skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think 64% is a low number and a lot of people imagine that vague assurances are actually recognition.

I further think that this leads to the company not receiving feedback from it's staff except for the ultimate: quitting. So you have staff who don't want to talk about how you could make things better, who don't want to innovate, who don't rock the boat, and who then leave because you don't seem open to communication.

And in the worst example, the company then explains away their absence via a "Well, THEY didn't have the right Culture, did they?"
What is the source of this screenshot?
How did these people find you?
What If the iPad Magazine is Already Obsolete?
Ever since the iPad was announced, there has been no end of talk about how it and other tablets represent the future of magazines.
I'm a recruiter.
My (totally unqualified) opinion: corporate and individual tax rates don't tell the entire story. If you are making a high-risk venture, you are best served to do it in a place in which there are lots of other people making risky ventures, so that the risks you take will be proportionately rewarded. This means any business culture that inordinately stigmatizes failure and bankruptcy is one to avoid. It's hard to tell whether the location you're considering has such a culture, but warning signs should include an ossified bureaucracy, restrictive startup thresholds, and a workforce that doesn't switch careers a lot. My gut instinct is that you should avoid India, China, and Japan. I would go for South Korea.
It's not really relevant to your point, but I happen to be a nuclear power advocate who thinks it's safe, clean, and efficient.
Exactly, especially when story arcs last a complete season and sometimes longer. You find that many people can't commit to it. It's not Law & Order..
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He has no family or other ties that make it more inconvient, he's a person who is volunteering to do something that people many people find unenjoyable, it can be a plus to an employer.
Facebook is something that Apple couldn't compete against even if it wanted

They can't compete against Boeing either but I don't think anyone expects Apple to buy them. Seriously though I think if Apple really wanted to they could build their own homegrown social network and at least be a credible player. They might not have 500M users overnight but 100M in a year? Sure. Build it into the next version of iOS (~125M devices) Another 25-50M would probably leave Facebook because there's a trendy new service in town. Apple's wave of clever advertising gets them another 25M. In 2 or 3 years they have 40-50% as many users as Facebook and still have $51B in the bank. Then they buy Boeing and integrate FaceTime into airplane seats.

I suspect if Apple was going to spend a ton of money they would want to sure up their ability to deliver good products from a box of sand to a box on the shelf at the Apple store. CPU/chip fab, flash memory production, display technology/production, etc. They're not as exciting to talk about but I think it makes a lot more sense. Maybe something in telecom since all those devices need to be well connected.
True, but I think the people saying things like "Apple didn't invent..." are about spaces like the smartphone market, or the mp3 player market (or even selling mp3s online). While many might describe the iPad as "just a larger iPhone," I think that it's different enough from other tablet offerings to give Apple some amount of credit.
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I've heard multiple reports that Hong Kong is a good choice- quick to start businesses, moderate or low taxes and a good culture for business... though others have complained that the successful businesses are snooty there, so if yours requires getting meetings with larger business execs might not be the best place. But a consumer internet startup, it sounds good.

Also, hear good things about singapore, though it is a bit less freewheeling.

All of this is just what I've heard attempting to research the same question, don't have direct experience.
Well, Clojure has Compojure & Ring (like Sinatra & Rack on Ruby). Pretty well made, but without batteries, and the documentation sucks massively (I've resorted to reading the source). Also, pretty much everything is still in beta and APIs change frequently.

For CL, Scheme, Arc, ..., I have no idea.
Is the person who hires you willing to risk their reputation or job that a C++ programmer can do the job when there may be other Python programmers out there?
Even Slackware only provides 1.9.x now.

Use RVM if you still need 1.8.x for something.
correcting typos should be reserved for when it causes confusion. in this case, no one thought he was describing a rabbit with no legs.
Chances are exceedingly good that Arch package maintainers will be checking their Python applications and updating them to use /usr/bin/python2 if they don't run under Python 3. Actually, this should have already happened since the change has apparently been in testing for awhile.
You might be in an A/B test.
Verilog, financial analysis, openGL programming, DSP programming and other specialized fields of programming are different than the typical web app, C#, java, php, ruby on rails, enterprise, GUI app programming that are a large part of entry level jobs.
great breakdown, from start to finish
I'm using Arch and the transition was smooth for all the packaged libraries including Numpy, Scipy, matplotlib, and friends, as well as pure Python packages like mpi4py and petsc4py which I install from upstream since I track development versions. The real pain is for projects that are not pure python libraries, but want to ship portable scripts. Since the "python2" link is not ubiquitous, they cannot put "/usr/bin/env python2" in the scripts (like Arch packages do, perhaps just using sed). Unfortunately there are still modern installs of Python that do not have "python2" links, so this is going to be a long process when it's not feasible to support both python-2.x and python-3 within an identical codebase. That is challenging if you have to support e.g. python2.3 which will be around for a while longer (RHEL4). Also, RHEL5 (rather, the CentOS system I have a login on) does not have a python2 link (it has python2.4) and that will be around for another four years.

