skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing the normal ebb and flow of employees in a company. Typically, no one leaves until the first person does, then a few of their friends will leave, etc. The first guy to leave pushes the energy levels up enough to catalyze a chain reaction.

Meanwhile, the same thing is happening to other companies. It's completely normal for employees to 'graduate' from a company and move on to another.

Both google and their employees are reaching different stages in their life cycle where the expectations of each party on the other are no longer optimal. Think of senior and accomplished devs leaving as opportunity to train the next generation of great devs. If they've handled their life cycle well there should be many proteges ready to fill the now empty shoes.
That is the most unique way of finding jobs I've seen in a long time.
Anyone with an ego that rivals Arrington's knows this, but they think that they are going to be the one that finally topples the private empire Arrington has created. Delusion at its finest. Not that I think Arrington is without fault. He probably thinks the same thing against many of his rivals, but they don't publish personal sob stories of how Arrington is trying to screw them on their company blogs, which seem to have less readers than TechCrunch anyways.
That's called ezbl. https://github.com/haxney/ezbl

(I don't know if that's the best link; it was just the first that came up.)
We'd just put a batch file attached to autoexec on our school computers which prompted with Cannot read C:\ Abort, Retry, Fail?, and then we made batch files for A, R, and F which just printed "Error" or something similar.

It was pretty awesome watching the "computer expert" claim the harddrives had died and needed to be replaced.
The 20% time is a sham, and the incentives at the company are perverse.

It's not that great of a company to work for, albeit one of the better ones.
Bootstrapped:Threadless-Crowdsourcing T-Shirt Design
Tobi, you guys have done very well, what was the early story for you?
check out anything by j g ballard, or some of h g wells early short stories.

just finished 'food of the gods' and loved it.
It must, otherwise the argument about there not being 5 billion worth of gold in the world is silly. Baron Blackheath was born in the 30s and worked in banking in the 60s, so he certainly grew up with the 10^12 usage.
From the first link: "this practice might not be welcome by Google".

I don't know what's the second link for, as analytics are asynchronous per se?

EDIT: By the date on the second url, very probably is a hack for an older version of Analytics.

EDIT 2: First link is an unaccepted answer on an stackoverflow-like site on the topic for using an against the rules of Google hack. And Google doesn't need much help for closing your account and your money.
FTC fines appliance etailer $400k for no EnergyGuide stickers
Owens Corning Unveils High-Performance Fabric for Wind Turbine Blades
If you are on Windows, I heartily recommend TortoiseGit:

http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/

It's like permanent cheat sheet right where you need it.
There is no perfect review and compensation scheme. People will figure out how to game the system. Perhaps the best scheme is to randomly change it every few years so people can't game the system permanently.
I'm not ready yet, but it's seriously on the todo list. I'll let you know when I am :)
Started on A Game of Thrones (G. Martin), in at around 100 pages it hasn't really captured me, and now Towers of Midnight (Jordan & Sanderson) is here so I think I'll postpone GoT.

Also started The Land of Lisp as a total Lisp newby and got royally confused at the end of 1st section with cons, car, cdr, cadr… what?
You think there is a risk? If no-one cares, does it mean that they won't care for a first playable version?

I thought of posting intermediate builds to download and try out as well. Bad idea?
I really like this idea (robotics is one of my passions and anything that makes it easier is awesome).

Didn't mindstorms just come out with an android app? Does that effect you guys at all?

You definitely have that social aspect going for you but you'll be competing against Let's Make Robots which seems to be emerging as a leader in the robotics based social network space. You guys look prettier than LMR which is a plus and you seem to targeting the less tech-savvy among us who may be intimidated by LMR.

What's your plan to make money? I can't seem to find that anywhere.

Good luck to you!
Yeah, I use a 32 bit compiled version of firefox called swiftfox for all my flash debugging/testing. Definitely slow as heck, but, faster than using the wrapper/adapter method.
Finishing My Experiments with Truth - Mahatma Gandhi
"Last year, jQuery wasn't known by enough developers to be included in the survey. This year, thanks in part to Microsoft including jQuery with Visual Studio"

Seriously? I love Dr. Dobbs but it feels so out of touch lately and that statement is indicative of that.
Clojure also has a pretty neat zipper library in contrib. I've used it in projects and I wish I had introductory material as great as this tutorial back then.
For the worst thing about T9 is the time to switch between it and the other entry mode for unknown words.

Also you can't do T9 without looking at what's selected.
Even smaller companies can work this way. During last year's review, my manager (who is also a lead developer--heck, even the VP of engineering writes code on a weekly basis) told me that he wanted to score me higher, but some people frowned on such things because "people really can't be that good."

