the h, rather than having a gap.

The text was previously sharp and crisp, now it looks blurry.
ClamAV now integrates LLVM
Hi, founded the corp in '08, closed tiny funding round in Nov '08 (when the global financial sky had fallen), launched live June 29 '09, got the federal gov 10 months later, had 2 employees until 2010, now have 5. True startup indeed...
> I trust the competence of the 37s dev team.

I don't, in large part because this shouldn't be a complicated problem to solve.
One great engineer can impact the world with one lifetime, while one great teacher can impact the world with (class size x years taught) lifetimes.
Whilst it does only support C# presently, it does use a subset of the CLR, so it isn't tied to C# by definition.
Ok good, I didn't want it to come off as such. I'll likely post something off of my regular account about my experience bidding for and developing the project; I just wanted to split out the monetary questions I had.
I guess I somehow never paid attention until I needed them.. hehe
This is a presentation from Christopher Joye of Rismark, who has gained a lot of notoriety in Australia for being so bullish on Australian property.

Rismark sells an innovative shared-equity mortgage product. Shared-equity products require a rising housing market (as consistently advocated by Robertson) to be able to sell what is essentially a wholesale investment in residential property to investors.

So I wouldn't state he has a different view, rather his view is the view of the real estate industry, and as he has a vested interest in rationalizing away any bubble he wouldn't be the first analyst to turn to for unbiased, independent opinion.

People bearish on property would call him one of the leading property 'spruikers'. That he is continuing to claim there is a housing shortage in a recent presentation really confirms this.

Also, providing 'Source: Rismark' shouldn't really cut it for anyone wanting to get a clear picture of the Australian property bubble.
The elasticity of the waistband could present problems in some cases, but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't still be do-able.
Why would inflating the number of impressions matter at all when Google makes money from clicks?
Sounds good to me. By the time I first heard this in person, people were saying 'kind bud' most definitely, though - so it has a place the vernacular in that form. Slang is a funny thing.
Same situation for me. I purchased some XL tshirts at Old Navy a year back, and I can't wear them. It's one thing if an XL fits more like a L, but these are like a M.
ACLU sues over warrantless border laptop searches
I work at a company where we have been doing this sort of stuff for a while now. It's very impressive in the case of Google because of the size of its index and the level of error tolerance of the matching sequence used. I wonder how complete these instant results are compared to the now lame old click-to-submit search results? I tried to test and noticed the count of instant results is slightly smaller but the top items appear to be the same most of the time.
Anyone has insights?
Tim Harford is always an excellent read/listen. I highly reccomend his Radio 4 programme, "More or Less": http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/more_or_less/default.s...
There are so many ways to reach our general goals that just going through the motions of reaching a goal feels like we are actually moving toward the goal we want to reach.

Say I want to make $10 million dollars a year for the rest of my life. There are so many ways to achieve that goal from so many different paths that if I were to try and plan a path that isn't guaranteed to succeed I would spend all my time planning and never any time actually doing things.

That's exactly why we do things, because thinking and planning are good and nice but if that's all you do you'll never end up doing any of the things that might help you reach your goals.

For his [1], some folks don't do all that data analysis and tracking because for them it isn't fun and actually is distracting from whatever their goal may be.
Never mind praising total utilization! What about the added chemicals seemingly required to make the gunge taste 'good' if that's the word?

Is this analysis just a lie or a complete exaggeration?
http://www.rense.com/general76/chk.htm

Yummy!
It's too cheap by the gram, or too expensive, depending on the variety. The cheap (low quality) stuff is like $3 by the gram, at most, and the expensive stuff is more like $20 a gram, at most.
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One guy that ran VoIP company that most of you have probably heard of. Here is how he described his experience in similar situation.
So he was thinking about how to spin of his project in similar situation. (Most of us dont change phone provider quite often, right?) He was staying at some motel and had his TV on. You know that old weird tv stuff. Then one moment he realized Americans still watching TV A LOT and all these freaking tv ads as well. So he took a credit and ran TV ad campaign. And that was breaking moment for company. Sales just exploded.

So think about making good tv campaign especially if majority of your clients are not tech guys, but like moms, homeowners etc.