I think Arch's decision was a bit premature, but waiting isn't going to make the issues much less painful if your project will always have to support an 8-year age span of distributions.
Yes, I want to wait until this thing can build itself so I don't have to build it.
you already spent the time stating you might not want to spend time…
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The little bump at oct 2 is $240, so it looks like each major horiz line is 2k/day. It seems the day he posted this, it made just north of 9k/day.
That is just... super fast, impressive !
I asked PG to clarify his thoughts on why this isn't a bubble - he was referring to the SV landscape in general. His definition of a bubble, IIRC: when people overpay with the expectation that others will overpay even more. He doesn't think that's happening here.

(PG, feel free to correct me if I misinterpreted your answer)
This is almost literally attempting to predict when a soap bubble is going to pop by examining the patterns in the rainbow effects that appear on its side as it expands.

The real answer is very simple: Can't know when it will pop, but if you keep expanding, it is guaranteed that it will.

But then, this article was published by Roosevelts.
As long as they know how to optimize a squeal database for a sexy ride. (NB: Wasn't intended to come out this double-entendre-ish)
How on earth do you figure? That's the exact equivalent of saying "All advice is bullshit, especially advice you pay for." And, "If you've ever read it, then having somebody tell it to you is a waste of time."
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"always release on a Thursday" - never heard that one before
The most important take-away from Mandelbrot / fractals as it applies to finance should be the realization that fractals can represent better ways of presenting or simulating financial data than brownian motion / random walks / Black-Scholes. As to why this hasn't been accepted more broadly - well, as the article briefly mentions, there are powerful individual incentives for people to continue to play along in the charade.

If this has not been proved EXTREMELY WELL by events in recent history, I don't know when it would be - but whether from LTCM, or more recently seeing so many CDS etc blow up, it is obvious that many "once in a million" probability events exist than are considered in a proper normal distribution.

Mandelbrot was once asked whether he had any particularly successful strategies for dealing with the market. He said, well, I don't discuss those things - because if I was correct, everyone would follow my lead, and the strategies would no longer work; and if I was wrong, people would discredit the thinking behind it!
I bet he'll wish he had some friends he could go to lunch with.
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Well, the response from the TwitterDeck developer was essentially, "Steve, it wasn't that bad. Trust us." I don't think that extra effort/cost can be completely discounted -- or the two developers could've simply been phenomenal -- but it may not be so terrible just yet.

However the depth and customization, overall, is of limited interest to most audiences. Actually, if you take any product, most people don't care about a lot of things. For instance, what might rub an enthusiast the wrong way about the changes to BMWs over the past 15 to 20 years (myself included), will attract a completely different set of customers. BMW sales are better than they've ever been, despite the enthusiasts moving to other manufacturers. Think computers -- people just want to buy a box and use a few applications with it... they don't care about the upgradability, they'll just buy a new one 5 years from now.

iPhone simplicity is still... well, let's say it has a ways to go. I've seen the following situations in the past few months.

* A friend confused on how to move her data from her iPhone 3G to her new iPhone 4. Problem? She hadn't ever synced her phone with her computer since she bought it.

* Someone on the street, with an iPhone 3GS in his hand, asked me for directions. I instead taught the man to use the expensive device he bought to find directions himself. He was thankful in the end, but initially perturbed that I hadn't said "Oh, it's this way." Another thing of interest is the Apple Store was 2 blocks away. I'm sure he'll never set foot in there unless he wants to buy something.

* I see people who hold the iPhone below their chin to talk into it, then move it back to their ear to listen to the other party. They repeat this for the entirety of the conversation. I simply find this behavior baffling.

I can't even imagine what goes on with in-car entertainment and navigation systems, as some of those are horrible to begin with, and almost necessitate the use of a manual. Television carrier DVRs? Flashing "12:00" on VCRs? Fancy functionality with new televisions (i.e. widgets and such)? Trust me, much of it is for nought. A large portion of folks may boast that their X can do Y, but only the real enthusiasts use any real number of those features.

Good design is hard, but its one of the most important things to get right, as long as your good design also includes the features people actually care about.
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If you enjoy these, you should also check out the videos from Startup Bootcamp on 9/11/2010 at MIT.

