skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's something to be said for relatively simple tool like make. It can be a lot easier to understand what's going on with Make because it eliminates the layers of stuff between the build script and the actual commands that are run. That's not to say that it's possible to write inscrutable Makefiles.
"Over the years I've moved completely in the other direction, which is also reflected in my shift from INTP to INTJ"

Seriously? You don't just change types. It's more likely that he really is an INTJ and initially tested as an INTP for whatever reason. Or he is really an INTP and decided that INTJs are "better" and made an effort to test as one.
Why is it that various media outlets find the whole 'hyperlinking' thing so hard?

The study author's page -

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~dholakia/

The study itself

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~dholakia/Groupon%20Effectiveness%20...
One issue Groupon have is to review their cut to the lower, recurring complaint is the fact that they charge almost at least 50% of the sale, for most small businesses the discount + Groupon cut is just unsustainable.
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I'm seeing around 30% IE (all versions) usage on tech centric blogs I run. Chrome's inching up on 20%.
I agree. More than half of my work has come from CL. The nice thing about CL is being able to win work locally if you are in a larger metro area.

Even if you are not in a big CL city, many replies to job ads are from overseas or from developers with limited communication. If you can communicate well and provide a solution for exactly what the customer is asking, you can win some good (and potentially long term) work.

But as Ryan says above, you need to weed through a lot of bad listings and be persistent in your search.
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Here's my quite speculative thinking on the whole mess, admittedly also without having followed it in much detail.

It's not worth your time chasing such elusive bargains, unless your time is not worth a lot. (Exception, the "excitement of the hunt". See Atlantic City, Las Vegas, etc.)

If your time is not worth a lot, you're not going to be buying much (no resources). I.e. you're a low value acquisition as a customer. (And if you're into the "excitement of the hunt", then you're not too interested in settling down with a particular merchant, are you?)

It eventually follows that success for Groupon consists of promoting itself, not its customers' (the businesses contracting campaigns) long term interests. (Once again, the site's users are the product, not the customers. And while they may be nice enough people, they are not a good product.)

Also, users (the merchant's customers) associate their success with Groupon, not the contracting merchant. One-off bargains don't build customer loyalty.

P.S. Having now read the brief, linked article, I speculate further than an overwhelmed venue may actually be counter-productive; shoppers stick it out to get their bargain, but tell themselves, "Man, what a pain. I'm never coming back here again."
Maybe there's an opportunity here to build a web-based recruiter reputation system. The good recruiters would be happy to stand out from the bad.
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> 1) IP companies must notify any infringing company within 3 months of the infringing product's release. IP companies can't wait until something like the iPhone blows up to sue.

So no stealth startups then?

> 2) If a company wants to maintain a patent, it must either be a commercial product or be willing to license it for a reasonable fee. Some IP companies refuse to license at first, in order to drive up the price.

Who defines reasonable? I understand that the market can determine this, but the market can't then go to the patent office and say "Yeah, this patent should not be allowed."

> 3) Every 3 years that you have the patent, you must show progress towards commerciality (commerciality remains to be defined in this thought experiment).

Show progress to whom? The patent office? How do you define progress? Then we are back at square one: the patent office holds all the keys.

> 4) The patents for ideas, strategies, etc. should either be banned outright, or the lengths made much, much shorter. There's no reason that Amazon should still have a patent over "one-click" in 2010.

Agreed. Patents on software == patents on mathematical concepts. By the same token patents on strategies.

Here is a solution that can be implemented as an algorithm:

1. The inventor registers a patent and is required to set a licencing fee.

2. If within a year nobody licenses, the idea, the licensing fee is dropped to at least half the original or lower if the inventor chooses to do so.

3. This repeats until the fee is less than $1. Then the patent expires and everything is public domain.

4. If a patent is licensed from day one at the asker's price, it still has the usual time limit on expiration.

5. As long as a new licensee was signed on in the past year, the inventor may raise the licensing fee once for that year for any new licensees.

This is not a perfect system and obviously can still be gamed in various ways. But a system like this one could use markets to determine what an idea is really worth and for how long.
No, he's legitimately complaining about people spamming out recruitment emails without doing any research on the people they are contacting. For example, my resume on my personal website says "I am not interested in moving from Portland. Really. Seriously." My LinkedIn profile says "I am happily located in Portland, OR. Please don't bother me with job possibilities that require moving somewhere else." And yet, I would say that only about 5% of the emails I get from recruiters are for local or telecommute jobs. The other 95% are for relocation to the Bay Area or Seattle.
You get vendor lock in whether or not is Open Source, unless there is an Open Source project that will instantly convert all my code to use another vendor, including my tests.