It doesn't bother me much because our department is fairly sane in how they deal with reviews, and management in general.
A while ago I wrote a short piece about how location-based services will be 'hackable' for a long time (the specific piece was about gaming Foursquare with nine lines of Perl). Given how easy it is to game any location checkin service, what incentive will advertisers have when their deals are monopolized by a small group of Perl+wget armed, obsessive compulsive script kiddies? I don't know enough about marketing numbers--presuming that vendors give out deals to bring customers back to their store, do they care if the deals are systematically monopolized by freeloaders or bargain hunters?
Ask HN: URLs for emails
Is there any way to create a URL for an email?

This would be very useful for work groups, ie:

>I finished feature #12 per Bob Smith's email (http://gmail.com/bobsmith/emails/12345)

Of course this would need a robust auth/permissions system.

Has anything like this been done? If not, why?
Certainly. But you wouldn't know it from the language in the Deals announcement, which uses the word "friend" no fewer than 10 times.

We launched Places to let you share where you are with
your friends and see who's nearby. Now with Deals, you
also can see what offers are nearby and share those deals
with your friends.
The easiest way to do something about it is to vote up quality articles on http://news.ycombinator.com/newest. If you think something is spam or a dupe, flag it. Posting that quality is suffering does very little to improve quality (in fact, I'd argue that it only adds to the noise).
Would incorporating - or alternately getting a DBA - satisfy those terms?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doing_business_as
Mammoth Mountain. It's the best in the USA. Plus you would be gaining residency months in California, which has the best community college system in the USA. You can go to CC in CA for $20 a credit and then transfer into Berkeley if you take the right classes and get good grades.

Smuggs is fun (prefer Stowe and Okemo, tho) and I love Vermont but the economy there (and anywhere in NE besides Boston) has been in the dumps for years. You'll have to move out of state once the season is over. Plus, all the Northeast resorts are full of grouchy telemarkers and finance dingleberries from Boston and NYC. Mammoth Mountain is filled with olympic snowboarding hopefuls during the week and hot chicks from LA on the weekends. Also consider Big Bear if you want to maximize the social aspect, but it's a much worse hill.

The downside is that it's hard to actually get a job at Mammoth because all the spots are already taken by Australians. Also, the available jobs that are easy to get are usually in food service.
I think this is the "original" git cheat sheet (at least, the first one I saw) - http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2007/09/git-cheat-sheet.html

Also, it won't blind you. :-)

More at http://help.github.com/git-cheat-sheets/
But "haggling over a car, getting sick, stuck in traffic, selling stuff" are minor annoyances compared to sitting at a desk for at least 6 hours every day, 5 days a week, 261 days a year working on what amounts in your mind to be absolute BS.

And, this is coming from someone who works a 9-to-5 (albeit from home, which I believe helps IMMENSELY), and who is working on starting his second business (the first one was totally misguided and I had no heart for the industry, so it sorta fizzled out). I don't want to quit because the work sucks, I dig it just fine; I just want to go my own way. That way, my complaints of low pay, paltry vacation time, benefit shrinkage, or lack of a window overlooking cool stuff flow straight to someone who may listen and respond a little better.
It's a very interesting idea for sure and definitely something that I think might take off! Good luck!
Heyzap (YC W09) looking for entrepreneurial Software Engineers
For a basic setup on OS X, I found scipy superpack to be an excellent choice: http://stronginference.com/scipy-superpack/
You really should give it a few hundred more pages. I guarantee it will grab you at the end it is kind of a slow burn though.
This is assuring to hear. Any particular essays of his you recommend?
Call me an idealogue, but I am not willing to buy any Apple product. I am surprised that so many people who label themselves as open-source activists, or something along those lines, buy Apple's products. As far from "open" as possible.
Oh there where limits in place. The school allowed one club to do a sale per week. That's one sale per week regardless of the club, and clubs that had a precedent generally took most of the dates allowed to do sales. After this, the school realized that more clubs needed more money and they now allowed more then one sale per week, and more than one club to do said sales per week.
Perhaps 'assimilate' is not the right word. What I meant by that is organically steal market share.

Also, while the business model is not anything like groupon's, to the consumer it is similar. Just another way to get a good deal.
Pro tip: if you read a business book like you would with a novel (when in a busy commuting, before going to sleep and generally when you attention is low) it's still better than not reading it at all
Lets hope the U.S. wind industry can hang on long enough to use this stuff.
Also, (basic) GPU operations with cudamat (or even finer, gnumpy) at your fingertips.
>and the incentives at the company are perverse.

