skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm. 'Fraid I don't see what a sense of entitlement has to do with the difficulty of picking up new programming languages.
So, basically what you're saying is I went wrong with the typos? I got really excited by my algo and was overzealous with adding it. I believe I did take it off of the sites I issued re-inclusion requests for, but they never got re-included and I never got any messages back (to my knowledge). Also, they were not on every one of those domains.

Each site took a long time to make actually. They either involved generating a data set from scratch or piecing together and parsing other large data sets. This one in particular, I was crawling the Web for feed discovery and was planning on adding stuff like grouping the best posts by category, etc.

Yeah, would love to know about some others, e.g. japanese2englishdictionary.com, idnscan.com, serverslist.com. Also, did you actually get any complaints about this or was it triggered by some other threshold/thing? On a side note, I still get requests about exposing some of this data, i.e. sites behind ip addresses or lists of domains matching some criteria. In any case, thx for the info!

I can understand the need to take action. I just think it could have been handled better. If typos were the problem, I would have removed them immediately if someone told me, and that could have been automated. In retrospect, it seems pretty obvious, but it wasn't at the time.
I've been using yubnub.org since it was created (edit: 5 years! http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2005/06/yubnub-my-entry-for-ra...). I see the value in just "discovering" new keywords (rather than having to create them in my browser), which is why I use it.

Not sure you can convince me I need to install a plugin though.
Ask HN:Have you founded a startup where in you outsourced the whole tech work?
If yes, I wanted to know what were your learning's regarding
1. Who to select to give work to? Factors which were kept in mind besides money which is required to be paid to the team developing.

2. How to select a team which can support the system in house once its created? & what phase in the process did you start to build this team?

3. Did you prefer to have the team creating the initial product placed locally where you were or were they located somewhere else in the world?

4. How did you prevent the business idea from getting leaked? NDA etc?

5. What aspects of the business model did you choose to not outsource? Design etc

6. Did you outsource the work to a company or independent contractors?

7. How did you ensure that the technical solution being set up was scalable?

8. Till what point in the cycle did you outsource Vs hiring a team to do in house development? What were the factors which drove your decisions - e.g. validation of business model or minimum customer base or revenue etc?

Thanks
Lunch and Dinner with friends just keeps me sane. I work so hard and intense during the work day that meals with friends is a great change of pace and keeps me from burning out.
See "panels" in drupal.
The sample of visits is probably too small and misleading. Developers (e.g. you and guys on the team developing the product) tend to use FireFox and now, Chrome, whereas most users will use the stock browser they have by default - IE.

I am running a company in a similar sector (tech related util software), and IE visits are more than 60%. Not to mention, that most corporate users have as a rigid requirement and you are effectively killing a lot of revenue potential.

So no - my advice is do not do it, support IE.
Is this Generational Equity (http://www.genequityco.com/Conferences.aspx)?

PS: Ryan, is putting a big HN submit button and begging for an upvote a little too much, or is it how "the games needs to be played"?

edit: more stuff from the disclaimer from Generational Equity seminar, that I really hate (of course it's in small print). See how well it matches the post:

Generational Equity does accept clients or customers that may later prove to be unviable or unmarketable

Please be advised that no particular buyer has expressed a specific interest in your business.

Generational Equity does not conduct a detailed or sophisticated screening process for its potential customers

Only after a customer relationship is established can Generational Equity assist in identifying the value of your business

If you read between the lines, it says, in plain English: you must pay us first, then we'll tell you that no one wants to acquire your company, but hey, we told you so, despite our sales pitch to the contrary.
Morr, thanks for the feedback--I'm talking to that team in 45 minutes, and I'll pass on the advice. The webmaster console has evolved a lot through the years, but I'd be the first to admit that it's a lot of info on a relatively small amount of pages. Lately the philosophy has moved more toward "Let's try to set up the tools to solve the most common questions or problems that come up." That could work better than a passive panel of information that doesn't tell you what to do about all the info you see.

The idea is still percolating, but I think it's got a lot of potential.
Emacs has this too; http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UndoTree refers to a builtin variant.

Signed, a vim user
All it proves is that the Flash toolchain is more mature.
* They're going to use the same marketing tricks as everyone else.*

Exactly. We are bombarded by claims of "give us money and good things will happen to you" every single day. The message from "society" (and colleges themselves) about the benefits of college may have somewhat nobler-than-average motivations, but in the end these claims must be scrutinized in the same way as spam about Viagra or late-night infomercials.