Sorry for obvious advice, but just to mention that "old media" still have some power these days...
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Finding an accountant is a great suggestion. I was looking into that but am quickly realizing it is time to get a professional in that area that can advise on how to use the capital in the most cost/tax-optimized manner!
I still want my hoverboard!
yes, similar here. Safari 5 & Chrome don't have it enabled. Firefox does. I thought it was related to the use of encrypted.google.com or customized search, but it doesn't seem like it. At least not directly (and incognito mode doesn't help). And I don't want to clear my google cookies which might solve the problem.
Some thoughts about changing the world.

Especially worth reading if you don't like Mr. Godin because he is the marketer.
Amie Street gobbled by Amazon, morphs into new Songza
The nice thing, though, is that there's an option to turn it off for those that don't like it.

I'm not sure if it'll prove to be too distracting vs. mildly helpful for me, yet.
Sure, that works out about the same as 95% percent of the produce sold and used at restaurants in the US, though.
Poor font rendering the downside of Firefox 4 beta's hardware acceleration
Unfortunately the new hardware acceleration feature in Firefox 4 Beta 5 seems to have a bad impact on font rendering. There is already a fair amount of negative feedback and users turning this feature off.
Well, that struck me as a pretty pompous answer from the economics dude. If he could have been bothered, he could have found official price stats for various drugs and then written something factual.
If I could do it all over again... I wouldn’t
Almost. The speed of light is the upper limit on how fast any forces could propagate along the object, in practice they would travel at the speed of sound in the material.
Think Positively About a Vinyl Banner and Static Cling Stickers
Vinyl banners, static cling stickers, print stickers and vehicle window decals are undoubtedly amongst the most professional and productive printing products in the worldwide market today. That is why company offers the best printing solutions to its valued customers worldwide cost effectively.
The problem with your argument is that I agree with it, and yet my argument still stands.
Probability of some old man clicking one of the four different links kindly proposed on the top of the page by Google while he's typing his search query is higher than the probability of him clicking the only ad shown to him with the old search technique. I guess.
Pro pants wearer tip: hold a buttoned pair of pants by the waist and wrap the waist around your neck. If the two ends meet (and you can still breathe), the pants will fit your waist. PS: doing this will get you some weird looks.
The dance moves that make men attractive to women
Well, the nickel-and-diming attitude seems to have a strong prejudice against qualified people, even if you say "least amount for a qualified person". Engineering departments managed with that philosophy tend to be filled with mediocre hacks.

As far as teachers working less.. do you know any young teachers? We're both on Hacker News right now. Teachers have been at work since 7AM teaching in front of a classroom, and are currently doing grading and lesson planning.

Regarding the pensions, I agree it's an area for reform, and a case in point of union dysfunction. But as long as people like you come across as borderline hostile to the idea of teachers being paid well for a job well done, they're going to close ranks behind the union, and I would too.

EDIT: I don't care what some report says about hours in the aggregate, especially one that presumably intermingles running-out-the-clock 64yos with young teachers. I don't know how it was compiled but I'm sure I could find one saying the exact opposite if I cared to. I'm assuming you don't know many teachers, otherwise you would get what I'm saying here.
I've done all three. Working for the man is the easiest and most soul-crushing. Shaking the idea that you are wasting your life away is not easy - because you are.

Working on a startup is the most difficult, and the most draining. It requires some personal sacrifices that have negative side effects, even if you don't buy into the "work 100 hour weeks" BS. Emotionally, it's draining. Financially, it sucks - until it doesn't (if you ever get that far). Once investors step in, the stress ratchets up and things just generally become a pain in the ass. On the plus side, you're living it - making something from nothing in an all-out effort. To bad "living it" gets pretty old after a while (and it takes more than a while to get something good going).

Consulting is a great balance for me. I work on my own stuff a lot, meet great people, do interesting things and generally live a low stress life. Financially, it's ok. I'm not getting rich, but it's better than startup pay (.i.e. zero). The one drawback is the nagging thought that your side project could be a "real startup" if you just put more effort into it and got some other people involved...

So basically, pick your poison. There's a flavor for everyone.