While Stallman's desire is not financial profit (which I really think should be the core of your argument, not the lock-in), the lock-in of a GPL-based product chain is just as hard to get out of than one built from IBM (actually quite possibly even harder).
Thank you!

Is it correct to say that the definition of the derivative states the equivalence of the secant and tangent lines?

I am looking for a theorem that states the equivalence of curved and straight lines. Does this make sense?
Your taking my quote out of context.

He could have used "Why would you use DB2 when PostgreSQL is free and Open Source?" and it wouldn't have changed his follow up statement one bit.

Edit: I'm not suggesting his follow up answer would still be right. I'm just saying, your asking questions that aren't really helpful.
Like in "watch the thought an let it go", ok.
Just a side note but your similar movies algorithm seems to be way off with certain picks. For Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, included in the suggestions list are: Forrest Gump, The Prestige and Schindler's List among others.

Best of luck on that partner search, looks like an interesting idea (although competing with IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes).
bouc-émissaire.

Official apology : we didn't know what he did. It's hard to believe no-one knew what was happening. If they are that incompetent, it may be wise to use competitors.
This reminds me of an article I read in Wired back in the 1998 timeframe about two diamond dealers from Montreal getting caught up in the California dot com hoopla. I don't remember the specifics of the article but what I do remember is the dealers' assessment of "The Web" only being really being useful as a direct marketing tool.
That graph doesn't show that people are hoarding cash, it shows that they are saving. If they're investing in stocks the money doesn't go out of circulation and if they put it in a bank it mostly doesn't go out of circulation. All of which isn't to say that there are people or institutions hoarding money, only that your graph is irrelevant to that.
RED admits defeat against DSLRs, says Scarlet was a mistake
Sometimes I suspect that the amount of time spent on build issues, IDE configuration, continuous integration, version control, and dependency management approaches half the total time spent on the project.
This should be considered more of a side project than a startup.
Wow, is it really that easy to get the media to go into full attack mode?

a) We're given nearly zero visibility on how candidates were selected. Even on the Rice website they only list media mentions of the study, I would love to see the original sample, polling selection data, etc http://media.rice.edu/media/Dateline_Rice.asp.

b) Response Bias alone could swing the results up or down wildly with such a small sample size.

c) A piece of the article, reported as fact, is that restaurants are unhappy vs. other business types which they certainly do not have data to support. This is terribly misleading - from the article they surveyed "150 businesses spanning 19 U.S. cities and 13 product categories" indicating ~10 business in each category.

For the WSJ & others to report a half-baked study as pure fact without raising any of the questions above is mind boggling.
due to the quality emulator you do not have to wait for a full device..I did not..
Well, it seems that could be fixed by only having the phone vibrate for the first message. Even if I'm using the phone, I don't really need it to vibrate all the time...
Really? I get called Dave, David, or even Davide (I live in Italy so even David might come out as "Dah-veed") and I really don't care as long as the person is nice and respectful and otherwise pleasant to communicate with (annoying recruiters don't really count).

I mostly use it as a measure of how clued-in they are about me, but even some of the people who have mistaken me for a Davide (not the statue, unfortunately), have been very well-intentioned people with interesting things to say.
> why is MySQL always the "reference implementation" for database comparisons?

It's explained why in the article.

> As an advocate for the DB2 team I often hear people ask, “Why would you use DB2 when MySQL is free and Open Source?”.
Groupon is pursuing a slash and burn strategy. They churn through merchants and spit them out. Their only goals are to increase revenues through

more cities
more offers
more revenue per offer
higher share

Ultimately their interests are not aligned with those of their merchant partners. They refuse to cap the quantity on offers. They push for 50%+ discounts. They do nothing to discourage breakage. They use good businesses to attract their members but then they punish bad businesses with predatory pricing. So good businesses erode their brand.

