skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That study you cite has a very lenient definition of "comparable team".

Not too surprising, most methodology studies that I've seen can't exactly claim scientific rigor. (Yes, it's hard to do when it comes to real-world projects, but other fields of scientific study manage better.)
WikiLeaks ready to drop a bombshell on Russia
I have used Remember the Milk for the last three years. I find that being able to collect 100% of what I need to do is the most important thing for me. Since I can access RTM from my desktop, mobile, or even email (maybe even text msg?) I am almost always able to get the task into it from anywhere.

Once the tasks are in the system, I prefer something computer based so I can organize it quickly over paper based. I know a lot of the tasks in the system are not things I'm going to get around to soon, but I'd rather dump them onto a list and stop thinking about them than have it pop up in my head over and over.

I do my weekly reviews on friday and monday. I find it helps to do more frequent, but smaller reviews.

I don't really use any of the advanced features of RTM though (tags, smart search etc).
There is nothing here the doctor can add, really. I've got two little ones myself, and while they both have their own room, had we chosen this route I wouldn't be bothering to ask a doctor about it.
Heya,

Would love to hear your thoughts on the site I'm working on right now: http://www.snowboardfinder.com
It's a finder and price comparison site for snowboard gear.

keywords: snowboards, snowboard gear, snowboard prices

i guess i need to come up with a bunch more keywords.

Anyways, any help would be absolutely appreciated :D

:D
You're talking about a lot of UI stuff here, which is certainly testable, albeit taking some cleverness, but it's not an excuse for not doing backend logic testing.
I would be happy to do that for you :)
We have a jobs section on the top of the page, why not an offer HN section?
If you change the format it's a real possibility that it will draw non-HN members into the mix and overload the volunteers. You could make karma requirements but perhaps what we have now works best.
however, if they get traction they can win big time in profits and vendor lock-in.

i agree with you, however.
Here comes the patentpocolypse
Plus it doesn't address the developers who are writing tests, but just not before they write their code.
I've been using Zerigo for about 8 months, and so far I have no complaints. I just couldn't find any other service with a similar price point (I have about 60 domains).
Reinventing the Wheel Why no-tech ancient civilizations still can't catch up.
I don't currently have a website that I'd like to SEO, but I will in the future. Maybe those who get help would be willing to post the advice they receive, so that all of us benefit?
Risking downvotes but here I go anyway...

It's interesting to compare his theory against the country where his theories were first, and arguably most purely put into practice - Pinochet-era Chile.

The measures put forward by Friedman + his acolytes resulted in huge unemployment, inflation, and many multi-nationals effectively stealing wealth away.

In order for the people to 'accept' these measures Pinochet instituted oppression, abandonment of the freedom of the press, torture, and extra-judicial killings.

I think the ideas which originate from the creator of neo-liberalism ought to be judged against the evidence of its actual implementation in real life before recommending its architect's theories on dealing with just about anything.

The laws that were passed in Chile, as with many other countries which have instituted exactly the policies you outline were widely disrespected, and that disrespect was 'dealt with' in various arguably really rather negative ways.

I am certain that corruption also remained a problem throughout.

For references and discussion of this phenomenon, see The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein - http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0141024534/
I'm the rails newb on a small team. (Many years other programming experience.) I don't have any small projects to hand off, but I'd love another person or two to bug on gchat or aim when I'm trying to figure out what is the Rails Way of doing something.
Sure, I'd be happy to help.
codejoust.com/contact
Who's suing whom?
Hmm... I hadn't really thought about the non-pg issue. Not sure how to handle that. Let me think on that.
The Hell with Happiness
I'm glad you couldn't sleep because otherwise I wouldn't find out about jMockups. :) This is going to come in handy!
I'm a rails developer and would also be happy to help with a rails project.
Sorry, I'm not familiar with the available options in the UK.
pfft, yeah, cause we have time for that.

:-)
https://twitter.com/joannawiebe Is this you? Would love to stay up to date with what you're doing!

Great deck by the way. Pretty epic goodwill.
You should distinguish between Catholic and Protestant Christianity. Protestant Christianity, which emphasizes individual liberty, and thus implies limits on government power is more likely to prevent corruption.
Sebastian - Thanks for generous offer. Just sent you an email.

These Offer HN strings have made HN like any other place on the web.
The bottom line of your argument seems to be: No government, no corruption. Which is more or less correct, but not really helpful: Without any government you have to pay the guy with the gun or he'll shoot you in the head (no one there to hinder him). Different? Sure. Better? I'd say no.
"mere months"? I had my PS3 for over two years before Sony pulled the plug on OtherOS support, and I didn't even buy my PS3 at launch...
Mastery vs. Mediocrity (Ben Scofield Ignite talk)
"tested the old fashioned way"

Maybe a good follow up question would have been "...or any other kind of automated testing?"