In the end, unfortunately the issue of whether or where to go to school is entangled with many soft issues that make it difficult to employ a strictly rational analysis. For instance, if I believe the advice that I should do what I love, it's harder to come to grips with the fact that the schooling required to do so is a bigger financial bet than I can afford to make. I don't think we need special mechanisms (like tuition refunds) for people who made this particular bad bet though.
Links to validate this claim? This seems crazy to me.
Do you have a 7" tablet?
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> I don't really see how this snobbery helps anyone

I find your lack of humor, amusing. Practically, it makes people laugh which I'msure if I bothered to look I could find some study that shows laughing reduces stress. It provides relief from dreary, serious business, grumple heads like you.
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Interesting comment.

In regards to the MBA question - the reason as many MBA's are not affected is because of the life experience MBA candidates have before applying. A decade of life experience, in the form of an undergrad degree and some time working, means that MBA candidates have a much more realistic understanding of the benefits of further study. Add to that the fact that MBAs are generally slightly shorter, and as a group they are making wiser decisions.

In terms of the medical problems, I believe the free market will solve this problem if given a chance. The problem right now is that because such a large percentage of people do not pay for medical care out of their own pocket, they don't care about value for money. How do I know my Medical Insurance Company is not getting ripped off? Well, I don't. And infact, I'm insentivised not to care - it doesn't directly effect me.
Visual Studio with Resharper does half of the things mentioned in the article.

The key word there is half.
... but I don't think that would be a good move.
The post in question: http://daringfireball.net/2010/08/creep_executive_officer

Some choice quotes:

Here’s my theory: the problem with Google is that Eric Schmidt is creepy. I think he’s a really weird dude. Recall, for example, this comment of Schmidt’s from 2009, regarding Google and privacy: "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place."

Schmidt said: "I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next. The thing that makes newspapers so fundamentally fascinating that serendipity can be calculated now. We can actually produce it electronically."
It's funny, when I use the programs he mentions, I always wish I had some code to manipulate rather than use some esoteric GUI.
2000 years is some killer lag time.
He can get that more reliably (ad blockers stop GA) from his web server logs.
That's not central to the argument at all. The article's first argument is "only 17% of charter schools out-perform matched public schools, so it's unrealistic to expect them to be a silver bullet".

The schools in "Waiting for 'Superman'" are the rare few that are getting exceptional results. Yes, we as a country would be smarter if every public school was a charter school with exceptional results, but that's like saying we'd be smarter if every public college was replaced with Harvard or MIT.

And that's just the first argument. Then it breaks into several more about non-school factors being responsible for the majority of achievement variance among students, and about charter school selection effects[1], as well as a lot of discussion of relevant omissions and factual errors in the movie.

I'm not saying I agree absolutely with the article (I haven't seen WfS yet), but if you're dismissing it based on a fact-free first impression of a throw-away line halfway through it, you're doing yourself a disservice.

[1] - Since only students with parents who are deeply involved in their education even apply to charter schools, those students are at an inherent advantage whether or not they get in.
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I have just recently given this up, it's a bad habit I've had for years. I wasn't enjoying my food, or doing good work. If I don't need a break at lunch I haven't been using my _other_ time effectively.

Eating alone with just my food and thoughts or socializing have both improved my work output and mood.
Reference for why anyone cares: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1679566
Another point to remember is that if you tried and failed, you'll know that you did what you could. If you never tried you will always have that "what if?" gnawing at your guts.
UrbanSpoon announced a competing restaurant reservation service earlier this year: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/urbanspoon_challenges_o...

Their pricing model is described as $99/mo + $1/reservation, which seems more reasonable than OpenTable's reportedly high fees. Also, UrbanSpoon seems uniquely positioned to replace OpenTable, since they already have users and restaurant data.
(Assuming he wants a technical job) not bothering to show proof of being proactive and learning a language in the two years he was out of work: posting an example of his work ala open source project or failed startup

This can also apply in other ways too (graphic design, web design, charitable organization activities, etc...) My point is that I don't see a portfolio other than a single short story example.
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Part of it is demographics, and part of it is the fact that non-school factors play a HUGE role in achievement. If you have parents who are trying to get you into a charter school, you have parents who are making sure you're doing your homework and who care about your education, which already puts you in a higher-achieving sub-set.
Another point: the market for MBAs is nowhere near as overly saturated as the market for lawyers.