Lots of problems here. Their model is far from broken (because there are so many businesses and the unit economics still work for their members) but someone will come along and fix this model for them.
The article does a good job of revealing the degree of superstition in that very poorly educated and isolated area. (I am referring, for example, to the claims that drones leave behind "poisonous dust," not a very likely payload at all.) If that superstition turns into hatred of America, that can't be good for United States foreign policy. Regions that are safe havens for the Taliban and Al-Qaeda include so many people who think so differently from people in the developed world that it may be very difficult to find a way to gain support for shutting down the terrorist networks. This is a bad situation all around.
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"Today IBM is announcing new pricing (http://www.db2teamblog.com/2010/10/db2-express-ftl-gets-more...) to extend the benefits of our support and commercial edition to a greater number of startups and small businesses. You can get the commercial Fixed Term License for about $1,500 per server, per year. (I pay more per year to host this blog.) Aside from 24/7 support, regular fix pack updates, and the clustering option for SQL Replication and HADR, this DB2 Express-C license will also allow you to use up to 4GB of RAM and 4 CPU cores. (There is an Express edition if you’d prefer to pay a one time fee, rather than a yearly one, or if you’d like to pay through other metrics such as per user.)" (also, don't forget to check out the free DB2 Express-C, a starter version whose only limitations are 2GB RAM and 2 Cores)
I notice you're a recruiter in the UK. I'm not in London / SE - are you seeing many companies accept remote workers? (I'm in the East Midlands, currently a remote worker, and don't want to give that up)
I have never heard of anyone using restaurant.com
Update: Just got a reply to my mail, PG killed the comment in question. Thanks!
As a journalist, I agree that many of the problems he points out are endemic, although I'd go farther to say they typify almost all news. I liked the approach that http://scienceblogs.com/, though apparently they've had some harsh times lately: Let the sources go direct, not in a one-off "news announcement" that is really an arbitrary point in a multi-year evolution of understanding, but rather as an ongoing conversation about what they're studying, what they're discovering, and what they think is worth sharing.
What a joke. How could they not realize that this ridiculous ruling gives the impression that the courts arent taking themselves, the law or society seriously?

They could have slapped him with a million dollar fine or something along the lines of 5-7 years worth of income to make everyone start paying attention.
You should have no problem finding a job, but you need to decide where you want to be. Something lead you down the path that planted you in a banking environment in the first place. The issue might be that you don't like working in an environment like that as a programmer or that you like the security of working for an environment like that. If that is you then own it. If not then there is life after the 9-5 corporate culture for you. For starters, you are a technical person who wants to do marketing, design and psychology. If that is what you want to do then you have a few really good options. You can work as a product manager (though this is something that you may have to get more experience to do well), as a designer or user interface developer (there is a line somewhere between programmer and user experience architect that many people find to be comfortable), or as a technical marketing person. The technical marketing role might be one of the most rewarding to you based on your experience to date. You have to be able to work with lots of data and be very technical, but you still have to get into the strategy and execution. There is a lot to learn and do there. Whatever you do - good luck. If you would like to chat about this offline I'm @jobmatchbox - send me a note and we can go from there. I know a few people who might be interested in talking about their experiences with you.
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That struck me as odd too, I would have expected a comparison of DB2 to PostgreSQL instead. But his target audience is web developers and web startups, where MySQL has probably more mindshare.
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"1) IP companies must notify any infringing company within 3 months of the infringing product's release. IP companies can't wait until something like the iPhone blows up to sue."

Unless something changes drastically, I'm not sure how you pull this off. Most products aren't released on stage with Steve Jobs saying it will change the world. At this point the only companies who are likely to ever recoup any damage are companies like MS and Google, who can effectively build mini-companies that will track and analyze every product released. This simply is infeasible for most companies, including virtually every startup.
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This is a really neat demo, but like all demos, has a lot of tricks behind it. Analyzing demos is sort of like reading a mystery -- much of the fun is figuring out how the "twist" ending will be pulled off.

In this case, his first trick is from the demo C64MP3, which just plays the Tom's Diner clip (2 minutes of 8 bit samples in 64 KB).

http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=87985

The trick there is that the female voice works in a narrow range, so he is able to make a very small sample table. The higher frequencies are regenerated with the SID chip using the noise function. That's why it sounds so breathy or scratchy. The amount of noise for each sample was measured on a PC.

The real-time effects are done through one of two methods:

1. Digital domain -- timestretching or compression just involves repeating a sample or discarding it, respectively

2. Analog domain -- the SID has a lot of neat features, including analog filters. So he can post-process the samples by just reconfiguring the hardware. The sub-bass is regenerated by playing a triangle wave with one voice at the proper frequency (again, driven by the tables generated by the PC).