If there are not any kind of automated tests, I think there is a good chance the project is in trouble, or will be shortly.
I do talk to my legislators. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of spare cash to bribe my legislators into making the laws work for me becasue I'm paying my taxes.
Done!

http://groups.google.com/group/hn-parents

Maybe this would be better suited for The Fridge, though?
Some of the Best Online Invoicing & Billing Applications Reviewed and Compared
After evaluating various web based applications we zeroed on these three applications and after conducting in-depth analysis found Invoicera to be the most viable option. It offers the widest range of features which are often required by small and medium businesses, freelancers and other professionals. Their support is fantastic and their pricing is ultra competitive. It is unbelievable to come across such a powerful invoicing application at such nominal pricing.
Great offer, thanks!! I have been wanting to redesign my site's homepage - www.biznus.tv . I will appreciate if you can help with that.
I totally agree with you!

Basic SEO knowledge could point out flaws, but it does take some experience to make a plan/strategy and purpose.

"Would SEO help you or would it be pointless?"

If you own a pizzeria in Gainesville, FL - why should you rank #1 for the term "Pizza"?

I love what I do, and I hope people who get replies from me see that! :)
Bachet's Problem: as few weights to weigh them all
In this situation you're essentially trying to increase your adjusted basis in the property so that you'd pay less taxes on capital gains and alternative minimum tax.

Honestly, I can't think of an answer that would solve this problem off the top of my head right away in the 3mins afters reading your question and here's why:

Regardless of how you transfer these assets, they're going to be transferred based upon your current tax basis and your still going to be paying cap gains every sale.

Ex.
You sell for. $100
Basis is for. $50
gain is for. $50

Later through a series of transfers, you regain your shares at the FMV. New basis is. $100 but you already paid the cap gains tax at every junction so the whole series of transactions was pointless.

But, I'm sure there has to be a way to get around it and I just haven't thought of it yet lol. Give me a few hours and I might be able to string together a plan. I'm going to think this over and see if there's a way over the day.
I want a solution to the problem on the terms I defined or they have to give me a pretty good reason why they can't solve it. I usually give tons of hints and let them ask many questions. This never helps those who can't program.
Thanks very much for this. I've never had much luck with recruiters and my C.V so any feedback you have would be greatly appreciated.

I've also decided to upload it here. http://www.alanhollis.com/Alan_Hollis.pdf

Please note I'm not actively seeking employment at the moment but might as well take advantage of the opportunity to get some constructive criticism whilst it's here.
Ok, I'm starting to work on it :)
looks nice!
minor point (maybe i'm too used to looking for small differences): when you do the browser test the font doesn't match in my browser (FF 3.6 on Mac), suggesting the answer to the question "Do these match?" may be 'No'. Maybe a "Do the words match?" may be clearer.
Googling for things you dont know is a mark of intelligence, not stupidity :)
If you're interested in SEO and would like to learn, I recommend you start reading http://www.seomoz.org/blog

SEOMoz is a great SEO-company, and they have an incredibly useful blog. From novice to advance!
I was thinking of posting something similar. I don't have much pedigree but I would love to help out on small stuff similar to what the OP has posted. My web site http://rohitarondekar.com -- There is a contact form there if you are interested. Cheers.
I've asked this question 100-150 times now and I think I've seen everything at this point. The working solutions all look the same or pretty darn close.
IPhone Application Development
iPhone application development became a phenomenon soon after the release of the SDK. Success stories popped up everywhere of developers making millions in a matter of months due to their application hitting the Top 10 on the app store list. It wasn’t long before everyone wanted to jump on the bandwagon.
Don't worry about the detractors, they may well be right but the only way to find out is to go on and make this tool as good as it can be. Then we will know if there is a market.
May want to change this line:

Excellent SEO ability; this resumé is ranked in the top results for “php CV” and “php programmer CV“.

Cus, it aint. Not that you're looking for work, just sayin'
Ask HN: Why is there an option to deactivate Javascript in browsers?
What are the reasons someone would have their Javascript permanently disabled in a browser?
There is also an option to disable Images, why not CSS?
That is very true, but I use GTD to handle all of the stuff that are not important to the big project I'm working on.

Groceries, household chores, personal finance, emails to random people, phone calls, car maitenance. Most of the things on my list I can't do right now anyway, but don't want to forget later.

The end result is that when you are working on the big project that matters, you aren't distracted by constantly thinking "oh crap, I have to remember to pickup bread tonight, and call the DMV and find out why they lost my title, and setup a dentist appointment" (all things on my todo for today), but you can sit there and focus with nothing random coming up in your head.
Provide other ways for people to interact with the site beyond submitting lengthy stories. Right now, people might be put off thinking that their story isn't entertaining enough or long enough.