Specific MBA concentrations, notably marketing and possibly finance, are nearing saturation though.
He does have Redstone, which is Turing Complete, to the point where someone built a 16 bit ALU (I think they went further than that though) out of it. I've seen a few seven segment displays in it too.
I thought that claim was weakly stated. She backs it up more convincingly with this point:

"The annual Gallup poll about education shows that Americans are overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the quality of the nation’s schools, but 77 percent of public school parents award their own child’s public school a grade of A or B, the highest level of approval since the question was first asked in 1985."

More central to her argument, however, was her point that once you control for spending and other factors, charter schools seem not to perform significantly better than public schools.
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I run some fairly popular tech focused sites, I have IE running at 15% on the most popular, down to 3% on the least popular.

At the very least the advice is to take your audience into account, and if you are in this particular sector not supporting ie is a doable tradeoff.

if anyone gives an absolute statement that you should support ie, or you shouldnt support ie, unless they understand both the exact demographics you are targeting, and the internal structure of your company as well as the technical details of your product, they are wrong.
True, on the other hand, including a doctype still makes sense to avoid quirks mode. (There'd be less errors if he'd use html5 doctype though.) And as long as it renders properly in A-grade browsers you're good to go.
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Your resume could be part of the problem - http://www.andrewhorner.com/documents/AndrewHorner.Resume.pd...

Some constructive criticism:
Thats a lot of ink to print that out, drop the black and grey banners. Try using a resume theme from Pages or Word for a start and just use black fonts on a white background. Use Myriad Pro or something more modern than Arial. Make it one page. Your first entry shouldn't be that you can use OSX and WinXP, my mom can do that.

Drop "Proficient in...", it sounds like you just know enough to get by. I would also drop your high school info to be more concise. Your HS GPA says "4.58 (weighted out of 4.0)" Either its bad math or its not out of 4. And I would switch up your order of things - employment, education, skills & projects combined.

Good luck!
Nobody?
Confirming it here would probably open him up to just as many potential legal pitfalls.
A friend of mine an, MBA guy, founded a startup with almost all the coding outsourcing (the most important part of the code). His startup became well funded and he paid a heavy price for the outsourced decision.

He did not have the sourced code apparently did not bother to care about it when signing the contract because he taught once he have the money the whole thing could be rewritten easy. One thing he did not take in consideration was the downtime it will take to transition from old code to new code. The old code had serious issues and generated terrible scalability mishaps and great mistrust from customers.

By the time the code rewrite was complete the company had overspent money and had lost a truck load of customers.
It's entirely dependent on the particular school. Some charter schools are no different then public schools in their methods, curriculum or staff. Others take a focused approach to certain types of studies (math and science in particular). Others use rote memorization in order to boost test scores.

I believe what the original post was talking about though is something else entirely. Public schools are forced to take any student that is zoned to go there. Charter schools may pick and choose which students attend. In some cases this means that the schools are selecting only those students that will excel at the school thus making the school look better than perhaps it really is. There are charter schools on the end of the spectrum as well. My wife spent a year teaching at a charter school that took in lots of students that were behavior problems in the public schools and who's parents weren't willing to work with the administration/district. That school performs below the level of the public schools. If you look at charter schools, a very small percentage performs better than average, a very small percentage performs worse than average, and the majority are no better than public schools.
That is until they blow 5 years of profits by overbuilding a new sports center for just the football and baseball teams, to replace the 3 year old center that was also overbudget. In that case, they have to cut the italian program. Go OSU :\
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Entrepreneurs of all stripes can get taken by scams like this. Often times they are not "scams" per se, just very overpriced services. Like agile programmering groups charging $200/hr and delivering worse code than the in-house teams. I've worked for four boot-strapped-then-venture-funded startups and ALL of the founders at these startups have fallen for something like this at one point. It's pretty easy to fall for this. Startups are very frustrating and stressful, so when your in-house guys are telling you it's going to take 4 months to do something and some external guys are telling you it's only going to take them 1, you WANT to believe the external guys. And hey, they have the balls to ask for $200/hr, so they must be able to pull it off, right?