Can you expand on that?
Deals shouldn't be the focus of our discussion. Instead, we should be afraid of the fact that facebook can wield the power of the social graph (which it owns) to create extremely valuable wholly owned subsidiaries. Most startups that rely on the network effect could be better implemented by facebook.
The Bank of India is raising rates to combat inflation, though they have been slow to adjust. Also, commodity prices are rising all over the world. Food is more expensive everywhere.
Penny auction sites are like slot machines: The House always wins. It shouldn't be possible to trick the public interface (if they've coded it right), so any bid placed will make them money. In fact, warring bots will only increase their profit, so they probably won't invoke the ToS, UNLESS it is also profitable for them to disqualify your winning bid, then put the item up for auction again, without reimbursing earlier losing bids.

But you don't mention having actually won anything, so unless you have, don't be so sure that your script is worth anything.
In general Moronix doesn't know what they're doing, but such benchmarks can be useful as regression tests; if the kernel isn't giving you full hardware performance then you have a problem.
Your comment is mean spirited. It's meaningless and adds no value. Perhaps you should watch this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UacbJ72dluU
It's about Paul Graham's no asshole rule.
Definitely want to see the battlefield after reading this book, so it's good to hear another positive review.

Did you see a re-enactment? If so, worth it? I've never seen one before. I'm torn between wanting to wander around by myself with the book in hand and actually seeing Pickett's Charge recreated by a bunch of nuts like myself.
To be fair, they can get a not insignificant part of the benefit by putting a sign outside the venue saying "checkin on Facebook for X" and asking at the counter.

They can then using that list compiled and stored for them for free by Facebook to generate a free mailing list which they can send free messages to and get free metrics on their success.

Most of the most effective ways of marketing on Facebook are free.
Why kill the money making machine? I think they are doing just fine, I don't understand why people think Microsoft needs to change to be successful... as if they aren't very successful already :)
> "This is where you're at today. To get to the next level, this is what you need to do. With your help we've put together this plan for your next 3-6 months. You'll finish up A, make sure B gets deployed. C gets checked-in with QA sign off. Do this w/o ticking anyone off or being a general jerk and that looks like Level XYZ"

"Sorry, corporate priorities changed. A and B were cancelled and C was put on indefinite hold. Sure, you did great work on D and E, but those weren't part of your stated goals for this year. Oh, and by the way, there was a re-org and the manager who promised you a promotion isn't your manager any more."

Not saying you personally do that; it sounds like you're a pretty good manager. But I've seen this pattern many times, and know a lot of other people who have experienced it.
It would be interesting to make a service where you forwarded your email to somename@yournewapp.com and it replied with a link to that email so that you could easily share it.

I haven't done my google homework. I wouldn't be surprised if it already exists.

You could always use code pasting web sites as a quick fix.
The down votes may be because there has been some discussion of the idea, with pg coming down against it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=507970

> "The reason HN doesn't need downvotes is that HN, unlike Reddit, kills lame articles. On Reddit, users need downvotes as a way of saying an article is lame. Downvoting is the only way you can get a (nonspam) submission off the frontpage. But on HN you can flag it and if it's bad the editors will kill it.

We can thus safely assume a nonlame set of articles, and we also (so far at least) assume nonlame voters. And if you only have nonlame voters voting on nonlame articles, upvotes should be enough to pick the winners."

That was written almost two years ago, though. Does anybody know if there has been a more recent discussion?
My wife was part of a data startup. They'd take freely available epidemiology data, massage it into a spreadsheet, and sell it to pharma. They do really well, but only because they know their data and they know that their customers know that they know what they know. you know?

exactly.
Hologram messaging coming of age
Ask HN: Is Offer HN Dead?
So news.ycombinator.com/offers is dead, and I haven't seen any Offer HN threads anywhere recently.

Was Offer HN just an extremely short-lived HN meme, or has it simply changed or moved elsewhere?
My impression is that a change of that nature would select against the applicants with strong alternative routes to funding. Either because they are already well connected and experienced, already have traction, or already have some other advantages.

So while it would reduce the number of applicants, it would also reduce the overall quality of applicants. Given that the problem with too many applicants is sifting through them to find the good ones, eliminating the good ones outright would be worse than merely having a higher chance of overlooking them.
I had this (and the second book) and learned some of my first programming by making them run on my TI 99/4A
MBA != Engineer
Thanks for pointing this out, I had never seen this rejection therapy before. It's similar to an idea of my own. I've been toying with creating a website for introverted/social phobic people that challenges them to get out and be more social.
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Tell HN: My experience with karma average staring me in the eye . . .
The inclusion of the karma box in the top right has me caring about my per-post average for the first time.

I am more gun shy about posting comments that might get a below the average response.

I find myself hunting to comment on "fresher" stories which almost always = more karma.

I know I know solution is "stop caring" but I feel somehow more watched or more accountable.

Looking forward to PG sharing results of the experiment.