So, accept "quickies" - short items, one-liners, etc. Style them differently and encourage people to submit one of their own. Give some inspiration - what does your wife sound like when she snores? The best white lie told? The excuses given for buying chocolate (my wife came home and told me that she bought me a block of chocolate today - I don't really eat chocolate and never buy it)? Techniques used to hide evidence of shopping ("I've had this for ages."). Bizarre places/positions in which your husband has fallen asleep, etc. Items of clothing he refuses to throw out.
Thanks for pointing that out. Can you send me a screenshot? matt@jmockups.com
Netflix Could Be Racking Up a $2 Billion Content Tab
Initially, you're going to be pretty sleep deprived. Don't expect to get much done. You're also going to be REALLY distracted by every little snort and sniffle.

Somewhere around 6 months, things will SORT of get back to normal. One person should be able to reliably watch the kid while the other gets some valuable "me' time.

One thing you need to be prepared for is taking time off of work. You'll have to. It's not fair for one spouse to deal with all the responsibility. If possible, you should both attend the pediatric visits for the first year.

The one thing you cannot prepare for is the amount of love that will take over your life. I'm not a touchy feely kind of guy but you'll have waking nightmares about something happening to your kids and sometimes some really bad dreams. I think that's a side effect of the fact that you have someone who depends on you entirely for everything. this little person is your responsibility and you love them so much and they love you so much. It's overwhelming. It changes your world view.

Where you REALLY hit a rough spot is on the second one (depending on the age of the first). My second son came when my first was 21 months old. That's two in diapers. One parent CANNOT watch both kids for extended periods of time at that age ESPECIALLY if you're breastfeeding (which you should at least give a shot).

The biggest suggestion I would make is this:
If you have any dreams of being an entrepreneur, discuss with your spouse about how far along you want to get in that process before you have kids. You'll have to put it on hold for at least 6 months if not a year.

I love my kids and wouldn't have it any other way. Yes, it changes your life and priorities.
Depends, really.

Internal examples:

If shadowcat's public facing website is down for a day, a few people can't read blog posts and maybe we'll miss out on a potential customer - but our existing customers will be entirely unaffected.

If our ticket tracking system is down for a day, it'll annoy the hell out of the existing customers but we can still get the work done since they all have direct email and IM contact info for people.

On the other hand if our ircd is down for an hour, it's time to panic, because that massively interrupts our ability to co-ordinate our work.

External examples:

If linked in is down for a day, I don't care - anything I do on that can wait until tomorrow.

If duckduckgo is down for a day, I am going to burst into tears because I use it all the time for information I want -now- and going via google is substantially more annoying.

So "anything that matters" is really quite relative.
I even consider googling for things you know but didn't touch for a while a mark of intelligence :)
Rob Pike: Systems software research is irrelevant (2000)
Thanks I hope you like it. Let me know how I can make it more useful to you.
Our first son is nine weeks old now and it's hard to believe the changes we've all gone through since his birth.

>> So does having a baby give you inspiration and ability to do more?
Absolutely. I'm more inspired than ever to make BeyondThePedway.com a sustainable business so my wife can not work next year and stay home with our little guy. I want to create the best lifestyle possible for us and him, so the inspiration is there like never before.

>> Or maybe you change your life's priorities?
This happened too, at least for me, but it relates to your previous question. My biggest priority now is creating a happy lifestyle for us, where I can work when I want to, and enjoy all of my kid's life. I want my wife to do what she wants to. So yes, it's changed my priorities a bit, but for the better. And I couldn't be more excited.

>> Or you are so exhausted that everything else seems uninteresting?
This is where your mileage may vary...a lot. Our little guy is amazing, started sleeping 4-5 hours for the first leg at night right out of the hospital. And he's done it consistently. I don't get up more than twice during the night with him. I was exhausted a bit in the first few weeks because I was still trying to work at night (I'm a night guy), but once I switched to going to bed when he does at 8-9pm and getting up earlier in the morning, it made a world of a difference.

>> How does having a baby change your life?
Makes you so happy. Changes your outlook on everything. A whole new set of eyes looking at every aspect of you life in a whole new light. You realize he's going to be a teenager one day. He's going to do all the things you did or didn't do. Indescribable really. :)
Curious, my background is in a fairly similar area to you, I've worked as a developer for investment banks and financial tech firms. Generally I get the feeling that if a candidate is at an associate or higher level then work experience is more important.

From my experience (and I suspect most developers would agree) real world development experience is a much better indicator of performance than university.

Are the candidates you normally field changing sectors ? - in the case that a candidate doesn't have industry experience I can see why a company might want to see educational background first, but it seems strange that a company would care more about educational level than directly relevant experience.
Your choice of technologies in your individual projects is not clear; this would be something I look for, since I evaluate a candidate eligibility in part through his personal technological preferences.
To me it's easy to see why: I have to create an account (or connect w/ FB) to even see what the heck it is. No thanks. Today is the first time that I've seen anything on Quora beyond the home page. Apparently linking directly to a question allows visitors to see the question but the home page that I see says to me, "Login or Connect w/ Facebook to use this site"
What terrible event took place in January 2010 that caused a drop that was steeper than the one caused by Digg v4?
You make it sound like it would be prohibitively expensive to add a cellular antenna to something. A DSi today costs $150 on which they presumably make a profit.