Very neat stuff. Knowing the tricks behind it makes it even more amazing. BTW, the SID has an analog-in port so you could hook up an external audio source and do a lot of the filtering or mixing with SID voices there. I'm not aware of anyone doing that, but I'm not an expert on this scene either.
Because being good at your job would put you out of work. :-)

If you place people into positions that they really fit with, odds are they would stay longer, ergo, less money for you.

What you would need to do is sell yourself as an agent that is constantly evaluating new gigs for a monthly fee. I think that might actually work really well for devs that consult as a primary business.
Why do we all use Facebook? Because everyone else in the world uses it. Even if you prefer Twitter or another network, for personal connections, Facebook is where everyone is. It's called a network effect for a reason, and that's hard to break.

Additionally, I'm afraid it's going to be to complicated for most users (especially those that use social networks the most). After all, most standard consumers are going to use WordPress.com or Tumblr when they want to start a blog, not roll their own WordPress server or set it up on a hosting account. Average consumers aren't likely to want to host their own social network node either.
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I'm working on a developer recruitment based startup at the moment, if you want to grab coffee sometime give me a shout.

I'm not in London at the moment but I should be shortly (i.e. as soon as I can find somewhere in London to live !)
Well, the tangent and the secant will converge to the same thing as h -> 0.

I'm not sure what you mean by "the equivalence of curved and straight lines" though.
Pick Harry Potter... recommendation "Mysterious Skin".

Both movies have children, one has boy wizards, the other has boys molested...

Something tells me movie "Ratings" (G, PG, PG-13, R) are not part of the recommendation algorithm.
Well, yes, he's complaining about the same thing I am.

But even in the OS world, MySQL is not the only game in town. Postgres, obviously, is probably the biggest contender, but there's a bunch of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_source_database_m...
Make definitely got itself a bad reputation - and in my opinion, undeservingly so.

It can be a bit difficult, but I have written readable Makefiles that ran both on windows and linux, building latex files.
You've used some popular words, but I'm not sure you're saying anything. The Groupon "problem" is somewhere between businesses making poor decisions in how or if they participate and Groupon taking too much of a cut. What can a new startup disrupt? Offer better terms for fewer users? Groupon can match or cut below the terms and offer more users, and they won't have any friction involved... Not take businesses that wouldn't do well under a Groupon? I'm not sure how not getting businesses to sign up is going to hurt Groupon either... Without anything there, you're doing little more than 'Happy Birthday! Stock Message!'.

You claim users will never forget, but they rarely remember. As fervently as some users denounce companies, most users are going to (likely rightly so) forgive, accept their token gift, and forget. There's always a big buzz, but the sting tends to fade quickly.
The Ben Heck Mindsolder is by far the most essential component to any hack. I just can't seem to find it at Harbor Freight. Maybe if I checked Ace.
Fair enough. It's a typing tutor. Obviously these have been around forever, and there are even some in-browser implementations already, but I'd like to try my hand at it.

Thanks for your feedback.
The problem is, the question is both wrong and right at the same time.

> Why is MySQL always the "reference implementation" for database comparisons?

Why is it? What put it in that position? How did the other databases "fail" to become that reference implementation? I'm pretty sure it's not because MySQL is an easy comparison.

The problem is people use the question in a different context. As in, why didn't the person use <insert random database here>. The answer to this question is easy: because MySQL is so popular.
I would really like to work with that kind of person. Like everyone else, I've had useless encounters with recruiters, and I feel like someone with more experience and knowledge of the job world should be able to match me up better with a job and a salary.

Somebody was asking if he was reaching his pay limit here not long ago. One reason for that question is that it's very hard for one to know how they compare to other people. An agent/super-recruiter would know that and could do whatever is needed to fix it.

In a way, it reminds me of the idea of investing in people: instead of putting my money in a company I believe in, how could one put money on somebody who is talented and will more likely be successful? Well, such a recruiter could basically do that. Follow talented people around, know what they do and like doing, and advise them in terms of what salary they can expect, where they should be in their career...

The question is, of course: would I qualify to get a good agent? :)
This is a pretty good idea, although I'd add a couple of things:

A) The licensing price is non-negtioble. That is, you can't get an offer from Apple to license it for less and take them up on it (although you can have bulk license pricing).

B) The license fee has to be reasonable with respect to the invention. This is tricky, because who determines what is reasonable. But it avoids the problem that Apple says, "Coverflow license is $1B/license". They have no desire to ever license it, but want it to take a while to hit the public domain.
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