Chris Wanstrath (Github)
Mick Mountz (Kiva Systems)
Ayr Muir (Clover Food Labs)
George Bell (Excite)
Bob Metcalfe (PARC, 3com, ethernet, etc.)
Bill Clerico (WePay)
James Lindenbaum (Heroku)
Alexis Ohanian (Reddit and now YC ambassador)
Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Alpha and Mathematica)
Kevin Hale (Wufoo)
Ric Fulop (A123 Systems)
David Cancel (Performable, Compete)

There are also more archived talks from previous years.

http://www.youtube.com/startupbootcamp
"Well my dick is THIS popular!"

"Well I get to share MY dick with AAAALLLL these people!"

Feh.
I've built this when I was trying to learn rails:
http://www.peerlove.com

Have been meaning to do a Show HN post for awhile now.

'Love' (as we call the positive feedback) thru email which populates the webapp is a feature as well.

Needs some TLC but most of all, need to get the word out to see if there is a product here or not.
Several phones don't allow non-market apps.
So you're comparing a used fuel efficient gas car to a new Prius? Why not compare new-to-new or used-to-used?
This was very foolish.
It doesn't... but the chance to work along side one of your idols is a pretty big factor.
Very interested to see what the experts have to say about this. I gave it a shot a few weeks ago, but I could barely get to hello world. As a Ruby/Python programmer, I seem to be spoiled by having de facto interpreters (MRI and CPython, respectively) with rich standard libraries, all of which are doused with a great quantity of Google juice.

I was startled to find that "C lisp"--that is, the lisp interpeter written in C, which you get when doing sudo aptitude install clisp on the latest Ubuntu distribution--is actually not the "standard" lisp interpreter. I still have no idea which is, if any.

Still, it seemed like a few of the web frameworks out there should have worked anyway, so I tried to soldier on for a while. Unfortunately, it was in vain: my dependency-fu simply wasn't strong enough. I also couldn't find a lisp equivalent to rack and wsgi, which is something of a non-starter imho.

I'm sure I am making some foolish assumptions, facilitated by the vast chasm that represents my experience with lisp and its ilk. I also have only managed to devote a few hours to it so far, so please, no one take this post as gospel--I'm just sharing what little I have found in case someone else finds it useful.
Looks more like $1k per horizon line to me, but $4.5k/day is impressive nonetheless!
Not to mention, the next library you load will clobber the `com` variable.
Apple has in fact created entire industries. Apple created the modern smartphone. Previous to the iPhone, all phones were feature phones, though of course many were advertised as "smartphones" because they had simple PDA functionality. The android phone was a copy of the RIMM phone with the keyboard which was much like a treo. Now they are all making touch screen phones with appstores, and aping all of the other features of this product. Sure, things with CPUs in them have existed long before the digital phone and before the laptop, etc. But the iPhone did create a new industry-- the touch based phone.

The iPad also created the tablet industry. Sure, people had tried tablets before, even Apple did with the actually quite successful newton (though this was stylus based like the palm pilot, and other copies.) But the computer tablet industry that is taking share away from laptops didn't exist before this year.

Apple created two industries. I'm a fan of apple because they are always innovative, always honest, and they always try to ship quality products. They're about the only company I can say that about.

I don't know why people should diminish that. This is a gold standard we should all attempt to emulate (And I don't mean by copying their products, but by copying their methods and standards.)
Facebook is a bag of hurt.
It's not like saying either one of those things.

This is a topic that is close to home. A good friend of mine turned evil one day and became a "Life Coach" simply because he wasn't making enough money in his career, and thought it would be an easy way to fleece the types of mid-range executive type people he was exposed to all the time as a "sales engineer." Why bother getting a paltry commission on some software you don't really care about, when you can charge the same person $500/hr for some bullshit unlicensed therapy? Or $5000 a head per seminar? Or $150 for some stupid mp3s? Or $75 for a PDF file? ETC, ETC.

Read the Mystic Masseuse by V.S. Naipaul, it's the same idea, only 50 years in the past. In fact the idea came to him FROM reading this book.

And you know what, he was RIGHT. He makes LOADS of money now. It's a bit disturbing.

There are wonderful therapists and rabbis and priests and friends and grandparents, but life coaching is a scam, pure and simple.

I actually don't know what to think about this, because I think the people who are buying his services believe they are getting something important out of it. So in that situation, it's good, right? But he went into it just to take their money.

This is the last thing I will post about this topic.
This has been in testing for some time in Arch. The Python maintainers decided to hold off on releasing 2.7 until all packages depending on Python could be rebuilt to make the switch from UCS-2 to UCS-4. Now Python 3 and Python 2 are both UCS-4, and the 'python2' package is 2.7.

I updated Arch on my workstation and server today and can confirm that everything "works for me" except for some python packages installed manually from AUR (e.g. offlineimap).