Cell phones typically cost $200 and come with hundreds in carrier subsidies. If you bought one straight up it would cost $400 to $600. Considering Nintendo makes money on $150, they could increase the cost to $250 to add "all those features" and the DS phone would still be free up front after carrier subsidies.

I'm not sure what business you think cell phones makers are in. They only make money by selling hardware so of course each unit needs to be profitable.
It's not just the cost though, it's also the process. I would be willing to pay some amount in the multiple hundreds of dollars for some domains but it's usually not clear how to go about buying the domain. There often appears to be some shady arbiter that offers to try to get the domain for me. But the whole process is handled through a website that gives no indication of how long the process might take or if any action is really going to be taken at all.

I wouldn't have that much of a problem if getting a parked domain was just like getting an available domain except on the checkout page it said $300 or whatever instead of $10.
Here's adding to your workload - http://sidmitra.com/resume.pdf
Let me know if i can every repay your effort with some of my skill sets.
How about requiring a certain amount of karma, possibly also with having to have been registered a certain length of time?

As a secondary, I think it'd need to have an "hours I'm available for" field as well, to manage expectations.
http://suplify.me

We're building support software. As in a ticketing system which aggregates all support tickets from email(imap), twitter, facebook and others.
Could Mushrooms Take the Place of Styrofoam?
Vendor lock-in is a form of economic rent.
If we say ln = number of privately owned land parcels and lu = number of privately owned land parcels being actively used (as homes or businesses or being rented), then I contend that lu/ln > .5 (hence "most"). That does not rule out ln-lu being a very large number which makes what you said true, it just sounds like a different measurement that I was making.

If dn = number of domain names owned and du = number of domain names owned with valid DNS and no crappy domain squatter parking pages, then I contend du/dn < .5. In fact, I get the impression it's more like .1 or less (or perhaps something even more ludicrous).

Even if I'm totally wrong about the ratio of land used, there's no way that I'm wrong that lu/ln > du/dn.
Google's Starter Guide is to SEO as "Teach Yourself Javascript in 24 Hours" is to programming. It is kind of difficult to describe the ocean in terms of the marginal change in experience from getting your feet wet.
Yes, though the new Super Mario Bros. Wii is surprisingly good, and not just a copy of Super Mario World.
This might be officially time for SearchYC.com to add an "Offer HN" section!
I created this account 2 hours ago, yes - but your point is?

I read HN every day,I read the comments, and I understand the culture here.

I was thinking I could give something back to the community by answering some questions.

"SEO must find the correct keywords for a site not the client" - I don't quite understand what you meant by this, so please elaborate.

Proof and a personal site; I'm not here to promote my business and I'm not here to brag about my clients/past clients. I simply stated that I have worked with them, and whether or not you chose to believe me or not - your choice!
Hi,

My buddy and I built a social network for the iPhone. Has 25,000 users and growing. We are looking to build an admin portal on the web to facilitate moderating users, groups and messages as well as some other things. We like what we have learned about Rails but dont know much about it. A lot of our web services for the app are built with PHP but we have a MySQL database storing the content. I imagine that isnt an issue for Rails.

Anyway, would be interested in talking through some of the advantages and disadvantages of RoR and perhaps get you involved in some capacity.

Do youhappen to have examples of stuff you have built in the past?
I used to be 8 back in the day (which was a Wednesday, by the way). Now a days, 7 seems to be the magic number for me. I can sink to 6.5 and be ok, but lower than that and I can get cranky. ;)
I've had two related questions about Rails [1] for a few years and never found a good answer. Perhaps you could help me?

1. I'd like several submit buttons on a form that do different things. I'd also like to input data alongside some of the buttons, e.g. to allocate some % of a resource.

My problem is I can't work out how to sensibly do this without repeating myself, or having a very hacky controller. How can I do this without matching on the value part of the submit buttons (the text on the buttons, since that is bad for i18n and in some cases the text is the same anyway), and without using any javascript?

2. If you have two forms on a page, can you set it up so changes on both forms are saved when any submit button is clicked? Again, without javascript. Obviously you need to override the form tag generator so the page only has one actual form; is there a standard solution to this somewhere?

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/461790/multiple-submit-bu...
HN Parents Google Group
Inspired by the Ask HN thread "How does having a baby change your life". User grandalf brought up the idea of having a Google Group for parents on HN, so I pulled the trigger.
Would love to see an export to code button. Just to see it live in a browser. Love this new demo though!