And hearing other folks comment about positive / negative.
Yes, I have been following this too, and it feels like near the end in the last few chapters. Still have trouble reconciling HP's intelligence with him being 11 yrs old. Huge contrast with the "authentic" HP whom apparently had learnt nothing by the time he was 17.
I did Park City, Utah. Best snow on Earth and
SLC is 35 mins away and has a burgeoning startup scene (even their own YC style program in BoomStartup). Rent is about in the 500 - 600 range. Less if you live 20 south in Heber.
These were great. I remember thinking the ones in the sequel were better, though:

More BASIC Computer Games
http://www.atariarchives.org/morebasicgames/

Eliza and Wumpus come to mind.
I'm still following up on all of the people who replied to my first offer :).

I offered free front-end development. I received ~50 or so requests for help. I replied to the 35 or so of them that were written in a form of English I could understand. Probably 20 of those replied back. I'm actively undertaking work for five or so of them right now.
Dracula, and Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman.

I've been restricting myself to fiction these days, since I get way too engrossed by non-fiction and want to keep it light and fun for a bit :)
It's certainly the case that if they're leaving because they're unhappy that something is true and it is still going to be true when they consider returning it would give me pause. :-)

Even then, it might be possible to convince me if they come back with a reason they were wrong and think the thing is good (e.g. I tried Agile and discovered it isn't better, and my actual problem was this...) rather than just, "I decided to put up with it here..."
Closer to 8% for SS & Medicare. Also, you'll typically have deductions taken out of bonuses for your 401(k) and ESPP contributions (maybe another 20-25%). Technically, those are still your money; and ESPP will come back to you before too long, but the psychological impact of opening up your paycheck and only seeing 30-40% of the gross you were told was your bonus is pretty frustrating.
Structure and interpretation of computer programs. We have a kind of a book club at work: we're reading the same book, do the exercises and meet once a week to discuss the progress and share ideas.
I'm "reading" the audio-book version, with the powerhouse-duo Kramer and Reading doing the reading. Makes the commute very enjoyable, and for some reason, I don't mind washing the dishes as much. =)
It's been a while, but I think you can choose between IFRAME and DOM-injection methods. Researching that might get you started.
Being a former Palm guy, I know Google's recruiting power hasn't waned that much. A big percentage of Palm engineers that bailed ended up on the Android team. Makes me pretty excited for the future of Android, actually.
How to make fractals without a computer
I know a number of people who have left Google in the past year. The reasons have been because they were bored and/or hated their manager or other people they worked with. In my experience these are the main reasons engineers leave their jobs at any company.

That said, I doubt it's the case "everyone" is leaving Google.
You're kidding? We had this discussion the other day - finance, accounting, HR, recruitment, legal, tax, logistics, supply chain, sales, marketing, enterprise support, etc. There might be more CS/engineers but it still takes a LOT of other roles to run a company their size.
Please tell us about the time you, nathanmarz, most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage. :D
I just finished this, too. Interesting, but a little exhausting. I wonder if it at all inspired paranormal activity.
Re: Analytics; I'm not sure if the default code google gives you for analytics is async _now_ but based on this http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncTra... it certainly seems like it, at least at one point, it was not. Again, that may have changed.

Here is another link for async adsense with code included. The author has also posted his e-mail conversation with a rep. from the Google Adsense team. There is nothing fancy going on here, just iframes, really.

http://geoland.org/2007/01/adsense-in-iframe/

You could just reach out to adsense yourself and report back what you find regarding violation of the Google Adsense TOS.
I think there are a few reasons.

First of all, I think all the "perks" Google talks about are really just HR marketing. They have good benefits, but so do Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, and any other large company. But the others don't seem to have to talk about it all the time.

The 20% thing is s sham. Believe me, no one is working 32 hours per week on Google stuff and 8 hours per week on personal ideas. Everyone works to the bone and rarely do people actually have time to work on something outside of that.

The perks like free lunches, car washes, laundry, etc are less interesting as people get older. These are all designed to keep you in the office longer. Maybe it's cool to have your social life revolve around work when you are 22, fresh out of college. But at some point you realize you want to get away from work when you are done with work.

There is less upside to Google stock than there was before. With a $600 stock price, you really need to think if you're better off staying at Google or going elsewhere. For people who are fully vested, I'm sure Facebook looks like a great option with more upside potential.

Personal opinion: Google doesn't build great products. They are a technology company. If you are working on search or ads, that's exciting. But otherwise there are few products at Google where I would feel proud to work on.

In general I find it odd that magazines and newspapers are constantly writing about how cool it is to work at Google. I'd much rather hear this from the employees themselves, in blogs or just word of mouth.

I worked at Apple for six years and I can't stop talking about how great the experience was all around. I am modeling Posterous around what I learned there. I'm not sure I've heard the same from ex Google employees.