Make sure to check your AUR packages.
Or clean up their front end with ajax and back end with soap.
On the one hand you aren't hiring them to speak about the language so it doesn't really matter how they pronounce it. On the other hand it displays an unfamiliarity with the language and community to not know how it is pronounced. It would make me suspicious but not immediately disqualify them.
Ask HN: Why are web services still emailing me?
I am a member of various job boards, mainly from when I was out of work (somewhat employed now as a consultant for Samsung).

What I don't understand is that nearly all of these job boards, and plenty of other services I have signed up to have all been sending me emails despite the fact that I explicitly checked "Do not send me updates or emails from the team", or "Do not send email results, I will login and check for new jobs".

My question to web service developers:

Why do you do this? I genuinely miss getting emails from actual people, and it's somewhat shocking now that I treat an email from a human being the same way I treat a handwritten letter from my best friend in D.C. because it seems they're becoming a rarity.

At least outside of the office environment.
yeah.. in Python world it's still pretty bleeding edge. There's a reason they kept going with 2.7 in parallel with 3
In addition to all the comments to your post, I wanted to highlight this sentence: "Most of the time they get no reply from these companies (fair enough)"

I don't agree that it's "fair enough". Rejection letters used to be actual letters in the mail -- it was someone's job to fill in the applicant's name, put their address on an envelope and stick it in the mailbox. The point being, these used to cost the worker's wage, and companies went out of their way to send them. (If anyone could find a reason why they did this other than courtesy, please fill me in)

Now, in an era where communication is INFINITELY easier than it was even 20 years ago, companies suddenly don't have the decency to click "reply" and insert your name in a template.

Why is that?

I think that this lack of professionalism translates into posts like "reverse job application," because, yes, it IS very frustrating looking for a job as a new grad and being rejected without apparent reason or the common courtesy of an answer, watching your peers climb through the ranks, while you slip further and further into unemployable territory because you've been out of a job for so long. If the "reverse application" seems unprofessional, it is only because all he has seen is unprofessionalism in return.

I would have done things a little differently (i.e. included my skills and a resume), but applaud his decision to do something different.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I do agree that my generation is too entitled; I just wanted to also point out that the hiring process would be a lot easier for both sides if we had the same professional courtesy that we witnessed 20 years ago.
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That's the direction I am thinking. How much verbal discussion has a person done with experienced programmers if they mispronounce the name of the programming language?
1. Those programs exist because there is a need to get out of the mess that Word is.
2. Programmers do have amazing apps, writers don't.
3. Fullscreen is not the solution to absence of distraction. I can work perfectly distraction free in Firework without going fullscreen. Cross editing is the main sickness of digital writing.

The key is a predefined writing-optimized typography that justifies the absence of formatting (a massive distraction) and a sub-mode that gets rid of all the visual clutter when necessary. Some think that Focus mode is just a gadget. It's not. The noise that is similar to the signal is the most distracting.
Some of them are, I report to the CIO directly and sit on the Corporate Compliance board of the organization. I care because I think something like that would make more organizations accountable for being reasonable with executive and management pay.
Sinclare's quotation describes a self-actuated internal lack of awareness while yours does not.
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The answer depends on the context you define the term startup. In countries with bloated and corrupt government organizations it is nearly impossible for an individual to start a company and be profitable unless he has "connections".

In my country (Turkey), a close friend of mine just started a software company and developing software for government organizations. I know the architecture of the software and it is very robust, but he was able to get the offer from our government because of his co-founder,who's not a software developer but an ex-swat officer with "deep" connections.

It's already hard to come up with good software when you're in the startup scene, and trying to get "connections" multiplies the effort you must put into the process. I bet the system is similar in eastern countries such as Russia, China, India etc.
The parody ad is interesting, but spoofing emails from real people seems to cross a line from novel protest to nasty malicious behavior.
For the masses, who buy everything thru the appstore, Apple controls the experience.

But this does not make iOS "closed". You can get whatever widgets you want built using web technologies, and they run like apps.

And if you're a developer, you can put whatever programs you want on your device.

Since all the open advocates should be advocating open source as well, why complain about iOS? IF you want to put open source software on your device, you can just compile it. Apple gives you the development tools for free (the core of which is itself open source) and charges $99 for handling the certificates an authentication for apps.

But you can put any app you want on your iPhone if you're a developer.

IF you're a consumer, you're not capable of compiling apps for your android phone either anyway.

(For some values of "developer" here I'm including enthusiasts who may not really be able to program but are find with compiling code.)
Forgive me, but I think you mean in python you miss static typing.

Python is strongly typed.

Also, just to jab at C/C++, pointers to void... really? It all but makes C/C++ a weakly typed language.

http://wiki.python.org/moin/Why%20is%20Python%20a%20dynamic%...
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=7590
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing
http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/typing-versus-dynamic-...