There are also legitimate scams, like life coaching or various overpriced seminars or "consulting" from "strategists." I won't comment on these as there seems to be a strong internet entrepreneurial contingent who thinks this stuff is very valuable. I'm also pretty sure my founder friends who have paid out the nose for stuff like this would claim it was worth the money, so I don't really know what to say, here.
I think Ravitch should be applauded for arguing an unpopular position with vigor. I also commend HN readers for reading critically. I hope we can point out her strengths as well as weaknesses, and I hope someone can provide some insight on the content of Waiting for Superman.
I've read the first two (I thought the 1st book was better actually) - however I've heard the rest of the series is not so good.
This is correct, demographics/industry specifics should be taken into account. What I was trying to say is that we also had something similar (IE stats very low)when we developed our product/service - when you are in Beta, your team and the early adopters are typically more tech savvy and do not use IE.

However, once you launch, IE visitors become the majority - at least in my particular case (in a sector that seems similar to what the blog post says). Even if the purchasing decision makers are not using IE, in my particular case many of the licensed users will be just corporate/normal job types, and IE is the majority there.

Just my $0.02, your case may be different.
Thoughts about a post-scarcity world. I'm surprised I'm linking to Cracked.
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'Tech' is just too broad. If you're developing for KDE, then ignoring IE is very safe. If you're developing an addon for Visual Studio, then I'd probably not ignore IE.

For a generic 'tech' answer, I'd make sure the basic functionality works on IE, if ugly, and concentrate on Firefox and Chrome. (And if you do, Opera and Safari usually work without changes.)
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I believe I linked to the follow-up post that Chas made after we reached that goal. I suppose I should have been clearer on that part of the post.
I like the fact that you executed and completed, that's more than most people do.

But. What problem is this solving?
Probably the initial-comma one - the page doesn't make it easy to see that there is more than one joke on refresh.
Aren't they already the de facto chief software architects anyway?
I just drag those into a folder on the last page of apps.
If they really believed this could work, they wouldn't have told anyone about it. They'd have been too busy swimming in $$$.
"RTFM" = "the linux way" (of old)

The ideologies of smug [X] weenies differ, just as the dogma of religions differ. The underlying psychologies are still similar, however.
I could not agree more.

Given that IDEs are the primary tools of programmers, and unlike Photoshop users our primary skill is to build software itself, why are IDEs not the most advanced pieces of software that exist? It seems logical. They have the most advanced users; they don't need to worry about scaring the kids at home. They should be constantly adopting the latest and greatest in performance and UX.

Instead we have vim and emacs which, beloved as they are, still have as their primary interface a grid of characters -- not just the code itself, but the user interface. It's like nothing has changed in terms of the graphical output capabilities of computers since the late 1970s. (And yes, there are WIMP versions, which add drop-down menus. But the primary interface mechanism is still keyboard shortcuts.)

Then there is the beast called Eclipse. It certainly seems like it should be able to do everything in the world, certainly the download takes long enough and there are enough configuration options. Yet it is buggy, its plugin architecture is a conflicting mess, and its performance is so abysmal that frustrated coders return to vim and emacs so they can get something done.

Version control -- a critical function for all modern programmers -- is still largely handled on the command line. Maybe, if you're lucky, you get a side-by-side comparison in Eclipse (but not for git, yet!), but as far as tagging and branching goes, graphical representations are out. WTF?

I'm so glad to see this article, because I have spent so long in the company of programmers who hear me ranting about IDEs and just tell me to "use vim", as if that were the problem.
Sure, but when you do 'half' of the things in a rainbows-and-unicorns utopian feature set, that's worth mentioning :)
Unlikely...

IMHO designing a system that would enable a pretty good odds of coming back would be at least an order of magnitude more expensive than a similarly reliable one way system.

Think of all the additional R&D and engineering difficulties involved in keeping a human alive long enough to get there, do something there come back and survive.
A "Universal Binary" is the exact same thing as a "Fat Binary," the only difference is that marketing gave it a new name.

If you look at the mach-o header of a binary that contains multiple architectures (initially, ppc/68k or now, i386/x86_64/ppc), the first 8 bytes will be either 0xcafebabe or 0xbebafeca, depending on your endianness. These values are also #define'd as FAT_MAGIC or FAT_CIGAM in <arch/fat.h>.

If you're on a Mac, you can check this by typing `open -h fat.h` into a Terminal and opening up the binary of a universal app in a hex editor.
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